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Feeding the Family o o By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Fruit, Nuts, Spice, Everything Nics(fo Holiday Puddings, Breads, Candiet ' To Qparaphrase a well-known line from an ci poem.,cFruits and spice and everything nice, " that's what Christmas puddings re made of." True also of breads, candies and other festive coTg-ng. O Fre-holiday food planning seems to center on spicy rich desserts such as Plum puddings with their wonderful variety of sauces. Today ve give you the plumb-vderful plum puddings with nary a plum in them, but so many other good things that blend to perfection with unsul phured molasses. Make these any time now. The sooner the better, because we think you'll want to make a sec ond batch as soon as the family taste-tests these. Remove from mold after steaming, cool thor oughly and wgap in waxed paper, then in metal foil, if you like. Store in refrigerator. Put back in mold and ri6steam about one hour before serving. Serve warm with your favorite sauce. Molds? A fancy one is fine but unnecessary. Coffee cans, oven-proof casseroles or indi vidual custard cups are good. If covers are not available, tie waxed paper or aluminum foil over mold. If regular steamer is not available, oa deep covered k&tle with a wire rack in bot tom is fine. Trick is to keep the steam in. This bake the pud ding. To remove from mold, loosen sides with a msll tpatula $wd invert on heated serving Tweiv Super Strains Plump and moit with nuts of youwmoice or mixed nuts, fruit nd spice. Mak recipe in one or two molds for sis or twelve ervin. Serve warm with your favorite sauce. "Vi cup orange juke l34 cups seedless raisins 13 cup diced citfcbn V 1 apple,' peeled and chopped 1 tablespoon grated orange rind 2 eggs, slightly beaten V4 cup unsulphured molasses 1 cup chopped ngts i cup (2 ounces) ground suet $4 cup dry bread crumbs a V4 cup sifted all purpose flour O 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 teaspoon baking soda 4 cup sugar H teaspoon salt Vt teaspoon cinnamon i teaspoon allspice V4 teaspoon ground cloves Pour orange juice over raisins, iTtifes so Good! Cgste so little I Just odd milk and but ter .. . hegt and serve. Takes five minutes to prepare a main-dish meal for 10c or less per serving. n mmm i.i,"WMunaiUWy citron, apple and orange rind; let stand for one hour. Combine eggs and molasses. Stir in nuts suet and bread crumbs. Sift in remaining ingredients. Blend well. Add fruit mixture and mix thoroughly. Turn into a greased two quart mold with tight fit ting cover. Place on rack in deep kettle and pour boiling water to half the depth of the mold. Cover. Steam five hours, adding more boiling water as needed. Makes twelve servings. Molasses Plum Pudding This rich fragrant dessert will give you 10 generous servings, As with all plum puddings. serve warm with sauce. IV2 cups sifted all purpose flour 3 tablespoons sugar V teaspoon salt 3A teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon -A teaspoon cloves Va. teaspoon nutmeg "A cup finely cut dates 'ii cup chopped nuts 1 cup raisins V cup sliced citron 1 egg, beaten Ji cup unsulphured molasses 3 tablespoons milk 3 tablespoons melted shortening Mix and sift flour, sugar, salt, soda and spices. Stir in nuts and fruit. Combine egg, molasses, milk and shortening. Pour into dry ingredients and mix well. Turn into a greased and floured two-quart pudding mold or cas serole with a tight fitting cover. Or cover tightly with aluminum foil or two thicknesses of waxed paper. Place on rack in deep kettle, adding boiling water as needed. Ten servings. Souce for the Pudding No plum pudding is complete without a sauce. So here are some suggestions for sauces we think you'll like. Hard Sauce. This basic hard sauce recipe is hard to beat for simplicity. Cream together one third cup butter or margarine with one cup sifted confection ers' sugar. Now let your taste buds be your guide and add your choice of one teaspoon vanilla or two tablespoons of brandy or sherry. Beat in flavoring. Sprin kle with nutmeg. Makes about one cup. Molasses Hard Sauce. A nice variation. Cream one-third cup butter or margarine. Add 2.W cups sifted confectioners' sugar alternately with one tablespoon milk and two tablespoons un sulphured molasses. When well mixed, stir in one teaspoon grated orange rind. Makes 1 23 cups sauce. Ice Cream Sauce. Good and so very easy. Break up one pint pre-packaged vanilla ice cream with a fork; add brandy or rum flavoring to taste. Beat with rotary or electric beater until smooth and half frozen. Makes two cups. Raisin Bread Stuffing Here's a fine way to get un usual fruit flavor in the stuffing for your Christmas bird. Good in pork chops, too. Uses raisin bread for a change. Recipe makes about seven cups stuffing. Saute one-half cup chopped onion in one-fourth cup shortening un til golden brown. Combine four cups raisin bread cubes, three cups chopped apple, three table spoons grated orange rind, one teaspoon salt and one-half tea spoon pepper. Fill poultry cavi ties lightly or bake separately in casserole, in foil,- or fill hol-lowed-out and fluted orange cups. Thirty to 35 minutes in oven at 350 degrees will be about right if you bake this "outside" the poultry. Company Note. Dice avocado in small pieces and add to cur ried cream of chicken soup. Mrs. Eisenhower's Million Dollar Fudge Recently in Washington, D. C, members of the Women's Na tional Press Club launched a new cookbook "Who Says We Can't Cook" which turns out to be a collection of recipes gar nered from a glittering array of feminine VIPs of our capitol city. Headliner is this contribu tion of Mrs. Eisenhower (Dwight D., that is) which will have spec ial interest for candy makers right, now. You'll note that the recipe form is a little different from the usual. 