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Show SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1952 THE JOURNAL HOUSEHOLD MEMOS Zesty Seasoning Will Add Tantalizing Taste to Easily Prepared Fish Dinners By LYNN CHAMBERS IF FISH DINNERS in your house are not received with wholehearted good spirit and eaten with relish, LYNN CHAMBERS Baked Stuffed Fish Creamed Spinach with check on your 1 1 b h cookery, I m provement is simple, the d Egg Baked Potatoes Rolls Crusty Cabbage, Apple and Nut Slaw Lemon Tarts Beverage Recipe Given Hard-Cooke- rewards are great. Fish served frequently can ease the budg-e- t and add zest to an otherwise humdrum string of menus. In addition to these reasons, homemakers appreciate the fact that fish is Fish fillets cooked and flaked go cookbuL short Into this ring mold to give an tender and requires easily prepared main dish which ing time. Meal preparation time can the family will appreciate. be cut considerably when fish apon Cooked vegetables, like the carthe table. frequently pears rots used here, can be served In are available fish varieties Many center of the ring. the come canned because they fresh, fresh-frozeinvestiWhen and you gate the cookery methods as well er side. Broil 6 minutes longer, or as the many seasonings that can until fish flakes easily when .tested enhance their flavors, you enter a with a fork. fascinating realm of cookery. n. Mushroom Stuffing You've stuffed chops and roasts. 3 tablespoons butter Have you ever thought of stuffing a 1 tablespoon onion, chopped fish? Heres an excellent way to cup chopped mushrooms prepare fish with stuffing thats 2 cups fresh bread crumbs quick to make . and wonderfully H cup cream popular: 2 eggs, beaten Baked Staffed Fish 1 teaspoon chopped parsley (Serves 6) Salt and pepper Select a fish weighing 3 to 4 Melt butter in saucepan. Add onpounds. Clean and rub salt inside full with ion and saute until onion is golden. Fill and out cavity fish with Add chopped mushrooms and cook mushroom stuffing. Lace string to hold stuffing in place and until wate? from mushrooms cooks to hold fish together. Brush fish with away. Add bread melted butter or substitute and place crumbs, cream, in a eggs and parsgreased baking pan. upright Place paper brushed with butter ley. Stir until to water well mixed. Cook over fish. Pour cup a over low heat unor fish stock into pan. Bake in 60 40 to til mixture is moderate (350F.) oven for thickened. Seaminutes or until fish flakes easily son to taste with when tested with a fork. Baste Rein with and salt pan. pepper. drippings quently move string and serve immediately on a hot platter with liquid from Broiled Fish Steaks pan, thickened with a mixture of 1 Either fresh or frozen steaks may tablespoon butter and 1 teaspoon flour. be used for this. With frozen steaks, let fish thaw on refrigerator shelf method excellent or at room temperature, Just long Broiling is an for cooking fish because its so tend enough to separate the steaks. Dip er. Here are two ways to try: steaks in flour, season both sides Broiled Mackerel, Onion Slices with salt and pepper and brush 4) both sides with salad oil. Place on a (Serves 4 mackerel or other greased broiler pan 3 inches from heat. or two small fish about 3 onions, sliced 8 5 Broil to minutes, turn carefully 2 tablespoons butter and broil 5 to 8 Rub inside of fish with salt. Make minutes longer or until fish several slits on each side of the fish. Slip a slice of onion and a dot flakes easily of butter in each slit on the top when tested with fork. If fish is side, pushing fhe slice of onion well into the slit. very frozen, a Place fish under broiler, about 6 slightly longer Inches from the source of heat! Broil time for broiling for 3 minutes, turn fish and insert may be required. Remove steaks to onions and dots of butter on the oth hot platter and serve with the fol- ' -- pre-heate- d, lowing: Mustard Sauce 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour ' 1 cup hot milk 1 slice onion Salt and pepper 1 teaspoon prepared mustard Few drops lemon juice Melt butter, add flour and cook until it turns golden. Add milk, onion, salt and pepper and cook, stirring constantly until mixture thick ens, then continue cooking until reof the duced to about Add and mustard original quantity. sauce or lemon juice. Strain just remove onion, and serve. two-thir- Small, whole fish like this mack- erel, can be treated by catting slita In the fish and inserting onion slices. The broiling method prepares the fish quickly and gives Interesting ygrjety tp fish dinners. MENU Page 11 Make Believe Dad, what is an actor? An actor? My son, an actor is a man who can walk to the side of a stage, peer into the wings filled with theatrical props, dirt and dust, other actors, stagehands, old clothes, and other claptrap and say: What a lovely view there is from this window. AnotU&i way teaspoon