Christmas Puddings and Plums for the Holidays
Traditional holiday recipes adapted for rationed times offer Christmas Pudding and English Plum Pudding with fruit and spices. The column lists steamed puddings, Cranberry Pudding, Cranberry Sauce, Hard Sauce, and Christmas Butter Fudge, plus Baked Orange Garnish and tips from Lynn Chambers and the Western Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Illinois
Victory Farm Volunteers sustain wartime food effort
Washington Digest reviews the Victory Farm Volunteers under the U S Crop corps who fed war workers and troops. About 700 000 youths served through the Federal Extension service and state programs with many living at home or on farms. The program trained youths and paired them with farmers improving morale and productivity amid post Pearl Harbor shortages.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
United States
Pearl Harbor
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Victory Farm Volunteers
U. S. Crop Corps
Federal Extension Service
War Food Administration
State Extension Service
Victory Farm
Lynn Says The Score Card Crop Estimates and Ration Changes
The column notes crop estimates for white potatoes rising, urging per bushel purchases, and signals shifts in point and price values guiding food budgets. It reports figs up, grapes down, prunes and raisins returning to rationing, crabmeat and some cheeses pricier, milk rationing and fat recycling advised. A tablespoon of fat daily is suggested to aid a boy’s recovery.
Doctors set up health dispensary in Madre de Dios region
U S Rubber Development planes fly doctors, sanitation engineers, and medical supplies into Peru east of the Andes to serve workers. Cuna Indians of Panama vow war on the Axis and work gathering wild castillon rubber for the UN effort. Petroleum shipments total fifty million gallons daily to fighting forces.
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Madre de Dios
Peru
Andes
United States Rubber Development Corporation
Panama
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joesseiaipsi
Washington Digest
Crop Corps
Guernsey
Misfits
War Department
Robert P. Patterson
Robert E. Raleigh
International Association of Chiefs of Police
National Safety Council
National Highway Users Conference
Federal Works Agency
Rural Local Roads Administration
Public Roads Administration
Stewart
Tennessee
Lynn
Bankhage
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Dr. Wernet
Af Eee
Camel Holiday House
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