Verhovayak Lapja, 1944 (27. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)

1944-01-13 / 2. szám

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Homespun days are here again .—plainer clothes, simpler living, scarcity in many familiar foods. To win this war we must adjust Qurselves to these changes. Fortunately, American women are clever at meeting such emergencies. Clothes are repaired, cleaned and made over. Household activities are modified to meet wartime schedules. Foods are studied for their nutritional values.

Grandmother’s “receipt” books are dusted and delved into for hints on how she managed without fully stocked grocery shelves. These excursions into the culinary past bring unexpected discoveries. From this lore we may profit for the present and for the exciting rationing days of the present time.

From time to time we will try to help you by combining the wisdom of Martha Washington, Mary Todd Lincoln, grandmama in the Gay 90’s, and mothers of World War I with the streamlined, swing shift tempo of World War II, and the up-to-the-minute methods of the day. Of course, citrus fruits will play the leading role.

MARTHA WASHINGTON USED “LEMON PILL”

From the kitchen building at Mt. Vernon, prbcessions of pickaninnies carried heaped dishes of steaming food to the diningroom of the mansion proper. Here we find Martha Washington, trim and dainty in her white dimity dress, giving directions for one of the dinners that made America’s first “first lady’s” table, noted at home and abroad.

One of the “receipts” for this dinner calls for “butter washed with rose water,” one for “syrup of violets,” a third for “lemon pill” and a “squeeze of leamon.” Martha Washington had no shelf of bottled extracts. The resourceful American women of her day ereated flavorings from garden flowers and herbs and called on the flavor value of “orringes” (oranges) and “leamons” (lemons).

TO GRATE LEMON PEEL

Resourceful American women today, faced with a shortage of flavoring extracts, are turning again to home grown herbs and such natural flavor agents as citrus fruits. Martha Washington’s directions said “Lemon— the peel of two, cut thin and beat fine ” But today’s cook uses a shredder-type grater with holes 1/8 inch in diameter and about Vi inch apart. On this with light strokes she removes only the outer yellow layer of peel. This contains the oils that give the characteristic lemon fragrance and flavor. This type of shredder give delicate flakes of peel, while the more familiar nut-megtype grater give a wet, crushed peel, wasteful because hard to remove from the grater.

"GRATED” LEMON PEELS FLAVOR MANY DISHES

From the cook-books of Martha Washington’s day we gather

interesting and novel suggestions for the use of grated lemon peel in oyster stew; meat stew; stuffing for meat; sprinkled over meat gravy; in the milk beverages, known as possets and syllabubs. (Some of these forgotten uses we might well revive today.) We also find many of the uses more familiar to us— grated lemon peel added to “boiled” apples and apple pie filling, to puddings, sauces, biscuits, breads, cakes and cookies Of all kinds. Often the juice of the lemon was used for additional flavor. Grated lemon peel and lemon juice may be the answer to our own search for that “just right” flavor, now made difficult by current food limitations.

Surprises with lemon delight the gourmat. The dishes, featured here, provide menu surprises in a variety of novel ways. Breakfast, luncheon and dinner, although every-day events, should have special thought to make them interesting. This interest is furnished by the pleasing flavor of lemon.

LEMON MINCEMEAT

V2 cup Sunkist lemon juice

1 cup raisins, scalded, drained

and chopped

3 cups finely chopped apple

% cup chopped nuts '

Vi cup lemon or orange marmalade

2 cup sugar

% teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon ginger.

Combine ingredients. To make pies, add: 14 cup melted butter for each pie. May be sealed and kept in sterilized jars. (Makes 1 quart or filling for 2 pies.)

LEMON MAPLE DUMPLINGS

Sauce: Cook in a saucepen until lemon slices look transparent, or about 20 min.

PASS THE LEMON SAUCE AND SAVE THE CREAM

If your family likes a “pour over,” and plenty of it, on desserts which might otherwise seem a bit dry, here’s an idea for sparing cream. Make a lemon sauce and serve it not only with your favorite pudding—be this rice, bread, steamed carrot or plum—but with cobblers, over apple pie and baked apple dumplings, on hot gingerbread or with left-over cake.

To make: mix 1% level tablespoons cornstarch, % cup sugar,

2 teaspoons grated lemon peel, IV2 cups cold water. Boil five minutes. Remove from fire. Add:

3 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 tablespoons butter and a sprinkling of nutmeg. Serves 6.

2 unpeeled thinly sliced Sunkist lemons

1 teaspoon butter

2 cups máple syrup.

Into gently boiling mixture, drop spoonfuls of dumplings batter. Cover tightly and cook over a low flame for 20 min. without removing cover. A glass top-ofstove saucepan makes it possible to watch dumplings as they cook.

Batter: Measure and sift together:

1 cup sifted flour

Vi teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

3 tablespoons sugar

Cut in 1 tablespoon butter.

Add, mixing thoroughly: 1 egg, well beaten, 1/3 cup milk, % teaspoon vanilla. This is a delicious surprise dessert.

