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Show SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1951 THE JOURNAL Tage 10 HOUSEHOLD MEMOS Devil's Food and White Cakes Remain Favorites With Homemakers; Ideal for Dessert All-Ti- me LYNN CHAMBERS MENU Minted Fruit Juice Riced Potatoes Brussels Sprouts Cranberry-Orang- e Salad Nut Bread Beverage Burnt Sugar Cake Recipe Given Ted: Ned: Ted: Fooling with Guns No genuine sportsman ever will nor point a gun at another person, engage in horseplay with anybody holding a gun loaded or not. Morning Blues 1 hate the morning. Why? Oh, its so confounded early. Frying Fish Too high a flame under fryinf fish and any other fried food will make it stick to the pan. Turn down the flame to prevent sticking. Puffed Sleeve Frock Shows Scalloped Yoke Sweaters press When rinsing sweaters, and a they will colander, them in not stretch. Thoroughly cream shortening and sugar; add egg yolks and vanilla; beat until fluffy. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with water, beating well after each addition. Add Burnt Sugar and fold in egg d whites. Bake in 2 e layer-cakpans in moderate oven (350) about 30 minutes. Put layers together and frost with Caramel-Nu- t Frosting. Burnt Sugar: Melt Vz cup white sugar in heavy skillet over low heat until dark brown and smooth. Remove from heat; add Vz cup boiling water; return to heat and stir rapidly until molasses-lik- e syrup melts. waxed-paper-line- ad ch Its Time to Bake ( See Cake Magic THERES NOTHING nicer than a delicious, fluffy cake on hand for for birthdays, company may pop in unor expectedly, for the sewing circle gathering I that One of the all-tim- e favorites is chocolate or devils food, with a fluffy white icing. Close on its heels, vying for honors is the delicate white cake often frosted with Seven Minute frosting and a dusting of moist coconut. Burnt sugar cake has an interesting flavor, as has the caramel frosting which goes with it. Deluxe White Cake (Makes 2 layers) Measure into sifter: 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons double-actin- g baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cups sugar Measure into cup: 1. teaspoon vanilla 1 cup milk Measure into bowl: cup vegetable shortening Have ready: 5 egg whites, beaten to meringue with H cup sugar For meringue, beat 5 egg whites with rotary egg beater (or at high speed of electric mixer) until foamy, add Vi cup sugar gradually, beating only until meringue will hold up in soft peaks. Have the shortening at room temperature. Grease pans, line bottom with waxed paper, and grease again. Use two deep layer pans or a 13x9x2-inc- h pan. Set oven for moderate heat (350). Sift flour once before measuring. Mix or stir shortening just to soften. Sift in dry ingredients; and of liquid. Mix until all flour is dampened; then beat 1 minute. Add remaining liquid, blend, and beat 2 minutes longer. Then add meringue mixture and beat 1 minute. (Count only actual beating time. Or count beating strokes. Allow at ch ch full 100 strokes per minute. Scrape bowl end spoon or beater often.) Turn batter into pans. Bake in moderate oven (350) about minutes for layers, or about minutes for 13x9x2-inc- h cake. Devils Food Cake (Makes 2 layers) Measure into sifter: ch 2 cups sifted cake flour ( 35 45 Frosting cups brown sugar cup butter M cup light cream or top milk Few grains salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup chopped walnuts Combine ingredients in saucepan. Stir over low heat until dissolved. Heat to boiling and cook to soft- ball stage (234). Beat until cool. Add vanilla. Spread between layers cake and on top and sides of with walnuts. Sprinkle chopped 2 Recipes Below) By Lynn Chambers least Caramel-Nu- t a Luscious Cake MEATLESS MEALS teaspoon salt teaspoon soda cup granulated sugar Measure into cup: cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla Measure into bowl: cup vegetable shortening Have ready: H cup brown sugar, firmly packed 2 eggs, unbeaten 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, cut up and melted In cup boiling water Have the shortening at room temperature. Grease pans, line bottoms with waxed paper, and grease again. Start oven for moderate heat (350). Sift flour once before measuring. Mix or stir shortening just to soften. Sift dry ingredients. Add brown sugar force through sieve to remove lumps, if necessary. Add of the liquid. Mix until eggs and all flour is dampened; then beat 1 minute. Add remaining liquid, blend, and beat 1 minute. Add chocolate m i and beat 1 minute longer. (Count only actual time. Or count beating strokes. 