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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-02-10, Page 2/TBE ws TALKS The proper way to fry chicken is a point that our cousins south of the border have been argu- ing about for untold years - an argument that will never be settled, I'm not going to take sides or express a personal pref- erente — but just pass along recipes for "Southern Fried," "Maryland Style' and a couple of others. * 5 5 Southern style is the fried chicken most people below the Mason-Dixon Line prefer, Other methods call for an egg -and - crumb coating, cheese coating, batter coating, dipping in cream or milk before coating, to name a few, * * * Perhaps the most frequently used spice for seasoning fried or sauteed chicken is black pepper, because it gives a flavor boost to the bland chicken which is not lessened by the cooking pro- cess. Pepper should be added to the flour before coating, and gravy, also, is improved by the addition of this spice. If you like unusual spices with your chicken, try curry, thyme, rose- mary, or basil—just a pinch, re- member -or add minced onion, chives, shallots, or garlic. Al- ways add these taste additions with a light touch, testing to see when you have exactly the right amount. 5 * * If you like, serve your fried Or sauteed chicken with fluffy white rice, with Spanish rice, or with your own variation of the rice that goes best with chicken. * * 5 Southern Fried Chicken 2/ pound frying chicken, cut into serving pieces 3/4 cup flour 2 teaspoons salt 1/ teaspoon ground black pepper 14 cup (or more) shortening Wash chicken and, while damp, dredge each piece in the Sour to which salt and pepper have been added. Heat shorten- ing in heavy skillet (some people WALKING NEST — This French Moroccan actor wears a bird in itis turban while palying a part in the movie called "Oasis." The film is the first made as a joint project of French and German companies. NO CAT "NIP" FOR HIM—"Monty," the lion, spikes all reports that he's a beer drinker. The only stuff he would drink for the photographer is water, which is being given to him by Clara Croninger. prefer half lard and half butter for this shortening). Put in the flour -dredged chicken -- hot fat should come up about half. way — and fry slowly, turning to brown on both sides, until gold- en brown and tender. * * 5 A regional fried chicken, sug- gested by the American Spice Trade Association, is this Mary- land recipe that calls for eggs. and bread crumbs for a coating. This is a favorite with many fried chicken fanciers. 5 •* * Maryland Fried Chicken 2% pound frying chicken, cut into serving pieces s/4 cup flour 2 teaspoons salt 1/ teaspoon ground black pepper 2 eggs, slightly beaten 3/4. cup water 1% cups fine dry b r ea d crumbs %4 cul butter % cup vegetable shortening 3 tablespoons water Wash chicken and dredge each piece in the flour to which salt and pepper have been add- ed. Dip each piece into egg mixed with the 1/4 cup water, and roll in bread crumbs. Heat butter and shortening in heavy skillet, Put in a few pieces of the dredged chicken at a time. Fry slowly, turning to brown on both sides until gold- en (be sure to cook slowly). Place browned chicken in bak- ing pan. Pour over it the fat from skillet and 3 tablespoons water. Bake uncovered in pre- heated oven, 350°F, for 40 min- utes, Serve hot with cream gravy made from drippings left in pan. * * * Fricassee of Chicken 1 chicken, cut up 1 cup milk or cream Flour Salt and pepper 1 to 2 egg yolks, beaten SteW chicken until tender; re- move from liquid. Boil liquid until 'reduced to 2 cups, add cream and thicken to medium white sauce (use 2 tablespoons flour for each cup liquid). Pour sauce gradually over egg yolks, beating while adding. Season to taste. Place chicken in center of platter; surround with steamed rice or biscuit halves; cover with sauce. Drive With Care HIVA, STRANGER -Three-year-old Raleigh Dorrough III takes time out to get acquainted with a anow man, a stranger in Columbus, Ga. It was a real treat for him, since snow enough to build a snowman rarely falls this far mouth. Feed Them Magnets! When a Cornish farmer's wife, Mrs. W. Goudge, went to take her washing from the line, she found that two sheets,, a dress,• an apron, tea towels and four large dusters, had provided an appetiser for Daisy, a cow. Cows are ostrich -like in the articles they will eat. In the American Veterinary Medical Association Journal, Dr. Harold Cooper advises farmers to feed two-inch magnets to their cows. These will prevent the rusty wire, nails and metal scraps which cows swallow as they graze from penetrating the stomach wall, Useful Hints On Paper -Hanging A good wallpaper is spoiled and so is the room where it is used when they don't belong to- gether; and wallpaper in a sam- ple book looks quite different from wallpaper on the wail. Dealers and decorators, realiz- ing this, are usually willing for a customer to take home a roll of paper, since it is impossible to get the