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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-04-05, Page 2ttiat PittUkt OP H-tAil-P-. — Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, 71, the mother of the President, shores a laugh with her son, Edwcrd, in Boston. Mrs. Kennedy had just been discharged from St. 8litabethis. Hospital, where, she was operated oh for d pelvic hernia. STABLEe TALKS Jam Amb music resounding through lVfaiPx,t Mitten's canyons, gverything went well, Who Dutch family and their pris barrel organ were graciously vetoed end much photographed, but something w a a missing, Something important, like the streets of Holland, Afghanistan — The Roof Of The World. There 14 a strange land on the Roof of the World which is goar- anteed not to bore those tinter- ttinete enOtIgh to see it. It is the,crossroads over Which, same longer than can be remem- bered, Many a conqueror and his horde have swept from the north into southern Asia through the Most famous mountain funnel in history, The country is Afghani" atan and the funnel is the Kby- her Pass. Mari does not find there the necessities as we know them toe day In our large cities, the flow- er shops, the French restaurants, the latest movie, but he will find luxuries that New York with all its skyscrapers cannot buy. Twenty-thottearid-foot mountain peaks swarthed in whipped cream, dawns of pistachio and lemonade, sunsets of orange crush and raspberry jam; authen- tie gypsies with their shepherds' flutes, homemade guitars; and — what few other nations can boast in such richness — the most ' abundant and luscious fruit, cut- urinating in over 40 kinds of melon, Still one of the smallest, still one of the most remote, still one of the last to emerge from ob- Oenrity, still among the poorest, still heretofore one of the least accessible, Afghantistan up to 15 years ago is described as never having seen more than 50 Ameri- tans, yet today it finds itself on the direct route of Pan Ameri- can's round-the-world jet flight, 3114 hours from New York. Once a crossroads, always a crossroads. It is a land of extremes, con- trasts, and. paradoxes. Towering mountain ranges; slow arid val- leys; blizzalais and sandstorms; winter temperatures of 4 de- grees below and summer thermo- meters of 120 and ,above. Women still in purdah (the veil) and women in shirt wants and skirts on the streets; young girls whose eyes have never been beheld by * man outside of her. immediate jamily; and young girls with the latest hairdo working in offices. It is a country of scant rain- ;all and no navigable streams but where the vales are as lovely as those of Kashmir. It has a ter- rain as uneven es a piece cif TIERS OF JOY — Don Roberts looks as though he is about to taste this eight-foot Space Needle coke, on display in bunk in Watsonville, Calif, It Was created to honor the forth-, coming World's, Fair. , crumpled paper but plains wn migratory nomads numbering in. the tens of thousands find graz- ing grounds for their millions of camels, sheep, and goats, Although Kabul, the capital, has no water supply, no, sewage system, no garbage collection, no rubbish disposal, no railroad, no bent, no pork, no paved streets outside of the capital, the people are already making ehee's eyes at the tourist trade. What Mt. Fuji is to Japan, what the Victoria Falls are to Rhodesia, what to Pyramids are to Egypt, the Khyber Pass is to Afghanistan although it is not actually on Afghan soil, Many tourists drive the 180 miles from Kabul to see this narrow cut through the Hindu Rush Moun- tains on the border of Afghani- stan and what used to be India's northwest frontier, the Punjab, now Pakistan, Read. your Kip- ling. Whether one approaches from the plains of Peshawar oe the lowlands of Lanai Khana on the Afghan side, there is no grass, there are no flowers, no shrubs, no trees, only coarse dirt, stones, rocks, boulders, and glowering escarpments. But in its bleak, desolate, windswept way it has an austere charm that is hard to describe, and its 1,000-foot shale and limestone cliffs, a magnifi- cence of sinister and foreboding beauty, There are three routes leading through its dangerous defiles. A railroad, an asphalt motor high- way, and a caravan trail, writes Helen Freeman in The Christian Science 'Monitor, Another of the great sights for the tourist is the migration of the Kochis in their annual trek up the Hindu Kush with their hundreds of camels and thous- ands of sheep as they have done, unchanged, in 1,000 years. Frequently they halt to rest and pitch their black-wool tents. 