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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1941)
Illinois Valley News. Thursday. August 21. 1941 Page Three Fall Social Calendar Demands Smart Clothes for the Matron y covering and no sleeves. Belt ties behind so that it may be smoothly adjusted to the figure. Notice the soft fulness let into the bodice, and the full skirt—both flattering for girls of the six to fourteen year age. • • • Pattern No 897!) is in sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 8 requires 2’a yards 35-inch fabric without nap. 23< yards of l‘a inch bias fold for binding necklines and scalloped sleeve edges. For this attractive pattern, send your order to: SEWING CIRC IE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 15 cents Ln coins for Pattern No................ Size............... Name............................................................. Address.............................. . ......................... HERE’S TO SHORTCAKE TIME WITH CHERRIES BRIGHT <See Recipes Below) SUMMERY DESSERTS Bring the tartness and sweetness of fruit into play with fresh, crumbly cake, top with a dash of whipped cream and you have summer's an swer to a delectable dessert. Garden-fresh berries peeking out from under their green foliage or fruit hanging heavy and ripe on richly laden branches deserve your best atten tion for they'll do mighty nice things by your meals Since most of the fruits need no cooking you are doubly sure of getting the full quota of minerals and vitamins which they have to give. Cherries bright and red make a tart and colorful dessert which you'll enjoy serving. If using the fresh ones pit and sugar them before us ing. When I asked my mother how she made her extra delicious shortcakes, she replied, “Theri's nothing to it, my dear; just biscuit dough—but make the dough short and the fruit sweet!" This tip is a good one. I hope you’ll follow it when trying: Old-Fashioned Shortcake. 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt ¥2 cup shortening (8 tablespoons) % cup milk Sift flour, measure, add baking powder and salt, sift again. Work in shortening until mass resembles coarse meal. (If you W’ant to, add a tablespoon of sugar and an egg and count the egg as part of your liq uid.) Now, add enough milk to make a soft dough, one which you can barely handle. Turn onto lightly floured board, knead a few seconds, divide in half. Pat one half about one-fourth inch thick into deep but tered 9-inch cake pan. Butter top and pat second portion of dough in layer over first. Brush on softened butter and bake about 20 minutes in hot oven (450 degrees F.) When baked, pull layers apart, spread sug ared fruit on bottom layer, stack second one, crust-side down, on this, cover with more fruit, then with whipped cream and a garnish of fruit! Variations from the original type of shortcake which we all know so well are much in order. Some peo- ple prefer a sponge cake base rather than a bis cuit dough and for a real individ ual treatment of this type, you might like to try < with a custard filling for cool deliciousness. Since it is a trifle more elaborate than shortcake, this Cherry Spohge Cus tard Shortcake is ideal as a dessert for company You'll need this sponge cake as a base: Hot Water Sponge Cake. 4 egg yolks m cups sugar >4 cup boiling water 1*4 cups cake flour ¥« teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla extract 4 stiffly beaten egg whites Beat egg yolks until very thick; gradually add sugar and continue beating. Add water, mix well, add J flour sifted with baking powder. Mix J until smooth, add flavoring Fold in ! egg whites. Bake in ungreased pan. LYNN SAYS: Though dessert problems are easily solved by berries, be sure that they get the greatest care before reaching the table. Ber ries should appear clean and fresh, be full and plump and have a bright solid color. When they are over-ripe they look dull and often stain the container. Don't wash berries until ready to use them since damp ber ries mold very quickly. The best method for washing is doing a few at a time in a bowl, lifting them out into another bowl while the bands are used as a sieve. When the berries are clean let them drain in a strainer or col ander. One teaspoon of cornstarch add ed to each cup of sugar used in making fudge will make it smooth and creamy with little beating. THIS WEEK'S MENU • • • Cold Meat Platter Devilled Eggs Sliced Cucumbers Tomatoes Celery Curls •Asparagus with Browned Butter And Crumb Sauce Beverage Bread and Butter Cherry Sponge Custard Shortcake •Recipe Given If stove polish is moistened with vinegar instead of water the stove will have a brighter polish. ♦ • • either Mary Ann or cup cake tins in slow oven 45 minutes. Cool be fore filling. Cream Custard Filling. Ai cup sugar % cup flour teaspoon