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Christmas Customs, Foods Largely
Survival of Saints' Day Celebration
Br Maxine Bares
Statesman Womu'i Editor
A mention of Christmas leads naturally to eating, and the
season's foods bring us to special feast days in the lands of our
remote origin. Usually religious in beginning these festivities in
Europe were in observance of Saints' days which usually termi
nated in feasting on delicacies prepared especially for the occa
sion. While much of the original sentiment has worn off, and the
cooking has changed through modernization or merging of ideas
from several nationalities, much of the original significance re
mains. BEGINS TODAY
December 24 is actually the beginning, of the year's cycle of
religious festivity, but through the centuries December. 8, the
birthday of St Nicholas patron saint of schoolboys and sailors has
begun the observance.
Especially in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany and Swit
zerland did children wait eagerly for a visit from St. Nicholas and
his companion the Devil. Spicy ginger cookies were made for the
occasion, and the children enjoyed the treats immensely.
Precious white flour was substituted for dark flours for bread
to be served during the Christmas season in some countries. Rich
food and feasting were part of the celebration of Christmas eve
- and Christmas day. The Scandinavians served fluffy white lute
fisk, the Germans carp, goose and roast pork were the traditional
meats in many countries.
' Basically, fruited spiced breads were alike in most of the Eu
ropean countries. The Scandinavian favored cardemon, the Slavic
woman flavored her's with poppy seed; in The Netherlands, dried
fruits were added to the dough; spices and raisins or currants
went into the English woman's bread and almonds were the Ger
man favorite.
EICH AND SWEET
The bread was a sweet yeast dough made rich with butter
and eggs, but the flavor made it popular and designated the coun
try of origin. Feasting and celebration continued through Janu
ary 8, Epiphany, which commemorated the visit of the three Magi
to the Christ child.
On SL Nicholas eve, December S, he apeaprs with his com
panion known as Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus or Swarte Piet, who
carried witches with which to chastise bad children. The fear of
the evil companion was overshadowed by the sweets which the
good saint distributed. In Belgium it was spicy ginger cookies,
called Specalaus or Specaloos, often in the figure of St. Nicholas.
In France and Hungary it was bon boas; in Germany sweets,
oranges and apples and in Switzerland cookies, prunes and ap
ples. Dutch children received crisp ginger cakes and sweets and
ate roast goose at dinner.
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13 is St. Lucia's day which officially opened the
Cat-shaped saffron buns called Luccia cats had
December
Swedish yule,
raisin eyes.
Foods to be served on Christmas eve and Christmas day were
varied in the countries of the world. Albanians were served chick
en soup with lemon and egg. Belgians ate cookies baked in' the
shape of angels and called engels koek. Bulgarians had kravai, a
large round cake; Danish, German, Austrian and British families
dined on roast goose, red cabbage, and there were different varia
tions of cakes, cookies and pies. In England, boar's head was also
served.
Italians ate eels in wine and panettone, a currant loaf; Poles
ate beet soup, spiced fish and poppy seed cake. The Smorgasbord
and lutefisk, boiled potatoes, potato sausage, lingon berries and
ham were favorites of the Swedes, while their neighbors, the
Norwegians ate roast pork ribs, boiled potatoes and sauerkraut
along with certain cakes. Most of the Scandinavians like a rice
pudding also on the menu.
CAKE TIN CHMSTMA8
PICTURES
Still short an idea for the Christ
mas bazaar? Here a a Santa pic
ture that's bound to catch every
one's eye and it's easy to make.
Shiny square cake tins make fine
shadow box frames. Pictures of
Santa are everywhere to be cut
out, and of course the picture sub
jects can also be his reindeer,
snow scenes, a bedecked Christ-
was tree, anything seasonal and
bright. Some cards from last year
will be large enough because the
shelf ruffling that outlines the pic
tures fills in the frame. Shelf ruf
fling might be red or green chintz
made gayer by an edging of tinsel.
Sew the tinsel to the shelf edging
and use strong clear cement to af
fix both the picture and the ruffl
ing to the tin. While you're shop
ping at the pot and pan counter.
look far smaller pans and molds
for picture frames. Pairs of little
pictures can be as big sellers as
larger ones. Omit the shelf ruffling
and use only the tinsel.
(Copyright by John F. Dill Co.)
OLDEST DRIVER
SHEET HARBOR, N. S. - (JP) -Nova
Scotia's oldest licensed auto
mobile driver is 99-year-old Henry
Hall of this eastern shore town.
Active and alert despite his years,
he has had only one accident in
36 years of driving he knocked
the hub cap off another car while
passing on a narrow road 35 years
ago.
Dance Committee Named
Mill City The third annual
GAA Christmas formal dance will
be held December 22 in the Mill
City High School auditorium.
