Miss Camp “Prescribes” Lettuce For Spring Fever
Early Spring Diet
Outlined By Vepco
Authority On Food
By MISS JOHNNIE CAMP
Home Service Director
Virginia Electric & Power Co.
Beware! “Spring Fever” is con
tagious—and most of us have it in
one form or another. Maybe you
■caught it with the first robins song
—The first symptom of an attack
is the very human wish that we
could stop work and enjoy this de
lightfully lazy feeling. But we
■can’t fox! most of us are busy peo
ple in our world of home making
or business—so we must find a
remedy for this distracting malady.
I cannot promise an entire cure
for “spring fever”—but these sug
gestions should help.
“Get plenty of sleep—go to bed
early and get up early.”
“Spend as much of your time out
■of doors as is possible!”
“Eat a very light diet; less of
the meats, pies and heavy desserts
and more of the fresh fruits and
vegetables.”
By this time of the year we have
grown so tired of the winter diet,
even the man of the house wants
something other than steak and
potatoes and the children have to
be coaxed. I know of no more in
viting dish than letuce with the
many things that we have learned
to combine with it. with lettuce
we serve other vegetables, fruits,
meats, cheese, mayonnaise and
French dressing with their dozens
of varities.
Lettuce and all salads should be
crisp and cold when served; of
course, there always have to be
exceptions to prove the rule, and
there is now being severed a wilted
lettuce salad. A hot French dress
ing is poured over the cut lettuce.
My mother used to make a delici
ous wilted salad by tossing the
chopped outside lettuce leaves in
a bowl with a bit of vinegar and
hot bacon drippings which was
served with sliced hard cooked
eggs.
A lady pointed out to me the
fact that Moses was the first salad
eater. By way of explanation she
stated that—“He led the Israelites
through the deserts and wilderness
and pointed out to them which
leaves and herbs they should eat.”
Somewhere I read that the early
Romans gathered baskets of grass
es and herbs and prepared unique
salads. It was not an uncommon
thing to see them sitting beside a
salt lake and dip the leaves into the
salt water. If back that far they
were wise enough to eat salads,
certainly we must realize their
value.
For years people who argue a
boutetiquettehave discussed wheth
er or not you should dare use a
knife in eating a quarter of a head
of lettuce served with some deli
cious dressing. Personally I know
of nothing more disappointing than
to get just two or three mouthfuls
of such a salad when all the time
you are longing to use your knife
and eat it all. I am sure all the
men will agree with me on this,
that it is much nicer to have a
knife to use than have it land in
the lap next to you or do without,
and Emily Post sanctions using a
knife in this instance.
I am going to give you some
basic recipes for dressing. See how
many tempting ways you can com
bine these with other ingredients
to serve with lettuce and help the
family through the “Spring fever”
days.
French Dressing
' 1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1-4 teaspoon paprika
3 teaspoons cider vinegar
3-4 cup oilive or salad oil.
Mix salt, sugar and paprika to
gether. Add vinegar *nd oil and
beat thoroughly with a mechanical
mixer.
French dressing is the only
dressing in which we marinate
salad materials.
To “marinate” means to mix
the ingredients with French dress
ing a sufficient length of time to
allow them to become well coated.
May be varied with Roquefart
cheese, chopped anchovies, etc.
Mayonnaise Dressing
1-2 teaspoon mustard
1-2 teaspoon salt
1-8 teaspoon pepper
1-8 teaspoon paprika
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons vinegar or lemon
juice.
1 cup olive or vegetable oil.
Beat egg yolk, start by adding
one drop of oil at the time—con
tinue beating. When half of oil has
been added—mix well with other
ingredients; add remainder of oil
slowly. Beat with mechanical beat
er.
To prevent separating, add one
tablespoon of boiling water at last
and beat well.
Mayonnaise should be kept in the
•‘warmest” part of your electric
refrigerator.
Remember, get plenty of sleep,
out-door exercise, and curtail your
diet. You’ll be happier, peppier, and
more full of the joy of living.
Five Cabinet officers and scores
of senators and diplomats saw the
world premier of the motion pic
ture, “Looking Forward” in Wash
ington recently.
Schweidnitz, Germany, his been
selected as the site of a new Fred
erick the Great Museum.
Announce Dates For
Pre-School Clinics
The Pre-School clinic will be held
at Rosemary School Monday and
Tuesday from 9:30 to 12:00 and
from 1:30 to 4:30.
On Wednesday and Thursday the
clinic will be held at Central School
from 9:30 to 12:00 and from 1:30
to 4:30.
On Friday Dr. Mitchell will be at
Central School in the morning and
at Rosemary School in the after
noon to accommodate any parents
who could not attend the clinic on
previous days. We suggest that
you attend the clinic which is
most convenient for you.
All children who are expecting
to enter school before Christmas
should attend the clinic. It is
necessary that one of the parents
come with the child.
Anti-small-pox vaccine and dip
theria toxoid will be given free to
all children whose parents "desire
it.
The clinic held last year was
very successful and we ask that
you co-operate with us this year
in making it even more successful
than it was last. Children who at
tend clinics and have physical cor
rections made before entering the
school usually have a satisfactory
year in the first grade.
Declaring: “All my life I have
been dry, I see no reason to change
now. It’s a matter for the host to
say, isn’t it?” Josephus Daniels
announced the U. S. Embassy in
Mexico City would remain dry de
spite advent of 3.2 beer and wine.
“Beer is re-opening the pianos
of the nation” declared Gene Buck,
president of the American Society
of Composers, Authors and Pub
lishers.
“Even the Children Have to be Coaxed”
. . . Says Miss Johnnie Camp, Famous Diet Authority Whose Articles and Recipes Ap
pear Weekly on this Page. But You Can “Coax” Children’s Appetites-and “Grown
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