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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-12-20, Page 7combines meringue, whipped cream, tart red cherries, tsp s)alt salt 4 egg whites tsp Cream of tartar 1 cup sugar V4 tsp almond extract Have egg whites at room tem- perature. Beat until frothy, sift salt, cream of tartar over them, continue beating until soft peaks form. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at -a time, beating all the while until sugar is dissolved and stiff peaks form (10-15) mins.), Add almond extract. Transfer to 9-inch but- tered pie pan, building up sides. Place in very hot. oven, 450° F., close the door, turn off oven, let stand in closed oven 5 hours or over night. Filling cup sugar tablespoons -cornstarch Dash of 'salt 2/4 cup cherry juice 1 1-1b. can pie cherries, drained 1 tablespoon butter V4 tsp almond extract Combine sugar, cornstarch, salt. Add cherry juice; ,coek,until clear and thick, stirring constantly. Add butter, almond extract, cher- ries, Mix well and let cool to room temperature of chill. Pour" into torte shell several-hours be- fore serving; top with 1 cup heavy whipped cream into which 2 tablespoons sugar, 3/4 teaspoon almond extract have been added. Whether for home entertain- * * merit or to use as gifts, the holi- days wouldn't be complete with- out hometriade candy and other sweet bits. And they are so much fun to make! . CALICO FUDGE 11/2 cups granulated sugar hi cup light brown sugar ''3G1 ocmubpinulilefillcgredients in a sauce- pan, stir until sugars are dissolv- ed, and boil to the softball stage (when a small amount dropped in cold water "Till form a soft ball). Remove from heat and add: 2 tablespoons Witter 4 tablespoons peanut butter 4 tablespoons Marshmallow fluff Cool for 10 minutes; then beat until mixture begins to thicken. Pour into buttered pan and cut in squares when cool. Makes about one pound. * • * DIVINITY PUFFS 4 cups granulated sugar 1 cup light corn syrrrp1 IA teaspoon salt 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten 1 tc:aps 11: et? ry vanilla extract Candied cherries In a large saucepan, combine sugar, syrup, and salt, adding one cup of water, Heat stirring con- stantly, until sugar is dissolved. Wipe down sides of pan with pasty brush dipped in water until all _crystals are dissolved. Boil tepidly to a hard-ball stage — 202" P. on a candy thermometer of until a little syrup dropped in cold water turns brittle at once. Remove from beat anti pour syrup over stiffly beaten egg whites, beating constantly, Coe- Untie beating for 5 minutes (use electric better if possible). Add butter and vanilla and beat with spoori until stiff, Drop froth tee, spoon on waxed paper, (Candy should hold its shape wheti drop= ped.) Top each puff with a catiti=, led cherry. (Both red and green may be Used.) If mixture should become toe heed, acid a few drops of hot water, ThiS candy will take front dee to two hours to eet. Makes `bout two pounds, Store id covered container in 2 UP AND OVER — In order to move this two bedroom home between two homes, right, in Redondo Beach, Calif., movers had to elevate it 20 feet to put it into place after they trans- ported it eight miles from its original location, tiiIISTMAS STORY TOLD IN THEIR DAILY BREAD — 5cuocIdnari Nativity display, above, is fashioned of bread figures, decorated with highly glazed sugar icing. It is one Of 170 Christmas creche productions, reflecting the art of countries of Europe and the Affericas. Now On display at the Williant Ne'sen Gallery of Art in Kansas City, i'VCo,, the -exhibit Denis ore from the privat7, cf urchitect-designer Alexandee Giedtd, M Tro$pqo..in.9/ Signs • Woro Rare ... Then! In the ,farming arett surround- ing the small Ohio town where I grow up, up, NO Trespassing signs were rare, A. boy could walk for miles .steroSs the fields, climbing the barbed-wise fences that parked the ownership hounds eries, without running into one.. It was accepted without thought or question that, as long as we obeyed, Certain unwritten rifles; we had a right to walk across these fields, In one sense, . they were Owned by certain specified people who paid taxes on them and had the privilege of planting them to corn or Wheat, But in an- Other sense, they belonged to us, Our .Ownership came through no musty legal documents, It came in part by right of inherit- ance from the generations of boys who had preceded -us, in. part from the knowledge acenies ed through our own research,. it was an arguable ,point of eth- ics, at least in our minds, whether a walnut tree was more the prop- erty of the man who held its le- gal ownership or of the boy who had come back, week after week, to watch the ripening green nuts, waiting for the frost to come and turn the leaves . brown, indicat- ing the harvest was reedy.. Blackberriee belonged to us, unless the owner .specifically • in- formed us otherwise, So did the. mint growing along creek bot- toms and the elderberries hang- ing in dusty profusion along the right of way of the Pennsylvania Railroad spur line to 'Ashtabula. Dead trees were ours to. build campfires or rude cabins with. The live trees belonged to the owner who had. the