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V McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941 • \ PUDDING FAVORITE AS MEAL TOPPER-OFFER (See Recipes Below) DESERVING DESSERTS Once upon a time a friendly neigh- I bor living close to our house in a i small friendly town used to say over and over, “But a dinner just isn’t a dinner unless you top it off with a 1 ‘deserving dessert.’ ’’ And when I •pressed him to explain to me just * what he meant by a “deserving des sert” he explained that it was a , dessert which was so good that even at the end of a man’s meal it still deserved to be eaten. After all, men, bless them, do like their desserts and so in this column today—I am giving to you a number of brand new, easy-to-make recipes for deserving desserts. All but one, and that’s a recipe for a deserving salad. And the rea sons I am featuring this lone salad recipe with all the dessert recipes are these: First, it makes one of the best-to-eat salads I have ever tasted. And second, I have a theory that while men like desserts a good many of them simply do not eat as many salads as they should. So, some time, serve this salad in •your dinner menu; then top it off with any one of these desserts and ;Bot alone will the man of the family have had his favorite meal topper offer, but he will have had a health giving, vitamin containing dish as well. Tomato and Ham Salad. (Makes 10 servings) oups water 2 10 -ounce cans condensed tomato soup 4 tablespoons unflavored gelatin 1 cup cold water 1 3-ounce package cream cheese 4 teaspoons prepared mustard 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish % teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons lemon juice 1 cup salad dressing 1 pound boiled ham (3tt cups chopped) t hard-cooked eggs Lettuce Heat water and soup together in 1%-quart saucepan until boiling. Re move from heat. Soak gelatin in cold water for 5 minutes, then dis solve in hot soup. Blend together cream cheese, mustard, salt, lemon juice and Horseradish. Add a little soup to mixture, stirring con stantly; then return to remainder of hot soup, mixing well. Cool. When mixture begins to thicken, fold in salad dressing and ham. Rub a 2-quart heat-resistant glass baking dish with oiL Arrange slices of hard-cooked egg around the sides, reserving some for the top. Pour in tomato-ham mixture. Allow to gel. Garnish top with slices of hard- cooked egg and serve with lettuce. Chocolate Fluff. 2 squares baking chocolate I cup milk 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons general purpose flour % oup sugar Yi teaspoon salt 3 egg yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 egg whites Put chocolate and milk in top of a double boiler and heat until choco late has melted; beat with rotary egg beater until mixture is well blended. Place butter in a sauce pan and melt. Stir in the flour, sugar and salt. Then immediately add the chocolate milk and cook mixture over direct heat until it thickens, stirring constantly. Cool, stir in the unbeaten egg yolks, and add vanilla extract. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold the cooled choco late mixture into them. Pour into a buttered baking dish; set baking dish into a pan of hot water, and bake in a moderate oven (350 de grees) approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until mixture will not adhere to knife blade. Serve at once with whipped cream. Red Raspberry Snow Balls. (Makes 6 snow balls) Va cup butter Mi cup sugar 1 cup general purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder % teaspoon salt Va cup milk 2 egg whites (beaten) More About Deserving Desserts. Speaking of Deserving Desserts —I want to tell you about my small 10c cook book entitled “Easy Entertaining.” From cov er to cover, it is packed not only r with new and unusual recipes, but also with menu suggestions and ideas for entertaining easily and happily—for making guests feel they are truly welcome while the hostess has ample time left to enjoy these same guests when they arrive. To secure your copy just send 10 cents in coin to Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave nue, Chicago, Illinois. r. 344- NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Explosives for defense held up by nitrate short age . . . British war planes use larger cannon than generally realized. (BeU Syndicate—WNU Service.) Cream the butter. Add sugar and beat well. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add al ternately with the milk and then fold in the beaten egg whites. Steam in small buttered molds for 30 to 35 minutes. Serve with red raspber ry sauce. Red Raspberry Sauce. % cup butter 1 cup Confectioner’s sugar 1 cup crushed raspberries Cream the butter and add sugar slowly while beating thoroughly. Add raspberries. To serve, pour over hot steamed snow balls and serve at once. Orange Dessert Squares. (Makes 15 servings) % cup shortening % cup sugar ‘2 eggs (separated) 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Ya teaspoon salt % cup milk 2 tablespoon? orange rind (grated) Cream the shortening and add sugar gradually. Blend in the egg yolks. Sift together the flour, bak ing powder and salt and add to the creamed mixture, alternately with the milk. Beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry, and fold into the batter with the orange rind. Bake in a greased 9-inch by 16-inch pan in a moderately hot oven (375 de grees) for about 30 minutes. Cut in squares and serve hot with orange sauce. Orange Sauce. % cup sugar 2 teaspoons cornstarch Va teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon butter Yi cup orange juice 2 tablespoons orange rind (grated) Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add boiling water, stirring constantly. Cook, stirring frequent ly, until the mixture is clear and thick (about 15 minutes). Add but ter, and the orange juice and rind. Surprise Dessert. (Serves 10) % cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1% cups graham cracker crumbs 1 cup milk Yi cup walnut meats 2 teaspoons baking powder Topping 1 cup crushed pineapple (with juice) 1 cup sugar Cream the butter, add the sugar and blend well. Add the well-beaten egg yolks. Com bine the ground graham cracker crumbs with bak ing powder and add alternately with the milk. Add the walnut meats and then carefully fold in the egg whites which have been beaten until stiff but not dry. Pour into a greased 8-inch by 8-inch pan and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 35 minutes. To make the topping, boil pineapple and sugar together about 8 minutes or until syrup-like in ap pearance. Chill and pour over top of cool cake. Let stand in refrig erator until ready to serve. Cut in squares and garnish with whipping cream. (Released by Western Newspaper I'jitan ) WASHINGTON.