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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-4-15, Page 2TA13LE TALKS ‘• &au, Amitiew lute Toa real lover of stews -and most men are just that --there's nothing like the perrtume of aim - meting meat, vegetables and spices assailing the nostrils when they come home at the end of„ the day, Or even in the middle of the day; for that matter. So here are some recipes guar- anteed to satisfy even the most discriminating stew fancier, e o e Back in great -grandpa's day Brunswick stew was generally made with squirrel. But most modern recipes call for chicken instead, for which I, for one, am thankful But it's a grand dish, properly made, and no mistake. b b * BRUNSWICK STEW 1 four -pound chicken, cut in pieces Flour i/ cup salad oil 214 cups canned tomatoes 3 cups lima beans 3 cups whole keltnel corn 2 teaspoons sugar 14 teaspoon cayenne. 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 134 tablespoons salt 11/ cups water 14 cup chopped onion Shake chicken with flour in paper sack and brown in salad ail. Add onions; stir until onions are transparent. Add tomatoes, water and seasonings. Cover and simmer until meat is almost ten- der. Remove chicken and strip from bones, leaving meat in large pieces, Add vegetables to stew; return chicken meat to stew; continue cooking until vegetables are tender. Serves 8 generously, Variations of this stew may be made by using 2 pounds of bone- less lamb or veal instead of chick- en. Cube meat before.- cooking. Short ribs may be used to make a savory stew. For varia- tion, use noodles in this instead of potatoes. n * x A ,istew with dumplings may make` seconds necessary for the real stew lover. So, while this recipe serves 8, you had better increase "the ingredients if you expect many calls for more. If there's any left you 'dan skip a 21. Queen's. Piper -Alexander Rod. crick MacDonald, of Kettins, Scotland, dresses in his full re- galia of the Royal Stuart tartan, when he prays the bagpipes for Queen Elizabeth II. He plays for her on ,the grounds of Bucking- ham Palace every morning, and also at royal banquets. Mac - Donald's Medals attest to his More than 20 years of service in the British Army. day and then serve it under crusts in individual pies -- and. no one will recognife the former stew! STEW 'N' DIMPLINGS 2 ,hounds beef stew meat Flour 3 tablespoons fat 2 cups water 4 peppercorns 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 4 carrots, sliced 6 small wedges cabbage (about 1 pound) 1 medium onion, sliced Roll meat hi flour. Melt fat in deep skillet and brown meat well Add water, peppercorns, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 1 hour. If necessary, add water so there is 1 inch of liquid in pan. Spread vegetables on top of stew meat. Cover. Simmer 15 min- utes. * * o DUMPLINGS 2 cups sifted flour 1 tablespoon double acting baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/ cup shortening 1 cup tomato juice Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in shorten- ing until mixture is the consist- ency of corn meal. Stir in toma- to juice. Drop dough by table- spoonsfuls onto vegetables. Co- ver and cook 15 minutes. If ne- cessary, remove dumplings and vegetables to thicken gravy. * N * SHORT RIB STEW WITH' NOODLES 2 pounds short ribs of beef 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper • 2 cups Water 14 cup chopped green .. - p51fper 14 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Worcestershire a, sauce 2 bay leaves - 4 carrots, cut in halves 4 small onions. 2 teaspoons flohr 1 tablespoon water e teaspoon gravy sauce (optional) 4 ounces medium noodles Sprinkle beef with salt and pepper and brown quickly in heavy skillet. Add water, green pepper, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaves. Bring to boil and add carrots and onions. Cover; reduce heat and simmer gently 1 hour. Drain off excess fat. Mix flour with 1 tablespoon water and gravy sauce and gradually stir into the stew. Add noodles to stew; cover and simmer about 20 minutes longer, or until meat, vegetables and noodles are ten- der. Serves 4. b * " A universal favorite is oyster stew, easy to make but special in its exact requirements. It should always be served steam- ing hot -and the oysters must be cooked only until edges curl. Some stew. fanciers like a small amount of thickening added to ' an oyster stew (about 2 table- spoons flour for 1 pint of oysters) while others like it thin. If you do add it, do so before putting in the milk. OYSTER STEW 1 pint oysters with liquor 21/2 cups milk and 34 cup thin cream 3 tablespoons butter (or more) IS teaspoon salt Dash pepper Heat oysters in their liquor; add seasoning. When edges` of oysters curl, add milk and cream; bring just to boilingepoint. heat soup plates and place butter in each plate. Pr&r stew over but- ter. Garnish with dash of pa- prika, ' CROSSWORD g PUZZLE S. Tranquillity e. State 7. American Indian 8. Metal 0. Over - ie. I•'ortafi cation I Au22OSs DOWN 11. Youthful veins r. Outer.garinent 1 F,ngh eer'e 10 Think elute S. Oiist1e ot'the"' ahettcr 21. 