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Show f - ; O tlt rzfd f i - Simple Fireside Party Eases Budgets (See Recipes Below) Entertain Simply IF YOU'VE DECIDED to watch the budget but keep your friends, what could be nicer than a fireside fire-side chat party on a long winter evening? Entertainment , props need be something strictly simple such as a popcorn roaster and a marsh- 4 mallow fork or two. Serve a big pot of coffee cof-fee and pass a plate of doughnuts, dough-nuts, and along with your spirit of friendliness and casual conversation, con-versation, you have the makings mak-ings of a successful suc-cessful evening, easy on the food budget. LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Breaded Pork Steaks Parsleyed Carrots Baked Potatoes Apple-Cabbage Salad Hot Rolls Butter Beverage Toffee Chitfon Pie Recipe Given 4 teaspoon soda V-2. teaspoon salt H cup shortening (at room temperature) Va cup brown sugar Yi cup granulated sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 tablespoons milk 2 cups rolled oats (quick or old-fashioned) , uncooked un-cooked Place chocolate chips in top of double boiler. Place over hot, not boiling, water until melted. Sift together flour, soda and salt into bowl. Add shortening, sugars, egg, vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth, about two minutes. Fold in rolled oats. Add melted chocolate chips, mixing only enough to give marbled effect. Drop from a teaspoon onto greased baking sheet. Bake in a moderate (350) oven for 12 to 15 minutes. PIES ARE ANOTHER favorite for an evening snack, along with a beverage. Here are two types which may be prepared ahead of time: Toffee Chiffon Pie (Makes 1 9-inch pie) 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin Y cup cold water Z cups hot milk cup sugar Ys teaspoon salt 2 eggs, separated teaspoon vanilla cup crushed pecan toffee 1 baked pastry shell Pecan toffee shavings Soften gelatin in water five minutes. min-utes. Combine milk, salt and 4 tablespoons of the sugar, stir until dissolved. Add to slightly beaten egg yolks. Cook over boiling water until thickened, stirring constantly. constant-ly. Add gelatin and stir until dissolved. dis-solved. Cool. Add vanilla and toffee tof-fee when custard begins to thicken. Beat egg whites until stiff, add remaining re-maining sugar and fold into custard mixture. Pour into pastry shell and chill until firm. Sprinkle with toffee tof-fee shavings. Cottage Cheese Apple Pie (Makes 1 deep 9-inch pie) recipe plain pastry 1 cups thinly sliced apples ap-ples 2 eggs Yi cup cottage cheese cup sugar M cup cream teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind H teaspoon cinnamon Y teaspoon nutmeg Line pie pan with pastry and cover with apples. Beat eggs slightly, slight-ly, add cottage cheese, cup sugar, cream, salt and lemon rind. Mix remaining sugar with cinnamon and nutmeg and sprinkle over apples, ap-ples, then cover with cottage cheese mixture. Bake in a hot (425) oven for 10 minutes, reduce temperature to moderate (350) and bake 30 minutes longer. The hostess who truly wants to enjoy her guests will always plan something simple to prepare, particularly par-ticularly foods which need little last minute attention. . Have all dishes and silverware set on a cabinet cabi-net top, ready to whisk into the living room when refreshments are called in order. Entertaining is simplified, too, if you have such things as doughnuts, cakes, or cookies made well in advance of the party. This leaves you free for those last minute furniture fur-niture arrangements and phone calls that always take more time than you've allowed for them. Guests will enjoy nibbling on popcorn as well as toasting marsh-mallows marsh-mallows during the evening. HERE'S A RECIPE for delicious, home-made doughnuts which can be stored in a stone crock until serving time to keep them moist: Doughnuts (Makes 2 dozen) 3 cups sifted flour 4 teaspoons double acting baking powder 1 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons shortening cup sugar 4 egg yolks, well beaten Yt teaspoon vanilla V teaspoon lemon extract 1 cup milk Sift flour once, measure and add baking powder, salt and nutmeg; sift together three times. Cream shortening, add sugar and cream until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks and flavorings and beat well. Add milk and mix thoroughly. Add sifted dry ingredients, beating until smooth. Chill dough for easier handling. Roll dough -inch thick on floured board. Cut with 3-inch floured doughnut cutter. Fry in hot fat (375) until brown, turning when tops of doughnuts become rounded. Drain on absorbent paper. IF YOU'D RATHER serve cookies with coffee as the refreshment, Y your guests, whether young or old, will enjoy en-joy these cookies. cook-ies. One pointer to observe in this recipe is to have the shortening short-ening at room temperature before be-fore mixine: Chocolate Swirl Cookies (Makes 3'A dozen) fi-ounre package chocolate choco-late chips 1 cup sifted flour LYNN SAYS: These Kitchen Cleaning Tips Will Aid You Refrigerators should be defrosted weekly even when weather is cool so they do not collect too much ice around the unit. A thick coating of ice around the freezing unit means that the refrigerator must run longer to maintain its cold. Enameled finishes on ranges should not be washed or wiped or cleaned while the stove is hot as the finish may craze. Let the range rool first. Broiler pans should be scoured after each use so the grease particles par-ticles do not harden on them. To make broiler pans easy to clean, line them with aluminum tin foil underneath the broiling rack. This prevents grease and food particles from caking onto the pan. Simply fold the foil with its drippings and toss away and the pan is easy to clean. If broiler pans are removed while the oven is on, when they themselves are not in use, the pans will last longer. |