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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1943)
MEMOS... V Tea for You, With Delicious Cranberry Pastries! (See Recipes Below) . . . And Cookies, Too! You may not serve tea, and you * may not even have coffee, but you sun ime inai pause in the aft ernoon with a few good triends, to t mull over the I happenings of the day, to get philo sophical over the events that touch all of us. But have that pause whenever possible, even if you have just fruit juice and a few cookies or cakes. It1* as im portant as the bigger things you do. Have a hot or cold drink as the climate dictates, flavor them with honey if the sugar supply is low. Some supplies of tea are still ob tainable for the hot or iced bever age, if you use the coffee ration at breakfast. Chocolate and cocoa are obtain able now and then and make excel lent hot beverages. Made with milk, they’re nourishing, too. And if you make them with canned milk they’re delightful. Somehow, the canned milks have an affinity with chocolate beverages. Fruit juices have been a summer standby, but you should discover their winter uses, too! Hot lemon ade is delightful as are combina tions of lemon, orange, grapefruit and pineapple juice. Those of you who like spending cold afternoons in front of the open fire will enjoy a small glass of a cool drink with a few tasty cookies. For this purpose, try mixing equal quantities of cranberry and orange juice or apricot and pineapple juice served in pretty glasses with cook ies. Small cakes and cookies are an attractive accompaniment with re freshing drinks. Our first one to day is a sugar-saver, butter-saver, quickly and easily made: Cranberry Fingers. (Makes 24 fingers) t tablespoons batter or substitute 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 3 tablespoons sugar 1 egg Milk 1 1-pound can jellied \cranbcrry sauce Grated rind of % orange Work shortening and sugar into flour, and mix to a light dough with beaten egg ana milk, using only enough milk to moisten. The mix ture should be dry rather than wet. Divide into two portions. Roll |r one portion to an eighth of an inch inicaness, piace on a greased couKie sheet, and spread with crushed cran berry juice. Sprinkle with grated orange rind. Wet edges and cover with remaining dough, rolled to fit, pressing edges firmly together. Brush with milk, sprinkle with sug ar and bake in a moderately hot (375-degree) oven about 30 minutes. When cool, cut into finger strip size lor serving. Oranges enter the picture again, this time combined with maple syr Lynn Says: Handy Hints: When a recipe calls for sifted sugar or flour sift the ingredient before you meas ure it, so you’ll get an accurate measurement In mixing cakes, add flour mix ture to creamed sugar, shorten ing and egg before adding the moist ingredients, then alternate and add dry ingredients last. You’ll get a better grained cake. Muffins are beaten Just enough to blend ingredients together. Don’t overbeat Greasing cookie, cake and muf fin tins with a mixture of pan coat, made by blending % cup shortening with Vt cup flour pre . vents sticking. >_ _ i This Week’s Menu Pork Kidneys with Scrambled Eggs Mashed Potatoes Diced Beets Lettuce with French Dressing Whole Wheat Muffins Apple-Cheese Crisp Beverage up to make a drop cookie: Orange Drop Cookies. (Makes 60 cookies) 2 tablespoons grated orange rind 44 cup butter or substitute 1 cup maple syrup 2 eggs, beaten 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 44 teaspoon salt Cream together orange rind, shortening, maple syrup. Add beat en eggs, then flour sifted together with baking powder and salt. Drop the batter by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet and bake in a moderately hot (375-400-degree) oven and bake about 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Molasses ’n apple butter were fa vorite ingredients of cookies in grandmother’s time, and now they come in for a grand encore: Old-Fashioned Molasses Cookies. 344 cups sifted all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 44 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger 44 cup butter or substitute 44 cup sugar 1 egg 44 cup apple butter 1 cup molasses Sift together dry ingredients. Cream together butter and sugar, aid egg and beat together until light and fluffy. Add apple butter and molasses and blend together thor oughly, then mix in sifted dry ingre dients. Chill for 2 hours or more. Roll as thinly as possible and cut into large cook ies. Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake in a moderate (375-degree) oven for 10 minutes. These cookies are crisp when baked, get soft if stored in tin for a day or so. Honey and sour cream are an un- : beatable combination in a cupcake, i and here they are lined up with ' spices for an extra deliciousness: Honey Spice Cupca<tes. Vs cup butter or substitute 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup honey 3 egg yolks 2 cups flour Vs teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons ground cloves 2 teaspoons allspice 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup thick, sour cream 3 egg whites Cream butter, add sugar and hon ey, creaming well. Add egg yolks, one at a time and beat well. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with sour cream, beating after each addition. Fold in stiffly beaten j whites of eggs. Bake in greased muffin tins in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 30 minutes or in two greased cake tins. Your icing for the cupcakes should be a halo of white swirls of honey icing which will not crack—and can be whipped up in a hurry: Royal Honey Icing. 1 egg white, stiffly beaten Vs cup honey H teaspoon vanilla To the stiffly beaten egg white, add honey slowly, beating continu ally until icing will stand in peaks. Fold in flavoring. What problems or recipes are most on your mind these winter days? Write to Lynn Chambers for expert advice on your particular problem, at Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines i Street, Chicago, III. Please be sura to enclose a stamped, self-addressed en velope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Hnlm. Released by Western Newspaper Union. ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATISM When it was first found that infect ed teeth and tonsils caused rheuma tism or arthritis (inflammation of a joint), many physicians felt that all Dr. Barton cases could thus be cured. There were so many cases in which the removal of the infection did not relieve the signs and symptoms of ar thritis that some phy sicians began to doubt that infection was the cause or a cause. It is interesting to read in all the arti cles by research worxers in arthritis that injury, diet, cold and exposure, sluggishness of liver and bowel and other condi tions are given as causes. There may be a few physicians who do not mention infection of teeth and ton sils as a cause but the great ma jority still include infection of teeth and tonsils, but do not emphasize this infection as much as formerly. Among the causes as mentioned above are cold and dampness, in jury, diet and surgical removal of infection—teeth, tonsils, gall blad der. Some months ago Dr. Frank H. Krusen, Rochester, Minn., in the Journal of the American Medical Association pointed out that there are three groups of physical meas ures which can be used, after the cause has been removed insofar as this is possible. These three are: thermal (heat and cold); massage, manipulation and resting the joint by splinting, and exercise, postural training (teaching the patient to sit and stand properly), and rest. Whether these methods are used at home, or in hospital, they should be continued for some time after signs and symptoms have apparently dis appeared. Thus those who have been treated in hospital should con tinue to have these treatments when they arrive home. In regard to heat or thermal treat ment, any kind of heat applied in various ways—heat lamps, bakers, hot tub baths, or placing affected part alternately in hot and cold wa ter. As to massage, a member of the patient’s family should be instructed in the simple methods of massage. Heat, then massage, then heat again is usual method of using massage treatment. Heat and massage pre vent permanent stiffness. • * • Various Causes of High Blood Pressure In former days before the inven tion of the machine to measure blood pressure, the physician placed his fingers on the blood vessels in wrist or elsewhere and if they were hard (like a pipestem) the blood pressure was said to be high and a stroke of apoplexy might be expected; if soft, the patient was not likely to have a stroke. Although a hardened vessel means that more pressure is needed to push the blood through it and the pres sure will increase as the vessel be comes harder, nevertheless it is now known that hardened blood vessels (where elastic tissue in wall of blood vessel has been replaced by hard tissue) is not the only cause of high blood pressure. There are other causes for high blood pressure, one of which causes the elastic tissue in the blood vessel to contract or tight en and the blood needs increased pressure to pass through these ves sels made smaller by having their elastic walls tightened. What causes the muscles every where to tighten or contract? Ex citement, anxiety, fear, overwork, will cause tenseness and tightening of nerves and muscles. And just as the large muscles of the body be come tensed by the emotions, so do the tiny muscles of the blood ves sels (though not under control of the