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• . . JUST LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE!
(See Recipes Below)
IT WAS WONDERFUL froOD!
Remember flying home, pigtails
thumping, to smell supper, and
guess? Remember being saucer
eyed as mother’s marble cake took
a blue ribbon at the fair? And re
member licking the last bit of sweet-
oess from the frosting platter?
I know you must remember. How
could you forget? It was wonderful
food!
And it’s to the best cooks in the
world — our mothers — that this
week's coliunn is dedicated. When
you pay them homage on Mother’s
day, 1941, perhaps you’ll enjoy us
ing some of the following recipes,
favorites of the long ago.
In those days, to be caught with
out plenty of food, and good food,
too, for all com
ers was to show
oneself a poor
housekeeper, a
bad hand in the
kitchen.
But times have
changed. A large
“crock” of but
ter, a “basket”
of eggs, and a “wedge” of cheese
are no longer a part of the regular
supplies on the shelf in the vegeta
ble ceUar. Nor are recipes penciled
on the fly-leaf of the family ledger.
But the basic goodness is still' the
same.
So, whether it be crusty brown
doughnuts, chicken pie and jelly
roll, huge, fluffy cakes, or rich
chocolate pie, let’s take mother
back, down memory lane!
Lovely to look at and utterly de
lightful to eat is the Sour Cream
Devil’s Food Cake, which I’m sure
was a favorite of grandmother’s.
Sour Cream Devil's Food Cake.
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon soda
% teaspoon salt
Vt cup butter or other shortening
1% cups sugar
1 egg, unbeaten
3 squares unsweetened chocolate,
melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
% cup thick sour cream
% cup sweet milk
isift flour once, measure, add soda
and salt, and sift together three
times. Cream butter thoroughly,
add sugar gradually, and cream to
gether well. Add egg and beat very
thoroughly; then chocolate and va
nilla, and blend. Add about one-
fourth of the flour and- beat well;
then add sour cream and beat thor
oughly. Add remaining flour, alter
nately with milk, a small amount at
a time, beating after each addition
until smooth. Turn into two greased
9-inch layer pans and bake in a
moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 30
minutes, or until done.
Spread Felicity Frosting on top
and sides of cake. Top with glossy
LYNN SAYS:
In an old book of household ad
vice, written in 1879, are some
words of wisdom “to help home
makers.” I’m passing them on to
you “for what they’re worth” in
the modern, up-to-date home.
“Use a clam shell to scrape
skillets or saucepans; to scour
yoj|r iron pots and griddles, use
wood ashes.
“Sweeping a carpet with new
fallen snow will make it look
very bright and fresh. Also, it
is a good plan to save tea leaves,
and, with them not too moist,
sweep a dark carpet. This is
not advised for light colors.
“Woodwork may be dusted with
a long-feathered wing, preferably
that of a turkey.
“For washing fine clothes, use
a pounder—not a large, old-fash
ioned affair, but one about twice
as large as a potato masher, and
pound your clothes as they soak
in sal-soda water. The rubbing
on a board will then be very
easy. Use a clothes wringer if you
can possibly get one.
“Never buy ground coffee.
Take whole berries and heat;
grind while hot.
“All housewives should be well
adversed in cookery, and should
know how to make good dishes,
such as ‘Jenny Lind Cake,’ ‘Pars
nip Pie,’ ‘Marrow Dumplings’
and ‘Flannel Pancakes.’ ”
THIS WEEK’S MENU
Menu For a Mother-Daughter
Banquet
(For not-too-large a group)
Strawberry and Pineapple Cup
Roast Chicken Giblet Gravy
Bread Falling Fresh Asparagus
Fruit Salad
Ice Cream Cookies
Coffee Milk
chocolate coating, made by com
bining 1 square unsweetened choco
late, melted, % cup sugar, and V\
cup water. Cook over low flame
until smooth and thick. Cool slight
ly. Double the recipe for three IQ*
inch layers.
Felicity Frosting.
2 egg whites, unbeaten
2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
Dash of salt
7 tablespoons water
Combine egg whites, sugar, salt
and water in top of double boiler,
beating with rotary egg beater un
til thoroughly mixed. Place ovfer
rapidly boiling water, beat constant
ly with rotary egg beater, and cook
7 minutes, or until frosting will
stand in peaks. Remove from fire,
but allow to remain over hot wa
ter, and beat 2 minutes longer.
Place over cold water and continue
beating 3 minutes. Makes enough
frosting to cover top and sides of
two 9-inch layers.
* • •
Just like mother used to make.
That’s what you’ll
say when you
taste the delicious
cookies, made by
the directions giv
en below. When
mother baked
cookies she made
them rich with
butter and usual
ly full of fruit, like:
Fig Oaties.
