Zurich Herald, 1935-10-24, Page 3QOICl£ 13READS SECRET
OF A GOOD HOSTESS
Secret of how to be a ,popular:
mother or hostess: "Become expert at
making quick -breads, especially muf-
fins and waffles!"
You sinnply can't miss, if you have
mastered the art of biscuits in their
many varieties, corn breads, nut
breads, muffins and waffles, because
not only is their popularity enormous
and sure, but they can be adapted to
any informal meal, at any hour, to
any group, on any occasion. Be sure,
though, that you make plenty!
The real emergency gem is the
muf 'in. If you once master just one,
good, standard recipe, the particular
kind of, muffin you select for any oc-
casion depends only on the contents
of your cabinet or pantry shelves.
In mixing muffins, special care
must be taken to avoid over -stirring,
because it rains them. A few seconds
of over -heating makes them conie up
in peaks' and full of air holes. A
good muffin batter should look' lumpy
—that's the way it will bake smooth.
Waffles always seen a little more
festive, because there is sociability
connected with b. -king them right at
the table, or smoking hot from the
stove right onto plates in the kit-
chen at midnight! Ever notice how
they always draw a crowd when bak-
ed in a restaurant window? They
may also be the basis of a meal, serv-
ed with creamed chicken or little pork
sausages.
Proper care of the waffle mold
(the new name for "iron") is one
of the essentials for good waffle -
making. Batter must not be allowed
to burn on—keep it scraped off with
a steel -wire brush. Batter will stick
if the mold is too cool or too hot. And
for greasing, use a non -salty fat!
Standard Muffin Recipe
• 2 cups flour, 3-4 teaspoon salt, 1
egg, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 2
tablespoons sugar, 1 cup milk and 2
tablespoons incited shortening.
METHOD: Sift dry ingredients to -
go her; beat egg until foamy, add
milk and fat; immediately combine
two mixtures and mix quickly. Bake
in greased muffin pans in hot oven
425 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 min-
utes. •
Date and Cheese
Add.1;:vi,p chopped dates, or a-4 cup
a it ; 'elterse to „ti} `.dry i igredients,
Of the Standard Recipe, .
Cornmeal Muffins
14 cup, butter, lj cup sugar, 2
eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 1 cup
cornmeal, 4 teaspoons baking pow-
. der and 2,4 tablespoon salt.
Cream the batter. Add sugar, then
eggs, beaten without separating
until light-colored and thick. Into
this stir, alternately the milk, flour
and cornmeal, sifted with the baking
powder ;and salt. Beat thoroughly and
bake about 20 minutes in hot, well
buttered gem pans.
Bran Muffins
2 cups flour, 1 cup bran, 3 tea-
spoons baking powder, lrs cup singer,
1 cup milk, 1 egg yolk, well beaten,
% cup raisins, chopped, 3.1; cup
prunes, cooked and chopped, 14, cup
baler melted, 1 egg white, beaten
st'l'.
S:ft dry ingredients reserving a
little flour to dredge fruit. Add milk
to egg yolk which has been well
beaten. Add to dry ingredients. Add
fruit and melted shortening and cut
into egg white which has been beat-
en stiff. Bake about 25 minutes in
buttered rings in a 400 Fahrenheit
oven.
Cherry Muffins
i/, cup butter, 1/ cup sugar, 1 egg,
1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 4 teaspoons
baking powder, 14teaspoon salt, 1
•cup drained cherries cr. blueberries.
Mix ingredients as for cake. Beat
thoroughly. Add cherries last. Bake
in greased muffin tins or in paper,
baking cups set into muffin pans, in
hot oven (425 Fahrenheit) for 25
minutes. If blueberries '(canned at
this time of year) are used instead
of cherries, add % cup flour, extra.
Pecan Muffins
1-3 cup butter, 14 cup sugar,
egg, 3-4 cup milk, 2 cups sifted flour,
4 teaspoons baking powder, 3-4 cup
,pecan meats, broken up.
