HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-10-20, Page 2g2 4" TABLE TALKS Jane Andtkews. VENEZUELA. . . MILES Mt. el'Otlyr$1000 eses reseelA.. DON'T CHANGE YOUR SPOTS — Broadway chorus girl Rea McLain perches on piano during rehearsals of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." She wears stretch coveralls. Walking along New York's Fifth Avenue, the lady in the red dress and red-flowered hat saw a crowd gathering. Curious, she edged close, discovered that a movie was being filmed, and asked the man alongside her if he knew what picture it was. "'Back Street'," the man replier' "That's Susan Hayward standing there." The lady in red stood gawking until a policeman said: "You'll have to move, lady. No standing here," "So I moved on," said Fannie Hurst, author of "Back Street." How much will she make from the movie? "Not a ha'penny," said Miss Hurst; she sold the film rights long ago to Universal, which is now mak- ing its third version of `Mack Street" but had to pay the au- thor only once, Author Gets Paid Just The Once ! Water chestnuts .and pineapple 0 used in this turkey dish as 1 well as wedges of red, ripe to- ntalri . TVRICE .CANTONf;SE: clip butter 2 cups sliced onions cups large rubes .000 turkey No. 2 cast pieteippie titbits, drehtee (save juice) 2 tablespoons 'Moe vinegar 2. tahlespeoes. cOrneterch 2 tablespoons settler ebesteet juice 4 tomatoes (1 pound) ripe, but firm, cut In wedges 2 large green 'peppers, cut in strips 1 can (8 ounces) water eitestnute„ (Wined nod sliced thinly teaspoons salt P/2 teaspoons monosodittm. glutamate 4 cups hot cooked rice Sauté onions in butter until transparent but not browned, Remove from .skillet and set aside, Sauté turkey in same skil- let until thoroughly heated, Add pineapple juice (scant cup) arid vinegar and simmer about 10 minutes. Blend cornstarch with the water chestnut juice. Pour slowly into skillet,, stirring con- stantly. Cook until sauce is uni- formly thickened. Add pine- apple, tomatoes; green peppers, chestnuts, and the cooked onions, Add . salt and monosodium glu- tamate. Simmer several minutes until very hot. Vegetables and fruit should retain crispness, fresh colour and shape, Serve promptly over white, fluffy rice, and accom- paniments such as' unblanched almonds, pineapple titbits and more tomato wedges. Makes generous servings, pout', hot .hurley MixtUre ever it. Scatter almonds over top (brown these beterhed itheolide in remeining tablespoon of pill. 7.'4:Arvos. (Wt. Mother's Apron: Wos Realty Versa.tile - • 1. remember one morning, many years ago, my mother had .enielaid her apron. Emphatically, she insisted she could not pro- ceed with her day's work until the had found and donned ttalil necessary part of her attire. How- necessary and important Indeed, was this apron! It did. much more than protect nes, ma- ther's dress from ere). As she went about her farm tasks. bee day without her apron would have been as fullof fresteseion as a .carpenter 'with:els his .rail- frier or a chef minus his long-- handled epoon, ,e'lhe best mentor- les of her are ones in which she was putting her apron to some charitable o pressing use. I have seen a handy corner of R serve many times as a hot- dish holder when steaming blueberry pie gave sizzling warning that another minute in- e oven was a minute too long. have seen it whipped off in sec- ends and lashed into the corner' of the windowpane where un- wanted flies buzzed when "that OMNI" had thoughtlessly left the eereen door open long enough to *now the menaces in. My mother's apron has wiped 4ry the sweaty, hot faces of oungsters after too strenuous lay. It has erased smudges from little hands and many times wiped clean a sibling nose. It has been used as a flag to at- tract pap's attention far out in the field when important corn- thiny or a long-distance tele- one call awaited him at the house. It often served as a container. Coming surprisingly upon a patch of ripe, luscious berries on the way to the distant mailbox, we had only to drop the eagerly picked berries into Mother's con- , venient apron, the two lower corners held outwardly by her tanned hands. Our. yellow, fluffy ducklings escaped at one time, from their pen and waddled unsuspectantly and in ignorance toward the lake nearby. Hungry mud turtles lurked in the lake's muddy edge. Mother's warning cry sent us all hurrying to catch the innocent babies before they should be- come a mouthful each. And where did we deposit the squirming, elusive yellow bits to areure their safety until we could piece them beside their frantic, atlas:hitter mother once again? Mc-tiler's apron, of course! Ncw kittens, too, found their way into that soft apron when it leas clear that, since the men !PRESSING PROBLEM — Coming esp with a new wrinkle on iron- s0 is Mrs, Max Cornpbell who' does her ironing outdoors when $he weather is nice. All that's necessary is a shady tree and ern extension cord, were about to nil the haymow, Fesiss, litter would be smother- ed in hex Test