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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-12-20, Page 3-.-..a-«s•-e-µ-...-«+-S S •-S Wonian's 'World By Mair M. Morgan CITRON CAKE Of course fruit cake always take the head position during the holiday season nevertheless one can tire of such a rich diet and the wise home- maker stocks the cake box with a variety. Try this citron cake recipe. It results in a delicate green, and tends to keep moist for weeks. Cream one cup butter with 1 1-2 cups sugar until it ,is so creamy it is neai'ty white; add 6 eggs one at a time beating thoroughly between each addition. Sift in one cup flour and . the grated rind of 2 lemons and add the juice of 1 lemon—beat thorough- ly :min. Cut in 2-3 cup mills alter- nately with 1 1-2 cups more of flour which has been sifted with 1 tea- spoon baking powder. When all is well beaten and blended and creamy add 1 ]-2 cups finely sliced citron peel which has been . very lightly floured. Bake in buttered and paper- ed loaf pan in a slow oven. It will take at least 2 hours to bake it. Near this little lake stands a white hcu:-e, with a lovely little garden, which never fails to attract achuir- ing glances from passers-by. This garden cotains two rose bushes, beds of chrysanthemums, morning glories and other flowers. As I looked at this house I wished that I could see the inside of it, but as tht was im- possib`le I just contented myself by picturing the inside. ' SWEDISH DISHES At noon on the day before Christ- mas. Sweden begin its long holiday festivities with a luncheon (more like a banquet really) following a pattern that has been traditional for centuries. There are wintery snow- drifts outside, and within open burning candles, a lighted festooned Christmas tree, and a table laden with the best the kitchen has to of- fer. Some recipes are: Risgrynsgrot 2 cups rice 2 1-2 quarts milk 1-2 cup sugar 2 teaspoons salt 1 blanched almond 1 cinnamon stick Sugar Cream Powdered cinnamon. Wash the rice well, add milk, sugar salt, cinnamon stick and the almond. Let cook slowly in a double boiler, stirring often, for about two hours. Add more milk if necessary to keep it from. becoming too thick. Serve with sugar, cinnamon and cream. This will make eight to ten servings. Herring Salad 1 salted herring 1 cup cooked beef 1 cup diced potatoes 1 cup diced cooked beets 1 can diced apples 2 tablespoons capers 1-2 cup diced cucumber 2 chopped hard -cooked eggs 1-2 cup French dressing. Soak herring for several hours. Clean, remove skin and bones. Cut into small dice. Mix with all other ingredients and season with dressing. This will make eight to ten servings. Paa•slep Chicken 1 chicken • 3-4 cup chopped parsley 1-4 cup bread crumbs 2 egg yolks 1 cup butter Croutons Pepper and salt. Have chicken cut as for fricassee. Place in tight covered pan a layer of chicken, layer of parsley, layer of bread crumbs, pepper and salt. Con- tinue until all chicken is used, Peer over it one quart water. Cover r ,d coce, slowly until chicken is tender. Arrange chicken on platter. Pour well beaten egg yolks into the sauce, stirring constantly. • Do not let boil. Pour over chicken and garnish with croutons. This will serve six, SWEETS This is the season when the sweet tooth seems to crave more satisfac- tion than ever, the kitchen eupbord can provide ingredients for delicious morsels. Here are recipes for just such occasions. Pineapple Tasties 1 1-2 cups grated pineapple 2 cups sugar 1-2 teaspoon salt 1-2 cup light corn syrup. Cook above ingredients together until soft ball forms when tested in cold water (or to 236 degrees F. on a candy thermometer). Drop by teaspoons on a greased platter. When slightly cool shape into balls with a spatula and place a nut meat or candied cherry on top of each. This will make fifteen to twenty candies. FRUIT JUICE CANDY 4 tablespoons orange juice. 4 tablespoons .pineapple juice. Confectioner's sugar, Ground nut meats. Stir enough confectioner's sugar into the combined juices to mold well. It will require about six cups.. Cut into fancy shapes and roll in ground nut meats. This makes about four cups of quick fondant: If the nuts will not stick to the fondant, dip candy first in a little fruit juice. PRALINES 1 cup brown sugar. 3 tablespoons corn syrup. 3 cups evaporated milk. 2 cups white sugar. 1 1-2 cups nuts. 1-2 cup water. Combine all the ingredients except the nuts and cook until a little drop- ped into cold water will form a soft ball. Add nuts and beat until stiff and creamy. Drop from , the end of spoon on to oiled paper or an oiled dish or pan. This quantity makes about one and three-quarter pounds of candy. MAPLE NUT CARAMELS 1 cup maple sugar. 1 cup milk. 1 cup chopped nuts. 4 teaspoons corn starch. 1-2 cup corn syrup. 4 teaspoons butter. 1-2 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon vanilla. - Melt the maple sugar :in a double boiler, then add the syrup, the but- ter, the corn starch dissolved in 2 tablespoons of cold milk, the rest of the milk and the soda, and cook until the mixture forms a'soft ball when dropped into cold water, or to 238 degrees on the candy thermometer. Stir in the nuts and vanilla and pour into oiled pans. Cut into squares when cold and roll in par- affin paper. RUSSIAN 2'AFFY 2 cups brown sugar. A 1-2 pt. can of condensed milk, 3-4 cup broken nut meats. 1 cup Mazola. 1 cup corn syrup. 