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STESSED-OUT FAMILIES CAN REJOICE: Supernanny Jo Frost is back and on Lifetime

By BARB OATES

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What do you think of The Unicorn?

Question: I had high hopes for The Unicorn, being a huge Walton Goggins fan, but after 3 episodes I was DONE. The supporting characters are so annoying and grating I couldn’t take it.

Shut them up! Shelve this so called comedy... with just about all of the new fall shows. —Monica Matt Roush: I won’t rehash my defense in recent columns for the CBS comedy as one of the most charming and emotionally satisfying shows in some time, but I will say that if you’re lucky enough to get actors like Michaela Watkins, Rob Corddry and Omar Miller to play your friends in a supporting ensemble, the last thing you’re going to tell them is to shut up. I get that no show is going to appeal to all people, and in this case, the friends are meant to be aggravating with their hovering and meddling in the life of their widowed friend. But they mean well, and I find them individually to be mostly very funny. Nothing’s more subjective than comedy, so we’ll agree to disagree on this one. As for the overall fall season, I grade it higher than many past seasons. I’m enjoying Prodigal Son on Fox, Evil on CBS, Emergence on ABC, The Unicorn and to a lesser degree mixed-ish, also on ABC. Not a bad start. And counting the days until NBC launches Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (a singing-and-dancing fantasy drama starring Jane Levy, best known from Suburgatory), which looks terrific.

To submit questions to TV Critic Matt Roush, go to: tvinsider.com

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The U.K.’s Supernanny Jo Frost is back in action — Wednesdays on Lifetime, beginning Jan. 1 — helping stressedout and overwhelmed parents with their ongoing challenges raising children in this busy digital age. Much has changed since the series ended in 2011, but Frost continues to focus on positive reinforcement and connectivity. The show is now structured to be more documentary in style, where her teachings are outlined and her help extends to the entire family, including couples who need help in their relationships. With a time-tested method involving honest, direct and nurturing support, Frost offers real-life solutions to parents, dispensing advice, techniques and tips to help iron out the chaos in their lives so that their family can evolve.

As Frost sees it, “Raising a family has always had its challenges. In an ever-changing world, how we navigate is crucial to how well we stay connected as a family. Truth is, technology is here to stay, so it’s important to embrace the wonder it brings to our lives. However, we must also learn boundaries, too — which is what a lot of families will learn from watching the show — and the importance of why.”

She’s had 30 years of experience helping families, and still Frost says her best piece of advice is, “Mean what you say, say what you mean, but don’t say it mean. I believe that a lot of parents would tell you, if they had done this many years ago, they probably would not be facing some of the challenges they have today. Young children take you at your word, literally, so mixed messages only confuse. Keep it simple. Life is complex enough.”

By Rick Gables

Party of Five reboot

Freeform will premiere its new drama series Party of Five on Wednesday, January 8 at 9 PM ET/PT, with a twohour episode. The series follows the five Acosta children as they navigate daily life struggles to survive as a family unit after their parents are suddenly deported back to Mexico. In a new iteration, this beloved story of a young family bound by adversity will be retold through the lens of current-day themes and culFreeform/Nino Munoz tural conversations. The series stars Brandon Lar- Cast of Party of Five racuente as Emilio Acosta, Emily Tosta as Lucia Acosta, Niko Guardado as Beto Acosta and Elle Paris Legaspi as Valentina Acosta. Bruno Bichir and Fernanda Urrejola star as the Acosta parents, Javier and Gloria.

Science Channel will premiere the new season of Impossible Engineering on Wednesday, January 1 at 9 PM ET/PT. It’s easy to take for granted the extraordinary structures, public works and architectural wonders in our everyday lives, but they are indeed remarkable feats of human ingenuity and 21st century technology. This season, viewers will journey to Dubai, London, Whistler, Rotterdam and beyond as experts examine some of the most mind-blowing engineering marvels around the world.

