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THE* ECHO
April, 19j^
FEMININE NEWS AND VIEWS
Musical Introductions
BETTER MEALS FOR LESS
MONEY
Spanish Delight
(Serves 6)
Here’s how one of our local chefs
prepares a distinctive and delicious
main dish with a minimum of meat:
1 1-2 lb. ground beef
2 or 3 medium onions
1 garlic bud
1 green pepper
1 pkg. spaghetti
1 can tomatoes (or one can con
densed tomato soup.)
1 small can whole kernel com.
Brown diced onions, garlic, in fat.
Add chopped pepper. Add ground
beef, seasoned with salt and pepper.
Cover and let simmer over a low
flame until done. Add com and to
matoes. Bake in a moderate oven
(300) for one hour.
Nut Gingerbread
“Party stuff” and maybe there’ll
be some left over.
cup shortening; 1-3 cup sugar; 1
egg, 2-3 cup molasses, 1 cup chopped
peanuts; 2 tablespoons molasses; 2
cups flour, sifted; IV4 tablespoons
ginger; 3-4 tablespoons baking soda;
3-4 tablespoons salt; 1 cup whipped
milk.
Cream shortening. Add sugar gra
dually, beating as you add. Add egg
and beat weU. Mix 2-3 cup molasses
and the milk together. Add sifted dry
ingredients to shortening mixture al
ternately with the mixture of molasses
and milk, beating well between each
addition. Add chopped nuts. Pour
batter into a well-greased nine-inch
heat resistant glass pie plate (nice^
you have the new one with the crinkl
ed edge.) Bake in moderate oven
350 degrees F. about 40 min. Sweet
en the whipped evaporated milk with
molasses and use as a topping. (Eva-1
porated milk whips if you chill it
several hours in the refrigerator.)
Serve hot. Serves 6-8.
HINT FROM A COUNTRY DOCTOR
As everyone knows, Vitamin A is
necessary for healthy eyes which are
so essential to a pilot. The war de
mands for vitamins is making it
harder to obtain them in concentrat
ed form so we have to look to other
sources. The lowly decorative green
Parsley has a larger amount of Vit
amin A than any other edible plant;
31/2 oz. containing 30,000 units. Why
not add a little parsley to your din
ner and keep your eyes in shape?
(Quoted from Aero Insurance Un
derwriters News Letter.)
ORDINARY FAMILY
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—a white flag with a blue star in the
center. My brother left, as many
other boys had, to don a uniform for
his country.
Still we were an ordinary family.
Then one day Mom had to get an
other flag. I thought since this is also
my country, my war and my liberties
and freedom at stake, that I should
fight, too. Now Mom has a flag m
the window with two blue stars. My
Dad still works every day. Mom man
ages with the point rationing and
tends to the Victory Garden while
my brother and I, in khaki, do all
we can.
There are millions of homes
throughout the country whose
ways are more silent and whose door
bells ' have little use now, and in
whose windows fly flags bedecked
with blue stars. Some windows al
ready have gold stars but the lives
given on the batUe field for free
dom will be remembered forever.
All of us in uniform have pledged to
avenge their deaths and once again
bring peace and happiness to an op
pressed peoples and a war-tora world.
It will be a long, hard fight but I
pray that soon all of us in uniform
can go home and take down our
own blue stars from the window,
see Old Glory’s white stars against
freedom’s sky and, with God’s help,
once again settle down to being just
an ordinary family in America — in
a.world at PEACE!
Saline Sapience
For the Busy Housewife
1. To speed up that tiresome cream
whipping and spare your arm, add a
pinch of salt to the cream before you
begin.
2. Silver cleaning recipe: 3 tbs.
salt; 3 tbs. soapflakes; cold water to
cover in an old aluminum pan. Boil.
Cool. Wash in hot soapy water. (Don’t
use on French finish!)
3. Do ^ou want whole nutmeats to
decorate a special cake? Then, soak
nuts overnight in salt water before
cracking. (The water expands the
shells while the salt preserves ker
nels’ sweet flavor.)
4. To prevent those nasty, painful
burns you get when the fat mixes
with the liquid meat juice and sput
ters out at you, sprinkle a little salt
in the pan before you start frying
thoses steaks and chops.
