Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1941 — Page 12

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Homemaking—

Surplus Garden Vegetables Should Be Canned for Use in Winter.

PUTTING UP A TASTE of summer to flavor next winter's meals— that's what many a thrifty homemaker is doing these days. By means of tin cans or glass jars she's busy keeping surplus garden stuff from going to waste. “The importance of a well-planned canning program cannot be emphasized too strongly,” says Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of m Home Economics. “Survey after on the “big three” of this season's survey has shown that hcme can- nutritious vegetables.

ning as part of a wise home-pro- | ‘ duction program can make the dif- On Canning Beans SNAP BEANS, young and tender

ference between diets that are Boor, and diets that are good frem {ima beans and green table soybeans

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Consumer Division

By ELEANOR RAGSDALE Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — The trouble-shooting Consumer Division of OPACS—Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply—gets lots of mail from U. S. citizens nowadays, but it doesn’t consist of mash notes. True, some of the letters have been forwarded from the White House and begin with “Dear Mrs Roosevelt, we think you're marvelous,” or “Mr. President, we sure are praying for you.” But they always get down sooner or later to their pet peeve—the rising cost of living. Here are some examples: | “California olive oil has jumped from 60 cents to $1.15 a quart,”

Answers Housewives’ Complaints on Rising Cost of Living

the standpoint of nutrition. Homeproduced, home-canned food helps provide better diets with fewer food dollars.” Always a busy canning time— mid-August should be busier than ever this year in view of the na- . Hion-wide campaign to save food for emergency needs. For that reason, the U. S. Government has urged every community in the county to save its surplus vegetables and fruits. _ Whether canning is done on a farge scale or a small scale, a steam

are available now in many gardens. Home economists advise pre-cooking all these beans before packing them into cans or jars and processing. To precook snap beans, wash, cut |into uniform pieces, add boiling {water to cover, and simmer beans uncovered until you can bend them without breaking them. To precook lima beans, wash, shell and bring them to a boil in water to cover. In both cases, use the water in which the beans are precooked to cover the beans after they are packed into the cans or jars.

pressure canner is a “must” piece; Can shelled green soybeans. To of equipment for processing non- shell the green beans, boil them in acid vegetables, say canning ex- the pods first for 3 to 5 minutes. perts in the U. S. Department of Shell the beans, then blanch them Agriculture. Practically all vege- for 3 to 4 minutes in boiling water.

maintains one woman, adding, “Please control oil prices.” “Should we give up hors d'oeuvres and cocktails to stop waste?” queries another. 5 “Some cleaners in Philly have E85 upped prices 35 per cent,” deplores § one fastidious gentleman. = And a Chicago couple complains that soaring rent forces their baby , to “sleep in a closet.” How effective are these notes— some tragic, some comic—from Watchdogs John and Mary Doe? What replies do they get from the conscientious Consumer Division, which answers nearly every letter?

$ = 0 lication, “Consumer Prices,” is try-| LET'S LOOK first at the effect./ing to do this—and letters give tips! Miss Harriet Elliot, C. D. head, is as to what subjects should be talked

housewives. Chief of the Consumer

peeve: the rising cost of living.

tables but tomatoes come in the Drain, then fill them into containers nhon-acid class. ‘to about seven-eighths capacity. The steam pressure canner is! cover with boiling water. necessary because only by the use All these beans are processed at of pressure is it possible to get the 240 degrees Fahrenheit in a steam high temperatures needed to kill pressure canner—whether they are

organisms in non-acid vegetables canned in pint or quart glass jars—|

that, if not destroyed, are likely to|Oor in number 2 or 3 tin cans. All cause spoilage. In canning these May be put up in plain tin cans.

vegotables, processing temperatures And with the exception of snap)

