Illinois Valley News. Thursday. October 2. 1941
Page Three
Classic Sweaters-Woolknits
Choice of All College Girls
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
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You Can Teach Yourself
How to Play the Guitar
/"^RAND times you never forget!
And, strummin* that ol’ gui­
tar, you're not forgotten either!
Do you long to learn how to
play? You can teach yourself, fol­
lowing simple directions.
In accompanying a song you can
just play chords on your guitar
NEW WAYS FOR YOUR BAKING DAVS
(See Recipes Below)
HOT BREADS—QUICKLY
Crisp, hot rolls? Cinnamon filled
•nd twisted full of nuts, sugar and
raisins? Muffins
golden and plump
standing high in
peaks? Scones
spread with jam
or jelly? Why, of
course, they're
yummy, and
what’s better,
they can all be
made in a jiffy. With the cooler
weather setting in, you homemak­
ers can return the hot breads and
their baking into your schedules.
Or is there a bake sale or a ba­
zaar included in the fall and winter
schedule of your church or club ac­
tivities? Nothing will fill the bill
quite so nicely as a few trays of
freshly baked biscuits, rolls, and
bread.
Although cakes and pies can be
baked at home by individual mem­
bers, these hot breads can be made,
oh, so quickly right in the church
kitchen because they need only a
few supplies and a few minutes to
bake. They’ll give your display a
more complete array of baked goods
and will also be a good substantial
contrast to the fancier displays. To
make things easy, serve them in
pans (if you can spare them) to
save time in making displays.
If you’re planning a sale of bakery
goods, have one section of a table
set aside for selling individual pieces
of cakes, pie, cookies, or a roll.
When people realize how delicious a
mouthful is, they can hardly resist
buying a bagful.
As a good starter, consider the
possibilities of the humble baking-
powder biscuit.
Baking Powder Biscuits.
(Makes 12 biscuits)
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons double-acting bak­
ing powder
teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter or shorten­
ing
Milk to mix
Sift the flour once, measure, add
baking powder and salt, then cut in
shortening. Add milk and mix just
enough to hold together in large
flakes. Pat to % of an inch thick­
ness on a floured board and cut with
a biscuit cutter. Bake in a hot oven
(450 degrees) 12 to 15 minutes.
•Butterscotch Rolls.
Make baking-powder biscuits as
given in the recipe above and pat
on floured board.
Brush with melt­
ed butter, sprin­
kle generously
with brown sugar
and cinnamon.
Roll as for jelly
roll and cut in h-
inch pieces. Put '4 teaspoon of but­
ter and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
in each muffin pan and lay the
pieces of rolled dough on top of
them. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in a
hot oven (400 degrees).
LYNN SAYS:
Quick breads require less at­
tention than yeast breads, but
there are a few pointers about
them you ought to bear in mind.
Beware of overmixing the bat­
ter or dough. For the baking
powder variety work the fat into
the flour or mixed dry ingredi­
ents only until mixed. Then stop,
quickly. Mix in the milk with a
few whirls, but do not overstir
unless you want tough, leathery
biscuits.
The secret of good muffins is
to mix the batter only until blend­
ed. Even the egg should be
only slightly beaten. It you want
the muffins high in peaks, add a
tablespoonful or two of extra flour
to the recipe. Honey, jam and
jelly are indicated for muffins as
grand pick-ups for meals.
Always measure ingredients un­
less you have the extraordinary
quality of guessing accurately.
There Is such a thing, but it is
rare, so remember to use stand­
ard measuring cups and spoons.
Measurements are level unless
otherwise stated.
Ovens for most quick breads
are hotter than for the yeast vari­
eties. Set the meter correctly
when heating and do not put bat­
ter or dough in until the oven has
reached the desired temperature.
THIS WEEK S MENU
Baked Pork Chops Apple Sauce
Scalloped Potatoes Baked Squash
•Butterscotch Rolls
Beverage
Waldorf Salad
•Oranges in Syrup
•Recipe Given
Pattern 2908
Pecan Rolls.
Make as for butterscotch rolls, ex­
cept add chopped pecans before roll­
ing as jelly roll. Place broken pe­
can nutmeats in muffin tins with
butter and sugar before putting in
rolled dough. Bake in a hot oven
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about 20 minutes.
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smartly sty lea
Plain Muffins.
i tweed skirts. If every college ward-
(Makes 1 dozen)
1 robe could be checked up it is safe
2 I cups sifted flour
to predict that the go-away-to school
3 I teaspoons baking powder
"clothes” collection, that did not in­
1 teaspoon salt
clude a sweater-and-skirt twosome
V. 4 cup sugar
as described above, would be the
1 egg, beaten
exception.
