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edford Mail Second Section UNE Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON', FRIDAY. JUNE 2S, 1935. No. 81. "DTP Six Pages CHERRY PIE TESTS' CULINARY ART OF! MOTOR FORTUNE HEIR SUED Making of Fruit Pie Em bodies Problem of Soggy Crust Proper Methods Told by Federal Experts A long time o some tuneful oul inquired. "Can h mlt t cherry pie. Blly boy?" And tht question .till put many a maid and many a housewife to a pretty teat. Not only cherry pie. of course. There are blackberry pie. blueberry pie. gooseberry, plum, peach, and all the rest of the summer fruit pies to be considered t this season. If a cen sus were taken to discover the most popular desserts in the United States. It aeems very likely that pie most likely fruit pie of some kind would ahow up fur ahead In the returns. The making of fruit pies la Indeed an art, says the bureau of home eco nomics of the United States depart ment of agriculture. And as with other arts, the artists themselves dif fer considerably about the way to do It. They may agree that the pastry must be delicate and flaky, and that the chief problem In frult-ple mik ing Is to keep the bottom crust from getting soggy. But as to ways of ac complishing that, there are different schools of thought. Bottom Crust Problem. The question between the two schools Is whether to bake, or not to bake, the bottom crust before you put in the fruit. English cooks do not have to worry about this becsuse they make their pies (they call them tarts) without any bottom crust, as we often make "deep-dish" pies. They make the famous English plum tart that way as did. no doubt, the Queen of Hearts when she made some tarts, all on a summer's day. But the typical American pies, and Amer ican tarta as well, have a bottom crust. And In a god pie the bottom cruet Is never soggy. Berries, however, and plums and cherries all of which make delicious pies hare a great deal of Juice. Heat makes the fruit Juice flow. So does the auger you use to sweeten the fruit. Juice soaks into the pastry unless you know how to prevent It. There are two ways to prevent it. I. One school of pie making says and this la probably the way your grandmother did It., a way that Is hard to beat: Line your pie pan with a thin sheet of dough big enough to come fully over the edge of the pan. Put in the fresh fruit, sweetened, dot with butter, and sprinkle with a little flour. Moisten the edge of the bot tom layer of dough, and cover the pie with another thin sheet of dough, pricked or slashed to make a pretty little pattern of openings that will let the steam out of the pie as It cooks. Press the edges of the dough together and "crimp" them, either with your fingers or a fork, and slip immediately Into a hot even (400 to 450 degrees on your Fahrenheit ther mometer). Need Hot Oven. Tou need a hot oven here because the dough in the bottom of the pan must cook before the fruit Juice can soak In. But after about 15 minutes, when the dough has cooked some, but no yet brown, lower the heat until you have only a moderate oven, and cook until the pie Is nicely browned. By that time your fruit la cooked enough and it should not have boiled over on the crust snd spoiled the looks of your pie. II. The other school of pie making ays and in a series of testa in the experimental kitchens of the bureau of home economics, this method was successful more often than any other: Bake your bottom pastry shell be- LOVES TO EAT THIS CEREAL, IT CHECKED HER CONSTIPATION Kellogg's All-Bran Helped Miss Kesterke i I Ir::; A St3! a Mrs. Horace E. Dodge (left), wife of the wealthy Detroit auto mobile fortune heir and speedboat manufacturer. Horace Dodge (right), has brought suit for divorce and $250,000 In a New York court. (Associated Press Photo- fore you put in the Juicy fruit (we are not talking of apple pie now). But bake the shell very lightly, until it Just begins to brown, for it has to go Into the oven again, with the fruit In. Heat the fruit before you put It In the pie. but heat it only until the Juice flows. Then strain off the Juice, add to it a little (Just a little) cornstarch, well mixed with sugar, and cook this mixture until tt thickens. Then stir the fruit Itself into the thickened Juice. Put this filling into the baked pastry shell, cover with pastry donah, and bake the pie in a moderately hot oven (375 to 400 degrees). Rolling Dancer. When you make a fruit pie this way you cannot have the oven as hot as you would if you had not al ready partly baked the pie shell. But you must control the temperature carefully, also the cooking time, or the fruit, which is hot when it goes Into the pie, may boll over. In fact, there Is some danger of it boiling over anyhow, so you may wish to stick a little paper funnel in the top crust, to let the Juice boil up In there, if It must boil, and fall back harmlessly Inside the pie. Your moderately hot oven here, however. Is Intended to prevent this boiling over while the upper crust bakes. Another question comes, however, on the kind of thickening for your pie. Some cooks say flour. Others say cornstarch. Still another kind of .thickening is tapioca. To make your pie filling with tapioca you can simply let the fresh fruit stand In some sugar, with a little of the tapi oca sprinkled in the sugar to draw out the Juice and sweeten the pie. and the tapioca to blend with and thicken the Juice. Open Pies. Still another way to avoid a soggy pie crust Is to make tarts, or open pies, for which you bake the shells In advance. Just before serving, put in the filling, heat the tart to crisp It, and serve hot. Or fill the crisp baked shell .with fresh berries, or fresh sliced peaches, or stewed rhu barb, and serve It so. Individual tarts. In shells baked on muffin pans turned upside down, ere easiest to sarve. And now that we have put the pic together and baked It. let us go back to the pie crust and see how that should be made. For one pie. says the bureau of home economics, use 1 '.'a cups of sifted soft-wheat flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 5 to 8 tablespoons of fat, and about 2'- tablespoons of water. Use any kind of fat you wish, but