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The Brussels Post, 1950-11-8, Page 7Daffy Enough Ry Richard H, Wilkinson One day last spring a transcon- tinental air Liner got off its beam over the Rocky Mountains and smashed op against a rocky peak. 1t was a few hours before the dis- aster was suspected, and then the airports could only guess at the lo- cation of the wreckage. Glen Owens, sitting alone in his cabin on the slopes of White Crest valley, heard the announcement over his dry cell set. Young Glen's cabin was located on the course of the liner's fiigit, and earlier in the evening he had heard sounds that now lie remembered as being rather queer. Glen strapped on his skis, loaded a pack with provisions and supplies and set off up the valley. Three hours later he saw a light and caste to the wreckage. Two people were dead, and another was so badly in- jured that unless he had medical attention pretty quick he loo would die. On an improvised sled, Glen pull- ed the injured man to the nearest town and doctor. Glen Owens not only received .a reward, but he became, overnight, a figure of national reputation. Three days after this a man from (Hollywood, Calif., arrived in Crest, looked up Glen and offered to pay film $500 a week to make a moving picture. Glen smiled and shook his head. 'Nope," he drawled, "I always wanted to be a legerdemainist, and now with this reward money I reckon I got my chance." "Good gosh, man, it will take 20 weeks to make this picture. That's $10,000. Do you realize that!" "It's a Int of money," Glen agreed, "but suppose folks liked ate? Then 1'd have to stay out there and keep making pictures." "You'll be a dumbbell if you don't grab this chance." "Maybe," said 'Glen good-natur- edly, "I'm a dumbbell already." "Glens What is the matter? Last summer you wanted to start a dude ranch down in Arizona, but you didn't have any money. So you decided to go trapping for one winter so you could save enough money to buy a half -interest in a ranch and we could get married. And now you're offered $IQ;000 and you entunble something about being a legcr-Leger-whatever it is." "Legerdemainist," Glen told her patiently. All of which made swell news- paper copy. The reporters ate it up. So slid readers. If Glen had been famous before, he was twice as famous now. The next week three movie pro- ducers arrived on the scene. One of them offered a flat price of $25,- 600 fora single picture. Leah Conroy was almost in tears. "Glen for goodness' sake, try and understand what this means, in another month you'll be forgotten. It's your chance. Do you want to be a trapper all your life?" "Thirty thousand!" said the movie magnate desperately. Glen heaved a deep sigh. "O.K. • If that's the way you want it, Leah!" So Glen Owens went to Holly- wood and made a moving picture. Then ho fashioned a sled, using his skis as runners, twist- ed sonic saplings into the shape or snowshoes and wove them with twigs. Glen returned to Crest, bearing ° his $30,000 and the .next day he and Leah jourued clown into Ari- zona. Within a week they had pur- chased a ranch. They were married in the ranch patio, and left immediately for a honeymoon to Honolulu, It was while they were on the boat that Leah asked the inevitable question. "Well, honey, it waslike this," Glen replied. "That offer of $10,000 was good, but we needed $15,000 to buy a ranch of our own, so I fig- ured if I turned down the first offer folks would think I was daffy enough to make me more famous, and the movie folks would offer Inc more money. Which they did." "Glen Owens, what is a leger-?" "I dunno," Glen grinned, "And 1 figured nobody else would, either, All 1 know is I' saw it written out once and copied ft off 'se's I'd be sure to get the spelling right in MO I wanted to ase it" T4BLE T G" clam Andvewg. Although the "boughten" kind are tasty, anybody who has eaten doughnuts made in the good old- fashioned "]down Bast" manner will agree that there's nothing to compare with them, Doughnuts that are crisp - coated on the out- side, soft and delicate within, faint- ly sweet and spicy. Unfortunately, they're a bit diffi- cult to make properly, .but they're well worth the bother. So here are some hints on their making, together with a really fine recipe. For tender doughnuts, remember the dough must be soft, not nearly so stiff as for bread. Plenty of flour on pastry cloth or board eliminates the handling that is un- desirable. A fat thermometer registers the right heat - 375 de- grees F. Higher than that means doughnuts cook on the outside and not within, and lower than that Means they become fat - soaked. Frying too many causes the tem- perature of the fat to drop sharply. The sour milk used in this recipe makes for extra delicacy in texture and extra richness in flavor. 