chosen hide-out. Susie never minded too . much Mother's hasty removal of her I family so long as, trailing close on her heels and well ahead of us ehildren, she could see enough of a twinkling nose or a pair of miniature ears sticking out of the rounding ends of the ;Sprees, Once when twp or three of the neighborhood women took their youngest on an .attemoori pic- nic in a wooded knoll 'me of the little boys captured „a baby rale- bit. Unable to make its escape from the clutches of so many youngsters, evidence soon show- ed it was not only becoming overly handled but frightened nearly to death. The bunny disappeared, sud- denly, as if by magic. It became an eeignea to the other children how the small animal could have gottten away when it was "right here but a minute ago!" But, noting my mother sitting apart with the air of one not knowing what all the commo- tion was about, I soon had my private suspicions as to the bulkiness of one corner of her apron, When the search was given up and play resumed, my suspicions were confirmed when I further noted her momentary disappearance into the nearby woods. When she reappeared and our eyes met, her forefinger was laid against her lips and be- tween us no words were neces- sary, writes Jean Bunker Schmidt in the Christian. Science Monitor. She has often removed the apron to shield with it the hot sun's rays from a sleeping child's eyes, It has been sub- stituted for a towel to wipe sticky hayseeds team my fath- er's Deck before he drank from the cool water jug she tramped over the fields to take to him. Tied firmly about her waist, it has conveyed enough small loads of wood from the wood- shed to the cookstove to meas- ure the total into several cords, It has carried the accidentally discovered chicken eggs of an al- ready well-filled "stolen nest" from the barn; a dinner of string beans from the garden; the jag- ged-edge broken glass for hasty disposal before mall bare feet might find their Ivey to the den- gee area. It has been used to encircle, one at a time, neighborhood boys' none-too-clean necks while my mother clipped their thick crops of hair with skilled hands and her Sears and Roebuck bar- ber shears, Her apron has even flagged down a slow-rnov:og Ithenk heaven!) freight train when my father's Model T stalled cn the grade on the way to church on a — up until then — serene Sun- day morning, What was the apron doing going to church? you ask. It had been shed and tucked down into the corner of the front seat the evening before when she suddenly realized that, on her way for an impromptu visit with the neighbors, she still had on her apron. And there it was when she looked frantical- ly about for something with which to attract the attention of the engineer, I think that if my mother had, at any time during her fully packed life, become marooned on an island, it is a safe bet that her apron (because naturally she would have' been wearing it!) would have nicely aided her in getting back home again, It very probably would have flut- tered an SOS high atop an im- provised flagpole and, while awaiting rescue, she would have likely busied herself by collect- ing interesting and colorful sea shells. And in sighting the rescue boat, I can picture her lower- ing her apron, tying it about her waist once again and, to insure their safe arrival home, piling her treasures into it with one hand as she firmly grasped its far corners with the Other! ISSUE 43 1960 Was This You; ? Was this ,y3u? If it was, all we hnow Ch.iut you is that you are a well-dressed, responsible- appearing businessman and that u were in the vicinity of Third and Main the other afternoon, Oh. yes; we know one other !act about you, but that can wait for a moment. "I first noticed the man," said t a lady who phoned us about you, "when he stepped out of a group of people waiting 'for bus, Then I saw why he stepped. out. A crippled Negro girl was having trouble with the rubber tip on one crutch; couldn't get it to stay "And this man stooped down and helped replace the rubber tip for the girl, She thanked him prettily, But I noticed that he kept watching her as she strug- gled on up the street. And, yes, the rubber tip on her crutch came off again, "The man strode out and caught up with her. Then he sat down on the curb, took a bit of paper or something out of ,his briefcase, wrapped it on the tip of the crutch, wrestled the rubber cap back on, wig- gled it to see if it was tight, then handed it back to the crip- pled girl with a smile. But in the meantime he had missed his bus," If that were you, the scanty identification given by the lady was all we know about you — except for one thing: A small deed, a little, nameless kindness such as that paints a much more luminous picture of you than reams of detail on physical des- creption. And we'll bet you're a pretty nice fellow. — Tulsa Tribune. Pastor to irregular member at church: "How wonderful to see you at services again with your good wife!'