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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-06-21, Page 6Arabian Nights In Boston, Mass. almonds and cereal r,!. a.d. Beat egg whites until stiff and dry add to them 1 taWe- spoon powdered sugar. Carefully fold egg whites into first nux- turc. Pour into greased ring mold and put into 'refrigerator; chili. When firm, turn Out on serving niete and fill contra with whipped cream .or ice. cream, f, liere is another cake which will make your friends say, "Please give me the recipe," .af- ter they have eaten it. It is .de- corated with green leaf gum- drops and red maraschino cher- ries. WIRE WIG Judy Darrow, secretary for a rubber com- pany, found this bouffant bundle of steel wire used in tire manufacture and fa- shioned a becoming coiled "spring" coiffure for herself. ire CANDY COUNTER,— Robert Long's dream come true when he became president of a candy company for a whole day. The lad won the honor as a TV show prize. After Robert sampled the product for a few hours, he sent several cases of candy bars to pals, neighbors, school, church and vet- eran's hospital back home. As King Saud convalesced, the seventeen adult princes .in the party junketed threlagn goaww:hat low-key' night spots; the King himself. „made, motor triPa 'to ,Massachusetts North Shore and, to the Wayside Inn in Stidbury, 'Put by now the tales aboat the King and his court Were 'beginning to. sound like the “Thausapi. And .Quo Tall, thin, bearded Baker You, mesa whose title of Royal An- Munger proclaimed him as Kin Sailers. Pierre Salinger, eeetried to delight in feeding conflicting stories to the press and it was hard to separate rumor (that the King had. bought fixtures for eight bathroeme) from fact (that his party purchased $11,000 • worth of watches to hand out as tips). Boston's small colony of Arabian descent had. • scheduled a dinner for the King and 500-odd guests, which promised to be one of the. gustatory high spots in the his- tory of a city fatuous for such bland dishes. as baked beans, codfish, and Indian pudding. As an added fillip, the Sheraton hotel chain ptanned to ship in a $50,000 gold dinner service from which Nileita Khrushchev dined when visiting San Fran- cisco. In the confines of the Plaza, all thiS. was pretty much taken in stride, But the doormen at the entrance had their troubles when, those who gathered to gawk at the King's free-spending adult princes. Back in the grand days of the Copley Plaza, Harvard boys called it the "Costly-Plea- sure." The old nickname was never more apt. From NEWSWEEK KARASCII1NO Wili33,1X-NUT ()AWE. !'i cup butter Pi- .cups sugar 3 cups sifted cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder le teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1.'., 0113 .chopped, drained: red maraschino cherries( . about 1.6) 1.• cup chopped pecans 1i. teas-poon almond flavouring 3 egg whites Cream butter; add sugar gra- dually and cream well together. Sift flour, baking powder, and. salt together and add to kream- ed mixture alternately w'th the i milk, beginning and endi g wilh dry ingredients. Add th ' mil- d r a ined mareschino ' c: erries, nuts, and almond flaqieuring. i Beat egg whites' until st ff but not dry. With a rubber • patula or a s p o o n, fold in the egg whites with an up-and-over roo- lien. Divide better evenly into two ,9-inch cape pans that have been oiled on the' bottom. Bake at 375 degrees F, for 20. minutes or until inserted toothpick comes. out clean. Cool on racks until. pans are cool enough to handle, then turn out on racks and cool before frosting. Frost with 7- minute icing and decorate. or :g.S..,?agIte egg White Few drone red .feed .coloring Place shortening in bowl; sift flour, baking powder, and salt inta the bowl. Add 2aa cup of Milk and beat g minutes. on =- di= speed of electric! mixer, or 150 strokes by hand, Through- out mixing time, Ic e e p batter scraped from sides and bottom of bowl. Add remaining 3,4 ctil? milk, vanilla, peppermint ex- tract, 3 egg yolks, 1 egg white, and red coloring, Beat an addi, tional 2 minutes on medium speed, or 150 strokes; Scrape bowl and beaters, Pour batter into a 13x9x2 cake pan (bottom lined with 2 layers of waxed paper). Bake at 350 .degrees P. about 40-45 minutes, Cool slight- ly. Loosen cake by running spa- tula around edge of the part, then remove from pan by plac- ing tray on top of pan and turn- ing upside down, Frost with pink fluffy frosting (use remain- ing egg whites for this frost- ing). At a glamourous party whibh I attended recently, there was a table laden with delicious and beautiful things to eat, includ- ing a French chocolate cake the kind you chill and do not bake, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. It was made- in a circular ring mold. It was filled with whipped cream, and the center, where