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Below, on the concrete runway, reveals Edwin Way Teale, in a fascinating book about wild creatures, "The Lest Woods," was a small mound of half -burned matches and a black violin -case pierced with breath.. ing holes, Dr. Raymond Dinners, the curator, believed that some in- sane would-be murderer had se- creted himself there that night. Working by dim match -light, he had cut through the cobra cage wall, evidently intending to in- sert the jointed device, steer it by means of the strings towards a cobra, and then, by pulling both strings, grasp it round' the neck with the claspers, draw it through the hole, transport it in the violin -case, and release it .in the room off the intended victim. But the night watchman, mak- ing his rounds, frightened him away and, fortunately, before he fled, he thrust the rags into the opening ,otherwise the guard might have entered the dark building unaware that cobras were roaming at large , New . York detectives worked on the case for several weeks, but the culprit was never discovered. hakes What The Mississippi Did For Mark Twain The local steam ferryboat Hannibal offered frequent. pleas- ure trips to Cave Hollow, to "ex- plore this remarkable natural curiosity," But the boys usually "borrowed" any idle skiff for the purpose. Boats and the ways of rivercraft were 'second nature to 4sthese young amphibians. Arks, ''''hay boats, keelboats, flatboats, broadhorns, steam -boats were as familiar as the makes of auto- mobiles to small-town boys liv- 1 ing • a .century later on some )transcontinental highway The nation"s economic lifeblood then flowed north and south more strongly than east and west, and the mighty river that swept past the wharves of Hannibal was thronged by day and night. When the Clemelrses first settled there in- 1839,- the- hamlet ' had ' been "but a wood -yard, surrounded by a few' huts, belonging to -some hardy squatters, and sgch a thing as a steamboat was considered quite 'a' sight," as 'Samehirnselt, aged- sixteen, .wrote in telling a yarn.thatseems•to be his maid- en literary effort. But by 1847, the Hannibal Gazette reported proudly, over a thousand steam- boat arrivals •'occurred yearly, carrying , off produce from the surrounding 'territory valued at about one a quarter million dol - lark .. t - ., "The little' ferryboat" in -which the sr -arching party looks for .the lost boys in. Tom Sawyer was not only Hannibal's mainstay of communication with the opposite' Illinois shore, but - also ifs favdxite conveya ice for picnicking - parties' and moon- light excursions. In: the latter 1840's it was run by Jameson Hawkins, merchant, farmer, and uncle of -Laura (Becky Thatcher) and of Sam's boyhood playmate 'Lige. It was no great for glory - that belonged to craft like the Big Missouri, which„ it .will be remembered, Ben Rogers was impersonating uthen he hove in sight of Tom aWyer whitewashing the fence but for purposes of jolly out- ings could hardly have been mproved..... Sometimes, as in the severe winter of 1848-49, the river froze olid, and With shouts the boys skated from 'shote to shdre or layed "shinny" on the ice. In he spring a villager named Davis ade it his occupation to catch ie floating cakes and store hem in his icehouse. The break- up of the ice after a hard winter as a breath -taking sight, as am • always remembered, with a moaning .and grinding drift nd turmoil of monster ire- altes, ..." A Sam Clemens growit1 up in ndlocked Florida or elsewhere the interior of Missouri would ve lacked a vital dimension experience, given him by this cutest of American rivers that opt his doorway. The Missis- pi made him, even in his mi- rity, a citizen of the world, ded to his health and re our'ce- ness and fostered that appre- tion of natural beauty -- sun- t and sunset, noon and star - gilt, the coloration of sky and ter - whose stamp appears only upon Life on the Minis - pi but all' -of his travel books em The Irrnocrnts Abroad to towing the Equator, - From n Clarllens of Hannibal," by on Woofer. S 1 m t1 8 14a 0 la in ha of gr SW sip �no ad fur cia tis if wi - not sip fr )''oil fs c ti • A 'Short" Ride -"Shorty," the, world's smallest full -grown -horse, gives .airline passenger service representative Pat Powell a "short" ride: The. 59 -pound, 30 -inch long horse is to be on exhibition at a children's playground. Millions Would Die For "Golden Stool" - If. youtravel through the Brit- ish possessions. in Africa, you will find that almost every native tribe has its ownideas about its ancestry. But nowhere will you find a stranger story than in Ash- anti a' small British possession bordering on ' the Gold Coast colony: • The Ashantis worship a golden stool; to them it is the. mother and father;, of their people and the home of their souls. Legend says that their ancestors came out of a hole'nin the ground, and to keep watch over them the Gold- en Stool rose from a lake. Nation-wide wars have been fought ,over that Stool, and its power over the million natives is so great that any one of them would willingly die for it. The Stool has a throne of its own in a secret jungle hiding -place. Even the king, Prempeh II would not dare to