Comedy superstar Ricky Gervais, in his unique and legendary fashion, will resume hosting duties for a record fifth time at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The three-hour telecast will air live on NBC coast-to-coast Sunday, January 5 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The Golden Globes serve as the official kickoff to the 2020 awards season. 25 categories (14 in film and 11 in television) are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

HGTV will ring in 2020 with a relax and recover, must-see lineup of New Year’s Day programming. The January 1 schedule kicks off with A Very Brady Renovation marathon at 7 AM ET/PT. Then starting at 11 AM ET/PT, it’s a My Lottery Dream Home marathon. At 6:30 PM ET/PT, the pilot premiere of Self-Made Mansions will air. Also of note, is the airing of HGTV Dream Home Special 2020 at 8 PM ET/PT, followed by a Property Brothers: Forever Home premiere at 9 PM ET/PT. Then at 10 PM ET/PT, it’s a 100 Day Dream Home premiere, followed at 11 PM ET/PT with a HGTV House Party premiere.

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1. Jumanji: The Next Level $59.3 $59.3

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2. Frozen II $366.4

• 4 • 4,078

3. Knives Out $78.8

$9.1

• 3 • 3,413 $4.7

4. Richard Jewell $4.7

• 1 • 2,502

5. Black Christmas $4.2

$4.1

• 5 • 2,895

7. Queen & Slim $33.2

$4.2

• 1 • 2,625

6. Ford v Ferrari $98.2

$19.1

$3.6

• 3 • 1,560

8. A Beautiful Day in the… $3.3 $49.3

• 4 • 2,855

9. Dark Waters $8.8

• 4 • 2,110

10. 21 Bridges

$1.9 $1.2

BESTSELLERS $26.4

•4

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne) 2. "The Guardians" by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. "Strange Planet" by Nathan W. Pyle (Morrow Gift) 4. "Chris Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 5. "The Institute" by Stephen King (Scribner) 6. "A Minute to Midnight"

by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 7. "Blue Moon" by Lee Child (Delacorte) 8. "Twisted Twenty-Six"

by Janet Evanovich (G.P. Putnam's Sons) 9. "The Dutch House" by Ann Patchett (Harper) 10. "The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/Talese)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "The Pioneer Woman Cooks" by Ree Drummond (William Morrow) 2. "Guinness World Records 2020" (Guinness World Records) 3. "How Not to Diet" by Michael Greger (Flatiron Books) 4. "Me" by Elton John (Henry Holt and Co.) 5. "Becoming" by Michelle Obama (Clarkson Potter) 6. "Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers" by Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel) 7. "Pokemon Sword & Pokemon Avengers"by Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel) 8. "The Book of Gutsy Women" by Clinton/Clinton (Simon & Schuster) 9. "I Really Needed this Today" by Hoda Kotb (G.P. Putnam's Sons) 10. "Talking to Strangers"

by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

NIELSENS

1. NFL Football: Buffalo at Pittsburgh, NBC, 18.14 million.

2. “NFL Pregame Show,” NBC, 13.45 million.

3. “The OT,” Fox, 12.14 million.

4. NFL Football: N.Y. Jets at Baltimore, Fox, 12.14 million.

5. NFL Football: N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, ESPN, 11.8 million.

6. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 9.4 million.

7. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.32 million.

8. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 8.23 million.

9. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 8.21 million.

10. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.05 million.

11. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.48 million.

12. “NFL Pregame Show,” Fox, 7.3 million.

13. “Kennedy Center Honors,” 6.92 million.

14. “The Masked Singer,” Fox, 6.9 million.

15. “Ellen's Great Giveaway” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.85 million.

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Wait, What?

Joe Rwamirama, 48, of Kampala, Uganda, has an unusually practical superpower: “He is known all over the city as the man who can kill mosquitoes with his farts,” local barber James Yoweri told The Sun on Dec. 10. Rwamirama said no one in his home village has ever contracted malaria because his gaseous ejections knock out insects over a 6-mile radius. “He is respectful of people around him and will only fart when there are mosquitoes around,” Yoweri continued. Rwamirama hopes to market his gas and claims that insect repellant companies have been looking into its chemical secrets, but The Sun couldn’t verify those claims.

