C§ - Sunday, December 25, 1983 - North Shore News

UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES |
A Christmas gift from years ago

A LOVELY THICK snowfall like that one a couple
of weeks ago will put a country girl into a sentimen-

tal spin every time.

We hurried our dinner in
order to shove our arms and
legs into boots and mitts and
our heads into toques, and so
out into the strange muffled
cityscape, aureoles around
the street-lamps.

Up St. George’s to 17th
and on up 17th to the
boulevard, and it was getting
deeper al! the time, a clean
fluffy carpet..underfoot. We
found some sidewalks
without a footstep on them,
which made us feel like the
first — or the last — people
on earth.

Occasionally we'd hear or
pass young people with little
kids holding their mouths
open to the sky, shrieking
with the little shock of snow
in the throat, and light on the
eye-lashes.

Some boys tried valiantly
to build some enduring snow-
sculpture that, lasting into
the daylight, would make the
magic real.

Cars showed reluctance to
tackle the gentlest of slopes,

Cherry

FROM PAGE C4

(opuonal)
24 well-drained

maraschino cherries

fine chopped. toasted

blanched almonds

maraschino cherry

Pieces

Sift together icing sugar
and cocoa. Mett butter ina
saucepan Continue cooking
until butter is hot and bub
bly Remove from _ heat
Blend cocoa mixture, nuts
and almond liqueur tnto hot
butter Shape small spoon
tuls of cocoa mixture around
a cherry and roll with hands

to coal smoothly Roll in
chopped toasted nuts and
garnish with a piece of
cherry Chill until set. Store

in retrigerator.

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and we turned to watch them
slide and weave, dream-like,
yielding to the soft insistence
of the snow. Trees and
bushes heid blobs and
clusters as though in bloom
with snowflakes.

It was 1942 all over again,
when we were living in a
walk-up attic on Vancouver's.
Tenth Avenue, with a great
dazzling view of the ship-
yards and a pocket-book as
flat as the well-known
pancake.

The snow, especially deep
in the Canyon, had kept the
truck-driver in the family
from his weekly trip and
weekly pay-cheque, and we’d
come to the end of a tough
week. Surprisingly there was
a loose dollar bill, somehow
not caught in the maw of the
housekeeping, and that was
our signal for some _ real
entertainment. We'd walk up
to Main Street through the
beautiful snow and see the
movie.

What was it? Ronald Col-
eman? Betty Grable? It cost

forty cents each, whatever it
was, SO we emerged from the
theatre with two hot dimes,
which was enough for a cou-
ple of rollicking hot
chocolates next door.

the kitchen
ranger

by Eleanor
Godley

sent to you is a lot of un-
forgettable experiences,

It was a little thin slice of a
coffee-shop but it was warm
and bright and postponed our
snowy return walk while the
pleasure of the movie slowly
ebbed.

We sat up to the counter
and watched the counter-man
prepare our treat. He used
some sort of ready-mixed
stuff, which frothed in the
hot milk, and we edged a bit
closer to get our hands on the
cups. But oh my — he’s
reached into the cookie-jar
and he’s putting a cookie on
each saucer! Should we tell
him — well, he can just take
it back again, as we can’t
possibly afford it. That’s all
right. But now he’s whipping
cream! Good grief, he’s
spooning some of it into each
of the cups! We squirm with
embarrassment, and mutter
to each other about washing
the dishes. We wring each
other's fingers under cover of
the counter, and wish we'd
just gone home. Here he
comes, now, sliding the two
cups towards us on _ the
counter. ‘‘That’ll be twenty
cents,’’ he says.

So perhaps you will under-
stand that my Christmas pre-

jelly roll au chocolat

+; Cup sugar 180m.
“> Cup water 125mL.
'¥y cup butter or

margarine 125ml

1 tsp. vanilla
Combine cocoa and sugar

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in a Saucepan. Stir in water.
Cook over medium heat, stir-
ring constantly, until mixture
comes to a boil. Reduce heat
and boil gently ‘S minutes.
Remove from heat. Str in

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butter and vanilla. Cool.

Keep refrigerated until ready
for

serving or gift-giving.

warm personal memories and
renewed pleasure in the rag-
gedy old world, however long
it may last. 1 don’t have any
recipe for all this — it’s one

of those things that evolves as
the days pass, a little of this,

some left-over that.
Remember to taste,
frequently.

Peace

on Earth
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