4 Contrary to most reports they are a friendly people and are as curious about Americans as Ame- ricans are about them. The red skirts of the women with liter- ally pounds of bizarre jewelry including nose plugs, and the colorful turbans of the bare-foot- ed men hovering over flickering, smoky camp fires dotting the hillsides, make a weird and as- tonishingly beautiful picture, It is also amazing to see how self-sufficient they are. Their camels, fat-tailed sheep, and goats provide most of their needs, meat, wool tents, winter clothing, milk, cheese, butter, and transportation, It is said that their number is diminishing; that some of them are yielding to the lure of newly irrigated farm lands, schools for their children (95 per cent of the ,Afghans are illiter- ate), new houses, to say nothing of dacron shirts. Maybe someday an adventuresome young tribes- man will go so far as to swap a couple of camels for a plane trip to New York. Perhaps the lights of Broad- way will dazzle him for a bit but not for long. He will return prob- ably with some impossible elec- trical gadget, he who had never seen electricity, and whose only home is his tent under the stars. It will take many generations to thin the wild blood of these no- madic gypsies in their annual trek into the Hindu Kush on the Roof of the World. A GREAT GAME FISH King salmon is largest of all the salmon. Off the Columbia River, in Puget Sound, and among the inland seas of British Columbia and southeastern Alas- ka, the king salmon has earned a reputation ae a great game fish. It strikes savagely at strolled spoons, plugs, and hooks baited with natural food. The runs are long and of such power so to amaze the newcomer, the heavy fish slanting deep into the sea, generally rising a hit ndred yards Or more distant to thrash at the surface. The fighting continues long after it would seem that the fish would be tiring. The following article' on pie- making may seem revolutiOnary to some of you, but it contains, so many good and — as I know myself .— practical ideas that I am going to quote it in full. It was written for the Christian Science Monitor by Virginia M. Bailey, and. I am sure you will be delighted with the' results in your own kitchen. * * * I have found that the easiest and quickest way to make pie crust is to use a pastry cloth to roll the dough on and a rolling pin covered with a cloth pastry sleeve. Use of these aids insures Minimum handling of the pie dough and a minimum of excess flour rolled into the dough: two secrets of good pie crust results. Hands, pastry cloth, and roll- ing pin sleeve should, all be well floured. The philosopher from the farm, John Gould of Lisbon Falls, Maine, is right. Leaf lard does make the best crusts — flaky, tender, succulent—mmmm! • • * Here's a good recipe for quick hot-water pie crust. It makes four large, a-inch crusts, plus a few scraps: QUICK HOT-WATER PIE CRUST 1 cup leaf lard (la pound) ik cup boiling water 1 teaspoon salt 3 cups flour (loosen flour with spoon, then spoon into cup but don't sift) POur boiling water aver lard and cream it. Add salt and flour to form a soft dough. Divide dough into four parts. Sprinkle flour lightly over pastry cloth, sleeve, and hands. Shape one part dough into a round ball; flatten on top. Roll out on pastry cloth with rolling pin, line pie pan., trim excess edges with knife, and fill with your favorite filling, Dip fingers in cold water and wet around edge of pastry in pan. Roll out top crust, fold over once, slit several times in meddle to allow for escape of steam, place over filling, and press down edges on moistened lower edge to seal. Trim edges. To hold juices in pie (and keep oven clean), run knife around edge of pje and stand crust up to form a "wall." Another trick to keep juices in the pie is to Insert a piece of brown paper, cut 2 inches wide, around pie between dough and pan. Bake 10 minutes at 400° Feand 50 min- utes et 300° F. * * if i whole pie and 2 pie shells are planned, line 2 other pie pans with remaining rolled-out dough, prick bottoms six or seven times with fork, and bake along with the other pie. Remove the baked shells from oven 'after 15 or 20 minutes when nicely browned. Baked pie shells, can be set aside and served several days later with packaged chocolate or vanil- la pudding filling, or lemon cream filling. Top 'tooled mad- ding pies with whipped cream or meringue and watch the family's. delight. To make the meringue, beat Z egg whites until Stiff but not dry, add 4 tablespoons auger, one at a tithe, until blended