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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-12-08, Page 2Cupcakes are always popular, especially with the "junior set". and have the advantage of be- ing easy to decorate for festive occasions. Here are a few recipes I'm sure you'll be glad you taied. * * * In these cupcakes you'll often cense upon a bright red cherry They're doubly pretty frosted with a cherry -red icing. CHERRY SURPRISE CAKES 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 134 cups sugar 34 cup shortening 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 egg whites (about lei cup) 1 cup drained sour pitted cherries (unsweetened) Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Add shortening and milk. Beat 2 minutes. Add vanilla and egg whites. Beat 2 minutes more. 2'old in cherries. Fill 2 -inch muffin pans, filling each cup % lull. Bake at 350°F. 30-35 min- utes. Makes 3 dozen. Frost with the following: * r * CHERRY FROSTING 1% cups sugar 6 tablespoons unsweetened Cherry juice 1 tablespoon corn syrup 2 egg whites 1 teaspoon vanilla Few drops red food coloring Combine all ingredients ex- cept vanilla and food coloring in top of double boiler. Mix well Place over boiling water. lBeat constantly with rotary beater until mixture holds its shape. Remove from heat; add vanilla and food coloring. Beat 'until cool. Frost sides and top of cup cakes. Applesauce and spices make obese cupcakes favorites with the younger crowd. Frost them with icing you've colored pink, green, yellow and chocolate (do this by separating white icing into 4 parts and coloring each part with a drop or two of col- oring in a different color.) APPLESAUCE CUPCAKES '14 eup applesauce CONTRAST — Here's the long rend short of it at the Western kpecialty dog show. Evangers Blitz, the Great Dane, and FIs - tests Sassle, a Chihuahua, show their good breeding by remain- ing friendly while posing for this picture. 2 eggs, unbeaten 34 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 35 cup shortening Ili cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder I teaspoon soda 34 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoon cinnamon teaspoon nutmeg 1/6 teaspoon cloves Sift dour with baking powder, soda, salt and spices three times. Cream shortening and vanilla, adding sugar gradually until light and fluffy, Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flourmixtureand apple sauce. Beat until well blended. Fill paper baking cups or greased muffin pans lee full Bake at 375° F. until cake springs back when touched (about 20 minutes). Cool before frosting. Makes 14 large cup cakes. :t * * Grated orange and lemon rind give these banana cup cakes an elusive taste, while chopped nuts add to their richness. BANANA CUPCAKES 2 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon soda ? teaspoon salt b4 eup shortening 1 cup sggar 2 eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon each grated orange and lemon rind 1 eup mashed ripe bananas 2 tablespoons milk y_ cup chopped nuts Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, and salt. Cream together shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in beaten eggs. Stir in vanilla and orange and lemon rinds. Stir flour mixture into cream mixture alternately with bananas and milk. Fold in nuts. Fill greased muffin pans or fluted baking cups (you'll need 18) about 33 full. Bake at 350° F. about 25 min- utes. * ♦ i Here's a plain cake to frost and decorate with halves of pecans. QUICK NUT -TOPPED CAKES 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1% cups sugar 3's cup shortening 1 sup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs Butter cream frosting Pecan halves Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Add shortening. Add vanilla to milk; add ? r cup milk to flour mix- ture. Mix to blend. Beat 2 min- utes at medium speed on electric mixer or 300 strokes by hand, Add eggs and remaining milk. Mix to blend. Beat 2 minutes or 300 strokes more. Spoon into greased or paper -lined muffin cups. Bake at 350° F. 25 minutes. When cool, frost and decorate will pecan halves. SALLY'S SALVES 'Pardon me, but these are big words you're dictating, Please use ones that we Mth can spell" Drive With Care TRY A "TROUSE" FOR TRICKY TRAVEL — The automotive con- traption above is both truck and house, so its owner, Joe Sinko- wich, calls it "crouse", A University student, he's used it as liv- ng'yuarters and transportation for four years. The unit con- tains a bunk, two love seats, a table, a stove, an icebox, a sink and a closet. In it, Joe goes home every summer and has made ane trip cross-country and back, all in comfort. The coach unit is designed so it slips handily on or off the bed of his 1948 half -ton Ford truck. Shop for New Swimsuit in Blizzard Weather By EDNA MILES Buying next summer's swimsuit this De- cember Isn't really a wild Idea. The resort collections offer the newest ideas, the prettiest fabrics. You can shop at leisure without that feeling of pressure that stems from the belief that you MUST get a suit this very day. You may want a suit fora winter vaca- tion. There's a brand-new group of swim- suits by Schiaparelli in French prints. These are authentic reproductions In color and design of originals by Chagall and Picasso. They're used in suits with matching skirts that are ideal for wear from poolside through the casual luncheon hour. Flared skirts take care of the hip