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THE ENQUIRER. CINCINNATI. SUNDAY. JUNE 2S. 10 12 Fried Chicken Solves Picnic Menu How A Family Of Four Can BY MHTA f.rf Y.

A SEASONABLE DESSERT OR SALAD. W- KWMtT' 1 ONT let talk about rationing coffee stampede you Into hoarding the fragrant bean. Not only is it unpatriotic, because it brings the shortage that much closer, but also it isn't practical. Coffee doesn't keep well. It quickly loses that first fine fragrance which is the joy of the coffee lover.

As a resu.lt, anyone who boards coffee will find he gets less and less satisfaction from his hoard as times goes on, thereby defeating his own purpose. To ge the best of coffee, buy it in small quantities, never more tlmn a week's supply at one time, and ktep it tightly covered, preferably in the refrigerator. MENUS FOR TUESDAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Raisins One-third pound raisins.

Prepared Cereal With Top Milk Two and one-half cups prepared cereal, top milk. Parsley Scrambled Eggs Five eggs, 4 cup milk, salt, bacon drippings, chopped parsley. Toast and Butter Eight slices enriched bread, butter. Coffee (for adults only) Four tablespoons coffee. Milk (for all) Four cups milk.

LUNCHEON. Green Beans au Gratln Four slices bacon, flour, pound green beans. i cur evaporated milk, cup water, i pound cheese, buttered bread crumbs. Teanut Butter Jelly Sandwiches One-third cup peanut butter, 'i cup tart jelly, 8 slices rye bread, butter. lemonade tSee recipe below.

Cookies One-fourth pound bought cookies. DINNER. Tork Rmiaage rattle One and one-fourth pounds pork sausage, chopped onion. Mashed Polalne One and one-half pounds potatoes. Hi tablespoons hutter, milk, salt.

Gravy Pork sausage drippings, flour, water. Carrot Stlrks One bunch carrots. Bread and Butter Eight slices whole wheat bread, butter. Frrh Cherry Pie Three cups pitted sour red cherries, '4 to 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, plain pastry for two-crust pie, teaspoon almond extract. Iced Coffee (for adults only) Four tablespoons coffee.

Milk (for all) Four cups milk. Cost for day: About $1.60. MENUS FOR WEDNESDAY. BREAKFAST. Grape One and one-half pints grape Juice.

Cooked Cereal 'minW Sw-owferfteWjOw I HE simplest desserts are the best, and often they have the most eye appeal, too. Witness this bowl of snowy-white cottage cheese with chilled red raspberries, nil ready to be served with thick, golden honey. The same combination of cheese and berries, With Top Milk Three-fourths cup cereal, 3 cups boiling water, salt, minus honey and plus a salad dressing, makes an appealing salad. sugar, top milk. Toast and Butter Eight slices enriched bread, butter.

Coffee (for adults only) Four tablespoons coffee. Milk (for children) Two cups milk. LUNCHEON'. Kidney Bean Salad No. 2 tin red kidney beans, 1 cup celery, 1 baking powder alternately with 14 cup cold water to the above.

Then fold In stiffly beaten rgg whites tablespoon chopped onion, cup pickle relish, salt, chill powder, mustard, mayonnaise. Sliced Tomatoes Three medium tomatoes. Bread and add nuts. Rake In two layer cake pans for 2.V30 minutes In 325 degrees Fahrenheit oven. evening and for dessert had a delicious brown cake.

She asked the chef for the recipe, which he gladly gave her, but upon receiving her bill there was a charge of $50 for the recipe, The lady was a good sport and paid the amount asked, but when she returned home she was an even better sport by giving the recipe to all her friend. She named the cake "The $50 Cake." VJe. and Butter Eight slices rye bread, butter. Applecot Sauce One-fourth pound dried apricots, 114 pounds apples, sugar or corn sirup. Iced Cocoa (for all) Three tablespoons cocoa, sugar, 2 cups evaporated milk 2 cups water, vanilla if desired.

