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The Brussels Post, 1953-12-16, Page 6zoo TABLE TALKS km, Right now it's candy-mahing time in many a Canadian. home, where Christmas wouldn't he Christmas without some of the old favorites, not so fancy look, in g perhaps, as the "boughten" kind, but with a charm all of their own. Here, then, are a few recipes - of the tried -and -proven sort, * * CHOCOLATE ,YUDGE 2 squares unsweetened choco- late ue cup milk 2 caps sugar Dash of salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon vanilla Add chocolate to milk and place over flame. Cook until mixture is smooth and blended, stirring constantly. Add sugar and salt, and stir until sugar is dissolved and mixture boils. Con- tinue boiling, Without stirring, until a small amount of mixture forms a very soft ball in cold water (232.F.). Remove from fire. Add butter and vanilla. Cool to lukewarm (1107.); then beat until mixture begins to thicken and loses its gloss. Turn at once into greased pan, 8 x 4 inches. When cold, cut in squares, Makes 18 large pieces. * 0a RELIANCE FUDGE Use recipe for Chocolate Fudge, adding 1 tablespoon corn syrup with sugar. Boil candy to 234°F. The addition of corn syrup requires a higher tempera- ture. Cool and beat as directed, * 0 » CHOCOLATE NUT OR RAISIN FUDGE Use recipe for Chocolate Fudge or Reliance Fudge (above). Add 1 cup broken nut meats or 1 cup seedless raisins just before turn- ing Into pan. MARSHMALLOW FUDGE Use recipe for Chocolate Fudge, Cut 16 marshmallows (4 ounces) in halves; arrange in greased pan, 8 x 4 inches, placing cut - side up. Pour beaten fudge over marshmallows. * TUTTI - FRUTTI FUDGE Use recipe for Chocolate Fudge, adding chopped candied or dried fruits and nuts before turning Into pan. Some of fruit mixture may be sprinkled on top of fudge. For fruit, use about 14 cup each candied cherries, candied pine- apple, figs, and raisins. Wash, dry thoroughly, and cut fine. Add 1'4 cup chopped, blanched pistachios or other nuts. * * COCOA FUDGE 8 tablespoons cocoa 2 cups sugar Dash of salt ,f1 cup water 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon venilla Combine cocoa, sugar, salt, water, butter. Cook over low flame until mixture boils, stir- ring constantly. Continue boil- ing, without stirring, until a small amount of mixture forms a very soft ball in cold water (234° F.). Remove from fire. Add the vanilla and let cool at room temperature until luke- warm (110' 2'.). Beat until mix- ture begins to thicken and loses its gloss. Turn at once into greas- ed pan, 10 x 5 inches. When firm, cut in squares. Makes 24 pieces. * 0 * CHOCOLATE FONDANT 2 cups sugar 114 cups water 2 thlsps, light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 squares unsweetened choco- late, melted Combine sugar, water, and corn syrup. Place over low flame and stir constantly until sugar Is dissolved and mixture bode. Cover and cook 3 minutes; then remove cover and continue boil - lag, without stirring, until a small amount °X syrup forms a soft ball in cold water (238° F.) Wash down sides of pan occa- sionally with damp cloth. Pour out on cold, wet platter or porce- lain table top, or on greased sur- face. Cool to lukewarm (110°F.), Work with paddle or spatula un• til white and creamy. Add vanil la and knead until smooth, Shape in ball; make indenta- tion in top and pour about 1/4 00 chocolate into it. Knead until chocolate is blended. Repeat un- til all chocolate is used. Store in tightly covered jar to ripen for several days before using. If fondant begins to dry out, cover with damp cloth. Makes 1 pound 214 ounces candy. * CHOCOLATE NUT PATTIES Use recipe for Chocolate Fon- dant (above). Shape in small balls; flatten balls slightly and press half walnut meat into each. Makes 3 dozen 1 -inch patties. * 0 * CHOCOLATE BALLS Use recipe for Chocolate Fon- dant (above), adding 1 cup finely cut raisins. Knead and shape in small balls. Roll balls in 1 cup nut meats, finely chopped, or toasted shredded coconut, Makes 6 dozen balls. * CHOCOLATE SLICES Use recipe for Chocolate Fon- dant (above), adding 34 cup fine- ly cuts dates or raisins, and 1/4 cup nut meats, finely cut, or shredded coconut. Knead and shape in rolls, 1 inch in diameter. Wrap in waxed paper