sit on it. Back in 1399 Sir Frederic Hodgson, governor of the nearby Gold Coast, paid a visit to Ashan- ti. It was a brief period of peace between two of the seven Ashanti wars which were fought with the British before the country was finally defeated. Sir Frederic showed a fatal. lack of tact, for the first words he said were: "Where is the Golden Stool? Why am I not sitting on the Golden Stool this very mo- ment? Why did you not take the opportunity of my coming to bring the Golden Stool and give it to me to sit upon? These words had the effect of causing a new war. Then, in 1921, the British tried' to build 4' road through its jungle hiding -place. The tribal labourers were so frightened that they refused to work. • While they dallied the eustod- - ians of the Stool dug it up and le-. buried it In a safer spot. That might have been the end of the trouble; but one of the custodians stole some of the • Stool's golden ornaments and sold them. The Ashanti immediately put the blame on the British, That was quite enough to cause another war, but the British au- thorities managed to track down the thief and his accomplices be- fore the trouble could come to a head. After these unfortunate epi- sodes it seems as though the Brit- ish.paid more respect to the Stool. In 1942 the Government ceded a large section of the Crown lands to the king "for the support and dignity of the Golden Stool of Ashanti." Nowadays the Stool makes rare appearances when there is some special ceremonial. It is carried in state on a litter and defended by hundreds of armed tribesmen. Even the British Commissioner, who rules Ashanti jointly with the king, pays homage to the Stool when it is carried past. ' It has become a symbol of power in the land, When Ashantis' only daily newspaper announced recently: "EISENHOWER .GETS WHITE HOUSE STOOL," every- bOdy Who could read knew what it meant. A woman arrested for -shop- lifting told the court that she tried a hat on, and it was to small she 'forgot it was on her tread when she left the shop, Thread From ;..Sox Cut Prison Barn Recent sensational prison es- capes just go to emphasize the fact that no jail has yet been built that will 'held a really •de- termined• eprisoner•, provided he has the patience to wait his op- portunity. The ingenuity of prisoners who have made up their minds :to es- cape is 'astonishing. Albert Rum- ford, who was lodged in a New Jersey jail,. induced his wife' to send. him a cake into which she had carefully baked a few hack- saw 'blades. With these he sawed away the barn of his cage while his fellow prisoners sang lustily to drown the noise of scraping. Then, by tying tpgether sash -cords, he •lowered himself to the ground and escaped. An even more ingenious fellow was Frederick Treadwell, who languished in Lyon • County Prison, U.S.A. His friends tried the old dodge of sending him hacksaw blades in cakes and other eatables, but the warders broke to pieces evdry article of food sent hime• But Treadwell was not baffled. Every prisoner was allowed soap; and of sand there was plenty. So, 'he painstakingly unravel- led the socks his wife had lov- ingly knitted for him and satu- rated the threads in Soap, so that sand -would adhere to them. Then he cut through the bars of his cell! A thread was passed round each bar, and by pulling the ends alternately 'with either hand, he managed to wear away a tiny groove each day. Time was of. no consequence, for- he was "inside" Air ,life. But the most persistent es- capist of all was a Frenchman named. Salvador, who escaped 82 times .from jail and 14 times from , the galleys. In. 1807 he was sentenced to. death, for maiming thele who tried to prevent his eac-s-ires fihe judge at Toulon who sentenced him declared that "no prison could' be construct- ed that he could not escape from." Asked Off To Attend Grandma's Funeral ,Became One Of Screen's G'riatesE 'Actors Is there any more accomplish- ed film star than Charlie•'Chep- lin? - ' Yesl" decided the New York critics recently • • and at• their annual meeting they voted Sir Ralph Richardson the best actor of the year. 'Sir Ralph was elected tops for his performance in "Sound Bar- rier." Chaplin wast. second with a mere five votes to ten, Yet, not so long ago, as success sagas are measured, the actor of the year worked in a dreary, dusty office, sticking stamps on envel- opes and filling inkwells. One day he asked for an af- ternoon off to go to his grand- mother's funeral. Never was the hoary excuse so. true and mo- mentous, The old lady's lawyers told him he had inherited 4200. The bequest meant liberty to choose a career -and freedom to mould his whole future; Ralph Richardson took. a last quick look at his insurance office .