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The Brussels Post, 1953-1-14, Page 2TABLE TALKS oiamA,aveas. faosTED APPLE -RAISIN PIF, • Prepare pastry for 2 -crust pie. • Combine ?m e. sugar 2 tbisp. flour lis tsp. salt. 2 tsp. cinnamon M Sprinkle 2 tblsp. of the dry in grediente over bottom pastry. • Peel, slice tart apples ,to make 6 c. Combine with 1/2 e. raisins as Mix math remaining dry ingre- dients and put into pie shell. 49 Sprinkle with 2 tblsp. orange juice e1 Dot with 3 tblsp, butter 41 Cover with a top crust, ta. Bake in 425° oven 15 minutes; 'reduce heat to 350° and bake 40 minutes longer. Frost with— Powdered Sugar Frosting: Mix together 1 c. powdered sugar, 3 tblsp. orange juice, 1 tsp. grated orange rind. Spread over hot pie. Serves 6. ° c s APPLE -WALNUT CRISP 6) Beat well .,,1 egg • Add 1 es diced apples 1 c. chopped nuts 0) Sift together 3, e.. sugar 2 tblsp. flour I tsp. baking powder 41 Stir all ingredients together aetd spread in greased 8 -inch :,rake pan. a? Bake in 350° oven 40 to 45 minutes. Serve with cream. Serves 6. M 0 0 APPLE FUDGE SQUARES fe Melt '2 (1 oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate In e. shortening aI Blend in 1 c. sugar 2 well - beaten eggs =a e. applesauce 1 tsp. vanilla • Silt together 1 c. sifted flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. soda 14 tsp. salt ej Stir into chocolate mixture. to Fold in %. e. chopped pecans t9 Spread in greased, floured 8- Snoh pan. St Bake in 350° oven 35 to 40 xeinutes. Cardinal's Fashions—One of Nome's three official ecclesiasti- etal tailors dresses his window with o set of resplendent vesf- tnents such as the new cardinals will wear, when invested with their office at the forthcoming consistory which has been call- ed by Pope Pius XII. Although Atli of the 24 newly named car- ahnals will not be able to at- tend, they Have till ordered their vestments from Rome's tailors. /BAKED CAiJLI9LOWER •Breakinto flowerets t Bead cauli- flower Cook 20 minutes or until ten- der.. r Combine in greased 9 -inch casserole 1?h c, drained, canned toma- toes 1/2 e. choIped onion f/ tsp. dried oregano /2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. pepper • Cover with cauliflower. • Combine . % e. grated cheese % c. cracker crumbs • Sprinkle over cauliflower. • Bake in 400° oven 20 minutes. Serves 6 to 7. ONION PIE • Combine ..:..1% c. sifted all- purpose flour % tsp. salt 11/2 tsp. caraway seeds all Add 36 c. lard • Cut into flour until mixture resembles coarse corn meal. • Stir in 2 to 3 tblsp. water • Turn out on floured board and roll to %-inch thickness. • Fit into 10 -inch pie pan. • Bake in 425° oven 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Filling: • Melt in skillet ..3 tblsp. bacon drippings • Peel, quarter and slice thin on,ons to make 3 c. • Cook until lightly browned. • Spoon into pastry shell. • Beat until fluffy 2 eggs • Add r/ c. milk 134 o.. sour cream 1 tsp. salt to Blend 3 tbisp. flour ' s e. sour cream • Combine with egg mixture and pour into pastry shell. • Bake in 325° oven 30 minutes, or until firm in the center. • Garnish with crisp bacon slic- es. Serves 8. BROCCOLI AND CHEESE SOUFFLE • Melt in saucepan 3 tblsp, butter • Blend in 3 tblsp. flour • Add 1 c. milk 2 tblsp. finely ch-pped onion • Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened, Remove from heat. • Add 1 c. grated cheese slightly beaten egg yolks 1 tblsp. dried marjoram 35 tsp. salt 3a tsp. paprika • Stir until the cheese is melted. • Stir in ........., 13/2 c. cooked, chopped broc- coli • Fold in 3 stiffly beaten egg whites • Pour into greased 10 x 8 x 11/2 - inch balrfng pan. • Top with 3z e. buttered cracker crumbs • Bake in 350° oven 45 minutes. Serves 6. (Spinach or asparagus may be used instead of broccoli.) CORN AND PEAS WITH SUMMER SAVORY • Cook over low heat for 3 to 4 minutes 3 tblsp. butter c. chopped onion 1/2 c: chopped celery • Add 2 c. cooked peas 2 c. drained whole -kernel corn x tblsp. chopped parsley % tsp. ,:Tied summer sav- ory 1/2 tsp. salt r • Heat thoroughly ad add be- fore serving 34 t. sour cream, • Serves six. RSA€LLes ' b i' -R iw' AP E UT i3List, Postal Art "Gallery"—Any Frenchman