5 :+ | beans, they may also be put up in » en Segrees Fehvennen C-enamel tin cans if you happen to he quali ‘have them on hand. Since the quality of canned vege- 2 ¢ tables can = no higher than Re Time and temperature vary Win raw vegetables that go into the cans the size of the jar—the Se — select good, fresh vegetables in|and the type of bean. Soy fa S prime condition. Try to get the same | Need the longest processing, then degree of maturity throughout the | lima beans, then snap. food to be canned, but avoid over-| ripe food. A good rule to follow is more closely related to the bean “two hours from garden to can.” If| family than to the peas. that is impossible, the vegetables/may be canned in the same way as may be stored for a short time in fresh lima beans,

small lots in a cool, well-ventilated . place until you're ready to put them! Put Up Corn in Two Ways

wp ; CORN MAY be put up in two lowing are a few highlights] oc whole-grain or cream-style. — {The difference is in the way the

For cream-style corn, cut the ker-

looks like a real, honest-to-

Black-eyed peas or cowpeas are,

They |

lalso Associate Administrator of] over in the next issue. |OPACS, of which Leon Henderson Now, as to replies— 'is chief. She passes on to Hender- | Paul Elhart, head of the C. D.'s

json a weekly tabulated report of public relations section, gives some

complaints, stating localities and : : : i commodities concerned. This forms SPlightening dope about this angie. | “The things we say most often is,

part of the information he uses to 1 | guide price-control maneuvers. | Before you blame specific price- | If investigation of letter com- rises on defense, check up on norplaints adds up to something that|Mal seasonal and regional advances. good- | Not long ago we were deluged with {ness price-monopoly case, Miss Complaints about string bean prices. Elliot turns it over to the Justice Prices certainly had shot up. But Department. There have been the Eastern drought was to blame, prosecutions against certain milk not defense.” producers, for example. | Sometimes, he points out, mushMiss Elliot can tell from letters| rooming population growth due to what's bothering the public most,|defense industries or Army camp land plans articles ang talks. to help | locations causes unavoidable shortconsumers adjust to necessary/ages in certain locally produced (changes and make the best of a bad foods. Incidentally, he points out situation. Already the C. D.'s pub- that the present cost of living is

Miss Harriet Elliot, left, above, gets lots of letters from U. S.

Administration and Civilian Supply), she has the answer to their pet

Division of OPACS (Office of Price

¢. only 29 per cent above the ’'35-'39 average, and still below the '37 peak. ” ” = TO THOSE who moan because sending food to Britain cuts down on home consumption, the C. D. says, “We cannot expect our defense program not to cost us anything.” Dairy products, pork, tomatoes, evaporated milk are all feeling the Lend-Lease pinch. When it comes to the business of Quality Standards, the C.D. advises writers to work for stiffer legislation along the lines of the Food and Drug Act, Department of Agriculture “grading” and the newly passed Woolen Fabric Act, which makes it compulsory to tell the proportion of different fibers making up woolen materials. The C. D. points out that, so far, it has no power other than moral pressure and the stirring of public opinion.

The ‘Cactus Basket’ Quilt

Feminine Bedroom

MONDAY, AUG. 11, 1941

JANE JORDAN

DEAR JANE JORDAN-—I was the only daughter of the most kind and indulgent parents who ever lived. Mother died when 1 was 18 and father died when I was 20. I had never earned a penny and don’t know what I would have done if an older man, a friend of my parents, hadn't married me. He was so kind and good to me that I fell head over heels in love with him, so much so that [ worship the ground he walks on. He was as kind and indulgent with me as my father.

For the first five years we were very happy and then he took a traveling job which leaves me alone all week. I am so lonely and miserable without him that I want to go with him. I would put up with any inconvenience if only I could go along but he wants me to stay home and take care of our home. He says I would be in the way and that I would interfere with business. I am frantic for fear he is getting tired of me. He isn't as patient as he used _ to be and says I'm only a big baby. What can I do to get him to take me with him? I can't stay alone. YOUNG WIFE. ” EJ 8 Answer—The trouble with you is that you do not realize that your childhood is over and you are in revolt against accepting the role of a mature woman. Many people who have been cherished by over-indulgent parents have a fixed idea that all their later life should be a duplication of the paradise of childhood, with a loving parent in constant attendance This, as you have learned, is a fairy tale which you can’t make come true by wishing In the beginning your helplessness was appealing to your husband who enjoyed rescuing vou from your predicament. When you were 20 there was some justification for your confusion and fright at being left alone. But you aren't 20 any more. No matter how hard you try to cling to a phase of life that once proved satisfactory you're getting older every day and your husband expects a very different attitude from you now. Imagine his dismay, after having taken a lovable child to his heart in the full expectation that she would develop in to a charming companion, to find that he was expected to play the role of perpetual papa! No doubt he needs the relief of a job that takes him away from home during the week. If you expect to interest your husband you'll have to stop clinging to his coat tails and develop some interests of your own. There is plenty you can do in his absence besides taking care of your home. You can find social opportunities and useful occupations which he'll enjoy hearing about on his return. If you continue to drip the day will come when he'll make excuses not to return over the week-end either. Grow up and your relationship with him will be better than ever. JANE JORDAN

