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Turkey and Trimmin’s Are Important With Thanksgiving Close at Hand
Traditional Foods May Be
Served in Modern Guise
For Added Enjoyment /
i ry Boasting the rNoble Bird
Breast Down for Better
Flavor and Tenderness
By BETSY CASWELL.
Woman's Editor.
iuua* we iacjue one inanKsgiving amner prooiem in earnest! Recipes
for the main ingredients of the feast are given, with the hope that they
may help you in preparing for the great American banquet. King Turkey
and all his company of good things will be the order of the day, and every
housewife knows how important it is to have them, each and every one,
the peak of perfection.
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suggestions for varying the tradi
tional foods a bit, so that you may
embrace the new, but not quite cast
the old aside, if you get what we
mean! There are two stuffings
which are a little unusual and very
delicious, offered for your selec
tion; the always popular chestnuts
are combined with tomatoes in a
colorful and appetizing way. The
pumpkin pie recipe is a really old
one—but has proved so excellent
that we don’t need to stream line
It to make it interesting!
We are not giving you any in
structions about making mince pies,
other than to tell you that they
should be baked between two crusts,
as you probably know. The stores
and markets are too full of ex
cellent prepared mince meat to
make it worth the while of the
average housekeeper to try to make
her own. If you use the dry variety,
follow the instructions on the pack
age.
TURKEY.
.fisK. your nearer 10 oraw me oira,
remove the feet, leg tendons and
cut off the neck, leaving the skin
Intact. We assume, of course, that
the turkey has been plucked. Save
the gizzard, liver and heart for
the stuffings or the gravy.
Singe the turkey, removing any
pin feathers with tweezers. Scrub
the bird thoroughly inside and out
with warm water and a little bak
ing soda. Dry, both inside and out,
carefully. Salt the fowl inside.
Stuff both body and neck cavity
with dressing and truss. Sew up
the body cavity and tie the legs
to the tailpiece, close to the body.
Pull the neck skin to the back of
the bird and skewer into place.
Turn the tips of the wings back
under the body.
Just before putting the turkey
in the even rub the skin surfaces
well with lemon juice at.d olive
oil or butter if you prefer The
oil gives a crisper crust, in my opin
ion. Place the bird breast down on
the rack in the roasting pan. bracing
it on either side with small rame
kins or custard cups to hold it
steady. This method keeps the
breast meat deliciously moist and
tender. Sprinkle turkey lightly all
over with flour.
If the turkey seems to be brown
ing too fast, cover with buttered
paper. In the beginning have the
oven about 500 degrees—that is,
good and hot—and after about the
first 45 minutes reduce the heat to
275 degrees, or slow. Pour over the
bird one cup of boiling bouillon or
stock, cover the pan and roast 20
minutes to the pound, stuffed
dressed weight. Add additional stock
from time to time if necessary,
basting every 15 minutes. To brown
the breast nicely, reverse the posi
tion of the turkey and roast it on
its back for the last half hour.
WILD RICE AND OYSTER
DRESSING.
Saute the chopped turkey giblets
In % cup butter, with ] 3 cup chopped
onions. Add to this lji quarts of
oysters and let cook until their
edges curl. Add to this mixture 3
cups cooked wild rice, V2 cup chopped
celery, 3 tablespoons chopped pars
ley, 1 minced clove of garlic, 114
teaspoons salt and 14 teaspoon pap
rika. Blend all well together and
stuff turkey.
PECAN STUFFING.
12 slices toast.
1 turkey liver.
4 cup butter.
2 tablespoons lard.
1 teaspoon each black pepper, salt,
celery salt, dried thyme.
1 tablespoon minced parsley.
6 hard-boiled eggs.
’4 teaspoon ground mace,
2 cups chopped salted pecans.
1 can mushrooms.
’4 cup sherry.
Boil the liver the day before the
stuffing is to be made. Crumble the
toast on a bread board and then sift
through a colander into a big bowl.
Add the butter, lard and seasonings.
