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The Brussels Post, 1956-02-29, Page 2TABLE TALKS dmt, • dam Ancbews. MATERNITY CAR — A new "dodge" =tried recently vvhen a mama rabbit gave birth to a litter in a brand-new, pink"-and- gray Dodge, The bad< door of the car had been left OPen at a car agency. So mamma rabbit moved in. Agency owner Alvin Podway, above, has been feeding them and keeping the car motor running each night to operate the heater and warm .the furry family. The little ones have been named after, models of the car. • Four Thousand R ods. Of Rice. Pests Who Prey On Royalty By MABEL OTIS. ROBISON Written for The Christian Science Monitor Sauces are tO cooking and belting what accessories are to * plain dress Or suit. They are the finishing touches that make it distinctive end• more appetiz- • ,!ling. It has been said that no one is really a good cook who cannot make a good, sauce to enhance the food it comple- ments. White Sauce Almost any vegetable, after being cooked, is improved with is sauce Of some kind. One of the commonest is white sauce, which serves as a basic recipe whiCli many flavorings can be added, White sauce is made by blending 2 tablespoons of butter with two tablespoons of dour over low heat. To this add a cup of milk, stirring constantly till it thickens. Add salt and pepper to taste and cook a few minutes, more. To this you may add pimiento, parsley, onion, cheese. This is delicious on either fish Or vegetables. Mustard Sauce A sauce which is delicious ever hot vegetables is mustard sauce. For this you melt 2 table spoons Of butter over low heat. Add 1 tablespoon of prepared mustard, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, a dash of pepper and stir until smooth. Add Ve cup of milk, and stir -until. thickened. Have „ready a beaten, egg. Take a little of the hot mixture to thin the egg and add all to the sauce. Stir and cook for, one minute.,Add 2 tea- epoons of lemon juice and it is ready fir your cooked-vegetable. tiorse-Radish Sauce For those who like the tangy taste of horse-radish a dressing can be made by melting 3 table- spoons of. butter over low heat. Add 3 tablespoons of .flour, 3/4 teaspoon of dry mustard, and Rtir until smooth. Add gradually 11/2 cups of milk, stirring con- stantly. Fold- in 1/2 cup w of well- , drained bottled horse-radish. Add salt ende pepper to taste. This is especially good over broccoli. e Swiss Cheese Sauce To pep up plain vegetables or dress up toast, try Swiss cheese sauce., Melt 3 tablespoons of butter. Stir in 1 cup of milk. Stir and cook until medium thick- ness. Add salt and pepper to .taste with just a dash of cay- * enne pepper. Add 3/4 cup of finely chopped- Swiss cheese and cook until cheese is melted. Stir In 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice. Tomato Hollandaise A tangy sauce for either vege- tables or fish is tomato hollan- daise. Combine 2 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 1/16 tea- spoon each of salt and pepper and a dash of cayenne pepper. Stir over low heat until slightly thickened. Beat in e3/4 cup of butter and cook until thick. Medium Tomato Sauce "A dressing that can be used en rice loaf, meat or fish is medium tomato sauce. Saute 2 tablespoons of chopped onion in two tablespoons' of butter. Add 1 tablespoon of flour and blend welt Add an at-genet- can of condensed cream of tomato soup. Add 2 teaspoons of vine- gar and 3/4 teaspoon of Worces- tershire sauce. Stir constantly until it boilse Tomato Beef Curry Cooked rice is wonderful with tomato beef curry. For this yott combine 1 cup of beef gravy, 1 CUP of canned tomato soup, 1 teaspoon of curry powder and 2 cups of diced, leftover pot roast. Serve it over the hot rice. Bacon-Cheese Sauce Bacon-cheese sauce is won- derful on almost any kind of het vegetable, especially broc- coli, Brussels sprouts, cauli- flower, or spinach. For this you fry a slice of bacon until crisp. Remove from skillet and chop fine. Add 2 tablespoons of flour to the bacon drippings and stir until smooth over very low heat. Add 1/2 cup of milk and stir over heat until thick, Add 1/4 cup of grated cheese and a dash of salt and pepper. Stir until very smooth after adding chop- ped bacon, Rot. Mushroom Sauce Hot mushroom sauce is deli- cious on fish sticks. Melt 2 table- spoons of butter over low heat. Add 2 tablespoons Of minced onion, 3/4 cup of green pepper, and cook slowly until soft. Add 1 can of mushroom sgup, Y4 cup of water, 6 stuffed olives, and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Let the mixture simmer slowly