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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1939 Household News Crusty, piping hot bran muffins are family favorites. See Recipe Below. For a Special Treat Serve Hot Breads Was there ever a family that didn’t adore hot breads? Biscuits that melt in your mouth, muffins that are feather-light and crusty and full of flavor, or a golden corn bread with the tantalizing taste of bacon to make it even more delicious—all these are special treats for a hungry family. Serve hot muffins or flaky biscuits at the next church supper or the first fall dinner meeting of the guild, and watch them disappear like snowflakes on a warm spring day. It’s easy to achieve success with hot breads if you’ll follow just a few basic rules. A tested recipe, good ingredients, accurate measurements, deft han dling, and the proper temperature for baking are the factors of suc cess. If you’ve had difficulty with quick breads that are coarse textured and full of the long holes called 4 ’tun nels” in all probability you’ve been over-conscientious in mixing. Unless otherwise specified, mix lightly and only enough to blend the ingredients. When you’re making baking pow der biscuits, remember that a little kneading goes a long way toward making biscuits flaky and light. A simple recipe for baking pow der biscuit is the starting point for a variety of tempting breads. Make “Pinwheels” by rolling out biscuit dough to V4-inch thickness, brushing with melted butter, and spreading generously with grated cheese, dev illed ham, or thick jam. Roll up the dough as for jelly-roll, cut in slices, and bake in a hot oven (425 degrees). Quick Butterscotch Rolls are made in the same fashion. Ginger Cheese Muffins. 2 cups cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powdei y« teaspoon soda Vz teaspoon ginger Vz teaspoon salt % cup cheese (grated) 1 egg (beaten) Vz cup milk Vz cup molasses % cup butter (melted) Mix and sift all dry ingredients. Add grated cheese. Blend egg, milk, molasses, and melted butter. Pour this mixture slowly into the dry in gredients and mix lightly. Fill well greased muffin tins approximately % full and bake in a hot oven (425 de grees) for 12 to 15 minutes. Old-fashioned Nut and Raisin Bread. 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 cups bread flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Vz teaspoon salt % cup milk y« cup seedless raisins V\ cup nutmeats (broken) Cream butter and add sugar. Mix and sift all dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Mix lightly and fold in the raisins and nuts. Place bat ter in a well- greased loaf pan, let stand 20 min utes, and then bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for approximate ly one hour. Quick German Coffee Cake. (Makes 1 coffee cake) y 4 cup shortening Vz cup sugar 2 eggs (well beaten) 1% cups and 1 tablespoon flour Vz teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder Vz cup milk Vz cup brown sugar Vz cup nut meats (chopped) 4 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter Cream shortening; add sugar slowly while beating constantly. Add eggs and blend. Mix and sift to gether 1% cups flour, salt and bak ing powder and add alternately with milk. Mix lightly with a fork. Place half of dough in well-greased layer cake pan. Mix together brown sug ar, chopped nuts, remaining 1 ta blespoon flour, cinnamon and butter. Sprinkle % of this mixture over dough. Top with remaining dough; sprinkle with remaining brown sug ar mixture. Bake in moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for approxi mately 30 minutes. Serve while warm. Refrigerator Parkerhouse Rolls. (Makes 3 dozen Parkerhouse rolls) 2 cups boiling water Vz cup and 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon salt 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons lard 2 cakes compressed yeast Vk cup lukewarm water * 2 eggs 8 cups flour Mix together boiling water, % cup sugar, salt, butter and lard. Cool slightly. Dissolve yeast and 1 tea spoon sugar in the lukewarm water and add. Add eggs and one-half of the flour; beat thoroughly.. Then add remaining flour. Mix well. Place in refrigerator. When ready to use roll dough about %-inch thick and cut in circles. Then cut each cir cle almost in two. Turn circle of dough so that cut side is on the outside. Spread inside with melted butter and fold. Let rise until dou bled in bulk. Then bake in a hot oven (400 degrees) approximately 20 minutes. Skillet Corn Bread. (Makes one 9-inch bread) IMt cups general purpose flour tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt IVz tablespoons baking powder 1% cups yellow com meal 3 eggs (beaten) 1% cups milk Bacon Sift together the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Stir in the com meal. Combine the eggs and milk, and blend with the dry in gredients. Pour into a greased, 9- inch skillet. Ar range bacon slices, lattice- fashion, over the top. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for 50 to 60 minutes. If necessary, the bread may be placed in the broiler for a few minutes to brown the bacon. Molasses All-Bran Muffins. (Makes 1 dozen muffins) 2 cups bran % cup molasses cups milk 1 egg (beaten) 1 cup flour Vz teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda Add bran to molasses and milk and allow to soak for 15 minutes. Beat egg and add to first mixture. Sift flour, salt and soda together and combine with bran mixture. Fill greased muffin pans two-thirds full and bake in moderately hot oven (400 degrees) about 20 minutes. Is it hard to get children (and grown folk, too) out of bed in time to breakfast with the rest of the family? Eleanor Howe will give you, in this column next week, suggestions for unusual breakfast dishes which will help you overcome that problem. This Practical Book. In her new cook book, “Better Baking,” Eleanor Howe gives you her secrets for making delicious hot breads, cakes, cookies and pies. You’ll find here over 125 recipe sug gestions, too—recipes for “Funny Cake,” “Jelly Tuck-A-Ways,” “Lem on Sunny Silver Pie,” and countless others just as interesting and un usual. Send 10 cents in coin to “Better Baking,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and get your copy of this grand book now. