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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-09-19, Page 2Pass The Pickled Carnations ". a substitute for bread In M./mit in times of Scarcity. At let* one London hotel has in recent years provided Spe- cial dishes for epicures in which, the petals of the rose, violet and jasmine were used. In. France, the petals of orange and lemon blossoms and of the white locust flower have been used freely in food. In some eastern countries the petals of the yellow water-lily are used as frequently for des- sert as apples and oranges in this country. Countrywomen lno r e have provided such delicacies as rose-petals jam, dandelion wine and tea prepared from lime- tree flowers, and used sun- flower and nasturtium seeds for' salads, SPELLBOUND FAN MAIL — KING SIZE Hollywood actress Kim Novak stands behind what may well be the world's largest postcard. Her admirers in Anderson, Ind., sent the 40-by-60-inch card to her after thousands signed their names to it. The postage charge was $3.93. A Super-Spy Who Never Existed The most fascinating case of Dr. David F. Tracy, the psy- chologist who hypnotized the St. Louis Browns from seventh place (forty-four games back) in 1949 to seventh place (forty games back) in 1950, was a' young pitcher who came to him with a sore arm. The mental marvel put the pitcher under hypnosis, made him raise his arm above his• head and lower it slowly. He told the boy that when he' awoke the arm would be strong and all the pain gone, He then roused the pitcher. "How does that old right arm feel now?" he asked. "Great!" the boy replied. 'Trouble is I'm a lefty." "Why I just met you tonight: To start With, let's see your driving license," • HEARTY SMILE .—, Weary but happy, eight -',year ,old Mary Jane Flannery holds her doll in Detroit's Receiving Hospital. She's recovering from a rare operfatiOri during' which her heart weds stopped for' 12 min- ute*s. " Chrysanthemum petals in the form of a salad were eaten at a luncheon given by a French naturalist recently in honour at a friend from Japan, where chrysanthemum salad is a high- ly favoured dish, The flowers were carefully washed and then served in the way that we serve lettuce or watercress, Flowers as food may sound fantastic to some people, but in many parts of the world they play an important part in the menu particularly east of Suez. Flowers have been cultivated India, as well as in the wild re- gions of Afghanistan, for many years, The petals of certain varieties of young flowers are soaked in a sugar solution and boiled until they form a stiff paste, which is powdered with more sugar and moulded. Such dishes are hardly likely to appeal to Western palates. The Chinese, however, fre- quently cook lilies in milk and eat candied jasmine, In parts of Morocco guests are offered a coarse porridge served •with a jelly made from pomegranate flowers. In Tsarist Russia sunflowers were a favourite meal with many peasants. Visitors to Cey- lon have sometimes been asked to sample , butter - blossom which, boiled ' and flavoured with cinnamon or cloves, is quite pleasant to the taste. In Turkey the common yel- low lily, which grows in ponds and marshes, -makes what to a Turk's taste is a delicious pre- serVe. It is also' used for mak- ing a cooling drink. In Britain people living in the country sometimes make a kind of tea from stinging nettles. A pickled salad made from carnations was popular, in Bri- tain in the reign of Charles IL It' was eaten at great banquets, and a' liqueur called clove gilli- flower wine' was also much in favour. Some people living • in 'the northern counties of England still boil the" young. shoots of bistort, or "patience 'dock," for the table, like 'spinach." This plant' grows profusely •in fields and meadows where the soil is moist. It was formerly used as ToO ThinSkluned With a ,degree of touchlessness seldom 'encountered in the male American , adult, the Arizona Lath' and Plaster_ Institute has cried out for speakers of the language .to cease' and desist in the use of "plastered" as a syn- onym far "inebriated". "Linking our trade with over- indulgende," says the Institute elegantly and by resolution, "de= tracts from-the dignity of a re- spectable industry." Most respectfully, we remind the quivering members of the Institute that' all our life we have heard it said :that this or 'that tosspot is stewed, boiled or fried, but never have we heard a Cor- don • Bleu alumnus