right to cut them, although we preferred that he didn't. In return, the unwritten agree- ment between our world and'the adult world specified that we would extinguish our campfires carefully. We would refrain from throwing' rocks at cows cow§ to 'watch them run awkwardly across the fields.. We would avoid "swimming where the . farmer's wife or daughters might be shocked at our lack of swimming suits. And we would do our. best not to break down fences when we climbed over or through them. • Like all rules, written and un- written, these were not always obeyed. But the boys themselves discouraged violators. If another boy chopped down a maple, we knew that the entire woods might be denied to the rest of us. If a campfire were improperly extinguished and caused damage, it would spoil things for all of those boys who spent most of their summers in other people's woods and fields. But more important-than these considerations was another: As far as we were concerned, the real estate we used was ours, no matter what the registrar of deeds thought And only the most shortsighted boy would ruin what was his own. Not every owner of farmland accepted the system. Once in a while, a boy was chased arid threats were shouted, But gener- ally, as long as nothing more val- uable than field corn was appro- priated for the meals at the camp-s fires, a friendly truce obtained. The fence owners sometimes grumbled that we loosened the barbed wise they had strung be- tween the fields in climbing over it. It was true that we looked for places where the wire sagged, so it was possible to crawl between the middle strands without be- ing snagged. It was also true that What Do You Know About WEST AFRICA? sometimes, when a bey was Mounting the wire next to a post, on his way to the other side, a staple pulled loose under Ids weight, Bet these were accidents, as much regretted by the boy as the owner. Most farmers seem to have regarded us as one More natural hazard to agriculture, like potato bugs, which bad, to be accepted with good grace. In the town where I grew up, the favorite gathering place of generaLions of boys was called either Dixon's Woods qr simply "the woods." As I left the house, after gathering up whatever foodstuff I needed, I would say, "I'm going to the woods," and everyone knew where I would be vista dark, To get to the woods, two routes were traditional, By bicycle you rode a mile east, then back through the driveway of ehurch, where the shed which had, been. built for horses and buggies form- ed a makeshift garage, The drive- way turned into a track leading across the fields, barely negoti- able by a bicycle, This, in turn, led into. a rough roadway made by tractors and other farm ma- chinery, which ran past the large, shallow pond that sets Dix- on's woods apart from those owned by other 'farmers. When we made the trip on feat, we headed east for a half mile along the gravel sidewalk that ran along the main road to Cleveland. Then we ducked through a fence into a villager 'e orchard, back through the fields, over a fence or two to the woods and pond. This path, like the mote roundabout route to the woods used by bicycles and an occasional Model T, had been handed clown to us by the boys who were our predecessors. It was accepted as ours, even though technically we were tres- passere as soon as we left the public walk, writes Robert W. Wells in the Christian Science Monitor. The pond was not deep enough for swimming, although once or twice we tried it. A single row- boat was there, hidden in the weeds, Because there was no other boat to race it against, we held time trials to see who could row the fastest from one end of the pond to another while time was kept with the, second hand on a dollar pocket watch. In the winter,dozens of out- siders came to ate, with a big campfire blazing on shore in case the ice gave way. Even girls came to the woods then. But dure ing the summers, while they were not precisely banned, they were not encouraged. A grove of sugar maples had been planted near the pond. Be- hind it was the woods, limited on one side by the railroad right of way, on the other by the culti- vated fields. There *as a tradi- tional site for the principal cabin — a rude affair of fallen trees at first, entered through the top; later a more elaborate structure was constructed out of slabs ob- tained from a saw mill. There were generally a few satellite cabins under construction in hid- den places nearby, for one of the things we did in the woods was build cabins. We seldom used them once they were built. We just built them. What else did we do during those long summer days? Well, we made fires and cooked things over them. We listened to squir- rels scold. At night, we sat and heard thesowls and an occasional bittern. We learned to tell a red oak from a white oak and a hard maple from a soft. We walked through the dim paths in the quietness. We talked. We sat on stumps, We sat on logs. We lay on the ground and looked up at the play of the sunlight on the leaves. We did nothing, We knew the man who owned the woods, as we knew everyone in the village, and I presume he knew us, But he never intruded on our affairs and we