The Brussels Post, 1954-11-10, Page 2r
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4' 1 r` ' •ABLE . TALKS
�.,!► slam Andrews
Early tall, when a little heat
from the kitchen stove makes
for cotnfcrt and the fragrance
of good food Alla the room —
then you know that "something's
cooking," If it's a plump young
chicken roasting to deep golden
brown', that's family news!
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And more news is that there
Fs a new way to make stuffing.
No matter how many different
stuffings you've tried in your
cooking career, here's one you
should experiment with and in-
vite friends in to try. It offers a
new, interesting flavor that will
Intrigue them, Its base is pret-
zels.
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Stuff a plump young chicken
just before roasting, allowing
11/4 cups of stufmiing per pound
of ready -to -cook weight. (Or
you may want to bake your
stuffing in a cesserole in the
same Oven, and serve it decorat-
ed with tiny pretzels as pic-
tured,) If you do stuff the
chicken, rub the cavity with a
little salt before putting the
stuffing 3ti ; stuff lightly and
close by placing skewers across
body opening and lacing shut
with a cord, Tie drumsticks to
the tail, fasten neck t0 back
with skewers and shape wings
"akkmbe" style, bringing tips
onto back, writes Eleanor
Richoy Johnston in The Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
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Next, place the trussed chick-
en breast up on a rack at least
34 inch high in a shallow, open
pan, and brush skin with fat.
Then cover top of bird with fat -
moistened thin cloth or a loose
cap of aluminum foil (do not
wrap in cloth), Roast at 325°
for 25-30 minutes per ready -to -
cook weight. Do not sear, add
water, or cover. If cloth dries
during cooking, moisten with
fat from bottom of pan. When
your chicken is two thirds' done,
cut string between drumsticks
and tail, To test for doneness,
move leg by grasping end of
bone. When it's done the drum-
stick -thigh joint breaks or
BiKE PAPOOSE — Mrs. Louis
Lipschultz, a teacher at Vassar
College has found an easy
way to get around the campus
and still take her daughter,
Elizabeth, along. Using on In-
dian cradle board, she wraps
her baby up papoose style and
puts her on her back. She says
little Elizabeth loves it,
moves easily. Or, try the drum-
stick meat, which is very soft
when pressed between fingers.
Da not pierce meat with fork.
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PRETZEL STUFFING EN
CASSEROLE
3 eups pretzel crumbs (9-12
ounces) fine to -Medium
stet cup chopped onion
341 cup butter, or chicken
fat
Meup diced celery
3/z teaspoon poultry seasoning
M teaspoon ground sage
34 teaspoon ground popper
1H cups chicken broth or
bouillon
1 beaten
Grind pretzels in meat grind-
er or food mill (the latter
usually makes o u l y fine
crumbs). Saute onion in fat un-
til soft but not browned. Mean-
while, blend celery, seasoning,
and crumbs. To crumb mixture
add stock or bouillon, egg and
sauteed onion with the fat. Toss
with fork to blend ingredients.
If desired, add more seasonings.
The addition of salt depends on
saltiness of pretzels and stock
or bouillon. Press lightly into
greased 1 -qt. casserole, Bake at
325° 1'. about 45 minutes. Makes
4-41h cups stuffing, '
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Perhaps you would like to
serve smothered chicken some
cool evening, or, you may/ pre-
fer to oven -barbecue 'it Here is
the way to do both.
SMOTHERED CHICKEN
1 young chicken, 33/4-41c
pounds
X-134 teaspoons salt •
1/4 teaspoon pepper
44 teaspoon ginger
14 cup flour
II cup fat
2 caps cream or rich milk
Disjoint chicken, Mix salt,
pepper, ginger and flour. Rub
into chicken. Cook in hot fat
until golden brown. Sprinkle
any remaining flour mixture
over top. Heat cream to boiling
point and pour over chicken.
Add more cream if necessary,
enough to half cover chicken.
Cover tightly and bake at
350°1'. until tender, 134-2 hours.
Serves 5-6.
Oven Barbecued Chicken
For this delectable indoor
dish, use either plump broiler -
fryer chickens cut in half, cut
up poultry (fresh or quick froz-
en), ar a young 4-7 pound tur-
key, Place halves or quarters
of bird, skin side up, in roast-
ing or broiling pan. Pour sauce
over them 1-1 inch deep. Bake,
uncovered in 325' oven: Turn
occasionally and baste each
time, leaving sauce in the rib
cages when halves are turned
up. As bird cooks, sauce will
thicken into rich gravy (if sauce
becomes too thick, add a little
hot water).
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QUICK -CHICK BARBECUE
SAUCE MAKES 1 QUART
1 medium onion grated, or 1
teaspoon onion powder
teaspoon pepper
1 -teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
2 teaspoons sugar
1 Baa condensed tomato
soup (I0A oz.).
1 cup vinegar
1 cup water
I tablespoon Worcestershire
sauce
3a cup cooking oil
Blend dry ingredients in mix -
ng bowl or quart jar. Add re-
maining ingredients in order
given. Mix thoroughly. For
oven barbecuing, add ?re cup
water. This amount of sauce
barbecues 4 chickens outdoors
and 3 indoors.
