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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-04-12, Page 2., TABLE TkLKS .ri„,re_._ee 1 dam Anc,ttews. Casseroles come in all sorts Of shapes, sizes and materials. Some of the European v ieties, b+ fact, can be used on top of your stove as well as in the ibven. And there's no handier Booking utensil for the busy ]housewife who likes to serve those appetizing "meal -in -one- dish” treats to her family. The following are casserole recipes that come highly recommended. N N N CHICKEN LIVER AND RICE 6 tbsp. butter $ tbsp, onions, minced 1 cup rice VA cups water 13/y Lbs. chicken liver, cut Into 1 -inch pieces Flour (seasoned with salt and paprika) 4 tbsp. flour bt, tbsp. basil Salt and pepper (to taste) MELT 1 tbsp. of the butter In a saucepan and add minced Onions. Cook together for 10 Minutesover low heat, ADD rice and water and bring tett a boil. Cover and boil over low heat for 20 minutes until all water is absorbed. ROLL pieces of chicken liver in seasoned flour, BROWN chicken liver in 2 tbsp, of the butter over medium heat for about 3 minutes on each side, - MAKE 2 cups of medium white sauce by combining bal- ance of butter with 4 tbsp. flour end milk. MIX rice, chicken liver and sauce together and flavor with basil, salt and pepper. POUR into a casserole and bake for 30 minutes in a 375 - degree oven, N * * MEATBALLS WITH TOMATO 2 tbsp. fat 1 onion 1 Ib, minced beef 1 or 2 cups cooked vegetables (your own choice) E tin cream of tomato soup 1 tsp. salt ?s tsp, dried mustard 31, tsp. thyme or savory 4 cups mashed potatoes Melt fat in saucepan. Add onion and fry until brown. ADD minced beef, formed Into small meatbells, and stir over quick heat until meat loses Its rawness. REMOVE from heat and add cooked vegetables and soup. SEASON with salt and dried mustard and flavor with thyme or savory, MIX ingredients well and place in an oven -proof glass dish. Top with mashed potatoes. BAKE in a 375 -degree oven Der 25 minutes or until sauce bubbles around the potatoes. * * * PORK KIDNEYS G or 4 pork kidneys FIour 2 tbsp. bacon fat or butter 1 onion, thinly sliced 2 fresh tomatoes, peeled and sliced 15 tsp. salt 2 tbsp. minced parsley 1 small clove garlic, minced Bet tsp. pepper Pinch of rosemary Rice or mashed potatoes 1 tsp. sugar SLICE kidneys in two and aoll each piece in flour. MELT bacon fat or butter and add kidneys. Cover over quick beat until light brown on both sides. REMOVE kidneys from fat and add onion, tomatoes, sugar, salt, minced parsley, garlic, pepper and a pinch of rose- mary. BRING to a boil, stir and add browned kidneys, MOW COVER and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. SERVE with rice or mashed potatoes.. * * * GROUND BEEF' AND MUSHROOMS 2 lbs. ground beef 1 egg 1 cup bread crumbs 1 tsp butter 2 tsp. salt 3l cup milk Paprika '4 cup salad oil le lb. fresh mushooms, thiokly sliced 1 can cream of mushroom soup ?!t tsp. nutmeg i tsp. Worcestershire sauce Cooked carrots, green peas and ionions (to taste) Mashed potatoes (to taste) PLACE ground beef, egg, bread crumbs, butter, salt and milk in a large bowl and mix well. FORM meat into 1- or 2 -inch e balls and roll in paprika. HEAT salad oil in a large fry- ing pan and fry meat balls in it until they are a golden brown. Remove from pan. ADD thickly - sliced fresh mushrooms to the fat left in the pan. Stir them quickly over medium heat for not longer than 1 minute and remove from pan. ADD to the remaining oil in the pan, undiluted cream of mushroom soup, nutmeg ." and Worcestershire sauce. Stir to- gether (scraping bottom of the pan) until the soup has a nice caramel color. PLACE meat and mushrooms in a casserole and pour gravy over top. ARRANGE carrots, peas and onions attractively in the centre and make a border of the mash- ed potatoes. BAKE in a 350 -degree oven for 35 minutes. Indian Production Of Food Boosted India is turning to the wide- spread use of natural science in farming to boost food produc- tion during the second Five - Year Plan. Radioactive' isotopes are being used to test soil so as to assess fertilized needs. At the Agricul- tural Rerearch Institute in New Delhi, agricultural scientists are at work on improved types of seed and better methods of cul- tivation. The Indian peasant is shrewd and hard - working, and like peasants throughout the world he is conservative. But he is quick to alter his opinions when he sees results. When India's big fertilizer factory at Sindri went into pro- duction four years ago, only the most adventurous farmers spent their hard-earned cash on this new fangled method of improv- ing their crops, and fertilizer was piling up unwanted at the factory. Today, four Sindri - sized plants could not supply the de- mand for artificial fertilizers from Indian farmers. Peasants who have tilled and harvested their fields for cen- turies without change are buy- ing better seeds now and learn- ing scientific methods of plant- ing, Soon, they may have at their disposal new hybrid seeds whose quality has been improv- ed by the latest methods of ex- posure to atomic radiation. There is little mechanization in Indian farming, and the wood- en plow