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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1950)
Ihe Frontier Woman — Timmermans Likes to Get Early Chick Care Out of Way Before Garden Time BT BLANCHE SPANN PEASE Hi there gentle readers February days are full of /niericana, for they include birthdays of Washington. Lincoln, and Longfellow. For gcod measure, Valentine’s day j; • es another opportunity to 11 ve special party foods. Few other foods are quite so pr'tty as a torte As a Valen * -e’s day or Washington^ hvthday surprise, here is Val « ine party Torte, bright with cherry filling. The torte is made with one layer 01 wonderful 1 y light cake. The layer is s iced in hal ves after bak ing and filled with the cherry mix ture. Confec 'rtflP • tionecrs' su, * gar icing anche Spann makes an easy Pease topping for t’ 3 torte, for it lends itself to corntion with candied cher ries or gumdrops arranged as 1 art, hatchet, or cherry branch. Have all ingredients at room t nperature when you make f 3 cake, and you will find the b tter smooth and the cake light. Sift flour once before r* 'asuring, since flour tends to f ck when shipped and hand led. Creaming shortening and :ii gar well is another impor t -vt step in making this con \ ntionally mixed cake. VALENTINE PARTY CAKE One cup sifted enriched flour, one teaspoon baking powder, o'-e-fourth teaspoon salt, one t' ird cup shortening, two-thirds ' .up sugar, three egg whites, one-half teaspoon vanil.a ex tract, one-third cup milk. Sift together flour, baking powder and sa t Cream short ening, add sugar gradually; cream together until light and f uffy. Add unbeaten egg whites and heat thoroughly. Add van illa extract to milk and add al ernately with dry ingredients to creamed mixture Pour into one greased paper-lined eight inch layer pan and bake in mod erate oven (375 degrees F.) 30 minutes. When cool, slice through center and spread cher ry filling on lower half Place other half on top and frost with ’ confectioners’ sugar icing CHERRY FILLING One - half cup sugar, one fourth cup enriched flour, one thirds cup cherry juice, three egg yolks, two-thirds cup can ned pitted cherries, one table 1 spoon butter or margarine, one half teaspoon vanilla extract. Combine sugar, flour and salt Gradually add cherry juice. Cook until thickened, stirring ' constantly. Pour into beaten egg yolks, add cherries and cook over boiling water for five 1 minutes, stirring frequently. (Remove fom heat. Add butter 1 or margarine and vanilla ex tract. When cool, spread be tween slices of cake. Makes one one eight - inch filled layer. —tfw— Subscription Winners— Two of our readers win three months’ Frontier subscriptions. One is asking us not to use her name so we’ll call her "Timid”, and the other goes to Mrs. J. C. Timmermans, of Stuart, who is a regular contributor. 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CHERRY CAKE One-ha f cup butter, one and one-fourth cups sugar, one-half cup wan ut. 16 cut cherries (five ounce bottle maraschino cherries), three teaspoon bak ing powder, one-half teaspoon Nalt, three-fourths liquid (use jui e of cherries and fill cup with milk), four egg whites, two aid one-fourth cups flour. Cream butter, add sugar and cream well. Add walnuts and cherries. Sift flour once, meas ure and sift three times with baking powder and salt. Add flour alternately with the liq uid, mix in beaten egg whites. Use as loaf. If layer cake is wanted use one-fourth less flour. I am also including some hints that might help the read ers out sometime. Before peeling oranges cover wilh boiling water and let stand for five minutes. The bitter white lining will come off easily. To cream shortening easily, scald the bowl before using. Sweet milk may be substitu ted for sour milk in a recipe by adding one tablespoon of vin egar or lemon juice to each cup of milk. Use simple syrup (sugar and water boiled together) to sweet en cold drinks. It makes a smoother beverage and elimin ates waste of undissolved sug ar. Use hot liquid instead of cold when making frosting with powdered sugar. This will Imake a smoother product and elimin ate the raw taste. Use a steel knitting needle to loosen the cake from the cen ter of a tube pan. The needle can easily be moved around and will not cut the cake as a knife will TIMID,” O’Neill. —tfw— Mrs. Timmermans's Letter— Dear Mrs. Pease: I see in the paper you are asking for more letters, so guess I’ll take time this morning to get one written. It’s kind of hard to find some thing for an excuse for not writing. Can’t blame it on the weather this y^ar. A year ago at this time, we could write letters but they would be so old before you could get them mail ed you hated to send them. The only excuse one could have for mailing them then was that there wasn't anything else to write about. Just snow and blocked roads and more of it. So I guess we’ve got plenty to be thankful for. I have quite a bit of sew ing I want to get done before housecleaning comes around again. Then there is scap to be made and wi-1 butcher a beef before long. We'll put half of it in the locker, but I will' can some and have the resA to use along. I guess one has to wish for something to do, there's always plenty. It doesn t seem possible but it's about time to order baby chicks, too. That is, if one wants them in good time for Spring. And I always like them that way. I can get the care of them over before garden work starts. I have a recipe or two I think will be nice for this time of year. One is a way to fix liver and the other is for chili soup. A friend gave it to me, but I’m sure she won’t care if I send it, it’s so very good. CHILI SOUP One pound hamburger, one can red kidney beans, (I cook some dry red beans and they worked fine), one pint tomatoes, one onion, three teaspoons shor tening two tablespoons flour. Brown onions in shortening, add hamburger, sprinkle flour over it, chop as it browns. Add beans, tomatoes, and as much water as wanted. Cook slow one and one-half hours. Just be fore serrving add three-fourths teaspoon chili powder, cne tea spoon sugar and one-half tea spoon salt. FRENCH FRIED LIVER Cut liver in strips (as you would potatoes for French fry ing). Dip the liver strips in a beaten egg, and then roll in a mixture of half flour and one half cornmeal until well coated. Fry in deep fat. (The fat should be hot enough to brown a stale bread cube in 60 seconds Fry until golden brown. This does not take too long. Remove from the deep fat and drain in paper towling. Season with salt and pepper and serve with spicy tomato sauce. Dip liver into the souse and eat with fingers. MRS J. C. TIMMERMANS Stuart, Nebr. —tfw— Like to Read The Frontier?