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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-2-4, Page 6TABLE TALKS ola A d DeWS Casseroles can be dressed up with almonds, musbrooms or other good things and made into /medal party dishes or they can combine leftovers of yesterday's dinner and be plain family are Hut, in either case, they are a convenience and a time saver for the hone cook because they an be prepared beforehand and pop- ped into the oven to heat while the salad is being tossed or an extra vegetable cooked. • * Many casseroles combine meat, ash or chicken with both a starchy and a green vegetable, end constitute a meal -in -one dish that needs only a salad and a tweet to make a well-rounded Meal. • * * A. short-cut for casseroles that tall for white sauce is the substi- Aution of canned soup for the eauce. It saves time and adds flavor to many casserole dishes. Cream of mushroom, cream of eelery, cream of chicken and to- mato are perhaps the most popu- tar soups to use In casseroles, ac- eording to Eleanor Richey Johns- ton, writing in The Christian Science Monitor. For toppings, potato chips, corn chips, plain and cheese crackers, corn or aice flakes or bread c r u m b s are equally suitable, the one chosen often depending on the taste of your family as well as the main ingredient in your casserole. When thinning the soup, you us- ually get the right consistency by adding about ai can of milk or Jess to your can of soup. 4 41 A basic recipe, with several 'variations, for casseroles made with tanned soup follow, TUNA -MUSHROOM CASSEROLE 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup aa cup milk Chagas Criata-2r.:e mem werear AfFrea ;ea near =ear. 75 +0 .'c g last c° 6.7.-gegral rest armee ego Queer! Ei..zabeesh's 3,1C attige.res sal how creger eittgas es gre huge liner 1,aes i at Southampton, Seglear.d. The ship is getting on extra -special going-over in preparationfor her Coronation Year tailings. 1 can (1 ounce) tuna, drained and coarsely flaked 11/2 cups crushed potato chips. 1 cup unsalted cooked green peas, drained. Empty soup in small casserole; add milk and mix thoroughly. Add tuna, 1 cup of potato chips and the peas; stir well. Sprinkle top with remaining Ye cup potato chips. Bake at 350° E. for 20 min- utes. • o CRUNCHY CHICKEN CASSEROLE Follow proportions and direc- tions for making tuna casserole, using cream of chicken soup, cooked cubed chicken, cornflakes and unsalted cooked lima beans (drained). * 5 5 SALMON - CELERY CASSEROLE Follow proportions and direc- tions for num casserole, only use cream of celery soup, salmon and cheese crackers 'with unsalted cooked green beans (drained). * 5 LOBSTER -MUSHROOM CASSEROLE Follow proportions and direc- tions for tuna casserole, substi- tuting lobster for the tuna, A good combination for a spe- cial dinner casserole is cauli- flower and ham. This is the way to combine them in a casserole. - CAULIFLOWER7Hke'7"— SCALLOF 1 cauliflower 3 tablespoons butter or mar- garine 3 tablespoons flour 11/2 cups milk Salt and pepper 1 eup chopped ham i pound Canadian cheese, sliced 1 cup soft bread crumbs Separate cauliflower into flowerlets; cook until slightly un- derdone. Make cream sauce with butter or margarine, flour, milk and seasonings. Add cheese and stir until cheese is melted. Place cauliflower in a casserole, sprin- kle with the hare and cover with the cheese sauce. Make wide border of the crumbs around the edge of baking dish. Bake at 350° F, 20-30 minutes, or until crumbs are lightly browned. Serves 6. If you have leftover cooked meat or if you've bought a small amount of luncheon meat, fix a casserole this way: LUNCHEON MEAT matt CORN ai pound luncheon meat 1 No. 2 can whole kernel corn la cup chopped parsley teaspoon salt ai teaspoon pepper 3 cups medium white sauce map rice cereal 2 waspoons melted butter or margarine Caea. an: and mix with dzasamessi ever: and parale.y. Sea- Imeesee est' cern mixture aged eseteizewaseta tr. greased 'eaSeaamma da'a. Crash cereal slight- ig; agar with me.ited litter and anko cam F. aimat 21 ir,im- an Semee.e F., 5 5 • eme Lite aemememise dish us - Mg trasala-d beef, here is ecce maga fa:may er.je,y. HAMBURGER CASSEROLE • 1 pound hamburger 1 cup Mee dry bread crumbs 1 cup milk 2 medians onions gee Wide, In fripland—look rig like typical Canadian majorettes, these pretty English girls give a Western atmosphere to the American Air Force European championships football game at London's Wembley Stadium. They went through their paces be - tare the game and at half-time with expert baton twhirling, struts and cheers. A ..: Fast "Stepping" Paraplegics—Rolling through intricate twists and turns of a fast-moving