Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1929, Page 53

WOMA N’S PAGE. Cake to Be Made With Care If It Is to Be Worth Eating BY SALLY MONROE. ‘When you are making a loaf of cake, femember that the most important thing #s the baking. If you bake 1t carefully, it will be delicious. If you bake it carelessly, even a cake of the best materials, put together in the most sclentific manner, may be hard, dry and soggy. ‘To begin with, grease the tin for a loaf cake with some fat that does not burn ecasily. Butter is very bad tor this purpose, for it burns at a compara- tively low temperature. It is a good plan to line the greased tin with waxed paper, which should be greased again before the cake is put on it—othetwise some sorts of cake will stick to the paper Then bake the cake slowly, but not of course, slowly enough to let it f: You must know your own oven ai learn how to bake cakes in it. If you have a quick-cooking loaf cake, you may not need to line the pans | realize that for children it s very im- with' waxed paper. For sponge cake, no grease *is needed—just sprinkle four | those who have got their growtn."— For some | M. H. K. over the inside of the pan cakes grease the pans and then sprinkle with flour. ‘When you are making patty cakes of nge-cake batter, flour the pans and then sprinkle them with sugar before pouring in the batter. This makes a delicious and interesting surface to the cake when it is done. Don't forget that a good icing im- proves a cake tremendously. If your | cake is rather plain, then put on a lit- tje extra icing, and put it on cacefully. Among this week's interesting queries are: “Can you tell me what makes my chocolate-dipped chocolates sometimes turn a light) dusty color after they have dried? I like to make candy for Christ- mas, but last vear had such wretched luck with it, that I am hesitant about trying it. It is so much work that one certainly likes to have it turn out well.” —Fanny M Dipping chocolate is temperamental. Sometimes !t dries a rich, glossy, dark brown. Sometimes, in my own experi- ence, too, it dries a most unattractive “dusty” color. And work in a very cool room. 1t is well to work near an open window in Winter, it possible. “Is it necessary to worry about vita- mins in the diet of grown-ups? I portant, but my mind is not clear about Don't worry about vitamin—but they are necessary for grown-ups as well as children. The child who nas a vitamin-poor dlet is, of course, spe- cially badly off, for the child is grow- ing. and what he doesn't do in the way of growing as a'child can't very well be made up later on. But the adult should be sure to include plenty of raw fruits and vegetables, butter and milky and whole grains in his diet, to make sure that his system is recelving enough ‘The results will justify your trouble. DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT Tissue Changes. “Does cancer occur the second time in the same place? MRS, T.” No, not necessarily, Mrs. T. if 1t has beer removed or destroyed before the cancer cells are distributed through- out the body, and if all the local can- cer cells are removed or destroyed at the time of the treatment. We do not yet know the cause of cancer. There is some biological-chem- fcal change in the tissues, coupled In certair. instances with chronic irrita- tions. You should see that your diet is well balanced and your tissue fluids have good circulation, through the use of your muscles—in other words, a needed amount of physical exercise. You should keep in touch with your surgeon. B—In 100 calories of buttermilk and skim milk (10 ounces), approxi- mately 35 of the calories are protein and 55 are carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and the balance fat. Ten ounces of whole milk is 200 calories, ‘with approximately the same number of protein and carbohydrate calories, and | flora. with many more calories of fat, on account of the cream. In the instance you spoke of the printing of 25 C. of protein in 100 calories of buttermilk must have been a typographical error. “Will you please tell me what harm, if any, there may be in eating coftee beans? I have had this Nabit for many years. MRS. It would depend upon how mary coffee beans you ate. Mrs. A, and your individual susceptibility to caffeine. Psopie differ in this markedly. I have read that about 50 coffee beans would give a grain of eaffeine, but it seems to me that it would pro- duce mere thar that, for I think that number, d. would make more than ope tablespoonful of the coffer, vitamines for its needs. PETERS, M. D. 1728, said: “Were there no *other use in tea and coffee, they are nevertheless useful in that they have caused drunk- enness, which was formerly so preva- lent, to go out of fashion. Our wives and daughters can now pay 10 visits in O:l:e morning and yet come home quite sober.” 