-' Member: "Well, sir, I'd rather hear your sermon than hers." DELEGATE — Bouffant coif and dark eye make-up give Mrs, Halima Anegay, 25, the' ap- pearance of a professional' model. But she's a delegate to the U.N. from Morocco. Sells Hamburgers By The Million A Chicagoan named Ray A Kroc -- with impressive help from a 30-state organization -- eells more sandwiches than any in the United States. In 1960, Mr, Kerte, through 200 MCDonald's Drive-Ins in the United States, will sell more than 100,000,000 hamburgers, Re- cently IvIcDonald's System, Inc., of which he is president, sold its 400,000,000th hamburger since the organization's inception With a drive-in in April, 1959, Underlying this spectacular success story are solid principles of salesmanship, service, quality control, and business organize- tioe. There also is daring, warmth, and a spirit of building the better mousetrap pervading the words Mr. Kroc uses to tell his story. "Our growth?" he muse s when asked about lelcDonald's. "It's almost too simple, too on- viols, We put the racist popular American food, the sandwich, on the assembly line, started making hamburgers like Detroit makes cats, and passed along the savings to the families wno come in with carloads of youn,s- 1 stets. And we cut out all the nuisances around• drive-ins i tipping and waiting, jukeboxct rind: telephones. We just sell sandwiches and beverages and do it last, We've got it Hired so we can serve a full meal hi el seconds." Q. How Can I Make :iii gelleY retiatt to a Coffee pci•co , later -When the glass trip has been betoken ettd there is he rePlace- Merit aimitable? A. Take a double fold of eel- loPharte Wrap large enough to Carrie through the opeeitig where „ the glass- tee belerige,. With enough to Stier slightly Over the edge Wheri the cover is Ori. the offee will Perk es usual, Refrigeration is needed for most vege tab I es. And they should be kept moist as well as cold. A closed pan, non-drying compartment, or film bag makes a suitable container .for preserv- ing moisture. Greens and salad vegetables, if dry, should be sprinkled be- fore refrigerating. Potatoes keep best at room temperature for ordinary storage, but keep them away from radiators. * * * To maintain that desirable green colour in such vegetables as snap beans, let some of the steam escape by - leaving the cover off during• the first five minutes of cooking, or by rais- ing the cover several times dur- ing cooking. You can also place the lid on the pan so that 'a little steam escapes during the cooking process. One exception to this rule is spinach, which cooks so fast that it can be kept covered tight during the cook- ing period. * * With members of the cabbage family, leaving the lid off during the first half of cooking lets gases escape and prevents too strong an odour in the cooked product. A little acid — lemon juice or vinegar — added to the water beets and cabbage are cooked in will help retain the red col- our, and a little milk in the water will help keep cauliflower white. But don't use baking soda with green vegetables: it des- troys nutrients and gives vege- tables an unnatural flavour and texture. Turkey on the table all year 'round is a trend that's here to stay. Let's be practical today and discuss the buying and cook- ing of turkey so you'll get the best in economy and taste. Whether you like your bird fresh or frozen, there are sev- eral classes to choose from, The five popular ones are Fryer and Roaster (young, tender-meated, with soft, pliable, smooth-tex- tured skin and flexible breast- bone); Young Hen Turkey; and Young Tom Turkey (else tender- meated but a little more Mature than the first classification); Hen Turkey; and Toni Turkey (less tender than the other three classes). Be sure to buy more turkey than you'll need for one meat. There is economy in using left- over turkey, and it is furs to deal imaginatively with this bonus meat, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. If you buy' a frozen turkce. allow about 2 clays to thaw it in the refrigerator or about if hours under cold running water. When you're ready to roast it. wash it and rub the inside with I tablespoon salt. Stuff lightly and place turkey on a rack in your even, Cover With an oil-drencher! cheesecloth or Use aluminum foil over the top to prevent over-browning of breast. Roast Without cover or Water iii a :325 degree P, oven, * e With 2 cups of diced Welted turkey, yen can make a needles sealleti. This dish calls for a sauce Made with 2 tablespoons of fat (Ilse turkey fatr if ene like) arid the same amount of flour, 1 cup liquid (part of this should he turkey broth) and salt. Mix and cook like white sauce, TURKEY NOODLIE SCALLOP 2 cups diced cooked turkey !.4. cup finely minced onion 3 cups medium sauce 3 cups cooked noodles (6- ounce package) cup cooked or canned peas 4 cup grated cheese Bread crumbs mixed with fat, Add onions to sauce. In turn, place layers of noodles, peas, turkey, cheese, and sauce in a greased baking dish. Sprinkle crumbs over top. Brown in a 400 degree F. oven about 