FUDGE FROSTING, Two cups white sugar, 2 squares bitter chocblate, 2 tablespoons corn Braised tamh Neck Slices Two pounds lamb neck slices, shorten Choose the size depending BUILD your picnic menu around fried chicken. There is no Anoint Ivair in rielflrylit ing, salt, water. Creamed Potatoes One and one-half pounds potatoes, l'ii cups medium white sauce. Tossed Green Salad (See recipe below). Bread and Butter Right slices whole wheat bread, butter.

Nuow Pudding With Custard Sauce One and one-half tablespoons gelatine, water, cup sugar, '4 cup lemon juice, 2 egg whites, 2 egg yolks, 1 cup evapo ......1 JMM. each 3'n-pound bird. Add pepper. Rub with flour. Cook in a 2 to 3 Inch layer of hot fat until nicely browned.

Tlace onion in pan with chicken and leave in pan while chicken is frying. Drain, then transfer browned guests thRn to entertain with ft picnic, especially if you serve tender, sirup, cup milk, 2 tablespoons hutter 2 teaspoons vanilla. Ulend chocolate, sugar, sirup, and milk; boll until soft ball forms, stirring constantly. Add vanilla and butter when taken off the fire. Cool and when lukewarm beat until creamy.

Add cup nuts. Mrs. Edwards writes us: "The $50 Cake" received ite name in the following manner: "A lady was dining in a New York hotel one rated milk, 1 cup water, sugar, salt, flour, vanilla. Coffee (for adults The Enquirer offers you a chance to win a dollar. Just mail to Dorothea Hake, Food Editor, your favorite rcrlx For each recipe printed under the above heading appearing each Sunday on this page The Enquirer will award the sender a dollar.

So watch this page In the Sunday Enquirer to see If your recipe Is among those chosen. golden brown chicken. With plenty of fried chicken, few fitting It In. Mix sirup, water, and sugar and bit of salt If desired. Put half the berries on the bread layer.

Pour over one-third of the sugar mixture. Cut, butter and fit another layer of bread. Put on the rest of the berries. Pour over another third of the sirup mixture. Then cover with the rest of the buttered bread.

Pour the rest of the sirup mixture over the top of this. Bake at 300 degrees (moderate heat) for half an hour or longer until pudding is bubbling with Juice and top is brown, Serve hot, FRIED SPINACH. Knhniltlrit hv Mri. nrrr, 1411 BiTcllff Avmwf, Mnrth.iit.. One pound fresh spinach, throughly washed, 'i cup butter (about 14 of a pound).

Melt butter In large frying pan, but do not let It brown. Place the wet, cleaned spinach In the frying pan and cook uncovered over medium heat, stirring frequently. When the water from the spinach has evaporated the spinach is ready to serve. (Cooking requires about five to eight minutes.) This amount serves about three persons. "THE $50 CAKE." Miibmltlrd br Mn.

t'hnrlulte Mrjr.ra, 375 t.dn until Kitntf. Two cups brown sugar, '4 cup butter, 2 egg yolks, 2 cups cake flour (silted), 'j cup sour milk, 14 cup water Jiot), 14 cup nuts (If desired), 14 cup grated bitter chocolate, '4 cup cold water, 1 teaspoon chicken to baking pan and arrange i or 2 layers deep. Cover tightly. Rake in moderate oven, 32S degrees to 350 degrees, until nicely tender, 1 hour to l'i hours deprnding upon whether halves, quarters, or disjointed pieces are served. A combination of frying to brown the chicken uniformly, followed by baking at low heat, cooks the chicken tender and moist.

i CHICKEN FRIED EASY METHOD. Two and one-half to pounds young chickens, fat for frying, salt and pepper, flour, 1 medium onion, cut in half. Cut the smaller size chickens In halves or quarters or disjointed to give 2 drumsticks, 2 thigs. 2 wings, neck, 2 pieces of breast, and 2 pieces of back. Reason with salt, about 1 teaspon for earh 2W-pound bird, 114 teanpoons for upplemental foods are necessary.