be- fore taking from fire. Sauce For Potatoes Ythu can make, a sauce to serve over plain, boiled potatoes by melting 3/4 cup of butter Over low heat and adding. t/4 teaspoon each of onion, garlic, and celery salt. Stir in 1/2 tea- spoon of paprika and 1 teaspoon of finely minced parsley. Penuche Sauce Desserts can be dressed up with sauces also. Penuche sauce is delicious over ice cream, squares of plain cake, or cottage pudding. To make this you com- bine 13/4 cups of brown sugar, 3/4 cup of corn syrup and lh cup of butter in a sauce pan. Stir constantly over low heat until melted smooth. Remove from, heat and add 1/2 cup of sweet- ened condensed milk, 1/2 cup chopped pecans and 1/16 tea- spoon of salt. Orange Sauce Equally good to serve over gingerbread, cake, or cottage pudding is orange sauce. For this you combine 1/2 cup of sugar, 11/2 tablespoons of corn- starch and 1/4 teaspoon of salt with 1/2 cup water. Stir con- stantly over low heat until it is thick. Remove from fire. In an- other dish mix lh cup fresh orange juice, 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon of grated lemon rind, 1/2 tea- spoon of grated orange rind, and 1 egg yolk, Add this to hot mixture. Return to fire and cook slowly until slightly thickened. Add 3 tablespoons of butter. Stir until smooth. Always melt butter over low heat as this protects its flavor. When you add the other in- gredients, stir constantly. It is this stirring while cooking over low heat that gives a satiny look to sauce. You can use the same old dish, yet have something new every time you use a new sauce. TOUGH ON TYPISTS "How do you like your new boss, my' dear " asked Jill's mother. "Ah, he isn't so bad, Mummy; rather bigoted, that's all." "What do you mean, bigoted?" "Well, lie thinks words can be spelled only .one, Way." Two Greatest Stars —Cat and Mouse The greatest stars in Holly- wood today — by Oscar-reck- oning — ,are two masters of make-believe mayhem known as Tom and Jerry. Nobody knows how many times this durable cat and ir- repressible mouse have flatten- ed each other by means of some device that would dismember anybody else. And hardly anybody, even in Hollywood, realizes that they have won seven ()Scars. This makes them supreme, not only in the cartoon world, but in the whole wide world of Hollywood performers. If stars are rated by the num- ber of their Academy Awards, Tom and Jerry have a right to look down on Spencer Tracy and Fredric March. Two Oscars look peettir sparse compared to seven — or even three and a half. As for all those statuettes in Walt Disney's outer office, Hal Elias, manager. of M-G-M's short subjects department, gently but firmly explains that "no other cartoon character has won more than one award—not even Don- ald." Meanwhile Tom and Jerry just go on forever—propelling each other from frying pans into fires, out of windows, through walls. The terrible cat and the impu- dent mouse , nevertheless have changed somewhat since they won their first Oscar in 1943. (That was for "Yankee Doodle Mouse," in which a Fourth of July theme was carried out by having Jerry fly through the air in an egg crate labeled "hen grenades.") For one, thing, they have slimmed down a little. That's to be expected, consider- ing what they go through. They have also beebine more eultuted, which you wouldn't expect at all. Tom, besides gra- ; dilating early to hind-leg loco- ] is, has taken to speaking lomb, the role of a concert pi- I anist. Jerry, bright boy that he motion, has played, with ap- Frehch. The inordinate and inexplic- able entheslesrn which spread throligh theater audiences in response' to this new wrinkle in Jerry's vocabulary has meant that "Two MOusekateers" was .followed by "Touche Pussycat," "Tom and Cherie" (cartoonists never could resist an irresistible, title), and; sooner or later, "Toll- lours Pussycat." Public approv- al is not the only reason, by the Way, for rushing out mousketeer sequels. The six - year - old inedethoiselle from'France Who actually speaks Jerry's lilies is rapidly toeing not Only her yoll0. but her accent. Tom Ond Jerry, incidentally, are developing a new and • friendly sense family In "Busy Buddies" they take care of a baby who ilea. been left to the tender mercies of a telephehe-hatipy teen-age' baby sitter; they reseed the tiny explorer from many a petileile adventure. "Spike and tyke" (bulldogs large and "small) are Moving out of the series to start tine Of their teetl. There Will be lid riding to glory` On an Oseer this Year. Mr Elias arid his Malt have sure' PriSed everybody bY for Academy 'exhibition an Oh- banal "Message' cartoon,"' Pite , • . duced by the former head of the shorts"department, Fred 'Quim- by, it shows' pest-atomic •mice singing Christmas songs ,in, a ruined chapel. An elderly or ganist, leading the mouse Choir rehearsal ,with his sensitive` tail; stops long enough' to' try to de- scribe to -the 'little' ones- how "Men' extinguished one other. 