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S o u th ern Oregon News Review, T hursday, A pril 8, 1948 ♦ Woman's World SEW ING CIRCLE PATTERNS UtU Jiauely tyiac/i Cad CkiAÍma¿ále^ 94, N oat Alter Coats, Dresses, Add Boleros to Remain in Style By Ertta Haley TF YOU agree with M a rk Twain that “ A woman is always better dressed In fashion than out of It,” then you’ll gradually be remodeling your last season’s clothes to this season's modes. Fashion experts claim that it will take at least two years for the aver age woman to replace her present wardrobe with new clothes and the “ new look.” This means that re making, remodeling and refurbish ing will be the order of the day for some time to come. T rot out the wardrobe problems In your closet to see how they can be handled. Imagination plus Ingenu ity with needles and thread will do wonders. F or instance, take the short-skirt ed, short-waisted problem. What better way to solve It than to cut the dress apart at the waist, insert a wide strip of another nicely match ing or contrasting m aterial and add a matching band at the hem? The wide m id riff inset w ill delineate the tiny waist while the bottom band adds a graceful flare. Honey Almond Cream Cake Tops Desserts (See recipe« below) D essert Tonic LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU If you're canting nbuut for new desserts, you’ll like the ones we've ■elected toduy. All of them ore real ly luscious and fun to make. But there’» even more fun to serving them and listening to the fam ily rave over them. Just ubout this tim e of year we want to do something different to our menus and It's a good Idea to ■tart in the dessert department. You may like a delicious honey nlmond cream cake with a delect able filling to put Just the right end ing to the dinner; or, perhaps a honey applesauce cake would be Just the thing. Maybe you'd even prefer an un usual variation of apple pie, or one of the other pastries which haven’t been In the picture. You’ll find these In today's column whether It's for luncheon, dinner or just entertain ing. Honey Almond Cream Cake i Makes two 8-ini-h layers) 2 cup* sifted cake flour 2 teaspoon* baking powder 1/4 teaspoon soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup shortening 1/3 cup m ilk 3/4 cup light eorn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 2 eggs 1/2 cup honey 1 1 /2 cups oven-popped rice cereal 1 tablespoon melted butter. S tir flour, baking powder, soda and salt into mixing bowl. Add shortening, m ilk, corn syrup, va nilla and almond extract. Beat un til smooth, about 150 strokes. Scrape bowl and spoon often during baking. Add eggs and beat 250 strokes; ■crape boyl. Add honey and beat 150 strokes. Pour batter into two 8-inch greased pans. Sprinkle one layer with rice cereal which has been crushed and mixed with m elt ed butter. Bake in a moderate (350 degree) oven about 30 minutes. When cool, spread honey almond cream between layers, placing the layer with topping on top. Honey Almond Cream Filling 2 tablespoons light corn syrup 2 tablespoons honey 3 tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg yolk, slightly beaten 1 cup m'.ik 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon almond extract M ix together corn syrup, honey, flour and salt. Combine egg and m ilk. Add to first m ixture and blend well. Cook over hot w ater stirring constantly until thick and smooth, about four minutes. Cool; add flav oring. Spread between layers of cake. Applesauce Spice Cake (Makes 9 servings) 1/2 cup bran 1 cup sweetened applesauce 1/2 cup shortening 2/3 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 1 /4 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon clovea 1/2 cup chopped nutmeats 1/2 cup seedless raisins Soak bran in applesauce. Blend shortening, sugar and salt. Add egg and beat well. Stir in bran alter nately with sifted dry ingredients. Add nutmeats and raisins. Spread in L Y N N SAYS: M ake Piecrust Perfect Always Don’t roll the pastry too much or it w ill be tough. And avoid extra •mounts of flour. Never stretch the pastry to fit the tin or it w ill shrink. F it loosely to •vo id shrinkage. To prevent a soggy crust in berry •n d fru it pies, place in a hot oven on the lower shelf to set the crust and bake it before it becomes soaked with the filling. Use Inserted Bands Broiled Whitefish I-emon and Parsley Garnish Boiled Potatoes Broccoli Lettuce with Sour Cream Dressing . ♦Chocolate Chip C iutard Pie •Recipe Given . To Add Length Many of your crepe dresses can be made longer by bands in the skirt. The skirt, if a rather full type, can be cut apart and length ened by adding faille or m aterial greased pan (8x8 inch pan) and bake in a moderate (350 degree) oven for 35 to 40 minutes. When cool, frost with honey meringue. Honey Meringue 1/4 cup honey 1/8 teaspoon salt I egg white Heat honey over hot water; pour over egg white; add salt. Beat until thick enough to spread. Cocoanut Cream Pie (Nine Inch Pie) 1/2 cup sugar 5 tablespoon* flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 