4 AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE, Last Summer the country children, brave in the face of the chigger crop, went berrying, as they have done now the 20 generations of Virginia and Maryland youngsters. But there is an- other sort of berrying, wherein you will find neither blueberry nor huckleberry. dewberry nor blackberry, but berries for your hearth and mantelpiece, berries to decorate the table, fruits of our wild harvest; last, late gems of the native In Summer picking flowers has te- diums of heat and insects and in Spring a thousand distractions call. I love an Autumn walk better than all other kinds, and I can recommend as a di traction on the way that the hiker see how mai kinds of brightly colored fruits he can find, Maost sought after of all, of course, is the bittersweet, with its buff-colored husk, its orange seed and its (scarlet aril. & hardly know whether I dare tell you to pick it, since its beauty lays a claim on us to leave it unmolested Myself friendly to wild-flower preserva- tion, I am free to confess that to piak a sprig of bittersweet is at times irre- sistible, so I cannot cast stones at any one else. All I beg is that you will not collect every scrap you see, ovedload your house with it for a week, get tired THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929. FEATURES. Californiass golden The reasons are complicated. Don't overheat the dipping chocolate. Don's get any water or steam in it. Don't 5 dip the checolates in a room where | there is any steam or running water. I 7 \ | bring you full natural flavor DELICATE, elusive, luscious—is there anything more delightful than the true peach flavor? Flavor that’s drawn from warm, golden sun- shine, stored up all summer long as the fruit slowly ripens on the trees, All that luscious goodness, all that exquisite peach flavor is waiting for you in Libby’s California Peathes. Their taste is that of the rose- cheeked fruit that hangs from heavy laden trees. | Libby’s California Peaches are su- preme in flavor. But not flavor alone haswon their world-wide fame. They are famous, too, for their flawless, golden beauty; for their unvarying high quality; for their delicate firm- ness of texture. These luscious peaches of Libby’s, - e the amount usually used to make a 1 bbish 3 eaptul of comice. An ordinary cup of | °1A% ARG toss It o Hheq b coffee has {rom two to four Eraias of | nat a few branches arebetter.than & caffeine, deperding upon its strength. | yundred, and any one who pretends to (Two to four grains is a medicinal dose | pundred, and any one o ore and n packed right at the edge of sunny orchards, can be bought at your own for a stimuiant.) There is another rrlnrlple in coffee that may be harmful and that is tan- nic acid, ard no doubt in ellin? the -whole bean the full strength of the tannic acid would be taken. ‘Where excess amounts of caffeine are taken in the form of tea and coffee there is no doubt that a chronic poi- soning is produced. Among the symp- toms are dyspepsia, succeeded by nerv- ousness, restlessness ard excitement, tremor, disturbed sleep, lack of appe- tite, headache, dizziness, palpitation, constipation and hysterical disturb- ances. (McGuigan.) I was interested to find in one of my text books that when tea and coffee first became popular it was urged that the new beverages reduced the con- sumption of alcohol. One Poulsson, in | minutes to brown. The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. Three men, strangers to_each other, t in & hotel lobby. Impelled by fielomeneu they went into a huddle. @ave for the difference in attire they Jooked like any other three men one t find walking about the city. Give @ few men three hours, and before the time is up each will know the life history of the others, their favorite foods, to- Bacco and sports. ‘The traveling American is generous with personal informaflon. One might #ide n the same compartment & month | with an English gentleman, and at the eonclusion of the journey know noth- tng about him except his name. Be- tween here and Baltimore two men can egin a beautiful friendship, invite each ether to meet the missus and kids, play golf and join a fraternal order. At any rate, the three chaps men- #oned discovered that they were not enly born the same year, but in the @ame month. Each was 40 years old. Each had started at | “scratch” in life and was making his own destiny. Number one was born in the Mid- west. He had had an ordinary school education and at 18 obtained a job as a Sstore sales- man. At 22 he married. At 30 he acquired an inter- est in the store. At 33 he owned it and at 35 enlarged it by purchasing an- other store in th> city and merging them. “I've often thought what a failure I have been in the true sense,” he said. “Other men stepped out and saw the world. They lived and enjoyed ad- venture, while I have been anchored to the