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THE SCRANTON REPUBLICAN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13.1 935 36 served on clear crystal salad plates Is Individual Pie is Closing Wedge on Festive Occasion Variety of Salad Recipes Suggested very attractive and novel. Cheese and Nut Submitted by Mary Llnfante, 4l By Readers of Scranton Republican i dy fa Winners Will Each Receive Check for One Dollar; Interest Continues at High Pitch in Weekly Event for Housewives Crown Avenue. 1 oup cheese 1 tablespoon melted butter cup sweet cream 1 3 cup chopped nuts I cup chopped pimento 1 3 cup chopped olives Mash the cheese and moisten with cream and melted butter; season with salt and cayenne. Add chopped nuts, pimento and olives.

Press into a mold and let stand two hours. Out in slices and serve on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing. Interest continues at a high pitch in the weekly recipe contest AN ELECTRIC RANGE IS MORE THAN A MERE COOKING DEVICE Electric Cookery, the great modern development of electricity, la sweeping before ft all old fashioned, wasteful and time consomlng methods of cooking. Beantiful, new Electric Ranges now make everyday cooking miracles available to every woman. Don't put off for a single day the enjoyment of owning a range that is really mod era.

Take advantage of jour low prices and convenient terms. 1V conducted by The Scranton Republican. Each week the authors of the ten best recipes submitted receive a check for $100 while others receive copies of a well known cook book. Winners ol dollar prizes 'this V'i. Potato Salad Submitted by Mrs.

William B. Baker, 526 Ridge Street, Honeadale. Cook about two quarts potatoes which have been scrubbed (but not pared). When cooked, pare and slice. Slice two onions very fine; pepper and salt to taste.

Mix altogether. re: Molded Christmas Salad Submitted by Mrs. Will C. Thomp ton, 518 East Market Street. 1 tablespoon plain gelatine Vi cup cold water 1 cup boiling water cup sugar Vt cup white vinegar teaspoon salt Pew drops of green coloring cup stuffed olives, sliced Vi cup chopped nuts cup chopped pineapple cup cucumber pickles, chopped Mayonaise Recipes for Yuletide Candies Requested With the Yuletide season close at hand, several housewives have requested The Republican's Food Editor for recipes for Christmas candies and seasonal sweets.

To the ten women sending in the best, prizes of one dollar each will be awarded in addition to a comprehensive cook book, edited by Katherine Caldwell, Dressing 1 1 3 cup butter Vg oup sugar Electric Ranges As Low As Per Month $1.82 Use of gelatin in making orange glace tartlets simplifies the problem of preparation of these tasty delicacies. Maraschino cherries Sprinkle with sugar and let stand ten 1 cup vinegar 1 teaspoon ground mustard 1 scant tablespoon flour 1 egg Put vinegar on stove to heat. Mix butter, sugar mustard, flour and the well beaten egg together, then add the hot vinegar, stirring constantly. Set on stove, stir until it thickens. Do not let boil.

Turn over potatoes and onions while hot, cover and let cooL When cool, slice hard boiled eggs over top and sprinkle with paprika. Soak, gelatine In cold water for five ttinutes. Then dissolve in boiling water. Add sugar, vinegar, salt and By MARV E. DAOUE If we had a national pie week (and THE SCRANTON ELECTRIC COMPANY national authority on foods.

In addition housewives are asked to submit their favorite "dishes," and the scope has been lengthened to include everything from soups to fluffy desserts. coloring. Chill until slightly thickened. Then add olives, nuts, pineapple and pickles. Mold in individual molds and serve in nests of lettuce garnishing with a teaspoon of mayonnaise topped Witn a cherry.

Christmas Wreath Salad Small can peaches 4 pound marshmallows 4 maraschino cherries pound red grapes 1 banana 4 slices canned pineapple tion. Add vanilla and use to cover jam. Prune and Cranberry Lattice Top Pie Line a dish with plain pastry and fill with 1 cups cooked prunes, pitted and slices; 1 cups chopped raw cranberries, 1 teaspoon cornstarch, teaspoon salt, 1 cup sugar, cup prune 1 tablespoon butter. Mix cornstarch, salt and sugar and stir into prune Juice. Pour over the fruit in the pie shell and dot with bits of butter.

To make a lattice top roll pastry as square as possible and cut in strips about inch wide. Moisten the edge of the undercrust just as if you were going to put on an upper crust. Press strips against the moistened edge working at right angles so the strips will be under and over each other. Then moisten the strips around the edge and place a strip of crust over. Pinch with thumb and forefinger to crimp edge.

Bake at 375 for thirty minutes. minutes. Dissolve gelatin in warm water and pour over orange sections. Let stand until gelatin begins to thicken. Whip cream until firm and fold four tablespoons thickened gelatin into it Chill for several hours.