Follow directions for nixing giv-
en in other recipes. Stir In nut-
meats last. Bake.
Standard Waffle Recipe -
Two cups flour, half teaspoon salt,
two eggs separated, two teaspoons
baking powder, one tablespoon sugar,
11/ cups milk, four tablespoons
melted bacon fat.
Method: 'Sift dry ingredients. Beat
egg yolks, add milk and bc,con fat
(not hot) and combine with dry in-
gredients. Fold in beaten egg whites
and bake in hot waffle iron.
Jam Waffles
Add half cup strawberry or rasp-
berry jam to above recipe before
folding the egg whites.
Chocolate Waffles
Two cups flour, half sup sugar,
two eggs, two squares unsweetened
chocolate, four teaspoons baking pow-
der, one teaspoon salt, 13 cups'inilk,
half cup shortening, half cup finer
chopped nuts.
Method: Sift dry ingredients. Sep-
arate eggs. Beat yolks and add milk.
Stir into dry ingredients. Melt choc-
olate with the shortening. Add to
batter with the nut meats. Fold in
beaten egg whites. Bake on hot
iron.
Note: If batter appears too stiff,
add a little more milk.
Creamed Chicken
(For Waflies)
Two tablespoons butter, 11/s cups
chicken stock, two cups chopped
cooked chicken, % cup milk, 1
tablespoon flour, two tablespoons
green pepper, one egg yolk, salt and
pepper to taste.
Method: Melt butter, blend in
flour, add chicken stock and green
pepper (pepper is optional) and cook
about 7 minutes. Stir in chicken.
Beat up egg yolk, add milk and
stir into chicken mixture. Cook two
minutes. Season. Prepare waffles by
standard recipe. Use a half for each.
serving. Pour chicken mixture over
it and garnish with a curl made of
a narrow strip •of pimiento.
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Before '6i eakuig . an ego for poach
ing place it in boiling water for
about half a minute. The yolk will
then be less likely to mingle with the
white.
Before peeling tomatoes plunge
them first in boiling water and then
in cold. The skins may then be re-
moved easily.
When new bread has to be sliced
the knife blade should be dipped
frequently in a jug of boiling water.
This prevents it from sticking to the
moist bread.
Oranges that are to be sliced for
a fruit salad should be left in boil-
ing water for about five minutes be-
fore they are peeled. The white pulp
may then be more easily and cleanly
stripped off.
To prevent sausages from burst-
ing while they are being fried dip
them first in boiling water.
When butter and sugar have to
be creamed together, place the bowl
in a larger bowl of hot water for a
few minutes and beat the mixture.
Remove the bowl from. the hot water
before the butter becomes oily.
Jars of honey, syrup, oil, or oily
preparations of any kind may be
more thoroughly and qiuckly emptied
if they are first allowed to stand in
hot water for, a few minutes.
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GOOD FALL DISHES
Veal cutlets withstuffed sweet
peppers is a delightful dish for an
October dinner. Serve it with a
salad of tomato stuffed with a vege-•
table aspic and finish the meal with
a frozen dessert.
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Amelia i;arhart Putnam., (front cockpit), famous woman flyer, getting ready to take -off from
Loa ° Angeles, Cal., airfield 'with June Travis, fihn st ar, whom she is teaching to fly.
Veal with Stuffed Peppers,
Pour veal cutlets, 1 egg, cracker
crumbs, 2 large sweet green peppers,
1 cup cooked lima beans, 4 table-
spoons tiny cooked onions, • 1/^`•,cup'
corn cut•, from cob,: 1/a cul _ diced
cooked °beets, 4- tablespoons''Hollan-'
daise sauce or melted butter,
Have the butcher cut veal steak
in slices 3 4 'inch thick. Trine meat
in neat pieces' for individual serving.