4"lashbacks ..ef .,war *le trast grimier_ with .passageS he points out in "their' Bible. "Too bad," he sighs; "that they, didn't pay mere attention." How Can I? Q. How can I loosen the dirt in clothes, and also make them whiter? A. pour a few drops 'of tur- pentine into the wash boiler and it will help loosen the dirt. A spoonful of bprax in hot water and then added to the last rinse water tendS to whiten clothes. Also remember that clothes dried slowly will be whiter than those dried quickly. Q. How can I prevent the bot- toms of pies from burning? ' A. Sprinkle some fine dry salt' over the bottom of the oven, and it will prevent the bottoms of the pies, cakes, or other pa- stry„ from burning. — Q. What is a hothe remedy for painful burns?' A, Apply a paste of common baking soda and water. - Or, scrape a raw potato and apply as a poultice. .Q. How can I prevent ,carry- ing away a contagious disease, in the clothing? A. Where one has.been around a person afflicted with a con- tagious disease; the clothing should be washed in water to which a little carbolic acid has been added. Q. How can, I remove the cereal that sticks to the vessel in which it has been cooked? A. Add a cupful of wood ashes, then fill with water and leave to soak. Q. How can I easily clean white paint? ' A. Water in which ' onions have been boiled is said to make panainetxcellent cleaner for white Q, How can I set colors? A. To set blue, pink, green, lavender, red and purple, soak in alum water, two ounces to the tub. Black, gray, and dark blue solid be soaked in strong salt water, -- Q. How- tali I prevent the Weakening of the bristles` of a broom? A. AlWays hang the brocein from the wall. An excellent hanger can be Made by fasten,. ing to the Wall two empty spools, about two Mends apart. Q. How can I fOrte out par- ticles Of poteides or' Meat that cling to the "knives of tile food grinder? or Piece of Stale bread throegh A. Rim two Or three crackers O r pieces of stale bread through Q. Row can I make tali shoes that are too light in Color a darker, tan? A. fly robbing. thein with a cloth dampened in anittionia. Repeat this process 'until the celce desired is obtained, letting the leather dry between the ape plicatiotie, Q. ROW can I preVelit dal)* eittebOardsf A,- All the thoistlite in a damp ttiplantird Will be tebsorbed in a' few days' tithe 14 it bed of ofeklitoe ,U Placed in it Although the climate of the northern part of Japan is not suited eor the cultivation of rice, nevertheless nearly two-thirds Of the whole of the arable land Of the country is devoted to its pro- duction and it is stated that no fewer then four thousasd varie- ties of this. precious cereal are found in, the country. It is the important operations con- nected with its, sowing; plant- ing and in gathering that form the chief occassiens of popular solicitude and rejoicing amo,ng the dwellers of the country-side. One of the most Striking and arresting features of these rural scenes is the extraordinary and minute care with which 'the hills, rising abruptly, as most of them do, from the alluvial plains and the seashore, are ter- raced from base to summit wherever a single grain of rice or other cereal can be made to grow, The resultant landscape resembles nothing so Much as a gigantic chess-board, decked out in gold, yellows, and greens of every shade. A story was told me by a Japanese friend, to il- lustrate the diligence so charac- teristic of these tireless toilers, which related how one farmer terraced his little hill-side into no fewer than eleven tiers. At last, overjoyed at the success of his labours, he sat down on the tiny summit to survey in satis- faction the prospect at his' feet. To his dismay he was able to ' count but ten of the terraces upon which his labour had been bestowed. The eleventh, was there, it is true, but invisible, for, he was sitting upon it! Of all months in the year, per- haps it is May that combines more numerous and varied at- tractions, than any other of the eleven, with its sky of dazzling brilliancy, an unpar alleled wealth' of flowers of every hue, nearly all to be viewed and en- . jOyed by the crowded popula- tions of towns and cities, and; at the same