LEMON CLOVER ROLLS

2 -cups flour, sifted

Vi cup sugar

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

% teaspoon salt

1/3 cup shortening.

Sift dry ingredients and work in shortening. Add: % cup milk, soured with 3 tablespoons Sunkist lemon juice. Knead slightly. Form dough into small, walnutsized balls. Place 3 balls in each

cup of a greased muffin tin. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in hot oven (450 degrees F.) 20 min. Makes 16 to 20 rolls.

SURPRISE SPREAD FOR WAFFLES

A simple but deliciously different spread for waffles is to sprinkle with sugar and follow with a squeeze of Sunkist lemon juice. Good on pancakes, too.

CELESTINE LEMON TAPIOCA

Vi cup quick cooking tapioca 3/4 cup sugar Vi teaspoon salt 2 cups rapidly boiling water. Bring to a brish boil in upper part of double boiler over direct heat, stirring constantly. Place over boiling water and cook 5 min., stirring occasionally. When slightly cool, add: Vi cup Sunkist lemon juice, 1 teaspoon grated Sunkist lemon peel. Chill. Fold in: Vs cup cream, whipped. Serve with maraschino cherry garnish. Serves 6.

LEMON REFRIGERATOR CAKE

24 marshmallows, cut fine and soaked 30 min. in 1 pint whipping cream 2 tablespoons gelatine, softened 5 min. in V2 cup cold water

IV2 cups sugar, brought to a boil with IV2 cups water. Add sugar syrup to gelatine mixture. Add: V2 cup Sunkist lemon juice. Cool. When beginning to stiffen fold in marshmallows and cream which have been beaten stiff. Pour into an 8 or 9-inch Springform, lined with 18 to 24 ladyfingers. Chill 6 to 8 hours. Serves 12.

LEMON FROZEN CREAM

2 eggs, beaten until lemoncolored

V2 cup sugar

Add sugar gradually to egg until mixture becomes a thick custard-like consistency. Combine with:

V2 cup light corn syrup 2 cups top milk (or 1 cup milk and 1 coffee cream)

Vi cup Sunkist lemqp juice 1 teas, grated Sunkist lemon peel.

Freeze in refrigerator tray at lowest temperature untill stiff. When frozen, remove to a bowl and whip with an electric or hand beater until light and craemy. Return quickly to freezing tray. Finish freezing. This one stirring is all that is needed. Hold at middle control for serving. Makes 1 quart. Serves 6—9.

A lemon cup or basket serves Frozen Lemon Cream or Lemon Sherbet attractively. Cut lemon peel halfway down fruit in strips. Remove pulp. As each shell is filled with frozen mixture, place it ip freezing tray. Keep there until ready to serve.

LEMON PIE UNIQUE

IV2 cups sugar.

% cup flour

Blend together. Sprinkle IV2 cups of this mixture over pastrylined pie pan, 8-inch size. Lay over the sugar and flour: V2 cup

very thin slices, cut from peeled Sunkist lemons. Add: 1 teas, grated Sunkist lemon peel. Sprinkle remaining sugar and flour over lemon slices. Pour over this: 1 cup cold water. Mix lightly and dot with butter (about 1 tablespoon). Cover top of pie with strips of pastry in lattice fashion. ' Bake 10 min. in hot oven 425 degrees to 450 degrees F. Reduce oven to moderate heat 325 degrees to 350 degrees F., and continue baking for 40 to 50 min. Best served slightly warm.

LEMON CAKE-TOP PUDDING

2V2 tablespoons flour

% cup sugar

1 tablespoon butter

Cream and add: 2 egg yolks, beaten; Vi cup Sunkist lemon juice, 1 cup milk. Fold in: 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten. Bake in 8-inch, unbuttered dish, standing in a pan of water. Bake for 35 min. in moderate oven 375 degrees F. Separates into two layers — a cake and a custard. Serves 4—6.

The

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FOR THE MUSEUM

Father: “That young sailor of yours should be in the museum for living curiosities.”

She: “Why father! How can you say that?”

Father: “Well, I noticed as I passed through the hall late last night that he had two heads on his shoulders.”

NO PROGRESS

A negro stoker was crossing the ocean for the first time. He came up on deck to get a breath of air. Looking out on the water, he said in disgruntled tones: “Why, we is right whar we wuz this time yesterday!”

THREE POINTS

Ridgley (pointing to railway warning)—“See what it says: ‘Stop, look listen.’ Those three words illustrate the whole scheme of life.”

Jones—“How do you make that out?”

Ridgley—“You see a pretty girl; you stop, you look, you marry her, and then you listen.”

RIGHT

At an important works somewhere in the North of England a group of workmen were discussing air raids. Some were gloomy, others did not think that things were so bad, and, at any rate, efficient shelters had been provided.

One workman, proud of his optimism, said, ‘Wot’s the use o’ worrying’? If a bomb ’as yer name and address on it, you’ll get it, but if not—well, there you are!”

An Irishman who had been a silent listener to the discussion then interrupted: “Sure, mate, you’re right, but supposed it’s addressed ‘To whom it may concern’?”