1-2 teaspoon salt. Cook all the ingredients, except the nuts, for about 20 minutes or until they form a soft ball when dropped into water, or to 238 de- grees on the candy thermometer. Add nuts and pour into well-oiled pans to cool. Cut in squares and serve on waxed or oiled paper. 'TROUBLES Tell your troubles one and all, Count them over great and small, Pile your burden high and then Look among your fellowmen. Here's a crippled form and wan Here's a youth with both legs gone, Here's a blindman holding up For your kindly coins, a cup. Walk one block of any street And along the way you'll meet Always one, and sometimes two, 'Who've the right to envy you. Be your troubles *hat they may You can bear'them anyway. You have strength and you have might, ..,. You can stnd and you can fight, Trouble cannot knock you flat, You're not handicapped like that! Battered and Torn ' Pounding surf ended the career of another old-timer on a reef off the Mediterrean coast. Despite the use of the available anchors and chain cables, the high wind during a sudden gale swept the tiny craft ashore. All hands were saved. Sunday School Lesson THE CHRISTIAN HOME GOLDEN TEXT—"Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased. The Lesson In its Setting. TIME AND PLACE—Jesus was born in Bethlehem,' a village six miles south of Jerusalem perhaps on De- cember 2th B.C., 5, Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians during his first Roman imprisonment, A.D. 6162, "And there were shepherds in the same country." The country of Judea in which Christ was born. "Abiding in the field.' This might easily be in December for in that warm climate the sheep could often be kept outdoors throughout the win - shepherds to and for us. "In the city of David," In Bethlehem, near by, the birth city of the greatest Hebrew king, our Lord's ancestor according to the flesh. "A. Savior, who is Christ, the Lord." All theology is in the nut- shell of these three titles. Christ was the Saviour of men, the prophe- sied Messiah, the one to whom all the sacrifices pointed, the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, the Atonement for our sins, "And this Is the sign unto you." They were to go to Bethlehem to seek the Messiah, and the angel gives them a token by which they may know him. "Ye shall find a babe ,yrepped in swaddling clothes." And wrapped closely around with the bands with which the Jewish people wrapped their new born children. "And lying in a manger." The man- ger of Bethlehem,is the symbol of the ter, "And keeping watch by night world's neglect for the obscure its over their flock." The fields around hardness to the necessitous, its scorn Bethlehem were those in which David of the poor. tended his sheep when he when sum- "And suddenly there was with the moned to be annointed for the king- angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. The sky was part- ed as if a veil had been drawn aside and instantly the heavens were seen to be crowded with singing angels, the most wonderful sight ever seen by mortal eyes. "And saying Glory to God in the highest." In the highest heaven or in the highest degree. "And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased." The translation does not bring out the parallelism of the angel song which is: To God—in the higheet heaven— be glory. To men well pleasing to God—on earth. -r -be peace. "And it came to pass, when the an- gels went away from them into heav- en," Our angel ministers are but vis- itors whether they be clad in the sombre garments of sorrow or the white raiment of joy. When they are gone we must turn the message they have brought into obedience, and translate their ministry to us into service for others, 'The shepherds said one to another," Naturally as they were talking over the wonder- ful experience. "Let lie now go even unto Bethlehem." Recall that Beth- lehem was not their home town. And "For there is born to you this day." see thisthing that is come to pass, Christ was born to and for those which the Lord hath made known to ship of Lsral by the prophet Samuel. There were also the fields of Boaz in which Ruth gleaned. "And an angel of the Lord stood by them." An angel, the great archangel Gabriel had been sent from heaven to announce to the Virgin Mary the coming supernatural birth of Christ. "And the glory of the Lord shone ar- ound about them." These higher be- ings prove in a realm of light which surrounds them always with splendor "And they were sore afraid," The presence of the supernatural produces terror in mortals, who are filled with instinctive awe•of theetinfamiliar and dread of its power. "And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid." He 'who was born on Christmas day came that he might cast out fear. He introduced into our life a love of God and a love of man in the face of which fear cannot ab- ide, "For behold I bring you good ti- dings of great joy," The church takes a word out of the Christmas message and makes it a description of all the Christian teaching. We preach the gospel, and gospel means good tid- ings, The universality of Christianity is one of the most bleseed lessons of Christmas. us," Come and see is written upon the gospel, There is no secrecy and up concealment in it. "And they came with haste," These shepherd lads animate the Christmas story with their racing feet, as a generation later two running discip- les the