Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1942 Page: 3 of 8
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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
Cool and Decorative—Salad-Muffin Luncheon
(See Recipes Below)
This Week’s Menu
Nation's Pressure Groups
Threat to War Production
Organized Minorities, Anxious to Maintain
Hard-Won Advantages, Overlook
importance of ‘All-American Front.’
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
Spring Luncheons
As spring spreads its fragrance
more across the
days, do your
moods turn to
thoughts of ex-
quisite, gracious
luncheons? Yes,
to be sure, they
do. You get love-
ly visions of pic-
ture-plate lunch-
eons, crispy green salads, tiny,
moist sandwiches, the tinkle of
china on cool, crisply laundered
cloths, centerpieces of delicate
flowers.
But this year’s luncheons are dif-
ferent from last year’s. The plates
are pictures to behold, true, but
the menus are kind to purse strings
and food shortages.
A bowl of colorful greens, curly
endive, crisp lettuce, tossed togeth-
er with grapefruit and orange sec-
tions with red slivers of strawber-
ries are perfect with these muffins
and all you would want for lunch-
eon:
♦Molasses Nut Muffins.
(Makes 24 $mall or 18 large)
3 tablespoons butter
Vi cup sugar
1 egg
IVs cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
%A teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup chopped Brazil nuts
% cup milk
Vt cup pure, dark molasses
Cream butter, stir in sugar gradu-
ally and cream together. Stir in
well-beaten egg and blend. Mix and
sift flour with spices, salt, soda and
baking powder, then mix in Brazil
nuts. Add alternately with milk and
molasses to the first mixture. Bake
in well-greased muffin pans in mod-
erate (350-degree) oven 25 minutes.
You can have a veritable smor-
gasbord on your main luncheon
plate if you carry out the general
idea by serving several different
lands of salads in frilly lettuce cups.
Pick out some combinations you
like best from these ideas here:
♦Chicken Salad.
(Serves 8)
2 cups diced, cooked chicken
1 cup finely chopped celery
1 cup halved, seeded grapes
Vi cup toasted pecans
Vi cup mayonnaise
Combine all ingredients lightly.
Chill, add mayonnaise and toss
lightly together.
♦Fruit Salad.
(Serves 8)
4 thick slices grapefruit
4 thick slices oranges
4 slices pineapple
8 whole apricots
! 1 small package cream cheese
Pare oranges and grapefruit. Cut
into slices. Cut pineapple, oranges
and grapefruit slices into halves.
Arrange in a fan shape on curly
■endive or lettuce. Stuff apricots
with cream cheese and place at low-
er edge of the fan.
Lynn Says:
The Score Card: Latest reports
reaching'me assure us that: we
have enough black pepper and
most spices for at least two
years. Coffee and cocoa supplies
are adequate from South Ameri-
ca, and tea stocks are still good.
Domestic fats and oils will
have to replace imported palm
and coconut oils used for frying
fats, soaps and oleomargarines,
and homemakers must conserve
all soaps and frying fats care-
fully.
Tin will be available for can-
ning foods that cannot be pre-
served in other ways, but you
will be wise homemakers if you
learn to use dried fruits properly,
and can from your own defense
gardens this summer. Be kind
to your kitchen equipment and
gadgets made out of tin, for there
will be no more after that is used.
Pineapple is still being planted
and shipped to the mainland, and
no serious shortage is yet notice-
able.
Guest Luncheon
Assorted Salad Plate:
♦Chicken Salad
♦Fruit Salad
♦Egg Salad in Tomato Cups
♦Molasses-Nut Muffins or
♦Cheese Rings
Coffee or Tea
♦Recipes Given.
♦Egg Salad in Tomato Cups.
(Serves 4)
4 medium sized tomatoes
1 package cream cheese
1 tablespoon finely chopped
green onion
2 tablespoons finely chopped
green pepper
Vi medium sized cucumber,
chopped
3 hard cooked eggs, chopped
V cup mayonnaise
Wash tomatoes, peel. Slice off
top, and scoop out the center. Toss
the other ingredients lightly to-
gether and fill the tomato cups. Chill
well and serve on lettuce.
All three of the salads given can
be served on one individual platter.
Arrange them attractively, a scoop
of the chicken salad, a fan of fruit
salad, and then the tomato cups.
Your platter is complete for a lunch-
eon and a very pretty sight to be-
hold! A hot muffin to accompany
and a fragrant cup of tea or coffee
completes the luncheon.
On the other hand, if you prefer
salad bowls which the guests will
serve themselves, here are ideas:
Greens: chunks of lettuce, water-
cress, slivered green onions, rad-
ishes.
