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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-5-19, Page 2TA13LE TALKS meAtuttiews, , There is probably no cut of meat that suffers more from *si- mper.' cooking than that old stand-by, the pork chap. Far too ;many otherwise expert cooks ;Just shove them into a frying pan, turn on the heat and let 1t go at that, It's far better to braise pork chops and cook slowly, rather Vaal fry, Brown them well, add liquid, cover and slow -cook for about 1 hour, Then you'll have elope se tender that you'll hard- ly need a knife, .And, of course, chops aren't the only cut Of pork that needs ilrorough cooking. Underdone pork is something that nobody should ever serve or eat! v a * Bork Chops Creole 4 loin pork ohops 2 tablespoons Roar 1 teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoon each, pepper, garlic salt, and thyme 4 slices onion ri§ cup uncooked rice 1. No, 2 can tomatoes Combine flour and rife the salt, pepper, garlic salt, and thyme; dredge chops. Brown in a little fat. Place browned chops in ioottom of casserole; top with slices of onion and rice. Season tomatoes with remaining salt, pepper, garlic salt and thyme; pour over rice and chops. Cover and bake at 550°F. 30 trains. Re- move cover and continue baking another half hour, basting oc- easionally. Serves 4. * * * Pots( coon WITH APPLE SLICES 5 pork loin chops, eat 1 itch thick 3 teaspoon salt d. teaspoon pepper a firm apples 1 cup wafer ai cup red einnanhon drops cups sugar Brown chops on both sides be trying, pan. Seaman with salt and pepper. Cover tightly and Book /or 45 minutes; Or until well done. Boil auger, water, and cinnamon drops together until cinnamon drops are dissolved. Cut apples crosswise into 1/2 -inch slices. Simmer apple slices in syrup un- til just tender, but not overcook- ed. Remove from syrup and drain. * a Lemon Barbecued Mkt 2-4 pounds spareribs 34.enp, lemon juice cup catsup or ehili dance 1 teaspoon horseradish mime Dash tabasco sauce 1 tablespoon Worcesterstuire sauce ?t cup fresh orange juice 2 teaspoons dry mustard %teaspoon paprika 34 cup honey or brown auger 1 clove garlic 2 lemons unpeeled and sliced 1 teaspoon salt Cut ribs in serving size pieces; place in roasting pan and brown at 450°F. for 50 minutes, Drain off fat Combine remaining in- gredients except sliced lemons; brush over ribs. Place a slice Of lemon on each piece of meat. Reduce heat to 850°F. for 1 hour, basting frequently with sauce. Serve 5 or 6. * * * Serve this sweet and pungent pork with hot, fluffy rice Air a really tempting dish. Sweet and Pungent Pork 2 pounds lean pork, cut in small pieces Salt and pepper 1 cup brown sugar 4 tablespogns cornstarch 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 No, 2 cans pineapple ohunks 2 green"peppers, cut in strips 3 medium onions, cut in rings Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper. Cook thoroughly in large frying pan, turning to brown evenly. Mix together In a sauce- pan brown auger, cornstarch, salt, vinegar and Foy sauce, Drain syrup from canned pine- apple chunks and measure; add enough water to make 2 cups; and mixo brown well. Cook until sliar gure ht ly thickened, stirring constantly. Add green pepper, Onion and pineapple chunks, Cook 3 min- utes. Remove from heat, add pork and let stand at least 10 minutes. xuat .before serving, bring to boil, stirring constantly. Serves 8. Warm Hospitality In A Cold Land It's a good country where the spirit neigborliness and warmth of welcome that belong to a frontier is not forgotten in the easier way of life that comes with comforts of civilization. Alaska is that kind of a good country. Although It is still a frontier and there are .many parts Of it where hospitality is still a "must" from the stand- point of survival, there are also towns and cities where ej'ery comfort and convenience are available and yet where hearts and homes are always. open, Ketchikan, the first Bort of call in southeastern Alaska for the boats northward bound;' is an example. When a friend in the States writes friends. in Ketchikan that friends of his will be in for the three or four lours the boat stops, the Alas- kans make a note of the date and are on hand when the pas- sengers land to greet the "friend" and take them . out to see the new pulp mill, the totem poles, and the sheer beauty of the ,majestic scenery that lies on every aide. Not long ago a young engi- neer who has been working on one of the new projects under construction in - this booming town, brought his wife and three children up for a week's holi- day. They took the summer cot- tage of people who had gone south (which means to the States) for the time they would be in Alaska. A resident engineer and his wife welcomed the young fam- ily In true Alaska style. The • Bab On File New-born babies •at a Sian • or keeping. ' Fron-etaco�hospital are filed away for safe keep}ng. The infants are bedded down in a,piastic-,fined, ateelydrawer that slides between the mother's room and the baby's nursery. This allows .the.m other, to be with her baby, left, and permits her to watch above the drawer, as nurse, right, cares for childa in air-condkloned nursery, amuse Alaskan engineer's wife went out to the cottage with flowers from her garden, a freshly baked pie of generous propor- tions, and loaves of homemade bread, He arranged a couple of boat trips for the whole family. At noon one day, he learned from the young engineer that the mother and three boys were. in town