Boil 5 minutes in water to cover:
Vh cups dried figs
Drain, clip stems and cut figs into
thin strips (scissors are handy).
Cream together:
1 cup butter
2 cups beet or cane sugar
Add:
3 eggs, beaten
Blend well, then add liquids:
V4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift together and add:
\Vz cvps sifted all-purpose flour
% teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
Add:
Figs
5 cups quick-cooking oats
Stir until well blended, then drop
by small spoonfuls onto greased
cooky sheet and flatten slightly.
Bake in moderately hot oven, 400
degrees F., for 13 to 15 minutes.
Press a nut meat, strips of fig or
cherry into tops before baking if
desired. For a glazed top, brush
with hot honey after baking and
place under broiler for a minute or
two. Makes 5% dozen medium-sized
cookies.
* • •
Do you recall the old cracker bar
rel? It was a necessity in days gone
by when homemakers often made
their own crackers, and even their
own baking powder and bread start
er. Thinking that perhaps in your
spare moments you might like to
try your hand at cracker making
I’m including a recipe.
Crackers Made With Yeast.
Vz package granular yeast
1 pint warm water
Wz quarts flour
1 tablespoon salt
cup sour milk
% cup shortening
1 teaspoon soda
Set sponge of yeast, water and
flour at night. In the morning add
the other ingredi
ents and flour to
stiffen very stiff.
Pound with roll
ing pin. Fold over
and pound again.
Continue until the
dough is smooth.
Place on a lightly floured board and
roll in a thin sheet. Cut in squares,
and punch holes on top with a fork.
Place in ungreased pans and bake
irt a 400-degree F. oven. These are
inexpensive and very good!
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.1
Eleanor Roosevelt
Across the Nation
The sun shone when we reached
Peoria, 111., from Washington en
route to Chicago and then, after a
press conference, I went out to see
one of the housing projects built
under the U. S. housing authority.
Everyone with whom I talked, had
the highest praise for Mr. Nathan
Straus and the work which has been
accomplished under his leadership.
The particular project which I saw
was practically completed, except
for the landscaping.
There are two types of buildings,
three story apartment houses and
two story small houses. The rents
are remarkably reasonable, far be
low the average for substandard
housing in Peoria. I am sure all
the officials are very pleased with
what has been accomplished.
Later, I met the staff of the WPA
for the district. I was very much
interested to hear an account of
the Workers Service project, which
has just been operating during the
past two months. They have set
up centers of information for the
workers, and they seem to have
been able to make these centers
very useful in the short time they
have been open.
A number of the British Relief
people, among them two small
girls dressed in Scotch kilts, came
at five o’clock to shake hands with
me. I was glad to see Mrs. John
son, who remembered having enter
tained the President and me in the
1920 campaign.
After the lecture in the evening,
I attended a small reception. We
boarded the train a little before
midnight, arriving in Chicago early
in the morning.
At noon, we started across the
continent, bound for Los Angeles..
• * *
‘WIDE OPEN SPACES’
We awoke the next morning to
find ourselves some 7,000 feet up in
the mountains, where the state of
Colorado and the state of New Mex
ico join. A driving rainstorm, at
times turning into snow, was with
. us all day and in places really deep
snows covered the ground. We jsaw
miles of prairie powdered with show
and have passed many, many cattle
and sheep; none of them looking
too happy at this last burst of
winter.
The houses are so far apart in
this part of our country, one cannot
help but think that it requires a
different quality to live and to be
happy where so much of the time
must be spent alone. Even the im
mediate family of a woman must
leave her many lonely hours, for
they go to work or to school. The
man who earns a living out here
must spend much time alone. Even
the youngsters must have occasions
when they know what it is like to
see no other human being anjhvhere
in sight.
It must be hard sometimes, and
yet I think it must give one a sense
of self-reliance. Perhaps the near
ness to the soil and the great out
doors puts iron into their souls.
RECENT READING
I have read the American Red
Cross report on war relief, and I
think we can be proud of the record
that the help made available by and
through the Red Cross up to March
1 totaled in value $22,981,942. I was
glad to note that relief to Finland
had increased last month, but I was
extremely sorry to note in the pa
pers that a shipload of Red Cross
supplies bound for Greece had come
to grief on its voyage. Somehow,
one feels that no Red Cross supplies
should be war casualties.
There is a new quarterly maga
zine called “The Land,” published
by “Friends of the Land,” which
should be on everybody’s table. It
is a magazine which hopes to make
us all conservation conscious, be
cause people go down and come up
with their land, and ours needs to
be conserved.
