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(See recipe» below.)
LYNN 8AYS:
Run Home Smoothly
With These Tips
To dry lettuce after It has been
washed, place in a small cloth bag
and shake it thoroughly. The bag
will absorb the water but the shak
ing will not bruise the lettuce leaves.
To assure even browning of pan
cakes on the griddle, rub the griddle
with a small bag of salt. This elim
inates smokin? and simplifies clean
ing as well.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
Creamed Chicken and Mush
rooms in Croustade Cases
Slivered Green Beans
Potato Chips
Avocado-Grapefruit Salad
Beverage
•Strawberry Sherbet
•Recipe given.
heat and stir in liquid pectin. Stir
and skim fruit by turns for a min
utes. Pour into sterile glasses and
cover at once with paraffin.
Strawberry-Pineapple Jam.
Combine equal parts of strawber
ries and shredded pineapple with
sugar equal in
w e i g h t to the
fruit.
Boil until
thick and clear,
as for jam. Pour
into sterile jars
and seal at once.
If your taste
turns to cool, re-
O freshing desserts
that make use of
strawberries Im
mediately, then you’ll want to hang
onto these two which take it easy
on the sugar supply. Both of these
may be made easily in an automatic
refrigerator tray.
Strawberry Ice.
(Serves 4)
14 cup granulated sugar
14 cup light corn syrup
1 cup cold water
1 quart washed, hulled strawberries
Cook sugar, corn syrup and water
until mixture spins a thread, or un
til thermometer registers 228 de
grees. Mash strawberries, and add
to syrup; mix well and chill. Turn
into freezing tray and let freeze un
til firm, stirring the mixture once
or twice with a fork.
•Strawberry Sherbet.
(Serves 4)
114 cups strawberries
2 tablespoons lemon Juice
?4 cup canned sweetened condensed
milk
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
Press measured berries through a
sieve. Add milk and lemon juice,
then chill. Fold in stiffly beaten
egg whites. Turn into freezing tray
and chill in automatic refrigerator
until frozen around the edges. Turn
mixture into bowl and beat thor
oughly with egg beater. Return to
tray and freeze until firm.
If you are lucky enough to have
one of the crank freezers, then you'll
want to make a share of straw
berry ice cream for the week-end.
Truly there is nothing more tasty
and delicious than the pale pink ice
cream made with crushed, fully
ripe berries. Serve it plain in all
its splendor and you won’t need a
thing to go with it. Do be sure to
have enough for seconds, because
there's nothing better than home
made, crank freezer type, straw
berry ice cream.
Strawberry Ice Cream.
(Makes 114 quarts)
114 cups milk, scalded
2 eggs, slightly beaten
114 teaspoons vanilla extract
Dash of salt
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
% cup corn syrup (light)
114 cups heavy cream
1 quart washed, hulled strawberries
>4 cup sugar
Stir milk into eggs in top of dou
ble boiler. Cook until mixture coats
the spoon. Stir in vanilla, salt, 6
tablespoons sugar and corn syrup;
Cool, then add cream. Mash straw
berries and add to them *4 cup sug
ar. Fold in custard mixture. Freeze
in a two quart freezer, using 8 parts
of crushed ice to one part of salt.
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ILTON BERLE is con
centrating cn two things: /"Y N E of the thriftiest ways to
proving that he can do a suc brighten a dull room Is to re
cessful radio program and place its rugs No, I ’m not talking
raising two million dollars by about laying out a large sum of
the end of the year. And he’s money for a 9 by 12 ru» that would
making the grade. His Tues take a big chunk out of the bank
Make the Most of Your Strawberries!
Those luscious ripe red berries of
which we are »o fond have a mighty
short season, but
today’»
recipe»
should help you
muke the most of
them. Eat what
you can get now,
but put up the red
ripe strawberries
so you can enjoy
them next winter.
If you want to have fresh straw
berries all the year around for
very special occasions, you may
want to freeze them, if you are for
tunate enough to have a freezing
unit. Otherwise, can them whole,
or put them up as marmalade.
Jam or Jelly.
If the berries seem a bit expen
sive, you can stretch them by us
ing fruits that go well with them in
Jams, such as pineapple or rhubarb.
Budget your canning sugar now, too,
so you'll have enough for all
your needs of the season.
Strawberry Marmalade.