time, presenting te us• the country-side under its busiest, brightest, and most var- ied aspects; .What makes the scene 'so much the more attrac- tive is, the feet that 'in all its widespread activities nearly all the peasant folk, young- as, well as old, are called upon to play their part Bailey, wheat arid es- pecially millet,' • are ripening east . . • It is the cereals men-" tioned that form the real staple food of most rural districts, particularly in the northern parts of the main island. Though all who can live on rice, many of the peasants of the remoter regions can only afford to, do so on high days and „ holidays. — From "A Way Farer in Un- familiar Japan"' by Walter Wes- ton. 'Sarah' Helps Find Missing Airmen Air Force Headquarters recently, , announced that it is obtaining a new radio device expected to be of valuable assistance in locating crews of missing aircraft. The device is called "SARAH", (Search and Rescue and. Homing) and comprises a tiny' radio set, weighing only 31/2 lbs, which can be carried by aircrew. Compari- _ ion equipment, weighting only 12 lbs, is carried by searching • aircraft. The two units of "Sarah" Work together, and cannot be used separately. The equipment carried by air- crew consists of a compact bat- tery operated radio-beacon and voice transmitter: The radio- beacon sends out pulsed signals which permit a searching air- craft to "home" on to it. Once within close range the survivor on the grgend can converse with the Searching plane: Range of the radio-beacon is about 60 miles, although this is . variable depending upon the al, titude of the search aircraft arid the type of terrain surrounding the beacon, The voice transceiver had a range of about 5 miles. Air Force Officials say that noteworthy advantages of the new equipment are its lightness and ,eohipattnOss. This Petinite aircreee where. desirable, to cat* the tiny redid in a pocket- of their flying suits; or in their emergency 'seat packs, Which form part of their parachute harness. Emergency radio equip- Meet are' already carried in the seat packs, or as part of an air- Craft's gear, but are limited in tieditilitiess or haVe Proved he, satisfactory. the equipment has'ileeii test, ed. by the RCAF, and much formation hae been gained front the tAtly which has already adapted the equipment; The de, vice iS,Mantfeettied in the UK. First deliver"ies" of the equip- nitht ate expected ''this spring, and i's'sue to aircrew' Will fel- IOW, The •airberrie 'Portion of the p Will be 'fitted to. iteittelt and reSetti aircraft iletbSe' Canada.: "Princess. Margaret's friend" was a charming, superbly tail, tired young man—and in cub- tuned accents he hinted of the invitations he could arrange to functions attended by royalty. Now he is being 'hunted by Scotland. Yard, for senior Unit- ed States Army officers and e irate tourists parted with hun- dreds of pounds on the prospect of meeting the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh or Princess Mar- garet. It was just another smooth confidence trick, made all the more convincing by make-be- lieve telephone calls to officials at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House, Simulataneously Los Angeles police are searching for a per- sonable young Britisher who discreetly hinted of his friend- ship with Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent. His cre- dentials were so impressive that he was treated as a V.I.P. and shown round the movie studios. He was given complimentary seats at important film pre- mieres and went to free studio lunches with the stars, Gently he confided that Treasury fin- ancial regulations placed him in dollar difficulties. "I have the run of Buckingham Palace, yet I can't afford' a taxi," he• wise- cracked before he cadged ten dollars. When his hotel bill became too formidable he skipped out Of town. These are just two of the pests who prey on ,roYelty :— crooks and cranks only too well known to Superintendent Per- kins, the Queen's 'shadow," and other security detectives. Fortunately, most of these nuisances are harmless, but they can cause a great deal of trou- ble. A prominent Washington hostess gossiped to her friends of her "secret arrangements" to entertain the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The whole scheme existed only in her'imagination, 'but rumours spread so' swiftly that before long the White • House had to issue an, offitial state- ment, denying that the Queen and' the Duke were planning' to visit the. States. Not long ao, the Queen Moth- er's secretary nearly fell into a, trap when he