% cup milk
Girls love to wear shirts under
4 tablespoons melted shortening
their sweaters so that V necks are
Mix the dry ingredients. Add the solving the problem that crew necks
milk to the egg and mix with the couldn’t. See the picture of a col­
dry ingredients. lege girl’s sweater-ideal presented
To this add the below in the foreground of the ac­
shortening. Stir companying illustration. Here is a
till just mixed. soft blue Shetland that typifies the
Fill greased muf­ very newest in sweaters for general
fin tins quickly wear. The skirt is a wonderful
with two table­ rough tweed in red, blue and beige
spoonfuls to each with a texture that makes it look
pan. Bake in a hot oven (425 de- hand loomed.
Well tailored slacks for campus
grees) for 25 minutes.
The muffin recipe may also be wear are taken for granted as a
baked in a square pan and topped "must have" among college girls.
with the following: 2 tablespoons See pictured smartly styled slacks
sugar rubbed with 1 teaspoon cinna­ of a homespun wool fabric, with an
mon, 2 tablespoons flour and 2 ta­ up-to-the-moment simulated hand­
blespoons butter. Rub until crum­ knit cardigan, that qualifies in every
bled in appearance and sprinkle detail the demands of fashion. It
over the top of batter before baking. is in exact matching color to the
Do your meals need toning up or slacks—which is another style an­
do you want to make your bakery gle to take into account. The color
goods sale a smash hit? Either w ay. is a very smart reddish brown called
Creole earth, and the lacy pattern
these scones will do the trick:
of the cardigan makes it look like an
Holiday Fruit Scones.
expensive handknit. The beanie on
(Makes 2 dozen scones)
her pretty head has a long tassel in
2 cups flour
matching yarn.
2 teaspoons double-acting bak­
Not even when one has to dress up
ing powder
for some important afternoon event
’4 teaspoon salt
do college girls forsake their wool­
2 tablespdons sugar
knits. In fact, wool knit dresses
4 tablespoons butter or shorten­
are so beautifully and expertly
ing
styled nowadays, you get the habit
l’j teaspoons grated orange rind
of wearing them to social events
’/4 cup finely cut, seedless raisins
both formal and informal. And
2 eggs
’.a cup light cream
Sift flour once, measure, add bak­
ing powder, salt, sugar, and sift'
again, Cut in shortening, add or
ange rind and raisins,
Reserve
about ’4 of one egg white for glaze.
Beat remaining eggs well, add
cream, and then add to flour mix,
ture. Stir the whole mixture vig­
,
orously until it forms a soft dough
and follows the spoon around the
bowl. Turn out immediately on a
floured board and knead 30 seconds.
Roll >4 inch thick and cut in small
triangles. Place on ungreased bak
ing sheet. Brush tops lightly with
reserved egg white, slightly beat­
en, sprinkle with additional sugar.
Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees) 10
minutes or until browned. Serve
with jam or jelly.
This bread was inspired by corn
on the cob. and pleasantly simulates
that favorite vegetable because of
the use of cornrreai in the recipe:
Transition I)rrss
Corn Sticks or Muffins.
(Makes 12)
1*4 cups sifted flour
2U teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
*< cup cornmeal
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup milk
4 tablespoons melted butter or
shortening
Mix flour, baking powder, sak.
sugar, and sift. Add corn meal and
mix well. Combine eggs, milk, short­
ening; add to flour mixture, beating
only enough to dampen all flour.
Bake in greased muffin pans or corn­
shaped pan* in hot oven (425 de­
grees) 25 minutes.
•Oranges in Syrup.
(For 6 people)
Peel 6 oranges, remove al) skin
and membrane with knife, but leave
orange whole. Make a syrup by
boiling the following ingredients 10
minutes: 1 cup orange juice, *4 cup
pineapple juice. *,4 cup lemon juice,
1 cup sugar. Place oranges in this,
boil for 1 minute. Remove to serv­
ing dish. Chill thoroughly, sprinkle
with coconut before serving.
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CTAR white — star bright — but
you needn't do any wishing
about this star rug. The diamonds
' are so easy to crochet in four
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To lie a Speaking Likeness
what's more, you never feel the urge
to break the habit. In fact the more
you wear woolknits the more you Mrs. Woop had died, and Dad
love to wear them. They don’t wrin­ wanted to put up some sort of
kle, or sag. they are styled to a memorial to her. A sftained-glass
queen's taste. You can get formal window in the local church being
styles made resplendent with beads suggested, Dad agreed, and left
and embroidery or you can get them all arrangements with the minister.
strictly tailored. There is plenty in
At length the window arrived.
chic and charm in this season's I Dad, unusually excited, set out to
woolknits.
view it.
