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elate Andrews
Once hi a while I get a letter
'from somebody asking for recipes
that give larger quantities, suit-
stble for serving at a church or
community supper.
Well, then, here is 'such a
recipe, for a plain but very good
white cake, which will cut up
into no less than 54 two-inch •
squares. Please note that, like
the two other cake recipes that
follow it, the shortening used is
lard. These should be welcome
In some of your homes, where
you have your own "home-
grown" lard.
WHITE CAKE FOR 50
e. lard
21/2 c. milk
2% tsp. vanilla flavoring
51/2 c. cake flour
21/2 tblsp. baking powder
2% tsp. salt
334 c. sugar
5 eggs
Add 5 tblsp. of the milk, and
the vanilla flavoring to the lard.
Whip until light and fluffy, or
about 2 minutes with electric
mixer at medium speed. Sift
dry ingredients together; add to
lard along with 34 of the milk.
Beat until smooth, about 4 min-
utes with electric mixer at
medium speed. Add remaining
milk and eggs. Beat until smooth.
Pour into greased and floured
121/2 x 18 -inch pan. Bake in mod-
erate (350°) oven 35 to 40 min-
utes. Makes 54 2 -inch squares.
MOCHA FROSTING
1/2 e. butter
1 egg yolk
2 tblsp. strong coffee
2 squares unsweetened choco-
late, melted
234 c. confectioners' sugar
Cream butter; add egg yolk,
coffee and chocolate. Mix well.
Gradually a d d confectioners'
sugar. Blend until smooth. Frosts
two 8 -inch layers.
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WHITE CAKE
1 c. milk
c. lard
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp. almone flavoring
21/2 c. sifted cake flour
3 tsp, baking powder
1 -tsp. salt
134 c. sugar
3 egg whites
Add to the lard 2 tblsp. of the
milk, vanilla, and almond flavor-
ing. Whip until light and fluffy,
or about 2 minutes wiith your
electric mixer set at medium
speed, Sift dry ingredients to-
gether. Add to lard mixture
with % of the milk. Beat until
smooth, or about 2 minutes with
electric mixer at medium speed.
Add remaining milk and unbeat-
en egg whites, Beat until smooth.
Pour into two greased and flour-
ed 8 -inch cake pans. Bake in
moderate (350°) oven 25 to 30
minutes.
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Flavor Variations:
Substitute 1/2 tsp. crushed car-
damon seeds for vanilla flavor-
ing. Substitute 1 tsp. crushed
anise seed for vanilla flavoring.
For a pistachio flavor, add 1/2
tsp. lemon flavoring.
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For Gold Cake:
Use white cake recipe, substi-
tuting 3 unbeaten egg yolks for
the 3 egg whites, and 1/2 tsp;
lemon flavoring for the almond
and vanilla.
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CHOCOLATE CAKE
% c. lard
2 tblsp. inllk
2 c. sifted cake flour
34 c. cocoa
1% c. cugar
1 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. soda
1 c. sour milk
2 eggs
3 drops red food coloring
Whip the lard and 2 tblsp.
sweet milk together, until light
and fluffy, (about 2 minutes with
electric mixer at medium speed).
Sift dry ingredients together.
Add to lard together with % of
the sour milk. (To make sweet
milk sour, subtract 1 tblsp, milk
and add one tblsp. vinegar.)
Beat until smooth or 1 minute
with electric mixer at medium
speed. Blend in eggs, remaining
milk, and food coloring. Beat 1
minute. Pour into two greased
and floured 8 -inch cake pans.
Bake in moderate (350°) oven 25
to 30 minutes.
COHSE
VA11ON OF LIFE
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Not much is demanded of us in conserving life and health:
merely that we apply to our lives the ideal we mentioned in con-
nection with conserving natural resources: use without using up.
We have about six times more of everything—heart, lungs, kidneys
—than we need; 11 we are charged with is keeping them in trim.
Right here is the heart of our trouble. Time and again some-
one will say to you that he has just finished reading such and such
a book, or a Monthly Letter, and "it makes sense." Yet you will
observe no change in his life. We are all too apt to see how advice
applies to others, and ignore its application to ourselves.
There is no magic about conservation of life and health,
Disease is not caused exclusively by gremlins, germs and viruses.
Some of it can be averted if only we give over our neglectful
carelessness and take some positive actions. One of these is to
have a family doctor and see him for regular check-ups, thus
spotting troubles before they blaze into emergencies.
Ohey the rules, remembering that some of them are different
for various people. Tonics that are good for everyone are hope,
jay and contentment; all of us need good diet and lively interests;
but special conditions may prompt the physician to say to one
man: "avoid hard physical exertion," and to another "abstain from
alcohol," and to a third "increase your sleep period and take a
short rest at mid-day."
The great majority of us can enjoy good health if we will co-
operate with nature. No ivory-tOwerism or hand -washing indif-
ference to the consequences of our health. We must close our ears
to the siren voices which say everything is going to be all right,
and do something., instead, to bring about and maintain that greatly -
to -be -desired state.—From "The Monthly Letter" of The Royal
Bank of Canada.