Oranges: Use sections on a bed
of curly endive or curly garden let-
tuce, with raspberries or strawber-
ries for color.
Vegetables: Cooked green beans
in lengthwise slices, carrots, raw
or cooked, in slivers, cooked limas,
chopped ham.
Fruits: Beds of lettuce, length-
wise slices of bananas, berries in
season, cheese balls dipped in
chopped nuts.
Dressing makes an important ad-
dition to salad, and many times this
is left to your
own preference.
For, if you like,
have the choice
of two permitted
for your guests.
Save sugar in the
little ways, is our
motto, so here is
one way to do it. This dressing
uses molasses for sweetness.
Piquant French Dressing.
Vi cup salad
Vs cup vinegar
Vi cup chili sauce
Vi cup pure, dark molasses
1 teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon onion, grated
Mix all ingredients together and
beat thoroughly.
When you invite your friends over
for salad and rolls for these lunch-
eons, this may seem like so little,
but it’s guaranteed to make a hit
if you do the little details up right.
Have the salads crisp and cool and
well blended. If having rolls, these
should be piping hot for contrast. If
you don’t feel inspired to make rolls,
then do other things like getting
ready-made rolls and pretty them
up:
Toasted Long Rolls: Split, butter
and sprinkle with grated cheese.
Pop into the oven until cheese
melts. Serve hot.
Cheese Rings: Use day-old bread
and cut rings with a doughnut cut-
ter. Brush with butter or salad
oil, dip in cheese? and bake in a
moderate (350-degree) oven until
golden brown.
Orange Biscuits: Add grated rind
of orange to a baking powder bis-
cuit recipe. Roll and cut. Dip a
cube of sugar in orange juice and
press into top of each biscuit. Bake
in a hot oven 12 to 15 minutes.
Lynn Chambers will be happy to give
you advice on your luncheon or salad
problems. Write to her at Western
Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, Illinois. Please enclose
a stamped, self-addressed envelope for
your reply.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W
Washington, D. C.
The United States is having a time
of it trying to do its share in a war
where the guardians of every one of
the United Nations’ many fronts
think theirs is the most important
one.
One reason why Australia pressed
so hard for a Pacific Council, on
which representatives of the Anzac
nations could raise their voices
along with Great Britain, was be-
cause they wanted to keep the im-
portance of their part of the world
before the President. Any Chinese
can demonstrate to you that unless
China is kept supplied the war will
be lost and even Mr. Churchill in-
sists that his front—which right now
is Russia’s, is the number one hot-
spot.
These conflicting demands, how-
ever, are not impossible to answer.
We simply divide up what we have
and pass it around. Because there
are not enough ships to carry it
all away (and because of the watch-
ful eyes of our army and navy) our
own forces are at last getting pretty
well equipped.
As a matter of fact this competi-
tion really helps speed production.
But there is another kind of com-
petition which doesn’t help produc-
tion. It is the competition of the
various pressure groups inside the
country.
Each one wants to maintain the
advantages it has won and in most
cases justly won in the past with
long and hard work. The great pres-
sure groups which exert a powerful
influence on congress in peacetime
are: the Legion, which seldom fails
to get what it asks for; labor, which
has had a long, uphill job but which
now can call the turns; the farm
bloc, which during the hard years in
spite of its efforts was unable to do
much for the farmer’s lot until re-
cently.
Even Big Business, which nobody
could call the spoiled child of the
New Deal, probably has quite as
much influence as Citizen John Q.
Nobody-in-particular.
Many of these groups are now
fighting for what they consider their
just rights. But what they overlook
is this: a large part of the popula-
tion has no lobby at all. In fact, the
majority of the white collar folk,
partly due to their indifference to
politics, just don’t count when the
roll is called up yonder on Capitol
Hill.
This middle class, the unorganized
salary earners who are sometimes
politely referred to as the backbone
of the nation, don’t even rate de-
ferments. They pay their taxes and
in wartime they aren’t important
enough to do anything more than go
to war. They don’t make much
trouble, but they do holler when they
think they aren’t getting an even
break.
The organized folks, on the other
hand, who are just as good patriots
and many of whose sons are in the
army, nevertheless, are the ones
who because of their political power
cause a lot of pulling and hauling,
and that makes more trouble for the
government than the conflicting de-
sires of our Allies. They each think
their front—the farm front, or the
business or the labor front—is the
most important. It isn’t. There is
only one that is important: it is the
all-American front.
■* * *
British Farmers
Increase Yield
When the war broke in earnest
about the British Isles a terrific
challenge faced the British farmer.
He was told that 3,000,000 tons of
imported feed for cows and poultry
would be cut off. He had to cut
down on his livestock and grow
more potatoes and grain.
