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90 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, November 26, 1988 aN A Buffet Chowder Supper Is Easy Way to Entertain A chowder supper can be a spe- cial treat. Filled with warmth and goodness a steaming tureen seems a symbol of hospitality. A welcome to your family and friends. Everyone gath- ers glady around the di table. Or they pick up their own chowder bowls from the buffet, then settle comfortably around the living room to feast and chat. Grand makings for the chowder come right from your kitchen shelf. Creamy rich condensed mushroom soup or chicken soup as the base. Goiden kernels of corn. Cubes of rosy ham or some leftover turkey to round out the chowder. How's that for a bowlful of goodness to savor with relishes (cranberry sauce and celery) and hot buttery cornbread! Wedges of pumpkin pie appear as dessert. Mushroom Chowder } cup cooked ham, finely diced ta leshoon butter or margarin 3% cup finely chopped onion 1 can (1% cup) condensed cream of mushroom or chicken soup | soup can milk can (2 cups) cream style corn Brown ham utter; add onion; cover and cook until limp. Blend in soup and milk; add corn. Heat but do not boil. Serve garnish- (350 deg ed with copped green parsley. Turkey Cowder: Cooked turkey Tay be used in the chowder instead of Then add 1 cup turkey when A Use 3 table- spoons Pp. pimiento for garn- ish instead oe SO SCOOPS . Steakburger With Gravey Graces Platter: Shape a tender steakburg- er from the plentiful ground beef now om the market; and you have something to grace your most hand some platter. Use a can of good beef gravy to put extra richness into the burger. First mix % cup dry bread crumbs, salt and pepper. | Form mixture into one large ng er, about l-inch- thick. Broil until done and well browned. Also broil pineapple slices with the meat. Ar- range burger on platter, pine-apple around it. Spoon red currant Jey into centre of each pineapple slice Carry it forth serve 4. Bake Beans 'n' Sausage: Tempt- Fy oven dinner oh a cold night is a juicy casserole of beans an Fok top) with ed sausage. First brown 6 to 8 sausages in skillet; brown 2 slices of pineapple also. Meanwhile pour 2 cans of beans and pork into a casserole; place sausage and pineapple on top. Slide casserole into oven to bake at . F. about 30 minutes or until sausage is done. Rich, Moist Mincemeat Secret Of Spicy, Seasonable Cupcakes For people whose eyes light at the mere thought of a ay Be -- dark, rich, moist and full of vor -- this will be like getting a coveted Christmas present. For here's a new way to oy meat. Cupcakes made with it! Doesn't that sound exciting? And talk about gilding the lily. These cupcakes are frosted with a creamy lemon icing, their perfect cool, complement. The recipe comes from Winifred 8. Carter, director of Household Information - Service, and it's a gem. Not only do these little cakes rejoice in having mincemeat in them, but they're crammed with other good tl s to make them doubly tempting, With this treasure of a recipe you can make three dozen small cupcakes, or a dozen and a half larger ones. If you've been won- dering what to give some friend, as a really personal sort of Christ- mas gift, why not do this. Pack a Pretty festive - looking box with hese little creations. You can dec- orate the cakes to your liking, for even more Christmas atmosphere, with colored gumdrops, cinnamon candies or bits of angelica. Or you might add a tiny candle, set up- right in a life saver as holder. If yours is a traditional sort of household, about the Holidays, faithfully having turkey and pump- kin pie for Thanksgiving, and tur. key (or perhaps goose?) and mince pie for Christmas -- here's your chance to stay loyal to tradition, but with an appealing difference. Especially after a big dinner these littie mincemeat cupcakes, served with a good strong brew of cof- fee, make an ideal dessert. MINCEMEAT CUP CAKES 1-3 cup creamed shortening 1 cup brow prawn sugar (packed % teaspoon salt 2 eggs % cup moist mincemeat % cups sifted flour teaspoons baking powder teaspoon cinnamon teaspoon cloves cup milk 3% cup chopped nutmeats % eup currants or raisins Blend shortening, sugar, salt and eggs. Add mincemeat, stir in sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk. Add nutmeats and raisins. |! Drop into lined or greased cup cake tins and bake at 350 degrees TF. for 20-25 minutes. Ice when cool with Creamy Lemon Frosting. Dec- orate .as desired -- perhaps with | | with you jemporaily. e THE STARS SAY By ESTRELLITA FOR TOMORROW In order to produce results this on to details. Do not let criticism or other forms of dis- approval discourage you. IH you know you're on the right track, keep plugging. Just remember that no one can please everybody. Creative work and