salt tablespoons lemon juice H cup parsley, minced 2 tablespoons chopped celery Flake fish. Mix in remaining ingredients. Place mixture in buttered ring mold and bake in a hot (400F.) oven for 30 minutes. Run a knife around the edges and turn out on platter. Fill center with sliced, cooked carrots. Garnish with chicory or other greens. Try Something Different For Flavorful Surprises Corn meal sticks help out a meal in the doldrums, but theyll be a surprise too if you add some steamed raisins to the batter. Dont skip onions as a vegetable if you seek variety. Nothing goes more nicely with a steak or roast. You can try parboiling them, then baking with cream sauce and mushrooms; or, simply bake with diluted canned mushroom soup if youre in a hurry. j. . .'.V .V V.?. BiSCUih y t '.V II . . Here is a novel and way to stretch 2 M . .... ..... econom-ic- flour iifttd 2i MipMW Clabber (ji rl Baku if rowdef 2 cup$ y al i teaspoon tallc aramsay teed i) teaipoout shorteuiu 6 left-ov- er Pound for pound, more people use more Clabber Girl than any other Bale ing Powder. Carrots dont have to be served just boiled. Take them a bit further and theyll be an inexpensive vegetable in much demand: pour some white sauce over them, sprinkle with hread crumbs and grated cheese and bake until the cheese melts. f tablespoons 1 cup milk Ham Filling 2 cupi cooked, pound kails cuppickle rtluk f tablespoon prepared mustard I tup grary or broym cream taue BISCUIT Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Mix in caraway seed. Cut ia ahortening until mixture resembles coarse corn meal. Add milk: stir to make a soft dough that can be handled and formed intoa ball. Transfer ball of dough onto a lightly floured board; knead until recsmooth. Roll out into a 9xl2-inc- h tangle. Spread with ham filling. Starting with the narrow end, roll likes Jelly roll. Place on a greased baking sheet. Brush lightly with milk. Slash roll into six pieces cutting almost through roll. e up. Bake in u Turn each piece oven hot (450F.) approximately 25 minutes or until well browned. Serve with mushroom sauce. HAM RLUNOi Mix all ingredients together thoroughly. Serves six. cut-sid- :? u'it'auiWfj) :e (svj: anao v ! If PEter Run knots you up with 6) : old-fashion- ed Gfl. Viir: - t- Slices of bread with the meal can get monotonous. Now, how would you like some thick slices of crusty Vienna bread heated slightly in the oven just before serving? Takes but a few minutes! 4 Baked pears are fine for dessert, but try dusting them with sugar and spice before the baking. Team with coconut macaroons for a simple dessert. Many a quick dessert can be prepared from a packaged pudding. Add a touch of glamor to them, though, by pouring the pudding in molds, then serve with fruit, like butterscotch With canned peach slicei. - Ak. S Soak a few herbs in milk and then add to your meat ball mixture. This puts real, goodness in them. v I v J. ' nm-- iTwi ' v ds pounds cooked fish fillets eggs cup tomato juice V,i cups soft bread crumbs H teaspoon pepper 2 . hkm into a lunch or dinner taafndiah...a real taste treat and so easy to prepare. Notice how Clabber CtfrJ gives kavening that k just right even when coarsening car way. seeds are used to, spark up the flavor. Broccoli proves interesting when served with grated Parmesan cheese, after you season with salt, butter and pepper. Deviled chicken may be just the An easy way to serve fish that to serve a family with wiltec thing may be different to you, is by baking appetites. The chicken is steame: a nicely seasoned fish mixture in until partially tender. Then dip the a ring mold: pieces in egg and bread crumbs am Flaked Fish Ring fry in deep fat. (Serves w Try an ice cream topping with your squares of gingerbread. Pass a small pitcher of caramel syrup with this for an extra treat. Chili can come to supper in a new costume: bake com bread in a ring mold and serve the chili in the center. Qftl Z .Broiled Whole Fish Use any small fish such as trout, croakers, butterflsh, porgies or . Sous to-- mtU dLABilR 2 LYNN SAYS: . Ill IIo, Silverware! The customer was busy sawing on the steak he had ordered and was having a difficult time. Waiter: Is it tough? Customer (Exhausted): When I order beef and get horse, I dont Try Water in food. care. But next time, take the iis Theres soap to wash harness ofE before you start servall Thats right. Its down. food he ing. 1 smelt. Have fish drawn and heads and tails removed, if desired. Season with salt and pepper, then brush with butter or oil. Broil, 3 Inches from heat about 8 to 10 minutes. (If fish are boned, broil 5 to 8 minutes). Remove to hot platter and spread with a mixture of 3 tablespoons sweet butter creamed with I teaspoon anchovy paste. . Rind to Animals waiter, bring me the same steak I had last night. I couldnt have hurt it in the least. And, " QUICK! RUB IN THE ORIGINAL BAOME ANALGESIQUE -- -- jr ' 5 : |