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The Brussels Post, 1949-3-30, Page 6p The ed Cross Cooking Terms That Every Woman Ought To Know You have puzzled sometimes over terms you see in cookery recipes, Here's a chance to catch upon your studies. Bake—To cook by dry heat, usu- ally in an oven but occasionally in special utegsils on top of the range, When applied to meat cookery. it is called r'a'ting. Barbecue—To roast meat over coals, in an oven or broiler, often basting with highly seasoned sauce. Baste—To moisten foods during cooking to add flavor and to prevent drying. Melted fat. meat drippings, water and fruit juices are used /1109.2- frequently ostfrequently as tiee !lasting. Blanch ---To pour boiling nater over a food toeloosen skin, to remove color, or to set color. Many vege- tables and fruits are blanched dur- ing the canning and freezing prepa- ration, Rico and macaroni are often blanched to remove excess starch. and starchy film. Braise—To brown pleat in small amount of !tett fat. then adding a small amount of liquid and simmer- ing slowly in a tightly covered uten- sil. Meat stock, water, milk, cream, or vegetable juke are usually the liquids used. Broil --To cook by direct heat. This may be done by placing food under or over the heat. Candying—To cook in sugar or syrup, Caramelize—To melt sugar or food containing a high percentage of sugar, slowly over low heat until it becomes brown in color. The derker the color, the stronger the flavor. Cut—To separate food in pieces with knife or scissors. Also combine shortening with dry ingredients by using two knives or a pastry blender. Devil—To prepare food, usually eggs, with pepper and hot condi- ments or sauces. Dredge—To dip food into floor. crumbs or similar substances to completely coat it. Fold—To combine ingredients with e spoon or whip in a U-shaped mo- tion—down, across, up and over, It usually is used in adding beaten egg whites or whipped cream to a mix- mre. It is a much slott•er and gentler notion titan stirring. Fricassee—To cook by browning ood in a mall amount of fat, then dewing it in a gravy. It is Most tften applied to fowl and veal, Glace -1'o coat a food with sugar .yrup that has been cooked to the 'crack" stage. Also coating rolls nr pastries ;rithl icings or other mnix- ures. Julienne—The terns applied to 'egetablei cut in match -like strips. A pair of pretties for your Glamour Child! Otte, in stripes, makes her the best dressed child in class; the other with eyelet bands is adorable for parties 1 Pattern 4900 in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 takes 214 yards 35 -inch swip- ed fabric. This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated iusttuetkt't, Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern. Print plain- ly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send your order to Box 1, 123 , 'eighteenth Ste New 'for0nto, Oat. Knead—'I'o work dough with tate hands by pressing forward with the palms, turning or folding a small amount with each push, Lard ----To insert small bits of fat in ga*Iles made in meat or to place them on top of uncooked lean meat or tisk to add flavor and prevent Bryne -s. Marinate—To plarc.'a food in a liquid -- usually French dressing. lemon juice or a mixture of oil and vinegar for a short period of time to soften the food or add to the flavor, Pan-broil—To cook food uncov- ered in a hot skillet. The fat is remered as it accumulate: and liquid is never added. The pan is usually utlgrea-ed at the beginning of the process. Parboiling—Partially cooking food by boiling, after which the cooking is completed by some other method. Plank—To cook and serve on a board — usually with au elaborate garnish of vegetables. Puree—Food cooked to a pulp and rubbed through a sieve; alio. a soup thickened with -this. Saute—To cook in a small amount of fat. Scald—To heat liquid. usually milk. to just under the boiling point. Scallop—To bake a food, usually in a casserole, with 'sauce or other liquid. Crumbs often are sprinkled over the top of the dish. Escalloped has the same maening. Simmer—To cook food slowly so liquid remains just below boiling point. Skewer—To fasten a food with wood or metal pins to hold its shape in cooking. team—To cook by steam in a pressure cooker, deep -well cooker. double boiler or a steamer made by fitting a rack in a kettle fitted with a tight cover. A small amount of boiling water being added during the steaming process if necessary. Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. At a church wedding, on which side of the stain aisle should pegs be reserved for the bride's family and the bridegroom's family? A, The left side for the bride's family, and the right side for the bridegroom's. Q. What is the limit in knives and forks when a table is correctly set: A. Two knives (sometimes three), and not more than three forks. Q. Does the scan or the woman make the first offer to shake hands when being introduced? A. The woman, always. How- ever, she should show no sign of hesitation should the man offer his hand first. Q. -What is the order of reces- sion at the conclusion of a church wedding ceremony? A. Just the reverse of the en- trance. The bride and bridegroom should lead, followed by the brides- maids and ushers. a Q. How should guests be seated at a luncheon table when there are no place cards? A. The Meas vale. imielsamta their places as they approadn The table. Q. How soon after the announce- ment of an engagement should a young man's parents 'call on the bride-to-be? A. Within a day or two, if posy sible. Q. R-lten rising 1roln the table, should one push his chair up to the table? A Yes, slightly, to keep it out of the way of other persons. He should not leave it back two feet from the table, nor should he place it back meticulously. Q. When a start is writing a letter to a woman with whom the is but slightly acquainted, should he close the letter with "Sincerely yours"? A. "Very truly yours" is prefer- able. Q, Should one offer a tip to a Pullman conductor? A. No; only to the porter. Q. Is it permissible to supply a word which seems to elude a friend who is speaking? A While this is vary often done, it still is considered ill-bred. TINY FALCON ISLAND Falcon Island -- small uninhab- ited volcanic member of the '.Tonga group --- has disappeared. This advice was contained in a signal to the uavy„tofftee at Wel- lington from the naval frigate Hawn. The Ifawea reported indications of unrlr.rtvater volcanic activity and a strong sulphurous statell when it reached the spot invert the Wand used to be, Edson Island tray peeved up by. a a,•leanic eruption in October, 1n+5. That Real iv othetly Instinct --1\ lira John Ca..a Ont. brought home 31 chicks and set thVIII in the kitchen. he didn't corral ou the maternal instinct of Shorty, his fox terrier hitch. The chicks snttgglerl ftp its Shorty's v.ai'm bode ---above —and she loved it. Within a day'' or sen sit,- eras snapping at anyone who tried to pick up a chick. and when -one strayed from the nest she !ticked it tth, gently-- beton --and brought it back. We haven't heard if Shorty ll as started "clucking' I, Int ,•..orli,lr '.„t't i'•.• loth;' `-�,aati Ill;�.�,_R[.7�t„-ems.• GwQt 1ol.r.e P. C1.e„D1 e Maybe there are happenings at Ginger Farm that I should be writing about, but I happened to notice the date just now and it put everything out of any Lead except my mother's birthday. It is strange how the passing of times eases the loss of those we loved. Slid yet hurt in our hearts that follows the time does no dims our memory. I can remember my mother just as well now as I could when 1 left England thirty years ago. 1 can recall, without effort, the way site looked: the things she said, and the marvellous way in which site, a widow, raised and looked after her four children, No one ever lead a better mother than 1 had. I was three and a half the youngest —waren my fattier died, but a baby brother was born three months later. Through no fault of my father's there was little, left Sae ,efees+t'r aloe 'Pyo asleesa teas' settled. {r here should have :seen Lii're but misplaced confidence changed all that. My mother had learned dress- making before she was married and now she turned to it again. There was no self-pity; no flinching at the task before her, She asked help from no one and absolutely refused to bring a charge against the man who "looked after” her affairs. She wouldn't do it because it would have hurt her sister. The man hap- pened to be her brother-in-law. Day after day, and often far into the night, her busy fingers cut, shaped and sewed. The noise of the sewing tnacltitte was the rhythm that set the pace of our lives. And mother was an artist in her work the inside of a garment must be as neat and attractive as the outside During the next few years many things happened, My baby brother died; my second brother, through the influence of friends, went to boarding school and completed his education by g wintnin one scholar- ship after another. My sister went to an aunt's hoarding -school, attd my eldest brother, at thirteen, went out and got himself a job as au office boy. He got four shillings a week, two of which he gave to uty mother, From that time onward he