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One of the.Christmas desserts which Mrs. I. C. Williams, 511 King
street, makes each holiday season is carrot and suet pudding. Mrs.
Williams, who has a "kitchen and a half,", is shown here by the
old-fashioned wood stove of shiny black trimmed with blue enamel
q which stands in the kitchen addition and which she likes to use on
cold winter mornings.
In her main kitchen, equipped with electric stove and other
appliances, Mrs. Williams prepares to mix the Christmas pudding.
The Williams have lived 11 years at the King street address, before
that made their home in Talent for 31 years. Mrs. Williams raises
African violets in her windows and does much handwork once made
a tablecloth entirely of fine tatting.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1955
Holiday Preparations
Christmas is coming, and this week every home in the Rogue
valley will be alive with activity. The tree must be set up and deco
rated, the. mistletoe and wreaths hung, the last of the packages
wrapped with bright paper and ribbon and the special Christmas
food prepared. In many homes this means the baking of cookies
and cakes from treasured family recipes, often brought from lands
abroad or handed down from mother to daughter. (Brainerd photos)
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Holiday callers, at the home of Dr. Lawrence : Buonocore ond
family will be greeted by a cheerful Santa Claus on the front door.
Mrs. Buonocore and the couple's three children, Madelyn: (at left),
Cindy and Laurie Beth, are shown after .the work of decorating th
door was almost finished. Indoor decorations wiU include a Christmas
scene and two trees, one downstairs and one for the girls' room.
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Mrs. Walter Stamm, native of Germany, will bake the tradi
tional German yeast cake as one of the Christmas treats. Most
German homemakers do not own electrical appliances, and Mrs.
q Stamm demonstrates here how she will' start to mix the cake with her
hands, adqjjng other ingredients to the mound of flour. Cake will be
filled with fruits and nuts and served with coffee.
Mrs. Ernest Santo's pre-Christmas baking included a batch of
cookies made with carob powder, a sweet cocoa-like substance made
by grinding pods of the carob, or St. John's bread tree. Plate holding,
cookies is about 200 years old and came from Essens, Germany. It
belonged to Mr. Santo's grandmother and was once used to serve
Queen Victoria. Carob powder has many other uses.
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Mrs. H. Lageson's Christmas cooking always includes. the Nor
wegian delicacy, krumcaker, and she is shown here at work with the
krumcake iron. The paper-thin cakes are rolled while hot and retain
that shape when cold. A tray of the finished krumcakers are shown
at back. The cakes will be served with plenty of hot coffee to friends
and relatives who call during the holidays.
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Pre-Christmas activity at the . home of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Rentelman, 860 McAndrews road, included decora
tion of the unusual fireplace. Mrs. Rentelman is shown lighting "the. big red mantel candles while Mr.", and Mrs. -Henry
fWmeister, Jacksonville, look on. Mr. Burmeister, native of Germany, built the fireplace several years ago
when he owned the home. Decorated tile are very old, and thought to have been made in. Germany or Italy.
Lettered tile were fpade in this country. Built following a religious experience of Mr. Burmeister, the fireplace was
the first and only one he made. ' .
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Another Norwegian Christmas delicacy is fattigman, or poor man's cake, 'which Mrs; Lageson offers to her
daughter, "Mrs. Charles Herman. Fattigman is expensive to make, in spite of name,, with recipe calling for many
eggs and large quantity of cream. Dough is fried in deep fat like doughnuts. Mrs. Lageson also makes lefse, a
three-cornered cookie filled with a cinnamon and. sugar mixture, and goraa, a thin sweet cooky also baked on an
iron which makes a.design on the oblong-shaped sweet. Plate at left holds sprits ond other rich Norwegian cookies
as well as krumcaker baked in shape of fluted cup.
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