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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-11-12, Page 2" f' 4 TABLE TAMS e h yL� c?�at'�2 A�,WS. A few words about the humble. eetn1on aright not be, out of place in a column such as this for, after all, where would we be with- out this much -maligned vegetable 4n a large proportion of our cookery. Robert Louis Steven- son once called it "the rose among the roots" although, actually, it is closer, scientifical- ly, to the lily than to the rose. And the great satirist Jonathan )Swift put it into a sort of verse, writing: "FOr this is every cook's Opinion No savoury dish without an onion." Swift's couplet, as -Jane Nicker- son remarks in The New York Times, is admittedly questionable from a rhyming standpoint, emphasizing the onion as a sea - zoning. But the onion leads a double life; it is delicious on its own, too, especially in soup. • * * Many and various, the onion presents itself this fail both large and small, round and oval, yel- low, white and red. Among those present, also, are its cousins -the stronger garlic and the milder shallots. The latter are the. onion of the French chef, who like their subtlety and aromatic quality in delicate sauces. A pity the ap- preciation of home cooks is not great enough to increase their availability. • * • Strongest -flavored of the on- ions now available is the Yellow Globe; its name hints as to its appearance. Mildest is the Red Italian, imported in larger am Italian, imported in larger amounts in the spring than now; strangely, when grown on our gait its taste becomes more ro- bust. Then there are the sweet jumbo -sized Spanish and the small white boilers. Thinking of onions on their Own, we shall use, if we follow custom, the large Spanish onions for French frying and either the name variety or the Red Italian onion in salads. For stuffing and baking whole, obviously a big onion, and it may be of any kind. For boiling and creaming, nat- urally the white boilers. In onion soup, the mild Spanish type or the stronger Yellow Globe, de- pending on the soup and savor aimed at. • • For there is not, as it develops, one onion soup of the kind eaten in Les Halles after an evening in Paris, but several. Many nations have recognized that onions make good soups, and now, with the vegetable a part of the autumn harvest and the weather turning cool, we should, it would seem, investigate them. Austria has a soup for which onions are sliced and French - fried and then put crisp into a hot clear stock, Mexico makes a soup half of stock and half of milk, thickening it with eggs, and stirring into this liquid boiled, quartered onions and a bit of cheese. Italy's onion soup, large- ly of stock and onions, resembles the French, except that it is slightly thickened. Greece pre- pares one by simmering in stock, along with the onions, celery and carrots, * * • As for the soupe a l'oignon, the most famous onion soup, it fre- quently comes to the table in Fiance looking more like a meat pie than a soup. That 15 because the cheese is grated and affixed, and the soup is then slid under the broiler to permit the cheese to melt and form a sort of crust all over the surface. * * * Digging into this golden brown "roof with spoon and fork, one comes up with a spoonful of rich brown stock, sliced onions and bread, from which hang strings, almost like spaghetti, of the Cheese. A mess to eat, but ex- ceedingly good, • • A French onion soup clearly has more substance if niade from a good stock, but water can be substituted, as it sometimes is in France on Fridays and other days of fast. A homemade stock being a thing of the past, one must substitute canned consomme for it Mr better Or worse. • • • French Onion Soup 2 large onions, sliced fine 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon flour 2 quarts stock or water Salt and pepper to taste (depending on how well sea- soned the stook is) Slieed French bread Aged, grated Gruyere type cheese. • • • Slowly cook the onions in the butter till they turn golden, Mix in the flour and cook a few min- utes. Add the stock, boil ten minutes and season. Arrange the bread on top, sprinkle complete- ly with the cheese and put into a hot oven or under a broiler until cheese has melted and browned. The soup may be made in one large pot, then transferred to individual heat -proof casse- roles before the cheese is added. Or it may be prepared and pre- sented in the same big recep- tacle. Yield, depending on ap- petites and other food served with the soup, is three to six portions. Or, it might be more nearly correct to say, you make suffi- eiesit for six and find it barely enough for three. Believe me, 1 know. Living On Snow Few white men tan build a snow house. It takes an Eskimo about half an hour. The blocks of snow are so solid, that it is like building with masonry. We were thankful to get inside as it was bitterly cold and still blow- ing hard, Nothing is more gor- geously clean than a new snow house. It is like a fairy grotto of an unearthly whiteness. The walls sparkle with a myriad dia- mond pinpoints. The next morn- ing the heat of the occupants will have turned the walls into lee, opaque and lustreless.. . What a strange substance is snow! At once your enemy and your means of life. The blizzard is your greatest enemy. Then the fall of heavy flakes - which