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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919.
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Italian Pottery.
Tht enclosed Porch, glasi-win-dowed
and provided with a (team
radiator, makes the most- charming
winter room in the house. Even if
cne does not sit there, the vista of
sunlight and green growing things is
delightful glimpsed through dining
room or darwing room windows.
Tht wonder is that more people do
not have glass in summer porches
and put in a radiator to keep the at
mosphere warm enough for plants.
Beautiful additions to such a sun
room are the formal bits of pottery
that come from Italy. A squat terra
cotta iar, for instance, holding a
small bay tree or an orange tree; or
a glazed jar that reflect the sun
light for a big palm. There are ter
ra cotta tubs with pedestals, tall
urns and lovely Florentine blue and
white jars also.
Coff- Tapioca.
Stir into two and a half cupfuls of
strong, clear coffee half a cupful of
any instant tapioca and half a cupful
of sugar. Stir constantly until it be
gins to thicken; then add half a cup
ful of thick cream and cook about
15 minutes. Remove from the fire,
chill and eat with sweetened whip
ped cream flavored with vanilla.
Chopped nuts may be added just be
fore chilling if desired.
The Bee's Household
Arts Department
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AT NO TIME IN THE YEAR
DOES THE TRUE SPIRTT
OP "GOOD WILL TOWAIiD
MEN" PREVAIL AS IN THESE
DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SHOP
PED. So with this spirit of help
fulness to make your day of great
usefulness, we call your attention
to the convenience of buying your
BREAD from the GROCER, thus
saving precious hours' for other
and more enjoyable tasks. For
,the BEST BREAD be sure to look
for the little red, white and blue
label that is on every genuine
loaf of
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'Government
Inspection
for your
Protection"
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Htan
Hams
and Bacon
The Economy
in buying a whole ham is positive.
Dealers must get good prices for center
slices to guara against possible loss on
ham shanks and ends.
Buy a whole PURITAN Ham boil the shank
bake end fry or broil middle cuts and get your
money's ,wortn of delicious meat in varied dishes.
THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY
F. W. CONRON, Mgr.
Doug. 2401. 1321 Jones St.
If your dealer dottnt
' handle Puritan, telephone
Porltan Hama and Bacon ara amoked dally In our Omaha
Branch Hons iMurin fresh, brlj-htly smoksd meata at aU tlms.
Fine Points On Cake and
Pastry Making for All
Who Have Failed
. Since prohibition has come upon
us the men of the family seem to
cravt iweets of all kinds and to en
joy afternoon tea as never before.
It is indeed the part of wisdom for
wives and sweethearts to encourage
this very harmless taste by everv
means in their power.
it is a mistaken idea to retard
cake making as a difficult art or for
a beginner to lose heart because of
a few failures. Great experience is
not necessary, only the memorizing
of a few good rules and a little orac-
tice, first with simple recipes, before
tackling the more difficult ones.
isakery cakes, often attractive ex
teriorly, seldom approach the home
product in excellence and whole-
someness and are vastly more ex
pensive. But many women prefer to
buy them because they hopelessly
declare that they cannot make arood
cake. "Where there's a will there's
a way," and think of the pride and
pleasure a housewife takes in being
tamous tor her cakes and pastries.
A little patience and perseverance
in experimenting will amply repay in
results, even if at first materials are
wasted. Do not be discouraged.
You can always cut off the burnt
edges and find some small boy near
at hand who will be grateful to have
what you would hesitate to put on
the tea table. Or it a first cake
turns out too heavy to risk "hub
by's" laughter it need not be wasted.
Ask Soar
. Orocer For
QmahaMaid
Mfg hj Omaha Mali! Macaroni to.
but turned into an excellent dessert
by slicing thin, spreading with jam
or jelly and serving with a custard
sauce poured over it.
Best of Materials. '
The most essential thing to re
member in making cake is to use
only the best materials. If you can
not afford to buy good wheat flour,
white sugar, table butter and the
first quality of eggs you cannot af
ford to make cake nor hope to have
it worth the making. It is for this
very reason that the home product
so far excels the bought it is not
made of "substitutes" or inferior ar
ticles. There is no intermediate de
gree in the quality of eggs and but
ter. Cake made of good butter will
not get stale quickly but keeps
moist and fresh twice as long.
Before starting to work clear the
kitchen table of all but essentials
and take out and measure each in
gredient to be used in the recipe,
having everything needed ready at
hand before beginning.