Undignified Death

When a Shelby, Ohio, police officer responded to a call on Nov. 13 about a sick or rabid raccoon on a residential street, he had a tough decision to make.

The raccoon did seem either injured or ill, and according to WJW, the officer decided it needed to be destroyed. However, there is no area animal control department, and police officers don’t have the “training or equipment to capture a potentially rabid animal,” officials said. And the officer was hesitant to use his firearm because of the time of day and because some residents were outside their homes. So he decided to use his vehicle to eliminate the raccoon, running over it several times to finish the job. Un-

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who runs an animal res- artist Leandro Erlich un- stolen toys, declaring, who were later able to cue, at first thought the lit- veiled on Dec. 3 a master- “These ‘Grinches’ will not catch up with him. Offitle headwear was cute, but piece three months in the be stealing Christmas from cers said the man’s busithen began to worry about making: sand sculptures of kids on our watch.” ness was legitimate, but how the hats had been af- 66 actual-size cars and — The Bosch’s Country “the manner in which the fixed to the birds’ heads. trucks locked in a traffic View Nursery in Allendale, information was relayed “Did they glue them? ... Is jam, which he calls “Order Michigan, is a longtime fa- led to some misunderit something that’s going to of Importance.” His art- vorite destination for standing. ... The involved impede their flight or at- work is meant to bring at- Christmas tree shoppers. adult male was passing out tract predators?” she won- tention to the climate But sometime in early De- child DNA kits, which dered. Hillman and her crisis, Dezeen reported. cember, the Grinch visited, would be retained by the agency have been handing The work includes several lopping the top halves off family, in the event it was out business cards and lanes of traffic split by a more than a dozen trees, ever needed for future inasking people who see the traffic divider. Most of the according to WZZM13. It vestigations.” little urban cowbirds to vehicles are partially sub- takes a fir tree between six — Operation Santa’s Just Weird “just feed them until I get merged in a nod to rising and 10 years to grow to Naughty List took place — It’s very cold and here. I’m only 3 miles away sea levels created by global Christmas tree height, ex- Dec. 3 to 8 in Polk County, very dark, in an existential and I’ll come trap them.” owner Brian Florida, seeking to target warming. “As an artist, I plained sort of way, in MinneapoBosch.

“Somebody had a human trafficking and am in a constant struggle to Bright Idea lis at this time of year. To make people aware of this bad day, I’m assuming,” he prostitution, and it was beThe Raleigh (North Car- reality,” Erlich said. It is said. “I don’t know why wit: Cianna Violet, 24, yond successful. The sting passes by a certain spot, olina) News & Observer re- his largest project to date. somebody would do that.” stung 124 people, includnear a Broadway Pizza lo- ported on Dec. 9 that a Bosch did say that the trees ing 46 customers and nuBah, Humbug!

14-year-old runaway made cation, as she commutes to might recover, although it merous others for different — Marie Bennett, 40, would take a few years. work. In November, she a logical choice when decrimes, but the standout ciding where to hide. and Joseph Betancourt, 24, noticed a yellow traffic was Rodney Davis, a 56Around 8:30 that morning, Report Police of Woodland, California, pylon with an extra someyear-old husband and seas workers at Bed Bath & would have made the — In Turlock, Califorthing clinging to the top Beyond opened the store in Grinch proud, but police in nia, mothers became curity guard at Disney and pulled over to check it Greenville, they discovWorld, the Tampa Bay out. It was a rat — dead, ered someone hidden in Red Bluff weren’t having it. alarmed when a man Times reported. When On Dec. 5, the two alturned up at their doors, frozen, sad. Until Dec. 3, the store and called police. when Violet noticed some- Officers responded for a legedly broke into the Chil- asking for “five strands” of Davis showed up to purthing about the rat had “breaking and entering in dren First Foster Family hair and fingerprints from chase sex from an underchanged. Sure enough, progress,” but found only a Agency, where they stole their children in order to cover detective, he was someone had dressed the teenage boy who had “(a) large amount of toys collect their DNA. “He said wearing ... nothing. Not chilly little rodent and “camped out” in the store that were being held there he was with Amber Alert,” even socks. Prostitutes even remembered acces- overnight. He was returned for children for Christmas Lauren Hassett told KTXL who were identified as vicpresents,” police told Fox on Dec. 4, and “that he tims of human trafficking sories, like a tiny silver to his home.

