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We pickling time — or just
about; so today's column will be
inside up with some hints that
may be helpful,
'!Why do I get soft pickles?"
„Why .do I get hollow
pickles?" many young house-
wives enquire, Softness and hol-
lowness may be. caused because
the vinegar used was not strong
enough, or the brine too weak,
cheek the label of the vinegar
bottle to be sure the vinegar is
4°k—unless recipe instructs you
differently. Pickles such as dills
will aim become soft if they are
stored in open containers and
pickles exposed above the brine.
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A note about spices: Wonder-
ing how to avoid the darkening
of pickles that ground spices are
bound to bring about? Use cold
kitchen logic and place whole
spices in a bag, or tie in a piece
of muslin and lower away into
the pickle -pot. Merely remove
bag before transferring pickles
to jars;
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Pickling Statistics, In using
coarse pickling salt (not iodized),
it is handy, to know that the av-
erage weight of a cup of salt is
about 10 ounces or % of a pound
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Don't ignore your pickling -
time tools; The type of cooking
utensils you select will le luenoe
the colour of the pickles. For
best results, use ..enamelware,
aluminum and stainless steel,
Spoons? You can't go wrong with
wooden, stainless steel or alum-
inum.
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Utilize dry mustard this pick-
ling festival. It's a good cook's
trick to enliven winter -bound
meals. Here's a line-up of the
wide, choice of recipes from
which you may select Small Cu-
oughly and then rinse, To stern-
ize, cover with Bold water, bring
slowly to boiling point, boil 20 tl
mins: Keep jars in water until
ready to fill, Remember too, large
mouthed jars are easy to 1111.
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Are you a "working woman"
or maybe just a hard-working
woman? Here's a pickling pro-
ject that involves little time : and
effort, Alternate layers or raw
sliced onions and green tomatoes
in a crock, add coarse pickling
salt and your favorite array of
spices. Place a hegvy weight
atop this. After several days,
turn to them again and drain
juice, add vinegar and sugar,
What have you created? Crisp,
interesting, uncooked pickles.
It is always wise to concentrate
on one type of pickles in a pick-
ling session. Don't try to rush
your pickles. Small quantities
too, spell pickle perfection,
Here's a dependable, delicious
Mustard Pickle Dressing to add
after the vegetables are prepar-
ed; Mix 1 cup flour, 6 table-
spoons dry mustard, 1 tablespoon
turmeric. Add enough vinegar
to make a smooth paste. Add 2
cups sugar and more vinegar (2
quarts in all,) and boil until thick
and smooth.
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Do you realize that you can
prepare pickled eantalope just as
you can watermelon. Indeed you
can—peel cantalope, de -seed it,
run for the cookie -cutter once
more to create those intriguing
shapes from the pulp of the can-
talope. Finally cook in similar
syrup as that for watermelon
pickles.
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Some pickles must be sealed
airtight, for instance Tomato
Chili Sauce, or Chili Sauce from
cumber Pickles, Mustard Beans,
Celery Relish, Good Olde Home-
made Mustard Pickles, Uncooked
Pickle, Tomato Catsup, Carrot
Relish and Apple Chutney.
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Some sure -sugar facts in pick-
ling: Sugar is used in nearly all
pickles. One of the main causes
of shrivelled or tough pickles,
stems from adding the sugar too
rapidly. Well -cured cucumbers
take, up sugar faster than uncur-
ed or poorly cured cucumbers
and give a better textured pickle.
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Argument: Why should I make
pickles when the store shelves
are stocked with them? For the
fun of it; for the pride of it; for
the art of it. Home pickled
goods make unique gifts — buy
small, attractive jars that can be
put to use afterwards; paint
flower designs on them with glaze
paints, after the pickles are pre-
pared and jarred.
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To Jar Your Memory: You
won't -be a perfect pickier until
your technique is perfect in the
Jar Department,
Kinds of Jars: vacuum sealed
metal covers for most pickles
(new covers each season, please).
• The rubber rings on these jars
will also have to be changed each
pickling "do".