-and promptly sacked himself, "They were going to sack me, anyway, the game day," he adds drily Granny knew he wanted noth- ing but 20 be close to the theatre. Young Ralph' picked out the smallest seaside repertorycom- pany in England and frantically begged to be allowed to pay for the privilege of acting in small "walk-on" parts. "Nothing do- ing," he was told. But then the .manager noticed a fleck of paint on the ,youngster's .sleeve, learn- ed he had been to art school, showed him the canvas set -pieces waiting to be painted for the -fol- lowing week , . and so Ralph Richardson began his acting career as a scene -painter". In fact he had to be scene - painter, scene - shifter, sound - effects man and prompter rolled into one. Crouching beneath the stage, he followed the script. by candlelight. When the actors for- got their lines, they stamped on the boards - and a shewer of dust often put the candle , outl Such were the inauspicious be- ginnings of the quiet and modest personality whom it is rumofrr- ed may one day become Britain's first actor" baronet. There 'have been plenty of actor knights, but why not a "Bart." for the man whom the critics describe with such glittering words as "genius" and "greatest in livingmemory?" Moviegoers remember how he stole laurels from Olivia de Ha- viland in "The Heiress," how su- perbly he impressed distinction on Carol . Reed's "The -Fallen Idol." They recall his consum- mate performance opposite Vivi- en Leigh in "Anna Karenina," his bank clerk study in "dome at Seven." The Christmas before last, America's casting experts had to choose a pre-eminent actor to play Scrooge in a Christmas night coast-to-coast television hook-up Of "A Christmag'Carel" They de- termined to secure Sir Ralph Richardson at any cost. He flew the Atlantic simply to play Scrooge for one night, Stop- ping only to shop on behalf of his seven-year-old' son, Smallie, he flew home next day with a bale of. New. York toys, and caus- ed a nursery sensation,. Again, when Carol Reed cast him as the. salty merchant sea captain in Conrad's "An Outcast of the Islands;" ,Richardson de- monstrated his painstaking. thor- oughness, Day by day; in swel- tering heat,, he donned his full sea -togs, no matter w at shots were 'tieing' taken. One uncom- fortably torrid day Carol' Reed decreed that the camera would be focused only for close-ups from • the waist up and, therefore, com- plete costume wouldn't be need- ' ;qd, •; , Richardson quietly insisted, , "If I was wrotlgly dressed," he said, "It might show by the way • 2. tood. , Last year," when Sir Ralph turned filmproducer, he air proached'the film studio with, the zest of a new idea, "I don't like films that drag on, become 'tedi- ous," he said. For three weeks he rehearsed his cast as thor- oughly as for a stage play. A phenomenon of patience, he even fussed about the angle of an aetresk's elbows, Then he took his company on the floor ,so dis•, ciplined and word-perfect that "Home at Seven" was shot with- in fourteen days. -- the fastest British first feature made in modern times, "Acting on the screen," says Richardson, "is like acting under a microscope, It's like seeing one's own passport,,•photograph .. the size of a house, moving and talking, So discipline must be severe." Keenly aware of his faults, Sir Ralph Richardson seldom attends his own premieres. One clay, he saw himself advertised in a hor- ror film, "The Ghoul:" Unable to remember it, he bought a ticket =and found it was a quicki made nineteen years before when he • was taking small film parts., Though Sir Ralph began with ` '42.00: -`he has come ' Up hard way;. Gradually i}e progressed „ from , scene -painting and spund effects to walk-ons • and small speaking roles, When a famous Shakespearian actor visited his home town, Richardson pestered' him for an audition. The great man consented to hear him es he changed from stage costume to street clothes, but quickly yell- ed, "Stop, Stop!" 'Won't I do, sir?" asked Ri- chardson, almost in tears. "You're all right, you're hired," said the great man, "But you're standing On my tr'ouser's!" ' -• For years Richardson' played nearly every role in a Shakes- pearian stock company. When at length he asked for a five -shilling raise he was refused.. No one ever thought he would climb to Stardom. • "Now I've put on make-up so many times," says $ir Ralph, "that I'm afraid one day when I wipe it 'off there'll be nothing left underneath," Medical Hint Frostbite Tieet:neitt. The best way to treat frostbitten feet, legs or hands is by rapid thawing in a warm bath at a temperature of 95 to 113 degrees F. This ans-, wer to an old and serious prob- lem comes from Canadian sur- geons after many careful`experi- ments with aohnals• They found that, to be most effective, to mar- kedly reduce' the Loss of limb, the thawing must be immediate, rapid and penerating. The warm bath does the job; so also does dia- thermy. The rapid thawing is painful, but it can be made more tolerable with sedatives, ROMA 0irir VDU MOM 0OU0 COO MOO MOOA CC® ©UDSO ei®DM MO MOM COMM ROO®MOO 1F axiom • -goon ®®0®© MOO 000 0M00 0IL MHO 000121 REM ROO ©® 0.60©© Love Laughs At International Boundaries Kiss 'across" border on Detroit's International Bridge is given by Jevan Urosevic to his bride, Evangeline, He could not enter U. S. nor she Canada. Love Iabghs at locksmiths anti other boaters, even the Iron Cur- tain. This refugee couple, Rudolf Persing and Marianne Pfalz, took their vows in the American Sector refugee camp inside. West Berlin.. While other refugees attended, Camp Pastor Schultz per, formed the ceremony.