Illinois Valley News. Thursday. December 11, 1941
Page Three
Elaborate Applique Shown on
Daytime and Evening Styles
By CHERIE NICHOI \S
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‘Spirit of ’76’
This famous painting, in which
the artist caught the spirit of the
patriots who "fifed and drummed
it,” was sketched and later paint
ed by Archibald M. Willard. The
artist, who lived through four of
America’s wars (1836-1918), was
the creator of “Puck” comics aft
er the Civil war. He originally
made a humorous sketch for the
opening of the Centennial exposi
tion at Philadelphia in 1876.
A serious attempt to portray
early American patriotism fol
lowed the cartoon, and the origi
nal now hangs in Abbott Hall li
brary, in Marblehead, Mass.
Make Merry With Cookies and Candies!
(See Recipes Below)
Xmas Gift Boxes
Christmas is the time for giving!
Thus runs the refrain during this
festive season.
And what could
be more appro
priate, more wel
come than gaily
wrapped boxes
packed right in
your own kitchen
—boxes full of
sweet, crunchy
cookies warm and
fresh from the
oven, candies, tempting tidbits of
sweetness made with spices and nuts.
Cookies and candies wrapped with
waxed paper in small tin boxes will
delight the heart of that boy you
may have sent to camp, your daugh
ter away at school, or a neighbor.
’Bran Filled Hermits.
(Makes 45 medium-sized cookies)
% cup butter or margarine
Its cups sugar
2 eggs
4 cup milk
si cup all-bran
3'.i cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
14 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
4 teaspoon mace
’4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup mincemeat or preserves
Cream shortening, add sugar and
eggs and beat well. Add milk and
all-bran. Sift flour with remaining
dry ingredients and add to first mix
ture. Mix well and chill. Roll dough
to an eighth of an inch thickness on
lightly floured board.
Cut into
rounds. Place 1 teaspoon mince
meat on one-half the rounds and top
with remaining rounds. Crimp edges
with a fork.
Bake on ungreased
cookie sheet in fairly hot oven (400
degrees) for 12 to 15 minutes.
Cookies right in tune With the
Christmas season
or green sugar
dusted on them.
Make them
in
fancy Christmas
tree, Santa Claus
or wreath shapes
with a cookie cut
ter. Use butter
for a really good
flavor, cut them
thin and chill well before cutting.
•Christmas Butter Cookies.
(Makes 6 dozen small)
I
4 pound butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
*4 teaspoon salt
2 to 2'4 cups four
Cream butter and sugar. Com
bine oeaten eggs and flavoring with
creamed mixture.
Add flour and
salt. Mix well and chill. Roll thin,
cut into shapes. Dust with colored
sugar. Bake on a sheet about 15
minutes or until light brown, in a
moderate (400 degrees) oven.
Make your cookie and candy boxes
provocative with tiny squares of
rich,
delicious
penuche.
These
pieces can be dressed up in individ
ual wrappings of gold, silver, green
or yellow gift paper.
LYNN SAYS:
Now is the time to make your
selection of gifts: perhaps you'd
like to give away some of that
brightly colored jelly or jam you
put up last fall. Wrap it in gay
paper, and tie it with a bit of
silver and blue ribbon. Bring out
the fruit cake and plum pudding,
someone will be mighty proud to
have them, too.
When packing cookies and can
dies for gift boxes you can make
the box more attractive by al
ternating the kinds of cookies and
candies used. To assure fresh
ness. use waxed paper between
the layers.
Gift Box Suggestions
•Bran Filled Hermits
•Christmas Cookies
•Brazilian Penuche
•Popcorn Brittle
•Popcorn Fudge
Recipes Given
•Brazilian Penuche.
2 cups brown sugar (packed firmly)
4 cup top milk
4 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter
4 cup chopped Brazil nuts
Dash of salt
Combine sugar, salt and milk.
Cook, stirring constantly over low
heat until sugar is dissolved and
mixture boils. Cook until a small
amount forms a soft ball when
dropped into cold water (238 de
grees). Remove from heat. Add va-
nilla aiid butter without stirring,
Cool until lukewarm and beat hard
until creamy, Add nuts and turn
into greased pan.