obliterates tracks and wipes out visibility -Which in the North they call "Snowing Hudson's Bay blankets," has brought many of the hardiest travellers to los- ing their way.. . And yet without snow you could not travel. You build your house of it, you get it in your stew, you drink it in your tea, you ice your sledge runners with it. Its omnipresence de- taches from the world as you know it and makes the North a world of itself. The next day was Wednesday. It was even colder but there was less wind. The sun rose not as a ball of fire but as a pale gold orb with a pear-shaped aura around it ofethe same colour. At each side were two great rain- bow sun -dogs. , From Hudson's Bay Trader, by Lord Tweedsmuir. In Chicago, man got a -court injunction that ordered hi wife not to see another man, 'Nd M4 se Stogies,Feer Jimmy -Jimmy idrmenter, 23.month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Parmeeter, must give up smoking. Juvenile trourt Judge Walter Criswell, ruled thgf cigars were bad for the child's health, and that Jimmy, who has been smoking ''•'since he wets 13 months old, set a bad ekdmple for other children. From now or Jimmy will ask IIn vale for a light from his mother, left, above. Hair -Raising Experience -Tommy Schultz,4, was pretty tired of being mistaken for a little girl. Those long curls, left, were really beginning to annoy him. After a long campaign, his mother, Mrs. Nor- bert Schultz, finally consented to the shearing operation, and Tommy now feels he can face the world again with his new hair -do, right. • WRONG PARTY A lady who was worried at the failure of her twenty -eight- year-old daughter to find a hus- band persuaded her to insert a classified ad in the "personal" columns, reading: "Beautiful, exotic young heiress seeks cor- respondence with devil - may - care gentleman -who wants to go places fast" Two days after the ad appeared, the mother asked anxiously, "Well? An y an- I ewers?" "Just one," sighed her daughter. "Who wrote it?" de- manded Mamma, "1 can't tell you," said the daughter. "But this was my idea," shouted Ma- ma, "and I insist upon knowing." "All right," said the daughter wearily. "It was Papa." KEPT AT IT The last time Harpo Marx vi- sited New York, representatives of a dozen worthy charities de- scended upon him to request his appearance at benefits. One lady was particularly persistent and, after twelve telephone conver- sations in two days, Harpo final- ly agreed to appear for her. She called for him to escort him Personally to the proper place in order to make sure that he wouldn't elude her. Just as they were closing the door of the suite, his phone began ringing. "Don't you want to go back and answer it?" she asked. Harpo sighed gently and said, "Why bother? It's undoubtedly you again." TEST YOUR INTEIL!GENCE Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. Which of these men is given the credit for inventing the game of baseball? -Ty Cobb -Abner Doubleday -Knute Rockne -Kennesaw Mountain Landis 2. Which of the following cities is sometimes called "The City of Light?" --Paris -London -Berlin -Vienna 3. Which of the following men invented movable type fpr printing, thus making mass production of books i5ossible? -Thomas Aquinas -Aristotle Hermann Helmholz -Johann Gutenberg . 4. One of the following elements does not match the other three, Can you find it? -Nitrogen -Helium -Sodium -Argon b. The word bicycle means: -Cut in half '-Two eyes -Two wheels 6. What leader of the Israelites could not enter into the promised land? -Moses -Abraham -Jacob -Solomon 7. Match the following battles with the wars in which they were fought. Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Bunker Hill =American Civil War - (B) Charge of the Light Brigade -French and Indian War (C) Pickett's Charge -American Revolution (D) Braddock's Defeat -Crimean War Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100 very superior. " ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST =Tut pug t(eue2,g (CO 'ae& TWO treepauXV (a) 'ase& utaana0 (g) 'uot)nmeme ueeleaux'' (v) -L 'aeseel 9 'sleagl. omy-e 'Wn(poS -{ •8aaquatnD uuruor' -e 'slrea Z 'Aspalgnoec : saugv-T Dressmaking Tough In Grandma's Day - The vast improvements in dressmaking techniques of today have been emphasized by an in- teresting experiment conducted by a modern housewife, Accustomed to modern home dressmaking equipment and techniques which made it easy for her to whip up a new dress in a few hours, she decided, in the interest of science, to make ' herself a dress exactly the way her pioneer ancestor had to do it -the hard way. Beginning with the raw cotton and a spinning wheel, the ex- 'perimenter compared the results df her work with modern methods. With practise she could turn out about a pound of yarn a day on the spinning wheel. In the sante longth of time a single operator, in a modern spinning' plant produced twelve hundred pounds of yarn that was stronger and more uniform in quality. Weaving was part of every homemaker's jab in pioneer times. and operating fin old hand loom, she found it took another full day to make eno'.Tgh cloth for Ther dress. The operator of a mod- ern loom in a textile mill made enough for 300 dresses in the same period. Bleaching came next, Eighteen hours were spent onthe tedious job. The cloth had to be treated With buttermilk; washed many times and then