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Household News THE HOLIDAY SEASON APPROACHES! (See Recipes Below) One of the most important occa sions in the year's schedule of holi days is the Christmas dinner. As homemakers, it behooves us to crown it with a superlative dessert. Cakes, fragrant with spices, and rich with fruits and nuts, are tradi tional Christmas fare, and are more than satisfying as a finale to the feast. Fruit cakes improve with age. They become mellow and more fla vorsome as the days go by. So, make them early and let them ripen until the holiday season arrives. Proper storage prevents fruit cakes from molding and drying out. Wrap the cooled cakes in wax paper, and store in tightly covered tins. Pour a little wine or fruit juice over the cakes, every week or so, and when ready to be served they will be mel lowed to the proper degree. Make out your Christmas list now. I’m sure you will find a few friends and relatives to whom you may send fruit cakes. They will make charming gifts, especially for those away from home, and who have neither time nor the facilities to bake their own. Wrapped in cel lophane end tied with a bow, or fastened with colorful Christmas seals, the packaged fruit cake is indeed "lovely to look at. and de lightful to eat.” A box of Christmas cookies of va rious shapes, sizes and kinds will be an appreciated present for some one on your list. Perhaps it is the kindly little old lady next door, or the lonely old man down on the comer, both of whom will thank you for your thoughtfulness. Christmas Fruit Cake. (Makes 10 pounds) 1 Vi pounds currants 3 pounds seedless raisins 1 pound citron 1 pound mixed candied fruit 1 pound candied pineapple 1 pound candied cherries 1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 6 eggs 4 cups pastry flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon nutmeg Vt teaspoon cloves % teaspoon salt 1 cup fruit juice or wine Cut fruits. Cream butter and add sugar. Add well-beaten egg yolks. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add alternately with fruit juice or wine to the butter mixture. Add fruit. Fold in beaten egg whites. Place in baking pans lined with wax paper. Cover pans with wax paper and steam 5 hours. Then bake 1 hour in a slow oven (275 degrees). Gum Drop Cookies. 4 eggs 2Va cups light brown sugar 2 cups flour 1 cup nutmeats (chopped) 18 large gum ^ drops (cut in small pieces) Beat eggs thor oughly. Add sug- * ar and continue beating. Add flour and beat until smooth. Fold in nut meats and gum drops. Spread even ly in 1 large or 2 medium-sized greased baking pans. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 20 minutes, or until firm. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into bars. Glace Finish for Fruit Cakes, cups water % cup granulated sugar */* ounce Gum Arabic (4V4 tea spoons) Place sugar and water in a sauce pan and boil to the thread stage (230 degrees). Add Gum Arabic and heat again just to the boiling point. After fruit cake has been baked, remove from the oven and garnish with nuts and fruits as de sired. Then pour the Gum Arabic mixture over the fruit cake in a thin stream, and manipulate as lit tie as possible in order to avoid crystallization of the glace. White Fruit Cake. (Makes 5V<i pound fruit cake.) */* cup butter 2 cups sugar 7 eggs (separated) 2V4 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt 1 cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 pound white raisins % pound figs Vi pound blanched almonds Vs pound citron Mi pound candied cherries Vi pound candied pineapple Cream butter and add sugar. Sep arate eggs, beat egg yolks and add. Mix and sift together dry ingredi ents and add alternately with the milk. Add lemon extract. Cut fruits and add. Blend well and fold in well-beaten egg whites. Place in pans lined with wax paper and bake 1 hour in a very slow oven (275 degrees); then increase heat slight ly (300 degrees) and bake 2 hours more. Yuletlde Cookies. (Makes 60 cookies) Mi cup butter 1 cup light brown sugar 2 eggs (well beaten) 2 cups flour Vi teaspoon soda y« teaspoon salt Vi teaspoon nut meg Vi teaspoon cin namon 2 tablespoons of sour cream 1 teaspoon vanil la extract Vi cup seedless raisins ft cup candied cherries (cut) ft cup citron (cut fine) ft cup dates (cut fine) ft cup pecan nut meats (cut) Cream butter, add sugar slowly and beat thoroughly. Add eggs. Mix and sift all dry ingredients and add alternately with cream and vanilla extract. Fold in fruit and nut meats. Chill thoroughly; then break off in small pieces, form into balls, flat ten. and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for approximately 12 minutes. Orange and Lemon Christmas Cookies. (Makes about 5 dozen cookies) 1 cup sugar ft cup orange juice ft cup lemon juice 1 teaspoon lemon peel (grated) 1 teaspoon orange peel (grated) 3ft cups flour (sifted) 2 teaspoons baking powder ft teaspoon salt ft cup butter (melted) Mix sugar and fruit juices well. Add grated peel, dry Ingredients and melted butter. Stir well Dough should be firm enough to roll. Roll very thin and cut with fancy cutter In Christmas shapes. Bake on a greased sheet in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for about 10 min utes, or until lightly browned on the edges. (The dough may be chilled in the refrigerator for about a half hour to make the rolling sim pler). Feeding Father. Don't let father down when the holiday season catches up with you. You may be busy with the holiday tasks before you. but Dad will still be around for the eve ning meals, and during the week ends, and the family must be fed, regardless of the amount of work to be done. Miss Howe's cookbook "Feed ing Father” will help you im mensely in preparing the family meals. It contains recipes for simplified dishes to serve which will delight the family because they are so good to eat. You may secure your copy of the cookbook by writing to "Feed ing Father,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave nue, Chicago, Illinois, and enclos ing 10 cents in coin. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.' NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Opinion in Washington divided on how to speed up production to aid Britain . . . Effective op position foreshadowed by Democrats voting with Republicans to de feat adjournment move. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON.—Everything now depends on the very point that Wen dell Willkie tried so hard to put over during the campaign—production. Particularly, of course, production of planes, munitions, ships and oth er war supplies for Britain. President Roosevelt is being told by several of his advisers that his place in history will depend very largely on what happens to Britain in the remainder of the war. If Britain goes down, he has been told, there will always be historians who will blame America’s failure to sup ply Britain with the necessities of war. If she survives, America will be given the credit for having saved her by furnishing these necessaries. This advice is not being given the President with a view to overcoming any reluctance on his part to help Britain. There is no doubt about the President’s desire to do that. INCREASE PRODUCTION Nevertheless there are various theories about what could be done to increase production of the things Britain so vitally needs. Some of these ways are very distasteful to important figures in the administra tion. Some of them are, to put it mildly, distasteful to the President himself. There are people in the adminis tration, on the other extreme, who would like to abolish the national defense commission. These include people with widely varying reasons for wanting to get rid of it. Some of the more radical resent the occa sional outbursts from individuals in the commission which seem to curb freedom for labor to fight for im provements. Others disagree with this criticism, but would like to see the whole process of procurement revert to the war and navy depart ments. These departments do the buying for our own national defense now, of course, but there are those who would like to see the advisory function of the defense commission eliminated. There is also the question of more power for the defense commission, whether it should have a chairman who could function without running to the President every whipstitch. On this point the President has giv en no sign of yielding his present tight control. • • • ADJOURNMENT DEFEATED The most significant thing about the refusal of the house of repre sentatives to adjourn, when every body knew that President Roosevelt wanted congress to go home, is not the majority of 43 against the ad journment resolution, but the fact that 45 Democrats voted with the Republicans. And this despite the impassioned appeal of one Demo cratic member, in the discussion be fore the motion was put, that it was an “insult” to the President to op pose adjournment. If that gentleman was right then 45 Democratic members of the house voted to ’%‘insult” the President. Of course, their votes did not mean anything of the sort. Very few of them would want to “insult” the President, even if one studied their private views. But these 45 were perfectly willing to oppose something the President wanted, and to do so in public. Most of them, for that matter, were perfectly willing later to subscribe to the President’s own comment that if congress want ed to stay in session it was all right with him. Comitig so soon after Roosevelt’s tremendous electoral vote victory, and considering that Roosevelt has four more years of power, the fact that 45 Democrats in the house vot ed against something he wanted does not foreshadow a maximum of co-operation between the White House and Capitol Hill. •INSURGENTS’ IN CONTROL On the contrary there is every in dication that congress, and especial ly the house, may become as inde pendent as the proverbial hog on ice. This adjournment vote demon strated that the new leadership of the house is no more able to per form miracles than when Speaker William B. Bankhead was alive. The chief difference is that in Bank head’s time there was no certainty that Roosevelt would not retire to private life next January. When the house voted against adjournment; it KNEW that Roosevelt would be in power during two more congresses. While the Democratic majority will be slightly greater in the next house of representatives, this in crease is not important. Forty-five Democrats are plenty, when joining the Republican representatives in any vote, to become a majority. So that in a way what might be called the independent Democrats, though as a matter of fact most of these “insurgents” are old-line par ty men, will control the house from now on certainly for the next two years. Bu\*6 % JTERNh •>' ^ Department AAAAAAAAAk ——■ Y/lAKE this adorable frock for ■*-Y* your own little girl, tie a rib bon round her head and send her off beaming to her next important party date! You may be sure she’ll have a good time, and be the smartest little girl there! Correctly simple, with waistline slimmed in by inside tucks be neath which the skirt flares and ripples, it’s trimmed with frills and ribbon at sleeves and neck line. You can see from the dia gram sketch how easy this design (No. 8827) is to make. Just cut out four pieces, make the tucks Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels With herb laxative,combined with syrup pepdn to make it agreeable and easy to take When constipation brings on acid in digestion, bloating, diazy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and bad breath, your stomach is probably "cry ing the blues" because your bowels don’t move. It calls for Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels, com bined with good old Syrup Pepsin to make your laxative more agreeable and easier to take. For years many Doctors have used pepsin compounds, as agree able carriers to make other medicines more palatable when your “taster" feels easily upset. So be sure your laxative con tail .s Syrup Pepsin. 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