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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
6
Plan ahead for Easter using ration points with chicken fricassee or lamb shoulder barbecued as main courses. Recipes include chicken in gravy with rice and a lamb shoulder dish baked slowly with onion and chili sauce, plus an orange greens salad to finish.
Lynn Chambers shares recipes and kitchen tips for Easter menus including Fresh Grapefruit Juice Fricassee of Chicken with Rice and Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake. The column lists corn bread ingredients, cake instructions, and lemon sponge cups, plus table decorations and a note to submit household queries to Western Newspaper Union in Chicago.
A column picks apart wartime chatter and media flaps. Lucius Beebe jokes about train priority. Ben Hecht plans slick mags return. John Briggs quits NY Post for OWI. Rommel’s Tunisia move and Goebbels’ censorship loom as critics rail against propaganda and fake news.
Guidance from Lynn on conserving ration points through substitutions for tomato products and dried fruits. Recommends using brown gravy in place of canned tomatoes, fresh fruits in desserts, seasonal produce, and saving vegetable water for soups and gravies. Advises omitting dried fruits in cookies and limiting condiments like chili sauce chow chow.
Kathleen Norris argues Americans should reject food fussing amid wartime. She notes four million Victory gardens feed 12 to 20 million and suggests meatless meals with cheese eggs oysters and fish. Norris cites simple staples, bread crusts and crustless dishes, and shares thrifty meal ideas to support soldiers and sustain morale.
A WSA column argues that good sportsmanship matters in war and baseball alike. It notes that whining players and those who cry gimme are fouls in any arena. Without an umpire, others pay the price for rule breaking until such conduct ends by action or consequence.
Pattern 7480 details a transfer pattern described as 191% by 1619 neh moth with 12 smaller Wolfs aliieries and color schemes listing materials. Due to high demand and wartime conditions, filling orders for the most popular pattern numbers will take longer. Send orders to the provided name and address.
Diaper care notes recommend boiling diapers weekly to prevent rash on a baby's skin. If butter is hard, warm a pan with hot water, pour out, invert over a butter dish to soften evenly. Replacing a worn roof is cheaper than fixing leaks and redecorating. Proper furniture grouping creates a balanced, inviting living room. Store freezer foods in moisture vapor proof containers.
The article explains RAF slang such as put up a black for doing wrong and browned off for bored. It notes terms borrowed from the US like flinging a woo for dating and roughneck for an unlikeable person. Gen means inside information, duff gen wrong information, flap a sudden operation, dicing a risky target, piece of cake easy, and stooge around to take a beaker means to hang about after bombing.
Instructions describe sifting flour baking powder salt and soda, cutting in shortening to coarse corn meal texture, stirring in soaked All Bran with buttermilk or sweet milk, forming dough, rolling to four percent inch thickness, and baking at 450 F for about 12 minutes. Notes suggest using sweet milk if buttermilk is unavailable and adjusting leavening.
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