Here is a menu flexible enough to please, yrt adhering to the basic plan of a nutritional meal: Potato alad with deviled eggs, sliced enriched bread, fresh fruit, potato chips, relishes (pickles, olives, cran size, and weight of chicken. Place pieres on rack to drain and to eorl promptly. When thoroughly cold, wrap each piece in waxed paper, or pack in waxed paper lined berry sojjee), and a beverage. loung chickens weighing any where from 1V4 to 3 '6 pounds are container. Store in refrigerator un the markets at reasonable prices.

til picnic food is packed. only) Four tablespoons coffee. Milk (for children) Two cups milk Cost for day: About $1.70. MENUS FOR THURSDAY. BREAKFAST.

Grapefruit Sections No. 2 tin grapefruit sections. Puffy Omelet Four eggs, salt, pepper. Toast and Butter Eight slices enriched bread, butter. Coffee (for adults only) Four tablespoons coffee.

Milk (for all) Four cups milk, 1 LUNCHEOX. Hamand Asparagus Mousse Two teaspoons gelatine, 14 cup aspsra gus liquid, 14 cup evaporated milk, 1 cup diced cooked ham (about 14 pound), 1014-ounce tin asparagus, 1 tablespoon hopped plmiento, 14 teaspoon salt, pepper, 14 teaspoon dry mustard, 14 cup salad dressing, teaspoon celery salt, 14 cup evaporated milk. Parsley Butter Sandwiches Eight slices whole wheat bread, 14 cup butter, parsley, Whit' or Red Currants With Honey One pint currants, honey, top milk. Teu (for adults only) Two teaspoons tea. Milk (for children) Two cups milk.

DINNER. Stuffed Veal Rolls One and one-half pounds boneless veal, 1 cup diced celery, cup butter, 3 cups bread crumbs, 1 bouillon cube, water, seasonings. Boiled Potatoes One and one-half pounds potatoes, salt. Gravy Meat drippings, flour, water. Bread and Butter Four slices enriched bread, hutter.

Cole Slaw Three cups shredded cabbage, 'A cup mayonnaise, top milk, seasonings. Fresh Peach Tapioca (See recipe i Wh wklt" (JiWiMt, sli ihlrta with (,: gji, dissolves. Add gelatin softened In Worchestershire sauce. Allow this mm Milk Is Indispensable In thick cream sauce to cool. Cut the hard-cooked eggs into eighths.

Stir these into the cream sauce. Form waar Mr nrHfctg, ka Healthy Daily Diet mlxtur einto oval patties three-fourths inch thick. Roll in fine bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat. This will make six large cutlets.

Chill until partially I I 'HE yardstick of good nutri- cold water, VHITEi, CLOTHCS SAttCt soda, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 2 egg whites (beaten stiff). Ition recommended by the CREAM OF CORX AND CARROT trition, National Research Council, SOUP. NUtrr Ronnuld. Dlrrrlnr nf Nutrition, I. mill Mimrllnn Hospital.

One cup corn, whole kernel, Urges every adult to drink at least RIMOVES STAIKS Of MANY KINDS 0IMCTI0HI Ot lAlft below). Coffee (for adults only) Four tablespoons coffee, Milk (for children) Two cups milk. Put chocolate and 14 cup hot water in double boiler and cook until thick. Cream sugar and butter and add beaten yolks. Then take 1 cup flour with 1 teaspoon soda and alternately add with cup eour milk to mixture.

Add the chocolate mixture to the above anil add 1 cup flour with 1 tablespoon ne pint of milk dally, and every child at least one and one-half cooked, 4 cups milk, 1 cup carrots, cut in small strips, 2'4 tablespoons pints. ICONOMICAl SO10 AT OROCttS Cost for day: About $1.90. MENUS FOR FRIDAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Trunes One-third pound dried prunes.

Prepared Cereal set. Fold whipped cream. Spread cHocolate wafers In bottom of pan, spread with one-half of the gelatin mixture. Top with second layer of wafers. Spread with remaining gelatin mixture.

Top with wafers. Chill 12 hours. Cut in squares. EGfl CUTLETS. babel iimn.