Another important point to re
member is that cakes often fall be
cause the sugar and butter are not
well creamed together. In fact, you
stioum beat them as faithfully as
you do your eggs. Cake mixtures
to be light, should be well beaten
before the flour goes in, and then
mixed ' as little as possible after
wards. For all recipes the yolks and
whites must be whipped separately,
preferably in an earthenware bowl,
cool, but not cold, using a Dover
egg beater. Break the eggs care
fully so that no particles of the yel
low fall into whites, and do not try
to whip them in a warm room. The
yolks should be whipped until they
cease to froth and thicken as if
mixed with flour, and the whites un
til of such consistency that you can
cut them with a knife and leave an
incision as you would in a solid sub
stance. Disastrous results follow from us-
Real Christmas Gifts
Delightfully Different j
Exclusively Original
GIFTS that carry the fullest measure ?
of the. true "Yuletide Spirit" and the g
added charm of distinctive individuality 5
gifts that will be a delightful surprise.
Just a Few Suggestions:
WHY NOT A Beautiful Holiday Gift Basket filled
with a choice assortment of these delicious
fruits from every clime:
Luscious, Imported Malaga
Grapes
Fancy Tangerines
Extra Fancy Bananas
Delicious Jonathan Apples
Select Sweet Oranges
Fancy Alligator Pears
Choice Florida Grape Fruit
Fancy Kumquots
OR, A Box of Rose Brand "Delicious" Apples special
shipment exceptionally fancy. '
OR, A Choice Assortment of these delicious goodies,
your own selection packed for delivery in
special attractive holiday boxes :
Extra Fancy Paper Shell
Pecans
Special Imported Cluster
Raiiins
Honey Cakes
Plum Puddings
Fruit Cakea
Preserved and Crystallized
Ginger
"Exquisite" Olives
Mushrooms
Extra Fancy Naples Fil
bert Budded Walnut
Brazil Nuts
Soft Shell Almonds
Pistachio Nuts
Shelled Nut (all kind)
AND, What better for a simple gift than a package of
such rare confections as: .
"Apricot Fantaaie"
Marroh Glace
"Turkish Delight"
"Cresca" Pulled Fig
Smyrna Layer Fig
Fint Persian Date
"Chocolate Shop" Choco
late Crane's "Mary Garden"
Chocolate
Let U Serve You in Making Special Selection.
Store Open Evening Until Eleven. .
SlommerbQpGcial
J Candies Fruits i
RANDCrS THEATRE BUMS.
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ing fresh and stale milk in the same
cake, for sour milk makes a cake
spongy and sweet closer in grain.
Many cakes fall because the ingre
dients are not measured, but guessed
at; therefore, it is well to have on
hand those convenient little spoons
that come in quarter, half and whole
teaspoon sizes, and also to have a
graded glass half pint cup for meas
uring milk and sugar, and a graded
half pint tincup for flour. It is far
better to measure ingredients than
to weigh them, for most household
scales are unreliable, and if yc ur rec
ipes call for pounds and ha. pounds
it is easy to change them, remember
ing the good old rule that a pint is
a pound. This hofds true for prac
tically everything a cake better re
quires except that one pound of con
fectioner's sugar measures three and
one-half cupfuls.
All recipes call for level measure
ments, and a knife should be used
to level your cupful of flour and tea
spoonful of baking powder. The up-to-date
cookery books no longer say
"a heaping teaepoonful" or "a scant
cupful," Exact measurements are
given a cupful meaning always a
half-pint, and spoonfuls leveled.
Flour should invariably be sifted
before measuring (and after, too),
and it must not be allowed to pack,
but be filled in lightly in the cup
with scoop or spoon.
Batter requires a light and deli
cate hand, stirring only one way.
The order of mixing is as follows,
no matter what the recipe used may
be:
Cream together the butter and
sugar beating lightly, add the yolks
of eggs, previously whipped, then
the milk; sift in the flour into which
the baking powderhas been stirred;
lastly fold in the stiffly beaten
whites of eggs. In making a fruit
or nut cake, flour them well to pre
vent tliem trom sticking together
and sticking to the bottom of the
pan.
After a sponge cake is baked
brush over all the outside with a
pastry brush dipped in vanilla. The
flavor will be much better than if'
the essence were cooked in the batter.
The older your cake nans the
luckier you are, as usage but in
creases their value. In any case do
not be sparing when greasing the
pans or you will have vexatious mo
ments when removing the cakes.
Lard is far better than butter in
keeping the cakes from sticking; ap
ply liberally with a pastry brush.
You must study your ovens care-
Christmas
Suggestions
Christmas Trea Outfits, 8 lights, $3.50
Mahogany Floor Lamps $8.75
Silk Shades. 2426 Inches $1130
Mahogany Table Lamps $8.25
Boudoir Lamps $5.50
Reading; Lamps, with flexible arm,
at i $3.50
Reading Lamps, S-ft." high $630
Heating Pads, 12x15 in $7.50
Armstrong Table Stoves $12.80
Toasters $4.00
Electric Flatirons $6.75
Hot Point "Headlite" Heater. .$1130
Electric Curling Irons $6.00
Cadillac Vacuum Cleaners $32.50
Bee Vacuum Cleaners $35.00
Hot Point Sewing Machines $43.00
Meadows "Dolly" Washer ....$75.00
Mola Cylinder Washer $135.00
Table Lamps, Floor Lamps and Hot
Point Appliances. A complete line
of Electrical Horns Necessities.