did not in- trude on his. It was only years later, when had met other landowners and become one my- self, that I began to appreciate his forbearance, There was another woods near Dixon's. But this one was dtffer- ent. It was surrounded by "keep out" signs, There were no paths made by boys' feet going thioegh it. Ordinarily, a boy is attracted by the forbidden; still, .we sel- dom wait there. I can recall only once when, for some now-forgotten reason, decided to ignore the signs and Walk in the posted woods. It Untied out to be like any other woods. Still, I felt Ottt of place there, There was no one eitourid to chase me out, but .the Place seemed unfriendly; and loft, The signs made the difference, "keep out," they Said, and by "toys are not Wel- ecime to walk here Wider the trees Or to explore the hidden placeS,,- arid if a bird sings er a -Squirrel chatters, you Must not listen." And now, of etiiiite, the World is full of sign's. "No trespassing," they Say, Or "keen Off the grase or "keep Moving." It is a filbre Complicated world than it Wee 30 years ago and perhaPe all of the. admonitions are necessaty. But it a boy conies Walking across the fields, he will find no sign on my shagbark hickory, MERRY CHRISTMAS --- Little girl in Colombia, South America, studies the markings on a 'CARE food package delivered to her family as a gift from friends in the north. TAI3LE T a bane Andpews. Mrs, Edna Neil of Toronto be- came Canada's first champion baker of turnip pies, at the Roy- al Agricultural Winter Fair. She is probably the World Champion in this class, since tur- nip pies were apparently un- heard of until recently. Radio - television star Arthur Godfrey chose Mrs. Neil's entry from five submitted in this unique competition. "Excellentl" was Mr. Godfrey's comment on sampling Mrs. Neil's pie.. "Whoo, brother!" "There wasn't a great deal to choose between the five," he said, "but Mrs, Neil's pie had a little more subtle flavor." The contest was inspired by Lewis Thomson of Stratford, Ont., a turnip-grower and sev- eral times Turnip King at the Royal Winter Fair, during a press reception on opening day of the fair. Toronto photographer Strathy Smith was so impressed with Mr. Thomson's description of the vegetable's virtues, he suggested to a group of newspapermen ex- hibitors and fair officials that it might be good enough to bake In a pie. Mrs. Neil, Assistant Secretary of the fair, and several others in the group decided either to try it, or have their wives ex- periment with the idea. As a result, five pies were pro- duced for judging in the pres- ence of a large crowd of fair visitors, newspaper and televi- sion photographers. Dominion" Stores Ltd. awarded Mrs. Neil a week's free shopping. All five entries were topped with generous heaps of whipped cream. People who sampled them later said they have a characteristic turnip flavor, heightened by the assortment of spices usually used in pumpkin pies. Here is Mrs, Nei l's• recipe: Ingredients: TURNIP PIE 1 raw turnip 1 cup brown sugar 3 eggs 1 cup milk 1/2 tsp ground ginger rJs tsp cinnamon ]/ tsp salt 1 unbaked pie shell Method: Grate and cook the turnip, changing the water twice during the cooking. Make sure the tur- nip is well cooked and free of lumps, Beat 3 eggs well and add 1 cup brown sugar, beating well, Add two cups cooked turnip, Ve tsp. ground ginger and 1/z tsp'. cinnamon, Milk and salt, Voter into unbaked pastry shell and bake at 45(1 degrees Jar 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 375 degrees and bake for about 25 minutes more. Top with whip- ped cream. 4^ For aft extra special, dinner or for a dessert patty, a cherry torte Appetit:1i LIKE A 'CHILD — Winter is No Reason To Give Up Gardening An attractive garden room for winter months can be designed with a bit of ingenuity and a minimum of extra equipment. Those of us who live in colder climates will enjoy extending the garden season into the house during the coming months, and those who have warm, sunny days on into winter may like a sheltered outdoor patio in the way of a winter garden nook.. It amounts to turning a likely corner into a "garden" of sorts by arranging most of one's plants together instead of having them scattered through the house. Combined with a dining or breakfast nook, such a garden room can be most delightful. Window epace is, of course, the natural focal point. However, if the dining nook has only one window, artificial plant lighters can be provided as well, enabl- ing us to surround ourselves with plants, Several nurseries and houseplant centers offer at- tractive, portable plant lights, and some also offer lighted plant stands. , Window space can be greatly increased in several ways, allow- ing for more plants. The win- dow sill itself can be widened into a shelf, Plant stands can be put in front of it. Glass shelves can be built across the window at two or three levels. Brackets can jut out at each side. There are also portable shelves on the market in case it is not practical to build shelves and ledges. Around the dining nook or out- door patio, planters can be used, These are attractive if made of redwood, into which plants in clay pots can be set. The