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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, February 20, 1941 WoRLP^ I THE ANSWER TO A HOSTESS’ PRAYER (See Recipes Below) TAKE A PEEK AT YOUR PASTRY o across (he California scene. was headed for the solace of the South Seas to pon der his problems and adjust himself to a strange future he had never con sidered a year ago. One of the top stars of his profes- sion, one of the smartest, this ad- justment will call for exchanging an annual salary of $35.000 a year for a Grantland Rice pay check calling for $30 a month. And this is to happen after one of the greatest years he had ever known. I’m speaking of Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers. There is a big difference in what the owner of a big league ball club can pay an outstanding star and what our Uncle Sam can afford to offer a private soldier. In this case the difference happens to be 100 to 1 if you happen to get the wrong number in the draft. Greenberg, for example, is older than either Bobby Feller or Joe Louis, who are not exactly starving The spin of that draft wheel hap pened to cost him $35.000 a year— which is the way it should be and has to be in an existence which is now a trifle cock-eyed. Long Hank was on his way to Honolulu when I ran across him in specting the floral beauty of Santa Anita before taking a chunk of the Pacific in his stride. en stiff with sugar. Brown in mod erate oven (325 degrees Fahrenheit) Many a cook who shines brightly for about 15 minutes. Decorate top at cake-baking sadly admits that of pie with sections from orange. she doesn’t have Peel fruit with sharp knife, remov the knack of mak ing skin and inner membrane down ing flaky, melt-in- to juicy meat Cut out on each side the-mouth pastry. of dividing membrane and lift out She feels that it section by section. is something she Orange Pastry. can't help, like 1 cup sifted flour the color of her 2 teaspoons sugar eyes or her hair. % teaspoon salt But a careful look 1 teaspoon shredded orange peel Okay hy Hank at her pie crust 6 tablespoons shortening through a magnifying glass or mi 2-3 tablespoons orange juice (about) "As you know,” he said, "I have croscope often gives a clue as to a low draft number and I may be Sift flour, sugar, salt. Add orange what is the matter. called in June or early July. Which Flaky pastry is made up of many, peel. Cut shortening in coarsely. is all right with me. From the Add gradually just enough orange many thin layers of dough separat way things are moving there may ed by long, thin air pockets or spaces juice to bind dough together. Roll be a lot more of us called out by pastry out thin and line pie plates. formed when the layers of fat and Bake in hot oven (450 degrees Fahr then than many people figure to flour are separated by steam dur enheit) for 15 minutes. (Makes ” ». day. ing the baking. Hank is already looking in the old inch pie shell.) P. of C., sometimes known as the Part of this flakiness depends Individual Chess Pies. pink of condition. upon the manner in which the fat (Makes 7 tarts) is cut into the flour and part upon “This season,” he said, “I hope cup butter H the handling of the dough. If a to be in the best early season shape 1 cup sugar part of the fat is rubbed in with the I have ever known. I may not have 3 egg yolks fingers or a pastry blender, until it many weeks to travel, so I can’t af 1 whole egg is in very small particles and is ford to waste any time getting 1 cup raisins (coarsely chopped) evenly distributed throughout all of started. I ought to be in good *4 cup nuts (coarsely chopped) the flour; and if the remainder of shape, anyway, to play on some 2 tablespoons lemon juice the fat is cut in so that it is in army team.” 3 egg whites fairly large pieces about the size There is a good chance that by (4 teaspoon salt of navy beans or peas, then the next summer army competition in 6 tablespoons sugar crust has an excellent chance of be baseball will be quite sharp. And ing both tender and flaky. The large Cream butter until soft and light. there will be loud cheers from any pieces of fat separate the flour into Add sugar gradually, creaming until division or corps that happens to layers, while the small particles mixture is fluffy. bag the tall Tiger. tend to make the dough more Beat together egg "We’ll have a tough job this sea yolks and whole tender. son defending our title," Greenberg If all the fat is distributed in egg with rotary said. "The two toughest opponents small particles the crust is apt to beater. Blend with we must face should be New York creamed mixture be "crumbly” rather than flaky. and Cleveland. Bob Feller can To this fat and flour mixture is and then add raisins, walnuts, and make almost any team look good, added the water, a procedure which lemon juice. Place mixture in top of but Cleveland has more than Feller. is best accomplished with a fork. double boiler and cook over boiling Don’t forget Boudreau and Mack at The dough is worked lightly to water, stirring constantly until thick, short and second. gether into a ball so that it can be about 25 to 30 minutes “The Yankees are sure to be bet When filling has thickened fill in rolled out. Overhandling at this ter than they were a year ago when dividual baked pastry shells (3(4 point foreshadows a tough crust, yet they got away badly. Their young the dough must be kneaded enough inches in diameter across top). Beat pitchers will be ready to pick up egg whites until foamy, then add so that it will stick together and where the veterans begin to leave form a smooth sheet under the roll salt and sugar gradually, and con off. Through 1940 they had become tinue beating until meringue will ing pin. A slightly richer formula— stand in stiff points. Place tarts in fed up with too much winning. You a proportion of (4 cup of fat to 1 cup «noderate oven (350 degrees Fahren know that can happen. of flour instead of the usual (4 cup of "While I still think New York and flour to 1 cup of fat, makes it pos heit) for about 10 minutes or until Cleveland are the teams to beat, lightly browned. to handle the pastry dough sible Make pastry using one cup flour the White Sox won’t be far away more without toughening it appreci- for tart shells. and you’ll see a much better team ably. in Fred Haney's St. Louis Browns. Horn o ’ Plenty Pie, Deep Dish Apple Pie. The Red Sox must still get better (Makes 2 9-inch pies) (Serves 6) pitching. Aside from that they can 1 9 ounce package mincemeat play with anybody.” 