stittare dance, pretty paraplegic co-ed Bruce Aldendifer is swung by her partner, Marvin Berson. Both are students and participate in a ipacicil programme for paraplegics college students. Looking on are two fellow wheel- chair occupants, Mae Truxell and James Lee. 3 medium. potatoes (about 21/2 cups peeled and sliced very thin) 1 can peas cu. 1 package frozen peas, cooked Liquid from peas plus water to make 1 cup 3-4 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons butter Salt and pepper to season Add crumbs and milk to meat and mix well. Chop 1 onion very fine and add to meat mixture. Shape meat mixture into 12 balls; roll in flour to coat lightly. Melt butter in skillet and add other onion which has been sliced thin; cook gently until onion is trans- parent. Remove onion and save. Add meat balls to skillet and turn until they are browned on all sides. Arrange meat balls, peas and potatoes in 2 layers in greased 2 -quart casserole. Add butter remaining in skillet and' the liquid. Sprinkle with season- ing. Cover and bake at 350° F. until potatoes are tender (about 40 mins.). Serves 6-8. * For an unusual vegetable cas- serole, try this sweet potato - prune combination. PRUNE - SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE Cook 4 medlars sweet potatoes; remove skins and cut lengthwise in slices about 14 inch thick. Place alternate- layers of sweet potatoes and prunes that have been cooked unsweetened and pitted (you'll need 112 cups. Sprinkle each layer with brown sugar i½ cup). Salt. Add *1/2 cup prune juice and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Pour aver top la cup melted butter or margarine. Bake uncovered at 350° F. 40-45 manatee, Baste -cant sirue in dish. A Bet About Horses Started The Movies The greatest entertainment in- dustry in the world started as a private bet between two Amer- icans. More than seventy years ago Governor Leland Stanford, of California, bet a Iriend 25,000 dollar's that a horse at full speed took all four feet off the ground at once. To prove his theory he employ. ea. Eadweard Muybridge, an en- terprising British photographer, to record with a camera a series of pictures of The Engineer, one of Stanford's thoroughbreds, gal- loping. It took Muybridge six months tc. coordinate horse and cameras to prove Stanford's point. He did it by setting a row of cameras so that they all clicked within a fraction ef a second of each other. As the horse galloped past he set off the first camera, and the others worked autoinatically. He put the series of pictures in a stack, and later, thumbing 'them through, to his amazement Muy- bridge saw that The Engineer ap- peared to be running as the pho- tographs flipped. Muybridge's discovery started the manufacture of animated Woks of pictures. In 1861 he in- vented the zoophraxiseope, Which was the forerunner of the moving picture camera. This machine was years ahead of its time, and was not appre- ciated at its true value. But it worked on exactly the same prin- ciple as the cinematograph which. followed it. The zoophraxiscope guided Thomas Edison, and other pion- eers of the motion picture, in their experiments. DAUM TO GET "No, I wouldn't say he was mean, but he's lefthanded and keeps his motley in his right- hand pocket." King Henry Wanted His Horses Big King Henry VIII had very def- inite views about the horses of his day. They were not big enough. He took it upon himself to im- prove the species by dictating that every horse in England un- der a certain size was 'to be rounded up and killed. Mader the supervision of Government inspectors the yeomen of the day spent a whole month massacring small horses, and except for the few wild stallions which escaped Henry's dragnet, every light fast horse in the country was wiped out. To carry a man in armour the heavy horses which Henry desir- ed had their advantages. But for racing they were slow and There were races, of course. But they were either conducted on small ponlee, refugees from the great massacre, or the "cart- horse" types Which followed. • Nobody though to question Henry's decision, and in the cen- tury that followed these massive steeds came to be accepted as the typical British horse. Then came the invention of gunpowder, and almost over- night the heavily armoured war- rior became obsolete. A lighter, faster' and more mobile cavalry was needed. About the same time, too, eporting people began to think of breeding horses m run fasts. r. Full Circle James 1 tees one of the first advocates ctf a new breed, de- claring that English horses were hopelessly view. Various attempts *ere made afterwards to import lighter horses and cross -breed them with our own. But most people thought