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The Brussels Post, 1956-05-09, Page 6TA BLE TALKS Amos and Andy Just KeYep ROI1110" Aloga TOO PQOCHED PARTICIPATE—Cleo, TV'S esci'd-eyecflaa'siet hound, is dog-tired after spending es day W ith the 11 offspring of her stand-in, "Beauty." Beauty was stunting before th'e camera to givethe star a rest (?). Spring is shortcake 'time, - and soon you'll be tieing ruby red strawberries, pink-meated peaches, purple or red raspber, Vies- for your dessert. Traditional shortcake is made with tWe elec layers put together with freth fruit and then cut in wedges, to be served with, ereem, Or; you may want to serve .Yanr shortcake in individual portions. If you do. just make the short- cake in biscuit sizes, .Strawberry Shortcake 2. cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder teaepoon salt 2-4 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons shortening 1 quArt strawberries Sift flour, baking powder, salt and' sugar together. Cut in fat Stir in tnilk quickly with a fork until soft dough is formed.-3/4, cup far roll-and- biscuits, 1 cup for drop bieeuits or "muffin"- biseuits. •Bake at 450 9 F. 15-20 minutes. Wash and hull straw- berries and put between and, over shortcake, Serve with cream, whipped cream, or ice cream.. Modern Etiquette... Q. Is it necessary to acknow- ledge receipt of birthday or anniversary cards? A. If you mean by this, a note of acknowledgment, no. However, when you meet the sender of the card, it is always good manners to mention that the card was received and ap- preciated. Q. Is it the duty of the bride elect to buy the dresses and ac- cessories for her bridesmaids? A. No. It is her duty to select the designs and material, but the bridesmaids must, pay for their own outfits. Q• When hors 'd'oeuvres are served on Picks, should they be eaten from the picks, or re- moved` and .eaten with the fin- gers? A. You; should use the pick for conveying the morsel to your mouth. Q. Is it correct 'to send out informal handwritten invita- tions to a very simple"wedding? A, Yes, such as, "Dear Jane: John and I are being married at four o'clock Saturday, the first of next month. The ceremony will be at such-and-such church. We hope that you will come. Affectionately yours, Betty." Q. Is it permissible to sip wa- ter while one has food in one's mouth? A. No; this is considered bad manners. Only. when one has taken a bite of food into the mouth that is too hot to handle is a sip of water, condoned. Q. What would be the cor- rect way for two unmarried sisters to register at a hotel? A. They should register: "Miss. Shirley Walton, Miss Sue Walton, Detroit, Mich." Q. How longeshould one stay when making a call of condol- ence at a friend's home? A. This call should be espe- cially brief not longer than about ten or fifteen minutes — unless, of course, the, bereaved friend asks you to stay longer. Q. Should a woman keep her hat on when at an afternoon card party? A. She should remove it if the party is in a private home. If in a public place, she may either remove it or keep it on, as she wishes. Q. Is it correct to eat short- cake with the fork, 'or should a spoon be used? A. The fork-should be used. Q. Is it considered proper for a guest at dinner to stack his used dishes when he has finish- ed eating? A, No; he should leave them as they are, All you gotta do, is stand at de altar, say "I do" an' slip the ring on her ANDY: Well, if dat ain't git- tin' married, dereis a lot of people on dere honeymoon oat is just demselvesi * KINGFISH : It's Avitut's inside a person dot, counts, Abigail is got a beautiful spirit, a wonder- ful heart and a lovely soul. ANDY: 'Yeah, I'd really have surnpin' if, I could ever turn her inside out, * SHORTY: Abigail's brother is up heah to avenge his sis- ter, an' he say he gonna bring Andy back to her dead or alive. KINGFfSH:, Holy smokes! Whut does dis feller look like? SHORTY: Well, he's six foot two,' an' he's carryin,' a gun. De rest of his appearance is nuth- in' to worry 'bout. * KINGFISH: When Abigail's brother finds out she seed, you. you know sumpn'? ANDY: What's (let? KINGFISH: De next time I tells dat story abOut you'hero' dead, you may be layin' dere to back me up. • * * ATTORNEY: Miss Blue, is it not true that every time you went into Andy Brown's Office, he wanted to kiss you? MISS BLUE: Oh, no suh, not every time. Sometimes he want- ed me to, kiss him, " * CRAWFORD: I walked into de parlor and found Andy hug- gin' my niece, and he say he was teaching her joo-jit-soo, ATTORNEY: Did you