Listening Post — Patrolman Raymond Beardsworth receives in.
ttructions from headquarters vla this newly developed radio re.
ceiver. It is called the "cigaret pack" radio and was developed
by Clifford F. Fraser, police communications supervisor. The re.
ceiver is operated by subminiature fubes from low battery cur.
rent and reception is good up to 40 miles away from the trans-
mitter, lt is not designect for two-way transmission.,
Casey Tells All? -- Birdie Tebbets, manager of the Cincinnati
Redlegs, is an eageirpupil as Casey Stengel, manager of the New
York Yankees, gives him a few tips on how to lead a baseball
team to five straight permeints. The men are shown talking at
the Baseball Writers Annual Pinner.
Blasting For Fish
It was early morning in the
little Italian coastal town of
Maiori, famous for its lemons
and lying some miles to the west
of Salerno. Suddenly there *as
a strange, roaring sound.
It came from the sea. Visitors
were apprehensive. Could it be
a waterspout, a monster, or
what?
Giuseppe knew (that is not
his real name). He was one of
the local fishermen, who had
been having a lean month or
two, and together with one or
two companions he had stelen
out early in Order to break the
la w.
They rowed to a local rocky
headland where fish were com-
paratively plentiful, and let off
an underwater explosion.. Re-
sult: All fish in a large area
around were killed, whether
young or old.
But Giuseppe was only a
champion for others. He rowed
swiftly away, before anyone
could know what had happened.
Others, who said they knew -
nothing about it but were "at-
tracted by the noise," arrived
in their boats .soon after. They
of course, could gather the fish
with an air of innocence.
Local anglers were furious,
and pointed out at one that
there would be lean months
ahead for the professionals any-
way in view of the slaughter.
One of them recalled the days
of Fascist rule in Italy with un-
accustomed approval: "In Mus-
solini's time they would have
been punished. Now nothing
will be done about it."
They Make Models
Out Of• Matches
Whenever Percy Turner struck
a match, he anuffed it carefully
and saved it. Whenever he
scrambled into a loft to inspect
water -tanks during lis work as
a plumber, there were always
spent matches lying around, good
as gold dust to Percy.
His wife saved up matches.
His friends filled old tins with
matches, ready for Percy. Now
his daughter is getting married
and fifty - two - year - old Percy
Turner, of Dartford, is proving
the best of all match -makers. As
a wedding gift, he is proudly giv-
ing his daughter a coffee table, a
full-size standard lamp, an occa-
sional table, a tea tray and cab-
inet . . • all made of matches —
400,000 of them.
Stoker's Fine Art
Another lucky young girl with
— in her eyes — a "matchless"
.daddy is eight-year-old Sylvia
Evans, of Islington, She has al-
ways admired the church where
she attends Sunday school, and
now her father is building her a
model of it with used match -
:sticks.
Mr. Evans, an ex -naval stoker
now doing a similar job with the
police, has plenty of opportunity
to collect usedmatches. And he
needs plenty, for already the
model has taken some 35,000 —
15,000 of which went into the
steeple.
Into the clock -face her daddy
has set an old watch, and up in
the steeple is hidden a tiny set
of bells which will peal cheerily.
And now about the feat of Bill
Moir, a retired Bristol builder.
Spending nearly three years at it,
he has built a matchstick Buck-
ingham Palace complete in every
detail. Except for the windows
and the flag, the model is entire-
ly of matches — nearly 40,000!
Then there's t h e amazing
patience and enterprise of Mai-
denhead's Stan Edmonds, who
has already made three match-
stick models of Big Ben, and
plans the biggest -ever matchstick
endurance feat with au outsize
model of Windsor Castle made
from half a million matches.
Not content with building a
stage coach in matches, a New
Southgate hobbyist built a match-
stick York Minster, and then
tackled a scale model of the
Queen Mary. Not that all match-
stick modelling is on the grand
scale. A Bermondsey cold- star -
age worker, George Dunlearee,
warms his heart by carving love-
ly miniature figures of yenus,
Eve, or the Statue Of Liberty.
He can lift carcasses regarded
as too heavy for two men of av-
erage strength. But put a pen-
knife into George's powerful
hands and he whittles his tiny
figures in perfect detail, though
some of his models are no more
than half an inch high.
Really A Bird — Italian film act-
ress Lisa Gastoni likes to wear
large, ring -type. earrings so her
pet \budgereegah (a kind of
parakeet) can perch on the gold-
en hoops. That's what you call
getting information straight from
the bird's mouth. d'
Every fifteen minutes, a Canadian suffers serious injury in a traffic accident:
Every four hours a life is lost. Every two minutes a fender is smashed.
Insurance cannot restore life or mitigate -pain. All it can do is relieve the
financial burden of disaster. Even then, the bill comes high.
Last year, companies writing Automobile Insurance paid out more
than $75,000,000 in accident claims — a part of the cost of carelessness and
discourtesy in driving:,
1 ALL CANADA INSURANCE FEDERATION
On behalf of mote than 200 computing companies writing
Fire, Autotnobila and Casualty insurance«