Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1935, Page 24

§ WOMEN’S FEATURES, OMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1935. r B8 w “The Horn of the Hunter” Brings New Interests to the Dinner Menu Dorothy Dix Venison Delicious Meat When Larded Properly And Roasted to a Turn Sauces Are Important With This Type of Game—Recipe of One Washington Gourmet Is Given. BY BETSY CASWELL. UR group of game recipes would be incomplete with- out one or two for that delectable and elegant dish— wenison. Deer is rather scarce here- mbouts, and little of it is brought in by hunters in the vicinity, but your family may include some in- trepid soul who really takes his shooting seriously and has pene- trated into dis- tant regions to bring back an antlered trophy. Or perhaps some friend has sent you & nice haunch of venison as & present, and you naturally wish to make the most of 4t as the piece de resistance at your next dinner party. Venison may be kept for 10 or 12 days, in cold weather, if hung out- side in a cold place that is also safe from prowling dogs, cats and preda- tory humans. The meat of fresh venison is fine grained and nicely covered with fat—the age of the ani- mal can always be told by the hoofs— if it is young there will be only a slight cleft, if old, the hoofs will be spread widely apart. The meat cooks very quickly. Roast Haunch or Saddle of Venison. Prepare the haunch or saddle as you do a roast of beef, except that the oven should be hot to prevent the meat from becoming too dry. Bake in & quick oven, allowing 10 minutes per pound. Doe venison requires less roasting time than buck venison. To prevent the hoof and hair of a haunch from changing color from the heat, bind with several thicknesses of mus- Un, covering finally with buttered paper. Baste the roast every 10 min- utes, at first with plenty of melted butter, and later with the pan drip- pings. When half done turn over on other side so that meat is thoroughly cooked through. Unbind hoofs when Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEOR( TEA REFRESHMENTS FOR 12. Ham Circles. Dainty Snacks. Cheese Puffs. Butterscotch Fingers. Tea. Candied Ginger. Mint Candies. HAM CIRCLES. 15 circles bread 1 olive, chopped 13 cup chopped 3 tablespoons cooked ham salad dressing 1 tablespoon 2 tablespoons chopped pickle butter Arrange bread on baking sheet. Mix zest of ingredients, spread on bread. Toast until brown. DAINTY SNACKS. 2 cups flour 1% teaspoon salt & teaspoons baking 4 tablespoons fat powder 25 cup milk Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in-fat and add milk. When soft dough forms pat it out until !4-inch thick. Carefully remove to greased | shallow pan. Cover dough with the topping. Betsy Caswell. TOPPING. 1, cup shredded nuts 14 cup chopped raisins 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon cinnamon 4; cup brown sugar Mix ingredients and spread on top dough. Bake 12 minutes in moderate owen. While warm cut into small| squares or diamond shapes. Serve| Ereeh. youn C N & the venison is done, garnish with quilled paper and serve hot with watercress and currant jelly. * ¥ ¥ % SADDLE of venison is much esteemed as a special dinner party meat in Europe. There elaborate care is taken in preparing the roast, and the finished product is not only a joy to the palate, but also to the eye. This is how it is done: SADDLE OF VENISON. (Weighing About 5 Pounds.) Skin the meat neatly and remove all sinews from the surface. Take fine larding needles and lard closely with fine strips of fat, so that when done the larding resembles close lacing along the entire back. Wind white cord three times around the saddle to keep it in shape. Place one sliced carrot and one sliced onion in the roasting pan and put the saddle on top of these. Sprinkle lightly with a pinch of salt and spread melted butter over all. Set in a hot oven and roast for 40 minutes, basting with pan gravy. ‘When done remove the cord and set in & heated dish. Serve very hot with the following sauce: Thicken the gravy left in the pan with a little flour which has been browned in butter. Add one-quarter of |- a cup port wine flavoring and one glass of currant jelly. Simmer all together until jelly is dissolved, pour a little over the meat, putting the remainder into a sauceboat. Serve immediately. * ok ok x IF YOU have any left-over venison— which seems improbable, for it is usually consumed “lock, stock and barrel”—here is a very delicious way in which it may be used: VENISON HASH. 1 cup chopped cooked venison meat. 13 cup chopped cooked or canned mushrooms. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 onion, sliced thin. 1 teaspoon minced parsley. 13 cup claret wine flavoring. Pepper and salt to taste. Fry the onion and the parsley with the butter in a frying pan until browned. Remove the onion and add the wine flavor and the seasoning. When very hot add the meat and mushrooms, which have been well mixed, heat through and serve. Wild rice and grilled tomatoes are good with this. * ok x ¥ ND last, but by no means least, tender venison steaks with a sauce invented by one of Washington's own masculine gourmets: VENISON STEAKS. The best steaks come from the haunch or leg, and should be cut about three-quarters of an inch thick. Rub them well with salt and pepper, smear with butter, and broil for about five minutes, turning fre- quently. Place in a heated dish, garnish with melted butter and chopped parsley and serve immedi- ately with SAUCE SUPREME. 