and oxen are still the peasant's mainstay. SAA -EINE STORY — Country editor John C. Bond is right at home writing about farm problems. In fact, he has one in his kitchen. She's Mamie, a Hampshire Iamb whose mother could not pro- vide for her. Band is shown feeding Mamie with one hand as he turns out copy for the two weekly newspapers he publishes. Simplicity' Keynotes Margaret's Wedding Plans Margaret Truman, 32, daugh- ter of former President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, will marry New York City newsman Clifton Daniel, 43 in Independence, Mo., April 21. The simple ceremony will be performed in Trinity Episcopal Church, where her parents were married 37 years ago. Members of the immediate families only will attend the 4 o'clock ceremony, The reception will be restricted to old - and clow friends. Margaret will not wear traditional white. Her beige, street -length dress will be fashioned of lace and tulle. She'll wear a matching hat and veil. Two matrons of honor Wi11 attend the bride and the groom will choose three close friends as his attendants. • in Trinity Episcopbl Church, Independence, Mo., where her par- Rev. Patric L. Hutton, rector of ents were married in 1919. Wedding date is April 21. Trinity Episcopal, will officiate. But a tractor organization run by the central government is at work reclaiming thousands of acres of jungle - and - weed - infested land, to be brought un- der the plow. The Central Trac- tor Organization operates one of the largest fleets of heavy tree - tors in the world for agricul- tural purposes, It has 18 units, and 270 crawler tractors. So far it already has re- claimed 1,000,000 acres of land in central India which formerly was covered by the deep-rooted, insidious leans grass and about another 100,000 acres of jungle land in Uttar Pradesh and Bho- pal. Starting this year, the addi- tional annual production from these reclaimed lands will be about 200,000 tons. During the second Five -Year Plan, which starts this year, the government will spend 3,500,- 000,000 rupees ($735,000,000) on agricultural research and devel- opment programs. Production and distribution nitrogenous fertilizers is to be increased to t h r e e times the present level of 600,000 tons a year. Distribution of improved seeds will be undertaken by means of a network of seed farms each designed to serve a group of 100 villagers. To improve cattle breeds, 300 new artificial insemination cen- ters will be established, with 30,000 pedigree bulls. Special centers are to be es- tablished to develop quality sheep, wool, and poultry. But it is perhaps the Applica- tion of atomic energy to agri- culture which holds out the greatest promise of improve- ment to agricultural production, Indians are following with in- terest the recent studies in the United States which have shown that some mutations caused by radiation can bring about de- sirable changes in plants. They have watched particu- larly the experiments at Brook- haven National Laboratory in the United States, where irradi- ation techniques have been used to develop several desirable plant mutants which not only have given increased crop yield but have acquired, in some cases, specific disease resistance. Shorter corn plants have been developed yielding a greater ratio of grain per stalk, Rust resistant oats also have been de- veloped by neutron irradiation, Indian natural scientists are interested in trying similar ex- periments to those at the North Carolina State College of Agri- culture where, it is understood, a variety of peanuts has been produced with 30 per - cent higher yield per acre. Experiments will take place here to try using radiations to increase egg production. Researchers in India also may use atomic methods to improve the output of India's important fruit crops, mangoes, oranges, Limes, grapes, guavas, apples, and pineapples. UGH — No Little Miss Muffet, she. Lillemor Knudsen, dancer, wears this on -the -shoulder -hor- ror as decoration (?) during her act at a night club in London, England. Royal Banquet In The Desert Colonel Lawrence and his as- sociates introduced the first motor -cars into Holy Arabia, and Emir Feisal used a one -ton truck as his royal limousine, I went with him on one of his journeys from Akaba to the front line outposts at Waheida in the desert, north of the Turk- ish stronghold at Mean on the Hedjaz Railway. ., We camped for the day on the summit of a high hill amid the ruins of an olcl Turkish fort- ress. That noon, Feisal gave a dinner in our honor, We sat around on empty boxes, instead of squatting on the gound Arab fashion, and a table was im- provised for our special benefit. The others present were Gener- al Nuri Pasha, Malud Bey, and old Auda Abu Tayi. . . . Then for dinner a great plate of rice crowned with chunks of lamb and goat was placed in the center of the table. Besides this there was another dish of rice mixed with pieces of meat, Beans with tomato sauce, lentils and peas, pomegranates, dried dates and figs, and -a sort, of candy made from sesame seed and sugar, resembling raw asbestos.. . For dessert we were to have had a tin of California pears; they had been sent down from Egypt at