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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1944
Page
5
The Seal Beach Post announces a looseleaf series of neighbor contributed recipes with a future booklet. Each contributor will receive a copy, others may obtain issues as released. The first supplement is planned for the year’s start and readers are encouraged to submit their pet recipes.
A vintage recipe for Never Fail Chocolate Cake by Mrs Margaret Brown. It lists ingredients including flour sugar shortening cocoa and sour milk with steps to cream eggs and alternate wet and dry ingredients. The directions cover baking as cupcakes layers or a sheet cake with varying times.
Mrs. R. D. Jarrell outlines a method to make sauerkraut in quart jars using zinc and porcelain lids. Shred cabbage, pack loosely, add salt and warm water, affix rings and lids, tighten, then set jars in sun by day and indoors by night for 5 6 days. Refill with warm salt water, repeat tightening, seal if no juice oozes after three days, and store cool. Ready to eat in 4 to 6 weeks.
Mrs Frances Basten shares a nut candy recipe using 34 percent cup brown sugar Y percent cup white sugar and percent cup sour cream with cup whole nut meats Cook sugars and cream to a firm ball in cold water Stir in nuts spread on waxed paper and break into pieces Ideal for parties or overseas packages.
Prepare by frying one large onion until tender, then mix in two cups diced meat and two cups diced boiled potatoes. Add milk and simmer until absorbed. Transfer to a buttered casserole, top with buttered crumbs, bake at 350 for about 40 minutes. Serves four.
A historical stew recipe notes Perfect Brown Stew by Mrs Vala Musselman. Ingredients include duck or flank beef, onion, garlic, bay leaves, salt, paprika, sugar, lemon juice, carrots, potatoes, small onions, flour and suet. Meat browned, simmered with water and seasonings, then thickened with flour paste before serving with hot biscuits.
Instructions describe cream shortening and brown sugar, beat in egg and vanilla, alternate adding milk and flour with cocoa and salt, fold in nuts, drop dough on sheet and bake, then frost with mocha frosting while warm.
The Senior Woman's club executive board met at city hall with Mrs. Florence Tyler presiding. Grace Haskell reported strong petition progress for mail delivery in Seal Beach, planning a public card party to benefit welfare, pending venue date due to civic auditorium scheduling.
Local Assembly of God members and friends hosted a surprise housewarming Saturday for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Heckle of 201 8rd street and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Simmons of 217 2nd street. Guests included Rev Jewel Freeman, Mrs Farnsworth Toppin, and others. corsages were given, and the evening featured singing, games, and ice cream cake and coffee.
The Seal Beach O E S met Oct 11 with Grace Irvine and Frank Upham presiding. Sept 27 honored the chapter’s fifth birthday with a star shaped cake. An effec tive program followed, tables decorated with horns of plenty and star cups, and a chicken salad and coffee meal served by Jessie Scott as chair and committee members Delethia Kimball Bourma Bourne Margariet VanCleave and Dorris Niblick.
Michael Autrey, 16, of Surfside Colony, vanished after his mother Anisia Autrey said he left September 24 with Buddy Shepherd for a fishing trip to Lake Henshaw. Authorities believe he may have traveled toward Texas or Oklahoma with Shepherd, who has relatives there. Autrey, born in Russia, speaks English with a strong accent. his father is a prisoner of war in the Philippines.
A dinner party honors Mrs W E Stubblefield birthday hosted by son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Ross Atkinson at their Long Beach home. Guests include Mr W E Stubblefield and Mr and Mrs M Cook among relatives and friends who presented a decorated cake and gifts.
Seldom seen in full, the record lists sons Lovell and S. W. of Long Beach, Mrs. S. F. Harris of Oklahoma City, and daughters Barbara and Marsha Atkinson plus Margaret, forming a cluster of named relatives in a courtroom or obituary notice.
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