• Today in History - 1943

    From Dave Drum@1:3634/12 to All on Monday, August 01, 2022 12:48:00
    02 August 1943 - PT BOAT IS SUNK AND A YOUNG LIEUTENANT HELPS SAVE MATES:
    Lt. j.g. John F. Kennedy leaps into the Pacific Ocean after a nighttime
    attack by a Japanese destroyer has sunk his command, the PT-109 patrol
    torpedo boat. The future US president swims through burning wreckage
    and manages to help save all but two of his crew, leading survivors to
    an island to await rescue.

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    Title: President Kennedy's Fish Chowder
    Categories: Seafood, Vegetables, Potatoes, Pork, Dairy
    Yield: 4 Servings

    2 lb Haddock
    2 oz Salt pork; diced
    2 Onions; sliced
    4 lg Potatoes; diced
    1 c Celery; chopped
    1 Bay leaf; crumbled
    1 ts Salt
    Fresh ground black pepper
    1 qt Milk
    2 tb Butter

    Put the haddock in a soup pot with 2 cups water and
    simmer for 15 minutes. Drain, reserving the broth.
    Remove any bones from the fish and set fish aside.

    Saute the salt pork in the soup pot until crisp. With a
    slotted spoon, remove the pork and set aside. Saute the
    onions in the pork fat until golden brown. Add the fish,
    potatoes, celery, bay leaf, salt, and pepper to taste.

    Pour in the reserved fish broth plus enough boiling
    water to make 3 cups liquid. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add
    the milk and butter and simmer for 5 minutes. Serve the
    chowder sprinkled with the diced pork.

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.townandcountrymag.com

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  • From Dave Drum@1:3634/12 to All on Monday, February 20, 2023 04:41:00
    20 February 1943 - THE FIRST OF ROCKWELL'S 'FOUR FREEDOMS' IS PUBLISHED: Inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union
    speech, artist Norman Rockwell creates four iconic scenes of
    mid-20th-century American values. All will appear in The Saturday
    Evening Post.

    The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings-Freedom of Speech,
    Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear-are each approximately 45.75" X 35.5" (116.2 X 90.2 cm), and are now in the
    Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The four freedoms
    refer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's January 1941 Four Freedoms
    State of the Union address.

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    Title: Norman Rockwell's Oatmeal Cookies
    Categories: Cookies, Snacks, Grains, Nuts
    Yield: 12 Cookies

    1/4 lb Butter
    1 c Light brown sugar
    1/2 c Granulated sugar
    1 ts Vanilla
    1/4 c Water
    2 lg Eggs; well beaten
    1 ts Salt
    1 c A-P flour; sifted
    1/2 ts Baking soda
    1 c Oatmeal
    Chopped nuts; walnuts pref

    Mix in order and drop on baking sheet.

    Bake @ 400ºF/205ºC 7 to 8 minutes.

    Then run under broiler to brown.

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com

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  • From Dave Drum@1:18/200 to All on Sunday, April 09, 2023 05:30:41
    09 April 1943 - JEWISH RESISTANCE FIGHTERS BATTLE IN WARSAW GHETTO
    UPRISING: Hundreds of thousands of Jews have been packed by Nazis inside
    the Warsaw Ghetto, a 1.3-square-mile sector in Poland's capital.
    Thousands have already died of disease and starvation, but today many
    fight back when Germans attempt to ship off the ghetto's survivors to concentration camps.

    After the Grossaktion Warsaw of summer 1942, in which more than a
    quarter of a million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered, the remaining Jews began to build bunkers and smuggle weapons
    and explosives into the ghetto. The left-wing Jewish Combat Organization
    (ZOB) and right-wing Jewish Military Union (ZZW) formed and began to
    train. A small resistance effort to another roundup in January 1943 was partially successful and spurred Polish resistance groups to support the
    Jews in earnest.

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    Title: Polnische Jaegertopf (Polish Hunter's Casserole)
    Categories: Pork, Beef, Casseroles, Vegetables, Wine
    Yield: 4 Servings

    1 Pig's Kidney
    300 g Pork
    200 sm Frying sausages
    200 g Ox liver
    8 Shallots
    200 g Mushrooms
    1 cl Garlic; crushed
    1 Celeriac
    3 tb Butter
    1 ts Salt
    1/2 ts White pepper
    1/2 ts Paprika
    2 tb Tomato puree
    250 ml Dry white wine
    1 tb Soy sauce

    This dish is best accompanied by sauerkraut and steamed
    potatoes or country bread. Drink beer with it.

    Split and clean the kidney thoroughly and put it into a
    bowl. Pour over it some boiling salted water and leave to
    soak a couple of minutes. Then dry it, and cut it into
    slices. Peel the shallots. Cut the pork, liver and peeled
    celeriac into 4cm cubes.