salt when you 2 eggs daughters of the household will en 2 cups milk, scalded gage in the exciting experience of 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine dry ingredients with getting off to school in the fall, with a slightly beaten egg yolks; stir in wardrobe tuned to your exact needs enough hot milk to make a thin and whims. Only please remember paste. Then add paste to remain you are not the only heroines holding ing milk and cook over boiling wa the spotlight in fashion realms. You ter 5 minutes, stirring constantly. have rivals, yes indeed! We are not telling who but here is Cook 10 minutes longer. Cool and a tip. Keep an eye on modern moth add vanilla. If you top with fresh cherries be ers. matrons and women in general, sure they're sweet enough. Then gar who are so importantly carrying on nish with whipped cream. Frozen in club work and in social activities berries need only be thawed and that tend to "keep the home fires burning" while college faring daugh more sugar added if required. If you want to make a sponge j ters are away from home. cake base and use just berries, then Fashion is catering to the costume plan a lovely sur needs of women with whom “life prise so no one begins at forty.” With unbounded will even suspect zest and enthusiasm inspired by an they're getting a ever-increasing appreciation of the berry dessert. tremendous influence smart clothes Make a sponge have, they are achieving new chic cake using a reg and poise. It's no secret or myth ular 9 or 10 inch or fairy tale that women who “go cake pan. When places” and "do things" in this busy the cake is still warm cut a round world of ours have gone utterly circle in the middle of the cake modern in matter of dressing glam about an inch from the edge. Lift orously. So look to your laurels this out carefully keeping it whole. Miss Teen-age, Miss Debutante and Into the hollow put in sugared ber Miss College girl, you will have to ries or peaches or bananas mixed step lively to keep up with queen with sweetened whipped cream. Re mother's fashion pace! place the cake top. wrap carefully One of the fashion gestures that in a slightly damp towel and chill will serve mothers and matrons well for 3 to 4 hours. Garnish before serving with whipped cream or who happen to be limited to a re sprinkle with powdered sugar. stricted budget, is to select a simple They’ll come back often for this one. basic dress, smart in lines, made of For luscious, shortcake puddings, good material and styled with the there’s nothing like a juicy cobbler. thought of complementing this one Here’s a recipe made for large gown with flattering interchangeable quantity, excellent if you're plan accessories These have a magic way of glorifying their appearance. ning a church supper: Chic jewelry, feminizing and lovely Cobbler. lingerie neckweir touches, can do (Cherry, Blueberry or Peach) wonders in transforming the entire 5 quarts fruit aspect of your costume. And don't 2 quarts juice forget flowers! Be sure to wear flow Biscuit dough ers for that refreshing accent of 5 cups sugar with cherries or berries youthful charm that is always so 2’4 cups sugar with peaches endearing. Pour fruit and juice into square To the right in the illustration cake pans. Add sugar and mix lightly. Cover with biscuit dough (approximately ¥«-inch thick) made in proportions of 1*4 quarts flour. 2¥< cups milk, 1 tablespoon salt. 4 tablespoons baking powder and 44 cup shortening. Bake in a hot oven. 400 degrees F., from 30 to 40 min utes. Serve hot with cream. A light, easy-to-make dessert is the best one with which to bring a hearty supper to a close. With raspberries at their brightest and juiciest, this combination with a gra ham cracker crust and frothy me ringue will really be hard to resist. Red Raspberry Fluffs. (Serves 6-8) Mix and press in a square pan: , H4 cups rolled graham crackers, ¥« cup melted butter. 2 tablespoons sugar, and a dash of cinnamon. Cov er that with a meringue made of 4 egg whites stiffly beaten and *4 cup of sugar folded in the whites care fully. Bake this in a slow (300 degrees) oven for 20 minutes. Cool. Spread with 2 cups of sweetened red rasp berries and whipped cream. •Asparagus With Browned Butter And Crumb Sauce. Asparagus, tender and green, should be cooked gently so as not to lose its color. It cooks quicker when stalks are tied in bunches There i* going to be a big play Stand them up in boiling water in a deep narrow pan. The steam will made on unique button* and jewel cook the tips while the water bub fastening* of every description this fall and winter. Note the tailored bles around the stalks. Instead of serving plain butter, jacket of chalk white crepe shown try browning it for a change, season here. It* «leeve*, yoke and front ing it and then adding a teaspoonful panel are cut in one, a character- of fine bread crumbs. Have this iltic feature of the newer fashions The five cryital and enamel bow- piping hot and pour it over the as knot fastening* herald intriguing paragus just before serving. gadget* to be used like button*. <R*l«aaed by Western Newspaper Union > Keep all cleaning rags that have been treated with oil in a covered container before putting away in closets. If this is done, fires may be avoided. • • • If metal tops come off of shoe strings dip them in mucilage, This will stiffen the ends and make it easy to put them through eyelets. 