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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-2-11, Page 2,r ��11 a J Ilj TABLE TALKS F] t yt MM,t1yYk -r�i:;kV= AnCIPMS. Although the old - fashioned two -crust pie is hard to beat, the 'open-faced" kind has one great advantage. It has "eye -appeal" lri addition to its other attrac- tions, and the number of different fillings you canput into an al- ready -baked shell is. almost end- less. Here are a few fine fillings which I'm sure your folks will smack their lips over. rou * * DOUBLE LEMON PIE sb Cup Sugar 2 Tablespoons Flour Ye Teaspoon Salt 1 Egg Yolk 1 Cup Scalded Cream 1 Package Unflavored Gelatin n a Cup Cold Water la Cup Lemon Juice Grated Rind of 1 Lemon 1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla 2 Egg Whites 1 Baked 9 -Inch Pastry Shell Combine sugar, flour, sa)t and egg yolk. Add to scalded cream in top of double boiler. Cook un- til thick, stirring well. Dissolve gelatin in cold water. Add to hot mixture. Cool. When mixture jells, add lemon juice, rind and vanilla. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into filling. Pile into pastry ,;hell, Chill. ° « 3 Cup Sugar 3* Tablespoons Cornstarch 1/4 Teaspoon Salt s Cup Water Juice of 1 Lemon Grated Rind of 1 Lemon 1 Egg Yolk 2 Tablespoons Butter Combine ,all ingredients except egg and butter. Cook and stir un- til thick. Pour a little over beat- en egg yolk. Return to hot mix- ture. Cook 5 minutes. Add but- ter. Cool and spread over filling, « * « APRICOT - ORANGE MARMALADE PIE 3 Cups Cooked, Unsweetened Dried Apricots (or Canned Apricots) 1 Cap Orange Marmalade Cup Apricot Juice 1 Tablespoon Quick -Cooking Tapioca 1/4 Teaspoon Salt Pastryfor 9 -Inch Pie Drain apricots. Combine mar- "Casbah" Cutie — Modelling a bair of black pedal pushers and ra, , designed in North African style,, Joan Bell, also ,:displays the ,smart sleeveless jacket •and Heft rri iiP:faliii.ate show, malarle,, juice, tapioca and salt. Pour over apricots .and mix. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Top with lattice, ,Bake in hot oven (425°l+',) 10 minutes, Reduce heat to 350°F. and bake 30 minutes, * a « TUTTI.FRUPTI PTE 1 Cup Grapefruit Sections 11/4 Cups Orange Seotions ?s Cup brained Crushed Pine - Apple 1 Medium Banana, Sliced rix Cup Maraschino Cherries, Halved 2 Tablespoons Butter ea Cup Sugar 3 Tablespoons Quick -Cooking. Tapioca i Teaspoon Salt Pastry for 0 -Inch Pi. Combine all ingredients except pastry and butter. Pour into un - baked pie shell. Dot with butter, Top with pastry, Bake in hot oven (425°F,) 10minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F, Bake 40 minutes. ° * « ORANGE -RAISIN PIE 2 Cups Seedless Raisins 3'Tablespoons Lemon Juice % Cup Sugar 1/4 Cup Water 2 Tablespoons Butter 3 Tablespoons FIour el, Teaspoon Salt 11/4 Cups Orange Sections Pastry for 2 -Crust Pie Mix raisins, lemon juice, eugar and water in a sauce -pan. Simmer slowly for 15 minutes, or until raisins are plump. Melt butter. Add flour and salt, beating until smooth. Gradually add some of the hot juice from the raisin mix- ture to the flour, stirring until smooth. Pour into raisin mixture, and cook until thickened. Add orange sections. Pour into pastry - lined 9 -inch pie pan. Top with pastry and brush with milk. Bake in a hot oven (425°F,) 30 min- utes, Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake 25 to 30 min- utes. Royalty's Pets Prince CharIes's pet rabbit, a Iop-eared, pure white buck with ruby eyes, is now nearly three years old. Harvey is his name and he lives in a cosy hutch in the garden of Buckingham Pal- ace. Rarely does a day pass with- out a visit from Prince Charles. Pets have always been popular among members of our Royal Family, When the Queen was a little girl she was specially fond of Choo Choo, a Tibetan terrier brought to England by her par- ents (then Duke and Duchess of York) in 1934 at the end of an Empire tour. King Edward VII had a favor- ite canary which used to fly about and perch on the royal hand. The King was one day in con- ference with an ambassador when a close friend called and asked to see him. "I'm afraid you can't disturb His Majesty," the visitor was told. "He is engaged with an ambassador on his right and his canary on his left." Chief pets of our Royal Family to -day are dogs and horses, but when Edward II was Prince of Wales - he kept a pet lion cub, When he went with his father on an expedition to fight the Scots, he insisted that his odd pet should accompany him. An old record says that it cost him sixteen - pence a day in travelling ex- penses for his pet. FAIR EXCHANGE "The trouble with you is the same as with Mr. Brown," said the doctor.