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer vour questions in this column daily.

Missionary Society Schedules Meeting

The Woman's Missionary Society of the Memorial Presbyterian Church will meet at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Lee Hauck (and Mrs. Dewey Mead, 3229 Forest Manor Ave. They will be assisted by Mesdames Charles Huffine, J. H. Knapp, Edwin Lay, J. A. Meister and Charles Worrell.

Mrs. George Hess will lead a | forum discussion of “Christians Facing World Crisis.” The Bible {lesson will be presented by Mrs. | Samuel McConaha and Mrs. Walter | Lemon will read the story, “And fa Went Forth.”

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By ROSETTE HARGROVE Times Special Writer

LONDON, Aug. 11.—Extravagance is as out of place in the British Isles today as golf shoes with a dinner

For a very feminine bedroom, net over a pastel color works up

delicately. Make day pillow cases |

dress. But that doesn’t mean that | milady’s wardrobe must maintain! the status quo. The department

Life Preserver for Summer Foods

For Tots corn is cut off the cob.

_' nels by running a sharp knife lightly over the ear to cut off the tops | of the kernels. Then scrape out the ‘pulp with the back of the knife. For whole-grain corn, cut the ker- { nels deeply enough to take off most

|the spread of the same lace net for “pepping up" the wartime en-

of, for instance, a pdle dusty pink stores, the fashion magazines and | sateen and cover with a slip of | women's pages of the daily news- | lace net ruffled all around. Make papers are chuck full of suggestions sembles—while still remaining within the bounds of decent patriotism. Because “men hate dowdy clothes,

over matching sateen. with a very| full deep flounce sewed on with

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For fresh crisp salads—the kind that whe! your appetite —keep green vegetables and fresh fruits in a modern, Air-Conditioned ICE Refrigerator.

lof the kernel without objectionable 1 | hulls and do not scrape the cob. | But, whichever way you put up | corn, preheat it before packing into 4. cans or jars. Add 1 teaspoon of |salt to each quart, and half again |as much boiling water as corn by | weight. Heat corn to boiling and | fill into containers at once. §| Cream-style corn is thick and {pasty and therefore needs longer '§ | processing at a higher temperature {than whole-grain corn. For that | reason, the whole-grain corn usual{ly keeps the favor of fresh corn {better than does cream-style. | Cream-style corn should be canned |in pint glass jars or No. 2 tin cans. |C-enamel tin cans are best for both | types of canned corn.

Tomatoes Supply Vitamins

i | YOU CAN'T HAVE too many | canned tomatoes. Raw tomatoes {are one of the richest sources of | vitamin C—a vitamin we need evjery day. Canned tomatoes put up |the right way lose practically none {of this valuable vitamin, and for {usual storage periods, a large part of the vitamin value is retained. Right way to can tomatoes is to pack them into glass jars or plain tin cans—then to process them in a (boiling water bath. Make the boiling water bath out of a wash boiler {or a bucket with a tight fitting lid. Or use the steam pressure canner as a water bath by leaving the petcock open—not clamping the lid on tightly. See that theres a rack on the bottom so the water can circulate under the jars or cans. And see that the bath is deep enough so that water can come up over the tops of the containers 1 to 2 inches. {Count processing time after the | water comes to a full rolling boil (around the cans or jars. | Precooking cuts down a | processing time. Tomatoes pre|heated just to the boiling point A glamour ensemble for a little | then packed hot in pint or quart girl boasts four pieces. The sleeve-|gjass jars or number 2 or 3 tin cans less pinafore frock, the bolero with need just 5 minutes processing in wing sleeves, the panties smooth jocalities where the altitude is 1000 In front with elastic bani in back feet or less above sea level. Packed and a bonnet which buttons In raw, the processing time is 45 back and has streamers to tie un- min ites, for glass jars, 35 minutes der the chin. So simply and ador-|for tin cans. ably styled that it is becoming for| every little girl—and every little | girl's mother will find it a great/for processing, the U. S. Department pleasure to make. {of Agriculture has a free bulletin Pattern No. 8970 is in sizes 2, available — “Home Canning of