1 1 x-tu- re beating LYNN SAYS: Give Cake Crowning Touch With These Icing Secrets Ever try to ice a cake thats too fresh or warm? It may break or fall apart, crack or melt the frosting if you havent allowed it to cool before Icing. Its a mistake to try to achieve a smooth looking surface when swirls, ridges or a textured surface is far more effective. Use the blade of a spatula, a fork or the tip of a spoon to make the surface interesting. Make the breakfast cereal dish special by serving with a drift of whipped cream, topped with sliced peaches and a sprinkling of brown sugar. Hot, crusty corn sticks are always welcome with a meal, but they can Simple To Make sleeve rsAINTY LITTLE U dress for small puffed fry that features a scalloped yoke. Underwear is included and there is a simple-to-seromper for brother. w Van'CampsSpanisb Rico appeals to all tastes with its true Spanish flavor. Delicious itself ... a happy combination with fish, shrimp. Pattern No. 1940 is a sew-rit- e perforated pattern for sizes 6 months, 1. 2, 3, years. Size Ya1, dress, lVa yards of 35 or slip, yard; panties, yard. 39-inc- m The spring and summer STYLIST is filled with ideas for a smart wardrobe. Special fea tures, gift patterns printed inside the book. Send 25 cents today. spring-through-summ- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 367 West Adams St., Chicago 6, III. Please enclose 25 cents plus 5 cents s in coin for mailing of each first-clas- pattern desired. Pattern No, Van Camps Tenderoni it different . . . lighter, whiter than any other macaroni product. Cooks in only 7 minutes. Needs no blanching. Extra good with cheese, seafood, sauces. Size Name tli Anmvtrsar Address So. make it even more festive if you fold tiny cubes of ham and cheese Allow at least in the batter before baking. An appetizing chowder uses as 100 full strokes its base, cooked rice, into which per are bowl and chopped carrots, celery tomaScrape toes and green pepper. Add unspoon or beater often.) Turn batter into pans. Bake in moderate oven diluted evaporated milk and cook (350) about 30 minutes for layers. until vegetables are heated. Loose crumbs mixed in through Spread with seven minute frosting. SmaSPcCALAOWE Qwy&tsr dissolves fy&m 30 MINUTE HOT CROSS BUNS sekages Red Star pedal Active Dry Yeast cups warm water (105 a 110 F.) sup sugar 3 cups sifted all purpose fUCB flour 1 cup raisins cup chopped dtron 1 teaspoon dnnamon neosmns 2 tablespoons shortening, melted and cooled to lukewarm to llO.F.J h1 water warm It Dissolve yeast in Add sugar.(105 I alt.unbtenegg mixing bowl. Step 2. Beat weU with electric r. raisins, citron and cinnamon. with iarg rr on iow or medium speed, or by hand until thoroughly beating spoon Add shortening, SK.on toil. Into teaspoons salt S r,:, 1 msrmmj ACTION t"1 it xzxzsitt'szzs ig. Yields 18 to 24 buns. . S' V:-p-- . ch hard-cooke- rfSi O BED minute. the frosting spoil the appearance Seven Minute Frosting of many a good cake. Let cake cool, (Makes enough for 2 layers) then brush crumbs with one hand 2 egg whites while holding with the other one. 1J4 cups sugar Frostings and icings should be m teaspoons light corn syrup cooled before being spread on the or teaspoon cream of cake; otherwise, they may soak tartar into cake. K cup cold water Chocolate or butter cakes are Dash of salt lovely when you sprinkle confec1 teaspoon vanilla tioners sugar immediately after Few drops red food coloring taking them from the oven. If Place all ingredients except sprinkled over a lace doily, the vanilla in double boiler; mix thor- sugar leaves a pattern. oughly. Cook over hot water, beatlayers with frosting, one ing constantly with rotary or elec- at Spread a time. After the layers are put tric beater until mixture forms together, frost sides, then pile repeaks, about 7 minutes. Remove on the top. from heat and hot water; add vanil- maining frosting Heres an attractive topping la and food coloring. Beat until when you dont have time for a cool regular icing: mb together some butter, brown sugar, cream and Burnt Sugar Cake shredded coconut and spread over hot, baked cake. Place under broil(Makes 2 layers) er for few minutes until icing H cup shortening bubbles. 1J cups sugar Before baking you may spread 2 egg yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla cake with cut marshmallows over 2 the batter and then sprinkle brown cups cake flour sugar and nuts over them. teaspoon salt 2i1 teaspoons baking powder Carry out the green and yellow color scheme of the season by using cup water or milk 3 tablespoons Burnt Sugar d sliced, eggs on top of 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten timbales when spinach serving. eS mi I yeAST Let this tested recipe introduce you to wonderful Red Star yeast. You'll want to uso Red Star In alt your recipes. Remember, It keeps fresh for months without refrigeration. |