+ "He worried and got nervous dyspepsia. He was wor- rying himself to death about his geocer's bill. Now he's 'cured." "But how .did you cure him?" asked the patient. I told him to stop worrying, and he did;" replied tiie doctor. "I know," was the sad reply, <`iiut •I;m his grocer." keeps Smiling — Although her legs have been kept in traction splints since Jan. 12, eight -month-old Jerri Ellen Burkholder keeps c' cheerful smile on her face. A fall broke her left leg above the knee, but both legs are raised to keep her from turning. Coffee-Raisjrt Pilau BY DOROTHY MADDOX DID you ever have pilau? It IS a coneoetion of flee, spice and a varying number of other ingredients that range from meat and flan to fruits and nuts. Try the following dessert pilau. Your family will love at. COF szatit 8lN'ru.Au (Yield: $ wervitrgu) One package pre-cooked rice, regular strength: coffee, 4 cup golden raisins, cup chopped walnuts,.* teaspoon salt, * teaspobn nutmeg, xA cup brown sager firmly packed, 1 cup heavy eream, whipped: 'Prepare pre- poked rice according to package directions, using coffee instead of water, Stir in remaining ingredients except cream, ;Mix well, Cool, Fold in whipped cream, reserving enough'tor'gat-` nishing, Spoon into ,sherbet glasses.. Top with remaining whipped cream and chopped walnut meats, Everybody likes upside-down gingerbread, Try it with pineapple, or pears, PINEAPPLE -UPSIDE-DOWN GINGERBREAD (Yield: 9 servhfgolr Toeless: Two tablespoons butter or margarine, % cup inolasses, ? cup 'sugar, 5 slices caned pineapple) 0 mansschino;xbeerlee. Melt butter or margarine in en 8 x 8 x 2,-]ncll pan Blend in,me- basses and sugar; heat just to boiling point. Over this arrange pine- apple and cherries; set aside until gingerbread batter is'niixetl. GINGERBREAD BATTER One and one-half cups sifted enriched flour, * teaspoon salt, 's teaspoon double-acting baking powder, s/$ teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon nutmeg,'/a teaspoon cloves, % cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon soda, 1 cup molasses, 1 egg, * cup sour milk, Heat oven to ther first ie ingredients. Cream together s ortdegrees F eni ge sugar: nd sodrate). Sift a, Add molass s Stir in 1/4 cup of the flour mixture. Beat in egg. Add remaining Grandpa's Derby If there was one thing Wil- liam M, Fisher enjoyed as much as being photographed, it was reading articles about himself, especially the incandescent kind that appeared, along with a paid ' advertisement, in those heavy and gaudy books with such titles es "Prominent Men of Columbus, Ohio," "Centennial Souvenir of the Buckeye State," and "Pion- eers of Commerce and Industry in the Middle West." There was a ponderous out -pouring of these volumes between 1900 and 1910, when Grandpa was in his six- ties and could tell his biogra- phers that he was a director of two banks, a vice-president of the Board of Trade, a Mason, 'and an Odd Fellow. One of these sketches, published in 1901, con- tained , this creamy statement: "Tie remained under the par- ental roof until twenty-seven years of age, but not wishing to devote his entire life to ag- ricultural pursuits he determined to enter the field of commerce and embarked in the grocery business as a clerk." He used to remind us that U.S. Grant had also worked in a grocery store as a young man. Bill Fisher gave up clerking, which he hated, Grant or no Grant, to take over a farm his father deeded to him, and he ran it for one year. , Young Bill soon found out that he was not a farmer at heart, and he sold his acres and opened a grocery in partnership with a man named John Wagonseller A year after that, at the age of thirty, he bought out his partner and