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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.
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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.)
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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.
Chinese Shampoos
For many centuries before the
West intruded upon the East, Chi
nese women used hair shampoos, to
achieve the sleek glossiness that is
the principal pride of their coiffures.
Some of these shampoos were made
of crushed mulberry leaves, rose
and jasmine perfumed oils and “pao
hua tzu”—pine tree shavings—the
latter used for their resinous con
tent and balsamic odor.
6. A small river.
7. An ampere, named after An
dre Ampere, French scientist who
established the relationship be
tween electricity and magnetism.
8. Dr. Rossiter Johnson, in “Al
phabet of Rhetoric,” says—“ ‘If
worse comes to worst’ is often
rendered meaningless by being
changed to ‘If worst comes to
worst.’ The original and correct
form is evident on a moment’s
thought. It is essentially a con
tinuation of from ‘bad to worse—
from worse to worst.’ ”
9. New York.
10. Mostly piles.
Flowered Hat Came
To Do Double Dut'v
A young matron found herself
somewhat hustled by the number
and variety of her engagements.
One day in particular she found
troublesome, for she had to go
first to a funeral service and
then to a garden party.
She solved the dress problem by
wearing smart but sober clothes
and taking in a hat box a flow
ered hat which, during the service,
she placed in the vestry.
Her sense of quiet pleasure at
this successful solution of the
problem was somewhat marred,
however, when the coffin was
brought into church. For repos
ing in the center of the wreaths
on the coffin was her flowered hat.
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Strange Facts
Adam’s Day
Slow in Anger
Spotted Aristocrats
The world’s 250,000,000 Moslems
observe Friday as their Sabbath
because, according to Mohammed,
this was the day Adam was cre
ated, the day he entered and was
also expelled from Paradise, the
day of his repentance, the day of
his death and the day he will be
resurrected.
• * *
Chameleons are “slow-motion”
fighters. When two enemies start
a battle, many minutes, even
hours, pass between each thrust
and parry. Sometimes the only
way that one can tell a fight is in
progress is by the color of their
skins, which have turned black
with rage.
• * *
Although about nine thousand
members of Britain’s aristocracy
and sporting world are admitted
to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot,
England, at each meeting, thou
sands are excluded because they
are in bankruptcy, involved in a
divorce, owe too much money
to a bookmaker or have not been
presented at a royal court.—Col
lier’s.
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a
tonic which has been helping women
of all ages for nearly 70 years. Adr.
Wisdom and Fear
There is a courageous wisdom;
there is also a false reptile pru
dence, the result, not of caution
but of fear.—Burke.
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