SOUPS FOR EVERY OCCASION . ..
(See Recipes Below)
SOUP'S ON!
Soups may be a substantial addi
tion to a rather lean menu, or a
distinctive touch to a dinner de luxe,
for they vary all the way from the
thin, clear, delicate consommes and
bouillons to the hearty chowders and
satisfying cream soups.
Economical, tasty, nutritious—
what more could you ask of a dish
so versatile? Make soup the main
stay of a family lunch or supper or
the perfect beginning for a "com
pany" dinner.
A little "dressing up" can play
fairy godmother to the plainest dish
-yes, even soup.
|/f?\ Most people eat
with their eyes,
fup' fi rs t of all. So,
you wish your
flHßrmr soups to take on
VBgSy/ a party air, gar
-7QjJI * nish them entic-
ingly. Try sprin
kling with but
tered croutons, chopped parsley,
a few grains of popcorn, toasted
puffed cereals, minced chives, a
dash of paprika, or a few tiny round
crackers; or place a spoonful of
whipped cream in the center.
For extra goodness, why not try
cheese in soup? It will draw a big
.stamp of approval, as you will see
if you try Potato Cheese Soup.
Here's the recipe:
♦Potato Cheese Soap.
(See picture at top of column)
3 medium sized potatoes
2 cups boiling water
2 to 3 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter
V 4 small onion
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons flour
Pepper, cayenne
1 tablespoon parsley
1 cup cheese, grated
Cock potatoes in boiling salted wa
,ter until tender. Put through a
'strainer. Measure the liquid and add
enough milk to make four cups.
Scald. Melt the butter, add the
finely chopped onion and simmer
five minutes. Add the flour and sea
sonings and combine with the potato
mixture. Cook three minutes and
i strain, if desired. Add cheese and
beat until smooth. Add chopped
parsley, top with buttered croutons.
Manhattan Clam Chowder.
V* cup diced salt pork
2 cups diced potatoes
1 dry onion, diced
1 cup water
2 cups milk
1 can minced clams (about 1 cup)
Salt and pepper
Cook the diced pork and onion,
stirring constantly 'til they are ten
der but not browned. Add the po
tatoes and water and simmer until
the potatoes are tender. If the one
cup of water is not sufficient to cov
er the potatoes, more should be add
ed. When the potatoes are tender,
tdd the milk and clams and season
ings and heat thoroughly. Serve with
crisp, salted crackers.
One Dish Supper Soap.
% cup rice
1 cup chopped celery
2 small onions ,
1 green pepper
1 pint tomatoes
6 eggs
Wt cup cheese
3 cups water
Salt
■ Add chopped celery and onions to
a kettle of boiling water. Add
chopped green pepper. Cook slowly
15 minutes. Add tomatoes. Just be
fore serving, break the eggs into the
hot soup. Sprinkle with cheese.
Cover. Keep in warm place 5 min-
LYNN SAYS:
; The water in which vegetables
have been cooked, and left-over
cooked vegetables may often be
utilized In making excellent
soups.
Minute tapioca, because of its
thickening quality and attractive
translucence, makes an excellent
thickener.
Once thickened to the desired
consistency, cream soups should
be kept warm over hot water.
Evaporation caused by additional
cooking may make them thick
and pasty.
THIS WEEK'S MENU
SIJNDAY-NITE SUPPER
'Potato Cheese Soup
Apple-Celery Salad With Sour
Cream Dressing
Nut Bread Apricot Jam
Beverage
*Recipe given.
utes. Pour over a mound of hot
boiled rice placed in individual soup
dishes. Yield: 6 servings.
Duchess Soup.
2 tablespoons minute tapioca
1 teaspoon salt
V» teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon onion, finely chopped
4 cups milk
2 tablespoons butter
Vfe cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
Combine dry ingredients, onion,
and milk in top of double boiler.
Place over rapidly boiling water,
bring to scalding point (allow 5 to 7
minutes), cook 5 minutes, stirring
frequently. Add remaining ingredi
ents; cook until cheese is melted.
Serves 6.
Old-Fashioned Vegetable Soup.
2 quarts soup stock (see directions)
1% cups potatoes, diced
% cup celery, cut
2 small onions,
lVs cups carrots,
IVz cups canned
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons parsley finely chopped
Heat stock, add vegetables and
seasonings, and cook gently until
vegetables are tender. Add chopped
parsley and serve. Makes 8 por
tions.