shopping and he promptly called his wife. She didn't ask if he wanted to in- vite the family for lunch, "Tell Helen we are expecting them all tb have ' lunch with us," was her answer to her husband. Forthwith, she multiplied the open -face -grilled sandwiches she , was preparing of bacon, chees0, and tomato, from eight to, 18. Because, instead of four places, she 'would now set nine. She did it with happy enthusi- asm. Places were set at the breakfast table in the kitehen for .the three children and at the table before the, living -room window for the grownups —the window that gives a view of the blue water of the harbor and the bordering blue and gray mountains beyond. With the generous; sandwiches with homemade bread as their base, and parsley for garnish, she served plenty of milk, and a juicy apple pie it la mode for dessert. It was no trouble for the host- ess. She made no fuss nor flurry about halting nine instead of four, all of a sudden as lunch was nearly ready. Hers was just natural, easy Alaska hospitality with the warm welcome that makes visitors glad they have come north. Great Ballerina Tours America p . American life rather over- whelmed Alicia (Markova) when she first arrived in the States, and in some aspects it still amazes her. In a community where people .read condensed novels because they have not the time to study the detail of the full length work she felt That they appreciated the out- line rather than the detail of the ballet. She wondered whether it was possible for artistes to deve- lop as they should in cities where life was lived. at such high pressure. How could they pos- sibly find peace and._leisure for contemplation in suchen atmos - here? She looked back on the Diaghileff days at Monte Carlo Flitch -Hiking Pigeon iioatdeckman Matthew Mascrop of the flutti ered exhausted on to heA diiner's bridge 350 racing milesiout In the Atlantic as the 14,000 -ton vessel was bound for Canada recently, Weary from battling a storm, the bird circled the shipfor a full day before alighting, Moscrop, himself a pigeon fancier, fed the Weakened bird torn, built a cage find soon nursed it back to atrangth. The pigeon hada racing tag and an identification band marked NURP Q 76, When the Ascania docked in Montreal, the eaptdln tent a letter off to the National Union of Racing Pigeons eidvieing that the bird would be brought book to England in the Ancanla and asking that its owner be advised. e when the dancers cut themselves off from big -city life in order to be quiet and think seriously about the parts they were call- ed upon to interpret. The tem- po.of "American life made seri- ous solitary contemplation more than difficglt • The one-night stands on the coast -to -toast tours proved gruel- ing for Alicia, when she first experienced them.. Nothing like them- exists. in Europe. In Bri- tain the distances between the big cities are a matter of only a few hours, and the cities them- selves are large enough to ac- commodate a ballet company for a whole week. This means that the dancers can live in a hotel and make themselves at home for a week or longer before they -move on to the next place. In America, it is all so different, Only New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco are large enough t o permit a ballet company to stay for any length of. time. Most of. the ather cities, are yisited for' only two or three performances, and in many cases for one night only , . One December morning, at three o'clock, to be exact, I re- call a gr o up of the world's greatest dancers waiting for a bus to take them to Miami twelve hours away. Alicia was stretched out on the pavement with three overcoats — • mine and those of Jerome Robbins and John Kriza—as her mattress, and her own hatbox,, as a pillow. Next to her, on three suitcases, lay Jerome Robbing, fast asleep. Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, An- nabelle Lyon, and Nora . Kaye were playing some sort of a new card game . . , Such were the nights- we spent in the war years as we travelled the length and breadth of the United States. 1 am ' happy to Kay, trough, that we Were never guilty of giving slovenly per- farmances. Nothing would have been snore unfair to those bal- letomanes in vagi states auch as Tercas, where ballet came but one night a year, — From "Alicia Markova," by Anton Dolin. 'Chute The Works—Its test run - completed, a Ryan "Firebee" guided. missile is lowered to the desert in ,New Mexico on its own. 70 -foot. parachute. The parachute, which may be op- erated either by remote con- trol er automatically, saves the expensive, 600 - miles - per - hour device for further tests. Color -Blind Bees By the scent of a little honey it is possible to attract bees to an experimental. table. Here we can feed them on a piece of blue cardboard, for example. They suck up the food and, after car- rying it back to the hive, give it to the other bees. The bees re- turn again and again to the rich source of food which they have `discovered.. , . We perform the following ex- periment. On our table we place a blue card and around it we ar- range. On each card we set a little watch glass, but ' only the glass dish on the blue card 'con- tains food (sugar -water). In this way we train the bees to come to the color blue. Since bees have a very good memory for places we frequently change the rela- tive positions of the cards. But the sugar is always placed on the blue card so that in every case 'the color indicates where food is to be found. After