The Coral Gables Times

FARMERS HAVE 2-WAY RADIO FOR LESS THAN 8¢ A DAY!

Instant contact between house and barns, house and tractors and harvesters for better work control. Write Dept. ST-10 for information on the new GONSET G-14 Communicator. GONSET DIVISION OF YOUNG SPRING & WIRE CORPORATION 803 S. MAIN ST. • BURBANK, CALIFORNIA

Chicken a la Contadine from The All New Fannie Farmer Cook Book

Put in a large pan 2 onions, chopped fine 1/2 cup butter or salad oil Cook slowly until the onions are soft. Add 2 young chickens, quartered Cook slowly until the chickens are browned. Remove the pieces of chicken and add 1/2 cup Italian vermouth Light with a match, and when the flame dies down, add 1 teaspoon tomato paste 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt Stir well, add the chicken, cover, and cook slowly until tender (30 to 40 minutes). Serves 6. You'll find many other wonderful Italian recipes for Columbus Day and for all year long in THE ALL NEW FANNIE FARMER COOK BOOK. "As useful in your life as that basic black dress," says Clementine Paddleford, Food Editor of This Week. "A kitchen bible now in its tenth edition. The sales have passed the three million mark, making Miss Farmer's book the best-seller of the cookbook world." $4.95 at all bookstores, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston.

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APPLIANCES SERVICES HAVE 2-WAY RADIO FOR LESS THAN 8¢ A DAY!

APPLIANCE COMPANY Instant contact between office and service vehicle saves time, speeds services, avoids wasted mileage. Write Dept. ST-10 for information on the new GONSET G-14 Communicator. GONSET DIVISION OF YOUNG SPRING & WIRE CORPORATION 803 S. MAIN ST. • BURBANK, CALIFORNIA

enough. Stick your forefinger under the kitchen faucet, wet it, and then shake the drops onto the griddle. If it's hot enough, the drops of water will bounce around crazily before they sizzle away into nothingness. Grease your pan lightly. All right, you're now ready to put in the batter. Do it with a tablespoon. Keep a spoon rest or a dish handy because if you leave the spoon in the mixing bowl, you'll lose it and have to go fishing into the batter for it, and this doesn't add anything to the taste. Make the pancakes any size you like them. The average griddle will take eight medium-sized pancakes. By adroit maneuvering, you can get three into a single large frying pan. When they begin to bubble on top and the edges look browned, it's time to turn them. IF YOU'VE DONE everything right so far, and if you understand pancakes, they won't stick when you turn them. If you do have a little trouble turning them, ease your spatula under one edge, inch it slowly toward the opposite edge, gently, gently, until the pancake is free. Then turn it. It's not necessary to flip a pancake up toward the ceiling. That's for the Grade-B movie about the prospector in the mining shack. If you do it in your kitchen, hardly anybody will applaud, and it will show that you don't understand pancakes at all. Just turn the pancakes gently and easily, and then allow them to brown on the second side. For some fantastic reason, one side will always be a little browner than the other. Don't ask me why. It's a phenomenon. When you take off your first batch of pancakes, put your second batch on before serving what you already have. By the time you get back to the stove again, the new batch may be ready for turning. Don't serve pancakes in any fancy way, like putting ice cream on them or fruit or brandy or whipped cream. Just put a generous lump of butter on top of each pancake in the stack, and then liberally pour either sirup or molasses over them. It isn't advisable to put more than four pancakes in a stack. Excessive depth makes them difficult to cut and difficult to handle on the fork. If you put four in a stack, you can serve two people while your next batch is on the griddle. Pancakes don't encourage simultaneous serving, but there's a lively overlap and, as a result, a built-in anticipation, especially when children are sitting at the table waiting to be served. The cook always gets served last or, when the pancakes are especially successful, not at all. That doesn't matter. With luck, there may be a few left for the cook.

How to work magic with wood finishes by Minwax

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