cultural in- = |terests are under excellent aspect t land this period is also a fine one in which to make plans concern- ing the future, especially those con- nected with travel or financial mat- ters. In making plans, however, on the future. Don't look backward, even if you have experienced fail- ure in the past. You have no cause for pessim now. FOR THE BIRTHDAY If tomorrow is your birthday, it would be advisable during the com- ing months to capitalize on the career and financial gains you have been making these past months. If you have taken advan-- | [tage of the opportunities offered | | during the latter part of 1953, your program should be well established y now, and it would be foolhardy to risk still further successes by } making sudden changes. Where domestic affairs are con- |; cerned, the next few months may witness some changes. There may move ere is also a possibility that change will be environmental. In any case, al- distant relatives id at first, accept the changes with equanimity--even though they may ring new responsibilities with them. Romance, cultural interests and social pursuits are in excellent aspect. child born on this day will be endowed with great tenacity of purpose and enormous will power. WIFE PRESERVER When wax 1s tracked from one floor to another, it is an indica- tion that too much wax has been used. The only remedy is to re- | move all the wax and start over. ler, or a Christmas tree designed with gum drops. Polythene bags used to prepack- age such groceries as fruits, vege- tables and biscuits make excellent dust covers for stacks of plates and other 'china on pantry shelves not in daily use. The bags can be cut to size if too long and are easily washed in warm soapy water, a tiny candle with a life-saver hold- CREAMY LEMON FROSTING 2 1-3 cups sifted confectioner's sugar 3% teaspoon salt 1 ogg 2 tablespoons lemon juice ¥% cup granulated sugar 1% cup shortening tablespoon grated lemon rind Mix confectioners' sugar, salt and egg. Boil the lemon juice and granulated sugar together for one minute, then blend with the sugar and egg mixture. Add shortening and grated lemon rind. Beat until creamy. URY and LOVELL COSMETIC DEPARTMENT BATH KIT FOR CHILDREN Children's Bath Kit in a case holding toothbrush, tooth paste, Fluffy Milk Bath Petals all in a row, heart-shaped Blue Grass Soap, Hand Lotion, Blue Grass Flower Mist, Velva Cream, Eight Hour Cream, Blue Grass compressed face cloth and Lip Pomadel For a clean, sweet child 530 Simcoe S. Dial 5-3546 day, you must rely on clear think- | ing, Sova judgment and careful | attent be sure that you are concentrating || a marriage in your family or |; in though you may have misgivings | * The truly feminine woman en- joys having lace at her finger- tips -- delicate, lacy -- trimmed handkerchiefs that she gracefully displays at the flick of her wrist. Pamper your feminine self by making a variety of elegant edg- ELEGANT EDGIN Canada's Star Horsewoman at 18 Has Been Riding Shirley Thomas, at 18 Canada's top woman rider in jumping com- petition, has been training horses 0 do her bidding since soon after she could walk. "And that's what counts," says the five-foot-four-inch girl, one of the star riders of four countries at the Royal Winter Fair last week. "You and your horses have to wok together as a unit." rise to international recogni | pj; § |tion has been Sudden for the girl from this Quebec town near Ot- tawa who until three months ago was little known as a horsewoman outside Ontario and her native province. ¥ [SPECIAL TRAINING ings for your handkerchiefs. To obtain instructions for crocheting these Three Lovely Edgings, send a stamped, self - addressed enve- lope plus 10 cents for handling, to the Needlework Department of this Fig and ask for Leaflet No -40. ! " Representing 15 National Groups CAC Works to Protect Buyer By JOAN BARBERIS Canadian Press Staff Writer A women's association concerned with constructive criticism from consumers has put out a modest folder on its achievements since it started in 1947. The Canadian Association of Con- sumers now has more than 16,000 individual members from all prov--- inces and includes representatives from -15 national women's groups. CAC members first rolled up their sleeves over margarine in appealed the federal ban on this 1948. The Association successfully food. As a result the manufacture of margarine now comes within the jurisdiction of each province. In 1949 CAC officers appeared twice before the Senate committee on banking and commerce and gave evidence on the bill for na. tional trade mark and true label- ling, Their evidence was a factor in the passing of the bill, which requires manufacturers to use ac- curate labels on their goods and up standards for Canadian goods. MANY PROJECTS Standard garment sizes for women