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Tuesday, March 15, 1955

Preparing A Delicacy

By Ida Bailey Allen

"The frozen food industry has made possible the national en- joyment of many foods that used to be only regional," observed the Chef. "Par example. frogs' legs.

"This delicacy. which tastes like very fine chicken. used to be serv- ed only in exclusive restaurants. but now they are available in frozen form for use in the home.

How to Prepare

"In I restaurant, we allow 2 pairs of frozen frogs: legs to a serving. Thaw and rinse with cold water. Dust with salt and add V4 tsp. thyme and '5 tbs. lemon juice. Cook in any of the following ways":

Broiled Frogs' Legs: Brush with melted butter: brown under the broiler, and serve with lemon- butter sauce.

Frogs' Legs Saute: Season with salt and pepper. Brush with sweet or commercially soured cream or slightly beaten egg. Roll in fine dry bread crumbs. Saute in but- ter and serve with mushroom sauce.

FrogI' Legs Omeletle is new and very special. To make it, saute 4 pairs frogs' logs in V4 c. butter. Add V2 tsp. garlic salt. VI tsp. each pepper and nutmeg. Pre- pare a plain French nmelctte mix- ture; pour over frogs legs and cook slowly until onielrlte is set.

Garnish with snuted mushroom

caps. and parsley or cross.

TOMOIlIl0W'I DINNER

Vegetable-Cottage Cheese Saladettes Fish Fricassee or Frogs' Legs Saute Whipt Potato Broccoli Dropped Cornmesl Biscuits Coddled Apples Coffee Tea Milk

Dropped Cornmeal Biscuits: Sift together HA c. already-sifted enriched flour; V; c. enriched yel- low cornmeal. 3 tbs .instant non- fat milk solids. 4 tsp. baking pow- der, 1 tsp. salt and 2 tap. sugar. Add 3 tbs. shortening (any kind), and chop in with pastry blender.

Beat 1 egg. Add 1 c. water and stir into dry mixture. Dust I cookie sheet with dry cornmeal. Drop an biscuit dough 'by gener- ous tablespoonfuls. allowing 1" space between. Top with caraway. poppy or coriander see. Bake 15 min. in a hot oven. 400 degrees F.

This makes 4 doz. biscuits. They can be wrap-sealed in I polythe- lene bag and frozen up to two weeks. . VEGETABLE COTTAGE CHEESE SALADETTES FROM THE CHEF

Mix together 1 c. creamed cot- tage cheese and 1 c. fine-chopped cooked mixed vegetables. Add 1 tbs. small-snipped chives. V: tsp. salt and V4 tsp. paprika. Shape into balls. Serve on lettuce with I garnish of pickled carrots. Pass French dressing.

KEEP IN TRIM

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What gives the will power? Iome psychologists claim there is no such thing as will power, but that is true only in the sense that will is intangible. Actually, personal power is summed up in will. It is mental attitude that gives power to the will. And back of at- titude is desire and interest.

Let's put this theory on s plane of action, for nothing is yours until you put it into action. In- stead of thinking you could slim

Cook's Corner

OVEN FRENCH FRIED POTATOES

Allow one medium potato for each serving. Pare and cut as for French Fried Potatoes. In I shal- low pan, melt 1.14 cup butter. Place potatoes in pan and turn to coat all sides with the batter.

hot oven. 425 degrees F., for about 45 minutes or until crisp and brown. Baste several times with Idditional melted butter during

' baking period. Salt before serving.

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Power Steering

By Ida. Jean Kain

down if you only had enough will power to stay with I diet change your tune. Say, "I could slim down if I had the right mental attitude toward nutrition and the desire to change my food habits." "I could have I honey of I figure if I were inter- ested enough."

Stop leaning on will power as K it were some kind of magic . it isn't. By enlightened reasoning you strengthen will. Your will is influenced by the way you think and ta and act.

Get over the notion that you must screw will power to the sticking point in order to achi- eve your desire. That is going at it the hard way. Your initial good intentions will hang together only so long as compelling force is exerted.

