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.
We quote from her letter: "Three
years ago, I became constipated.
I tried many laxatives. But as soon
as I cot used to each kind, I began
to get the same trouble.
"Last summer I was on my yaca
tien. They served Kellnpg's Au
Bran. I just loved it. I eat Kel
lope's All-Bran every moraine,
and ever since I have not had to
take any more laxatives." Miss
Margaret Kesterke, Cresskill, N. J.
Du to insufficient "bulk" in
mtaU.
Tests show ALL-BRAN provides
"bulk' to aid elimination. ALL-BRAN
Is also rich In vitamin B and Iron.
The "bulk" in Au-Brav is een
tle. It resists dipestion better than
the fiber in fruits and vegetables,
so it is often more effective.
Isn't this food safer than riskine
patent medicines? Two tablespoon
fuls of All-Bran daily are usually
sufficient. If seriously constipated,
use with each meal. See your doc
tor, if you do not get relief.
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SET BY TEXAS COED
AUSTIN. Tex. (UP) University of
Texas co-eds wonder how she did It.
One girl student went to school
PHIt.AnEC.PHIA (UP. Athletic ex
ercises affect only a defective heart.
Dr. Hiiro Roseler, associate professor
of rndiqloey at Temple University
Medical School, declared In stating
there Is no such thing as an athletic
henrt.
He pointed out that an athlete's
henrt Is slightly enlarged during
training period to tnke care of In
creased muscular development, but
It never dilates suddenly. That be
lief. Dr. Roseler says, has been an
age-old bogeyman to the athlete,
makea him fearful and unhappy, and
Is psychologically dangerous.
TRY ALASKA FARMING
SAN FRANCISCO (UP. Emigration
of 650 additional families from
drought-stricken and sub-marginal
Middle West fnrma to the MrUnnusna
Valley colony In Alaska is under con
sideration by Federal Rural rehabili
tation officials.
H. W. Von Morpurgo. assistant di
rector of the California Emergency
Relief administration, said plana are
only In the formative stage at pres
ent, but territory adjacent to the
Matanuska Valley Is being surveyed.
The first two groups of settlers
numbered 250 families, about five
persons to a fnmlly.
J
10 BE PRESERVED
OLYMPIA. Wash. (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.
When completed, the c'Ani will con
tain a riepoMt of about .vcon.ooo tn
free gold.
This is the estimate made recently
by engineers. The engineer, how
ever, hetened to add thot there 19
no reason for a gold rush. It Is a
small amount, when one coniders
about t00.OO0.000 cubic yards of sand
and gravel.
They explained that for years gold
has been carried down the Missouri
rl ver from 1 1 v ma I n rai i e of the
Rockies, the Little Rcckles. ond, other
mountain ranees In the district.
Because of the pounding It has re
ceived in Its travels down turbulent
mountain stream to the "B! Mud
dy." It has heen reduced to a fine
flake or flour gold, almost ImpoMi jI
to remove.
Twins llonst Teeth at One Month
OTTAWA, Out, (UP) Allan and
Kenneth Held, twin sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Rcid, are sprouting teeth
at the age of one month. Kenneth's
first tooth appeared when he was 35
days old; Allan's came a few days
later.
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