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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1939 CHOCOLATE SILVER CAKE See Recioe Below. Of Course You Can Bake “I didn’t have good luck with my cake baking today.” You and 1 have both heard homemakers say just that—reason enough perhaps for our getting right down to cases today and finding out just what it is that makes for good luck—or bad luck— as the case may be in this cake baking business. Of course it really isn’t a case of luck at all, for the right proportions of the right ingredients combined in the right way and baked at the right oven temperature eliminate luck en tirely and assure baking success not sometimes but always. Information Please. Of course you own a measuring cup but have you looked at it crit ically to see whether or not it has a rim which extends above the accurate cup measure? If it has a rim, do you measure the in gredients just to this point accu rately, or clear to the top inaccu rately? Do you always sift the flour once just before measuring? Do you use a fine granulated sugar when making cakes? There is a dif ference, you know. Do you cream the shortening and mix the cake with a beating mo tion, not a stirring motion? Do you level off the teaspoon measures of baking powder, salt or soda with a knife so as to be sure they, too, are accurate? Do you start the oven 10 to 15 minutes in advance so it will be uni formly hot before the cake is placed in it? Do you use a small, inexpensive oven thermometer for securing ac curate oven temperatures if your range has no oven heat-control? These are some of the chief fac tors, careful attention to which helps to spell success in cake baking. Try them out in the group of favorite cake recipes given below. I think you will like them and the recipes too. Lemon Cake. % cup butter 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs IVi cups cake flour 2Mi teaspoons baking powder Mi teaspoon salt % cup milk 1 teaspoon lemon extract Cream butter and add sugar grad ually. Add well-beaten egg yolks and mix thoroughly. Mix and sift all dry ingredients and add alter nately with the milk and extract, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Fold in the beaten whites of the eggs. Bake as loaf cake in a mod erate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) for 35 to 40 minutes. Old Spice Wonder. % cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 2 cups cake flour Vt teaspoon soda Mi teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon allspice % cup sour milk % cup citron X cup raisins 1 cup nut meats 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter, add sugar and cream thoroughly. Add eggs (well beaten). Mix and sift together all dry ingredients, except Mi cup of flour. Add flour mixture and sour milk alternately, beginning with the flour mixture. Beat well. Flour cit ron, raisins, and nuts with the Mi cup of flour which was reserved and add to the cake mixture. Add vanil la. Bake 35 to 40 minutes in a mod erate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit). Chocolate Silver Cake. % cup butter IVz cups granulated sugar 2% cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder Mi teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 egg whites Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat well. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt, and add alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into cake. Bake in two layers in a mod erate oven (365 degrees Fahrenheit) 25 to 30 minutes. Top with choco late butter icing. Cocoa Cake. % cup butter 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 2 cups cake flour 4 tablespoons cocoa Mi teaspoon salt 1% teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon soda 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream the butter and add the sug ar slowly. Separate eggs, beat yolks and add. Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the sour milk and vanilla. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold in care fully. Bake in two layers in a mod erate oven (365 degrees Fahrenheit' for 25 to 30 minutes, or as a loaf cake (at 350 degrees Fahrenheit) for 40 to 45 minutes. A New Chocolate Cake. 4 ounces bitter chocolate Mi cup butter 1V4 cups granulated sugar 3 eggs 2Mi cups flour Mi teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Melt the chocolate over warm wa ter. Cream the butter and add the sugar, slowly, beating vigorous ly. Beat the yolks of the eggs until thick and add to the sugar and butter mixture. Add the melted chocolate and mix well. Sift the flour, salt, baking powder, and add alternately with the milk and ex tract, beginning with ths flour mix ture. Beat egg whites until they are stiff, and fold into cake. Bake in two eight-inch layers in a moderate oven (365 degrees Fahrenheit) for about 30 minutes. Chocolate Gingerbread. % cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 2 ounces chocolate (melted) 2 eggs 1% cups pastry flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons ginger Mi teaspoon cloves Mi teaspoon salt % cup nuts (broken) % cup milk Cream the shortening and add the brown sugar very slowly, making sure all lumps are removed. Add the chocolate which has been melted ever warm water, and the eggs, well beaten. Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Add the nuts, broken in small pieces. Bake as loaf cake in a moderate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) 30 minutes. Serve with whipped cream. Get This New Cook Book. Of course you can bake, and Elea nor Howe has shared her secrets of successful baking, together with her best-ever set of over 125 new and different, yet practical and inexpen sive, baking recipes with you in this book. Send 10 cents in coin to Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, and get a postage prepaid copy of ‘‘Better Baking.” Speaking of Sports — Baseball’s Best ■ Pilots Played ‘Average’ Game By ROBERT McSHANE A NOTHER major American cri- ^ sis developed not long ago when “Columbia Lou” Gehrig benched himself after establishing what may be an all-time record for consecu tive games. Plainly the iron man was nearing the end of the trail. Huge, salty tears were shed over Gehrig’s impending doom. What did baseball intend to do for the man who has done so much for it? Who would reward him with a manageri al job? Forgotten was the fact that Gehrig hasn’t yet retired, that he isn’t a decrepit individual requiring a guiding hand to steer him to the closest relief agency. But the American sports-loving public is like that. Let one of its heroes start slipping and the hue and cry is nation wide. He must OSCAR VITT be rewarded. What can we do for him? The fact that the big sports figure may make more in a week than the average person does in a year is seemingly beside the point. It was a black mark against base ball, according to calamity howlers, that Babe Ruth wasn’t given a man ager’s job when he retired. He was the game’s most colorful figure, packing the stands wherever he ap peared and giving the best years of his life to the diamond wars. Ruth was the highest paid baseball play er in history, signing contracts at a top price of $80,090 per year. That total didn’t include income on royal ties and syndicated newspaper sto ries. Yet Ruth’s failure to find an executive position caused wide spread wailing. Unsung Heroes Overlooked is the fact that each year a lot of fast, smart ballplayers go by the boards. They, too, have devoted their best years to the game, but when the final day rolls around they cast an agonized eye over the bank book and wonder where they’re going to open a filling station or lunch counter. They did a lot for the game, but they weren’t heroes. There seems to be some good rea son why great baseball stars aren’t usually picked when managers are appointed. Some of them have, such as Tris Speaker, Cobb and Walter Johnson. But they didn’t last. The most successful managers seem to be those men who were good play ers, but not great ones. Connie Mack, the most widely known, was once a catcher—and a good one. But experts don’t rate him with Kling, Bresnahan and Archer. Oscar Vitt, Cleveland manager, was formerly a major league infield er. He isn’t remembered for his outstanding ability as a player. Rather he was a reliable performer who played a steady game. So was Fred Haney, manager of the Browns, also a former infielder. Joe McCarthy, the most success ful manager in baseball, could never make the grade as a big-league player. A second baseman, McCar thy’s fame as a player never spread past the minors and his ability was never tested in big-time competition. Success Stoiies Casey Stengel and Jimmy Dykes were better than the average ball player in their best years, but nei ther of them were world beaters. Since they shed their uniforms they’ve been doing better than all right. Del Baker of the Tigers was a catcher in his dpy, but didn’t do so well in the majors. That didn’t prohibit him from becoming a good manager. With so many players of average ability making the grade as man agers, it seems more than coinci dence that the stars fail in an exec utive capacity. It seems, though, a waste of sympathy to shed tears over a great man whose playing career is drawing to a close. He has made money, has a host of friends and admirers and has led the kind of an existence he wanted. Because baseball doesn’t offer him a manager’s job it doesn’t mean that moguls of the game are hard-heart ed wretches, casting off a man when his usefulness is over. A man may be a great ball player, but lack the essential qualifications of a good manager. Fortunately, ball club owners real ize that. Not that Moe isn’t a good base ball player. He is. But he’s such a versatile individual that his ac complishments in other fields tend to awe the average onlooker. To begin with, Moe can talk fast and furiously In five different lan guages, and has a working knowl edge at about a dozen more. He studied Romance languages at Princeton, graduating in 1923. He originally planned on going to the Sorbonne in Paris to study phonet ics, bat decided to finance his con tinued education by playing baU with Brooklyn. He played the sum mer of 1923 and then went to Paris. When he came hack the follow ing summer the Dodgers weren’t particularly impressed. The winter spent in study hadn’t helped his hit ting, so he was sold to Minneapo lis. From Minneapolis he went to Reading in the International league, and from there to the Chicago White Sox in 1925. Deciding on further education, Moe enrolled in the law school of Columbia university. He passed the New York state bar examina tions in 1929. His comprehensive knowledge was ably demonstrated recently when he appeared on a quiz