that no good would come out of it, and a petition was made to James II to do something to pre- vent the good old English horse, "fit for the defence of the coun- try,"front dying out. Genera/ Lord Fairfax declared violently that the result of cross- breeding English horses with. "strangera nearer the sun" would be the ruin of England's heavy cavalry. He added that it was only being done to produce "over -valued pygmy baubles" for racing men. . But the Arab. horse, with the added incentive of gunpowder, won the day. The reel revolution in horse -breeding dates from 1700, when a ' Yorkshire mer- chant named Thomas Earley inu.ght a bay colt in Syria and sent it back to Yorkthire. , It turned out to be the most weldable horse (hat ever lived, for from the Earley Arabian arg directly descended. more than half the thoroughbred racing horses in the world, To -day the wheel has turned full' circle, and it is the heavy horse which is in danger ot ex- tinction, seattes Minn "Rut he (email need any cooling. off period. Ilona nattirelly cold- blooded." The Legal Min We are assured that this is a true story. M a cocktail party, a dear old Fudge get into OonVeraation with • a singularly pretty, but some- what dtemb, young girl, who was enormously impressed on hear - Ing Of His Lordship's high office. "You must be terribly clever," she remarked, "to be able to make up your mind in all those cases and things which y.ou • judge. Do tell me how you do "Well," replied the Judge, "I • listen to counsel fOr the plain- tiffs and the evidence for the 'plaintiffs and then I make up my mind, you know.' "But I thought you had to listen to both sides:a. exclaimed the girl. "As a matter of fact, 1 used to," answered the old man, "but I found it post confusing. Put Women To Death For Smoking In the 17th century a Turkish Sultan, Murad IV, used to prowl about old Stambul in disguise at night, spying out smokers in the cafes and dancing -booths, ordering their execution forth- with, and confiscating their properite. If he caught a harem houri tainting her perfumed breath with nicotine he had her tor- tured, then made sure she would never again have lips to smoke with by cutting off her head. In live ,years he was reputed to have executed 25,000 people. more than half of them for sarnItus killg. sia, at about the same time, Tsar Michael Romanov or- dered that any woman found smoking be brought before a court and punished, either by flogging or by being paraded through the streets with the stem of her offensive pipe stuck through her nose. Chronic smok- ers might have their lips alit be packed off to Siberia. In the circumstances, it would. seem ironic that the Turks or Russians — or both — first intro- duced cigarettes, the modern woman's solace, to British troops in the Crimea. An Egyptian gun- ner, it is said, rolled the first cigarette as an experiment when his pipe was smashed at the siege of Acre in 1799. The custom spread, and after the Crimean War English officers smoked Tur- kish cigarettes in the London • elubs. though the pipe diehards thought them fops and a disgrace to the Army for indulging such an "effeminate" habit. Evidently woman, with her insatiable curiosity and zest for aping man, lost little time in try- ing the noxious weed, once Raleigh had introduced it from America. Elizabeth I, nauseated by her first pipe, decided to test its effects on court "guinea - pigs," so ordered the Countess of Nottingham and maids -in -wait- ing to smoke continuously for three hours, at the end of which they must have been in a mood to commit treason. In France, in Louis XIV's time, Princess Palatine Liselotte, wife of Philip of Orleans, was moved to write in a letter: "I don't wonder that men despise the 'wo- men; the women are too con- ternatible with their dress, their drinking, and their tobacco, which makes them 'smell hor- ribly." As to snuff sbe called it "a disgusting affair," adding: "It puts me in a temper when I see all the women here, with dirty hOSCS, as if they had rub- bed them in the muck—excum the wordl—come and stick their fingers into any man's snuff- box—it makes me sick, it's so. disgusting." The old Irish crone with her stumpy clay pine was as much an institution in the past cen- tury as the Stage Irishman, but women smoked rarely in Vic- . torten Entzland. It has been stated that the dear Queer) disliked tobacco so much that the Prince of Wales had to puff guiltily tip a chim- ney; and it was a matter for head -wagging when the 'Princesa actually offered cigarettes to wo- men guests at a luncheon in the '80s. Smoking was for dean.i- montlee and Ireaks,• like that bold IVIadame Sand in France, who also wore trousers. No self- pewould