It is true, of course. that once you make up your mind to change your ways of eating. you bump up against habit. Habit is I stub- born force, and here insight lI needed. Where is the seat of

- habit? It is fixed in the subcon-

scious part of the mind. How do you set about changing habit? By the practice of suggestion. reinforced with strong desire and active interest. Here's the secret - suggestion influences subcon- scious will.

Once you grasp the electrify- ing fact that you can direct your will through your thinking. you shift into power steering. Sud- denly you know you can govern your own life.

Psychologists emphasize that it helps to have I hear goal. Aim first at reaching your next smal- ler size. which will be 12 to 14 pounds less. and Iii to two inch- es off the body control measure- ments - bust, waist, abdomen and hips.

Slimming is exciting once you make it I mental activity. Be- lieve you can be normal weight. Act by eating for normal weight. Visualize yourself in your next smaller size - and six weeks from today you will be that gin - because you willed to be.

ANIIE ADAMS PATTERNS I

EASTER ENSEMBLI I

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THE GREEN Ll'l'TI.l SHAMROCK

There's I dear little plant that grows in our isle. "I'wns St. Patrick himself that set it;

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And the sun on his labor with pleasure dld smile. And with dew from his eye often

wet it:

It thrives through the bog, through the brake and the mlreland: And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland -

The sweet little. green little sham- rock of Ireland.

This dear little plant that grows in our isle.

In Ireland across the bay fl'0m Mallai-Inny there is one mountain that holds the attention above all others, Croagh Patrick because of lta connexion with Ireland's Patron Saint who. it is said, spent forty days and forty nights of prayer and fasting there. and because 0 the domination of its presence (it is the tallest of the Connemare mountains) and the distinctive Ip- pearance of its high central cone.

Skirting the shores of Clew Bay and looking over the green of the low islands we can see the heather growing to I height of two feet and with rosy purplebells. At this season of the year it is good to read of the "The Emerald Isle' gardens . . .

There's I green glengiii Eirinu. A green glen in Eirinn.

Where on I dew-wet sprinkled spray b r o w n lhrostles MPG above.

And I "lackbird carols after in I silver rain of laughter, And the little linnet pipes his song that has no theme but love. -Carberry.

Ireland has many lovely gardens and many visitors to the garden here have told me of thern.gBeauti- ful shrubs and tender varieties such as fuschias grow outdoors In the balmy climate.

Donegal

Nothing is changed. The peat-boss

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Below the mist-blue hills; the autumnal sky sun sees the panniered ass and black-shawled dame Breasting the road; and still there is I flame

of blood-red fuchsia: by the cot- tage wall.

There is no change -- no change in Doneizal.

Nothing is changed. The eider- duck still rlds

Gweebarra BIy- Th! murmurous tide

Still leaves the dulse-fringed rocks; and down Glenvengh

The curlew still pipes in the first of day.

Even the harvest moon. lllll "1050

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Still turns the wetness of our oars to gold. - -Punch. Over it all - the white house. the green fields with their stone walls, the long road win . thl slow herds coming along ll lb? knge-deep dust. the sweet smell of turf burning, the little carts with coloured shafts. the soft- Irish voices the quick lrish smiles --over it all. and in it as if im- prisoned in the stone and brick of this country, ll if buried be- neath the grass and hidden in the trees. is something that in half magic and half music.. . . I

There is something inga minor key that I man never quite hears. Perhaps no stranger ever hears it, but I think the inn: do. It is something drawn up out of the earth of Ireland, out of the water in the streams and the grass and flowers in the fields, something of the sky and of the earth - a some- thing that is mysterious and like I fall of dew over the land-

-H. V. Morton.

Saint Patrick's Day comes this week and soon Spring will be here

in earnest. "With rushing winds and gloomy

skies. . The dark and stubborn winter I s: Far-ofef. unseen, Spring f I l n t l y

cries. . Bidding her earliest child arise: MIrch.' "

In country gardens it is possible to mulch the borders now where there is a small amount of ice and snow and here this work has been done when cleaning out the chicken house. This week more tuberous r ' have been started in peat moss and sand. The Pelldllli 5? gonias are lovely for hanging bas- kets end when over at the nursery to pick them up some beautiful Amaryllls were seen. Eight inch flowers on twenty inch stems in a wonderful bright crimson color. I have never seen such a striking flower. and hope the two plants here in the garden room will be half as good. More watering is needed by the house plants now with the sun so strong and it will be I relief when it is possible to move some of them when the wea- ther moderates I little. They are g and u wding each other off the shelves.

