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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-5-12, Page 2J ; ABLE TALKS . lirrrra:f e al Algidtiews, 'Borne, eruwn 'rhubarb—or "pie - Vent" as our grandmothers used loo nail it—is plentiful just; now its most localities, ao this recipe 3a both testy and timely. Using Orange juice as the liquid .for your pie -shell snakes a real dif- terenee. ORANGE-RiiUHARil PIE A cups sugar 3 cups chopped rhubarb (heaping) 2 egg yolks 1i tablespoon water 3 tablespoons flour Jet cups auger I unbaked pie shell In which orange juke 1s used for liquid 2 egg whites 6 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons grated orange rind Mix together rhubarb e yolks, flour, water, and lei cups sugar, Pout' into unbaked pie. ell. Bake at 450°F. 10 minutes; then at 850°F. 85 minutes. Make meringue of the eggwhites egu a 1 ns sugar. end 6 3 b ospoo Spread g Meringue over pie, starting at edges and working towards cen- ter. Sprinkle with grated orange Iron -On Designs In 3 Co) ors SO4 IRON -ON WATER LILIES in bopte pink and forest green! No embroidery — they look hand - painted on sheets, polloweases, .attest towels, dresser sets, lunch - ,Bon cloths! Picture all the pret- ey accessories, gay gifts you can ‘ereate with a stroke of an iron! Iron -On! Colorful! Washable! Pattern 804; six, iron -on -lilies; two 41/2 x 13, four 3 x 4 inches. Send TWENTY - FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto. SPrint plainly PATTERN NUM - EE, your NAME and AD- ARESS. SEND. NOW ,for our new 1954 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Cata- log — the nest .ever! 79 embed- dery, c r oche t, color -transfer, dressmaking patterns, to"eend for — plus 4 complete patterns printed in the book! Ideas for gifts, bazaar sellers, fashions. end 25 cents! ., 1.' rind. .Baha nt y00'F. 20.26 minutes. 4 4 4 The .quatrtities given in the next recipe make a hearty cas- • serole dish that is supposed 10 serve ten, You can easily cut them down a bit --- but not too mu c h, I warn you, because "second helpings" are the order of the day when this Is dialled up. .BRANS ANS) RICE CASSEROLE lee pounds ground beef 3 tablespoons fat 1 clove garlic 1 tablespoon Gait lt4 cups chopped Onion 1 green pepper, chopped 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 No. 2 can red kidney beans, undrained 94, cup raw rice Brown meat; add garlic, oni6n, green pepper, and chili powder, and cook 5 minutes. Add salt and remove from re. o toma- toes. Add tom a toes. Combine beans and rice in 2 -quart casserole. Add tomato mixture and bake, covered, P4 hours at 350°F. Serves 10. a e e T his column has published recipes from a great many countries but never, I believe, one from Cornwall. Now,. thanks to The Christian Science Moni- tor. %m able to pass along to you the secret of making the -lemocts °"Cornlsb pasties". °T2rese pasties should be fair - S large and fat to be at their lses's-' rte tee r'be lady trccn whom the recipe .^sine. ellerkbg them thinner ee„reess urate their taste." And, by she rx y—aamething I didn't know before --.e tree; syllable of pasties rltyrnes with "fast" not "waste as 1 had always thought. CORNISH PASTIES ei pound round steak, cut into cubes # pound pork, cut into cubes 1 cup diced raw potatoes (dice small) 1111 cups sliced raw leeks (or onions) Salt and pepper 3 cups flour 1 cup shortening 1 teaspoon salt 14 cup ice water (or less) Make pastry of the last 4 in- gredients, using as little water as possible. Force dough together with palma of hands, and knead on slightly floured board until smooth and slightly elastic. Divide into 3 parts, and roll each part into a 7 -inch circle. On lower half of each circle place a layer of potatoes, Onions, and meat (all beef may be used instead of combined beef and pork, if desired); season each layer with Galt and pepper to taste. Fold upper half of dough over filling and seal edges with fork. Turn over each pasty so that rolled part is straight down the center on top, and flatten just a trifle. Then put a few slits on each side to allow steam to escape (my mother-in-law used to say that a well -made pasty had a straight seam .down the middle):! Place pasties on ; baking sheet, and bake in preheated oven at 325°F. about 2 hours( or until 'meat is 'tender and pastry brown. Serve either -hat or" cid (we eat first: meal hot and. left -overs, cold). Six servings — this 1s made by cutting each pasty` he hell after cooking, UJandy For Sunday Dinner -- Next time, Mrs. Pierce Jodun will e less trusting of friendly fowl, Biddy insisted on living in the house rather then in the barnyard. The result — first of all, a 4lufeh of eggs In the parlor, and now — nine chicks and a peckish mama underfoot. lieuck Soup For Fishermen — We anything but ducky for "Cluykers," the river -going duck. He's ' forced Into the backwater as an advance guard of the nation's fisherman "army" goes on spring "maneuvers" In the Salmon River, to open the trout season, ke Didn't Have To Part With His "Eyes" In his