1 carrot, minced. 2 sprigs parsley. 2 sprigs thyme. 1 minced onion. 1 gill bouillon. 1 bay leaf. 1, lemon, grated. Salt, pepper and cayenne to taste. 12 glass currant jelly. Blend 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon flour in a saucepan. Add the bouillion, let boil, and add the vegetables, the herbs and the grated lemon rind. Let boil slowly for about one and a half hours and season well. Add the currant jelly, boil for 10 more minutes, remove from fire, strain, and serve with the venison steaks in a sauceboat. idea ; I X Obedience to the law is not difficult when enforced by one dressed in such a handsome coat. weather he will still be In stormy “right as rain” because the gay orange, black and white material is specially, treated to resist moisture. The young lady hovering delicately on the curb is wearing a dack blue skirt and twin sweaters of light blue. The collar is white and is tacked on to the slipover. —Chiidren's Clothes From Washington Shopa. . Smooth as Satin and Sparkling With Gloss! Highly polished floors and furniture always bespeak a well-groome ] s guest or caller. Even when floors are not hardwood, a glossy finish may be attained by using one of the new penetrating finishes which brings out the beauty and grain of the wood and forms a hard protecting coat of shine which makes the cleaning and upkeep of floors mere play. <@ Judgment in Gift Choice Appreciated Christmas Double Joy When Secret Wishes Are Fulfilled. BY ANGELO PATRL IT 1S time to think about the Christ- mas gifts for the children you de- light to remember. These gifts have special meaning to the children who | receive them because they consider Christmas the most important holiday | of their year. It is better than a| birthday because people outside the family remember them at that time. Children like to get things, like to ‘oe remembered, like the whole scheme of Christmas generally with its free- dom, its joy, its surprises and goodies. It may be a bit of a trial to the grown-ups, but to the children it is sheer delight. A little more thought about the gifts for the day will add to that feeling. “Gee, I wish Uncle Daniel would stop sending me foot balls on Christ- mas. I never play foot ball any- Way. “Yes, and I wish that Aunt Louise would just buy me something pretty and not send me a check. I never | know what to buy with the $2, and | 8o mother just puts it in the bank for me. But I would like something she bought me herself. I guess they | are so busy they haven't time to think | things up.” | Let's take time to think things up. | Let’s study the child that is to have | the gift and send him, if possible, something that shows him that we did think about him, and that we | did make an effort to please him. Children appreciate thoughtfulness as much as their elders do. Books are always good, but along with the book send a little bit of something childlike and gay. Maybe & bright handkerchief, a flashing necktie, a toy. The added touch makes the gift complete. Think & bit about the book. Look over the books that the child has and likes, and add to them another or a couple of others in accordance with his tastes, not with yours. Add one fine old book, one that has stood the test of time, like “Treasure Island,” “Master Skylark,” “Rebecca of Sun- nybrook Farm,” “Captains Coura- geous,” the fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson, “Pinocchio.” Gifts that can be added to year by year are fine. A gift of a pearl every Christmas will prove a lasting delight in years to come. A bit of china to build up a service, or a bit of crystal, or silver, offer opportunity for catch- ing the interest of children in house- hold belongings. Girls will like such gifts. Boys will like additions to their collections, and the field is wide. Christmas is an occasion for the expression of affection. An occasion for cementing family ties. Everybody is busy attending to his own affairs, and expressions of love and appre- | ciation are Bkely to be crowded out. “Some day I'll see that child.” “One of these days I'll run over to see mother.” But the day does not come and the expression of affection is never made. Then Christmas comes and somehow we manage to. stop all the busy movements and get about to give the family ands friends a little attention, a token of love. Let the children’s gifts be just that, tokens of love. Think about the children and then fit the gift to their peculiar tastes and needs. A gift is always welcome, always brings joy, but it will be doubly welcome, doubly joy- ous, if thought goes with it. (Copyright. 1935.) My Neighbor Says: ‘When blossoms on hyacinth plants wither and drop, remove bulbs from earth, dry out and plant out of doors next Fall. If a cake recipe calls for can- died orange or lemon peel to be used and you have none in the house, orange marmalade may be used instead. Parchment shades, if shellacked and varnished, may be washed ‘with white soap and water. When dry rub a little furniture polish into the shade. Heat molasses slowly if cold and hard to pour from jug or can. Heating thins it. (Copyright. 