Pour in a little boiling water and
mix wTell. Add the whites of the
eggs, riced and the yolks, rubbed
smooth, with the mace. Then add
pecans, mushrooms and sherry. Mix
thoroughly. Fry one onion, grated,
in one tablespoon lard. When very
hot add the powdered liver and fry
until brown. Allow to cool and then
add to other ingredients, mixing very
well.
TOMATOES STUFFED WITH
CHESTNUTS.
These may be used right with
the meat or served afterward as a
separate course if desired. Wash
firm, fresh tomatoes, cut off tops,
scoop out insides, salt interior and
invert for 30 minutes to drain. Cut
chestnut shells with a sharp knife
and place on pan in oven for 10
minutes. Then peel, put in a sauce
pan with salted water to cover.
Boil slowly so that they will remain
whole when done. When chestnuts
are tender, fill the tomato cases
with them. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper, dot tops with butter and
place in a pan with just enough
water to keep them from scorching.
Bake in a moderate oven for 10 or
15 minutes until browned. Serve
hot.
PUMPKIN PIE.
Wash the pumpkin and cut in
quarters, removing seeds and strings.
Place in a pan, shell-side up, and
bake in a moderate oven until it is
tender. Scrape the pulp from the
rind, and put it through a strainer.
Then take:
1 cup cooked pumpkin.
1 cup brown sugar.
1 teaspoon ground ginger.
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg.
Salt.
2 eggs.
2 cups milk.
2 tablespoons butter (melted).
Add sugar and seasonings to the
pumpkin, mixing thoroughly. The
eggs should b^ beaten lightly, and
added to the mixture: then the milk
and the melted butter are put in.
Turn into pastry shell and bake.
This, of course, is a one-crust pie,
and the heat should be lowered after
the first 5 minutes to about 350
degrees, to allow the filling to set.
Four-Piece Boudoir Gift Set
Will Add Color to Closet
By BARBARA BELL.
Every one of these four pieces will
prove a source of year-'round joy
and comfort to the lucky lady who
receives them—the comfortable
pretty slippers, the capacious laun
dry bag, the covered hanger and the
little coming cape. She’ll think of
you happily and affectionately
whenever she uses them! They’re
all fun to make, too, with this easy
pattern, which includes a step-by
l
step sew chart for each of the four
pieces.
If you’ve been at your wits’ ends
trying to think of something new
and original to take to your club or
church sale—-here’s the solution to
that problem, too! Make these pretty
boudoir accessories of sateen, slip
per satin, cretonne, chintz or ging
ham, in gay prints or bedroom
pastels.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1644-B
is designed in one size—Medium, it
For Your Thanksgiving Dinner . ..
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Here is a way to dress up the traditional “crambry” for the big feast next
week: Cut canned or homemade stiff cranberry sauce in half inch slices. Use
a turkey-shaped cookie cutter (if you haven't one, draw an outline of a
turkey on heavy white paper, lay it on the sauce and cut around it with a
sharp knife). Use dots of cream che ese for eyes. Serve as a garnish around
the real turkey, or on a platter by the mselves.
Backward
Child Is A
Problem
Manual Work Best
Solution For the
Deficient Type
By ANGELO PATRI.
When the school falls to teach a
child, and repeated experiences con
firm the failure, he is examined by
the expert who usually finds what
the teacher already knew—that he
is a backward, mentally deficient
child. There are many such chil
dren in every community. They are
in all races, all classes of society,
and their deficiencies vary with the
individual, no two being alike.
The problem of what to do with
them, how to make them happy as
possible without allowing them to
fall into the hands of the unscrupu
lous folk who are ever ready to use
them for their own selfish ends, is
one that has bothered society for
generations.
Some of these children can be
trained to do certain forms of in
dustrial labor. The great majority
of them cannot be trained to be
self-supporting. As long as they
live they must be, and should be,
under the supervision of experienced
and skilful leaders. They should be
protected from the unscrupulous,
and from their own ignorance and
weakness. The time is close at hand
when every child, known to be men
tally deficient, will be listed and
supervised and protected until death
closes the record.
wnai can Qe aone wun tnose mat
can be trained to make them most
effective? Usually the answer is
handwork. That is all right if one
understands that these children
cannot do accurate, careful work
for any length of time. Some of
them can do a bit of accurate work
on a job, but because fatigue sets in
early, close to the heels of any effort
he makes, the next bit is out. This
inability to do sustained, accurate
work to a standard is what makes
even the most able of the backward
children unfit for the labor market.
