. . « by Shirley Pinchin, B.H.E. in vanity and melted shortening, Sift together flour, baking powder, woda, salt and nutmeg, Add to creamed mixture alternately with the sour milk or buttermilk, mix- Ing until smooth after each addi- ton, Roll dough out one-third inch thick and cut with a floured eut- ter, Lot stand & minutes. Fry in deep hot fat (375 degrees, or when fa Linch cube of bread browns in 80 peconds) until golden brown, turning ax doughnut comes to the LLOWE'EN TREATS When the doorbell rings and sparkling eyex peor through grote- aque masks, it {s lots of fun for all of us to try and Agure out who they are under their disgulses and hand out goodies in response to “Hallowe'en treats.” Hallowe'en can de a time for fun for the grown-ups too. After the ehilaren are tucked safely in bed, the adults can take over and have a party of thelr own, Refreshments on Hallowe'en can be quite simple It is more impor- tant that the themes are carried cut rather than the foods be too elaborate, Here are a group of recipes that will please all the little witches and Bobgoblins and the grown-ups too. "ALDORF PRUNE ASPIC This Is « tasty salad in appro- priate colors for your Hallowe'en buffet. 1 tablespoon gelatine % cup lemon julce 1 cup prune juice from cooked prunes 4 cup orange juice 34 teaspoon grated onion 44 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar “cup diced apple. % cup diced celery, Whole cooked prunes Mayonnalse or salad dressing Soften gelatine in lemon juice. Heat prune juice, pour over gela- and stir until dissolved. Add orange juice, onlon, salt, sugar and Blend well. Cool until slightly iekened. Add apple ‘and celery pour into a shallow square Chill. Serve on lettuce and sh with whole cooked prunes Serves 6. ORANGE GOBLIN SALAD ‘This is a quickie, Make a circle of orange allces on individual salad mayonnaise. plates, put a frill of lettuce in centre of each circle. Top with peach halves. Use whole cloves or pleces of cut-p gumdrops to make goblin features. For youngsters, make a salad a real surprise by hiding = small wrapped candy fav. ar in the hollow of each peach HARVEST MOON CASSEROLE Here is 2 tasty dish that will carry oot the autumn theme and the Hallows'en colors. Serve St at your midnight buffet or for supper. 1 green pepper 2 espe kernel corn (fresh or canned) % cap sliced ripe olives yy cup mille 1 pound ground round steak iL ee Balt and pepper % clove warile, choyped Z tablespoons parsley, chopped Remuve seadn trom green pep- per. Cut Into amnall crescent shapes put some aside tor tap decor- remaining pepper, fation, Chop Combine corn with pepper, pars olives and milk, Mix meat with exe and seasonings and make Into small balls about the size of wi nutes. Pry until browned. of corm mixture. pepper strips on top of casserole, ‘or put on after baking. Bake in for moderate oven, 200 degree about 46 minut PKESSURE POPCORN 4¢ you do not have & comn pop BUGARED DOUGHNUTS per, bere a nn easy way to yet partect, fully por prenvure cooker. enduighs ta cover the baAtom, Cover pan and leave aver bigh beat. The second the corn stops popping, ro- sprinkle with salt and Simple refresh Hallowe'en—the night when witch sayort and black cats are prowling. Put in casserole dish with alternate layers Arrange green yeorn in your Hallow Put two tablé-' good recipe. poona salad ost Sn heated pressure pan. Pour in a layer of corn, fast surface of tho fat, Drain on abe sorbent paper, Makes about firty doughnuts, Mix about % eup sugar with 2 {ablexpoons cinnamon. Shake warm doughnuts with sujar mixture In paper bay MARVEST SPICE CAKE ‘This is a wonderful okdsfashioned spice cake with peanut crunch 1c ye that Ix perfect to serve with coffee for your midnight anack, % cup shortening: 14 cups brown sugar 1 cup granulated sugar 3 oggs, unbeaten 1% teaspoons noda 1 teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon nutmeg % teaspoon cloves ¥% teaspoon allspico 1 teaspoon salt 1% cups buttermilk or sour milk Cream shortening, gradually add. sugar and cream well, Add eggs ‘one at a time, beating well after each nddition, Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixturo alternately with milk, beat ing well after each addition, Spread |! 18 x 9 Inch oblong pan which has beon well greased and floured. Bako at 350 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes. Cool and spread with Peanut Crinch Ieing. ments best ride on Broomsticks, spooks ‘Com ayrup, onethird cup water, M cup butter and % teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring until sugar ts dls ‘solved, then continue cooking with- fut stirring until ayrup forms a brittle ball in cold water, Stir in % teaspoon vanilla, Pour syrup over 3 quarts popper corn. Mix ‘well, Wet hands slightly and shape into balls, using only enough pre: sure to make popcorn stick toget! er, Makes about 20 balls. Nuts, candied cherries, gum [drops or raisins may be added be- fore combining with the syrup if [desired TAFFY APPLES Tt would not be Hallowe'en with: 1 out some taffy apples 2 cups granulated sugar 4% cup light corn syrup 4 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla Few drops red food coloring 12 red apples ANUT CRUNCH ICING: Combine 2 unbeaten exg whiter with 1% cups brown augar, daxh || of salt, one-third cup water and 4 Yearpoon cream of tartar, In top of double boller, mixing thoroughly. Cook over boiling wat constantly for 7 minutes or until Join stands in peaks, Remove from boiling wator, add % teaspoon Vanilla and beat until thiok enough to spread, Sprinkle % cup crushed Peanut brittle over top of fronted cake, JACK-O“LANTERN PTE. ‘This dolightful pumpkin ple will bom whimalont convernation: pleoe at your Hallowe'en qet-together, 1 cup cooked pumpkin 3 