will) become tightened, thus raising the blood pressure. It can thus be seen that when your blood pressure has been tested and found to be above normal, the high blood pressure may be due to some organic disease or change in the walls of the vessels caused by in fections. On the other hand, the high blood pressure may be due to the emo tions causing a tightening of the blood vessels making them smaller and so making increased pressure necessary. If the high pressure is due to dam age to the walls of the vessel—or ganic disease—treatment is rest and guarding against further infections by regular visits to your physician and dentist. • • • QUESTION BOX Q. Would a doctor tell a patient he did not have syphilis if he did have it? My physician told me my test showed no syphilis was present, j but I am doubtful and would like to ! set my mind at ease. A. If the physician told you that you did not have syphilis you should stop worrying. If syphilis were pres ent he would see that you were un der treatment at once. However, you can go to your nearest hospital clinic and get another blood test. Discarded Silk Stockings Help Keep U. S. Guns Booming American ingenuity has scored another triumph. Millions of pairs of discarded silk hosiery, hitherto useless for textile reclamation, are now serving an important war purpose— powder bags. Woven from reclaimed silk, powder bags are used to hold explosive matter to generate the power to dis charge shells from major caliber guns. Silk burns completely and leaves no embers, hence eliminating the necessity of cleaning the barrel during action. In the first month of the collection campaign American women turned in 2,500,000 pairs of discarded silk stockings. I u Silk stockings which can no longer be worn are being collect ed in stores throughout the coun try as shown in picture above, for conversion into pon der bags. \ Many women’s clubs, too, are en gaged in this important work. Right: Removing the cotton parts from discarded silk stock ings before processing into pow der bags. Here Mrs. Mary Gla du cuts and sorts material. Any stockings made entirely of silk or containing mixtures of silk are useful for conversion into powder bags. They should be washed before they are turned in for reclamation. Left: Sewing primer caps for powder bags from cloth made of discarded silk stockings. Fifteen pairs of old stockings provide sufficient cloth for an average size powder bag. Old stockings, after haring cotton parts removed, are fed into a picking tender which shreds the material. Here Daphis Duchaine, age 67 and with four sons in the service, feeds the machine. It takes husky men to lift the heavy powder bags into the big guns. Hold your ears! Here go those silk stockings! Lay ers of silk cloth are cut to specifications with a power knife. [patterns SEWDNG CDRCLE ~ 8299 1444 Plain New Aprons \XfHEN January fabric sales * * bring all sorts of serviceable, pretty cottons down in price, plan to rebuild your apron supply I You can turn out all you need rapidly with this simple apron pattern which is cut with just a few easy to-put-together pieces. It is pretty, too, with its curved shoulder straps and gay pockets. • • • Pattern No. 8299 it In size* 14. 16. 18, SO; 40. 42, 44. Size 16 require* 2'/« yards 32-inch material. 8 yard* bla* (old, 2 yard* rlc rac. School Outfit LIERE’S the answer to the * school outfit or every-day out fit you want to make your little girl. You can expect long wear from the gracefully shaped jump er—if you make it in rayon gabar dine, corduroy, flannel or wool crepe. You’ll have variety, too, if (\«(U(v.ft.(v.fv. (V.ft. { ASK ME ; \ ANOTHER f ; l A General Quiz " \ O' O' O* O* O* O* C'- N O* O* O* (V. (V. (V. (V. (\. (V. (V. The Questions 1. When did congress fix the number of stripes in our flag at 13? 2. What name is given to the green coloring matter of plants? 3. How many states were there in the Confederacy? 4. What state is known as the “Mother of Presidents”? 5. What is the only New England state having no coastal area? 8. For every American and Brit on who can read and write Japa nese, how many Japanese can read and write English? The Answers 1. The year 1818. 2. Chlorophyll. 3. Eleven. 4. Virginia. 5. Vermont. 6. At least 10,000 Japanese. Lengthy Train Longest train on record was worn by Catherine the Great of Russia, at her coronation. It was 225 feet long and required 50 at tendants to carry it. 823*2-01 j (.10 yn. | you make several blouses in white and colored broadcloth, flannel oi pique. • • • Pattern No. 8232C la designed (or sizes >, 6, 7. 8, 9 and 10 years. Size 6 jumpu requires 2>,t yards 39-inch material, sheet sleeve blouse 1% yards. Send your order to:* SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 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