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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-09-29, Page 2• Zesty Steak Sauce, Pickle Recipe BY DOROTHY MADDOX You can make a moderately priced steak more tender, and more delicious with a fresh lemon barbecue sauce. Serve your Steak with baked potatoes, a tossed green salad and a large loaf of onion -cheese bread and you'll have a feast—whether you broiled your steak outdoors over charcoal or in the kitchen range. Lemon Barbecue Sauce One-third cup fresh lemon juice, 1 cup (8 -ounce can) tomato sauce, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon mustard, 1 tablespoon Worces- tershire sauce, 2 tablespoons honey, dab Tabasco, 1/2 cup salad oil, 2 lemons, thinly sliced. Combine all ingredients and pour over steak for several hours before broiling. Pour of sauce, saving it for later; broil steaks as desired. Baste with sauce occasionally and serve any that is not used. Cauliflower Pickle (Yield: About 7 pints) Two large heads (51 pounds) cauliflower (approximately 4 pounds, trimmed), 12 (1 pound medium) onions, 2 tablespoons salt, 4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon ground turmeric, 2 teaspoons whole mustard seed, 1 teaspoon whole celery seed, 1 small dried whole red pepper, iz teaspoon whole cloves, 11/2 cups white vinegar, I1�s cups water. Remove leaves from cauliflower. Wash and tear into flow- erettes. Scald onions, peel and slice. Mix with cauliflower and salt. Let stand overnight. Drain. Rinse in cold water, Taste; if too salty, soak one hour in cold water. Drain. Combine sugar, turmeric. mustard seed, celery seed and red pepper in an 8 -quart preserving kettle. Tie whole cloves in a bag and add. Stir in vinegar and water, Boil 5 minutes. Add cauliflower, Boil ONLY until crisp -tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Pack, hot, into sterilized jars. Fill jars with boiling liquid. Adjust lids. Seal at once. Call For Some Sampling Lemon barbecue sauce adds zest to this sizzling steak treat, a "something -special" to serve to your family and guests. TABLE TALKS ewmeAadaws Once again, in - hundreds of thousands of homes, the prob- lem of sandwich -fillings faces the housewife. How to fill those school and work lunch boxes with sandwiches that are — nourishing and, at the same time, are a bit different. Perhaps some of the follow- ing suggestions may be help- ful. I hope so! * * * There are many good sand- wich fillings which include hard -cooked eggs. These are easy and quick to mix, as the eggs may be hard -cooked at breakfast time and are cold and ready to chop by sandwich - making time. HAM -EGG SANDWICH FILLING 2 hard -cooked -eggs, chopped 14 cup canned deviled ham 2 tablespoons mayonnaise or salad dressing 2 teaspoons prepared mustard Combine all ingredients, Makes 4 sandwiches, * * * CHEESE AND EGG SALAD FILLEiG 1 cup grated process Cana- dian cheese 2 hard -cooked eggs, chopped 34 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing 3.4 teaspoon vinegar 2 teaspoon grated onion 3/4 teaspoon prepared mustard 34 teaspoon salt Combine cheese and chopped eggs; add mayonnaise; add all other igredients and mix welL Makes 5 sandwiches. * * * If you have leftover chicken (or want to open a small can of chicken or turkey), try this fill- ing that makes 8-10 sandwiches. CHICKEN OR TURKEY FILLING 1 cup chopped, cooked chicken or turkey Si teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 3 tablespoons salad dressing 2 teaspoons chopped parsley 34 cup finely chopped celery Blend all ingredients. Add more seasonings and salad dressing if desired. To vary this filling, add 1/2 cup grated carrot and 1 teaspoon finely grated onion. sc PEANUT BUTTER VARIATIONS If your children ask for pea- nut butter sandwiches every day, you may want to vary their fare while still giving them pea- nut butter! Here are several ways to make new fillings with peanut butter: Pineapple: combine 1/2 cup crushed pineapple with 1/2 cup peanut butter. Prune: combine 2 teaspoons lemon juice with 'fa cup chop- ped cooked prunes and 1/a cup peanut butter, Raisin: combine 35 cup milk or cream with 1/2 cup chopped seeded raisins, 12 cup peanut butter and 2 teaspoons lemon juice. Cranberry: combine 1z cup cranberry sauce with 12 cup peanut butter. Carrot -raisin: combine 1 cup - shredded carrots, 14 cup chop- ped seeded raisins, 1/2 cup pea- nut butter and ra cup salad dressing, For a simple soup with a fancy name, try this combina- tion of two canned soups. PUREE MONGOLE 1 can condensed tomato soup 1 can condensed green pea soup 223 cups milk 1 cup 12 -inch bread cubes tablespoons butter Mix soups together in sauce- pan; add mill:, stirring until well blended. Heat thoroughly. Saute bread cubes in butter un- til delicately browned; serve as a garnish. (Thinly sliced celery may also be used as a garnish. * * * You may also combine canned soup with a canned vegetable for an unusual cream soup. Here is a colorful corn soup. CORN CHOWDER 12 cup chopped onion 1§ cup chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons butter I No. 2 can corn (cream style) 1 cup milk 1 can condensed tomato soup 1 teaspoonful salt 1s teaspoon pepper Cook onion and pepper in but- ter. Add corn, soup, milk and seasonings. Heat to serving