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Show During the busy pre-Christ-mas days, make French toast for a simple dessert. Cut bread into attractive shapes, dip in egg-milk mixtures and fry until golden brown. Serve with syrup and toasted nuts, with with jelly or with a fruit sauce. This enriched bread treat is healthful, too, since it provides B-vitamins and iron needed by everyone in the daily diet. If you have an electric table stove, make the French toast right at the table. ' Turkey pastry cut-outs lend added holiday atmosphere to the Yuletide mincemeat pie. Pastry cut into bell or tree shapes also looks Christmasy atop the pie. Leftover bits of pastry may be cut into tiny muffin pans, and baked in a hot oven (450 degrees F.) for 10 minutes. Fill with bright jelly after baking. These make tempting snacks for, hungry youngsters, and for unexpected unexpec-ted guests, too. Foreign breads always add a bit of distinction to the holi-' holi-' day menu. Here is an Irish recipe for steamed raisin pudding pud-ding that is delicious, yet pennywise, too. Sift together iy2 cups sifted enriched flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, and Y2 teaspoon salt. Cream Yi cup shortening and cup sugar until light and fluffy. ' Add 1 well-beaten egg and beat thoroughly. Add 1 cup raisins. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla van-illa extract to 23 cup milk and add to creamed mixture alternately with dry ingredients. ingredi-ents. Pour into greased quart . mold and cover. Steam in covered kettle for 1 hours. Remove mold from steamer. Let stand a few minutes before be-fore unmolding. Serve hot with fruit sauce. Makes about six servings. , Does morning mean a mad scramble for that other ear-' ear-' ring, a bracelet and those matching mat-ching scarf pins? Then reorganize re-organize your bureau drawer and sort out your costume jewelry into one of those quilted quilt-ed and sectioned-off stocking boxes. Apple rings filled with cranberry cran-berry sauce make an attractive, attrac-tive, yet inexpensive garnish for a roast turkey. Core, pare and slice 3 apples. Fry in vita-manized vita-manized margarine and a little water in a covered skillet until tender. Pile cranberry sauce in centers. With velvet all the style, there is many a fair lady los- ing her. fair disposition brushing brush-ing lint off this material of queens. Here is a magic lint-lifter: lint-lifter: wrap some cellophane tape, sticky side out, around your fingers and brush the velvet. vel-vet. Ever wonder how to dress up lima beans? Here is the way. Blend cup real mayonnaise, may-onnaise, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon salt and 2 cups milk. When thickened, add 1 teaspoon teas-poon grated onion and 6 table-poons table-poons grated cheese. Cook over low heat 10 minutes and pour over cooked limas. Serves 6-8. The next time you are giving giv-ing shoes the ole shinola, try . some on your leather handbags. hand-bags. Since' shoe polish comes in various colors, it will tpuch up scratches and brighten handbags dulled from rain and wear. In addition, its waxy base will protect the leather for a long, shining future. Thousands of trucks, often with sealed cargoes, rushed vital munitions direct to dock-side dock-side from factory during the last war, saving precious time and thus saving lives. 'Round About Town . Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Czirr have returned home from a trip to Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. They attended the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. Czirr's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Czirr, at Hardy, Nebr., and from .there went to LeRoy, Kansas, where they visited Mrs. Czirr's mother, Mrs. C. A. Moore, and she ma City, where they visited Mrs. Czirr's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Moore. Several Springville men left recently for the service, and most of them are presently stationed in Fort Riley, Kan. They include: Matt Robertson, Robert-son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ber-nard Robertson; Carl Crandall, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Crandall; Scott Bertelson, hus-i 1 band of the former Carol Finch; Jay Lowe, son of Mrs. Mary Kelly; Richard Sund-bloom, Sund-bloom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sundbloom. Roy Anderson has returned to his naval station in San Diego, Calif., following'Several days visit here with his wife, the former Lois Hansen, and baby son. He also visited relatives and friends in Mid-vale. Mid-vale. , Miss Melba Child, with members mem-bers of her nursing class from the LDS Hospital, were dinner guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Child, Sunday. Be-, Be-, sides Miss Child, there were Miss Doris Jensen, Miss Nancy Cannon, Miss Drue Jackson, Miss Lola Wilson, and Miss Barbara Sailor. The girls are taking one phase of their training at the Utah. State Hospital in Provo. Mrs. Bernard Robertson has returned from Mullinville, Kan., where she spent 10 days due to the serious illness of her father, Fred Pitte. She was accompanied to Kansas by her son Matt Robertson, who returned immediately to go into the service. v Bob Winston is on a business busin-ess trip to Detroit, Mich., this week, Mrs. Winston and her' sister of California, are spending spend-ing the week with relatives and friends in Salt Lake City. Claude Larsen of Los Angeles, Ang-eles, Calif., is spending a few days this week visiting his mother, Mrs. Jane Wagner and other relatives and friends here. He was guest of honor at a birthday party given Tuesday by his mother at which Mr. and Mrs. George Crandall and son Kent were other guests. Mrs. Steve Kappas of Maple-ton Maple-ton has returned home from California, where she visited her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Johnson. Mrs. Carrie Jolley formerly of Salt Lake City, and Springville Spring-ville visited relatives here last week. She left Monday by plane for Columbus, Ohio, to join her husband and make their home while Mr. Jolley is employed there. |