some hours weperform the decisive ex- periment, The cards and the glass dishes soiled by the bees are taken away. We place on the table a new series of clean cards of different shades of gray, each with an empty glass dish, and somewhere among them we place a clean, blue card provid- ed, like all the others, with . an empty glass dish. The bees re- member the blue color and alight only on the blue card, distin- guishing it from all shades of gray, This means that they have a true color sense. . . , If we try to train bees to find their food on scarlet red, they alight not only on the red cardboard but., also on black and on all the dark gray cardsin our arrangement. Thus red and black are the same to the eye of the bee; in other words, bees are red -blind. From these experiments it 1e clear that bees have a color sense, but that it is not quite the same as that of a normal human being. , , , It is interesting to consider the colors of flowers in relation to the color sense of bees, We can understand at once why .scarlet - red flowers aro so rarely found in Europe, since the visiting in- sects are red -blind. There are, however, many scarlet -red flow- ers in America and in Africa; but long before we had learned anything about the color sense of insects it was known that this shade of red is typical of flowers Visited and pollinated by birds. —From "Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language," by Karl von Frisch, Copyright, 1950, by Cornell University, Cor- nell University Press, Now A Cat Falls A eat that falls or springs from a height, great or avian, generally manages to fall on its feet, That we all know. We do not mean to ""say that every cat could fall from a height and al- ways land safely on its feet; but in general a cat has this ability. This wonderful -feat ismade. pqs- sibla by the way the muscles of the cat are arranged and the quickness- of the cat's instinct for Bringing thein into play. No matter how a 'cat is dropped, it is usually able to turn over in the air .and so twist itself thakits feet come in contact with the ground first. The ability oi' the -cat to alight feet first is aided by the healthy condition of its balancing sense. :This sense is governed by the semicircular canals -six little. fluid -bearing canals, three in each ear—that enables cats (and humans) to keep in balance. How- ever, if they played any special part in the wonderful feat of the cat we should expect to find these balancing canals very high- , ly developed in cats; but they are riot. • ' Scientists : say that then also would•ire able;to'-alight On their feet, when falling -if they. could think quickiy.,enough, Some., do. Many of us have seen men dive head -foremost from a' trapeze, turn 'somersaults in the air' and .land safely. Others'. vault; over • the back; of horses, whirling 'round, in midair es .they go, yet drop safely on their feet, All these skills are perfected by much practice 'so that they be- come almost instindtive. Q. How 4110011 natural -finish wlltew or winker furniture he washed? A, Wash thoroughly with warm soapsuds containing enough borax to make the water. soft. Scrub the reeds with an ordin- ary scrubbing brush and wipe off with a dry. cloth; set in the sun until all dampness. has dis- appeared. Q. How can 1 make stockings wear longer? A, Do not put stockings aside for several days after wearing before washing them; as the moisture from the feet will quickly rot them. They should be washed as soon as possible after wearing, Q, How can I make 1t easier to clean woolens?i A. Before attempting to clean a woolen garment, always brush it thoroughly. Much of the dust can be romoved, thereby snak- ing the cleaning far easier. Q. How can I get rid of insects in the kitchen? A, Try laying a sheet 'of fly paper under the sink over night, The number of insects that are stuck to •it in the meaning Will astonish, you: Never leave any food uncovered over night to attract these insects, Q. Row can I brighten alums- num pans? A, Use the, darkest aluminum pan for cooking rhubarb, apri- cots, lemons or tomatoes. These foods' Contain acid and will brighten the aluminum. Q. How can, I remove the cloudy appearance of plate glass? A. Clouded plate glass can be satisfactorily cleaned by rdbbing briskly 'with alcohol. Q. How canal dove time when preparing string beans? A, Remove the tops-, and strings, then take a dozen or more beans, hold them on ' a board, and cut them across with a sharp knife, It is much quicker and easier than break- ing each bean. Q, What is a good rule to fol- low when pressing garments? A. Never to place a hot iron on the right side of any material except cotton. Always lay a cloth between -the iron and the fabric, Q, How can I keep a steplad- der front slipping? A. Nail pieces of felt or rub- ber.on all four ends of the step- ladder. This will prevent its slipping and probably causing a serious fall. Q. How cat I remove stub- born spots oa white leather shoes? A. Try rubbing lightly with a very fine grade of sandpaper. Drumbeats Sound In Africa. „ Every adiilt in oiir'forest has a name to be beaten "but on the. , call- drum; by this ,/;e is sum- mdned 'from' the forest to 'the village dr frbnr town to town, These nicknames are like . prov- erbs, disclosing. the authentic - irony of the Bulu mind; .and while there is no gender iii the Bulu dialect, often the tenor of the comment le a clue. Abote tells me her drum name or ndan is, "You are the limit, the limit, of beauty!"' • "My