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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-6-17, Page 2p R TABLE TALKS It is some time now since 1 last passed on to you any recipes from the "old" countries. Norway Is noted for many flne dishes that make for hearty eating and I'm num that the first two, which stem from that country, will meet with your approval. NORWEGIAN MEAT BALLS e , Combine -1 ib. finely ground beef 1 Ib. finely ground pork c, cream 1 tblsp. melted butter 1 Wisp. catsup Vs tsp, ginger 2 tsp. pepper iii tsp. pepper • Blend until thoroughly mixed, et Shape into 24 (1 -inch) balls. • Melt in heavy frying pan 2 tblsp. fat e Brown meat balls on all sides, • Dissolve 3 beef bouillon cubes in 3 c. boiling water Pour 1 cup broth over meat balls. ▪ Cover pan. Simmer for 20 minutes, Remove meat balls to platter. • Blend until smooth e. flour c. beef broth • Add to gravy in pan. Stir in remaining broth. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Serve over meat balls. Serves 6. f . k NORWEGIAN PRUNE PUDDING • Soak for one hour. '4 lb. prunes in 2 a cold water b Cook until soft in water in which they were soaked, about 20 minutes. Cool. • Pit prunes and remove ker- nels from pits. Chop the kernels. d Add to the prunes t.4 e. sugar 1 tsp, lemon juice 2 tsp. grated lemon rind 1 -Inch stick cinnamon 14e c. boiling water n Simmer 15 minutes • Combine 2 tblsp. corn- starch 2 tblsp. Bold water • Stir to make a smooth• paste and add to prune mixture. Cook ii minutes more, or until thick- ened. Remove cinnamon. * Add the chopped prune ker- nels and !a c. chopped nuts • Pour into 6 individual molds that have been rinsed with cold MMy husband Is daffy about towers and an are his clothes," water. Chili until firm. Turn out and serve with cream--- "pour- ing" or whipped. Serves 6. * SOUR -DREAM RAISIN PIE • Prepare pastry for 1 -crust, 9 - inch pie. es Pour hot water over 1 e. raisins % Let stand 20 minutes. Drain. Combine raisins with . 'a e. sugar 1 tbisp. flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 44 tsp. nutmeg 14 tsp. salt s Add 1!'a c. sour cream 3 egg yolks, beaten 1 Wisp, melted butter 1 tsp. vanilla • Blend until smooth; pour into pastry. w Bake in 400° oven 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 325;° bake 45 minutes longer. • Cool and top with— Meringue: • Beat to soft peak stage 3 egg whites • Md slowly 6 tblsp. sugar • Beat until stiff peaks form. *Brown in 350° oven 10 to 12 minutes. Serves 6, APPLE DUMPLINGS • Sift together 2 c. sifted flour 2 tsp. baking powder ? tsp. salt • Cut in '4 c. shortening • Stir in `s c. milk • Mix until soft dough is formed. • Turn out and knead lightly. Roll les inch thick; cut into 6 squares, • Core, peel 6 baking apples • Place an apple on each square. • Combine 44 c. sugar le tsp. cinna- mon • Sprinkle into center of each apple. • Add to each 42 tsp. butter • Moisten edges of dough. Press corners up over apples. Brush with milk. • Place in greased baking pan and bake in 350° oven 30 min- utes. Serve with— Sweet-Sour Sauce: Heat together 2 c. water, 46 c. vinegar, le c. butter, Mix thoroughly le c. flour, 1 c, sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon, le tsp. nutmeg, and stir into liquid. Cook over low heat, stir- ring until thickened. Serves 6. ° CHICKEN LOAF— MUSHROOM SAUCE • Chop ... 3 e. cooked chicken • Combine with 1 c. cooked rice 2 c. soft bread crumbs 2 tsp. salt 2 e. chicken broth • Beat and add 4 eggs • Stir, in i-4 c. chopped pimiento • Pour into greased, 9 -inch bak- ing dish. • Bake in 350° oven 1 hour, or until firm. Cut in squares. Serve with: Mushroom Sauce: • Melt !4 e. butter • Add and brown 1 c. fresh, or 4 - oz. can, sliced mushrooms if Stir in ........14 e. flour tsp. salt tsp. pepper Treat 'Trees Tenderly -Workmen erecting o canopy over cora, nation stands near Westminster Abbey (background) in London were too tender-hearted to trim off brandies of trees around whirl stands were built. So they went to the trouble -of "tailor ling" the canopy to fit around them, The Lady and the Mau-Mau—Even women are fighting the terroristic Mou-Mou gangs in Kenya Colony, Africa. At a Mau -Mau roundup in Nairobi, Detective Inspector Joan Becker, seated at the table, questions a young girl victim of a recent Mau -Mau raid at Lori in which 150 persons were massacred. Note arrested suspects seated in background. - • Add ........ _... 2 c. chicken broth e. cream • Cook until thickened, stirring. • Add is tsp. lemon juice 4.