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Surveillance video needed to finish a DNA were taken to shelters and backpack and fur-trimmed Great Art! showed the burglars com- file” on her daughter. She offered support services. boots. The outfit is “100 In Miami Beach, ing and going from the also said the man asked for percent seasonably approFlorida, you don’t even home next door; officers her daughter using a name Send your weird news priate,” Violet told Cityarrested Bennett and Be- the 13-year-old girl only items with subject line have to leave the oceanPages. “I’m sorry it had to front to get caught in a traf- tancourt for burglary, theft uses online. Hassett or- WEIRD NEWS to Weirddie, but in death it has fic nightmare. For Miami’s and breaking and entering, dered the man off her N e w brought a reason to smile Art Basel, Argentinian and they recovered the property and called police, sTips@amuniversal.com. to hundreds.”

— Meanwhile, it’s warm and sunny in Las Vegas, and the pigeons are wearing cowboy hats. www.minotdailynews.com What? On Dec. 9, KVVU reported that pigeons have Thad Henderson, Circulation Director – thenderson@minotdailynews.com Amy Boyle, Business Manager – aboyle@minotdailynews.com been spotted with tiny red cowboy hats on their Trading Post is published Tuesday and mailed free of charge to Minot Daily News non-subscribers. Additional free copies are available at the Minot Daily News, 301-4th St. SE, Minot, N.D., 58701. To subscribe call 857-1900. heads. Mariah Hillman, fortunately, a bystander was recording the incident, and people on social media are calling for the officer’s removal. The Shelby police chief responded: “The video is disturbing to watch. ... We are having an independent group, with a prosecutor, to determine if any criminal charges are appropriate (but) ... this incident doesn’t violate any wildlife laws.”

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BY TERRY AND KIM KOVEL Belsnickel is part of the Christmas lore of Germany, other German-speaking countries and the Pennsylvania Dutch, a community in the United States since the 1830s.

He is a companion of Saint Nicholas, but while Santa carries a bag of gifts for good children, Belsnickel spreads candy for good children then beats the bad children with his whip. Today’s Santa Claus is fat and jolly, and dressed in a red and white outfit. Belsnickel wears a ragged beige coat with a rope belt and a fur collar. Collectors of antique Christmas decorations look for old ornaments and figurines of Belsnickel used in the 19th century. They are often made of papier-mache.

He has a long tongue and carries a sack of candy in one hand and a whip in the other.

Christmas legends in the 19th century included other dark characters, including Krampus. This antique German Belsnickel with a painted face and white beard is wearing a hooded white robe. It was auctioned at Cordier Auctions in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The unsigned figure sold for $168.

Q. I’d like some information about an old brass desk clock that has no markings other than “R.M.S. Celtic.” I’d like to know where it was made and where it came from to be in Louisville, Kentucky.

A. We don’t know how it got to Kentucky, but we can tell you where it came from.

The clock is from the ocean liner RMS Celtic, which was launched in Belfast, Ireland, on April 4, 1901. The ship made its maiden voyage three months later, leaving Liverpool, England, on July 26 and arriving in New York City on Sept. 16, carrying almost 3,000 passengers. It became a troop ship for a few months during World War I and then reverted to carrying passengers and cargo. The RMS Celtic survived hitting a mine in 1917, being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1918, and collisions with other ships in 1925 and 1927, but it ultimately met its demise in 1928 after being shipwrecked on the rocks in Ireland. The ship was scrapped in 1933.

Buddhist and Hindu legends or Thai culture. Many pieces are marked “Siam Sterling.”

Your button-style earrings are worth $25. More elaborate pieces with silver filigree are worth about $35 to $60.

Bracelet and earrings sets sell from about $60 to $75.

