HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-12-23, Page 2SAL TALKS
Jam A ..trews',
Meat drapes from various courtt.
tries is my "bill of fare" today
and I'm sure you'll and these
somewhat `different ways of
serving up the familiar pork,
veal and so on, well worth try,
SWEET-SOUR SPAIRRERIBS
2 pOunds;pprk spareribs
1 tablespeen salad oil
1 small piece gblfier "(4'`'
1 clove garlic, crushed
let eup sugar
144 teaspoon dry mustard
teespoor salt
2 tablespoons Hour
2 tablespool`i§ soy settee
3 tabiespoone vinegaic ,,
I cup water
Cut spareribs in 1-r115 pieces
and plane in large skillet, Cover
with hot water, bringing to boil,
and simmer 10 minutes. Drain
and dry thoroughly. Heat oil in
skillet and add spareribs. Turn
to brown on all sides. Peel gin-
ger root and chop fine. Place 'in
bowl with garlic. Add all dry in-
gredients then the liquid ingre-
clients. Stir until smooth. Pour
.;ower spareribs in skillet and sim-
,gaer 20 minutes. : Serve hot.
•;Serves 4.
VEAL SCALLOPINE
1 pound Veal, sliced very thin
?.3 cup flour
34 cup grated nippy cheese
Dash pepper
1 cup sliced mushrooms
44 cup butter or margarine
1 can condensed bouillon (14
•
CUPS)
Cut veal into pieces': about 2
inches square, pound wells;?with
mallet or edge of saucers Mix
Hour, cheese and pepper;' -dredge
veal in this mixture.•..$rown veal
and mushroom's . in butter ib
heavy skillet. Blend in remain-
ing flour -cheese mixture and
bouillon; heat and stir until
sauce starts to thicken; cover:
simmer 5 minutes. Garnish with
stuffed olives. Serves 6.
Real Cool!—Robert E. Hopp mod-
els the gasheated work suit he
designed for cold -weather wear.
Hot propane gas, supplied by a
21/2 -pound metal unit clipped to
the belt, is circulated through the
suit in rubber tubes. The suit,
which weighs 101 pounds with
the heater unit, can keep a man
warm for 12 hours in 30 -degree -
below -zero -weather.
ADOBO
1 pound pork chops 1 inch
thick
1 clove garlic, chapped tine
1 bay leaf -
cup vinegar
lit cup water
4 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Spinach or cabbage, cooked.
Brown chops in skillet. 'Mix
garlic, bay leaf, water, vinegar,
salt, and pepper. Pour' over
browned chops. Soak for 5.,min-
utes. Cover. Bring quickly to
ti boil. Lower heat and simmer
until nearly dry, Remove ',chops
from skillet. Add canned or fresh
cooked cabbage or spinach, Stir
lightly with fork. Serve on' hot
platter topped with the ' "pork
chops, Three servings.
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If the man in your family likes
a Ragout, here is one made with
pork hocks that will win praise.
It is good served with boiled
potatoes, carrots and cabbage. It
serves 4.
PORK HOCK RAGOUT
1 pound pork hock (4, pieces)
4 tablespoons shortening
1 onion, sliced
2 teaspoons salt
1 bay leaf (optional)
le teaspoon whole cloves (op-
tional)
1 cup water
4 pound ground beef
le pound ground pork
el teaspoon pepper
Browned flour (about 4
cup)
Brown hocks in 2 tablespoons
shortening in a heavy kettle or
skillet. Add onion, 1 teaspoon
salt, bay leaf, cloves and water.
Cook 2 hours, or until fork ten-
der; Add water from time to
time if necessary (there should
be about 3 cups liquid at end of
cooking period). Mbc together
the ground beef, pork, ,pepper,
and 1 teaspoon salt. Form into
14 -inch balls and roll in
browned flour. Brbwn in second
skillet in 2 tablespoons shorten-
ing. Add browned meat balls to
pork -hock mixture and cook ei
hour. Just before serving, thick-
en broth with 4 tablespoons
browned flour mixed with liquid
left in pan after frying meat
balls.
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Chicken almond stirs the im-
agination to see pictures of the
Orient, and here is a modernized
version,
CHICKEN ALMOND—
CANADIAN VERSION
2 tablespoons butter or mar-
garine
ee cup celery, cut in 1 -inch
pieces
li cup sliced onion
2 cups diced, cooked chicken
(turkey or veal is good
too)
l.z cup canned mushrooms
1 tablespoon cornstarch
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 cup clear chicken consumme
1 cup unsalted toasted al-
monds
Melt butter in skillet and add
celery and onion. Stir and cook
2 minutes. Add chicken and
mushrooms. Heat 8 minutes
more. Combine cornstarch, soy
sauce, and consomme. Stir slow-
ly into chicken mixture. Stir
and heat carefully 5 minutes.
