Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1929 — Page 25

NOV. 19, 1929.

Dorothy Alden’s Page of Helpful Hints for the Home

Knowledge Required in Rug Choice Few women really are well Informed on the subject of floor coverings. Mast of them have a general idea of what they want, when they go to buy, and trust to the judgment of the person who waits upon them to give them good value" lor their money. Sales people in sections where floor coverings are handled usually are well Informed on their subject, so one might do much worse than depend upon their opinions. Still it is almost impossible for them to select as to colors £nd textures for your home. What should be taken into consideration. then, in selecting floor coverings which are in good taste? The floor is the foundation in the scheme of a room’s decoration, and the coloring should be selected In relation to the walls, hangings and furniture. Within recent years, plain rugs of a neutral color have been in vogu They lend themselves well to their surroundings, forming an inconspicuous background for other colors

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and furnishings selected for the room. They are especially well adaped for the small room, making it look larger, but are not to make a large room look cold and bare. In rooms closely connected, it is | best to select the same floor coverings, though rugs of different color may be used, provided they harmonize. In the hallway, a patterned rug is really preferable, for there is less furniture and decoration here, and some bright note of interest is desirable. The patterned rug has the advantage in that it does not show wear so quickly, footprints are not apparent on it—one of the bugbears of the plain rug—and in rooms where it is likely to receive stains as, in the dining room, it is also preferable. There are many small all-over patterns which have the general appearance of a one-tone rug, yet the advantages of a patterned one. The main thing to consider in the selection of the patterned rug is the place in which you are planning to use it, and the choosing of a pattern and colors which will be in harmony with the surroundings. Small rugs laid on a bare polished floor are less luxurious looking than a floor that is almost entirely covered. If the room is small, they also tend to make it seem even smaller. They are practical, though, for they as well as thf* floor they are on are easily cleaned.

To break this long line of ICE protection is false economy. Food should be kept well refrigerated from the moment it is received until prepared for the table. The cost of ICE is only a few cents a day, but the service it renders cannot be measured in dollars and cents.

Time Here to Plan for Your Christmas Cookies; Weeks Needed to Ripen ’

BY DOROTHY ALDEN IT may seem absurd to be talking Christmas cookies, but if you will consult your calendar, you will see that Christmas itself is just five weeks away, and if we are going to give the cookies a chance to “ripen,” a process which improves all varieties of the real Christmas cakes, it really

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will keep well can be made at this time, but I am going to give you recipes for those which are particularly Christmas cookies. To begin with, Christmas cookies should be as attractive as possible. Obtain a varied collection of cookie cutters—hearts, diamonds, stars,

crescents and Christmas trees—and be sure to include some animal cutters and boys and girls. Then you

is late, rather than early, to start making them. The fact that they can be made so long in advance to be enjoyed during the holidays is, indeed, very fortunate, for it allows us to get them out of the way early, before the worst of the rush starts. The custom of making Christmas cookies is an old European one which within the last few years has been growing in popularity in this country. Delicious homemade cookies to pass around when friends drop in for tea or for the evening during the Christmas vacation, are well worth the trouble. Tl>en there are the dainty boxes of them to be packed and tied with Christmas wrappings, to be sent to our neighbors and friends. Even so few as a half dozen home-made cookies, attractively wrapped, will carry a message that no engraved Christmas card ever could bear. Os course, any variety of home-made cookies which

will want to have on hand colored sugar, nuts, currants and raisins. You will be sure to need them for decorating the tops of the cookies whether the recipe mentions them or not. Now here are the recipes, and you can take your choice of several of them: Christmas Cookies 2 pounds brown sugar. 8 eggs. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. 1 teaspoon cloves. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 teaspoon mace. Vi pound blanched almonds, pound citron. 2 teaspoon soda. Mix the sugar with the beaten eggs. Add the spices and the citron and half of the almonds, chopped into very small pieces. Add the soda, dissolved in a small amount of hot water. Stir in enough flour to make a dough stiff enough to roll. Mix well, roll to quarter-inch thickness, and cut with diamond shaped cutter. Place one-half blanched almond on each cookie. Let stand over night. In the morning, brush with powdered sugar stirred to a paste in a small amount of water, and bake on sheets in a moderate oven. This will make about eight dozen cookies. Pack away in tightfitting jars or cans until ready for use. The longer they are kept the better they become. Pfeffernusse 3 teaspoon ground cloves. 1 teaspoon nutmeg Vi teaspoon cinnamon Vi teaspoon soda 5 cups flour 4 eggs 2 cups brown augar Stir the brown sugar slowly into the slightly beaten eggs. Then add flour, soda and spices sifted and mixed together. Roll a half inch thick and cut with a small round cutter. -Let stand over night on a greased baking sheet to ripen. In the morning bake in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes. When cool, frost with white icing, or sprinkle with powdered sugar. Chopped almonds or citron may be added to these cakes if desired. These soften as they ripen, but are very hard when first made. Lebkuchen 1 pound strained honey. 2 cups light brown sugar. V* cup water. Vs teaspoon soda. Vi pound blanched shredded almnds. 8 cups flour (about). V* pound citron and candied orange rind, ground. V* easpoon cloves and nutmeg. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 2 eggs. Boil sugar, water and honey for five minutes, then cool and mix in the flour sifted with the spices and

