Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

For a novel and colorful salad try removing centers from ripe, peeled tomatoes and re-filling with black cherries stuffed with well seasoned cottage cheese. Serve with French Dressing on lettuce leaf. Also, for parties, pear halves, rounded side up, canned or fresh, on plate; cover well with cream cheese blended with milk (2 tablespoons milk to 3 ounce package Philadelphia Cream cheese). Cut Tokay grapes in half and remove seeds or use seedless grapes. Press grape halves, cut side down, into cheese, covering pear completely so it resembles bunch of grapes. Serve with French Dressing or Fruit Dressing blended with whipped cream. Garnish with sprig of green chicory and a piece of grape stem at top to simulate leaves and tendrils. FRUIT BOWL Fruit salad bowls are most attractive and convenient in serving when each fruit is grouped separately in a large shallow bowl. Here is a nice assortment. Cut 2 bananas lengthwise, 4 crescents of avacado, 10 slices of red-skinned apple and dip in lemon juice to prevent discoloration. In center of bowl, on a bed of lettuce or chicory, place 4 semi-circles of pineapple sandwiched between 4 long fingers of cantaloupe. Arrange banana fingers next. Sandwich 8 slices of orange in 2 groups between apple slices. Garnish with tiny balls of avocado, cantaloupe and a group of perfect strawberries on stems. Pass California, 'Cheese or Whipped Cream dressing. Now, consider desserts. Here are two new ones that are delicious. PRINCESS PUDDING 1 package Royal Gelatin Dessert 1 cup cold water Ya teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water J/i cup cream, whipped 1 cup sponge cake cubes Dissolve gelatin (raspberry or strawberry) in boiling water; add cold water. Pour Yx of mixture into shallow pan to Yi inch depth. Chill until firm; cut in cubes. Add salt to remaining gelatin mixture; chill until it begins to thicken. Beat until thick and frothy. Fold in whipped cream, cubes of cake and of clear gelatin. Pour into mold and chill until firm. Slice and serve plain or with whipped cream. RHUBARB ROLY-POLY 3 cups Hecker's Flour 4Y2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1 teaspoon salt Y2 cup Crisco 1 to IY2 cups cold water 5 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon sugar Sift dry ingredients into chopping bowl. Add Y2 cup Crisco; chop in with knife until mixture looks like cornflakes. Add just enough water to hold dough together. Transfer to pastry board; roll into square sheet % inch in thickness. Spread almost to edge with 2Y2 tablespoons of butter, fold up and press edges together, leaving layer of butter between layers of dough. (Helps make crust flaky.) Roll again; spread on remaining butter. Fold again and roll into sheet Y\ mc^ thick. Spread with a rhubarb mixture made by combining 1 pound rhubarb, \Ya cups sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, j4 cup chopped raisins. Ya teaspoon nutmeg. Roll up like jelly roll. Place in buttered Pyrex baking dish, dust with cinnamon and bake at 350F about 1 hour. Serve with lemon sauce. For our main dishes, here are two which are easy to prepare and even better than they sound. And they cost next to nothing. STUFFED FRANKS Let 8 Armour frankfurters stand 7 minutes in boiling water. Partially split franks lengthwise;, spread with French's Mustard. Fill with a mixture of 2 cups mashed potatoes and Y2 cup grated American cheese. Place on broiler rack with strips of bacon until bacon is cooked and franks delicately browned. Serve with grilled tomatoes on a platter, alternating a slice of tomato and a slice of bacon between every other frank. With green peas, Sunburst Salad and Rhubarb Roly-Poly your meal is complete. MOCK DRUMSTICKS Mix Y2 teaspoon leaf sage, Y\ teaspoon salt, Yi teaspoon pepper, 2 teaspoons chopped onion, Y2 pound chopped beef and Y* pound chopped veal or chicken. Shape into drumsticks. Roll in fine cracker crumbs. Insert wooden skewers. Fry in shallow fat or oil about 10 minutes. Drain. Place paper frills on skewers. With this serve baked potatoes. SHUCKS I WHATARUNITSURB LOOKS FIERCE Jane House of Ashtabula* has a tip for Polly — BEAUTIFUL STOCKINGS CERTAINLY ADO TO A GIRL'S APPEAL. RUNS— WRINKLES-SNA KY SEAMS LOOK AWFUL I USED TO GET CONSTANTLY. G000NESS, THEY WERE EXASPERATING ! THEN I CHANGED TO LUX saves stocking elasticity LUX DOES SAVE ELASTICITY CUTS WAY DOWN ON RUNS. LEAVES MY STOCKINGS FITTING SMOOTHLY, SILKY, LOVELY LOOKING OH DEAR, WHY DIDNY POLLY LUX ME? I WOULDN'T POP RUNS SO EASILY Cut down on runs with Lux ! Cakesoap rubbing and soaps with harmful alkali weaken elasticity. Lux saves stocking elasticity! Buy the big box! A little goes so far Lux is thrifty