I have been reading of Hever Csetls written by A. J. Huxley . . . t surprises British gardens Few travelers: I en-

ebsnd leitleItBever.AKentiIlicoun- need. I church. I pair of rule- he-buteotehlntofthe within.

sma. GORDON MACMILLAN

A ' COUNTRY GARDEN

den. In use bounded by the outer most. I part-rectangle of water stretchlng on three sides of the castle. The drive crosses I bridge on this outer moat, and between its first stretch and the castle wall is an old orchard. such as one might see by many an old manor or farm; in spring it is I real sea of narclssl. followed by the blossom of the fruit trees.

In front of the castle there are I number of large. well-spaced topiary specimens: beyond, I long yew hedge. impressively buttres- sed and severely tailored. strikes I note of sombre formality. At one end two caryatldea guard the al- most hldden entrance to I square maze. small but puzzling, I narrow lsbvrinth with six foot walls. Then I semicircular walk beneath I pergola hems in I series of yew- hedged plots. centered here with In Istrolabe there with an urn

( or statuette, and cut into small

goemetrlcal flower beds. The larg- est contalns a set of immense chessmen sheared out of golden yew, together with smaller ex- amples of the toplaristls art. which can be seen from the upper win- dows of the castle. In the beauti- ful lllustratlons of these chessmen and other features of this wonder- ful garden we get some idea of the surprises in store for the many visitors. The narrow strip of ground around the castle itself, within the inner most, is attrac- tive at all times with simple flow- ers - wallflowers and tulips,

azaleas, roses. and on the walls well-chosen climbers. The water is patterned with water lilies,

populated with goldfish and carp.

Farther afield there is more wa- ter- a wide rush-fringed channel. carrying the eye to a larger ex- panse of unexpected extent. To one side of this channel is I fine avenue of white horse chestnuts; to the right one may spy I well through trees.

What we have seen so far is con- ventional. and both the formal yew and the homely planting around the castle are typically English. like the castle itself. But as we approach this wall. which lies a little beyond the outer moat, we are brought up sharply by the half-pillars and an arc of pat- terned paving containing a semi- circular, stepped pool, presided over by a pensive statue.

This severe set is the curtain raiser to the Italian garden. a de- sign without parallel in Britain. It is an oblong of four acres. walled on the two long sides. and divid- ed into several unequal quad- tangles by yew hedges across its breadth. and it was conceived by Lord Astor to remind him of the great Italian gardens he had known when he was American Minister to Italy.

The wall on the left. the so-call- ed South Pompeiian Wall, shelters In amazing collection of Roman antiquities in stone and in marble -delicately sculptured sarcophagi, altars, busts, statues, c o l u m n s broken and complete, with here I sent in a little courtyard re- ceding to the wall. The statuary Ind the structures are surround- ed and often enveloped by plants of many kinds, climbers in panj- cular. Occasional windows latticecl with wrought iron. and two large paved rotundas glvs on to the wa- ter alongside.

A great plllared colonnade. the "Piazza." and here is one of the glories of Hever. The Piazza is of sandstone and steps and terraces lead down to the lake which is thirty two acres in extent. about three quarters of I mile long and is fed by the river Eden. All round the lake Ire well-grown trees and shrubs of. many kinds and Hever is I study in magni- ficence Ind opulence.

Sir William Temple wrote many years ago . .. . The most exquisite delights of the senses are pursued

with

of gardens. which. fruits, flowers. shades. ' and the music of birds that frequent such happy places, seem to furnish all the pleasure of the several senses and with the greatest. or at least the most natural perfection.

As the use of gardens hath been the lnclinatoln of Kings and the choice of Phlloaophe . so it hath been the common favorite of pub- lie and private men; I pleasure of the greatest and the ease of the meanest; and indeed an employ- ment and I possession. for which no man iI too high or too low.

MORNING SMILE

"You just go right away and forget about your business for I time."