Stir in almonds. Serve over hot
fluffy rice, serves 8.
FIVE -IN - ONE
As the result of three years of
experiments a Bury St. Edmunds
farmer now has a stock of 5,000
fruit trees, each single tree pro-
ducing five separate varieties of
the same fruit—apple, pear, or
plum.
IltN TONS of succulent turlrey, like the one proudly shown here by Romeo
barest, chef lnetruotor for the Canadian National Railways, will be served
aboard C,N.R. dining cars thio Yuletide. More than 22,000 special Christ,•
mss dinners will be served over the holiday season, topped oft with plum
pudding a la CPilt'a own spoaial recipe.
Christmas -On -Wheels For The Next 10 Years — J. T. Callahan points out to Raymond Geist some
of the toys the two-year-old boy will receive each Christmas for the next 10 years. This Christ-
mas he'll receive an airplane and automobile both large enough for him to ride, as well a tri-
cycle, kiddie -car, wagon and sled. He is being given the transportation toys to honor his being
the one -millionth person 46 ride on the latest form of transportation .... the world's first moving
rubber sidewalk, installed at the B. F. Goodrich Co. exhibit in Chicago's Museum of Science and
industry.
News Trickle — New Yorkers at Times Square reach for copies
of the Sunday Herald Tribune — the first Manhattan paper to be
published in a week. The usually thick edition was limited to..
eight pages.
Admiral's Love For Fruit Cost Two Warships
When a British naval squad-
ron arrived at a seaport in Chile
during the 1914 war, the Admiral
in charge sent his steward to buy
fresh fruit.
Ashore, however, the steward
got very drunk, and had to be
bundled by comrades into -the
ship's boat, which pushed off for
the flagship, leaving the basecet
of fruit behind.
Waking later, he remembered
the fruit, and, fearing the Admir-
al's wrath, begged the wireless
operator to ask a collier tb bring
the basket to their refuelling
rendezvous off the coast the next
day.
No one suspected that, about
one hundred miles away, several
German ships were making for
Valparaiso. The Gneisnau's radio
caught the message: "Bring out
the Admiral's basket of fruit"
Direction -finding equipment in-
dicated the position of the Brit-
ish squadron, and within four
hours the Germans had sunk the
Good Hope and Monmouth. That
basket of fruit cost us two good •
ships and 1,200 lives!
Cdr. A. B. Campbell, serving at
the time in H.M.S. Otranto, dis-
closes this in his engrossing `re-
miniscences, "When I Was ih'Pa-
tagonia." 1
One amusing story is that of a
fakir who came aboard the troop-
ship Orient at. Bombay to enter-
tain her company. He hypnotized
a dozen volunteers made them
mark time, take off their jackets,
then their pants, "Jump Over the
side," he next ordered, and, as
they raced to the port rail, "The
other side," then as they turned
and raced to the starboard side,
"Back again!" Finally he lined
fhem up and said to each, "Wake
up, big man," : and they came
round.
The captain ordered the mast-
er-at-arms to see bins down the
gangway and give him something
for his show. Later, Cdr. Camp-
bell asked, "What did you give
that fakir?" "Give 'im? 'Why, sir,"
he replied, "I give 'im a good
hiding for mucking abaht with
tho Armyl"
When Campbell first went to
sea, ships didn't carry a surgeon;
Only a medicine chest containing
numbered battles, plus a chart
showing a man with small num-
bered circles marked Over his
body. When a manreported sick,
you asked him where he felt ill,
referred to the chart, and gave
him a dose from the bottle with
the corresponding number.
Unfortunately No, 13, for the
stomach, soon emptied, so for the -
rest of the voyage, Campbell gave.
any man complaining 'of tummy
trouble a dose made up half front
bottle 6, half from 7, making 13
—"and, believe nee," he says, "it
cured him!"
He once broadcast some tales'
about Tierra del Fuego, including.
one about a dog with four noe-
trils,•Sonie listeners =who thought
them untrue, wrote to the B.B:C.
Campbell was asked for confer=
mation, but he was unable to pro-
duce
roduce proof. Six months later -he
met, et a Broadcasting House lun-
cheon, Mr. Lucas Bridges, an au-
thor who lived at Tierra del
ego. ,
"Do you live in that white
house with green shutters half, a,
mile from the shore?" Campbell
asked. nn.
