Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-20 | Page 14 | Menus Strike a Patriotic Note in Month of February

F e wi N n. n 7 Ff S. S yr f s ka S S 5 h w S ti Mrs Russell P P. P Hartle The liThe general just disarms you you Menus Strike a Patriotic Note in Month onto of f February Its It's time to focus attention on some special food fixings for George Washington's birthday With very little extra effort your simplest meal can take on a patriotic patriotic pa pa- patriotic theme Fix gelatin s salads lads in flag or shield shapes and pass the salad dressing in a small dish fitted into a colonial hat favor Have biscuits or rolls in the shape of stars and cranberry or currant currant currant cur cur- rant jelly cut in shield designs Cherry stars make an appropriate appropriate appropriate dessert Cut out stars from pie crust put together in pairs with a cherry filling Press edges with fork and prick hatchets hatchets hatchets hatch hatch- ets on on top stars with a fork Bake as usual COLONIAL GINGERBREAD Cream 3 1 cup fat and 1 cup light brown sugar add 2 eggs 12 cup dark molasses 2 teaspoons teaspoons teaspoons tea tea- spoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger z 1 teaspoon each mace nutmeg cloves and salt 1 cup sweet milk 2 1 cup raisins 21 2 2 cups flour and 1 teaspoon each soda and baking powder Beat 2 minutes and pour into shallow shallow shallow low pan lined with 2 thick thick- nesses of waxed paper Bake 25 minutes in moderate oven The dessert is very good cold or warm plain or spread with cream cheese whipped cream or boiled icing CHERRY SQUARES Mix 3 cups seeded cherries cup sugar mixed with 2 tablespoons flour Vz teaspoon cinnamon and 4 J teaspoon salt Pour into shallow shallow shallow low greased baking pan Add ya cup cherry juice and 3 tablespoons tablespoons tablespoons table table- spoons butter Cover with rich biscuit dough Prick into inch 2 squares with fork Bake 30 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes In moderate oven Cut into squares and stick tiny flags lags on top each portion DUCHESS PUDDING Mix In double boiler 4 egg yolks or 2 whole eggs 1 tablespoon flour lA 14 cup sugar teaspoon salt and 2 cups milk Cook a little thick Stir constantly while cooking Add 1 tablespoon gelatin soaked 5 minutes in 1 cup orange juice Mix well cool and stir in 1 11 teaspoons vanilla J 4 teaspoon almond extract 3 1 teaspoon grated orange rind and a 1 cup raisins Pour into mold and chill until firm 1