with 18 francs to spare eon now own a reproduction of a genuine Maurice Utrillo paint. �" tg. The French modernist created the design, above, for a new t'renth stamp, The design g represents p Sells then entrance gate to the. Chateau de Versailles, The Queen's a Doll—Anne Stratton, of London, examines a plaster figurine of Queen Elizabeth II, one of more than 550 different souvenirs which will be placed on sale during Coronation Year. Proposed souvenirs and novelties must receive the approval of the Council of Industrial Design, before they may be put on the market. GREEN BEANS, SPA13ISR STYLE 3 tblsp, butter • Add and cook until tender 3 a chopped onion * Add 1 c. water 1/2 c. chili sauce 36 tsp. dried dill •Blend and Add 1/ tblsp. corn starch 2 tblsp. water • Cook, stirring, until thickened. • Combine with 3 c. cooked green beans • Serves six. ° ,. ° GREEN BEANS WITH TOASTED ALMONDS • Cook 15 minutes ............ 3 c. canned or frozen green beans Melt - 34 c. butter • Add. 34 c. slivered almonds • Toast lightly, shaking pan. • Add % tsp. salt 1 tblsp. chopped Chives • Pour over green beans. • Serves six. * * FLUFFY BEETS • Shred coarsely 4 a raw beets • Combine with '1 tblsp. butter 1 tbtsp. sugar 1 tsp. salt •Y c. water • Cook until beets are tender, about 10 to 12 minutes. Is Blend 1 tblsp. flour 1 c. thick sour cream at Add 1 tsp. dried sum- mer • Fold into cooked beets.ory Heat through. Serves 6. Veale Marries Pye! Recently a hospital nurse upset a bottle of sterlization spirit near an electric heater. It caught fire and set alight the bed of a girl named Flame. On the same day a boy named Kipper *as taken before a magistrate for assault- ing a Mrs. Winifred Fish at Woking. "You are a member of the Fish family?" the magistrate asked Kipper, who nodded agree- ment. Names that go with professions Often cause amusement. In Chicago is a firm of divorce lawyers named Love and Love. At Higher Bebington, Cheshire, a Mr. Adams married a Miss Eva; and at Liverpool a Mr. Veale and a Miss Pye, and a Mr. Hunter and a Miss Hare were joined. Years ago in Slough there were three shops near each other, on the same side of the High Street, With , the' names Gotobed, Death and Coffin over their fronts; and some years ago in Peshawar there were ,three army surgeons in the same mess named Blood, Gore and Slaughter ! STARTING YOUNG One of the most snccessfuf writers of, gangster scripts on the Coast learned angles in the, hard school of experience. The neighborhood in which he grew up, he explains, was so tough that whenever a eat stalked down the street with ears and a tail, everybody knew it was a tourist. A hardboiled kid who lived next door to him poured a pan of water on a passerby, and shouted a number of inter- esting four-letter words as an accompaniment.• The infuriated passerby yelled, "Come down here and XII beat the tar out of you," "Como down?" . repeated the offending brat. "You're tuts, I can't even walk yet," • Struggling Statue—Writhing in the clutches of iron- fisted thought control is the sculptured figure titled "Political Prisoner." One of 3,500 statues entered in the London contest, the statue is examined by Miss M. Stiles. The artist winning the World contest will receive $32,000. All have submitted statues inter- preting the same subject. Henry VIII & Wiyes Still Earn Money A United States millionaire has just placed a repeat order with a London firm, His total purchases will mean more than a hundred thousand dollars for Britain. What's he buying—a fleet of British -made cars or a few pri- vate 'planes? You're way off the mark. The "bargains" he is snapping up, for his collection in the U.S., consist of waxwork characters. Such figures are now being sold all over the world by the only British concern con- ducting an expert trade in wax- works. Each historical figure sold to the United States brings in be- tween 500 and 600 dollars; as a rule half this price is for the costume. William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and all his wives, F. D. Roosvelt, and star Ameri- can baseball players, are among the assorted personages whose effigies have already brought back dollars. Henry Ford, John