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Make the Christmas Cakes and Pies Before the Rush (By A. C. F.J) If you have not made your Christmas cakes before, do so at once. Homeâ€" made cakes, if properly cooked, are deâ€" licious. Rich ;ruit cakes improve by keeping, and so they can be kept for a special treat all through the winter and if they still last, even through he sumâ€" mer. Prepare the tins and oven. Have good tins, grease them well with lard, and line them carefully with several thicknesses of wellâ€"greased paper; and i#f using a gas oven, light it half an hour before putting the cake in. When the mixture is ready, place the tins on a baking tin lined with sand or salt, and bake in a moderate oven, but it should be fairly hot at first. Here is a good recipe for a Christmas cake, writes E. A. Brierley. Ingrediâ€" ents: threeâ€"quarter pound flour, oneâ€" half pound currants, four ounces sulâ€" tanas, oneâ€"half pound raisins, oneâ€"half pound of white sugar, oneâ€"half pound butter, four ounces mixed peel, one tablesgpoonful mixed spice, a little allâ€" spice, five eggs, two ounces almonds. Clean the fruit, stone the raisins, shred the peel, and pass the flour through a sieve. Blanch the almonds and cut them into slices. Cream the butter and sugar together well, add the eggs, one at a time. Stir in the fruit, flour, and spice, peel, and almonds. and mix thor.â€" oughly. Put into cake tin, lined with double paper and bake in a moderately hot oven for about three to four hours. pon‘t open the oven door until the cake has been baking for a couple of hours. Then, if you find the top is browning too quickly and the rest of the cake uncooked, cover it with a piece of greased paper. Test to see if it is done by running a warmed skewer into the centre. If it comes out clean the cake is done. When baked, turn the cake out carefully and leave on a rack to cool. Tcing The Cake Later it may be frosted with a deâ€" licious Almond Paste, over which a topping of Royal Icing is spread. To make the almond paste, you will reâ€" quire six ounces each of ground alâ€" monds and white sugar, half teaspoonâ€" ful each of vanilla and almond essence and sufficient unbeaten egg to bind the mixture. Place the ground almonds, stugar, and essence in a basin, add the ege or eggs, which must not be beaten, and pound into a stiff paste. Do not pound too much, or the past will beâ€" come oily. Roll out the paste to a thickness of an inch on a board dusted with icing sugar. Brush the cake over with apricot jam, then cover the cake with the paste, making it quite smooth and even. Put the cake in a cool oven to harden the paste. Then frost with Royal icing made as follows:â€"Sieve one pound icing sugar through a hair sieve into a basin. Make a well in the centre, put in the strained juice of a lemon and the. slightly whipped whites of three eggs. Mix well with a wooden spoon or spatula, beating and mixing until a smooth rather moist paste is formed. The spoon should stand vertically in it when ready. This icing requires very hard beating for 10 minutes or more. Put a good portion of icing on top of the cake and smear it over with a palette knife, dipped in cold water. When the top is quite even and smooth coat the sides of the cake. Decorate with more icing, put through a forcer. Decorating a Cake One can easily buy little ornaments at the shop, tiny figures of Father Christmas, snow â€" babies, reindeers, sleighs, bells, trees, robins and so on, and they make very effective decoraâ€" tions. Small apples, oranges, cherries, strawberries, and holly berries may be moulded from marzipan and coloured with any vegetable colour desired. Alâ€" monds blanched and chopped or shred. ded, cut into strips, halves or slices, make a good decoration, especially if they are browned in the oven after shredding them. Walnuts are generâ€" ally used whole or halved. Pitachio nuts are very pretty either chopped or shredded. Angelica makes leaves, stems, and various conventional deâ€" corations. Cut some oranges in half, scoop out the pulp and keep for orangeade. Then 4 the halves with orange jelly. When ~set. decorate with crystallized orange MONDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 1940 SKI SUITS Grand gift for the outdoor girl! Cotâ€" ton poplin jacket is lined with allâ€"wool jersey. Treated with Zellan durable repellantâ€"for weather and spot resisâ€" A little hat for tne "big man" on your list . . . and your favourite man follows in your footsteps ta Bowig‘s here‘s how it‘s done . . . you drOpIinto Mark BOWieLSS and gets his favourite hat in exchange for the miniaâ€" and chose one of these most popular Christmas gif s » P R nrist h for men . .. the hat comes in miniature size, with a lfxre andâ€"certificate ..... it‘s fun to Chrisimas shop buying certificate attached . .. and after Christmas, like that, THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO HATS AT MARK BOWIE AND CO. (By M. B.) Christmas is close and it‘s getting closer every minute. The shopping time is narrowing down to a matter of a very few weeks, and in no time at all there‘ll be Christmas decoration in every house and store, the familiar lighted Christmas trees will be glowing and all will be in readiness for the big day. But before the day actually arrives there‘s always that mad, lastâ€"minute shopping rush, when «you suddenly think, "Migosh, I forgot Cousin Willie," and you dash madly downstreet and into a store, your hat awry, your ribs sore from elbows jabbed into them, your corns tender from being stepped on, and the clerks â€"say: "Sorry but we‘re right out." But all this can be avoided. The wiss shoppers are already in action, making a leisurely tour of the wellâ€"stocked stores and buying Christâ€" mas gifts while service, selection and & Have you seen our display of special Chesterfleld and Pedroom Suites and cur two fioors teeming with end tables, coffee tables and lovely gifts. We have a very few new 1940 Westinghouse Refrigerators, Ranges, Radios, Vacuum Cleaners and Washing Machines at the old price. Remember, as of December 2, everything billed from warehouses have Tax added. Wise people are cleaning up this stock because when one can buy nsw Westinghouse products at such a saving, few people hesitate. Our stock of irons, toasters, waffle irons and sandwich toasters, all at old prices.. ® APPLIANCE and FURNITURE COMPA! 39 THIRD AVENUE IF YOU ACT AT ONCE Westinghouse L Y NC H VISIT THE HOME OF WESTINGHOUSE SAVE 25% TIMMINS Check Up on Your List of Christmas Decorations Now There is no time like the present to check over your Christmas dedbrations. Although they may have all been in good shape when you packed them away in the attic after last Christmas. There is no telling how much of it will be useless now. Tinsel will be dull and colourless, and there will certainly e a few electric Christmas tree lights no longer in working order. Go over your decorations right away. Make out a list of what you need and do your shopping while you still have a chance to get the things you want. Not on Christmas Day maybe, but come summer and we know of no one thing but an electric roaster that wili simply make her summer, savings are available. For in the dying hours of Christmas shopping those advantages will have gone. It will then be a case, as it inâ€" variably is, anywhere in any city, of taking what you can and being thankâ€" ful for even that. Shop early, and avoid the rush! GIVE ROASTER SHOPPING SECTION PHONE 1870