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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-03-06, Page 7" LEAS r.9r' tr &airs Andbews A friend of mine was saying the lather flay that most of the cake fecipes in this column lately had been of the simple, easy -to -Make variety. I told her that it was Clone purposely as I know how busy most of my readers are, and bow little time they have for "fancy" *oohing. Still, there are occasions such as parties, anniversaries and so ,on, when something extra -special seems le be called for. So here you are, folks—cakes that you can serve with full confidence that they will please even the most discriminat. g. * o e BIRTHDAY CHOCOLATE CAFE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 34 cup boiling water 134 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 34 teaspoon salt 1344 teaspoons cinnamon cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 1 cup sugar 2 eggs _/ cup buttermilk Line the bottoms of two 1 -pound coffee cans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately low, 325 degree F. Melt chocolate in a double boiler over hot water, Then add water and stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Sift to- gether flour, soda,- baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in flavoring. Beat in sugar gradually and continue beating un- til light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time beat thoropghly after each. Stir in chocolate mixture. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture al- ternately with buttermilk in this way; Add one-third of dry ingre- dients, then half the buttermilk; repeat; end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition. Pour Into lined cans. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until sake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in cans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Loosen around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Then split each cake horizontally into two layers. Fill and frost layers with Chocolate Raisin Frosting. CHOCOLATE RAISIN FROSTING 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons butter Y cup milk 1 egg, slightly beaten 4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 34 cup chopped raisins Cook sugar, butter, and milk in top of double boiler over boiling water until sugar dissolves. Stir in mg and blend thoroughly. Remove Atom heat; stir in chocolate, van - pia, and raisins. Cool. Fills and Frosts Birthday Chocolate Cake or as 8 -inch layer cake. t * * FLUFFY WHITE CAKE 234 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder V4 teaspoon salt 34 cup shortening IA teaspoon vanilla flavoring 34 teaspoon almond flavoring 134 cups sugar 34 cup milk 34 cup water 34 cup egg whites (about 4) Line the bottoms of two 8 -inch layer cake pans with waxed paper, Set oven for moderate, 350 degree F. Sift together flour, baking pow- der, and salt. Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in vanilla and almond flavor- ings. Beat' in sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Combine milk and water. Add sifted dry ingredients to sugar 'mixture alternately with milk mix- ture in this way: Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid: repeat; end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition. Whip egg whites until stiff with a rotary beater or electric mixer. Gently fold into the flour mixture. Pour into lined pans. Babe 30 of 35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cakes im pans on wire racks 5 minutes. Loos- en around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool, Then split each layer horizontally into two layers. Put layers together with Strawberry Jam. Frost top and sides with Cream Cheese Frost- ing.' CREAM CHEESE FROSTING 1 3 -ounce package cream cheese 2 tablespoons milk %teaspoon almond flavorings 3% cups sifted confectioners' sugar Few grains salt Put cheese in a medium-size bowl and mash with a wooden spoon or electric mixer. Add milk, salt, and almond flavoring and beat until smooth and creamy. Add sugar gradually, continue beating vigor- ously until smooth, If frosting is too stiff to spread, add a few more drops of milk. Frosts top and sides of one 8 -inch layer cake. P,S.—If a tinted frosting is de- sired, stir in a few drops of food coloring, after all the sugar has been added. * * a CARAMEL PARTY CAKE - 1% cups milk, scalded 1 cup sugar 3 cups sifted cake flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt a/ cup shortening 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 4 eggs Heat milk in double boiler over boiling water. While milk heats, put 1 cup of the sugar in a heavy skillet. Place over low heat. Stir constantly until golden brown and sugar is dissolved. Stir very slowly into hot milk and continue cooking until it dissolves again, stirring occasionally. Measure. Add addi- tional milk if necessary to make 1yi cups. Cool to room tempera- ture. Line bottoms of two 9 -inch layer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately hot, 375 degree F. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Beat shortening until creamy. Beat in the second cup of sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each. Add sifted dry ingre- dients to egg mixture alternately with milk mixture in this way: Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat, end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thoroughly after. each addition. Pour into lined pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the cen- ter comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Loosen aroundedges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Fill and frost with Caramel Seven -Minute Frosting. CARAMEL SEVEN -MINUTE FROSTING 13 cups brown sugar 2 teaspoona light corn syrup Few grains salt 2 egg whites Y3 cup water 2 teaspoons grated orange rind Combine the first five ingredi- ents in the top of a 2 -quart double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with a rotary beater or electric mixer until mixture ]colds its shape, about 7 minutes. Fold in orange rind. Fills and frosts one 9 -inch layer cake. Shelley's Fellow — Hollywood actress Shelley Winters snuggles up close to her fiance, Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, as the couple arrive at New York's Idlewild Airport. The tempestuous blonde movie star says they will wed in April "if things work smoothly enough/1 Beaming Duo—Movie queen Elizabeth Taylor clasps hands with her new husband, Michael Wilding, shortly after arriving at a London airport. The 1 9 -year-old star and the British actor, 41, were married Feb. 22. It was the second trip to the altar for each of them. "Pardon me, but could you spare twenty-five cents for a cup of coffee? Marriage .Proposal Just 22 Years Late What an infinite variety of ways there are of asking someone to marry you, from the old-fashioned "Will you do me the honour of be- coming my wife?" to the modern. "How about getting hitched, baby?" There's the proposal business- like, for instance. Never a second of time was wasted by Edgar Wallace, who dictated his hundreds of books at high speed. One day, his secretary was taking down a sentence when he stopped before the end and said, "What about popping round to the registry office and finding out what we have to do about it?" They downed tools, dashed round to investigate, got married, and after the ceremony returned to the unfinished sentence. One of the most cold-blooded and calculated proposals must have been that made by John. Ward, of Scranton, U.S.A., to Mattie Weav- er. They met for the first time as members of a class to which a pro- fessor gave a lecture on courtship and marriage. Using the students as guinea - pigs, he gave different couples the reasons why they should suit each other. Ward and Miss Weaver were so convinced by his argu- ments that they immediately fixed the wedding date. Then there's the blind proposal, the parties to which have never seen each other, though probably have admired a highly glamorous photograph. Sometimes such offers of marriage are made as the result of pen frienmdship, and, of course, film stars are quite accustomed to receiving impassioned proposals from their fans. .It is estimated that 100,000 such "love" letters are received in Holly- wood each year. The postman brings Ann Blyth an average of twelve proposals a week, but six of then( are from the same man, a . Texan cattle rancher, Sailors' Lucky Dip The blindest proposals of all have been made by sailors who throw overboard bottles containing offers of marriage to the first wo- man who reads them, One such proposal, though in this case it was addressed to a par- ticular woman, has just reached its destination, twenty-two years too late, The man concerned was a cook on board the German liner Thuringia, The bottle holding his proposal was found by someone on the Isle of Wight, who forwarded it to Germany. Neither the cook, who is now a baker in Sylt, nor hie sweetheart, who lives near Worms -on -Rhine, had married—and they don't intend to do so nowt One of these blind proposals had a very happy ending in New York quite recently, when Samuel Jamie- son married' Myrtle Thomey. Two radio amateurs, they carried on their courtship by means of short- wave transmitters. One lived in Texas, the other in Indiana, so they didn't meet until their wedd- ing day. The proposal topsy-turvy is not uncommon when a woman sets her heart on a particular man. During the Napoleonic Wars, the March- ioness of Sligo was present at the Old Bailey when Sir William Scott was the judge trying her son. Sir William gave such a very paternal lecture that she sent up a note to the Bench saying how very good it would be for the young man if he could have such a father for the rest of his life. The judge accepted this tactful offer. In Somerset many years ago, a wealthy squire had a beautiful young daughter who fell in love with a handsome barrister. He took no notice of her, so she determined to attract his attention. Anonymously, she sent him a challenge to a duel, declaring that he had insulted her. Amazed, he arrived with his second to find a masked woman who pointed a rapier at his heart and issued the ultimatum: "Either you wed me or you fight" She refused to lethim see her face until he had made his decision. The young pian racked his brain, his friend advised him that she must he a woman of character to show such initiative, and so the barrister agreed to marry. her. Her beauty when revealed de- lighted him, and their marriage was a very successful one. He later became Lord Lieutenant of the country. Happily, the proposal romantic does still exist, judging by the evi- dence of letters to the Press writes by quite ordinary people recently. A Suffolk woman was given five red roses, each with a small label on which was written one word, The whole sentence read: "Will you be my wife?" Another modern proposal took place in the middle of a thunder- storm. The couple concerned were sheltering ,in a telephone kiosk Their breath made the glass steamy, and the man wrote on it: "Will you marry nue?" Not Dead Yet People write learned discussions full of statistics which are intended to prove that Great Britain is finished as a great nation. We don't believe it and our disbelief has been heightened by an item we just read in a -British paper. The actors were playing .