Radio revue (Dec 1929-Mar 1930)

42 RADIO REV U E Eadic in the Home • • Edited by Mrs. Julian Heath Pioneer Broadcaster of Market Reports and Daily Menus %^SSSSSSS% \s\\\\s\ss\\\\\\sssssss%sxs^\\\%%\\\\sssss\\s\\\s Hello, Neighbors! After my five years' daily contact with you over Station VVJZ, my many years' service as president of the National Housewives' League and now with the added contact afforded by this new magazine, I feel that the time has come for a "merger" of the home executives, the housewives. I want you to help me in my capacity as editor of this special home department, so that this may be our page — not mine alone. Our business of home-making is the biggest business in the world. Indeed, it is the center of all business. We buy what the world produces. We must buy properly — and we must use properly that which we buy. Each American home represents an individual business and should be organized just like any other business. This we can accomplish by means of our daily radio contact and this printed page, through the medium of which you can "talk back," as your letters indicate you would like to do. It is because we are neighbors that this home page will be a neighborly page — just a place to exchange ideas and thoughts, and to discuss any home problems. You doubtless have many problems that present themselves in the housing, clothing, feeding and educating of your family. These we will discuss and attempt to solve together. ^ >K ^ Broadcasting studios are extremely interesting places, and the radio artists are likewise charming, intelligent people. They all have their human side, in addition to the artistic, and they all appreciate the good things of life. One day, not long ago, Joseph Latham (you know, he took the part of Peter Philbin, the boy who ran away and went to sea with the Forty Fathom Fish crew) said to me : "Mrs. Heath, may I have that recipe for cheese cake that I heard you give over the air the other day?" "Surely," I said, and the next day I handed it to him. A day or two later he reported, with shining eyes, that the cheese cake had been "fine." The story does not end there, however. Some weeks later I was sitting in the NBC reception room when a charming lady introduced herself to me. She proved to be Mrs. Latham. Thanking me for the recipe, she said : "I just wish you could have seen how thoroughly Mr. Latham enjoyed the cheese cake, and how he hung around the kitchen and watched me make it." Here is the recipe : CHEESE CAKE We will divide this recipe into two parts, the pastry and the filling. The pastry calls for: 1 cup flour l/z cup sugar (scant) x/z teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon butter 1 unbeaten egg 2 tablespoons water Proceed as follows: Sift together the flour, baking powder and sugar. Then work in with the finger tips one tablespoonful of butter. Then add one unbeaten egg and two tablespoonfuls of water. Use a knife to blend this all together. Then toss on a floured board and roll one-quarter of an inch thick. This dough breaks easily. Patch wherever needed with an extra piece of dough. The cheese cake filling calls for: 1 pound pot cheese J/4 cup melted butter (about 2 oz. ) % cup sugar 3 yolks of eggs 1 cup evaporated milk or cream 2 tablespoons corn starch (rounded) r4 teaspoon lemon juice 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 5 drops almond extract 1/3 cup seedless raisins Proceed as follows: Mix together pot cheese and melted butter. Mix together the sugar and egg yolks. Mix together the evaporated milk and the corn starch. Blend all of these ingredients thoroughly. Then add the lemon juice, vanilla extract, almond extract and the raisins. Blend these ingredients well and then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the three eggs. Butter a cake pan and line it 'with the cookie dough or pastry as given. Pour in the mixture and then fold over the dough which, of course, will be higher than the mixture in the pan. This will make a sort of collar for the mixture. Bake in a moderate oven 45 to 5 5 minutes. ^ % ^ Then there is Milton J. Cross's favorite dessert. One day. back in the old West 42nd Street studios of WJZ, Mr. Cross was putting my program on the air. That day we were giving recipes for "Father's Favorites." It struck me that this popular announcer might have a favorite sweet, so I asked him what dessert he liked best. "Toasted cocoanut pie," was his immediate answer. And. as Mr. Cross's pie is a staple in our radio circle, I am giving it here. TOASTED COCOANUT PIE The ingredients are: 1 small box cocoanut 2 eggs % cup sugar 1 pint milk 2 level tablespoons corn starch Proceed as follows: Put the milk on a slow fire to ■warm, adding sugar. Separate the eggs, dissolve the corn starch in cold water and add beaten yolks and salt. Stir into milk, cook until thick and then stir in three-quarters of the cocoanut. Bake the pie crust and pour this mixture into the shell. Cover with stiffly beaten whites of eggs, to ■which two tablespoons of powdered sugar have been added. Sprinkle with rest of cocoanut and brown in a quick oven. * * * Further evidence of the fact that radio artists appreciate good things came to light the other day when Frank Croxton, the NBC basso, stopped me and asked : (Continued on page 45)