Friday, July 4, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Paqe 3
Underground 'City?
PATTERNS
(See Recipes Below.)
EASY AN PIE
No sooner are you back from your
honeymoon than the business of
planning menus, marketing and
cooking for two begins!
In your capacity ns chief cook,
you're sure to find the task of pre
paring .three meals a day a real
challenge. Of course If you've hud
little past experience In the culinary
Held, there'll undoubtedly be at least
one butch of “heuvy" biscuits, a
"fallen" cake or two, and even
burnt toast , . . but don't let mis
takes bother you too much . , , and
he'll soon be "crowing" about your
So-o <> Good Meals!
Because I'm convinced that the
ability to make really good pie is
a highly desirable
quality for any
young woman to
possess, especial
ly a new wife,
I'm presenting a
few pie recipes
V.
for you to try in
your leisure moments.
If he likes desserts at all (most
men adore them), try your luck
with lemon-chiffon, chocolate, rhu
barb or even Spanish cream pie . . .
And. If you're careful to follow the
foregoing suggestions, he won't be
able to resist that second piece!
• • •
I've captioned the column Easy
As Pie
. . which perhaps gives
an erroneous Impression. Easy to
eat, yes. but not always easy to
make Pastry Is tricky, but once the
technique of making it has been
acquired. It isn't easily lost
In making pastry remember these
points. (1) unless you are making
hot water pastry, have the ingredi
ents for mnklng pie crust cold; (2)
cut shortening into the flour, using
a pastry blender or fork; or, if
you’re an experienc«-d cook, and
work quickly, blending in the short
ening with fingers is permissible;
(3) add water sparingly, using only
enough to hold the Ingredients to
gether; handle dough as little and
as lightly as possible after adding
water; (4) roll out the dough on a
lightly floured board or on a heavy
canvas; (5) cover the rolling pin
with a child's white cotton stocking
—with the f«x>t cut off—and flour it
lightly; and <8) place the dough
Irwisely In the pan to help prevent
shrinking.
Plain Pastry.
2 cups flour
H teaspoon salt
*5 cup shortening
Ice water (about 8 or 7 tablespoons)
Sift flour once before measuring.
Sift together flour and salt Cut in
shortening with two knives or pastry
blender, making coarse pieces. Add
as little water as possible to make
dough stay together. Divide into
parts large enough to make one
crust and roll out on a well-floured
board with as little handling as pos
sible.
•Chocolate Pie.
Plain pastry
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
3 eggs
1 cup cream
1 cup sugar
2 tnblespoons soft brend crumbs
Mi cup chopped walnuts
Line a pie pan with plain pastry
and pinch with fingers to make a
LYNN NAYS:
I want to pass on to you newly
weds some tips for homcmaking
that have the approval of hun-
dreds of cooks, mothers and
housewives . . .
Tin or aluminum frying pans
will wenr better if cold water is
not poured into them while
they’re hot.
Boiling a new rope clothes line
for a few minutes in soapy water
softens it and lengthens its life.
A round whisk broom serves as
an excellent clothes sprinkler. It
gives n flne spray, sprinkles even
ly, and saves time.
Grease spots may sometimes
be removed from wallpaper with
a piece of blotting paper held
against the spots with a warm
iron.
In planning meals, bacon should
be considered as fat rather than
meat, because it contains so lit
tle protein.
Little Dinner for Two
Cube Steaks With Tart Dressing
Potato Sticks Butter Lima Beans
Bread or Rolla
Green Salad
•Chocolate Pie
Coffe
•Recipe Included
OIK OWN GALLUP POLL ON Tilt
DEFENSE PROGRAM
Question No. 1—How do you feel
about America being the arsenal for
all victims of aggressor nations?
Yes .
46 per cent.
No .
. 4 per cent.
Not sure what the word arsenal
means . . . 32 per cent.
Wouldn't mirid being an arsenal if
it didn't interfere with week end mo
tor trip ... 8 per cent.
• • •
Question No. 2 What do you think
of the all-aid-short-of-war idea?
Yes ... 42 per cent.
It’s okay with me if it's okay with
you ... 12 per cent.
All right if the emphasis is pu<
on the "short” .
8 per cent.
Any man who calls what we are
doing short of war is a bad judge of
distance . . . 30 per cent.
• • •
Question No. 3—Do you think th«
lug in our defense program is se
rious?
Yes and no ... 35 per cent.
Undecided ... 4 per cent.
Think what America needs mosi
is a lag in microphone ... 60 per
cent.
Wouldn't know a lag if 1 saw one
. . • 1 per cent
• • •
Crumb Pastry.
•
to wear.
FAIR WARNING!
They say somebody dropped u
bomb over Kilkenny the other dav
from 2,000 feet and that a Kilkenny
man picked it up, threw it back anti
destroyed an enemy at 10,000 feet.
