The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 14

FOURTEEN THE DAILY MAIL, HAGERSTOWN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1938. Measuring Bananas If a recipe calls for mashed bananas, peel them and press them through a coarse strainer before you measure out the quantity. The pulp -will soften easily if gently beaten, with a fork. Fruit colorings often make foods more attractive, but be sure you add the coloring carefully.

Remove some of the food to a small dish and add a little coloring. Mix thor- oughly to prevent streaking and then return to the main dish of food. Cranberry Warning Over-cooking of a sauces and jellies will bring out strong undesirable flavors and may prevent the mixture from jelling. HOBBYr Any non-commercial in- terest which takes your mind off your work and serves as a topic of conversation, like golf, ship mod- els and gall gladders. THERE'S A SPECIAL, low rate for classified ads which are to ap- pear in the Herald-Mail for several days.

SUNDAY DINNER By CORA ANTHONY URKEY and leftovers now seem farther in the past than Christ- mas in the future. Simple whole- some meals will be the rule for the next few weeks. Pork is now the most economical meat though beef, lamb, veal and smoked meats are all moderate in price. Butter has risen in price for the first time in five months, but is still W. FRANKLIN Hagerstown Low First Quality! HKSOWCES EFFECTIVE FOR FRIDAY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2-3 ITEMS Af ATTRACTIVE PRICES Mixed Vegetables 3 5 17c WESTON CMCttHETTES 19c LILLY BRAND PEANUT BUTTER 12c SILVER FLOSS SAUER KRAUT Windsor Brand Tomatoes Windsor Brand Jane Peas Dawn-GIo Stringiest Beans 1 7 tans KING'S TABLE SYRUP 2 19c -PRIZE MEDAL cans Campbell's Pork and Beans 3 cans 20c Campbell's Tomato Soup 2 cans 15c Mule Team can Boraxo 2 cans 25c 4 A Plee-Zing Pancake Flour 2 boxes 15c Plee-Zing Buckwheat 2 boxes 19c DEL MAiZ ISLETS 2 25c Purity Nut 2 Hs.

23c Ptee-zmg it Vegetable Green Giant A 2 29c The Meat 0f 101 Vses HORMEL'S SPAM 12 oz can 29c LOW PRICES FOR BAKING NEEDS 2okgs25G tew Citron. J- 29: New Candied Lemon Peel, J- 29c New Candied Orange Peel. J. 29c Crop Candied her California Large Diamond Walnuts Large fcnil Nuts 27 XXXX or SOGA BROWN- GAR FLOUR Peo-Mar Red-Top 14-fe. Bag ALL WESTERN 12Jb.

Bag FINE GRANULATED i Snowdrift oawit 21c Ambrosia Baking Chocolate cake 9C PRICES ON CftNMED FRUIT PACBBD IN DELICIOUS HEAVY SYRUP TRESH PRUNES 1 1 11111111 NOOKSACK BRAND CHOICE, HEAVY SYRUP A I A Buy in Cultivated farm BLACKBERRIES SOUTH HAVEN BLACK PITTED I remarkably low for the season. Egg prices are expected to drop just as soon as last spring's chickens start to lay. A mild open season usually encourages this state of affairs. Cheese remains one of our best and most economical foods. The cabbage family and citrus fruits are abundant and most at- tractively priced.

Three Sunday dinner menus fol- low: Low Cost i Fresh Pork Shoulder Brown Gravy Browned Potatoes Scalloped Cabbage Bread and Butter Apple Pie Tea or Coffee Milk i Cost i Roast Loin of Pork Brown Gravy Sweet Potatoes and Apples Spinach Bread and Butter Snow Pudding with Custard Sauce Tea or Coffee Milk Very Special i Cream of Mushroom Soup. Roast Beef Mashed Potatoes French Style Green Beans Salad of Mixed Greens Bread and Butter Fruit Gelatin Whipped Cream Cookies Coffee elps for ouse wives Here's a list of the month's char- acteristic flowers that will come in handy when planning a party: a a carnation; February, primrose; March, violet; April May, lily of the valley; June, roses; July, sweet peas, Au- gust, gladioli; September, aster; October, dahlia; November, chrys- anthemum, and December, holly or poinsettia. Here is a quickly made new cake frosting. Place six chocolate-cov- ered peppermints and four choco- ate-covered wintergreen candies in double boiler, add two tablespoons of cream and cook until hot and well blended. Quickly spread over the cake and in a few minutes the frosting will harden.

Efficient cooking equipment is as essential to meal success as good ingredients. When buying spoons see that they are large, light and easy to hold. Too often spoons are so heavy that they tire the wrists or the handles are so sharp they cut into the- hands. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Wife Preservers Steam brazil nuts for ten min- utes, then cool them and you can remove the' kernels easily. To re move pecan, kernels whole, simmer the nuts in water to cover, in cov- red pan for ten minutes.

Cool the nuts in water and then crack them gently. Did you know that: Two cups of butter or other solid fat equals a pound; one pound of grated cheese equals four cups; five eggs, will fill one cup, and a pound of dates or prunes, when pitted, make two cups? Cooking cereals in milk or equal parts of water and milk increases the milk consumption. This is espe- cially advised for those under- weight people or for children who balk at drinking milk. Alligator or avocado pears are ripe enough to serve when the flesh yields slightly under gentle pressure of the fingers. To hasten ripening, wrap the fruit in several thicknesses of paper and store in a room of moderate temperature.

To retard ripening, place in the refrig- erator. Ice cream tarts make appetizing surprise desserts for luncheon Bake rich pastry dough in rather deep pans. When ready to serva spread the pastry cases with tasty fruit sauce and then cover it gen erously with vanilla ice cream Add a pinch of chopped candied ginger mixed with toasted pecans. Ice cream "a la cart" is a clever dish for a youngsters' party. Fasten two pairs of cookies together with toothpicks as axles, put them on serving and top with an ob- long cooky for the bed of the wagon.

Hitch animal cookies to it with colored ribbons and load the with ice cream or gelatin. A buffet meal, when well planned, is a delightful way to entertain. But do have places for the guests to sit down and eat in comfort. Ar- range tables about the room; bal- ancing a plate on the knee is all out of date. Salads need a touch of garlic.

Rub a clove of it around the salad bowl before mixing. Or you caa put a little garlic right into the dressing, leaving it about 20 min- utes. That will give any kind of dressing a refreshing zest. SELF-SERVICE wnlle you sit In a- easy chair at impossible but that's what shop- ping the Classified Section resolves ItseU Into! There's one "best way" to add water to keep pastry tender. Do you know it? SIHES v.

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