1% cups sugar 1(4 cups water 2 cups apples (sliced thin) 3 tablespoons sugar About the Timers % cup water 1 cup canned pumpkin "What about the Tigers?” I asked (4 teaspoon salt % cup raisins Greenberg. 1 teaspoon ginger (4 cup orange juice Hank grinned. "We were picked (4 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon orange rind (grated) to finish fifth or sixth or maybe sev 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon cinnamon enth last April in the South,” he 3 eggs said. "Still we won the pennant (4 teaspoon cloves 1 15-ounce can condensed milk I’ll tell you why. I think we had 1 cup walnut meats (chopped) (4 cup water, the finest spirit I’ve ever seen in % cup general purpose flour Break nrtneemeat into pieces, baseball. We hustled through every 1 teaspoon baking powder place in saucepan, add water and inning of every game we played. (4 teaspoon salt sugar. Bring to a There was no time out for - inter 1 egg boil and boil missions. Combine 1 cup sugar, the apples, 1 minute. Cool. "Don’t forget we still have a good water, raisins, orange juice, orange Thoroughly mix pitching staff coming on, headed rind, cinnamon, cloves and cook pumpkin, salt, by Buck Newsom and at least three over a low flame for about 15 min spices, eggs con or four fine young pitchers. We utes. Remove from fire and add densed milk and still have Rudy York's hitting and nuts. Pour into a shallow greased water. Add cooled his greatly improved play at first. baking dish. Mix following ingredi mincemeat and We have three infield veterans left ents lightly with a fork: the flour, blend thoroughly. Pour into unbaked who will be just as good as they remaining (4 cup sugar, baking 9-inch pie shells. Bake in hot oven were a year ago. Why? Because powder, salt, and the egg and sprin (450 degrees Fahrenheit) 10 min they are ball players at heart—be kle over apple mixture. Place in a utes, reduce temperature to moder cause they have brains and spirit. moderately hot oven (375 degrees ate (350 degrees Fahrenheit) and They are not through.” Fahrenheit) and bake for approxi bake about 35 minutes longer, or un “Suppose you are called away mately 30 minutes. til filling is set. early in June?” I asked. Toasted Coconut-Butterscotch Pie. Orange Meringue Pie. “The Tigers are no one-man 1(4 cups light brown sugar 1 cup sugar team,” Hank said. "I'm *just % cup bread flour 5 tablespoons cornstarch other fellow out there, doing % teaspoon salt *4 teaspoon salt best I can. You can never cup cold milk 1 tablespoon shredded orange peel in baseball, Don’t sell us 2 egg yolks 2 cups orange juice short.” 2*4 cups scalded milk 3 egg yolks Hank Greenberg is something 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon butter more than a fellow who bats over Coconut 2 tablespoons lemon juice .340—who drives in from 150 to 180 Mix sugar, flour and salt. Add runs a year—who can shift from a Orange pastry pie shell cold milk slowly. Blend until fine first baseman to a fine outfield 3 egg whites smooth. Beat egg yolks slightly and er in one quick season. 0 tablespoons sugar add to first mixture. Add the scald 1 orange "Not only as a ball player," Fred Mix sugar, cornstarch and (alt. ed milk slowly. Place mixture in Haney of the Browns told me, "but add orange peel and juice and cook double boiler and cook, stirring con in the way of spirit. I'd like to have in double boiler until thickened, stantly, until the mixture thickens. nine Greenbergs on my team. I re about 15 minutes. Add beaten egg Remove from heat Add vanilla ex member one year when he hit camp yolks and cook 2 minutes. Remove tract ai«d pour into baked pie shell. ahead of schedule. He asked if it from heat and add butter and lem Cool. Just before serving top with would be all right to take a work on juice. Cool. Pour into »-inch whipped cream and sprinkle with out He worked three hours a day, Orange Pastry pie shell. Cover with toasted coconut. when he didn't have to work a sin- meringue, made of egg whites beat- (Relesaed by Western Newspaper Union.! <1« minute.” quickly and simply you can finish it. 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Who fixed the mean length of per ton of gold ever paid? makes me poor indeed.—Shake the year at 365(4 days and de 10. What are the three theological speare. creed that every fourth year virtues? should have 366 days? 2. How much of the world’s rail The Anawera way mileage is in the United States? 1. Julius Caesar. 3. Who holds the record for the 2. Thirty per cent. longest cabinet service? 3. James Wilson, who was sec 4. How large was the Continental retary of agriculture from 1897 to army in the Revolutionary war? 5. How many Presidents died on 1913, under McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. July 4? 4. Army records show that 528,- 6. Does the. starfish travel far? 274 regulars and volunteers fought 7. Which of the following is a in the Revolutionary war. prime number—7, 10 or 22? 5. Three Presidents—John Ad ams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. Square Broom Handles 6. The farthest distance ever traveled by any starfish is ap Tent poles and broom handles for proximately 5,000 feet, and this the British government are to be trek took 10 months’ time. made square in the future—not so 7. Seven. It is divisible by no that they can be put into round number except itself and one. holes, but because the experts as 8. The moon is one-fourth in sure that this will save the coun size. Its diameter is about 2,000 try at least $8,000,000 a year. The miles, the earth’s about 8,000 timber controller of the ministry miles. of supply says that round handles 9. 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