• • •
Elmer Twitchell hopes there is m
lag in our Are hose program. “1
agree with Mr. Roosevelt that if a
neighbor’s house is on Are the thing
to do is to lend him your hose with
out quibbling. And if he asks for a
ladder. I am for handing him one
without all Die crossbars missing "
• • •
It took a dentist two hours to puli
one of Clark Gnble's teeth recently
We understand that when Clark in
quired, "Where's your strength in
that good right arml” the dentist rc
plied, “Gone with the windup.”
• • •
RESTAURANT MAN
To customers he throws a curve.
His rating isn't high,
For he’s the kind of guy who'll serv«
Six portions to a pie.
• • •
On Hitler's doorplate in his ok
Munich home he is still listed as ai
author. And he appears to be th<
only author in history determiner
to kill off most of his customers.
« • •
Maybe Hitler gets his author ide.
from the feeling he is one of Ei
rope's best "shellers.”
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•
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1359 B la In
sizes 12. 14, 16. 18 and 20 Corresponding
bust measurements are 30. 32, 34. 36 and
38. Size 14 (32) dress requires 2’» yards
36-inch fabric, bolero jacket Hi yards.
Rlc-rac outline takes 4 yards. Pattern is
complete with sew chart. Send order to:
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Care to our coflin adds a nail,
no doubt; and ev’ry grin so mer-
ry, draws one out.—Dr. Wolcot.
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Rastus Had Just Gone
Through the Preliminary
Question No. 4—Do you think
America is menaced as never befor«
in Its history?
Uhuh ... 27 per cent.
Who am 1 to argue with the Presi
dent? ... 40 per cent.
Too frightened to answer after lis
tening to the last two messages on
the state of the nation ... 33 per
cent
fancy edge. Cut chocolate in pieces
and melt over hot water. Beat eggs
well, and add sugar, bread crumbs
und melted chocolate.
Mix well.
Pour into the pie pan
Bake in a
hot oven <375 degrees F.) for 20 min
utes, or until filling is flrm. When
cold, sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Spread with whipped cream and
Are you willing to make any sac
decorutc with whole walnut kernels. riflee?
Who? Me? ... 11 per cent.
Wait till I ask the missus . . . U
Just because it's summer, don't
stop pie baking . . . merely change per cent.
Yes, but I want to be sure all you
the kind of pie you serve. Spanish
Cream pie has everything for a suc fellows who are asking me that
cessful summer dessert—it’s quiv- question in polls like this are not oui
playing golf
68 per cent.
ery, cool, delicately flavored.
Arc you in favor of an all-out war?
To make the Alling and pastry
Not too far out ... 25 per cent.
really boon companions, substitute
I am for an "all out" war if it
orange juice for
doesn't leave us "all in” ... 75
the water In the
per cent.
pastry. A half
teaspoon of grat
What do you think of the situatiot
ed orunge rind
In the Near East?
added to the flour
for the pastry
Yes . . .40 per cent.
No ... 10 per cent.
will give a special
fragrance to it
Undecided ... 30 per cent.
I tried to And out about it, but th<
Npanixh Cream Pie.
wire was busy . . . 30 per cent
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
cup cold milk
Muxxolini is so quiet these
Hi cups scalded milk
days
that you «■an hear a gen
2 egg yolks
era! dropped.
% cup sugar
*■« teaspoon salt
Sonja Henic's husband has beer
1 teaspoon vanilla
called in the draft, but the soldiers
2 egg whites
would much rather see Sonja in
1 baked pastry shell
camp.
Soften the gelatin In the cold milk
5 to 10 minutes. Dissolve over hot
FISH STORY
water, stirring constantly, Mean-
It
may
be
old, but it's new to thn
while, prepare a soft custard of the
scalded milk, yolks, sugar and salt department. The story of two fish
Combine hot custard and hot dis ermen returning from a Florida trip
solved gelatin. Cool slightly, add Asked if he had had much luck, th«
first fisherman told of landing a 600
vanilla, then fold in the stiffly beat
pound sailfish first time out. "What
en whites. Chill until quite syrupy.
Pour into pastry shell. Let set be did you get?" he asked.
"I hooked into something ana
fore serving. Yield: 6 servings.
when I pulled up I had a big brass
Sometimes It Is fun to change the lantern from an American ship sunk
flavor of pastry by adding an extra back in the War of 1812 and it was
ingredient or two to the recipe. still burning!" he replied.
"Say,” said the first fisherman
Cheese pastry, for example, is won
derful for apple pie. Grated cheese "I'm a reasonable fellow If you'll
Is mixed with the flour. A half cup blow out that light. I'll take 550.
of grated yellow cheese is enough pounds off that fish."
for the standard recipe.