Sprinkle with
sliced nuts. Cut into squares.
An old favorite, popcorn, is fea-
tured in a new role in tb°se candy
recipes.
If you
don't want to go
through the busi
ness of popping
the corn yourself,
you can get along
nicely by using
the popcorn that
comes tightly
sealed in tin
cans. It's as fresh
you made it yourself.
•Popcorn Fudge.
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup thin cream
1 tablespoon butter
o cups popcorn
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar with cream and
stir over low heat until sugar is dis
solved. Cook until the soft ball stage
(238 degrees) or until it forms a soft
ball in cold water. Remove from
heat and let stand in cold water un
til cool, Add butter, popcorn, and
vanilla.
Beat until creamy, Pour
into buttered plate and cut.
•Popcorn Brittle.
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
4 cup water
1 quart popcorn (slightly salted)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons soda
Cook sugar, syrup and water In a
heavy skillet, Stir until sugar is
dissolved, then boil until mixture
will crackle when dropped into cold
water. Remove from fire, add va
nilla and popcorn.
Add soda and
mix well. Pour into shallow, but
tered pan. When cold, break into
pieces.
No Christmas box of cookies would
be complete without the delicately
flavored Swedish Sprits cookies:
Swedish Sprits.
(Makes 4 dozen)
14 cups butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon va:.illa
1 teaspoon almon ! <•«
34 cups flour
4 teaspoon baking powder
Cream butter and sugar thorough
ly, a Id egg and flavorings. Beat
well. Blend in dry ingredients un
til mixture is smooth. Press through
cookie press into various shapes and
decorate with candied fruit, if de
sired. Bake in a hot o-.cn (400 de
grees) 8 to 10 minutes.
Cookies hard to make? Not if you
use this recipe:
Krispie Marshmallow Stars.
(Makes 16 to 18 stars)
4 cup butter
4 pound marshmallows
4 teaspoon vanilla
1 package oven-popped rice ce-
real
4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate,
melted
Melt butter and marshmallows in
double boiler. Add vanilla and
chocolate and beat thoroughly. Put
cereal in a large buttered bowl and
pour in first mixture, stirring brisk
ly. Put in a shallow buttered pan
and allow to cool. Cut into stars or
circles with a cutter. (Note; this
cookie is not baked.)
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I > OSES are red on the superbly
beautiful white g< wn centered
in the group. The flair for white for
party wear and also for youthful
"date" dresses is important fashion
news. College girls and teen-agers
are simply thrilled with the idea of
"winter white’’ for dine-and-dance
wear. For these, fancy runs mostly
to white crepes, wools and jersey,
some trimmed with gold accents
and others gay with appliqued floral
patterns or bright yarn embroid
ery.
The lovely white party dress
pictured to the right above is made
of soft white crepe which molds it
self to the figure of the wearer. At
tention is drawn to the tunic and
shoulder drape which is gathered
from a V-neckline. Great lovely
roses in crimson red crepe are ap
pliqued to form a border on the tunic
and a corsage cluster at the left
shoulder.
In the stunning afternoon model
to the right below one senses the fact
that applique design is as gracious
and effective for daytime modes as
for formal evening gowns. Black and
pink, a flattering color combination
widely featured this season, distin
guishes this ensemble. The black
dress is styled with the new drop
shoulder, while the sprightly pep-
lum is encrusted with an ap
plique of pink braid in a floral motif
The pillbox hat is black felt with a
bow of black veiling.
The sophisticated evening gown
to the left in the background is of
black marquisette worn over a
nude-pink slip. The call for black
on black is dramatically answered
in the bold leaf design in black
velvet which is artfully applied on
the shoulders and at the waist.
The applique theme is being
worked out stunningly for simple
wool daytime dresses and suits.
The flower applique is self fabric
which traces its way along lapels,
sleeve tops and often over the en
tire front of the bodice or blouse.
In connection with the vogue lor
Color Contrast
Self-Denial
1) E SMART!