tarn her charms into a acehsimlciellyn.g woman in these daye• The 1914 war changed all that By the 1920's cigarette -smoking by sophisticated women . was "the thing." By 1935 men and women in Britain alone were smoking 42,038.000,00(5 et.arettes containing 148018,000 lb. of tobatco in the year. In the last war countless wo- men became chronic smokers to relieve the nerve -strain of night raids and Service life, and the habit has certainly stuck. THE SOLUTION "You should have leo difficulty With your children. Just pre- tend they're someone else's— everyone knows how ha bring up Other pecaple's children." •Cook Burned Soup, So ',Had Hi 9!!!4 Caught oft a lee coast- by black south -easter, the 2,000400' windlammecl Afonkbarns clawed frantichlly for sea -room.' , Withthe screaming gale thrent. ening to whip the paste out of ' her, giant eons flungthd ship about like kehild's toy. Superin- tending. the desperate efforts to shorten,sall was the Twenty -011e - year -old second mate, for the cap- tain already had his hands lull down beige/. There, lashed to a table in the crazily bucketing salottn, lay the first mate. Torn frosn his hand - bold by a massive wave as it thundered aboard, be had been flung into the scuppers with a smashed skull and compound leg fracture. With no anaesthetics and only a block and tackle for bone -setting, the captain fought for the injured officer's life. Scarcely was his crude surgery completed before another furious squall assailed the labouring Xonkbarns. As she reeled tinder this fresh blow, the cargo of steel rails in her hold broke loose with a terrifying roar—Heeling over, with her yardslre mmost touching, the water, she wallowed within an ace of capsizing, But the superhuman efforts of captain and crew brought her safely to port, her cargo re - stowed, and with the injured first mate well on the way to recov- ery. The story of the Monkbarns is not an epic of the gale -whipped Atlantic or typhoon -infested Pa- cific. It happened na the Indian Ocean, ahem the tropic sun is always reckoned to blaze down and iridescent flying fish skim lastlly over smooth green rollers. But in the southern wastes of this watery desert, ships meet some of the wildest weather in the world. any a brave vessel has fought for her life down there and lost, says Alen Villiers in his enthralling book, "The Indian Ocean." But the Indian Ocean can pro- duce other hazards besides its "Roaring Forties." While the twentieth century Comet sails overhead, linking East and West in airconditioned comforts the Royal Navy still patrols below to cheek age-old piracy and Slav- ery in its costal Welters, recently as the last century •a° fewer than 19,000 ferocioni pirates, operating from base. 0allollthg:thl':rsiTanrueiGaltUC:;re$t'sou tis cot-Omeat's Great Wealth One of the worst Of these fiends preyed dotals pessing, ven. els, When they sap'. • an infidel ship . She was first "Purified," Then, passenger. and crew were bound and drag- ged singly to the gangway", where their throats were elit. • was lifilana ibn Jabir, who hail- ed. front Kuwait, now a /loutish- ing oil port. Ile commanded a gang of 2,000 cut-throats, a fleet of six ships and some coastal foris. Piracy brought him fabul- ous wealth and a harem of 200 • wives, One -eyed and hideous, scarred with sabre, spear and bullet 'wounds, Rahma never al- lowed his shirt to be removed or washed unless it either fell oft or was torn off in battle! Outnumbered eventually in a sea - fight, he fired his own ship's magazine and blew himself and his henchmen eky-high, A bloodthirsty European pirate who once scourged the Indian Ocean was a man named Taylor. When Isis cook accidentally burn- ed the soup Taylor had him roasted alive, remarking that so fat a wretch should burn well! From one prize Taylor took so many diamonds that his 300 men got 42 apiece. One of them was given a single large stone as his share. Swearing be had been cheated, he seized a hammer and canathed at the priceless jewel until it split into fragments! In fascinating detail, Alan Vil- liers relates the colourful history of this vast ocean and the ships and men atbo have sailed anon its waters. The curfew tolls the Knell of parting day The line of cars winds slowly o'er the lea, , The pedestrian plods his ab- sentminded way, And leaves the world quite un- expectedly. Sometimes it's Hard To Be A Lady—Curtsying' in a fashion which no countess could equal, Christine Knox, 2, above, greets a titled visitor at the annual Children's !Blue Bird Party, in London. Below', Christine almost forgets she's a lady, tells Gustino de Meo to get off her train or she'll let him have it, as the amorous two. year-old attempts to stea1,0 kiss.