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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1961
Page
6
Home Demonstration Agent shares festive at home menu ideas for Christmas entertaining. Includes Pizza Appetizers and Caramel Crunch recipes from bulletin B-254 Christmas Time at Home with detailed ingredients and baking steps.
A tested old recipe outlines cooking sugar to 234 degrees while stirring, then cooling and adding vanilla. It instructs pouring over a coconut cereal nut mix, pressing into an 8 inch pan, and cutting into thirty six squares. Also lists a spiced citrus tea ingredients including orange juice lemon juice and spices.
A hot or cold tea blend is prepared by simmering spices in water with orange and lemon rind, steeping tea briefly, then straining. Add juice and sugar to taste, yielding fifty servings.
The Melvin Woman's Missionary Society held a Christmas themed meeting with a pageant including Adele Hargroves Mary Lundquist Marie Carlson and Thelma Flemming. They read letters of thanks from Rev. Christensen and Lydia's Orphans Home and voted to send ten dollars to The Messenger for an addressing machine. Members baked cookies for Good Samaritan Home and finished bandages before closing.
Mrs. Norman Lawler and Mrs. D. A. Harkrider hosted an open house for the Theta Upsilon and Xi Theta Epsilon chapters of Beta Sigma Phi on Wednesday evening December 13 from 7:30 to 9:30 at the Lawler home. About 50 members and guests were served from a Christmas themed table with a red and white decor. Ed Davenport poured spiced apple cider punch, Lloyd Bratton served the second hour, and cookies and salted pecans were offered. Assisting hosts included Mrs. Steve King and Mrs. Frank Corder, with organ music supplied by Mrs. R. T. Trail and Mrs. Joe McDonough.
The Melvin PTA held a Christmas program Tuesday night in the high school auditorium led by Edsel Malmstrom. Jimmy Murray played the Prelude and Thomas Dusek gave the prayer. The effort focused on moral and spiritual values with the theme Effecting Learning For Moral and Spiritual Values.
The president Mrs. Avert Carlson presided over the meeting. The spiritual award went to Mrs. Wells room and PTA attendance to Mrs. Middleton's room. Refreshments were provided by the executive committee. The next meeting is January 9 at 3 46 PM with Mrs. Leonard Atherton as guest speaker.
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