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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941 /« y NEW IDEAS y By RUTH WYETH SPEARS ^ mmmmm z JufJl4ftut CUamteM, Christmas Baking Begins With Luscious Fruit Cake! (See Recipes Below.) Holiday Fare Christmas is something pretty special, I’m sure you’ll agree, and as such deserves something pretty special in the way of food. To my notion the fruit cakes and plum pud- dia’s are that special something with their handsome brown, fruity richness and delectable flavors. The charm of both these kinds of delicacies lies in their ripened, mellowed flavors which comes only with proper aging when the spices, fruits, nuts and butter blend themselves into mysterious good ness. So bake the fruit cakes and puddings in ad vance and give them a chance to acquire their best in flavor. While you're about the big busi ness of making a fruit cake, bake several small cakes in small glass or pottery dishes to give as gifts. Gaily decorated with sprigs of holly and mistletoe and holiday ribbons they make a perfect gift. Dark Fruit Cake. , (Yields K) to 12 pounds) 12 eggs 4 cups sifted flour 2 cups butter 1 pound brown sugar 2 pounds raisins 2 pound? currants 1 pound pecans 1 pound citron 1 pound almonds 1 teaspoon each, nutmeg, cinna mon, mace V4 cup lemon juice ¥4 cup canned peach juice 6-ounce glass jelly (blackberry, currant or grape) Mi cup cream Wash and dry raisins and cur rants. Blanch almonds, drain and cut with pecans into quarters. Cut citron into thin slices. Place fruit in large mixing bowl. Sift flour, measure and sift with spices and mix with fruits until well-coated. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs and jelly. Stir in flour and fruit alternately with fruit juice first, then cream. Line pans with heavy waxed pa per and butter slightly. Fill pans almost to the top. Bake small loaf cakes 3 to 3 Mi hours at 275 degrees. Bake large loaf cakes 4 to 4V& hours at 250 degrees. Cool. Cool cakes on a rack. When cool, wrap in heavy waxed paper and store tightly. If you prefer the lighter fruit cakes, why not try this less rich but just as elegant cousin of the Dark Fruit Cake: Light Fruit Cake. (Makes 3^ to 4 pounds) IMi pounds mixed crystallized fruits (cherries, pineapple, etc.) Mi pound mixed lemon, orange, citron peels Mi pound blanched, chopped al monds 18 maraschino cherries M» cup diced preserved ginger 2% cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder LYNN SAYS: Christmas wouldn’t be Christ mas if you didn’t have good things like fruit cake and plum puddin’ on hand. But since these take lots of time to make, plan to be in the process of making them for several days so one day won’t tire you out. Fruits and nuts can be cut and chopped several days in advance since they usually involve consid erable time. When putting the batter in the pans be sure that the corners are well filled with batter so you’ll get a nice looking cake or pudding. Store the cake or pudding in a cool dry place. Have it tightly covered preferably in a tin con tainer. Sound apples may be kept in the container itself to keep cake or pudding moist, but must be replaced if they become de cayed or shriveled. THIS WEEK’S MENU Clear Vegetable Broth Lamb Shanks Lima Beans Mashed Potatoes Grated Carrot-Pineapple Salad Muffins . Beverage Queen’s Bread Pudding Vi teaspoon salt 1 cup margarine 1 cup sugar 8 egg whites 1 tablespoon lemon juice Cut fruits and peels in thin slices. Mix cherries and ginger with 1 cup flour and toss lightly. Cream margarine with Vi cup sugar. Sift together flour baking powder and salt and beat into batter. Add floured fruits and nuts and mix thoroughly. Add lem on juice to egg whites and beat until stiff. Add remaining sugar and beat until smooth. Fold into batter. Turn into greased tube pans lined with waxed paper and bake in a slow (325 degree) oven for 3 hours. To my mind there’s nothing quite so festive as the plum pudding brought flaming to the table, and served with a rich sauce. / Plum Pudding. (Makes 3^ pounds) v 1 cup suet 1 cup molasses 2 cups bread crumbs 3 eggs, unbeaten 1 cup raisins 1 cup currants 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon each, cinnamon, nut meg, cloves 1 tablespoon flavoring 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon soda Mix well the suet and molasses. Add bread crumbs and mix in eggs one at a time. Add raisins and currants mixed with the flour and spices, then flavoring. Mix in milk and soda dissolved in 1 cup boiling water. Grease mold, put in pud ding % full and seal tight. Place in kettle of boiling water on a trivet or a rack and have the water come half way around the mold. Steam for three hours. Serve hot. An excellent dessert for Christ mas time or winter time is this old- fashioned suet pudding much akin to the plum pudding: Suet Pudding. (Serves 10) 1 cup suet, chopped fine 1 cup molasses 1 cup bread crumbs V\ cup evaporated milk, mixed with Mi cup water \ x k cups flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup raisins or currants or pre served fruit Mix all dry ingredients together, add fruit, then suet and milk. Turn into greased pudding mold, cups or cans, cover tightly with greased pa per or fitted covers. Place on a rack in a kettle of boiling water which comes half way up to the molds. Cover kettle and steam 3 hours if in a mold, or 1 hour if in cups. Serve with hard sauce or Plum Pudding Sauce. Sauce is to pudding as stuffing is to the turkey so make it good. For steamed puddings a hard sauce fla- vored with what- ) ever you desire is excellent. If you’d like a hot, golden-hued sauce, meltingly deli- cious here’s one that’s tops: Plum Pudding Sauce. Mi cup butter 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons cider or 1 tablespoon other flavoring 2 eggs % cup rich milk Cream butter and powdered sug ar. Add cider or flavoring, then well-beaten egg yolks. When well mixed, stir in milk. Cook in double boiler until thick as custard, then gradually pour in beaten egg whites, beating constantly. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.