Or "cutlets" may be used. Roll,,meat
in crumbs,' dip in egg slightly beaten.
with 1 tablespoon cold water and
roll againin cru:nbs. Sprinkle with
salt and pepper ,and saute 'a ` rich
brown on both, sides in hot fat in a
frying;, pan;' Reduce ]feat, , ` cover
closely;: and ,cook slowly for 1 hour..
Place oil a hot platter . and on each
cutlet punt half a pepper filled' with
combinationof vegetables. Pour the
sauce or melted butter over each'
stuffed pepper and serve at once.
The peppers are prepared by cutting..
in halves lengthwise and removing;
seeds. Then simmer for eight minutes:
in boiling water. Drain and fill with!
vegetable.
Eggplant Italienne is a good dish'
to serve with a leg of lamb or it
snakes a splendid main luncheon dish
for the family.
Eggplant Italienne
Two small eggplants, 2 hard cook-
ed eggs, 11 cup diced cheese, 1 cup-
tomato sauce.
Pare eggplants and cut in slices.
Sprinkle each slice with salt and pile
on a plate, one above the other.;
Cover with weighted plate and
stand two hours. Saute in butter
and line a shallow baking dish with/
half the slices. Cover with eggs, cu't
in slices," over eggs sprinkle th?
cheese and pour over tomato sauea'
Cover with remaining eggplant ;,in
bake fifteen minutes in a modc'a
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r +tom
cups diced tomatoes with d�ci±io
celery leaves, parsley, 'carrot an
three or four whole cloves: Ser � l
with salt and pepper and iitr#n
sugar and cook until very s„ ft. '-:1t4,
through a sieve, Thicken with tWo
tablespoons butter blended with 11/z
tablespoons flour.
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VINEGAR AIDS
The vinegar bottle is inclined to
lead a double—no, multiple—life in
the household. It ,preserves, adds
flavor, serves as a cleanser, is a
beautifying aid, and appears in so
many guises that it almost loses its
identity.
Warm vinegar removes heat
marks and stains from mahogany.
It acts as a polish, when rubbed
on the wood as well. Lacquer fin-
ishes- respond quickly to vinegar
cleaning, though the surface is dull-
ed a little and must be brought back
to a polish with an oil.
Paint brushes which have harden-
ed may be softened again in vinegar,
'Simmer them in boiling vinegar for,
half an -hour, then wash thoroughly
in soap suds. This treatment Is only
for brushes .wlipse bristles are set,
in rubber. Those with -glued bristles
would' lose then! as `the glue melted
in the heat.
Stove polish moistened with vine-
gar has a deeper black than when:'
water is used. For fire grates and
that centre strip on the range, the
vinegar -moistened polish stays ,black
longer than when water is used. ,
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LESSON IV — October 27
BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST (INTER-
NATIONAL TEMPERANCE
LESSON)—Daniel 5 : 1-3-.
PRINT Daniel 5 : 17-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—Wine is a mocker,
strong drink a brawler: And who-
soever erreth thereby is,not wise.
—Proverbs 20 1.
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'THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Time - The particular events of
this chapter occurred in the last
year of Belshazzar's reign, i,e., B.C..
538.
Place—The king's palace in the
city of Babylon.
"Then Daniel answered and said
before the king, Let thy gifts be to
thyself, and give thy rewards to an-
other; nevertheless I will read the
writing unto the king, and make
known to him the interpretation."
.Daniel rejected the gift and the dis-
tinction promised to avoid, as a div-
inely enlightened seer,every appear-
ance of self-interest in the presence
of such a king, and to show to the
cold water, leaving the hair really
clean •and beautifully fluffy.
On washday, vinegar has its place
h "setting" colors. New things that
v e not been washed before may be
Itt5 in a weal, solution of vinegar
sa ,, Iv alas
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gat added 'to the rinsing water helps
to keep colored clothes from streak -
jag.
Black lace should be - washed in
vinegar and water, about 2 table-
spoons of vinegar to two cups of
water. Then it should be rinsed in
cold coffee and stretched on a pad-
dedboard- to dry, with each point
of edging pinned to place. If it is
to be ironed, lay it over a woollen
pad, cover with thin woollen ma-
terial and press gently while still.
damp.
