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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C* THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1940 * COOL DRINKS ARE REFRESHING ON HOT SUMMER DATS (Recipes Below.) Even on the stickiest, hottest sum mer day, a good tart, icy drink will refresh you. Fruit drinks, in particular, are good; when you drink a frosty tumbler of lemon ade or chilled or ange juice, you not only feel cool er, you are cooler. Fresh fruit drinks actually ward off the heat of sum mer. Fruit beverages provide the min erals and vitamins the body re quires, and, because of the sugar added for sweetening, are fairly high in food energy. It’s very easy to serve “soda foun tain specials” at home. Any combi nation of fruit juices makes a de lightful and refreshing beverage— provided some of the more tart juices, such as those from lemons, slightly sour oranges, or rhubarb— are used to keep the beverage from tasting too sweet and flat. Use slices of orange or lemon, mint leaves, whole, fresh or canned cherries or berries, for garnishing. Ice cubes for chilling fruit drinks or iced tea might be frozen from orange or lem on juice, to avoid diluting the bev erage. Mint leaves, bits of lemon peel or cherries can be frozen into the cubes. For iced coffee, pour some of the coffee into the freezing tray of your refrigerator, and freeze. Then use the coffee cubes for chilling the drink. Sugar syrup, used for sweetening, is easily mixed throughout the whole drink, and makes a smoother tast ing, smoother tex tured drink, than when unmelted sugar has been added. To make the sugar syrup, boil 4 cups of sug ar with 4 cups of water, for 10 min utes. Pour into clean, hot jars, and seal. Store in refrigerator, and use as needed. Serve crisp cookies or dainty sandwiches with iced drinks for sim ple afternoon or evening refresh ments. Lemonade. Follow these three rules if you want to make perfect lemonade: Use fresh lemon juice and plenty of it; sweeten to the taste of each—not too much sweetening for folks who like it sour—sweeter for‘those with a sweet tooth; use ice and more ice. For each person served, allow: 1 lemon 1 to 2 tablespoons sugar or honey 1 cup cold water Ice ^ Extract lemon juice. Add sugar or honey to taste. Stir to dissolve. Add water. Serve over ice in large glasses. Garnish with lemon slice on rim of glass. To make lemon fizz, make lemonade with carbon ated water. “Simple Desserts for Summer Menus” is an article you’ll want to read. Watch for it in this col umn next week. Sugar Cookies. % cup butter % cup granulated sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1% cups pastry flour 1 teaspoon baking powder V< teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter, add sugar and egg. Sift dry ingredients and add with the extracts. Flour and sugar the board and roll the cookies on it. Dust heavily with sugar, roll it in a little, cut in cookie shapes, and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 10 to 12 minutes. Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. (Makes 1 gallon) 1 cup sugar % cup flour 2 quarts milk (scalded) 4 eggs (separated) 4 teaspoons vanilla Vz teaspoon salt 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate (cut in bits) Combine sugar and flour, and add scalded milk slowly. Then cook over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Beat egg yolks, and blend with % cup of the hot mixture, then add to the custard, to gether with vanilla and salt. Chill. Pour into the freezing compartment Is Father fussy about his food? Then you’ll surely want Eleanor Howe’s cook book, “Feeding Fa ther.” It has loads of recipes for the foods father likes best—reci pes which have been tested and approved by homemakers as well as fathers! You can have a copy of this cook book by sending 10 cents in coin. Address your let- , ter to “Feeding Father,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. of ice cream freezer. Pour in the stiffly beaten egg whites, assemble the freezer, and cover. Pack with mixture of three parts crushed ice to one part rock salt. Freeze, un til turning becomes difficult. Re move dasher, fold in chocolate, and pack down the cream with a spoon. Cover, and allow to ripen for one hour before serving. Pineapple Raspberry Punch. (Serves 25) 6 cups crushed pineapple 6 cups raspberry juice 3 quarts gingerale Crushed ice Mix crushed pineapple and the raspberry juice thoroughly. Just be fore serving, add gingerale and ice. Fool Proof Cookies. (Yield 3 dozen) 2 pups flour Vi cup brown sugar % cup butter Mix and sift flour and sugar to gether. Then work butter into the mixture with the finger tips, form ing a soft dough. Roll to Vs-inch in thickness and cut with cookie cut ter in any desired shape. Brush with yolk of one egg, beaten, and dilut ed with .% teaspoon water. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) approximately 12 minutes. Chocolate Freeze. (Makes 4 large glasses) 4 tablespoons sugar 4 tablespoons cocoa Vi teaspoon salt % cup boiling water 2 cups milk (scalded) Vz teaspoon vanilla Crushed ice , Whipped cream Combine sugar, cocoa and salt. Add boiling water and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from fire, and combine with scalded milk. Pour into glasses filled with crushed ice, and serve with a spoonful of whipped cream garnishing each glass. Blackberry Cocktail. (Serves 4) Mix together 2 cups blackberry juice, 1 cup orange juice, Vi cup lemon juice, and 1 cup water. Add Vi cup sugar syrup and blend. Pour over ice and shake thoroughly. Gar nish with very thin slices of orange. Sugar syrup—Boil 1 cup water and 2 cups sugar together for I minute. Iced Coffee. Make coffee a little stronger than usual. Cool, and serve in tall glasses filled with cracked ice. Top with whipped cream. If desired, cream may be poured on the ice before the coffee is added. Iced Tea. Rinse teapot with boiling water. Place tea in pot, allowing one tea spoon of the tea per cup. Pour freshly boiling water over the tea leaves and allow to steep, not boil, for 3 to 5 minutes. Po|ir tea over chipped ice, to cool it quickly. Serve in tall glasses garnished with lemon slices and sprigs of mint. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Tips on Wash Dresses When purchasing materials for washable garments, make sure that buttons, belt buckles and shoulder paddings are of the sort that will stand up under frequent tubbings and that contrasting materials for trimmings, braid or bindings are also color-fast. Double Duty Equipment Ingeniously designed to do double duty are two new pieces of house hold equipment—a washer that be comes a useful kitchen table when it isn’t in action and an ironer that folds into a handsome hardwood cab inet, suitable for use in the Living room. | MPROV E D ' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible InsUtute of Chicago. „ , (Release^ by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for September 1 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. PRAISING GOD FOR HIS BLESSINGS LESSON TEXT—Psalm 103:1-5. 10-18. GOLDEN TEXT—Bless the Lord. O my ioul, and forget not all his benefits.— Psalm 103:2. We live in difficult and confusing days with much on every hand to dis courage us. We look about us in vain for any encouraging sign. The result is that unless we exercise care the temptation will overtake us who are Christians to fall into the bitter, complaining attitude of the world, forgetting the benefits which God has bestowed upon us, forget ting His mercy and grace, and, in this hour of trial, telling the world by our life, if not by our lips, that we have lost our faith in God. It is easy to praise God when all goes well, when we see His bless ing upon us; but the Christian should recognize that praise is a vital part of his daily fellowship with God, an expression of his apprecia tion of all that God is and does for him. Psalm 103 has in all genera tions been a favorite of Christian people when passing through deep waters and fiery trials. I. Praise for Personal Blessings (vv. 1-5). Our relationship to God is a per sonal one, and His blessings are per sonal. Praise also is a personal soul exercise to which we need often to stir ourselves. We need to call on “all that is v/ithin” us to bless and praise the Lord. “Forget not”—how prone we are to do that very thing. We remem ber the things we ought to forget and forget the things we ought to remember. We have become so ac customed to the many blessings of God that we accept them as a mat ter of course. Note that the chief of all bless ings is the forgiveness of sin (v. 3). The spiritual is far more important than the physical, but that too is in cluded. Only God can heal our dis eases, whether by means or by di rect intervention. He also meets with true satisfaction every right and normal desire of man, whether it be physical, social, mental or spiritual. That calls for praise from the depths of our beings. * II. Praise for Forgiveness of Sin (w. 10-14). We may “put on a front” when we deal with our fellow men, but there is no use in thus trying to fool God. He knows us for what we are—“frail children of dust, and feeble as frail.” We are not able to meet our own little problems; how can we do anything with the sin question? The mercy of God, high as the heavens, is revealed nowhere in such overflowing measure as in His dealing with the sins of “them that fear him” (v. 13). For them He has the pity of a father, but He has more, for He has the authority and power to cast our sins as far from us as the east is from the west, and how far that is no one knows. Observe that His mercy is only for “them that fear