THE HOUSEWIFE'S HANDY
FOOD SECTIO
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Washington Birthday Time
I Steamed
Cherry
Pudding
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Serve a special dinner dessert
on George Washington' birth
day rich with cherries, of
course.
A hearty and delicious steamed
pudding should hit the spot on
a February night. The pudding
recommend is made of a
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FIsA, VegetoWes
And Fruits Among
Best Market Buys
With the Lenten accent on run
and shellfish the markets have
reacted with a promising array
to tempt both your pocket booki
and your taste-buds. Frozen fishi
and shellfish are more plentiful
than the fresh product. Bow-:
ever, you'll find both fresh and
frozen halibut, sole, rocexsaaes,
mackeral, cod. salmon and crabs.
Lobster and shrimp are in shrimp
sized supply with corresponding
ly high prices.
Veretabie Best Ban
In the vegetable department
vou will find cabbage, carrots,
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Cherry Fadding . , ..Add hatchets just before serving.
Crab-Rice
Casserole
Rates High
All the "fleet" (your family)
will be in and on time for the
. meal if they are given notice
that this sumptuous Rice and
Crabmeat Casserole is coming
from the "galley". This sea
worthy rice treat won first
place honors In the rice and
fish division of the Creole
Cookery Contest at the 1952
International Rice Festival! It
Is really good!
; Ingredients:
M cup butter or margarine
4 cup flour
2 cups milk
1 cup crabmeat '
1 cup cooked rice
4 hard cooked eggs, chopped
Vi cup finely chopped onion
H cup finely chopped parsley
I teaspoon salt
H teaspoon pepper
V cup bread or cracker
crumbs
To make 3 liberal cups of
fluffy rice, put 1 cup of un
cooked rice, 2 cups of cold wa-
ter and 1 teaspoon of salt into
a 2 quart saucepan and bring
to a vigorous boil. Turn the
heat as low as possible. Cover
saucepan with a lid and leave
this low heat for 14 minutes.
Turn off the heat. Do not re
move lid nor stir rice while It
Is cooking. After rice has
cooked, remove saucepan from
heat but keep the lid on until
rice actually is served.
Method -
Melt butter or margarine in
saucepan. Add the flour and
blend thoroughly. Gradually
add the milk and continue
stirring until the mixture
thickens. Add the crabmefit,
rice, eggs, onions, parsley, salt
and pepper to this sauce. Mix
thoroughly. Place in a greas
ed casserole. Cover with the
crumbs. Bake in a 350 deg. F.
oven for 30 minutes.
This recipe make 7 gener
ous servings.
Eggs, Condensed
Soup for This Dish
That can of condensed soup
will go a long way in this hearty
main dish that will serve four
adequately. Always hard - cook
eggs by simmering gently re
membering that "boiling'
toughens them, turns egg yolk
edges greenish and unattractive.
Firs In Soap Sane
4 tablespoons butter or mar
garine 4 tablespoons flour
1 can cream of green pea soup
J can evaporated milk
4 hard cooked eggs, sliced
4 slices toast
Chopped green onion tops
or chives
Melt butter or margarine, add
flour and cook until bubbling
Add loup and milk. Cook, ttirr
Ine until thickened. Place egg
slices on toast cut cross-wise in
to toast points and cover with
sauce. Sprinkle with chopped
green onion tops or chives. Four
servings.
Breakfast Special
Broiled Iamb kidneys on toast
Is an epicurean choice lor break
fast. Remvoe membrane from
kidneys and split than in half.
Wrap a slice of bacon length
wise around each half and fasten
with a wooden pick. Place on
broiler rack about 2 inches from
heat Broil until bacon is brown,
then turn and brown on second
side, for a total of approximate
ly 10 minutes, serve on not
buttered toast.
Broccoli Note
Serve washed and chilled raw
broccoli flowerets on the relish
tray or toss a few flowerets into
your next vegetaoie saiaa.
Spicy Pie
For Dessert
Washington's Birthday is next
week how about a cherry pie?
SPICY CHERRY FIE
Crust:
22 ginger snaps rolled fine '
(1 cups crumbs)
cup softened butter or
margarine
4 cup sugar
Blend together ginger snap
crumbs, butter or margarine and
sugar. Pour mixture Into 9-inch
pie plate; firmly press into an
even layer against bottom and
aides of plate. Bake in moder
ately hot oven 375 degrees F.)
about 8 minutes. Cool.
Cherry Filling:
cup sugar
4 tablespoons cornstarch
1 . teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon nutmeg
1 cups cherry juice
2 No. 2 cans pitted cherries.
well drained
Thoroughly mix together
sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and!
nutmeg in a saucepan; blend in l
cherry juice. Cook over medium
heat; stir until sauce thickens
and clears. Fold in cherries;
cool. Pour into ginger snap
crumb crust;, chill. Top with
whipped cream before serving
if desired.
only a modest amount of sugar,
because with it goes a double de
light a thick bard sauce and a
delectable thin cherry sauce, the
latter with just the right under
tone of tartness. You use part of
a can of cherries for the pud
ding, the rest goes into the sauce.
