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...seldom simply "good"; instead, when it was put before her, "a happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
...vanilla; 1½ cups sugar; ZA⅔ cup shortening; 1¼cups milk; ⅔ cup unbeaten egg whites. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add shortening, milk and vanilla; beat 1½ minutes, 150 strokes per minute, until well-blended. Add egg whites; beat 1½ minutes. Spoon 1¼ of batter over nuts spaced evenly over two well-greased, lightly floured 9-in. round layer pans. Sprinkle with grated chocolate. Carefully spread remaining batter on top. Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 35 to 40 minutes. Cool in pan 10 to 15 minutes; turn out cake...
Atomic-bomb plants are inproving their efficiency so fast that the AEC has canceled the proposed $26 million Spoon River assembly plant that Thompson Products was to operate near Macomb...
Other eye-catchers: stainless-steel flatware, handles merging smoothly into tines and blades ($1.40 a fork); a Danish salad fork and spoon set of black, polished horn ($5); a pair of handwoven, Japanese bamboo scoops, for crackers or nuts ($1) ; a green-and-red curtain fabric with a stained-glass window design ($9 a yd.); a handy, steel portable fireplace...
...Life. In Hoboken, N.J., when police came to arrest James Shea, 59, for drunkenness, they learned from his wife Maria that during the last five years he had spoon-fed whisky to his three pet mongrels, incited them to bite her more than 200 times...