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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-11-06, Page 3Sizzling Steaks Cooked In Street There is one big diflerence bee tween a ditch - digger in Nee York City anef`ls counterpa° 1 in Buenos Aires The Argentine ierker, ripping up the macadam along the city trolley tracks with pick and shovel, usually has sizzling beet - steak for lunch, even thoukh his wage may be . less than 6 cents an hour. The New 'Porker may have his crisp, fresh-baked Italian bread -es does the Argentine -.-but the has something other than beef, probably salami, between the fragrant upper and lover sec- tion of bread. Walk down one 01 the main .hopping avenues in Buenos Aires . at about 10:30 a.m,-on Maipu or Corrientes Streets - and more than .likely you will see some workmen preparing for on outdoor barbecue of beef. It's called an "asado" here. They have one every day. One gets to know he is ap- proaching workmen by the scents of charcoal broiled beef wafting down the avenue. The men sit on their haunches around the low grill which is set over trot coals. One man dnea the turning of the beef. The others kibitz. "There, now, Juan," says one as he noisily anticipates the taste of the broiled steak, by smacking his lips, "that one is done enough on that side. Turn it over." "Not yet," answers the cook nonchalantly, quite unconcerned about the city traffic whizzing by. "The fire is not as hot as you think." Of course, they may not have choice tenderloins broiling over the brazier of coals, but there will be many tender cuts, and the Argentine knows how to make them tender if they're not. The reason workmen can have lace! nearly 14 times a week fns lunch and dinner is that the choicest tenderloins here cost about 26 (twenty-six) cents a pound. This, of course, is very ex- pensive for Mr. and Mrs. Juan Doe. Beef has gone up 100 per cent in cost in the past four months. The tenderest beef used to cost about 12 cents a pound, only a quarter of a year ago, writes Bertram B. Johansson in The Christian Science Monitor. A common joint of meat, the runsp steak which Argentines can broil to perfection, now costs about 16 cents a pound. Stew beef is about eight cents a' pound. In this "down under" temper- ate zone city, it's not only the seasons that a r e reversed, Chicken costs more than 26 -cent tenderloin steaks. There are not many substitutes for beef, and since beef is to the Argentine what rice is to the Japanese, it's logical, isn't it, that everyone should eat beef? It gets a bit heavy if it is served for break- fast though. Beef experts here cite two reasons for the inordinate in- trease in the price of this Ar- gentine commodity. First there was the 60 per cent wage boost for everyone which President Frondizi authorized shortly after he took office. Prices were not frozen at that time, and have continued to go up, especially on foods. Also, Argentina is exporting more beef than ever, but the domestic demand has increased ae well. In 1957, some 12,100,000 head of beef were prepared for ee ting, of which 2,600,000 we: e for export. GULLS SPOILED IT Gas-filled balloons released at Dover, ICent, in a charity race were burst by seagulls which swooped on them as they crossed the harbour. SOMETHING FISHY - This gold- fish heads for the bottom of its bowl in Worcester Park, Eng- land, while Smudge, the cat, dreams of fish dinner. WHERE'S THE COFFEE? - Getting together over a friendly donut in New York are Brenda Budney, left, 18, of Woodbridge, N.J., and Juliet Hunt, 20, of London England, contestants in the Inter- national Donut Queen contest climaxing National Donut Week, Here is the way to make a chocolate pie that ;an be chilled and topped with whipped cream at the last minute and whisked onto the table in next to no time. Chilled Chocolate Pie 1-11/2 teaspoons unflavored gela- tin (use larger amount in hot weather) 2 tablespoons cold water 2 squares unsweetened dunes late (2 oz.) 3 eggs, separated 1 cup sugar les teaspoon salt 3e cup mills 1 teaspoon vanilla 3'a cup thin cream 1 baked 9 -inch pastry shell 1 cup whipping cream Soften gelatin in cold water 5 minutes, Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. Beat egg yolks well; add le cup sugar gradual- ly, beating thoroughly, Stir in salt and milk. Combine with melted chocolate, cook over boiling water, stirring constant- ly, until mixture is thick and smooth (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat; add sof- tened gelatin; stir until thor- oughly dissolved. Chill until al- most congealed. Beat egg whites until foamy; add remaining sugar gradually, beating until mixture stands in soft peaks. Beat gelatin mixture, add vanil- la and cream in several portions; beat after each addition. Fold in egg whites thoroughly. Pour into pastry shell. Chill until until firm. Top with whipped cream. a a a I keep finding people v'ho do not know about Apple Foam, and that's a pity, for it makes a handsorne-e easy dessert. Beat the - whites of two eggs, grate two apples and stir into egg whites with 1 cup white sugar. Beat till fluffy and thoroughly blended and serve over og under thin custard -or by itself if you prefer. * a a Peach Sundae Pie 114 cups sifted flour 14 teaspoon salt 3 cup crunch -style peanut butter 114-2 tablespoons water 1 can (No. 2? e) cling peach slices and 1 cup peach syrup le cup butter 1 cup brown sugar (packed) 