Cream of Onioo Soup.
2 tablespoons rice
2 medium-sized onions
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup water
1 teaspoon meat extract or a bouil«
lon cube
3 cups milk
Salt and pepper
Chop the onions and cook in the
fat until slightly yellow. Add the
water, rice and meat extract or
bouillon cube, and cook until the
rice and onions are tender. Add the
milk, reheat, and season with salt
and pepper. Yield: 4 cups.
Russian Borsch.
1 pound soup meat
6 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
V\ teaspoon pepper
IVi cups potatoes, large cubes
Vi cup grated raw beets
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 large onion
1 large carrot
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups medium-chopped cabbage
I cup beets cut in y«-inch strips
6 tablespoons sour cream
Cover meat with water, add salt
and pepper and boil for 10 minutes.
Cut onion and
and but
strips to soup and
cook until beets are tender, about
30 minutes. Add potatoes and cook
until tender, or about 15 minutes.
Just before serving, add grated raw
beets and pour immediately into
serving dishes. Place 1 spoon of
sour cream in center of each serving
and sprinkle with parsley. Makes 9
servings.
Soup Stock.
3 pounds shin of beef
3 quarts cold water
Cut meat In pieces free from fat,
and place in kettle. Add water,
partly cover, and heat slowly to boil
ing point. Simmer gently five hours,
removing scum as it forms. Keep
meat well covered with water. Then
remove meat and set broth aside to
cool. Skim fat from broth. Strain
liquor carefully through fine sieve or
cheesecloth. Chill. This gives a
clear broth, free from fat, to be used
as basis for soups. Makes about 2
quarts stock.
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THE DANBURY REPORTER. THURSDAY. APRIL 17, 1941
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Capital Housing Problem
Vexes District Officials
School and Water Supply Facilities Are Also • -j
Seriously Taxed by Influx of >9*
Defense Workers. 1. v
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNTJ Service, 1343 H Street N. W.
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—MiIIions for de
fense but not enough sense to con
tribute sufficient funds to the Dis
trict of Columbia budget. That is
the Washington city government's
present charge against congress.
The other day I sat in the office
of one of the district commissioners
and an army officer who had been
drafted to help work out the city's
housing problems, and they seemed
pretty helpless.
"We haven't got the money to
meet the emergency situation that
is growing in the district as a re
sult of the defense program," was
the burden of their song.
Washington is run by a commis
sion—three men—our three "may
ors," if you will, appointed by the
President. Our board of aldermen
are the district committees of the
house of representatives and the sen
ate. The federal government bears
a share of the expense of running
the city—but not enough, say the citi
zens of the district. All they can
do is "say," for they have no vote,
either locally or nationally.
The emergency is bringing thou
sands of new workers here. From
June, 1930, to January of this year
nearly 25,000 new government em
ployees moved in. The figures for
February, due to be released in a
few days, are expected to show a
big increase.
The Washington Board of Trade
estimates that 55,000 new residents
have m:v" into the District of Co
lumbia in i..e last year.
Question of Schools.
In addition to these extra beds
and baths that must be provided,
there is the question of schools. The
commissioner with whom I was dis
cussing the situation, cited one ex
ample.
"Down there between Boiling field
which will soon be the center of
American aviation and the naval re
search laboratory," he said, "the
federal government has built 600
family units. It will probably be
increased to 1,000. These are just
for the navy yard workers. Right
there will probably be enough chil
dren to fill one schoolhouse alone."
A million and a quarter dollars,
it is estimated, should be spent on
schools alone in Washington as a
result of the influx of residents. This
is to say nothing of the next most
pressing need—facilities to increase
the water supply. The Canal Zone
is not much hotter than Washing
ton in the summer. People take a
lot of showers. We have a Potomac
ful of water but we need more pipes
and pumps.
The greatest portion of the city's
expense, however, goes to taking
care of the homes and the offices
and people which make up the fed
eral government.
Anyone who thinks the life of a
government worker is all roses,
frankincense and myrrh in these
days needs only to listen to the local
director of the Housing association
who says:
'Doubling Up' Complaints.
"Frequent complaints of doubling
up in apartments and rooming
houses come to us. One bath for
15 to 20 persons is a common
grievance. Three to six unrelated
roomers in the parlor of a once fine
private residence is not uncom
mon."
