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By Mildred E. Warren
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“Baking a Cake” seemed to be the
theme for Houston County Girl Scout-;
past month. The scouts began the:;'
Bake-off on March 19 with a baking
demonstration which is described in
an article on this page by Mrs. Mildred
Dumas, Home Service Advisor for
Flint Electric Membership Corpora
tion in the Warner Robins office.
The youngsters who entered this
contest were sth and 6th graders, and
they cooked like professionals. Their
entries were outstanding in appear
ance, and taste. Our young people of
today are most capable in any field
they choose. I think that oftentimes
they surprise us “grownups.”
Mrs. Dumas gave me a booklet of
the recipes that the girls selected their
entries from. I’m bringing our readers
the overall winner, and the first place
winners in each division It is with
great pleasure that 1 congratulate
these winners, and all the other scouts
who participated in this event. Every
entry was an outstanding endeavor in
the art of cake baking. Ellen Bailey of
Perry was overall winner, and Ist
place winner in the Pound Cake divi
sion, her entry being a Sour Cream
Pound cake with Lemon Fluff Icing
Lorene Dudley of Warner Robins was
Ist place winner in the Layer Cake
division with a Caramel Cake. Sylvia
Baker of Warner Robins was Ist place
winner in the Novelty Cake division
with her Banana-Nut Cake.
Mothers, you may “cook-away,” but
you wil not make a better cake than
your daughters who baked these deli
cious and attractive cakes!
Sour Cream Pound Cake
Vi pound butter
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups flour
V* teaspoon soda
Vi teaspoon salt
V* to 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
Vi pint sour cream
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs
and sifted dry ingredients alternately;
beat until well blended. Add flavoring
and sour cream; beat until smooth.
Bake in loaf or tube pan at 325 degree
F. for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Do not
open oven door while cake is baking.
Serves 30.
Lemon Fluff Frosting
Vt cup margarine
Dash of salt
4 cups sifted powdered sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons grated lemon rind
2 drops yellow food coloring
Cream margarine; add salt. Add part
of sugar and cream well. Add remain
ing sugar alternately with lemon juice,
creaming until light and fluffy. Add
rind and food coloring; mix thorough
ly Spread on cake. (This was the over
all prize winner, and Ist place winner
in Pound Cake division; baked by
Ellen Bailey of Perry.)
Caramel Cake
2Vi cups cake flour
IVfe cups sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Vi cup soft shortening or butter
1 cup milk
IVi teaspoons vanilla flavoring
2 eggs
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Off winners in Layer Cake division in Girl Scout Bake-
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place winner, and Mrs. Dumas of Flint Electric Corporation. V * *
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Measure sifted flour, and sift flour,
sugar, baking powder and salt into
large bowl of electric mixer. Add
shortening, two thirds of the liquid,
and flavoring. Blend with mixer at
low speed to moisten ingredients. Beat
2 minutes at cake mixing speed, using
rubber scraper on sides of bowl. Add
remaining liquid and eggs. Beat 2 min
utes. Pour batter into 2 prepared 8-
inch round pans. Bake in center of
oven Cool 10 minutes on wire rack
before removing from pan. Cool cuke
before frosting.
Caramel Frosting
2 sticks butter or margarine
4 cups light brown sugar
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
Vi cup evaporated milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
Combine all ingredients except va
nilla; cooks over medium heat to soft
boil stage. Remove from heat; add va
nilla and beat until creamy. Spread on
cool cake.
(This was first prize winner in Layer
Cake division; baked by Lorene Dud
ley of Warner Robins.)
Banana-Nut Cake
Vi cup shortening
1 Vi cups sugar
3 eggs
Vi teaspoon soda
Vi cup buttermilk
1 cup mashed bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups sifted flour
Vi cup chopped pecans
Cream shortening and sugar. Add
eggs one at a time, beating well after
each addition. Dissolve soda in butter
milk. Add buttermilk, bananas and va
nilla, Sill together dry ingredients;
add to banana mixture. Beat at med
ium speed until well blended. Fold in
floured nuts. Pour into 2 9-inch pans.
Bake at 350 degrees F. for 25 to 30
minutes.
Banana-Nut Frosting
2 tablespoons melted butter or thick
cheam
Vi cup mashed bananas
3'/2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vi sup chopped nuts
c ombine all ingredients except nuts.
Add nuts. Spread on cake. (This was
lirst prize winner in Novelty Cake di
vision; baked by Sylvia Baker of War
ner Robins.)
Note: Hints on Baking a Cake
1 Read recipe carefully
2. Learn how to measure
3. Assemble ingredients
4. Have ingredients at room tem
' perature
Hints on Preparing the Pan
Butter or grease the bottom of the
pan. only. Cake rises evenly if sides
aie not greased. After greasing the
bottom of pan, sprinkle lightly with
Hour then shake out extra flour. An
other safe way to insure against cake
sticking is to grease the pan, then ocv
er the bottom with a piece of wax pa
per. Cut to fit and then grease lightly
again. 3
GOOD CAKE BAKING!
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] 700 Houston Girl Scouts
Take Part In WR Meeting
More than 700 Girl Scouts
from Houston County’s 23 Girl
Scout troops gathered in the
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ELLEN BAILEY OF PERRY, Troop 205 wot first
place winner in the Pound Cake division in Girl
? c ° ut Bake-Off, she a,so won best overall cake in con
test. She is shown receiving the bronze Girl Scout
Trophy from Mrs. Dumas.
2 Perry Banks Sponsor
Conservation Scholarships
Gene Grinstead and Rick
ey Thompson have been
awarded a scholarship to the
9th Annual Natural Resour
ces Conservation Workshop
to be held at Abraham Bald
win Agricultural College in
Tilton, the week of June
7-12, 1970.