"That Is my house; have ybtt
been there?" „
"Yes, but you were away, In
Chile at the time. By the vfly,
have you still got that dog with
four nostrils?"' '
"No, poor old Jacic died last
year, but I have a photograph lot.
him"—and Lucas produced ,it
from his pocketbook, substantiat
ing the Commander's story,
Retired admirals and many
others also doubted another
broadcast story of a wooden -leg-
ged albatross. Later a letter came
from an old shipmate in Fre-
mantle, Australia, who had heard
the broadcast and recalled how
the hos'n had put a wooden leg
on an albatross that 'fell On the
deck when they were crimping
the Great Australian Bight, fee
was one Of the seamen, he said,
who held the bird while the op-
eration was carried outs
Yet another story—told On the
Brains Trust --was Of a bald-
headed man Campbell knew, who
was allergic to marmalade, and
when he ate it steam rose from
the top of hit head)
Until letters canto confirming
the story, the Commander .had
difiicultY in convincing the B.B.C.
Governors that he hadn't over -
Mapped the (nark.. Many were
front 'bald fathers grumbling that
now, when the children passed
the marmalade, they Wanted ftp
see the steam! At friend told hint
"When my kidi pater Me the ntair-
malade now, I laugh so much I
have to wipe my glasses before
I can read the paper!"
On Easter Island, Campbell
once saw a Iianaka funeral et
which, after the Catholic service
and burial; relatives •and friends
round the open grave gave three
hearty cheers. Some time pre-:
viously, he learned, they had -
heard three cheers given by a
ship's crew for an anniversary:
It •seemed a fitting conclusion to
any, special occasion, so was ad'
opted for burials!
• Among .the first-class passen-
gers in one of Campbell's shipsc''
heading for Fremantle from Ade+
laide was a well-known racehorse
owner. Watching a deck service."
conducted- by a clergyman in
chocolate and gold hood and
stole, he suddenly exclaimed:
"That's a coincidence; the fellow
taking the service is wearing my
racing colours. Come along to the
wireless room," he added, "2 •
want to send a radiogram . , . I've
got a horse running at Adelaide
tomorrow and I think that par-.,
son's gear is a decided tip."
It won at five to one. He sent
'for the parson, told him: "I've
made a bit of money out of you;" "
and handed him 425, saying, "I.
put five pounds to win for you."
Campbell himself once dreamt,.;
before the Derby, that a grey
horse romped home with a 50 -
yards lead, but thought it non
sense because the jockey was
talking French all the time.
Some clubmen to whom he men-
tioned the dream almost shouted,
"Don't you know that the jockey
who is riding the grey has been
racing in France for the past two
years, and speaks French fluent;
ly?"
They at once laid a large sum
on the filly Tagalie. And she won
the Epsom classic easily at 100
to 8.
Another well-known Austral-
ian bookie took a large party of
relatives and friends to Europe
in Campbell's ship, paying all
their expenses. When the c011ec-
tion plate was brought round at
a Sunday morning service in the
saloon, the bookie fumbled in his
pocket, obviously embarrassed,
then asked in a husky whisper;
"How much is it? I'll pay for
the lot."
When Melba was aboard, the
congregation would only pre-
tend to sing the hymns, mouth-
ing the words quietly, in order
not to drown her beautiful voraii
—for she would never sing
the ship's concerts. When a bishe
op WW1'' a raucous voice began:"
braying the• hymns one Sunday, •
a passenger sitting behind him "
dug him in the -ribs and whis-
pered hoarsely: "For Heaven's
sake, keep your mouth shut,
you're spoiling the whole show."
Commander Campbell's hu-
mour and ability to yarn well
make his book first-rate enter-
tainment,
TOUGH EGOS
With a carton of eggs on the
seat of the car beside her, Mrs.
G. Bannon sped off t) make a
delivery. A few hundred yarda
from her destination a high-
powered cer smashed into her
vehicle and the impact hurled
Mrs. Bannon and her ear a dis-
tance of 42f1, through a hedge on
to a law&.
In all, seven persons ware in-
jured in the accident, and the
policemen who came along to
make a report were ataggered tt1
find the carton of eggs still nest-
ling on the seat and not OM cif
Slant was broken,
Folks can Lose Most Anything
You'd think that some (hitter
would be too big to lose —
like elephants, railway engines
and ships. Yet it seems they can
get mislaid just as easily as um-
brellas.
The people of New South
• Wales are still laughing about
the railway engine that lost it-
self. One night it was there,
the next day .it lead vanished
without trace. SOS •'messages
were sent up and clown the
main railway lines but no one
had seen it. The police were
caned in. They searched every -
yard of track and still couldn't
find it.