Very bad, say the health authori
ties, for sanitation. Very bad for
morale, too.
And then Washington has on its
periphery a number of army camps,
cantonments and forts. By July the
boys on leave will be flocking in
from an army of nearly a hundred
thousand men. Their welfare and
amusement have to be taken care
of, too.
The district government, there
fore, is struggling with the congres
sional committees, attempting to
convince them at Washington's
needs. A bill is now being consid
ered which would increase the pro
portion which the federal govern
ment contributes to the federal city,
but the officials cannot bank on the
money until it is in hand.
• * •
American Houtewivea
And Vitaminu
An efficient secretary laid a news
paper clipping on my desk. The
same day's mail brought a letter en-
BRIEFS. . . by Baukhage
C. Von Ribbentrop has been able to
fool most of the small nations of
Europe. But after the revolt in Ju
goslavia he can no longer be called
Hitler's ace "dupelomat."
C. Leopold Stokowski has been com
missioned by the war department to
modernize army bands. That seems
to cull fcr hand organs and music
bums in a mechanized army.
closing a magazine article from a
farm-woman listener.
The newspaper clipping said:
"The housewives of the United
States are soon to receive the most
thorough education in how to feed
their families ever provided by any
nation in the world . . . the Ameri
can housewife is going to learn a
great deal about vitamin B and
about all the other vitamins . .
I ran through the magazine arti
cle. It was written by Volma Car
son 12 years ago and in it she re
marked on what a misapprehension
most city people have concerning
the modern farm woman. The au
thor told how a companion in a Pull
man made some pitying remark
about a woman they passed who
was hoeing in a garden. Miss Car
son said:
"I explained that quite likely the
pathetic creature we recently had
passed would be in a chiffon dress
by afternoon, powdered with the
same brand Lady What's-Her-Name
has indorsed, marcelled into shining
waves, and driving her car to a
meeting where a professor from the
state university would give latest
gossip on vitamins—a subject so fas
cinating to farm women ever since
they have discovered hidden forces
in the old familiar 'greens.' As one
progressive, earnest, white-haired
lady said to me once after a home
demonstration agent's lecture, 'Well
I always fed my family on just what
we had on the farm—milk, butter,
eggs, cheese, and vegetables, and
such. It sure was a piece of luck
these things all had vitamins.' "
• • •
Flapjacks
For the Navy
When the cooks of the U. S. S.
Wyoming—or any other ship with a
complement of 1,200 men—get their
pancakes, it is quite an undertak
ing to provide them. Down at the
navy department you can see a cook
book with recipes just like any cook
Y v
Mr
Sea air makes for big appetites. A cook
in the gulley of the battleship U.S.S. Wyo
ming prepares flapjacks by the hundreds
for breakfast.
book—but the figures are different.
I looked at the recipe for flapjacks
the other day. Here it is:
120 lbs. flour 2 Vi lbs. short
-10 dozen eggs ening
10 lbs. sugar 10 lbs. evaporated
7'A lbs. baking milk
powder 70 qts. water
2Vi lbs. salt
The same men who dispose of this
order of cakes in one day will eat
1,500 pounds of fresh meat, 3,200
pounds of fresh vegetables, 1,300
pounds of fresh fruit and 120 dozen
esgs, to say nothing of the canned
goods consumed.
♦ • •
Bears Get 'Friendly'
In National Parka
The bears in our national parks
are getting too pally with tourists,
so the national park service has is
sued a warning.
It seems that when humans begin
fraternizing with a bear the bear be
gins to treat them as equals. This
means that when a human gets be
tween a mother bear and her off
spring, ma chases him out of tha
way, sometimes administering a
well-aimed swat in the process.
"Bear incident" is the govern
ment's name for damage to proper
ty and injuries to persons as a re
sult of the public's disregard of rules
against getting too familiar with
bruin.
Moral: Don't treat bears as equals.
C. Washington has the highest ratio
of mental patients of any jurisdic
tion in the country. This record is
not based on the ravings of the poli
ticians. Nuts from all over the coun
try come here to tell the President
how to end the war or balance the
budget, or make two rabbits grow
in his hat where one grew before.
They are tenderly turned over to St
Elizabeth's hospital.
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This classic style makes up
smartly in practically every run
about fabric—fiat crepe, thin wool,
spun rayon and silk print. Pattern
provides for short sleeves, or long
sleeves in the popular bishop
helps keep me feeling /-K/i
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