desired effect with a smaller amount. However, if this is not feasible, yon can get a pretty good idea of how a paper will look like by laying two strips together in the studio. For example, on a small sam- ple an uplifted branch may be quite inoffensive, but rising branches repeated all over the room may be anything but rest- ful! And again, in a small piece, the size of the pattern may ap- pear to be what it isn't; for, in general, a small sample will ap- pear much more positive than the completely papered wall. A large pattern isn't neces- sarily roverwhehning, if the color contrast isn't too strong or the outline too sharp. Often a large pattern recedes on the wall to a surprising extent. I saw a perfect example of this not long ago. A landscape paper with a rather large motif was used in a smallish hall in an old house; but the colors were so soft and blended so well with the neutral background, and the perspective was so good that one didn't think of it as a large pattern at all, writes Ethel M. Eaton in The Christian Science Monitor. It is well to remember when choosing wallpaper that any pattern that covers the back- .w.t'07, Mvr,i,,,no.. Tk Mite and sift into a bowl, 14 c, once -sifted pastry flour (or 14 c. once -sifted all-purpose flour), 3 taps. Magic Baking Powder, % tsp. salt. Cut in finely 2 tbs. chilled shortening. Make a well in dry ingres clients and add % c. finely -chopped mustard pickle in sauce and % c. milk; mix lightly with a fork, adding milk if necessary, to make a drop dough. Drop in 6 portions, over hot cooked stew. Cover closely and simmer (never lifting the cover) for 15 ruins. Yield -6 servings. 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For sunny rooms, choose cool backgrounds — green, blue or gray — with the design in the paper supplying touches of a warmer color — yellow, pink, peach, etc. In rooms on the cold side of the house, use papers with warm backgrounds, such as deep yellow, tan, peach, of ivory, to get effect of warmth. A delightful room in a little country inn comes to mind. The walls are plain soft beige, while the ceiling is papered with the gayest of gay chintz. patterns — rioting red roses on a beige background. The effect is one of welcome, warmth, and cheer. Woman Founded iron” Religion Rain was drenching Manches- ter as Abe Stanley waited at the prison gate. It seemed more than two years since they had locked his poor Ann up. And for what? Because she got too excited in her religion when the Quakers had their re- vival. The door swung open and Ann came out. She was a thick -set woman of twenty-four, with a square face and lumpish body. "Ah, my lass, at last, at last!” cried her husband. But Ann thrust him off. "No, no lad," she protested, "no more 0' that. Wait till we're 'ome and I'ii make all clear to thee." Cast down and hurt, Abe Stan- ley followed this strangely changed wife to . their humble one -room home, "Novi, what ails thee, lass?" he asked. "Nought ails me," she replied. "But I am changed. Ah, chang- ed I am from what I was," All this seemed nonsense to the honest artisan, and as Ann be- gan to expound her strange ideas he may well have wondered whether in prison his poor wife had lost her senses. • "You ... Christ?" He gaped at her. "Ann, don't be daft!" For Ann Stanley, born Ann Lee, told of a prison cell reve- lation when the mystery of the Universe had been revealed to her, and, with it, the true nature of the Godhead. "It is like this," she explained to her gaping husband. "God be man and woman, both together. When Christ carne to earth, that was the male part of the God- head. Only the half of Him, that was. Well, then, for the second coming it must be the female part." "You mean when Christ comes again, as promised, it'll be as a woman? Nay, lass, I canna' be- lieve that." "You canna' believe it? Not when you are talking to Christ herself?" Abe Stanley could not take that in at once. When she was nine years of age Ann Lee went out to work. She had never been to school, She could neither read nor write. She was the child of a blacksmith, brought up to hard- ship and poverty. And now she proclaimed herself the incarna- tion of the Second Coming. This revelation had made clear to her the true nature of sin. There was only one real sin; physical love, Frpm that day forward Ann would have nothing to do with her husband, To him she ex- plained her peculiar idea, which was that as soon as the world was converted to celibacy the reign of God on Earth would begin. "What we ha' to do," she said with simple earnestness, "is to stop this sin --and' get all others to stop it." Six months later Abe Stan- ley told Ann that he believed. her. "I will be your disciple," he promised. Ann was very pleased. "From 5 o * 110W on," she said, "I am Mother Ann—Christ come back as a woman, as was revealed to me." There can be no doubt what- soever as to the burning sin- cerity of this strange Lancashire lass. But her claim aroused no sympathetic response in Man- cunian hearts. On