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The Seaforth News, 1950-08-10, Page 7Back hi June or thereabouts X passed on to you instructions for a basic biscuit mix, and one for a muffin mix, together with same re- cipes that made use of these time - and - work - saving preparations. These, as I told you, had been pre- pared by the U. S. Dept. of Agri- culture, in the interests of better and easier home cooking. Since then a leading packing house has developed, after four years of work in its test kitchens, a basic homemade pastry mix. Literally hundreds of recipes were analyzed to find the basic formula, Ten minutes or less spent in properly combining the four ingredients will result in a convenient "make -your - own" mix that is always fresh, and you will find a real help •in prepar- ing pastry, cream puffs, biscuits, desserts and dozens of other deli- cacies, * * * These points were found impor- tant for best results, Combine the rich, creamy short- lening with all-purpose flour and double-acting baking powder. Use standard measuring cups and spoons. In using the mix, spoon it into the cup. Do not sift it or pack it in. • * * Remove eggs and milk from re- frigerator or other cool place 5 or 10 minutes before using in cakes. It the batter is at room tempera- ture, the cake will be better. Use the right -sized pans. Note the right baking tempera- ture. * * * If half a scope is made, be sure to divide every ingredient in half, These recipes are for all-purpose flour as used in the Fast and Mid- west. If you use soft wheat flour, popular in some parts, use less milk or other liquid -2 tablespoons less for each cup called for in the recipe. • * k If you use self -rising flour, omit etent the baking powder and salt in the Make -Your -Own Mix. High altitude baking requires a reduction in the baking powder and rngar used in most recipes. But these recipes are low in sugar, so baking powder probably is the only ingredient which must be changed according to the altitude. Keep the Make -Your -Own Mix in a closed canister or can in the pantry. It doesn't have to be kept in the refrigerator. * * * MAKE -YOUR -OWN MIX 2 cups shortening 9 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon salt* 34 cup (4 tablespoons) double-acting baking powder Combine sifted flour, salt and 400-A► baking powder. Stir well. Sift into large bowl (or large pan or onto heavy paper.) Add shortening. Use linger tips or pastry blender to dis- tribute shortening throughout dry ingredients antil mixture resembles coarse corn meal The Make -Your - Own Mix is now ready to use or store in a closed canister on your pantry shelf. *134 to 2 tablespoons salt may be used. * * * CHOCOLATE BROWNIES 1% cups Make -Your -Own Mix (do not pack) '1 cup sugar 1 cup chopped pecans 2 eggs, well beaten Ya teaspoon vanilla 2 squares (2 oz.) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled Blend mix, sugar, and pecans. Add eggs, vanilla and chocolate. !,fix thoroughly, Turn into a shal- low pan (7 x 11 inches), well greas- ed. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 22 minutes. Cut into squares before removing from pan. Y * * FROSTED CHOCOLATE DROP COOKIES 1% grips Make -Your -Own Mlx (do not pack) 34 cup sugar 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 aggare (1 oz,) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled 3 tablespoons milk l teaspoon vanilla Blend mix and sugar. Add egg and beat well. Stir in chocolate, milk and vanilla, Drop from tea- spoon on baking sheet 2 inches apart. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F,) 10 minutes. Cool. Spread with frosting. Mvlakes 18 to 20 large cookies, * ,k * CORNED BEEF HASH DUMPLINGS 3 cups Make -Your -Own Mix (do not pack) 3/4 cup milk 2 cups (1 can) corned beef bash Catsup Combine mix and milk to make a biscuit dough. Turn out on waxed paper, Knead 6 tinges, Roll out dough on lightly floured pastry cloth or board to 12 x 18 -inch rect- angle. Cut into 6 squares, Place large spoonful or slice of bash in centre of each square, Top each with a teaspoon of catsup. Bring corners of dough up over hash. Press edges together and secure with a tooth- pick. Bake on baking sheet in hot oven, at 450 degrees F. 30 min- utes. Makes 6 servings. For 3 serv- ings, use 1% cups mix, tot cup milk, 1 cup corned beef hash and catsup. r * * CREAM PUFFS 1 cup Make -Your -Own Mix (do not pack) cup boiling water 2 eggs Add unix to boiling water in saucepan. Stir over low heat about 1 minute until dough is smooth, follows the spoon, and forms