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EASX AS PIE
No sooner are you back from your
honeymoon than the business of
planning menus, marketing and
cooking for two begins!
In your capacity as chief cook,
you’re sure to find the task of pre
paring three meals a day a real
challenge. Os course if you’ve had
little past experience in the culinary
field, there’ll undoubtedly be at least
one batch of “heavy" biscuits, a
“fallen" cake or two, and even
burnt toast . . . but don’t let mis
takes bother you too much . . . and
he'll soon be “crowing” about your
So-o-o Good Meals!
Because I’m convinced that the
ability to make really good pie is
a highly desirable
quality for any .
young woman to
possess, especial- ■
ly a new wife,
I’m presenting a
few pie recipes
for you to try in
your leisure moments.
If he likes desserts at all (most
men adore them), try your luck
with Jemon-chiffon, chocolate, rhu
barb or even Spanish cream pie . . .
And, if you’re careful to follow the
foregoing suggestions, he won’t be
able to resist that second piece!
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I’ve captioned the column Easy
As Pie . . . which perhaps gives
an erroneous impression. Easy to
eat, yes, but not always easy to
make. Pastry is tricky, but ogee the
technique of making it has been
acquired, it isn’t easily lost
In making pastry remember these
points: (1) unless you are making
hot water pastry, have the ingredi
ents for making pie crust cold; (2)
cut shortening into the flour, using
a pastry blender or fork; or, if
you’re an experienced cook, and
work quickly, blending in the short
ening with fingers is permissible;
(3) add water sparingly, using only
enough to hold the ingredients to
gether; handle dough as little and
as lightly as possible after adding
water; (4) roll out the dough on a
lightly floured board or on a heavy
canvas; (5) cover the rolling pin
with a child’s white cotton stocking
—with the foot cut off—and flour it
lightly; and (6) place the dough
loosely in the pan to help prevent
shrinking.
*Chocolate Pie.
Plain pastry
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
3 eggs
1 cup cream
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons soft bread crumbs
% cup chopped walnuts
Line a pie pan with plain pastry
and pinch with fingers to make a
fancy edge. Cut chocolate in pieces
and melt over hot water. Beat eggs
well, and add sugar, bread crumbs
and melted chocolate. Mix well.
Pour into the pie pan. Bake in a
hot oven (375 degrees F.) for 20 min-
LYNN SAYS:
I want to pass on to you newly
weds some tips for homemaking
that have the approval of hun
dreds of cooks, mothers and
housewives . . .
Tin or aluminum frying pans
will wear better if cold water is
not poured into them while
they’re hot
A round whisk broom serves as
; an excellent clothes sprinkler. It
gives a fine spray, sprinkles even
ly, and saves time.
Grease spots may sometimes
be removed from wallpaper with
a piece of blotting paper held
against the spots with a warm
. iron.
In planning meals, bacon should
be considered as fat rather than
meat, because it contains so lit
tle protein.
THIS WEEK’S MENU
Little Dinner for Two
Cube Steaks With Tart Dressing
Potato Sticks Butter Lima Beans
Bread or Rolls
Green Salad
•Chocolate Pie Coffe
•Recipe Included
utes, or until filling is firm. When
cold, sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Spread with whipped cream and
decorate with whole walnut kernels.
Plain Pastry.
2 cups flour
% teaspoon salt
% cup shortening
Ice water (about 6 or 7 tablespoons)
Sift flour once before measuring. ,
Sift together flour and salt. Cut in
shortening with two knives or pastry
blender, making coarse pieces. Add
as little water as possible to make
dough stay together. Divide into
parts large enough to make one
crust and roll out on a well-floured
board with as little handling as pos
sible.
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Just because it’s summer, don’t
stop pie baking . . . merely change
the kind of pie you serve. Spanish
Cream pie has everything for a suc
cessful summer dessert—it’s quiv
ery, cool, delicately flavored.
To make the filling and pastry
really boon companions, substitute
orange juice for
the water in the
pastry. A half
teaspoon of grat
ed orange rind
added to the flour
for the pastry
will give a special
fragrance to it
Spanish Cream Pie.
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
% cup cold milk
1% cups scalded milk
2 egg yolks
% cup sugar
Vt teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg whites
1 baked pastry shell
Soften the gelatin in the cold mih;
5 to 10 minutes. Dissolve over hot
water, stirring constantly. Mean
while, prepare a soft custard of the
scalded milk, yolks, sugar and salt
Combine hot custard and hot dis
solved gelatin. Cool slightly, add
vanilla, then fold in the stiffly beat
en whites. Chill until quite syrupy.
Pour into pastry shell. Let set be
fore serving. Yield: 6 servings.
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Sometimes it is fun to change the
flavor of pastry by adding an extra
ingredient or two to the recipe.
Cheese pastry, for example, is won
derful for apple pie. Grated cheese
is mixed with the flour. A half cup
of grated yellow cheese is enough
for the standard recipe.
Spiced pastry is excellent for fruit
pies, particularly peach, apple and
apricot. Cinnamon and nutmeg, and
perhaps a touch of cloves, are the
spices to use. A teaspoon each of
sugar and cinnamon and a fourth
teaspoon of cloves will spice a batch
of pastry. A little sugar also may
be added.
Crumb Pastry.
2 cups crumbs, rolled fine or ground
% cup melted butter
Blend butter arid crumbs. Line
pie pan by firmly pressing in mix
ture about one-fourth inch thick. Be
sure to have it extra thick where
sides of pan join. Bake in a 375- to
400-degree oven for 10 minutes. This
pastry may be made of graham
crackers, vanilla or chocolate wa
fers or ginger snaps.
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More than half of the soda foun
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The Questiona
1. What baseball player had the
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ting average?
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3. What century often is re
ferred to as the Age of the En
lightenment?
4. Which continent is the larg
est?
5. What is a guerdon?
6. How do carillons differ from
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Fire has been used so long by
mankind that its discovery is
veiled in antiquity. Even the most
primitive tribes in the world seem
to have been familiar with its use,
and nearly all know how to kindle
a fire. Fire ritual was a part of
the religious ceremony of ancient
Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Per
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Maya and the Peruvian Indians.
History tells us that the first ex
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probably that used by the Assyri
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413 B. C., and the siege of Rhodes
in 304 B. C., when the invaders
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to the length of the African con
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