Delicate cakes as we know them are comparatively modern. With the fine flavours, refined sugar and standarâ€" dizged recipes as well as regulated ovens, the production cf geod cake should be simple. Special cake flours which go far in producing good texture are availâ€" able.. We take granulated sugar for granted, while our greatâ€"grandmothers were cbligzed to break pieces from the sugar loaf and pound them. For those cakes which we call angel and sponge â€"even the eggs have been standardized as far as quality is concerned. Most recipes> call for "cups‘"‘ of egg whites and yolks. By sifting the flour before it is measured and by resifting it sevâ€" eral times for these cakes and by makâ€" ing sure through the use of an oven regulator or thermometer that the temâ€" iperature is right, the "bad luck" has been taken out of cake baking. We may be just as certain of our reâ€" sults with "buiter cakes." The butter, margarine or cther shortening should be softened before the sugar is added. This mixture: must be well blended. If egg yolks are used they should be added next. L..before it is measured, and then‘ again ; with the baking powder and salt, should be addâ€" ed alternately with the liquid® and flavouring. The‘beaten egg whites will then be folded into this mixture. We owe to Taking powder, which less than a century ago succeeded in cak« was not a requisite for the cake of anâ€" cient times which was probably ar anâ€" cestor to cur fruit cake of toâ€"day. Modern Devices T ake Bad Luck out of Cake Baking bride must cut the wedding cake and throw her bougqu=t to the bridesmailds. In Roman days the cake was broken over the bride‘s head for luck. Let‘s hope it was light! Lightness, however, Housewife Toâ€"day has Fine Flours, Refined Sugar, Stanâ€" d!rdized Recipes, and Regulated Ovens and These Make Cake Compatred to the Work of Cooks in Longâ€"past Years. PAGE Two Customs change! Even wedding cusâ€" (By EDITH M. BARBER) "I‘m twice the cook I was before we got our ORTHERN POWER CORPORATION, LIMITED ELECTRIC RANCGE" ‘ernately with the milk, beating well with each addition. Beat the whites of the eggs stiff and fold into the batter. Flavour and pour into layer cake pans. Bake in a moderate oven (375 deg. F.) twentyâ€"five to thirty minutes. When cool, put choecolate frosting ‘between and on top of the layers. Pans should izse greased well. They may be floured if you like, put it is not necessary to line pans with paper as was once the custom. Sponge cakes and angel foods, in contrast to butter cakes, should be baked in ungreased pans and in a slow oven. Butter cakes demard a mcderate oven. Loaf cakes will take abcut fifty minutes to bake; layer cakes about twentyâ€"five minutes; cup cakes abhout twenty minutes. When cakes are taken out of the oven they should be allowed to stand several mirutes before they are loosened from the sides with a sharp knife and placed on a rack to cool. Standard Layer Cake cup butter or other shortening. 1 cup sugar 2 egPgs 2 cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder / 4 teaspson salt *4 cup milk 1% teaspoons vanilla. Cream the butter well and beat in the sugar gradually. Beat the egg yolk and stir into the creamed Zutter and sugar. Mix and sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and add alâ€" Yow may check on this by taking some of the batter on a spsoson and holding it above the bowl. If the batâ€" ter breaks immediately from the spoon it is too thick. If it runs into the bowl without breaking it is too thin. If it breaks halfway between spson and bowi it is just right. recipes soda and cream of tartar, some of the certaintics of presentâ€"day results. The amcunt listed for each cup of flcur will depend upon the type of powder you use. The label on the can should be ccnsulted if you are charging from one type to another. A safe proâ€" portion is one to cone and a half teaâ€" spoons to a cup of filcur, depending upon the number cï¬ eges used in the recipe. If both yoliks and whites of eggs are used in a cake they may be beaten toâ€" gether until they are very light, or the yolks and whites may be separated beâ€" fore they are beaten. The yolks should be thick and light in colour. The whites shcould be stiff{ enough ‘to stand up ir peaks, but they should not be dry. Whcole eggs or egg yolks may be thorâ€" cughly beaten irto the mixture, but egg whites should be folded in very carcâ€" fully. If you have measured. your ingreâ€" dients carefully ysur batter should be of the proper thickness when you have finisched mixing. : You, too, can be twice the cook you‘ve ever been before by cooking the modern wayâ€"with Electricity. No longer need you worry about dishes being underdone or burnt. Whether you roast, broil, boil, fry or bake, everything turns out just right with every last bit of nourishment retained at the peak of flavour. End the rule of sulky fires, kindling, needless heat and ashes. Just snap a ewitch instead, for correct even heating that cooks perfectly yet gives you a cool, clean, comfortable kitchen, Ask about our easy payment terms. It actually costs less to cook with electricity than by any other way. The first month wili prove it. QUEBEC POWEB COMPAN'! (Business: Week) Concept worthy of a Buck Rogers setting is the