and children is anbther pro-- ject. Five years' effort on it was climaxed when the government specifications board called a con- ference in 1952. In January of this year a committee formed from that conference started working on a standard sizing system for chil-- dren's clothing. The CAC has three national ob-- jectives regarding milk. They are: consumer representation on all government price fixing commis- sions; a price differential between home - delivered and store - pur- chased milk and public hearing by milk boards before a change is made in the price. In connection with the first ob- jective, CAC now has a represent- ative on the milk boards of On- tario and New Brunswick. In Manitoba the consumers as-- sociation secured an amendment to provincial legislation so that the milk control board sets the min- empowers the government to set 139 King E. PRE-CHRISTMAS SALE of MILLINERY .. Hats Marked Down to V2 Price Call and inspect our reduced line of models. THE HAT BOX Parking In Rear Early last summer she had been jumping four and five hours a day on her father's 52-acre estate near here. She coaxed her Palamino Princess Midas over jumps she had specially built in preparation for Canadian National Exhibition competition early in the fall. There she was chosen first wo- man ever to ride on Canada's four-member international eques- trian team. When in New York with the team earlier this month, the 135-pound girl entered single competition and defeated 10 men and Pat Smythe, % |Britain's best equestrienne. Her latest triumph came on a horse she had trained o six weeks, Riding her new grey White Sable at the Royal Winter Fair, she defeated riders of Britain, Ire- land, and the United States, as well as her own teammates, to win the international individual event. Hers was the only faultless per- formance. Shirley got her first Jou as a child of four. At 4%, she rode in her first show. At seven her father, Charles T. Thomas, formerly of Calgary and now owner of an Ot- tawa cosmetics firm, gave her a silver-trimmed saddle. Nowadays Shirley and her mother ride side by side on the estate in daily workouts. In their home are scores of trophies Shir ley has won, AIR PILOT TOO Riding and other interests keep her too busy tobe much concerned Miss Norma Barker Feted Bride-Elect Miss Norma Barker a bride- elect of November, was guest of honour at a miscellaneous shower held at the home of Mrs, Fred Porter, Carnegie Avenue. Co-hos- tess for the evening was Mrs. Wil- liam Barker of Church Street. Pink and white wedding bells and streamers decorated the rooms with the many lovely gifts arrang- ed on a table decorated with white candlesticks and a bride doll seat- ed beneath a white and pink lace parasol. Other gifts were placed in a pink decorated basket. A cor- sage of chrysanthemums was nre- sented to the bride-elect before opening the gifts. Nieces of the bride Miss Louise Porter, Miss Lorraine Porter and Miss Rita Heard assisted the hostesses in sefving the twenty-five guests pres- ent, Miss Barker was also guest of honour at a miscellaneous shower at the home of Miss Velma Goyne, Nassau Street, with Miss Shirley Corby assisting. Guests included close friends of the bride-to-be and co-workers of the Parts and Serv- ice department of the General Motors. the honored guest was seated in a gaily decorated chair with bells and streamers and after being presented with a corsage of flowers commenced to oven the gifts taken from a pretty pink and white wishing well. After an entertaining evening the guests were served refreshments by the hostessess. Miss Barker was also nresnhted with two hostess chairs from the employees and her co-workers of the Parts and Service Department of General Motors. imum and maximum prices for milk, Milk sold in stores in Winni- peg now is cheaper than home-de- livered. MILK RULING The CAC was successful with its third objective in Ontario and Man- milk4fcontrol boards hold public milion obtained a ruling that g hearings before altering the price. A) M ERRY CHRISTMAS 4 Since She Was 4 boy friends, she says. She completed a general high school course at Elmwood Ladies' College near her home last June and hopes this fall to become a licensed air Bot. She has already chalked up ¥ an of flying at Ottawa air- port. lans to ride in other Ly Md shows, but she's not raising her sights to the Olym- cs. "It's too strenuous for women," she says. "It's a three-day event, the most ed country imaginable, and both horse and er must be in absolutely perfect shape. t 4S trim a rider should "To train horse for six months. To get his own wind in run two miles a m "Frankly, I wouldn't the bi ¥ big. Olympic event even ¥ women ' NEW CHENILLE BEDSPREADS At Only $5.00 Each FROM ACTORY 10 YOU. 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