HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-06-12, Page 3me,
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941
Ad
THE MIXING BO LE
By ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Rome Economist
BUTTER. OAKES
Hello Homemakers! We've been
getting a great variety of questions
lately on how to make the perfect
cakel Questions on recipes, ingredi-
ents, mixing, type of pan to use apd
even how .to regulate the temperat-
ure. So we've drawn up a set of
simple rules that should give you
the light and feathery cakes you've
been striving tor!
'1 0 e *
RULES FOR CAKE MAKING
Use tested recipes. A tested re -
ripe is one that ]las been tested for
accuracy. It gives the exact amount
of each ingredient used, definite mix.
ing instructions, approximate time
the product is to be baked, and the
temperature at .which it is to be
baked.
You don't have to use the most
expensive—but always used good
ingredients. A cake is as good as the
ingredients put into it. Be sure to
use good butter, eggs and milk. In
times -like these, use half butter and
half lard for the required fat. They
should be used at Croom temperature.
Mix carefully, Cream the butter
until it is very plastic or soft. Do
not melt it, Aad sugar (1/4 of a cup
at a time) and work it into the fat
or butter thoroughly. The fineness of
the cake depends on thorough cream-
ing. Beat in the egg or eggs, well.
The beaten mixture should be just
line whipped cream. If it isn't, just
keep beating until. it is, because you
do not have to beat a cake after the
addition of the eggs. Since flour has
a tendency to pack, always sift it
before measuring. When adding dry
and liquid ingredients to the butter,
sugar and egg mixture, always start
with the dry, and end with the dry.
Adding a little of the dry ingredi-
ents first binds the mixture together;
whereas if cold water or milk is
added they separate, or give a eurd-
led appearance. If you are using an
electric mixer, do not overbeat. Mix
only until the batter is smooth. Over -
beating will cause a heavy cake.
It is just as important to use lite
right size of pan,'as it is to wear the
rigbt size shoes. If the recipe doesn't
specify the size to use, select a pan
which will be two-thirds full when
the batter is poured into it. Usually,
a recipe using two cups of flour will
make two nine inch layers, three
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
PAGE THREE
eight inch layers, or one rectangular
8" x 12" cake. If the pan is too deep,
the cake will not rise properly and
the top will not. brown. The pan
should be greased with salt -frees fat.
When placing pans in the electric
oven do not all them to tou<l1 each
other, or the sides of the oven, and
do not place one directly over the
over, Leave a space around each pan.
Bake at the right temperature. 1f
your oven does not have a heat reg-
ulator, buy one. It pays dividends. A
cake that is baked at too high or too
low a temperature is far from per-
fect. After removing butter cakes
from the oven, allow them to stand
in the pans five minutes before try-
ing to remove then, Turn onto racks
and then turn the cape over so that.
the top is up. Never allow a cake to
rest on its face. It did not "rise up"
that way and it will be "crumbly"
to frost,
CAKE RECIPES
1/3 c, butter
1 cup line gran. sugar
2 eggs
2 eggs
11/2 c. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
214 tsp, baking powder
1,4 cup milk
1 tsp. flavouring
Cream butter, add sugar gradually
and cream well together. Acid well
beaten eggs and flavouring, mix well.
Add, alternately. the milk and dry
ingredients, adding baking powder
with last amount of flout'. Eggs may
be separated, 11 desired, in which
case, add beaten yolks to sugar and
shortening and fold in stiffly beaten
whites at the last. Bake in a buttered
8" x 8" pan in an electric oven at
350 deg. F., for about 45 minutes, or
in layer cafes pans at 350 deg. for
30.35 minutes.
Butter Cake Variations
Maple Nut Cake. Substitute light
toots sugar for the gran Ula ted
Chop 1 c, walnut or pecan nuts; flour
them lightly and add just before
folding in the egg whites, Spread
with maple icing.
Spice Cake. Sift 2 tsp. cinnamon,
1 tsp. allspice and nutmeg and vE
tsp. cloves with the dry ingredients.
Mix and bake as Butter Cake and
spread with mocha icing.
Chocolate Cake. Melt two squares
of chocolate, cool and add to the
shortening, sugar and egg -yolk mix.
tura. Bake the batter in two layers.
Fill with date filling made as fol-
lows: Wash and cut up a package of
stoned dates. Cook with 1 c. water
until soft, Add 14. c. sugar, cool, and
adcl 1/2 c. chopped nut meats.
Marble Cake. Make the batter for
Butter Cake beating the -eggs whole,
Divide batter in halves and to one-
half add 1 square of melted choco-
late and 2 tblsp. milk. Drop spoon-
fuls of light and dark bather altern-
ately into a greased pan.
Gold Cake. Use 4 egg yolks and no
whites. increase the baking powder
to 3 top. Mix and make like Batter
Cake, beating the egg yolks until
thick and lemon -coloured and adding
to the creamed butter and sug.
c'oceanat Cake. Add ee c. Cocoanut
and flavour with lemon juice.
Spanish. Cake. Sift 1 tblsp, cinna-
mon with the dry ingredients and
Proceed as for Butter Cake.
Butter Icing
2 tblsp. milk, cream, fruit juice
Cr strong coffee .
2 Heise. butter
1 cup icing sugar or more
Flavoring
Cream the butter and add 2 tb!sp.
sugar, stirring until smooth. Add
liquid gradually. Sift in augar to
make it thick enough to spread and
add flavouring.
