Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 24

WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1921. WOMAN’S PAGE The Star’s Household Expert Tells How to " Get the Most From Cabbage, Cauliflower, Potatoes, Carrots and Other Nutritious Veg- etables — Tested Rec- ipes. Probably no vegetable in any list has been so spolled by poor cooking as cabbage. With the following list of Jnew cabbage recipes at hand, the housewife at her wits’ end for varie- 1ty may make many desirable changes in her daily menus: Right way to serve plain boiled cab- bage—Select a sound, white cabbage and soak in well-salted water for half an hour to eliminate any insect life. <Cut the cabbage into four pieces, tak- ing out the stem. Have ready a large kettle full of rapidly boiling water, salted to taste and add a little sugar to make up for lost sweetness in the vegetable; also add to four quarts of Water a salt spoonful of soda. Plunge the cabbage into the water, one piece ata time, so that the boiling will not and very hot. Cover the top with these and garnish with olives. Scalloped Cabbage With Dried Beef. After preparing the cabbage ac- cording to the recipe described above for plain boiled cabbage. have ready a greased baking dish. Into it place an inch deep of the cabbage and pour over it half a cup of rich cream sauce. On this place a layer of dried beef which has been shredded and slightly freshened in boiling water. Continue in this way until the dish is full, then cover with buttered crumbs and bake for fifteen minutes. Cabbage Rolls—From midway be- tween the outside and the heart of a cabbage select about twelve large, fleshy leaves. On each leaf place a little finely-chopped mutton, beef and sausage bound together with a beaten egg, so that when it is squeezed it will retain its shape. Fold the two ends of the leaf at right angles to the mid-rib and proceed to roll Fasten with small woodgn toothpicks or skewers. Have ready some well- seasoned stock, and when it boils drop in the rolls and cook for ten minutes. Thicken a cup of stock, pour it over the rolls and serve at once. Superior Cabbage Salad—Into a bowl shave a quantity of firm white cabbage, cover with boiling water and let stand just two minutes, then pour off and drench the whole with cold water * until thoroughly cold. Have ready a boiled dressing about half cold and pour this over and through the cabbage. Set away to chill. " This may be varied by mixing with it some chopped red pepper or BY DOROTHY ETHEL WALSH. Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST Grapefruit and Oranges Small Fish Rolls Coftee LUNCHEON Spinach and Bacon Garnished with Egg be decreased. When all the cabbage is in boil rapidly for just twenty minutes, no longer. Do not cover at any time during the cooking, and not only will the cooking be accom- plished more rapidly, but there will be scarcely any odor from the vege- ble. When done, take out into a strainer. drain off the water to the Jast drop, and put in a saucepan. Add to_the hot, drained cabbage a little salt and a good lump of butter, cover, and allow this to steam i f the flavor of meat is especially wanted, cook the cabbage in rich beef stoc instead of water or serve with pork or corned b . Delicate Yet H ty Cabbage—This way of cooking cabbage is delicious, and it may be eaten by a child. Into four quarts of water shave half of a pound of a sound young cabbage. Add =alt. a fourth tcaspoon of soda and a little sugar to four quarts of boiling water. Boil for twenty minutes Re- move, drain and put back in saucepan. covering the cabbage with sweet milk, in which it must be sim- mered for ten minutes ain again, snd when darined free of the mi dish up and stir through the vege- table some fine browned and bu tered crumbs which you have read “Merry Christmas!' 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Season with salt, a little paprika and a sprinkling of sugar. Have a good fritter batter made as follows: To one cup of flour add a pinch of salt |and halt a teaspoon of baking pow- der, sifted. Into this stir two well- beaten eggs and half a cup of sweet Household Specialties Co. 355 Munsey Building ‘Washington, D. C. ‘Manufsctured by HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE CO., Jefferson City, Mo. milk, beat all well and dip in each cabbage leaf. Allow to stand a min Real Plum Pudding— “R&R” i tion is under discussion—s splendid placing for it is illustrated today. There is plenty of light for reading purpos the way to it. shed on it enough from the window not to block Toasted Muffins Blackberry Jam Hot Cocoa DINNER Cream of Carrot Soup Broiled Calves’ Bralns Baked Potatoes String Beans Maple Caramel Cake Coffee - Green Pepptr Salad. i Choose some large, shapely green! pepper: t off the pointed ends, take out the sceds. Il(hrfidded cabbage and celery, or cab- hag! ving the cabbage showing at the Arrange the peppers on a bed ttuce hearts. The light and dark | cen make a pretty contrast. and it stands far BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES. high up, so A Friend—Blackheads are the re digestion or constipation. 