Crochet these mit-
tens for that outdoor girl. The
one laced up the back is "tops”
in red, white and blue. The other
is worked in one piece.
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gay and festive trimming accents
in the way of beadwork and em
broidery, it is interesting to note the
glitter of sequins, rhinestones or
nailheads, as well as a definite re
vival of applique design. This form
of handc,raft is very smart, and in
featuring it, designers have tapped
a wellspring of inspiration which is
pouring forth a wealth of ideas in
endless procession.
Applique design offers a technique
which is being successfully em
ployed for both day and evening
modes with the utmost simplicity
or In the most elaborate motifs to
fit the occasion. Consequently, there
are going to be all types of applique
this season, from the simple single
bouquet effect on a blouse or bod
ice to take the place of a corsage
or glittering spray clip, all the way
to elaborate designs. Also, we may
expect to see a tremendous amount
of applique used on the sports
clothes for resort wear.
•
Many of the “dressy” clothes for
winter are so beautifully embel
lished they are veritable works of
art. See this demonstrated in the
lovely gown pictured to the left be
low in the illustration. For this ap
plique the artist designer has taken
morning glories for her theme, trans
lating them into handmade fabric
flowers that bloom in all their deep
purples, wines, brilliant pink and
azure blue. Leaves and stems and
tendrils of green go cascading from
shoulder to hem down the side front
of this stately, sleekly fitted, black
crepe dinner gown. It is said that
many women of discriminating
taste are turning to fabric applique
as a welcome change from too
much glitter of sequins and colorful
stones.
The more a man denies himself,
the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp
of those who covet nothing.—
Horace.
MUSCULAR
Jap Reporters ‘Cover
How Japanese newspapers cov
er big stories was illustrated re
cently in Tokyo when the palace
announced that a statesman was
to form a new cabinet, says Col
lier's. Within an hour, his estate
appeared to have been taken over
by an army.
Each paper had
sent at least 50 reporters, equipped
with tents, beds, cookstoves, ra
dio outfits, cameras, pigeons, step
ladders and other paraphernalia
for any emergency.
RHEUMATIC PAIN
For Quick Relief—Rub On
Power of Soul
The soul is more powerful than
any sort of fortune ... of its
own power it can produce a happy
life or a wretched one.—Seneca.
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Jacket Is Favorite
'I’heinc of I)esi<nicrs
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Suits of gay plaids or colorful
tweeds have held good right through
the fall and will continue to do so
during the winter. Already resort
fashions have epiphasized the su
premacy of jacket suits in the
mode. Two features of the newer
suits are the continued use of pleat
ed skirts and the emphasis on beau-
I tiful wools in charming colors for.
the new jacket suits. For climates
that call for warmth, these pastel
and richly colorful tailored wools
are trimmed with fur.
II inter Sport (.lollies
Ril til Those for Reaeli
It used to be that resort clothes
for winter vacationists were de-
| signed only for sunny southern
climes. Now the program has to
cover all types of winter sports as
well. Winter activities now include
skating, skiing, tobogganing, and
bowling, as well as swimming and
sun bathing for those who go south
Daring, but as fascinating as dar or west. Sports costumes must be
ing, are the color schemes designers practical and comfortable, and one
devise this season. Using color In that fulfills these requirements Is a
striking contrast is a new styling bowling dress just made for action.
method that has developed into a
favorite fashion formula.
In the
picture, cloud blue forms the front
of a brown crepe dress. The color
The vogue for white this winter
scheme is unusual and is made
f excitement
more so by the cardinal red felt is creating no end
hat which tops milady s smartly in the younger set which simply
coiffed head—which goes to show dotes on the new white jersey or
most anything can happen in the crepe or corduroy "date'* dress.
way of color schemes nowadays. With these they wear cunning "com
Some
When all is said and done, the ef fy” white bunny jackets.
fect comes out a hundred per cent times these are bordered down the
eye-satisfying. The new color free front opening with vividly gay
peasant yam embroidery.
dom is Indeed a revelation.
White ‘Bunny’ Wrap Is
The Delight of the ‘Teens
never saved a life
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