and chill. When firm, cut in 1/4 -inch slices. Makes about 13/4 pounds candy, or six rolls, each about 8 inches long. CHOCOLATE CARAMELS 1 cup sugar S/4 cup corn syrup 3 squares unsweetened choco- late 14 teaspoon salt 11/2 cups light cream Combine sugar, corn syrup, chocolate, salt, and 14 cup cream. Place over low flame and stir constantly until sugar is dissolv- ed and mixture boils. Continue boiling until a small amount of mixture forms a soft ball in cold water (234» F.1, stirring con- stantly. Add '4 cup cream and boil again to 234° F., stirring con- stantly. Add remaining it cup cream and boil slowly until a small amount of mixxture forms a firm ball in cold water (242° F.), stirring constantly. Pour into slightly buttered pan, 8 x 4 inches. Do not, scrape pan. Let stand until cold. Mark with knife in 34 -inch squares and turn out on cold slab, turning top -side up. Cut in squares, using full length of long blade. Let stand in cool place to dry. Makes 40. * * CHOCOLATE NUT CARAMEL Use recipe for Chocolate Cara- mels (above). Add 1 cup broken nut meats just before pouring mixture into pan. * * LONG - DISTANCE FIRST AID While taking a call from Cali- fornia, 2,000 miles away, a De- troit telephone operator, Mrs. Emma Lysons, was taken ill. Her moaning was heard by the oper- ator in California who promptly cleared the line for a call back to the Detroit main exchange. She explained the situation to head office, they in turn notified the police, and Mrs. Lyons was rushed to hospital where a haem- orrhage was diagnosed and suc- cessfully treated. Color Corning — Proof that color TV is just around the corner is this assembly line of molar tubes akitthe RCA plant, These tubes etre about to undergo an "exhausting" experience as they niove toward the airtexhaueting machine' Which creates a near -vacuum within the tubes to assure successful electronic operation. WLter Care For Your Feet As winter's chilly blasts usher in the party season, our minds are fixed on slimmer waistlines, glossier hairdos and more bean- tiful complexions. But it won't help if you're hobbling around on feet that add ten years to your age. • You wouldn't dream of sloshing barefoot through snow and slush On your round of holiday parties, Chances are, theugh, you'll do almost as much damage to your feet simply by taking them for granted. Foot doctors have traced a lot of winter foot ills to shoes that fit badly or thet are made of in- ferior materials. Most women don't realize that ill-fitting shoes may impede blood circulation and bring on chilblains and even a bad case of frostbite quicker than a trip to the Arctic. That's one reason why foot doctors recom- mend nightly foot exercises to tone up sluggish blood vessels, and to keep the tiny bones and muscles in john. Another basic piece of advice they offer is the wearing of all - leather shoes, fitted with plenty of toe -wiggling room to prevent constriction. Leather, being an animal hide and the closest thing to the hu- man skin, retains its breathing pores. This means it allows air to pass through the shoes to ev- aporate fret moisture, at the same time as it insulates your feet against the cold, There's no better way to avoid that clammy condition inside the shoe which chills the entire body. Oddly, quite a lot of trouble de- velops from over -protecting the feet. By all means keep them dry, but don't suffocate them by wearing galoshes or overshoes in- doors, on heated buses, autos or trains. 171Torn too many hours at a time, rubbers will hike foot temperatures inside the shoe, causing excessive perspiration, swelling and skin sensitivity. That's an open invitation to the common cold. Shod with all -leather shoes that give down-to-earth walking comfort, your underpinnings will get added benefit from a nightly treatment. To begin with, give them a pep bath—a handful of Flying Fashion—British iet pilots might take a razzing about their new kimono -style cooling suit, but it could mean the difference between life and death for air- men flying at high altitudes. The suit, manufactured by a Wok- ing, Eng., parachute company, has lines throughout the suit which supply air to '100 parts of the pilot's body. bicarbonate of soda mixed with warm water. After a cool rinse, dust