1935.) ! BY LUCIE EBERLY. AST week we brought up the t subject of giving the furniture | the “once-over” before the going to continue the story by sug- gesting that while you are busily polishing away that you do not for- get to cast your eyes to the floors! These are undoubtedly envying the sudden splurge of attention given the furniture and if you don't give them their rightful share they will do everything in their power to make the “smiling” furniture look pitifully conspicuous! Highly polished furni- ture and dull, soiled floors will cer- tainly never be bosom friends! Doing over the floors or hlvin(‘ them done over does not entail as much time and money as one would suppose and since ‘“well-groomed” floors mean so much to the ap- pearance of the home, it is surely a good investment, and plan to see | that they are put in proper condi- | tion. There are any number of miraculous floor cleaning and re- finishing compositions on the market now, and then, too, there are certain concerns who specialize in floor reno- | vation and upkeep at a surprsingly low charge. If the floors are in a very bad condition, it would, of course, be more sensible to call in the firm and have them put them in good shape—but if they are pass- ably good, you can easily undertake to have them done by your owuI servants. Considerable progress has been made in floor cleansers and fin- ishes during the last few years and you will find these new products virtual fairies! The idea that it takes hard manual labor to obtain and maintain a good finish on floors has been completely banished! finish that has recently gained out- standing popularity is one Which seals the pores of the wood and pre- | of dirt, stains and nth degree. Addi- vents the ingress moisture to the tional advantages of routine mopping and scrubbing— all that is necessary is a casual daily dusting! * x kX AN‘D speaking of scrubbing floors— ‘what of water? That should never be done to hardwood floors! Water has the most destructive effect on this type of wood—it raises the grain and leaves & nap or fuzz on the surface and this gathers the dirt and dust, which in turn lodges in the pores and encourages a dingy appearance and slow rotting. If you feel that the floors will never be clean without the old-fashioned scrubbing procedure, then give them a dry scrubbing with steel wool. The wool will remove all solled wax and dirt imbedded in the pores without affecting the wood or the seal. When the floor has been Housguowp Aat holidays—this week we are| of this product are | that it can be used on any type of wood and eliminates the necessity | thoroughly cleaned in this manner give | it a good buffing—a buffer may be improvised by padding a large brush with & soft cloth. After the buffing apply a thin film of white wax. White wax is the very finest of floor wax and if you want the very best results you will use it exclusively. Cheap wax is false economy, as all cheap wax has a very high percentage of paraffin in | its composition and this accounts for the dangerously slippery and sticky wax floors. When the right type of wax is used you will find that it gives | the desired gloss without being sticky or slippery. The white wax, by the way, is also an excellent furniture polish and is far superior to greasy furniture olls—it gives a super gloss to wood and makes it completely d house and ma L3 | . | hdRS. I. B: You have gone to a waterproof! ‘When floors are badly stained and steel wool does not remove the im-| bedded dirt, you will find that a solu- | tion of equal parts of benzine, turpen- tine and wood alcohol used with the wool will positively remove all soil. | The “mechanic,” however, should wear | rubber gloves when using this cleaning | | fluid, as it is hard on the hands. Since | a degree of the seal or wood finish| will be removed with this treatment, | it would be well to apply & new coat of seal before the floor is rewaxed. | Some floor finishers advise a coat of shellac before application of wax—this gives a hard and easily preserved finish and is ideal for a floor that has a great deal of traffic. * x x % IP FLOORS are in exceptionally bad condition one of the simplest, cheapest and most satisfactory ways to renovate an old floor would be to |lay a new floor over the old one. | Maple, birch, beech and oak special- A|ly manufactured in three-eighth-inch | thicknesses are used for this purpose. These thin floorings may be laid without any more disturbance to the household than would be caused by the Jaying of a carpet. The only precautions that must be taken are that the old floor be thoroughly dry, structurally sound and uniformly | | smooth. Waxed floors should never be oiled— | & dry mop or a soft brush is the best | cleaning apparatus, and if a waxed surface gets a daily dusting with either of these it will stay in good condition indefinitely. Oiling floors encourages dust to accumulate, breaks down the glossy finish and destroys the luster. We will be glad to give you the names of finishings and wa® men- tioned, also of flooring concerns. ZEE el T Kitchen Bowl Decorative. LONDON (#). — A shiny brown kitchen bowl is the latest container used for such Fall decorations as brambles and berries arranged with tinted Autumn leaves. o | ous. Now you want to know, “Isn't | -] PATTERN S481 If you like to put a touch of handwork into even your smallest gifts—and it's & very nice idea—these Alice Brooks roses should be very welcome. This flower, as popular in needlework