1 /2 cups m ilk 3 egg yolks, well beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup cocoanut shredded Combine first three Ingredients, then add m ilk and cook over low heat until thickened. Add egg yolks nnd cook two minutes. Remove from fire, coo), and add vanilla and cocoa- nut. Pour into baked pie shell and cover with the following meringue; Meringue 4 tablespoons sugar 2 egg whites, well beaten 1 '8 teaspoon salt 1 /2 teaspoon vanillx Add sugar to egg whites, beating constantly. Add salt and vanilla. Pile lightly on pic bringing It over the crust. Brown in a moderate oven for 9 to 10 minutes. ♦Chocolate Chip Custard Pie (10 Inch Pie) 4 egg yolks, beaten 1/2 cup sugar 2 cups m ilk, scalded 1 tablespoon gelatin 1/4 cup cold water 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 graham cracker crust 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate, chopped fine 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar 4 egg whites 1/2 cup sugar Beat egg yolks, add sugar and mine and cook in double boiler until thick. Add gelatin softened in water and vanilla. Cool. Pour into crust and sprinkle with chocolate. Add cream of ta rta r to egg whites and beat until stiff. Add sugar. Continue beating un til very stiff. Spread over chocolate. Chill one hour. Cut skirt crosswise Draped Pump This pump by a St. Louis manu facturer illustrates the new look In shoes with Its closed, unadorned elegance. Notice the draped ef fect achieved in the vamp to take the place of conspicuous trim m ing which is no longer in the fashion picture. i r . P 1* S p r in * * nd, H am m er iaaaa o f F A S B e IO N sffers s w ealth o f aew m g m ap ira tio A h° T * Free k n ittiz S 2 2 . M X u J k i s ’. i ' S ; plain cotton that shows your knees, take a tip from grandmother's day and use patchwork sewn around the hem. A plain dress m ay be cut apart at two places across the skirt or at both skirt and bustline, then insert ed with bands of eyelet. Repeat the touch of eyelet at the neckline and sleeves in a band. E R E 'S a clever summer wash able th at you can put together in no tim e! I t ’s cut a ’l in one piece w ith drawstring to snug in your waistline. Youthful and charming as can be. Your remodeling w ill be simplicity itself if you have a thermoplastic dress "tw in” to eliminate the guess work in fitting. This dress form "double” of your own figure, which may be molded in about half an hour, actually cuts dress construc tion time In half and proves a boon in all sewing and remodeling prob lems. Tailored Frocks H A N D S O M E L Y tailored sh irt- waister th a t’s a pet style w ith every well dressed woman. But toned down the fro n t, it w ill be cool and comfortable to wear— a joy to launder. H ave cap or short set-in sleeves. w 1. a .hai. IV * r “ ,ed J A- * H . Pattern No. 1743 ia for sizes 12. 14, lg , 18 and 20. Size 14, 3 yards of 36 or 39-inch. A comes In sizes 14. lg , 18. 20 : 40, 42, 44 and 4g. Size lg , 4 yards of Sv-lncn. Remodel Your Navy ISN ’T THIS *r Y AW1SI*WAY? C* LAXATlVt • In NR (Nature’« Remedy) Tablets^ there are no chemical«, no minerals, so phenol derivative«. NR Tablet« »r® different—orl different Pnrelj vege* table—a combination of 10 tegetabla ingredient« formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated or candy coated, theii action is dependable, thorough, ye| gentle, a« million» of N R ’« have proved. Get a 254 box. U»e as directed!. of another type in strips for length. Wool Dress SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT Another wide band m ay be placed 530 South Wells SI. - Chicago 7, 111. at the hem. Navy is again a favorite color and Enclose 25 cents In coins for each There are several other remedies you can greet the season with one pattern desired. if your headache is hemline trou that's remodeled from fall and win Pattern No__ ________ -S iz e . QUICK RHJEF ble. One consists of cutting two ter. Why not consider cutting the NameL. FOR ncm lengths of m aterial from around the dress in two, making the top a pert UUMŒSTKW Address. waist. This may be replaced with short bolero and the bottom a skirt. grosgrain ribbon and hidden with a Lengthen in any of the ways already gaily colored rayon sash of swathed mentioned. Then use the new suit- cummerbund fashioned around the dress accompanied by the crispest Two Ozark Families Sign t waist. Take two strips of materials, of white pique blouses. seam them together and stitch these When you've remodeled your Treaty to Halt ‘Feuding* to the bottom of the dress. dresses, turn your thoughts to the SALEM, A R K .