It's fun to shape the hard
sauce for the pudding into small
hatchets by molding It en a pat
tern cut out of car board. But if
the pudding is piping hot as all
well bred steamed puddings
should be the hatchets will
melt. So pass your hard sauce
fancies separately on a pretty
plate, the cherry sauce to a
matching bowl, and there will be
festivity aplenty. Here are the
recipes:
Cherry Faff and Cherry Sauce
Ingredients: 1 cups sifted
flour, 2 teaspoons baking pow
der, ii teaspoon salt, 4 cup vita
mixed margarine, cup sugar,
4 teaspoon grated lemon rind.
2 eggs, ?4 cup milk, 1 No. 2 can
U pound, 4 ounces) red sour
pitted cherries (packed in extra
heavy syrup), 1 tablespoon corn
starch, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 ta
blespoons water.
with nrlces considerably lower
than normal for this time of
year. -
Fruit Best Bars
Rhubarb may not be the best
buy where price alone la con
cerned, but to give one that feel
ins of serine it fills the bill. Ap
ples, grapefruit, oranges and avo
cados are in good supply, dem
ons, limes and bananas are in
moderate supply.
Try This
For TV
Lap Supper
Her is a good suggestion for
Sunday night supper when you
lust can't tear the family away
from the television set. serve a
hot casserole dish, In Individual
ramekins, all on a dinner plate
with crisp cucumber sticks, rad
ishes and buttered com muffins.
This tuna and mushroom casser
ole is delicious and ao easy to
make you'll find yourself reiving
on it for all sorts of emergencies.
(Clip it tor your Lenten menus,
West Coast Lucky with"
Supplies of Fish; Many
Ways to Serve This Food
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Lantern Dish Broiled halibut steaks and fruit are a fin
combination. Here we top fish steaks with orange slices,
surround them with bananas. One oi man? good sew sug
gestions for Lenten meal planning.
By ZOLA VINCENT t 1
This Rarebit
Is Different
Not strictly a rarebit in the
Welsh meaning of the dish but a
fine dish for all of that when a
light meals is wanted with some
substance to it something that
you can get your teeth in.
Baked Cheese Rarebit
3 Shredded wheat biscuits
2 tablsepoons butter or mar
garine 2 eggs
14 teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon dry mustard
4 teaspoon paprika
1 cups milk
1 teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
2 cups (H-lb.) grated
American cheese
' Split shredded wheat biscuits.
Spread split sides with butter
and lay butter side down in shal
low glass baking dish (10x6 in.)
Beat eggs and combine with re
maining ingredients. Pour over
shredded wheat. Bake in mod
erate oven (350 F.) for about 30
minutes. Serve at once. Yield: 6
servings.
Method: To Blake Cherry Puff;
Sift together the flour, baking!
powder and salt. Cream the mar
garine, cup sugar and lemon!
rind; add eggs one at a time,
beating until light and fluffy aft
er each addition. Add the sifted
dry ingredients alternately with
the milk In four additions, begin
ning and ending with the flour.
Drain cherries thoroughly, re
serving liquid and Vi cup cher
ries. Fold remaining drained
cherries lightly - into batter.
Grease 1 -quart mold (includ
ing the cover) and pour in bat
ter. Put cover on mold. Place on
rack in large pan containing
enough boiling water so that at
least one -half of the moid Is
immersed; cover pan; bring wa
ter to boil rapidly, then turn
down heat just enough to keep
water boiling. Start counting
steaming time, and steam 1 hour
or until cake tester Inserted in
center of pudding comes out
clean. Turn out on serving plate
and serve with Cherry Sauce
and Hard Sauce,,
To Make Cherry Sauce Mix
cornstarch and 2 tablespoons
sugar in saucepan. Add water
and stir until smooth. Add water
and stir until smooth. Add liq
uid drained from cherries; cook
and stir over moderate heat un
til thickened and clear; cook and
stir 2 more minutes. Add remain
ing Vi cup drained cherries and
serve.
Hard Sauce
Ingredients: cup vitamized
margarine (at room tempera
ture), 1 cups confectioners'
sugar, Vi teaspoon vanilla, 1 ta
blespoon milk.
Method: Cream margarine;
cream In sugar gradually; beat
in vanilla and milk until fluffy,
Pile lightly in serving dish and
chill. If hard sauce is to
too.
Tuna and Mushroom Ramekins
3 tablespoons fat
1 tablespoon minced onion
2 tablespoons minced green
pepper
3 tablespoons flour t
teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
"A teaspoon nutmeg
14 cups milk
3 -ounce can sliced broiled
, mushrooms ,
""-ounce can tuna fish - -XH
cups hot precooked rice
Paprika
Melt fat in saucepan. Add on
ion and green pepper. Cook
minutes over moderate beat.