*, tsp. paprika chopped parsley Serves 9. • d k CHEESE AND HAM CASSEROLE • Cook until tender in boiling salted water 1 (5 --oz.) pkg. fine noodles • Drain well. • Combine 2 e. cooked, cubed, or ground ham 1 c. (i4 ib.) grated Can- adian cheese. e, diced green pepper 1 e. fresh or 4 - oz. can sliced mushrooms tHam provides sufficient salt.) • Alternate layers of noodles and ham mixture in greased 9 - inch casserole. • Dilute I (10?. oz.) can condensed to- mato soup with equal amount water • Pour over casserole. • Bake in moderate (350°) oven 1 hour. Serves. 6. An Island Paradise Where You Can't Live Four hundered and twenty miles from the coast of Australia -11 an island seven miles by one, of perfect rest cure. It is known as Lord Howe Island. It Was discovered by pirates in 1788. There were no inhabit- ants in those days, 'out several comfortable little harbours where pirates used to anchor their ships and de running repairs. Several pirate chiefs buried their treasure 'on the island. One of them, who masked his piracy by doing a little honest whaling at times, hid a huge fortune in gold and gems. Making quite sure, by murd ering the men who hid the trea- sure, that only he :would know where to look for it, he sailed away. Years later, when he re- turned to retire' en his ill-gotten. hoard„' nefound that Nature had forestalled him. There had been 'a huge lands- lide and the site of his cache was buried beneath hundreds of tons of earth and rocks. It is still there. The inhabitants of Lurd Howe Island are a living proof that even pirates have souls, for quite a number of men who had sailed under the skull and crossbones were so enthralled by the peace- ful loveliness of it that they re- turned with wives and settled down there. There are only two nur,dred inhabitants and most of them are direct descendar.is of Eng- lish, Australian and American sailors. For many years they supported themselves by har- vesting puhn seeds. In the last thirty years that industry has steadily declined, and to -day the main industry is tourists. Business men and their wives from Australia, New Zea- land and America fly. there for a rest. The temperature averages 70°. It rains mainly in the middle of the night; the beaches are the beat in the world for bathing and surf riding, and .fruit ran be had for the plucking. There is one general shop and no hotels, telephones, chemist's shop, policemen, magistrates, restaurants or clubs. Tired business men dream of retiring and settling there, but the answer is a polite refusal. Only the detsr•endants of the original st.tiler, are ellnwcd to lief in ti -:c iib r,d pi:r:;dlise. ..Plain Horse Sense.. by BOB ELLIS- At the 1929 International Con- ference of Agricultural Econom- ists, Henry A. Wallace, later U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, warn ed of the impending clanger to international trade. Speaking of the trouble for the exportable surpluses of ag- ricultural products which would "inevitably” be caused by re- duced loans to Europe, he call- ed for reduced tariffs on manu- factured goods, for -international stabilization of the general price level and for "some scheme of giving to agriculture the moral, legal and economic equivalent of what the corporate form of or- ganization has given to indus- try, and yet remain the family farm." Sante Situation Today Twenty four years later the world is in the same position as it was then. Again the U.S. is reducing loans to Europe, again farmers are asking for stabilized prices and there is no scheme yet which will give farmers the badly needed "corporate form of'. organization." There are farm organizations like the Federation of Agricul ture, the Farmers Union, Dairy Farmers of Canada, but it re- mains open to doubt whether any one of them, with the excep- tion perhaps of the unions in the prairie provihces, can .claim Lo really spsak euthoratively for the farmers. How great the advantages of collective action are should bee - come clear to the farmers of On- tario, if they consider the recent accomplishments of the Ontario Hog Ptoduccrs Association, Undaunted by the attacks 01 the daily press, which as usual is opposing producer co -opera• tion, disregarding the customary squawks of the this -is -not -the C'ndy Begins—Beautiful 17 -year - o d Cindy Robbins won a chariest to start a TV career, She was selected from 2,000 came/tants and will begin video work scion, time -to -do -it boys, the associa- lion stuck by its guns and so far was successful in raising and maintaining prices; although it has to be kept in mind that they started operations at a very op- portune time of scarcity. There is even talk of a strike by the producers who might be asked by the association to with- hold their hogs from ,the mar• ket. In view of the tack of strongly knitted farm organiza- tions and the uncertainty as to the full support of their mem- bers, this columnist has always held that no strike action by primary producers could be ef- fective unless it were supported by the packinghouse workers unions of the plants concerned. 