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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-3-31, Page 6Mien -folks are fond of JOOIting Od 4"pie like mother," made," Over- looking the fact that many mode ern housewives ItNk the Oppor- tunities for gaining the exper- ience those of a former genera- tion had. Whereas, at one time, pies were baked by the dozen in many homes, today quantities --- and families—;rave shrunk con- siderably, However, there's nothing more satisfying than a really good pie; end these hints, by Eleanor Richey Johnson in The Christian Science Monitor, will help any - One to achieve the flaky, tender crust, which is the foundation Of good pie -making. 4 tl '4 There are four Ingredients— near, shortening, salt, and water. Measurements should be accur- ate. Follow these simple rules and you'll be almost certain to suc- ceed: Sift salt with /lour; have ahortening firm but not hard; blend shortening with flour -salt mixture with pastry blender; measure water and sprinkle over flour -salt -shortening mixture; mix when this is done; shape part to be rolled into ball and place on lightly floured canvas and roll lightly, turning dough around to roll evenly In all di- rections. Place rolled dough in pan, pressing into place. To bake a pastry shell, fit it snugly into pan and prick all over with a fork. Flute or crimp edges. Bake at 475* F. 8-10 min- utes until golden brown. Cool in pan on cake rack before putting in filling. * 8 If your family is fond Of spices In pies, here are a few sugges- tions you may find useful. Add to apple pie either cinnamon or nutmeg (you may like a little cinnamon in the crust, too.) For peach pie, use a sprinkle of cinnamon. Prune pie is im- proved for some tastes by adding grated orange rind and cinna- mon. Use nutmeg for custard pie, and for pumpkin use cinnamon, mace, and ginger in the fining With nutmeg sprinkled on top. Try adding a little cinnamon or mace to your chocolate pie, nutmeg with rhubarb, mace with cherry, and cinnamon with raisin. . * * * RAISIN APPLE PIE 1 cup seedless raisins 1 cup water Ye cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour le teaspoon salt 2 large cooking apples Nautical But Nice—A yachting cap and boat wheel lend a salty flavor to this picture of shapely Freda Jones. 3 tablespoon lemon mice Pantry for double 9 -in. cruet ei cup grated Canadian cheese Rinse and drain raisins. Add water and boil 5 minutes. Blend sugar, flour and salt together, end stir in raisins. Cook and stir until mixture boils there oughly, 0001 slightly, Pare, core and dice apples; add apples and lemon juice tO raisin mixture and turn into pastry -lined pie pan. Sprinkle with cheese; cover with pastry, Bake at 4257, 10 minutes. Reduce beat to 350'3'. and bake about 40 minutes longer, or until apples are ten- der and pastry is browned. a * r RICH PRUNE PIE lei cups prunes $ eggs 35 cup sugar 34 cup dark corn syrup r/ teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons melted butter er margarine le cup coarsely chopped wal- nuts Pastry for single 9 -in. crust Cut prunes from pits into small pieces. Beat eggs lightly. Add sugar, syrup, salt and but- ter and blend well. Stir in prunes. Pour Into pastry -lined pie pan and sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 4257. for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 3507. and bake about 30 minutes longer. Cool before cutting. * * o COCONUT BANANA. CREAM PIE ei cup sugar 5 tablespoons flour Ye teaspoon salt 11/2 cups milk, scalded 3 egg yolks, beaten slightly 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup shredded coconut 2-3 ripe bananas Combine sugar, flour and salt; add milk slowly, stirring con- stantly. Cook over boiling water until thickened. Add egg yolks; continue cooking about 2 min- utes; cool. Fold in vanilla and. 3/4 cup coconut. Pour into chilled corn flakes crust. Cover with sliced bananas and meringue. Meringue Beat 3 egg whites until stiff; add 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 tea- spoon salt and ee teaspoon vanilla and continue beating un- til very stiff. Spread over sliced bananas on pie, covering filling completely to the crust. Sprinkle with remaining coconut Place in 325'F. oven for 10 minutes, or until meringue is lightly browned. Cool before serving. Crust Crush 4 cups corn flakes into crumbs. Combine with 3 cup sugar and lie cup butter or mar- garine. Mix thoroughly Press evenly and firmly around sides and bottom of 9 -in. pan. Chill. * * • LEMON SPONGE PIE 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel 