Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

The European Touch [Continued from page 11] for breakfast. He says it is the finest honey in the world and he buys it from a small shop in Hollywood that imports a small amount of it yearly. He eats little or nothing for lunch. Sometimes, he goes without his noonday meal entirely, or else has only a green salad of lettuce, watercress and chicory, with French salad dressing. For dinner, he likes either cream of asparagus or mushroom soup. His favorite entree is steak, rare, with English mustard. He also likes broiled lamb chops with spinach. The latter is his favorite vegetable. His only real dislike in foods is green peas. He does not care much for American breads either, but prefers melba toast and pumpernickle. Daisy often cooks for him a dish that he likes and for which she has no name. It is simply a combination of equal parts of fresh tomatoes, green peppers and Bermuda onions, chopped fine and mixed together with sausages, which have likewise been chopped up, and the entire mixture is fried in deep, hot fat, with salt, pepper and paprika to taste. There is another dish she prepares foi him, which is made of chicken cut up and boiled with carrots. In a separate container, she boils rice until done and adds it to the boiled chicken and carrots letting it all simmer for five or ten minutes longer. He likes stewed fruits for dessert and fresh fruits for salads. While Daisy leaves the preparation of the dinner largely to the cook, she takes over the responsibility of making Paul's favorite pastries. After dinner they have dessert and demi tasse in the living-room before a cheerful log fire, for California fall evenings are usually chilly. As Daisy pointed out, Hungarians are fond of food and they are leisurely about enjoying it. Dinner is an event and not just nourishment to keep them going. Conversation and laughter can make a good dinner seem even better. Daisy is quite modest about claiming any laurels where cooking is concerned but I stayed to tea and she served some cake which she had baked for Paul. It is his favorite pastry and she calls it Hollywood cake, because it is a mixture of several recipes and she learned to bake it during her hectic month of housekeeping when she first came west. It is good, too, and the frosting looked as if it had been sculptured. She told me that she bought a little frosting gadget with which she decorates her cakes, at a nearby notion store, but even when it is not used, the cake is quite attractive. Here is her recipe: Hollywood Cake Yolks of 8 eggs % cup butter iy± cups granulated 3 level teaspoons sugar baking powder % cup water 1 tablespoon vanilla 2Vi cups pastry flour Sift flour once, then measure, add baking powder and sift three times. Sift sugar, then measure. Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream thoroughly. Beat yolks until thick and lemon color, then add them to butter and sugar and stir thoroughly. Add water and flour alternately, then flavor and stir very hard. Put in slow oven until raised to top of pan then increase heat and brown. Bake 40 to 50 minutes. For this cake which is a nice gold color and of fine texture Daisy uses a mocha icing which she prepares as follows: 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon cocoa "Wash hand-knits with % teaspoon vanilla 2 tablespoons cold coffee Cream butter, add both sugar and cocoa gradually. Add vanilla, then coffee gradually until the mixture is smooth, creamy and thick enough to spread evenly. IVORY FLAKES URGE THE MAKERS OF MINERVA YARNS 39 1. TAKE MEASUREMENTS or trace outline of sweater on heavy paper. 2. SQUEEZE LUKEWARM SUDS of pure Ivory Flakes through garment Do not rub, twist or let stretch. 3. RINSE 3 TIMES in lukewarm water of same temperature. Knead out excess moisture in bath towel. Knit one, purl one — when you put a lot of time into knitting a sweater you don't want it to become little-sister's-size after its first washing! Wool is sensitive — it shrinks at the mere mention of rubbing, hot water or an impure soap! So wash your woolens with respectful care. And be especially sure to use cool suds of Ivory Flakes. Why Ivory Flakes? Well, listen to what the makers of Minerva yarns say: "We feel that Ivory Flakes are safest for fine woolens because Ivory is really pure — protects the natural oils that keep wool soft and springy." Read the washing directions on this page, follow them carefully — and your hand-knits will always stay lovely as new! 99 44/IOO O/o PURE 4. DRY FLAT, easing back (or stretching) to original outline. WHEN DRY, appearance is improved by light pressing under damp cloth. IVOR Y for October 1935 FLAKES 13