Prepariij'g Jars: Inspect care-
fully, discard those with the
slightest nick, run finger around
edge to detect nick or crack, Test
rubber ring by folding the ring
double, press finely. Good rub.
ber does not crack. , •
Washing Jars: do ,this (hoe -
MERRY MENAGERIE'
"He's going through that 'Ring
Arthur-itelghthood' phasel'
fruits, and various kinds of rel-
ishes. However, pickles such as
Mustard Pickles, Dills, Green
Tomato, Pickled Onions may be
kept in crocks. Although they
require a close -fitting cover, they
need not be sealed airtight. If
you put the above pickles into
jars, you may cover them with
heavy brown paper and tie se-
curely with wet string. They
will keep.
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Vinegar Quiz: which variety is
the choice for pickling? Your
selection of cider vinegar (made
from apple juice) or white vine-
gar, is a matter of your family's
good taste. Either are ideal far
pickling. Cider vinegar hasa mel-
low flavour; white vinegar may
be preferred when making light
coloured pickles such as onions
or cauliflower.
You must be sugar -wise too, in
pickling. Watch your variety and
amounts. White granulated is
your common friend in autumn
pickling, but once in a blue moon,
golden brown sugar is preferred
in some pickles. Use your own
good taste—you'll know when
you are seeking a different subtle
flavour in your pickles.
CAUTION: If 'you are over-
generous with the sugar ladle
your pickles will be shrivelled.
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t'o ' pireserve vegetables in
coarse pickling salt:
BEANS -r
1 ib. coarse salt to 4 lbs, titans
PEAS -•
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1 Ib. coarse salt to 5 lbs. peas
CORN —
I lb: coarse salt to 4 lbs. •cern
Method: blanch vegetables 3
mins. — at simmering temp, (180
degrees F.) Chill in ice, cold
,water. Cool vegetable to approxi-
mately lukewarm (60 degreesF.)
Before salting, Drain thoroughly,
A layer of salt first on bottom of
crock, then layer of vegetable
and soon until full, ending with
layer of salt, A wooden cover
then applied and weighted down
with h'eavy object. In a few days
brine will form Make sure bring
covers vegetables, They will keep
in this manner indefinitely, 'When
ready to use soak them over=
night in fresh water, Cook in
usual manner.
There's One Bor't
Every t2 Seconds
Washington
The 160,000,000th statistical
American checked into the toy
of the Department of Commerce
on Aug, 10 at two minutes and
eleven seconds after 11 A.M.
The arrival of this very special
citizen was recorded by news-
reels and television and witness-
ed by curious sight -seers and
Census Bureau officials had his
arrival clocked almogt to the split
second. It took place on a big
popular recorder called the "cen-
sus clock;"
Resembles Speedometer
It looks like anything but. a
Block, It resembles a huge speed-
ometer big enough to take up
the dashboard of a car, Mounted
over a big, billboard -size map of
the United States in the foyer of
the Commerce Department, it
lighted up with a flashing red,
blue, and green lights for dra-
matic effect while ticking off the
population "mileage" day by day.
Generally it attracts only casu-
al interest, tourists finding the
live fish in the aquarium exhibit
downstairs far more exciting than
statistical Americans.
But this was the day that tour-
ists kept the fishes waiting as
crowds gathered about the great
map and its ticking population
"speedometer" which would send
Americans over the historic 160,-
000,000 mark.
One Every 12 Seconds
Cameramen balanced on step-
ladders above the crowd, camer-
as aimed at the changing figures.
Necks were strained tensely as
the great mechanical counter
ticked off new Americans at the
rate of one every 32 seconds.
Newsreel cameras whirred as
the mechanical -computer turned
to 159,999,999. This was it Then
suddenly the thing registered
159,000,000.
What was wrong? Nothing that
a good mechanic couldn't fix. A
ladder was quickly propped
against •the exhibit, a man quick-
ly mounted it, opened a little trap
door under the million column,
and pulled the 8 and 0.
A Matter of Economy
It took the word a little time
to get around, but it seems that
the computing mechanism has
never been extended to the mil-
lion column as a matter of econ-
omy, since this changes only
every five months or so.
The machine operates on the
theory that this country makes
a net gain in population of one
person every 12 seconds. It was
built in 1925 for exhibition at
the Philadelphia Sesquicenten-
nial and has made numerous fea-
ture appearances since on similar
occasions.