the feet with a foot powder. Then follow up with some simple exercises. First, take fifty steps around the bedroom on your toes —it loosens all the small bones, muscles and ligaments. As a bun- ion -prevention measure, rotate the big toe by hand for a few minutes, and wind up by rubbing the soles briskly with a dry towel. Follow these recommendations and you'll get through winter's snow and slush on your own two feet—without grimacing in pain. Tobacco pickers once were the slaves; now it's the smokers. Treasure at the End of the Rainbow THE; new Rainbow Cakes are your answer when you're wondering what to serve for dessert — for that "special" dinner — when the candles are lit for the children's birthday party— or when you simply want to see the family's eyes and appetites brighten up. Just picture a frosty pink, feather -light cake on your prettiest serving plate. Or a delicate pale -green cake.. or orange or lemon colored. That's the beauty of this one simple recipe. For the secret of this rainbow variety of radiant color is—jelly powdert—there's no guess -work in coloring and flavoring either cake -batter or icing. RAINBOW CARE 21/4 cups sifted cake flour 3 tsps. Waking powder le tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. baking soda '4 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 package jelly powder 'any flavor) 3 eggs, unbeaten Milk* *With butler, margarine, lard use 1 'up; with shortening use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons Sift dour once, measure, add baking powder, salt, soda; sift 3 times. Cream shortening, add sugar end Jelly powder gradu- ally; cream until fluffy. Add eggs, ane at a time; beat well after each. Add flour, alternately with milk, ih small 1121101111i8; beat smooth after each addition.Bake in two round 9* layer pans, lined on bottoms with paper. the moderate oven (375'2%); about 26 minutes FROSTING 1/4 pkg. (31/4 Thos.) jelly powder (any (lavor) tit cup VERY HOT water 11/4 cups sugar Dash of salt 2 egg whites, unbeaten Dissolve Jelly powder in very hot water in top of double boiler. Add sugar, salt, and egg whitest beat about I minute, or until thoroughly mixed. Then place aver rapidly boiling water and beat constantly with rotary egg beater (or at highspeed of elec. hie heater) 7 minutes, or until frosting wili stand up in peaks. Transfer frosting at once to bowl and beat about 1 minute, or until thick enough to spread. "Glamour Tricks" Strawberry Rainbow Cako-2'0r the BrIdet Place on silver hely, Border tray with fresh pink rosebuds. On ashen in season, place fresh whole strawberrle* on oho. , RaspberrulfainbowCaha—Covor with snowy shreds of acetone,. Cherry Rainbow Cake —Mike maraschino cherry flowers with green citron stems, ()ranee Rainbow Cake—Arrage thinly (diced orange rind 6t cremes segments oa top. Scenes That May Shock the Censor A. loyal girl in the Mall Italian village of Manziana, near Rem, received an unexpeeted shock re- cently when she came face to face with an enormous, lumbering figure. She fainted, It was not surprising. The fig- ure was 21 feet in height, with LI thick black beard, matted hair, a colossal nose—and only one eye, right in the centre of the forehead. The giant was, in reality, the famous Italian wrestler, Umberto - Silvestri. A ,huge mart in real life, he Was built up to the fan- tastie height of 21 feat, padded out, and given the most intricate and frightening make-up of all time. - He was playing the part of the Cyclops giant, Polyphemus, in "Ulysses," the new Silvana Man- gano film which will be seen soon. The Icenes were those in which Ulysses (played by Kirk Douglas), after his triumphs in the Trojan battle, had landed on an unknown island and had come face to face with the one -eyed, man-eating giant, Whether or not the censor will pass all these shots remains to be seen, but the film pulls no punches in its re-enactment of the horrific meal in which Polyphe- mus eats two men for his din- ner and then spits out the bones! But the giant meets his doom when Ulysses and his companions thrust a full-sized tree into his one eye, blinding him and ren- dering him helpless. Another monster, but very dif- ferent in appearance, is Circe, who lured men to her presence and then turned them into