Easter narrative illustrating the demeanor of (every .earnest .Ghar- aeter in the presence of a new phase of truth, "And found both Mary and Joseph and the babe lying In the manger." The placing of Jesus in the heart o1 a family makes him. seem to be so much more human, while it in- vests family life with the supreme sanctity. "And when they saw it, they made known concerning the saying which was spoken to them about this child. Revelations are given us to make known to others. If we keep them to ourselves, we are faithless to a divine trust. "And all that heard it wondered at the things which were spoken unto them by the shepherds." No single incident recorded in human history has so gripped the imagination or compell e the reverent awe of men the world over as this wholly pictur- esque and utterly homely scene, "But Mary kept all these sayings pondering them in her heart." -The wonderful things told by the shep- herds were not understood fully by the mother of Jesus, in spite of the words of Gabriel to her; but she treasured them nevertheless, turning them over and over through the years and they exalted all her life, "Children obey your parents in the Lord." Obedience is the law of child- hood, and if the parents are in the Lord as expressed in the verses ab- ove, obedience is in a great part the child's religion, and that is to be practised in the Lord. "For this is right." Tthe sin of dis- obecYenee to parents is the basis and effectual cause of much of the law- lessness and anarchy in home and in church and state. Our prisons and re- formatories are filled with spoiled children who were never taught ob- edience at home, "Honor thy father and mother," What if the parents do not deserve honor? Even then the children are to honor parenthood in them. "Which is the first commandment with promise Paul meant that of all the Jewish law this was the first that had a promise attached to it. The promise was a national promise. It was not an as- surance' that every child that obeyed his parents' would escape sickness and poverty, would be prosperous, and would live to a good old age; it was a declaration that the prosperity and the stability and the permanence of the nation depended upon the re- verence of children for their parents. "That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." The commandment which ordains that children should honor their fa- ther and mother holds the first place in the second table. It comes even before that commandment which pro - tents our eves » forbidding murdai The dutiful obedience e . children then 10 .declared by God to be the foundation of all social happiness and of every .social virtue. "A.ud ye fathers Provoke ,nok yolir children to wrath:" They age not tq provoke them, that they become bad tempered. "But nurture them in the chastening and admonition of • the. Lord." Weymouth's translation le: Bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice. Amusing the Little Ones on Rainy Days Children of from two to six years old will love empty cotton, spools that are painted different colors and a piece of wire to thread them on, or large wooden beads and bodkin and. thread. Do not give children under six small beads to thread or wool work on fine canvas. The four or five -year-olds may be given coarse canvas and thick silk or wool, or raffia and cardboard rings to make table mats or napkin rings. Plasticine will amuse children of all ages and if a large sheet of brown paper is spread on the floor you need not worry about your carpet From about three or four years up- wards "cutting out" is an engrossing occupation, The younger children will be quite content simply to cut up newspapers, but the older ones can make "books" by folding newspaper, o'r, better still the white paper used for kitchen shelves 5'ewing it together in the centre, and filling the book with fi- gures etc cut out of magazines. Children over six can spend a joy- ous afternoon making doll's house furniture out of empty match boxes. All that is needed beside the boxes is glue, a paintbox and some white and brown paper for covering the ar- ticles. THE PAPERS OVERLOOKED HIM The papers overlooked him, for be newer beat his wife He never tried to rob a bank or take another's life. And he wasn't very brilliant and he didn't try for fame, So there was, no real reason for the po'essi to print his name. The papers overlooked him—he was never deep in debt, He never slipped away from town with all that he could get, He never made a million, never wrote a modern play, So there wasn't much about him that the editor could say. And the more I think about him, it's the ordinary man Who's the glory of the nation, and the strength of every clan, So I pay thus tribute to him --not the genius or the crook. But the honest, normal average man the papers overlook, —A.non Changing of the Guard Through murky fog, blanketing London, emerges a romantic cav- alcade of Horse Guards minute to the Mall for the daily and color- ful Changing of the Guard. 13 AND ) F}'--- 55FF, S WIREDTHE GIRLS THAT wERE IN Tt1E ATLANTIC+ drTY BEAUTY CONTEST TO GOMEAND PLAY IN OUR HURRY DOWN To TBETTER `i-ERMINALTOO MEET THEM WREN THEY GET IN 'B1YT MUTT, voNIT WAt-1'r lO Go AROUND TOWN LIKE A LADY! GOING DOWN! Z. GIRLS, f WANT WW1' MEET ONE of -INE MANY STARS THAT t HAVE vE,uELOPED,-"LITTLE SEN Nei AWN0WILL. 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