When the actual census was
determined by the nose count of
1950, the "clock" was only 80,-
000 off.
Faster Than India
The Population Reference Bu-
reau, a private agency, reports
that the population of the United
States is mounting at a faster
rate than that of India or of the
world as a whole, the United
Press said.
STORM OVER GODIVA
Once again Lady Godiva has
created a furore—not by riding
unclothed through the streets
this time, but because the. new
clock which represents her, over-
looking the city centre, has en-
raged Coventry folk,
The wood -carved figures of
Godiva and Peeping Tom—the
one naked on horseback while the
other peers from a window, then
covers his eyes—have been call-
ed "vulgar" and "a slur on our
benefactress." But despite the
storm of protests the city coun-
cil has decided to keep the clock
Rufe's Aloof—Rufus the hornbill,
restless bird from the Far East,
has hundreds of New York re-
sidents gawking up at him as
he perches 28 floors above Wall
Street. The only victim of Rufe's
freedom was Joseph Schlesinger
of the ASPCA, who chased Rufe
for hours, trying Id ,catch the
bird and return him to the pet
shop. After many hours of free-
dom the hornbill was caught
when he walked into a pigeon
coop belonging to a Manhattan
rubbish collector, who held Rufe
in captivity until Schlesinger
claimed him.
Patriot honored—A proud smile brightens the wrinkled face of
Madame Aucoufurier as a medal is pinned to her dress by
Admiral Auboyneau at Saigon. The aged patriot was honored
for assistance to French and Viet Namese forces in Indo-China.
Bloody Nose Was
Making of Champ
Many years ago there lived a
fighter famed far and wide as the
Nonpareil, the original Jack
Dempsey, middle -weight chem.—
pion of the world. While in San
Fransisco one day, he dropped
into the gymnasium of an ex-
clusive athletic club for a work-
out.
Unable to find a sparring part-
ner, the Nonpareil sought out
the boxing champion of the club
and asked him whether he would
care to go a few rounds with
him. The club champion was a
tall slim dignified -looking bank
clerk.
The invitation from the great
champion awed the young man
but he eagerly accepted the chal-
lenge. It was an opportunity not
to be missed, not even by an
amateur.
For a while the two men spar-
red easily with the amateur hold-
ing his own against the middle-
weight champion. Then suddeg-
ly, the Nonpareil brought up a
hard right flush to the generous-
ly proportioned nose of his ad-
versary,
The blood gushed from the
wounded member. Fists swing-
ing wildly, the young man lost
his head and sailed into the great
Nonpareil, determined to reduce
him to powder.
The champion cleverly side-
stepped, clinched, and pinned his
opponent's arms to his sides.
"Cool off, son," he whispered
soothingly, "I'm sorry I gave you
a bloody nose. Come on, let's be
friends,"
The words calmed the amateur
quickly, He left the floor for the
dressing room • and began to
change. A few minutes later the
Nonpareil joined him and threw
a fatherly arm around his shoul-
ders. "Your're not a bad fighter,
S011," he said. "You have the
spark of a champion. Take my
advice and go into the ring. I'in
sure there's a great future ahead
of you. I'll help you all I can."
The twe men became fast
friends, They boxed together of-
ten and the eager young ama-
teur learned all that the Non
pareil -could teach him of the art
of fisticuffs.
The boy was an apt and will-
ing pupil. So well did he learn
his chosen trade that, in time,
he burst upon the sports world
with a new kind of boxing magic,
the cleverest boxer yet seen am-
ong the heavy men of the ring.
The day came when the former
bank clerk flung out his drama
tic challenge to the champion of
the world—John L. Sullivan!
His impudence was met by jeers,
laughter and abuse. This danc-
ing master, this dude, this softie,
in the same ring with the great
John L? Ridiculous!
In twenty-one bloody rounds,
the challenger stabbed and par-
ried, till the champion's face was
a bloody mess. Finally the grand
old champion went down, knock-
ed out by the young upstart.
And it was a bloody nose then
led the• dignified young bank
clerk to that moment in the ring
that is every fighter's goal—the
cry of the announcer when the
champion has sunk into the dust
of defeat: "The winner and new
champion --James J. Corbett!"