started a fruit -and -produce store of his own.. , . All of us grandchildren were enchanted by the store when we were young. You walked into a dark, cool place smelling richly of fruits and vegetables. In one room were enormous wooden bins filled with a million nuts, and kegs of grapes from Spain. Two or three black cats prowled softly about. . . , In another and colder room, lighted by flaring gas jets in the years of my earli- est memories, bunches of banen- ,as bung from the ceiling.... When Grandpa got to his office, he would put his hat on his desk — he usually wore a black derby'? and keep it there all day, although there was a h'at- rack against a wall. It was a de- vice of his to get away from bores or talkative friends. As the door opened, he would automa- tically reach for his derby, and if it was somebody he didn't want to see, he would rise and say, "I'm sorry, but I was just about to leave." He would then walls to the street with his visi- tor, find out which way the man was•going, and set off in the op- posite direction, walking around the block and entering the store by the back door,—From "The Thurber Album," b y James Thurber. WIIAT HAPPENED Al' JERICHO People might have been told "to go to Jericho" when there was, in fact, no other place, For British and American archaeolo- gists now excavating in Jericho have proved that It is a town at least 6,000 years old, No oiler town in the world can claim 6,000 years of contin- uous existence. Moreover, the walls of Jericho were not all blasted down by the noise 0 Joshua and his men, There were several walls round Jericho and it one of the walls that has now been uncov- ered to provide the evidence of 6,000 years of age. Most of this wall was made from stone slabs, but some preshaped bricks were used. So man learnt to make bricks before even pottery was invented. Bangkok's Buddha — Watching serenely over the Thailand capi- tal is Bangkok's famous Buddha, well known to the city's teem- ing population as "Wat Indere Viharn: ` An idea of itsheight can be estimated by examining the tiny human figures in the foreground. Danish People Can Smile At Themselves Denmark ,consists of the pen- insular of Jutland as well as 500 islands, most of which are kept apart by bridges, the bigger ones, at any rate. A bridge between Funen and Zealand is the only one lacking for the present— Denmark is low-lying —. from approximately four, feet below sea level to 570 feet Above it, It makes up for being low by being beautifulAt any rate; it is a pleasant country to look at, Den- mark has a smile for everbody who likes to see a smile, just as some other countries shout with laughter or look sad er even pos- itively gloomy: An English writer once declar- ed that ' Denmark resembled a red cow in an enormous green field. Add that it is a gay cow and a pleasant field and the re. mask is true enougi: But there are also broad Stream, and blue lakes about the country, idyllic fords, beaches where water laps the white sand, unexpected cliffs that you can fall over if you lean out too far; there are stretches of mcorland so flat that you stop believing the world is round, dunes with . mastics of sen 1 jal mort indistinguishable from a sample of African desert, damp rich marshes woad,. with pale preen beeches and picnic baskets, and Rehild's heather -covered bills and , dao;, Dotted about amongst it all ate thousands of garders,-surroundint thousands 01 :mall white farm;, and ancient jerks s u r r o u r, d i n g ancient cas'lcs. , There ere hundreds of Fay, 'queer amusing towns, where gay, queer, amusing people go around speaking twenty different kinds of Danish. '1'hcie is a waterfall 'in !inland, It is four feet lugh, There are reeks too ---hut 51 ori are all kept OA the island of .Botnholdm , , .A visitor from Florida once said that Copenhr.r;en had Iwo win'c:rs, a white ono end a green one, The statement is a bit un- just—From "We Danes and You" by Mogens Lind, illustrated by Iferleuf Jensen:u•:, The National tare) Association of Denmerk, 1u52. a Delicious .Dessert Coffee -Raisin Pilau brightens any weal, even midnight snacks - and late afternoon leaches.' dry ingredients alternately with sour milk (about