2 eggs, separated 1 cup *milk 1 8 -inch pastry shell baked 8 minutes at 4255 F. Cream butter, gradually add sugar, salt, flour, lemon juice and peel. Pour in beaten egg yolks and milk, stirring well Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold Sato first mixture. Pour into partially baked pie shell. Bake at 350°F. 40 minutes until light brown. SOCK SHOCK Before retiring to bed John E. Trimmer locked the door of his flat, climbed into bed, and as a precautionary measure put his salary of £13 10s. in one of his socks, then replaced it on his foot. When he woke next morning he found that although the "safe -keeping" sock was still in place, the contents, other than five toes' and a foot, had been stolen while he slept. ;little Sucker—Maryanne Perry is -a big girl of the age of seven and a half months. Maryanne disregards the bottle and nipple end drinks liquids through a straw, an unusual feat for a child her age. He's Lucky -The Crust Was Nice n oft Aline Lehmlcke is .a pretty toed, and pletere+,helQw ,show that Chuck Mohlko, a fellow student, ;tuck hie hood through the 'she 'has *antral which many m0jor,,le4ipu, pitcher;` wish they and firedthir pie-throwing asthboilt The re illi;-Chucknaot oup ind n the eye brad, k.centiy the School decided tq hold a carnivpl to •raiaw , and the student fund regelved a niceslice of profit, from funds for ,a new student union and Anne pitched in. When Chuck's look, the pie really made q "hit." Showing big -league form, Anne Lehmicke pitches a pie .. . . which finds its mark on Chuck Mohlke's face, "Snowflakes, Go Home" "Calling all soldiers, all mice." The order was directed from the bright stage into the dark- ened auditorium at City Center. The voice came over .a loud- speaker. Through the side doors the mice walked and the, soldiers scampered to the corridor that led backstage. The mice were regular members of . the New York City Ballet in practice clothes. The soldiers, in junior versions of the working outfits, were little guest artists from the affiliate School of Ameri- can Ballet. There were 39 children in all — to attend the wonderful Christmas party and fight the great war between the toy sol- diers, led by the Nutcracker Prince, and the man-sized mice, led by their tall King. The semidress rehearsal of "Tbe Nutcracker" was one big play - party game to them. But not without discipline. George Balanchine, the master choreographer who was restaging the classic Tchaikovsky-Ivanov ballet in its full length, had himself danced as a child in the Imperial Russian Ballet produc- tions. He knew the high de- mands of the ballet and of childhood. Firmly, courteously, often hu- morously, h e approached the small student dancers as fellow workers. Now on stage, now in the orchestra pit, he guided them with the invisible baton of the creative spirit, writes Mar- garet Lloyd in The Christian Science Monitor. * 4 e Taking the two leading chil- dren by the hand, he led Clara and her Nutcracker Prince through the final measures of the snow scene that ends the fust act. Breaking off, he show- ed them how to pace their steps, how to walk the stage way in- stead of the sidewalk way. He did not let go of that bit until they had caught the style. At a distance the alternate prince echoed the measured steps, and when the White For- est was'being drawn up into the flies the three children scooped up the stage snow and tossed it at one another just a.s if they were in their own back yards. The child stars dispersed, the alternate leaping across the stage like a pretend premier denseur. The Snowflakes - members of the corps de ballet in filmy white tutus -- drifted off to wait for their next call, Now the great Christmas Tree of the opening scene veils be- ing put in place, the tree that was to expand till it outgrew Itself, surrounded with toys that were to become life-sized. But the rehearsing scenery misbe- haved. Thre was a halt in the action. Down in a front row Jean Rosenthal, the technical direc- tor, was giving quiet orders over a portable telephone. Stalking restlessly up and down the cen- ter aisle was general director Lincoln Kirsh:in. He stopped to confer with her and other aides end friends of the company clustered in the section. A counterpoint of voices -- Ordering questioning, arguing — illled the house, Balanchine was everywhere at once. The ebil- dren were flying of/ In all die notions. An Original—Opera singer !terothy Warenskjold displays the orieetie "Scout hat during GitirScout Week. Looking on are Scouts Ellen Wilson, left, and Nora Black. When at last