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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941 \lufJl4fH4t GUambeAl FOR A REAL TASTE THRILL. COOK IT OUTSIDE (See Recipes Below) OUTDOOR SUPPERS If you’ve a longing to do some thing different, an outdoor supper’s the answer. Get the smell of woodsy smoke in to your food, the crackle of burn ing embers for atmosphere, the sound of sizzling meat held over glowing flames during the supper hour and you’ll experience a taste- thrill* you’ll long remember. Every thing tastes better cooked outdoors! Toss some cans of beans into a gay kerchief, wrap fruit, cookies, cake into waxed paper, whip up some barbecue sauce to* use with the meat, and the meal is under way. Outdoor cooking equipment may be as humble as a few large bricks, an iron grate, or an extra rack from the oven, a long handled fork for each member of the family. A light camping stove or a more elab orate grill such as a vertical or horizontal stove of sheet steel in cluding drip and ashpans, a roast ing spit, and warming shelves may also be used. Whatever you use, remember, it’s the cooking outdoors which makes the meal. You will want meat and plenty of it for fresh air whips up the appe tite. The family will come back again and again for this delicious meat with a sauce all its own: Tomato Horseradish Mustard Marinade. For 3 pounds of spareribs or beef abort ribs use: 2 tablespoons prepared horse radish mustard sauce cup vinegar % teaspoon black pepper 1 cup tomato juice 1 teaspoon salt ^ 1 teaspoon sugar 2 onions, chopped fine Combine dry and liquid materials well and beat thoroughly. Place meat in a shallow bowl or glass dish and cover with the marinade. Turn every 3 or 4 hours and mari nate in refrigerator for 48 hours. Drain meat well before barbecuing and baste frequently while cooking over coals. The marinade may be thickened and served as a sauce over the meat. Your barbecuing will be more successful if you marinate the meat. It’s especially good on the less expensive cuts. If you’d like a meal-in-one with a minimum of fuss but nourishment plus, try this po tato salad made with frankfurters. If you’re accus tomed to your old and cherished po tato salad recipe, I’m still sure that you'll like this one: Frankfurter Potato Salad. (Serves 6) .3 medium sized potatoes, cooked, diced 1 cup diced celery 2 tablespoons minced onion 2 tablespoons minced parsley % teaspoon salt ife teaspoon pepper % pound frankfurters, skinned and sliced % cup salad dressing French dressing Marinate the potatoes in the french dressing. Combine all ingre- LYNN SAYS: While cooking under the sky over hot coals you’ll want to re member: Charcoal burns to fine, lasting coals and gives a nice steady fire for barbecue cookery. For best results when using either char coal or wood should be burned until the flames disappear. Then the meat should be placed 8 to 10 inches above the coals and turned every few minutes to in sure even cooking. Hard woods like oak, hickory, madrone manzanita and maple give a lasting glowing bed of coals. Soft pine is suitable for quick grilling like hamburger and hot dogs. Whatever type of grill you use, pick a spot that’s shady, not too far from the kitchen if you’re do ing it in the back yard and not too near heavy shrubbery. THIS WEEK’S MENU PICNIC GRILL Spare Ribs With barbecue Sauce Toasted Buns Baked Beans Fresh Vegetable Salad Garden Fruit •Sour Cream Cocoa Cake ♦Refrigerator Cookies Coffee •Recipe Given dients and mix with potatoes. Chill 1 hour and serve with lettuce. If you decide on hamburgers some night for your open grill stove try them this way: Add 15 per cent suet to your regular meat. Press the uncooked hamburger into thin flat cakes between waxed paper. Put two cakes together with a fill ing made from finely chopped raw onion mixed with steak sauce and rich prepared mustard, pressing the edges of the cakes firmly together. Broil quickly on both sides. Serve on large, toasted buns which have been buttered. Here are two variations you may wish to follow if you serve baked beans often: Maple Beans—Substitute % cup maple syrup or three tablespoons maple sugar for brown sugar and molasses. Baked Beans with Sausage—Ar range parboiled beans and uncooked sausage in alternate layers; substi tute 1 can tomato soup for molasses and part of water. Boiled Campfire Coffee. (1 quart) 4 heaping tablespoons coffee 4 cups boiling water 1 egg Combine the coffee and egg in the pot and mix thoroughly. Pour in water and bring slowly to a full boil, stirring coffee down in a warm place for 3 to 5 minutes. Use % cup cold water to settle grounds. Easy to make but easier to take is this cocoa cake made with sour cream. Even if you want to serve it with the richer ice creams you won’t feel too stuffed with it be cause it is light textured and feathery. If there is no sour cream to be had sweet milk can be substituted, but use it with 2 teaspoons of baking powder instead of the soda. •Sour Cream Cocoa Cake. (Makes 2 9-inch layers) Vi cup cocoa % cup boiling water % cup shortening 2 cups sugar 2 cups sifted cake flour % teaspoon salt Vz cup sour cream Vz teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 egg whites Mix cocoa in boiling water and stir until smooth. Cool. Cream shortening and sugar together until light, then add cocoa. Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with cream to the first mixture. Beat un til smooth after each addition. Add vanilla then fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour batter into pans lined with wax paper, and bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees) 30 min utes. Put together with Chocolate Icing. 2 cups confectioners’ sugar 3 tablespoons butter 2 ounces melted chocolate Milk to moisten Vanilla Cream butter and sugar, add melt ed chocolate, milk, and vanilla and beat until smooth. Spread between layers and over cake. •Refrigerator Cookies. (Makes 7V4 dozen) 1 cup butter 2 cups 1 brown sugar 1 egg 1 cup oven popped rice cereal 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Cream butter; add sugar gradual ly and beat until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Stir in cereal. Sift flour with baking pow der and work into first mixture, a small amount at a time. Knead and shape into rolls about IVz inches in diameter; wrap in waxed pa per, covering ends so that dough will not dry out. Store in refrigera tor until firm. Cut into thin slices and bake on ungreased cookie sheet in moderately hot oven (425 de grees) about 10 minutes. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.1 Eleanor Roosevelt WORLD EVENTS World events seem to be moving in more satisfactory fashion these days. One cannot help hoping that sometime before long we may read that people who once thought that war was the only way to bring about satisfactory solutions to world dif ficulties may have reached the con clusion that there are possibilities of mutual co-operation. Acceptance of the fact that we are dependent upon each other, not only as individuals but as nations, for our well-being and that the ultimate solution of world problems will require a will ingness to agree to this precept, seems the first step forward toward a peaceful world. In these closing days of the Inter national Student Service institute in Eastport, Maine, the question of the way to make democracy meet not only our own needs, but world needs, has been discussed by Dr. Eagleton and the students. Much interest and real thinking on the problem, I hope, will result. I have, of course, spent a very short time with this group of young people and I have nothing whatso ever to do with the running of the institute. But one finds oneself re ceiving certain impressions. I have 1 found first that after five weeks of hard work there is no real lessen ing of interest in the study of what democracy means and of how, as in dividuals, we can function to make democracy meet the needs of all the people. FINE LEADERSHIP Dr. Neilson has made a deep im pression on all of us. Perhaps the students who have been under his direction at Smith college will un derstand what I mean when I say that these young men and women have sensed the benediction of his presence. It is character that really gets across to other people and there has been a recognition of the fine ness and the gentleness of a^ human being who has lived up to his ideals and used his abilities to the utmost. Example is far better than precept. In addition, I think Mr. Joseph Lash, who has really done the day- by-day management of detail and curriculum on which hangs much of the success of an undertaking such as this, has gained the respect and the affectionate co-operation of all the young people under his care in a way which is only possible when there is realization of a fine spirit. People grow through experiences, if they mfeet life honestly and coura geously. This is how character is built and young people recognize this ability to grow in those with whom they come in contact. • • • YOUNG PEOPLE I wonder if any of you read an article in a recent issue of the mag azine, This Week, on the attitude of young people towards the difficulties of the present day? It voiced so well the feeling of many men who resent one of the questions which certain groups of young people are apt to put before their elders— namely: “We are ready to defend democ racy if we