'A little vinegar in the water helps
a poached egg to retain a symmet-
rical shape. If a boiled egg is
cracked, the white will not escape
into the water if a little vinegar is
added.
Boiled fish should always be
cooked with a dash of vinegar in
the liquid. This keeps the flesh
firm and white.
Cheese wrapped in a cloth wrung
out of vinegar will not dry out and
become mouldy. Pantry shelves
wiped with vinegar, during hot
weather are cooled and of refresh-
ing odor.
White .wine vinegar is a clear,
colorless liquid used most com-
monly to give acidity of flavor.
Cider vinegar is a light amber col-
or, and has a peculiar tang which
makes it a favorite for many kinds
of • pickles. The two may be used
interchangeably' in recipes. Tarra-
gon vinegar is a spiced vinegar
used less frequently for salad dress-
ings and other' piquant mixtures.
By Sax Koerner
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Suddenly she came close and whispered in,y, ear.
"Could you' hide mo from Fe Manchu,. from .the pohico,
from everybody,.if I camp to u end yoell I know?"
1 felt $h9 hot blood aptyocheektold at u ail that • the
Ivens implied
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let 'mo gosnow?"•the slave -girl finished.
'Yes, if you will telt me how to seize Fu Menchu."
A•new terror came•iiito'her;,face.
"I dare not! I dare not!" she gasped. 4r )
Curtain rings and hooks that have
grown rusty with age, recapture the
glow of youth if boiled for a time
in vinegar, then polished while still
hot. Vinegar and salt will polish
stained brass bowls.
A vinegar rinse is the last word
in luxury for the hair. After the
tresses are washed, and the rinsing
fairly well completed, a few table-
spoons of vinegar are added to the
rinsing water. The vinegar removes
the last trace of soapy residue, and
rinses out itself in the final dash of
king and his high officers of state
that he was not determined by a re-
gard to earthly advantage, and
would unhesitatingly declare the
truth, whether it might be pleasing
or displeasing to the king.
"0 thou king, the Most High God
gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the
kingdom, and greatness, and glory,
and majesty:" 19. "And because of
the greatness that he gave hint, all
the peoples, nations, and languages
trembled and feared before him:
whom he would he slew, and whom
he would he kept alive; and whom
he would he raised up, and whom he
would he put down." How fearlessly,
how clearly, how penetratingly, Dan-
iel recalls to the mind of this sen-
sual king the career of his grand-
father Nebuchadnezzar, and especial-
ly the humiliating experiences which
this greater man endured, which, .in
hee,)„tes :'s ould• iia e ke •t;", Be1-
which so visibly marked his life,
particularly at this hour!
"But when his heart was lifted up,
and his spirit was hardened so that
he dealt proudly, he was deposed
from his kingly throne, and they
took his glory from him: And
he was driven from the sons of men,
and his heart was made like the
beasts', and his dwelling was with
the wild asses; he was fed with grass
like oxen, and his body was wet with
the dew of heaven; until he
knew that the Most High God ruleth
in the kingdom of men, and that he
setteth up over it whomsoever he
will.', (See 4 29.) "And thou
his son, 0 Belshazzar, hast not hum-
bled thy heart, though thou knewest
all this," In the phrase, though thou
knewest all this, it is implied that,
notwithstanding his knowledge of the
natter, Belshazzar did not avoid
that which heightened his culpability.