prob- lem; other" designs minimize the bustline, There's a group of suits with necklines that can be changed at will to alter the look completely. One of these is black lastex with removable jeweled collar. There's a crossed halter that switches to a plunge or that can be used as a cuff for a strapless top. Each suit in this new collection is made with a built-in boned bra that's adjustable to your contours. Warm idea for cold winter: Shop for next summer's swimsuit. Styled by Schiaparelli in print from Marc Chagall original, suit shown features halter neck, pleated skirt. Spent Her Wedding Night Aleve While on holiday with his wife and two little girls last June, a Yeovil bank official went for a swim—and disappeared, Sixty- four days later he returned. Dur- ing that period his memory had been a complete blank. He remembered nothing from the time he entered the sea until he found himself in a Bristol restaurant. His case is unusual, but it is by no means a record. One morn- ing in the eighteenth century a Norfolk man left as usual for his work on the farm. Nobody saw him after that for nearly five years. Then he was dis- covered wandering in the fields near his home. Where had he been all that rim? He hadn't the haziest idea. But it was obvious that he had travelled extensively and had spent many months abroad in a hot climate. He was burned al- most black by the sun, and his broad Norfolk speech was in- terspersed with numerous for- eign words and strange expres- sions. Snatches of Arabic and Hindustani mainly, plus queer phrases which nobody recog- nized. In addition, he had picked up a lot of nautical terms— and the sailor's picturesque slang and full-blooded oaths. Undoubtedly, he had somehow or other boarded a ship and voyaged to the East. But why he cue so and now ne came bata was never discovered, Even more aramatic—and cer-. tautly patnetic—ss the story of the rssex gut wno vanssnea on the eve ox per wedding to a young termer, It seemed an meal maton. The young couple were genuinely in love with each other. The girl herself was eagerly looking forward to the morrow. Yet during the night she dis- appeared. With her went her bridal dress, and this was found in a river near by. Of the bride, however, there was no trace, and after a long and heart- breaking search her frantic pa- rents and intended husband gave her up for dead, believing that she had been claimed by the river. And so the weeks passed. Then one evening the parents heard their dog barking , joyfully. .A feeble lmock at the door fol- lowed, and the father threw it open. On the doorstep was the daughter they had never ex- pected to see again. She was weary, and pale with exhaustion, but otherwise unhurt. Above all, she was alive. To her parents it was a miracle. Eventually they were able to piece together the events of those lost weeks, There is no doubt that the excitement of her coming wedding had temporarily affected the girl's brain. And so she had wandered off, clutching her wedding -dress, lost in a world of her Own. She had no recollection of throwing the dress in the river. But she dimly re- called tramping the roads, sleep- ing beneath hedges and hayricks, begging crusts and drinking from ditches, At last she found herself among a crowd outside a village church. A bride entered on the arm of her father — and this touched some chord in the poor girl's clouded brain. Memory carne flooding back, and she hastened home. Not so serious is the case of the young husband who had a tiff with his wife and stormed out of the house. "I'm going for a holiday;' he shouted over hie shoulder,'%"Alonel" He went to a seaside hotel on the East coast and was about to sign the regi- ster when his mind misted over. He couldn't remember his name, BRAIN WAVE — Britain's min- ister of ' labor, Sir Walter Monckton, hasn't gone in for e zany method of curling his straight -as -a -poker hair. He's submitting to test run of a brain - wave recorder during opening ceremonies at a mental health exhibit in London. his address, or why he had come. - Rather than look a fool in front of the receptionist he filled in the register with the first particulary which came into bis head. Followed a week of worry, a week of frantic brain -flogging. All without result. Then he bumped into a woman who had just arrived at the hotel. By a remarkable coincidence it was his wife's sister. They hadn't met for quite a long time, but they instantly recognized each other. Thanks to that the man's memory returned and he return- ed also—to his wife. A Hampshire farmer engaged a man of forty or so who had begged . him for a job. He was unshaven and his clothes were shabby and badly torn. But he looked strong, and labour was too short for the farmer to ask questions. Despite the new man's dis- reputable appearance he was obviously well educated. He spoke with a refined accent and his manners were very different from those of his fellow -work- ers. After he had received his first week's wages he went to the nearest town and had a shave and haircut, The transformation was strik- ing—and it rang a bell with the farmer. He recalled seeing a photograph in the newspapers of a schoolmaster who bad gone on a walking tour some weeks before and hadn't been seen since. Undoubtedly the missing schoolmaster and his new work- er were the same. The farmer reported the matter, the man's wife came to identify him. and almost at once be remembered who he was. But he had no idea of what had