PLASTIC VALVE
FITTED TO HEART
A severe attack of rheumatic
fever in her childhood left Mrs.
Betty Stilleman, of Beverly Hills',
with a defective heart valve
"Shortness" of breath and ex-
treme fatigue made life miser-
able for her,
Doctors studied her case, and
finally a surgeon performed a
new operation involving an arti-
ficial valve made of plastic and
shaped rather like a bottle. This
two-inch "valve" was inserted
into the heart to replace the de-
fective natural one and performs
its job perfectly. Opening to let
blood surge through, it then
Closes to prevent any backward
flow,
Iron Curtain Tales
An urchin in Slovakia was be-
ing catechized by a Soviet in-
spector. "Who is your father?".
queried the inspector. "The in
comparable Stalin," proclaimed,
the urchin. "And your mother?"
"The incomparable Soviet
Union," said the urchin in the
same parrot -like tone. The in-
spector allowed himself the
shadow of a smile, and asked,
"What would you like to be
when' you grow up?" The urchin
answered fervently, "An or-
phan."
S 0 F
A Budapest merchant, travel-
ing through Russia and border-
ing states, sent his friend a series
'of tell-tale postcards. The first
read: "Greetings from Free Mos-
cow," the second, "Greetings
from Free Warsaw," the third,
"Greetings from Free Prague."
Then there was a month's silen-
ce, after which a final message
arrived, postmarked Paris. This
one read "Greetings from Free
Rabinowitz."
Three prisoners at a labor camp
in Czechoslovakia engaged in
surreptitious converse. Whisper-
ed the first prisoner, "I'm here
because I was suspected of being
in sympathy with Radek." The
second reported, "I'm here be-
cause I was said to be plotting
against Radek." The third pris-
oner said, "I'm Radek."
..Plain Horse Sense..
by BOB FLUS -1
Judging by the results of the
election Rt, Honourable James
G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of
Agriculture, must have been
right when be said In his cam-
patgn: "The farmers never had
it so good, they are making more
money, than ever before. There
are no surpluses and the British
markets are not lost,"
Not only he himself re-elected,
butmost of his colleagues with
him, Only in Saskatchewan did
the farmers really think it was
time for a change, although they
returned Mr. Gardiner to his job
in Ottawa.
Benson's Nightmare.
This means that Canada's eco-
nomy will continue to be geared
to that of the United States. It
might be interesting therefore to
look and see how agriculture is
faring South of the 49th parallel.
Anthony West in his "Letter
from NewtYork" in Saturday
Night describes the "nightmare"
of Mr. Benson, U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture, caused by this year's
bumper crops of wheat, corn and
cotton.
He says that the drought (in
Texas and Colorado) and the
farm surpluses are forcing Mr,
Benson to "slap on snore of the
controls his party was calling
'creeping socialism' last fall, and
pay out more federal aid."
Admittedly there is not de-
pression—yet—but it is evident
"that the slightest deviation to-
wards a free market and the re-
laxation of Democratic buying
and support policies will produce
one."
Something Dynamic
On his return to Washington
from a tour through the country
recently, Mr. Benson was given
a lecture by a group of Repub-
lican Congressmen who thought
that "he wasn't doing enough to
ensure their re-election in '54"
and who wanted "something
dynamicfrom him to sweeten
the voting farmers."
Instead of holding up to them
their refusal of Mr. Eisenhow-
er's proposal to use the huge
crop surpluses in Government
stores as "propaganda give-away
material" in famine and distress
areas to fight growing „Commun-
ism, instead of plugging for the
$150 million appropriation for
drought relief, Mr. Benson point-
ed to one "principal difficulty
which faced him."
He wanted legislation enabl-
ing him to get rid of the 134,-
(100 Democratic employees still in
the Department of Agriculture
and to replace then by Repub-
licans. Then everything would be
all right,
More than Doubt',
All he actually did was'tighten
up .the regulations against the
importation of Canadian cheese.
Mr. West expresses "more than
doubt" that a cabinet including
men like Benson is "capable of
holding off a depression,"
Canadian farmers may find' in
the not too distant future that
they have been betting too
heavily on the wrong horse,
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.