a gift for the Emir, Old Auda Abp Tayi had never seen such delicious -looking pears in his life, and the temp- tation to sample them so sorely tried his patience thathe was unable to await the end of the meal. Disr•egerd'ng the tood he - fore him, and throwing formali- ty to the winds, he attacked them at once and devoured all of them before the rest of us were through with the first course! . No knowledge that could in- crease his influence over the peoples of Arabia was neglected by Lawrence. He even made a minute study of that beast of mystery, the camel, the charac- ter and quality of which few Arabs are altogether familiar with, although it plays such an all-important part in their lives. Lawrence is the only Euro- pean I have ever met who pos- sesses "camel instinct" — a quality that implies intimate acquaintance with the beast's habits, powers, and innumer- able idiosyncrasies. Auda Abu Tayi, the Bedouin Robin Hood, had this instinct developed to an unusually high degree. There are six different spe- cies of camels found in Central Arabia, from whence come the finest breeds. The Bedouin call their country "the Mother of the Camel." Arabian camels have but one hump; in fact, most of the Arabs have never even heard of the two -humped variety, which is found only in Central Asia, to the north-west of Persia, chiefly in the Gobi Desert. The two -humped breed is slow and of little use except as a beast of burden. The one - humped camel is the dromed- ary, which is the Greek word for a camel that runs. — From "With Lawrence in Arabia," by Lowell Thomas. DRIVE WITH CARE Tape -Record Your TV Programs Television has been consider- ed a medium largely for ma- terial that is briefly viewed and soon forgotten. But that will not be the case much longer. Reports from the New York meeting of the Institute of Ra- dio Engineers disclose that tech- niques for tape recording color TV and the more easily record- ed black -and -White telecasts, are being satisfactorily field tested. At the same time, a gadget has been developed that will "freeze" the image on your . living, room screen, letting you fix any transient scene you want and study it at leisure. Like so many' of the electron- ic marvels displayed at engin- eers' conventions, these. things are not yet available to the pub- lic, They are either too cum- bersome and expensive in their present state for any but com- mercial uses or else are marked for priority military 'use only. Nonetheless, ' as hints of what may one day turn up in the display case of your local TV supplier, they are intriguing prototypes. Both the "image fixer" and the TV tape recorder are ex- amples, The image fixer was dis- played at the convention show by the Hughes Aaircraft Coni- pany. It is called a Tonotron and it can stop TV action at the . flip of a switch, As shown in New York, the Tonotron was mounted side by side with a conventional TV receiver and tuned to the same channel. To hold any particular scene all that you need to' do is throw the switch, stopping the action on the Tonotron while the program on the regu- lar tube goes ahead, writes Ro- bert C. Cowen in The Chirsian Science Monitor. This would be a delightful gadget for the living room — especially for following video cakes recipes. tut Dr. Andrew V. Haeff, Hughes' vice-presi- dent and director cf research laboratories, said its. immediate application will be in connec- ton with airborne radar. For its part, TV tape record- ing is making a good showing in its field trals, accordng to Ra- dio Corporaton of America en- gineers, who first displayed their system two years ago. According to Dr. Harry F, Olson, director of RCA's acous- tical and electromechanical re- search laboratory, TV tape re- cording is a big advance on filming, Right now, film is the only commercial means for making a permanent TV record. But it is cumbersome, expen-. „eg sive, and slow. Where a record is needed it cats be made, But the burden of filming is no in- centive to do so and much ex- cellent TV material is lost after one brief viewing, With magnetic tape, record- ing TV can be as easy as tran- scribing a symphony. That is, it can .be that easy, now that en- gineers have solved the tough problems that spell the differ- ence between audio -and video- tape recording. Offhand, one might think it would be a simple matter to apply known sound -recording techniques to video. but there are marked differences in- volved, Dr. Olson explained. At first, the equipment used will probably be bulky and ex- pensive—suitable only for com- mercial use. But it is not un- likely that, as development goes ahead, TV tape recorders will be evolvec that will be as cheap and as convenient to carry and use as present-day sound re- corders. When this happens. you can throw away your movie camera and remodel the cellar dark- room. Taking home movies will be as simple as throwing a switch and they will be ready for viewing immediately through any handy TV set. JUST RESTIN'—Unidentified gladiator is out on the scorecard of Lt. Monty Moffat, who maintains a hands-off attitude during a Canadian Army boxing meet at Hermer, West Germany, The bell saved Sleeping Beauty from an official KO.