The newspapers got to hear of
it and facetiously offered a re-
ward "with no questions asked"
for the return of the engine, It
was missing for a week. Then
the owner of,a brickyard strolled
into a little used part of his
premises and found it,
It was on a length of track due
to be pulled up. A workman
had run it to the end of the
• line, which finished in the brick-
yard. Then the lines were pull-
ed up by another gang who
never even noticed the 'engine!
Losing a ship would be simple
considering the millions of square
miles of sea there are, especial-
ly in the days before radio, but
when all records of a ship are
also lost, it is an incredible
lengthening of the arm of .coin-
eidence.
H.M.S. Falmouth sailed from
Britain with a full complement
of • oficers; men and guns. Her
destination . was Batavia. Frons'"
that moment all trace of her was
lost. No papers came to light in,
the Admiralty to remind anyone
of her' existence, No one even
.picked up a file accidentally and
said: "Good Heavens, the. Fal-
mouth! Now, what on earth has
happened to her?"
The British Admiralty `had' as
complete' lapse of inefeciry 'and"
ten years later, had even for:-
gotten
or=gotten she ever existed. It was
left to another warship, I2.M.S,
Dolphin, to find her—still at
Batavia!
No orders had been received
to return :to base so she stayed
there. In time, mud had silted
up the channel where she lay,
and held her securely. The men
were half starved- All the of-
ficers. were dead, yet, every
evening for ten years, they had
fired the sunset salute gun,
Every morning they had waited
patientlyfor the order to re-
turn -to Britain.
Not long ago a policeman,
looking very embarrassed, walk-
ed into the back entrance of
Camberwell police .station lead-
ing an elephant at the end of a
rope. He had found it strolling
miserably along a Camberwell
street!
It was traced to a travelling
circus. The astounding part was
that the circus people did not
know they had lost it. The ele-
phant had slipped the catch on
its cage and walked out when
the attention of the attendants
was centred elsewhere. Later it
had strolled back to Camber-
well—into the arms of a police-
man.
The Pneumatic Despatch Com-
pany once built a tube railway
underground for the swift dis-
patch of letters -and parcels from
the G.P.O. to Euston Station.
For years it was extensively used,
Then, for some reason, it was
forgotten so completely thatfor
over half a Century no one oven
knew, it existed. It was re-dis.,
covered most dramatically. Gas
had seeped into the tube over
the long period and, in 1928, it
blew up.
Probably the most amazing
Using that has ever been lost is
a factory. It was a million dol-
lar glass factory in the heart of
Torrence, California. The own-
ers closed it, leaving the valuable
machinery inside. One day it
was there—a well known' land-
mark.—the next, it had complete-
ly disappeared. More astounding
still ,it had been stolen -the
where works!
A gang, complete with lorry
loads of house demolishing equip-
ment, reached the factory late
r one night. They Completely dis-
mantled it; loaded up the Ma-
chinery, and even took away the
bricks without being seen by any-
one. For many months the
s California police were embar-
rassed by people ringing them.
to inquire; "Seen a factory any-
where?"
IRISH SOLUTION?
Lately there have been threats
of trouble in Ireland — hut' there
always have been, During a
tour of America, the famous
Irish wit,- editor and parliamen-
tarian, T. P. O'Connor—"Tay
Pay"- to the public -was enter-
' twined et a Iunclfeon. •' His Bost
• asked suddenly: •"How is;"lre-
lanli?" -
"Oh, Ireland's in a divil',o a
way."
"How's that?" -
"Tay Pay" mapped out with
his finger an imaginary Ireland
on the tablecloth and said: "Well
you ,see, down here we have the
Catholics: up there we have the
Protestants; and they're at' -each
others' throats all the time , 0
often I wish they were all hay -
then so they could livetogether
like Christians."
Aztec Dimaggio? — This chunky
Aztec stone Image, on display
in Mexico City's Palace of Fine
Arts, could very well be playing
baseball, waiting with a short
bat for that horsehide to sizzle
.toward home plate..
Safe Christmas Is A Merry One — It's not pleasant to think of a
gaily decorated Christmas tree as an instrument of destruction.
But your :beautiful tree is a serious fire hazard.. -Because of its
natural pitch and resin, it is highly combustible, nod once ignited
is almost impossible to extinguish by ordinary methods. Illustrat-
ed below are "do's" and "don'ts" to observe,in the handling of
your tree, as suggested by the ,National Safety Council
tweed wirhte before putting When -needles start (ailing die•
card the tree immediately.
lights on the trey.
After opening the presents des•
pose at all the trat>be•.
iRl(:ctrie trains gra fun, but are
dangerous around the tree.
Ilse itsbta approved b1 the
--1744erwrIsen, g aboraterr, ..:
{'then you leave the house make
epee this tree'Jlahia are out; -