Some Doli—The girl above is no
midget. She's just dwarfed by
one of the "king-sized" marion-
ettes which are attracting visitors
to Rome, Italy, this year. Up 10
five feet tall and weighing as
much as 35 pounds, the dolls
have been clashing swords in a
show depicting the Crusades.
Some of the dolls are valued at
$1,000.
Bulldog Gets A Nervous :reakdown
Because Of Mistress's Driving
With deft fingers the white.
coated London veterinary sur-
geon examined the spaniel the
small boy had brought to him
with the statement, I think he
has a sore back, sir."
"Your dog," said the surgeon,
"has a slipped disc. We shall
have to operate."
That afternoon they did, using
the technique that surgeons use
on human beings with slipped
discs. In the same animal hospi-
tal a retriever, seriously ill with
pneumonia, was being given in-
jections of penicillin under an
oxygen tent.
It is all part of the extension
of the benefits of medicine and
dentistry to domestic animals.
One United States veterinary
surgeon has even claimed to have
cured an English bulldog of that
fashionable complaint of modern
life — a nervous breakdown.
The cause was a mistress who
drove a motor car too quickly
for his nerves. In laboratory tests
at Princeton University, in the
United States, pigs have been
made jittery and neurotic after
being trained to do difficult
tricks. And Professor David M.
Levy of the same university tells
of a dog that started limping be-
cause it was jealous of a new
baby in the house and wanted to
attract attention.
Wild animals are comparative-
ly free from disease. Their life
is rougher and they have no
lengthy old age. As soon as they
become unfit for the struggle for
life they die or are preyed upon
-by other animals.
To -day, veterinary surgeons
cure dogs of kidney diseases,
paralysis, tuberculosis and other
illnesses.
United States veterinary sur-
geons have been transplanting
corneas from slaughtered ani-
mals to living ones. Birds benefit,
too. Canaries have their voids
cured with drugs.
Soft foods bring on dental
caries in animals, Three rows
fitted with false teeth were re-
cently exhibited at the Al) Union
Agricultural Show at Moscow.
The cotes were brought from the
Ukraine to display the dentures,
and Russian papers acclaimed
the experiment as of national ini-
pertauce.
A number of valuable Austral-
ian, Merino stud rams, recently
developed pyorrhoea, due, no
doubt, to a somewhat artificial
diet. Dentists were called in and
gave the rams, some of them
worth up to $10,000, t h e
treatment that is often given to
human sufferers from pyorrhoea.
The dental surgeons performed
what is called a gingevectomy—
that is, the puffy upper parts of
the gums were cut away under
an anaesthetic. The rams are now
reported to be chewing happily.
Before long the old notion of
looking for a gun when a race-
horse breaks a leg may be dis-
carded. The Veterinary School of
'the University of Pennsylvania
has been scoring over fifty per
cent. successes in healing frac-
tures.
Even this hitherto miraculous
bone mending is antiquated be-
side the record of Peter Wehner.
a dentist.
Just before the war Wehner
was attending a race meeting
near' Cincinnati. A favourite,
Prince Pine, stumbled and broke
his left foreleg. There was the
usual call for a gun. Wehner's
wife found herself running down
the track, calling out, "You must
not shoot him!" The veterinary
surgeon said nothing could be
done.
When a racehorse breaks his
leg there is one recognized way
of setting it. The horse must be
hoisted in a sling for two or
three weeks in order to take its
weight off the injured leg. Lungs
and liver cannot stand the strain,
and the wretched animal usually
dies of pneumonia long before
the bone knits.
The dentist and his wife took
up the challenge. They went
home in a float with Prince Pine.
And there luck played its part,
as it has done so often in im-
portant discoveries.
Wehner set the leg and made
a cast for it with the plaster
dentists use for making the
moulds of bridge -work. It set
quickly, and was so hard that
Prince Pine's kicking couldn't
chip it. And it buttressed the leg
so firmly that the horse could
set it down within a day.
Prince Pine raced again, and all
America learned his story. To-
day Wehner has twenty horses
whose lives he has saved.
A novelty in animal surgery
reported from Atnerica is the "de -
scenting" of skunks. These make
charming pets—but for one thing.
Now vets are removing the scent
glands, and everybody is happy,