the cake and cream met, was ringed with deep red maraschino cherries. This was the most popular dessert at the party, and I have. the recipe for you, It is easy and good; here it is: UNBAKED FRENCH CHOCOLATE CAKE .t4:1 pound1vaiseermi-sweet chocolate 1/3 cup tablespoons4 powdered sugar V, 45. sticks she.at) eggs, butter separated( melt over i 5 tablespoons grated ground almonds 2 tablespoons corn soya (a, 'breakfast cereal) 1 tablespoon powdered sugar Break chocolate into medium chunks in saucepan; add the water and place over very low heat. When chocolate is melted pour off water and • discard. Place the 4 tablespoons powder- ed sager in mixing boWl; add melted chocolate and melted butter; mix well by hand. Add egg yolks, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Add grated To- Many a proper Beeteniart, the very proper Copley Plaza Hetei— which has presided for decades Past,. like a dollgiltY dowager, over Copley te still' a hallowed and dignified ' landmark, (The hotel's correct name today is the SheratOn- 1. Plaza, but among Bostonians few but the cabdrivers really recog.. nize this,) Ira this hotel tea, anccs were held, and. debtle a. tante parties; and along its flower-decorated entry corridor, prim Boston ladies used to sit the efternoon. through watching the passing throng. The essence of proper Boston- lanism„ however—a fact that is sometimes forgotten—is its com- plete sophistication, And so, re- cently, the gray-haired ladies Still sat the length of the flower- decorated entry corridor barely looking up as the exotic, Arabian- nights world of one of the rich- est men. on earth passed before their eyes—the world of Saud ibri Abdul, Aziz al Faisal al Saud, bearded, white-robed King of Saudi Arabia. Along the hotel's corridor, moved the princes of Saud's train In gold-threaded ghutra head gear. flowing robes swirling in flashes of red and blue and white and black; their body- guards wore scimitars, and ban- doliers across their chests. And, each night that week a small convoy of Cadillac limou- sines drew up in front of the hotel, after a 1-mile run from the Nile Restaurant in Boston's Chinatown. Busboys and liver- ied chauffeurs took piping-hot dishes, neatly wrapped in alumi- num foil, from the cars and up 'to the haters sixth floor. It was dinnertime for King Saud. His Majesty's meals (served also to his retinue of 30) includ- ed such delicacies as: Roast peacock stuffed with rice (at $16 each.) Roast lamb—the entire animal —stuffed with lamb chunks, rice, and nuts (at $180 each.) Rolled grape leaves (imported by the barrel from Damascus ) stuffed with lamb and rice. Squab; quail; a favorite appe- tizer called homnis bi tahini (a seasoned mashed chick-pea); a favorite dessert called baglaiva (made of 26 paper-thin layers of pastry dough filled with walnut How Weil Do You Know SOUTH AMERICA? strokes, Scrape bowl and spoon often throughout entire mixing. Add eggs and beat 250 strokes. Add remaining milk and beat 50 strokes. Pour into 2 greased 8- inch cake pans and bake at 375 degrees F. for 25-35 minutes, (If you are mixing with an electric beater, add 2A cup of milk, then vanilla to dry ingredients and shortening and beat a low speed 2 minutes; scrape bowl and beater. Add eggs and remaining milk and beat on low speed 2 minutes). Frost with chocolate froeting and decorate with pecan halves. * * Another quick-mix cake Is tinted pink for birthdays or other festive occasions. This is baked in a 13x9x2-inch pan. PINK PEPPERMINT CAKE V, cup shortening 2 1/2 cups sifted flour ate cups Sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk teaspoon vanilla 1.1. teaspoon peppermint After many years of making cakes by the creaming method, the one-bowl method of mixing Was developed, This method eli- minates several time-consuming steps in mixing and also saves using several mixing dishes. Softened shortening is tallied with sifted dry ingredients and the liquid and. eggs are added, usually in 2 portions, then beat- en for a specified number of strokes. Best results are gained with this method when all in- gredients are at room tempera- ture. Here is a yellow cake made by this one-bowl method. GLORIA YELLOW CAKE 2 cups sifted cake flour 11/.3 cups Sugar 234 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt oup shortening 1 cup less 2 tablespoons milk 11/2 teaspoons vanilla 2 eggs, unbeaten Sift flour, sugar, baking pow- der, and salt into mixing bowl. Drop in shortening. Add 2A cup milk, then vanilla, and beat 150 ',11 .9A>A•,• ' ereeeefee ••2<:-...:,•••?