Him.” “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble” (James 4:6, I Pet. 5:6, 7). Whosoever will may come and receive of Him abundant pardon. Why not come now? HI. Praise for Everlasting Loving kindness (vv. 15-18). Man and everything that man makes or does is transient, and will one day pass away. What a fool that man is who lives only for the things of this world which are des tined to wither like the grass! How tragic to come into eternity and to face God empty handed and con demned for one’s own selfishness and folly, when He ife willing to show unto us that “loving-kindness” which is not only for this life, but also for the life that is to come. As we praise God for this great and blessed gift, shall we not be moved to go out and seek to win others to Him? In closing this brief study of the One Hundred Third Psalm may we again suggest that in these bitter days which so sorely try the hearts of men, we lift our souls up to a high spiritual plane by praising God. When Hardley Page was mak ing a flight through the Orient a large rat was attracted by the smell of food and entered into the air plane. Later, when Mr. Page was in mid-air over a mountainous coun try where he could not land, he sud denly heard the sound of gnawing behind him. He knew that the rat might so damage his plane as to cause disaster. Then he remem bered that a rat is not made for high altitudes. So he began to soar. Soon the gnawing ceased and hours later when his machine landed he found the rat lying dead beneath the engine. It is a blessed truth that Satan cannot endure the high alti tudes of praise. He quickly departs from the soul whom he finds re joicing in this high and lofty spir itual atmosphere. “Try praise,” fox '‘praise changes things.” .Ask Me .Another 0 A General Quiz The Questions HCWJq. SEW /r- Ruth Wyeth Spears 1. In what famous song does the phrase “grapes of wrath” appear? 2. Who was known as the “Lit tle Napoleon of Baseball”? 3. What plant produces two com mon spices? 4. Do cat eyes shine? 5. In the Bible what musical in struments caused the destruction of the walls of Jericho? 6. Does a woman’s heart beat faster than that of a man? 7. The Roman hunt was blessed by what ancient goddess? 8. “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife” is a line from Gray’s poem concerned with what? The Answers 1. In the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” 2. John McGraw. 3. The nutmeg tree is the only plant whose seed produces two common spices, nutmeg and mace, the latter being the dried arillode, or fibrous covering, of the nutmeg kernel. 4. The eye of a cat acts as a mirror which throws off light, but it does not generate it. 5. Trumpets.—Joshua 6:20. 6. Under normal and compara ble conditions, a woman’s heart beats from 5 to 7 per cent faster than that of a man. 7. Diana. 8. A country churchyard (elegy written in a country churchyard). l^ITCHEN showers are fun for ^ everyone and, while they are always supposed to be a surprise, the prospective bride will be wise to give out a broad hint as to her color scheme. The dearest wish of one bride-to-be was a kitchen in gay Mexican colors. Her friends had a wonderful time selecting everything from pottery to peeling knife handles in tones of green, orange and red. One gift that was appreciated most of all was the apron, curtain and tea towel set sketched here. This set was made from muslin flour and sugar bags. Muslin by the yard would do just as well, and I have shown in the sketch how the gingham facings and bias tape trimming were applied to add the correct touch of color. If you have never cut an apron without a special pattern, you will find di rections in Book 4 along with ideas for more aprons and other fascinating things to make for air most nothing. NOTE: As a service to our read ers Mrs. Spears has prepared a series of homemaking booklets. Booklet 5 just published contains 32 pages of clever ideas fully il lustrated ; and a description of the other numbers in the series. Book lets are 10 cents each to cover cost and mailing. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for each book ordered. Name Address ■in i ■ — — - Good Counsel To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to ap proach my work v/ith a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous; to approach night with weariness that woos sleep and joy that comes from work well done—this way I desire to waste wisely my days. BIG ANNIVERSARY BUY NOW! BIG BARGAINS * (ENDS LABOR DAY) JUST THINK Of IT! Tire$fone TIRES \ m m AS LOW AS LIFETIME GUARANTEE Every Firestone Tire carries a written lifetime guarantee — not limited to 12, 18 or 24 months, but for the full life of the tire without time or mileage limit. AND YOUR OLD TIRES Priced right down to bedrock — and just before your Labor Day Trip! 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