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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-01-15, Page 2STABLE TALKS oiam lfiRO$'TED APPLE -RAISIN PIE 1) Prepare pastry for 2 -crust pie. a) Combine 3.4 e, sugar 2 tblsp. flour Ili tsp. salt ' z tsp. cinnamon �) Sprinkle 2 tblsp, of the dry in- gredients over bottom pastry. Peel, slice tart apples to melte 6 c. 0 Combine with r, raisins tt Mix with remaining dry ingre- dients and put into pie shell. Sprinkle with 2 tblsp, orange juice •) Dot with 3 tblsp. butter 0) Cover with a top crust. q Bake in 425° oven 15 minutes; atduce heat to 350° and bake 40 :minutes longer. Frost with— Wowdered Sugar Frosting: Mix rtogether 1 c. powdered sugar, 3 riblsp, orange juice, 1 tsp. grated mange rind. Spread over hot pie. Serves 6. APPLE -WALNUT CRISP a) Beat well 1 egg 0 Add 1 c. diced apples 1 c. chopped nuts y Sift together 26 e. sugar 2 tblsp. flour 1 tsp. baking powder a? Stir all ingredients together eesd spread in greased 8 -inch take pan. O Bake in 350° oven 40 to 45 :minutes. +5 Serve with cream. Serves 6. ° it M APPLE FUDGE SQUARES a) Me)t 2 G. oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate in 1a c. shortening a) Blend in 1 e. sugar 2 well - beaten eggs 2j c. applesauce 1 tsp. vanilla a) Sift together 1 c, sifted flour IS tsp. baking powder la tsp. soda ?:i tsp. salt et Stir hnta chocolate mixture. 0 Fold in ae c. chopped pecans E Spread in. greased, floured 8 - :inch pan. o Bake in 3500 oven 33 to 40 :minutes. Cardinal's Fashions—One of Nome's three official ecclesiasti- aai tailors dresses his window with a set of resplendent vest- ments such as the new cardinals ov111 wear, when invested with 'their office at the forthcoming eonsistory which has been call - orf by Pope Pius XII. Although arlt of the 24 newly named car- dinals will not be able to at- tend, they have all ordered their vestments from Rome's tailors. BARED CAULIFLOWER • Break into flowerets I doheadwer eauli- • Cook 20 minutes or until ten, der. o Combine in greased 8 -inch casserole c. drained, canned toma- toes Iso c. ohm ped onion ?;t tsp. drio.f oregano 1 tsp, salt IS tsp. pepper o Cover with cauliflower. o Combine .. . 42 e. grated cheese st e, cracker crumbs a< Sprinkle over cauliflower. 0 Bake in 400° oven 20 minutes. Serves 6 to 7. ONION PIE • Combine -... 11 e. sifted all- purpose flour s$ tsp. salt 1i; tsp. caraway seeds o Adcl r e c. lard at Cut into flour until mixture resembles coarse corn meal, o Stir in 2 to 3 tblsp. water ce Turn out on floured board and roll to 1s -inch thickness. at Fit into 10 -inch pie pan. • Bake in 425° oven 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Filling: o Melt in skillet 3 tblsp, bacon drippings ar Peel, quarter and slice thin onions to make 3 c. o Cook until lightly browned. * Spoon into pastry shell. o Beat until fluffy 2 eggs • Add ?/ c. milk P4 c. sour cream 1 tsp, salt 0 Blend 3 tblsp. flour le e. sour cream o Combine with egg mixture and pour into pastry shell. *Bake in 325° oven 30 minutes, or until firm in the center. o Garnish with crisp bacon slic- es. Serves 8. BROCCOLI AND CHEESE SOUFFLE Melt in saucepan 3 tblsp, butter o Blend in 3 tblsp. flour o Add 1 c. milk 2 tblsps finely eh pped onion * Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened, Remove from heat. at Add 1 c. grated cheese t slightly beaten egg yolks 1 tblsp. dried marjoram 'a tsp. salt lei tsp. paprika O Stir until the cheese is melted. o Stir in 1/2 c. cooked, chopped broc- coli Fold in 3 stiffly beaten egg whites • • Pour into greased 10 x 6 x 11/2 - inch baking pan. o Top with le c. buttered cracker crumbs • Bake in 350° oven 45 minutes. Serves 6, (Spinach or asparagus may be used instead of broccoli.) CORN AND PEAS WITH SUMMER SAVORY o Cook over low heat for 3 to 4 minutes 3 tblsp. butter al c. chopped onion a c. chopped celery • Add 2 c. cooked peas 2 c. drained whole -kernel corn 2 tblsp. chopped parsley 11 tsp. •':rled summer sav- ory ?3 tsp. salt Ili tsp. pepper o Heat thoroughly and add be- fore serving ! r c. sour cream ® Serves six. V C Cit! i K D'r'-. li"C'lill k ' IPes al Art "Gallery"—Any Frenchman with 18 francs to sppre Zan now own a reproduction of a genuine Maurice Utrillo paint. Vng.'rhe french modernist created the design, above, for a new French stamp. The design represents the entrance gate to the Chateau de Versailles, The Queen's a Doll—Anne Stratton, of London, examines a plaster figurine of Queen Elizabeth I1, one of more than 550 different souvenirs which will be* placed on sale during Coronation Year. Proposed souvenirs and novelties must receive the approval of the Council of Industrial Design, before they may be put on the market, GREEN BEANS, SPANISH STYLE 3 tblsp. butter • Add and cook until tender is e. chopped onion • Add 1 c. water i a e. chili sauce ?ti tsp. dried dill o Blend and add .. 