1£ of simple foods, take = will disappe ill also disappear if you will your - skin Margar t and” weigh rweight unle: five feet en but also the chest be able to do this unconsciously. ult of either a disordered —If you are fifteen years In time you will | nd pimples [ ou will nd drink about six 3 the nd the black- Lipton’s Instant Cocoa reaches you in perfect condition and remains 80 until used. Every particle of the finely i thorough daily pounds, you are vou are more than din in dinner. “All our family are so en- thusiastic about Ancre Cheese,” Mother maintains, “it puts the she thinks it the best delicasey!” ground cocoa is carefully pro- tected by aspecial air-tight paper lining inside the can. None of the rich flavor and fra- grance can escape. This protec- tion is unusual, but so is Lipton’s Instant Cocoa an unusual cocoa, And Biddy says == "SAL Put in a mixture of| pEVEr VAries. T X A PERFECT COCOA ~protected from the tin” .~ SIR THOMAS J. LIPTON because the new and better pro- cess extracts the utmost food value from the cocoa bean. Ask your grocer TODAY for a package of Lipton’s Instant Cocoa; if he hasn't it in stock, send us his name. Also write us for our new free booklet giv- ing 30 delicious cocoa recipes. Address Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., Hoboken, N. J. FLAVOUR |_¢1e charm of AAn A" isinits ufique flavour of rich delicacy. And It All grocers sell “Salad alone, with a stift mayonnaise.| gealed metal packets only. a” in Hass t the fingers are a few inches un- der the armpits. You will be able to i do it comfortably by letting the back art of the fingers and hands r against_the body. | ow breathe deeply. 1 You will feel that part of the body | inflate with air. If you stand erect and keep the abdomen contracted, it will be much easier. You will fill not only the middle part of the lungs, CASTORIA| For Infants and Children | InUse For Over 30 Years I Z Look “for the name stamped in both i ends of the tin | a dish lined with paraffin paper and | | Open Evenings New, Coated, Sanitary Wrapper ANCRE Wirks the Gomuine Roguefors Flver CHEESE Made by SHARPLESS, Phila. sax on XMAS TREE OUTFIT ‘WHILE THEY LAST For House Current or Battery EVERY SET GUARANTEED so large assortment of different coles bs. fancy and plain, at reduced pricea. PENN ELECTRIC & GAS SUPPLY CO., 9111 NINTH ST, N. W. Phone Ma: Look for the signature of Sir Thomas J. Lipten every package of cocoa you buy— thus ute, then dip again. Fry two or three at one time in hot fat. g Hot Cabbage Slaw.—Shave very fiine [A Window Should Be Allowed to a small, solid head of cabbage. Melt e :::‘Hémm H.dpitfi'e of })uuelr u"i aizfpwf Fulfill Its Mission. g and stir t a heapin; a- Shoonsof fiour "When mmboth add| Many homes show windows blocked Balf a pintof milk with an cgx with some article of furniture. I do eaten in jt. Stir over the fire until| not mean entirely blocked, but having vor¥;ihick and begiuning to boll, thot' | pleco of furniture in front of it so When thorouughly mixed with the|as to make it impossible to see out of seuco add a littie salt and half W|the window unless one stands and of cold vinegar: Stir well un mixed, put it i the serving dish, | Peers above the desk, table or what- dust a little pepper over the top and'ever the offending article may be. set away. It should be made half an,And it is offending In my eyes if it| hour before dinner. makes such action necessary, or if, Cauliflower au Gratin.