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Feeding the Family Sy ZOLA VINCENT rood Editor Hand-Ouis for Halloween; Party Stuff for Haunted Parents - Hark ye! It's the silly sea son for grown-ups as well as j for their progeny. The witch es and goblins are gathering and the wary are preparing. Lucky the children whose family enter in the spirit of Halloween. Hold-ups occur on every block as masked and pigtailed bandits wander the streets Li search of hand-outs (parents hovering in the shadows) and the spirit and color of Hal loween is rampant in every village and town. Children's planned parties and grown-up entertainments take on a ghostly aura and the pumpkin is king. The Loot Trick - or - treaters want to brag about the b full of loot. Stores offer candy assort merits galore. Jonathans, the Halloween apple, are piled high. Home-made and store- bought cookies have fancy shapes and faces. Doughnuts are chocolated and orange- iced. o Pop crn, store-ready or home-popped is tremendously popular. Nuts in the shell, shelled, salted nd spiced are good items. Oranges, bananas, ; dates, figs, raisins are prized by many. Individual Grabs For grabby, often grubby, 'little hands (big ones, too) I wrap loot separately. Offer it on a big tray whether you've m single item or an assort ment. Limit the darlings. ' Cider, of Coarse Trick-or-treaters and regu 'lar party goers get mighty ; thirsty. Cider has been the : Halloween beverage since it was first invented. Ladle it "from punch bowl or four Jit from a pitcher. With a good : supply of piper cups on hand and a big waste basket handy, Everybody can. be happy. Pop Corn Easy to Pop" la Any Covered Skillet l: The world's best pop corn today comes in easy-to-open cans and is guaranteed to pop quickly. If you do not have a "Tegular popper, use any con venient heevy skillet with "dome lid or any heavy deep pan. Important thing is a well-fitting lid, f; p Place three tablespoons of ; cooking oil in whatever pop :per you use; heat until a ker 'xiel of pop corn dropped in the hot oil pops. Pour in one- 1 ourth cup of pop corn or enough to cover bottom of ;pan no more than one kernel ': deep. Reduce heat to medium. ; Shake or stir until corn is all f popped. Empty into large . bowl and add melted butter and salt to taste. Sugar Pop Corn. For a sweet treat, these sugared ; "snowflakes" make a hit with :veryone. B5il one cup sugar, one-half cup water and VA 'teaspoons butter together un ' til syrup spins a thread. Re move from heat. Add one teaspoon almond flavoring and pour over, three quarts .fresh popped corn in a fine 'stream, stirring briskly until , every kernel is thoroughly 'coated with syrup and separ- ates of its own accord. Cool corn before eating. Cheese Snacks. A tender ; crisp pop corn delicacy you'll - make over and over again. Fine for munching with ap ples, beverages and hot soups ' or just for eating out-of-hand. Spread two quarts freshly .popped pop corn in a flat pan; keep hot and crisp in ; oven. Melt one-half cup butter '' and one-half cup grated Amer ican or Parmesan cheese and add one -half teaspoon salt. Pour mixture over corn; stir ; until every kernel is cheese- flavored, j Halloween Stars rPumpkm Specialties i a real pumpkin is the star -of Halloween. It leads a triple vijfe. It is hollowed out and : painted for a Jack O' Lantern. It becomes the holder of a Tbeverage or soup bowl. The ''hollowed out" part goes into tany number of goodies besides .making pumpkin pies. Our I mission today is to tell you j about some of these things. jPumpkin Soup Tureen t To make a pumpkin soup 1 tureen like the picture, start fwith a large, well shaped pumpkin and a mixing bowl that will go inside. Mark an 'even circle about three I fourths way down from top of I pumpkin with crayon. With la sharp-pointed knife, cut all I along the crayon mark. Re :move top; scrape out seeds. I Scoop pulp from sides and center of pumpkin until the X mixing bowl fits snugly. Save : pulp, of course. ; I On best side of pumpkin, I crayon eyes, nose and mouth for usual. Jack O Lantern Iface., ! Pumpkin-Chicken Soup ; To make a hot and pungent ; cream of chicken and pump- kin soup: Cook one-half cup finely chopped onion in four tablespoons butter or margar ine until tender. Add two cans (102 ounces each) condensed