5 1' .1. SOUR MILK DOUGHNUTS Sift together four and a half cups sifted enriched flour, a fourth tea- spoon each nutmeg and allspice and one and a half teaspoons each of soda, cream of tartar and salt. 4743 SIZES S-14--16 M-18-20 1-40-42 -di14Q. ^ G.titi ONE YARD 35 -itch for 'small size! And the other sizes take pre- cious little morel Just ONE main pattern part; this apron is really a time and fabric sat crl Pattern 4743, sizes small (14, 16), medium (18, 20), large (40, 42). Small size, ONE yd. 35 -inch. This pattern, easy to use simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions. Send TWENTY- FIVE CENTS (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS now (in coins) for our Fall and Winter Pattern Book by Anne Adams. The best of the new season fashions in easy -to -sew patterns for all. Christmas gifts, too, plus Free a thrifty pattern for staking a child's dress from a man's shirt. KS Beat three medium eggs, till thick and lepton -colored, and gradually add one cup sugar, beating it in. Add three tablespoons melted shortening and one cup sour milk or butter - milk; add the flour mix- ture. Mix well and turn out on a well -floured board or pastry cloth. Roll a fourth -inch thick, cut with floured cutter. Fry in deep hot fat (375 degrees F.) for three minutes or till brown, first on one side and then on the other, Yield: about three dozen three-inch doughnuts. The way the weeks keep slipping by stakes a person wonder if some- body hasn't equipped old Father Time with a jet-propelled engine: and although 1 hate to think about it, It's getting time to think about that Christmas Cake. As you know, it's far better if stored for a few weeks to sort of ripen. The follow- ing is a recipe that I believe you'll find to be the real thing. k '1 * CHRISTMAS CAKE 2 cups seedless raisins 1 cup currants 1% cups separated seeded raisins 1% cups drained red maraschino or candied cherries- (or a mix- ture of red cherries and green candied cherries) 1 en? almonds 1 cup cut-up pitted dates 1% cups slivered or chopped mixed candied peels and citron % cup cut-up candied pineapple or other candied fruits 1 tbsp. finely - chopped candied ginger 3 cups sifted pastry flour or 2 a§ cups sifted hard - wheat flour 1% tsps. Magic Baking Powder ee tsp. salt 1% tsp. ground cinnamon • tsp. grated nutmeg • tsp. ground ginger 5/4 tsp. ground mace • tsp. ground cloves 1 cup butter 1% cups lightly - pecked brown sugar 6 eggs cup molasses 1,e cup cold strong coffee METHOD Waeh and dry the seedless rais- ins and currants. Wash and dry the seededraisins, if necessary, and cut into halves. Cut cherries into halves. Blanch the almonds and cut into halves. Prepare the dates, peels and citron, candied pine- apple or other fruits and ginger. Sift together 3 times, the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, mace and cloves: add prepared fruits and nuts, a few at a time, mixing until fruits are separated and coated with flour. Cream the butter; gradually blend in the sugar. Add unbeaten eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; stir in molasses. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately With coffee, combining thoroughly after each addition. Turn batter into a deep 8 -inch square cake part that has been lined with three layers of heavy paper and the top layer greased with butter; spread evenly. Bake in a slow oven, 300°, 2% to 3 hours. Let cake stand in its pan on a cake cooler until cold. Store in a crock, or wrap in waxed paper and store in a tin. A few days before cake is to be cut, top with almond paste and ornamental icing. * 4, 5 • CHOCOLATE DEVIL'S FLOAT cup sugar 114. cups hot water 12. marshmallows, quartered 2 tablespoons batter cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour teaspcon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 tablespoons cocoa cup milk 5/4 cup chopped nuts Method: Cook sugar and water 0. Troost CROS• WORp 7. Worked PUZZLE ACROSS 69. Propel a boat 2. Pence gunk be- 67. Above (poet,/ Mw the lino of vision I. Head covering 7, Renowned 12. The jack of the suit turned up in cribbage 12. Southern con- stellation 14, An abrasive 15. Study of the forms of spoeah 17. Poston again es. Princely ItaI- ian tamily 19. Consnro 21. Staggers 22, Did too =eh 27. Wont taster than 29. Mountain In Crete 20, Internal sicele- ton of certain marine animals 33. Pelted with rooks 36, Chart SO. Hose supper ter 30. Rigorous or stern 40. Ship's crane for hoisting 4 small boat 44. German city 40, outee eovering of a wheel 47. 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She hurt her right ankle in a fall in Paris and currently limps along on a cane. for 10 minutes. Pour into casserole. Top with marshmallows. Cream the shortening and the sugar. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk. Drop by spoonfuls over marshmal- lows. Top with nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Serve with whipped cream. a * x SHORT-CUT ROLLS 1 cup milk Y4 cup fat 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 cake or package yeast 54 cup lukewarm water. 