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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-05-02, Page 2This Brave Man Ate A 'Tomato In Newport, Rhode Island, stands a monument to a brave man. With calm heroism he ate a tomato. No American had eaten a to- mato until the bright day in 1833 when gallant Michele Felice Corne plunged his teeth into one. He had been warned, not to do it for the -"love apple," as it was then called was believed to contain deadly poison. Today, many people visit the monument. The majority of them are tomato -growers or can- ters, who owe their prosperity to Corne's daring. Also on Rhode Islandis a fine memorial to a hen — the original Rhode Island Red. And recently a statue was erected in America to the memory of Joseph Priest- ly because he manufacted the first soda water. However, these are notreally unusual monuments. Not so very long ago a stone monument was erected to 100,- 000 frogs which had been dis- sected by Japanese students at Keio University, Tokyo. It is claimed to be the world's only frog monument Even the humble caterpillar can boast a monument a king might envy. The Cactoblastis Memorial Hall at Boonarga, Queensland, was erected to the memory of the Australian cater- pillar, which spends its life des- troying the prickly pear cactus. Little more than 100 years ago the Mormon pioneers settled down in Utah Valley in the Uni- ted States. Misfortune had dealt them many bitter blows, but after a time the wheat -fields produced a bountiful yield. Then a dark cloud in the form of locusts appeared, All seemed lost as they started to devour the crops, but suddenly from out of the blue came a drove of sea- gulls from the Great Salt Lake. They pounced on the invaders. and the harvest was saved. Years afterwards, in 1913, a monument in honour of the sea- gulls was unveiled in Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Ever hear of a memorial which recalls a pest? It happen - CRYSTAL GAZING — After run- ning his winnings on the TV quiz show "The $64,000 Ques- tion" up to $160,000, largest amount ever won on a single TV quiz show. Robert Strom, 10, looks into the future by us- ing a balloon as a crystal ball In New York. Robert has a chance to boost his earnings In the forthcoming weeks up to a total of $256,000. ed in Westmorland where, in 1841, the hamlet of Week suf- fered a severe plague' of wasps, J, A memorial stone to niark the occasion was erected nearby On the moor. Since then an annual proces- sion has been made, to the stone, where, a brief service is held. Afterwards, a,' wholesale attack is made on all the wasps' nests in the district. But the most elaborate case on record of insect commemoration was the funeral staged by the Roman poet, .Virgil,. for his' pet house -fly. The cost of interment was $65,000, and the ceremony took place from Virgil's town house in Rome. The chief mourners were friends of Octavian, after- wards the Emperor Augustus. A lengthy funeral oration was de- livered, in front of the fly's golden coffin. Dogs also have their memori- als. In a railway station in To- kyo is the statue of a curly- haired dog — once the compan- ion of a professor of the Imper- ial University. Each day the professor and his dog would walk to the sta- tion. The professor boarded the train and the dog returned to his kennel. Then each evening the dog returned to greet his master. But one day the profes- sor didnot return. He had died at the university. For eight long years the dog went each day to the station, watched till nightfall, and then returned home. When he, too, died, the story of his steadfast affection swept Japan. A statue, erected by public subscription, was unveiled on the spot where the dog had kept his long ren- dezvous. Of the many strange statues in the world, one is unique in that it was erected to a single human leg. The leg belonged to the Marquess of Anglesey, a ca- valry officer and Lord Lieuten- ant of Ireland. He was very proud of his legs. When one was shot away at the Battle of Waterloo, he had a special grave dug on the battle- field. There the leg was buried and Over it was planted a willow tree as a memorial. General Sherman, renowned for his historic march during the American Civil War, lost a horse. during the campaign. Af- terwards he put up a gorgeous monument on the spot where the animal fell. Thirty feet high, it was made of white marble. Fifty workmen were employed for more than six months in cutting and polish- ing the stone for this impressive monument. Although costly, this monu- ment by no means comperes with the famous bridge across the Tiber. at Rome, erected to keep green the memory of the famous geese which, it is claim- ed, saved the city by cackling in the night, arousing the garrison when the Gaul invaders ap- proached. NO MORE STICKING When making jams or fruit butters which require long, slow cooking and constant stirring, you can save yourself much work by preventing them from sticking to the bottom of the kettle when they begin to thicken. You can do this by rubbing the inside of the kettle with a little olive oil before the fruit and sugar is put into it to. cook. This keeps it from sticking. This saves work in washing .up the kettles and also gives a better