—A visitor from Mars, studying war and anti-war hysteria in the United States today, might have some startling observa tions to make. He would certainly report, in his letters to the folks back on Mars, that the people of the good old U. S. A. and its government as well were very stupid in permitting extrane ous issues to hold up their prepara tions to defend themselves against attack. He would be mystified, for exam ple, when he found out that the No. 1 essential for warfare—explosives— was being held up by a controversy over government ownership! And not government ownership NOW, but the possibility of government own ership AFTER the war! It so happens that explosives, ac cording to army and navy experts, are lagging way behind airplanes, ships and even tanks. Everybody has known this for a long time, as a matter of fact ever since the war in Europe broke out. Democracies move slowly, we are told, and there was little hurry to do anything about it. , MODERNIZE MUSCLE SHOALS But recently the government de cided to do something about that old-fashioned nitrate plant at Mus cle Shoals. Everyone knew the proc esses* for which that plant was in tended were obsolete, but it seemed a simple matter to bring them up to date. It was, but it could be done only with materials the. duPonts could supply, if it were to' be done quickly. The duPonts were eager to help, BUT—they wanted assur ances that after the war was over the government would not use the duPont’s own devices to produce cheap nitrates for fertilizers, and thus compete with the duPonts’ own fertilizer business. But no! The government had no idea of giving any such assurances. It wanted the duPonts to furnish the very elements the government has needed, all these years, to go into competition with the duPonts. So that particular supply of ni trates for explosives was held up. The new machinery to modernize the Muscle Shoals plant is now “on order.” Then there is another case which would puzzle our Martian visitor. For airplanes aluminum is of the essence. The O. P. M. has just issued priorities to restrict other than military uses of this metal. The day after those orders were issued Harold Ickes told reporters he had declined an offer from the Alumi num company to install another plant near Bonneville. His reason— that if the aluminum company took any more power from Bonneville than already negotiated for, there might not be enough for municipali ties desiring public ownership plants! Wonder what our Martian would think about that! British Planes Carry Large Cannon To anyone who has ridden in an airplane, the notion of shooting a cannon from one conjures up all sorts of horrible possibilities. Per haps very few people for that rea son realize the size of the cannon actually in use by the British in air plane fighting. The newer fighting planes made in the United States for the British must of course be equipped to carry these guns. Actually the cannon used by the British so far are of 37-millimeter caliber. That means that the diame ter of the projectile is approximate ly 1% inches. Thus the shell fired by a 37-milli meter cannon from an airplane is nearly five times the diameter of the rifle or machine-gun bullet. EXPERIMENT WITH ‘75’ It is still more impressive to real ize that this cannon is almost half the size of the favorite fieldpiece of the French army, the famous “75.” Actually, our own army has fired a 75-millimeter gun from an airplane. Incidentally, while no official an nouncement has been made that the army plans using 75s in airplanes as a regular practice, there was of course no earthly point in making the experiment if the ordnance offi cers did not have that in mind. Some of the bigger of the new airplanes, it is estimated, could be equipped with them to advantage, and prob ably are being so equipped. It is also assured here, by ex perts, though there has been no an nouncement from London on this point either, that the new big Brit ish fighters are being equipped with 75s. • Obviously this sort of information is a military secret of the deepest nature, never to be disclosed until the full advantage of its surprise nature has been attained in actual fighting. «.if • ,• " ■ i ‘ A ‘ . • 'S , ’ ^ :i - »• •: / - .viVAV:-\v/.y.Y.V.r.-v.* *•' V 4-:f v v • * • -.-"J; 'T'HIS is the kind of dress in ^ which large women look best, because it is skillfully designed to accentuate height, place emphasis at the top, and make curves look attractive, not heavy. It’s very simple—just the type you like best rwi rm .Ask Me ^Another 0 A General Quiz The Questions 1. How far back has the exist ence of cheese been traced? 2. What animal in that kingdom has the largest brain in proportion to its size? 3. Who is known as the father and liberator of six countries? 4. What two major religions ab solutely forbid the use of wine or other intoxicating liquors? 5. What language was spoken by Jesus? I, The Answers K 1. To the year 2000 B. C< 2. The ant. 3. Bolivar (known as the father and liberator of Panama, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. 4. Mohammedanism and Bud dhism, whose adherents constitute one-fourth of the human race. 5. Aramaic. INDIGESTION may affect the Heart Gu trapped In the stomach or fuflet may act like a hair-trigger on the heart. At the first sign of distress smart man and women, depend on Kell-a ns Tablets to set gas free. No lazatlre bat made of the fastest- acting medicines known for add Indigestion. If the riBST DOSB doesn’t prove Bell-ana better, return bottle to ua and receive DOUBLE! donnj Back. 35e. 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