IIN A HURRY — Trailing clouds of vapor from their engines,.
13 Stratojets streak the sky on a nonstop flight from their base
In England to March Air Force Base, California. The trip took
less than 15 hours,
NA
QUEEN MOTHER GREETED — Curtsying in greeting to Queen
Mother Elizabeth at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York is Mrs.
Roy Lawson, wife of the Consul General of Canada in New
York. Next to Mrs. Lawson is her husband. In center are
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Anderson. Anderson is president of the
Canadian Club which held a luncheon ,for the Queen Mother.
Dietl hi Debt, But
His Name Lives On
Paris. — The Citroen car fac-
tory, one of the famous names
in European automobiles, is 40
years old. It is still producing,
and selling all over the world,
the 15 h.p. front -wheel drive
saloon with which Andre Citro-
en revolutionised the car mar-
ket in 1934.
The youngest son of a Dutch
diamond dealer, Andre Citroen
became, a few years after leav-
ing school, the builder and boss
of factories in Prance and Rus-
sia. In Czechoslovakia he help-
ed the famous Skoda works to
get started. Given -total powers
to reorganise a French automo-
bile firm in difficulties, Citroen
in six years found himself at
the head of a concern produc-
ing 12,000 cars a year. When
the first world war came he was
authorised to found a factory
in his own name to make 50,000
shells a day.
At the armistice he converted
the factory to make cars. Citro-
en launched numerous new
models without waiting for the'
equipment to pay for itself, ran
up debts, gambled, and distri-
buted money generously. He
had Notre Dame Cathedral and
the Place de la Concorde illu-
minated at his own expense,
giving as his explanation: "Too
beautiful to leave in the dark."
Deeply in the red, lie obtain-
ed the support of a banker who
took over his accounts. But
always ambitious, full of new
and costly ideas, Citroen was
soon posting a notice in the
workshops stating defiantly:
"The bankers have been kicked
out. I am again in sole charge.
— A Citroen."
Maurice Made Love
Really Pay
That silver -haired. 66•year•old
French singing comedian, Maur-
ice Chevalier, is off to the United
States in October to discuss plans
for a suggested film' of his life
story, a Paris correspondent
has revealed.
It was gay Maurice Chevalier
who staggered the entertainment
world in 1930 by earning in
London the biggest salary then
known to a stage artist — $12,-
000 a Week. To -day he often
earns $18,000 a week. He orrice
received $2,500 for singing one
song in Prague. Pretty good go-
ing for the man who began'life
as a carpenter's apprentide, Sen
of
of a Paris house -painter.
Chevalier learned his quaint
"Engleesh" frorn an army ser-
geant, his fellow prisoner in a
German camp in the first world
war. Since he was thirteen he's
been singing of love, hope .and
work-- in that order, with the
emphasis on love.
With his . charming smile,
Chevalier will tell you: "In my
life have been many lovely wo-
men, but the one who influenced
me most was my wonderful
mother." She. got him his first
singing job at twenty frencs a
day.
He owns a luxury villa near
Cannes and can retire when he
likes. His famous straw hat has
been his "trade•mark" for years
and he would not part with it
for a fortune. In private life he's
actually quite shy and modest.
Ile once admitted: "I have some-
times been afraid .of my d'wn
fame.'
BRITISH POLICE CAN'T CATCH
THESE CROOKS
There are twelve men in
Britain to -day Whom the police
cannot catch. Their identities
are knotiyn, their profits are
closely watched , . . yet their
guilt — even as accessories to
crime — cannot be proved in
a. court of law.
Over the past three years
they have netted nearly a mil-
lion from Me proceeds of big-
time theft. This was their net
haul from systematic robberies
of cash, jewellery, furs and
other valuables — crimes they
closely planned and then car-
ried out free of risk to them-
selves.
New -type Fagins, they live in
amazing luxury. Their cars.
clothes and country houses are
bought ostensibly on genuine
business profits. But they have
trained new gangs of thieves on
a "ten -per cent profit, fully
insured" basis.
For instance, In the Hatton
Garden theft of $250;000 worth
of industrial diamonds, the
team of four thieves oil the job
were guaranteed $25,000. And
"Insurance" means the families
are maintained and wives com-
pensated if a thief goes to jail.
When a crook is freed, the king-
pin crime planners are ready
with hard cash and rut -and -
dried schemes for new crimes.
The old-time receiver was ',Hen
-betrayed because he offered
dirt; cheap take -it -or -leave -it
terms ---often only 'e -few pounds
••--to the man who had stolen
the fiends. The new Big Twelve
exact loyalty by their "fair
shares."
Enlisted in the new crime
• organizations are skilled dia-
mond 'cutters, master furriers,
shopkeepers and international
smugglers, specialists in alter-
ing and disposing of illicit
stolen goods.
Furs,. for example, are alter-
ed beyond recognition. Costly
linings *are ripped out and dis-
carded to make sure there are
no tell-tale markings on the
skins. By the time a costly coat
or cape is remodelled, no expert
could identify the fur. In one
case known to the police a lead-
ing furrier sold stolen furs with
purchase tax as new garments,
while the switched new furs
found ready buyers without
purchase tax.