no fat has better shortening power than lard. If you like a flaky crust, use some solid fat like lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil. If you like a crumbly crust, you will get It by uslrg melted fat or a cooking oil for shortening corn, cottonseed, or peanut oil. Directions for Pie Crust. Mix the flour and salt and work In the fat with the tips of the fin gers or a forji or biscuit cutter. When the flour and fat are "grainy," edd the water slowly, and use no more than absolutely necessary to make a stiff dough. On a lightly floured board roll out a little more than half the dough Into a thin sheet large enough to line the pie pan, Pat the sheet of dough very lightly Into the pan so there will be no air bubbles underneath, put In the pie filling, and moisten the rim of the dough. Roll out the dough for the upper crust, allowing about a half inch extra around the edpe. Fold the sheet of dough In half, make a few slashes through both thicknesses near the center, lift onto the pie, and spread out over the filling. Prss lightly around the edge cf the pan. and If the filling Is Juicy allow enough dough to fold under well. Lift the pan up and trim off the sur plus dough, holding the Knife slant wise underneath the pan. With the t'nes of the fork, press the rim light ly down to the pan. and the pie is ready to bske. If the undercrust Is to be baked before the filling is added, as with berries and other Juicy fruit ano custard mixtures, line the pie pan with the dou?h as directed. In cut ting off the surplus dough leave a generous turn-over around the rim. prick the dough every two or three inches over the bottom and sides, snd bake in a moderately hot oven (400 I degrees F.) for 10 minutes, or until the crust Is delicately browned. Or Instead of pricking the dough, put another slightly smaller pie pan on top of the dough after It Is fitted Into the pan. and remove after It has been in the oven for five min utes, so that the paatry will brown delicately. If the pie is to have an upper crust, moisten the rim of the baked lower crust before adding the top sheet of dough, and tuck It well over the edge. Students Yearn For Journalism PHILADELPHIA (UP) A career of Journalism la preferred by mod ern high school graduates a survey at Temple university showed. This attraction for newspaper wark as a profession was demonstrated at a "Career Conclave" held here with 1500 high school seniors in attendance. Among the 40 or more group con ferences called to discuss the various profession and vocations, approxi mately 100 students who aspire to be reporters and editors, attended the Journalism clinic. In this group women predominated. PETRIFIED LOGS. SEATTLE. Wash . (UP ) Forest of glngko trees, now natlvo only of parts of the Orient, thrived in Kittitas county, Washington, ISO miles from Seattle, about 30,000,000 years ago. George F. Beck. University of Wash ington research student In geology, discovered. He found scores of petrified logs, some of them turnrd to stone wsem. ling opnl by chemical action of water and lava that had covered them. Federal funds mp.de possible exca vations, under Beck's supervision. Other discoveries included the skele ton of a horse. About the size of a Shetland pony, the skull of a rodrnt Uke animal and the leg of a deer-like animal. The chemical action preserved per fectly the grain of the wood, worm holes and eges of Insects. The sub stance takes a high polish like quarts', or aeate. During the period. Brck said, what is now Washington changed from tropical to sub-tropical, to a volcanic waste, to glacial fields, then Dack to temperate climate again. .in entire year for f.255.70, while the others averaged more than tl .000. Dormitory students averaged P27 26 per year; sorority house residents. $1,340 86; those living In boarding I houses. $1,087.50. aliments wnn "Diank chec. books, unlimited drawing accounts, spent little more than girls with allow ances. The former class averaged 1, 169.49. the latter, $1,102.14. Girls who worked to pay part expenses paid only $681.29 to attend college. The highest expense account listed was $2,971.95 for the year. ATHLETIC HEART MYiH 8 AN FRANSISCO (UP) Pointing to the gain as evidence of more tem perate drinking, the Wine Institute reported an increase of nearly 20 per cent In American u-lni mnumntinn I for the first quarter of 1935 against me same period a year ago. Leading the gain Is California, home state of the domestic wines of the nation, with a gain of 45.2 per cent. California accounts for 62 per cent of the United States' wine drink ing: New York 23 per cent and Penn sylvania 1 per cent. Wild Dogs Prey On Farm Cattle HOT SPRINOS. Ark. (UP) Large packs of wild do(?s ar preying on livestock In the Ouachita hill coun try around Hot Springs. Farmers have complained of young calves, chickens and pigs taken by the wolf-like packs. Deputy Sheriff Adolph Anderson captured a puppy from a pack. It fought a vicious and wolfish battle he said, and has shown no Indica tions of becoming domesticated. A "device for producing dimples," which resembles a carpenter's brace and bit, has been patented. 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(UP) Mystic picture writing on walls of the Col umbia river canyon, dating from the pre-hixtorlc past, may be preserved In pictures, despite rising waters from the Grand Coulee dam. Secretary of State Ernest Hutchin son urged that photographing of the untranslated writings be made a state relief project. "These rock writings contain the secrets of the earliest human race in this state." he said. "They will be permanently Inundated by the Coulee dam, and H would be a crime not to preserve a complete record of these petroglypha and petrocraphs." Hutchinson believed deciphering of the writings by future students might solve the riddle of an ancient race that preceded the American Indians. FORT PECK IS Forty-two per cent of the more than 2000 students at Texas Tech nological college rnrn about $25,000 a month at part-time Jobs. FORT PECK. Mont. (UP) Liter ally millions of dollars In gold 1 being poured Into the plnntte Fort Peck dam here. 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