became self-supporting. He has gone a long way since those office• boy days. As for rue, I spent moa of my tittle running up more doctor bills for my mother to pay. I retuetnler one time wizen I was very ill mother brought het' sewing machine upstairs to the roost where I had spent many weeks in bed. It 6155 her solution to looking 4fifer me and working at the sante time. She was staking. at the time, a red cashmere dress for a little girl about my own age. I thought it was a lovely dress and I asked her if I could have one just like it when 1 got better. She promised me that I should. And then I saw that mother was crying—a most unusual thing for her to do. I felt so guilty because I thought she was crying wondering how she was going to afford to buy me a dress. It wasn't that at all—mother didn't expect 1 would ever wear a little red dress or any dress for that matter, as the doctor had said that I couldn't get better. Maybe that is where I devel- oped an unexpected stubborn streak, because I did get better—and ewe- ther made me a little eve tress. Mother did e'er best to keep us all in the straight and narrow path. \sera f was in my teens ten o'clock was the latest I could be out, and then only if she knew where I was going and with whom. One time it was eleven o'clock and we found mother pacing the terrace outside our house. Mother was never really cross but she often got very annoyed with me because she said I didn't talk to her enough, I always had my nose in a hook and I was fright- fully pntldy! It ;ryas a happy time for us when we 'were all self-supporting and mother could give up her dress- making. \Ve wanted her to live with one or the other of us—but no, another said there was going to be a home for her children to come to as long as she was living. And there was; mother died as she had lived --- in her oval little home, And so, there is no sorrow in my heart this day as I reanemhee my mother—only great love and grati- tude to a kindly, fate that gave me that most priceless gift—a good and courageous mother, pARIC. \f .A I t t S H ca >5E' *If you have dark lamp shades in your house which. snake reading difficult, try •fitting them with a piece of white eemer or a coat of white paint. it may double,. or von treble the light given off. ISSUE 11 — 1949 5'IDy SCRATCH I Ile f"''Re�lievve! Ifeh in a Jiffy, ilollF ne ttchiag Jue enema rasnit� cobble a fobsclad ihe0 0 tretttp, ire coolog moor ae I . D, gl pre reuet do (ordst,n, ar 0tr, aastst4), ett,8 . attm, tet A Dotter t fammt5yla a 151,1 tit �ca ms tntenso lkh;ng nateki • i5e trla'"e' k,aardrugri FALE�E&LK Y dam, Andv ,urs, I've heard several women wIt lire iu small toot: complain be- cause they find it almost impossible to get real rye bread ---the kind that the trig commercial bakeries don't make, but whirls you can find in most big city delicatessen stores. Ott the chance that some of the readers of this column feel tate same way here's a recipe for the real thing. Probably the quantities given in the recipe will be too big for most of you--e.pccially for a first trial, but they can easily be cut down proportionately. SWEDISH RYE BREAD 1 quart buttermilk or sour milk 1 teaspoon soda 1 pint water 2 tablespoons shortening IA cup sugar 2 tablespoons salt nmolasses x cup mea um dark 6 and 2/ cups rye flour 714 cups white flour 2 cakes compressed yeast dis- solved fn ',4 cup warm water with I teaspoon sugar. Method. Put water, shortening, sugar, salt and molasses into a saucepan and heat until' all is melt• ed. Put buttermilk into large bread - mixing bowl. Add soda, then add the hot liquid nmixtur•e. Mix well, add rye flour, then add yeast (which has been dissolved, Add the white flour. Knead in with the hands until thoroughly blended- Let rise until double in bulk (about two hours). Turn onto floured board, knead, shape into loaves, using enough flour to keep front sticking. Put into greased Loaf tins and let rise until double (about one hour). Bake in a medium het oven for 50 to 60 minutes. (]rand, either "as is" or toasted. ' The burnt sugar cake I'm going to tell you about now was, for many years, an "extra special" at the famous market down in Vicksburg —and may be yet for all I'know. Your first taste, I'm pretty sure, will tell you why it is so popular in a land famous for good eating. BURNT SUGAR CAKE Mixture No. 1 34 cup sugar 54 cup hot water Place sugar in skillet over low heat and stir constantly until it is melted and dark in color, Add Itot stater gradually, stirring until sugar is dissolved, Cool. Mixture No, 2 24 cup fat or shortening l e cups sugar 3 eggs 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 cups flour 34 teaspoon salt 1 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Caramelized syrup (Mixture 1) Method. Creast shortening. Add sugar gradually, creaming until light and fluffy. Add well beaten egg yolks. Mix thoroughly. Sift flor, belting powder and salt to- gether. Add alternately with water to first mixture. Add vanilla attd syrup. Mix to a smooth batter. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into greased, paper lined pans. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven . (37311. Sotue !tints on fudge making may not conte amiss, especially with the younger generation, and more es- pecially because these following hints will produce fine fudge far more quickly than other methods. You can hurry fudge in these ways; 1. Put in 2 tablespoons. of corn starch to make it thicken faster. 2. Pour it out on a LARGE, well greased platter for quick cooling. .i. Put Ihr t,Ialter ou it rake rack. air eau tirtnlate around it. 4. Put burps of butter ON the platter instead of IN the fudge. You beat it when the Mance ie cool iuougll to hold comfortably in your hand. And if you use half brown sugar it t:'i11 keep the lodge front getting grainy Itecanse of the fast handling. as BLE."'SFHE'ICRAFTtfK LT, Here', o bargain offer -two kits for the price of one, This ante ring offer mode to get 500 orated (u 1hh fascinating bnl,bycraft. Novelty AWAY kit No. 13 contains 1 loge cameo, 2 notall 041101 pair ear screws, notety clasp ptoherk, cement, ov.t din end itotruction leaflet Second kit No. 11-- mnnim rice shells, brooch and caning dlsm, ear acrewa, pinback and instruction.. TOIs is ,,odor value! For fast service send today. Only SLOG for two tits, mot to you postpaid. Write 5nur nmrnt els., Now' Lewis Craft Supplies ..td.; Branch storm: 38 wutee St., Saint John, N.B.; 645 Yong* St., Toronto; 425 Graham Avenue, Winnlheg. DOES INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW THE D,ELTia Help Your Forgotten "21" For The Kind lk Relief Thal Helps Make You Rorin' To Co More than half of your digestion le dour below the belt—in your 28 feet of bowels 80 when indigestion atrikos, try nomethinr that helps digestion In the etomaeh ANA below the belt. What you mny need fa Cartor'o Little Lbw Pills to give nodded help to that "forgetter 28 foot" of bowels. Take ono Canaria Little Liver Pill beton and one offer meals. Take them according at directions. They help wake up a larger Boa of the main digestive juices in yourstemaok AND bowels —help you digest what you Levi eaten in Nature's own way. Then most folks got the kind of relief the( tttakea you feel bettor from your head to your teas. Just be aura you gat the genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills from yam. dnigei.t — 35e 0 cost so little made with MAGIC Cut 2 lbs. lamb into 1" pieces; brown well in hot drip- ping; pour off excess fat. Add 4 c. boiling water, 2 celery tops, 2 sprigs parsley, 1 bay loaf, 1 top. salt and j$ tsp. pepper. Cover and simmer 2 hes. Add 134 c. dicedcarrote, 6 peeled small onions. Simmer until meat and vogetablee are tender, about :4 hr. Combine 1 tbs. melted butter and 2 tbs. flour and stir In a little hot gravy; stir into stew; stir and cook until thickened. DUMPLINGS: Mix and sift into bowl 1)§ c. ono - sifted pastry flour (or 134 c. once sifted hard wheat flour) ti 3 top, Magic Baking Powder, si tap. salt. Cut in finely 114 NA. shortening. Make a well in centre, pour in 3 a cold water or milk and mix lightly with a fork. Drop by k'( small spoonfuls over hot stew. Simmer, without lifting the cover. for 15 minutes. 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The Crown Brand Contest Is open to all Canadians except t employees and their families of TheCanada Company its advertising decisions will be final. Allntri y. es become the property. of The Canada Starch Company. Prize winners will be notified by moil within 90 dgys after close of the contest. A complete list of prize winners will be available upon request at tho close of the contest. IT'S THE CONTEST FOR EVERYBODY BECAUSE IT'S EASY AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY CAN WINI WRITE NOW -- AND WRITE OFTEN/ If you did not enter the first two price -winning periods (Jan, 15 -Feb. l51 Feb, 16.March 15), there is still time for you to color this last prize-winning period (March 16 -April 15), And if you entored•the first two parts of the contest make sure also to enter this remaining ono — Oho more entries you submit, the more chances you have. THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY LIMITED MONTREAL TORONTO