into a ball. Remove from heat imme- diately. Add eggs one at a time, stirring and beating until mixture is blended. Beat vigorously, Drop by spoonfuls on baking sheet. Bake in hot overt 15 minutes. Then reduce heat and bake in moderate oven 20 minutes more. Let stand in warm oven (with door open) about 10 minutes to dry out. 1Vlten baking temperature is at 450 degrees F., bake 15 minutes, When baking tem- perature is at 350 degrees T., bake 20 minutes. Makes 5 large puffs. For 5 medium puffs use cup mix, is cup water and 1 egg. Suspicious A talkative old man was deliver- ing quite a lecture on speedy travel to the young man whom Ira shared a compartment. "Yes, we travel fast these days," he said. 'But have you ever thought of the flight of time—of the fleeting hours of youth, the golden days that swiftly pass away? Rave you ever counted the min- utes—?" "Look here," said the young man, suspiciously, "I don't quite get the hang of this. Are you tying to sell me a watch?" SOLEMN THOUGHT Rich Mr, X was showing a friend around his tremendous estate: Visitor (murmuring): "Beautiful lawn," Mr. X (complacently): "Ought to be. Had the whole thing brought here as sod at $100 a square foot," Visitor; "And those trees. I've never seen more perfect specimens." Cost me $2,000 each." Mr. X: "Had them transplanted. Visitor (sighing meditatively): "Alt, what. God could have done if He'd had all your money!" Boston Heiress Weds Negro—The former Ante Mather, 30, heiress from Boston's Beacon Hill, takes the arm of her bride- groom, 40 -year-old Frank Citric Montero, Negro director of the Urban League Fund, following their marriage at Bridge - ham ton, N.Y. Now Playing At The Movie—Junior gets slid, rocked, swung, napped and, if necessary, changed and burped, while Mom and Pop thrill and chill to the latest cinema fare. At least that's how it works at this movie palace, where cash customers can park their small worries in an off -the -aisle nursery, complete with kiddie equipment that includes slides, swings, cribs, play pens and pert attendants, IZEN file Gordon, Smith. A lawn can be built up without being remade and a renovation pro- gram may often be iv more practi- cal than digging up your old turf. The hone owner who follows a careful program of seeding the lawn, feeding it and controlling weeds can have better -than -average turf at the annual cost of a couple of tankfuls of gasoline. It frequent- ly is not necessary to (Vg up and rebuild the turf completely, How- ever, the gardener cannot expect to produce this prize-winning ex- panse of grass in a s'ngle year; it will take three or four. * * * A lawn -improvers rat campaign should get under way about Aug. I, rather than in spring or early summer. But first it is advisable to . have the soil analyzed by an Experiment Station or testing; lab- oratory, such as those the larger lawn seed companies operate. This will indicate the type of soil, need for lime and so on. * k * To obtain a sample from the lawn for a sail test, a plug of sod four inches square and five to six inches deep is dug with a sharp trowel. It is then wrapped securely so it will reach the laboratory in the form in which it was taken from the ground. Where a lawn does not exist but one is contemplated, a pint of loose soil is dug up in bulk and sent. *- * * Early in August crabgrass should be removed from the lawn, or at least further growth stopped so that this year's crop will not produce viable seeds. This may be done by using the dry crystals of a crab- grass -control compound. A double rate application of this is recom- mended because the crabgrass will be rather tough at this time. Sev- eral materials, to be applied either as a dust or a spray, are now on the market for the control of crabgrass. * * * In ten days or so, the spreader is used again to apply a combina- tion of fertilizer and weed -control compound. This will wither and destroy the broadleaved weeds, such as dandelion, plantain, buck- thorn aitd chickweed, * ,k * Toward the end of August, the lawn mower is set to cut as closely as possible. In fact; the grass should be literally scalped at this time. Then the clippings are removed and the spreader used again; this time to apply lawn food at the rate of 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. It is put on just prior to seeding any bare patches. * * 5 Before sowing seed ,the topsoil is loosened to provide a roughened surface that will catch the seed. The decaying plants of crabgrass attd other weeds will help provide a lodgingplace for the