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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-12-05, Page 3• By Mair M. Morgan MAKE XMAS CAKES NOW Eggs are sky-rocketng just as the "10 -egg cake Season," that of Xinas baking, opens. While "use only tested recipes" is the first rule of a successful coop, nowhere is it more important than in making Xmas cakes, crammed full of the finest fruits and spices, held in a delicate, smooth batter made with the finest cake flour obtain- able. A. good true recipe is of no use if it • is not carefully followed and ac- curate measurements made. And, of course, the fruit, flour and ,.eggs are not just thrown together as they come to hand — they must be added as -specified in the recipe for, in a dark fruit cake, the fruit is added directly after the sugar; in a light, it is floured and added when the batter is well -mixed. The recipe for Christmas Fruit Cake here has been carefully tested and gives a perfect cake. 1 ib. (41/2 cups) sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon mace 1 lb. butter or other shortening 1 lb. brown sugar 10 eggs, well beaten 1/2 lb. candied cherries 1/2 ib. candied pineapple 1 lb. dates seeded and sliced 1 lb. raisins 1 ib. currants 1/2 Ib. citron, thinly •sliced 1/2 lb. candied orange and lemon peel 1/2 1•b. nut meats, chopped 1 -cup honey 1 cup molasses lit cup cider Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder and spices, and sift to- gether three times. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, fruits, peel, nuts, honey, molasses and cider. Add flour gradu- ally. Turn into pans which have been greased, lined with heavy paper, and again greased. Bake in slow oven (250 deg. F.) until thoroughly done. Cool in pans. For large loaves bake in 8 x 4 x 3 inch pans about 4 hours. For small loaves bake in 6 x 3 x 21/2 inch pans about 2% to 3 hours. Makes 10 pounds fruit cake. To store, brush lightly with port or brandy, wrap in --waxed '_.paper, and keep in air -tight container. Or brush with grape juice, wrap and store. White Fruit Cake is becoming in- creasngly popular and the carefully • tested recipe gives ' a feathery light batter for +he delicious combinaton of fre'• drii'fE FRUIT CAKE 4 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 lb. sultana raisins 1/2 ib, citron, finely cut lr( lb. each crystalled orange peel, lemon peel, pineapple and red cherries, finely cut 10 egg whites, stiffly beaten 1 lb. blanched almonds, finely. cut 1 cup butter or other shortening 1i/ cups sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice Sift- flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder, soda ..and salt, and sift --together three times. Sift one cup. flour mixtureover fruits and nuts; mix thoroughly. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and flufi'y. Add remaining flour mixture to creamed mixture, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Add lemon juice, fruits, and nuts. Fold in egg whites. Pour into paper -lined tube pan or small bread pans, 2 x % x 4/ inches. Bake in slow oven (250 deg. F.) 2% hours, then increase to 300 deg. F. for 15 minutes. Makes 6 pounds fruit cake. Old -Titre Brownies is a splendid recipe to nave when using egg whites' in cakes because it uses five egg yolk§ to make wonderfully flavor- some cup -cakes. OLDTIME BROWNIES 1% cups sifted cake flour % teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 1-3 cups sugar - 5 egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon -colored . "2/ squares' unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 cup sour cream 1 cup walnut meats, broken 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, - add soda and salt, and sift together three times:.Add sugar to egg yolks, cream ing well. Add chocolate and blend. Add flour, alternately with cream, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Add nuts and vanilla: Pour into deep, greased cup -cake pans, filling them about 1-3 full. Bake in hot oven (400 deg. F.) 15 minutes. Makes 3 dozen Brown- ines. - Apples, rosy and full flavored, are Canada's pride at this season. They keep the- doctor away because they supply valuable mineral salts. To add pep and interest to a lunch or dinner menu, the clever home- maker can turn out Apple Cider Tang in a short time and at a very low cost, APPLE CIDER ANG 1 package quick setting lemon jelly powder 1 cup warm water 1 cup sweet cider 11/2 cups red apples, cut In match- stick pieces Dissolve jelly powder in warm water; add cider. Chill. When slight- ly thickened, fold in apples. Turn into indivdual moulds. Chill until firm. Unmould. Serves 6. Poor "Apple Betty" hasn't had a new dress since Canadian house- wives first served her. Cocoanut Ap- ple Betty is a "company" dish and yet easily made. Royal' Poli or iia nce King George and Queen -Mary of England pictured as they en- tered the flower -banked Royal Box at the Palladium an London to attend a command performance held there recently. Other Mem- bers of the Royal Family also attended. mainder of tapioca mixture. Cover with crumbs. Bake in moderate oven (350 deg. F.) 2a• minutes. Serves 4. Tomato Rabbit is one of those odd- ly named dishes, because a rabbit never came near it. Perhaps it de- scended from the old Welsh and To.. mato Rarebits that were the pride `of the chafing dish expert. But this. To- mato Rabbit hasn't the tendencyto get stringy and tough as the rare- bits did because minute tapioca, not corn starch, is used to bind it. TOMATO RABBIT 2 tablespoons quick -cooking to pioca 1 cup milk, scalded 1 cup canned tomato soup 1/4 teaspoon salt dash of paprika 1 