new subterrancan garage by which San Francisco> plans to: help stlve its downtown parking problem. Union Square, located. inâ€"the heart of the: city, will be dug up,, # giant subâ€" terranean: garage constructed with a capacity of 5000 cars: daily,, and then the square‘s shrubbery will be replanted. Butter Sponge: Cake 1% cups cake flour 1% teaspoons baking powder 4 teaspoon salt 8 egg yolks 2 whole eggs 74 1%, cupsâ€" sugar %â€" cup.hot water 1 teaspoon vanilla % teaspoon almond extract 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cocled slightly Sift flour, baking powder and salt toâ€" gether three times. Beat egg yolks and whcle eggs together until very thick. Add sugar gradually, beating constant- ly until the mixture is thick. Add water slowly and beat well. Add. flavourings. Fold in sifted dry ingredients graduâ€" ally; fold in butter. Bake in an unâ€" greased tube pan in a slow oven (325 deg. F.) forty to fifty minutes. Invert and cool cake in pan: When: cool, reâ€" move from pan and frost with almond icing. (Copyright 1937, by the Bell Syndiâ€" cate, Inc.) 1 teaspoon vanllia 3 egsg whites Mix sifted flour with baking mder and sait and sift together. Cream short» cring, add sugar gradually and cream together until Auffy. Add flou#, @iterâ€" nately with milk. Ront after ewch adâ€" dition. Add vanililia. Fold in: stiffly beat= en egg Bake in twWo greased 9â€"inch layer pans in moderate: oven Devil‘s Food Cake 1 cup butter or sheorstening % cup white sugar 2 cups brown sugar 3 egg yolks 3 whole eggs 2% cups cake flour or 7 cups allâ€" purpose flour _ 1 teaspoon bakirig powder 1 teaspoon sode@ 1 cup sour millk. 2 cups coconut 6 squares chocolate;, meited Cream the fat and aigar together, and add the egg yolks. Beat well, and add oneâ€"fourth of the mixed flour,. soda and baking powder. AUd the unbeaten eggs, beat well, and add the rest of the flour alternately with the sour millk., Add the coconut and the chosslate, and bake in three layers or in two loaf cake pans, thirty to forty in a moderate oven (3b0 deg: F.). This cake will keep moist a week. Frost with Sciled frosting, using three egg whites left from cake. (345 deg. F.) twentyâ€"five to thirty HUGE SUBTERRANEAN GARAGE THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE. TTMMINS, ONTARIO _between the Beattie Mine and Rouyn and believing that some of the wood was falling off the truck Delorme cpenâ€" the cab door to make sure and fell. . _ His comparions lifted him kack into Killed in Fall From Cab of Motor Truck Hector Delorme Lost Balâ€" ance Leaning out of Cab Door to See if Lvad of Wood was Shifting. With Variâ€"Coloured‘ Prints Let us suppose that one of your cosâ€" tumes for spring is a gay, variâ€"colâ€" oured print with several vivid colours predominating. What happens if you add a high colour in your cheeks, high colcur in lips and effect is Harmony does not necessarily mean matching. In fact, it may sound paraâ€" doxical, but very often â€" harmony is achieved by subtle contrast. For inâ€" stance, (#lack being devoid of all colour. requires a vivid makeâ€"up. This applies to gray also. Purple seems to Gdrailn every bit of colour from the face and therefore needs vivid makeâ€"up.; Green should have a makeâ€"up with some pink in it. Pirk or red need very little makeâ€" up. And skin that is naturally pink or highly flushed and needs toning down can achieve just‘the right degree of colour with the use of avbit of green Losing his balance while trying to see from the open door of a truck if the load was secure, Hector Delorme, aged about 35, fell from the cab under the truck at about 10.30 last Thursday night on the Macamic Road and was instantly killed when the wheels of the truck passed over his chest. The loâ€" cation of the accident is about three miles out of Rouyn and the victim was riding in the cab with Armand Coutu, his employer, who was driving, and another man named Victor Maki. They were bringirg a load of three or four cords of wood in from a point half way You can feel as alive as spring and look utterly charming in all the rictous, gay spring colours. Or, you can look and feel thorsughly ridiculous. Much deperids upon your own courage and confidence. Much depends, tco, upon the deft and subtle harmony between your makeâ€"up and your costume colâ€" ours: Gay amusing prints predominate the spring fashions. When your new clothes have been selected choose harmonizing makeâ€"up. VIRGINIA GREY uses lighter shades of powder and lipstick when she wears this dotted 1ed: dress. Confidence and Clever Makeâ€"Up Needed for Gay Costume Colours BV "KNOW LET IT RAIN" â€"Elderman in the Knoxville Journal One requisite above all in this gay pancrama of cclour is: a clear, flawless skin beneath the makeâ€"up, for makeâ€"up carnot (and should not be expected to) disguise blemishes. A clear, fresh, smooth foundation seems to be the first step in this picture of harmony for spring. the cab and continued their drive to Rouyn, thinking that Delorme was still alive, but on Dr. A. Boisvert making an examinaticon he fcund ro sign of life and it is believed that death was almost instantaneous. The body was convéeyed to Darby‘s Undertaking Parlours to await the inquest. cheap and loud. On the other hand, you can‘t afford