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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-1-9, Page 7Why Not Try To invent a Gadget? Here 'Ore four st gestions for gadgets which could make some- body a fortune. Every one of them 504 an attempt to smooth (Mt a little trouble spot in everyday living in the average home, 1, Can you invent an inexpensive butter conditioner -that is, a con- tainer which would enable a house- wife to keep her butter in the re- frigerator always soft enough to spread? Some refrigerators have them built-in, but these have their own freezing units, adding to the cost To do the job properly, the dish inust have a tight seal. Can you solve it so that it can be manu- factured to sell for less than a dol- lar? 2. Some people line their gar- bage cans with newspapers, others buy disposable, waxed bags for a couple of pennies. Newspapers come apart and ready-made bags cost money. Can you invent a dis- posable, inexpensive clip which can be used to, make a bag from a pro- perly folded newspaper? Thus the housewife will be able to stake her own garbage bag with no effort and it would be cheaper than pre- pared ones, 3. Mopping the floor is a back- breaking task. You must wet the mop, wring it out, wet and wring interminably, How about a mop you neither have to wet nor wring? Perhaps that's not as crazy as It sounds, Couldn't it be done by having the mop operate off the pressure of the water system, which would whirl the mop head as the water runs through and scoop the dirty water back into the sink? And maybe you can even find a way of applying a detergent at the sane time, 4. Ever try to open a vacuum- packed coffee tin? It's murder. Housewives would welcome a sim- ple gadget, maybe something with a spout, which can be inserted into the tin and used to pour the coffee out. No more cut fingers and ruffled tempers. Lady of Light -Wearing the tra- ditional crown of candles is Margit Sjodin, 19, Sweden's "Lucia," or Queen of Light. Old Mystery Solved Carnitine is a substance in the flesh of animals and men which has been a complete mystery since it was chemically identified a half - century ago. The mystery is in a fair way of being solved by the work that Prof, G. S. Fraenkel has been doing. At the recent meeting of the American Chemical Society he reported on behalf of himself and three biochemists that vitamin 13-T and carnitine are identical. Vitamin 11-T gets its name from a little yellow mealwurn which is -- less than in inch long and which is called "tenebrio,",housewives know snealw•orms as the -little yellow or brown larvae sometimes found in flour or cereals. They know carni- tine also since it constitutes about 2 -per rent of meat extract, Vitamin B=P is essential to the life of the meulwornt, but other living things - insects, higher animals or plants -- stiffer no harm when it is left out of their diets, With the discovery that vitamins 13-T and carnitine are the same it is possible to study carnitine intensively, In purified form carnitine is a white crystal that looks like ordin- ary table salt. Like salt, too, it absorbs so much moisture from the air that in a short time it cakes. Ultimately it becomes a sticky syrup. Apparently animals and men pro- duce carnitine within. themselves. Much is found in muscle. This may turn out to be of medical impor- tance, particularly in cases where tissues may not be produclag carni- tine in normal amounts, The Other Cheek. In Nashville, 'Poon„ the Gideon Society's W. H. Mason persuaded the judge to drop larceny charges against three then who stole a box hill of Bibles,'gave tack a New Testament, TABLE TALKS elemeAws In a recent issue of "Better Living" Mrs. Clara Gotthard Sny- der -a real expert -makes the fol- lowing striking 'statement: -- "In more than 20 years of teaching bread -making, I have heard more husbands brag about their wives' skill at making good bread than about their pies, cakes, or even meat dishes, Maybe the fragrance of baking bread reminds them of home and' mother, Or maybe men just` like good food." * * * A statement which, I may say, I heartily personally endorse; also Mrs. Snyder's recommendation to start off with a good sponge, as a foundation, and frown that sponge make bread, rolls and as many' other variants as you may fancy. * * . * SPONGE BASE 2 packages dry or compressed yeast 3' 'cup lukewarm water 154 cups scalded milk, cooled to lukewarm 1% cups lukewarm water 1 tablespoon sugar 4 cups sifted, enriched flour Sprinkle or crumble yeast into the % cup lukewarm water, Stir until dissolved. Put milk, the 11,4 cups water, sugar, and 3 cups of the flour into a large bowl. Mix until smooth. Stir in yeast and re- maining cup of flour. Beat until shiny and -smooth, 3 to 5 minutes. Cover, Let rise in a warm place . 