When ready to serve put a layer of whipped cream in each tart shell. Chill ten minutes. Arrange jellied orange sections on cream and add enough thickened gelatin to fill tart. Cake Mixture for Nine Tarta One cup cake flour, 1. tablespoon baking powder, cup sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 egg, 4 tablespoons milk, Vt teaspoon vanilla, teaspoon salt.

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt and sift three times. Cream butter, slowly beating in sugar. Add egg well beaten. Add milk alternately with flour mixture, beating until smooth after each addi Roll the cream cheese into small balls. Drain the cabbage and mix with the celery and the dressing.

Line salad bowl with lettuce, and pile the salad in the bowl decorating with alternating goodness knows we may any minute) it would likely come in November. Thanksgiving and pies are so closely associated that we become pie minded for the entire month. I know a hostess who serves individual piping hot mince pies with tea any afternoon at 4 o'clock from the middle of November until after Christmas. For regular meals I like a whole big pie that can be cut. in conventional wedges best, but for little festival affairs there's something about individual pies that is especially appealing.

Orang Tartlets Glace Four oranges, cup sugar, 1 package flavored gelatin, lVt cups warm water, 1 cup whipping cream, nine 3Vi inch tart shells. Peel oranges and separate into sections. Free, from skin and membrane. Cut centers from rings of canned rings of the red and green peppers, Make a little hollow in the center of pineapple, so that the remaining ring is only one half inch wide. Place this the salad, and fill this with the cheese balls which have been rolled in the outside ring in a nest of crisp lettuce chopped peanuts.

Wrap the stem of a sprig of holly in Waxed paper and put Chop the center of the pineapple and add diced canned peaches, banana (sliced) and marshmallovrs cut in quar in the center of bowl. 116 N. Washington Ave. 213 Wyoming Ave. ters.

Moisten the fruit with mayon Potato Salad Baise dressing and place a mound of salad in center of pineapple ring. Wash Submitted by Miss Julia Roche, 507 North Main Street, Old Forge. Other Recipes Winners of cook books in this week's berries. Complete the wreath by placing on it a bow made from a maraschino cherry. Cut the cherry almost in half once, then turn and cut almost in half the other way.

Spread out the sections of the cherry to form a bow. Place bow on the wreath. (rapes, cut in half and remove seeds. Place halves of grapes closely on the pineapple ring to represent holly berries. Complete the wreath by making a bow from a maraschino Cherry.

This is done by cutting cherry almost in half once turning and cutting almost in half the other way. Spread out sections of cherry to represent a bow. (2) TO make fancy Christmas cookies, roll out dough on lightly floured board, then cut them. Decorative stars of candied fruits are applied before baking. Sprinkle colored sugar on cookies after baking.

While piping hot bake ten to twelve minutes in moderate oven, 350 degrees F. recipe contest follow: 3 cups diced warm boiled potatoes 2 tablespoons grated onions 1 tablespoon minced green pepper 1 cup finely diced celery Lettuce for garnish 1 hard boiled egg 1 tablespoon chow chow 5 tablespoons salad oil 2 tablespoons vinegar' 1 teaspoon salt Vt, teaspoon pepper Combine the ingredients in the or Christmas Wreath 'Salad Submitted by Mrs. Harold A. Faulk ner, 306 Wyoming Avenue. Pre Ghristmas Specials As a special inducement to buy early, we offer you many extraordinary values in NUTS DRIED FRUITS FRUIT "CAKE SUPPLIES and, many other holiday "Goodies." We are very desirous of giving each and every one of our customers the best of service, and, the attention they deserve, which, of course, is impossible in a last minute rush! WE GUARANTEE EVERY ARTICLE LISTED TO BE OF THE FINEST QUALITY OBTAINABLE! 520 Merry Cookies Submitted by Hazel L.

West Grove Street, Taylor. 4 slices canned pineapple pound red grapes Small can peaches 14 pound marshmallows 1 banana 4 maraschino cherries Using a sharp knife, cut centers from der given, while the potatoes are still warm. Chill and serve with garnish of lettuce. rings of canned pineapple, so that the Orange Salad A very simple dish made of tart remaining ring is only one half inch Turkey Fruit Salad Submitted by Mrs. L.

L. Noakes, 221 South Main Street, Taylor. Halves of canned pears Cream cheese Macaroon crumbs or ground nuts Pineapple slices Apple Maraschino cherries Mayonnaise Spread half a canned pear with soft Cream cheese. Cover with another half of pear and coat the whole fruit using macaroon crumbs or ground nuts. This is to form the body of the 1 turkey.