Q. After my mother died, we found a Pairpoint lamp in a box in the attic. It looks original except for the cord. There are two stamps under the shade dated July 9, 1901. It has puffy butterflies. The base has a diamond-shaped stamp underneath. Can you tell me what this might be worth?

A. Thomas J. Pairpoint founded the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1880. The company joined with nearby glassworks and made glass, lamps and silverplated pieces. Reverse-painted glass shades and molded shades known as “puffies” were made until the 1930s.

The company became the Pairpoint Glass Company in 1957. It moved to Sagamore, Massachusetts, in 1970 and now makes luxury glass items. Look closely at the patent date on your lamp. Are you sure it’s not 1907? Pairpoint’s Papillon (butterfly) boudoir lamp marked “patented July 9th - 1907” sells at auction for about $2,000.

This Christmas figure is Belsnickel, a 19thcentury German figure, not our modern Santa Claus. The German character looked for bad children to punish, not good children to reward with gifts. The scary figure is much less popular than Santa and sold for $168.

Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel answer questions sent to the column. By sending a letter with a question and a picture, you give full permission for use in the column or any other Kovel forum. Names, addresses or email addresses will not be published. We cannot guarantee the return of photographs, but if a stamped envelope is included, we will try.

The amount of mail makes personal answers or appraisals impossible. Write to Kovels, (Name of this newspaper), King Features Syndicate, 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.

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Q. I want to learn more about earrings I found in my mother’s jewelry box. They are silver round clip-ons with an Asian design on a black background. Are they old?

Are they worth anything?

A. The country of Siam changed its name to Thailand in 1939. It was renamed Siam in 1946, then changed again to Thailand in 1949. Siam sterling silver jewelry was handmade from the 1930s to the 1970s, and American soldiers in Thailand brought some home as gifts. Most of it is sterling silver with niello, a mixture of copper, silver and lead that looks like black enamel. It was used to fill in TIP: To remove an unor surround designs etched in wanted gummed price the silver by the artisan. The baked alloy hardens, then it is sticker, try heating it with a hair dryer. The glue will sanded and buffed. Designs are typically dancing figures, melt a bit, and it will be easier to peel off the sticker. and animals or buildings from Cash Wise will close early on December 24 Minot Store Closes at 6pm

Stores re-open December 26 at 6am.

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Pillsbury Bake-Off turns 70!

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Long before there were cooking shows such as Cake Boss, The Great British Bake Off and Barefoot Contessa, bakers from across America took an interest in the Pillsbury Bake-off. 2019 marks 70 years since Pillsbury first introduced this baking contest. Pillsbury introduced what they called the Pillsbury Grand National $100,000 Recipe and Baking Contest, and in time, it became the Pillsbury Bake-Off. Pillsbury started this tradition in 1949 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Pillsbury and as an effort to promote Pillsbury Best Flour. Why not mark an anniversary with a delicious homemade cake?

They came up with jingles and clever marketing phrases to promote Pillsbury such as “Nothin’ Loving like Somethin’ from the Oven” and “Pillsbury says it Best!” They wanted more bakers to use their flour so they started promoting it with jingles and a contest. They gave generous cash prizes for the following six categories: breads, cakes, pies, cookies, entrees and desserts. The grand prize the first year was $25,000, and if you included the seal from the Pillsbury Best Flour which was used in the recipe, the prize money could be doubled!

Wow! Second, third, and fourth places, along with Best of Class winners, were all awarded healthy cash prizes; thus the reason Pillsbury could market it as a $100,000 contest from the start.

Contests and good cash prizes go together like lutefisk and lefse. At one point in the Bake-Off, the grand prize was 1,000,000! Since 2018, the grand prize has been 50,000 plus a kitchen makeover from GE Appliances. It has been estimated you are 18,550 times more likely to win the Bake-Off than the lottery. The math has been done and since its inception in 1949, there have been 53 Bake-Off Contest Winners out of more than 500,000 entries. According to the Huffington Post, your odds of winning the lottery are 1 in 175 million. So set out the mixing bowls, create a recipe, and enter the next Bake-Off Contest instead!