This fact ought to be considered
when planning an education for
them. The usual thing is to give
them shops and tools and try to
teach them to do woodwork and
metal work and weaving to a pass
ing standard. The manual work is
good, but if the notion behind it is
that these children can become
skilled workers, it is a sad mistake.
Brainwork that must be applied
strictly to the abstraction of knowl
edge from books fatigues the back
ward child almost at once. If pres
sure is put upon him and he is forced
to study beyond the fatigue point,
bad behavior, even violent behavior
results. Finding this to be true, the
teachers of backward children
turned to handwork. This demanded
the use of the larger muscle masses,
and that did not fatigue these chil
dren greatly. It gave them pleasure.
Manual work then became their
work.
But, after they had reached the
limit of this crude work—and that
limit is soon reached—the teachers
determined to push the children
ahead toward finet and finer mus
cular adjustments and co-ordina
tions. Skilled work was the goal of
such instruction. And that, if the
pupil is a mentally deficient child,
Is out of the question. Only a fine
arain, a steady, well-co-ordinated
band, can do skilled work. Men
tally deficient children do Inaccu
rate, unskilled work, and are soon
fatigued by that. They must be
protected and guarded and cared for
luring the span of their lives.
It is time we began.
■equires V/B yards of 36-inch ma
terial for cape; 14 yard for hanger;
l yard for bag; 14 yard for slippers;
074 yards binding, in all; % yard to
ine slippers.
BARBARA BELL,
The Washington Star.
Inclose 25 cents in coins for
Pattern No. 1644-B. Size__
Name
Address__—_
(Wrap coins securely in paper.)
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Dorothy Dix Says—
Marriage No Game for Children;
Youth’s Dreams Always Crash
A noted authority on love and
marriage says that by the time a
girl is 16 she should not only have
decided on whether she wants a
husband or a career, but have made
up her mind about just what kind
of a man she wants to marry. She
should know what she wants him
to look like, the kind of occupation
she wishes he would follow and the
amount of money he should be
earning.
Pine, only that is superfluous ad
vice to any sweet sixteen. She has
already decided these problems in
her life. She is -dead set on
matrimony and would rather die a
thousand deaths than be an old
maid. Also, she has a perfect mental
picture of the man she would like to
marry, his work and his finances.
He is a composite portrait of Robert
Taylor, Buddy Rogers and John D.
Rockefeller. Later on she may fall
in love with the freckle-faced gro
cery clerk who makes $25 a week,
but when she is 16 only fairy princes
come up to her expectations. No
lesser prospects need apply.
Now no doubt it would save a lot
of disappointments and disillusion
in marriage and put a crimp in the
divorce statistics if girls knew before
My Neighbor Says:
A porous pot allows water to
evaporate and this is a bad
feature in warm, dry houses.
Plants in clay pots tend to de
velop a root system between the
soil and the pot with very few
roots in the soil itself.
Meat thawed quickly is like
ly to be tough. Keep frozen
meat in warm place before
cooking.
One teaspoon of chopped
maraschino cherries and one
tablespoon of orange juice,
added to boiled salad dress
ing, makes a delicious dress
ing for fruit salads.
Two coats of thin shellac
give a hardwood floor a much
better finish than one thick
one. First coat must be thor
oughly dried before second is
applied.
I marriage the kind of husbands they
wanted and would be satisfied with
instead of waiting to find out after
marriage that they had guessed
wrong. But the trouble is that when
we are 16 wre have no way of know
1 ing today what we are going to want
j tomorrow.
This is what makes a schoolgirl
! marriage such a terrible risk. She
I is gambling her whole life on the
| hunch that she will like the same
| looks and qualities in a man when
she is grown up that she does as a
child. Of course, sometimes she
wins out, but the odds are tremend
ously against her, and generally she
loses out and her Dream Man of
adolescence becomes her Nightmare
of maturity.