Wesley, Mendelssohn and Presi- dent Eisenhower will sobn fol- low them across the Atlantic, Each figure is dismembered before it is shipped; head, legs, arms and torso are packed in separate compartments, with photographs showing exactly how they are to be reassembled. For Iceland, the firm recently made the Icelandic Cabinet in waxworks. Off to the West Indies have gone a grisly group of fig- ures for exhibitionin caves once the headquarters of pirates. Pakistan's array has had a set of up-to-date waxworks soldiers to display current uniforms as they should be worn. Orders have also arrived from Africa, Hong Kong and Burma. Not all the exports are for exhibition. Governments order special waxwork figures, care- fully made to tally with the hu- man frame, for experiments with new explosives, Other 'wax- worlrs, fitted with internal mechanism, have been made for use as dummy frogmen, for ser- vice in testing underwear ap- paratus. The firm behind all this be- gan making drapers' dummies 100 years ago. They started pro - clueing waxworks at the turn of the century, But' this export been: is a new development Which now keeps heft/wen 30 and 40 experts busy, Lend Laughter Brings Midgets Pinch for Murder Strange How fugitives from the must hate the inventor of tograpbyl Recently, in Naplea visitor whose wallet Was sna whipped ant a pocket ca and took a snap of the this. he fled, The picture was blur but it . was sufficiently clear put the'polioe on, his track, A Sjefiield woman; whose band ,.deserted her years visited a' - pineme and` saw on the screen watching a f ball . match„ 'The' police had Ile trouble in finding• hilt, for was a well-known club supper Then there was the ease of team Who laughed too loudly a. movie,. His laughter. was catchy that people turnedtoJo at him.' One of these was, a man who recognized him e'wanted" from a Prese pho graph she had seen:'. So she s out and summoned a policem who- arrested the jovial fella He was charged with the murd of his wife, and sent to Fo Wayne, Indiana, to await trial. In 1934 theBankof Spain.w swindled out of $150,000. Pi consecutive cheques bearing t signature of a marchioness h been forged. All attempts trace the criminal failed,, so th police sought the help- of t cashier, who assured them th he could recognize the man wt had cashed the first cheque. Day after day, for nearly month, they took him to soci centres, cabarets, theatres an movies in the hope that he woul spot the man, for they were cer tain he was in Madrid. At last, one evening at movie, the cashier whispere "There he is!" "Where?" asked the accom panying detective, expecting member of the audience to b pointed out; but the cashier wa referring to a news reel whic showed two men strollin through the. paddock at a rac meeting in Barcelona. Experts scrutinized the film printed photographs of the tw men; then flew to Barcelona, where after a search they picked up the , swindler and his com- panion, who proved to be a neph- ew of the marchioness. law Phe- is it, a misfortune to be b s, a a midget? Some of us may th tell- it is, but; there was a • time mera royal and fashionable pec ef�as liked to have them in th red, houses. Since there were ne to .enough natural dwarfs to round, artificial ones .had to lsus. madg. The most popular of ago, ••various recipes for dwar him children from birth was to ano Cot- ' ' their backbones with a, gre Jit made of moles, bats, and do he mice! ter In eighteenth -century Aus the at the caprice of the empre all the dwarfs' and all the glen so in the, empire were brought t ok gether'in Vienna and lodged wo- the , same building. " It was n as -long before ' the giant, wi to- tears in their eyes;'asked to lid moved. They .could not, th an, asked, any longer. bear the 1 w. treatment they received from th er dwarfs. rt Died In Prison - Though the original To as Thumb was supposed to have ve been at King Arthur's court, th he first English midget of whom w ad have any authentic record wa to Jeffrey Hudson, who was born i e Rutland in 1819. Till he w he thirty hg—was only 18 inche at high, but after that he suddem o grew another two feet, He w presented to Queen Henriett a Maria by the