“The scholarships are be
ing sponsored by the Bank
of Perry and First National
Bank in Perry in cooperation
with the Ocmulgee Soil and
Water Conservation Dis
trict,,” says Drew Bynum,
District Conservationist of
the Soil Conservation Serv
ice in Houston County.
Cohen Walker is the local
supervis'd* for the district.
According to Bynum, the
workshop will provide a
week-long study of Georgia’s
natural resources and how
they can best be managed.
It will include classroom lec
tures and field trips to ob
serve conservation work
Workshop subjects will in
clude land judging, soil and
water conservation planning
and application, wildlife ha
bitat development, and for
estry improvement.
A workshop feature this
year will be a trip to the
Okefenokee Swamp near
Waycross, This swamp is
well known nationally for its
wide variety of plants and
wildlife.
The workshop is conduct
ed annually by the Georgia
Chapter of the Soil Conser
vation Society of America
and the Georgia Association
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Recreation Building in Warner
Robins, Georgia on March 19th
for a baking demonstration
of Soil and Water Conserva
tion District Supervisors.
This workshop has been
awarded several national
honors for its excellent con
servation teaching.
Sam Dunaway, District
Conservationist with the Soil
Conservation Service in Win
der, is the workshop direc
tor. He has served in this
capacity for most of the nine
years the workshop has been
operating.
Instructors and counselors
are provided by the Soil Con
servation Service, Georgia
Forestry Commission, Geor
gia Game and Fish Commis
sion, Agricultural Research
Service and other coopera
ting agricultural agencies.
Grinstead and Thompson
are outstanding students at
Perry High School.
Other boys from Houston
County who have attended
the workshop in the past are
Billy Johnson and Tim
Yawn.
More than 1,300 selected
high school boys have grad
uated from this workshop
since it was first held in
1962. Director Dunaway says,
"More than 200 boys will at
tend the workshop this year.
1 look for this to be the best
workshop we have ever held.
which was the kick-off for the
1970 Girl Scout Annual Bake-
Off. The annual event, in its
third year, was planned and
organized by Mrs. Mildred Du
mas, Home Service Advisor for
Flint Electric Membership Cor
poration which sponsors the
event. Mrs. Joseph Slemple,
Mrs. Robert Beckham Mrs. Ro
bert Tbimmes and Mrs. James
Hart, local Girl Scout leaders,
worked on the committee, co
ordinating the plans with Mrs.
Dumas. At the kick-off demon
stration, the girls were given
instruction and “tips” on cook
ing and baking. Each girl was
taught proper measurements,
how to prepare basic ingred
ients, use of utensils, cooking
temperatures and the use of
the electric range.
A booklet of instruction, in
cluding fifteen recipes, was
prepared and distributed by
Mrs. Dumas, and it was from
this collection that eacu girl
was required to select an en
try. Each troop was allowed to
have three entries, one in each
of 3 categories: Layer Cake,
Pound Cake, and Novelty Cake
and each of the 23 troops held
troop bake-offs to determine
the top cake bakers within the
troop.
Winners of troop bake-off’s
participated in the final event
which was held in the Test
Kitchen of Flint EMC on May
9th. Fifty six cakes were en
tered. “Competition was quite
keen,” said Mrs. Dumas, “and
the entries were truly outstand
ing, and most attractive and
appetizing.” Six professional
judges selected a first, second,
and third place winner in each
category, on the basis of ap
pearance, texture, flavor and
quality, and one overall win
ner.
“The grand prize, or overall
winner, was a sour cream
pound cake with lemon fluff
icing, made by a ten year old
fifth grade student, Ellen Bai
ley of Perry. It liad all (lie
qualities of a cake made by a
professional”, said Mrs. Du
mas.
A bronze Girl Scout Trophy
was presented to the overall
winner. Open House was held
in the afternoon at the Flint
EMC meeting room, and a
number of parents. Girl Scouts,
and friends came in to view the
array of cakes made by the
young girls. Awards were pre
seated to all the winners at
that time.
“You had only to watch these
bright-eyed youngsters with all
their enthusiasm and radiant
happiness to know that the
bake-off was a success and it
could have a far-reaching ef
fect on the lives of these young
people,” said Mrs. Dumas.
The annual event is part of
a continuing program of work
conducted throughout the year
with the young people in the
service area by the Member
Services Department of Flint
EMC.
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with the community has given us the experience
to understand your banking needs, and to know
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Th« Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thursday, May 21, i 970
Wilmore.Ky., James Davis,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Davis, 1314 Smoak Avenue,
Perry, has been named to
Who’s Who in American Col
leges and Univ. He is one of
seven Asbury College stu
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Not much where "outer space" is concerned . . . though
astronauts do have to eat, and our Members help feed
the growing population!
But another kind of space is becoming more important
at the same time the moon-rockets are being built. That's
space right here on Earth . . . where the population is
growing at a fantastic rate. Each farmer will have to
feed twice as many people in 1975 as he does today . . .
.Through increased efficiency and mechanization he can
do it . . .
And that's where we come in. We constantly plan for
the future needs of our Members both farm, and non
farm. These needs for electric power double about every
sto 7 years. Our mission is to provide dependable, low
cost electric service to them . . . help make rural America
livable for more and more people . . . This is our place
in the space race . . .
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dents selected for the cove
ted honor this year.
Davis, a psychology ma
jor, is now attending Asbury
Theological Seminary. Some
of his activities on campus
include being involved in the
American Association of
Evangelical Students, he has
been vice president' of his
class and is a member of the
Singing Ambassadors.