or a member of the culinary workers' union suggest that his tender feelings have thereby been lacerated. Carpenters and sculptors alike have managed to retain their composure despite the wide pop- ularity of the term' "chiseler"; the American Medical Associa- tion has yet to sue for damages because adulterated merchandise or cropped photographs are said to be doctored; folks keep on loafing or soldiering without of- fending bakers or soldiers. The plasterers, we say, are hypersenitive and are vainly betraying the fact by attempting the alter language by resolution. —San Francisco Chronicle. string it necessary, Cut into 1- inch lengths, Cook in boiling, salted water until just tender. Do net over-cook, Mix tumeric, mustard, flour, salt and brown sugar to a smooth thin paste with 34 cup of the vinegar. Heat .reenaining vinegar and celery seed to the boiling point, Slowly add hot vinegar to the mustard paste, blending, well. Cook, stirring constantly until slight- ly thickened, about 5 minutes. Add beans to mustard sauce, blending well. Bring to boil and pour into hot, sterilized jars and seal. Store in a cool, dry place. Yield; about 8 cups. * CHOW CHOW 30 medium green tomatoes (1% lb,) 3/2 cup• table (bag) salt or 3/4 cup coarse salt 3/2 medium cabbage (3 cups minced) 3 green peppers 2 sweet red peppers 3 medium onions 6'/a cups vinegar 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon celery seed 1 tablespoon mustard seed Yi tablespoon whole cloves Put tomatoes, through food chopper, using coarse blade. Combine with salt and let stand hour. Put into cheesecloth bag and let drain overnight. Add cabbage, peppers and onions which have been put through food chopper. Mix vegetables together and add vinegar, sugar and spices, tied loosely in a cheesecloth bag. Cook, uncovered, over low heat and until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Pour into hot, sterilized jars and seal. Yield; about 12 cups. * CURRY SLICES 1 tablespoon whole mixed pickling spice 2 cups vinegar 3/2 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon curry powder 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon salt '/ teaspoon pepper 2 quarts sliced, peeled medium cucumbers ' 2 cups sliced, peeled small white onions 34 green or sweet red pepper, chopped Tie whole spice loosely in cheesecloth bag. Combine vine- gar, sugar, curry powder, mus- tard, salt and pepper and bring to boil with spices. Add cucum- bers, onions, and chopped pep- per and bring to boil. Boil 5 minutes. Drain and save liquid. Remove spice bag and pack vegetables into hot, sterilized jars. Bring vinegar mixture to boiling point and pour over pickles, to overflowing, Seal, Yield: about 8 cups. DRIVE WITH CARE :•=i %Sae': eti. K.O.MW45<A NO DIET REQUIRED — This two-week-old baby hippo at the• Whipsnade Zoo in 'Bedfordshire, England, will some day have• a shape like Mummy's. Weighing a mere 66 pounds at birth, the 'hefty youngster now scales better than 75 pounds. Baby still has a way to go, for her 'mother, Belinda, weighs two tons, while. Papa Henry, offstage, tops family With a firm three tons.. AWFUL EXAMPLE A teacher was giving a health talk to her class, and warned her pupils never to kiss animals and birds. "Can you give me an instance ofthe dangers of this, Harry?" she asked one boy. 'Yes, miss, my Aunt Alice used to kiss her dog." "And what happened?" asked the teacher. "It died." Two Blondes and a Bomb (Verbal)--- MARLENE .DIETRICH New ?ork'from Ronne with two poodles and several w e l l- chosen words, called Marlene a "cold fish". She Said that at ct press conference, the veteran film queen threw her gloves in- to Natalie's face, declared he'd never make another Odor-6 with her and thereafter "never Spoke to hie", Natalie, on Stage and In. TV since she was 10, had been making - her fiteri debut With Meirlolid in "The' Monte Carlo Story'' literary deal. Jacob went with his wife, who ,was left at a hotel while he and WeSemann went to a fashiOnable reatauranf to lunch. While Jacob excused him- self for a few moments, Hans Wesemann slipped a knock-out drug into his drink which soon put him into a doze. Apologizing of the waiter for his "inebriated" friend. Wesemann asked the waiter -to 'help carry him to a waiting car. A moment later he was on his way to Germany. On arrival in Berlin he was driven straight to Gestapo EQ., ' where Col. Nicolai at once de- manded: "Tell us, Herr Jacob! Where did you get the data for your confounded book?" "Everything in My book," Jacob replied, "came from re- ports published in the German Press, Herr Oboerst!" He explained that an obituary notice in a Nuremberg paper told him that Maj.