8979 • • • If dried fruits become undesir A GOOD frock to make in hot ably dry due to improper storage, weather, because it is such a they may be restored to packing simple pattern, a good frock to house freshness by steaming in a wear in hot weather because it colander or coarse meshed sieve can be made with just a shoulder for about 15 minutes. “somebody’s mother” presents • lovely "picture” as she graciously presides at the initial autumn meet ing of her favorite club. She is clad in the simplest sort of a gown made of tine sheer black wool to which frilly white lingerie accent lends endless charm. In the lovely 4 4 quaint Victorian bouquet of carna tions, violets and stephanotis which she carries so caressingly in her tayi RUTH KNIPPEN c.mpt^ur Optrator lovely hands, one immediately senses the gallantry of friend hus band or a devoted son who, per haps being out of town, wired to the nearest florist for the prettiest bouquet fancy might picture. Just as an afterthought this dainty bou quet may be a tribute of admiration to their leader from various club members. The lady seated goes in for ultra modern fashion as you can readily see in her swank gown of hand some black wool ribbed crepe. This together with her chic English sailor so piquantly veiled, goes to show how very smartly one can dress in all-black Notice the low-cut V-neck- line, a stylizing detail that was pop ular this summer and will continue good form right through the fall The patriotic corsage she is wearing is of blue cornflowers, fragrant red roses and white carnation petals. Glittering satin is scheduled for a big play this fall A satin dress is a good “buy” for it not only gives marvelous wear, but it has that air of dressiness that tunes in with so to» cial environs. The lady in the top oval has on a satin frock which is intriguingly shirred about bodice and ^ou sleeves. She wears a tiara of sal mon pink gladiolas. Evidently the lady in the oval below to the right has a yen for pastel colorings. Her eyelet-embroidered dress in soft blue Struggle for Light crying in the night, and that the crepe is really lovely. She adds to We forget that the human spirit, struggle with darkness is as yet the glamour by dramatizing her well-groomed hair with a cluster of the spirit of goodness and truth in mostly an unequal struggle.—Jan the world, is still only an infant Christian Smuts. rosebuds and hyacinths. “ It all adds up to this (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) , use f®*? F RESH liASl Jeweled How Knots Rich Browns for New Autumn Wear Thera is considerable emphasis on handsome browns for fall. The dresses in initial showings are most ly of rayon crepes and jerseys. These are »imply styled so far as "lines” are concerned but have in teresting surface treatment in stitch ing, self-fabric appliques and quilted decoration. The dressier afternoon models of ten combine fabric with lace dyed to match or with velvet or satin. In keeping with the trend to browns, touches of embroidery ap pear in bronze sequins and metal threads, also favor is expressed for mink fur. Milliners are making up smart little mink hat* with match ing neckpieces. .."« chai »‘»¿ir*- • «OOu„2‘' r Household Favorite of four Generations Fringes Take On New Importance in Style Fringed dinner gowns appear in icore* of individual treatments Aft- | ernoon dresses too take on accent* of fringe The originality «nd ver satility expressed in trimming with fringe is most interesting. There is every sort of arrange ment from narrow fringe placed row and row in tiers covering the entire | skirt to long swinging panels of fringe extending in one continuous line from waist to hem. Fringe also , 1* worked in interlaced manner to give the new drop-shoulder line and to form pocket* and girdle effect* with long streaming end* to add grace. YOU ARE AN INFLUENTIAL p £ r q 4//, (-------------------------- The merchant who advertises mult treat you better than the merchant who doe* not. He must treat you a* though you were the most influential person in town. As a matter of cold fact you are. You hold the destiny of his busines* in your hand*. He knows it. He show* it. And you benefit by good service, by courteou* treat- ^nent, by good value—end by lower price*.