Make the tail by cutting slices of pineapple in halves and fastening Christmas Tree Dessert Submitted by Mrs. R. J. Williams, 200 North Hyde Park Avenue. 1 package lime jello 1 oup boiling water 1 cup cold pineapple juice 4 slices pineapple, diced cup red cherries, chopped Vi oup walnuts Dissolve jello in boiling water; add the cold pineapple juice and chill.

When slightly thickened, fold in the fruits and walnuts. Pour mixture into square pans to set and when ready to serve, cut with, a Christmas tree cookie cutter and place on a dessert plate. Place a small mound of whipped cream at base of tree. This dessert oranges. Some peeled and sliced and some sliced unpeeled, garnished with wide.

Place in a nest of crisp lettuce. Chop the center of the pineapple and 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda 1U cups sugar 2 3 cups Crisco 2 eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons sour milk teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 3 cup chopped nuts Mix dry ingredients, sift into mixing bowl. Blend in Crisco. Add eggs, milk, flavoring and mix well. Divide, dough; add nuts to half (1) to make ice box cookies, form dough into rolls, wrap in waxed paper.

Chili in ice boxjun til you wish to slice and bake them. tablespoon of lemon juice, three add diced peaches, banana diced and tablespoons of salad oil and a little cayenne pepper. This is a dish for breakfast or with game or cold meats. The oil, lemon juice and pepper should be mixed in a dish and poured over the oranges. marshmallows cut in quarters.

Moisten the fruit with mayonnaise dressing and place a mound of this in the center of the pineapple ring. Wash grapes, cut in half and remove seeds. Place the halves of grapes closely on the Extra Fancy Candied Peels Orange Lemon Citron lb. Extra Fancy Pitted Dates .2 lbs. 29c Extra Fancy Cluster Raisins 25c lb.

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Extra Jumbo, Whole Cashews 59c lb. Salted Mixed Nuts 49c lb. Salted Fancy Pecans 59c lb. Candied Cherries and Pineapple 39c lb. Extra Fancy Calimyrna Figs 25c lb.

pineapple ring to represent holly Frozen Fruit Salad Submitted by. Mrs. E. Wilcox, 204 Mulberry Street. 1 package cream cheese 1 3 cup mayonnaise 1 teaspoon lemon jute teoaooon salt or other cup seedless grapes, grapes, seeded and halved 1 or 2 bananas cup nut meats, broken cup whipping cream Tomorrow Morning Serve this NEW Breakfast Cake ''You Will Also Find a Most Complete and Varied Selection of Glace Fruits Mince Meat Fig and Plum Puddings Preserved Ginger Imported and Domestic Jams and Jellies Stuffed Dates and Prunes Imported Fruit Candies and innumerable other delicacies! Method: combine the cream cheese, mayonnaise, lemon juice and salt; add fruits and nuts.

Whip cream and fold in. Place tray, and freeze four hours. Slice and serve on crisn lettuce leaves. This makes six each half, using toothpicks, to the lender end of the pear. For a neck cut round pieces of apple about one inch long and half an inch wide.

Put toothpick through these, allowing the end of the toothpick to go entirely through the apple. On one end place a whole cherry and a strip of cherry to represent the head and wattle of the turkey, 'stick the head into the body and place the turkey on a bed of lettuce. Serve with mayonnaise. Cranberry Sherbet Submitted by Mrs. Arthur R.

Hopf, 1114 Jefferson Avenue. 2 cups cranberries 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon gelatin 1 tablespoon cold water 1 cup granulated sugar Juice of lemon 1 egg white Cook cranberries in boiling water until soft, about eight minutes. Force through a sieve and discard cranberry skins. Soften gelatin in cold water, then add it with the sugar and stir until dissolved. Add lemon juice and eool.

Beat egg white until stiff, but not dry, and fold into the cranberry mixture. Pour into freezing tray of automatic refrigerator and freeze with temperature control set at highest point. When is frozen to a mush, Stir well, then continue freezing. This recipe made six to eight portions. One servings.

Christmas Party Sandwiches Submitted by Miss Helen Price, North Fillmore Avenue. 335 Cream together (svo packages cream cheese, one half cup mayonnaise, one small can red pimentoes, one half cup FROM NOW UNTIL CHRISTMAS POULTRY WILL BE OH SALE IN OUR WASHINGTON AVE. STORE ONLY! Due to lack of space in our Wyoming Ave. Store we find it impossible to give you the right kind of special service. Please, Remember, 11 611.

Washington Avenue chopped olives. Cut all crusts from two loaves of sandwich bread and slice each loaf lengthwise in four strips. Butter each strip and spread with the above fill ing. Roll each strip separately (as you would jelly roll) and fasten ends with tooth picks. When ready to serve, out in slices.