Stir in flour, salt, pepper and
nutmeg. Add milk and contents
of can of mushrooms. Bring to
boil, stirring constantly. Drain
tuna fish and separate into small
chunks. Add tuna fish and rice
to mushroom sauce. Mix gently
and place in C greased individ
ual baking dishes. Sprinkle
lightly with paprika. Bake in
moderately hot oven, 375 deg.,
until thoroughly hoi. about 25
minutes. Serve immediately
with crisp green salad relishes,
Yield: 4 servings.
It's lucky when you live on!
the west coast ... for so many
reasons! That wealth" of fish and
shellfish that beckon from fish;
displays make it possible) to
serve the family a sew variety
very few day for months on
end. Makes Lenten Meal plan
ning easy.
Fish and shellfish cave alga
nutritive value. An average por
tion provides nearly all the ani
mal protein you need each day
to help build and repair body
tissue. In addition, fish are valu
able sources of iodine, calcium,
iron, copper and phosphorus; and
also supply essentia, vitamins.
Since fish is easily digested, it
is particularly good for children
and elderly people.
Broiled Halibut and Fruit
Everyone who can t afford
steak can afford Halibut steak ;
and it's just as rich in complete
protein, lust as meaty and flav
orful in its own delicious ash;
Toothsome Duo
mmmmmmmssmumm
For a grand good spaghetti
dinner, to serve during Lent,
fix this. Brown cup minced
onion and 2 tablespoons minc
ed green pepper in cup hot
shortening. Stir in about 1 cup
cooked or canned shrimp, and
2 cans (15Vi -ounce size) spa
ghettl tat tomato sauce with
cheese. Season with 4 tea
spoon vinegar, 4 drops Tabas
co sauce, teaspoon salt, and
be pepper. This makes dinner for
fashion. Wipe halibut steaks with
a clean damp cloth or paper
towel. Place on greased, pre-!
heated broiler pan about S
inches from heat Brush with!
melted butter and squeeze juice!
of half a lemon over steaks.
Sprinkle wfch salt, pepper and
paprika.
Broil 5 to B minutes or until
slightly brown. Turn carefully.
Arrange banana around steaks!
and one or more slices of orange
on each steak. Brash steaks and
fruit with melted batter, squeeze
juice of lemon over all. Sprin
kle with salt, pepper and pap
rika. Broil S to S minutes or un
til fish flakes easily when test.
ed with a fork. Allow large
steak or 1 small steak for each
person, banana for each. Bet-!
ter make that a whole banana
each for the men of the family.
With National Canned Salmon
Week February It to 2$ there!
will be some exceptionally good
buys to be found of this tasty
high-protein fish, why not team;
up an old favorite with a new
friend by serving curried salmon
ta a buttery tie nag, in meal
for Lenten menus, pretty enough
share with guests, and a real
winner of the family's prsisaai
Easy to fix, toe, because all the
goodness oi fresh salmon frost
dear cold Alaskan water i
brought to us conveniently pack
ed in cans. -
Meat success is assured with
a refreshing salad bowl of chilled!
and mixftd canned fruits, bu tter
ed who! green beans (silvered!
almond add a (ouiifiet touch),:
rye bread, and cup) cake with!
coffee and mult.
Can-ted Salmea ta Ki sUaf
IVi Clips uncooked rice
K enp melted batter '
4 tablespoons butter or anrga-l
rine ;
4 tablespoons Sour
1 teaspoon grated onion
Vi teaspoon salt
; 4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon curry
2 cups milk -
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 1 -pound can salmon, drained ;
and flaked ,
Me Stag. Cook rice in boO-l
fax wate? until tendan Asia,
but do not rinse. Add the cup i
melted butter and pack firmly!
Into wall-creased -inch ring!
mold. Let stand 10 minutes; tarn
out oa warm plstrsr.
Cwrrted Salswsn, Kttt Sfae 4 ta-
btespooa better or e-argtrhte;
add flour, ceisc, and usinntngi,
blending thorougily. Stir to
mUk iicTiy and cook, stirring
eocjUntly, until thick ea
smooth. Add lemon juice aad
salmon and reheat. Serve in rice
ring. Six servings.
Pork Chop Casserott
Her a hearty casserole that
join fork chop and aoodias,
Blows the chops well, then sea
son them. Place cooked wide
noodles in a casserole, and top
with diluted tomato soup. Add
a bit oi grated onion, season,
then arrange the browned chops
ever the noodles. Cover the cas
serole and bake in moderate
eves f 350 Jegrte K) far i to
14 hour. . . f
Baceo Cookery
For best results in eoefcisg
bacon, pise a singl layer in
the frying-pan. Cook slowly,
tarring frequently. Pour off or
wHh m apoca remove excess fat '
as it accumulate fa the pen.
Continue cooking slowly until
the bacon is a light golden
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MASTER BREAD is always fresh ... any rim
you wont to pick It up or yeur grocers, to comas
fresh from the evm EVERY day with all its bakery
fresh aroma and flavor sealed hi, Squssz c loaf
it's always soft and net how it springs right back,
because it thoroughly baked thru and thru. Worth
skiitf for try time!
shaped, omit the milk and chill 4, Goes well with buttered Ital
enough to handle before mold- ten bread, and salad of lettuce,
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