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The Seaforth News, 1956-06-28, Page 2Fri /TABLE TAI KS 1rr1S1I'=d1.'1�� The sugar maple trees, native to the North American contin- ent and found nowhere else in the world, no sooner yield their sweet crop each early spring than grocery stores around the country 1111 their shelves with resh stock. Folks who live in syrup -pro- ducing areas have long been familiar with a wide variety of uses for this flavorsome syrup. To educate the rest of us, the 100% Pure Maple Syrup In- stitute collected some of the best recipes they could find this past spring. The results show that our maple syrup can and should be used for more than waffles. Here are just a few of many possibilities. * * * MAPLE SUGAR TWISTS 2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 1A pound butter Milk Maple sugar Sift flour into bowl; add salt and baking powder. Mix well into this s/4 of the butter which is at room temperature but not melted. Wet with sufficient milk to make into a biscuit dough. Spread on a slightly floured board and pat down with fin- gers to about 2/4 inch thickness. (Do not use rolling pin.) Melt the rest of the butter and spread on dough. Sprinkle on this, to about lIs inch thickness, maple syrup tub sugar or that grated from a cake of maple sugar. Roll up tight and cut crosswise, lay on a buttered tin and bake at 400° F. Serves 4. * * * MAPLE FRENCH DRESSING 1 cup salad oil VA cup vinegar BRANDED — A four -foot -tall emperor penguin proudly shows off the "USCG" pointed on its feathers at McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic. There's no danger of popping off the buttons on his vest — they're painted on, too. The penguin was recruited as a mascot by crewmen of the Coast Guard icebreaker, East - wind, which was unloading sup- plies during "Operation Deep- freeze." 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup 11/2 teaspoons salt / teaspoon pepper 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 1 clove garlic, minced . (optional) 1 egg white Combine ingredients with ro- tary beater until thoroughly bended, * * * MAPLE ICE CREAM FIZZ 1/4 cup maple syrup 1 cup cream 1 cup cracked ice 1/2 pint vanilla ice cream 1 small bottle charged water Mix, rnaple syrup with cream, add ice, and shake well. Pour into glasses. Place a scoop of ice cream in each glass and fill with charged water. Makes four servings. Chocolate and nut ice cream may be substituted for vanilla. * * * MAPLE CORN MUFFINS 11 cups flour rya cup cornmeal 3 teaspoons baking powder 1/ teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1/3 cups pure maple syrup l cup melted fat Sift Lour, cornmeal, salt, and baking powder together three times. Beat eggs; add milk and maple syrup, Add dry ingre- dients. Add melted fat. Put in hot greased muffin irons, Bake 20 minutes at 425° F. Makes 12 muffins. Fussy Sleepers First thing attractive, twenty- five -year-old Miss Olga Deter - ding does when she is preparing to make one of her frequent tours of Europe from her home in Paris is to see that her fa- vourite pillow is packed with her luggage. It is about twelve inches square and encased in satin and lace. "It's really my old pram pillow," she revealed the other day. "I have. had it ever since I was a baby and somehow I just can't sleep without it." She is not the only person who has found that the choice of just the right kind of pillow is important for sound sleep. A famous actress confesses that for years her constant companion on theatrical tours was a feath- er -filled pillow, one of her wed- ding presents. She regarded it as a kind of lucky mascot and once calculated that she had tra- velled 65,000 miles with it. Soft down pillows are speci- ally popular today, but some people dislike soft pillows of any kind. An American bishop who died some years ago used a stone for his pillow for more than fifty years. Wherever he travelled to preach, he carried the stone with him in a speci- ally -made satchel and used` to say: "I owe my robust health to my hard pillow." But once he got to sleep quicker than he expected—he dropped his head on the stone pillow and knocked himself out, Many sufferers from insomnia use pillows filled with soporific herbs to woo sleep. The herbs— sage, thyme, rosemary, lavender, peppermint and elder—give off a subtle perfume which is said to induce sleep. Drive With Care MRS. ELSA JENKINS gets some pointers on the handling of the new ship Bonavista from Captain A. O. Elliott, while on a tour of Newfoundland to assemble an exhibit of handicrafts for this years Canadian National Exhibition. YOU CUD TITLE THIS 'BOVINE CONTEMPLATION'— Grade A appreciation of art is expressed in the attitude of this cow as she gets in the m000d of the Geauga County Artists Assn. annual Barn Art Show. Some 15,000 person saw the show. Proceeds of several thousand dollars went to the Geauga Historical Museum. Saved From Gallow Without retiring, the jury brought in a verdict of wilful mur- der against the elegant young man in the dock. Not one et the jurymen belonged to London's Smart Set, and to them there was no difference at all be- tween killing an enemy in a wit- nessed itnessed duel—as Law had done— or waylaying him on a dark night, So John Law—" Beau " Law — was found guilty. The handsomest, boldest gambler in Town was taken off to Newgate prison, there to await his last journey — to the scaffold at Tyburn. Locked iu his bleak. chill, erll- smelling cell, he had ample oppor- tunity to reflect with despairing bitterness on the appalling mess that be had managed to make of his life. Still only twenty-three, John. Law had been born to great ad• vantages, His