Duchess of Buck al ingham as he stepped out of d pie at a banquet. d His career was adventurou He fought at least two duels, on with a turkey -cock and anoth a with an unfortunate gentlem d' named Crofts. That they migh be on the sante level, Hudson was allowed to sit on a horse, an a from there he proceeded to shoo e his adversary dead, s Twice, while travelling on con - h ftdential missions for the queen g he was taken prisoner, once at e Dunkirk and once by Barbary pirates. Though on each of these occasions he was ransomed, he o . was eventually to die in prison at the age of sixty-three, after being accused of participating in the "Popish Plot" Living at the same time as Hudson were two other dwarfs. Measuring both together only 7 foot 2 inches, they were married at the queen's wish. I dare say she hoped that their children would also be dwarfs. If this was so, she was to be dissapoint- r� ed. The pair had nine children, of whom the five that survived grew to ordinary dimensions, Disguised As Baby In Paris, however, as late as 1858, a remarkable court -midget died at the age of ninety. This was Richebourg, who was only 23 inches tall. Elis youth' had been spent in the household of the Duke of Orleans. During the French Revolution, when he was already in his twenties, he was disguised as an infant in arms and used to be carried in and out of - Paris by a nurse with important and dangerous despatches concealed in his baby clothes. Except in Russia and Turkey, dwarfs in Europe ceased to be fashionable at courts and in the households of the nobility. In general, by about the middle of the eighteenth century, they had to find other means of support- ing themselves. They had little - difficulty in dying so, Of the exhibited dwarfs in England, Borulwaski, a Pole, be- came one of the most ' popular. Though 39 inches tall, he had a sister who was head and shoul- ders shorter than himself. He is reported to have been hand- some and witty, 'and to have made a great dell of money. He lived to the age of ninety-eight, dying in 1837, ' after' spending many years in comfortable re- tirement near Durham. The year of Borttlwaski's death saw the birth of Charles Stratton in America. Of all midgets, Stratton, under the name of General Tom Thumb, is best known to fame. He was 25 inch- es high and weighed fifteen pounds. Barnum, the famous showman, was responsible for his oz'n ink when pia eir ver go be the ting int ase er- tria, ss, ts o - in ob th be ey 11- e m e s n A Had TheirGL'eat Days Too; Tales About T'he', "Little Folks" s y as a a s e er an d Beautiful Persia I had never known that Is- fahan would be so beautiful, had not guessed that on the great Maiden there existed three -of the most superb buildings erect- ed by man. The palace of Ali Qapu stood foursquare and per- fect to the winds, superb in its utteranbe of man's power, yet slender still, not demonstrating power too much, and nowhere dominating the Maidan, as the Palace of Great Harmony in Peking dominates the vast square of creamy white stone which lies in front of it. In Isfahan the Safarid Emperors were more cer- tain of their power and had no need to spell out their verdict on mankind; they built for the glory of God and the earth's splendours, and allowed the mosque to dominate the place, while they played polo and raced their horses to the goal -posts at the mosque entrance or watched the people at their games in the golden dust below .. , When you see the Mosque of Sheikh Lutfallah, you know at once that it is one of the won- ders of Persia, perhaps the great- est. So it is that when you come here, you know you have reach- ed the end of your Persian jour- ney. There may be greater mos- ques more elaborately decorated, and at Qum and Meshed you will find shrines where the domes, the minarets and the stalactites are placed with solid gold, but it is this small dome chamber you will remember in after years as you remember some half-forgotten place where you passed your childhood. You will forget the details and re- member hardly at all the ala- baster roofs and minarets of the dome, and you may even forget the superbly daring calligarphy in white enamel and the way the sunlight Iiew past the fai- ence windows with the effect of slow resolute explosions, but you will remember the depths upon depths of blue and how a pigeon the same colour as the blue tiles now slowl. _t ,ts seat on the mirab and hovered across the chamber with a slow flutter of wings, and most of all you will remember having been gathered within a blue wave, and there will he p:; u, r - mind the blue 'Carpet of the dome with its tremendous flaw- ers frozen in a timeless age, the quietness at the heart ' of the flame. 