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Show SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1951 THE JOURNAL age HOUSEHOLD MEMOS STAR DUST Freshness and Color of Seasonal Foods Lend Distinction and Elegance to Simple Meals jjjj jjjj Roast Leg of Veal Browned Potatoes Slivered Carrots Pineapple-Cherr- y Salad Butter Biscuits Jelly Peach Shortcake Beverage Given Recipe and attractively served, you may certain to create the right be jjjj out-of-seas- fare. FOR EXAMPLE, sandwiches of the double-decke- r type teamed with an attractive salad of pineapple and cherries and a Pineapple Torte gives you color and tasty foods at the same time. Double-DeckSandwiches (Serves 8) er 2 eggs tablespoon pickle relish tablespoons mayonnaise Salt and pepper 24 slices bread, crusts removed 8 6lices ham 8 lettuce leaves 8 slices tomato 16 stuffed olives hard-cooke- d 1 -2 8 radishes Pear Sundae with Chocolate-Mi- nt sauce is a flavor innovation which is bound to please the most discriminating taste. This type of dessert satisfies several types of tastes for dessert since it includes fruit, ice cream and sauce. Peach Shortcake (Serves 8) 2 cups cake flour Vi teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon soda Vi cup sugar Vi cup shortening Vi cup buttermilk or sour milk 3 cups sliced, fresh peaches Vi to cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon Sift flour with salt, baking powder, soda and cup sugar. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add buttermilk. Mix just until dough follows fork around the bowl. Pat out in greased round pan. Bake in a hot (425) oven for 20 minutes. Split hot shortcake. Fill and top with sliced peaches and sprinkle with remaining sugar and cinnamon. Serve with cream, plain or whipped. Note: To sour milk, add 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar to Vi cup sweet milk. Lobster Salad (Serves 2 cans rock lobster 1 cups chopped cucumber 1 cup chopped celery Vi cup French dressing 2 packages unflavored gelatin M cup cold water 3 chicken bouillon cubes 3 cups boiling water 2 tablespoons chopped pimiento 1 teaspoon grated onion 1 teaspoon salt Mayonnaise Cut lobster in chunks; combine with cucumber and celery. Pour French dressing over this mixture and allow to stand while preparing the remainder of the salad. Soak gelatin in cold water for 5 minutes. Dissolve bouillon cubes in boiling water and add to gelatin. Allow to cool. When gelatin mixture begins to set, add pimiento, onion and salt to lobster mixture. Pour into ring mold which has been rinsed with cold water. Set in refrigerator until firm. To serve, unmold on a bed 6-- 8) hard-cooke- lettuce and fill center with d mayonnaise. Garnish with eggs, sliced or quartered, and parsley. Salad (Serves 2 cans lobster 1 cup thinly sliced celery 3 tablespoons French dressing Salt and pepper Vi cup mayonnaise Capers Combine lobster meat with celery and French dressing. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Chill and drain. Serve topped with mayonnaise and capers. Garnish with lime or lemon wedges, ripe olives and deviled eggs. 6) For Table Use Fresh figs are best when theyre soft to the touch and vary as to size. Avoid those which are molded or decayed on the surface. Plump, over-rip- e figs have a sour odor which is caused by fermentation. Pineapple is abundant now and can be eaten if soft to touch, golden yellow in color and fragrant. To test for ripeness, you may also pull a leaf or spear from the top. If it pulls readily, the pineapple is ripe. Cantaloupes are difficult to select, but the best tests include fragrant aroma, softness near the stem and coarse netting on green or gray rind. Any mold on the surface that doesnt penetrate the fruit doesnt injure the melon. Ripe pears should be firm or fairly firm, clean, smooth-surface- d Discard any fruit and which has rotting at the stem or blossom end. Bananas which are plump and well filled are mature. For eating just as they are the peel should be yellow, flecked lightly with brown. Watermelon should have a symmetrical shape and a fresh attractive exterior. A ripe melon scratches easily on the skin with a nail and thumps with a dull hollow sound. Honeydew melons are best when the blossom end is slightly soft, the flesh green, juicy and sweet. Youll also be able to tell ripeness by the aroma. well-shape- d. Strawberries are the only berries which keep their caps when ripe. For the best selection, choose those which are medium-sized- , tart and well-shape- d. Your best plums are those which fresh-lookinsoft, clean of color. Avoid plums and full are plump, g, which are shrivelled, mushy, hard Make your own salted nuts to assure flavor at its peak. Pour 2 teaspoons salad oil or melted butter in a bowl, then add 1 pound nut meats, thoroughly dried. Mix to coat the nuts and spread in shallow pan; toast in a hot oven until lightly browned, occasionally. Drain on absorbent paper. The best radishes have a crisp, firm root and fresh, green leaves. The radish itself should have a smooth skin, for when soft and spongy, the radish is pithy. All greens should have fresh, green, tender leaves. If they have a stem, it should be crisp and fresh. Any with insect injury or excessive dirt should be avoided. stirring DOROTHY BARCLAY . NEWS today furniture see no immi- down to that favor- 2-- LYNN SAYS: How to Select Fruit By nent shortages in the major categories this year barring, of course, an all out emergency. And that is good news, if you act on it before the supply begins to dwindle and the prices rise! And when better than springtime to get bit simpler: r CORNER GOOD IF YOU PREFER a plain salad, youll like this type which is just a Lobster-Cape- SHOPPER'S SPRING RENEWAL hard-cooke- ed Chunks of lobster combined with celery and cucumber are comgelbined with chicken-flavore- d subbut cool a to make atin stantial salad for an elegant hot weather luncheon. To serve, the salad is laced with mayonnaise, d eggs. greens and STERLING (Mrs. Paul stacked up an impressive list of successes on the stage before Hollywood grabbed her; right now she is sprinkled with Hollywood star dust. Paramount initially teamed her with Alan Ladd in Appointment with Danger, had her play