small town ia which I was reared. [ know everyone in the city, his financial rating, and what his grandparents died from. It has Leen a narrowing ex- istence_and provincial to the last de- gree. We have a nine-hole golf course and a bridge club which me:ts once a week. I am returning home to do, during the next 12 months, what I did the past 12.” * % x The second man, who had lived the same number of years, hailed from New England, but apparently did not run true to New England form. He had received a_ fair education. As & youngster, he idled about the water front and watched ships and sailors return from t ports. stricken with 3 wisit odd ends of the world. He shipped ahoard a freighter and touched the mysteries of the Orient and other places of equal interest to young fellows. He returned finally and entered busi- mess, thinking that he was ‘“cured.” terior decorations will content himself with one spray of bittersweet in a bowl. Add to this a bit of greenbrier, with its dark, delft-blue berries, and you have a perfect contrast that will delight ail Winter. Sweet Potatoes and Appie!. Use six sweet potatoes, boil:d and sliced and six tart cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced. Arrange m alternate layers in a greased bal dish with four tablespoonfuls of maple sugar sprinkled over the apples and about three tablespoonfuls of butter dotted over the potatoes. Bake in a moderate oven with a cover on for 20 minutes and remove the cover for 10 ranch mate and shot him, though not fatally. Then he drifted from city to city, picking up odd jobs wherever he could find them. When the World War began he was in California. Borrowing money, he hastened East and joined a military outfit. As luck would have it, he was one of the first to go across. Several times he got in the way of a piece of steel and two deep scars testify that he was badly wounded. Replacements were sent forward to 1ill the ebbing ranks in which he served. After the war he remained abroad, as best he could. He even served at an American bar in a European capital. A genuine soldier of fortune! Eventually he longed to return to the States. He had no money, so he worked his way back. It wasn't easy. “I think I've missed something in life,” said he. “I envy the man who is established in a business of his' own. What have I to show for my adven- tures? A few memories, perhaps, but they are not subStantial things. I can't cash in on them today. During the past 40 years I might have been bulld- ing a place for myself and havg a fam- ily that cares. I am only a piece of grocer’s. Make a note now to include Libby’s California Peaches in your next order. Then try them some evening soon for dessert or s@d. Libby, M¢Neill & Libby, Chicago: TUNE IN ON THIS! Every Tuesday evening at 8:30 over WJZ and i associated N. B. C. stations—*Around the World {’ with Libby" concert cruise. Also, Mary Hale Martin's Household Period, ‘Wednesday mornings at 10:45 from the same driftwood now.” * ok ok % ‘The third man was a professional fellow. Excellent education and a grad- uate engineer. “Each of you fellows is to be envied,” he said. “I have had a few adventures, seasoned with a certain amount of home Jife. I am away from the family | ["WTHE ARMY=] probably three | months out of the | year, and, while 1 | have a good pro- | fession, I have a wondered if ¥ would have made & success as a mer- chant. “I, too, was in the Army during the war, which ac- counts for the only real adventure I ever had. Last year I designed and built a bridge across the River, It was more of a gorge, I should say, and we had some difficulty in spannis .+ It worked out all right, though, and now I am on my way to look over another job we are starting. “It must be great to have a settled business that will go on after the fofinder is gone. I've always wanted to li% in & small tawn where I oould bring up the youngsters properly.” * k% X ‘The reader may find something of value In the foregoing. Each man sought scmething he didn’t possess and each would _have chosen his own game He soon learned that a desk in an of- | 8 decfsion been necessary. Strangely fice was not to be his h, the engineer apparently over- enjoyed spam- portion in life, | enougl and he went West to rustle cattle. He | looked the adventures he Became embrolied with & steel. in-a fght ning rivers with station. Your grocer can get Libby’s California Peaches through Libby, M¢Neiil & Libby, 526 Light gt.. Baltimore, Md. IBBY packs other California Fruits as famous as Libby’s Peaches for full naturalflavor. , Among them are Libby’s Apricots, deliciously tart-sweet, plump and ten- der. Libby’s Bartlett Pears, firm and flaw- less, packed just as they reach full, tempting ripeness. Libby’s Fruits for Salad—a mixture of five favorite fruits, all ready to serve in salad or fruit cup. Askyourgrocer for these Libby Fruits. o~