45 minutes or until double. Makes about 5 cups sponge. The "large bowl" should hold at least two quarts, "Lukewarm" liquid is cooler than most- folks think. Test like baby's formula: Put a drop on inside of wrist. If It feels neither hot nor cold, it's right. "Warm place" for the sponge or dough may be near a radiator, in a warmed oven or set the bowl in a pan of warm water. You can use any of the three forms of milk. Replace the scalded milk and lh cups lukewarm water in this way: Use % cup dry skim milk and 3 cups lukewarm water, or 1% cups evaporated milk and 1% cups warm water. * * * .. TIPS FOR BREAD AND PLAIN ROLLS 1. Knead the dough well -turn, fold, push, push; turn, fold, push, push. • * * 2. Let rise for 1 hour, or until .light, Test by pressing dough with finger. If dent remains, it is light enough to shape into loaves and rolls. * * ▪ * Before shaping the loaves, dough is punched down and divided into 3 balls. Cover 'and let these rest 10 minutes to recover from all this punching and dividing, * * -* 4. To shape a loaf flatten ball of dough to a sheet 3 inch thick. Press firmly with palms, stretching lightfy. Gives bread a fine, even grain. * * * 5. Fold dough as if folding a towel lengthwise. Press down. Stretch lengthwise into a strip. Pick up by ends, pull gently; "spank" center on the board. * * * W 6. Dough is now about tsitice as long as bread pan. Now fold, this strip into thirds: Bring each end to center, overlapping them a bit. Seal; square up. * * * 7. Press down firstly with knuckles to seal. Again, press and flatten dough into a rectangle about as long as bread pan and about three times as wide. * * * 8. Fold lengthwise in thirds to forms a roll, Press edges to roll with side of hand to seal. Press down ee-inch at each end and fold under to seal ends. 9. Place roll in greased bread pan, seam -side down. Grease tops, cover, acid let rise 1 hour or until a bit more than double. Bake as directed in recipe, . #... * 5 10, To make rolls, flatten ball of dough, cut in strips, then in walnut - size pieces.- Shape into small balls by rolling between hand and the board. * *• 44 11. Or finish to satinsmoothness by rolling each like a tiny balloon as shown. Roll in the greased pan; place % inch apart. Complete as directed 5 * 5 When bowl is full of bubbly sponge: SWEET ROLLS AND COFFEE CAKE 2 cups Sponge Base 24 cup sugar 15.d teaspoons salt `e44 cup melted shortening 2 eggs 214 cups sifted, enriched flour Sir down, then measure sponge into a larger mixing bowl. Add other ingredients in order listed. Mix well after each. Beat until smooth and shiny. C o v e r, LeLt rise . in warm place 1 hour to double. Stir down batter than proceed,as shown Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375 degrees F„ 20 to 30 minutes, Makes twelve 3 -inch Butterscotch Pecan Rolls, 8 =small Cinnamon Puffs, one - 8-by8-inch Coffee Cake. Cinnamon -nut Topping Mix -Set cup sugar, .2 teaspoons cinnamon, % ,cup chopped nuts. Sprinkle 34 teaspoon on each puff; cup on coffee cake square. 'I usually keep a covered jar of this topping on hand. It will snake many good things, including, cinnamon toast. Base for Pecan Rolls Into each 2 -inch muffin cup put 2 teaspoons- brown sugar, 1 tea- spoon butter or margarine, g tea- spoon water, and 5 pecan halves, Then fill each half full of batter. * * * This is the way to finish up the bread: BREAD AND PLAIN ROLLS Remaining Sponge Babe (about 3 cups) 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon melted shortening Sifted enriched flour, to make a soft dough, 3 to 4 cups Pour sponge into a large bowl. Add sugar, salt, shortening, and 3 cups flour. Mix thoroughly. Sprin- kle % cup more flour on a board. Turn out dough. Khnead, working' in more flour only if necessary. (Test for enough flour: hold ball of dough in, one hand. If top is gently rounded and just hints at wanting to flatten out, it's right) Knead about 7 minutes, until satiny. Grease top and put into lightly greased bowl. Cover and let rise in warm place 1 hour or until doubled. Punch down and let rise again 1 hour, until a little more than doubled. Test for lightness as directed. Punch down and divide the dough into 2 balls for 2 large loaves, or into 3 balls for 2 smaller loaves and 1 small pan of plain rolls. Shape into loaves and rolls. Put in greased pans, cover, and let rise until light, about 45 minutes for rolls, 1 hour for bread. Bake rolls in hot oven, 425 degrees F., for 15 to 20 minutes. Then lower to 400 degrees F. for bread and bake 50 minutes to 1 hour. Capital Increment. 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The youmg chap in college who flipped a coin to determine whether he would enter the ministry or study law, certainly didn't have the Divine call that the fishermen re- ceived, In last Sunday's lesson, Simon was introduced to Jesus. To- day he puts his boat into service for Jesus. Simon is a thoughtful listener as Jesus sits in the boat and teaches the people on the shore. But Simon is challenged further. When Jesus finished speaking, he said, "haunch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught." It seemed -use- less for the night's work bad been fruitless but Simon was quick to obey. The net broke under the strain of the multitude of fish en- closed. The two boats were filled and began to sink. Simon was over- whelmed, His own heart was re- vealed to him. He fell at Jesus' feet and exclaimed, "Depart from me; for I ant a sinful man, 0 Lord." Jesus dispelled his fear and assured him that henceforth he would be catching men. The four fishermen left their nets and their boats to follow Jesus. The became the four leading men in the group of twelve who attended on Jesus in his min- istry. Only