in. Pile on Op of cooled pie filline and bake in 800° F, oven until lightly browned, about 10 trinute5, When making meringue, there are always the egg yolks left over, What to do with them? Before making the packaged pud- ding iniX, separate the eggs, sav- ing the 'whites 'for the meringue, arid plunk the yolks into the Milk when making the pudding Add 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, and the result- ing added richness and smooth- ness in the pudding will bring praise from rout family. Hot Sugar-Cinnamon Crust After finishing the four crusts, there are always a few rolled-out dough scraps left. over, Our fam- ily enjoys these as much as the pies themselves! I lay these strips in a cake pan, sprinkle them with sugar and cinnamon, dot with butter, and bake along with the pies until lightly browned (15 or 20 minutes). Serve hot, Happy Oversight! Row long to bake a fruit pie? About one hour, I had always heard, Until, that is, my husband' forgot to take one out of the oven one Saturday afternoon. The pie had baked 10 minutes at 400° F. and 35 minutes at 300° F., but still had 15 minutes to go when I was to leave for a meeting. My husband said hed'd take the pie out when the time was up, but_I forgot to set the timer. Two hours later, pie still baking mer- rily away in the oven! Result? Best pie we ever ate! It baked nearly three hours at 300° F. Slow baking is the secret, we concluded. a From Boston comes a recipe for old-fashioned 'rice pudding. "it seems that so many ,people have expressed a desire for, a good old-fashioned rice pudding recipe that I decided to send you my mother's," 'writes Mrs. Mari- on A, Littlefield. "It is 'very simple to make and it" always turns put creamy and delicious for me: I hope others will enjoy it as much as I do." RICE PUDDING la cup uncooked rice 13-oz. can evaporated „milk plus 2 cans plus .1V cups of water (or, you may use 3 pints milk) 14 elm sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 pat butter nutmeg Preheat over to 450° F, Mix all ingredients except nutmeg thoroughly in a casserole and place in heated oven. In about 20-25 minutes, when mixture starts to bubble turn oven to 350' F. During the first hour of cook- ing, stir pudding every 15 or 20 minutes. At end of an hour, stir pueading and sprinkle with nut- meg. Cook 15 minutes longer. Turn over heat off and leave oven door closed for 20 minutes, then remove pudding from oven and allow it to cool at room tem- perature. Wyatt too You Know About CINTRAL AMEMCA7 'Irente rce0.4 x 14 Oat ere VeadO4 WAY OUT — Cloche bonnet resembling a collection of cabbage leaves and accented with a lifelike snail was shown as port of a spring collection viewed in London, Why Folks Litter. Streets And. Roads Once upon a time those who did things society disapproved were regarded as wicked, orn- ery or slovenly. Now it's the fashion to blame the faults of the individual on his childhood, his environment — on anything except himself. `A good example is a new theory , offered by a sociologist to explain why people disfigure , city streets, highways and the countryside with litter, As the sociologist explains it, it's all because of the increasing com- plexity of Modern society, in which the individual "often feels • lost and powerless" and loses his sense of social responsibility. This theory is questionable. It may explain, why some are un- tidy, but not, why others are neat. It overlooks the fact that long before society got so com- plex people were careless about how they got rid of trash . . , The primitive village of to- day, untouched by civilization's complexities, is no model of ...tidi- ness, and the caves of the cave- men must have been worse — San. Mateo (Calif,) Times. It's the early birds who get the back seats in church and the front seats at the ball game. No matter how overcast the day, which is more often the case than, not in the water-locked. Netherlands, there is always mu- sic in the streets, For these morale-boosting melodies, al- most every Dutchman is willing to dig down into his pocket to find a debbeltje (three cents) for the copper cup being shaken under his nose. Such financial support keeps about GO barrel organs, the last of Holland's monstrous rolling music boxes that stretch on for 8 to 15 feet, churning out their cheerful melodies as they are pushed between big cities and tiny villages by well-muscled and dedicated grinders. Behind the scenes, in a crowd- ed Amsterdam workshop un- known to most Hollanders, Is the man who, more than any other individual, has kept this