— v4•4•,..:\Q.:;••ag0 • , .... • meats and drenched in honey). Ever since Cl-year-old King Saud arrived at Peter Bent Brig- ham Hospital in November for the removal of cataracts on both eyes and what was described as "minor" abdominal surgery, even the staidest Bostonian had been aware that he was M. town. First, there were the reports of the four-room, $50,a-day suite in the hospital, then the stories of the richly bound leather address books and leather key cases that the King gave the 179 other pa- tients in the hospital when he was discharged, The King's son, VA-year-old Prince Mashhur ibn Saud, also underwent an operation for the transplant of a tendon in a hand crippled at birth. The Little Prince, who had been treated at Walter Reed Hos- pital in 1957 at President Eisen- hower's behest, was recovering too. But he was the most western- ized of the group, dining on steak and potatoes and watching shoot- 'em-up horse operas on televi- sion. Before the King left the hos- pital, the Sheraton-Plaza prepar- ed for his convalescence by re- decoreting his private quarters in white and gold, replacing hotel-style furniture in the suite of Queen Unam Mansour (one of Scud's four wives) with rare French antiques. The hotel also put down an Oriental rug in the royal party'; private elevator. A dining room for twelve was set up in the King's section and a chF'r upholstered in gold bro- cade was obtained to serve as his temporary throne. Then the royel party's rooms were cut off from the net of the sixth floor by a partition, while the eight- room section for the women (who occasionally appeared in public, heavily veiled) was fenc- ed off from the men's quarters by a floor-to-ceiling curtain. Clearly money was no problem. King Saud was paying-$71,50 a day for each of the three-room suites, and the Nile Restaurant, by rppointment victualers to the exotic party, hired three more cooks. The daily bill was paid by the Arabian-American Oil Co., the concern which has the oil concession in Saudi Arabia. 'With all of its electric and telephone wires buried underground, this residetttlial area as an open, uncluttered. look. When a Town Goes ireless' World Is Older Than Most Folks Think Our knowledge of the earth's immense age has been gained largely within the realm of the geological sciences, which means that geologists, the men who con- centrate on the study of the earth and of its long history, are particularly aware of the import- ance of geologic time. It is all very well for one — anyone — to say that he believes in the great age of the earth, but unless he has made a study of geologic his- tory it is rather doubtful that he can quite comprehend earth*his- tory and geologic time in a real- istic way. It takes some firsthand exper- ience — such as going out into the countryside and seeing or climbing up thousands of feet of earth sediments piled into great mountains or cut into deep canyons, or seeing and analyzing hills and valleys as they have been created by the immeasur- ably slow processes of uplift and of erosion, or seeing and study- ing the sequence of fossils within the layered mantle of the earth, or recording the way in which radioactive elements in the rocks have broken down and decayed — to impress upon the mind the reality as well as the immensity- of geologic time. As a result of such experience geologic time ceases to be an abstract concept — it becomes a lively part of one's thinking. Stand on the rim of the Grand. Canyon, if you will, and look MO the vast immensity of that great gorge, The number of days and weeks and years that were need- ed for the Colorado River to cut down a mile from the canyon. rim, and across fifteen miles, from one side of the canyon to the other, and to remove the tre- mendous tonnage of rock from the entire length of the canyon, depositing it far down the river and in the Gulf of California as eand and mud, almost staggers the imagination. Yet the cutting of the Grand Canyon is geologi4 cally a recent event that has oc, eupied only a very small fraction of the totality of geologic time. Stand on the pediments at the base of the Rocky Mountain front range, or ins valley below the Matterhorn in the Swiss. Alps, or on the plains of Argentina. facing the high Asides, or at Darjeeling facing the even higher Himalayas, and it would see mas if these great mountains Were eternal, as has so often been said by the poets, Yet the uplift seem as if these greet mountains systems' of our world took place after the dinosaurs had become extinct. In the days of the dino- saurs there were no such mount- ains, and the land was near sea level. Moreover, the span. of earth history before the uplift of the world's greatest mountains and even before the days of the dinosaurs was far greater than, that stretch of earth history since the extinction of the dinosaufe and the birth of the etioUritain chains. The world is indeed an old place, . As result of cumulative ;studies Made during recent years, it noW seems apparent that tab earth is, et least three billion. years old, •and perhaps as much: as five billion years of age, From. 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