happened after Ie left home. All these are serious incidents, but loss of memory—of the tem- porary kind—can have its amus- ing and embarrassing side. After seeing his bride settled in the hotel where .they were to spend their honeymoon, the bride- groom went off to park the car. Then be found he couldn't re- member where he was staving, and after searching for hours gave up in despair and dozed fitfully in the car till dawn. Ima- gine the feelings—not to say anxiety — of the unfortunate bride—left alone in a strange place on her wedding night' A lot of men are said to join the over -romanticized French Foreign Legion "to forget." A London youth found himself in this tough corps for the opposite reason. He had a mental black- out while on holiday in Paris Perhaps the drinks he had eonsutned were partly respon- siblle. Anyway, when he woke up the next morning, he had not the slightest recollection of en- listing in the Legion for five years. But he had—and his sig- nature on the appropriate docu- ment was proof. His protestations were of no avail. The luckless young fellow was shipped to Algiers, given relentless training in the desert, and eventually found himself on the way to Indo-China. At this stage he managed to desert and eventually reached Britain. It taught him a lesson. `No more holidays in Paris for me!" he vowed. You would think it impossible to forget your own children, Yet when a father took his small boy for a day at an Essex seaside place he arrived home without him. Fortunately the child was being looked after by the police —but the father received a se- vere ticking off for his lapse of memory. Another husband and father left his home in Woolwich one Saturday morning. "I'm just go- ing out for a drink," he told his wife. "Shan't be long," The day passed, darkness fell, and he hadn't returned. By now the wife was thoroughly alarmed and anxious, and when there was no sign of him on the Sun- day she went to the police. They were sympathetic, pro- mised to make inquiries. Then at about ten o'clock on the Mon- day morning a telegram arrived at the woman's house. It was from her missing husband. He was at his mother's home in in Yorkshire. He had completely forgotten that he had been mar- ried for nearly two years, and was the father of a girl. Fortu- nately, the man's memory re- turned, and there was no further trouble. All of whie'h invites the ques- tion: what causes loss of memo- ry? "A brow on the head, worry c overwork mainly," a doctor tells rne. "Bet sometimes a per- son semensci;usiy wants to for - gel — aced he es,, So if yeti feel the urge to run away from your worries, to in- dulge in a spot of escapism, there is only one sensible thing to do. Forget iti Fewer Rubbers Canadian manufacturers pro- duced 3,407,248 pairs of light and heavy rubbers in 1953 as compared with 3,746,231 pairs in 1952. Real Skyscraper The 984 -foot Eiffel Tower anti New York's 1,472 -foot Empire State Biulding have long vied in friendly rivalry as the world's tallest structures. Now they are to be challenged by'a 1,373 -foot builidng designed to make the Tower of Babel — be- lieved to have soared to 450 feet — just a baby. Appropriately enough, the Magnel is to be the centre- piece of a multilingual World Fair to be held in Brussels in 1958, Gustave Eiffel built in his tower for an outsize exhibition sixty-six years ago and the Bel- gians have instructed Gustave Magnel, an architect specializ- ing in prefab coneerte units, to tryfor something bigger and better. On wasteland outside Brus- sels 2,000 concrete piles sunk deep into the ground will give foundation for a thirty -storey building 'made in pyramid style of great concrete blocks. On the topfloor of this sky- scraper yet another structure will contain ten floors topped by a panoramic terrace restaurant capable of seating 1,500 people at a time, The project will cost $12,000,- 000 12,000;000 and the main building will contain radio and TV studios, concert halls and a TV school to give Belgium the finest radio centre in Europe. There ars prospects that the 442 -foot high TV mast will be used for com- mercials beaming ten hours e day to this country. In thehighest tower an observatory a n d meteorological station will keep watch on the weather. Yet this building is to be only the dominating big brother to a startling inverted tower which will also be an attraction at the exhibition. Beginning where our own skyline left off, a metal structure resting on a base fifty inches square will bevel out- wards, supporting at a height of 500 feet a platform fifty yards wide. This inverted Eiffel Tower is to have four novel escalator lifts climbing outward, a carillon and a restaurant. Though it will look absurdly top-heavy, the full thrust will converge forty feet below ground on a point as fine as a tin -tack, DOLEFUL DOVE — A mourning dove that has a right to mourn is this one being held for the photographer. The bird waa mysteriously wounded ane grounded by a short twig, im- bedded in its neck. The wound had healed around the twig se the dove has to go through life with a chip on its shoulder. THE SMILE'S GENUINE — Emmet Kelley, dean of circusdom's sad -faced clowns, breaks tradition to smile through his grease paint. He has reason -the picture shows his wife ar i newborn daughter, Stacia. Kelley was playing a season's -end er.jagement when the stork arrived at Ringling's winter quarters, where Mrs. Kelley met him at the hospital Ahr 5 1? �jl