Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

By Nancy Wood sausages with apple or peach fritters. Some morning there are waffles with honey or whole wheat pancakes. Remember Little Black Sambo who ate 169 pancakes? Joseph says they must have been the Virginia Whole Wheat variety! Lenore Cotten told us a lot about the cookery of her husband's home state. Traditionally, there is a heavy dinner at noon with such delicacies as the famous Virginia ham, chicken pudding, fried oysters, crab soup, squab pilau, corn custard, sweet mango pickles, spoon bread, fried corn, baked sweet potatoes and clear wine-red jellies, spicy apple butter and, of course, hot breads. Then there is the blissful business of deciding on one of the several desserts. Although Joseph doesn't limit himself to a single favorite, he personally rates Fruit Scallop tops! Here, just in time for mid-winter mornings, is that Apple Fritter recipe mentioned by Mrs. Cotten as a breakfast special, but equally good as a dessert served with a simple lemon or cinnamon sauce: APPLE FRITTERS 4 tart apples 2 teaspoons lemon juice cup powdered sugar 1 cup sifted enriched flour Vi teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 eggs, well beaten V2 cup milk Pare and core apples. Cut in Vi inch crosswise slices. Sprinkle with lemon juice and powdered sugar and let stand while preparing batter. Sift flour once. Measure. Add salt, sugar and baking powder and sift again. Blend well-beaten eggs and milk. Add to flour and blend. Dip apple slices in batter and saute in bacon fat until golden brown. Serve hot, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. Serves 6. Girls, if you're getting ready to be the world's best, most indulgent wife to that service man when he returns, you'll want to try the recipes in this month's leaflet of Virginia favorites. The Ham Casserole, for instance, is an inspiration when you have just enough ham left over to flavor other ingredients with its smoky goodness. Top it with crunchy biscuits, as pictured on the opposite page. Virginia Spoon Bread is typical of the recipes Lenore Cotten collects. Serve piping hot with butter or margarine, honey, corn syrup or molasses. Delicious for breakfast. When you have guests coming, and there's a big gap in Ration Book No. 4, give them that Virginia Tidewater specialty — plump, golden-brown Fried Oysters. While, of course, no collection of Virginia recipes would be complete without one for chicken! So we're including one for Old Dominion Chicken Pudding, delicately flavored with herbs. Also given in the leaflet are those Whole Wheat Pancakes and the Fruit Scallop we mentioned. A gal could work up a real following with any of these. So be sure to send in for your free leaflet containing these Joseph Cotten specialties. (Please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed envelope.) THE MODERN HOSTESS, Dept. L. M. MODERN SCREEN MAGAZINE 149 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y. The Fele-Naptta Primer (^FAMILIAR LAUNDRY TERMS EXPLAINED FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER <, nire vet discos — No permanent cu Y Naptha For quickest relief, appiy t0 affected area. V27 WASHDAYform e r I y millions of users. mm LAUNDRY SOAP -a dubious character. Very often causes disappointment when attempting role of Fels-Naptha. FEIS-NAPTHA-Modern antidote for dirt. Equally effec "ve in Bar or Chips. No horn complete without it. WHITE -A descriptive term, often confused with gray. For demonstration of correct meaning — use Fels-Naptha Soap. FELS-NAPTHA SOAP_banishesTattle-Tale Gray