the contrary, her claims was regarded as blasphemous. Then, one day, after being manhandled by a hostile crowd, Ann returned home with a new resolve: "The New. Church, of which I, Mother Ann, Christ re- turned, am the Head, must be founded in the New World." Three months later, with six men and two women, Ann Lee sailed for America. They had scraped together the fare by selling all they possessed. They were pledged for the future to have all goods in common. They were sworn to lifelong celibacy. There is something pathetic about Ann Lee, , the illiterate Lancashire girl who founded the sect of Shakers in America, She had a curious sort of humility that did not seem to fit with her amazing claim to divine status. Without money she gladly ac- cepted menial work; and for four years she was a scrub- woman in New York. Always, she believed the time would come. When doubters question- ed her, she would reply: "How long was the Man Christ's min- istry? Only three years. Be- fore that He was as obscure as I." Then, in 1780, a Quaker reviv- al began in Albany. At once Ann took this for the sign. Leav- ing her humble work, she set out preaching her strange no- tion of the female Christ in villages and towns. Among those who listened to her were Quakers. A number came over to Mother Ann's side, accepted her as Christ come again, became members of what she now termed her "Church." This she named, grandiloquent- ly, the United Society of Be- lievers in Christ's Second Ap- pearing. One might think that out of so crackpot an idea nothing per- manent could come. But Ann Lee taught much more than a mere new idea of God. She laid down a way of life to be foll- owed. All members of her Church were to abstain from physical love for life, even those joined as husband and wife. All things were to be held in common. And lastly the Church .was to live apart from the world, a- waiting that great day when, as reward for this abstinence, God would reign upon earth. Out of the crazed preaching and insane idea of this poor Manchester woman, came a num- ber of village settlements in America. They were mostly in communities of from thirty to ninety believers. On one side were the houses of the men; on the other, those of the women. They set to work as weavers, but extended their activities to include leather curing and the preparation of medicinal herbs, Because they were thrifty and hard-working, they became rich. But they did not change their way of life, not even after Mother Ann was "translated" to the other world. And few things are more cur- ious than their method of wor- ship, the peculiar,antics that earned the movemet its name of Shakers. The only times that the men and women of the Shaker com- munities came together was in worship, and God was worship- ped in the dance. The company would assemble in the meeting house, men on one side, women on the other. The Chief Elder then stepped out to give this exhortation: "Go forth, old men, young men and maidens, and worship God with all your might in the dance." Immediately a procession marched round the room at an ever-increasing pace. Then the march began to turn into a dance. Suddenly, eight young women might declare themselves pos- sessed by the spirits of Indian squaws, uttering Indian cries,' leaping. That went on for more than an hour, until the Chief Elder addressed the possessed girls. "Go away, squaws, until to -mor- row." One day, a woman, perspiring from the dance, cried out: "I have something grand to com- municate! Mother Ann is here. She has brought a basket of spirit fruit. She wants us al] to share." All present went through the motions of taking the spirit fruit. Few people joined the strange new Church, and as its celibate members died it declined nu- merically. Efforts were made to overcome this threatened ex- tinction by taking in small chil- dren. But few came, and fewer stayed. Even so, as recently as twenty years ago there was a Shaker community in existence. It was notable for its air of ordered peace, and for the sweet kindli- ness of the few old folk who re- mained as reminders of all that came of a "revelation" made to an ignorant lass in a Manchester jail, HOT SPOT—The fight of Alger- ian nationalists to change the status of their country from its present standing as an integral part of France puts the U. S. in a dilemma, Algeria, three times the size of Texas, with 10,000,- 0Q0 people, contains military, naval and air bases of great im- portance .to NATO's high com- mand. The Arab league seeks action by the UN Security Coun- cil. France protests that the UN is not competent to deal with the issue because it is one of do- mestic jurisdiction. Map also shows Tunisia and Morocco, which are involved in the clash between France and the. A+abs. MISSING PHOTO FOUND—This long -undiscovered photograph of Abraham Lincoln was found in Springfield, Ill., after it was wasting for nearly a century. It is a portrait of Lincoln when he was about fifty years old, and is said to be worth $10,000.