cup grated cheese Add quick -cooking tapioca, salt, and paprika to `milk, and cook in double boiler 5 minutes or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Add tomato soup and cheese. Cook until cheese is melted. Serve on crackers or toast. Serves 4, F 01 ESS4IN LESSON X -- Peeember 8 NEHEMIAH. REBUILDING THE WALL OF JERUSALEM Nehemiah 4:6-9, 16.21. GOLDEN TEXT The people had a rpind to work. — Nehemiah 4:6, THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING TIME. — All the events recorded in the first seven chapters of the book of Nehemiah took place within a period of one year, 445-444 B.O, PLACE. -- Suss, the ancient capi- tay of Persia, the winter residence of Artaxerxes, about eightly miles east of the Tigris River; and the city of Jerusalem. "So we built the wall." This phrase can almost be called a piece of quiet humor. Nothing could stop these people. God was there. The king's de- cree was in their midst, "And all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work. SAYS HIS IS SADDEST JOB COCOANUT APPLE BETTY. 4 tart apples, pared and thinly sliced 1 cup soft bread crumbs 1 cup shredded cocoanut 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 4 tablespoons butted;,;, Arrange the layer • of apples ` in greased baking dish. Cover with bread crumbs and cocoanut then sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, and dot with butter. De - peat until all ingredients are used, topping with cocoanut. .Cover and bake in moderate oven (350 deg. F.) 35 minutes.' Uncover and bake 10 to 15 minutes longer, or until apples are soft. Serves 6. • Escalloped cheese and olives is a flavorsome and smartly new supper dish — the very thing for late Sunday supper or "high tea" as many Can- adians still call it. And it's excellent for luncheons, too, with rye bread or bran muffins. - ESCALLOPED CHEESE AND OLIVES 1 small onion, finely chopped 3 tablespoons quick -cooking tapio- ca 11A cups tomatoes, strained and heated ,4 cup grated cheese , buttered crumbs 1 tablespoon butter 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1-8 teaspoon paprika 18 ripe or stuffed olives, coarsely chopped Saute onion in butter. Add quick - cooking tapioca, salt, sugar, onion, and paprika to tomato juice, and cook in double boiler 5 minutes or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Place layer of tapioca mixture in greased baking, clash, cover, with cheese, add layer of olives, then re- • NEW YORW—Louis Oppie- believ- es he has the saddest job in the na- tion's largest city. He advanced his claim to the title at a gloomy brick building surround- ed by a high iron fence at 29th Street and First avenue. Oppie is custodian of the place. Officially it is known as the city morgue; but to him it is "tragedy terrace". , Across the street, tenement child- ren play, unmindful of the morgue, and the life of the city whirls by. To. Oppie's care are entrusted Man- hattan's unidentified dead: Suicides, derelicts and failures tossed aside by the city's rush. The bodies are photographed, wrap- ped. in sheets, tagged and listed in the book of unidentified dead. Then they are taken to the basement and placed in long cases. Here are men and women who met death suddenly and alone. Some aree from other cities; they droppedout of sight without causing a ripple New York's surface. Relatives back hone w;aiti,,,a !..,won der why they do not write. Oppie sees relatives enter the morgue, and sit on a long bench wait- ing their turn. Ile leads their grim search through the corridors.•. He commutes from . Jamaica to what he calls "his port of missing men." A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR ALL • THE YEAR There is no such think as a"poor Christmas present. Some are just better than others. Any- gift offered out of a spirit of love and friendship carries a sentiment not to be dis- ttes • ed'lmghtly.` ' All gifts, however, do not bespeak this wish so well as . they might. Household gifts lack the desirable personal touch — yet purely personal presents often wear out or change style so quickly that the giving seems an ill -chosen waste. The per- fect gift not only gives instant pleasure, but lingers on to oharnn the receiver many, many trines. Pets make excellent gifts. Can- aries, particularly, touch a respon- sive chord • in any woman's heart. They need little care: a bit of water, some bird -food and such tiny lux- uries as will make life more pleasant for them. And in return they bring their owners the gift of song from morning till dusk. With the Christmas season coming on apace, it is well to keep this sug- gestion in mind. The novelty of the gift will -surprise and please the •re- ceiver. - HOME HINTS' When paper hanging, use common starch instead of flour for the; paste. It sticks better, is also more eco- nomical, and makes the job much cleaner. Housewives who have no hot water supply should place- the wash- ing up bowl full of cold water on the kitchen range. It will be - getting ready for use. Each night take valets from. their vases and place them upside :down in a pudding dish. Half fill the batfii with water, so that the flower heads 3 of the it while its walls were being. built, nevertheless, ,he had confidence that his God would fight for his people. (See also ]fix, 15;3.6; 14:14;1 I)eut, 1:30; 3:22; 20:4; 28:7). Your Daughter's Height To tell how tall small slaughter 10' likely to grow, take her height at the age of seven. If she 10 tall, then she is likely to be tall at 16, when her growth 10 about complete, If medium at seven, she may always be so. If short then you need not expect a tall daughter. The