tasting jam. NOBODY LISTENS Pop says the big reason he likes to stay home is that he can say whatever he feels like and nobody pays the slightest attention to what he says. RADIOACTIVE ANSWER BOOTH—Its viewing windowsconstruct- fof 1/4 -Inch -thick glasslike plastic, this atomic isolation booth permits persons to observe separation of plutonium 'from. Uranium fuel substances at the Hanford Atomic Plant. Shadows Si . conventionally garbed workers can be seen reflected in window at far right. Air for observers is pumped in from outside the windowless concrete building in which booth is located. BLOOMIN' CHEERFUL—Shirley Bloomer, one of Britain's top. tennis stars, is down `with a smile during match play with California's Darlene' Hard at Miami Beach. The blooper failed to upset the Bloomer girl -she wonthe match, 6-3, 7=5. ;FABLE TALKS JamAmabews. Quebec cuisine is something all Canada is proud of. Up until quite recently, ' however, some of the 'best cooking in the coun- try has been a closed book to the ma"jority of Canadians. This was not because Quebec kept her secrets deliberately but sim- ply because the traditional re- cipes of the province' were not written,but handed down from mother to daughter. An English-speaking Mont- realer for instance would be de- Iighted to entertain a Toronto- nian at one of the city's French restaurants. The same Montre- aler would be very unlikely ever to taste a tourtiere, blan- quette de veau, canard roti du Quebec or tarte au sirop d'er- able, in his own house, because his wife would not have the recipes. This situation has been chang- ing during the last few years, however, and one Of the chief causes is a charming and ener- getic French Canadian woman called Jehane Benoit. For ten years. Mme. Benoit has been writing and broadcasting on French Canadian cooking in the leading woman's magazine of the province earl over the French radio network. • * * Two years ago she , enlarged her audience considerably when she began to appear on the af- ternoon trans -Canada television show, "Open House." With great gusto and charm Mme. Benoit' gives demonstrations of her fa- vorite dishes, and when her recipe allows, usually ends by giving a taste.to all the members of the show. Her patter while doing this goes way beyond the ingredients she is handling to notes and anecdotes on theset- tlers of New France who ' first used these recipes, writes Anne MCDermot in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor. She tells why the pig was so useful, its meat heavy and sus- taining for men going out to work in zero weather . how the thrifty housewife used the pork dripping to make graisse de roti (to be spread on toast or bread). Pork and beans in the prov- ince of Quebec are traditionally less sweet and contain more slices of pork and less molasses' than their counterpart across the New England border. Many of the dishes, however, are the same. * * $ Canadian cooking, with the accent on Quebec dishes, will be, shown for the first time in- ternationally at the Brussels Exhibition in 1958. A Belgian restaurateurs has contracted to cook and serve the traditional dishes and came to Montreal recently for a preview of the menu. He was deluged .with tastes of corn chowder, home- made bread, soup. (pea Mid on- ion), fricassees, followed in quick succession by roast pork, pork dripping on bread, potato salad, fruit cake,,apple. pie, mo- lasses tart, ice cream. He seem. - ed pleased if overwhelmed by the showing. * e e Jehane Benoit hopes 'that 'Ca- nadians abroad who go to the Fair and taste Quebec dishes for the firsttime may be inspired' to try some of them when they get home! They will be helped, by an edition of her ,cookbook' which is coming out next year in English. Here's a sample: Crepes a l'Orange Sift 1 cup of flour, Y4 cup of finely ground white' sugar, 1 teaspoon salt. Add 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon orange peel (grated), 2 eggs well beaten. Beat the mixture lightly. Cook as ordinary pancakes and roll afterwards like small cakes. To serve, put the crepes into the 'Orange sauce and re- heat on a slow fire, turning them gently. Sauce a 1'Orange Cream 4 tablespoons butter. Add slowly s/z cup icing sugar. Mix well and add 4 tablespoons orange rind (grated) and 1 cup orange juice. Bring to boil be- fore pouring over crepes. Tarte au Sirop d'Era'ble Boil together 1 cup maple syrup, r,Z cup water. Add 3 ta- blespoons cornstarch dissolved In '2 tablespoons cold water. Cook until smooth and clear. Let cool and cook in two pie shells in an oven at 400° for 25-30 minutes. You can add % cyp chopped nuts and 1 table- spoon of butter. Fricassee de Chez Nous Melt 1 cup Of dripping, add 2-3 cups of cooked meat (cut in. squares), and 2 cups Of chop- ped onions. Saute the mixture a few minutes. Add 4 cups of raw potatoes, cut squares and flavored with 1 teaspoon savory, pepper and salt. Cover with water and let cook for 30-40 minutes, perferably covered. (Mme Benoit's notes.) This seems an easy dish, but .I con- sider on- sider it a delicious family dish when it is well made. Here are some points which help to make it succeed. When 'you can, use chicken or turkey fat; leftover gravy is also very good. The meat :should always be