ai of each al a time). Beat * minute, Pour batter in the above pan over pineapple and cherries and spread to sides and corners. Bake one hour or until done. Cool- 15 minutes before removing from pan. Note: Pear -Upside -Down Gingerbread: Replace pineapple with pears in the above recipe. Authors' Aliases Novelist Agatha. Christie has completed fifteen years of -pub- lishing books under another nom -de -plume, Mary Westma- cott. Miss Westmaeott carne into being for the author's straight novels; Agatha Christie has al- ways been the writer'of detec- tive stories. And few of her mil- lions of readers know the author's real name. It is Mallow - an, for she is the wife of Profes- sor Mallowan, the archaeologist, Authors .often use pen -names because they are shy. Joseph Conrad's real name was Joseph C. Korzeniowski; George Eliot was a woman -Mary Ann Evans —in real life, Arnold Bennett wrote inany articles over the sig- nature of "Jacob Tonson," A certain "Mrs. Horace Manners" who wrote learned articles turn- eu out to be Algernon Charles Swinburne. And the author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Car- roll, was an Oxford, Don and mathematics lecturer named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, In 1931 the literary world was surprised to learn that novelist "George R, Pxeedy"-was really Miss Marjorie Bowen (Mrs., Ar- thur Long). Said she: "I wasn't trying to work a hoax. I wanted to get away from the type of writing done by Marjorie Bowen and to try something different" COMEBACK! When Jerry Wald, now a pro- ducer, was writing his radio col- umn, "The Wald's Have Ears," he devoted much space to attacking Rudy Vallee, He avalanched some caustic and belligerent letters from Vallee's loyal female fans. Jerry took a bundle of the most juvenile and badly written let- ters, tied them with blue ribbon and sent them to Vallee, with the note: "Read these and you'll' see what kindsof fans we have," Val- lee sent the pile back with the note: "Read these and you'll see what kind of readers you have," Big Money In The Lecturing Business With a car salvaged from a Southampton scrap heap, a sec- onhand movie camera and a year's savings, an American schoolteacher named Austen Steers spent his summer holiday making anamateur movie of Britain's scenery, Then he went home and be- gan lecturing and showing his one-man movie to schools and. women's clubs—and so far he has talked his 'way along a cir- cuit of 35,000 miles and grossed $15,000. Another young man named • Russell Curry lectures •feminine audiences on "How to Dance" and takes his elderly mother along with him. When he has 'explained the intracacles of the rumba or samba, he grabs Mama to show how simple it is. Since she's about the .average age of the audience,the show goes over ' 'big—and he's netting $1.2,000 a year. These are just two success samples of the gift of the gab, instances from the gib boom in talk. The great American lec- ture business is chattering pros- perously into another ten mil- lion dollar season. Every winter an average 25,- 000,000 Americans listen to some 3,000 professional lectures. In small exclusive groups, in mil- lionaires' drawing -rooms, and in enormous crowds in vast muni- cipal auditoriums, this year they'll- lap up the lowdown on everything from atom spies to the Queen's coronation. Ever since Charles Dickens crossed the Atlantic with his little reading -stand and earned :$282,000—equivalent of to -day's £100,000 -British speakers have been prominent in the gold -rush. Talk is one of our export trades, Sir Gerald Catnpbell, former ambassador in Washington, went back not long. ago ,and .earned $500 every hour lie spoke. An- thony Eden made 31,200 with a brief chat in New York, Nice work if you can get it? In fact, the . lecture business means travelling hard, sleeping badly -,-and indigestion, Beverley Baxter was once snowed up in Texas when he was supposed to be arriving in California, Even- tually, after juggling 'plane and train schedules, he arrived at his Los Angeles auditorium only a few minutes late to find his audi- ence patiently waiting. Lecture agents pay the travel fares but take 50 per, cent, of the fee, At an annual slave mar- ket in New York, professional lecturers give ten-minute sam- pies of talk to hundreds of as- sembled committee women, The ladies weigh these human trail- ers one against another and choose their personalities months in advance, Would you like to lecture? Provided she can sparkle as well as talk her head off, lec- ture eature agents say there's a real box-ofllice opening in America to -day for a genuine ' British house -wife. There's en opening, too, for Mr. Winston Churchill. He has been offered the biggest lecture contract' yet—a fee of $000,000.