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 quart vanilla ice cream 14 cup chopped peanuts Sift flour with salt; cut in shortening and peanut butter. Add water gradually, mixing lightly with a fork, until mix- ture is moist enough to shape into a ball. Roll out and fit into a 9 -inch pie plate; flute edges to make a high rim. Pierce shell with fork. Bake at 450°F. about 12 minutes, Cool. Drain peach slices well, saving 1 cup syrup. Combine butter and sugar, Cork over low heat, stirring con- stantly, until butter ismelted and mixture is bubbling and blended -about 5 minutes. Stir in peach syrup. Insert candy thermometer and boil over medium-high heat until mixture forms a thick syrup (230°F ) Remove from heat and cool Add vanilla. Just before serv- ing, spoon half of ice cream into pie shell; top with half the peaches; repeat layers. Top with caramel sauce and peanuts. Cut into wedges to serve, Serves 6. * a a You chill this marbled rice loaf, ice it with whipped cream and decorate it with swirls of chocolate and chocolate chips before serving. Drive With Care Marbled Dessert Loaf 1 cup uncooked white rice 4 cups milk le cup sugar 1. teaspoon vanilla le cup very thick fudge sauce or other semisweet chocolate sauce 3e pint whipping cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Put rice and milk in 2 -qt. or larger saucepan. Heat; when bubbles appear around edges of pan, turn heat as low as possi- ble. Cover and leave over low heat for 45 minutes, or until most of milk is absorbed. Stir several times during cooking. Stir in the le cup sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Remove half the rice mixture to mixing bowl and stir the fudge sauce into it. Thoroughly grease a 9x5x2112- inch loaf pan. Drop tablespoons of the chocolate and vanilla rice mixtures in the loaf pan, alter- nating the light and dark mix- tures. (If fudge mixture is a little thin, allow it to cool slightly). However, mixtures should be warm when placed in loaf pan so it will hold together as a loaf. After half the mix- tures have been put in pan, press with back of a wet table spoon. Continue filling the loaf pan, alternating the mixtures. When all is used, press in same manner as above so rice will be firmly packed. Cool. Cover and chill in refrigera- tor. To serve, whip cream stiff, adding sugar and vanilla. Ice loaf with this cream and deco- rate with chocolate. Serves 10, 400 IIIPPOS SIIOT More than 400 hippopotami have been shot in Queen Eliza- beth National Park in an experi- ment designed to show whether the large hippo population in the park should be reduced to pre- vent desrtuction of valuable graz- ing land. Found Lost Husband On Movie Screen As the young Swede strolled over the stone bridge spanning the little river, his heart sud- denly beat faster. For coming ,out of a roadside cottage was the most beautiful girl he had 'ever seen. - It was the last day of his holi- :day in the picturesque country town. He had an hour to spare before ' catching his train home, so he paused on the bridge to watch the girl as she went down to the river to fill a pail with wairer. The young man felt in the Mood for a mild flirtation. "Hullo! May I talk to you?" be called out. The girl shook her head shyly. Acting on impiuse, he picked up a stone and flung eit in her direction, hoping that the splash would attract her attention, But to his horror the stone struck the girl on the leg, and she fell en to the bank, moaned and lay still. The young man ran to her. It was clear that shock had made her faint, for her leg was not seriously injured. Slowly she revived. Her eyes flashing with anger, she told him what she thought of his foolish action Then, picking up her pail, she strode away, Back at his home in the city, he brooded over the incident for weeks. He realized that he had fallen in love with the girl, But he feared that, even if they did meet again, she would never accept as a sweetheart a man who had thrown a stone at her! The following summer his firm, sent him on a business mission to Paris, And, as he was strolling along one of the banks of the Seine one sunny afternoon, he saw her again. This time she was with her middle-aged aunt, with whom she was spending a week's holi- day. He raised his hat and said with a smile: "We seem destin- ed to meet on river banks. I do hope your leg is now quite bet- ter?" Intrigued by his audacity, the girl decided to forgive him, She introduced him to her aunt. Soon all three were laughing over the young couple's first unfortunate encounter. They were married in Stockholm in the following April Seemingly impossible inci- dents are always taking place. Here are some of them. Consider the strange story of a Sussex woman who was mar- ried at Windsor. A few weeks after the wedding her husband said he was going out for a walk -and vanished. His wife searched everywhere for him for more than thirty years. She went to the police, visited hospital after hospital, ecivertised in newspapers all over the world -but he never came back. In due course, she was given permission to presume his death and as a result received a wid- ow's pension. She found life difficult and very lonely. Then one day, to escape from her memories, she went to a movie In London. While watching an American film she saw a man who was her husband's "double" on the screen, playing the part of an officer in the U.S. Army. She began to ice% certain