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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-6-9, Page 2CABLE TA]LKS dou,n�ws, When you're buying eggs do YOU choose those with whit e she]ls rather than brown ones? DO you, like lots of women I know, refuse to have anything to do with the brown -shelled kind, and e v en pay a higher price for the white ones? Well, if you de, it might be well to ponder over this state- ment from the United St at es Poultry and Egg National Board: "Shell colour may vary from white to deep brown. Colour is a breed characteristic. Shell colour does not affect flavour, the nutri- tive value, or the cooking per- formance. Neither Is it a guide to yolk colour. There is no advan- tage to the consumer hi paying more for brown or white eggs of the same quality and size." Now, with that straightened out, seeing that eggs are fairly reasonable in price just now, a few recipes making use of the invaluable "hen -fruit" might not be amiss, MOLDED EGG SALAD 2 envelopes unflavoured gelatin 1 cup cold water 11/2 cups mayonnaise or salad dressing Juice of 1 lemon 1/s teaspoon salt. 2 drops Tabasco sauce 1 teaspoon grated onion 12 hard -cooked eggs d/ cup chopped parsley * cup finely chopped green pepper or celery Soften gelatin in the water, Dissolve over boiling w a t e r. ool slightly. Add mayonnaise, * M Old -Timer William "Uncle Adams, a former slave who fled from the south in 1863, smokes a cigaret as he celebrates his 109th birthday in a hospital, Born 20 years before slavery's abolition, "Uncle Bill" lived to see -another historic decision af- fecting the: Negro—the Supreme Cqurt's ruling that racial segre- gationin public schools was un- sonktitutional. He now keeps hos- pital workers fascinated with his' extensive knowledge of the Holy Bible. lemon juiee, salt, Tabaseo sauce, and grated Onion, Slice eggs; place center slices around the inside of an oiled r in mold (1 -1/ -quart size), Separate re- maining yolks; ehop w h it e s. Combine yolks with half the gel- atin mixture; place as a layer in ring mold. Then add pareley and green pepper as a layer. Cover with the egg whites mixed With .remaining half of gelatin mixture. Chill until set. Unmold on large platter. Fill center with vegetable or chicken salad. Gar- nish with salad greens, Serve with French dressing. • * * DEVILED EGGS 6 hard -cooked eggs 1 tablespoon softened butter 2 teaspoons lemon juice or vinegar s/a teaspoon salad mustard 1 teaspbon Worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon salmi dressing Cut eggs in half Ijsmgv .yolks. Press yolks through: sieve, and combine with remaining -ingredi- ents. Beat until smooth: If de- sired, add more seasoning and salad dressing. Refill whites. Garnish w i th parsley. Twelve stuffed eggs. * s * EGG and CHEESE CAKES 4 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon grated onion 14 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 poundsharp cheese, cut in'1;-inch cubes Salt and pepper 14 cup fat for frying Combine eggs with o n i o n, flour, salt,' pepper, and baking powder. Add cheese. Heat fat in frying pan until a drop of water sizzles.- Drop large spoonful of mixture into hot fat. Brown well on both sides, t u r n ing once. S e r v e promptly with j e 11 y. Makes 12 cakes. a * e When you're unshelling hard - cooked eggs do you sometimes get annoyed because the shells are hard to remove, and also be- cause dark spots appear on the yolks? Perhaps you may be using the wrong method — letting them boil, rather than simmer just below the boiling point. HARD -COOKED EGGS Cover eggs ` with cold water in pan so that water comes at least 1 inch above eggs. Bring rapidly to boiling. Turn off heat Cover and let stand 15 minutes. Cool eggs promptly in cold water, Or — Bring , water in pan to rapid boiling, using enough to cover eggs as above; meantime warm very cold eggs slightly in warm water to avoid cracked shells. Transfer eggs to boiling water with spoon; reduce heat to be- low simmering, cover and hold for 20 minutes. Cool as above. To remove shells from hard - cooked eggs, crackle shell and roll egg betwen hands to loosen. Start peeling at large -end of shell. Dipping in a bowl of water helps ease shell off. Helped, Anyway — JixsOn— "What gave the English language its fluency, variety, and force?" Jackson—"Off-hand, I'd say it was the alam clock." 