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.
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Dear Mr.,. Pease:
I read your column m The
Frontier paper an sure do en
joy reading it. I am sending
you a recipe for cherry cake
that might be suitable for
George Washington’s birthday
or for Valentine’s day.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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