father was a wealthy Edinburgh banker, and John had been left a fortune when the father had died seven years earlier. let though Law had come to London only when he was eighteen, he had got through his fortune so rapidly that, no more thau three years lat- er, he was forced to part with his ancestral estates of Lauriston. Even so, he had been iiviug com- fortably for the past two years on his winnings at the gaming table. And now . , ,lie was awaiting death at the hands of the public executioner. The tragedy of the situation lay in the feet that Law was' no -or- dinary fop, dissolute though he was. As a boy he had shown an astonishing aptitude fur mathe- matics, and even after baring plunged wildly into the riotous night life of London, Law had still found time to pander on the mei, omie problems of the day, and to write pamphlets advocating serious measures of commercial and financial reform. A young Scotsman, Patterson, had just persuaded the Englsh government to let him set up the Bank of England. There were many — Law included—who thought that John Law had a better financial brain even than the famous Robert Patterson. The difference was that Patter- son had not wasted his money and his reputation in scandalous living. Law, though, could look back on his wasted life, and realize that he had used his mathematical genius only for working out gambling systems. He had not been unlucky at the tables, as soon as he had begun to apply system to his play. But, the young man thought des- pairingly, he could surely have done better with his life. "If I ever get out of here," he murmured, "I'll see that things are different!" Now the bold gambler was to get the greatest chance of his life. One night, a Woman: heavily veiled, was admitted into his cell. There was time for her only to press his baud, and to point to the open door, She did not dare to speak, lest the jailer shaould reeog nice the voice of Princess Anne — afterwards Queen Anne of Gem, Britain — who hada weakness not only for gambling but for gamblers as well. Law did not hesitate. He paused just long enough to take a valuable diamoind ring that the Princess pulled off her finger, and lifting her hand briefly to his lips, he strode out of the door, A carriage was waiting to take him to Greenwich, and at Green- wich Stairs a yacht was ready to sail By the evening of the following day, John Law, his only capital e diamond ring, was safe in Holland. For a few months Law studied the banking system of the Dutch merchants and government, even while he perfected his analysis of the various games of chance. Then, with a fair sum of money, he set out for Paris — at that time the greatest gambling city in the world. Law had had time to make his plans. He now wished to gain fame, not es a gambler or as a fop, but as an economist. He wished to be a banker, as his father had been: but a much greater oue. Yet first it was necessary to make the acquaintance of the most powerful persons in the land. The leader of the Smart Set in the Paris of that day was the gay, witty, good-natured and dissolute Duke Philip II of Chorine, nephew of the King of France. Soon news of the extraordinary Scots gambler who had descended on Paris in order to win a fortune reached the Duke's ears. He sent for Law , , . and, during the course of one year, lost no less than $500,000 to the elegant, polished young Scottish "baron," as Law now described himself. 4 little later, Law was expelled at twenty- four hours' notice by the old, bigoted King Louis XIV. But Law knew that he would not have t0 wait long before the Kiug died, and Duke Philip — since the heir to the throne was a mere chilli —would assume absolute power as Regent of France. The time of waiting Law spent In Scotland, publishing works on bank reform, and, as soon as news of Louis SIV's death reached him at Edinburgh, he went post - baste to France. Duke Philip welcomed him with open arms. "If your Royal Highness will give me permission to put some of my financial schemes into opera. tion," said Law, "I will not only enable your Royal Highness to re- cover his gambling losses — I will make France the richest and most powerful country In the world. Impoverished by the long wars with the rest of the P•.uropean states, France needed help badly. The Regent lost no time in makiul peace with England. Then he in- vited Law to set about enriching ruined France. Law' got to work quickly. first. he established a bank and gave France the first banknotes that the country had ever had. (The Reg- ent's losses hail provided the capl• tal for the bank!) Then, when the bank was firmly established, Law went auto the more nutbltious business of empire -building. Backed by the Regent, Law founded the French West India Company, and acquired sovereign rights over a vast area of North America — Louisiana, and the en- tire valleys of the three great rivers, the Mississippi, the MissoutI and the Ohio. Soon the French Africa Company and the French East India Company were added to Law's "empire." Ile was made comptroller. general of the finances— "Chancellor of the Exchequer"— and e marquis. The public subscribed wildly to his various enterprises, and the shares rose and rose in value. Within a year of their issue the value of each share had risen from 500 three to 10.000 lutes (about $2.000). And when, on January ist, 1T20, five years only after Ile had returned to France, Law (teetered a dividend of forty per conte the shares racketed to the fantastic ceiling of 18.000 livres. But the crush was near. 1t came when those who had made fortunes out of tate rise wished to cash their 'paper." The bottom dropped out of the market, there