-Gen. Haase was C.O. of the 17th Division, recently transferred there, for he was described thus when attend- ing a funeral. In an Ulm paper Jacob found a society-page para- graph about the wedding of a Col, Vierow's daughter to a Major Stemmerthann, Vierow was described a's the C.O. of the 36th Regt, of the 25th Division, and the Major as the Division's signal officer. Also present at the wedding was IVIaj.-Gen, Schaller, described as comman- • der of the DiVision, who'd come from Stuttgart, where it had its H.Q. That virtually ended the in- terrogation Nicolai reported to Hitler: "This Jacob had no ae- certmlice, my Fuehrer, except his own Military journals and the Daily Press. He prepared his re- markable Order of Battle from scraps of information he discov- ered in Obituary notices, Wed, ding announcements, and so berth. This Jacob is the greatest intelligence genius I heed ever encountered hi nisi thirty-five years in the "service)' In intelligence, the smallest detail may give a chid to big problems. At one time during the last war We Weed really afraid that the Germans might have tnede inanottent progress in the development of an While bomb, ,for it was illacovered that they tir;rcre hoarding' thorium Which could be used:in é well! advanced stage of an A-bomb' project, After Much involved Piehing, Who is the world's most in- trepid spy? Many people would say Robert Throckmorton Lin- coln, whom Radio Moscow calls "Colonel Lincoln". Born in Slippery Rock, Ar- kansas, 'in 1909, he used to be a rum-runner. No superlative can do justice to his skill. He fought and won single- banded battles in Persia against a whole army of Soviet eper- ' ators; penetrated to secret Atom- grad 'and returned with a com- plete H-bomb; calmed unruly tribes in Afghanistan, disarmed a band of Jap conspirators on 'a Pacific island who plotted to as- sassinate General MacArthur, and discovered Hitler alive in a Patagonian cave some time after the world was satisfied' that he'd died. Known by a score of aliases, he is frequently seen in dif- ferent places simultaneously, is a champion marksnian, dare- devil pilot, expert mountaineer, a wizard in codes and ciphers, a man of a hundred faces. There's only one, thing wrong with him, Ladislas Farago tells us in his book "War of Wits"— a revealing world survey of the secrets of espionage and sabo- tage—he doesn't exist. ' He was cooked up over an after-dinner drink one night in 1948 in Teheran by U.S. Am- bassador John Wiley and his „ political officer, Gerald Dooher. Listening to Moscow radio, they were reduced to helpless laugh- ter by a Soviet tale about a ubiquitous U.S. agent, and de- cided to oblige the Russians by creating Robert T. Lincoln out of their imaginations. To the dismay of Moscow propagandists, he was suddenly everywhere, his name and ex- ploits were on everyone's lips. It was soon common to meet people, especially in bars, who swore they'd actually seen him, worked with him, or shared a room with him. The bubble burst in April, 1950, when Cyrus L. Sulzberger of the 'New York Times' p' ;ed up a clue to the fabulous Lincoln in Teheran and exposed him as an amusing fraud, But his name continues to turn up at intervals on Radio Moscow, which claims that Sulzberger's story was printed to camouflage the fact that Lincoln is still as active as ever. He's real to this extent, Farago says: he represents the intelligence officer as he exists in the popular mind. How mistaken that conception can be is further illustrated by the case of I3erthold Jacob, a German journalist who in the 1930s wrote extensively about the German army then being secretly rearmed, and published a book giving practically every detail of its its organization; the personnel of the revived General Staff, the army group com- mands, various military districts, even the rifle platoons attached to the recently formed Panzer divisions, and the names of the 158 commanding generals, with biographical sketches, When Hitler was sliciseti the book he flew into a rage, sunl- iinined his intelligence adviser, Col. Walther lrlicolai, and de- Mended: "How is it postible for one than to find out so much about the Wehrmaeht?" Nicolai decided to find Out froth Jacob hitnself, An agent, Hans Wesemart, was assigned to contact him and trap hint, He