to have your costume cutshine your natural colouring and your personality. You therefore have to gauge yourself, strike a happy meâ€" dium in colour. This is particularly cifficult for the average woman. How-l ever, the majority of fine beauty salons! and tcoilet gocds departments in betteri department and drug stores have ex® pert colour consultants whose job it is to advise women. It is a courtesy serâ€" vice. In fact, here and there you may be able to have a complimentary makeâ€" up showing you exactly how you can lock with certain makeâ€"up shades, careâ€" fully selected to. blend with the costume cclour. All: you have to do is wear the costume or bring a sash or belt or enough of it to drape around your throat and tmfs, get a fairly good idea of the harmony betwzsen costume and| makeâ€"up. I Both Coutu and Maki testified to the foregoirg account of the accident at the irquest held by Corcner Dr. G. A. Ricux on Saturaay nignt, saying that the victim seemed to lose his balance as he opened the door and had fallen before they realized what had hapâ€" pened. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with ro one to blame. Hector Delorme who is a single man has lived in Rouyn about four months and gained employment with Coutu three weeks ago. He had told acquainâ€" tances that he came from Gracefield, @ue., and it was unrderstood that he rad a widowed mother living there. A telegram, however, to Father Mondou of that district brought a reply that the family were apparently unknown in Gracefield. Further enquiries are beâ€" ing made and ir the meantime the body has been laid in the vault at the Rouyn Roman Catholic cemetery. (Copyright 1937, by the Bell Syndiâ€" cate, Inc.) In former days when a patient conâ€" sulted a physician about his attacks. of asthma he was given medicine in some formâ€"tablets, capsules, liquids in little ampules which he was to break or crush in a handkerchief and apply close to his noseâ€"with the statement that asthma would never kill him and. this medicine woeuld. relieve the attacks. Searching© Thoroughly for the Cause of Toâ€"day it is known that asthma. is due to varicus causes and when. these causes are removed the attacks will not return. The difficulty of course is in finding the cause in many of the cases. It has also been found that just as hay fever and eszema patients are senâ€" sitive or allergic to certain foods, fur and feathers, pollen of plants and other substances, so also are asthmatic sufâ€" ferers. Likeâ€"wise deformities and deâ€" fects of the nose and throat seem to be the causative factor in some cases of asthma. "All new patients are examined and investigated according toâ€" a uniform system. Very careful records are made cf the exact length of time the patient has had asthma, of how often the atâ€" the length of time between the attacks, and whether or not the attacks someâ€" ‘"The Council cannot offer advice or treatment to individual sufferers who number thousands in the London area alone, but have clinics at various hosâ€" pitals where asthma sufferers may obâ€" taim advice, free if necessary. Last year ai the Asthma Research Clinic at Guy‘s Hospital, London, 610 new patients came to the clinic, and there were 6053 attendarces of old patients.‘" The reâ€" port gives: a sxmpfle but vivid picture of the thorough method: of seeking the cause of asthma in every case. Alzout ten years ago the Astlhhima Reâ€" search Council was organized in Great Britain for the purpose of promoting research in asthma and related ailâ€" ments such as hay fever. [ 319 | =â€" A CARD PARTEY Jas. W. Bacton, M.D;, Toronto We Asked 395 Housewivesâ€"â€"â€" " Where do you have your things LAUNDERED " The Hope Chest will be given away during the evening to the holider of the lucky ticket, it‘s an old Canadian custom . . . getting clothes soiled in one way or another. â€" And it‘s an old Porâ€" cupine custom . . . sending them to the Timmins New Method Laundry. Here‘s the finest, safest laundry service anywhere and the prices are as attractive as a June bride. You get service too. 153 Church of the Nativity Wednesday, March 31st, at 8 p.m. Amspices Catholic Women‘s Junior will be held in the basement of the _ New Method _ LAUNDRY said, "They.don‘t get dirty." At the Tinmins Laundry." ‘â€" After this "trial" period, cases unimâ€" proved are sent on to get "spesific‘ treatmer.tâ€"skin, food and other tests. This lcoks like a thorcough even if sicw method, but we must remember tThat a formerly "incurable" ailment is ceing fought. times stop for any length of time." Thepatients> are then> given advice tacks cecur, the severity,of the attacks. absut their diet, occupation, habits and daily~reutine. ~They are advised tc avoid such substances or factors which might appear to be responsible for their symptoms; medicines and drug: which may help are prescribed, and iey are then sent for a course o! breathing exereises which lasts two months or longer. Are you suscsptible to colds? Do you worry about your heart? Are you overâ€" weight or underweight? Dogs your food agree with you? D53 you have to watch your calories, fats, starthes, etc.? Do you believe you have am ailment that medical tests do not reveal? 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