—Male members The joining may be concealed by coat situation. Local sewing cen of two "feuding" Ozark families covering it with any one of a num ter experts say that you can make have signed an agreement to "live ber of kinds of decorative tape, a three quarter “shortie” out of your In peace and harmony” and to let braid or soutache. O r you may just last year’s coat. But the real trick “all difficulties, differences and want to run rows of stitching around is to line the coat with the cheeriest troubles of the past be forgotten and the dress, evenly spaced above and print you can find. Then stitch forever done away with.” below the seam joining. The unusual document, filed in a matching blouse for the gay en Another simple solution for skirt semble. Isn’t that an idea—and es Justice court here, was the out problems is to drop your skirt from pecially if the lining of the coat looks growth of a rock fight between the two or three rows of grosgrain rib as though it wouldn't last another Lawyer and Shepard families last December, i , bon stitched together and sewed on season. A fter that battle S. L. Lawyer, top of the waistband. If you can his son, Dahl, and son-in-law, A r steal a tab of m aterial from under neath the pocket or down a pleat, W id e Range Gives W om en thur Rosenberry, were charged with assault, and the Shepard stitch this over the grosgrain, right in middle of the front, and make Chance to Be ‘W ell-S u ited’ brothers, Jim , W illiam and Frank, the whole thing appear as a part of As definitely a sign of the new were charged with flourishing dead ly weapons. They live on adjoining «siteÿw the original design. season as the first brave robin or -■ farms. Still another favorite trick is to April's traditional showers is the Brought Into court, the six de drop the skirt from a yoke made of parade of suits which invariably fendants agreed to sign the “peace another m aterial. This is easy to marks the advent of spring. There's treaty” drawn up by Judge W ill H. do if the problem is a suit or dress something particularly crisp and D. Green, West Plains, Mo., attor tempting in a spring suit. No m at ney. '■°O TH P O W D E R ter what the color, silhouette, width The court accepted the signed of skirt or length of jacket, a suit document and then levied fines of spells spring. $1 on each of the six defendants. A MCKESSON A ROBBINS PRODUCT Black and navy blue are the smartest and most practical colors, with brown and soft neutrals like g ray and deep beige ranking as most popular second choices. Typical spring suit shades lead off with the pastels in shades of gray, honey, beige, leaf green, palest cocoa brown, a few orange tones, light blues and some apple blossom Delicious Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are pinks. The last color usually is satisfying fuel-/ood.' A quick energy cunningly combined with navy blue, food for kids. They jacket of the pink and skirt of navy In sert strips fo r length. blue. sure can use it! Deep Dish Cherry Pie (Makes 6 servings) 1 quart pitted sour cherries, drained 3 1/2 tablespoons corn starch 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1 teaspoon lemon Juiee with • peplum (of course you al 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind ways can add one or a long jacket 1 tablespoon melted butter which w ill cover the yoke). 1 cup syrup H em line troubles which are not 1/2 pastry recipe • too severe as to require lots of Place cherries in nine-inch deep length can be solved by using a tape pie dish. Combine a half cup of applied to the hem. When there cherry juice with other ingredients; Isn’t enough hem to let down, take stir until well blended. Pour over • look at the waistband. It's likely cherries. Cut nine-inch circle from to be made on the fold of the ma pastry rolled 1/8 inch thick; cut terial. Clip the stitches that hold slits or a cherry design to let steam the Inside to the skirt, open it and escape. Bake In hot (450 degree) press flat. You can face this widen oven 10 minutes; reduce to mod ed band with elasticized ribbing or erate (350 degree) oven, bake 35 wide hem tape. minutes longer. Serve warm. Cotton Dresses Are Released by WNU Feature* • Easy to Lengthen Measure shortening accurately. I f your closet holds many cottons, The water displacement method is these are easy to remodel as far good. F o r every cup of flour, 1/3 cup as lengthening goes. One of the of shortening is required. Place 2/3 favorite tricks is to use a four or cup of w ater in the cup and add five-inch band of plain m aterial and shortening until the water reaches add it to the bottom. For a charm the top. Saves a dirty cup, too. ing effect, applique the print of the N ever over-m ix the flour and dress over the plain m aterial. Then, shortening. I t ’s best to use scissors using a zlgzagger attachment on or a pastry blender to prevent heat your sewing machine, make sever ing the fat with warm fingers. Leave al rows of stitching, following the some of the fat in large sized pieces irregularities In the print. Hem the so these streak through the crust m aterial In the usual fashion When your closet skeleton is a and give you the desired flakiness. 38% BRIGHTER TEETH in 7 days! calox ßwiW Vigor. .. Energy! « Be Smart! mother knows T best / Son, I tan give you THAT NEW-CAR FEEL! Let your Sealed Power Franchised Dealer give your old engine that new-car feel I H e is an engine expert. 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