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Decorations How are you planning to decorate your Thanksgiving dinner table? Or, perhaps, you may be planning some party at which you wish to use the holiday decorations. Dorothy Alden has prepared a number of charming ideas for such occasions. A menu and recipes for your Thanksgiving dinner will appear in next Tuesday's TIMES, but. in the meantime, be sure to send a stamped addressed envelope for the table decoratioA ideas. Write Dorothy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

soda. Add the eggs, the almonds and the peel. Work into a loaf and leave two or three days to ripen. Work again lightly, adding a little more flour if necessary. Roll out Vi inch thick, and cut in oblong strips 1 inch by 3 inches. Bake on a greased pan in a moderate oven fifteen minutes. When cool, cover with a transparent icing made by mixing 1 cup of confectioner’s sugar to a paste with 5 teaspoons of boiling water and flavoring. Swedish Spiced Cookies 2-3 cup shortening. s /i cup sugar. 14 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Vi teaspoon cardamon seed, crushed fine. 2 eggs. 3 cups pastry flour. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Almond and sugar. Cream shortening, add sugar, salt and spices. Add beaten eggs and half of flour. Work in the rest of the flour sifted with the baking powder. Roll out thin, and cut with small cookie cutter. Brush with water, sprinkie with blanched and chopped almonds and a little sugar. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake in a moderate oven ten minutes. Makes five dozen 2Viinch cookies. Children’s Cookies Mix 2 cups of brown sugar and V oup of syrup, and stir over the fire until the sugar is melted. Add 1-3 cup of shortening, and cool. Sift together 2Vs cups flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Vs teaspoon each of nut meg and cloves, % teaspoon salt, and 3 teaspoons baking powder. Stir in 2 ounces citron ground fine, and add to the first mixture with the juice and grated rind of Vs lemon, 2 tablespoons cream, and just enough extra flour to handle. Chill dough. Roll to thickness and shape with animal, etc., cutters. Bake in a moderate oven. May be frosted and decorated with fruits and small candies. Anise Seed Wafers Cream Vs cup margarine. Gradually add cup of sugar, beating constantly, then three egg yolks, one at a time, and continue beating thoroughly between each addition. Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff, and add to the first mixture, alternately with two cups of flour mi- --' 1 an- 1 sifted with one tablespoon of brushed and crushed anise seed, Vi teaspoon nutmeg, and Vs teaspoon salt. Add just enough extra flour to the dough so as tc roll very thin. Shape with a small fluted cutter and sprinkle tops with granulated sugar or tiny anise candies. Bake to a delicate browr in a moderate oven. Christmas Wreaths Cream cup of butter with the fingers. Gradually add two cups of sugar, beating constantly. Add the grated rind and juice of lemon, the yolks of three eggs, beaten until thick and lemon colored, the whites of three eggs beaten until stiff and enough sifted flour to knead. Be careful to have the dough not too stiff. Chill the dough thoroughly. Roll into a thin sheet. Cut with a small doughnut cutter, measuring two inches in diameter. Brush over lightly with slightly beaten egg white and sprinkle each cookie with finely chopped pistachio nuts. Bake on greased sheets until a delicate straw color. Remove from baking sheets to wire cake coolers. Store in tin box with waxed paper between each layer.

Cranberries Can Be Used Many Ways As Thanksgiving approaches, more and more cranberries appear on the market. Since they are one of our few winter fresh fruits, and since they really are very healthful, containing valuable minerals, we shall want to serve them in more ways than the time-honored cranberry sauce. Cranberry Strudel Pie Crust 1 cup brown sugar V 2 cup chopped seeded raisins 4 cups chopped cranberries Roll pie crust in oblong sheet Vi inch thick. Mix ingredients, spread over the pastry; roll as for jelly roll and fasten the ends securely. Place in a greased baking pan in a slow oven for forty-five minutes. Cool, remove from the pan by cutting in 1-inch slices. Dust with powdered sugar. Criss-cross Cranberry Pie Pie crust 4 cups cranberries 1)4 to 2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons water Vi teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon melted margarine Line a pie plate with the pastry. Chop cranberries. Mix with other ingredients and fill pastry shell with this mixture. Place strips of pie crust over the top and bake in moderate oven twenty-five to thirty-five minutes. Cranberry Velvet 4 cups cranberries 3 cups water 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon water Vi cup nuts Vi teaspoon vanilla Cook cranberries in water unti. they stop popping. Press through a fine sieve. Add sugar, return to the fire and, when boiling, stir in the cornstarch paste. Remove from the fire. Add nuts and vanilla. Serve ice cold with whipped cream. Jellied Cranberry Salad 2 cups chopped cranberries 1 package lemon gelatine Vs cup sugar Vs cup chopped nuts Vi cup diced celery 1% cup boiling water Dissolve gelatins in boiling water. Add sugar to chopped cranberries. Cover the bottom of a mold with gelatine. When this has stiffened, add a layer of cranberries and cover with some liquid gelatine. When this stiffens, add a layer of celery, some gelatine, the nuts, more gelatine, etc., until all is used. Set in refrigerator to chill. Unmold on lettuce and serve with mayonnaise. Keep Cheese Tender Cheese becomes tough and leathery in cooked mixtures when it has been subjected to too high a temperature. To avert this, protect it from the direct heatTn some way, such as setting the utensil in which the cheese mixture is baking, in a pan of hot water. If a dish is to be finished with cheese over the top, h'-’ -’ ~ —■ ’ll be obtained by baking it first, then sprinkling the cheese over, and returning to the oven for a long enough time to melt the cheese.

Holiday Games

After that Thanksgiving dinner, don’t let every one go to sleep. They will need exercise. Dorothy Alden has prepared suggestions for a number of Thanksgiving games in which the whole family can join and have a hilarious time, games that will make the day a memorable one. A stamped addressed envelope will bring them to you. Write Dorothy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

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