program over a nation-wide hookup. He astonished even his fellow broad casters with his rapid-fire answers to the brain-stumping questions. In addition to his other accom plishments, Moe is familiar with the scores of several operas, and is a lover of the drama. A real gourmet, he knows the best restaurants in all the cities on the big league route. Moe, despite his amaring versatil ity, is primarily a baseball player. He doesn’t want to be known as a lawyer or a linguist, he wants to be looked upon as a conscientious, hard-working catcher. He played on the 1933 Washington team, under Manager Joe Cronin, and Cronin, Berg’s boss now on the Red Sox, will attest to Berg’s value to the team which won the Ameri can League championship. He plays a steady, consistently good game, and though no second Babe Ruth, manages to be a dangerous hitter in a pinch. Nor does he play baseball for the money involved. He has been a well-paid player, and in addition, is a member of a New York law firm, and a director of two New Jer. sey manufacturing plants. World Looks at Mediterranean, Home of Impregnable Gibraltar And Another Fortress, Corfu Sport Shorts Carl Hubbell A FTER losing the first heat in which she started, Nancy Hawks, first trotting horse to beat 2:05, won 45 straight and never lost another race . . . Carl Hubbell nev er argues with umpires, believ ing it to be bad luck. That’s prob ably the reason Umpire George Magerkurth says Hubbell is the easiest player in baseball to get along with . . . Manuel Salvo, Giant pitcher, was a floorwalk er in a San Fran cisco department store during his off seasons there . . . George Sis- ler, member of baseball’s Hall of Fame, recently traveled a thousand miles to deliver one pitch. Guest of honor at a Wichita semi-pro gam:, Sisler arrived from St. Louis during a driving rain. The game was postponed, but Sisler made his one pitch, then caught a train for home . . . Bad news item: Tommy Farr says he is coming back to America to fight Max Baer again . . . Billy Conn recently announced that he will not become a heavyweight fighter, but will content him self with being the best light-heavy . . . ers expect to sign Spencer Tracy to play the lead role in “The Life of Knute Rockne” . . . The Philadel phia White Elephants were renamed the Athletics when Connie Mack took over the club in May, 1901. Hated Chore COUTHERN football coaches have ^ revealed that they would like to eliminate spring football practice— but like the man who held on to the tiger’s tail—they don’t dare let go. Spring football practice is a dreary spectacle. The players have never been enthusiastic about it, but turn out because they’re afraid some hard-plugging individual, who may have less ability but who shows more interest in the game, will be on the first string line-up in their place the next fall. Coaches probably don’t deserve much sympathy. They are paid for year around work, but the play ers, at least theoretically, receive nothing for their services. The Southern coaches, neverthe less, have a good point. Naturally, spring practice gives the squad a head start on signals and forma tions. But if all schools abandoned the spring practice season and started from scratch Ihey all would have the same chance. And it would relieve the possibilities for injury during the early season. (Released by Western Newspaper Unlon.1 Tommy Farr Warner Broth- Home Sewn Aids To Summer Beauty ADD variety and color, as well ** as smartness, to your sum mer wardrobe by making the charming accessory set in gay printed cottons like linen, pique or gingham. It’s very easy to do— even the gloves, which have the new, roomy, blunt fingers. Your pattern (1643), includes a step-by- step sew chart that tells you ex actly what to do. This princess dress for after noons is exactly -vhat you want for hot summer da><s. This style (1752) is refreshingly simple, and it has a beautifully smooth, slim figure-line, upped sleeves, and a A view of the old fort at Corfu, strategic Greek-owned island off the northwest coast of Greece near Albania. Though England warned Italy that seizure of Albania would be “an invitation to war,” British ships stood by at Corfu when Italian troops were landed in Albania. (Prepared by National Geographic Society. Waahington. D. C.—WNU Service.) ‘Rock’, at Western End Guarded Jealously By England. Europe’s general nervousness is being translated into action at Gi braltar, as warships gather and England rushes land and air de fense for her sentry at the doorway to the Mediterranean. The Rock of Gibraltar, standing guard over the strait of the same name which divides the continents of Europe and Africa, is one of the world’s most strategic spots. A great rugged finger pointed at Span ish Morocco from the Spanish main land at the western entrance to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar is sur rounded on three sides by water. On the fourth side, it is linked with Spain by a low, sandy isthmus known as “neutral ground,” and bounded on the north by what is marked on official,maps as an “Iron Fence” and on the south by an “Unclimbable Fence.” Three miles long and less than a mile wide, Gibraltar’s towering limestone mass rears its head at its highest point nearly 1,400 feet above the blue Mediterranean. Cut In one of the oldest ceremonies at 'Gibraltar, the key sergeant locks the Land port gate. Much