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MZDFORD (OKEGOlf) MAIL TRIBUKB KTW Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Carton of 6 King Size Food Editor Thursday, rebruary 7, 18S7 Traditional Charry P rarorila lor February February is filled with cherry pie dayi and ways with cherries t all kinds. The cherry tree has been not just a source of fruit for a few thousand years, but an American tradition ever since the youthful, truthful George Washington a p p r o a ched one. hatchet in hand. i .Cherries are identified with j love and marriage: "Can she bake a ch&ry pie, Billie Boy?" Then, too, the cherry canners thisik it a fine idea for us to pick a few cans of cherries off the grocers' shelves before the new aeason cherries start blossoming. Sweet cherries, we feel a com pulsion to say, are grown almost ntirely in the Pacific Northwest and in California (89 per cent of them); are mostly eaten out-of-hand in season. Royal Anns, the large, heart-shaped amber to yellow with a red blush, is the west coast's principal canning variety. Red sour cherries, the pie making kind are grown mostly In Michigan with a few put up in our Pacific Northwest. Maraschino cherries have been enjoyed for three centuries now. In recent years, they've be come a bifwest coast industry. Our world - renowned Royal Anna are processed to give the distinctive maraschino texture, flavor and color liked by every one. Popular uses for these are Indicated elsewhere in these col umns. Parfact Pi Crust Use any favored pie crust or try ours which proves to be per fect every t)ie. Just a mixing bowl and a fork; no special skill, no muss; not even extra flour to b gathered up. You make this with liquid shortening; the re fined corn oil you have on hand for salad drefgjng and for cook ing. Juwt roll tigs crust out be tween squares of waxed paper. (1 cups ($fted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon alt Vi cup refined corn fsalad) oil Vi eta) 1 tablespoon ice y jfegi cMtl exact measure menu A lvel. Sift together flour jm4 Combtie the oil and ie ice ter and beat with fork until hic&ened and creamy. To avoiff ajgtrtion, immediate ly pour liquid, i 1 at once, over fUrtacf) at flour mixture. Toss and r4) fkitb foek. Dough will b mOst. form into two halls. Before rolling, shape each half ith n d s into a flat ou$tf, m4tig top and edges mooih. Roll dough between two quiresOnf wax9d paper. No ex tra flour. Remove top sheet, in (Jrt (Tver pan; peel off paper. Tit pastry intOpgn. For jm Jstry shell, fcd edge ti, flute. jPrick entire surface oferust lightly with fork tines. If shellCifc to ereaked, bake in hc$)oveQ 475 degrees, jO to 12 minuter Fill pastry lined pan with any desired filling. For a tb-crust pie, roll out top crust Cfetwien squares of waxed paper, place top of crust over filling and trim one-half lncfc) beyond rim of pan. Seal dgi by ding top crust under bottom rust. Flute edge. Cut gashes in any preferred design. For lattice like the one pictured cut rold pastry into half-incn wide strips and weave them into the lattice design. Finish edge by placing and ad ditional strip of pastry around it to cover ends of lattice strips. Seal by fluting orQby pressing gently with Jines of a fork. If any pastry ts left over, shape into any desired form, sprinkle with augar and cinnamon, bake, then eat right on the spot. Charrr Pi Superb A No. C) can of pie cherries holds about two cups of cherries, ao you'll need two cans and will hava enough left over for a small pie, tartar or other cherry dessert. 2 tablespoons corn starch 23 cup sugar ii teaspoon salt cup juice, drained from cherries 1 teaspoon (jpmon juice 1 recipe pertect pastry 2 tablespoons butter Combine corn starch, sugar, aau ana cnerry juice in sauce pan. Place over medium heat nd cook, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and comes to a Toil. Add drained cherries and lemon juice. Line a nine-inch pan with half the pastry, rolled le-eighth thick. Fill with cherry mixture. Dot with butter. Roll out remainng pastry for preferred type of crust. Arrange lattice or place crust over cherries: seal and flute edges. Place pie on lowest No Nagging Backache Means a Good Night's Sleep Xantaa: baekaebc. headache, or muscular af-haaand pa mama come uo with over-er-tion.nKtionaJ uptor day today aires? and arrain. And folks who eat and drinlc unwisely aometime auffer miid Madder irritation' ...with that restless, uncomfortable reeling. If you are miserable and worn out because of these discomforts. Doan'a 1'ills often help he their pain reliennE action, by their aooih irur effect to ease bladder irritation, and by their mild diuretic action throuffh thekidneya tending to increase toe output of toe 15 ttilea of kidney tubes. So if nasarirur backache makes yon feel draunred-out. miserable. ith restless, sleep leas nijthts. don'tsvait. try Doan's Fills. Bet the aame happy relief millions have enjoyed for over So years. Ask for new. lanre. economy suae and aavc money. Gel Uw't P ili today.! rack position In oven. Bake in hot oven, 450 degrees, 10 min utes. Reduce heat to moderate, 350 degrees, and bake 1 hour longer or until browned. Many Maraschino Uses Long a favorite with ice cream manufacturers, sundae sauce makers, bakers and chocolate dippers, glassed maraschino cherries are also an increasingly popular item with the home maker who keeps them on hand in both red and green, but most ly red for a wide variety of uses. Maraschino cherries dress up salads and frozen desserts of all kinds; andd color and interest to fruit cocktails and compotes; go into sherbets and ice creams. They're colorful, tasty and dec orative for topping pies and cakes, custards, iced drinks, breads and cookies; go into sauces, candies, frostings, jams and preserves. They also go into sandwich spreads and nearly all fruit cakes. Cheery Cherry Salad Here is a dream of a salad us ing plentiful canned crushed pineapple, lemon-flavored gela tin and unflavored gelatine, cot tage cheese and maraschino cherries in a ring mold. Six servings. 