"But hast lifted up thyself against
the Lord of heaven; and they have
brought the vessels of his house be-
fore thee, and thou and thy lords,
thy wives and thy concubines, have
drunk wine from them; and thou
hast praised the gods of silver and
gold, of brass, iron, wood, and
stone, which see not, nor hear, nor
know; and the God in whose hand
thy breath is, and whose are all thy
ways, hast thou not glorified" 2'4,
"Then was the part of the hand sent
from before him, and this writing
was inscribed.' Belshazzar, and all
his lords, and wives, and concubines,
had .committed more than one sin
that night. They bad givep. 0e1°1r1
selves over ;to unbridled. indulgence
in the things of the flesh; they were
traitors to their own city, in that.
they were not placing themselves
under stern diseipline, when the
siege of Bablyon so greatly demand
ed such absolute sobriety; but, most,
of all, they had inockd'd the true God'
of Israel,
"And this is the writing that was'.
inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL,'
UPIIARSIN," The literal translation
of these four words would be: Num.
bered, numbered, weighed, and div%
sions,
"This is the interpretation of the
thing: MENE; God hath numbered
thy kingdom, and brought it to an
end." God hath numbered means that
God had fixed the number of Bel-
shazzar's days, i.e., the days of his
reign, beyond whieh they could not
possibly be extended,
"TEKEL; thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting."
See Job 31 : 6; Ps. 62 : 9. God Al-
mighty has a special pair of balanc-
es before him weighting and filling
up until your life also is numbered'
and finished.
"PERES; thy kingdom is divided,
and given to the Medes and Persi-
ans." Upharsin is the noun plural of
the word of which penes is the parti-
ciple. The first means division; the
second, literally, divided. The mean-
ing is not that the kingdom was to
be divided into two parts, the one
part given to the Medes and the
other to the Persians, but that the
kingdom was to be divided into
pieces. It was to be despoiled by ths'
Medes and Persians.
Staying Married
(Letter In New York Times)
York Times: Having recently cele-
brated my thirtieth wedding anni-
versary, I offer a few suggestions
on how to stay married to one man
or one woman.
For the men: Don't form the idea
in your early married years that,
your wife is merely a being to keep
the machinery of your household go_
ing. Try to remember her birthdays
and, if you are able, send her flow-
ers occasionally. It works wonders
towards making her an excellent;
cook. Greet her pleasantly when;
you come home from work, no mat-,
ter how you may feel. Take her to'
a show at least once a week. Never
make her feel that she is losing out
in looks. Remember, a woman of
50 cannot look as she did at 20. In.
general make her feel that you ap-
preciate her. You will be more than!
repaid.
For the women: Don't think that;
being married means you must not,
be careful of your appearance. Hus. ,
bands are often the most critical
men in : the world. Learn to make,
flee: ;P or: ,coffer has ,ails«.-
$._.. R o,
"l3Ys�ciiitS;"'.�,urr:�^�x ������....�,..�•tia:
rise, reason them out sensibly in.
stead of flying off the handle and
uttering words you may regret..
Don't expect your husband to re-
main the young lover you knew him,
to be during your courtship. Age
makes us a little more serious. In.
short, make up your minds to be
happy and contented and—you w1113
be.
ANNA BLUMBERG.
Better Housing
Conditions Make
For Bigger Children
New York. — An unmistakable
and not inconsiderable increase ing
the size of boys and girls in the'
past twenty years because of
proved health conditions brought on'
by better housing points the way to
the time when smaller houses and,
lightened labors will bring about al
happier and more healthy environ -1
ment, Dr. Francs Carter Wood, df-
rector of the Columbia University"
Intitute of Cancer research, said re-
cently.
Future taxes will relegate people'
to simple existence in little houses,
he asserted, and the university of:
the most important educational in
stitutions in the world,
"Epitaph for the average mane;
Dead at 30; buried at 60!" Nichol+
as Murray Butler.
THE SEVERED FINGER—Burned Evidence!
Not ten seconds
elapsed, I will swear, tem
Sim tiros 1 crossed the
room will I turned back.
to -look at the girl—She
vias slipping out of the
door
1 turned away from her
toward the fireplace. I
had not counted on this
warring with a woman,
What could 1 do? What
should I do? By the charm
of her personality and the
art of her pleadincg�,this
;t
girl iced made -ainhut
impossible for me to gime
her up to justice ...
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