(Makes 12 6-ounce glasses)
2 oranges
2 lemons
*4 cup water
14 teaspoon soda
1 quart strawberries
7 cups sugar
H bottle fruit pectin
Remove rind from oranges and
lemons. Cut off white membrane.
Force rinds through food chopper.
Add water and soda, and bring to
boiling point. Cover and simmer 10
minutes.
Add orange and lemon
pulp with Juice. Simmer for 20 min
utes.
Add crushed strawberries.
Measure 4 cups of prepared fruit;
add sugar. Bring to boiling and boil
6 minutes. Remove from heat; stir
in fruit pectin.
Let stand 5 min
utes.
Skim and
seal in hot, ster
ile glasses.
Another straw
berry favorite for
the season is jel- / S — '
ly, but in this ^ 7 ( \ V
recipe the precious fruit is extended
with young, strawberry-pink rhu
barb.
Strawberry-Rhubarb Jelly.
(Makes 12 6-ounce glasses)
4 cups Juice
8 cups granulated sugar
8 aunces liquid pectin
To prepare fruit, cut about 1
pound of fully ripe rhubarb into one-
inch pieces and put through food
chopper.
Crush thoroughly and
force through the food chopper 1
quart of strawberries. Combine fruit
and place in Jelly bag to extract the
Juice. Measure sugar and fruit Juice
into saucepan and mix. Bring to a
boil over high heat and add liquid
pectin at once, stirring constantly.
Bring to a full, rolling boil and boil
hard Vi minute. Remove from heat
and skim. Pour into sterile glasses
and cover with paraffin at once.
Strawberry Jam is an old favor
ite with hot biscuits on every spe
cial occasion. If you oan spare the
three pounds of sugar necessary to
make 10 glasses of this delicacy,
then here are the directions:
Strawberry Jam.
(Makes 10 6-ounce glasses)
4 cups prepared berries
3 pounds (7 cups) sugar
!4 of an 8-ounce bottle liquid pectin
To prepare fruit, place 2 quarts of
fully ripe berries through a food
chopper; or, crush completely, one
layer at a time. Measure sugar and
fruit into saucepan, mix well and
bring to a full rolling boil. Stir con
stantly before and while boiling.
Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from
The New Book of
Everyday Etiquette
Relrasad bv Western Nawsowixr Union
day night NBC »how ha» gone so
well that it’» been renewed (or the
summer, and he’» made one-fourth
of the two million, barnstorming
four night» a week with hi» troupe,
then rushing to New York for his
Strawberry Favorites
Woman's World
Homemade Rugs Can Give Lift
To Rooms with Little Expense
MILTON
BERLE
broadcast. The money is for the
Milton Berle Foundation of the
Men’s League in Aid of Crippled
Children. Oh yes—he wants to pile
up another million for the National
Children's Cardiac home In Florida.
Even Hollywood can’t lure him
away!
John Brown, starred as ’’Melvin
Foster” on "A Date with Judy,” is
easily distinguished in the halls of
Hollywood’s Radio City; he’s usu
ally running. Tuesday nights he
sprints from “Judy” to "Amos
’n' Andy," immediately following.
Thursday nights he’s frequently on
the Abbott and Costello show and on
the Eddie Cantor program, which
takes the air as A and C sign off
Singer Janis Carter, who has
never warbled a note In films
(she’ll soon be seen opposite Glenn
Ford in “ Framed” ), will be publi
cised by Columbia Pictures In a
series of singing guest shots on the
air. She was a runner-up In the
Metropolitan auditions, so the build
up seems a natural for her. But—
why hasn’t Columbia let her sing
for the cameras?
Pine and Thomas’ forthcoming
Paramount release, "Adventure Is
land,” will contain several spots of
absolutely silent footage, so that
when bobby soxers squeal over
Rory Calhoun, as they did at the
preview, grown-up fans won't miss
out on the dialogue. Blank spaces
in the sound tract are to be called
"scream footage." But—what if the
bobby soxers don't scream?
—r~
Radio actress Ginger Jones' most
prized keepsake came from a cuff
of the trousers her husband, Les
Damon, wore at their wedding. He
found a few grains of rice there,
had an old watch of hers made into
a ring, with the rice in the watch
compartment, and gave it to her on
their first anniversary. Ginger is
the clever newspaper woman in
“The Right to Happiness.”