was a run on the hank,financial collapse, and national pante. The Regent could not protect Law from the fury of hie enemies. With nothing but a few pusses atolls—which ine)udet the diamond ring that Prineess Anne tali given hint -Law slipped' out of France only a step ahead of a mob which would surely have lynched him. had they caught up with him. There were offers from other rulers—among them the Tsar—to set Law up in business again. But be had grown dispirited, and be wandered about Europe, playing the tables for just enough to gel by on. Yet, though hundreds had been ruined when Law's bank and colon. izing companies crashed, the French colonies that the gambler had founded were still thriving. The Regent of France had lost $800;000 to Lang, Nearly a century later, another Peewit] ruler needed money for the State. So that other ruler, .Napoleuu, sold the empire that Law had founded. Louisiana was transferred to the United States for $20,000,000 in gold. France had had a good return for the $50,000 that the Regent had gambled away a century before. Eat Fish, And Feel Brainier If only there were some truth in the old saying that "fish is brain food," what a nation of quiz kids we would be! For, the fact of the matter is, Canadians are eating more fish these days. A counotation of elegance is re- placing the "poor man's label that used to be associated with fish and fish dishes. This is reflected not only in the increased Canadian con- sumption but also in the seafood specialty restaurauts which have sprung up in most large cities. Annual per capita consumption of fish increased four pounds dur- ing the period 10.14-54, raising the rate from 0.3 to 1:411 pounds. More- over, the fishing Industry hopes to boost this figure considerably over the next generation. Perhaps the most spectacular ac• ceptance of a fish product is the overnight rise to fish sticks. Sales in Canada last year exceeded 0,000,000 pen•'d. and "unites for the United States for 1020 run as high its 80,000,000. Encouraging from the Cannella], eoint of view is the fact that a large part of this volume is represented 19 Canadian fish supplied to U. S. processors in block form. A peculiarity of fish sticks le that the characteristic flavor of fish is so modified that the food appeals to people who don't ordin- arily care for fish. Between the bread crumbs, cooking oil and the seasoning it hardly seems to mat- ter what lisp is need. The industry believes Haat Cana- dians will eat more fish if they are assured of a product of consistently s)perior quality and freshness. Hence, the attention being plaid 1.0 this aspect of consumer require. mends. In the early stages of fish mar. keting the most critical phase now is stowage time at sea. The Atlan- tic fisheries scientists feel that the most important thing being done to raise the quality of the fish in retail stores is to have a higher percentage of better duality fish ar- rive at the fish plant. In all of the research board's work the underly- ing thought hes been to discourage holding the fish aboard trawlers or fishing schooners for any per, lod longer than absolutely es sential Homemakers, too, should remem• ber that most fish is tastier where cooked just as it es from the water. It Ise" nary to tend °rise fish or to cook it in a slew oven to bring out the best in flavor, A few minutes in a hot oven or s quick fry in deep fat is the best advice to follow 1 cooking fish, s flavor isinherentin tts fresh- ness and tenderness is naturai, not Induced. Nevertheless, the development el packaged frozen foods offers the brightest new opportunity for the eldest It per," properly fro- sen and handsomely packaged sea- food products to enjoy the same economy of mass distribution as as related frozen food items. Fish and chips is the newest dish to join such innovations as fish socks and fish cakes. To retain the quality of frozen fish, packaging protection must be provided. It must guard against moisture losses as well es the loss of vitamins and volatile flavor. It must prevent exposure to the air which results in oxidation, ran- cidity and changes in color and flavor. Good packaging can guard against these harmful physieal changes. Hardtirnes The Rotarian anegasine has some fine philosophy for business and sales people. It's the psychological effect that depressive talk has. It begins with 'the French artist who sat sipping his wine in a cafe. Spying a headline "Herd Times Coating" in a news -paper on tits table, he canceled his order for a second bottle of vin and explained why. "IIard times?" exclaimed the cafe owner. "Then my wife must not order that silk dress." "Hard times?" steid the dress- maker. "Then I must not remodel my shop." "Hard times?" sighed the con- tractor. "Then 1 cannot have my wife's portrait painted." After receiving the letter from the contractor canceling the order to paint his wife's portrait., the artist went back to the cafe and picked up the sntne newspaper he had read there before. Studying it more closely, he found that it was Iwo years 01(11 NOT SO RARE — Silver gibbon who makes his home at the Rare Bird Farm near Miami, . apes humans who get all tangled up in their work. The fateful of threads he's trying to unravel are shreds of coco- nut fiber, Any day now, he'll crack the tough nut he's been working on and get at the meat of the problem. LUCKY TO BE ALIVE—Anatole Bykov, 9, who suffered a b,-oken arm in a cave-in which claimed the lives of six children is comforted by George Koller, who first discovered the tragedy, and an uidentified woman. The children were buried under tons of earth while playing in a 25 -foot deep excavation itt - drookiyn, N.Y.