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rw Avocado Versatile Item In Completing Any Part of Menu From Appelizer Right through Meal To Dessert Fruit Finds Ready PI ace If you're one of those people who still think of avocados simply as a somewhat sophisticated addition to a mixed green salad you are in for a real surprise Avocados are the most adaptable of all fruits and fit beautifully into any part of the menu from appetizer right through to dessert They are not by any means a re- Recipes Supplied For Unused Cups Of Precious Coffee Beverage Stored In Refrigerator Retains Flavor Expert Advises By DOROTHY SWEET Hrrald Food Editor We are mighty coffee conscious these days Even though coffee has just been taken off the rationed list we still put judgment end thought into the u-e of this beverage First rule with cot fee store wisely Because coffee is made up fee slowly When mixture is smooth cently discovered rarity It w-as the Aztecs who first used avocados and gave them their name long before Cortez visited the halls of 'Montezuma and throughout the centuries the countries of Middle America have given the avocado the dietary importance it deserves Perhaps some day the avocado will be as popular with North Americans as the banana which is also a Middle American fruit and one of our most nutritious and well-liked foods Avocados are served in every course and in every imaginable combination with chicken meat fish or even cheese Their rich fat content makes them a perfect spread and used throughout Middle America as a so go on a diet of avocado salad it planning to lose any weight! For a delicious sandwich filling try mashing a really ripe avocado Add salt pepper Worcestershire and onion juice or mix the seasoned avocado pulp with chopped onion and tomato Avocados also are unusually rich in protein so they serve as a partic- add milk and stir over hot water until mixture thickens Cover cook for two minutes Cool without removing cover Chill in refrigerator Split lady fingers and arrange three pieces in each of four sherbet glasses Divide custard and sprinkle with macaroon crumbs Coffee Cream Filling For Tarts Cakes 1-3 cup sugar cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 2 egg yolks slightly beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup leftover coffee Mix sugar flour and salt in top of double boiler Stir in coffee gradually add milk Stir over hot water until mixture thickens Cover and cook for five minutes Stir some of hot mixture into slightly beaten egg yolks Add to hot mixture stir two minutes over hot water Cool fold in vanilla extract Spread between layers of sponge cake or use as filling for pie or tart shells Tarts or pie may be garnished with whipped cream or whipped evaporated chilled milk of so much oil which easily may become rancid storing coffee in the refrigerator is not joke but a great help in better flavor Next rule is the old one you know so ell keep the pot scrupulously clean Perh aps ou a have heard it so often trat it in me ear and out tne but ou lose a great ceal of tne good of your corfee In the mixed flavor from that rancid around your coffee urn But when your coffee is made end every one has had his cup with that last cup that may remain (or it may be only a part of a cup) put it in the ice box to avoid losing any of the flavor and use it perhaps in one of these ways: Coffee Nut Bread cups sifted whole-wheat flour cup sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking powder i-j teaspoon baking soda teaspoon salt -2 cup sugar s4 cup chopped nuts S4 cup buttermilk or sour milk cup cold leftover coffee 'Lx and sift flours baking powder soda and salt Add sugar and ruts and mix well Stir in buttermilk or sour milk and coffee and tlend well Bake in greased eight by four-inch loaf-cake pan in moderate 350-degree oven about an hour Cool before cutting Yield one loaf Coffee French Toast 1 egg slightly beaten cup milk Make filling for cake or tarts with that left over cup of hot coffee With just a wee bit more coffee allowed us now we still should not waste one bit its precious ise Hous'eivives Learn To Substitute Foods Loir Point Menus Desired Menus for low point meals are desired next in the series of recipe contests conducted by The Miami Herald Orly tested menus are desired and only one will be considered from each contestant Menu must reach the office of The Herald not later than 6 Thursday Aug 5 Address Herald Recipe Contest Menus must be written on one side of paper only and must be dated and signed with the full name and address of the sender quantities being definitely stated and full directions for preparation and cooking must be giTen AA'herever possible please typewrite triple spacing For the three hest menus prizes of $5 S3 and S2 in cash will be awarded and the next 12 best selected will be given two tickets each to the Royal theater ularly apt meat extender In Middle America they are frequently served as the main course baked and filled with some savory stuffing One of the most delicious desserts served in these tropical lands is made by whipping the avocado with lime juice and sugar to the consistency of whipped cream For exotic flavor and sheer simplicity of preparation find this Middle American favorite just about perfect for your next special luncheon or dinner Avocado Cocktail 2 medium-sized avocados