seven-year height is not in- fallible, but it is better for predicting than her height at the age of 11, Dr. Edwin B. Wilson, of the Harvard School of Publio Health told the National Academy of Sciences. That is the way girls grow, ac- cording to a study of 275, whose} heights were measured each yeav l from the ages of seven to 16. "But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Ar- abians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went for- ward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth." In most editions of the He. brew Bible, this is the first verse of the fourth chapter. Here we have a complete list of the foes of Jerusa-'. lem. Here we find the anger of these opponents reaching its highest pitch. "And they conspired all of them to- gether to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein." The sudden arrival of hos- tile forces outside Jerusalem did cer- tainly cause confusion. are well covered, while the stalks are left exposed to the air. In the morning gently shake the water from the petals and rearrange in vases. Linseed oil is excellent ing rust from the range, A novel way to scent the hair is to sew a small cachet bag inside the hat A wet chamois, wrung dry, will re- move all lint from the upholstered furniture. Mahogany woodwork can be wash- ed with cold tea, or with a weak mixture of vinegar and water. ' . Silk and woollens can be ironed safely on the right side it they are covered with a slightly dampened cheesecloth. for remov- Keep a small bottle of ammonia on the desk. A dip of the pen in the ammonia will make it as clean new. RS Custom may lead a man into manyi errors; but it justifies none. Fielding. "But we made aur prayer unto our God." Note here the plural pronouns. Hitherto there had been a melancholy solitariness about the earnest devo- tion of. Nehemiah. The success of his misson began to show itself when the citizens began to participate In the same spirit of devotion. "And set a watch against them day and night, because of them." Certainly prayer did not make these people carelss. Men who first speak to God and manifest dependence upon him are, generally found to be those who make the wisest use of every available and honorable source for bringing about those things concerning which God ,has revealed his will. "And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known un- to us, and God had brought their cosh sal, to drought, that we - returned r _.;; • x11.'0 b�tp 't&'e•"`iv'a:3; every one unt°. his work" God has brought the counsel of the enemy to nought through the precautionary measures now taken by Nehemiah, and the enemy apparently abandoned their in- tention of making immediate attack. "And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mall; and the rulers were behind ,all the house of Judah." We should gather from this verse that only in the case of Nehemiah's personal attendants was there still an insistence upon arms being carried while the work of building went on. "Laded themselves; every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon. And the builders, every one has his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me." Neheaniah had kept oversight of the entire under- taking. "And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another." "In what place soever ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us; our God will fight for us." "So we wrought -in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appear- ed" Even though Nehemiah bad made elaborate plans for 'the defence If you know how to spend less I than you get, you have the philoso-i pher's stone. — Franklin, Basque Model Here's a very smart look, ue model with a very modern that will interest bright ri ht young and the young wo- man. Wool jersey, rabbits wool, vel- veteen, novelty crepe silks, velvet, stc., are very attractive materials for this find double roweThe ofb9collar shirt buttons are :harmingly young. Simple to sew—inexpensive, and what a remarkably chic ef- fect. Style No. 2799 is designed for sizes 11, 13' 15, 17 and 19 years. Size 15 requires 3% ,yards of 39- of 39- inch material with .., yards inch contrasting. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted.. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin prefer- red; wrap it carefully) and ad- dress your order to Wilson Pat- tern Service, 73. West Adelaide Street, Toronto. FU MANCHU r 1 ' l tr;,' sly • i p zitia //... m /N By Sax Rohner Shortlytwe wore ready to go.. Accord- �; ing to instructions, one of the shabby dotoc- }Ives already .I/y in A I feigned Brunn shop ' near Shen Yan's dopa shop, while his comrade. I argued with him to get 1 up. "Don't move till you hear the whistle in. h e Inspector had told them. THE SEVERED FINGERS—Setting The Trap. 0 194 7ty sax Rohner agd'ri Ads srnd!tato, Sac, Four shabby fellows saluted when We entered the Wapping River Police Station,. Wo were i to go to Shen Yelp`s. in the police Iauncls, which would await an alarm from us. "But don't wait too long," Wey- mouth warned Smith, when plans were completed. "or you mays appear next in the river.with half your fingers missing." The other two sleuths, acting on their orders, had . broken from the back into an empty shop opposite Shen Yen's. t.00 inside Shen Yen's like lightning when you hear the signal," b, were Weyymmouth's parting worth to them. "The launch is ready, sir, an. bounced Inspector Ryman from the doorway, and we trooped rut t4 rho Mk craft. The chill of the water "pane. tm'ated my thin garm nts... ,, I thought of Fu Manchu ... the Severed Finger' . es we headed into The shadows . ,