ndan," ' says . Essola, "is 'The little parrot has eaten all the palm nuts,' and that is a way of saying I am small but able"... From the shade of my eaves I see our own call -drums, hol- lowed log four fret long, the ori- ginal of . the log trimmed to an oval, the open -.ends plugged with a, softer wood. It is mount- ed on a sawhorse under a little hood of thatch, overhanging from the brink of our clearing, a world of crowding ,hills and the climbing tide of the forest, Lost to the eye in 'that green Rood, little villages sleep, and every little village has its tongue, . Presently Sakutu, our own drummer, will put his hand in the fissure which cleaves the length of our drum, and will bring out two sticks; striking the drum with these, he will ab- ruptly and terrifically, and in , the most expert manner, split into accurate lengths of tumult the quiet day. Then the voice from the thick Hp of the drum, which is the man -voice, and, the voice from the thinner hp, which is the woman -voice — for tir?'re is a least difference between the thickness of the lips of the cleft along the legth of the drum — will cry .out to the rim of our horizon. Everywhere the villages will give ear to a message from the white rhan's town, until seventeen miles from here, in the neigborhbod of Njabilobe, the .last vibration dies, With his two notes, male and female, and with every interval of time and the very pulse of rhythm Sakutu powerfully and delicately beats the drum. The great beomings and crash - Mgt rage and rage about him, 1 and fall and fall away from him; the little grace -notes and demi-semi-quavers follow, follow after, like little. curls. of smoke soon lost in air, For five minutes Sakutu leans above the dram, his back sweating and his muscles rippling, while he forces time and space to speak the mind of man. And _ when he leaves off, and is seen to breathe again, his face is complacent; as it may well be. Then back into the hol- low of the day . flow the inex- haustible silences; they drown the great crying of Sakutu. • But certainly; while it lasted, it was a great voice, — From "African' Clearings," b y Jean Kenyon MacKenzie. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924, Anti'.Slip Waxes Make Fooling Safer Visitors to public buildings are often on much safer footing than they are in their own homes. This is because building man- agement and maintenance staffs are usually more concerned with the safety of an individual than she herself is. Many public buildingsfrom hospitals to in- dustrial plants take extra safety measures 10 prevent anyone from skidding ,on their highly polish- ed floors, They do Brisby speci- fying the addition of a :special anti -slip ingredient when order- ing their floor waxes. This ingredient consists . of particles of sand -like silica so minute their diameter measures only one two -millionth of an inch. They are only one-fifth the diameter 01 the 'infinitesimal wax particles, but are much harder. ` The principle behind the action Of the silica particles when mix- ed with liquid wax is quite simple. By clinging to each wax particle they give the film extra hardness, The 2001 presses the hard spheres into the larger, softer globules that snake up"the • wax coating on the floor. Energy is immediately absorbed at the point of impact, creating a snub- bing action which makes the surface slip -resistant. Of course, the walker is, , Un- aware of what's going on under her feet. Shp just walks mote confidently than she does on her own polished floors. T h es e massed collections, of microscopic grainsare, invlsible because t h e y are, transparent. But their ability to reflect more light often result's in a noticeably higher lustre with the illusion of greater depthof film, New► Method For Treating Posts A couple of barrels is all the equipment you'll need to treat your own fence posts, using the new double -diffusion method just announced by the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. The method involves not one but two chemicals copper sul- phate and sodium chromate. You simply stand green, peeled posts, butt down, for two days in • a barrel of the copper sulphate so- lution (18 pounds of copper sol• platewater),crystals in 24 gallons of Then you switch them to a second barrel of sodium chrom- ate solution (18 pounds of sod- ium chromate powder in 26 gal- lons of water). Leave them with the butts down for one day,.lhen turn the tops down for a second day. The two chemical:: combine to form a compound that will not dissolve nor leach. One hundred pine pets treat- ed by double diffusion were set out in a Mississippi test plot more than 12 years ago. Ninety- nine of them are still in excel- lent condition. Your local farm or s ar'dware store may not yet stock the chem- icals, but can probably order them from a chemical i•o.Tnpany Twenty-five pounds of e a c h chemical. will treat about 100 posts. The cost is somewhere be- tween 15 and 30 Cents per spost. Two warnings; copper sulphate, is corrosive to iron, so you'll probably want tO handle it in a wooden barrel, Both. solutions can irritate your eyes. and skin, Wear rubber gloves while han— dling the posts, and wash off any of the solution that splashes on your skin. Rhhse the posts after treatment. Archway to Decision — Representatives of west and ossa attend- ing the C,enevsa conference cross this esplanade oath day ea,: they approach the Palais deer Nations, in Geneva, Svrltzeriano. Vltava is from an archway of the Assembly Hall in the Patois,