Lalley-Wilson Electric
Company,
Phone Tyler 1491.
1301 Farnam St.
fully, and if you are quite up to
date will no doubt have an oven
thermometer so that you will know
the right temperature at which to
bake properly. In using a gas range
be sure to light up ten minutes he
fore you are ready, and lower tht
i- - f . t.
gas ueiore pulling in uic wscs.
But there is no set rule for bak
ing; each one must study her own ,
particular oven to get the best re
sults. However, the heat should bt
steady and as good above as below.
Avoid a sudden decrease in heat, and
do not open the oven door frequent
ly. There, again, no doubt you are
modern and have glass doors to
your range and do not need to open
it until your cake is done. Test the
cake by running a clean straw into
the thickest part; the straw should
come up clean. If the crust form!
too quickly and it is not baking
through, put a piece of brown paper
on top. For fruit cake, which burns
easily and must always be cooked
in a slow oven, it is well to put
waxed paper in the bottom and side
of the pan.
The icing is not difficult to make if
the simple rule is followed of allow
ing one-quarter of a pound of con
fectioner's four X sugar to each egg
white used, and beating gradually
as you put in the sugar, not whipping
the eggs stiffly hrst and tnen put
ting in the sugar, as many persons
do. After all the sugar is used up
continue beating until of the right
consistency ana aaa wnaievcr navui
ine is preferred. A boiled icing is
more difficult to make unless one
possesses a candy thermometer,' as it ,
is likely to boil to long and get
sugary.
It must not he stirred while cook
ing, should boil until it reaches. 230
degrees Fahrenheit and then be
poured into the siffly-beaten white of
egg and whipped until creamy. It
may be spread on with a broad
bladed knife dipped in. cold water.
Usine the volks, too, will make a
rich yellow icing. Coloring can be '
bought in various tints to give va
riety to your small cakes.
Patience and Perseverance.
Nor is pastry difficult to make, al
though, like cake, it requires always
the best of materials. It is neces
sary that everything to be used
should be ice cold, and, though a
marble slab and a glass rolling pin
holding cracked ice are not essen
tials, they are a decided aid to gopd
pastry making.
One quart of flour requires one
third of a pound of lard and one
half pound of butter, using half a
cupful of iced water. The lard
should be chopped with a broad
bladed knife into the flour until it
is as fine as dust Moisten with ice
water into a stiff dough, using the
hands as little as possible. Roll into
a ball and lay on a well-floured
kneading board or marble slab and
roll out into a thin sheet with quick,
light action.
The old heory of rolling only one
way seems to be exploded. When
thin enough stick bits of butter in
close rows all over the sheet, using'
a knife. Roll up the paste like a
sheet of music, flatten with the roll
ing pin and roll out as before.;. Re
peat this basting with butter.iuiitil
it is all used up, and it is a good idea
to sprinkle flour on the sheet each
time you butter it. If possible leave
the paste on ice for half an hour be
fore the final rolling out, as that will
make it more flaky and light.
Your' own ingenuity will suggest
various ways or using mis crust lor
tarts, cheese straws and in many
fancy ways, as well as for pies of
all kinds. Many of the French pas
tries we enjoy in tea rooms can be
successfully copied at home.
"The Dessert
of Desserts"
ICE CREAM
For your Sunday dinner
serve a dessert pleas
ing to your family
and guests.
The Special This
Sunday Is
Plum Pudding
Order Through Your
Druggist
Fairmont
Creamery
Co.
Helpful Hints.
Lettuce for sandwiches should be
thoroughly washed and only the
ainalNleaves selected.
Varnish shelves and the inside of '
pantry drawers after cleaning. They
will clean easier.
Grease can be removed from wall
paper by rubbing with a flannel
moistened with alcohol.
When a flower vase if too deep,
twist some paper in a loose toll and
stuff in the bottom.
Add a cupful of vinegar to water,
in which colored clothes are washed
This prevents running.
As It Appeara to Motorists.
Redd It is said the United State:
contains 2,250,000 miles of public
roads.
Greene I wonder how much ol
this amount the chickens consider
thev own? Yonkers Statesman.
For Machine Grease.
Cold water, a tablcspoonful of
ammonia and soap will take out
machine grease where other means
would not answer on account of
colors running, etc.
LSK5T0B
Cut Price
Sale
Begin Saturday at 9 A. M.
Men's Suits,
Overcoats,
Shoes and
Furnishings
AT GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES
Coma and get your first pick.
Sale will continua for 5 day.
J. Helphand
Clothing Co.
314 North 16th St.
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