4Vfe cups sugar Pinch of salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 tall can evaporated milk Boil six minutes Have ready in a large bowl: -THE DIFFERENT HOT CEREAL NOW BETTER THAN EVER! TODAY'S IMPROVED CARNATION INSTANT WHEAT! .1U..'IIUIJJ wfjr ,lllv.Jv.lJUI'IIIJIJl.l..llll.H.liU.l,.ll Hll J.1IH.J 1 1 ILHI.JJ. PLUM PUDDING Plum lovely ttiat's the way this plum pud ding looks. Filled with spices, fruit and nuts blended together with unsulphured molasses, it smells wonderful and tastes even better. It is one of many good things for holiday enjoyment included in today's food columns. IS ounces semi-sweet chocolate (chocolate bits) 12 ounces German sweet choco late 1 pint marshmallow cream (2 jars) 2 cups nutmeats Pour boiling syrup over in gredients in bowl; beat until chocolate is all melted and pour in pan. Let stand a few hours before cutting. Store in tin box. Where to get the book? Send $2.15 per copy to Women's Na tional Press Club, National Press Building, Washington 4, D. C. Proceeds go to WNPC building fund. Sassy Cranberry Relish Use up some of those good tasting, colorful fresh cranber ries in a relish like this for eat ing with simply everything in the meat, poultry and fish cate gories. 2 cups (1 pound) fresh cranber ries 2 small beets (or 1 large), peeled 1 orange, quartered and seeds removed V4 cup (5 ounce jar) horseradish 2 tablespoons sugar V4 teaspoon nutmeg Cut beet into finger-size slices. Put cranberries, beets and orange segments through food chopper using the fine blade. Add horseradish, sugar and nut meg and mix thoroughly. Chill. Spice Cake Topping. Next spice cake you bake try pour ing a combination of one-third cup orange juice and one-third cup honey directly over the hot cake. Let cake cool in the pan and remove as servings are needed. A wonderful cold weather dessert. Grange Central Point Grange Central Point Grange will meet Friday, Dec. 16, starting with turkey dinner at 6:30 p.m. Most of the dinner will be fur nished by the Grange. Please bring salad or home made candy and your own service. Dinner will be followed by short business meeting, then a Christmas program. Santa will visit. Bring presents, limited to 50 cents in value, for gift ex change. Installation of officers at Cen tral Point hall will be held Sun day, Dec. 18, at 1:30 p.m. Barbara Payton Guilty Of Bogus Check Charges Los Angeles (U.R) Former actress Barbara Payton pleaded guilty yesterday to cashing a worthless $18.54 check at a Hollywood market. The former wife of actor Franchot Tone was ordered to appear for sentencing or proba tion Dec. 27. Two additional counts of issuing bad checks on insufficient funds were to be dismissed. Miss Payton now is married to a Nogales, Ariz., furniture store manager. Thursday, December 15, 1955 MEDFORD OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN A NickoVs Worth of . . . Comment On This and That Br HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prem FJhir Wrjar Harman Nichols Washington U.B It may be the Christmas spirits, or per haps just the normal flow of the milk of human kindness. But jwsf the word I eet ff is that the 1 " 1 ?i gum shoes the Army are softening a bit, at least in Ger many. My inform ant sends word from Heidelberg of strange hap penings among the military po lice, particularly a winking at violations by slightly AWOL GIs. The major says that the MPs often are rounding up wayward soldiers and driving them back to their outfits instead of to the guardhouse. This report is almost enough to make a veteran of World War II quit his job in the hardware store back in Dubuque and re enlist just to witness such a miracle. Take Them Home My source, who is stationed at the Army's headquarters, says that last month alone the Army military police in Munich gath ered in more than 200 AWOL GIs and got them back to their outfits in time to say "Yes, sir," before their first sergeants knew they were missing. Lt. Col. H. J. Michau of Union City, N. J., the Army's "high sheriff" in Munich, put it like this: "If we can grab an AWOL who is only a few hours over due on a pass, we can get him back to his unit in time for duty, and possibly save him no end of trouble." The Army is saved trouble, too. It doesn't have to court martial a boy; something the Army doesn't always relish. Even a good soldier can come down with carelessness and over stay a leave. Say, the kid has been through maneuvers. He's worn to a frazz, he wants to see some lights and if the shooting kind of war isn't around, by golly he's going to see some lights. Maybe more lights than he ought to. Suddenly, the soldier looks at his time piece and figures that since he is overdue anyway, and probably will get clobbered, he may as well live it up. Then he's a candidate for the serious kind of AWOL. According to my Army friend. that's where the MPs come in. They prowl in unmarked cars, with little but kindness in their hearts. Careful Watch But any smart soldier can spot an MP a quarter of a mile away. So he goes "into action." If he's in a German "gasthaus" he puts a glass to lips and ap pears to be deep in thought. Or he may head for the place called "herrnzimmer" the German word for the boys' room. The MPs know all of the signs, and they are trying to ignore them and give the soldier a break unless he's overdone his overstay. Cpl. Robert Thornton of Ca bool, Mo., according to my in formant, had to confess that he read the signs wrong recently. It was three in the morning. The corporal spotted a GI pa rading down the street solo, "hup-two-three-fouring" in ac cepted cadence. The corporal bounded out of his car and asked the young man for his pass. The boy produced it. The pass was good for another 24 hours. The MP demanded to know why the kid was "hup-two-three-fouring" at that hour in the night. The soldier, thinking he was in a mess, said: "Well, sir, my fraulein just said she'd be my frau, and I came straight here to pick out a ring." Cpl. Thornton gave the boy a lift back to his unit. Washington (U.R) Post master General Arthur E. Sum merfield has predicted that this year's Christmas mail load will break all records. 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