Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 25, 1941
Page Three
That Old Black Lace Shawl Is
Riarlit in Style This Season
TERNS
SEWQNG COOCLE
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fancy—merely that perfect but­
ton-front top with its immaculate,
snowy white collar, short sleeves
set in with a smooth straight
shoulder line and a skirt gathered
on at a slinkiiy low waist.
It's a dress for stiff fabrics,
faille, taffeta or moire if you de-
sire swish.
Or, if you prefer
flaming colors, make it in a soft
wool crepe.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1479 B is de-
aigned for sizes 12. 1*. Iti. 18 and 20.
Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32.
34. 36 and 33
Size 14 (32) with short
sleeves, bias skirt, requires 4'» yards
35-inch material, straight skirt 23, yards
54 Inch material
One-half jard 33-lnch
material required for dickey collar. Send
your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
Pattern No.
Name .
Address
Ring in the New tear — Buffet Style
(See Recipes Below)
New Year Patterns
Brand new ideas for a brand New
Year! What better way to usher in
the year than a
table laden with
something really
new, provocative
and colorful? So
here’s the menu
and here are the
recipes each with
a new slant that will
put you as a hostess in
the higher brackets for
smart entertaining.
Whether the buffet is
planned for the eve be­
fore or the day itself,
this menu is designed to give you
as little last-minute bustling as pos­
sible. Just see that your table's set
properly and the food cooked be­
forehand. The combination will do
its stuff.
Two meats that lend themselves
especially for good-looking platters
are tongue and corned beef.
Be­
cause of their color, flavor and tex­
ture they can’t be too highly rec­
ommended for a platter such as
I've suggested. Here's how you pre­
pare them:
•Beef Tongue.
1 smoked tongue
Cold water to cover
4 bay leaves
4 peppercorns
1 teaspoon whole cloves
1 onion
Wash tongue and if salty let stand
in cold water overnight. Place in
kettle with seasonings and let sim­
mer slowly until tender, from 3 to 5
hours. Remove brine, pull off outer
skin, cut off root. Let cool in brine.
Serve thinly sliced, either hot or
cold.
•Corned Beef.
4 pounds corned beef
Clove of garlic
Paprika
Wash the meat in cold water.
Soak an hour in cold water if salty,
then drain. Place in a kettle and
cover with water. Cook slowly 3 to
5 hours. When thoroughly cooked,
cool, rub with garlic and paprika.
Heat thoroughly in oven before serv­
ing. Slice thin and serve on platter
with beef tongue.
Crisp and chewy cabbage done up
as a cole slaw is a good accom­
paniment tor the
tongue
and
corned beef plat­
ter. To make
your table really
attractive, serve
in a red cabbage
scooped out and
filled with
creamy mixture of
cole slaw.
•Cole Slaw.
(Serves 8)
4 cups finely shredded cabbage
>4 cup finely chopped green pepper
cup finely chopped celery
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons vinegar
cup sour cream or mayonnaise
Combine vegetables, seasonings
and sour cream or mayonnaise. Fill
LYNN SAYS:
If you're in the mood for reso­
lutions here are some pointers
that will help you make this New
Year a year for more delectable
food, better meals, and more at­
tractive platters:
Season food carefully to bring
out its hidden possibilities. Rub
roasts with garlie or onion, and
salt before roasting. Melt but­
ter for vegetables and stir It
throughout before serving.
Hot foods should be served as
hot as possible and cold foods as
cold as possible.
Foods should be
at because the eye takes them in
first, so arrange platters neatly
and use parsley or fruit or vege­
tables in garnishing their respec­
tive platters
Heavy meal* call for light des­
serts, light meals for more filling
desserts. Make use of contrast
in texture, color and flavor when
planning menus.
You can stretch that food dol­
lar by planning two or three
days' meals in advance and thus
save duplication of foods too
often.
THIS WEEK S MENU
New Y’ear’s Buffet
•Platter of Sliced Tongue
and Corned Beef
•Cole Slaw in Red Cabbage
Assorted Bread or Rolls
Celery
Oliveo
Pickles
Jelly
•Apricot-Strawberry Gelatin Mold
•Fortune Cake
Coffee
Mints and Nuts
•Recipes Given
scooped out red cabbage and serve
at once.
