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Show META i GIVEN MENUS Make Resolutions for Better Kitchen Efficiency People who make New Year's resolutions deserve our respect re-spect and help. This indicates that they want to improve their way of doing things and make life more pleasant. Those who prepare meals regularly three times a day and 365 days a year and who find it such a drudge would do well. to use an old-time slogan with which perhaps all our grandmothers were familiar pastry blender until consistency of coarse meal. Add 5 to 6 tablespoons cold water, ualng only a small portion at a time, until the mixture will hold together. to-gether. Roll pastry about tt Inch thick and cut In 3-lnch squarea Make filling by combining combin-ing 'A cup raisins) chopped; M cup nuts, chopped; V, cup maraschino mara-schino cherries, chopped: 1-3 cup sugar, ltt teaspoons melted butter, 1 small egg and U teaspoon tea-spoon grated lemon rind and mix well. Place 1 teaapoonful on each square of pastry and fold to form a triangle. Molaten lower edge Of crust with milk-egg milk-egg waah made of 1 beaten egg yolk and M cup milk and press top edge firmly down on lower one with a fork dipped In flour. Bake In a hot oven (450 degrees F.) for IS minutes. Makes 1H dosen tarts. Banbury Tarts ' For the pastry: Sift together 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour,' H teaspoon salt. Cut In 2-3 cup shortening with 2 knives or a ss a resolution. It was "use your head Instead .of your heels." Women who fall to take an inventory and make a memo of all their kitchen needs before going to the store are usually the ones who make two or more trips to the store dally. This wastes their own energy and time aa well as the clerks. These same women start to cook with only a hazy notion of the Ingredients and utensils required and the techniques involved. in-volved. Often they make half ' a dosen trips across and around the kitchen, to gather up the things they need. How many steps- they would save If they would only sit down and read the recipes thoroughly and get a complete picture of the whole operation! Another thing which one would see if they could look in on such' people while cooking would be that they would have' a badly cluttered work table and sink where garbage and dirty , dishes accumulate with a few clean things mixed in here and there. Such a mess Is enough to confuse the mind of anyone. Henus for Wednesday -(New Year's day) Breakfast Tomato juice, jelly omelet, almond filled coffee cake. Dinner French onion soup, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, pud-ding, cauliflower with pimento cheese sauce, tossed vegetable salad, -cloverleaf rolls, Banbury tarts.- - Supper Cream of mushroom soup, cucumber ' sandwiches, fresh pears and grapes. |
