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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-07-12, Page 2TALE 1 :` TA1MS Q.)a-az ,Andvcws Sweet, deep red strawberries, while no longer confined to a abort season as they once were, are at their peak of freshness and sun -ripened flavor at this time . of year. These berries are favorites for desserts in tnany families, with the shortcake perhaps holding top place. Shortcakes may be either of biscuit or cake type. Which- ever you use, prepare berries and sweeten them early enough so that all the rare flavor that Is in the strawberry may be brought out. Then use either whipped cream or vanilla ice cream for a topping — and you have a dessert that pleases even the most exacting taste. * * :a MACAROON NESTS WITH STRAWBERRIES 3 cups thin -flaked coconut 35 cup swetened condensed milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla 2 cups applesauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup sliced strawberries 1 teaspoon almond extract Combine coconut, condensed milk, and vanilla, mixing well. Drop by heaping tablespoons on brown paper which has been placed on a baking sheet. Shape into 21/2 -inch rings. Bake at 350° F. 17 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from paper at once. Mix applesauce, lemon juice, strawberries, and almond ex- tract. Spoon about 3a cup this filling into each serving dish. Top each with a macaroon ring. Garnish with large strawber- ries. Makes 10-12 servings. % * * A hurry -up dessert that will serve 8 to 8 calls for slices of white cake on which to pile this strawberry fluff. FLUFFY STRAWBERRIES AND CAKE 1 pint strawberries (very cold) 2 egg whites 34 cup marshmallow creme 6-8 pieces white eake Prepare berries and chill well. Beat egg whites until stiff but LONG WALK — Blindfolded but staring death in the face, Ger- man aerialist Alex Schack walks nlong a high wire. In the back- ground is the Municipal Audi- torium, to which the wire was strung from a 15 -storey hotel. Schack was making a benefit appearance for the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. not dry. Beat in marshmallow creme until smooth. Fold in cold strawberries. Serve, piled on the white cake, * * * If you're looking for a con- versation desesrt, try thisl'.t....c versation piece dessert, try this strawberry meringue tort. SUNNY MERINGUE TORT 34 cup butter 34 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 egg yolks 13'i cups sifted flour 11 teaspoons baking powder 35 teaspoon salt 3•cup milk Dash salt 34 teaspoon white or cider vinegar 3 egg whites 1 cup sugar 3a teaspoon ground mace (optional) Ye pint whipping cream Sweetened fresh or frozen strawberries Grease 2 9 -inch round layer pans. Line bottoms (only) with waxed paper, (Leave 3 -inch tabs at opposit sides of liners to make removal from pan easy.) Cream butter, add sugar gradually and continee cream- ing until mixture is light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla. Add egg yolks one at a time; beat well after each addition, Sift to- gether flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to egg mixture alternately with milk. Beat un- til smooth, Spread batter into prepared pans. Add dash of salt and vinegar to egg whites, Beat until stiff and glossy, Gradually add the cup sugar and continue beating until meringue holds a very stiff peak. Spread gently over batter in pans. Bake at 325° F. until meringue is light- ly browned and crisp — about 40 minutes. Remove from pans to cooling rack. When cool, re- move paper from bottom. Place one layer, meringue side up, on cake plate. Sprinkkle mace over cream and whip until stiff, Spread over layer on plate. Cover with second torte layer, Cut in wedges. Top with straw- berries. ra 5+ * STRAWBERRY ICE 1 quart strawberries 1 cup water la cup sugar Juice 1 Lemon Cook water and sugar for 5 minutes, stirring only until su- gar has dissolved. Wash and hull strawberries; mash and force through a coarse sieve. Combine sugar syrup, straw- berries, and strained lemon juice. Cool. Freeze in refrigera- tor tray for 3 hours, stirring once after first hour of freezing. e * * As the days grow warmer, you may want to freeze straw- berry desserts. Try this water ice for a cool, refreshing end to your meal. STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM 1 pint fresh strawberries ?s cups sugar as teaspoon salt 1 cup evaporated milk (thor- oruoghly chilled) 1 tablespoon lemon juice Wash, drain and hull straw- berries. Put into