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The Seaforth News, 1954-02-18, Page 6Once in a while I get a letter from somebody asking for recipes that give larger quantities, suit- able 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 herd. These should be welcome in some of your homes, where you have your own "home- grown" lard. * * WHITE CAKE FOR 50 1 c. lard 21/2 e. milk We tsp. vanilla flavoring 51 c. cake flour 21 tblsp. baking powder R3�a tsp. salt 31 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 ? 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 x 18 -inch pan. Bake in mod- erate (950°) oven 35 to 40 min- utes. Makes 54 2 -inch squares. * * * MOCHA FROSTING 1 c. butter 1 egg yolk 2 tblsp. strong coffee 2 squares unsweetened choco- late, melted gee, c. confectioners' sugar Cream butter; add egg yolk, coffee and chocolate. Mix well. Gradually a d d cone tioners' sugar. Blend until smooth. Frosts two 8 -inch layers. * * * WHITE CAKE 1 c. milk 1z c. lard 1 tsp. vanilla flavoring 1 tsp. almon.. flavoring 21/2 e. sifted cake flour 3 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt ity, c, sugar egr^ whites Add 10 the lard 2 tblsp. of the milk, vanilla, and almond flavor- ing, Whip until light and fluffy, or about 2 minutes* witth 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. * * e Flavor Variations: Substitute 1 tsp. crushed car- damon seeds for vanilla flavor- ing. Substitute 1 tsp, crushed anise seed for vanilla flavoring, For a pistachio flavor, add r(a tsp, lemon flavoring. For Gold Cake: Use white cake recipe, substi- tuting 3 unbeaten egg yolks for the 3 egg whites, and 1 tsp. lemon flavoring for the almond and vanilla, * 5 5 CHOCOLATE CAKE c. lard 2 tblsp. milk 2 c, sifted Dake flour ?e c, cocoa 11.l; c. sugar 1 tsp. baking powder Va tsp. Salt ye 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. dO iNSE.:VA lTI Pel OF LIFE 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; all 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. Obey 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. Iletening Post - Patrolman Raymond Beardsworth receives in- structions from headquarters via this newly developed radio re- ceiver. It is called the "cigaret pack" radio and was developed by Clifford F. Fraser, police communications supervisor. Tho re- ceiver is operated by subminiature tubes from low battery cur- reef and reception is good up to 40 miles away from the trans- mitter. It is not designed for two-way transmission. Casey Tells Alt? — Birdie Tebbets, manager of the Cincinnati Redlegs, is an eager pupil as Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Yankees, gives him a few tips on how to lead a baseball team to five straight pennants. The men are shown talking at the Baseball Writers Annual Dinner. Blasting For )Fish It was early morning in the little Italian coastal town 01 Maiori, famous for its lemons and lying some miles to the west of Salerno. Suddenly there was 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 stolen out early in order to break the law. They rowed to a local rocky headland where fish were com- paratively plentiful, and let off an underwater explosion Re - Silt: 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 hacl 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 once that there would be lean months ahead for the professionals any- way nyway 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 matoh, he snuffed it carefully and saved it, Whenever he scrambled into a loft to inspect water -tanks during his 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 tor 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 cabs 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 used matches. 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 an outsize model of Windsor Castle made from half a million matches. Not content with building e '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 ail match- stick modelling is on the grand scale. A Bermondsey cold stor- age worker, George Dunleavy, warms his heart by carving love- ly miniature figures of Venue, Eve, or the Statue of Liberty. He can lift careassos 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 Gaston! likes to wear Targe, 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. AELLKCAINADA INSURANCE FEDERATION 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. List year, companies writing Automobile Insurance paid cut more than $75,000,000 in accident claims --- a part of the cost of carelessness and discourtesy in driving . ALLCANADA 1 SURA `SCE rEDE .trt 1T on behalf of xtaore than 200 competing companies writing Firer, Automobile and Casualty insurance.