tradi- tional street fare alive in spite of the destructive sweep of time, war, and mechanization. His name is Gijsbert Perlee. With his two sons, he rules a dynasty of 40 ornately carved gloom chasers which have been saved from extinction. The Perlees, themselves, rarely have time to enjoy grinding out a tune in the streets these days. They must keep their musical emissaries in top performing conditicn by carving pipes, puttying angelic wings, scoring new music, restoring mechanical figures to arm-swinging, bell ringing condition, repainting faded scenes in their dated style, lettering romantic Victorian names, grinding gears, plus a dozen other specialized tasks re- quired in this peculiar species of show business, writes John B, Farber in The Christian Science. Monitor. When the barrel organs are rolled out for the lessees who earn their living by them, these period musical pieces' look as if they have been sheltered intact and undisturbed for at least seven decades. Once the music goes down and around, this illusion is broken by a jolting succession of incongru- ous songs like "Wonderful, Won- derful Copenhagen," "Ave Ma- ria," "Rock Around the, Clock," .:and "Lang Zal Zij Leven," the traditional Dutch birthday song. But the mood is so gay that no one ever objects to the program- ming which is the specialty of the elder Perlee, Recognition of the family's unique role in this field has brought them trips out of Hol- land, including musical voyages through Great Britain, Belgium, ,Germany, and Denmark, "This past fall, the Holland-America Line brought over the Perlees and the "Arabier," their most garish showpiece, for a first-time visit to the United States: After a charity performance at the Waldorf-Astoria. Hotel, they -"sent Barrel Organs In The Netherlands RUN AGROUND kiXury liner ""Venezuela,'' aloft to one side after She was deliberately run aground by her coptditi, Michele' Pettei, , aeeeee %we Sicribrp 1.1e.N.4 c)1.4 ; NZ .,r4 re. „: e PENSION PICKETS — Housewives wear aprons bearing slogan "Pension for the House- wives" during demonstration in Rome demanding medical care, better schools, better housing and agrarian reform, Italian women have sought old agepensions for years, Pork Trouble in Israeli "Arid the swine . . of their flesh ye shall not eat , they are unclean to you." That was the law laid down in the Book of Leviticus 2,500 years, ago, anti Orthodox Jews have devoutly shunned pork, ever since. Over the same long epoch, tyrants from Antiochus Epiphanes to the Russian czars have used pigs to degrade Hebrew temples and. park to tempt starving Jews, Last week, former Irgun under- ground leader Menahein Begin bitterly told the Knesset (Par- liament) how he had been per- secuted as a boy ain Poland by Christian children trying lo smear pork fat on his lips, The occasion for Begin's. A speech was a controversial bill before the Knesset, designed to impose severe limita0.0ns on the raising of pigs in Israel (now banned by local authorities in one-third of the country)'. For' the fact is that many Iseaelis ignore ancient dietary laws, and some 200 Israeli pig farms are currently raising 80,000 pigs. Much • of last year's production of 5,000 tons of pork was sold, openlyin Israeli butchershops, Last week, the Knesset ap- proved a first reading of a bill which met some' of the defaarale of an important Orthodox politi- cal group. It forbade all 'pig farming in aasiriall grout,' of vil- lages in Galilee (Nazareth one) inhabited mainly by' Chris.: bans. All other pig farmers weke given six Months to abolish their piggeries or move them ("to ethe Galilee area. Violators could be fined $3,000. The bill3 Wila ably pass its final reading and become law, bringing deep eatife faction to Orthodox leaders,' But many Israelis, hostile to increased clerical. heflueeice their modern nation, could ayeri- pathize with the estimated 10,- 000 Israelis who make their liv- ing by pork. And the pig farmers „and butchers were furious, "Thie is a no-good political deal," said Yigael Ginnis, owner of one 01 the largest butchershops in the Tel Aviv area, "We aren't a- gainst the. Torah or religion," added one of his assistants, "but we know that those laws were written when there was no re. faigeration. We are Eying in the modern world." "People like pork," declare() one angry pig breeder. "We'll see that they get it.". ISSUE 14 — 1962' SPEAKING OF BILLS — Tropical toucan bird with a bill as long as his body gazes back at visitors to zoo in Chessington, England. Fruit-eating toucan's bill is very light, however.