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Zurich Herald, 1936-07-30, Page 3MAKE XMAS CAKES NOW Eggs are sky-rocketng just as the 010 -egg cake season," that of Xmas baking, opens. While • "use only Jested recipes" is the first rule of a successful cook, nowhere is it more important than in making, Xmas cakes, crammed fulr 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 lb. (41/4 cups) sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder i/4 teaspoon cloves a teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon mace 1 Ib. butter or other shortening 1 lb. brown sugar 10 eggs, well beaten 1/4 lb. candied cherries 4 ib. candied pineapple 1 Ib. dates seeded and sliced 1 lb. raisins 1 ib. currants % lb. citron, thinly sliced 1/g lb. candied orange and lemon peel 1fi. nut meats, chopped 1 cup honey 1 cup molasses % 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 2r/E inch pans about 2% to 3 hours. Makes 10 pounds fruit cake. To store, brush lightly, with port or brandy, Scrap in waxed paper, and keep" Yn 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 the delicious eombinaton of fro` RITE FRUIT CAKE 4 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoon soda teaspoon salt 1 lb. sultana raisins s/z lb. citron, finely cut % ib. 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 1% 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 mixture over fruits and nuts; mix thoroughly. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. 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 41/4 inches. Bake in slow oven (250 deg, P.) 2% hours, then increase to 300 deg. F. for 15 minutes. Makes 6 pounds fruit cake. Old -Tine Brownies is a splendid recipe to have when using egg whites in cakes because it uses five egg yolks to make wonderfully flavor- some cup -cakes, OLD-TIME BROWNIES 1, cups sifted cake flour % teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 11-3 cups sugar 5 egg yolks, beaten until thick. and lemon -colored 21/2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 cup sour cream 1 cup walnut meats, broken 1 teaspoon _vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add soda andsalt, 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 smoolk. 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: 1% cups red apples, out 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. COCOANUT APPLE BETTY 4 tart apples, pared and thinly sliced 1 cup soft bread crumbs 1 cup shredded cocoanut % cup firmly packed brown sugar Ufa teaspoon cinnamon 4 h..b1eopoon, _butter 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 1% cups tomatoes, strained and heated 4 cup grated cheese buttered crumbs 1 tablespoon butter teaspoon sugar 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 dish, cover with cheese, add layer of olives, then re - FU MANCHU Royal Performance King George and Queen Mary of England pictured as they en- ter ed the flower -banked Royal Box at the Palladium in 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,) 20 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 tendency to .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 ta. pioce 1 cup milk, scalded 1 cup canned tomato 14 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. A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR ALL THE YEAR There is no such thing 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 "nut�.bq a carded lightly. 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 charm the receiver many, many times. 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. soup HOME HINTS When paper hanging, use common starch instead of flour for the paste. It sticks better, is also more eco- ncunical, 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. Mach night take violets from their: vases and place thein upside down in a pudding dish. Half 1111 the basin with water, so that the flower heads SAYS ISIS IS SADDEST JOB 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 are from other cities; they dropped out of sight without causing a ripple on •rt•^SL•or7cxs�vr£nca, : -..: Relatives back home wait and won- der why they do not write. Oppie sees relatives enter the morgue, and sit on a long bench wait- ing their turn. He Ieads their grim search through the corridors. He commutes from Jamaica to what he calls "his port of missing nmen " 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 for remov- 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 if they are covered with a slightly dampened cheesecloth. Keep a small bottle of ammonia on the desk. A dip of the pen In the ammonia will make it as clean as new. • 3 UtDA CHOQLESSON LESSON X — December 8 NEHEMIAH REBUILDING THE WALL Or JERUSALEM Nehemiah 4;6.9, 15.21. GOLDEN TEXT The people had a mind 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.C. PLACE. — Buse, 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. Gree was in their midst, "And all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work. 'Buf 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 egsfusion. "But we made our 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 counsel to nought, that we returned- all of us to the wall, every one unto 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, abd the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah." We should gather from this verse that only in the case of Neliemiah'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." Nehemiah had kept oversight of the entire under- taking. of the city while its walls were being built, nevertheless, he had confidence that his God. would fight for hie people. (See also Kx• 15;3,6; 14:14,; Deut, 1:30; 3:22; 20;4; 28:7), Your Daughter's Height To tell how tall small daughter is) likely too grow, take her heightat the age of seven. If she is tall, then she is likely to be tall at 16, when her growth U about complete. If medium at seven, she array always be so. If short thea you need not expeet 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 Public Health told the National Academy of Sciences. Thatis the way girls grow, ac. cording to .a study of 275, whose heights were measured each year from the ages of seven to 16. Custom may lead a man into manyI errors; but it justifies none. Fielding. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philose. pher's stone. — Franklin. ".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 had made elaborate plans for the defence • By Sax Rohmer Shortly we were ready to go. Accord- , ing to instructions, one , of the shabby deter. fives already lay ie a feigned drunkensleep ' near Shen Yan's dope ' shop, while his comrade argued with him to get, • up. "Don't move tilt you hear the whistle in, side; ' f h e Inspector hod told them. Basque Model Here's a very smart basque model with a very modern look, that will interest bright young ;kings and the young business wo- man. Wool jersey, rabbits wool, vel- veteen, novelty crepe silks, velvet, atc., are very attractive materials for this dress. The shirt collar and double row of buttons are :harmingly young. Simple to sew—inexpensive,' and what a remarkably chic ef- fect. Style No. 2799 is designed for sizes 11, 18' 15, 17 and 19 years. Size 15 requires 3% yards of 39 - inch material with 4 yards of 39 - 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. THE SEVERED FINGERS—Setting The Trap. ly Four shabby fellows saluted when E We entered the Wapping River Police Station, We were Ito go to Shen Yan's in The police launch, which would, await an alarm from us. "But don't wait too king." Way- • mouth warned Smith, when plans were completed, "0t you may eppear next in the river with half your fingers missing.' The other two sleuths, acting on heir orders, had broken from the bock into an empty shop opposite Shen Yen's. : Be inside Shen Yan's like li9htnirig when you hear the signal, were Weymouth's parting words tothern. "The launch is ready, fir," an-' t i ` nounced Inspector Ryman from ihq doorway, and we trooped out to Tho little craft. Tho chill of the watterpene. +rated my thin garments..... l •thought of Fu Manchu' .. Tho Severed fingers, es we headed into the shadows ...