entered into nego- .tietions via Pembroke College, for Her Majesty's attendance at the tricentenary of Selhurst School. Luckily, he took the precau- tion of checking the history of the school through another , source, despite the impressive printed note-paper used by the headmaster. Then the truth came to light, No such school existed. The whole thing was an elaborate• hoax, concocted by two Pem- broke students! Something similar happened when the cruiser Australia was in the South Pacific several years ago with the Duke of Gloucester aboard. The world heard with a thrill that in those same waters the schooner Seth Parker had sent out a radio call for help. The Duke's ship promptly rushed to her aid and stood by for days, 'taking off nine of her crew. But the Seth Parker did not sink. She had been charter- ed by a prominent American radio entertainer—and gradual- ly it became evident that the whole adventure had been cook- ed' up as a publicity stunt. In Hyde Park the Queen re- viewed a parade of ex-service- men. 'Prominent in the front rank was an ,old man with twenty medals on his Chest. One of them dated back to 1893.The Mons Star was alongside his de- coration for the relief of Lady- smith. It seemed a proud record and after the parade he was shown considerable hospitality by the Royal Horse Guards, But an officer noticed he was wearing the medals in the wrong order and they were none too clean. Eventually he came under PO - lice questioning, He had never "served in a campaign and had no right to wear any of the me- dals. In fact, he had bought most of them from pawnshops! It often takes sharp eyes to save the Queen from embarrass- ment. During a royal visit to Nottingham an elderly woman planned to halt the Queen's car and make a protest to her about vivisection. Fortunately, a plain-clothes police-sergeant„ gifted with , a long memory, spotted her push- ing through the weitihg crowds. Instantly he.' remembered that when the .Queen- visited Not- tingham ,as Princess Elizabeth the same' womane 'had attempted to stop her and engage her in conversation: Gently he got into_convetea- tion with the woman and offer- ed to find her a better vantage point.' He engaged her confi- dence until she told him of her plan to stop the royal car. Then he, persuasively encouraged her to talk of her beliefs . . . and She was so engrossed in her story that the royal procession passed unmolested. Every year, tog, a car sweeps up the drive towards Balmoral Castle and the occupant, a• mid.. dle-aged man, tells the police- man on duty that he is Lord So- and-so end , is expected for Bunch. He usually gets past the Dee bridge patrol; but all vis- itors are carefully checked, in and out of the castle and he is invariably turned back at the ledge. Another type of trouble-male. er ds- the hoaxer who anony- mously 'phones the police be- fore a royal visit to tell of hid- den bombs. Needless to say, every warning has to be fully investigated. The disruption that can be caused was evidenced just be- fore the Queen left on her Aus- tralian tour. Owing to a bogus warning the aircraft' had 'to be completely stripped and, every item checked and double_check- ed before• being put- aboard. The cases 7,of food arid medi- cine were carefully probed . . . until the only remaining ,suspi- ciouS item. was a mysterious brown paper parcel measuring six inches 'by' three; 'addressed to a lady-in-waiting "Toebe de- livered on board?' The ' con- tents seemed even more .sinister when the Customs - `a-ray" showed that .the • parcel conceal- ed a metal canister, It ,proved to be a tin t f talthime powder, a parting gift from a friend! HARD TO COLLECT An American who put his name down for a seat . in the first rocket ship to Mars wanted to insure himself with a Brit- ish company. His proposal was accepted, the premium 'being that for normal flying plus fifty per cent. A special clause was inserted in the policy, stating: "Non-return is no proof of death," At tiny liOUOWIN'iclidiAlt, iftthe'Thicil taste that counts with fish' Ho cfer 'whether its 'made' feaiii dame Or codfish. Here Cana, diari 14Catirititit kellWayt Chef. Instructor Joseph F. Nellii samples chowder Ititit, Wes butter instead of pork Orli! IS a favourite Aiith tievelleo tinting Lent. ::•AteZ0 COURAGE- IS HER EASTER, Kegs tire weak, but.. there* nothing Wrong With the big, happy .&1a. She's Clara id • PrOudfoat, 4; of MlainlieIsla. garti"Witte d crippling condition, she's symbolic of the tlithitditaS of crip-pred ,'children who'll benefit from Services. fiiia,,ted. .The .tirifiuta Easter •Seeds.