In diamonds, too, the Big
Twelve have ready contacts
among the less scrupulous
hangers-on of Hatton Garden.
Stones are torn from their set-
tings and recut regardless of the
loss of value.
In the past two years eight
leading receivers have .jaedn
rounded up and lodged behind
bars. The Big Twelve was once
the Big Twenty. But the police
are actually handicapped by
the wording of the law. The
receiver must be charged with
being in receipt of stolen pro-
perty, knowing it to have been
stolen. Moreover, it is laid
down that if the suspect has a
reasonable explanation, that
explanation must be accepted.
Careless Comm
Cause Trouble
'When an advertisement in a
Glasgow newsagent's window
informed the public that there
was a "Settee for sale by a lady
with niece upholstery and Queen
Anne legs,' it caused a good
deal of - unintentional amuse-
ment.
It was almost as misleading
as the advertisement inserted
by the lady Who needed domes -
tie help. She belonged to that
Category who splash commas in-
discriminately because Of their
decorative effect, for when her
copy appeared, it ran: "Wanted;
occasionally respectable wo-
man
The advertisement columns
can give much amusement, In'
a Loudon evening paper a Mr.
Thomas, who wanted more
comfortable taxis, wrote, " The
driver will be entirely enclosed,
and the passengers will have
comfortable seats and better in-
terior fittings."
Even 'The Times' falls down,
for one of its advertisements
told the readers that, "Director
recommends highly private
Lady Secretary, Ph.D., trained
Hoster's College.. , ,"
Faulty punctuation can cause
amusement, consternation and
sometimes trouble. It may prove
costly and even tragic. If what
you write is for publication, be
extra careful, for a comma in
the wrong t.lace may land you
in court, as it did the owners of
one newspaper that wounded
the feelings of a certain peeress
and was said to have injured
her honour.
A careless typesetter made a
gossip writer say, "I hear that
Lady M— paid her dressmak-
er the other day, a most un-
usual form of compliment"
Without the connna it would not
have been such a juicy tit -bit
for her enemies,
Another editor, when check-
ing a society column, saw that
a reporter hed written: "Above
all the ladies in the town Mrs,
1tdcGilllgan was distinguished
for her chastity," Instead of
'creasing out the filial word and
Substituting "charity," he placed
a question mark inside brackets
after it, so that the report read:
"Above all the ladies in the
town Mrs. McGilligan was dis-
tinguished for her chastity(?),'
Mra. M was justifiably annoy-
ed and sued the editor — with
'success.
Some; years 'age a merchant
sent a telegram to an agent who
was negotiating a deal on his
behalf. The agent telegraphed
the price asked by the owners
of the commodity, and in reply
the merchant wired, "No, price
too high."
One can visualize his anger
when the goods were purchased
In his name and he was presen-
ted with a thumping bill, He
protested, but a telegram was
produced which bore the words,
"No pride too high," His wire
should have read: "No Stop
Price too high."
Not long ago the Bishop of
Gambia wrote a letter to `The
Times' bringing to their notice
the fact that they had omitted
a comma in a sentence ina
letter he sent them. This altered
the meaning. The sentence prin-
ted was, "I should like to plead
with some of these men who
now feel ashamed to join the
Colonial Service." The comma
should have appeared after
"ashamed."
In. 1934 the Czechoslovak par-
liament passed an Act giving a
tax relief scheme to farmers in
districts where the harvest that
year had failed. But when the
text was published it was dis-
covered that a full stop had
been etubstituted at one eels$
for a semi -colon, which mad*
the scheme applicable in $ort
of the affected districts but not
In others,
There was no option but fey
Parliament to sit and pass Olt
13111 anew, replacing the full
stop with a semi -colon.
Curiously enough, because of
a typist's error a similar ria•
take was made the same year
in a Bill passed by the Ceylon
Legislature, It was not discover
ed till Parliament broke up and
..the members had left Pair their
holidays, They had to be recall-
ed and the Bill altered, at somR
cost. 9a
The classic instance Of
takes Of this kind was that
Which occurred many years ago
when the American government
passed a Bill enumerating cer-
tain articles that were to be
admitted free of duty, Among
the items were "all foreign
fruit -plants," meaning plants for
transplanting, propagation and
experiment.
But in error a clerk typed,
"all foreign fruit, plants, etc,"
By the time the error was rec-
tified the revenue had lost
$1,200,000.00
A man's life was forfeit once
because of a comma, This oc-
curred in 1016 when Sir Roger
Casement was tried and hanged
for Treason, He was charged
under the Treason Act of 1351,
written in Norman French, and
but for a comma Casement
might have escaped, But the
comma made all the difference
in the interpretation of the law,
Happily, punctuation once
also saved a life.
Tsar Alexander III scrawled
on a petition for pardon:
"Pardon impossible; to be sent
to Siberia."
When he left the room the
Tsarina came in, took up a pen,
placed a semicolon after "par-
don,' cut out that after "im-
possible" and so prabably saved
a man's life.
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