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Show SATURDAY. AUGUST THE JOURNAL Page 6 1 11, 1931 STAR DUST HOUSEHOLD MEMOS Attention to Details, Not Talent, Is Key To Success With Late Vegetables and Fruits By Ertta Haley MENU Broiled Lamb Patties. Mint Jelly Peas and Crumbled Bacon in LYNN CHAMBERS Mashed Potato Nests Beet Salad Heated Rolls Pear and Peach Jam Orange Tapioca Pudding Beverage Spice Cookies Recipe Given 7 Spy' Movie Portrays T rue Story of Great Patriotism By INEZ GERHARD PHILLIPS talked calmly her work as an American spy in Manila during World War II, for which she was awarded the Medal of Freedom by our govern-- : ment, but as she spoke the gay atmosphere of Sardis at lunchtime was blotted out by the drama of her experiences. She is a handsome CLAIRE s .. v" BARCLAY mers plenty to winters sweet-toot- h hunger! Get in that jam, lady either buy it from your grocer, or better still, make it yourself! Just look what your grocer has to offer today plums, early peaches, late strawberries, limes, lemons, oranges and that answer to a summer thirst the toothy watermelon! Jams, marmalades and pickles all for the asking, while you wait for the berries and later peaches all for present eating fresh, and future eating in preserve form! While all melons are good, watermelon is still King crowned around the Fourth of July, and ruling the VA hard-cooke- By DOROTHY Nows the time for all good homemakers to get in a jam a good one! From the grocers shelf ,0 your pantry shelf from sum- Peach and Plum Jam ch CORNER v powdered fruit pectin and stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim, ladle quickly into glasses. Paraffin at once. glasses) (Makes 12 cups prepared fruit VA cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin To prepare the fruit. Peel and pit about VA pounds soft ripe peaches. Grind or chop very fine. Pit (do not peel) about 1 pound fully ripe plums. Cut in small pieces and chop. Combine fruits and measure 4 cups into a very large saucepan. Fill Those Bare Spots In Canning Cupboards TO MAKE THE JAM: add sugar (See Recipes Below) to fruit in saucepan and mix well. Do Preserving Now Place over high heat, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard 1 1 cup salt LATE FRUITS AND VEGETA6 onions sliced medium minute, stirring constantly. Remove BLES are now ready to be put up from heat and at once stir in for to Combine allow and stand in jars, whether you want to finish bottled fruit pectin. Then stir and three hours. Drain. filling your own canning shelves or skim VA quarts vinegar by turns for 5 minutes to lay in a supply cool 6 cups sugar slightly, to prevent floating for holiday givfruit. Ladle quickly into glasses. cup mustard seed ing. Good results 1 tablespoon Paraffin at once. celery seed are not so much to H teaspoon cayenne pepa matter of talLYNN SAYS: . per ent, but rather Combine seasonings and vinegar. Clever Food Tricks of care given to a few simple Boil. Add cucumbers and onions. Keep Appetites from Wilting Heat to simmering. Be careful to Summer tends to chase appetites instructions. as avoid makes that boiling pickles away, but who wouldnt perk up for Before finishing the canning, in soft. hot clean and dessert if its an icy wedge of Pack jars need have a plan in mind. If you seal immediately. cantaloupe topped with a scoop of some whole fruits to complete vanilla ice cream, then laced with dessert plans, then thats the thing Pickled Watermelon Rind sweetened blueberries? to put up. If your relishes need a 5 pints) (Makes Cubes of pineapple, chunks of bit of rounding out, then plan to put Cut off the all and rind or green watermelon, thick slices of bananas up a few jars of pickled peaches of the then pink part watermelon, and a sprinkling of blackberries some vegetable pickles. cut the white into rind small cubes in you a true summer salad of come should gives Jams and butters in with Cover (about size). beauty and flavor. Pass a sweet for their share of attention, too, water. hot be can until it Parboil French dressing with this. unless you already have enough a with but be careful pierced fork, Meat loaf can be extended prettily spreads for mealtime and lunch not to let it 20 cups of soft. For get few to a want If and boxes. you give tastily with cream sauce to the following syrup. make rind, how as decide which has been added some chopped presents, jars away 7 cups sugar d or sliced egg. many youll need and go to work 2 cups vinegar with these recipes youll treasure Molded fish salads for hot nights teaspoon oil of cloves after trying once. will do their duty well by dinners A teaspoon oil of cinnamon if you serve them with a whipped When the has been rind parboiled, cream or soured cream dressing Pear and Peach Jam off the drain the water, syrup bring to which Is added some chopped glasses) (Makes 8 to boiling point, then pour over the cucumber. 2 cups finely chopped pears rind. Let this stand in the kettle VA cups finely chopped peaches Broiling is a quick and tasty way overnight. In the to prepare the main dish. 1 box powdered pectin Why not morning drain try a slice of ham, and VA cups sugar alongside off the syrup, rethe broiling rack some boiled sweet Add powdered pectin and sugar heat it and pour and pineapple slices or to the chopped pears and chopped it back. Next potatoes spears? to Mix well. Heat boiling, peaches. morning do the Iced tea will look stirring constantly. When a full same. The third served with cubes prettier if its made with a rolling boil is reached, boil for 1 morning, heat slice of lemon and a slice of orange minute. Remove from heat and both the rind and skim. Seal in hot sterilized glasses. syrup and seal in jars. Using the plus a sprig of mint. Deviled eggs are a welcome sight oil of cinnamon and cloves keeps Pickled Peaches the cubes clear and almost trans- on the salad plate, if theyre made extra nourishing and tasty by mash3 quarts) (Makes about parent. ing some deviled ham with the 6 pounds, about 20 peaches, meyolks before refilling the whites. dium size Pear and Plum Jam Lemonade can be just one of 4 cups sugar (Makes 8 glasses) those Z 2 cups vinegar beverages, but everyone will cups prepared fruit 4 three-inc- h 4 A cups sugar sticks cinnamon perk up at the sight of a glass of lemonade which has been tinted 1 piece whole ginger 1 box powdered fruit pectin with maraschino cherry juice. 