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Show Spring Brings Variety to Your Daily, Menu ALL orts art) here that all L the earth yield, variety , without end." Milton. This suggestion of the poet fires the food Imagination of the housewife house-wife In the spring; time. Fresh . vegetables, fresh fruits truly, variety vari-ety without end. That is what she haa to choose from. Although oar city wives have the icy of fresh vegetables transported ' from the rotating crops of California, Cali-fornia, Washington and the Southern South-ern status all winter, the housewife In smaller towns usually has to wait for spring to Indulge In the preparation of fresh vegetables and fruits. Tuon she can Rive her family all the- vitamins, all the Iron, am! other minerals they need! mixing bowl. Rah fat in with fingers fin-gers until appearanoe la He coarse corn meal. Add milk, mixed with the water, and stir quickly with fork until flour disappears and then 4 or S times to smooth and slightly t stiffen the dough. Turn immedl-i ately onto a thoroughly floured! board. Pat dough out with hand or roll to 4 lneu thickness. Cut and place ou oiled tin. Bake la hot oven (426-460 P.) about 11 minutes. Yield: II biscuits. Noodle Ring With Creamed Chicken t 4-oi. pleat, broad t tup tvaporatad noodles it. Ilk I qu. boiling waUr Blank p.pp.r !Vi Up, salt 3 Hup. buttot 4 MgS Prop r.ond:u Into boiling water. Add sat;. .Voll briskly 10 minutes. Drain. Rtosn in cold water and drain asVn. Measure noodlea. Then siioi j l.-s 4 cups. Add beaten peers, m!!'i and jeppor. Turn mixture mix-ture into we'l buttered ring mold, dotting !p with :mtter. Put mold In pan of boll'nj; water, and bake In a alow oven i.W'F.) until sot hut not brown, abo'i. of an hour. Turn onto hot platter. Fill center with Creamud Chicken. Yield: II servings. Creamed Chicken 1 qt. died chicken t cup evaporated 8 Muihnwnv milk 1 ttup. butter t dips chicken 4 t!p. butter broth V4 cup flour Salt and pepper Wash, peel and slice mushrooms. Saute la 2 tbsp. butter about 6 minute3. Preparo a white sauce of The noodle ring with creamed chicken Is a delicious and nourishing nourish-ing main dish, for it combines eftss and milk. Egss are exceptionally cheap this seuson ho you can usn thorn unspariiigly. If you use evaporated evapo-rated milk you will have a noodle ring of very smooth texture, and usln this form of milk in your creamed chicken makes it much richer. . The spring vegetable salad is very refreshing and can be arranged ar-ranged attractively In individual salads or served in a pottery luwl at the table, if the strawberries in your gardon are not ripe yet or your market has not received a shipment of them, buy frozen strawberries. They havo the true fresh fruit llavor and natural color. Spring Menu Noodle Ring with Creamed Chicken Hot Biscuits Butter Iced Tea (Mint) Spring Vegetable Salad (Radishes, carrots, green onions, shredded leaf lettuce, cucumber, Sour Cream Dressing) Strawberry Ice Cream Spring Vegetable Salad Use a combination of thinly sliced crisp radishes, green onions and cucumbers and shredded new carrots. Sprinkle with salt and toss lightly together with a sour dressing dress-ing made of 2 parts evaporated milk to 1 part vinegar. Serve on shredded leaf lettuce. Biscuit t eupa paitry floor' 1 tip. salt I tap. baking " I tbip. evaporated powder milk I tbip. fat H up water Sift flour, then measure. Reslft with other dry Ingredients into tho 4 tbsp. butter, the flour, milk, broth, salt and popper. More salt may be needed it chicken Is not well saltod. Add chicken and mushrooms mush-rooms nnd heat thoroughly in top of double boiler. Yield: 12 servings. serv-ings. Two chicken bouillon cubos dissolved in 8 cups boiling water may be substituted for chicken broth. Strawberry Ice Cream 1 Qt. atrewberries 2 tbtip. It man Julcei 1 to m cups ausar. Few araina salt depending upon t cups evaporated journals of ber- milk riei Chill evaporated milk. Mash the hulled, washed berries and put through a potato ricer. There should be two cups of pulp and Juice. Add sugar and let stand 20 minutes to dissolve. Add lemon Juice and salt; then pour strawberry straw-berry mixture Into chilled evaporated evapo-rated milk. Freeze at once in n 1:6 salt-Ice mixture. Yield: 1 13 qts. cream. |