seed and entrance channels for the fine roots that will develop on seedlings. * s *• The soil test report will suggest the type of a seed that should be sown. For a light sandy soil that needs lime to offset its acid con- tent (the type so often found) the seed mixture might be 65 to 70 per cent Kentucky Bluegrass, 15 to 20 per cent Poa trivialis, 10 to 15 per cent Highland Bentgrass. Such a mixture would contain about three million seeds per pound hence the economical rate of 2 pounds per 1,000 square feet would be ade- quate. * * * The lawn spreader is then set for the two -pound rate and the turf gone over in one direction only. The seed is stirred into the ground by using the flexible steel drag and the area kept watered until the (4141020,0904, QE,r 6 Q;j ,, �0. °./4a `f4 ttfeet1-6I qe5 °l�vq,+vl' bLj' 't ttF �tle1 11°• "1'i `I\ 1t�vl��1f 0v�6°alre fisc a06't1F06t�dbtsicore\( ,�B(t 00e,.ereo6 elf ! ale ve\ae.ef�a� k� is.. p rE an a m4as a�cq. mi 4 . d env t;o t°�ik. •ar r:!e°tkt rARO.....46r 10. V. Rug ....atoites Wheat 'Want to have a grand time em- broidering and crocheting a mas- terpiece? This spread is easy, yet is a real thrill to work on! Varied needlework Pattern 921; transfer 4 motifs 4x53/4 to 20x21% inches; crochet directions. Laura Wheeler's improved pat- tern snakes crochet 'and knitting so simple, with its charts, photos and concise directions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUM- BER, your NAME and ADDRESS. grass is well established. A sandy soil need not be watered heavily, for the coarse particles do not hold much moisture and the excess drains away. However, it is neces- sary to water frequently—prefer- ably twice a day in the early stages of growth. * * * For the rest of the season, when- ever the lawn reaches ane and a half inches, grass is cut to a height of about one inch. It is all right to let the clippings fall unless they are so heavy that they mat the young grass. Leaves should be raked up regularly so that they won't smother patches of seedlings. * * * A few words of caution, Don't hake the mistake of thinking it necessary to remove and cart away sandy, weedy sod before embark- ing on a lawn -building program. There's valuable humus in old sod, poor as it may be, and this can be saved by turning it under. * * * This is a basic program for lawn renovation that is good for ahnost any part of the country. A smooth green carpet of turf is possible on sandy soil, as well as in the richer soils of more fortunate gardening areas, HYPNOTIC EYES Among the most hypnotic eyes in America are those of boxer Joe Louis, retired world heavyweight champion, according to investiga- tions made by the U.S. Hypnotists' Institute. Joe's eyes suggest "smouldering physical passions," it is declared. Commenting on the eyes of various other peole, they say that those of John Lewis, the labour leader, are "ruthless, optic weapons." The eyes of Joan Caulfield, the film star re- veal "complete surrender motivated by a delightful naivete which -- ROW CAN 1? By Anne Ashley Q. How can X remove mildew? A. If the spats are small, potas- sium permanganate and oxalic acid will remove them. If the entire article is mildewed, try bleaching It in one cup of Javelle to our quart of water for 10 minutes; then wash and rinse thoroughly, Q, How can I sweeten a- soured sponge? A, Rub a fresh lemon thoroughly i1tt0 the sponge and then rinse se- veral tines in lukewarm water. It will become as sweet as when new. Q. How can X remove dandruff from the scalp? A. A' good remedy is to sub pure olive oil thoroughly into the scalp every night before retiring, Also shampoo the hair every two weeks and rinse well in cold water, Q. How can I enclose postage stamps with a letter if there is no oiled paper at band in which to wrap them? A. Attach them by a small spot in the center of the stamp, leaving the glue around the edges un- touched. Q. How can I store eggs? A. Eggs can be packed for keep- ing as follows: Dip the eggs in a solution of two ounces gum arabic to a pint of cold water, Let them dry, and then pack in powdered, , well -burned charcoal, Q. How can X prevent new tin- ware from rusting? A, Rub the new tin vessel thor- oughly with lard; the heat it in the oven, before using it, and it will never rust. Q. I'Tow can I remove the odor of paraffin from a dish or plate? A. By rubbing it thoroughly with vinegar. Q. How can I remove small spots from white ties, gloves, jabots, and similar articles? A, Keep a little French chalk on hand for this purpose. Rub a little chalk on