Hot Cross Huns for Lent
By CECILY BROWNSTONE—Associated Press Food Editor
Of course your family will want hot cross buns a good many times
before the Lenten season is over. Here’s an easy way of making them
from a “beaten batter.” Once they’re out of the oven mix confectioner’s
sugar with a little hot water, flavor with vanilla, and mark a cross on
each bun.
HOT CROSS BUNS
Ingredients: ! package yeast, *4 cup lukewarm water, 1 cup milk,
Vz cup sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, 14 cup shortening, 14 teaspoon nutmeg,
14 teaspoon cinnamon, 314 cups sifted enriched flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup
currants.
Method: Soften yeast in lukewarm water. Scald milk and add sugar,
salt and shortening. Cool to lukewarm. Add 1 cup of the flour, nutmeg
and cinnamon. Beat well. Add softened yeast and eggs, and again beat
well. Add remaining flour to make a thick batter. Beat thoroughly un
til smooth. Cover and let rise unti ldoubled (about 1 hour). When light,
stir down. Add currants. Drop by spoonfuls into greased 2-inch muffin
pans, filling on-half full. Let rise until doubled (about 45 minutes).
Bake in a moderate <375° F.) oven about 20 minutes. Makes about 30
hot cross buns.
For Easter morning breakfast we suggest the butterscotch buns.
BUTTERSCOTCH BUNS
Ingredients: 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, 2Vz teaspoons double
acting backing powder, 34 teaspoon salt, -t tablespoons butter or other
shortening, 34 cup milk (about), 2 tablespoons butter or margerine,
cup brown sugar (firmly packed), 1 tablespoon butter or margarine,
1 tablespoon water, 2 tablespoons brown sugar. Vfe cup broken walnut
or pecan meats.
Method: Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cut in 4 table
spoons butter or other shortening; add milk and stir until soft dough
is formed. Turn out on lightly floured board or prepared pastry cloth
and knead 30 seconds, or enough to shape. Roll into 12-10-inch rec
tangle, *4-in. thick. Cream together 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
and Vj cup brown sugar and spread on dough. Roll as for jelly roll and
cut in 1-inch slices. Melt 1 tablespoon hotter or margarine in 8x1x2
inch pan; add water and 2 tablespoons brown sugar. Cook over low
heat until mixture bubbles, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and
sprinkle nutmeats over. Place rolls in pan, cut side down. Bake in hot
(400° F.) over 40 minutes, or until done. Remove at once from pan.
Makes 10 to 12 rolls.
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Sea Otters To Be
Transplanted
Along Alaska Coast
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<Part 111 >
(Continued from Wednesday)
As in all cases of game manage
ment, a complete study of the an
imal’s life history is needed be
fore intelligent cffcfrts can be
made to apply management prac
tices. In the case of the sea otter,
this study has increased consid
erably in late years through the
efforts of wildlife refuge biolog
ists. One of the things learned,
for instance, is that the sea otters
cannot live except along certain
shorelines. They need to live in
an area where the water is com
paratively shallow, as off shelv
ing beaches. In such areas the
sea urchins live, upon which the
otters feed mainly. There also
needs to be kelp beds in which the
otters can rest, play and hide
from killer whales.
Killer whales and man are the
sea otters’ two worst enemies. The
otters are constantly alert for
them, occasionally shading their
eyes from the glare of the sun
with their paws to look for the
single large fin of a killer whale
cutting through the water or to
spot man’s boat approaching.
The sea otter has so many of
the characteristics or mannerisms
of people that he is often called
“the child o fthe sea” or “old man
of the sea.” The two names are
not at contradictory as they first
appear: while the 55-inch long, 50
pound adult looks like an old man,
with grizzled hair on head and
shoulders and a full, bristly mus
tache, he likes and plays like a
child. Although not as lithe a
swimmer as the river otter, the
sea otter undulates through the
water with a scissors kick, now
and then rolling over on his back
to kick himself along with one
foot—his fore paws complacently
resting on his chest.
The otter’s chest also serves as
his table. On it he spreads sea
urchins as he tcai’s them apart.
While nibbling one tasty bit, he is
apt to lose another to the float
ing sea gull that lazily swims
about the “table” looking for an
unguarded piece of food. After
finishing lunch, the otter rolls
over a few times and scrubs him
self on the head and neck with
his paws.
No mother of the wild is more
careful of her young than the sea
otter parent with her single kit or
pup. A large share of the time, the
little otter rests on his mother’s
chest, receiving more than an op
timum of kissing and fondling. In
an emergency, the mother tucks
her pup under one arm and dives
into the “jungle” of kelp to seek
I safety. The female sea otter is
also like a human mother in that
she will not hesitate to spank her
little one on occasion. Should the
pup, while learning to swim, fail
to dive under a crest of a break
ing wave, he could be killed on
the rocks. Until this lesson is
learned, the mother will thrash
her crying pup—although it no
doubt hurts her worse than it
docs him.
Early American biologists and
naturalists, like Ernest Thompson
Seton, reported that the sea otter
was monogamous. Following the
indiscriminate slaughter by early
traders, however, the otters were
reported to have become polyga
mous. Th Japanese, who also have
sea otters in their northern is
lands, claim them to be polyga
mous. Which, for a number of
years, has enabled the Japanese to
harvest the “surplus” males —
MR. NATHAN OST GUEST
SPEAKER AT L-W-Y MISSION
Mr. Nathan Ost, who has been
a missionary in Africa and is now
on furlough after three and one
half years in Africa, will be the
speaker at the Sunday School, and
also guest speaker at the Sunday
evening service of the Lavinia
Wallace Young Mission. You are
cordially invited to attend either
of these services.
The first movie actors to re
ceive “Oscars” were Emil Jann-1
ings and Janet Gaynor “for the
best acting in pictures released in
Los Angeles, Calif., between Au
gust 1, 1927, and July 31, 1928.”
which amount to about 10 per cent
of the herd.
To date there is no record of sea
otters being kept alive in captiv
ity for more than a few days. Per
haps with better knowledge of
their specilaized food habits is
might become possible. But it
must be regarded as a slim risk
until otherwise proved by careful
experimentation.
No tale about sea otters would
be complete without mention of
California’s sea otters — even
thought the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service does not share in the
management. The California sea
otters were supposedly killed off
early in the fur-traders’ mad
slaughter of more than a century
ago. A few sea otters remained,
though, hidden away in inaccessi
ble coves and inlets. Now Califor
nia has about 200 sea otters of her
own.
(The End»
Fish and W ildlife
(Creates New Job
<(.4*1 Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON, OP)—'The U. S.
fish and wildlife service created
a new job—assistant regional di
rector for Alaska—last week and
appointed C. Howard Baltzo to it
Albert M. Day, service director,
said in a statement the addition
to the agency's Alaska staff is to
help promote closer coordination
in the management of the Terri
tory’s valuable fisheries and wild
life resources.
Clarence Rhode is regional di
rector of fish and wildlife in Alas
ka.
“The activities of the service in
Alaska have expanded so much in
recent years, due to the influx of
new residents, tourists and mili
tary personnel, that we have
reached the point where we have
to give Rhode an assistant to
share with him the responsibility
for the direction of our Alaska
program,” Day said.
Baltzo and his wife, son and
daughter arc to move to Junequ
about June 1.
Baltzo, 37, has been assistant
chief of the branch of fisheries
here . A graduate of the Univers
tiy of Washington and a former
employee of the Washington state
fishery department, he also has
been assistant chief of the branch
of Alaska fisheries for the fish
and wildlife service. In 1947 and
194P. he was a partner and mana
ger of the City Store at Wrangell,
Alaska.
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