time, Felix Distrito was a good fighter. He was a game brown -skinned little warrior who fought in the lightweight ranks and did very well. He may be forgotten today but no Christ- mas passes that I do not remem- ber his story, writes Bill Stern in his "Favorite Boxing Stories." Felix was as happy as his name. Ile had money, a loving wife, and a darling little daugh- ter. Then tragedy struck at Felix Distrito. His eyes began to go back on him. At first he did not tell his wife about it. But as things became dimmer and dim- mer, Felix found that he could no longer hide his secret. Ile was going blind. All the fights he had had, the cruel brows he had taken in the ring, were slowey but surely taking their tall. Before len. Felix was To get atom. Fella bought hi:rset! a beaautiful police dog named Queenie. Qreonte was the eyea of the blind graze righter. Wherever the blind man went, Queenie was at his side to guide his footsteps. His money ran out, and in order to live, Felix found a job peddling peanuts in the very sports arena where once he had starred a a fighter. Blind Felix Distrito and his faithful dog, Queenie, became a familiar sight t0 sportswriters, boxer s, and even to fans of the game, Before Christmas his child took sick. Felix did not leave her bedside. Queenie too stood. by her master, waiting and watching with almost human understanding, There was no money for food, no money for doctors, medicine, for anything that could help the ailing child. One night, as Felix sat help- lessly by his feverish daughter's bedside, an odd thing happened. Queenie suddenly rose from the corner in which she was lying and crossed the room to her master. She pressed her cold nose into his hand. Felix felt that the dog was trying to say something. He strained to under- stand her for a long minute. Then, without a word, he put 011 his shabby hat and coat and left the house, Felix went to a local radio station accompanied by his faithful companion,sought out the sports announcer and told him his story. "Go on the air, please," begged Felix. "0 f f er Queenie for "sale. Tell them what a fine dog she is. If I can't sell her my little girl will die be- cause 1 haven'tany money for food or medicine or a doctor" "How will you get along with- out the dog?" asked the an- nouncer. That doesn't matter," said Felix gently, "It's Queenie's own Idea that. I should sell her. I know because she told me." That night an appeal went over the air. The appeal was not for someone to buy Queenie. It was an 'appeal for help for a courageous blind prizefighter who was willing to sell his eyes so that his child might live. The appeal, made as it was in the Christmas season, touched the heart of a city. Money poured in from all sources - fight fans, hardboiled boxing managers, prize fighters, even from plain ordinary citizens who had never seen a fight. Enough came in to pay the bilis and to send the siOk little girl to a fine hospital for treatment, Most im- portant of all, the response of the, public made it possible for Felix and Queenie to stay to. gether. Ii was Indeed a merry Christmas for a blind man, his sick' child, and his faithful and loving "eyes," Queenie! DO1140 ITIS BIT! A speaker was giving s lecture on forest preservation. "1 don't suppose," said he, "that there is 'a person in this hall wise has done a single thing to con- serve our timber resources." Silence ruled for several sec- onds, and then a meek voice from the rear of the hall spoke up: "I 011t'0 shot a e oodperker!" Starling Trouble In England Too The executive committee of the protective association 0f starlings has been holding secret and ur- gent meetings in London the last few• days. Its members, In their dark feather tail coats, look very wise and solemn as they discuss how to propagandize their fellow starlings without letting Sir David E?c1es, Minister of Works, know what is going on. The Minister of Works, they know, is thinking of giving them "the works." In this case it would be a discorded concert of distress calls by starlings, which is ex- pected to frighten the birds away from London buildings. These re- cordings have been tried out in the United States with the result. that the starlings go away and don't come, back.. The few starlings who may know about this have little hope of passing the information along as any Londoner passing through Trafalgar Square in the late afternoon would guess. For the twittering out -decibels the "mighty roar of London traffic," and it appears to be the unani- mous opinion of thousands of starlings that not one of -them can get a word in edgewise. e At the last meeting of the star- lings' committee one sage bird is reported to have pointed out that since the record was ear -slitting for human. beings as well as dis- tressing to starlings, the London authorities might have 'to look for other ways "to. rid London of us birds," This story has been told in the London press—all except this ver- batim report of the latest star- lings' committee meeting, Which occurred on the high