2 to 254 cups enriched ,all-purpose flour Method: Add shortening, sugar and salt to milk and scald. Allow mixture to cool to about 80 degrees. Soften yeast in lukewarm water. Add eggs, one at a time, and soft- ened yeast to other ingredients. Add sufficient flour to stake a thick batter (similar to muffins). Beat well. Let batter rise about 30 min- utes, or until quite light and bub- bly. Fill greased muffin tins two- thirds full. Let rise 20 to 30 min- utes longer, and then bake in a 425 -degree oven 15 to 20 minutes. Yield, one and one-half dozen large rolls or two dozen small nnes. * '5 :t BAKED VEGETABLES AND MEAT BALLS I pound ground beef 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper cup flour 3 tablespoons flour 2 cups canned tomatoes 1% cups diced raw potatoes 14 cups sliced raw carrots 1 cup onion slices cup chopped celery I teaspoon Bait Parsley for garnish Method; Thoroughly mix togeth- er ground beef, bread crumbs, beat- en egg, chopped onion, one tea- spoon salt and pepper, Form into 12 small meat balls. Roll neat balls in one-fourth cup flour, then brown in fat. Arrange six meat bails in bottom of a well - greased, two -quart, heat -resistant glass casserole. Add three tablespoons flour to remaining fat in skillet in which meat balls were browned. Add tomatoes. Stir into tomatoes the rest of raw vegetables and ane teaspoon salt. Pour vegetables over meat balls in baking dish. Arrange six remaining meat halls on top of vegetables. Cover and bake in a 350 -degree oven for about one hoer, or until vegetables are tender, Teel! -Age Drivers Take Terrible Toll The shocking toll of death and destruction .mused by 'teen-age drivers in the United States and Canada is rusting the policy holders of their concern $125,000,1300 a year in increased insurance rates, reports the Lumbernten's Mutual Casualty Company, Burning up the highna3 s in the fancily car or in their own souped - up "hot rods," careless drivers be- tween the ages of 15 and 24 are killing themselves off at the rate of 7,100 a year, accounting for 27% of all traffic fatalities, actuarial fig- ures show, Appalled by this needless loss of life and destruction of property, the company has sponsored a 16 -mm. notion picture on "teenacide" en- titled "Last Date," which they hope will stake the younger set pause and think when at Inc wheel of a car. This elm tells the story of a pretty High School girl and her two boy friends. Larry is a alep guy, but he obeys the rules .of the road and, consequently, is not an exciting driver, thinks vivacious Jeanne. She goes off for an in- between -dance joy ride in Nick's souped -up hot rod and disaster CHILDkEN SHOULD BE SEEN -NOT HURT crashingly sleets theta on the road. Nick and an innocent family are wiped out in the screech of tortured metal. Knife-like shards of glass make a horror of Jeanne's beauty, ensuring that this was truly her Last Date. The Benograph Division of Associated Screen News recently made arrangements with the spon- sors of the film to handle it through their num libraries in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Moncton. Any Canadian educational or re- ligious groups, clubs, associations and youth organizations interested in the tital problem of the 'teen- age driver can obtain a print of Last Date free for showing through their nearest Benograph film library. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking CANADA PRODUCES GOLD., FOR ALL THE WORLD anomingssmomil Canada, world's second largest producer of gold, exports more than ninety fire percent of her product - an important contribution to the world supply of this universal medium. of international exchange. 1111 5cogranf% %ell% Canada firs Tis is an adaptation of one of a series of adver- tisements which, for thepast two years, The (louse of Seagram has published in magazines and news- papers printed in many languages and countries throughout the world. These advertisements fea- ture various Canadian products -lumber, salmon, furs, nickel, apples, plywood and !many others. One out of every three dollars we Canadians earn comes to us as a result of foreign trade. This campaign is designed to help all Canadian industries and, conse- quently, to help put money in the pockets of every Canadian citizen. Nature has endowed our country with an almost limitless supply of valuable resources. Properly used and converted to manufactured goods, these resources can carry our nation to unprecedented greatness. But first, the peoples of other lands must learn of the prestige and quality of Canadian products. 1' •:a Thal -rouse of Seagram believes that it is in the interest of every Cana- dian, manufacturer to help the sale of all Canadian, products in foreign markets. It is in this spirit that these advertisements are being produced and published throughout the world. the )-Iout of ,5eagram