The first Bake-Off contestants were selected by a panel of home economists from a vast pool of entries which they narrowed to 100 finalists. These lucky folks were then invited to New York City where the contest was held at the impressive Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The ballroom gave way to 100 cooking ranges with each one being numbered and labeled with contestant’s name. Things almost didn’t heat up at the premier because organizers had failed to realize the electrical current that 100 electric ranges would need! During the middle of the night, Pillsbury had electricians stirring things up by breaking a hole in the wall and dropping a cable down into the subway system to tap into the alternating current cable there. The contest went on the next day like a hot knife passing through butter.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was the guest of honor at the first Bake-Off. She had been invited by Philip W. Pillsbury, then president of Pillsbury Mills, and she paid tribute to the housewives of America and praised them for the daily efforts of fine cooking and baking. Over the years the contest has had many celebrities such as Arthur Godfrey, Art Linkletter, Bob Barker, Willard Scott and Martha Stewart to name a few who have hosted the event.

The Bake-Off has been held most often in New York City but Los Angeles, Washington DC, Honolulu, Hollywood, Boston and other major cities have hosted it as well. Once the contest is over, booklets

Gold Rush Cake

BY CHUCK REPNOW

are printed featuring the winning recipes. I will admit that I do not have a fine collection of cars or coins, but I have almost every Bake-Off booklet!

These booklets feature pictures of the winners, hosts and panel of judges. Looking back on some the earlier books is a fine treat.

These booklets show contestants in vivid 50’s aprons and hats showcasing their best baking and current fashions as well.

Both men and women enter the contest with women being the most common dominator as winners. Only one male has won the Grand-Prize.

His name is Kurt Wait of Redwood City, CA, and he won in 1996 with his Macadamia Fudge Torte. It is interesting to note that there has been a Bake-Off winner from every state.

Yes, every single state has at least one finalist or grand prize winner. California has claimed the most with 132 winners and next comes Pennsylvania and Texas claims third place. The three states with the fewest number of winners are all tied with one each and they are North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.

With all the good cooks in North Dakota, I look for this to change! Enter and you may win!

Are you a fan of Bundt Cakes? How about Peanut Blossoms? Well, you can thank the Pillsbury BakeOff because both of these classic made their appearance there. In 1966 winner Ella Helfrich used a littleknown baking pan to feature her Tunnel of Fudge Cake recipe and that was the Bundt pan. After the release of the booklets the recipe was so popular that it quickly became Nordic Ware’s number one selling pan! Pillsbury picked up on this trend and developed a line of special cake mixes for Bundt pans.

Many folks at funeral lunches continue to thank Helfrich for her inspiration.

It was Freda Smith who made the Peanut Blossoms and entered them in the ninth Bake-off in 1957.

Her efforts only made it to the finalist stage, and she received no prize money.

However in 1999 Peanut Blossoms were one of ten recipes inducted to the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest Hall of Fame at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Here is a winning recipe from the 1951 booklet. It was entered by Mrs. Vava M Blackburn of Walla Walla, Washington.

This cake made from scratch is wonderful, and the fluffy orange frosting is always a hit. I have yet to be the owner of the 1949 booklet!

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1 3/4 cup sifted Pillsbury’s Best Enriched Flour 8 egg yolks beaten until thick and light 1/2 cup butter 1 1/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup buttermilk 1/2 teaspoon each of vanilla and lemon extract

Sift flour into bowl and set aside. Cream butter and gradually add sugar, beat well. Blend into this mixture the beaten egg yolks. Combine buttermilk and vanilla and lemon extracts; add alternately with dry ingredients to creamed mixture, beginning with and ending with dry ingredients. Blend thoroughly after each addition. Pour mixture into 2 well-greased 9inch round layer pans.

Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool and frost.

Fluffy Orange Frosting Combine 2 egg whites, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup light corn syrup, 2 tablespoons orange juice, 2 teaspoons grated orange rind, 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar and 1/4 teaspoon salt in top of double boiler.

Cook over rapidly boiling water, beating with an electric mixer until mixture stands in peaks. Remove from heat.

Continue beating until thick enough to spread.

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