11 would be up to the workers in the plants to refuse to process any hogs delivered by possible strike breakers. This support should be seeured.before a strike is called. • Voluittery Check -AO' The resolute .stand taken by the hog producers of Ontario is sharply gontrasted by the dis- pirited attitude taken by the Board of Directors of the Toron- to Mille Producers Association who are refusing to support the Special Committee set up by the Annual Meeting of the associa- tion to establish a producer own- ed plant to handle all surplus milk in the Toronto Market,. When the committee recently decided that the time had come to purchase land for the plant the directors declared that they could not advance the funds ncessary for the down payment as they had entered ' into a "gentlemen's agreement" with the distributors that the fees col- lected by them from the produ- cers. were "not to be used to go into the dairy business in any way." It is hard to tmderstand why the leaders of one of the impor- tant groups of producers should tie their own hands instead of using them to fight for the rights, of the farmers they represent. Association fees collected by the dairies froth the producers are in the same category as union dues deducted by a company from the pay of its employees. The voluntary check -off is a common demand of industrial workers. The times when they had to strike for it are past. To- day it is commonly accepted in all negotiations between com- panies and unions. • The agreement between The Steel Company of Canada and the United Steel workers con- tains the following clause: "It is understood and agreed that Union dues will be deducted and remitted by the Company from the pay of the employees repre- sented by the Unlon as the bar- gaining agency, who have signed an authorization as hereinafter provided." It outlines further the pro- cedure under which the deduc- tions are made and how and when they are to be paid to the union. Nothing is said, as to the use these funds may or may not be put to. There is no reason why producers should not have similar provisions written into their agreements with processors and distributor's, As a matter of fact Wesfern,wheet growers are doing it. Mar Retitle Agency In view of the great impor- tance of the producer owned Milk plant In Toronto as a big step towards the "corporate farm of ergenlzatton" which farmers Land Of Samba, World's Greatest Storehouse! General Marshall, . the Arne - dean who devised the famous plan for aiding Europe, has put it on record that World Wag 1I Could not have been won without aid from Brazil. The truth is, we can't live in this modern age—in peace or in war --without steel, And without manganese there would be no hard steel, the sort of steel used in making tanks, guns, and ships. Russia thought the had almost a monopoly of it. But it was dis- covered not so many years ago that the southern part of Brazil— was incredibly rich in magenese, and also in high-grade iron ore. During the war, had it not been for this Brazilian source, it is doubtful if the Allies could have kept up such an enormous output of armaments. Brazil is Nature's richest store- house. Nowhere else on earth can man hope to find such an abundance of minerals. - The country is also the greatest source of_ vegetable oils, - In his recent book, "The Ama- zing Amazon", Mr. Willard Price writes: "In the Peruvian por- tion of the Amazon basin has been discovered the Blue Goose, Dome, one of the greatest oil finds on earth. Hall the country is floating on it.' At one time in the not -so -dis- tant past there was a part of Brazil where diamonds could be picked up by the handful. In one memorable year more than 2,000 stones of good size and quality were found in the course of a' week, As for gold—don't mention 111 It's there all right, and not so many years ago negro slave girls used the stuff for powdering their hair. Blond- tint was evi- dently fashionable. And if any young man who reads this article feels inclined for a life