Hr4 niMlllnn. Hamilton County Tllhrrrnlcult Hmplfnl. Six tablespoons butter, 6 tablespoons flour, 114 teaspoons salt, 114 cups milk, teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, 5 hard-rooked eggs. Melt the butter, add the flour and salt. Stir until well blended.

In constantly planning for and ierving many people dietitians find butter, 2'4 tablespoons flour, 1'4 to 2 teaspoons salt, few grains pepper. Combine rorn and milk in double boiler and heat. Cook the carrots in boiling salted water until tender; drain and boil down the liquid to one-fourth cup. Melt the butter, add the flour, and mix ft wide variety of ways in which With Top Milk Two and one-half cups prepsred wheat cereal, top milk. tnilk fits into good meals.

Out of sugar. Frizzled Beef Four ounces chipped beef, bacon drippings. Toast With Butter Eight slices whole wheat bread, butter, Cocoa (for all) Three tablespoons cocoa, sugar, 2 cups evaporated milk, 2 cups milk, their experiences, these dietitians, well. Stir into the corn and milk vanlllalf desired, LUNCHEON. members of the Cincinnati Dietetic Association, contribute additional recipes.

June, which is recognized mixture and cook, stirring con Melon Ring Salad One medium-sized cantaloupe, 2 bananas, lemon stantlv until thlrkened. Add the Slowly add the milk, stirring con LADIES-JUST LOOK carrots, carrot liquid, salt, and pep stantly. Bring to a boiling point per. Reheat. Sprinkle with chopped and cook two minutes.

Stir In the heat in double boiler until candy 'parsley if desired. Serve six. WHAT'S COOKIN'. Juice, 14 pound sweet red cherries, lettuce, meyonnslse. Cottage Cheese Twelve ounces cottage cheese, salt, parsley.

Bread and Butter Eight slices whole wheat bread, butter. Tea (for adults only) Two teaspoons tea. Milk (for all) Four cups milk. DINNER. Creamed Salmon on Boiled Potatoes One-pound tin pink salmon, 2 cups medium white sauce, 3 teaspoons minced parsley, 2 tablespoons chopped sweet pickle, 114 pounds potatoes, salt.

Tomato Slices One and one-fourth pounds tomatoes. Bread and Butter Eight slices rye bread, butter. Grapes One pound grapes. Coffee (for adults only) Four tablespoons coffee. Milk (for children) Two cups milk.

Cost for day: About $1.75, DOROTHEA MAKE nationally as Dairy Month, well may be made an occasion to check tn your family's use of dairy products and make sure your family has joined the vanguard to help build. America strong by building Americans stronger with good food. Dairy products in adequate amounts are one of the essential foods along with vegetables, fruits, meats, and whole-grain or enriched cereals. You will have observed in this and preceding releases from Cincinnati dietitians, how frequently dairy products are combined with these other essential foods. CHEESE SOUFFLE.

mll H. 4onc. MutrHlon lrprtiiwfi, Krhool of Himwhold AdmlnUtntloa, I nlvrriilty of Inrlnnntl. Three tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 14 teaspoon salt, 1 cup A vegetable dinner Is just about Is practically here as peak harvests in California, Arizona, Geofgia and the easiest and most Inviting dinner to plan these days with In 1 LEMONADE. Five lemons, 314 cups water, 1 to South Carolina are starting to reach this market.

This week has brought quite a drop In the price creased variation arriving from far Hi cups light coi sirup. Squeeze of melons of all kinds, mostly salm-1 lemons, add water and corn sirup and blend thoroughly. Serve chilled. and nearby states, plus abundant yields coming from home and local truck gardens. Four large glasses.

Beans proved the leading vege TOSSED GREEN SALAD. One-half pound fresh spinach, my Favorite RECIPE St SZETTI. Snhmltlnl br fnt M. Krnirr. SIT Vlrfinl Strwt, Plqus, Ohio.