And another tragedy of the early
marriage for a girl is that she misses
her playtime of life. She is pushing
a perambulator when she should be
dancing with the kids of her own
age. Her shoulders sag under bur
dens too heavy for her to bear. She
is too young to have learned self
control and forbearance and tact,
and the result is that she so often
becomes peevish and fretful and
hard to get along with, and her
marriage ends in disaster and
divorce.
The truth that we cannot balk
is that marriage is no game for
children. It is serious undertaking
for adults, and nothing in our in
consequent civilization is so curious
as that we let boys and girls sign a
marriage contract when we consider
them mentally unfit to enter into
any other binding obligation.
DOROTHY DIX.
Sparkling Tableware
Scores a Hit
It isn’t only the food you serve
but how you serve it that makes a
meal a success. An attractive cas
serole can stir up interest in
warmed-over stew and sparkling in
dividual glass dishes make yester
day’s bread pudding enjoyable.
Flowers on the table always add
a gala touch. Of course, the food
must be wholesome to begin with.
If, in addition, the tablecloth,
dishes, silver and glassware are
spick and span, you’ll never need to
apologize to the family or to guests.
Lace Tablecloth Motif
By BARONESS PIANTONI.
Take a minute to look at this bit of lace. How many designs can you
count? Yes, a minute isn’t enough to figure out all the possibilities. Im
agine a whole lace tablecloth made in this motif—it’s enchanting. You’ll
want to make matching pieces for your furniture, too. Best of all, it's
simple to crochet. # '
The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand direc
tions; also what materials and how much you will need.
To obtain this pattern, send for No. 1247 and inclose 15 cents in
stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needle
work Editor of The Evening Star,
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Colorless Lacquer May
Be Applied to Protect
Surface of Old Print
Papering the Inside of Mahogany
China Cupboard Will Lighten
Interior’s Dull Appearance
By MARGARET NOWELL.
DEAR MISS NOWELL:
I have two commodes at the ends of my sofa. Will you please tell
me if they are put flat against the wall or are they used like end tables
against the arms of the sofa?
. D. I.
Answer—
These are usually used like end tables unless the tops are very large.
Then nlace them as lamn tahles at *____
the ends of the sofa. There is no
reason why you shomld not place
them against the vail just so long
as they are in position to be useful
as end tables also.
♦ * * *
DEAR MISS NOWELL:
I have just finished a screen
which I have decorated with old
hunting prints. Thtf color is so
lovely in them that I hesitate to
cover them with shellac or any
other substance that might dis
color the surface, though I think
something should be done to pro
tect them from soil and fix them
so that they might be woped ofl
occasionally, Can you offer any
suggestions?
M. L. K.
Answer—
Your paint dealer will recom
mend several brands of quick-dry
ing, colorless lacquers that you may
be sure will not change your colors.
Tell him that you merely wish to
protect the surface, and also im
press upon him the fact that you
do not wish any brownish or yel
lowish tinge to the lacquer.
* * * *
DEAR MISS NOWELL:
We have just moved to a new
house and find that twin beds in
our son’s room will not fit in the
only available bed space. We are
thinking of getting a foundation
for the springs and using them
without bedstead. Do you know
: where these may be secured? Are
! they very expensive or is there any
way that we could make them our
I selves, as my husband is very handy?
MRS. E. T. L.
Answer
All the well-known bedmakers
make a foundation for the box
spring and mattress. I think the
most inexpensive one I have seen,
that was a good one, was about $12.
You could make them for about $3
by purchasing some 2x4-inch lum
ber. Four 12-foot lengths would do
the job. Make your frame to fit
under the spring, and then put legs
j on the four comers and an extra
one on each long side. You may
attach castors to these and the job
is done. Tack a box-pleated ruffle
on the wood foundation, pull a trim
tailored bedcover down over it and
“zip” it at the two front comers.
It makes a very nice couch by day
and a fine bed at night.
♦ * * *
DEAR MISS NOWELL:
I have an old china cupboard that
is very dull-looking inside. It is
mahogany, and too good to paint,
but as it does not have glass sides
it is dark on the inside. Is there
any way that I might brighten it
i up without permanently injuring it?