—af.;ho;,will make•a tour of the States and speak, on any subject he chooses: What a rage he would ,be if he •were in a position , to .accept. Don't fqrget that it ,vas at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, that he advocated his ":fraternal association". , of the English-speaking, peoples., , How Desert Plant* Search For Water greatThe wit out, , isanart both the desert plants and the desert ani- malss have learned to practice, but it is the plants' appearance that has been most obviously modified by it. Most of the birds show no outward signs that they live in a land of little rain, and the • quail who sit thirty feet up In the saguaro,' pecking moisture frOnx its fruit, look, on the ground, as 'sleek as their cousins who drink when they like, ... Almost every plant, on the other hand, has modified itself in some visible way and announces to the most casual beholder that moisture is precious, , . . Certainly the lines along which the plants have worked are few and they are directed toward three simple ends: to get water, to conserve it, cite to get along most of the time without any. , , . To get water, one may of course send roots deep; this is as might be expectedcertain trees do, though the method is the more remarkable in certain plants, notably the yucca, whose above -surface size is modest, Up the slopes of the gleaming gyp- sum dunes in White Sands, New Mexico, one may see the yuccas lifting their oddly lush masses of lily blossoms above the burying, bone-dry powder in which it does not seem possible that anything could live and in which, as a mat- ter of fact, precious few other things can. The secret is a root which may, I am told, go forty feet down to the soil below the gypsum. Sometimes, on the other hand, it is hardly worth while for a plant to go down because there is little water even at forty feet. Hence, the kid of plant which grows in any given desert region depends in considerable part on whether there is water beneath the surface. Ten or fifteen miles north of where I am settled, the yuccas grow everywhere in the loose, rocky soil of a mountain- side where there is little earth. but where the loose gravel al- lows water to soak in. Here, on the flat, packed sand, they do not. The saguaro flourishes be- cause its method is not to go deep but to seize quickly and to store up what falls in rare, brief; sud- den downpours that run oil quickly without penetrating far below the surface. These mon- ster cacti, sometimes as high as fifty feet, sometimes weighing as much as two tons, and sometimes living as long as two hundred years, have no real tap roots at all. Just below the surface of the soil, as flat disk -like network spreads for yards around them; when a rain comes they quickly take up the water from a wide area, swelling visibly and some- times absorbing as much as a ton of water fromone rain. After that they may go a year, if neces- sary, without taking in water again.—From "The Desert Year," by Joseph Wood 'Crutch. THPII",C An Aberdeen woman went to her kirk one Sunday and heard an impressive sermon on the Good Samaritan. So impressed was she that on her return she said to a friend, "I'11 never turn a beggar awe' arae my door eny mair." A few days later a tramp knocked at her door, and, true to her resolve, she, ran indoors and cut a slice of bread from the lodger's loaf. Ammunition for Flue War—Workers supervise final steps in the production of Influenza vaccine. To meet the demand for vaccine caused by the nationwide influenza epidemic, more of She voceinb has been packaged and shipped in ten days than is usually pro. cessed in a year.