Two and one-half cups beef, cut on pinKs irom tjaiiiornia ana Arizona and honeyballs from California. When buying, look at the stem end of the melon. If picked just ripe enough, the melon will have a clean scar where the stem used to be. If picked too green, it will have part of the stem still attached or a table of the week with shipments arrivine from Maryland, South pound cabbage, shredded; shredded carrots, cup chopped milk, 14 teaspoon paprika, 3 egg Carolina, Tennessee and Missis- green pepper, cup French dress yolks, beaten till thick, 1 cup cheese ing, 14 teaspoon salt, crisp lettuce. Thoroughly wash spinach, dis (U pound), rut in small pieces or grated, '4 teaspoon dry mustard, 3 sippl supplemented by shipments from West Virginia, and Arkansas as well as by pickings from home carding tough stems, and cut fine rough, deep scar where It was pulled out.

Hold the melon in your hands and look it over, If good for tgg whites, stiffly beaten. with shears, Rhred cabbage and In cubes, 4 small onions, cut fine. Brown together in butter and Melt butter, add flour and salt. carrots. Combine vegetables and serving, It will be firm and well and stir to a smooth paste.

Add toss with dressing to whirh salt melted shortening. One csn toma netted. The blossom end, opposite milk slowly and rook until thick has been added until thoroughly i to puree, 2 stocks celery cut up the stem end, will be firm and show ened, stirring constantly. Remove coated. Serve chilled on lettuce and boiled until tender.

1 csn bean gardens. Cranberry beans are coming from South Carolina and Kentucky; also lima beans must be considered with shipments starting to arrive from Georgia and South Carolina. For succulent, tender goodness no paleness and a slight golden from flame and add cheese, mus leaves. Makes four servings. sprouts, 1 can mushrooms, 1 small color will be seen through the net tard, and paprika, stir until smooth; package nf noodles, boiled In salt FRESH PEACH TAPIOCA.

One pound fresh peaches, cup ting which covers the melon. you find litle globules of red- water until tender, there's nothing to match the home- tlr In egg yolks, mling well; fold Into stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish; bake in a moderate brown sugar about the stem scsr light corn sirup, Hi cups milk, 3 Mix all together and add 3 tablespoons chow mcln sauce and put. You asked for 'cm jral anil now you ran get Vm, all ready to 1 distributed lite famous Mela Given ItookleU that rrcaleil such a feminine furore. Many Iiave been lite requests in tide lo Dorlheu Hake, Food Kdilor, for the booklets offered by Hie Knquirer since the Food and llotnrmaking News Faces began last April.

Many are under the impression lhat each booklet is offered for a limited period all wrong, ladies, ve have Irn able to obtain an additional quantity nf the booklets so lhat those who requested them and all others tvhri so desire ran now obtain any or all that have been offered to date. The following Meta Given Booklets are now available Cooking For Two They Melt In Your Mouth (cake recipes) Here Comes The Bride (foods for weddings, etc.) The Worker's Lunch Box (6c charge for this one) Meringue Magic Menus and Recipes for a Family of Four (6c) Picnics Are Good (hams) Puddings That Appeal Desserts That Show Good Form Luncheons That Surprise Salad Days the Year Round Clip out the above list, Indicate with an the booklets! yon want and Mend a large, nell-addressed. Mumped envelope to Olven, ear of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Yonr only eoM, except on booklets) for which there In a Ac charge. Is return postage.

grown carrots and beets that are When you do, you can be fairly sure tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca the melon is sweet. 1 egg separated, teaspoon salt, ln casserole and bake in moderate in the markets. Homegrown cabbage, too, is cheap and very, very oven 350 degrees Fahrenheit) 40 run rtrv milk MM teasnoon oven aooui nours Immature cantaloupes are usually to 60 minutes, or until firm. Serve good at this time, poorly netted and the surface color almond extract, 2 tablespoons sugar. We are still able to buy home BEET SALAD.

SubmltlM br Mn. Kmtrrmtn, till m-fcito Strict, Orrjrtllk. under the netting is green. You ftt once. Serves six.