MRS. E. D.
Answer—
You might purchase some gayly
decorated Chinese paper. Its bril
liant colors are set off with either
gold or silver. Paper the inside of
your closet with this. If you paste
this on with plain flour paste you
may scrub it off when the day comes
that you wish to change it and your
wood will not be hurt. You might
do the same thing with a gay-col
ored wallpaper in a plain shade if
youf dishes are of various designs
and you prefer the plain back
ground.
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DEAR MISS NOWELL:
I have a very lovely desk set of
huge blotter pad, blotter and small
boxes of leather. It is just ordi
nary brown leather and does not go
with any of my other room acces
sories. I do not want to part with
it as it is difficult to get a blotter
as large as mine, but I wish I could
change the brown leather to a deep
blue. Have you any suggestions of
how this might be done?
J. Y. T.
Answer—
I have never tried it, but I do
not see why shoe dye, that is made
for leather shoes, would not do the
trick. You had better ask the ad
vice of the dying expert in one of
the leather stores in town. Possibly
you could do the work yourself, by
carefully following his instructions.
Questions on household fur
nishings, interior decorations,
etc., should be address to Mar
garet Nowell at The Evening
Star. The answer will appear in
this column as quickly as space
permits.
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Kneading Dough
When kneading begins, yeast
dough is rather sticky, but this does
not indicate that too little flour has
been used. As kneading continues,
the dough becomes smooth and
satiny. !
By FRANCESCA McKENNEY.
OUR SCOUTS REPORT:
Hand-hammered pewter pieces
made in Williamsburg will delight
the person looking for something
new and unusual. Fashioned into
all types of ornaments and dishes,
one of the most attractive is the
three-way vegetable dish. The cen
terpiece is removable when only one
large dish is necessary. . . .
Give the philatelist one of the
new books that will save him from
having a case of “jitters” every time
he shows his stamps to some one
who doesn’t understand that the
stamps are ruined when fingered.
This book has a full covering of
strong shiny transparent paper
over each page. ...
Hand-bent crystal square plates,
monogrammed, are a new note for
the modern dining room. Dinner,
salad and butter plates will give
your table a new sparkle. .
The metal “pancake set” consist
ing of sirup pitcher and two small
shakers for dry ingredients should
be an addition to the small house
hold. . . .
A can of special fluid and a few
crystals dropped into a glass bowl
of water will fascinate you, for the
crystals grow right before you until
they have a New York skyline effect
m the soft green and blue shades
of the ocean. This will add a dash
of color to any room. The crystals
will harden into shape after 72
hours and after that water may be*
changed whenever necessary.
For your next cocktail party try
herring tid-bits that come in a wine
sauce or almost any kind of sauce
that you like. They are also put
up with pickles. They will just
touch the spot” on a crisp after
noon. ...
Any man or woman golfer would
certainly appreciate a gift of leather
clubhead covers with numerals and
laced together with rawhide. N*
cnance of losing a cover on the
fairway. . . .
The new slicer, a miniature of
the one your grocer uses to slice
your meat, will be a boon to the
housewife who is unable to slice
ham thin or shred cabbage. As a
matter of fact it will slice anything,
including your fingers, if you get
careless!
STUBBORN
HEAD
COLDS
RELIEVE stuffiness and misery
w?/:,Mdt a spoonful
of Vicks VapoRub in boiling water,
then breathe in the steaming med
icated vapors.
THEN AT BEDTIME, rub VapoRub
on throat and chest to get full ben
efit of its long-continued action
wicks
delighted with VvJKSuI
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I There’s no other tea like McCor- j
v mick Tea. Its grand flavor is so {
smooth and mellow, so completely
; satisfying, that many prefer it with- {
* out sweetening (or with much less '
! than usual). i
| Ask for McCormick Tea Bags, j
$ in packages of 10, 25 or 100—or, I
| for use in your teapot, buy McCor- |
j mick Tea in ^ or 1-lb. flavor- j
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l watch for our recipes in this paper. jj
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