accept that explanation? CRAWFORD: Well, all I know is if dat was joo-jit-soo, de Japanese have a wonderful time. * ANDY: If that leopard comes near me, I'm going to take this shotgun and give him another eyeball right in the centre of the forehead! * AMOS: I'm so miserable I'd have to cheer myself up to get in the mood to commit suicide. * * AMOS: If there's one thing I can't stand, it's pedestrians. Why don't dey get a car and defend themselves? * * ANDY: She got her teeth from the dentist, her transfor- mation from the beauty parlor, her eyelashes from the drug- store and her figUre from the US. Rubber' Ccimpany, KINGFISH.' Yeah. Between now and the ,wedding, a strike in one of them industries could kill the romance, * AIVIOS: There's an thd"Chinese proVerb ahout a' jailhouse: "It's better to be guilty 'on the out- side -than innocent on the in- side:" * KINGFISH: Now' look heal), Andy. Lemme tell you about dis double indemnity wid de accident feature. Jus' suppose you was up in de Empire State Building — way up on de 79th floor. You lose your. balance an' fall from de 79th floor to de sidewalk. My company will pay you $15 a week as long as you live. r.L'he "battle of the ratings`" between Jackie Gleason, Perry Como, Milton Berle; Ed. Sulliv- an and other TV giants roars on unnoticed, by millions of "Amos 'n Andy" fans who flick their dials week ratter week to a program, that goes all the way back to March, 1928, when Free- man Gosden and Charles Cor- rell took to the airwaves over a Chicago station for their first performance, What happened is radio his- tory, for within months the listening habit of a nation was changed! At 7:00 p.m. the whole fam- ily gathered around the radio to hear the antics of Madam. Queen, Kingfish and the rest of the 160 characters •Gosden and Correll created and, acted; the financial difficulties of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. became a na- tional institution; phrases such as "Ah's regusted!" and "Une lax, boy unlax!" becaMe part of the American vocabulary. Almost overnight, . Correll (Andy) and Gosclen (Amos) were in the $100,000-a-year- bracket — when that really, was money. But fame and success didn't change the warm and human quality of the show — or of its originators. Typical of their attitude was Gosden's remark after Presid- ent Hoover invited them to the White House: "We're just a couple of kids trying to make good." Just how "good" they made is indicated by these incidents. Once on the program Andy called a Harlem phone number that happened to be a real one, During the next few hours the poor, woman who owned it re- ceived more than 600 calls. An- other time Amos lost his dog and mentioned it over the air. He was' swamped with dozens of pooches;' sent as gilts. But in: 1953 despair hit their 'fans' when Amos 'n Andy an- nounced their retirement after their 10,0,00th. broadcast. CBS reportedly paid the team two- milliOn dollars for the show title:• ATV'.show :built 'around the ,ori'ginal program .also was startede with an all-Negro cast. But Gosden, and Correll couldn't stay idle. Soon they launched "Amos 'n Andy Mu- sic Hall" over. CBS 'on a five- day-a-week basise and their de- voted fans still tune them in as regularly as they did 'de-genera- tion ago, Although Correll and Gosden don't do all the work, they still supervise every exit, every, entrance, every sound ofe feet. Jack Benny, a veteran in his own right, recently paid them this tribute: "As long as Amos 'n Andy keep broadcasting, radio has po- tency as an entertainment me- dium. At the rate they've been going, this should be just about forever." Their millions of fans hope so, because over the years, their wit and their humor have grown legend and endeared them to the public. Remember some of these typ- ical Amos 'n Andy jokes? SAPPHIRE: George, dis is a perfect finish to all de horrible things you done in 1949. You never supported me. You is gypped all your friends. 