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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.
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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.
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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.
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