Spiced pastry is excellent for fruit
Yehudi Menuhin, the famous vio-
pies, particularly peach, apple and linist, has been given a Class I rat
apricot. Cinnamon and nutmeg, and ing in the draft. But a lot of us
perhaps a touch of cloves, arc the will wonder why a great violinist is
spices to use. A teaspoon each of taken when the country is so full
sugar and cinnamon and a fourth of bum fiddlers who ought to be shot
teaspoon of cloves will spice a batch
of pastry. A little sugar also may
Simile by Vincent Lopez: as mod
be added.
ern looking as the hat grandma used
2 cups crumbs, rolled fine or ground
H cup melted butter
Blend butter and crumbs. Line
pie pan by flrmly pressing in mix
ture about one-fourth inch thick. Be
sure to have it extra thick where
sides of pan join. Bnke in ■ 375- to
400-degn*e oven for 10 minutes. This
pastry may be made of graham
crackers, vanilla or chocolate wa
fers or ginger snaps.
And last but not least here's a rec
ipe for the pie that still leads other
meal sign-offs by a wide margin.
Apple Pie.
4'4 cups apples
teaspoon nutmeg or cinnamon
1 teaspoon butter
H teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
Line plate with pastry. Pare, core
and slice apples. Mix sugar, salt
and spice; put
part of sugar in
bottom of plate
filled with apples.
Cover with re
maining
sugar.
Dot over top with
bits of butter,
Moisten edges of lower crusts; put
on upper crust and press edges firm
ly together. Place pie on bottom shelf
or rack in oven and bake in hot
oven, 450 degrees F., for 10 minutes,
then reduce heat to 325 degrees and
bake until fruit is tender and juice
begins to boll through perforations
In crust.
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THE BRIDE I.EAKNN TO TOOK
The Witwatersrand gold mine
near Johannesburg, Union of
South Africa, is the largest under
ground "city” in the world. It
employs 245,000 miners and has
more than 4,000 miles of subter
ranean shafts, streets and ave
course you wear the bolero with it nues, a distance nearly equivalent
on the street. Pattern No. 1359-B to the length of the African con
is a tried and true design for the tinent.
ideal warm weather dress. It has
everything; youthful lines, back
opening which makes it easy to
get into, no fussy details which
take time to iron.
Make this dress in any of the
washable sports fabrics; cottons,
linens, rayon. Percale, dimity,
chambray, broadcloth are partic
ularly recommended. Bolero can
match the frock. The frock in a
print and the bolero in a solid
color is also a smart effect.
Ant's Sermon
Nothing
preaches better than
“Rastus,” said the judge, “you the ant—and
she says nothing.—
are accused of disturbing the en
tire neighborhood on Tuesday Benjamin Franklin.
night. And this is not the first
complaint. What have you got to
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“Well, suh, judge, it was this
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Lucy had an argument. She called L KENT
me a lazy loafah, an’ I clap her
down flat. Up she hops an’ smash
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a plate on mah head an* drop me
flat. Den I rise up an’ welt her “TAKING THE COUNTRY BY STORM”
KNOWN FROM COAST TO COAST
one wid a chair; an* den she heave •
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a hot tea-kettle at me.”
"I see,” said the judge, “and
then what happened?”
Saddened Heart
“An’ den,” said Rastus, “we
It is a poor heart that never
gets mad an’ starts to fight.”
rejoices.—Dickens.
XA7EARING the simplest frocks
’ ’ you can find these hot days?
Here is a style you can easily
make for yourself, and you can
wear it in cool comfort on the
most sizzling days. It is a simple
one-piece dress, cut to a low point
in front, sleeveless and backless
except for shoulder straps.
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A General Quiz
PlONKKHd lb OJfN UMURAMCR MJKJR UM
SHE KNOWS.
• Perfect cake is easy to bake, and bis
cuits hot, they touch the spot—when
Clabber Girl is used ... You pay less
but use no more.
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The Queationa
1. What baseball player had the
highest lifetime major league bat
ting average?
2. Of all metals, which is the
most malleable?
3. What century often is re-
ferred to as the Age of the En-
lightenment?
4. Which continent is the larg-
Labor an Appetizer
seasoning but appetite. Would you
est?
The chief ingredient of a good have a good sauce? Then, labor
5. What is a guerdon?
dinner is not exquisite flavor or before eating.—Horace.
fl. How do carillons differ from
chimes?
7. What occupation did Francis
Scott Key, writer of the "Star
Spangled Banner,” follow?1
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The Anawera
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1. Ty Cobb (Cobb, .367; Speak-
•r. .345; Ruth, .341).
2. Gold.
3. Eighteenth century.
4. Asia.
8. A reward.
fl. Carillons differ from chimes
In that their bells are stationary,
not swung, are tuned chromatical
ly instead of diatonically, and con
tain at least 25 bells in order to
have two complete octaves in
Easy Faultfinding
Serious Life
semitones.
It is much easier to be critical
Life is as serious a thing as
7. Lawyer.
than to be correct.—Beaconsfield, death.—Bailey.
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THE SMOKE Of SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
28% LESS NICOTINE
than the average of the 4 other largest-
gelling cigarettes tested—less than any of
them—according to independent scientific
tests of the smoke Itself.
THE SMOKE’S
THE THING!
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