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin cup cold water 1 3-ounce package lemon-flavored gelatin 1 cup boiling water 2 cups creamed cottage cheese 1 9-ounce can crushed pineapple !4 cup lemon juice 1 cup diced cucumber Vi cup chopped maraschino cherries, well drained (about 20 cherries) Soften unflavored gelatine in cold water. Dissolve lemon flavored gelatin in boiling water; Add unflavored gelatine mix ture and stir until dissolved. Beat cheese until smooth. Drain pineapple and reserve syrup. Add cheese, pineapple syrup and lemon juice to gelatin mixture. Chill until slightly thickened. Pour enough gelatin mixture in to a nine-inch ring mold to cover bottom Arrange cherry halves and pieces of cucumber rind at tractively in gelatin. Chill In re maining mixture. Pour into mold. Chill until firm. Unmold and surround with salad greens. Fill with chicken or turkey salad, if desired for luncheon party main dish. Good Valentine Parry Ideas For Family Fun Even with Valentine'i Day falling on Thursday, which will cut down on the partying, there's no reason why the family shouldn't have a gay time by themselves. Paper napkins and place mats or doilies or tablecloth will gaily dispose of the laundry problem and create atmosphere inexpensively. Place cards and miniature bags of candy tied with red ribbons can serve as favors and don't forget mints for munching with the coffee serv ice. Or sprinkle bright red hearts, cupids and or arrows cut from red paper over a snowy white cloth. Perhaps large hearts for place mats and cupids or ar rows as place cards using white ink. Now there's a project for your artistically inclined child ren. Paper lace doilies make ideal frills for bouquets of all sizes. Colorful Food Ideas Any or all of the following menu suggestions can go a long way toward creating atmos phere. Cream of tomato soup or tomato consomme (heated and seasoned tomato juice) with heart-shaped croutons . . . Celery curls with pimiento cheese stuf fing. . . Stuffed olives.. .Chicken or tuna shortacake with pimien to flecks . . . Tossed green salad with pink mayonnaise (juice add a drop or two of red coloring) . . .Glazed cinnamon red apples with heart shaped cookies or Valentine cake . . . Red and white candy. Sweetheart cookies can be made from any cookies recipe and iced in white and red. Heart-shaped biscuits, perhaps with bits of pimiento or made with tomato juice in place of the usual milk can top any favored creamed chicken, shrimp, meat pie or other dish. Valentine Salad. Place board er of thin strips of pimiento around bottom of heart shaped or other mold. Place heart cut from pimiento in center. Fix one box lime or lemon flavored gelatin according to package directions. AVhen partly firm, add l',2 cups cottage cheese, one half cup chopped celery and a dash of salt; mix well. Fill mold with gelatin. Chill. When firm, turn out on lettuce or other greens. Spicy Pink Mayonnaise. This is particularly good on tos sed green salads and on tomato aspic. To one cup mayonnaise add four tablespoons ketchup, two teaspoons Worcestershire sauce and one-half teaspoon garlic powder. Salt and pepper to taste. Or perhaps a dash of tabasco. Olympia, Wash. U.f A memorial urging Congress to provide funds for "immediate construction" of John Day dam on the Columbia river has been introduced in the Washington Senate. DONNING SWIM SUITS, Elizabeth Taylor of filmi and Mike Todd, her producer-husband, take dip In swimming pool at Acapulco, Mexico, ranch where they are honey mooning following marriage. (International Soundphote) On The Side (Distributed by King French permits a person toj say more in less than any other language. A Frenchman can talk at the rate of 350 syllables a minute. A Japanese can do about 310 syllables a minute. A German's talking speed is 250 syllables a minute. The best you can do in English in a minute is 220 syllables. Asides As for all star stage casts, the following performers were all in the cast of a musical show titled "Vera Violetta": Al Jolson, Mae West, Gaby Deslys, Belle Baker, Frank Tinney, Stella Mayhew, Melville Ellis and An nette Kellerman . . . As you know, Portland Hoffa (Mrs. Fred Allen), was born in Portland, Ore., and named after that city by her parents. But did you know Portland has a sister named Lebanon, who was born in Lebanon, Pa. She was lucky she wasn't born in Punxsutaw- ney. Sidelights When New York's Bellevue Hospital training school for nurses was established 75 years ago the trainees wore badges on which there was a picture of a stork. The stork was said to be an emblem of watchfulness" . . "Scotch and soda" is an English idea. The Scotch are against it. They claim it injures the whisky. A Scot favors tak ing his whisky straight with a drink of water following. Favorite A Brooklynite, who says I seem to have many likes and dis likes similar to those of her husband, asks what my favorite dinner is. I have several such favorites. One is as follows: To start, a triple highball of Scotch and plain water. Then a lobster cocktail, roast beef, mashed po tatoes and gravy, corn on cob. green peas and strawberry short cake. Followed by coffee, cog nac and a Havana cigar. Doctors A doctor or surgeon over 40 years of age who is still a bachelor is a rarity. 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