WHOLE WHEAT MUFFINS, Peel and slice peaches into saucepan, add 14 cup of the corn sirup grown asparagus; it is the white can spot overmature melons by very stalky kind and moderately priced. and cook about 10 minutes, until definite yellowing of the rind seen Two tablespoons gelatine, li-cup cold water, 2 cups boiling water, through the netting. Tomatoes are more plentiful ana considerably cheaper, both the field 2 tablespoons lemon juice or vine peaches are soft. Remove from heat. Scald 114 cups of the milk In top of double boiler; sprinkle tapioca in, cover, and cook 10 minutes gar, fi-cup sugar, 14-teaspoon salt, 114 cups cooked chopped beets, 2 grown from Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana as well as ths homegrown hothouse varietythe latter have dropped 60 cents per basket on the wholesale market during over boiling water, stirring occa tablespoons horseradish, ftfarsarrt Cnrr, Hr4 Iltltln, Ckranle IMieait HoapttaJ.

Three cups whole wheat flour, 1 cup sifted bread flour, 2 tablespoons baking powder, 14 cup sugar, cup hortening, 1 cup raisins, 2 eggs, 2 cups milk, 14 teaspoon salt. Mix dry ingredients. To slightly beaten eggs add milk and melted ihortening. Combine mixtures, stir as fast as possible only until dry Ingredients are moistened. Add raisins just before pouring into well sionally.

Beat egg yolk, combine with rest of milk and corn sirup, and salt, and add dry milk solids; the past week. Soak gelatin In cold water five minutes. Add boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add vinegar or lemon Juice, sugar, and salt. Cool, Peas, cauliflower, eggplant, okra beat until smooth.

Pour into hot and corn are the luxury vegetables add beets and horseradish. Turn tapioca mixture and cook 3 minutes longer, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in into wet molds and chill. 8erve with mayonnaise and garnish with they are scarce and high priced. Corn, in spite of shipments starting to come from Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana, stay just about the greased muffin tins.

Bake 13 or 20 minutes In a very hot oven (about stewed peaches and flavoring. Beat egg white, add sugar, and beat till a i i i v.tj IflU 'ant. Outwitting The Stove Meta Given has compiled a leaflet which she call "Outwitting the Stove." It Includes recipes for some aids to quick meal preparation, Svhlch you can keep on hand In the refrigerator or make up in the cool of the morning, and also hints for preparing foods to cut down the cooking time required. If you have ever thought longingly of a bench In the park While you still had dinner to get you'll want this IIMIe guide. Address your request to Meta Given, In care of this paper, and accompany It with a large, self-addressed three-cent stamped sami aa to price.

Because of smaller acreage plant 450 degrees Fahrenheit). Yield two down muffin i. cottage cheese balls. BREAD BUTTER BERRT PUDDING. SnbmltlMt br Sarah M.

WsrUkl, nil nnrne Arrmor. Nlns slices white bread (fresh) oca, Chill before serving. TErrERMlNT WAFER DESSERT ed this year, cantaloup supplies for the current season are Indicated Spread For Canapes Warjorl Wler, Bi4 CIHnU flmrral Hoplll. butter, 2 cups berries (raspberries to be lighter than either last year or the average yeRr, according to or blackberries), 1 cup corn sirup Ham relish spread is delicious for 14 cup sugar, 14 cup water, bit of One-half pound peppermint itlck randy, 14 cup tight cream, 14 tablespoon unflavord gelatin, 1 table canapes or sandwiches. Mix together '4 cup finely chipped ham the Agricultural Marketing Administration.

However, although sup- salt to taste. are not likely to he heavy in pile1 Butter a baking dish. Then hut ter the slices of fresh white bread spoon cold water, in cups wnippeo general, they will be larger at cer cresm, 1 chocolats wafers 2 hard boiled egg yolks. mincercelery, and 5 tablespoons soft butter. Stir In 2 tablespoon salad dressing.

Chill. Cover the bottom of the baker with tain times as the cantaloup season (9-10 ounces'. a layer of bread, cutting bread and advances. On such "peak period Crush candy, add light cream and.