Show Helping the Homemaker CRESTON FRUIT CAKE RECIPE The Dinner Menu Creole Rice Buttered Spinach Bread Peach Jam Bettina's Fruit Salad Creston Fruit Cake Coffee CoffeeS S Creole Rice Four tablespoons fat 3 tablespoons c chopped h hop o p p e d onions 3 tablespoons chopped celery 2 cups boiled rice 2 1 cup cheese cut fine ine 2 cups tomatoes toma- toma toes oes 2 1 teaspoon salt 4 1 teaspoon paprika Heat fat and add and brown onions celery and rice Add rest of eats Cook slowly and stir frequently 10 minutes Bettina's Fruit Salad One cup diced pineapple 1 cup seeded grapes 2 1 cup diced apple 2 1 cup eup diced marshmallows 2 1 cup salad dressing Mix and chill chili fruits Add rest of or ingredients and serve on crisp let- let tuce uce Creston Fruit Cake Two cups brown sugar 4 3 cup fat hat 2 cups water 2 cups raisins 1 cup currants 1 cup dates 3 teaspoons cin cia namon 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon mace 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 cups flour 2 teaspoons soda 1 cup nuts Mix sugar fat water raisins currants currants cur cur- rants dates spices and salt Cook slowly and stir constantly 5 minutes Beat well and cool coot Add rest of in ingredients ingredients ingredients in- in and pour into 2 loaf pans lined ined with waxed papers Bake 50 minutes in moderately slow oven CHRISTMAS CONFECTIONS Fudge Fud e Roll Two cups sugar 2 squares chocolate chocolate chocolate choco choco- late 2 tablespoons butter butler 1 cup water wa wa- ater a ter 2 1 cup nuts 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix sugar chocolate butter and water Boil gently and arid stir frequently until soft ball forms in cup of ot cold water Set aside 15 minutes Beat Until until until un un- til creamy Add rest of ingredients Spread 3 1 Inch thick on waxed pa pa- per Cover with white fudge White Fudge Two cups sugar 2 tablespoons butter but but- ter 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix sugar butter and milk Boil Boll until soft ball forms in iii cold water Stir frequently Set aside 15 minute minutes Add vanilla and beat until creamy Pour onto chocolate part Role up in waxed paper When very stiff or ready to use cut of off 4 1 Inch slices Peanut Brittle Two cups su sugar ar 8 1 teaspoon salt I 1 2 1 cups shelled roasted peanuts Sprinkle sugar over bottom of ot large frying pan preferably iron Heat slowly and stir constantly with wooden wood wood- en spoon When light brown syrup forms add peanuts and salt and pour at once onto buttered pan Press down with knife When a little cool mark into squares with knife and when cool enough to handle cut apart with sors Flatten to cool Candied Candled Fruit Rinds Rind One cup shredded orange oran c peels 2 cups water 4 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 4 1 cup boiling water Cut orange peels into strips and add water and salt Cover and cook slowly 15 minutes Drain and rinse well in cold water With spoon or knife scrape off white pulpy portions Mix sugar and boiling bollin water and add peels Boil gently 5 minutes stirring constantly With fork remove orange strings and aDd roll roU in granulated sugar Straighten out on waxed paper to cooL Grape fruit rinds may be prepared prepared pre pre- pared in same wa way Bandits are reported to be Interrupting interrupting inter Inter- I railway traffic in parts of China |