'You is short at de lodge. You is tricked Andy into marryin'. You is broken poor Abigail's heart. Dat's a fine record. KINGFISH: Yeah, come to think of it, I guess I did have a pretty big year at slat! opment. What they 'valued in a fool was the ready and recog- nizable joke at which they could freely laugh. Saint Louis, one of the wisest of his order, so rel- ished this fun-making that often, when it was proposed to read some pious chronicle, he post- poned being edified until after he had been amused, • The popularity ,of court fools increased rather than diminished during the fifteenth and sixteen- th centuries. Cardinal Wolsey presented his own fool, Patch, to Henry the Eighth, greatly to the King's delight and to Patch's discomfiture. John Heywood, jester, dramatist, and scholar, survived Henry, and young Ed- ward the Sixth, who joked very little, and. Queen. Many, who -- so says Sir Frederic Madden — 'was of a cultivated intelligence and fond of innocent fun. Heywood could do more than jest. He made a Latin oration at the Queen's wedding. Men were then trained to listen to Latin orations. It speaks volumes for the discipline of a court. — From "In Pursuit of Laughter," by Agnes Repplier., of those days which had never been before, and which can never be again.' e • . The court fool of the. Middle Agee was not 'a sardonic corn- mentator e but a cheerful acro- bat• who could jump about, turn sommersaults, walk on his hands, m i c courtiers, make merry jests, and, when he dared, play rough practical jokes. Hitard, the fool of Edmund Ironside,e ac- quired fame, though what leis- ure his royal master 'had to look at him, or listen to him, cannot be conceived, s. .,. • s Professional fools have often- times ,been frowned 'upon by the great aria wise and supercilious. Seneca -tibseeired: that' if a man desired to langhoatdelly, he could do no bettesethan scrutinize him- self. Christian( the First, King of Denmark in the fifteenth cen- tury, having been preSented with a pair'. of feels, declined their services. He said that if he want- ed folly, his courtiers could sup- ply his needs. But the men of the Middle Ages were less cynical because less egotistical. Self - analysis played little part in their de'irels r Another strawberry dessert, easy to make and serve, is Strawberry Cream Refrigerator Cake. Save whole strawberries with which to garnish this des- sert. Strawberry Cream Refrigerator Cake 1 cup heavy cream 4 cup confectioners sugar 1 teaspoon orange extract cup crushed strawberries 1 dozen ladyfingers Few whole strawberries for garnish - Whip cream with sugar and orange flavoring until stiff. Fold in crushed strawberries. Have ready a glass dish (about 6x6x2) -lined with waxed paper. Ar- range 6 ladyfingers in bottom• of dish and spread half' the straw- berry cream mixture over them, Repeat, using other half of lady- fmgers and cream. Chill in 're- frigerator 2-3 hours. Unmold on serving platter, remove waxed paper, and garnish with berries. Serves 4-5. * * * A pretty dessert made with lee cream is an ice-cream sand- wich loaf. Frost it with whipped cream and decorate with pieces of fruit. Ice-Cream Sandwich Loaf 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Ye teaspoon lemon extract 11/4 cups sifted flour We teaspoons baking powder 44 teaspoon salt 34 cup milk, warmed 3 tablespoons butter ice cream whipped cream Beat eggs; beat sugar into eggs. Stir in flavorings. Sift to- gether the dry ingredients, and fold into egg mixture just enough to moisten. Melt butter in warmed milk; sir into first mixture. Pour batter -into greas- ed loaf pan and bake about 35 minutes, at 350° F. Remove from oven; let stand five minutes, the invert on cake rack When cool, lift pan off. Slice loaf cake in half lengthwise. Place layer of ice cream on one layer (pre- packed ice cream may be sliced the desired thickness for this layer). Place second layer of cake on top of ice cream. Top with whipped cream. Keep in refrigerator until serving time, then slice and serve at table. British cooks coMplain that American recipes }lave Unfamis liae ingredients and odd meas- lezements, American cooks try ilempting British recipes and have disappointing r eeulte What we need .is an• Anglo- *Mexican cookery conference in which teaspoons and table- 'goons, level or heaping, cups end basins cao be sorted out end standardized through inter- national culinary agreement. In the meantime The Chris- Ilan Science Monitor's food col- teninist, Eleanor Richey John- Leon, sought , to clarify for American and Canadian readers. a 'recipe a British reader kindly tent in for OATCAKES, Mrs. Johnston has added the Savor of fun to the account of her experiments, which we. Aare with our readers for good measure. She writes: * * Dear Woman's Department: We had a big snow here day before yesterday and guess what I fed the birds? OAT- CAKES! I had soup for lunch today— esad guess what I ate with my ;stoup? OATCAKES! There is something I am won- Bering why was ever invented —guess what it is? OATCAKES! I'm sending you a box of something to try tasting. Guess what? OATCAKES! "" Three times I have tested this recipe. The first, using the