Meadows went under the plow and
4,000,000 additional acres of arable
land were put under cultivation. The
number of farm horses dropped in
two years by 300,000 head. In one
typical county alone the acreage in
potatoes was increased by 22,000.
In order to bring about this situa-
tion aid to obtain co-operation for
a “Food for Victory” program the
minister of agriculture divided the
country up into districts, appointed
directors of each district and named
a committee to work under each
director. These committees classi-
fied all farms as A, B. C, according
to the efficiency of management.
Farmers who have a cash market
for skim milk can contribute to the
Food-for-Freedom dairy products by
selling some of the skim milk they
have been feeding to the calves.
Calves will make satisfactory
growth if the skim milk is discontin-
ued at three months of age, provided
the calves are given a well-balanced
grain mixture and plenty of other
feed.
The C class was the problem. The
owners or the tenants working them
had either to show full co-operation
within a limited time or get out and
let an efficient farmer take over.
Sometimes the new proprietor called
on the 4-H members to help him.
According to L. K. Elmhirst, writ-
ing in the magazine Free Wbrld,
“the system worked well.” It was a
highly arbitrary method, but the
British farmer, who is an independ-
ent person with a century of stub-
born tradition of non-interference
from government, yielded to the bit-
ter necessity.
* * *
Thirst Versus
Sweet Tooth
America’s alcoholic thirst is about
to suffer in order to satisfy Amer-
ica’s sweet tooth.
And 50,000,000 bushels of grain—
wheat and corn—are going to find
a market most of which will go up
in smoke. Rapidly the whiskey dis-
tilleries of America are being turned
into distillers of industrial alcohol
to be turned into explosives. Most
of this war demand for alcohol is
now being satisfied with sugar be-
cause the industrial alcohol plants
are equipped for the distillation of
sugar (molasses) and not grain. But
25 whiskey plants, already equipped
for the distillation of grains, have
stopped turning out a beverage and
are working for the government.
The President recently signed an
order to take over the plants which
make high wines, which means they
distill 40-proof alcohol. They will
have to be equipped to make the
190 proof required for industrial use.
Then all whiskey making stops.
In fact the whiskey making busi-
ness already has a crimp in it and
the gin business has virtually evap-
orated—or will as soon as the dis-
tillers use up such alcohol as they
have in storage.
There is still four years’ supply of
whiskey in storage. Soon no more
will be distilled. The blended whis-
key making and gin making end
when the 140-proof neutral spirits
are exhausted.
One bushel of wheat or corn will
make 2% gallons of alcohol, so you
can see that it will take a lot of
grain to make the 200,000,000 gal-
lons a year of alcohol which the
government expects to be turning
out for war by 1943,
It takes time to convert the small-
er distilleries because a man ho is
able to make very good whiskey
cannot necessarily make alcohol. It
takes installation of equipment in
some plants not fully equipped. In
other words there is a “change
over” necessary just as there is
when the automaker changes over
his factory to make planes or tanks.
That is the reason why in the
meantime sugar has to be used, and
why we have to ration it for other
uses.
Many people have written in say-
ing that sugar rationing was foolish-
ness when there was plenty of grain.
It is just as foolish as saying that
because you have a nation of a hun-
dred million people you have all the
soldiers you need. It takes time to
change a civilian into a soldier. It
takes time to convert a sugar dis-
tillery to a grain distillery.
* * ♦
Peanut Oil
Peanuts to you!
What do they mean to you? Some-
thing for the monkey in the zoo, the
elephant in the circus? Or perhaps
your daily bread, or merely your
peanut butter.
In Washington, peanuts have still
another meaning today. Thanks to
the war, we need more peanuts, not
to feed to Japanese prisoners, but
to squeeze.. Peanut oil is needed to
fill the demand for essential oils cut
off when the enemy took over the
Netherlands Indies.
The department of agriculture has
asked that 2A times as many pea-
nuts be planted to replace other oil-
producers stopped by the war (and
to feed squirrels). As of March there
were indications that we would have
only a two-thirds plus crop. That
isn’t enough. And so we must have
more soy beans which yield oils and
many other things from vitamins to
plastic ashtrays. The soy crop has
already increased almost as rapidly
as the price of the beans. But since
we won’t get all the peanuts we
need this year, the cry is s'till—
“More soys!”
More than $800,000,000 worth of
farm commodities were bought be-
tween March 15, 1941, and March 15,
1942, largely as supplies available
for shipment to the United Nations
under provisions of the lend-lease
act.
Long after the snow of Washing-
ton’s record spring blizzard had fad-
ed a shrinking snow-man still stood
in the White House grounds.
and gayety once
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