pigs, as is shown in other scenes from the film. It is, of course, Homer's fam- ous "Odyssey," which provides the subject matter for this sen- sational film, the most spectacu- lar and costly ever to be pro- duced in Italy. It's in ,Technicolor. It packs spectacle on spectacle. And Sil- vana Mangano, well known through her earlier films, "Bit- ter Rice," "Wolf of Sila," and "Anna," plays three roles—Pene- lope, who represents the highest expression of womanliness; Circe the witch; and Calypso, the god- dess of everlasting youth. This time, incidentally, we shall hear Silvana speaking English her- self. Instead of the film being "dubbed," it was shot in both Italian and English. Italy, mo doubt inspired by the making of "Quo Vadis" there, has entered the million dollar mam- moth production market with a vengeance! RATIONED MUSIC Everybody seems to be suing everybody else nowadays. The Songwriters of America, singing a rather lugubrious legal dirge, took latest warrant in hand to sue the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcas- ters. They are singing to the tune of $150 million. The song writers say that the broadcasters, crafty fellows, are picking and choosing among the tunes, plug- ging those to which they own legal title, and unplugging those owned by the Songwriters of America. It is not the case of having their music cut off entirely, say the songwriters, but of ration- • ing. Can the country get along with rationed or unrationed mu- sic? Kindly pick your sides and we will start. For example, you can use the kind of reasoning of the Songwriters of America. They compose their little grie- vance on the ground that, of the $797 million in broadcasting revenues in 1952, only $5 million . went to the composers. We don't know, but it possible the other $792 million went to tharwOmen and other folk around the place who were doing chores, The ideal state for songwriters would be, of course, when all $797 million would go tO them, The charwomen doubtless feel the same way about it Possibly nobody but the suers and the sued are going to get into a lather over this suit. We are all for rationing, if we could only have the final say on who' or what Is to be rationed. Take "Dear John" now, for example; Or almost anything that is sung by the of/ key weepers. That would be more than rationing. It weeild, in fact, be a step warm- ly endorsed by the SPCA or Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Adults, Hartford Courant. CARFUL1 A young termer 1/tested in the principles of mechanization advertieed, ter a wife, In due course, a young woman replied, indicating that being a fantasy's daughter she was well qualified for the position, adding as a further .inducement that her fathee had premised her a trac- tor as a dowry. Back name a telegram from the ,bung feeler: "Please 'tend photo- graph of traotor," 136th YEAR IS RECORD t11s 4J GORDON R. BALL ARTHUR. C. JENSEN B of M HEAD STRESSES NEW NEED FOR SALESMANSHIP, EFFICIENCY, REALISM Gordon Ball Sees Keener Competition and Return of Normal Hazards of Enterprise ARTHUR JENSEN, GENERAL MANAGER, PRESENTS RECORD STATEMENT, REVIEWS BUSINESS OUTLOOK, PRAISES PERSONNEL Keener competition and the return of normal hazards of enterprise were given as reasons for a renewed emphasis on salesrnanship, efficiency and sober realism in business by Gor- don R. Ball, president of the Bank of Montreal, at its 136th annual meeting of shareholders. In reviewing the Canadian business picture during the past year, the B. of M. president said that "we seem to have passed from a situation in which nearly all business influences were buoyant to one in which the normal hazards of enterprise are once more apparent." "The business landscape," he said, "has begun to show a more varied pattern of light and shade. Some Industries, particularly those dependent on export mar- kets, have been encountering dif- ficulties. Competition has been keener, both in domestic and for- eign trade." Mr. Ball maintained that, While these developments did not jus- tify a gloomy view of Canada's prospects, they did suggest the need for "a healthy awareness that boom conditions Of easy selling and easy profits are sub- siding." "I am still an optimist," he said, "regarding Canada's