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VWt-« TH* MoHXNRY FLA1HDKAT.11 Thursday, June 1, 1944 € 'n.... rSifaaJm »v: RINGWOOD Quick Pickup . . . Cookies and Milk (See Recipes Below) Kill the Cookie Jar Sometimes I think the cookie jar is the favorite piece of equipment in the American home -- especially in the kitchen. At-least it's the \I \ i V //i\ most popular^and that<s not .ust among the youngsters for many a time the oldsters . make the path to the cookie jar just "as often as the children. If there are cookies in the house, then it's the kind of a house that spells "Welcome H^gge," for cookies are not just delightful to have, , they often take the edge^ff hunger 4 when it's most necessary--after school, or after a meal to give it the finishing touch. Cookies aren't hard to make. They last longer than cakes. They ^ take less ingredients, and they go W1 much further. Keep a list of favorites on hand that will keep the cookie jar filled no matter how popular that jar is! Save Used Tali! Oatmeal and peanut butter have long been popular ingredients in cookies, but here they are together^ --guaranteed to be doubly popular; Oatmeal-Peanut Butter Cookies. . (Makes 4 dozen) cup peanut butter 3 tablespoons shortening: cup brown sugar Viz cup granulated sugar $4 cup sifted all-purpose floor teaspoon salt "t teaspoons baking powder hi cutwater MlU cups oatmeal Cream peanut butter and shortening; add sugars gradually, creaming entire mixture. Stir in sifted dry ingredients and water. Add the uncooked oat* meal. Chill dough. Roll dough thin on lightly floured board and cut with cookie cub» ter. Dough may '":L also be rolled and chilled and sliced V* inch thick. Bake on a greased baking sheet in moderate (350-degree) oven for 10 to 12 minutes. If partified cookies are desired, frost with powdered sugar icing when baked and decorate with candied cherries and nuts. Sate Ited Fait! Hermit Bars. % cay batter or substitute 1 tap brown sugar 1 eggs, well beaten H cup milk or coffee -- 1 cup baking molasses or sorghaaa 1 cups sifted cake Hoar ~ 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon soda , 1 teaspoons baking powder Lynn Chambers' Point-Saving Mena Pan-broiled Ham Slices Tarsleyed Potatoes .Fresh Asparagus Endive Salad--French Dressing Whole Wheat Rolls Orange Whip 'Cornflake Cookies •Recipe Given (by Helen JohnscuO • Mrs. S. W. Brown spent Wednesday in Chicago. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Ehlert of Richmond and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Van Arery of Spring Grove spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. John Skidmore. / Miss Bemiece .taemaker ik^visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred ! Raemaker at Scranton, Iowa. Mrs, Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Helen Johnson spent Wednesday with Mrs. Don Smart of Waukegan. Mrs. John Hogan spent Thursday afternoon at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Frisbie of Greenwood spent Saturday evening in the Clayton Harrison home. Mrs. Nick Young spent Wednesday with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Weber of McHenry. -V.Charles' Vogel of Brodhead, Wis., called on his sistar, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., Thursday afternoon. . Mrs. Myrtle Krause of Chicago spent several days with Mrs. m John Woodward. Mr. and Mrs. John Wolfe of Woodstock, Mr. and Mi's. Lou Abendroth, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wagner and Sandra and Mildred Munshaw of Eigin called on Jennie Bacon Saturday evening. Mrs. Clayton Bruce and children ; are spending a week at Oregon, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen of McHenry were callers in the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home Friday afternoon. Rita Mae Merchant of Woodstock was home for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Bauer called on Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller of Richmond Tuesday eyening. The Ringwood schdol held a picnic j Friday on the school lawn. A large i crowd attended. Games and races ! were enjoyed. In the afternoon the home here. Mr; and Mrs. Weber and son of Chicago spent Sunday with them. Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crystal Lake spent Wednesday witii Mrs. Louis Hawley. Harold Wiedrich atod children of Harvard spent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich, Sr., home. Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon of Antioch spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Virginia Jepson of Evans ton spent Monday with her mother. Mrs. George Shepard spent Friday with Mrs, Alan Ainger of Greenwood. Mrs. Agnes Jencks spent-Sunday with Mrs. Eva Eppell. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and daughters of Chicago spent Saturday with Ringwood relatives. Mrs. Frank Wattles and Glen were Sunday guests in the C. L. Harrison home. On Thursday evening the Ring McCULLOM LAKE Bob Struck, S. 3-C., and Steve Huska, S. 3-C., arrived home' on leave May 24. Bob has to ^eave June 3rd to be back at Faragat, Idaho by June 5. Steve Huska will receive his diploma with the graduation class and will also accept Allan's diploma in his behalf. Wish it were possible for our son, Allan, to be here for the occassion instead of in Norfolk Va., that evening. Bob Sales took his second physical examination Friday. He passed 100% this time. He is in the navy now. * v Dick Nimtz If J/C returned to Great Lakes Friday after spending his boot leave at home. Since returning to Great Lakes he has been their mother recently underwent surgery in Chicago for the removal of a cotter. . -- : 77 Aetata Losses "1 Losses due to earfy decay of potatoes can usually be traced to badly overloaded storage facilities and to improper ventilation. Overfilled bins, blocked alleys needed for proper air circulation, and faulty installation or complete lack of ventilating equipment are chief reasons for storage losses. \ •>;- Tender Feet K unshod horses or mules;ptfl heavy farm machinery or do other heavy farm work, the horny wall el the feet is worn off at the ground more rapidly than growth is S19- plied from above and results in ten* der feet. Usually the wall splits, breaks, or separates from the sole of the foot. Horses that pull heavy loads or work on stony, hilly farms or hard roads need a fairly heafJT. •hoe with a low, blocky toe. -Subscribe for The Plaindealert t 6 on K. P., .however, he had a 12-hour wood Sunshine Girls 4-H club met at] liberty . or Sunday. His_ parents, the community hall for the first meeting of the summer. Officers elected vrfere: Ferrol Martin, president; Carrol Harrison, vice-president; Muriel Butler, secretary; Charlotte Hogan, treasurer; Maryann Wiedrich, club reporter; Dorothy Smith, recreation chairman., The projects are Dairy foods and sewing. Shirley Neal and Althea Walkington are our leaders. The next meeting will be Thursday evening ^ at the hall. Marl Ann Wiedrich, reporter. An Mt. Volcano a Barometer oddity is the fact "that . Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius, Europe's most active volcanoes, lie in fe direct line. No doubt this geologic axis was formed by some pre-, hi^oric upheaval and is responsible for the many ruinous earthquakes, tidal waves and eruptions with which southern Italy and Sicily have been visited throughout history. Mariners have used Stromboli for thousands of years as a lighthouse 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon each, gingerr««}oveSc 1 cup nuts, chopped 2 cups raisins „ Mix butter and sugar together. Add well-beaten eggs, milk or coffee, molasses and about 1 cup of and barometer. By judging the Johnsburg children came for a game! "plume" above the crater, sailors of ball--they defeated Ringwood 5 j predicted changes of temperature 4 | and wind. Probably for this reason and Mrs Irvine Walker Sr re isle was reSarded as the ab°de Aeolus, god of the winds. It I was here that Ulysses stopped and asked Afplus to bind in a great bag Mr. Mrs. Irving Walker, Jr., and children arid Mrs. Alfred Stienke of Waukegan spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young spent all the *T>ad winds." flour. Beat Well. Mix and sift re- j Sunday in Woodstock. maining flour, salt, soda, baking ' Viola and Alice Mae Low attended j Lynn Says Make Cookies! It's fun to make cookies when you have the "know-it-all" right at hand. Make it easy for yourself by following these simple directions: Start heating the oven before you actually make the cookies so all will be in readiness when you pop the sheets in the oven. Assemble all the equipment needed. Assemble and measure the ingredients. Prepare cookie sheets next. If cookies contain much fat, sheets need not be greased. Pans for bars should be buttered, lined with waxed paper, then buttered again. Shortening creams best at room temperature. It should not be melted as this injures texture and flavor of cookie. Eggs are usually well beaten before added to the shortening and sugar. If the quantity of eggs is small, they may be added directly to shortening and sugar. powder and spices and gdd to first mixture. Add chopped nuts and raisins. Grease pans and line with waxed paper. Spread cookie mixture evenly in pans and bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven until firm. Cut into squares while warm and remove from pans while still wann., Save Used Fats! A £©r*iflake cookie with orange flavoring \vill really enchant the family: . * Cornflake Refrigerator Ceokte**- (Makes 5 dozen) & cup shortening ^ " Vi cup sugar \ 2 teaspoons grated orange rind 2 cups cornflakes Is» cups sifted flour > 2 teaspoonts baking powder VA teaspoon salt H cup milk Blend shortening and sugar together. Add orange rind. Crush cornflakes into fine crumbs. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Mix with crumbs. Add to first mixture alternately with the milk. Shape the dough into rolls about lx,4 inches in diameter. Wrap in wax paper and chill until firm. Slice and bake on ungrea;ed baking sheets in moderately hot oven (425 degrees) about 12 minutes. Orange Refrigerator Cookies. (Makes 6 dozen) 1 eup butter or substitute llA cups brown sugar- 1 egg, well beaten 1 tablespoon grated orange rial 2 tablespoons orange juice V* teaspoon lemon extract I cups sifted floor • . H teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon baking soda U teaspoon baking powder 1 cup chopped nuts 1 cup wheat germ or wheat bran Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg, orange rind and juice, and lemon extract. Sift together flour, baking soda and baking powder and salt. Add nuts and wheat germ or bran. Add this to creamed mixture. Stir until well mixed. Shape into long rolls. Wrap in wax paper. Place in refrigerator to chill. When ready to bake, slice thin, and bake in a moderate (375-degree) oven for about 10 minutes until golden brown. Remove from pan. Cool. Sail Vied Fats! Economy Brownies. 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons shortening 2 squares melted chocolate H cup fnilk 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 1 teaspoon baking powder sifted in 1 cup flour 1 cap nuts, chopped fine Mix in order given, bake in a grearffed shallow pan in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 20 to 25 minutes. Cut in squares and cool. Get the most from your meat! Get YOUr meet rotating chart Irom Miss Lynn Chambers by writing to her in core of Western Newspaper Union. 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, IIL Pleas* send a stomped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Untaa. ' fcW Wbeeme Source Milk is the largest single source Sf farm cash income--bringing In $2,332,253,000 to farmers *n 1942. ROM Use Massed OB Linseed oil, largely used for paints !• this country, is toed by Russians fti bakery products, lor frying, on triads and in cooked cereals. Most «C the butter and oleomargarine goes IM| the hospitals and to the army. Read the Want Ada Allspice Flavor Allspice gives the flavor el a con> binatkm of spices and may be used $0 saypnp^nnamon and nutmeg. Try * w-vfor puddings, custards and cup cakes. "Powdered or dry mustard is 'good in cheese and tomato dishes, or in s cream sauce. Celery seed adds good flavor to cola slaw, potato salad and to any number of meat and vegetable combinetiona. fry caraway or poppy aeed In telle and Christmas cookies in place of cinnamon and nutmeg. ja shower for Betty Buchert "t the ' home of Mrs. Laura Hendricksoti <>f j Richmond, Wednesday evening. I Loren' and Edyth Harrison spent Friday evening in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. R. Rieke of Barrington called on Mr. and Mrs. (L. , E. . Hawley Sunday evening. Mrs. Chancey Harrison, Mrs. Lon- }/tiie Smith, Mrs. Louis Hawley and Mrs. Roy Harrison attended Eastern Star Chapter at Antioch Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich and family called on Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller of McHenry Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frey of Blue •Island spent Sunday in the Beatty- Low home. Mrs. Kenneth Cristy, Mrs. Ben Walkington, Mrs. Charles Peet and Viola Low attended the annual W. S. C. S. institute and luncheon at Wood- | stock Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Eld. Bauer, LuAnn, Marven and Joan spent Saturday evening in the A1 Stiener home at j Wonder Lake. Mrs. Delbert Bacon of Crystal Lake called on Mrs. Jennie Bacon Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps Saunders of , Sycamore spent Sunday afternoon in I the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home. I Memorial Day services were held at the church Sunday morning. The I address was given by Rev. Dickson. ! The cub scouts, girls scouts and brownies sang "The Pledge to the Flag." Mrs. Raymond Harrison read the "Gettysburg Address," the Sunday school classes sang "God Bless America" and Weldon Andreas read the Honor Roll. Mrs. Hickey of. McHenry spent 'Sunday with Mrs. Louis Hawley. Mrs. Stanley Hunt attended graduation exercises at Genoa, 111., Thursday evening. Mrs. Rose Jepson spent the weekend in Evanston where she attended a class play given by the nurses of the Evanston hospital. Virginia took1 part in the play. Home Circle will meet with Helen JoTinson on Thursday, June 8. Mrs. Ray Merchant will be co-hostess, j Mrs. George Gould and John Wolfe j of Woodstock called on Mrs. Jennie j Bacon Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Leonard, Peggy land Butchie spent Sunday afternoon ] in the P. C. Leonard home at Lakf Geneva. Shirley Woodward accompanied Mrs! D. C. Bacon of Crystal Lake to Elgin Saturday. Fred Wiedrich and Mae called on Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olsen of Rich mond Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harrison o Elgin and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hienze of Crystal Lake were callers in the Harrison-Peet home. Sunday evening. Mrs. Roy Wiedrich entertained the following at a party Sunday in honor of the 4th birthday of her son Dickie. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Laney, two daughters and granddaughter of Chicago Heights, Mrs. Arthur Schults and two daughters of Richmond, Mr and Mrs. Carl Meyers of Woodstock, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller and family of McHenry and Albert Schultz of Genoa City. Mrs. Roland McCannon and children of Woodstock spent Sunday night with Mis. Rose Je^on. Roland left Sunday for a camp |n New York. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kattner Spring Grove and {/August Kattner of Chicago were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Bauer -for sapper, Friday' evening. Mae Wiedrich was a caller Woodstock Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George Haberlein Chicago spent several days at their Vision Specialist An optometrist is a vision specialist, specially trained to examine and diagnose visual problems. He is skilled in the application of preventive and corrective methods and devices for correction of visual inefficiencies. Subscribe for The Plaindealer! Mr. and Mrs. Whiteman, of Indiana spent a few days- at the Syd Smith home while (Dick was on leave. Guests at the Marunde home recently were Joseph Basting, S. 2/C, and his wife, Marie, sister of Mrs. Marunde, of Evanston. L aiH told Joe really loves the navy, / Mrs. Bowler, Dorothy, .her husband and young daughter are spending sdme time out here. Mr. and Mrs. Frigin, new owners of the Royal Blue store, opened for business Saturday. Jean McDonald and two sisters, Mae and Theresa, were Chicago visitors last week. Word has been receivd by Mr. and Mrs. Scharf from their son, John, that he has arrived safely in England, i Some of the summer folks out over | the weekend and holiday were Stepeanachos, Donoughs, Lewises, i Madsens, Fern and Terry' Mathers, j Art O. Andersons, the Joe Materers, j Arterys, Louise and Betty, Ebey Davidsons, Henry and Frank Schnaus, ' Lenards, Mary Lang, Hurtics, Feltzs and many more too numerous to: mention. On Thursday evening a few friends were x dinner guests at the Syd Smith home to help their daughter, Phylis Nimitz, celebrate her birthday. Those present were the guest of honor, Phyllis, and daughter, Jerry, Mr. and Mrs. Halley and Mr. and Mrs. Horsch (Woodrics) who had a home here a few years ago. : 1 Mable Palm informed me • her brother, Bud, S 1-C.. is on an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. Her other brother, Lester, father of two young children, is now in boot training at Farragut. Mrs. Palm :-U.,' Maintenance JMan HUNTER BOAT COl -/*V Pot Truck and Passenger Call FIRESTONE TIKES AND TUBES We have & complete stock of both passenger and truck t i r e s . . • ; / • : v ' : . " ' You can now have your tires retreaded without an OPA order. Bring them in. TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING Trade in your old battery on a new FIRESTONE, allow $2.00 for your old one. We OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION STATION MAIN ST., WEST M'HENRY PHONE 294 PUBLIC SERVICE helps you solve wartime pieal problems 9 Dmu ea£c As a service to housewives our home economists select from women's magazines recipes they believe you will like best. : 5» Hearty meals that go easy on the budget from Woman's Home Companion . HAM ROLLS-MACARONI STUFFING with asparagus on the side Onion, chopped, 2 tbsps. Ham fat, melted, 2 tbsps. Bread crumbs, dry, '/a cup Milk, % cup Prepared mustard, 2 tsps. Pepper, V4 tsPMacaroni, cooked, cut ii| . '/j inch pieces, 1% cufM Parsley, chopped, 2 tbsps. Ham, 2 or 5 slices, %-indb thick Salt, 1 tsp. Cook onion in hx uatil soft over low heat. Stir in bread crumbs, add milk and cook until thick. Remove from heat; §dd seasonings, macaroni and parsley; mix lightly. Place flome of mixture in center of each slice of ham; bring eads together to overlap and fasten with skewers or toothpic Place in shallow baking pan; bake in moderate oven (350° i JO to 35 minutes. Makes 6 servings. Good Housekeeping BRAISED LAMB SHANKS with cabbage and carrots 4 latnb shanks 2 peeled cloves garlic , 4 tbsps. flour 1 tbsp. paprika 2 tsps. salt V4 tsp- pepper >4 cup tat or salad oil 3 cups hot water tnh the shanks wdl with 1 cut clove garlic. Combine four, paprika, salt and pepper; then use to dredge shanks. Heat fat in Dutch oven or heavv kettle; then brown the shanks well on all sides in it. Add water and remaining dove garlic, and cook, covered, for 1 to hours, or until tender. Remove shanks to platter. Skim the excess fat from liquid remaining in the kettle, and thicken as desired, using any leftover flour mixture as part of the iom* £«cv* #M*ry over tfrinlj! Serves 4. . Why you'll wont a iww modern range in your post-war kitchen During wartime you've learned a lot about the benefits of vitamins. So, of course, when victory is won you'll want a modern range that makes •itamin-saving cooking easy. A range with e%iemt heat control, to cook foods in little or no%ater . . . to cook foods in their own natural juices. And think of all the other features: Streamlined styling... automatic oven <j^ntrol...eAsy-to-u&e broiler...utility drawer. Inifeed, you'll want a modem range to be the fim^tep to your new post-war kitchen. * * vrauc SERVICE commny of northern iiainois O Q o