men who have caught sight of their own heart's need and of the greatness of Jesus Christ to meet that need are suited to proclaim the message of eternal life. But that is not all. Before a man leaves a secular occupation to give full time to the ministry he should sense the Divine imperative saying, "Come ye after rte, and I will make you fishers of men." Otherwise the man will be ineffective. Helps To Cough Up Things They Swallow The little Jessies and Johnnies of pre-school age who swallow or in- hale buttons, parts of toys and about anything that can be put into the mouth present a problem to mothers rind physicians. The re- moval of these foreign bodies is never easy. Sometimes there is dan- ger of death. Dr, I. Newton Kugel• mass, has discovered that the rectal administration of aminophylline will dislodge the foreign bodies where treatment with emetics and other means fail. In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. 1 ugelmass gives details of six cases in which aminophylline induced infants and children to cough up objects that they had swallowed or inspired. In two cases no foreign bodies bad passed down the gullet but there was difficulty, in swallowing, Amino- phyliue brought relief. A pearl button that lodged in the larynx of a 5.year-old girl brought on a croupy cough and a fever. When she received aminophylline she brought up the button. So with the ivory tip of a pencil that lodged in the larynx of a 7 -year- old girl, and' with the glass eye of a doll that had found its way into a branch of the windpipe of an- other girl, Don't Mistreat That Watch Of Yours A watch is a precision instrument, a machine. And as such it needs the regular expert attention of a qualified'jewbller for lubrication and cleaning. Watch parts spin a total of half a million times a day, and the balance wheel turns as fast as the wheels of a locomotive travell- ing at 60 m.p.h. Here are some tips provided by the Watchmakers of Switzerland, , an association of Swiss manufac- turers with a reputation built up over the past four centuries. 1. In the first place, buy your watch from an established qualified jeweller or watchmaker. You will then know that when you get it your watch will be in the same condition, ready oiled, as when it left the factory. - 2. Take your watch to a jeweller at least once a year for oiling. Every six months is even better. 3. Do not take your watch off your wrist or: out of your pocket and lay it on a cold surface. The sudden change of temperature may damage the main spring. 4. Wind your watch regularly at the same hour each night or each morning. 5. Do not poke about inside the mechanism. If something needs doing let the expert do it. Process To Stop "Freezer Burns" A month ago I purchased two frozen chickens which had been "home packed" at the farm where I bought them. Now I notice that they are developing "freezer burn", those dry, scaly patches familiar to housewives using home freezers, states a writer in The Christian Science Monitor. The air left in the package to be frozen is one of the enemies of successful freezing 'and is often difficult to eliminate when packing odd shapes such as fowl, roasts, etc. \Vhen I inquired of the men at the local freezer plant about this problem, they told ins that they had wrapped some fowl successfully in what I would call a "mummy style" of package, with cellophane wrapped. round and mond the bird. They also use some sort of elabor- ate vacuum -creating device when packing for the plant and I in- ferred that this was too expensive to be practical for the average home, However, it led Inc to what I have found to be an ideal solution. I have brought my own tank - style vacuum cleaner into the pack- ing operation and with perfect re- sults. Now when I have a fowl to wrap, I place it in a plastic bag made for this purpose and available at all suppliers of freezing materials. Next, 1 insert the metal tip of the vacuum cleaner hose into the neck of the bag, and turn on the machine. In a moment the bag is deflated tight against the bird and I pinch off the bag and slip out the hose. The bag is twisted and doubled back to forst the familiar goose neck closing and secured with an elastic band. When I have something to nark which might be bruised or crushers by thie method I slip it into a plastic beg and close it temporarily until it is frozen solid in the quick freezing compartment. Thus fruits, stews and all fragile items ran be protected as perfectly Realms "horn" as can meats and fowl. Longest Ftiver Irl The World Has Water For Its Banks The United States research ship, "Atlantis," recently completed an investigation of the Gulf Stream. Using ingenious under -water tiler» urometers which instantly measure changes in oceantemperature as deep•as 900 feet, the ship has track- ed down the baffling meanders of the Gulf Stream over vast areas with pin -point accuracy. Results may mean a .tremendous advance ,ht long-range weather forecasting for the Gulf Stream is one of ,the most important in- fluences on temperature and rain- fall If asked to name the longest river in the world most people' would answer the. Mississippi, rhe Amazon or the Nile, each about four thousand miles from the source to mouth. Purple Waters