—Allow two|even worse, it makes the opening and small caulifiowers to soak for an hour | closing of the window a hard task. in salt and water. Drain well and|What one of us has not struggled cut off the stems quite close, put the|kneeling on a sofa or reaching over a cauliflowers head downward into a:table to open or shut the lower sash? pan of boiling water and add one tea-|If the former is the task aimed at, spoon of salt and half a teaspoon of [ we are generally so exhausted by the | sugar to each quart of water. time it is done that we are beyond the it to boil until tender, which help of the revivifying air; if the In about twenty minuies. Drain and|latter, we ure chilled by the time it place in a dish with the flower up-|is accomplished. ; permost. Make a sauce by putting| But you say near the window there one tablespoon of flour and one table- | is the ‘best light in the room, and it spoon of butter into a saucepan. Rub |seems the correct place for the desk them together over u gentle heat|or reading chair. Granted, near the until dissolved, then add half a cup|window the best light is found. There- of water, half a cup of milk, a few|fore, it is the correct place for the drops of lemon juice and salt, pepper|desk or reading chair, but, mind you, and red pepper to taste. Allow to|I say near the window, not in front boil for three minutes, then add one|of jt. If it is a desk you are placing, and a half tablespoons of grated|an cxcellent arrangement is to hav cheese. Pour this over the caulifiower | it stand at right angles to it and a and sprinkle over the top one and|little to one side of it. This may pos- one-half tablespoons of grated cheese: [sibly stand out into the room too much Put in a hot oven for two or threc|if the room is small. Then place it minutes to brown slightly against the wall near the window. Potatoes Baked With Cheese and| A chair may be placed in front of Peppers.—Peel half a dozen raw po-|the window with bettér grace than tatoes and cut into dice. Make a|any other article, because it seldom | cream sauce by blending two tabl 1 fill the entire space, and it also| spoons of butter in a f & pan with|does not block the view of the occu- | two tablespoons of flour, add a pint| pant of the room, but rather offers a of milk, stir until smooth and creamy | good location to obtain a better one. and season with one teaspnon of salt|If a chaise longue—and its best loca- and a quarter teaspoon of pepper. Chop a green pepper fine, first remo ing the seeds. Grease a baking dis put in the potatoes mixed green pepper and over this pour the| cream sauce. Sprinkle the top with half a cup of grated cheese and bake | for an hour in a moderate oven. i Potato Pufls. | Boil some good, mealy potatoes un-| Breathing for Beauty. til_thoroughly done. Drain and dry = them and mash until there is not a| Doctors say that amazingly few lump in the mags. Season genc ou?!_\"h'cr le know how to breathe prop-| with salt and butter. To one solid|{ ply. i s I bloLAMISRhot i sheals s raloss adal /o VoL doynotidouttitan thefl sast f ol half & cup of cream and beat until a do not see how most people are to beautiful white. Then add another|know how to breathe when cvery half a cup of eream beaten with (W0 {year there is a new fad. When I went eggs, and bake in a sh | i el i O GRNoven: . Ihobokioveniis liool I had a teacher who told me necessary to get the puff desired. that I had to breathe into the abdo- uffed Onions boil six large and that my chest would take mild onions, remove the centers, and of itself. She taught class after drain as much as possible of the what she called abdominal moisture from them. Chop the cen-|breathing, and 1 am quite sure that ters and add to them one cup of Il grew up with large waist lines I bread crumbs, two tablospoons of but- and flat chests. I think this must ter or salt pork, one teaspoon of &e | have been a ction to a period when and salt and pepper. Fill the cavi-{women laced in so tightly that there ties in the onions with this mixture,!was no room for any air to penetrate put a piece of dripping on top of he lower lungs. each and bake for three-quarters of| And now there is another method. an hour, basting with a little hot;It is to breathe so as to fill the middle water and melted butter while cook-jand back part of th 1f you ing. once learn the trick, it is easy enough. Seasoned Mashed Carrots.—Select | First of all, hold in your mind the some young carrots and shand | throught that it is the middle part scrape them carefully. After keeping {of the lungs that is to be inflated. 1f for a while In cold water place them |you do this, all the muscles in that in hot, slightly salted water and boil | region wiil unconsclously respond to until_thoroughly tender. Drain u vour brain action, and will thus en- run through a colander, season With |able vou to draw your breath into pepper and salt, add one tablespoon 3 of butter and two of cream, mix well make steaming hot again and Peas Served in Pastry Cups pastry cups, which can be bought or made in many attractive shapes, offer a_dainty way of serving vegetable either buttered or creamed. 