1n imagination yea will go there many times, as you go to the ruins of Persepolis and Athens and Rome, but ygu will not be made aware of the frailty of man nr time's flow; you will be made aware of man's power to still time and yet to'grow, for in that blue dome -chamber there is all the peace that any- one could desire, and more than is necessary, at you watch the light pouring tranquilly through the blue grill, --From "Journey to Persia." by ROBEIIT PAY110. exhibition, in America he aroused intense excitement and euriosity wherever he went, /lid In 4 Mull 04 One omission, when being nsobbed" by a too -enthusiastic crowd, he saw Fanny Ellsler, the well-known; dancer, in the dis- tance. He ran'to tier, leapt Into her arms, and hid himself in her ermine muff. ». In England General, Tom Thumb -one of the most curious imports, surely that has ever been received from across the Atlan:,tic--appeared at the Ly- ceum Theatre, He impersonated Greek ancient history,., such as "David in combat with Goliath." "Sampson carrying off the Gates of Gaza," and "Hercules, srug •%ling with. the Lion," We are not told if the lion was imper- .sonatedby a kitten. He also ap- peared in Highland' costume and dressed as Napoleon. He was, we read, "perfect and elegant in his proportions," and that "when standing on the floor or parading the room, which he does dressed in a style of Bond Street elegance, his head scarce- ly reaches fb the knees sof a person of ordinary stature, and is about on a, level with the seats of the chairs and sofas." He was received several times by Queen Victoria - and: Prince 'Albert, and was given"substantial tokens of their royal .favour," " In 1862 Miss Lavinia Warren appeared in New York. She had, so says a contemporary account, "rich, dark, waving hair, large, brilliant and intelligent eyes, and an exquisitely modelled neck and shoulders. Were she of the average size, she would be one of the most handsome of wo- men." She was 24 inches high. Her parents, curiously enough, were exceptionally tall, as were six of their eight children, only Lavinia and her sister Minnie. being dwarfs. -Before going on exhibition, Lavinia had been a schoolmistress, and, in spite of her size, it is said she was always able to maintain the strictest dis- cipline. No Sense of Wonder Among her many admirers in• New York was General Tom Thumb. After an extensive court- ship, he proposed, only to be told that Lavinia could not agree to marry without the consent of her parents. "You know," she added, "that mother objects is your moustache." The Genera: immediately shaved it off, and necessary permission was given. On the 10th February, 1863 they were married in a fashion- able and crowded church. Since the chancel steps were imposs- ibly high for them, a little plat- form was built to bring them up to - the level of the officiating clergy. Permanent Paper Doll—Pretty aa a picture after many washings is this cutout doll designed by Blanche Frome, a children's lib- rarian. About to be bathed by Diane Parker, 8, it is printed and sold in book form. The doll is made of a papery, fibre which can be cut out, stitches and stuffeJ. The book covert make a closet for doll clothes. hal ttttwtt'et altbettfi fit 9I til! .hilt,,, 6th ..r, - Coronation Confection --On display at ;Brighton, England, this. huge cake is a detailed model of, the, forthcoming coronation• Ceremonies for Queen Elizabeth 11. The royal delicacy, which, represents Buckingham Palate with the coronation procession moving down the Mallbefore it, took 250 working hours to. maker Everything is edible, except the cavalrymen,s swords ane. part of the palace railings.