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<*t>— ----j Cranberry Magic Bj MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE AP Food Editor Brighter up your cold-weather meals by frequent use of the col orful cranberry. These versatile berries give exrtra zap to rati on-restricted menus, sc pis n’to have them this fail m dozens of different ways. Not on.y are they piquant part nets of pt ultry and practically all meats, but they arid taste in terest to muffins, puddings, sal ads and sundry desserts. Cranlberry sauce and jelly need no introduction to most homemakers but there are many , other ways to get the pungent berries into active service on the Cranberry Catsup 2 pounds fresh cranberries 2-2 cup vinegar 2 cups water 2 1-2 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 teaspoon allspice 2-2 teaspoon salt C .oh cranberries, vinegar an-' w:-..fer t -gather until all the cran berry skins pop open. P through fine sieve. Combine wit! r maining ingredients and cook togethe-r five minutes. Seal in hot sterilized jars. Makes 2 l-0 pints catsup. Cranberry Catsup: Serve with ali meats. food front. Put some into steam ed puddings, cottage puddir.g or waffle batter for better flavor lure. "Wash the berries and add them the last thing in order to keep them from darkening the batter. : These bright berries put tart*, ness and sparkle in fruit salad, gelatin or celery-apple-nut salad mixtures. Mix them in when the salad is ready to serve. € ram berry Same* Cranberry sauce will keep z week or sc if stored, in covered glass jar in the refrigerator. It intakes a tangy siauce for pouring over biscuit shortcake or for “masking” a plain, baked or steamed pastry dessert Cranberry cobbler is. tops. And the sauce will add glamor to cake or sugar -cookies’''when a hurry-ujJ dessert is on call. Cranberry sauce is also good spread on soft biscuit, dough, rolled up and baked about thirty five minutes in a moderate oven. Cranberry Juice Cranberry juice is winning lau rels as £ meal opener. It goes well hot or cold and gives, heartening cheer when served steaming after outdoor exercise or attend I Marry Christmas | X _and— § I A Happy New Year! | I Pioneer Water 1 I Delivery 1 ing a football game. You can ex tend it by adding other fruit juices. To prepare cranberry juice, make a thin, rather tart sauce | and press it through a coarse sieve."A thrifty trick for today is ! to be sure that all juice and most j ! of pulp is pressed through a I strainer or colander. The juice may not be so clear but it wil have more bulk, vitamins and minerals. To save waste and for best j flavor and texture use this re cipe for cranberry sauce: Wash | and pick over a pound (about four cups) of berries. Add a cup j of water. Cook covered, over low J heat until berries are soft (skins ! have burst). Mash well and ad* ; 2 cups sugar. Stir until sugar has dissolved. Boil gently five min utes Stir frequently with wood ! en spoon. Pour into mold or dish rinsed out of eoul water and chill until firm. HANDICAPS CAN’T STOP THIS MAN ERIE, Pa. (AP)—Without the I use of his crippled arms and j legs since birth, John Sides, 24. maintains a greting card busi- j ness from his bed. writes to 17 servicemen and averages 12 words a minute on the type writer. A victim of spastic paralysis, he says, “there is no such thing as a physical handicap.’’ He lies prone in bed and uses a 14-inch long rod with a mouth piece to strike the keys of a typewriter alongside his bed. j Another of h.s aec? nr '.rr Is is graduation from a local h.gh school, with the r.< ip < f r $ par ents. Eskimo Life Different In Alaska By CPL. ALLAN MLRJK-ITT (Army Correspc ' :,er t; NOME. Alaska — I- r/t believe it when you're I- id that Eski mos spent most of their time paddling in a say?.-; hunting whales, tracking a wn polar bears, or sharpening harpoons fir a walrus hunt. The 194-3 version of the Eskimo living in tfiis area lives and thinks a lot like your next-door neighbor. I was disillusioned by an Eski mo soldier Pvt. Fred Goodhope, 29, one of my companions during a flight to Nome on an Ajmy transport plane. I considered my self a veteran flier this was my i second trip by air), and thought a trip in an Army plane must be j ijuite an experience for an Eskirm \ who probably hao done most of his traveling on snowshoes or be hind a dog team. "How do you like traveling by air?” I asked him. “Oh, it’s all right.” he replied, looking rather bored. “But 1 ddd much more flying before 3 was in the Army. You see, that’s the way we get around up here.” Ckioclr.rpt had been par.ttti a . Lt cruses built of shipped-in lumber 115-day furur ugh and was cn his'and of standard American du* | way to o.5 home at Deering, an sign. ! Uskimo v.-zage .00 m.les north They know their native lan* of Xcrr.e on Kt tzefcae Sound guagt, but EnglLsh generally is at* ut 50 _~..es from tne Arctic is**} when they converse with one c-rcle Kt was going to see another. Most of the young peo girl for the first tne since nis : ?je attended the government draft ward at Nome to.d him tne | school at Deering and are well Army netihed n.m two years a?', educed. Dog teams are used Mferyre . re ".arr ec w.nen . ;and recognized as one of the wrrit back ho srr .ed. most practical forms of transpor Memiber of an Air C' rps res- tation, but there are a few auto cue crew at Fort Ktxkr.. c .n the mobiles in the town. Alaska r» *. ns-uia. ’j" -no* *a* Their food, with few excep an eng.netr or a a- Id-minint tions is similar to that found on drtcge befc r- ne j< : ec. . .e army ariy American table. Goodhope Aithougm re has traveled vvmely i addd that dried fish and other m A ask a. Good-hope nas never na£ve products made up a part nee' pulsed" .erritory *no pf fneir diet but that he, for one aa.c: ne had no res .re to vis.i d:d r,0{ miss them In the army, .'e United S.t.es ^ They all have radios, keep up A it.n i pnpu at.cr, of about 30u. world news, and have their Deer.ng probably -5 t*poa. favorite dance bands. Dances in je .mo v..,<xges b.at «-.<e .<> 1 costume to the beat of a tom-tom rt found in .re >as. frozen area are not the style and the voung between Nome an* Point Barrow. ; people prefer "a modern danCe ■Goodhope s des< caption o. ne -oand yes. eVen in Deering they town and its people was enlignt- )iave jitterbugs. ‘ , _ ,, ‘‘Most of them ” Goodhope Most of the BsKimos there worx . , _ < „ , .. . , noted, are Democrats, for tne gold mining companies t _ during the summer months. Carv- i ing Alaska souvenirs from ivory TABLES TIRNF.D takers up much of their time :n fO'R MAMA the long, dark months of winter. FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. Tne A-, ry work is dene with toc>is (AP)—The tables are turned for you 11 f.nd .r any American rand- - one mother and daughter at the ware store — steel drills. Lies. Th;rd WAC Trai.ning Center hack saws, vu.es and sand paper. , Only those of them, who have tn? mother 1S the one who ha5 mingled with outsiders have ever *° say ‘-^a am- Private Irene heard of an ice lgloc. and al- W. Park of Fort Plain, N. Y., is though there art a few huts ;n getting accustomed to address ee village made from driftwcod mg her daughter, Lt. Anna E. and sod, nwmt of therr live in Park, m that manner. I * .. -f . ** Qfjristmnsi comes closer in wartime. The brightly shining tree, the cold outdoors and the cozy warmth within, the kitchen fragrance of goo*! food, the fond thoughts of those far away, all these take on a new, more precious, clearer significance. For they symbolize not onlv Christmas Day, but the freedom, the homes, the way of life for which this nation is fighting and working. May your Christmas Day be a ^pleasant one... ami may the New Year ^bring Victory and Peace. f ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY _ _______ - -- fe.