spread On the grass in the sunlight to dry. To- day, bleaching is done chemically by machinery that turns Out -thousands of yards a day. • . Dyeing the fabric for the dress meant standing over steaming dye pots for six solid hours. Old fashioned dyes were made from seeds, flowers and the bark of trees. Today, thousands of yards are dyed in a matter of hours with modern, fast dyes made from -chemicals derived from coal tar. The cutting -out was done with rough hand - made patterns. (There were none of our detailed tissue paper patterns in pioneer days.) The cutting alone took all of thirty minutes. Compared with this time factory cutting machines following expertly designed pat- terns whipped through hundreds • of thicknesses in one operation. Sewing entirefy by hand took 'the experimenter a total of eight and 'one-half hours. Ata dress '-factory, workers completed the same type of dress in 75 minutes. Pressing each seam with' an old-fashioned flat iron' consumed another half hour competed to the factory job of only+seconds, When .finished the weary house- wife decided that modern tech- nology and • mass - production methods could produce a dress of far better quality, and teems of toil, less expensive thati she or her ancestor could. Even id Making'elothes at hen*, 'mod- ern women have been freed the drudgery' Of making their owte tnateriais, ' Altogether ' the exberin'ien£lrl dressmaking job cdnsuttted a total' of 80 hours and great -great- grandmother Would have alarm) the various steps over a period of 16 months while making her own dyes and material, Dizzy Reasons For Getting Divorced While you're reading this, put a nice, dreamy record on the gramophone. "Hearts and Flow- ers" would do nicely. This is a story about love. Love that has gone a little sour, perhaps, but love just the same for one year's parade of dizzy divorces. It takes real, deep, passionate love to make a man sprinkle fish- hooks in his wife's bed. That's what happened to Mrs. Stanley H. Langdon of Sydney, Aus- tralia. She got her divorce. So did Joseph L. DeLemere of Detroit. He told a tender story yf his wife's fondness for horses, He finally' told her, "It's either me or the horses." She put on her hat and headed for the racecourse. Romance in its purest form happened to Mrs.. Anne Swick of Pitt sburgh. She won a div- orce because her husband want- ed to tattoo her and put her in a circus. A tale of true love came from the lips of Paul Joanethis, a res-' taurant owner of Miami. He filed a suit for divorce saying his wife wouldn't cook for him. When he was hungry, she gently remarked, "Go to your own res- taurant" The wisdom of Solomon came down to the husband of Mrs. Lela Diepenbrock of St. Louis. When she threatened to •leave him, he said there was only one fair way to divide their belong- ings. So he took up his saw and cut all the furniture in half. It's the little things that make a marriage. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Jane 'Neatly said her husband knew about the, little things. He cussed her, strck her, threw mashed potatoes at her, tossed chicken pies at the ceiling and then sawed off the handles of her croquet mallets. Tender love words caused the end of the marriage of Thomas Anderson of Los Angeles, The words were, +'You fool." Not only did Mrs. Anderson utter them,"but she taught their par- rot to say the same thing. In Wisconsin, a dairy state, Mrs. Agnes Wilkins of Madison won a divorce because her hus- band wanted her to use mar- garine instead of butter. The ?edge said that was cruel and inhuman. A marriage is based on mutual understanding. That was, appar- ently,.lacking in the union of John and Betty Dimick of Los Angeles. She bought a new tail- ored costume, and John ducked her in the bath. She was wear- ing the costume at the time. Money matters must be dis- cussed frankly in a working marriage. Mrs. Sarah' Daly of Jersey City asked her husband for money to, buy groceries. He replied by pushing a fifty/ -cent piece down her throat, And so they were divorced, In Paris, M. Claude got a div- orce, There was just one little thing that disturbed him about his wife. She liked to run around without any clothes On. The "better. or worse" aspects to marriage ruined the wedded bliss of Mrs. Elaine L. House. Their financial affairs were - tough, so House obtained a loan, He' told the loan company he needed the money to pay, for Mrs. House's funeral:' Only she- wasn't 'dead. Bvery once in a while, any- body likes a little quiet around the house. But Laughlin Hayes overdid it, said Mrs. Gladys - Hayes. He didn't say a word to her for 222 days. They Went their separate ways, m And there were the romantic events that happened to Mrs. Ethel Sue 1taye of Miami. Iter husband, a disc -jockey, told the world about theft marriage. Mostly he criticized her cooking and laughed at their "so-called honeymoon," Ethel Sue's answer was to sue for divored, By Roberta Lee Q, liow can I wash leather' ;gloves? A. Use a soft brush and soap- suds with cool water, :Rinse in clear water, Pull the fingers into shape and blow open the finger/ and glove, If no glove form le used, stuff with tissue paper and hang up to.dry in room temper- e ature, When half dry, put th. gloves on the hands to shape, Qa, How can I .make glass opaque? . A. If It is desired to make some glass surface opaque, rub over it with