the tree was set in aII its grandeur they gath- ered happily round it, their backs eloquent with admiration, heads tilted eagerly, hands out- stretched toward the dolls and hobbyhorses, trumpets and drums. In their colored jerseys and black tights, or short leo- tards with skin- toned legs, each child stood out as separately as a single flower in a tangled gar- den. Adults and children perform- ed the parlor minuet, repeated it, did other little dances and pantonine, ,repeated them. And so on through the dolls` lullaby, the presentation of the nut- cracker, to the party's eerie af- termath, melting into the first big transformation. Tree and window pushed into the sky, the toy soldiers came to life, and the giant mice, in their swollen gray masquerade, invaded toyland. The doll's bed, grown large enough for a child to dream upon, danced on and out into the snow country. Only the scenery was recal- citrant. All must be done again, over and over, now in patches, now consecutively, until the bed whirled an with Jean Rosen- thal, in her wide green skirt and mustard -colored overblouse, lying flat on its white coverlet -- like a symbol of needed rest. The afternoon was turning in- to evening, but . the children were ready to begin once more at the beginning, "Snowflakes, go home," the voice said over the loud -speaker, ".Report tomorrow morning at 10." What's Going On Here? Specially - constructed baths are provided in many of the halls where members of the Assem- blies of God movement worship in Britain. New converts to the move- ment undergo immersion in the baths. Wearing only light garments, they line up together ready for immersion ...- o five-minute cere- mony conducted by their Pastor, The At,eernhtics of God move- ment ban mr,re than five million adherents throughout the world. There are nearly 500 Assemblies Of God meeting halls in Great Britain and Ireland where the Movement was first established in 1024. It had Its origin in the Petite.. °Octal Movement Or Latter Reign Outpouring movement In the United States about fifty yeara ago. Atom Research Affects , ;car Comfort Years of research which cul- minated recently in the launch-` ing of the U.S. Navy's first atom - powered submarine, the Nautil- us, will pay dividends for Cana- dian housewives right fn their living rooms. In their search for material to be used in the interior of the submarine, the designers laid down the following require- ments: It must' be durable and wear -resistant. It must provide the comfort and pleasant ap- pearance itnportant to maintain the morale of the men cooped up in the undersea boat. Hundreds of different materials were in- vestigated—some still bot „from the chemist's vats. For the coverings of furniture, padded areas, wall space, the de- signers carne up with the oldest, and yet the newest, of the ma- terials used by man—genuine leather. This is what their re- ports said: "Leather has many qualities that man has been unable to duplicate hi synthetics. It has a luxurious feel, it takes on a fine patina with age, and where a puncture in a plastic soon be- comes a tear the fibres in leath- er hold it firmly together." What this means for the aver- age housewife, who will never get closer to the Nautilus than through the newsreels, is that the furniture in her home is now being covered in the same beauti- ful, but tough, leather used on the atom sub, As a result of experiments and research carried on in recent years by the tanners of uphol- stery leather—the leather that covers chairs and sofas, decorates table tops and beautifies new automobiles— there have been developed leathers which have the feel and beauty of high. fashion, and are more wear -re- sistant than ever before. In automobiles, leather is be- ing used more widely every year because it has been found that it will outlast the life of the car, and adds less to the price than the seat covers that the average motorist buys over the years. So, the next time you slide across leather into the driver's seat, Or stretch out in a comfort- able leather chair, think kindly Of the men on the Nautilus, They helped you get where you're sit- ting, Love Letters Written To Order When a young man in Paris falls in love nowadays and feels incapable of writing a really effective love letter to the girl of his choice, he hurries off to the office of bespectacled Ma- dame Faes, who is France's only public letter writer. She at once sits down and, after asking him a few questions and noting his coy replies, writes a letter throbbing with love and devotion, full of felicitous