5. Clothespins will last longer and
won’t freeze onto your clothes this
winter if you soak them in a strong
salt solution.
6. Put a teaspoon of salt in the
cooking water if you want to prevent
some of the nutritious contents from
oozing out of those cracked eggs.
7. Because salt resists the growth
of decay bacteria, a little of it in the
water will keep that bouquet of flow
ers in your living room fresh much
longer. ^
8. Don’t scratch mosquito bites!
Apply a paste of equal parts salt and
bicarbonate of soda moistened with
water. For itching skin, try a bath
of salt water and one-half pound of
bicarbonate of soda.
9. Spilled the ink? Pour table salt
immediately on wet spot. Brush off.
Apply more until wet spot is bleach
ed. Old spots may be lightened by
wetting with water and following
above directions.
10. Brass, copper and pewter re-
I spond brilliantly to a paste of half
salt, half vinegar, thickened with
flour. Apply paste. Leave for hour.
Wash and polish.
11. One-half teaspoon of clean salt
added to one pint of warm, boiled
water makes a perfect wash for tired
or inflamed eyes. You’ll find it very
soothing.
12. Don’t play tiddly-winks when
cleaning fish! Make them skid-proof
by dipping fingers in a dish of salt
before starting.
13. Keep that pretty, new cotton
dress from fading by soaking it
before you wash it for the first time,
in cold water to which a big handful
of salt has been added.
14. Hot weather tip: Add a pinch of
salt to your own, as well as Fido’s
drinking water to replace salt lost
from the body by perspiration.
15. Avoid rings after cleaning
spots by rubbing washable material
with a strong solution of salt before
applying cleaning fluids.
Army Administration School
WAAC Branch No. 4
Denton, Texas
Dear Justine,
I’ll admit I lied to you terribly
when I said I’d write some things
for the Echo and send them back
but I have been so busy learn
ing how to become a soldier I have
hardly had time for anything. I took
my basic training at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga., and came here March 5th to
take a six weeks’ course in Army
Administration. Today I got my di
ploma and will be shipped out soon
for parts unknown. I’ll try to write
more often when I get settled for I
should have more time then. I am
enclosing a “thing” I wrote yester
day which I hope will serve as a
message through the pages of the
Echo. I enjoy getting the news so
please don’t let me down. I’ll send
my address as soon as I get settled
and I’d like some good old gossip
from the plant. How’s about it?
There is nothing like mail to get a
soldier’s morale up and nothing like
gossip to keep it up.
Always,
Mary Rickman, Aux. 1-c
NOTES ON HOW TO MAKE A LIT
TLE BUTTER DO A LOT OF
WORK
1. Cream ^4 pound softened butter
with V4 pound colored margarine,
also softened; gradually work in 1-3
to V2 cup undiluted evaporated milk,
using egg beater, electric mixer or
wooden spoon. Pack into small bowl,
cover and chill. For a creamier
spread, add to the milk V2 envelope
plain gelatin softened in 2 table
spoons water; then gradually beat
into the butter.
2. Cook vegetables quickly in as
little water as possible. Do not drain.
Pour into serving dish, and put a
pat of butter on top as it goes to the
table.
3. When you’re having baked po
tatoes, serve a pitcher of hot milk
with a pat of butter melted in it. If
you like , baked stuffed potatoes,
mash them with more milk than us
ual; add a little fat from your drip
ping jar. Serve with a quarter pat
of butter garnishing the top of each
potato.
4. If you crave a real butter flavor
in plain cake or cookies, grease your
pans lightly with butter, and use
vegetable shortening in the butter.
From Woman’s Day, March, 1943.
Marriage Announced
On March 28th, at Bendettsville, S.
C., Miss Eunice Brooks of Black Mt.,
was married to Cadet Gordon Fow
ler, formerly employed in Cham
pagne and now a Cadet in the Army
Air Corps. In attendance at the
wedding were Mrs. Robert Jackson,
brother of the groom, Cadet Leon
ard Goldman of Ohio and Cadet Fred
Fulton of Michigan. Congratula
tions and best wishes!
