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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1942)
r-=~~~~—==4y JUtfHn CUamleM. Ode to Yuletide . . . Plum Pudding and Fruit Cake (See Recipes Below.) Cakes 'll’ Puddin’s Home is where the heart is and Christmas is what tradition is. And that tradition is to a large extent what foods you serve. If you real ly want to make it a season tor starry - eyed brightness and plain honest to-goodness goo a cneer, have a holiday with ail the food trimmings like frosted fruited cook lea, dark, spicy fruit cake and a plain pudding mellowed to wonder bil goodness. Begin these preparations now—for Ike ingredients of Xmas cakes, pud dnp and cookies take on a charm— and favor—with age. Preparations caa he a map if you budget a day for cutting up fruit and nuts, an other day (or mixing and baking, and a third day for packing. First, (or (ruit cake—the cake with almost two dozen extra special Ingredients. This year’s fruit cake Is tuned to the times, uses honey and molasses to save on your pre cious sugar ration: Fruit Cake. (Makes 10 pounds) X pound butter or other shortening 1 pound brawn sugar («• eggs, well beaten 1 cap honey . 1 cup matasses % cup sweet cider 1 pound sifted cake Dour 1 teaspoon baking powder M teaspoon cloves % teaspoon cinnamon t H teaspoon mace % pound candled pineapple % pound candied cherries X pound dates, seeded and sliced , 1 pound raisins 1 pound currants K PMUmI citron, thinly sliced H pound candied lemon and or ange prH H pound nutmeats, ehopped Sift flour once, measure, add bak ing powder and spices and silt again. Cream the shortening thor oughly. add sug ar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, fruits, peel, nuts. money, molasses ..... ' and cider. Add flour gradually. Bake in 4 (6 by B by 2 inches) pans, lined with greased paper, in slow oven <250 degrees) 3 to 3Me hours. Phan pudding gets my vote as being highly desirable for the fam ily feast at Christmas. Plum Pudding. ■ Makes 3 1-quart molds) 3 caps prunes, cooked IK caps currants 1 cap nimt IK caps rilroi, chopped % cap preserved orange peel 1 cap candied cherries, chopped I cap oatmeals, broken 1 cap all-bran % cup Juice, from prunes IK cups batter or substitute IK caps sugar 4 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 3 caps soft white bread crumbs 5 caps floor Lynn Says: Lei’s Decorate! The fruit cakes and puddings, of course! A clus ter d candied cherries in the mid dle with leaves fashioned of arti ficial rose leaves makes an at tractive cake. You’ll be praised for a rose garnish made of gelatin candies shaped like lemon and orange segments into thin, lengthwise slice^. Roll a slice tightly to form center of rose and press other slices around it to make petals. Simpler decorations can be made of almonds or other nut meats forming flowers with can died peel as petals or centers. To store cake, place it in air tight container for several weeks. Sound apples may be placed in container, and changed as they become shriveled, to provide moisture. This Week’s Menu Tomato Juice Fried Fish Fillets With Lemon Garnish Broccoli Au Gratin Mashed Potatoes Perfection Salad Apple Brown Betty Beverage 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon each, cloves, nutmeg, ginger Cut prunes into small pieces, com bine with other fruits and all-bran. Add prune juice, and mix well. Blend butter and sugar thoroughly, add eggs and flavoring. Add bread crumbs and flour sifted with spices. Blend in fruit mixture. Stir until all fruit is well distributed. Fill greased pudding molds two-thirds full; cover and steam 3V4 to 4 hours. I think the spicy lemon sauce goes well with the bland pudding. You’ll like this one: Lemon Sauce. (Makes IK cups) 1 tablespoon cornstarch K cup sugar K teaspoon salt 1 cup water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoon butter Mix cornstarch, sugar and salt thoroughly. Add water. Heat to boiling and cook until clear and thick, stirring constantly. Add lem on juice, rind, and pour slowly over beaten egg yolks. Cook another min ute and add butter. Fig Maple Pudding. (Serves 5) K pound figs % cup maple syrup 14 cup boiling water % cup sifted flour 1(4 teaspoons baking powder ?4 teaspoon salt 114 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons shortening K to % cup milk 1 Soften figs in cold water, cut in halves and place in greased baking dish. Mix syrup with boiling water and pour over flgs. Cover dish and steam for Vt hour. Sift dry ingredi ents together, cut in shortening with pastry blender or knives, add milk and mix lightly. Remove baking dish from steamer. Pour batter over flgs, return to steamer for 1 hour. This pudding provides its own sauce. Ever hear of putting a raw apple or slice of one in the cookie jar—or tin—if you still have one to keep cookies fresh? You’ve no idea ' how delicious I these fruity cook- | ies will taste if you follow the above prescrip- ■ tion. Made-with-honey cookies are much akin to fruit cakes and plum pudding in that they need to ripen and mellow: Christinas Fruit Nuggets. H cup shortening 1V4 cups honey 2 eggs 3 cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt % teaspoon each, cloves, cinna mon, nutmeg H cup milk W cup candied pineapple I cup each, candied cherries, raisins, nuts Cream shortening, drizzle in hon ey and cream together. Add beaten eggs, and mix thoroughly. Sift dry ingredients together and 'add alter nately with milk. Chop fruits, mix together and dredge with flour be fore folding into mixture. Drop by teaspoonfuls into greased tins or tiny paper cups. Bake in moderate (375-degree) oven for about 15 min utes. Lynn Chambers can tell you how to dress up your table for family dinner or festivities, give you menus for your parties or tell you how to balance your } meals in accordance with nutritional standards. Just write to her, explaining your problem, at Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your answer. Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHO’S NEWS This Week By Lemuel F. Paifon Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. NEW YORK.—Just after the last World war, there was an air plane rough-rider known as the only man who could crowd Jimmy Doo General Strickland [^‘plane Was the Toughest through Buckaroo of Shies punishment and landing all of a piece, with his ship still holding together. He looked like Francis X. Bushman and spoke softly. That was young Lieut. Auby Casey Strickland, just now Brig adier General Strickland, lead ing our bombers against Rom mel and giving our side just about its first chance to cheer without keeping its fingers crossed. As chief of the bomber command of the United States army air forces—overseas last July—he rode the first plane of our bomber formation which wrought historic havoc and hur ried the Axis on its way. There’s a sidelight on General Strick land in his commendation of his fliers in a successful attack a few days ago: “Knocking them right down on their own airfield! That will teach those monkeys a lesson! We’ll drive these rats out of their holes! Tonight treats for the whole squadron^ and it’s going to be on me.” He was born in Braggs, Ala., Sep-1 tember 17, 1895, attended Alabama Polytechnic college, where he played football, and joined the army in November, 1917, not a West Point er. He was a first lieutenant in the reserve corps and served overseas in the artillery. In July, 1920, he switched to the regular array, get ting a joint commission as first and second lieutenant, the latter a for mality incidental to the former. He was a captain in 1930, a major in 1935, a lieutenant colonel in 1940, a colonel in 1941 and a brigadier gen eral last July. He completed the army flying school course in 1922 and attended tactical school in 1939. FOR obvious reasons, it is a pleas ure to spot a sound Americana item in the news these days. Here’s a nice one in the story of the New „ . r York Phil* Comea Out From harmonic Deep in Hinterland symphony c . D . picking To Swing a Baton Howard Barlow to swing its baton for a spell at Carnegie hall, even if his first program was of foreign origin. Mr. Barlow swung a cowboy’s quirt be fore he ever waved a baton, worked in lumber camps and engaged in other uniquely American occupa tions before his career as a musi cian. He caught the real American idiom, in speech and music and in his 15 years conducting the CBS orchestra, he played Amer ican composers and fostered American genius. In 1940, he was awarded a certificate of merit by the National Associa tion for Composers and Conduc tors as “the outstanding native interpreter of American music** during that season. When he was around 17, Mr. Bar low left his home at Plain City, Ohio, where he was born, for a job on a Colorado ranch, near Denver. He rode an Old Paint and rode an Old Dan and made the little dogies git along for about two years and liked it so well that he almost made it a business. However, he was di verted to the University of Colorado, where he swarmed all over the mu sic department in his glee club and orchestral activities. A necessary sabbatical interval of heaving logs and slabs in an Oregon lumber camp landed him at Reed college, Oregon, where he picked up an A.B. de gree, a scholarship at Columbia uni versity, and $25. Thus accoutred, he crashed New York, conducted choral societies and made his debut as an orchestra conductor at the Peterborough, N. H„ MacDowell fes tivals in 1919. As an aside, he had served as sergeant with the AEF. He con ducted the American National orchestra from 1923 to 1925, and joined CBS ’n 1927. High musi cal dignitaries were inclined to high-hat the radio then, as a medium for serious music. Mr. Barlow stepped right into the classics and has been a pioneer in proving that no subtlety of tone or musicianship is beyond the capacity of a good loud speaker. The Philharmonic calls him after quite a long absence of Americans from its podium. p\ON'T shush the war talk when the children are around. An swer their questions and tell them the truth. Such is the urgent advice to parents by Dr. Eduard C. Linde man, professor of sociology at the New York School of Social Work. "Evasions give the children a sense of our untrustworthiness,” says the veteran educator, sociologist, hu manitarian and author, who was a laborer until 21. Then he took a B S degree at Michigan Agricultur | al college and began social work I in Detroit and Lansing. _____-"""T fnr Rubber pPhSvHiUin^e midst 0, a rubber tam- \ \ through Jap bber is not ans in Wor ubbcr l Synthetic