the spot, allow it to remain for a day or two, then brush off. Q. How can I keep gold teeth clean? A. One of the best ways is to rub the teeth with a mixture of prepared chalk a n d powdered pumice, sprinkled on the tooth- brush. When Shakespeare Went To School The Hornbook was a slab of wood on which a page full of let- ters had been fastened and which was covered with a thin, transpar- ent sheet of horn to protect it from grubby sntalI fingers. Countless generations of children had learned to read clutching the handle of a hornbook and William Shakespeare could hardly have been an excep- tion. . Shakespeare learned to forum his letters in the way all the little boys in rural districts formed them. The new Italian hand, which corres- ponds roughly to tine modern way of writing, had made great head- way in court and city circles, but the medieval way of writing, the one called the secretary hand, was still being used in the country. Some 4 Shakespeare's fellow - dramatists, like George Peele, used the new Italian way of writing; some of tltent, like Thomas Kyd and George Chapman, used both fashions - interchangeably, and at least one of them, Ben Jonson, worked out an efficient compromise between the two. The few signa- tures which are all that remain of Shakespeare's writing are done in the old-fashioned secretary hand. As soon as he cotild read and write and knew his Catechism, young Wiliam Shakespeare was ready to eater Stratford grammar school. He was the son of one' of the most prominent men in Strat- ford, but he received the same edu- cation that was democratically open to every boy in town and there was no charge for the in- struction. Marchette Chute, hi "Shake- speare of London." Modern Etiquette By Roberta 'Lee Q, Should a man remove his hat in an elevator? A, It is not enneidered necessary any more for a man to remove Inc ]tat in a business elevator. In ele- vators in apartnunt,, lintels and clubs, nletl remove their hats, but hm elevators in office buildings and stores they usually do no:. '!'hese elevators are usually crowded and it is difficult for a ratan to putt rip his arm and take olf his hat. " Q. Xs 'Dear Sirs" considered a proper salutation to a business let- ter? A. No; the terra "Gentlemen' should he used. Of course, if the business letter is addressed to an individual, then "Dear Sir" is quite correct. Q. When a man takes r, woman to dinner, should he give her order to the waiter before giving his own? A. Yes, alway s. Q. Is it proper to use a piece of bread as a "pusher" in order to take up items from the plate more easily on the fork? A. No; this is ill-mannered. It is permissible, however to hold the knife in the left hand, holding tine edge down, and use it as a barrier against which the fork may pick up the articles of food more easily. Q. Are the invitations to a home wedding usually limited? A, Yen; usually to relatives and very close friends. Announcements are sent in place of wedd.ng invi- tations to acquaintances not in- vited to the wedding. Q. When walking with a woman who is carrying an umbrella, should a man offer to hold it for her? A. Yes. Q. Is anything at all written on the inner envelope enclosing a for- mal wedding invitation? A. Only the names of those to whom you are mailing tit,: invita- tion—no address. This en elope is then placed in the second, or outer, envelope which is sealed and ad- dressed. Q. When introducing a relative, is it proper to use the possessive pronoun and mention the relation- ship? A. Yes, this is perfectly proper. One may say, "My father, my mo- ther, my sister, my uncle.' Q. If a divorcee retains her hus- band's surname, how should she be known? A. By her given name, her family name and her married name, as. "Mrs. Mary Brown Williams." Q. Is an engagement ring an ab- solute essential of any engagement? A. No; the validity of an en- gagement is not based whatsoever on the ring. It is only the marriage service that requires a ring. Watchful Cop—In the T+orni0- san capital of Taipeh, eyed by communists as a hash war prize, policemen keep a watch- ful eye on traffic from modern street stands equipped with no less than four electric signals. Now that Chiang Kai Shek has made this city the Monte of his nationalist forces, traffic has become more of a problem. Weapon of Wedlock --Celebrating their 72nd wedding anni' versary, Mr. and Mrs, James Wheeler, posed with this time- honored symbol of domestic life, a rolling pin. Mr. Wheeler didn't.seetn amused. hut his wife flashed a l.nottnig wink at the photographer.