cream of chicken soup, two cans water of milk, one cup sieved cooked pumpkin, one teaspoon salt, one-half tea spoon nutmeg and a dash of pepper. , Heat, stirring now and then. Serve with buttered pop corn afloat. Six servings. Baked Broomhandles We made these cheese sticks (called 'em broom handles) especially for Halloween and our picture, but they're so good that we suggest you save this recipe, enjoy it often. Add two-third cup milk to two cups prepared biscuit mix; stir with fork until sticky. Divide dough in half and add one-half cup grated American cheese to one half the recipe. Knead dough mix ture on lightly floured board about 10 times. Roll in rectangle 8 x 12 in ches about one -fourth inch thick. Cut in half crosswise and slice into one-half strips six inches long. Gently lift each strip and place on un greased cookie sheet. Prepare other half of dough in same way, mixing with a fork, add one-fourth cup peanut butter to dough, before kneading. Bake in 450 degree oven, 8 to 10 minutes. Witchcraft Cake Big and Handsome This party cake is handsome to behold, big enough for 12 servings. It is made with orange - flavored gelatin, ice cream and ladyfingers, then topped with whipped cream and garnished with appro priate decoration. You'll want to keep this recipe and do it next time with gelatin of another fruit flavor and color, top it with another decorative motif. Dissolve two packages orange-flavored gelatin in 3Vfc cups hot water. Add one quart vanilla ice cream by spoon fuls and stir until ice cream is melted. Chill until slightly thickened. Trim one dozen 2. MAIL TRIBUNE, Mcdford, Or. Thursday, Oct. 29, 1959 Why. Mother? Cleveland, Ohio -fliPD- Ex pectant mothers have kept researchers guessing in a study of 63,616 cases at 42 northeastern Ohio hospitals. The study showed that wom en in labor often travel 25 miles across town through city traffic, passing first-rate hospitals to reach another in stitution. The women were a "significant percentage" of the 50 per cent of patients who snubbed service in hos pitals in their immediate areas to go elsewhere. ladyfingers to get a straight edge across one end. . Line sides of a nine-inch spring form pan with the ladyfingers, standing cut ends on bottom of pan. Stir gelatin-ice cream mix ture and pour into pan. Chill until firm. Before' serving, loosen ladyfingers around edge of pan with spatula and remove sides of spring-form pan onlyl Cover with sweet ened whipped cream, plain or with a drop or two of orange coloring added. Garnish with appropriate decorations. Memo: If you don't have spring-form pan, chill mixture of gelatin and ice cream in individual molds or one big mold. When irm, unmold and serve with topping of sweetened whipped cream; ladyfingers on the side. Hot Spiced Cider Now and throughout the fall and winter, family and guests will enjoy this warm ing, sweet-scented party bev erage based on popular cider which is readily available in gallon jugs at small cost. A gallon of cider will give you 16 eight-ounce servings. Handled mugs are best. 1 gallon cider Peel of 2 lemons, cut in spirals 4 1-inch sticks cinnamon Yz cup honey 2 oranges, thinly sliced 16 whole cloves . Combine cider, lemon peel, stick cinnamon and honey; simmer 20 minutes. Remove lemon peel. Serve in mugs topped with orange half slices studded with cloves. rn ?r PUMPKIN FOR HALLOWEEN The pumpkin leads a triple life as its outward form stars as a Jack O' Lantern fright ing away wicked spirits, while serving as a punch bowl with a pumpkin beverage and offered with other pumpkin-made goodies. FamSly fun is in the fixing and sharing. mm SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS J i-ii fo) A fo) n KLAMATH-FED LOCKER BEEF Cut and wrapped. Good and choice grade. mm FILL YOUR FREEZER! Now everyone can enjoy spare ribs at this low price! 1)W- iL J lb We have a few of the Oregon-grown 5V-lb. Turkeys Selling for Only ; $779 Del Monte Thick Sliced One Pound Cello Package O.K.'s Famous if m Ave-age Weight Vi to 3fA lbs. No Chemicals 'Added U each (Sold Whole Bodied) ZEE ASSORTED UAPKUIS Paper Wrapped , 80 Count 2 for 25 Sweet Sippin APPLE CIDER Golden Valley Brand Cedar Green BROCCOLI 10-oz. Pkg. Chicken Turkey Beef Meat Pies 4 for 99 Standbys 12 oz. 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