a lump of putty, Apply evenly and carefully, rubbing one way only. Q. iiow can 1 keep medicine from- staining the teeth? A. If no glass tube is avail- able for taking a medicine that stains the teeth, use a stick of macaroni for the purpose. It will draw perfectly. Q. Sow can I make use of left- over mirk? A. If it so happens that there is a quart or more of milk on hand, make a rice pudding, a custard, or a disli with a creamed sauce. Another pleasing way to use it is to have a slice of ham for dinner and bake it in milk in the oven for about an hour, add- ing milk as it boils away. Q. How can I retain the colors in cretonne when laundering? A. The next time it is neces- sary to launder the cretonne slip covers, or any other cretonne ar- ticles,try washing them in bran water and see if they do not re- tain their colors. Q. How -can I make a tooth brush last longer? A. Soak the new tooth brush in . salt water over night, not only to cleanse it but to make it last longer. Q. ow can I remove ammonia stains?H A. Ammonia will sometimes change the color of fabric on which it has been used for the removal of spots. When this is the case, the original color often can be restored by applying vine- gar and water. Q. What is a good home rem- edy for relieving a cough? A. A mixture of honey and lemon juice well often prove ef- fective. Butter in hot milk, taken before retiring, • will ease the throat and induce a pleasantly drowsy feeling. - Q. Row can I improve t h e flavor of waffles? A. Try adding one teaspoon- ful of cinnamon and a quarter of a teaspoon of cloves to the waffle recipe. Serve the waffles with butter mixed with honey. Q. Row can I polish linoleum without using wax on it? A. On washday, before mop- ping the linoleum floor, add the leftover starch to the water. It will give a gloss to the linoleum. SHARK REMINDER Red Smith, was on Isis way from London to the hying field when a careless pedestrian dart- ed in front of his taxicab. The driver swerved and managed to 'miss him, giving the side of his cab a resounding slap with his left hand as he did so. Smith unscrambled himself in the back seat and asked, "What was the big idea of that slap?" "Simple, gainer," explained the cabbie, who probably studied Freud in his off -hours. "If I'd sounded my horn he'd have known I saw him and he'd ignore me and go on the same way next time. When I banked my cab, how- ever, he thought he'd been hit -and 'he won't forget it in a hurry." UNDAY SCII00I, LESSON BY REV. R, BARCLAY WARREN, B.A., B.D, JESUS COMMISSIONS THE '1WEZ,VE Matthew 1$:1, 5-7, 24-27, 34-39, MEMORY SELECTION: He that findandth his life hethat loseththis life forall lose d my sake shall fled it. Matthew . 10:39.'; One might have thought that ' Jesus would have chosen his twelve disciples from Jerusalem, the religious 'centreofthe nation, But not.. so. Only one, Judas Is- cariot, was from Judea. Seven were from Capernaum in Galilee, God frequently chooses unlikely men to do his work. When Robert Raikesin1781 .lighted the fires of the modern Sunday School movement, the main body of clergy turned from him because the movement was inspired and manned by laymen. As the disciples went forth to minister among the Jews they were not always to be favorably received: Today we are fortunate to live in a land where religious freedom is almost complete. But that does not mean, that God's messenger is always well receiv- ed. Of course, he will not be be- headed as John the Baptist who dared to declare to King Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to.lutve thy brother Philip's wife." In- stead, God's messenger is often confronted with a stolid indif- ference. This is sometimes hard- er to bear than active opposition. But just as the disciples did not alter the message to find the favor of men, neither should we. Paul said, "It I were still pleas- ing men, T should not be a ser- vantof Christ," Gal. 1:10. Families are sometimes divid- ed in their attitude to the Gospel. It is unfortunate when only one of the married couples takes the way of the cross of Jesus Christ. But it is better that one serve Jesus Christ than neither. There is hope that the other may be won. T Cor. 7:16. Christians in many parts of the world are having to suffer for Christ. Let us pray for our brethren. Let us be bold to de- clare Christ before men. If it should sometimes occasion a sneer, let us recall Christ's suf- ferings for us. "If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him: If we deny Him, He also will deny us." 2 Tim. 2:12. GOOD ADVICE When Thomas Edison's private desk was opened fifteen years after his death, a card bearing the following admonition was found among his papers: "When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right!" SALLY'S SALLIES "Sot You boys have started whls- tling, tooIi" Not Blind To Beauty -"The Most Beautiful Blind, Girl in America* will soon be selected from entrants in a contest recently spon- sored by The Associated Blind,- Inc, Irving M, Selig, above, presi- dent of the organization; extends best wishes,to two aspirants for the title. At left is Pgddy Markey, 78. She Is a lyric soprano, and has appeared ort both radioand television. At .rietlj, is Betty Schoemaker, 20, who hopes to become a teacher for -the blind.. Purpose of the contest was to bring skills of the blind to the attention of employers.