4' Two -Wheel Tuner — Bike riders can now enjoy their favorite reillIyz Jog rn a3 thestrpedrti along. The man's right hand locate! the' receiver, arta the lamp•Ilke piece on the left side of the handlebar 15 the loudspeakgt•,. B„afteries which operate the set are under the seat.• The antenna Is attached to front wheel. Manu- fatturers claim the radio tan be installed in five minutes, Mary's Lamb Never Had It So Good — Sally the Iamb is merry when feeding time comes at the home of her mistress, Mrs. Florence Byers:' She cradles on her mistress` lap rinddrinksmilk from a bottle. Sally is three months old and has been with the Byers' since she was 14 days old, Re- cently the family was tempted to sell the lamb, but backed' down under the tearful protests - from their two daughters: Queer Things That People Have Eaten Privation once forced the late Dr. Archibald Fleming, Bishop of the Arctic, to eat his own boots, He survived. But reeently in an Austrian village a farm - worker named Alois Kratzhuber undertook to gorge his own h e a v y "leathers” if someone would give him three bottles of schnapps to wash them down. A cattle -dealer obliged, and Alois accepted bets as to the time needed to consume his un- savoury feast. Sooner than ex- pected he tore his boots to pieces and, resorting generously t0 his bottles—his thirst was, in fact, tremendous — chewed and swallowed their soles, heels and uppers until only the nails were left, He then collapsed, having reeled badly before reaching the last heel, and next,. day died in hospital from alcoholic poisoning. In the Port of London's bonded warehouses you find such edible, enticingly nam e d products as "grains of Paradise," St, Ignatius seed, dividivi (an Eastern root, not a Co-operative fruit!) and dragon's blood, all of which, when brewed up into drugs, may disappear into perfectly normal insides, - But, however eager to experi- ment, one should hesitate, I think, before taking a draught, chief ingredient of which is powdered rhino horn. This makes a favourite and much prized pick-me-up, which endows grizzled and hardy tribal war- riors, . both in Africa and Asia, with powers of fanatical strength, indestructible valour and invinci- bility in battle. No stratagems are spared in some West African districts by native poachers. Surreptitiously they shoot or spear the rhinos roaming in big game preserves to strip them of their "ivories." More astonishingly, Chinese merchants buy large quantities of this uplifting horn from Lon- don's ivory traders and sell it in China either for medicinal pur- poses or as "family raising seed." Rhino horn fetches up to eighty shillings a pound — proof enough of its current magical properties. City exporters wish rhinos grew more than a modest thirteen pounde of horn apiece. They can't get enough of It. Many Chinese "reds" in Korea used it as a fighting stimulant, just as the Abyssinians drank rhino horn potions before hurt- ling spears upraised in a mad, shrieking charge against Musso- lini's armoured columns, At present Dr. Harry L. Sha- piro, bead of New York Metro- politan Museum's anthropological section, is charging the Chinese, not with having fake!] their oldest man, SinanthrOpus Peki- nensis — to give him his scien- tific nama — but with having eaten him and hit sister. Shortly before Pearl Harbour, the Director of Peking's lytedical College put these priceless thou- sand -thousand -year - Old r Into special boxes, labelling them "officers' clothing" and dispatch- ed them, under special escort, Keep 'Em Short — Toby. Gerard wears a newspaper, swimsuit, a symbol of being chosen 1954 "Queen of'Stringers" by journa- lism students.' Already' a part- time reporter for a newspaper, Toby is also the current "Nation- al College Queen." by train to Tientsin for safe storage. But Japanese soldiers waylaid the train. Imagine their anger when, bursting open these cases, they found not serviceable uni- forms but sealed jars, packed with ugly brown bone fragments. Instead of throwing away such rubbish, however, t h e y were cunning enough to sell it to Chinese traders, Now comes the story's strang- est twist -and Peking Man's un- happy ending, The traders, Dr. Shapiro thin k s, supposed the skull remains of Peking Mao and his "mate" to be dragons' teeth, Were it otherwise, no one, they probably reasoned, would have taken such care ever their packing and transport. So they crushed the teeth and sold them as long life p`ills,' Under stress