3 tablespoons whole cloves To prepare the fruit. Peel and pink to mind the circus! Select ripe, firm peaches. Scald, core about 1 pounds fully ripe Brings Next time youre making scalpeel, cut in halves and remove pits pears. Chop very fine or grind. Pit as desired. Peel (do not peel) about lVfe pounds loped potatoes, layer a few thinly or leave whole, just enough fruit to be cooked at fully ripe plums. sliced onions with the potatoes for one time to prevent browning of Cut in small a real taste treat. fruit. Combine sugar and vinegar Collect all your small roll and pieces and chop. and bring to boil. Add spices, tied V4 Add cup bread basketsofif you want to solve a in cheesecloth and bag, loosely serving chicken on water; bring to the problem boil 5 minutes. Add peaches, enough a boil and sim- a picnic. Wrap fried chicken in to fill one jar. Simmer gently just mer, covered, 5 cellophane and tuck in several until tender. Pack, while hot into Comminutes. brightly colored napkins. sterilized jars, covering fruit with bine fruits and For as pretty and tasty a dessert s into a large as one could wish, bake individual measure 3Vi syrup. Seal at once. saucepan. meringues in the cool of the mornBread and Butter Pickles TO MAKE TIIE JAM: Measure ing. For dinner, fill them with 6 quarts sliced, medium sugar and set aside. Place saucepan fresh sugared peach slices and top holding fruit over high heat, Add with whipped cream. SHOPPER'S American appetite long thereafter. Jhe price of watermelon youll young woman with great magnetism find in plenty at your grocers is and charm; Ann Dvorak plays moderate and thrifty manager that an American CLAIRE PHILLIPS Claire in I Was Spy, the Allied Artists picture based on her book of the same name. She is now touring the country; if she appears in your vicinity, be sure to see her and dont fail to see the film which dramatizes her story so faithfully. Ilona Massey has not made a picture since 1949, preferring radio and the stage to roles that did not appeal to her. But in Escape to Paradise she has found a story that she likes. It is being made in Vienna, with the beautiful blonde playing an actress who returns to the city after the war to claim jewels she left when she fled the city. are you will waste nothing! Even the seeds dried out and salted make delicious appetizers. Enjoy the fruit itself, straight with the teeth in that topical watermelon grin; or as the "center of a salad of other melons and fruits. Then save the rinds for those watermelon pickles like Mother used to make! you Julia Adams, who makes her film debut in Bright Victory, goes straight into a starring role in her second picture, Bend of the Universal-Internationa Snake, film. James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy head the cast. al This year even New Mexico and Texas are sending groups to Renfro Valleys All Day Sing; John Lair, who restored its primitive buildings to the Valley, 60 miles south of Lexington, Ky., will be host Sunday to thousands of people who gather each year to sing hymns, ballads and folk songs for twenty-fou- r hours. Its worth traveling to see. Noah However youre using em youll smart to buy only half a melon at a time, to insure its maturity. But if you buy a whole one, look for a firm, symmetrical melon, colored bright shiny green on top, and creamy yellow on the underside. be Friends Will Build Vet Complete Farm in One Day WAUSAU, WIS Because of the efforts of state and federal agencies, and the friendliness of neigh- Jr., who plays II vetGeorge Montgomerys buddy in bors, a disabled World War a soon eran will have modern farm. Texas Rangers for Columbia, is joining the ranks of actors turned Frank Flees, 27 year old exranchers. He has bought 700 acres marine was wounded on Guam and at Tehachapi, Calif., and plans to then lost his right eye in a farm raise grain. Of course, he could accident last September. The agenhave qualified when he bought the cies plan to use Franks undesmaller ranch where he raises wal- veloped land for a demonstration of Beery, but he considers just a farm. nuts, that one good methods. fellow veterans His neighbors will pitch in and be- cause they want to help Flees. The Samuel Goldwyn has signed Frank Loesser to write music aid lyrics for Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye and Moira Shearer. Composer of many hits. Loesser won an Oscar last year for Baby. Its Cold Outside, result is that Frank will have a complete modern farm, including a house, barn, 65 fenced acres and plowed land, a water reservoir, and wood lots. Plans call for his friends and neighbors to build, plant and till the whole works in one day. That day, an important one in the life of Frank Flees, will be September 12. All of the materials and labor for the project have been promised. Industry joined with contractors, businessmen, and farm groups to contribute materials. Torme was late for a rehear sal of TV's Top Tunes the other day. Knowing that Producer Lee Cooley would be sceptical of his ex planation that he got caught in a traffic jam on the way to the studio he alked a traffic policeman into accompanying him to the studio to About 200 have offered to donate back him up. Thats the story. labor and equipment. Peggy Lee Is sceptical about it. (Released by WNU Features.) Mel |