set himself up in Beale, hear the deitritti borders aA. literary *gent, masquerading: refu- gee and striking up friendships with exiles from Nazi Germany. Then he got into touch With Jacob ifi Loriddin inviting hien to come to Basle to discuss against an 'Unidentified Negro' Warriari"ptiSteS' hint. Aftel;:::::i:leriCe 'broke INTEGRATIONPROCESS—As a lone student 'pickets' .the school' its Clinton', Tenn:, to , protest' , „_ out among colored and 'White:Students, polite 'Warted 12: Negroes to :Safety' away .front thet, school they've attended since last NATALIE' TRUNDY 16.14dt-old Natalie Trunciye d Mande tereerf Starlet,. has 'un= hoaahed a iriiid bomb at Mare lone Dietrich, another blonde Natalie, arriving' In date Andrews. the secret hParsl. was traced to • it German chemical f1rm giant*, laeturhig thoriated toothpaste, which was simply hoarding all the -thorium it could get to. monopolize the market, This pertant information satisfied us that the Germans were not using it for A-bomb purposes,. One crucial riddle of the war showed the. resourceful. Winston. Churchill acting as his own in- telligenee officer, By March, 1941, there was ample infortnee tlen in London te indicate that a German attack on Russia WAS definitely planped, This was re, laypd to the joint Intelligence Committee for sifting and evalue ating for the • P.M. and War Cabinet, When the Committee decided that an attack was unlikely, despite convincing data, because it did not seem reasonable, Churchill gave orders that all raw reports Concerning the mat- ter be sent directly to him with- out bothering him with deduc- tions and evaluations. On March 30, a report reached him from a highly trusted agent in the Balkans, , describing a movement of five Panzer divi- sions. This convinced Churchill that Germany was preparing to invade Russia, and lee promptly warned Stalin. But Stalin, sus- pecting similar reports from his " own secret service, evidently thought it just a British plot. 'Farago, from first-hand ex- perience, gives a vivid inside account of methods and ' tech- niques, illustrating them with dramatic stories of exploits. It is one of the most informative books ever written on the subject. X didn't have sPage enough to vrint all the pickling recipes laet week, but as the "season" zs atal en, here are the balance of them, * * CORN RELISH 2 cups porn (cut from Cob) 2 cups coarsely chopped cucumber X cups coarsely chopped ripe tomatoes. 2 cups coarsely chopped celery 1/2 cup chopped green pepper 1/2 cup chopped sweet red pepper X cups chopped onions. VA tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon dry mustard 1/2 tablespoon turmeric 2% cups vinegar /1/2 cups brown sugar Mix Ingredients well, Simmer, Uncovered, until thickened — about 50 minutes, stirring fre- quently. Pour into hot sterilized jars and, seal. Yield: about 8 cups. * * * PEPPER RELISH X1/2 lb. (15718) sweet red pep- pers. X lb. (12-15) green peppers 3 lb. (12-15) medium onions 4 cups vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon mustard seed 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon celery seed tablespoons salt Wash pePers, remove seed wires. Peel onions. Put vege- tables through food chopper, using coarse blade. Place in large preserving kettle, cover with boiling water and let stand, 5 Minutes. Drain thor- toughly. Add vinegar, sugar, spices and salt; cook until vege- tables are tender — about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour into hot, sterilzed jars and seal. Yield: about 12 cups. * * * FRUIT TAMALE large or 12 medium ripe tomatoes (3 lb.) 134 cups coarsely chopped peaches 1% cups chopped pears 2 cups chopped apples 11/2 cups chopped onions 1 cup chappedi celery 2 tablespoons whole mixed pickling:Spice" 1 small hot, red pepper (2tbsp. chopped) or 6 small dried chili peppers 1% clink' brown sugar 2 teaspoons salt 11/2 cups vinegar Combine chopped vegetables and fruits. Tie spices (including dried chili peppers if used) loosely in a cheesecloth bag. Add spice bag, sugar and salt to vinegar, bring to boiling point and 'add other ingredients, Cook, uncovered, until thicken- ed — about 1 hour, stirring oc- casionally. Remove spice bag; pack in hot, sterilzed jars and seal. Yield: about 8 cups. * * MUSTARD BEANS 2 pounds yellow _beans (8 cups cut beans) 2 teasnoons tumeric 3/9 cup mustard 34 cup. flour I% teaspoons salt 2 cups brown sugar 4 cups vinegar 4 teaspoons celery seed Wash beans, trim ends and es, eieseseeee