tem- perature. * * CALLING ALL. "HAMS"—Believed to be the youngest "ham" is eight-year-old Elizabeth Deck. Shown here broadcasting on the shortwave radio set she received from her father, Elizabeth received her novice license from fhe FCC in July. Her call letters are KNGMTQ. Instead of saying, "Eat your spinach, children," try putting it in the luncheon soup for a special treat, CREAM OF SPINACH SOUP 1 cup raw ground or finely chopped spinach 4 cups milk 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt :M * * It you grind the spinach, catch liquid which runs from grinder and add to spinach. Heat milk in double boiler. Blend flour and fat and add to hot milk, Add spinach and salt. Cook and stir until thickened — about 10 minutes. * * * If you have a cup of leftover cooked peas, try this savory soup. LUNCHEON SOUP 2 tablespoons butter 14, cup diced onion 3 tablespoons flour 4 cups milk 2 teaspoons salt 1 cup cooked peas (partially mashed) 1A teaspoon pepper 1z teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (optional) Melt butter in saucepan; add diced onion and cook until ten- der - do not brown. Blend in flour; gradually add milk while stirring. Cook over low heat un- til smooth and thickened, stir- ring constantly, Add seasonings, peas, and sauce. Serve garnish- ed with chopped parsley or grated cheese. Serves 6, How Can I? Q. How can I remove oil stains from leather? A. By dabbing the spots with spirits of sal ammoniac. After allowing it to remain for a while, wash with clean water. If necessary, repeat the treat- ment, but be careful not to in- jure the color of the leather. Q. How can I give myself, an invigorating bath? A. When one is tired, and every muscle seems to ache, try taking a warm bath at bedtime to which has been added 1 cup of Epsom salts and 2 tablespoons of mustard, Q. How can I separate glasses that have stuck together? A. Pour cold water into the inner one, and place the outer one in warm water. They will separate readily. Q. How can I save time when cleaning the bird cage? A. Cut eight or ten thicknesses of heavy white paper and place at the bottom of the canary's cage. Every morning a sheet can be removed, leaving a nice clean floor. This will save much cleaning of the cage. Q. How can 1 easily remove ink stains from school chil- dren's fingers? A. These stains can be re- moved by rubbing with a cloth moistened with household am- monia, and rinsed in clear wa- ter. Waited Years For Ste Up to the time she was twenty-seven, beautiful Patricia Maguire lived a normal, healthy and athletic life in her Chicago home. Then, in February, 1932, she "fell asleep," in a mysteri- ous sleep from which doctors and specialists failed to arouse her. Checking up on h e r back- ground, the doctors found that Patricia was engaged to be mar- ried, was perfectly happy and had had no unusual or disturb- ing illnesses in her life. At first the doctors were non- committal when Patricia's par- ents and fiance wanted to know when she would wake up. "She may awake soon — or it may be a long time," was the gist of their evasive answers. So specialists were called in and on their recommendations nu- merous cures were attempted. Patricia, however, quietly slept on, unaware of the fuss going on about her. After a while, the story of Chicago's "Sleeping Beauty" be- came widely known, Seeing her picture in the papers, and deep- ly disturbedthatso lovely a girl should be sleeping her life away, many men fell in love with her, Some of them wrote passionate letters declaring their devotion, and telling her about themselves — their lives, their aspirations and hopes, They promised to wait until she was better, and then they would call on her and propose marriage. They sent flowers frequently, followed by other letters. But Patricia couldn't read the letters or see the beautiful flowers that filled her bedroom, an'. so knew nothing of the de- votion lavished on her by her admirers. Oddly enough the ad- mirers didn't know Patricia was already engaged, nor that her fiance visited her at least twice a week, and 'phoned her par- ents daily to ask how she was. As time went by, Patricia didn't improve except to grow more beautiful as she slept. Ae- casionally she w•uld open her eyes, but apparently they regis- tered nothing. Once she scrib- bled a message on a slate, which nobody could decipher, In 1934 she stirred as though she might wake — only to lapse swiftly into a coma again. To maintain her physical con- dition and keep her healthy, Pa- tricia was given a special liquid diet which was fed to her six times a day through a tube. She was massaged regularly, and visited once a week by a mani- c u r i s t and by a hairdresser. Steadily she grew even lovelier — but stayed asleep. Then it was that the keen eyes of one of the visiting specialists diagnosed further trouble — an abdominal tumour. But before ping Beauty they could operate, Patricia con- tracted pneumonia, At thirty-two, lovely Patricia Maguire died. And the romance of the twelve men who loved her — her fiance (thirty-four- year-old thirty-four- year-old jewellery salesman Jimmie Burns) and eleven others, none of whom knew of the others' existence — came to a tragic end. In vain they had waited, some nearly six years, for Chicago's "Sleeping Beauty" to awake. But