Gordon enlisted last August and
is now stationed at Shaw Field, Sum
ter, S. C., where he is receiving basic
training. Mrs. Fowler is employed
by Endless Belt Corp.
NO PORK
The Nazis can imprison, torture
and kill the conquered peoples of
Europe, but they can’t stop them
from circulating stories that ridicule
the conquerors. Here’s one that is
going the rounds now. It seems that
the morning following the attempted
bombing of Hitler in the Munich
Brauhaus (which the Nazis thought
they had hushed up) the following
notice appeared in several butcher
shop windows in Prague: “There will
unfortunately be no lard or pork to
day—because the swine wasn’t killed
yesterday.
“So you met Marian today?”
“Yes. I hadn’t seen her for ten
years.”
“Has she kept her girlish figure?”
“Kept it? She’s doubled it.”
Little Algemon (to the old lady
who had just arrived, and whom he
had never seen before): “So you’re
my grandmother, are you?”
Old Lady: “Yes, on your father’s
side.”
Algernon: “Well, you’re on the
wrong side; I’ll tell you that right
now.”
Tact is the knack of keeping quiet
at the right time; of being so agree
able yourself that no one can be dis
agreeable to you; of making inferi
ority feel like equality. A tactful
man can pull the stinger from a bee
without getting stung. — George
Horace Lorimer.
Know you are right before you be
gin, then tackle the task with vigor
and vim.
A dog with money is addressed as
“Mr. Dog.”—Spanish Proverb.
No one but myself can be blamed
for my fall. I have been my own
greatest enemy, the cause of my
disastrous fate.—Napoleon.
He who strikes the first blow con
fesses that he has run out of ideas.—
Chinese Proverb.
FRANK KERBER
Frank Kerber is next on the roll
call of band personalities and beiD^
our president is only one of the
many reasons we want you to
him.
He has been working in Chai®'
pagne for about eight years.
fore coming to Brevard to live,
played saxophone with a club
in New Jersey. Being an experience^
musician, he was right on the
when the notice was given for tbe
first meeting of the Ecusta Band-
In fact, he was responsible for re
cruiting many of the other members
Having served on the Band ExecU'
tive committee since its organization)
we have always found him to ^
helpful, faithful and inspiring.
humor often makes things
for the rest of us when the
gets rough.
Frank holds up a section o£
band which has had its many
and downs. We have had severe
saxophone players since the
was organized over a year ago-
When Francis Stafford joined th
WAACS, Frank found himself
only member of the “sax” sectip®"
However, he is doing a grand 3®
with the instrument that contribute
greatly to the tone color of reed se '
tion in the band. Mr. Eversman
us that he has two new saxophoo
players on the way up to join to
band so, Frank, you will soon
some help.
“Bandana^^___^
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popular selections under the a
tion of Mr. Eversman. Before
after the “fun festival” performan^^ >
square dancing was enjoyed. ,
Next on the new program oj
Ecusta entertainment is a Carniva
of Games which will be in tb®
Cafeteria on Friday night, Apr^^
30. Many card games are pla^'
ed, such as Bridge, Set-bacK.
Rummy, and Liverpool Runrn^y’
Five Hundred and Pinochle.
games offered will include ChecK'
ers, Chinese Checkers, Monopfj’
Parchesi, Ping-Pong and CJonfli®
The evening will be concluded wit^
the playing of “Wahoo” by every'
one attending the party. Waho
is a game similar to Bingo and
ing the playing of Wahoo mai^y
valuable prizes will be given.
Coming Events
The next events scheduled ^
the Activities Coommittee and
Recreation Department is a Squa^
Dance and Stunt Night Friday, '
Tryouts for the Minstrel Sbo^
will be held in the Cafeteria
day night, May 3 , in the afternoo
from 2:30 to 4:00 and in the eve»
ing from 8:00 until 10:00.
Ecustans who would like to
part in the Minstrel Show -g
be present for the tryouts. This
to be an ALL Ecusta show;
need singers for solo numl^^
and to sing in the chorus, also '
need end-men, dancers, and otn
specialty acts. If you can
talk, act, dance or what-have-yo j
you can help with our Minstr
show.