activity has taken place at Gibraltar during this year's repeated crises. in its rocky sides are the famous “galleries,” studded with camou flaged guns capable of shooting five miles across the Bay of Algeciras on the west, as well as across the Strait itself to Africa some 14 miles away. Prepare for Emergency. Still more guns, heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns, are even now being set up. Food supplies and munitions are being stored in the heart of the Rock, and men are working on a bombproof tunnel to be used as refuge in case of emer gency. Equally important in the defense of “Gib,” as it is familiarly called by those who live there, are the vast water reservoirs also chiseled out of solid rock. Holding hundreds of millions of gallons, these reservoirs are filled by a simple but ingenious arrangement of “water sheds” which catch rain water as it falls and direct its flow to the reservoirs. An odd feature of the Rock of Gibraltar is its monkey population. In caves high above the town lives a colony of Barbary apes. Gibraltar’s history goes back | more than a thousand years before Christ. The Phoenicians knew it, the Carthaginians, Romans, and Vis igoths. As one of the ancient “Pil lars of Hercules” Gibraltar in the Eighth century saw the first Moor ish invasion. Its present name is a corruption of the Moorish “Jebel Greek Island Played Important Role in Many Wars. The Greek island of Corfu (K . kyra to the Greeks) took the leading place in news headlines when Italy as a part of her Albanian adventure, seemed bent on seizing it, and when Great Britain demanded hands off. The island, 40 miles long and 20 miles across at its widest point, re sembles a huge cornucopia, slightly squeezed out of shape by a giant hand. Corfu lies at the head of the Ionian sea like a watch tower over the Strait of Otranto, door to the Adri atic. The northern or wide end is but two miles from the Albanian shore, while the south end is about 10 miles off the coast of Greece. Corfu shouM be callous to wars and rumors of wars. For 26 cen turies it has played a part in many of the major political upheavals in Europe and the Mediterranean. Ro mans, Venetians, Genoese, • Per sians, the Normans of Sicily, Brit ish, French, Turks, and even Medi terranean pirates, at one time or an other have had long or short con trol of the island. Once American Naval Base. During the World war it was an important naval base, with British, French and Italian ships thwarting any attempt of German or Austrian submarines to venture out of the Adriatic sea. At one time 39 Amer ican subchasers temporarily were assigned to Corfu waters to aid the Allied fleet. The most recent military occupa tion of Corfu was by Italian forces. In 1923 several Italian officers were killed near the then vague Greco- Albanian border. Italy demanded an apology and an indemnity of $2,000,000. The government of Greece submitted counter-proposals which were refused. For five days Italian troops poured onto Corfu. Italy and Greece came to terms be fore the occupation was a month old and the Fascist troops evacu ated. In range of altitude, as well as in plan, Corfu resembles a cornucopia. The northern part of the island is a region of high mountains, the mid section undulating hills and the southern extremity low plains. Bathed in Mediterranean sunshine, Corfu has long been, between wars, a pleasure ground. One of the is land’s prominent vacationists was Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany who purchased, in 1907, the Achilleion, a palace-villa built for the unhappy Empress Elizabeth of Austria. ‘Idyllie Lotos Land.* Homer described Corfu as an idyl lic lotus land of beautiful people and scenery, where figs, grapes and oth er fruits grow in abundance. Ode of those other fruits today is olives, which cover large areas of the is land. When the Venetians held sway for 400 years from 1401, a bounty was paid for each olive tree plant ed. This aroused in Corfu agricul turists and their descendants an in terest in olives that persists today. The town of Corfu is about mid way the eastern side of the island. While there are a few reminders of the occupation of the island by its numerous landlords, the lower part of the town does take the traveler back to the Middle ages. A laby rinth of streets, some too steep and narrow for wheeled vehicles, wind through this section. French and Italian architecture predominates but there is a bazaar that recalls the flavor of the East when Turkey had her heel on Corfu and its neigh boring islands and mainland. Tarik” (Hill of Tarik) in honor of the conquering chief. Seized by'England in 1704. Contested at different times by Moors and Spaniards, the “Rock” was seized by England in 1704. Nine years later it was ceded to Great Britain by Spain; but the struggle for its possession was not yet set tled. The most ambitious attempt to regain the territory was made by French and Spanish forces in 1779. square neckline dipped in the front to make it more becoming. The frills at the neckline, sleeve edges and foot of the skirt, make this dress very feminine and flow er-like. And it’s so easy! The dress itself practically puts itself together, and the frills can be sewn in, in no time! Linen, voile, silk print organdy or flat crepe are pretty materials for this. The Patterns. 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