"But I can't do that, doctor. I'm I memory expert."

ELLEN'S by In Island

In the fine weather and good roIdI obtaining. this was an after- noon for the little truck of this farm to make an excursion to the city. As it happened carrying in the back. I few fat ahoats.

"It seems they come to the weight faster when there are de- clining prices for them" we over- heard one farmer observe to the other when they were adjusting the tail-gate of the machine. tak- ing care to secure it well to war- rant no escapes.

"Yes" the other agreed. just I question as things are now. whether or not these will have paid their way! However. I guess we'll still keep a few of them around. if it's only for com- pany" he chuckled.

"You won't be away very long will you?" James queried to the younger farmer as the machine prepared to move away from the yard. "There's nothing much to be seen to today, is there? You'll be paying the electric light bill- you won't forget that? And if you have the time, you might pick me me up I pair of work boots-these have a leak."

"Bring me a pair too!" Mack standing by said. "shiny black rubber ones-up to here" he indi- cated a fat knee. "Boy, won't they go through the puddles!" he laughed happily. A

"And. oh yes" James said "you might get I bit of that . . . not reduced iron, but you know what I mean, for the little pigs-just to have somelon hand. And you might call to see . . . if you're waiting for your mother. I know what she's like: she can take all afternoon spending ten cents! She just loiters along-what she secs, 1 don't know." He grinned. "I've often intended to drive off home without her-and let her have her fill of staying, for once.

Seven Days A Week

by Anna Shannon

MONDAY: In a city home not long ago I saw a lady busily

wrapping her "best silver" in crystal-clear plastic film. Not- able for food wrapping, it has

manyiotlfer uses besides this one. A chamcteristc of the better plastic films is its clinging qual- ities. This makes it ideal for wrapping silver pieces tightly - A teen-ager in the same house was fashioning I belt out of two colors of the same plastic mat- erial. It was I slow painstaking job but the finished product was really unique. I also picked up quite a few interesting ideas on framing your favorite prints or pictures. Lath strips were used to make the frames and were hulted squarely together and securely glued and set before the next step. One frame was cover- ed with emerald green ;vslvetecn and it had four small brass medal- lions on it-one for each corner the kind you may buy It I leather goods shop - Other frames were covered with upholstery fabric, shiny gift wrapping paper and so on. The possibilities for decorab lng your frames are endless Is yur imagination will allow. The picture, pasted on plywood or heavy cardboard is nailed to the frame. Some people apply a coat of plastic spray to the picture- protects the surface, allows it to be wiped with I damp cloth.

TUESDAY: Do you know what's

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in the contrivance Ind plantatlons',m.s interviewed It New York Meg

good for you? Do you put your faith in childhood health rules- which may. always have been or have become old wives tales? Doc-

dlcal College gave this advice to the following questions: No. 1 Does it strain the eyes to read lying down? Answer: No. You can read in any position comfortable. Many people are more alert and can read better lying down be- cause of the greater flow of blood to the head. No. 2. Will mixing milk and fish in the same meal make me ill? Answer. It is now accepted that any foods which agree with you personally can be eaten in any combination you de- deslre. Milk and fish, lobster and ice cream. pickles and milk-all are combinations that formerly frightened people but need cause no digestive difficulty. No. 3. Is it true that butter is good for burns? Answer: No. Butter is an animal fat, it may turn rancid.

”lt's . . .

----Good-night. .

DIARY

Farmer-ls lwife

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Well" he waved us boring for

leave some of the c you...

Fine, sunny. but how bitterly cold this afternoon was, with its piercing March wind of the westl It blew lustlly about the moving machine and down street and alley of the town.

And what did we see in town of more than passing interest to us? Not in any display of "pump and pageantry" do we find this. but in the little items of life about the shy smile on I woman's face as she tries on I new spring hat; the obvious ” tlon as she watches the clerk wrap her 'selection of wallpaper--Was it for her kitchen we wondered? Or maybe the room . . .

The perplexlty of the farmwlfe making I choice among electrical applian still somewhat bewild- ered by the fact that at last the silver line had slipped into her house by way of an cave. And which should she takek? And how could she know, when for lng years the prospect was no g but I dream?