Page 4 THE BATTALION Thursday, December 3, 1054 * Family Favorites By Mrs. D. W. Williams (Ed. note—Guest editor for this week’s Family Favorites is Madpre Williams, wife of A&M vice chancellor D. W. Williams. The Williams, members of A&M Presbyterian church, have two daugh ters and a son and five grandchildren. Mrs. Williams, a native of Ohio, is a former president of the A&M Garden club.) I am very partial to recipes that are easy to prepare. So I have chosen a few favorites in our family—all easy ones. Date Pudding This is one of our favorite desserts. It can be made the day before, and is one I have been using for more than thirty years. Vz teaspoon baking powder 1 cup nuts 1 small box dates (cut fine) and add to eggs. Then add dates 2 eggs (well beaten) 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour Sift together, dry ingredients and nuts. Pour into greased pan (11 in. X 7 in.) and bake in 300 de gree oven for 45 minutes. Serve cold with whipped cream. This recipe serves 10. Baked Beans My family liked baked beans for Saturday night suppers. Here is an old recipe used in my home when I was a child, and I’ve never run into a better one. 1 lb. great northern beans G tablespoons brown sugar 1 tablespoon salt % lb. salt pork. Soak beans for several hours or over night. Bring to boil and cook until skins pop. Add salt and sugar, and pour into bean pot with water to cover to depth on one inch. Put pork on top of beans. Bake in slow oven until well done. Crisp Pickles With baked beans we like these easily prepared pickles. I have these in my refrigerator most of the time, as they are good with most any meal. 1 quart soup pickles 1 clove garlic 4 cups sugar 2 teaspoons whole cloves Cut pickles in thin crosswise slices. Add sugar, gaidic and cloves* Mix together for three days, stirring occassionally. Do not use any liquid; they make their own syrup. Home Made Bread I think my family enjoys home made bread more than anything I make. With my easy recipe, bread making is a simple task. Vs cup sugar \ 1% cups cool water 1 cup lukewarm water 7 cups flour 1 package dry yeast IVs teaspoons salt V* cup shortening Dissolve sugar in lukewarm water. Sprinkle in yeast and let stand five minutes or longer. Melt shortening and add c6ol water. Sift to gether flour and salt. Make a well in the flour and pour in shortening water and add yeast water. Mix well and knead on a bread board for three minutes. Put in a greased bowl and let rise in a warm place,until double in size. Divide in half and make two loaves. Let rise again until double in size. Then bake in a pre-heated oven (350 degrees) for one hour. Cow Poke Cookies i , This,is. a favorite, cookie recipe and an easy hia^s^lOO cookies. 1 cup shortening 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup white sugar 2 cups Rice Krispies 2 eggs 2 cups rolled oats (3-minute kind) 2 cups flour 1 can cocoanut Cream shortening and sug'ars. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat Veil. Sift together dry ingredients and add to mixture. Mix well and Add remainder of ingredients. Mix; if dough seems to stiff, add a few drops of water. Put one large teaspoon of the dough for each cookie on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Mrs. Collier Tells of Trip To Newcomers Mrs. Jud Collier showed movies of her trip to Europe, the Near East and Pakistan at the meeting of the New comers club yesterday at the YMCA. Mrs. Collier was one of 12 wom en from Texas on a “good neigh bors” tour that included England and the coronation, Fi-ance, the low countries, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the old city of Jerusalem and Pakistan. The women on the tour also gave sevei*al scholarships to students in those countries to study at Texas colleges. Hostesses for the meeting were Mrs. W. R. Herdener, chairman, and Mrs. A. B. Hilton, Mrs. Ben Evans and Mrs. H. S. Thigpen. The table was decorated with red tapers in silver candelabra. The centerpiece of holly with red ber ries was trimmed with Christmas tree ornaments. Refreshments were served on im ported china, and the coffee serv ice was of silver trimmed Bavarian China. Letters (Continued from Page 2) master, (O. U. for the benefit of those who did not see Mr. Clarks letter in Wed’s Batt.); if you feel like this is where you and your warped opinions could best be tolei'atcd, why in the devil don’t you go there. And when you do tak& ; tyctUft' buddies that share your views with you. For your own protection Mr. Clark, it might be wise for you to lockVour door when you go out because someone who took your letter more to heart than I did, is liable to pack your bags for you and run you off this campus. for tl$e money involved in at tending- O.' U. If I were as dis pleased with this school as you seem to be it would be worth it to me to get away from it no mattter what the cost. I certainly hope you go to O. U. (The sooner the better) I hope you live there, die there and rot there because we don’t even want your remains around here. Earle Vondcrgoltz ’55 DOGS FOR CHRISTMAS—Herb Cabla, A&M junior from Sinton, looks at cocker spaniels for a Christmas gift for his girl friend at Texas State College for Women. Mrs. Anne Marie Elmquist, owner of Bayard Kennels, helps him select the pet of his choice. Kiwanians Will Be Installed The College Station Kiwanis club will hold its annual inaugura tion banquet at 7 p. m. Dec. 15 in the ballroom of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Guest speaker for the evening will be Raymond Robbins, trustee of Kiwanis International. The ban quet will be held in place of the club’s regular Tuesday meeting. J. B. (Dick) Hervey will be in augurated as president. The meal will be Chicken in the Rough and pumpkin pie. Tickets Daughter, Cathryn , Born to Freemans A daughtei’, Cathryn, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Freeman Tuesday at St. Joseph’s hospital. Freeman is with the A&M Oceanography department. When choosing a patterned cur tain fabric, make sure that the size of the design in the curtains is in scale with the size of the room and its furnishings. For example, small designs in light colors are attrac tive in small rooms with small win dows; but they look out of keep ing in a large room with massive windows. YMCA Cabinet Sponsors Coffee Beginning Monday the YMCA cabinet will sponsor a student- faculty coffefe hour in the Y lobby. Free coffee will be served from 9:30 to 10:30 each morning, Mon day thru Friday. All professors and students are invited, said Charles Beagle, cab inet officer. . Making cupcakes? Then sur prise your family with one of these laste treats. Tuck a couple of drained apricot halves in the bat ter in each cup before baking. Or iprinkle the cupcake batter with rmall pieces of semi-sweet choco late before baking. Using either of these suggestions with white or chocolate cake batter. THURSDAY & FRIDAY \t >h Anne Bancroft • Doona Corcoran p J£l'. d JULIAN BLAUSTElil oirectM s. roy Baker DANIEL TARABASH eve/tymar mitfe ★GROCERIES^ OCEAN SPRAY Cranberry Sauce . 2 cans 41c 303 CANS—LIBBY’S Spinach ...... 2 cans 25c STAR KIST—BLUE LABEL Tuna can 39c Crisco 3 lb. can 79c NO. 2 CAN—DEL MONTE 2 CANS Crushed Pineapple . . * 53c 303 CANS—LIBBY’S Pear Halves . . can 27c 303 CANS—LIBBY’S „ Fruit Cocktail .... can 27c NO. 2 CANS—KIMBELLS—RED Pitted Cherries . 2 cans 49c NO. 2