The Frontier Woman — ‘Fatty Cuts Down on Eating When Tummy Acts Up, Also During Lent Br BLANCHE SPANN PEASE Did you win a prize for your cake at the county fair? You did n't? Well, we can’t all be fair prize winners but we can be bet ter cake makers, if we’ll try. Before you start to make a cake, read the recipe all over, be sure you have all the ingredients and Set them assembled. Be sure you ave the size cake pans the reci pe calls for. Grease the pans well, and it will save washing if you'll line the pans with waxed paper cut to fit the pan. Grease both the pan and the paper. Use squares of paper on which to sift the dry ingredients. Cream the butter and sugar mixture un til it is really light and fluffed up. Beat in the eggs vigorously so as to beat and whip in more air ! in the cake. When you add the sifted flour mixture, add it alter nately with the liquid in small a mounts and be sure you begin and end with the flour. After the cake it baked, let if stand in the pan on the cool ing rack for 5 minute*, then turn It out on the rack to cool it before you frost it. Don’t guess at the oven temper ature when you bake a cake. Be sure it’s right. Shortening will work easily and quickly if you have let it stand at room temper ature for awhile before making the cake. Be sure that all measurements are accurate and level. Use stand ! ard measuring cups and spoons. Good luck—and good cakes to I you, lady! Ask me over when vou have a super one. Grin. —tfw— "Fatty" Wins Subscription Prize— , Dear Blanche: Did you know you are v.hat you eat? And I am one who likes big gobs of potatoes and gravy (the potatoes because I’m Irish, maybe). Pie, cake, and lots of gooey desserts—so what does that make me? Fair, fat and 40—well, almost. Fortunately I never get too fat—just middle age spread. Every little while I decide to cut down a little, but, boy, it’s so hard to do. Salads, fruits and veg etables are good—for a meal or 2. Every once in a while when my tummy kicks up a fuss from too much rich food or when Lent rolls around then I do cut down in earnest. What’s good for the soul is good for the body, you know. Then about 1 good day’s work and here I go again. Does any one else have my problem? None of my family cares much for veg etables or salads, possibly be cause daddy doesn’t, so I make a big bowl of salad and then throw most of it out. Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to go on a black* strap molasses, yogurt and wheat germ diet. The Yugoslavs are supposed to live on yogurt and live longer than the people of other lands. But as a lady remarked, if you have to live on THAT, who wants to live longer? But I do think we Americans use too much refined flour, su gar and the like. Our grandpar ents didn’t have too much such stuff and I’m willing to bet they had better health. I’ll bet they had better teeth anyway. All that with today’s rush to get there or get something done is too much. We just live too fast. Sincerely “FATTY” —tfw— It's Nice to Know That . . . Some folks call Atkinson the windmill town—because it has so many windmills in the outlying district. Just a sign the residents are ambitious to raise gardens. I’d say! It is said that in Western, Nebr., one early day settler had to milk his cows and prime the pump with milk, in order to get water. The Ceiia school house is so old that it has square nails. SAYS SANDHILL SAL She played so long as “hard to get” that she’s 38 and single yet. Some brunettes are light head ed. A person is eccentric when their views are different than ycurs. A radical is a man who belongs to the opposite political party. Of all the people that I meet, the ones that really bore me, are not the folks who talk too much, but the ones who just ignore me. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Davis, of Atkinson, were Friday guests of Mr. anrd Mrs. David Bellar. \ SWEFT USSY : & 1 OOTUMfUMWI UMBIIStlfil’lLSl* I »l JOtt’N mo h — •• n tt r^' U wm. •»». l MR nth