Fruit molds lend tone to a buffet
table besides giving the guests a
sweeter type salad and thus satisfy­
ing their appetite for fruit
Here's
a truly delectable combination:
•Apricot-Strawberry Gelatin Mold.
(Serves 8)
2 packages strawberry-flavored
gelatin
1 No. 2 can apricot halves
1 No. 2 can pineapple pieces
4 cups water (juice from fruit to
make up part of this amount)
Heat 2 cups water and pour over
gelatin. Stir thoroughly, then add
remaining water. Pour part of gel­
atin mixture over apricots laid at
the bottom of a mold. Let jell. Mix
pineapple with remaining gelatin
mixture and pour over first layer in
mold. Let jell until firm. Unmold
and serve on crisp lettuce with
sweet french dressing or mayon­
naise combined with whipped cream
sweetened with honey.
The dessert problem for this type
of buffet is easily solved by a light,
delicate cake frosted with chocolate
and decorated with numerals to car­
ry out the theme of the New Year:
•Fortune Cake.
H cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 cups cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
4 egg yolks
M cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream shortening, add sugar,
then beaten egg yolks. Whip until
light and fluffy with Dover egg beat­
er. Add flavoring, then flour sifted
with baking powder, alternating the
adding of the flour with the milk.
Beat well, place in greased and
floured layer-cake pans. Bake in a
moderate (350-degree) oven 35 to 40
minutes.
Surprise item in this cake is iti
custard Alling:
2bj tablespoons flour
*■* cup sugar
Pinch of salt
1 cup milk, scalded
1 slightly beaten egg
*i teaspoon vanilla
Mix flour, sugar and salt. Stir in
milk. Cook in double boiler until
thick (about 15 minutes). Add hot
mixture to egg slowly, then cook
about 2 minutes longer. Cool, add
vanilla and spread between layers
of cake.
You'll need a whizz of an icing to
do justice to Fortune cake. Take 2
cups of confec­
tioners' sugar and
blend in 4 table­
spoons butter.
Add 2 ounces un­
sweetened choco­
late which have been melted over
hot water. Then mix enough hot
milk into the icing to smooth it out,
flavor with 1 teaspoon vanilla and
spread cake.
Team up the Fortune cake with a
really good cup of coffee and you'll
have a perfect close to the buffet
supper. Use one well-rounded ta­
blespoon of drip grind decaffeinated
coffee for each cup of boiling wa­
ter. Pre-heat drip coffee pot. Put
coffee in upper compartment of pot.
Pour fresh, briskly boiling water
over it. Cover and let stand in a
warm place until all the water has
dripped through once. Remove up­
per compartment and c .ver pot.
Serve.
Setting the Table.
The table is the high note of any
buffet, so if you want yours to be
the topic of conversation do it this
way Set the two largest platters
(your nicest and most important,
the meat platter and the salad
molds) at either end. Have plates,
silverware and napkins off to one
side and rolls, butter, and relishes
on the other side.
Plates of nuts
and mints may be near a center­
piece of two candelabra with ever­
green and silver bells at their base.
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psychological moment to release
this priceless heirloom from its
lavender-scented wrappings, for be­
guiling mantilla effects like that pic­
tured to the right in the illustration
are recapturing the charm and ro­
mance of yesterday and bringing
their allure to modern fashion.
AHEN those cherished bids to
’ ’ yuletide parties begin to ar­
rive, when those coveted invitations
to smart afternoon affairs await ac­
ceptance, then it is that fancy turns
to visions of pretty clothes that will
make you look your prettiest.
To these ever-recurring “what-to-
wear” problems, lace, always a
gallant flatterer, brings one of the
happiest solutions fashion has to of­
fer this winter. It is not only that
the charm of lace ever makes re­
sistless appeal, but this season the
use of lace takes on new empha­
sis. Modern laces are so diverse
in type and in kind there’s literally
a lace for every mood and mode,
whether informal or ever so formal.
This adaptability of lace is a most
convincing “reason why” it is more
widely a favorite among designers
than ever. It can be made to fit
modest budgets and simple occa­
sions successfully and glamorously.