cup tomato catsup cup lemon juice 2 teaspoons minced onion 2 teaspoons minced celery 0 drops tabasco sauce teaspoon salt teaspoon black pepper Peel chilled avncarlnt and rut tn'n convenient pieces about 1 2 Inch thick Mix catsup with other ingredients Arrange thp avocado pieces in chilled cocktail glasses and pour the very Whipped Avocado 2 small avocados Juice of two limes 3 tablespoons powdered sugar Cut the avocados in half and scoop the pulp out carefully leaving tile peel unbroken Mah the pulp add the lime juice anil powdered sugar 10 taste Beat until it looks like pale preen whipped cream Pile into shells and serve very cold May be prepared ahead of time as Turn lo Fage 3-C cup cold leftover coffee us make what we have look like a million dollar dinner try out new recipes and put together new foods We must pioneer and here are some recipes that may help with the planning Lemon Cream Cake It's a quickie 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt cup margarine 1 cup sugar 1 egg cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla package lemon pie filling Sift together flour baking powder and salt Cream margarine ami add sugar creaming thoroughly Add egg beat well Add dry ingredients alternately with milk mixing smooth Add vanilla- Bake in tw-o greased 9-inch layer rake pans in moderate to hot 375-degree oven for 25 minutes For make as directions on package placing a thick section between layers Braised iterf Tongue With Tomato Sauce Clean and hoi! a fresh tongue until lender skin and trim it Place it in baking dish To three tablespoons melted margarine add one- The question in planning menus seems to be no longer how- many points we may have as can we Shortages in beef are acute but very little more so than those in veal or lamb Looks like a few-lucky people might he able to buy a certain amount of the supplies as they are divided out to the retail markets This is the time when to have made friends with your grocer and butcher will pay dividends and how! What there is an oversupplv of in the markets is hat very few of us bought before fat backs pig hocks and knuckles brains neck hones as well as back bones These and all the other items of their kind are here for us we must use them and make the most of what we may have There is also an oversupply of dried beans and peas in this area There will be many a good substantial and appetizing meal for Miamians by putting together the bony pieces with the dried brans The irrsli eget-able and fruit market is also touching low we must dip into our blue point supply now with a vengeance Looks as iT potatoes will he with us but a short lime longer we have been fortunate enough to hate them in the markets hen few other points in the country have AYe must improvise it is up to 4 teaspoon salt 6 slices stale bread Mix slightly beaten egg milk coffee and salt Cut bread in halves and dip in egg mixture- Saute in shortening on heavy skillet or grid-cle keeping pan almost dry during cooking Brown evenly on both sides Serve with sjrup Yield Eix servings Coffee Rice Pudding cup rice 3 cups milk 8i cup cold leftover coffee teaspoon salt cup sugar Wash rice thoroughly and drain Combine all ingredients and pour in buttered l-quart baking dish Bake in slow 230 degree oven about two hours stirring at least three times during the first hour to break crust that forms Do not during last hour of conking Chill before serving Yield six servings Coffee Squire ki cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour teaspoon salt 1 egg or two egg olks '4 cup cold leftover coffee 1 -2 cup milk 6 lady fingers Mix sugar flour and salt in upper part of double boiler Stir in well-beaten egg or volks Stir in cold cof- and third cup chopped onion Turn In Page 1C An 4 them as coffee leftover coffee will make IN Coffee and French toast two old breakfast French toast and what a treat for the family V4 cup cold this recipe as given in this section New Lemon Cookie Recipe Fill up the cookie jar with fre: lemon oatmeal cookies easy at quick to make and easy in still a other but most important way with these: Fresh Lemon Oatmeal Cookies cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs unheatrn 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind 3 tablespoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons water 1 cup sifted all purpose flour l1 a cup oatmeal quick or regu 3 teaspoons baking powder I teaspoon salt Cream shortening gradually adding sugar creaming until light dry ingrerier well Drop from teaspoon erate oven 375 degrees for 12 15 minutes Makes five dozen Hation Violator Heavily Penalized NEW ORLEANS July 2S P) OPA Commissioner Israel Trie-man issued an order today barring Samuel Ciolino proprietor of the Banks Street restaurant from engaging in any business involving the use of rationed commodities for the duration of the w-ar The commissioner convicted Ciolino of violating OPA regulations by allegedly obtaining rationed commodities as an and selling them retail at above-ceiling prices ithout requiring ration stamps Store your coffee in the refrigerator sounds funny doesn't it? But do you realize that coffee is 15 per cent fat? Save that bit of coffee left from breakfast don't throw it away put it together with rice milk sugar and salt and you've got something A delicious pudding with a flavor entirely different.