phrases, calculated to delight the most sophisticated young woman. The lover pays the public Ietter writer a modest fee, hurries home, copies the letter, and posts It the same night. The other day, for instance, a young labourer fell desperately in love with a pretty girl, daughter of a high army officer. Off he dashed to the public let- ter writ er, who immediately wrote a winner! That couple will marry in the spring. On a fine day there's often a queue outside Madame Fees' office door. A smart young man carrying a bouquet of flowers wants her to write just the bonmot for the note he plans to send with flowers. A man of fifty has fallen for an attractive and lonely widow and is sure that Madame Fees' ready pen will help him to win her hand. It invariably does. Old people often seek her help. An elderly business woman who finds filling in tax forms more and more difficult with her failing sight enlists the ver- satile letter writer's aid. Foreign workers in Paris who seek new jobs go to her and she helps them advertise their ser- vices. Madame Fees is about the most tactful woman in Paris and many of the letters she writes for people begin with the words "My Sweet Friend " Her clients' secrets are perfectly safe with her. They call her "The woman everyone can trust" One Game Lasted Over Ten Years A "rearathan" chess game last. ing 14 hours between Russian and British chess masters recent- ly attracted world attention. Bet chess matehes are played that last fpr weeks and at least one went On for ten years! Chess is the only serious game that can be played by post and there are always thousands Of games in progress in which the opponents never meet face 10 face. They play by post, without boards or chessmen, just ex- changing diagrams On paper ar rendieir min the "shorthandngth" of chess,oves like P.K1t3. This shorthand, is international, understood by any player, what- ever his nationality, and inter- national games by post are be- coming increasingly popular. They can last a long time when each move takes three or four weeks. The British Cor- respondence C h e s s Agsociation have an international tourna- ment and a game between a Bedford hairdresser and a South American player not long ago took two years. But this is nothing like a record. A barrister in the High Court mentioned that a postal match with the English Bar tak- ing on the American Bar took four years. During the war postal chess was popular with men in the services despite the danger that the censor might mistake the moves for a spy code. But with constant moves from one place to another, letters sometimes took months to catch up, In "one match between a civilian in England and an Army captain, they got in nine moves in four years! Then the captain was invalided home and they finished the game face to face in a couple of hours. The record is probably a pos- tal game started in 1915 between a civilian and a naval officer. They got in some moves before the naval officer was killed at Jutland. More than 10 years later the officer's daughter, now grown up, came across the cor- respondence, wrote to the friend and suggested they finish the game. Her father had obtained a winning position and she was able to consolidate the victory. One compensation for the days and, weeks that may pass between moves in postal chess is that a player can conduct sev- eral games simultaneously with- out strain One U.S. player not long ago was playing B00 simul- taneous postal games — and always found something interest- ing in his post! Mooney '• eking ouse Walt -Disney, it is reported, collects an average of two and a half million dollars a year—as a sideline. It is paid to him, or his company, by the 700 licensees in 28 countries who want to use Disney's Micky Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, or other characters in reproductions of the figures, or as trademarks, decorations and devices on such widely dif- fering products as notepaper, dolls, gramophone records, soft- drink bottles, hats, and crockery. The amount of the royalty payable is said to be assessed on average sales of the product con- cerned, and may be anything from a fractional percentage to ten per cent. It started in 1930 When a sta. tionery firm paid Disney 300 dol. lars for the right to sell post- cards with a Mickey Mouse de - 'vice printed on them. Candy Lover—The scent of his favorite candy brings Teddy out of temporary hibernation as owner Bob Williamson stands by. The bear, raised from a cub by Williamson, ducked for cover as soon as snow and icy temperatures hit the midwest.