A wise supplement to any ward­
robe that must include a “pretty-
pretty" informal frock that is not
expensive is the model shown to the
left in the illustration, You can get
this very wearable oak-leaf pat­
terned lace in a long list of delec-
table colors, and the dress will al-
ways be ready for any occasion.
The bodice is horizontally tucked in
a new treatment and is made
smooth by a dainty slide fastener.
A taffeta bow gives it a final fillip.
Count it among your blessings if
you are so fortunate as to have
willed to you a handsome black lace
shawl or shawl-scarf. Now is the
\\ ide Peasant Belt
To Match Hat Band
In the way of accessory items, a
new twosome has been brought out
this season that will add intrigue to
many a daytime costume. This gay
and flattering alliance consists of a
wide colorful felt or leather belt
embroidered in peasant colors, to­
gether with a matching band to en­
circle the crown of your nonchalant
felt hat. Also available is a corselet
that laces up the front in a vestee
effect.
The bright colors of this
felt or leather corselet add gaiety
and chic to the simplest wool dress
or skirt.
One sees these charming lace
fantasies everywhere i the current
formal fashion picture, either worn
over the head as here illustrated,
or thrown artfully and casually over
the shoulders to serve graciously as
a light evening wrap. The black
velvet gown so alluringly veiled in
tliis lovely shadowy Chantilly lace
scarf makes simplicity its theme.
Petite black lace edging finishes off
the low decolletage. while wide
bands of the velvet are brought up
to each shoulder top where they tie
in intriguing big bows.
Just Can't II ear Too
Many Gadgets These Days
Ton
If you are properly fashion-wise
you will wear not one but several
pieces of lapel jewelry—all at the
same time! Designed for this popu­
lar vogue, tiny lapel pins are sell­
ing in sets of 10 different gadgets,
or they can be bought singly with
the though: in mind of collecting
them as one does charms for brace­
let or necklace. These sets, worked
out in bright colored enamel set
with tiny jewels, are very effective.
You can get floral designs, jeweled
beetles, bugs, butterflies and hum­
ming birds.
His Foresight
The father ira* inferi iei< ing hit dmigh-
ter'» tailor.
”W hat are vour prmprrl»?'' he athed.
“Pretty good titilen your ilutighler'i
been mideading me!” came the reply.
One or the Other
Suitor—If you don’t marry me, I
shall not care to live . . .
Girlie—And if I did, 1 shouldn't.
molding top, low waistline and
full, swirling skirt!
If you are
out to get the world by the tail
you simply must have one of
The boxer was sitting at home
these dirndl frocks—and it is typ­ with a bruised head after being
ical of the young spirit of the batllv beaten, whilst his son was
times that you’ll probably be your doing his homework. “Tommy,”
Youthful party dresses of filmy own dressmaker and turn out this said his wife, “don't count up to
Chantilly lace in lovely pastel style perfectly for yourself! Pat­ ten any more, it makes daddy's
shades are given high fashion rat­ tern No. 1479-B offers nothing head ache."
ing this season. The bouffant dance
frock centered above in the group is
of flesh toned Chantilly, the mesh of
which is as delicate and elusive as
a silken cobweb.
The corselet
waistline is banded in taffeta, which
also defines the pleated shoulder ruf­
fles and appears, as trimming, on
the skirt.
An ordinary blackboard eraser
Be sure to arrange the dishes
Scores of charming lace fantasies
are being shown for sophisticated is an excellent polisher for win­ cooking in your oven so that there
is plenty of space between them
moments at opera, banquet and dow panes.
and the food will brown evenly.
ball.
There are tiny black lace
Picture frames should be select­
♦ • •
calots with a metallic weave and
ed to harmonize with the pic­
sequin-sown edge. You can buy gay
Cigarette ashes, put on potted
tures for which they are intended.
gauntlet gloves made all of lace for
plants, will kill the insects that
the dashing and the debonair.
often infest them.