clay pots and redwood blend attrac- tively, and clay pots hold mois- ture at an even temperature, writes Millicent Taylor in the Christian Science Monitor, To give the garden room an entity of its own, a room divider is often used. This can• be chest height with plants along the top set into a planter if the nook is small. If there is more room, a divider to the ceiling has been used to enclose such a garden room, with open shelves and plant nooks all the way up, seen from both sides. Where the window affords a south or southeast exposure, sun-loving plants can be used in abundance, Taller plants like geraniums can be grouped at the sides, Low-growing coleus, cacti, wandering jew, star-of-Bethle- hem. primrose (primula), impa- tence, paper-white narcissus, and abutilon can be along the center. Hanging baskets of lantana, im- patience, Christmas cactus, and HEART-THROB — Heartbeat of Sandi Shalander soars to 171 per minute — 67 more than astronaut Scott Carpen- ter's during his re-entry from orbit — as she plunges earth- ward during roller coaster ride. in California. Device across her chest was developed for the Air Force to measure heart action in space medicine pro- gram testing. other sun lovers, and trailing plants on brackets soften the setting. In the planters, which may get only moderate light unless artifi- cially lighted, many of the hand- some tropical foliage plants can be used, and wherever small plants can be worked in there are the peperomias, baby's tears, pickaback plants, philodendron for hanging brackets, ferns in variety, and some of the vines, An east window is fine for Afri- can violets, or a collection of them can be accommodated on a -.lighted plant stand. An outdoor patio in a mild climate can, of course, be more of a "garden" than this. Planters, hanging baskets, tubbed plants, and vines can be used even more abundantly. But whether a garden room in the house where the snow flies outdoors, or a sheltered patio open to the out- doors or partially glassed and screened, a delightful dining nook or writing room can be combined with well - designed planting. 'sale Pint! Thoy $0,110: 13 :uttor .Butter has been an important item of man's diet since the irarl- est days. Hindu writings dating back more than 3,000 years rie- scribo how butter . was used as s. sacrifice to their gods, Even today, Hindu rulers are. 4nointcd with, huller. • But trre n g was disfavored .. when herdsmen carrecl the milk from seeir cattle in skin bag,S. hung over the animals' back,S.; The jolting caused the cream,. .its the len% to clot. From this crude beginning they made churns from hollowed-out logs. They left the mllk to stand in shallow pails so that they could skim off the top Cream and then, by swinging this in the log, or in a leather bag, produce. a thick, yellow butter. The basic principle of butter- making is the same now as it was 5,000 years age—the only differ- ence being that hand-operated churns have been replaced by electrically operated ones. • In the Middle Ages, butter was • used mainly for cooking and. wasn't at all like the delicious, golden foodstuff we know. In- - deed, it was often =Add, The palatable butter we enjoy is a product of the teat 100 years. Before then it was heavily salted to keep it from going bad, stored in stout wooden _chests which were buried in the ground, When butter was sold loose in the streets, it often had such a high • water content that it was somtimes sold by the pint! Usually, however, it was bought‘-0 the pat, or by the length fret-AA yard-long basket. Tt was . unwrapped, and often caused stomach disorders, • In 1873, the first forms of refrigeration -changed dairying., ese Methods completely, Abouteelle, same , time, a machitie was in- vented which separated - the cream .from the milk. These . made •it • possible not only . to • make large quantities of butter, • but also to keep it in good con- dition for long periods. • Gradually, butter-making one individual farms virtually ceased, .• • rectal-les were set up 'which cols; lected milk from the farms and, produced butter—and allied milk preducts—commerciallye • Modern Etiquette. By Anne Ashley Q. When one has already given a gift to a newborn baby', and is then invited to the chris- tening, is one expected to, bring another gift? A. No. "Ma ISSUE 51 -- 1962 'tldry place if made bane. If 0 S. CANDIED ORANCli; S41(0',3 12 seedless orange Alves .14-.100 112 ce.41tlf:p.('°1:oranWe l;,litrs'4st4:s4kar Combine granulated cap water' ITr 1'17 he avy 071 g • lieat, . stirring constantly, until sugar is -dissolved,. Add orange- Slices, arranging so they lie flat. Bring to a. boil, remove skillet from beat, and cool. Tip skillet occasionally to cover fruit With syrup or spoon, syrup over fruit, • Repeat boiling and cooling pro- cess several times or until all syrup has been absorbed„ Remove. slices and place on wire rack, Let stand overnight, Combine confece tioner's sugar and 14 cup water in small saucepan, Heat suffi- ciently to dissolve sugar; but do • not allow to boil, Cut orange slices in half and dip in warm syrup. Drain and return to rack to cool and dry. Store in .covered container in cool, dry place. Makes 24 pieces.