platform of the Nelson monument right be- tween the Admiral's feet, and which few other reporters felt was worth the climb. ' Holes In The Sky Here and there in the site the stars seem to be almost .absent. When the great astronomer Sir William Herschel saw such a starless region he exclaimed in • his native German: 'Tier ist wahrhaftig ein Loch in Himmel!" (Here is surely a hole in the sky!). For a long time these' dark Patches were thought truly to be regions where the stars thinned Out, but today we know they are, instead, regions where dark ne- bulae hide the stars front view, A dark nebula consists of sheets and swirls of .mingled' dust and gases, The thin stuff of some ne- bulae, like the one of the Plei- Ades, shines by scattered and re- fleeted starlight, Other nebulae, like the magnificent One in the sword of the great hunter Orion, shine by a process called fluor- escence. In this case the gaseous stuff is near very hot stars that emit much ultra -violet light. The gases absorb the ultra -violet and then give it out indifferentform —as visible light. A dark nebula also consists of dust and gases, but for some reason those are not shining. Maybe they lie far away from any stars that would make them shine. They are like clouds of dust here on the earth: they hide the things behind them, Many of the stars are dimmed, it i,ot completely hidden, by this cosmic dust, From the amount of this dust that we can see, we are able to estimate that there is really no empty space in our Galaxy. There are these particules strewn everywhere between the stars, here and there so densely that the stars are hidden, Beyond our Galaxy lies more space, perhaps with a.little dust and gas in it, and then there come other gal- axies --other great groups of stars like ours. Magazine Was Really Different Recently a forthcoming "epee Wel edition" of One of Rome'* weekly periodicals was heralds ed with a sensational amount' o2 publicity, Rome readers were urged not to miss it if they wanted shocks and surprises. When the much - publicised. issue of the magazine appeared on the bookstalle it was sold out as quickly as ice-cream_On a het day, Purchasers jammed the pave- ments, opening and scanning the Issue for the "sensational' contents, But they could 'see nothing different. .about the magazine,' Everything looked the same. In- deed, the paper had a rather mere sober tone about it than usual, some thought. Then, in small .print on the . very last page, there was this announcement: "Here you have read, for the first time for many months, a periodical con- taining no mention of either Farouk, or Senator McCarthy, Errol Flynn or Rita Hayworth, or even of Dr. Kinsey!" Romans who had • bought the paper laughed—and considered idered . s thehad g had their money's worth, U.A. Steel and Coal Output Gets a Fillip: A record output of steel and an increase in the Out- put of coal have been announced recently. IT.K, steel output reach- ed a record level in March, equivalent to an annual rate Of 18,969,000 tons. This compares with the rate of 18,577,000 tons a year en yebruary and the previous best rate of 18,876,000 tons last November, The U.K.'s total saleable output of deep mined- and opencast coal for the first week in April was 4,164,800 tons, the highest production since the last full 'week before Cellist- mas. Mission Abroad Accomplished Fourteen months and 30,000 miles ago a unique collection of 52 paintings of 22 Canadian Cities took to the air for a two -continent, 15 -country international goodwill tour. Painted especially for The Rouse ofiSeagram by dis- tinguished Canadian artists, these original canvases were on an unusual mission—to stimulate a deeper interest in things Canadian, and to earn increased friendliness and broader understanding. for Canada by showing the peoples of other lands the impres- sive aspect of our urban centres from coast to coast. This mission has now been accomplished. Every- where verywhere it has been shown — in. San Juan, Havana, Mexico City, Caracas, Rio de Jan- eiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Monte- video, Rome, London, Paris, Geneva,. Stockholm, The Hague, Madrid -the Seagram Collection of Paintings of Canadian Cities has made new friends for Canada and has left behind it vivid impres- sions of our land in the minds of the more than 215,000 people who visited this colourful collection on exhibition. This widespread public attention stimulated by the Seagram Collection has created a mounting interest in Canada and Canadians by bringing to people of other lands a realization that ours is a vital, growing land—a land of tremendous natural resources, and remarkable human achievement. Now back In Canada, the Seagram Collection of Paintings of Canadian Cities will shortly !embark on the second phase of its tour—a twelve -thousand mile, two-year cross-country visit to the cities of Canada. Thus Canadians will have the op• portunity of seeing at first band these 52 colourful Canadian ambassadors of goodwill. the j kuse of Seagram