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A few years ago Jean Pierre Au-
mont knew little English beyond
"yes” and "no.” But wait till you
hear him in "Atlantis!’’ Seems he
spent a night in jail in a small V ir
ginia town, during the war, because
he said "yes" to the sheriff when he
should have said "no," and was
jailed as a spy. Right away he
made up his mind to learn to speak
English, as fast as possible.
When Amos and Andy sang a duet
as a gag during rehearsal of their
Tuesday NBC show recently some
body recalled that back in 1922 they
auditioned as vocalists at a Chicago
station and to their sarpirse got the
job. But after seven months they
quit of their own accord; heard a
record of Bing Crosby singing with
Paul Whiteman’s Rhythm Boys and
refused to compete.
Bustles More Pointed
the narrow and wide extension. For
example, compact, multiple wind
ing makes a satisfactory hooked
rug with uncut loops. Then too,
there’s lattice winding of two col
ors; diagonal multiple winding and
rugs of a tufted type that are made
with multiple winding and "cut”
loops.
Select Designs Carefully
For Different Rooms
A bathroom rug freshener that’s
certain to dramatize and lift the
bathroom out of the doldrums is a
rug of solid color fringed at the ends
and decorated with an offside flower
spray in gay colors.
The Colonial or French provincial
rooms will take on new life if you
make a yarn rug, unfringed in the
When Madge Meredith worked as
cashier in 20th-Fox’s cafeteria she
made a screen test, but had left the
studio by the time executives got
around to seeing it. But RKO saw
the test, signed her, and she's
prominently featured in "Trail
Street.’’
Columbia used 3 extra firemen
when making scenes in “Her Hus
band's Affairs.” The reason; Several
hundred extras were sporting beards
of inflammable crepe hair.
Released bv Western Newspaper Union.
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ODDS A N D ENDS — Clem ,Mf-
Never cook soups with herbs for Carthy, who describes his 16th Preak
a long period of time, as the herbs ness, May 10, wanted to be a jockey,
lose their delicate flavors. Sprinkle hut couldn't make it— too tall. . e.
the herbs in the soup just a few min Charles Chaplin’s "Monsieur Verdoux"
utes before serving to get the most chalked up as not very good. . . . Those
beautiful bangs Eleanor Parker wears
out of them.
in "The Voice of the Turtle" have to
To save heat and keep the kitchen he combed away every night; her hus
clean, use pots and pans that lit neat band doesn’t like them. . . . That pistol
ly over burners so that all heat with which Bette Davis killed Claude
Rains in "Deception" was used by that
will be utilized.
same Rains Io knock off Audrey Tot
Do not attempt to remove grease ter in "The Unsuspected." . . . In "The
in Its liquid form from floors. Pour Voice of the Turtle" Ronald Reagan
ice water on the spots, then scrape wears the uniform made for Robert
the fat off with a knife.
Hutton for "Janie Gets Married.”
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account. I ’m talking about little
scatter rugs that can be run off on
your own sewing machine.
Small
scatter
rugs,
stitched,
tufted or woven, however you
choose to make them, are ideal
room brightenerg tor the bedroom,
porch or playroom.
Several women I know keep col
lecting all their old clothing into
bags, and when they feel they have
enough to work with, they set them
selves aside a bit of time and run |
off several brand new rugs. It ’s
easy to see that the outlay for this
type of sewing is kept at a mini
mum, and yet any investment of
this kind returns its good many
times in the way it brightens a
room.
No matter what room needs
cheering, you'll find that you can
stitch a suitable rug that provides
! just the right accent in colors and
design to complement the surround
ings. Cotton yarns, featured at local
sewing centers, make durable tuft
ed rugs with a deep luxurious pile.
¡They are easy to launder, too. With
a sewing machine attachment you
I can wind the yarn in varying widths
to achieve the pile-depth desired.
There's a big variety of stitching
and designs in various colors, too.
The regular sewing machine stitch
er is used to anchor uncut fringe in
straight row - after - row formation.
With the handicraft guide attach
Eyelet edging makes a yoke and
ment, the loops may be cut auto
"petticoat" on this nofade striped
matically as the work progresses by
cotton. In pink or aqua and gray
means of the cutting blade attached
stripes. It is modeled by its 12-
to the guide.
year old designer, Annabelle Gra
ham.