A teaspoon of salt added to the
Black lace mitts are shown that
water in whch eggs are boiled
boast a double tier of lace reaching
A termite shield must be made
makes them easier to remove
to the elbows. The new lace eve­
of some material that ants cannot
from the shells.
ning handkerchiefs are luxuriously
work through. Metal is the best
• • •
fragile with lace and chiffon. And
In mixing flour and water for one, because ant-tight joints can
for the romantic touch, see the new gravies, use a fork or egg beater be made in metals.
lace muffs.
to make it smooth and free from
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) lumps.
If you like a faint flavor of onion
• • •
rub a slice of onion around your
Celery leaves, sprigs of parsley
salad bowl or serving dish, The
and slices of onion may be used resulting flavor is light, but
satis-
effectively and economically to
factory. Garlic, used in the same
season soups. Add the seasoning
manner, Requires much
more
to the soup while it is cooking and
careful bundling, since fewer peo­
strain it before it is served.
ple enjoy a garlic taste.
• •
Lipstick stains on linens and
cotton can nearly always be re-
moved by the use of warm water
and mild soapsuds.
Congressional Elections
According to the Constitution of
the United States, the President
has no power to control, directly or
indirectly, the holding of congres­
sional elections. Neither does he
have the right to prorogue con­
gress or to suspend the Constitu­
tion of the United States or any
part of it.
The election of members of the
house of representatives is man­
datory every two years, and “each
state by the legislature thereof
prescribes “the times, places, and
manner r* holding elections for
both senators and representa­
tives.”
This Veil Can lie I seful
.Is II ell as Ornamental
Tiny hats set back of the pompa­
dour are a welcome fashion. They
are purposefully designed to give
full play to the costume. In fact,
milliners are more and more in­
dined to design headwear that re-
veals the hair-do A new venture in
veils is the trick of enveloping a
tiny hat in a filmy black Chantilly,
bringing the ends down at the back
to form a voluminous snood to pro­
tect the hair, yet reveal it through
lace mesh in all its charm and
prettiness.
That’s Stone
Diner—Waiter, take this chick­
en away. It is actually so tough
it seems to be made out of stone.
Waiter—Nothing strange about
that, sir. It’s a Plymouth Rock.
Treat your face like a picture,
and wear a hat as a frame to en-
hance it* beauty, A hat is a line,
a silhouette, and through the hat a
“square" face may be made to ap-
pear oval, which is supposed to be
the perfect type
Here the black
felt hat shown at the top in the pic­
ture rolls up at one side and forms
a soft peak at the center front to
extend nature's line. Then. too. a
good rule is to wear hats to bring
out the beauty of your coloring The
felt and feather hat shown below
in the picture i* a creamy beige all
the way through, and it make* the
skin look its best.
In any case, the trick Is to treat
your fact as though it were a pic-
ture.
Do You Like Jingle Contests?
Beginning the middle of January,
Raleigh Cigarettes are starting a
series of weekly contests for those
who can supply the best last line
to a jingle. Over 100 liberal prizes
each week. Watch this paper for
details.—Adv.
DON’T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
• When bowel» are sluggish and you fee!
irritable, headachy and everything you
do it an effort, do a» mi 11ion a do — chew
KEEN A MINT, the modern chewing
gum laxative. Simply chew KEEN A-
MÎNT before you go to bed—lleep with­
out being disturbed -next morning gentle,
thorough relief, helping you feel «well
again, full of your normal pep. Try
IEEN A MINT. Taitea good, 1» handy
and economical. A generous family supply
FEEN-A-MINTÏof
Let’s go to town
at home!
O TELLING what tomorrow's weather may be It fools the best fore­
But we
want chintz for the window*. We
need a car­
N pet caster.
sweeper, a new percolator, and a new end table in the living-room
do
do
And we don't want to slosh around rainy streets to hunt them Problem
How to thwart the weather man. Simple enough! Let's sit down by the
fireplace and read the advertisement*. Here it'* comfortable and snug.
We'll take the newspaper page by page, compare prices, qualities,
brand-names. Tomorrow, rain or shine, we’ll head for the store that ha*
what we want, and homo again in a jiffy.
• “Buying at Homo" —through the advertiaing column*—gives you wide
■election, more time to decide, and satiifaction when you decide.
• MAKE IT ONE OF YOUR PLEASANT HABITS!