    Put the fat into a large casserole, and lightly brown the
    shallots and celeriac. Add the offal, meat and sausages
    and fry the lot together 5 to 10 minutes.

    Clean the mushrooms, and add them, together with the
    garlic and tomato concentrate (puree) to the dish. Then
    add salt, pepper, paprika and pour over the wine. Bring to
    the boil, cook fast a couple of minutes to eliminate the
    alcohol, cover and simmer slowly until the meat is tender
    (about 40 minutes). Stir in the soya sauce, and correct
    the seasoning.

    German Cookery Cards. (EintΓÇ¥pfe).

    From: Ian Hoare

    Date: 04 Dec 96 National Cooking Echo

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  • From Dave Drum@1:18/200 to All on Saturday, June 03, 2023 04:36:00
    3 June 1943 - MILITARY MEN TARGET LATINOS IN L.A. RIOTING: Fueled by
    racism, and what's perceived as the flaunting of wartime rationing
    rules, the Zoot Suit Riots flare in Los Angeles as white Marines and
    Navy sailors attack young Latino men. Other cities will see similar
    clashes between soldiers and minorities wearing the distinctive suit.

    The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place from June
    3-8, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. It was one of the dozen wartime industrial
    cities that suffered race-related riots in the summer of 1943, along
    with Mobile, Alabama; Beaumont, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; and New York
    City.

    American servicemen and white Angelenos attacked and stripped children, teenagers, and youths who wore zoot suits, ostensibly because they
    considered the outfits, which were made from large amounts of fabric, to
    be unpatriotic during World War II. Rationing of fabrics and certain
    foods was required at the time for the war effort. While most of the
    violence was directed toward Mexican American youth, African American
    and Filipino American youths who were wearing zoot suits were also
    attacked.

    The Zoot Suit Riots were related to fears and hostilities aroused by the coverage of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, following the killing of a
    young Latino man in what was then an unincorporated commercial area near
    Los Angeles. The riot appeared to trigger similar attacks that year
    against Latinos in Chicago, San Diego, Oakland, Evansville,
    Philadelphia, and New York City. The defiance of zoot suiters became inspirational for Chicanos during the Chicano Movement.

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    Title: Riot of Roll Dough
    Categories: Breads
    Yield: 1 recipe

    2 c Warm water (110ºF/43ºC)
    1/2 oz (2 env) active dry yeast
    1/2 c Sugar
    1/4 c Softened butter
    1 lg Egg
    2 ts Salt
    6 1/2 c (to 7 c) A-P flour

    Measure water into large warm mixing bowl. Sprinkle in
    yeast; stir until dissolved. Add sugar, shortening, egg,
    salt, and half the flour until dough is easy to handle.
    Place in greased bowl turning to grease top. Cover
    loosely with aluminum foil. Refrigerate at least 2
    hours. When dough rises, punch it down occasionally.
    Finish as directed in individual recipes.

    RECIPE FROM: https://www.cooks.com

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  • From Dave Drum@1:3634/12 to All on Thursday, June 29, 2023 04:04:00
    29 June 1943 - A PRESIDENT REASSURES PHYSICIST WORKING ON THE BOMB: A
    clash between General Leslie Groves and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer threatens to derail a top-secret American military project in the New
    Mexico desert, and President Franklin Roosevelt intervenes with a letter
    of heartfelt support written to get the Manhattan Project back on track.

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    Title: Atomic Buffalo Turds
    Categories: Five, Appetisers, Chilies, Cheese
    Yield: 12 Servings

    6 lg Fresh jalapenos
    12 sl Streaky bacon
    Chipotle honey
    12 sl Brie
    BBQ dry rub

    Cut the chilies in half lengthways

    Remove the seeds and placenta from each chile.

    Spoon about half a tsp to 1 tsp of chipotle honey into
    each half chile.

    Top each one with a slice of brie and wrap w/bacon. If
    needed use a cocktail stick to hold together.

    Sprinkle each ABT with some dry rub and place in the
    fridge until ready to cook.

    Set your grill up for indirect cooking, aiming for a
    temperature of between 250ºF/121ºC and 300ºF/150ºC.

    If you’re running nearer 300ºF/150ºC, cook for one
    hour then check; nearer 250ºF/121ºC and you’ll be
    looking at about two hours. What you’re trying to get
    here is the bacon starting to crisp up before you glaze.

    For the glaze mix 3tb chipotle honey and 1 tb water
    in a pan and warm it up gently.

    Apply glaze to ABT’s and cook for a further 15 - 30
    minutes depending on your BBQ temperature.

    Remove from grill and serve immediately.

    RECIPE FROM: https://gran.luchito.com

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