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Let Them Help! Children Learn By Experience • MENTAL LIST OF POS- sible activities will do much toward solving problem of naughtiness. Childish energy demands outlet, and should be put to a constructive pur pose through suggestion. By LELIA MUNSELL ‘*T WISH,” mourned Sue Tressel, * “I had something to do. I wish Arlene didn't have the measles, or that I’d had them so I could go over and play with her.” 44 I expect,” smiled Mother, “that Arlene wishes much the same thing. She’s just sick enough to have to stay in bed, and just well enough to want something to do. Maybe you could fix something for her to do. That would give you something to do, too.” “What?” “Arlene’s mother has a little lap- board that Arlene could use for past ing. Of course, you wouldn’t want a big scrapbook if you were sick, but—” Sue’s face beamed. “I’ll make a little scrapbook—of some of my new notepaper,” she said delighted ly. “Arlene can handle that.” * Mother punched the holes for her and she tied the sheets together with ribbon. Then she had the happiest kind of a time finding and cutting out pretty pictures that would fit. When she had enough. Mother said she could carry them over herself. “It will be all right to go to the door.” So Sue trotted across the street with the scrapbook material and a bottle of paste. “Tomorrow we will think of some thing else,” said Mother. The next morning she laid out some maga zines, all of them open at paper dolls. “When you’re sick you like to play with paper dolls,” she said to Sue. “O, this is going to be a nice thing to do,” was the smiling re sponse. She began to sing and sang almost all the time she was cutting out the dolls and putting each doll and her wardrobe into a separate envelope. Then Mother brought a big envelope. “When you’re sick it’s nice to have something to smile over. Can you read what I have written?” she asked. Sue read: "These dolls cannot take the measles from you, and Dressing them all will be something to dor After enclosing the little envelopes she trotted across the street and left them at Arlene’s door. The third morning was bright and sunny. “How about taking Arlene a bit of outdoors?” suggested Moth er. “Do you know the names of the leaves of all the trees in our yard? See if you can think up a game for Arlene.” Help Children When Necessary. After a time Sue came running in, her eyes shining, “Could I get some pieces of paper and pin a different leaf to each and let her write what she thinks their names are under them?” Mother nodded. “So that she need not think too hard, write the names for her on another sheet of paper, but don’t arrange the leaves in the same order. Tomorrow you can give her some more leaves with the name of each written underneath, and she can change the names or the leaves on her sheets if any are wrong.” Soon Sue had samples of all the leaves in the yard and was earnest ly at work preparing them for Ar lene. Mother had a large envelope ready, on which she had written: "Cut out each name and pin it tight. Tomorrow you'll see which names are right." Sue’s mother was not only under standing, but she was wise. She knew childish energy demanded an outlet. In this instance she made use of two fundamental principles. She gave Sue an objective: to help make Arlene happy, and she led Sue to think out what to do herself. Much of what we call naughtiness in children is lack of something to do. Let us keep our thinking caps handy and have, for ready use, a mental list of possible activities. As we use these, from time to time, let us give the children help where needed, but not to the extent of de stroying their own initiative. And let us help them to help in the things we do. It’s sometimes tiresome to have them “messing around,” but that is the way they learn. And we mustn’t forget to appreciate the children’s efforts, no matter how crude—ignore them, or criticize too harshly, and we chill their enthusiasm. National Kindergarten Association (WNU Service.) OP? SEW 4- Ruth Wyeth Spears ER PRINT FOLD APRON MATERIAL AND SHAPE THE WAISTLINE , .. ED AND GREEN RICK 8' n- 32 ** BROWN^^BPAND BLUE BANDS WITH ORANGE BIAS TAPE Gay aprons from unbleached muslin. Every one who has ever lived in the country knows the possi bilities of unbleached muslin. The source of supply there is flour and food sacks but even purchased by the yard it is an inexpensive, sturdy material for aprons and many other things. If you have friends who share your enthusiasm for interesting aprons, plan and cut them in a group; then trimmings may be exchanged and every piece-bag will produce something. The diagram shown here gives you cutting dimensions for the skirt part of a plain little apron and shows how to shape the waist line. Belts for the bibless type are rather wide now—two or two and a half inches finished. Ties are generally 4-inches wide and as long as you like. Now, do be daring when you come to pockets or adding a bib. Try an idea of your own. These gay unbleached muslin aprons are just sugges tions to get you started. EDITOR’S NOTE: The new Sewing Booklet which Mrs. Spears has prepared for our readers, con tains thirty-two new and original ideas for homemakers. To get one of these useful booklets, sim ply address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111., with name and address, and 10 cents in coin; booklet will be postpaid by return mail. Thrift of Time Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intel lectual and moral stature, be yond your darkest reckoning.—W. E. Gladstone. ASK ME ANOTHER A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects The Questions 1. What are the following: (a) Adam’s needle; (b) Adam’s peak; (c) Adam’s profession? 2. Why is an artesian well so- called? 3. What do the racing clothes including boots of a jockey weigh? 4. Which are the two smallest states in Europe? 5. A gnomon is a person of no importance, a dwarf, Scottish chieftain or a geometrical figure? 6. To what does the song, “Cornin’ Through the Rye” refer? 7. The unit of current or flow of electricity is called—an am pere, a volt or a watt? 8. Which is the correct idiomat ic expression—“If worst comes to worst” or “if worse comes to worst”? 9. What American city was first known as New Amsterdam? 10. What kind of foundations are under the buildings in Venice, Italy? The Answers 1. (a) Various species of yucca plants; (b) Mountain peak in Cey lon; (c) Gardening. 2. Because such wells were first sunk in Artois (anc. Arte-sium), France. 3. A jockey’s outfit seldom weighs more than 30 ounces. 4. Monaco, the smallest state, is 8 square miles, and San Marino, the next smallest state, is 38 square . miles. ‘ 5. A geometrical figure. 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