cut in small pieces. It is better if possible to use mealy pota- toes, i.e. winter potatoes. They make a thicker gravy. You mustn't forget the sarri- ette-(savory) which I call the French Canadian herb. Tourtieres Put into a casserole -1 pound of minced pork, 1 small onion cut in squares, ' 1 small bud of garlic (ground); ih teaspoon of salt, s teaspoon savory,' t tea- spoon celery salt, s ' teaspoon cloves, rfi cup of water. Bring to boil and cook, uncovered, 20 minutes or long enough to eva- porate the extra water. Put into two pastry shells. Cook in an oven 500° F. and serve hot. (Traditional Christ- mas Eve dish.) HOW IT GOES But, then; if all the laws were enforced, half of us' would be in jail, and the others out on bail. Hurricanes In A Dishpan Tempests in teapots have been known since Shakespeare day,. and before. Now -we have hurri-' canes in dishpans. Two University of Chicago re- searchers, Dave Fultz, associate professor Of meterorology and Robert Kaylor, research assist- ant, reported to the .Arherican Meteorology Society here that they are now stirring up hurri- canes in a 16 -inch dishpan. Their laboratory model represents a big blow500miles in diameter, 60,000 feet thick from top to bottom. The Fultz -Baylor storm, one - ten -millionth of : the real thing, is actually a small . whirpool of water produced by what are thought. to be real hurricane spawning conditions: warming at the center, cooling at the. outside, and slow rotation. The tools they described are simple. A 16 -inch pan holding 21/2 -inches of water is turned around at one revolution every two minutes. A small electric beater in the center, and a jacket of circulating cold water around the outside' of the rim simulate the temperature conditions that are believed to energize Hazels, Dianas, and Irmas. Red dye and flakes of alumin- um powdertrace the movement of the water in the pan, and a camera overhead, turning with the pan, aecords the swirls and eddies. When the model storm is ready for operation, the vortex - the "eye" of the hurricane so fa- - miliar to residents of : the low latitudes b eco m e s slightly funnel -shaped, surrounded by a fast swirl of water correspond- ing to high winds. Like air in the hurricane, wa- ter rises up the, funnel, spreads out at the top in a clockwise flow, then sinks down the cold. rim and returns to the center as a counter -clockwise flow writes James K. Sparkman in the Christian Science Monitor. Though the dishpan hurricanes have considerable advantages over their more destructive sis- ters, they do have disadvantages as well, the two researchers con- ceded. One unnatural feature,'. they said, Is the fact that their tiny storm is walled in by the rim of the pan ,whereas actual hurricane clouds feather out in' pin -wheel 'fashion ' for many miles. More acute is the problem of the small vortex, orcenter fun- nel. So far, it is only as' large as a pencil, and it is difficult to study with the eye Or camera. Professor Fultz explained, With an, eye on full-scale hur- ricanes, aother research associ- ate, Akira Kasahara, proposes & change of procedure to permit mathematical forecasting of hur- ricane 'paths with greater "ac-'' curacy. Closer forecasts, he argued, coild be computed if weather data was sampled at two heights rather than at only one level He suggested 700 and 500 mill. bar pressure levels — or 10,000 and 20,000 feet above sea level. In 12 oases where Mr. Kasa- hara's double - height equation, based on a Japanese -evolved concept pf storms, as tested (August, 1955), the forecast route of the storm averaged 96 miles off the course in 24 hours, 216 miles off for 48-hour fore- casts. The Japanese storm concept' envisions a hurricane as a whirl- pool vortex in a river stream, as one part of a larger air masa which is steering the storm along, rather than as a solid swirling cylinder that moves under . its own steam. Looking beyond the storm to the over-all weather picture, Friedrich ; Begemann, research associate in the university's En- rico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, told meteorologists that. scrap particles from H-bomb ex plosions may permit a new look into' world patterns of water eir- culation, COLD, NOT HANGOVER'— Everybody will know you have a cold if you don this gadget. Thats just what it's for, says inventor Heimi Harie. Harie says the converted heating pad will bake your cold away. He displayed it at the first Inter- national -Gadget Show. DIFFERENT KIND OF MONEY BELT—Two workmen at Britain's Royal Mint in. London- examine new gold sovereigns moving past on a -belt that automatically turns the coins over. Although the sovereign is no longer used -for currency, the mint turns them out occasionally as an exercise in craftsmanship. The coin was first issued duringthe reign of Henry VII in the 15th century and derives its name from the custom of placing a representation of the current ruler on its face. SPELLING IT OUT FOR -SAFETY'S, SAKE -This it luminated admonishment to control-occul„ed pilots is a prominent feature of Moffett Field at Sunnyvale, Calif. The billboard 15 a telae -no chances, last-minute, reminder that suppdements the many electronic safety. controls used aboard the big ships that land at Moffett Field.