know what democracy really means to us. Our generation, to a very great extent, has grown up under dark skies with sometimes scant food, rather little schooling and no recreation. When we were supposedly ready to strike out for ourselves and look for an opportuni ty to work, as we had been told Americans should do, we found noth ing available.” The article points out that in many ways the pioneer days were just as hard, that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison worked long hours for scant pay and, therefore, though it may be difficult, still if you have the will to succeed you will suc ceed. I think there is a great deal to be said for that point of view. There are a good many young people who believe they are entitled to work at the things they wish to do, and not just at anything which .comes to hand. There are other young people who, when they find themselves in an uncongenial occupation, are not able to put the best they have into that occupation or use spare time to develop, through reading or other contacts, their real interests. Even when this has been acknowl edged, one still has to face the fact that youth has been a part of the whole situation which denies people willing and able to work an oppor tunity to do so. There is no use discussing whether it is harder for the head of a family or an 18-year- old boy to be without a job. Both have a right to believe there is something wrong with a civilization which cannot find ways of providing work, when all around them they see the need for their skills and their professions. * * • MAINE’S THINKING Maine is so remote that many of the affairs of vital interest to other people in the country may mean lit- i tie here. But the Battle of the At lantic is very close to these people. They see the ships being built. They | have known men of the navy and i they understand the life and the risks of the sea which are simply aug mented in times of war. Airports are being built in Maine, so the peo ple are alive to the possibilities of air attack, as those living farther away from the sea cannot possibly be. Crochet and Knit Items Lead Chic Back-to-School Wardrobes By CHERIE NICHOLAS LJ URRY up, girls, and get out A your crochet hooks (your knit ting needles, if you are a knitter) and crochet and crochet (or knit) for all you are worth. If you are still away on a vacation, don’t let that stop you but keep on crochet ing! If you are home and tingling with enthusiasm to begin planning your back-to-school wardrobe, fash ion puts it up to you to “improve each shining hour” by making up a collection of clever crochet or knit fancies. You’ll be surprised when you begin to compare notes with your campus chums, what a host of saucy hand-crochet and knitted “pretties” they have brought along. Of course you will be wanting to show that you are just as fashion- wise as any of your dormitory sis ters, that’s why we are picturing a group of crochet and knit items, so that you can “get busy” and accu mulate quite a collection to flaunt be fore the admiring eyes of your com panions by the time “school be gins.” Especially in millinery, crochet steps blithely into the fashion pic ture this fall. Whether you like a flattering brim or a saucy pompa dour “beanie” your new headpiece will be smarter if it is hand-crochet ed. The girl that comes to the first class-meet in the new semester, hat ted in a nifty sailor like the one shown above to the left in the group will create a sensation. It is made of boilfast mercerized cotton, is washable and believe it or not, costs merely a few cents for the material. Here’s a style tip—crochet yourself a sailor like this one, in a strikingly new fall color to wear with your smart town and travel suit. A hat that has “lots of style” is shown above to the right. Use the simple single crochet stitch and you can speed along like lightning on row after row. Bright Mexican, col ors in pearl cotton lend an authentic air to this gay toreador hat inspired by the type worn in the bull ring. You’ll be wanting several gay back-on-the-head pompadour calots, to round out your collection of cam pus millinery, and miracle of mira cles!