1 lowing is a recipe for the « one and one-fourth cups of flour, one-fourth teaspoon of salt and one-fourth teaspoon of baking pow- der together. Work one-third cup of shortening into the flour mixture. then add cold water, a few drops at a i With a knife stir the mixture t Bake in small tins, Fill with cooked peas. With Two Bunches of Celery. Take out the choice inside picces and serve them with dinner. Cut the ! rest into small pieces, even up to the leaves, and with a small amount c salted water cook for two or thi hours in the fireless cooker or on the back of the stove. The next day cream the celery for a vegetable, sav- ing_ every bit of the water it was cooked in. A few days later make delicious celery soup with the celer: water, using butter and flour first, then adding celery water and cream or_milk. Fine Vegetable Roast—Break some stale bread in pieces, dry in the oven, roll and put through a strainer. There should be three-fourths of a cupful. Drain_one can of peas and rinse thoroughly with cold water, put one-half in_ a saucepan,. add cold water just to cover, bring to the boil- ing point and let boil for three min- utes, Drain and force through a strainer. There should be one-half cup of pulp. Mix the bread crumbs and pea pulp and add one tablespoon of sugar, one-fourth of a cup of Eng- lish walnut meats, finely chopped, one egg, slightly beaten, three-fourths teaspoon of salt, a little pepper, one- fourth cup of melted butter and three-fourths cup of milk. Turn into ' let stand for fifteen minutes, cover and bake in a slow oven for forty minutes. Turn on a hot platter, gar- nish with parsley and pour around tomato or white sauce, HOUSEWIFE’S IDEA BOX ‘water than the method and nmfimh.dflnmwmko thise 3-Minote Dishwasher Christmes. Main 6873 ‘Wanted ! The value Make Your Tub Oilcloth Last Longer. It is a very difficult thing to remove the oflcloth from your tubs or table without creasing or even cracking it. Try this scheme of making it last much longer: Tack the front edge of the bilcloth over an old broomhandle or light-weight cuurtain pole. Cut the pole the same length as the cover. When you wish to remove the oflcloth from the table or tubs, roll it up on the pole. You will have less trouble taking it off and avoid all chance of | ruining it. THE HOUSEWIFE. (Copyright, 1921.) l How to Make Rusks. ‘Take half a cup of butter, two cups of suugar, one yveast cake, one tea- spoon of salt, one egg and one and a half pints of warm water. Dissolve the yeast cake in a little warm water, mix the ingredients and set in a warm place to rise. ‘When it has become sufficlently light, knead it well, form into rolls, and let rise again.” Bake in a moderate oven. If potato yeast is used, half a cup will be required. —_— Breakfast Gems. This is a popular recipe for break- fast jems: One and a half cups of flour sifted with a teaspoon of baking powder, one €gg, one teaspoon of salt oranges, in calories or fuel units of food, has been amply demonstrated by medical and scientific research. Now science has found these fruits equally rich in vitamines, the food elements essential to the per- petuation of lifc; vitamines making Rich in Food and Health Values other food constituents available to the system, It is the julce of grapefruit and orangesthatcontainsthe caloriesand the vitamines. Sealdsweet Florida fruits arc heavy with juice,indicated by weight, hence their usefulness as food and for maintaining health, of grapefruit and and a cup of milk. Beat together for five minutes and bake in hot gem pans in a hot oven, N ealdswee Grapefruit and Oranges In addition to the elements which make them so use- ful for everyday use, these Florida fruits aid digestion and are of particular value in meals on special occasions. The juice of Sealdsweet oranges, for instance, gives zest to the appetite when a glass full is drunk at the beginning of a heavy dinner, while a Sealdsweet grape- fruit makes a delicious dessert. Sealdsweet grapefrult and oranges are the ideal fruits. They may be eaten frecly, without fear of unpleasant aftereffects. The flavor and the sweetness will appeal to every member of the family. Your fruit dealer has available to him an ample supply of Seald- sweet fruits and will furnish them to you if you insist. Sealdsweet means tree-ripened, good-to-cat grapefruit and oranges—whether the color is bright, golden or russet. A Gift for You, Book: “Florida’s Food-Fruits” Handsome and beautifallyillustrated book of tested recipes for the useof Sealdsweet fruitin many ways. You may have gift copy by sending your name and address. : FLORIDA CITRUS EXCHANGE For Holiday and Feast Day Meals 633 CITRUS EXCHANGE BUILDING TAMPA, FLORIDA