b the Germ^ir nature ™ \ production was blockade cut on wbat IS being \ when the amed show y° Above: Soap is used to make solutions for manufacture of syn thetic rubber. This worker is mixing a solution in a tank. Left: Polymerizer tank, which converts the raw materials of synthetic rubber into latex. These workers are removing rubber crumbs from the perforated boxes below the coagulating and extractor tanks. The rubber drips into the boxes from the tanks, and water previously added to dis solve the soap in the solution runs off through perforations in the box. This rubber will now be prepared for the wash mill. This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill in the plant at Akron, Ohio, is now ready for drying. Crumbs of synthetic rubber arc pressed into sheets, then trimmed to size and colled. The sheets are then placed in these charging and discharging vac uum dryers. Newly rolled sheets of synthetic rubber are cut to size for the drying pans. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Our ‘Most Costly War* November 29 marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of what one historian has called "the most costly war in which the United States ever engaged, considering the number of opponents." It was the Modoc war of 1872-73 in which only 50 Indians held their stronghold in the Lava Beds of Oregon against 1,200 soldiers upon whom they in flicted defeat after defeat before they were Anally conquered. Says the historian quoted above: "In the war the Modocs lost 12 killed, four executed, one a suicide —all warriors, 'and an unknown number of women and children. The total loss of the white settlers and soldiers was 168, of whom 83 were killed. The cost of the war was over half a million dollars. Each Modoc accounted for three men and cost the United States gov ernment over $10,000 before he was himself killed or captured—a fear ful price, indeed." The foundations for this war were laid late in the 1860s when the Mo docs were placed on the same res ervation with their former enemies, the Klamaths, who immediately began persecut ing them. Appeals to the Indian agents for justice proved vain. Fi nally, in despera tion, one of the head chiefs, Kint puash, commonly Capt. James known as Capt. Jackson Jack, left the res ervation with about 50 followers and returned to their former home in the Lost River country where they defied their agent’s orders to come back to the reservation. He then called upon Maj. John Green, commander at Fort Klamath, to re turn the Indians, “peaceably if you can, forcibly if you must.” Execution of the order was en trusted to Capt. James Jackson of the First cavalry. Accompanied by Lieut. F. A. Boutelle and Ivan Applegate, an interpreter, Jack son started on the night of Novem ber 28, 1872, with about 30 men of Troop B for the Indian camp on Lost river. After a forced march through the rain, the soldiers reached that place early in the morning of No vember 29. When the Indians came out of their lodges. Applegate explained to them the mission of the troops and urged them not to resist. Jackson then called upon the Modocs to hand over their arms, an order which was reluc tantly obeyed by . some of the war | riors, including f. one named Scar * Faced Charley, Scar-Faced who began urging Charley the Indians to re sist. Jackson then ordered Lieutenant Boutelle to take a squad and arrest the scar-faced warrior and another named Bogus Charley. This order precipitated a “duel" between the lieutenant and Scar - Faced Charley, concerning which Boutelle wrote later: “I called out to the men, ‘Shoot over these Indians’: and raised my pistol and fired at Scar-Faced Char ley. At the same instance Charley raised his rifle and fired at me. We both missed; his shot passing through my clothing over my el bow. It cut two holes through my blouse, one long slit in a cardigan jacket and missed my inner shirts. My pistol bullet passed through a red handkerchief Charley had tied around his head; so he afterward told me. There was some discus sion after the close of the war as to who fired the first shot. We talked the matter over, but neither could tell which fired first.” Immediately afterwards both the soldiers and the Indians began shooting. After a hot fight the In dians retreated, leaving the camp in the hands of the soldiers who imme diately destroyed it. The Indians’ loss was two warriors killed and three wounded and an unknown number of women and children killed and wounded. The soldiers’ loss amounted to nearly a third of their force—one killed, six mortally wounded and several others slightly injured. Minor engagement though It was, this fight was prophetic of the bitter price which our govern ment would have to pay to win an unnecessary war. Although Scar-Faced Charley was one of the principal actors in the opening engagement, it wras Capt. Jack who became the leader in the Modoc defense of the Lava Beds. In April, 1873, a peace commission, headed by Gen. E. R. S. Canby, visited the Indians in their strong hold to persuade them to give up the struggle. In a treacherous at tack, in which the Modoc leader was forced to participate against his will, Canby and another emissary were killed and a third wounded. 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