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/ 2 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1983 Ona and Joy reveal secrets to cake-baking scrum An empty pan is all that's left of Ona Short"s dark fruit cake, iudged to be the tastiest at last weekend's Port Perry Fair. Unfor- tunately, Ona is keeping the recipe a secret. Fortunately, she gave us a few tips on making our own recipes better. See story for details. Port Perry Star ADVERTISING DEADLINES ALL ADVERTISING: MONDAY 12 NOON < Weed killers harm Garden supplies such as weed and pest killers can be harmful as well. Use them strictly as directed by the instruc- tions and store them: where children cannot play with them Grego : PIGSKIN & LEATHER _ JACKETS | Just great for those in-between season outings .... now at super savings too! Bomber and 3/4 Lengths available! FREEMAN FORMAL RENTALS Gregory sMen's Wear Lid. PORT PERRY PLAZA 985-8160 =n Ona Short's lips are sealed. "I'm not going to tell you," she says firmly. "It's a secret." Awww, c'mon Ona. Tell us why your fruit cake won first prize at the Port Perry Fair. Was it the flour? Or the fruit? Or some handed-down family - concoction nobody else knows about? "I: like my cakes nice and moist. with lots of fruit," she says. Not budging one iota. The Seagrave woman is actually being smart by refusing to divulge her recipe for dark fruit cake. On Labour Day weekend, her prize- winning cake was auc- tioned off for $350 to a group of her neighbours led by Murdock Belair. For $350, it must have _ been quite the cake. "It's super," says Mrs. Enid Belair. "The cake was divided up betweenn 10 people. When we realized that Mrs. Short, a neighbour and a really good friend, had won first prize, we got a group together to bid. It's really delicious. A lot of fruit." It was Ona's first entry in the Port Perry Fair cake contest and the very first time she ever put icing on a fruit cake. '"To tell you the truth, I didn't know what to put , on top of the cake," she - says. "I'd never iced a fruit cake before." Although she wouldn't reveal the recipe, she did ptiousness say it came from her sister. Ona's been baking fruit cakes for several years, usually in Oc- tober, in time for Christmas. sees Fifteen year old Joy Werry isn't quite so secretive. For the second time in the past two years, Joy's chocolate cake won first prize in the Blackstock Fair. Pwo years ago it was auctioned off for $65, but with inflation and all, the same recipe went for $100 this year, to a group of Blackstock businessmen. Alf Lewerentz, Dave Mackie, Harold Forder, Terry Finley, Gord Holli- day and Lloyd Skinner were the big spenders. Joy's secret is simple -- find a good recipegnd stick to it. Her chocolate cake recipe, from an old book belonging to her grandmother, is as follows: Joy Werry's Chocolate Cake Ys cup butter Ys cup shortening % cup white sugar 2 tbsp. cocoa Ys tsp. salt 1.tps. vanilla 1 egg 1% cups cake flour 4 cup sour milk 1 tsp. baking soda Vs to % cup hot water (use your own judgement) Bake for 35 minutes in moderate oven. And if all else fails -- use a-mix. feathers? It's fowl play Does your neighbour's chickens have your goat? Does that goose up the street ruffle your According to reports from Councillor Jack - A BRIEF LOOK AT SOME OF THE NEWS THAT IS MAKING HEADLINES IN OUR NEIGHBOURING COMMUNITIES. GOODWOOD - Residents of this quiet little community are up in over one of the worst acts of vandalism to ever take place in the area. Over thirty gravestones in the Goodwood Cemetery were either toppled or destroyed sometime Sunday night or Monday morning last week. Police believe the vandals gathered for a party at the site as beer bottles were found scattered about the grounds. No arrests have been made, but police report they have several leads. STOUFFVILLE - Executive members of the Durham-York Riding of the New Democratic » Party hauled the Stouffville Tribune's publisher and editor in front of the Ontario Press Council last week demanding a press apology. The NDP was represented by Katherine Anderson, Margaret Wilbur and Roy Grierson. The executive members were criticizing .the newspapers coverage and editorial views from a meeting held on April 13 which accused them of being "pro- Russian" and "Communist". The Press Council will hand down its decision sometime in October. UXBRIDGE - The Township of Uxbridge has entered into a contract with Vantage Building Corp. to erect a central works depot for the cost of $254,000. The new depot will be situated on Regional Road 8, west of the town and will replace three small works yards at Goodwood, Sandford and Uxbridge. A salt dome and storage shed built by the Township are already a part of the site. Only councillor Mac Meyers opposed the construction of the new depot because he felt that services to the rural municipalities would be reduced. BOWMANVILLE - The first of the major components to Darlington's nuclear generat- ing station arrived by barge from Montreal last week. The 600 tonne reactor assembly is worth $12 million and represents the first of four reactor cores that will arrive at Darlington harbour. The assembly will not be installed inside a reactor building until next year. WHITBY - A new wing 'at Fairview Lodge, home for the aged, was officially opened Wednesday, Sept. 7 with Frank Drea, Minister of Community and Social Services present. The wing, on which construction began in November 1982, is reported to have - cost in excess of $3 million. The new structure adds 59 beds to the present building. Cottrell there have been an increased number of Port Perry people calling him about pesky critters (such as chickens, goats, geese and ducks) living within the town limits. Last Monday afternoon, Councillor Cottrell brought the subject up for discussion at a Scugog Couricil meeting. He was wondering if a ruling could be included in the upcoming minimum standards by-law (the subject will be discussed at a future meeting) but all he got in reply was jokes. ' : "From what I've heard it's roosters, not fowl that's the problem," joshed Councillor Lawrence Malcolm. "They get up too early in the morning and crow." APPLIANCES ® DOLLIES ® BOX TRAILERS GAZE & GLAZE CERAMICS 108 WATER ST., PORT PERRY 985:8555 ~ REGISTER NOW FOR FALL CLASSES! OPENINGS STILL AVAILABLE - First come, first served basis. 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