All Types or Rugs
Need ’Backing’
Whether your rugs' are made of
twine, yarn or rags, they need a
backing. Burlap is the most durable
of fabrics for this purpose, but any
strong, tough fabric may be used.
Feed bags, discarded awnings, sail
cloth, and even heavy, unbleached
muslin will do.
A rug favorite for the living room
or bedroom is the textured tufted
type with a fringed border stitched
on all four sides. If this is made In
a monotone cream or off white
shade, the design can achieve spe
cial distinction by a diamond design
that's worked out by a winding
process of varying pile depths. Un
Brighten it with rugs.
usual effects can be achieved by
these winding variations.
traditional staircase design, devel
The handicraft guide attachment oped in two colors with black yarn
may be used for the process, with outlining the center motifs. The pat
tern may be worked out with a
transfer design.
Almost any room, no matter what
the decor may be, will take amiably
to the traditional hooked type of
rug. developed in dark shades for
the outside border with lighter
background color for the oval cen
ter that’s decorated with a conven
tional design in gay colors.
If your room it dingy . . .
Be prepared to see much more
emphasis on higher heels. I t ’s an
axiom of fashion that as skirts
grow longer, heels climb higher.
And for dress this season, they
often appear more luxurious than
ever before with an almost lace-
llke arrangement of straps.
Introductions
O YOU get tongue-tied and
flustered when you have to
m ake introductions? I t’s easy to
avoid em barrassm ent when you
know the rules.
The difference between bustle ef
fects appearing recently and those
of some time ago is in the shape of
the detail. Instead of being round
ed or curved, the bustles are more
pointed.
In spite of gray which is seen so
much and in such a wide variety of
clothing, one is still under the Im
pression that navy blue is the more
popular color for the season.
Scenes of American prints are ap
pearing in many of the new fash
ions, particularly in pure silks for
warm weather.
Look for early
American scenes when you buy
prints.
If you have a magnificently cut
loose coat, you will be in high style
for the next few months. These can
be worn casually over dresses of
all types as well as comfortably over
suits.
Selecting an evening dress for
daughter? The more sophisticated
gowns show bare shoulders and
backs. If the dress is of the shorter
variety, these are usually covered
by a fine layer of net.
Colors are always a fascinating
item. Choose from this set to be in
high fashion: kingfisher blue, pink
or yellow. White is still an impor
tant note in evening fashions.
Hats continue to look like flower
garden collections, with many mo
tifs worked around the open crown
type.
White and natural colored
straws as well as some in bright
solid colors appear to be high in fa
vor.
If you have an open crown hat
from last season when they first be
gan appearing, change for fresh
flowers and veiling perhaps and you
will be able to use the hat perfectly
for the summer months. Besides,
it’ fun to see what you can do with
them.
Dressy bolero costumes are an
important feature in street wear.
Braiding is a very common decora
tive motif on many of the newer
bolero jackets, and offers a thought
for the woman who sews at home if
she has a braiding attachment that
can be used to give new life to old
clothes.
In introducing a man and a woman,
speak the woman's name first unless the
man la very old or very distinguished.
If the people are both the same sex. pre
sent the younger to the older As "M o th
er, this is Janet Sm ith" and "M rs . Lane,
do you know Miss Young?”
Worried about your table manners?
Note-writing got you down? Our Reader
Service booklet No. 45 covers these and
many other phases of everyday etiquette
Send 25 cents (coinI for "N ew Rook of
Everyday Etiquette" to Weekly Newspa
per Service, 243 W. n th St., New York 11,
N . Y. P rin t name, address, booklet title
and No. 45.
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The Queationa
1. How’ much heavier than air is
water?
2. Can a m em ber of congress be
impeached?
3. What country is the birth
place of the piano?
4. How does the size of India
com pare with that of the United
Sts tes
5. Was "Casey” of "Casey at
the B at” a real person?
6. Must the speaker of the house
be an elected representative in
congress?
The Anawera
1. W ater is 775 tim es heavier
than air.
2. No, but each house can with
concurrence of two-thirds expel a
m em ber.
3. Italy.
4. One-half the size.
5. Yes. He was David M. Casey.
He played with the National league
Phillies. E rnest Thayer wrote the
poem in 1888.
6. No. The house is empowered
to choose their speakers and other
officers without restrictions.
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to us 26c at all druggists.
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