Committees for the formal dance
will include: refreshment, Patricia
Brown, Patricia Cree, Alona Daly,
Haftel NeaL JoAnn Kunkles, and
JoAnne Leach; down '.airs decora
tion, Hazel Caudle, Marlene Walk
er, Marjorie Umphress, Lynn
Waite, Beryl Mason, and Dorothy
Downer; music, Jerry Hamblin,
Willa Loucks, Gay Peltier, and
Patricia Davidson; Christmas tree,
Carol Jane Blazek, Sharon Galla
gher, Barbara Smith, Vera Loucks,
Donna Cooke, and Arlone Kulh
man; program, Betty Lou Cree,
Joan Johnson, Donna Nelson, and
Elnora Albright; dishes, Darlene
Woodard, Maxine Scott, Nola De
Vall; upstairs decoration, Patricia
McGinnis, Beverly Timm, Joyce
Westgaard, Ardith Jones, Dolores
Poole, JoAnn Joffman, Wanda
Sue Moore, Patricia Nibler, Donna
Bengston, and Elaine Clark. Bar
bara Barton, GAA vice president,
will act as general chairman.
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Now Swedish Furniture Soon to Hit
The U. S. Market Very Light Weight
By See Gardner
Light weight functional furni
ture from Sweden is about to hit
the market.
trickiest items
among the im-
ports is a fold
ing tea cart.
The top tray is
17 by SO inches
and stands 25
inches high. A
second . shelf
folds up with
the legs under
the top tray to
a width of three
inches for easy storing. The cart
is mounted on heavy casters for
easy rolling.
Although the whole cart is
light, it is not a knockdown con
struction but completely assem
bled for the homemaker. It comes
in birch, beech, walnut or ma
hogany finish.
Molded plywood frames com
bined with jute woven backs and
seats appear in a group of all
weather furniture. Designed for
porch or terrace, many of the
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for use as occasional seats and
the chaise lounge is In two
parts, an arm chair and an otto
man. You can use the parts of
the chaise separately fpr extra
seats.
In testing the ' terrace furni
ture for Weather resistance, one
piece was left for days in water
without any damage to the na
tural jute or the frames.
The jute and plywood designs
are. by E. H. Astron of Umea,
Sweden, and -will be offered here
in a moderate price range, a com
fortable, yet sturdy group of
modern furniture.
Phone 3-9191
In the Capitol Shopping Center
(Copyrtcht 1SS1
General Features O
Corp.)
pieces also fit into indoor groups
where occasional chairs, rockers
or a chaise lounge is needed.
There are two sizes of rockers
in the group, one for the man
of the house and the other for his
wife. The seats of the rockers can
be adjusted to just the right
height.
There are also straight chairs
Wiesendanger
Heads Committee
On Conservation
Albert Wiesendanger, executive
secretary of the Keep Oregon
Green association, is chairman of
a new committee to correlate the
conservation programs of western
states' Keep Green groups.
His appointment came at the
recent conference on western for
estry in Portland.
The Keep Green associations at
the meeting also approved a ne
set of special awards to be made
next year to loggers with top re
cords in improving fire protection
A:G. Rempel,
Retired Polk
Farmer, Dies
DAIJLAS Abraham G. Rem pel.
74, Dallas area resident since 1897
and prominent Tetired Polk coun
ty farmer, died Wednesday at his
home after an illness of three
years.
He was for many years active
in farmers union cooperative
work. He was one of the principal
founders of Dallas cooperative
warehouse, for several years its
manager and a member of the
board of directors.
Rempel retired from farming in
1934 and resided at the time of his
death at 209 E. Salem rd. in
Dallas.
He was born Feb, 28. 1S77. at
Mountain Lake, Minn. He moved
with his parents to California un
til he was 20 years old, when he
came to Dallas.
He was married Oct 19, 1902, in
Dallas to Katherine B. Friesen.
who survives. He was a member
of Graced Mennonite church at
Dallas.
Funeral services will be held at
2' pjn. Saturday, December 8, at
Grace Mennonite church with the
Rev. J. R. Warkenten and the
Rev. J. M. Franz officiating. Di
rection will be by Bollman funeral
home, Dallas. Burial will be at
Salt Creek cemetery.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Katharine Rempel. Dallas:
sons, Bernhard M. Rempel of Di-
Tho
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nuba, Calif.. Gay- V. Rempel. Dal
las, and Earl F. Rem pel, Salem;
daughters; Mrs. Katharine A. Ta
res, Salem. Ruth R. Neufeld, Bick
reah, and Helen S. Cald
well, Idaho; It grandchildren and
two great - grandchildren, five
brothers and two sisters.
KETTJXN ROM KOEEA
SEATTLE, Dec S -SV Thirty
men from Oregon are among 2,
914 army rotation troops from the
Far East due at Seattle December
7 on a military sea transportation
vt net.
The troop list includes: PTC
Notts! E. Bennett. SOS Tyon st,
Albany; MSgt. Aaron A. Steele,
box 33, Woodburn.
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Tailor and Cutter, considers Win
ston ChurchCrs cabinet the best
dressed for years. The trade mag
azine said that on the .whole the
cabinet produced a "good arerar
fashionable figure."
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