-"St, George and the Dragon" in which St. George is supposed to slay the dragon with his lance, But it hap- pened that the dragon's lance hit the lance of St. George at an in- opportune second and 5t. George's lance went flying off the stage, grazing the nose of the flute player in the orchestra, St. George never hesitated, He tackled the dragon with bare hands, took his lance away from him and slew hint right on schedule, Furthermore the flute player with the injured ]lose retrieved Itis flute and continued to play, hardly missing a note. You can't lick people like that, —Front The Wall Street Journal SEDICIN tablets taken according to directions In a sore way to induce deep or quiet the nervus when tensa $1.00 Dru forms onl I or Sedicin Toronto2. Like To Book Your Passage To The Moon. Are you thinking of emigrating? Is your eye on Australia? Or South America? Or maybe ft's Africa? Well, don't make a hasty deci- sion. If you wait a mere 50 years or so, your choice may not be limited to these countries, or, in- deed, to any country on earth. By the end of the century it may be possible to emigrate to Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, or even the Moon. This is the hope, 1£ not yet the plan, of the British Interplanetary Society, whose members claim, with the customary caution of scientists, that within 30 to 50 years they will have made the first trip to the moon. But it's no use trying, through the Society, to book your passage, You would probably be suspected of facettiousness, which is some- thing the Society does not encour- age. It is very sensitive to the fact that most people still regard space- ships and journeys to the moon as strip -cartoon and film subjects —entertaining, but hardly to be taken seriously. Like Tibet This is an idea it wants to cor- rect. The 360 "Fellows" of the Society —members with high scientific or e n g i n e e ring qualifications — genuinely believe that space travel is not only possible but probable— and soon. Many of them, working for the Government on rocket research, are satisfied that even with the materials they already' have it would be possible to send an ex- pedition to Mars (where the climate is believed to be like that of Tibet). The only knowledge they still lack is how best to assemble those materials into a spaceship. It is this problem, says the Society's chairman, Mr, A. C. Clarke, that is holding things up and may do so for several years to come. ELECTRICAL STORM All Magic The poetry of earth, of course, is to be found in every created thing. Our spirits, when they're tuned to the right pitch of primal astonish- ment and delight, discover enchant- ment in any sun -warmed rock, any whisking October oak leaf, and shimmering drop of rain on the nearest blade of dooryard grass. The creation is one continuous and inexhaustible glory; this garden is all magic. Still, we're likely, most of us, to grow a little dulled, from a sort of fatigue of familiarity. We forget to be feeling the sunlight on us. We don't hear any more all the astonishing little earth - musics, such as, say, crickets' ... Whatever else we may neglect to notice, we are pretty sure to be struck and stirred by the tumbling, spring -bursting "conkerr-eel" of red -winged blackbirds in an April marsh, the honking clatter of wild geese in their autumnal passing ... The speed, the aerial expertness bf birds is, of course, one of the first things about them to enchant us. We stand on an autumn hilltop and watch the migrant hawks flash by, or we see swallows skimming across the farm lands almost like darts of light, and in an instant we are caught up, in empathy, inethe bird's world of rush and buoyanee. How fast, really, do these winged brothers of ours go, up in their world of air and sunlight and the whistling wind? Most of the commoner small birds have a flying speed of about forty-five or fifty miles per hour. (They often go much more slowly, of course: we're speaking of maxi- mums.) Doves and pigeons can go arrowing along at sixty-five. If the guesses of some nineteenth- century animalizers were right, back in the days when there were still passenger pigeons thronging the American sky, those may have been able to fly even more swiftly. The wild geese? They are able to touch seventy; and that's about the record speed, too, for ducks. -- Reprinted from "This Fascinating Animal World," by Alan .Devoe. "After all," he points out, It took five years and R.10 million to get the Brahmin into the air, and this problem is 100 tines snore difficult." Met and Argued The B r i t 1 s h Interplanetary Society was founded in 1933 -ten years before the first rocket was invented, and when the Idea of visiting the moon only existed in the minds of imaginative novelists. Yet Mr. P. E. Cleator, a young engineer living in Cheshire, manag- ed to find about 100 men like him- self, who believed fervently enough in interplanetary travel to form a society. In those days, recalls Mr. Clarke, was was an early enthusiast, al1 that the members did was to meet and argue, During the war the Society went into temporary retirement, though the members continued to argue by post. In 1946 they ie -formed the Society and, because the war had made everyone rocket-con- acious, new members were not hard to find. For a subscription of about $5 a year the 1,129 "lay" members— those with no particular scientific knowledge—can go to the monthly meetings and attend lectures, exhi- bitions and film shows which keep them up-to-date with the latest developments in engineering and astronomy. Many of them went, last Septem- ber, to the three-day Second Inter- national Congress on Astronautics (the first was in Paris in 1950), organised by the Society at Caxton Hall, Westminister. Here they met delegates from interplanetary societies in fourteen different countries — for Britain, though she was one of the first, is not the only country that is reaching for the moon. The Society's "Journal," pub- lished monthly, caters for both kinds of members. "Far Too Risky" Mental stimulation is provided for Fellows in articles with titles like "A Note on the Use of Dim- ensionless Parameters in Astron- autics"; but less technically -minded readers can skip that and turn straight to the Notes and News column. 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