their identities, though known to Patricia's mar- ried sister, Gladys Hansen, were never revealed, a pledge each had extracted from Mrs. Han- sen after she had acknowledged their letters and flowers, After her death, Patricia's brain was examined by special- ists and it was found to have withered through disuse. Per- haps just as well that she died, for had she recovered consci- ousness she would probably have been as simple as a very young child. Let's Face lIt, Meta! If anybody takes up the ideas of an American plastic surgeon, home perm outfits will soon be followed by home face-lifting kits. Lines and wrinkles are rubbed out by stretching the skin with little cloth tabsthat are backed wih a modern adhesive. One tab is placed at each side of the head just in front of the ear. They act as "pegs" for a facial rubber elastic belt. This is worn for one or two days, then removed by dissolv- ing the adhesive in the same kind of solvent used for dispos- ing of nail varnish. After a rest for the face, the treatment is repeated. Husbands — let's face it — this is going to be far worse than curlers! "Doreen thinks no ma:: is good enough for her." "She may be right." "She may be left!" SALLY'S SALLIES "It's a break for you, darling; I couldn't carry any more." Niagara Falls" Face Gets Beauty Treatment By .TAMES MONTAGNES NEA Special Correspondent NIAGARA FALLS, Ont— Niagara Falls is having its face lifted. To make sure that the famous falls will look as magnificent for future honey- mooners and world tourists in the years to come, the Cana- dian and United States gov- ernments are doing a $17,500,- 000 beauty job on the crest of the waterfall. It is expec- ted to be completed by 1957. When the French missionary and explorer, Father Louis Hen- nepin, en nepin, first saw the Niagara Falls in 1678 the drop into the Nia- gara River was almost 1,000 feet further than it is today. Since records of the crest of the water- fall have been kept since 1784 the falls have receded 865 feet, more than half of this in the first 78 years. * * Use of the falls for hydro- electric power has slowed down the recession considerably. Once the falls was an unbroken line of water falling from Lake Erie into the Niagara River, Grad- ually rocks fell off and two sec- tions were formed, the American Falls and the Horseshoe Falls, The former is in the United States, the latter straddles the international boundary. In recent years there have been a number of rook slides which have left more spots in both falls. Int floes have also carried away sections of the rock over which the water used to plunge. Now under an international treaty signed in 1950, Niagara Falls is being given a new ap- pearance, so that the Horseshoe Falls will present an unbroken front of water tumbling 160 feet down from the rapids in the . upper Niagara River to the Iower 'Niagara River which car- ries the water in a foaming tor - AERIAL VIEW OF FACE-LIFTING: Diagrammed photo shows the work now under way at Niagara Falls to beautify this major tourist attr action. Near top is location of the 13 sluices that will form the control structure, while on both fl arks are excavation and fill to be done by 1957. rent down to Lake Ontario. The project consists of first building a control structure on the Canadian side above the falls, so that the - amount of water failing over the crest can be controlled. Then the rapids near both shores will be ex- cavated to make for a more even flow over the crest, and sections near the shore will be filled in to provide better vantage points from which to see the plunging waters. A start on saving the face of Niagara Falls was made during the Second World War when a weir was submerged on the Can- adian side of the river about 11/2 miles upstream from the falls. This weir not only pro- vided more water diversion for electric power generation, then greatly needed on both . sides of the international border, but it also maintained the natural level of the water. In fact it increased the flow over the American Falls, enhancing its appearance considerably. * * * When engineers on both sides of the river began studies of how to obtain more electric power from Niagara Falls and at the same time fight erosion, wa- ter surface and river -bed sur- veys were so difficult that con- ventional methods were out of the question. The steep clig surfaces and the turbulent waters meant that ky- toon balloons and helicopters had to be used to provide sky- hooks from which to hang sur- vey equipment. In one section on the American side of the river trees end a -narrow ohan-` nei"required an even more in- genious method of surveying. Searchlights with 800 million candle-power were used and en- gineers found their figures by taking measurements of water reflections from the searchlight beams. On both the Canadian and United States sides of the Horse- shoe Falls rods and earth will - be excavated, 4,000 cubic yards on the U.S, side, and 64,000 cu- bic yards -on the Canadian side. This - will allow the waters to flow over sections- which have ti]] now been only partly under water. Near these excavations small areas will be filled in as well and have concrete retaining walls, so that visitors will .be able to better see the unbroken crest of the'-Horshoe Falls, _4