of adventure, let us remind him that Amazonland has the largest unexplored region in the world, with the exception of Antractica. In this fantastic region you will find the richest and most varied plant and animal life in the world. Otters often exceed ten feet in length, The condor is larger— and flies higher—than any other known bird. In the jungle you might at any moment ecounter beetles as big as your hand, centipedes a foot long, and snails as big as your fist, Stripped of Flesh 11 you went swimming in cer- tain streams and tributaries of the Amazon you would have to risk an encounter with a giant swordfish. One slash of his razor- sharp sword can cut a man in two. On the other hand, if you missed the swordfish, yaou would stand a good chance of meeting specimens of the biggest living crocodiles. Of all the horrors you night encounter during your swim, heaven 'save' you from the still'have to strive for, all means should be used to secure its realization. Ontario Milk Producers are lucky to have in the Ontario Milk Control Act provisions for marketing agencies. They should make use of them. The surest and most direct way for the Tor- onto milk producers to get an organization which can take care of their interests, is to instruct their Special Committee to apply to -the Minister of. Agriculture for the establishment of a mar- keting agency in the Toronto market and for the appointment of the committee as its first Board of directors. This column welcomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try to answer any question. Address your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1, -123 - 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. piranha fish, Only twelve inches long, "it has the face of a bad dream ---malevolent; staring eyes, the undershot jaw of a bulldog or a pugilist, a mouth several tines too large for so small a fish, and two rows of large wedge-shaped teeth tapering to needle-like points." The piranha can take a nip out of your flesh as hi% as a quarter out of your flesh a's big as a florin and up to half an inch thick, One unfortunate man went ca- /toeing up one of these piranha - infested streams and let his hand trail idly in the water: His hand was suddenly at- tacked by a piranha, and the flesh stripped off it in a flash. It so shocked hint that he fell into the stream. When his friends located him there was nothing left except his suit and his bones. On land, and walking through reasonably penetrable jungle, you .might suddenly come face to face with "a Walt Disney creat- ion." It would have "the trunk of an elephant, the eyes of a rhinoceros, the mane of a horse, and the body of an outsize pig," Elephant's Cousin You would then raise your hat and stammer "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Tapir," for such is the name of this fantastic creature. It has been suggested that the tapir is the elephant's Amazon- ian cousin, but scientists have squabbled about this theory for years. - If you missed meeting a ta- pir, you might easily come face to face with a basilisk. And if you didn't fall !fat on your face in a dead faint, you would •re- cognise Mr. B. as a giant type of lizard, about three feet tall, and walking erect. He's so light on his pins that he can run on the surface of the water, His Job — Moth Swatter The Budgetary Committee of the Danish Parlament recently approved the appointment of one of the world's oddest wor- kers—an official • motheswatter-- His job will be to chase moths out of the wardrobes in the Na- tional Museum's - collection Of ancient. costumes. Museum otxperts thought that the etse'of chemicals to hill the moths would 'probably damage valuable garments. They de- cided that the safest method would be for a man to chase the moths out of them- and kill as many as possible with his bare hands: • Shipshape — The prefabricated bow section of the S.S. Golden Mariner is seen above being lowered into place at the ship- yards. Once in position it was shored up and welded to struc- ture, Bock to The Saddle Again—This old oldster discovered by CNR officials partially buried in a Belleville, Ont., sandpit, is a saddle tank swiicher which came out of the Grand Trunk's Point St. Charles shops in Montreal in 1894, Last of its type to be built. there, it has been reconditioned and added to tilt museum train, Its designers, in en effort to produce a compact engine, straddled the boiler with a water tank and eliminated the tender by making provision in the engine itself for the coal sutsply,•