—with the aid of your trusty crochet hook you can whip up one in a jiffy exactly like the cunning model centered above in the picture. The cost for material is too insignifi cant to count. Where can any college girl find anything more striking, more dra matic in the way of a chic head- piece than the picturesque stocking cap worn by the white-jacketed girl standing to the right in the fore ground! Here is a type that will lay siege to any fair collegiate’s heart. Make it in animated multi-color cro chet cottons and wear it with the nonchalance of a gay senorita as you trek along in the campus style pa rade. Of course a knitted sweater in red, white and blue will become a necessary luxury in college and be sure to add a matching hat. As shpwn here to the left, the sweater is white and made of a very special knitting woolen, soft and caressing to the touch. Go to your nearest fancy-work shop or department store and ask for the newest in yarns. If you finish your sweater of red and blue crochet edges as pictured you will win the hearts of soldier boy friends galore. Be on the lookout for the new wool dresses that have hand-crochet re- vers, pockets, vestees, sleeves, and even appliques of crocheted flowers. These crochet-plus-fabric dresses have become fashion’s pet hobby for fall and winter. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Wool Lace Coat Here we have the ideal medium for the early autumn coat ... It will be well worth while to look up black wool lace, that is so fabric like it can be styled and manipulat ed like most any material. Armand Scardapane decigns the striking coat pictured here, of handsome black wool lace. The new fall coats definitely re flect the cape influence. This model heralds a coming vogue in the cape and wool fabriclike lace. Silhouette Changes Considered Drastic When you attend various fashion shows designed to open the fall pro gram of dress, go with an open mind and be prepared to see startling changes. You may have been going serenely along with the thought that you have a perfectly good suit or coat that you can wear again this season, but when you see the new “lines” you will find suddenly, you have changed your mind. There is a decidedly new order of things in the fashion world in the way of easy lines that stress a sup ple blouse movement above the mid riff. Sleeves have undergone a trans formation stressing dolman effects and even when sleeves are set into their deep armholes they give the impression of dolman sleeves. How ever the appearance of broad shoul ders is maintained through a gentle rounding off that depends on espe cially contrived shoulder pads, to hold a firm flattering line. Skirt interest is running high. Full ness is adroitly introduced to convey the idea of slenderness and the new tiered effects are making conversa tion throughout fashion realms. Watch peplums and tunics for they play a star role in this season’s styling technique, with pleated skirt* also very much in evidence. Bright Green Veils Huge white or black hats be-veiled in a green mist are ever so chic for summer. If you want to give your flowery toque or sailor hat ex tra fillip, enswathe it with a veil that is as green as the fresh green of early spring verdure. YlfEDDING RING TILE—the • • very name of this patchwork quilt is intriguing. Thirty-two pieces of varied prints and plain colors make up its 18-inch blocks; 30 blocks and a three-inch border are required for 96 by 114 size. • • * As Z9363, 15 cents, you receive accurate cutting guide, yardages, and directions. Simple cross quilting is effective. For this pattern send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address YOU BUY ON FAITH Field tests have shown a big difference In the quality of inoculator brands on the market. You cannot see the legume teria you purchase. Immediate demOIW •tration is impossible. What is the repte i tation and experience behind the laocte lation you buy? • NITRAGIN Is the ORIGINAI, LEG UME INOCULATOR, having served the farmers for over forty years. It won a GOLD MEDAL at the World's Fair, St. Lonis, 1904. • NITRAGIN Is made In the most eom- plete and modern laboratory of its kind In the world. , • NITRAGIN Is the leader In Its fleld by a big margin. NITRAGIN demand in the South has rapidly increased year after year. Daring the faU of 1940 the Sonthern shipments of NITRAGIN were for more than 45 million pounds of VETCH and WIN TER PEAS. This large demand la doe to manyfleld tests carried onyear after year. We prove by these testa that NITRAGIN is » good prodset. Send for our booklet "Plant Legumes to Prosper,” showing pictures of field testa and how NITRAGIN is made. The book let also gives you valuable Information regarding the inoculation of legumes. If your dealer does not have NITRAGIN in stock, have him get it for you. Insist on NITRAGIN inoculation. Accept no substitute OBBE-HILTNER PROCES TRAG -Aas dcG D CtC. S. NO J2 THE NITRAGIN COMPANY, Inc. 3750 Na. Booth St. Harried Business Business dispatched is business well dose, but business hurried is business ill done.—Bulwer-Lytton. Without Question Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.-^ Samuel Johnson. 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