Screenland (Nov 1942-Apr 1943)

chopped pickles, Best Foods mayonnaise, salt, pepper, few drops Worcestershire sauce, 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Mash through a strainer. Replace in egg and sprinkle with grated cheese. Top with a dash of paprika. POTATO SALAD Peel and slice 2 knobs of celery root into thin slices and cover with boiling salted water for 2 minutes ; drain and chill. Peel and slice 3 medium-sized, cold boiled potatoes, and mix them with the chilled celery root. Mix with French dressing, mound on plate and garnish with strips of red and green pepper. One of Linda's favorite recipes, used at her parties as a buffet supper dish, is Southern Ham Salad Loaf. With this, Linda serves tomato juice cocktails, crisp cheese crackers, coffee and ice-cream. Also Christmas candle cakes, which she thinks you'd like to try. SOUTHERN HAM SALAD LOAF V/i tablespoons Knox Sparkling Gelatine (softened in Ya cup cold water) 1 can Campbell's condensed chicken soup 1 can Campbell's condensed chicken-gumbo soup 2 eggs, separated 2 cups baked ham, ground y2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons horseradish, freshly grated 2 tablespoons pimiento, chopped Yz cup whipping cream Sprinkle the gelatine in cold water and let stand about 5 minutes. Heat both soups in upper part of double-boiler. Pour some of the hot soup on the beaten egg yolks and then add them to the remaining soup, cook the mixture 4 to 6 minutes in the double-boiler. Pour the hot mixture over the gelatine and stir until the gelatine has dissolved. Cool until the mixture begins to thicken, then fold in the beaten egg whites, ground ham, freshly grated horseradish, pimiento, salt and whipped cream. Pour the ham mixture into a mold which has been rinsed out with cold water and place in the refrigerator. When firm, turn out on lettuce, watercress or chicory. CHRISTMAS CANDLE CAKES lYi cups sifted Swansdown Cake Flour V/z teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder Yi cup Crisco 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 cup sugar 2 eggs Yi cup milk Sift flour, add baking powder, and sift together three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add flavoring. Pour into greased cup-cake pans, filling them % full. Bake in moderate oven 20 minutes. Frost with lemon frosting and sprinkle thickly with Baker's Coconut, Southern style.. Arrange cakes on platter; insert candle holder with candle in each. Light candles before serving. Because turkey is served at most Thanksgiving Day dinners, and Uncle Sam is certain to see that his nephews in service have their plentiful share in camp, the girls have decided to omit the national bird at least at one of the holiday dinners. They'll serve chicken with olives instead. The menu, which was planned by Miss Miller and Miss Darnell with the assistance of their Army friends, runs like this : They'll begin with Campbell's tomato soup, the new and improved kind, not creamed. There will be salted nuts, especially pecans from Texas. The green salad will have Bavarian dressing. Vegetables will include glazed sweet potatoes, corn on the cob — either canned or frozen, according to which is easier to get, and beets done after one of Jane's exclusive recipes. Coffee and mints will be served with dessert, which will be ice-cream and Holiday Cake, or strawberry custard, according to which girl wins. Jeff Donnell, Columbia's budding young starlet, rates bigger, better roles since she won good notices in a small part in "My Sister Eileen." "City Without Men" is her next movie. CHICKEN WITH OLIVES 2 young chickens 6 cups water 1 onion Salt and pepper 3 heaping tablespoons butter 2 dozen olives 1 tablespoon capers 2 tablespoons flour Prepare the chickens, cut them into joints, then put in casserole with water, salt, pepper and onion. Cook slowly until tender. Lift out pieces of chicken, drain and dry them, then fry in butter till brown. Stir flour into casserole, add a pint of the water in which the chickens were cooked, the olives, capers and seasoning. When quite smooth, add chickens and serve when hot. BAVARIAN SALAD DRESSING Mix Yz teaspoon salt with Y\ teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon French mustard, Yz teaspoon powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons vinegar and 6 tablespoons olive oil ; place in small jar, seal and shake 3 minutes. BEETS SAUTfi Dice boiled and peeled beets. Heat 4 tablespoons butter in saucepan, add beets, sprinkle with salt and pepper, a little sugar and a few drops of lemon juice. Toss or stir lightly until thoroughly heated; pile beets in hot serving dish, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and a few chopped mint leaves. HOLIDAY CAKE \Y\ cups sifted Swansdown Cake Flour 1 teaspoon Calumet Baking Powder Y\ teaspoon salt Y* cup Crisco Yi, cup Baker's Coconut, Premium Shred 5 egg whites, unbeaten Y\ cup finely cut candied cherries Yz cup finely cut citron Yz cup seedless raisins Y2 cup blanched almonds % cup sugar Y2 teaspoon almond extract Y2 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour, add baking powder and salt, and sift 3 times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg whites, one at a time, "and beat thoroughly. Add fruit, nuts, coconut and flavoring, and mix well. Add flour, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Bake in loaf pan, greased and lined with heavy paper and again greased. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes in a slow oven. I left the quartet in the living room, a many-windowed room reached by another stairway from the entrance hall, practicing Christmas carols around the grand piano, and toured the house with Mrs. Miller. This is the right house for a glamor girl ; it would never disappoint the most avid fan. Set high above the film city, a clear day's view includes ships in the harbor to the west and the everlasting snow on Mt. Baldy, some sixty miles south and east. There's a garden on an unexpected level, and the outlook from any one of the uncounted windows is something to dream about. The curved walls of the Spanish castle make interesting rooms within. The music room is pie-shaped, the "crust" side all windows ; there's a half circle of windows in the living room, a whole wall of them in the dining room. Ann's suite upstairs is that of a fairystory princess, and includes bedroom, dressing room and bath. The decorator had completed Ann's suite while she was still a brunette and the girls "adored" the result. The color scheme was fuchsia and ivory, with a great fuchsia satin heart over the ivory bed. When Columbia decided _ to make Ann a blonde, she felt wrong in the brunette setting. So back came the decorator. Now the walls are turquoise blue, all traces of fuchsia have vanished, and golden yellow drapes and trim set off the ivory of carpets, bed and furniture. The bathroom is tiled in turquoise, the tower window-seat at one end of the big dressing room is done in yellow plush. That high tower window is the place to be when sirens sound for a practice blackout. You can sit there and watch lights wink out and the great city disappear into whatever degree of darkness the time of moon permits. The recently ordered "dimout'' has put an end to the nightly display of jewel-colored lights that used to spread a brilliant carpet for miles under the castle window. When we rejoined them, the girls and guests were in the playroom once more, making records on Ann's recorder from scripts Ann had accumulated. Bob Nash, it seemed, had admitted that he was once an extra and did bit parts at RKO before he went to New York's Radio City. He was elected master of ceremonies. Ann did a wow imitation of Katharine Hepburn; Linda, a delightful one of Baby Snooks ; Gail Deremer surprised us all as Charlie McCarthy and W. C. Fields, and Mrs. Miller and I performed as the applauding multitudes. We played the record back. W e were all very good. We admit it. 70