a bowl and mash thoroughly, using bottom of a glass or bottle for mashing. Let stand. Whip chilled milk until fluffy. Add lemon juice. Continue whipping until stiff. Fold into mashed berries. Freeze without stirring in tray of re- frigerator at coldest tempera- ture. PLtiEAPPLE, RHUBARB, AND STRAWBERRY JELLY Yield: about 6 medium glasses (3 Ibs. jelly) 21 cups juice (1 small ripe pineapple about lb. rhn- • eaeteeetteee SA -E ay A SHADE— This trio won't hove to run for cover come o,n or carne shine. Their unique headgear combines the features of both hats and umbrellas, while protecting the hairdos. INDEPENDENCE DAY IN EGYPT goes on public display for the Cairo on the occasion of the cou ence. Egyptian Premier Nasser heavy guns and armored cars. — A Soviet -supplied Stalin tank first time during a parade in ntry's anniversary of Independ- watched the display of tanks, barb, and T pint ripe straw- berries) 3312 cups (P,4 lbs.) sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin First, preapare the juice. Pare 1 small, fully ripe pineapple. Chop very fine or grind. Cut in 1 inch pieces (do not peel) about 312 pound rhubarb. Put through food chopper. Crush thoroughly about 1 pint fully ripe strawberries. Place fruits in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure 21 cups into a large saucepan, Then make the jelly. Measure sugar and set aside. Add pow- dered fruit pectin to juice in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat and stir until mixture comes to hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and pour quickly into glasses. Cov- er at once with ?e inch hot paraffin. 4 * 4 CHERRY RELISH (using sour cherries) Yield: about 1 medium glasses (31/2 lbs. relish) 3 cups prepared fruit (about lbs. ripe sour cherries) 4 cups eine lbs.) sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin First, prepare the fruit. Stem and pit about ale pounds fully ripe sour cherries. Chop very fine or grind. Add le cup vine- gar and 1 teaspoon each cinna- mon, cloves, and allspice, or any desired combination of spices. Measure 3 cups into a large saucepan. Then make the relish. Meas- ure sugar and set aside. Add powdered fruit pectin to fruit in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat and stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling bail and boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and skim off foam with metal spoon. Then stir and skim by turns for 5 minutes to .cool slightly, to pre- vent floating fruit. Ladle quick- ly into glasses. Cover at once with ?s inch hot paraffin. Silk Topper Traces Killer First hint of foul play came when two bank clerks boarded the train at Hackney. The com- partment was empty but. sur- prisingly, it contained a black beaver hat, a walking stick and a small black bag. Then the clerk's surprise turned to shock. One of them lifted his hand from the seat cushions and found it was wet and sticky . . and red. Almost at the same moment the driver of an ather train had slammed en .his brakes and jumped from his cabin to inves- tigate a "dark object" lying near the rails between Hackney Wick and Bow. It was a marl, badly battered about the head. He died without regein.rg eon- scioueness. It Wes the first time murder had been committed on a Bri- tish train. In the worele of 'The Times' of Jul, ll . , 1x'34: "One of the most atrocious crines that • ever d`' cod this co;: was perpetr trd on Saturday eveningin a first-ri_ws carriage of a peesen_er train c n the Forth Lenton P,ailevey, when a gentleman. .Mr. Thomas Briggs. was murderously assailed,p: - dered and thrown cut of the train," • The body was identieed by Mr. Briggs' sen, Robbery ap- • peered to he the motive: a pair of gold eyegleeses and a gold watch and chain were miseing. Then came a startling, dramatic discs: er• The lehtelt, eeaver hat foiend by the hark eleiries had r. _. be- longed to the dead Irian. The bag and stick were his, but he had been wearing a topper ("Paris nap of the best quality, with a white silk lining," said his son) of which there was no trace. "The curious business of the two hats seemed to have only one possible explanation," writes Belton , Cobb in his absorbing book on the development of our modern high-powered C.1.D., "Critical Years At The Yard." The thief must have hit harder than he intended, pushed his victim through the train win- dow, jumped out himself at the next station, grabbing the wrong hat in his panic. For a time matters were at a standstill. Then a