20 minutes, or until sauce starts to bubble through crumbs. Serves 8, * Don't let a long array of in- gredients prevent you from try- ing a recipe — most of them are doubtless already on your pan- try shelf, This pilaf is not com- plicated to make and it is a good party dish. TURKEY PILAF 7 tablespoons , cooking oil 4 muchrooms, finely sliced 3 tablespoons fined shredded green pepper 1 cup light cream or top milk le cup sour cream 1 tablespoon tomato sauce 2 tablespoons golden brown prepared mustard 2 teaspoons salt is teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 cups diced cooked turkey 2 medium onions, sliced 1 cup raw rice 3 cups meat stock or bouillon IA. cup blanched, fried almonds TURKEY MIXTURE Heat 3 tablespoons of the cooking oil in a skillet. Add mushrooms and green peeper and cook over medium heat about 5 minutes, Stir in light cream, Combine sour cream, to- mato sauce and prepared mus- tard, and gradually add to skil- let. Add 1 teaspoon salt, cay- enne pepper, and diced turkey. Heat 2 tablespoons of the cook- ing oil in a skillet and brown onion slices until crisp; add to turkey mixture. RICE Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a heavy pan; add rice and re- maining teaspoon salt. Covet with bouillon and bring to boil. Cover pan with waxed paper, then with lid, Bake rice in a 856 degree F. oven about 30 minutes or until tender. Mound rice on a serving dish; Clothes Are Really. Washed in Greece Greeks are coneervetive aline' age-old institutions, "The bole gada" or •traditiOnel washday it. one. Where undue haste is of nit. moment, "the bougada" he. itt faithful and rigid adherents' at over the country, and there-it Weeny anything us thorough. fee making clothes snow-white, this "bougada." Washday in my childhocre home kept all the household lu motion. I still see my mottles seated with pencil .and notebook in band, overlooking corridor; hall, and staircase leading dowee stairs jammed with sheets, dressing gowns, shirts, table- cloths; etc., carefully noting every item, while the maid did the sorting, one by one, .Then the clothes were hurled down to the laundry, where. Kera Penelope, the -washer- woman, a stout and energetic character, had already started s fire under two big cauldrons, • filled with water, Three cakes of white and three cakes ,of green Cretan soap would be used to wash the clothes'in a trough; end what suds they did make! Kera Penelope wore wooden sandals with a leather strap, the. "tsokara," to keep her feet dry in the laundry. Because of the noisy clap-trap,. we children en- vied her for wearing them and always secretly looked out for e chance to try them on! Immediately the clothes were piled in the cauldrons, covered with a thick linen cloth and on top a layer of pure wood ashes. Boiling water was next care- fully poured over the ashes and the whole pack of clothes and remained to trickle through them all night, If stains had not been removed by the soapsuds, the ashes had done it more thor- oughly I The neat morning came the rinsing, After this, Penelope, with the collaboration of the cook and maid, would ascend the few steps leading to the garden terrace, loaded with baskets. She would hang up the clothes. on wires to dry in the sun, writes Josephine Demas in the Chris- tian. Science Monitor. The terrace was bordered by a trellis wall covered with vines it was about five meters wide by 15 long and broad enough so that soon the place would be, filled with the aroma of clean- liness peculiar to sun - dried. clothes. Next we heard Pene- lope's clap-trap, descending the terrace with the "tsokara," pre- paring to iron and press the clothes. Now was our chance to try on. the "tsokara." They were then. hurriedly put in. place, because • Kera Penelope was very orderly and expected to find her "tto- kara" 'where she had put them. DRIVE WITH CARE 11.1 NA- NON GRATA — A b111 coned by President Eisen,, I4Wer pirohiblit tiny Morepct tairatilvai, a fierce little "kWh American •tiA that Will attack and devour lilitnetrii and )nirnalS, The f can be broU4ht into the Cciurifty tar teciOgniie4 ttioalealail and scientific purposes, Other' animals tarred by *6: bill include the mongoose, -fruit bet and any other animals 40efertiiiried datigetbUi: b'y secretory of I . -Ititeriere, CARIBBEAN CAPSULE — Uncertain state of relations between. the United States and Cuba has put the spotlight on the huge U.S. naval base at Gear-domain° Bay. Strategists consider it an important link in the chain of bases guarding the Panama Canal, deeignoted by 0-Ctrs in map. (Others are in Puerto gicci and Trinidad. U,S, has used Guantanamo as a training and refueling base ever since the signing of d treaty with Cuba in 19(). It was an itseportoht convoy gathering point and anti- submarine base in World War It. KEEP'S fidillW ALONG the last Of the old Stern.wlieeleti 'Prying the inland rivet's of• tPii U.S., the. beltd 'Queen' recaptures a page out' Of the 0'60 sis the' intilestidelly down. the Ohio River, hear Cove" titk,