future, but sensible optimism includes a candid recognition that the immediate prospect places a re- newed emphasis on salesman - shim efficiency and sober real- ism." More Intensive and Economic Use of Resources The speaker saw in the im- provement that had taken place during the past year in the sphere of international trade and finance "a great opportunity for further bold advances to - "wards more intensive and eco- nomic use of resources." He felt it would be tragic if, just at the time when the mili- tary and political defences of nations of goodwill were being strengthened, the economic gains of the recent past were to be lost. "It is up to all of U5, in all countries, who stand with pri- vate enterprise to demonstrate here and now that the system that we rightly believe produces most and contributes most fully to well-being does not inevit- ably beget periods of slump and MISS unemployment. "That, as I see it, is the great and immediate challenge of the present day. And that challenge will not be met if the bogey of , over -production should drive in- dividual nations behind the bar- ricades of high tariffs and in- tensified restrictions." Mr. Ball saw the need of the Immediate future as the speedy furtherance of trade policies based fundamentally on recog- nition of three facts: first, that the welfare of the free nations Is inter -dependent; second, that the objective of "trade not aid" can be achieved only with the full realization that trade Is a two -Way process; and, third, that it is idle to talk of endur- ing peace without deliberate meausres designed to help less fortunate countries to help themselves by giving them a fair chance to sell in external markets, General Manager Presents Record Report Arthur C. Jensen, general manager, presented the bank's 136th annual statement, showing deposits, loans and total resour- ces at the highest figures on record, with earning e moderate- ly up from the 1952 level. Commenting on the rise in the bank's current loans to a new high of $787 million, the gener- al manager pointed out that "the increase of $124 million is considerable and, while it re- flects the additional funds re- quired to finance the large carryover of wheat as well as some increase in the consumer credit field, most sectors of our loaning business are in higher figures than at the end of the last fiscal year." Mr. Jensen referred to the re- cent proposal by the Federal Government to empower the chartered banks to lend money against mortgage security for new housing. "I think I should perhaps say that, for our part, we are examining the proposal with a co-operative and open mind, particularly in view of those features that provide for insurance of mortgages and for eligibility of such mortgages for rediscount at the Bank of Cana- da." Scant Evidence of Downturn in Btu 'ness In concluding his review of business conditions, the general manager. referred to the com- monly heard suggestion that 1954 might witness some slow- ing down in Canada's progress. "Certainly, if there is any ap- preciable or prolonged slacken- ing of business activity in the United States," he said, "it is only to be expected that the effects will be felt in this coun- try. "It is not my purpose here to attempt to prophesy, but rather to paint in the economic back- ground against which the bank's annual report is presented. Whatever the coming year may have in store, however, it is worth emphasizing that there is as yet scant evidence of any general or sharp downturn in the pace of business," Mr. Jensen praised the bank's 'Staff for their performance in meeting the high volume of business. He explained that the bank was continuing to develop its mechanization program to the maximum practical degree to assist the stall 1 handling the immense volume of Work, and that it was likewise keeping un- der constant review all mattera relating to the welfare of the staff, TwinDelivery -- Mrs. Joseph Derricks, 41, holds her identical twins, Paul, left, and Peter, born at theeEpiscopol Hospital in Philadelphia. Standing at their side is 'another set of identical twinS, Gordon Lockhart, left, and Herbert G. Lockhart, Jr.,. eight• both juniors at the Temple University Schoolof Medicine, who assisted at the births,