Bomber Lands by
Car Headlights—
A. Royal Canadian Air Force plane
took off for Godericb Saturday after
landing' at Ogdensburg, N.Y., on an
uncompleted airport with the aid of
automobile. headlights. United States
immigration officers said the two -
motor aircraft, which apparently be-
came lost in a thick haze while en
route from Montreal to Goderieh,
was piloted by Flt. Lt. Lionel Cohen.
28. Two navigators, a radio operator
and a mechanic, accompanied him.
The plane circled the City nearly 10
minutes Friday night before Police
Chief Herbert Myers led motorists
to the airport where automobiles
directed their lights on the field.
Want and For Sale .Ads, 3 weeks 50c
en to
Raspy
DOWN THROUGH THE AGES
Britons fought and suffered and died in order that
their children and their children's children might
be free. Today the forces of darkness threaten to
engulf us once more, Shall we give up those rights
which our forefathers won ?
Today our country must arm. No time can be lost.
We must build the greatest war machine the world
has ever known. We must accomplish in two years
more than the enemy has accomplished in seven.
That is why Canada needs your savings — not as a
gift, but only as a loan. Canada's army must be
maintained and equipped with the most modern
fighting machines. Scores of warships and merchant
vessels must be built. Thousands of planes, thousands
of pilots must be rushed to the scene of conflict.
LP FINIS,H
jilt J0811y
So Canada needs the use of your money now. Later
on, Canada will repay you in full. In the meantime,
you will receive regular interest on your loan.
When you buy Victory Bonds, all Canada is your
security. These Bonds are more readily turned into
cash than any other.
HOW TO BUY—Give your order to the canvasser who
calls on you. Or place it in the hands of any branch of any
bank, or give it to any trust company. Or send it to your
local Victory Loan Headquarters. Bonds may be bought in
denominations of $50, $$100, $500, $1,000 and . larger.
Canvasser, bank, trust company. or your local Victory Loan
Headquarters will be glad to give you every assistance in
making out your order form.
8�#PS
National Committee, Victory Loan 1941
Ottawa, Canada
w-7
Lifts Grease
OFF
POTS AND PANS
No need to scrape and scrub
in slimy water. A solutions' of
Gaillett's Pure Flake Lye just
lifts off grease layers ... loosen
hard -baked food . . . takes the
drudgery out of washing up.
Keep a tin always handy!
*Never dissolve lye in hot water. Tho
action of the lye ltaoV
heats the erotee.
PREE BOOKLET — The Gillett's Lye
Booklet tens how this powerful cleanser
dears clogged drains . . , keeps out-
houses clean and odorless by destraylag
the contents of the closet ... how it
performs dozens of tasks. Send for o
free copy to Standard Brands Ltd.,
Fraser Ave, and Liberty Street,
Toronto, Ont.
Engagement—
The engagement is announced of
Thelma Evelyn, only daughter of
Mrs. 3I. Jackson and the late Minto
ii Jackson of Chesley, to Mr. Elvin W.
Rowel. Toronto, son of Mr. and
MIS.:Vienna Koppel, Port Elgin, the
marriage to take place the latter
part of June.—Port Elgin Times.
DUBLIN
Visitors: Wilfred Murray, British
Cohtmbia, with his parents, Dr. and
Mrs. S. A. Murray: Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Smith. Russeidale. with Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Pepper; Mr. and
111'.. Frank Maloney. Seafm'th. with
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert O'Reilly; Mr.
and Mrs. Malcolm Graham, Wing -
!ham. Mrs. Henderson and daughter,
Luis. Lui•know, with Mr. and firs.
Jaenee T. Malcolm; Mr. and Mrs. Leo
\Vc'rttham, Denfield, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Roney, Mitchell, with Ma
i;rnd Mrs. Albert honey; Mrs. J. F.
Met'ann and Mr, and Mrs. Joseph
McCann, Chicago. with Mrs. Bar-
bara Holland; Mrs. Thomas Brown
in Guelph; John E. Molyneaux in
Kitchener: Mrs. Kathleen Feeney is
attending the ordination to the
priesthood of her son, Harry F.
Feeney. CAI.. at St. Peter's Cathed-
ral, London. on Saturday.
ROBOT LIGHTING PLANT
British Engines That Can Call For
Help
Port Macquarie, a small seaside
town in New South Wales, is to be
lighted by an electrical generating
plant which runs itself.
It is a new British 6 cylinder 240
h.p. engine, two models of which
will supply the town's electric
power.
Port Macquarie asked that the
plant should be capable of function-
ing unattended and the necessary
mechanism was duly devised. If there
is a rise in the temperature of the
engines' lubricating oil, the absentee
attendant will hear an alarm.
So, if there is any failure of the
water cooling system, or overload-
ing, or overspeed; failure of oil pres-
sure, or too rapid drop in the temp-
erature of the cooling System, forth
will blare the warning signal.
And if nobody hears the warning
the engines will stop work within
five minutes.
BORN
MALONEY—In Scott Memorial Hos-
pital, on June 4th, 1941, to Mr.'
and Mrs. Frank Maloney, McKillop,
a con,
of DEAD or
DISABLED ANIMALS
Phone
"Collect'to this number
219 MITCHELL
or21INGERSOLL
W' , .1AM'STQNE S0HS iTD