# ~ IMPROVED J J UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson B* HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for December 7 Lesson subjects and Scripture texU se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE NATURE AND WORK OF THE CHURCH LESSON TEXT—Acts 2:41-47; Ephesians 4:11-16. GOLDEN TEXT—Christ also loved the chyrch. and gave himself for It.—Ephesians 5:25. The church, which is so much the center of life for Christians, is not as well understood as it should be. We have come to regard it as just one organization among many com peting for the attention and interest of men, when it is really a divine, liv ing orgailism established by Christ as His Body and representing Him in this world. Our lesson presents significant truth for both study and teaching. The church is I. A Fellowship of Believers (Acts 2:41-47). The church is made up of those who are saved (v. 47), those who have received the Word by faith and witnessed a good confession of their faith in Christ (v. 41). This is a fact to be remembered in a time when there is so much laxness in receiving members into the church. It is not a religious or social club. It is not a rallying place for those who wish to work for some eco nomic, political, or social project. It is not a gathering of good people who wish to share common inter ests. The church needs to cleanse its rolls of all unbelievers, all hangers- on, and get back to the purity which it had when only those were re ceived who were manifestly “add ed” by the Lord (v. 47). Such folk have many interests which bind them together in fellow ship, devotion, and service. The early church was interested in sound doctrinal teaching (v. 42), an excel lent thing. They had fellowship in prayer (v. 42); we need that too. They had gladness of heart (v. 46); do we not need a renewal of the song of the Lord in our midst? They had such fervent love for each other that they established a communal system of sharing with one another, something which God had never commanded and which apparently failed with them, for it was later abandoned. But the point is that they really did love each oth er and thus showed their true dis- cipleship (see lesson of last Sun day). II. A Center of Christian Ministry (Eph. 4:11). The church is God’s chosen de pository for spiritual gifts, among them being the special ministries mentioned here. The Holy Spirit calls men as He chooses. Blessed is the church which recognizes His choice of teachers, evangelists, preachers, and leaders and gives them liberty to serve the Lord in their calling. It is God who calls men for these various activities in His vineyard. Self -appointed or man-chosen lead ers and preachers are destined to fail, but God’s men may be assured of His blessing and power. III. A Place of Spiritual Growth (Eph. 4:12-16). The purpose of the gifts of the Spirit is the edifying and building up of believers. A church should al ways be evangelistic in its efforts. The pastor should be a soul-winner, but essentially his ministry is to so edify and instruct believers that they may go out and win others to Christ. Verses 13 to 16 tell us how this “perfecting of the saints” moves forward. There is unity of the faith and a growth in knowledge, a stead iness which keeps believers from being led astray by error or the cleverness of men. Thus kept from drifting, and being steadily enriched in knowledge of the truth, the believ er grows up to spiritual manhood. Do not miss the beauty and help fulness of verses 15 apd 16. Like the body “fitly framed and knit togeth er,” the church of Christ is to be a perfectly co-ordinated organism, ev ery member performing its perfect service in building up the body in love for the glory of its Head— Christ. This figure of the Church as the body of Christ and the working to gether of the members for the glory of the Head is further developed in I Corinthians 12, which the reader is urged to consider, especially verses 12 to 27. Watching to See With the Christian who takes the deep true view of his religion as a guide in all earthly matters, materi al or spiritual, there is never any feverish, blind-alley skirmishing in the face of threatened ill. He just waits vigilantly, trustfully, upon God, ready to do His will the mo ment it is made clear to him. “I will watch to see what He will say to me.” Watching to see! In those telling words lies the whole secret of the thing that mystifies non religious folk so completely—the in violate calm and courage with which real Christians meet the worst ad versities that can befall them in tne wa r l^ Barnum Had Plugged Holes And Was in the Money When P. T. Barnum, as a young man, left Danbury, -Conn., to make his way in the world, he left numerous unpaid bills behind him. To one creditor the imagi native showman said with great intensity: “I’ll pay you what I owe you as soon as I get rich.” The other laughed and eyed the youth disdainfully. ,,. “That will be when a sieve holds water,” he jeered.', But in a few years the master showman was well on the road to success, and with great satisfac tion wrote the man the following note: “Dear Sir: I have fixed that sieve.” Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny.—Carl Schurz. HpHESE conversation chairs so much at home in a Victorian setting would be just as smart in a modern room. They are com^ fortable too, and any man who can nail together a box of one- inch pine boards can make a frame for one. The lady with needle and thread then takes over. If ready made spring cushions are used it is best to buy them first and then plan the box base to fit. The dimensions in the diagram tilt the back and seat at comforta ble angles. Domes of silence at the four corners of the base make the chair easy to move. * * * • < NOTE—If you would like to make ■ hooked rug like the one in front of the fireplace, Mrs. Spears’ Add-A«Square pat tern shows how to hook a rug in small sections to be sewn together. Ask- for Pattern No. 201, and enclose 10 cents, addressing: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for pattern No. 201. Name Address The Soul About what am I now employ ing my own soul? 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