orig- inal amount of milk, took 3 cups of neer in addition to the cup elf oats. It went to the birds end they could hardly eat it. Next I tried cup milk. That took 1 cup flour and wasn't slaty enough. Today I tried 3/4 cup milk and kt seems all right. I'm sending you some. I'm handicappped by the fact that I have no idea what an atcake should be like or taste e or look like. My three weeks in England didn't pre- pare me for oatcakes. Here is the recipe—not much like the original, but the best I can do. Oatcakes 1 cup oats (quick - cooking kind) 2 (sluices butter 1st cup $4 to 1 teaspoon salt, according to taste P) tablespoons sifted flour Melt butter and stir oats into it. Let stand overnight. Heat milk; add all other ingredients and mix well. If more liquid is needed to make a soft dough, add additional milk. Knead a little and roll as thin as possi- ble. Cut in strips, place on cooky sheet, and bake in very hot oven. When oatcakes are colored, tern and bake 5 min- ute& longer, MERRY MENAGERIE GROWING A NEW LIM — Three-year-old Korean orphan Choong Lim looks like what he wants to be—a real American boy as he sits upon his favorite toy, a tractor. Choong has been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bovee, Sr. Bovee's son, an Army sergeant, found Choong Lim, now Tony Lee, in Korea. ANDY; Dey will, huh? KINGFISH: An' another nice little feature about dat partlar accident. DO time , of ese pay- ments don' start from de time you hits de sidewalk" Dey start frOni de time you leaves de window. KINGFISH: Although you is up dere wid de preacher, you don't actually marry de gal. For the rest of the row, Grand- father pitched three shocks to my two. Then he stood his fork against a tree,, :and said, "Load's getting a little high for your old greinpa, Ralphie. You throw on eight or ten or a dozen more shocks, and fetch it on to the barn. I'll go ahead and get some of the cuich out of the barn floot." When we got to the barn, I found out why grandfather wanted me to build the load ed high. Instead of using a horse% fork, the way they always did in Coloteche,. we had to unload by hand. But that wasn't all. The hay had to be handled three of four tithes: I pitched off the rack to Uncle Levi on the low Mow above the tieup,• he pitch- ed to Grandfather on the, next higher mow, and he pitched to Mille, Whet stowed away in the - high mow above the driveway. Unloading was twice hard as loading on in the' field. With the hayrack built the way it ' was, the whole bottom part of the head was tangled and Mat= ted together. To tear it lOoSe. With a Pitchfork Was like pull.', ing'stumps. , s I wasn't a bit sorry *heti • Grandfather said. Viihitch 'your,heSSes, alphiel We .done a good It .iiih Of Work1O4 day, and leave her".set" right Where. she is till Morning.- Can't go to hauling: of Mothingt, anYWaert, till after the surf's high, enough to suck tip' the ., From "The' Fields of Home;"` 'by kalPh Moody. Pitching Hay With Grandpa In some ways, the haying went better than I expected it to for the first few days. Grand- father worked most of the fore- noon with Uncle Levi and me while We shocked _hay in the or- chard. He never asked how' the raking had been done, and we didn't tell him. In the after- noon, when we were ready to haul, Millie put on a pair of overalls. . I had thought I was going to show Grandfather something about pitching hay but, little as he was, he could swing up as big a forkful as I could. And he started swinging them just as fast as he could go. "Coma on, Ralphie! Come on!" he sang out as Millie stopped the rack beside the first 'row Of shocks. I and lie jabbed his fork into a shock; crouched, levered the 'fork hail- - die across his bent knee, and sent, the lead sailing Over. the high rail of the hajerack. It was hardly off the fork before he Was trotting toward the next. . I only had .the rack loaded a little way above the rail 'when atandfatliez' came beat, He passed me a heavy, lOng-handled fork, and as I took it he Old me to quit , trying to shOW Off before I, broke everything on the place , all , smithereens, say anything, and I didn't Change 'My:pate froth, the way I'd been going before .he carne, 110*.:GaYat• Whore 1•117,oi0:' "Middle Ages? It iitthftge that so little at, tentiOn should have been Ages; to' the gaiety of the Middle Agee, NOW afiderthen this urifamiliai aspect str=ilieS an observant reeds efr- tee 'Poekerfully that, hi•- its Wrier it .interferes with the e gere, etel • perspective., Elieabeth .407 As. 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