Finally, I read a pamphlet called
“Britain Under Fire.” It is a col
lection of articles written by John
Cowles, president of the Minneapo
lis Star Journal. I have read some
before but gathered ^together in this
way, they make impressive read
ing. One of them in particular in
terested me. It is called “What Will
The Peace Terms Be?” I think
these two paragraphs are worth
much thought on our part:
“English trades unions and labor
party leaders, who are co-operating
completely with the Churchill gov
ernment, have as one of their basic
aims the re-establishment of strong,
free trades unions in Germany as
a bulwark against future mili
tarism.
“To attain this end, they say
Britain must help build a sound and
thriving national economy in post
war Germany.”
• « •
‘TRUE COMICS’
There is a comic magazine, which
everyone of us with youngsters who
like to read the comics, should hail
with joy. It is “True Comics,” pub
lished by the Parents Institute. Its
quality is assured by the fact that
Mr. George J. Hecht is the presi
dent and publisher, while the editor
is Mr. David Marke. Junior advi
sory editors Janet Cantor, Gloria
Jean, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Tem
ple and Virginia Weidler ought to be
able to help make this a really good
comic magazine.
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silk print, flat crepe, taffeta or
sheers.
• • •
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To keep the inside of a gas
range in good condition, remove
rust that may have accumulated
with coarse sandpaper, then rub
over entire surface with olive oil.
* * •
Shrinkage in woolens is usually
due to over-washing. In ordinary
circumstances, three minutes is
long enough for them.
• * *
When rooms are to be painted,
coat windows with a cleaning pow
der. If paint splatters on the glass
it comes off easily when the pow
der is wiped away.
* * •
If sugar is added to water when
making flavored ice cubes, the
cubes will not freeze clear or sol
idly.
• * *
Many kitchens have a bare, un
used wall space that could be
usefully and attractively trans
formed into recessed shelves.
• • •
Before baking potatoes, let them
stand in hot water for 15 minutes.
Then rub with butter or lard and
put in oven. They will bake in
half the time and will not shrink.
Not So Dusty, but
Oh, What an' Excavation!
Willie was on the hunt for in
formation. He had teen set to en
tertain a portly Visitor, who, hav
ing no inquisitive children of his
own, had answered all his ques
tions with unusual patience.
“And what,” was Willie’s 198th
question, “are Hbuses made of?”
“Houses,” replied the stout
man, “are made of bricks.”
“And what are engines mads
of?”
“Engines are made of iron.”
“And what is bread made of?**
“Flour.”
Then, as the anticipated light
step and soft rustle of Willie’s sis
ter sounded outside, he added,
“Now, Willie, I can answer only
one more question.”
Willie decided that it should bs
a good one.
After a pause, Willie asked:
“Well, what are we made of?”
“Dust and earth, my son.”
“My,” said Willie, “they must
have made a whacking big hols
when they took you out!”
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We have no more right to con
sume happiness without producing
it than to consume wealth without
producing it. — George Bernard
Shaw.
ASK ME
ANOTHER
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
The Qjuestions
1. What is a solecism?
2. Where is the measurement
parsec used?
3. What is the lee side of a ship?
4. May one sound be produced
bo as to neutralize another sound,
the result being silence?
5. Who was the Spanish con
queror of Mexico?
6. In the famous poem, named
after the hero, what “boy stood on
the burning deck”?
7. What country is noted for its
consanguineous marriages?
8. How fast do the stalks of the
jmcca flower grow?
9. Are any famous piano compo
sitions written to be played with
one hand only?
10. What are the tea wagons of
the London fire department?
The Answer a
1. A grammatical error.
2. In astronomy (used for meas
uring space between the stars).
3. The side opposite to that from
which the wind is blowing.
4. Scientists say that two sounds
may be produced in such a man
ner that they neutralize each oth
er and the result is silence.
5. Cortez.
6. Casabianca.
7. Egypt. Consanguineous mar
riages are those between half-
brothers and half-sisters.
8. Yucca flower stalks in Cali
fornia grow from 7 to 11 inches in
24 hours.
9. There are more than 60 fa
mous piano compositions that are
played with one hand only, among
them being Zichy’s “Valse Adele”
and Ravel’s “Concerto for Left
Hand.” Ravel wrote this work for
a friend who had lost his right
arm.
10. A typically English feature of
London’s fire department is the
Y. M. C. A.’s mobile tea cars. Tea
cars are light trucks equipped
with stoves to boil water for tea,
cook eggs, sausages, etc. On ma
jor alarms they clatter through
the streets along with the fire en
gines and often remain on 24-hour
duty to serve the weary fire
fighters. ’
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WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY
Arrogant Disregard ^
To disregard what the world
thinks of us is not only arrogant
but utterly shameless.—Cicero.
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wherever found on flowers, trees or
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Who after his transgression doth
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