The dress pictured has established
The minister escorted the old
a unique and much-to-be-coveted chap into the church and, with a
record. It was voted a favorite by flourish, indicated the window,
a board of 12 guest editors from 12 which depicted an angel.
different colleges, at a recent pre­
“How do you like it?” said he.
vue of knitted fashions by leading
Dad gazed at it thoughtfully.
designers. A fine wool jersey, in
“No good,” he grunted.
black, styled with a pleated skirt, it
“Why, what's your objection'”’
is in accordance with latest fashion
“ 'Tain’t a bit like my old
dictates, with long-torso fitted pull­
over top. Colorful Guatamalian ap­ woman.”
pliques in floral designs make it
gay, young and eye-intriguing.
Here are a few additional high­
Presidential Salary
lights in college girls whims and
fancies. Typical boy suits worn with
The first congress fixed the
gay stocking caps and felt, almost
knee-deep gaiters, blazer raincoats President’s salary at $25,000 a
in natural cotton, gabardine with year, and this law remained in
navy borders and new wool dirndl force during the Lincoln adminis­
tration and during Grant’s first
skirts with gay yarn embroidery.
Clever smithy pinafores can be administration, says Pathfinder.
made of velveteen, with wide ruffle I In March, 1873, however, on the
for the hemline and an over-the- last day of Grant's first term, con­
shoulder bib top, just like “three gress increased the salary of the
little maids from school” might President to $50.000. It was in­
creased to the present figure of
choose.
The utmost pinnacle of joy is $75,000 a year the day before
reached in the heart of a schoolgirl : the inauguration of President Taft
who acquires a coat of tightly curled in 1909.
In the previous year, during the
white baby lamb that is finished off
at the front with embroidered Theodore Roosevelt administra­
tion, congress had added $25,000 to
bright gabardine bordering.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) the salary for traveling expenses.
Today the President gets, in ad-
dition to his salary of $75,000 a
year, $30,000 extra for traveling
and entertaining, $225,000 for clerk
I hire, and $200,000 for the upkeep
j of the White House or about $533,-
The browns have "it” this fall. 950 in all.
The new wools in brown are smart
for suits and dresses. With these
brown costumes wear amber jewel-
ry or the stunning costume jewelry
made of various thin-as-paper woods
The effects in these is indescribably
beautiful. Red gum. walnut, holly,
white sugar maple and mahogany
are some of the woods used for I
the necklace, bracelets, clips and
brooches. The floral parkwood neck- j
laces are adorable, some featuring
apple blossoms, the papyrus-like
wood petals looking as fragile and ,
tissue-like as silk in natural wood ;
tones, they tune exquisitely to au- |
tumn costumes.
Brown Is Popular
Color for Autumn
and in popular music you'll find
diagrams for these chords.
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Doll Theater
For more than 300 years, the
Doll theater has been a major
amusement in Japan, says Col­
lier’s. Almost life-size, the dolls
perform more tricks than puppets
manipulated by cords or sticks,
through being worked by men who
hold the dolls in their hands.
Compared with their gaily dressed
marionettes, these handlers are
virtually invisible as they are
dressed in black clothes and hood
and work before a black curtain.
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Undrr-(diin Bows
The newest thing in coats is color.
Very smart and advance in fashion
is the coat of bright wool minus fur
trimming, in lieu of which the coat
is fastened at the neck with a soft
bow tie of self fabric. A girdle bow
fastening at the waistline repeats
the idea.
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Braiding and Trapunto
Details Are Important
Braiding on the new suit-dresses
is having a tremendous run this fall
Most of the jackets that top the
dresses of self fabric have either
First and always in your wardrobe their collars, revers, cuffs or sleeves
a neatvoguish foundation dress, pref­ —-entire braided and the smartest
erably in black, though dark brown types have all-over braided long
is equally as smart this year, cut jackets or boleros. The braid is
along a pattern of simplicity so as usually a perfect color match to the
to tune to prevailing American fash­ cloth it trims.
ion ideals, is necessary. Then add
Trapunto treatments also are very
the interchangeable accessories that much in evidence The newest ges­
make your simple basic frock a glo­ ture is to place one large trapunto
rified transition dress. Now you have motif on the bodice with one or two
an entirely new outfit.
similar designs worked on the skirt,
See this intriguing dress of sim­ perhaps one at the left hip, the
plicity with its amusing necklace, other near the hemline of the skirt
pictured in the inset below.
to the right.
4 crc££ Of HI/AMN BETTERMENT
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more persons enjoy new ideas. It
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it starts with the printed words
of a newspaper advertisement.
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