she had actually seen her husband, so she wrote to the film com- pany In Hollywood. They ques- tioned the actor and he admit- ted he was the missing husband. He explained that he could not afford to return to England, but he undertook to send his wife a monthly allowance. For some years it arrived regularly. Then, one day in autumn, the wife heard her husband had died. Less than a month later, she also died -of a broken heart. Equally fantastic is the story of the butler who worked for a number of years for two spinsters in a house in London's Mayfair, He surprised them one day by handing in his notice. "I'm tired of service and feel it's time I had some rest and some- one to look after me. So Fin going to retire and employ a housekeeper," he said. The spinsters were terribly upset and asked him to go out of the room while they talked the matter over, An hour later they rang for him and, to his amazement, ask- ed him whether he would care to marry one cf them, The but- ler chose the younger w.man, A few months later he married her and was installed as master in the house where he had worked for so long as a servant, In 1935 a woman fell in love with a heavily framed print of the painting "A Little Bit of Heaven," whicn she saw in the window of a Hertfordshire art shop. She could not afford to buy it and finally fo,•got about the print, But exactly twenty years later, in 1955, she visited her daughter and son-in-law at their Middlesex flat. And there, on the table, was the heavily - framed print. Her daughter had just bought it for five shillings in the same art shop! A London wcman was des- troying a collection of old let- ters one afte-coon some time ago when she came across one from an old Canadian friend. She and he'- husband had net him during the first world war. "I was abler to destroy the let'er, waren there was a knock at the door, sne says. "I went to the door ,vi'.h the letter in my hand -and there stood the Canadian!" Doctoring By Remote Control In ICansas City, two heart specialists studied the function- ing insides of three patients who were, at the moment, 1,000 miles away in Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital. They peered at the wavy lines registering on the graph of an electrocardiogram, and listened - through an elec- tronic sounding device - to the patients' heartbeats. By means of the telemeter, a special elec- tronic intsrument hooked up to the patients, their physical symptoms were transmitted over ordinary long-distance telephone wires. The specialists then heard a brief telephone rundown of the cases from Lt, John D. Kern, a Navy cardiologist at Bethesda. Promptly, the distant doctors diagnosed (1) a mild cardiac in- farct (destruction of a small area of the heart tissue), (2) cor pul- monale, a hard -to -spot heart ailment that follows a lung dis- ease, and (3) a case of right- sided heart, with a peculiar electrocardiograph pattern that often stumps doctors. "Each remote -control diagnosis (taking only about ten minutes) hit right on the nail," said Lieutenant Kern, who supervis- ed this first public demonstra- tion of the device. Its developer, Dr. Norman L. Barr, director of the Astro- nautical division of the Navy'a Bureau of Medicine, hopes even- tually to use his electronic tele - m e t e r to transmit physical symptoms from passengers and crews in space ships. But there ore more immediate potentiali-. ties. "For only $100 to $300," Lieu- tenant Bern pointed out, "a rural :lector could set up enough equipment to transmit patient information directly to city specialists many miles away and thus get help in diagnosis. Fur- ther, since signals can be sent over radio just as easily as tele- phone wires, we think the Navy might be able to use the tele• meter an small ships with no doctors aboard to get speedy help from shore." BEFORE ENTOMBMENT - Pope Pius XII's doctor, Riccardi Galeaz- zi Lisi (right) looks at the body of the Pontiff during funeral services in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. Following the ser- vices, the Pope's body was entombed in a crypt beneath 51. Peters. 1. St. Peter's 2. Pauline Chapel -^ 3. Bronze Door 1 - 4. St. Peter's Square 5. Colonnade 6. Hoff Office 7. Vatican Walls 8. Sacristy of St. Peter's 9. Residence of Staff 10. Railroad Station 11. Mosaic Studio 12. Radio Station 13. Ethiopian College 14. Wall Built by Pope Leo IV 15. Governor's Palace 16. Vatican Gardens 17. Casino of Pope Pius IV 18. Picture Gallery 19. Entrance to Museums 20, Museums 21. Court of the Pine 22. Braccio Nuovo (New Wing) 23. Court of Printing House 24. Library 25. Belvedere Court 26. Power and Heating Plants it 27. Sistine Chapel 28, Galleries of Raphael 29. Court of St. Damasus 30, Pope's Apartments 31. Pott Office and Telegraph Station - l'411( viii` lt.° 36. St. Anna's, Vatican Parish Church i9 32, Belvedere Palace 37. Gate of St, Anna ,y. 33. Garage 38. Barracks of Swiss Guards ''34. Machine Shop 39. Ancient Wall Leading to 35. Office of Osservatore Castle of 5t. Angelo WORLD ATTENTION FOCUSED ON VATICAN CITY -The vastcomplex of Vatican City -seat of the Catholic Church -was the fo- cal point of world interest as Pepe Pius XII was laid to rest in the grottoes beneath St, Peter's Basilica and the Sacred College of Casel!anls met in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new leader. Newsmop, aacie, shows the pointy of interest on the Vatican grounds.