designs as it is in your garden, is gracefully adapted here to applique and to satin stitch. You'll have a pair of each design and 8o can use them for pillow cases, towels, table scarfs or motifs for a lunch cloth. Since every one loves rose designs, they’ll make a welcome gift. In pattern 5481 you will find & transfer pattern of two sprays 5 by 15 inches, two sprays 6 by 15 inches and applique patches; material requirements, eolor suggestions, illustrations of all stitches To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's Editor of The Evening Star, Please print name and address, ke a lasting impression on Harris & Ewing Photo, Weight and Food Chart Reducing Aid Slow Reduction Sched- | ule Sanest Course to Follow. BY ELSIE PIERCE. physician, which is the proper way to start. He has gdvised a diet | for you, including about 1,600 calories a day, which is certainly in line with the sanest reducing measures. He | has told you that he does not wish you to reduce more than 2 pounds a week and he doubtless has good rea- | son for this. As a matter of fact, for most people a reduction of 2 pounds | a week is quite sufficient and a more | drastic reduction might prove injuri- there something you can do to reduce twenty-five pounds between now and New Year's Eve.” You also say, “Isn't | there something I can take?” By that | I presume you mean take something | Internally. Surely your physician would have recommended it had he seen fit. I am sorry to disappoint you, but your physician is in a better posi- tion to outline a reducing course for you than any one else, #nd it is “folly” for you to be impatient and to set a | definite date for the completion of re- | duction at, perhaps, a sacrifice to health. Yes, I have a weight chart | and also a chart giving the calories in | common foods and shall be pleased to send both to you on receipt of a self- addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope. But please do follow the advice of your doctor. S A% % Mother: I think your daughter is | quite right, and it isn't a matter of not wanting mother to be modern. The very dark nail polishes do call attention to the surrounding skin and only the well proportioned, soft, smooth hand should wear them. My advice to you is: Use a good hand lotion or cream several times a day until your hands are quite soft. In the meantime confine yourself to a pale polish. When your hands are normal again you can change to a darker polish. I have two bulletins on Hand Care that I think would in- terest you. Send a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope for them. * k% X 8. C. B.: Black and white is better than black with pink for your type. Creen and blue are splendid. Brown is not one of the preferred shades, but is passable providing it does not have reddish lights of the same intensity as the hair. A white evening gown with green accessories should be ex- tremely flattering. With it wear green eyeshadow and green mascara. Use rouge, but just a little of it. A warm naturelle shade of powder should be right for your light skin. If you wish more hints, please repeat your ques- tion, describe your coloring again and ask for my color chart. Inclose a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) en- velope. {Copyright, 1835.) Footnotes. If you have lines in your face, & general expression of fatigue and con- stantly possessed of “that tired feel- ing,” it may not be due to lack of vitarflins, but the wrong type of arch in your shoes! Beauty of face and fll-fitting shoes are not synonymous, and the majority of women do not realize how they jeopardize facial charm by not paying enough attention to comfortable footwear. According to authorities, you are as young-appear- ing and healthy as your arches, and & shoe with an arch of the wrong height is enough to mar any one's perspective of life. There are three distinct types of arches—high, medium and low—and each demands a corresponding arch curve in the shoe for perfect comfort and well-being. . The shoe which comfortably fits the high arch curve will be definitely painful to the low-arched foot. And & low arch-curve shoe which fits the flat foot will logically not support the arch of the foot with a high arch curve—in all probability will be un- comfortable as well. The normal, of medium, arch, however, gets all the breaks by usually adapting it- self to either a high or low arch Says A Wife Has Some Right to a Portion of] Money She EAR MISS DIX—Is my hus- band right in his point of view, or am I right in mine? He believes that economy consists in entirely doing without things. Thus: If you save quite a sum by doing without a thing, you are not justified in spending any of this surplus, but must put it all in the bank. I feel that if I have done without something for a while to save money I am éntitled to spend part of what I have saved for something I need and want very much, and which I feel is a sensible buy. And, after having done s0, I am glad to econ- omize a little to make up for it. Surely one of us is right and the other wrong in our system of saving. What do you think? WIFE. Answer: 1 think you are right. Economy does not mean miserliness. It means the judicious handling of money, and that involves wise spend- ing as much as saving. I am strong for thriftness. Every one who earns money above their absolute daily needs should lay