enue, separated ¥% oup sugar 1 cup milk 4 tonmpoon nal %4 teanpoon ginger % teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon plain gelatine % cup cold water 4% cup sugar 4 pint whipping cream 1 Sjnich Graham cracker crust Cook pumpkin over boiling water for 10 minutes, Mix together beat- on egg yolks, 4 cup sugar and milk. Add to pumpkin with salt, apices and butter, Stir and cook Until custard consistency, about 15 minutes, Soften gelatine In cold water and add to hot mixture, | stirring until dissolved. Chill until , begins to stiffen. Beat egg whites unth stiff, gradually adding re- maining % cup sugar, Fold Into pumpkin mixture. Pour into Gra- ham crust and chill until firm. Make a Jack O' Lantern face with whipped cream put through pas- try tube. 12 wooden skewers Combine sugar, corn syrup and water in the top of a double boiler. Cook over direct heat, stirring un- til sugar Is dissolved and mixture bolls, Continue cooking, stirring occasionally to hard-crack sta: wiping sugar crystals from sides of pan with damp cloth, Remove syrup from heat and set at once over hot water. Color with red food coloring and add vanilla. Insert skewers in blossom end of apples and plunge into hot syrup. Twirl until syrup covers 8 evenly. Place on waxed paper, blossom end down, and cool until coating 1s firm. CAKAMLL APP ‘These are a little different and really good! Pince 1 cup granulated sug % cup corn syrup, and 1 sweetened condensed milk in| saucepan. Cook to firm ball stage, stirring gently. Cool slight add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Dip on skewers into ayrup gently to coat evenly. PUSSYCAT COOKIES These are fun children love them 2 cups alfted all-purpose flour 1% teaspoons baking powder teaspoon baking 10 teaspoon salt teaspoon cinnamon p shortening 1% cupa sugar 2 well-beaten the to fix and A Jack O' Lantern fruit cup Add ekxs and chocolate and bent \« salad of thin type takes, becauso well. Add dry Ingredients, a wmall|you can rake it In a jiffy. In Amount mt & time, mixing well |fact, you'll probably have loty of after exch addition, Chil! 1 to 2 lp from the family in drawing hours, Kol out % inch thick on|tho faces, Just cut off tho top of lightly floured bourd, Cut Into|an orango, and clther nqueaze the rounds with cookle cutter, With «| Juleo, or cut the Inside part out for sharp knife, cut Mttle wedges of dough for ears, Pines on cookle nheet with placed ngainst rounds, Press gently with lip of knife to fasten thom (0 round. Bake at 20 deyreon about 10 min- utes, When cold, make cat facen with white icing put through pas: try tube, & salad, Draw a face on each orange with crayon or groase pen- Mears eet oll; then use the Jack of a ‘ox A contairior for frult anlad, Chop the plochs of eltrux (that You took out of the orange) Into bite sla plocer, add chopped marshmallows, raining, and: jrapon Spoon this mixture into the hollows ed-oUL oranwen nnd place on sory ing plate, To make each sorving Jook avon prottier, make & ruftie of cellophane around the fruit. For children’s party, pass around & plate of cookies and your refresh: mont problem In solved. Yor w change, you may want to vary the fruila in the salad and {elude some that you may have ‘on hand at the Ume, A favorite combination in chopped orange with apple and banana. ‘To thie, you could add nuts oF datos it] Doughnuts are a yood choice tor nm festivities, Here In a 2 ete J cup granulated sugar % cup melted shortening 1 teaspoon vant 4 cups aitted all-yurpone flour 4 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon baking noda 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon nutmeg 1 oup sour milk or buttermilk Sunkist Pieture—Courtesy JACK O’ LANTERN FRUIT CUP is so cute that even the most par cd see Unsweetened chocolate, |ticular child will go for fruit in this form. Your youngster will be nee proud to have this refreshment served to bli frlonds at a Hallowe'en Sift flour with baking powder, . yoda, anit and cinnamon. Ceeans |Party Also, you might want to surprise tho family with this tricky shortening and add sugar gradu-|frult n# 0 wulnd or dessert for dinnor. ally, creaming until Mght and fluffy.| Don't worry about the time that¢—— - FOR THE FRESHEST MILK IN TOWN — Phone — Cloverdale 59-X HILLSIDE FARM DAIRY Or VAL GROCERY SPECIALS te Sted and White Adve in Wednesday's Sun oF Province thon come {0 the Red and White Store | MATE STREET Phono: Walk sok Bee _ Picture—Courtesy Sunkist ORANGE SPICE MEN Trick or Treat guests of all ages will go for Orange Spica Men dressed in sults made of fronting, candy or raisins. For an effective table arrangement, line up several rows of the cookie men in Call- (Bake a lollipop stick in the leg of each man and push a stick Into the top of an orange). In order to’ protect your table, coat and) Bat of orange Bater place all the treats on m layer of frosting. orange crepe paper or plain white shelf paper, Then pour popcorn or caramel corn around the oranges to make the table even more in- teresting, and as an extra item for the children. Let each child help himself to a cookle and orange plus a handful of popcorn. ORANGE SPICE MEN 3 cups flour teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon salt ™% cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 ogg 4 cup molasses cup fresh orange julce fornia oranj ee Delicious Chocolate Crean +. , ia 1 chocolite Asvoured sandwich. That's BOURBON «+ « one of Peek Frean’ Famous ENGLISH Biscuits Nice for afternoon ees. $C meal ime, « «aay tie, in “Evercrisp” molseare-proc® airtight packers. 2 teaspoons grated orange pec! Sift dry ingredients in medium bow! or on waxed paper, Cream. shortening and sugar in a large bowl. Add egg and beat well. Stir In molasses, orange juice and peel.