(Red and green filling make attractive sandwiches to serve with Christmas salad). cup whipping cream may be folded for a cranberry mousse. FRUIT a la American Coffee Co. V' Pocked to your own taste and selection 1 Put up most attractively and artistically 1 Priced from $1.50 up. Continuing For the Rest of This Week Our Introductory Specials On "DOCTOR PHILLIPS" Cranberry Salad Moulded 1 package lemon flavored gelatin 1 cups boiling water 1 orange 1 cup cranberries 1 cup apples, cut fine Watercress or lettuce Mayonnaise Dissolve gelatin in water and cool.

Peel orange, remove sections and cut into small pieces. Put orange peel and cranberries through food chopper. If the skin of the orange is not thin, some Of the white should be removed. When gelatin begins to thicken, add orange, ground cranberry and orange peel and apple. Pour into individual molds.

Chill until firm. Unmold on watercress or lettuce and serve with mayonnaise. This recipe makes six portions. to Holly Wreath Salad Submitted by Mrs. Mary T.

Smith, 114 Throop Street. 13 ounce package cream cheese 1 oup mayonnaise 1 cups cream (whipped) 1 small bottle maraschino cherries oup green olives (chopped) ii cup citron (shredded) 1 cup crushed pineapple (drained) Mash the cream cheese into the mayonnaise. Add the whipped cream, cherries, olives and citron. To one quarter of this mixture add the crushed pineapple. Place this pineapple mixture in the bottom of a round hollow center mold and cover with the remaining mixture and freeze.

Arrange lettuce on round chop platter and unmold salad. This salad with the red cherries and green olives makes a gay combination for Christmas. Poinsettia Fruit Puff Submitted by Josephine Horbach, 944 Prescott Avenue. 1 cup cream 1 egg white 1 tablespoon grapefruit marmalade 2 tablespoons powdered sugar Chopped figs Macaroon crumbs Maraschino cherries Whip the cream until thick. Beat the egg whites until thick, then com ORANGES 42 GRAPEFRUIT Raisin Salad Submitted by Carrie L.

Geary, South Church Street, Carbondole. 1 oup seeded raisins Vi cup lemon juice 2 cups chopped apples 1 cup chopped nuts, any kind 2 cups coarsely shredded lettuce 1 cup cream mayonnaise Wash and dry the raisins, add WILLIAMS COFFEE CAKE 2 Peck 57c No. 3 Peck 45c No. 1 Peck 69g No. 1 Peck 69e No.

2 Peck 54c No. 3 Peck 43c to Also Sold By the Dozen At Reasonable Prices! the apples and lemon Juice. Line bowl or plate with shredded lettuce; pile raisins and apples in center; cover with mayonnaise and sprinkle chopped nuts over top. Serve with cheese balls and garnish top with small pieces of red tart jelly. Here's a real breakfast cake the kind that tastes so good with your morning coffee; The kind your whole family will enjoy.

Butter, eggs, and milk make the cake tasty and nourishing, and the topping is made of brown sugar flour, and butter. Williams Coffee Cake cuts into six good sized slices, which are tasty either plain or spread with butter. It's tempting' and satisfying on these cold mornings. And it's truly "baked as you would bake for a friend." Try Williams Coffee Cake today. Santa Clans Salad Submitted by Margaret Gorton, 635 Detty Street.

oups shredded white cabbage cups diced celery 1 each red and green sweet peppers Vx cup mayonnaise 1 teasooon onion fuice If you have not tried PHILLIPS' Fruit, by all means, please do so! You'll be as delighted with their wonderful quality, juicy content and thin skin, as are the many hundreds Who already have tried it! DR. PHILLIPS' TREE RIPENED FLORIDA ORANGES AND GRAPEFRUIT CARRY THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION! THERE'S ANOTHER CARLOAD Oil THE WAY FROr.1 FLORIDA RIGHT NOW! bine' with the cream and add the sugar and marmalade. Stir chopped figs into this until it becomes quite thick. Pack in tall glasses, top with macaroon crumbs, and garnish with maraschino cherries cut in strips and arranged in a poinsettia design. Muffins' Flavor Pineapple and honey added to bran muffins will make the company breakfast meal something to be remembered.

Robert Spring, once a clerk in Washington, D. and a famous forger, made such interesting copies of George Washington's signature that they now have a value of their own among autograph collectors. i Buy it at your local FrL, and Sat. 15' package cream cneese 'a cup chopped peanuts teaspoon salt Vt teaspoon cayenne Shred the cabbage and put in ice water. Cut the red and green peppers In narrow rings, removing the seeds.

Add the onion juice to the mayonnaise. if.