the blind girl in Union Station, IAN of Combine eggs, relish and mayonnaise; season with salt and pepper. Spread 8 slices buttered bread and top each with a second slice of bread, buttered on both sides. Place slice of ham and lettuce leaf on each. Top with a third slice of ANOTHER DISTINCTIVE lunchbread buttered on one side. Garnish eon features hot soup with a chilly with tomato slice, stuffed olive and salad of lobster. radish rose. It ends on a pleasant note Pineapple Cherry Salad with a Pear Sun(Serves 8) dae served with 2 packages Chocolate Mint gelaSauce. tin 1 cup boiling water 1 pint soured cream Clam Mongole teaspoon salt (Serves 8) 1 No. 2 can crushed pineapple 1 can condensed pea soup cup dark, pitted cherries 1 can condensed tomato soup Vi cup 6livered blanched al1 can condensed cream of monds Greens mushroom soup Salad 1 can minced clams Mayonnaise 2 cups light cream Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. is Cool. When mixture Parsley slightly Combine soups, minced clams thickened, fold in soured cream, salt, pineapple, cherries and al- - and cream. Heat thoroughly and simmer for 5 minutes. Serve immediately with 3 small sprigs of parsley. lime-flavor- MENU Clam Mongole d impression, Using seasonal p foods and taking jjj Hjj full advantage ot their freshness and color will lend a distinction and eleis hard to achieve gance which when you work with produce. Fresh summer greens, pink and red, with a gay touch of yellow are now at their height, and they can be brought to the table at their best. Plan your special luncheons around foods which feature these colors, and youll receive compliments galore on even the simplest Ex-Sta- ge By INEZ GERHARD LYNN CHAMBERS WHEN YOUKE entertaining, the foods need not be elaborate to make a big hit. If theyre jjjj Jan Sterling Another Star Successful in Hollywood 7 By Lynn Chambers well-prepare- Z gave her major roles in The Mating Season, Rhubarb and Ace in the Hole. In the latter she gives a superb performance. Jan is blonde, pretty, delightful, and so enthusiastic about her husband, to whom she has been married just a year, that our talk at luncheon was mostly about Paul. Shed give anything to make a picture with him. Phil Baker has dreamed up a masters wonderful set of for his The $64 Question some Sunday night; wants to get Senator Tobey, Senator Kefauver and Rudolph Halley. Well, you cant blame a guy for trying! co-qu- iz ite furniture store, to buy the new and renew the old? Be quick, but not hasty, in this spring shopping spree! Plan ahead what you need. Decide what furniture you really must replace with something new, and what old favorites you can refurbish. They tell us that upholstered furniture is as plentiful as it was a year ago, and the supply of tables, non-metshelves and cabinets are ample, at least for the next few months. When you have decided what new furniture is an absolute must, remember that the new has to live n with the beloved heirlooms. Dont try to wed a with severely modern coffee-tabl- e a formally ornate Regency davenport. It wouldnt be a happy or a comfortable marriage! al hand-me-dow- KID STUFF Good news here, too, in the nursery! Juvenile furniture shows no prospect of decline in the near future, and there are new protective f, sprays that are scratch and can store show that your you. are Youth beds, with semi-rail- s too, but youd be wise just to there, Alan Ladd has been acting all buy the rails that fit any standard over the Far East, In pictures; bed, for those steadily-growin- g Calcutta, China and Saiyoungsters. As to the other furnigon all had exotic settings. ture, ask your clerk to show you the And Rage of the Vulture Dude Ranch sets for those young gives him more of the same, Hopalongs and Roy Rogerses in nicely set up in his home studio, your family. Made in genuine leathof course. er, the chests, desks and night-stand- s, will survive the rigors of Barbara Hale, who recently gave growing-u- p boys for years! birth to a baby boy, wont escape from the nursery when she goes to work. Columbia gave her, as her first assignment on coming back to work, the role of mother of a baby boy in Small Wonder. Having trouble with your tropical fish? Then write to Frank Lovejoy, I Was a Comstar of Warners munist for the FBI. He has such a reputation in that field that he has been asked to write an article for Aquarius Magazine. chip-proo- Henry Fonda deserted Hollywood for much too long when his stage hit, Mr. Roberts seemed likely to go on and on forever. Now he returns, to duplicate his stage stint in the screen version of the play, at Paramount. The fact that Ezio Pinza flopped so flat in Metros Mr. Imperium may be partly due, according to a Hollywood executive, to the fact that in all his years in this country the opera star has never bothered to learn to speak English well enough to be easily understood. Just didnt buckle down and learn, as did Hedy Lamarr. Dietrich and others. Charles Vidor, directing Rage ol the Vulture, was the first person Rita Hayworth called when she arrived in Hollywood; maybe she thought it would be a fine idea to have him direct her next picture, which has to be good! -- Eve Arden, who broke records in eight of New Englands nine summer theatres she played last year, will be back on the straw hat circuit this year. The new picture is Warners Goodbye, My Fancy, starring Joan Crawford. If youre going so far as to invest in a new rug, consider the coming thing rayon! Some of these rayon, some are rugs are 100 70 rayon blended with wool. But wool, your salesman will tell you, is already becoming a war casualty, and steadily dwindling in supply and rising in price. The new rayons are at least 20 per cent cheaper than wool, show soil much less quickly, have no appeal for moths, and are much cheaper to have cleaned. As to fabrics for slipcovers for those dear old chairs and davenports, and for drapes, your store has many to choose from, if you get there in time. Many colors and many patterns are available right now, from the large geometries so popular with the young moderns, to the good old standbys, the traditional floral prints and the provincial English and New England designs. (Released by WNU Features.) |