WEDNESDAY, MAf 29, 1935
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
STRAWBERRY f
IS FAVORITE
If God ever made a berry better
an the strawberry," said Jona-
han Swift, author of Gulliver's
avels, "it would be another straw-
rry. That was two centuries
go, and his opinion has been ech-
med by millions.
That so good a fruit should have
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herself with jelly and jam-making
n a season, such as now, when
tttrawberries are plentiful and at
their best. Then, when the fresh
fruit Is no longer in the markets,
the flavor of strawberries is re
tailed in the ruby glasses spark
ling gaily in the jelly cupboard.
STRAWBERRY AND PINEAPPLE
JELLY
I 2 quarts strawberries
' 1 pineapple
6 '4 cups 2 lbs.) sugar
2 boxes powdered pectin
To prepare fruit grind fully ripe
berries and fully ripe pineapple.
Combine fruits. Place in jelly clotti
and squeeze out juice. Place kettle,
containing juice, over hottest fire.
Add powdered pectin, mix well, and
bring to a boil, stirring constantly
with wooden spoon. As soon as
mixture boils hard, pour in sugar,
stirring constantly. Continue stir
ring and bring to a full rolling
boil; then boil jelly minute by
the clock. Remove from fire, skim,
pour quickly. Pajraffin hot jelly
at once. Makes about 6 glases (6
fluid ounces each).
SLICED STRAWBERRY JAM
414 cups (1 lbs.) prepared fruit
7 eups it lbs.) sugar
H botUe fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, cut about 2
quarts fully ripe berries in halves
'lengthwise; large berries In quar
ters. Measure sugar and pepared
fruit into large kettle, mix well,
and bring to a full rolling boil over
hottest fire. Stir constantly before
and while boiling. Boil hard 3 min
utes. Remove from fire and stir in
bottled fruit pectin. Then stir and
skim by turns for just 6 minutes to
cool slightly, to prevent floating
fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin hot
Jam at once. Makes about 10
tfasses ( fluid ounces each).
2-3 cup stiff mayonnaise.
Mix cream and mayonnaise. Add i
rest of ingredients. Pour into tray
in mechanical refrigerator and in
about 4 hours the salad will be
frozen. Serve on lettuce and top
with more mayonnaise.
If desired the salad can be frozen
by pouring into mold, sealing tight
ly and burying 4 hours in 4 parts
chopped ice and one part coarse
salt.
SWEET POTATO CHARLESTON
2 oups sliced sweet potatoes
cup dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon flour
V, teaspoon salt
4 teaspoon pepper
1 sliced orange
3 tablespoons lemon Juice
1-3 cup water
3 tablespoons butter
Mix potatoes and rest of ingredi
ents. Pour into buttered baking dish
and bake 35 minutes in moderate
oven. Cover during cooking, remove
lid and bake 10 minutes to brown.
HOT STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
Sift 3 cups flour with 3 table
spoons sugar, 4 teaspoons baking
powder and Vt teaspoon salt. Cut
in 6 tablespoons shortening. Add
X cup milk and mix lightly. Turn
on lightly floured board and knead
gently. Divide in two equal parts
and pa Unto sheets to fit a 2 quart
caserole. Butter top of each sheet,
put buttered sides together and
place in greased casserole. Bake
in moderate oven for 40 minutes.
Set in warm place till serving time.
Separate layers, spread with butter
and cover bottom layer with crush
ed sugared strawberries. Replace
top layer and cover with berries.
add whipped cream and top with
berries.
ESCALLOPED MUSHROOMS
3 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
2- 3 cup cream
2 cups cooked, mushrooms
teaspoon paprika
Va teaspoon salt
teaspoon celery salt
Melt butter and add flour, when
blended add milk and cream and
cook until creamy sauce forms. Stir
constantly. Add rest of Ingredients
and cook 2 minutes. Pour into but
tered pan and cover with crumbs.
Crumbs
3- 3 cups crumbs
4 tablespoons butter
Melt butter and add crumbs.
Sprinkle on top mushrooms. Bake
30 minutes in moderate oven. Serve
in dish in which baked.
CHEESE CAKE
For the crust roll k package
zwieback into fine crumbs and add
1 tablespoon butter and 1 table
spoon sugar. Put blended mixture
in bottom of a spring form pan
and press down evenly. For the
filling sift Vi cup sugar with 2 table
spoons flour and teaspoon salt
and work thoroughly into 3 pack
ages of cream - cheese. Add V tea
spoon vanilla and yolks of two eggs
and cup milk. Mix well and
fold in beaten whites; pour the
mixture on the crumbs and bake
in a moderate oven for 45 minutes.
Do not remove from pan till cool.
FRUIT SALAD
An appetizing warm weather
salad Is made of apple and orange
segments, sliced bananas and mar
aschino cherries tossed In mayon
naise and served in a large salad
bowl in a bed of lettuce.
A SALAD
OR SO
SIIRIMP AND PINEAPPLE SALAD
(Tasty Combination)
Twelve slices pineapple, 3 cups
shrimps, 1 cup French dressing,
teaspoon salt, hi teaspoon paprika,
watercress.
Carefully clean shrimps, add
dressing, salt and paprika. Chill.
Chill rest of Ingredients. Arrange
pineapple on serving plates, top with
shrimps, add rest of dressing and
garnish with cress. Serve lmmedl-
fcfely.
SOMERSET SALAD
Eight slices tomatoes, 2 cups
cooked asparagus, 4 tablespoons
chopped pickles, 4 tablespoons crop
ped ripe olives, 1 tablespoon finely
choped onion, hi cup French dress
ing, & cup Rouquefort cheese.
Crumble cheese with fork, add
dressing. Chill. Mix and chill rest
of ingredients. Arrange on crisp
lettuce and top with dressing. Serve
immediately.
VEGETABLE SALAD
One-half cup cooked asparagus.
cup diced celery, hi cup shred
ded cabbage, 2 tablespoons chopped
green peppers, 4 radishes (sliced),
1 tablespoon cropped onion, hi tea
spoon salt, hi teaspoon peer, cup
saiad dressing.
Mix and chill ingredients. Serve
r crisp cabbage leaves.
FROZEN FRUIT SALAD
One cup diced peaches, 2-3 cup
diced pineapple, 2-3 cup diced pears,
a tabiespoona lemon juice, 4 table-
apoons sugar, 1 cup whipped cream,
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