— Than why not white us a let ter, and read it free for three months? Yep. for each letter from readers we use in this de partment you get a three months’ subscription to The Frontier- What could be nicer? You may write about any thing you like. If you send re cipes, be sure *o copy your re cipes carefully and list all in gredients and give the method of prepration. If you know what temperature the food is to be baked, if it is to be baked, be sure to give oven temperature. Send x°ur letters to Mrs Blanche Spann Pease, The Frontier Woman, Atkinson. Nebr. Be sure you get The Fron tier notation on the letter. Sandhill Sal If Margaret Truman doesn’t hurry up and decide to get married, Albin Barkley might be the next president of the United States, unless Clark Gable wants *o run Mary had a little beef, she griped both night and day; and every time she met her friends, they looked the other way, I sit alone in the twilight, foresaken by woman and man; and I murmur over and over, “I will never eat onions again! Q : Why are a woman and a puppy much alike? A.: Because they’re both always yapping. You husbands can read this one out loud to your wives. Mrs. Laursen and Mrs. Appleby Are Honored— Mesdames Bernard Allen, Charles Cooper, Robert E. Lar son and Dan Snyder honored Mrs. Virgil L. Laursen at a stork i shower Friday afternoon at the Allen home. They also celebrat-! ed Mrs. Laursen’s and Mrs. Ap pleby’s birthday anniversaries. After refreshments, the honored guests were presented gifts. Feted At Party— Curtis Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Collins, celebrated his sixth birthday anniversary Saturday at a theater party for seven little guests. Afterwards they had dessert of ice cream and cake at the Tom Tom. “Voice of The Frontier” News - Markets - Shopping Tips MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY WJAG ... 780 kc. 9:45 A.M. IT S OUR SECOND year of broadcasting . . . direct from O Neill . . . with an interest-filled 1 5 minutes of up-to-the-minute news, markets and shopping tips. These programs originate from the O’Neill Studios in The Fron tier building. Join thousands of your neighbors and friends every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday morning at 9:45 a.m. for I 5 minutes of O’Neill regional news and shopping hints brought to you by Chuck Apgar of The Frontier staff. - IKja^ \ ★ ★ ★ VOICE OF ■ ■ I — O’Neill Studios — W - J - A - G (Norfolk) a J Atkinson’s Face-Lifting Revives Memory Of Roof Entrance and Hospitable Parrot By MAUDE SILVERSTRAND Special Correspondent ATKINSON — It must be .hat “Mrs. Atkinson” has de cided a change of scenery will do the old town good. Because for the last few months she has been so busy rearranging her business district that if “Papa Atkinson” isn’t careful he may find himself in the ladies’ beau ty shop instead of in his usual Saturday night haunt. Many of the old buildings have been removed from main street, giving appearance of a child who has lost a ♦ooth here and there. Several are schedu led to change hands. Among the lastest is the Smith clothing store. Smith’s expect to move to the, building South of their present location when the Council Oak takes up its new location on State street late in February or in early March. lhe Peterson style snop is on the list too. Mr. and Mrs. Peter sen will be leaving soon for a new location in Julesburg, Colo. There is one building on Main that has a special sigt nificance for me and if and when it takes it’s turn in At kinson rejuvenation I shall be sad. When I was a very little girl and was selling vegetables from house-to-house, I aways went through an alley up a back stairs. Then I went across the roof of this building and knock ed at the door fhat opened out onto the roof. As a child I never ceased to thrill at the feeling of walking across a roof. The ladv that lived there, 1 Mrs. Lou Ella Brook, was al ways so kind and she nearly always brought something to the door This particular morning I knocked and someone said "Come in’’! I went into the kit chen and waited for Mrs. Brook to come from the front room. She didn’t and finally some one said, "Well, come on in!’* I went on into the next room, thinking perhays Mrs. Brook was ill and lying down, b u t when I got there, no one was in in this room either. I began to be a liUle frightened until I noticed a naughty little parrot 9 on his perch eying me sourly. Then I was embarassed because the parrot—Joe—and I were the only two in the house. That naughty rascal is still living and will be 49-years-old next May. He lives at the home of Mrs. Thomas Gallagher in O’Neill and I suppose he is as sassy as ever Mrs. Brook lives with her daughter Mrs. M A Richards, in Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Gerdes and family visited in Grafton with Mrs. Gerdes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Otte, for the » weekend. ^ BUILT STRONGER ... Ml?l\JYTI7 V G LAST LONGER ... JL JLiililllj I 0\ SAVE YOU PLENTYI work Clothes Pay Day Bib OVERALLS 2.79 Pay Day denim overalls are bruisers! 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