jeweller in 'Cheapside gave the Yard a clue when he reported that a man had come into his shop and ex- changed a gold chain for one attached to a ring. Was he the killer, who had cunningly ob- tained a piece of jewellery not listed as stolen property, a chain he could sell without arousing suspicion. Ile was described by the jeweller as "probably a German, thin, sallow -faced and hungry - looking," But London was full of such types in those days. The trail seemed to be growing cold when Inspector Tanner, in charge of the case, decided to try a new track. He issued a description to the Press of the box in which the jeweller had packed the ring and chain, and offered £300 for in- formation leading to an arrest. The box had the jeweller's name printed on it. A curious name: DEATH. Three days later a cabby named Matthews called at Pad- dington Green police station. He said that a German he had known for a couple of years, Franz Muller, had given his daughter a box as a parting gift before sailing to America. He had found the little girl playing with it, and he hadn't liked it . not with the word "death" on it. At first the police thought he might be a hoaxer after the £300. But he was able to pro- duce a photo of Muller which was identified by Mr. Death as that of the man who had ex- changed the gold chain in his shop. There was also the business of the beaver hat. Some time before, when he was more pros- perous, Muller had admired the headgear of his friend the cabby. Ile had asked for one like it; and Matthews was able to identify the black beaver found in the train as the hat he had bought for Muller. The hue and cry was on. It was found that Muller had pawned the chain and ring and left for America in the sailing ship Victoria. He was due in New York in five or six weeks; and if he was to be caught some- one would have to beat him to it before he "disappeared." At once the Home Secretary approached the Admiralty: and The City of Manchester—one of the "new-fanled" steamships— was soon ploughing across the Atlantic with smoke belching from her funnel and Inspector Tanner aboard, It was a life -or -death race— steam against sail. And steam won. Before he could step ashore at New York, Muller was arres- ted. And among his belongings was a silk topper (Paris nap of the best quality) but of very curious shape, ingeaivuss y, its crown had been cut clown an inch and a half to remove the part bearing Mr. Brie natne and the edges had then been pasted and sewn together, It led to a new fashion in low -crowned silk hats• known nla'.le cut -dooms: from which the ever -popular bowler is :aid to have originated. Fought back to England, ,Lbed at Euston Stetien ani Ben Street. An en- ' teerenewil r f 20.000 fight- rh 0n on _mwnr 1-.h, 1 .t Belton Cobb's lively book is full of interesting details about the early days of crime detec- tion. One story concerns the first attempt to use dogs to track a killer—the notorious Jack the Ripper. The idea appealed very much to the public imagination, writes the author. It also appealed to Sir Charles Warren (newly ap- pointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police) who could be seen daily exercising the dogs in Hyde Park. Then the fateful day came. Inspector Abberline (in charge of the Whitechapel murders) sent an urgent request to the Commissioner for the bloodhounds to be sent to the scene o3 a fresh Ripper killing. But no bloodhounds appeared. The explanation was simple enough. The dogs themselves were being tracked. They had bolted during exercise! Jealous of Her Own Portrait A French scientist has calcu- lated that, as most women spend thirty minutes a day in making up, preening and admiring themselves, they waste 349,576 minutes — 242 days of their lines, mostly between the ages of twenty and thirty-five —in front of their mirrors. Yet half an hour a day would not have sufficed for the toilets of some well- known beauties. Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, was so vain over her chestnut hair, which fell to below her knees, that she once had every hair counted, and used to spend hours in front of her mirror having her tresses ar- ranged in exotic fashions. Fender still of gazing at her own reflection was Virginia, Comttess of Castiglione. She was so vain that once, after inspecting a full-length nude portrait for which she posed, site took the artist's knife and rip- ped his painting to shreds in case art lovers should prefer that like- ness to herself. But the most amazing passion for mirrors was that which enslaved Rate liorvoath wine merchant. Tie- ing accustomed to spending hours admiring her own good looks, she entered a competition in which a prize of $0,000 was to be given to the entrant collecting the greatest number of mirrors. Kate bought specimens from castles and man- sions all over the country, and then travelled abroad buying still more mirrors. Then when the time came for her collection to be examined the Turkish millionaire who had organized the contest committed suicide, Now Hate possessed 2,700 mix- ers, stored in nine of the ten rooms in her home, and when her husband died in 1932, they represented her total assets. One by one she sold them to boy food, still spending hours gazing at her reflection in the others. One day, however, she tripped and fell against one mas- sive mirror, smashed it and cut her- self badly on the splinters. And when neighbours answered her screams they were too late to help. She died a victim of the strangest mirror amnia en record. Only one man seems to have sought mirrors with nnything like %ale's enthusiasm. Sir John Sloane, founder of the Sloane Mus- eum in London, could never resist them and had hundreds built into the house in whiel his treasures are now housed. Strangely enough, a timber of woolen have disliked mirrors, Lady Montague, the once famous English society beauty who died in 17112, never looked at herself in a glass during the last twenty-two years of her life. Smallpox had ruined the beauty that had once matte her the toast of Loudon, however, let it be said that Charles Worth. 01 the United States. was 0111' of fit* o1posite sex who never knew what he looked like— but for a very good reason. IIs was it victim of premature senility, and at the age of seven wets as grey bearded and tottery as a aurin of seventy. when he ehotna have been playing with boys his own age he was hobbling round nun stick, for all the world like a bent old rear. Ifis parents kept him away from minors and refused to let him see his own reflection in water. One day, heave ver, be did look Into a mirror in au unguarded moment, and the terrible shock of what he saw is said to have killed hint. 11. Barclay *Varren, B.A.. U.D. Jesus is the Saviour of Men Hebrews 2:9-13; 4:14-16; 5:7-9 Memory Selection Being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. Hebrews 5:9 • The Hebrews were thorough- ly acquainted with all the de- tails of temple worship. The writer points out that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of all that was prefigured by the tem- ple and the sacrifices. Jesus is the great high priest. Since he was man he knows our frailities. He "was in all points tempted like as we are, yet with- out sin." Other priests served a few years and died. But Jesus, the Son of God, has passed into the heavens and has a continuing priesthood. Jesus Christ has the unique position of being both the high priest presenting the offering and being the offering itself. He is the sacrifice. It was the Father's will "that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." We cannot save ourselves from sin. That is like trying to lift ourselves by our bootstraps. Our works will not do it. We cannot buy our way to heaven with money or effort. The church cannot save us; hence "church membership will not suffice, 01 course the church plays an im- portant part in preaching the gospel. But if we are trusting in the church for our salvation we greatly err. Jesus Christ is the Saviour at Men. He is the great sacrifice. He is the great high priest. He is the Son of God and the Son of. Man. He is the only one who can meet our need. "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men where- by we must be saved." We must confess our sins and trust in him as our Lord and Savious. He is the author of eternal salvation unto all that obey him. "I feel so embarrassed." said one glow-worm to another. "I've been talking to a cigarette end for the last flue minutes," SUMMER TIE - UP — Cool, slim and collected — that's the summer rendition of this sheath in barley beige or pepper black cotton pique. Collared in sugar white, the whole dress is tied up neatly with a checker -board four-in-hand. REUNION IN ENGLAND — Former British Prime Minister Sir Win- ston Churchill, and former U.S. President Harry S. Truman, right, shake hands as they meet for the first time since they left'their posts of national leadership. They had a reunion at Chartwell, Sir Winston's country estate, !i 3i