of war, or faced wi th starvation, human beings may eat anything. The Dutch, just before their liberation- in 1045, -ate thousands a potiitda tri their precious tulip b v: l b t. Seventy-five years earlier, at the siege of Parte, the Germans forced the French to live on matte, dogs, rats, Hiles, and other' ver - Min. llttme old ladielt made en edible hlteb ottt 0f spiders. Net all the unaonveztttoneel eitt- ing ie done abroad. WOtt4en, *vie in F,ngland, when approaching childbirth, sometimes show pecu- liar cravings. Several, a Harley Street specialist tells me, find it extremely comforting if they can champ a clay pipe. Apparently, the pipe's raw material supplies a blood deficiency, and helps them to bring a robust child into the world_ . A schoolmaster's wife, for the same reason, enjoys blackboard chalk. Many B r i ti s h home-made remedies and prescriptions had startling qualities. For instance, according to a treasured book long used by the Harbord family at Gunton Hall, Norfolk, treat- ment for a fishbone lodged in the throat was a dose of gun- powder. The patient had to "swallow a thimbleful of gun- powder in a spoonful of beer." How To Really Take Weight '°6''ff Do you want to get your weight down? Nothing easier. Weigh yourself on a weighing machine downstairs. Then pop upstairs arid do it there — your poundage will be slightly less. Not enough? Then go to the equator. There will be a definite lessening of your avoirdupois of about twp ounces: ' But for a really substantial de- crease in weight you must take a trip to Mars. Here, reduction would certainly be something to write home , about. An earth- bound 140 pounds would register only fifty-six. With a"`walling on air" feeling you would be able to do twice •as much ,lifting and pushing with. less effort than on our own planet. And for real "load shedding" there are even better places. Mars has a couple of tiny moons, and on one of them, Deimos, a man of 168 'pounds would weigh only a quarter of a pound! Not only that but he would be able to jump over housetops . ten- nis courts would have to be at least a mile long or "faults" would always follow. A player would take "steps" of 100 yards or more to return the ball. An extra hard kick at a foot- ball would send the ball off the planet altogether; to be lost for good among the stars in space, (A real time -saving tactic if your side was one or two • goals up,) On Deimos it would be as easy to rise as to fall. Our visitor would find it a simple matter to jump 100 feet in height, stay up there for an hour or more,. then fail as gently asa feather. TOUGH "GRUB" Very much out of the ordinary is Mrs, Erna Clark's hobby. Over the years she has been collecting rocks Which resemble food. In her collection is apiece of petri- led wood closely resembling Mast beef, a piece Of aragonite crystal looking like a cauliflower; While an almost natural -looking Walnut Of supplied by a small ir- regular k n O b Of sandstone, Friends whet have scan the col- lodion often exclaim that the Inedible reeks leek most appetiz- bigl "sauce For The Goose" That-- Wasn't hat-Wasn't Relished YOU may recall Jackie . Kid Berg, a young man who was quite a fighter back in the thirtiea, Ile was a lightweight from the Whitechapel district Of London, Ilia whirlwind style, blazing fists, and courage in the ring made him a standout in his day, - From . the beginning of his career In the United States Jackie ran up a sensational win- ningstreak against the best lightweights a n d welterweights in the business. Through all his fights, Berg was trained by clever, able Ray-Arcel, the •top man at his trade, Now, Arcel loved a good fighter, and Jackie -Kid Berg was every inch a fighting man. There was only one thing in Berg that Arcel did not particu- larly like, He was often need- lessly cruel in the ring, While he was training f•, his second fight against the uOr gettable T o n.y Canzoneri, Ray Arcel brought a ince, clean -look- ing young man over to Jackie and introduced him to the fam- ous fighter. As the stranger shook hands with Berg, he timid- ly said, "I was just' wondering if I could have the honour of boxing a round or so with a fam- ous fighter like you." . Jackie Kid Berg agreed will- ingly. As the stranger drew .on his gloves, he turned to the Whitechapel slugger and s a f d, "Please don't hurt me too much. I'm not much of a boxer, you know. I'm just learning the game and I'd like