up something for that rainy day that is bound to come to us all. The importance of saving cannot be overemphasized, because in our hour of need money is our greatest friend. True, it cannot save us from the great tragedies of life, but it can often save our own lives and the lives of those who are dearer to us than our own lives, and, while it cannot console us for the loss of a dear one, | the widow and orphans who weep above the bier of the husband and father they have lost are not so bereft | if they have a competence to live upon as are the widow and children who have no longer a bread-winner | and who do not know where their next meal is to come from. Tl AND money is the only consolation of age. None so pitiable as the | old men and women who not only lack the comforts they so sorely need. but who have to know the bitterness of dependence. Furthermore, it is the duty of every one who can to save when they are making money so that when they are incapacitated for earning they will not be a burden on other people. It | is a dishonest thing for men and wom- en to spend all their money as they go along and then expect others to support them when they are sick or old. But, while thrift is a virtue, it is one that can easily be overdone and the saver frequently makes just as much of a mistake in hoarding his money as the spender does in throw- ing his to the winds. Just as every Has Saved. one should put away something for the rainy day, so every one should use most of what he makes in enjoying | the sunshine of today. He shouldn't | invest all of his money in umbrellas. | He should use a fair amount in joye- | riding. A lot of people deny themselves every pleasure and comfort in life. They keep poor tables. They sleep on hard beds. They haven't even an easy chair to sit in. They wear shoddy clothing. They never take a ‘trfip or go to a place of amusement, | They deprive themselves of all beauty | and luxury, * ok ok % | TN THE back of all of these savers® } heads is the idea that some day they will indulge themselves in the pleasures that they crave, but which | they deny themselves. Some day they | are going to have a pretty home and | nice furniture and feast upon night= |ingale’s tongues. Some day they are | going to have fine clothes and highe | powered cars. Some day they are goe | ing to see the far places in the world | of which they have dreamed. | But the time never comes, or, if at long last they do start out to spend some of the money they have hoarded, they find it is too late. They have atrophied the power of enjoyment. ‘They no longer want anything and the grip of their hands has grown so tight on every penny they cannot let it go. ‘We live but once. All we have is to- day. All the pleasure we can ever count on having is what we get in this hour. And so we are foolish if we do not spend all we can afford as we go along and indulge ourselves in every comfort and luxury we can. Always, of course, keeping a weather eye out for that rainy day. JDEAR MISS DIX: Are kissing and petting perfectly all right in the present generation, or are they just as bad as they were in grandmother's day? I am a girl of 17 I have been going with a boy who is used to kissing every girl he goes with, but it seems to me a silly notion that a date isn't a date unless you do those things. Do boys like girls who can make bright remarks and “hand it back.” or do they like the girls better who enjoy the boys’ cleverness and wit and do not try to be witty or clever themselves? JANE. Answer.—The ethical | kisses hasn't changed, Jane, since grandma’s day, and because eve: body does it doesn't make it any less a dangerous pastime now than it was in the past. Promiscuous kissing has always been vulgar and common. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1935.) quality of Perennial Favorite Once Again—in Another Version—the Shirtwai st Dress. BY BARBARA BELL. ERE is a new version of the shirtwaist dress —the dress that is really the most pop- ular model of the whole sea- son. It is worn in velvet and lame for the hours after 5; silk and wool for all daytime hours. And as a resort fashion it is top-hole! Linen, shantung, silk shirting, cottons of in- teresting weave and design, in this simple wearable model will be pack- ed into trunks bound southward when migration in that direction sets in. Pockets are interesting details of trimming in this dress. The belt is quite unusual, in that two pockets are attached to it, one on either side. They are rounded, both at the belt line, and on the bosom of the frock, shoe. It is well, though, to fit such s foot to its own special arch curve. To “know your arches” is a pre- requisite in selecting comfortable and and round tabs finish the long sleeves. The collar is the little-girl model that every one loves. A yoke forms the upper part of the blouse, BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1745-B. Size...... 1L e SRR e T (Please print name and ad- dress clearly and wrap coins se- curely in paper.) and the lower part is gathered onto it. Barbara Bell Pattern, No. 1745-B, is designed in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measure- ments 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 16 (34) requires 37 yards of 39-inch material. The Barbara Bell Pattern Book featuring Fall designs is ready. Send 15 cents today for your copy.