They would be wrong, for it is the Gulf Stream that takes the honours, Even though its banks are water instead of land, the Gulf Stream is a river, and its five - thousand -mile course through the two oceans is the longest in the world, From the Gulf of Mexico it flows northward near the coast of North America until it reaches the Newfoundland • . Banks. There it turns and sweeps eastward across the Atlantic, "- Between Florida and Cuba it is about fifty miles wide and has a speed of four miles an bour. Its deep blue almost purple waters are clearly defined against the light green of the seas. Off the coast of Florida the tem- perature of the Gulf Stream is 86 .. degrees. Opposite Labrador, some two thousand miles north, the tem- perature has fallen only eleven de- grees. in fact, like an immense hot- water heating system, the Gulf Stream warms the coast of Europe and is largely responsible for the temperature climate • of Britain, which, located in the same latitude, would otherwise be as cold as Lab- rador. Scientists' explanation for this strange seagoing river still leaves much unanswered. They say that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, driven westward by the trade winds, pile up in the 1500 utile cir- cular basin of the Gulf of Mexico, Having no other way to getout, they sweep northward between Florida and Cuba as the Gulf Stream. Yet the baffling thing is how this amazing stream manages to keep its identity, its peculiar colour and temperature while flowing thous- ands, of miles through the ocean against the forces of counter cur- rents which even cross it; course. Through heat and cold at.d rain, through alI seasons year by year its casters never sla'tken and its heat Lever fails, It raises the tempera- ture of Great Britainley12 degrees. It covers the shores of Scotland with evergre 'n leaves, melts the icebergs that have broken from their parent glaciers in the far nett]: and are drifting southward and carries firewood from the burn- ing Gulf of Mexico to the extreme north of Norway. Doliolids It also carries young sea nettles front the Gulf (they look like pack- ed acked acorns) to the hungry whale that awaits them en its northern limit. One section of the stream, ming- ling with the cold waters of the Newfoundland coast, causes the dense banks of fog that are always a menace in that area. Besides simplifying weather fore- casting, more knowledge about the Gulf Stream's behaviour may nsaip it possible to tell In advance what kind of fish will be available front season to seasons, Before 1927 cod were practically - unkeown in the North Atlantis, Them the Gulf Stream began to drift farther north and cod began to appeal' in ever-increasing nnnl- bers. The north Atlanticis now one of the principal fishing grounds for the fish. Disastrons Catches A few years ago there, was an ex- ceptioii.tily strong flow round the British coast. It brought mild weather with it, but instead of in* creasing catches of fish it cut them down by half. The current brought with it mil- lions of small jellyfish known as Doliolids, which the ordinary fish dislikes intensely. The herring and other North Sea fish fled north- wards towards the Arctic, and fishermen had a season of disas- trous catches. 'rhe persistence and steadiness of the Gulf Stream has often been illustrated. In a 1900 hurricane the coffin of an actor named Charles Coghland was swept off a ship near Galveston, Texas, drifted into the Gulf Stream and finished up 2,000 miles away, Use Molten Metal For Cooling Turning atomic energy into pow- er needs a plant known as a re- actor. The "fuel' is plutonium, r t of the atomic e atom c piles. The heat released is so great that in America's latest reactor .molten metal is used for cooling. The name given to this plant is "Clemen- tine," and the reason for this chris- tening was made public recently. One of the scientists who had helped to design the -reactor left before it started working, His in- terest in the result was naturally keen but the security ban on infor- mation prevented him finding out anything. So he sent his former colleagues this telegranm:- "ln a cavern, in a cavnon, ex- trapolating must be fine. Since you're the miners, forty-niners, tell nth how is Clementine," As 49 is the code number for plutonium, the workers still at the reactor station were able to tran- slate his request. Ever since the re- actor has been known as Clemen- tine. False Alarm. In Indianapolis, po- lice rushed to the. freight yards to look for a dismembered body in a boxcar, found Howard Finley rest- ing beside his,wooden leg. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking I !L AU &N I -, ]000 MUU 1 :MOOMUMl ©©©OS 0O000120U 1510113I r EICIE . ©U A t©©ov ©v� ©ruse ua- EIVIWTICIERIES .41, „arm EitilE/0151 ©ararE RIE1C] -'PEEN/ Off3fini1WIEEt4OBEIEra EINIEIBUIZEEAtli21312 UMBEL, V12124 4E]00 "The Kid" Grows Up -There's a span of more than 30 years be- tween the movie "hard guy" above and the ragamuffin peeping around the window ledge, But, they're one and the same --Jackie Coogan, now a 37 -year-old Hollywe.od character actor. Thirty years ago he was "The Kid," a wide-eyed moppet who became Famous at the age of four as a "straight -man" to the great ccmlc, Charlie Chaplin.