to box just for the sport of it, that's all." However, when the two men squared off, Berg sailed into the young man and plastered the daylights out of him. At the end of the round, with his face streaming with blood from the many e u t s, the stranger re- proached Jackie for having given him so severe a beating. Jackie laughed. "My clear fel- low," he said airily, "it's against all the rules and regulations of boxing to pull your punches. Ethics of the profession, you know!" The years went by. Jackie Kid Berg shot up to the, skies and then began to skid. Eight years after he had given a stranger a lesson in ethics, h was still at the game, a hardened veteran whose best days were far behind him. He took a fight with a tough young fellow named Johnny McHale and came out of the fight 'with two badly bruised fists. Berg had another fight scheduled for two weeks later against some palooka from New Jersey. He didn't bother to train, nor did he do anything about taking care of his damaged hands, On the afternoon of the fight, Jackie's fists were still swollen and in horrible shape. The slight- est touch was painful. His handlers advised him to call off the bout, Finally, an hour or so before fight time, Jackie was taken to a doctor to get a shot of Novocain. As the fight began, Berg faced the unknown palooka, while at ringside sat the doctor who had fixed him up. With the first exchange of blows, Berg realized that something was wrong. The shot had not been effective. Every time he hit his opponent, a terrific pain shot up his arms. Jackie Kid Berg took a merci- less beating in that fight. The unknown smacked him all over the ring. And, at ringside, the doctor chuckled and had him- self a grand time. At the end of the scrap, Berg crawled out Of the ring, walked ever to the doctor and etuck his battered face tato that Of the medico. "Say, doe," be muttered'. through gashed lips, "I thought you were going to fix me up. What in the blo0min' 'ell did you sheet into my fists ---Water?" "That's right!" said the doctor. "1 inj Water, gave nothingyou elselan Youection see, m0fy fine friend, it's agaipst - all the rules to inject drugs into a fighter's hands, Ethics of the profession, you know." The last words rang a famil- iar bell for Jackie Berg, Ile peered closer IMO the face of the doctor, and then recalled where he had seen it before. "It was the same man who had, eight years before, come to him in a gym asking for the honor of put- ting on the gloves with him for a bit of sparring. It Was the same man whom he had so cruelly beaten up. "Icebox Element" In Pictures David Seiznick once queried. me concerning "the icebox ele- ment" in oneof my pictures. By this he meant the thought and discussion that a good film ought to provoke when. the family • re- turns home from the theatre for a midnight snack. His metaphor was a good one and the graphic image it conjured up remains in my memory, I am very much aware that the admission prices at many of our better theatres are rather steep. but they are bargain prices if the film is good enough to provide a take-home dividend worth pondering over and enjoying along with the crackers . and milk and cold ,chicken from the icebox. I've struggled through some months -long chores of reading stories, working on scripts, find- ing locations, casting, costum- ing, rehearsing, directing, edit- ing, scoring - only to say to myself, when the finished pro- duct was viewed in its entirety. "What did I make that for?" The artist makes his own world, his own heaven or hell, as the case may be. That is his .lot.. And the pictures he produces un: fortunately can make a heaven or hell for those who view them, The movie director has a voice, a powerful and articulate voice, and he should use it well—From "A Tree is a Tree" by King Vidor. Plumb Perfect — They're pret y, but it's their posture that won these pretties posture honors dur- ing a "best posture" contest. Bar- bara Lohrman, 21, is at left, and charmer Jacqueline Johnson, 18, completes the charming duo. Vanishing Americana — Bill Schilling, 81, of Northfield, examines some of his 101.piece collection of a once -necessary item of pot- tery, outmoded in large part in recent years by the welcomeand widespread availability of indoor plumbing, the "china depart- ment" forms only one section of theformer newspaperman's $150,000 reere rt of household items of yecte.year, as well as other curies.