For complete canning details with handy time and temperature tables

5194

By MRS. ANNE CABOT

You may have seen this old-time quilt design and known it as the “Desert Rose” or the “Texas Treasure.” The design appeared | around the year 1800 and no doubt was the result of a traveller's | descriptions of the strange plants he had seen in the Far West. The ! quilt design became widely known as the “Cactus Basket.” A famous old quilt, now in a museum, has a brown base on tke basket, turkey red for center of basket and bluish-green leaves for the cactus leaves. However, it is gayer to have it in nice bright colors. I think turquoise blue or sea-green makes a nice basket and the four diamondshaped cactus leaves are showy and distinctive when done in smallpatterned pieces of calico or percale in pinks, greens, yellows and shades of blues. Each block is 12 inches square. Place the blocks diagonally for the quilt, alternating each “Cactus Basket” block with a plain block. You will need 35 pieced blocks, 24 plain blocks, 12 half-blocks for the sides and four quarter-blocks. For complete pattern for block, exact patterns of each piece, sewing instructions, yardages specified for Cactus Quilt (Pattern No. 5194), send 10 cents in coin, your name and address and the pattern number to Anne Cabot, The Indianapolis Times, 106 Seventh Ave, New York City.

BEAUTY

THERE ARE plenty of signs of maturity besides graying hair and a laugh line or two around the eyes. If your answer is “yes” to more than three of the following questions, you are qualified to take your place on the side of grown-ups. Check yourself on these: Do you judge a man by his brains, ability, judgment and sense

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3, 4 5 6 years. Size 3 frock and bolerc takes 2% yards 35-inch fabric, panties 3 yard and bonnet 1

For this attractive pattern, send 15¢ in coin, your name, address, ttern numbér and size to The er apolis Times Today's Pattern Service, 214 W. Maryland St. Interpreting the new trend for ¢ The Summer Fashion Book showing dozens of new styles in gasy-to-sew patterns. Order it today. Pattern, 15c; Pattern Book, 15c. One Pattern and Pattern Book, together, 25c.

Fruits, Vegetables, and Meats.” This is Farmers’ Bulletin 1762 and may be obtained by writing to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington.

FRIED TOMATOES

| Cut firm tomatoes into slices | about 12 inch thick. Leave the skin jon. Beat an egg with 1 tablespoon (cold water. Dip the tomato slices into the egg, roll in fine bread crumbs, which have been seasoned with salt and pepper, and.stang for about 15 minutes. Cook tomatoes islowly in hot fat until browned.

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Personals

Mrs. Jack Brock arrived recently from Hattiesburg, Miss, for a two months’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Richard North, and her aunt,

Mrs. H. T. Grouns, while Lieut. Brock is participating in Army maneuvers in Louisiana.

and un - cared - for complexions,” women are told that the griminess| of the “blitzkrieg” is no reason for forfeiting all aids to beauty. Every Oxford Street shop now has | a beauty specialist to advise women |

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This year our government .is encouraging the constructicn of numbers of moderate priced homes for defense workers and offering Defense Bonds for sale.

Such determined emphasis upon Home Ownership and Thrift finds us, more than ever, well prepared to furnish up-to-the minute services to you.

We offer financing for home purchase and construction on reasonable terms. To thrift-minded citizens we offer facilities for any type of thrift program.

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