23a tblsp. corn starch 2 tblsp. water • Cook, stirring, until thickened. • Combine with 3 e. cooked green beans • Serves six. GREEN BEANS WITH TOASTED ALMONDS • Cook 15 minutes 3 c. canned or frozen green beans Melt a e. butter 0 Add 1/2 c, slivered almonds o Toast lightly, shaking pan. at Add r. tsp. salt 1 tblsp. chopped chives • Pour over green beans. • Serves six. @. p N FLUFFY BEETS • Shred coarsely t c. raw beets • Combine with 2 tblsp. butter 1 tbisp. sugar 1 tsp. salt 33 c, water * Cook until beets are tender, about 10 to 12 minutes. o Blend 1 tblsp. flour 1 c. thick sour cream • Add 1 tsp. dried sum- mer savory 0 Fold into cooked beets. Heat through. Serves 6. Veale Marries Pye! Recently a hospital nurse upset a bottle of sterlization spirit near an electric heater. It caught fire and set alight the bed of a girl named Flame. On the same day a boy named Kipper was taken before a magistrate for assault- ing a Mrs, Winifred Fish at Woking, "You are a member of the Fish family?" the magistrate asked Kipper, who nodded agree- ment, Names that go with professions often cause amusement, In Chicago is a firm of d i v o r c e lawyers named Love and Love. At Higher Bebington, Cheshire, a Mr. Adams married a Miss Eva; and at Liverpool a Mr, Veale and a Miss Pye, and a Mr, Hunter and a Miss FIare were joined. Years ago in Slough there were three shops near each other, on the same side of the High Street, with the names Gotobcd, Death' and Coffin over their fronts; and some years ago in Peshawar there were three army surgeons in the same mess named Blood, Gore and Slaughter ! STARTING YOUNG One of the most successful writers of gangster scripts on the Coast learned angles in the hard school of experience, The neighborhood in which he grew up, he explains, was so tough that whenever a cat stalked down the street with ears and a tail, everybody knew it was a tourist. A hardboiled kid who lived next door to him poured a pan of. water on a passerby, and shouted a number of inter- esting four-letter words as an accompaniment, The infuriated passerby yelled, "Come down here and I'll beat the tar out of ,you." "Come down?" repeated the offending brat. "You're nuts. 1 can't even walk yet." Struggling Statue—Writhing in the clutches of iron - fisted thought control is the sculptured figure titled "Political Prisoner." One of 3,500 statues entered in the London contest, the statue is examined by Miss M. Stiles. The artist winning the World contest will receive $32,000, All have submitted statues inter- preting the same subject, Henry VIII & Wives Still Earn Money A United States millionaire has just placed a repeat order with a London firm. His total purchases will mean more than a hundred thousand dollars for Britain. What's he buying—a fieet. of British -made cars or a few pri- vate 'planes? You're way off the mark. The "bargains" he is snapping up, for his collection in the U.S., consist of waxwork characters. Such figures are now being sold all over the world by the only British concern con- ducting an expert trade in wax- works. Each historical figure sold to the United' States brings in be- tween 500 and 600 dollars; as a rule half this price is for the costume. William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and all his wives, F. D. Roosvelt, and star Ameri- can baseball players, are among the assorted personages whose effigies have already brought back dollars. Henry Ford, John Wesley, Mendelssohn and Presi- dent Eisenhower will soon fol- low them across the Atlantic. Each figure is dismembered before it is shipped; head, legs, arms and torso are packed in separate compartments, with photographs showing exactly how they are to be reassembled. For Iceland, the firm recently made the Icelandic Cabinet in waxworks. Off to the West Indies have gone a grisly group of fig- ures for exhibition in caves once the headquarters of pirates. Pakistan's army has had a set of up-to-date waxworks soldiers to display current uniforms as they should be worn. Orders have also arrived from Africa, Hong Kong and Burma. Not all the exports are for exhibition, Governments order special waxwork figures, care- fully made to tally with the hu- man frame, for experiments with new explosives. Other wax- works, fltt:ed with internal mechanism, have been made for use as dunimy frogmen, for ser- vice in testing underwear ap- paratus. The firm behind all this he- gan making drapers' ,dummies 100 years ago. They started pro- ducing waxworks at the turn of the century. But this export boom is a new development which now keeps between 30 and 40 experts busy, &fidgets Had Their • i'eat Days Too range Tales About The "Little Folks" Is it a misfortune to be born a midget? Some of us may think It is, but there was a time when royal and fashionable people liked to have them in their houses, Since there were never enough natural dwarfs to go round, artificial ones had to be made. The most popular of the various recipes for dwarfing children from birth was to anoint their backbones with a grease , made of moles, bats, and door - mice! In eighteenth -century Austria, at the caprice of the empress, all the dwarfs and all the giants in the empire were brought to- gether in Vienna and lodged in the same building. It was not long before the giant, with tears in their eyes, asked to be moved, They could not, they asked, any longer bear the ill- treatment they received from the dwarfs. Died In Prison Though the original Tom Thumb was supposed to have been at ling Arthur's court, the first English midget of whom we have any authentic record was Jeffrey Hudson, who was born in Rutland in 1619. Till 110 was thirty he was only 18 inches high, but after that he suddenly grew' another two feet. Ile was presented to Queen Henrietta Maria by the Duchess of Buck- ingham as he stepped out of a pie at a banquet. His career was adventurous. He fought at Least two duels, one with a turkey -cock and another with an unfortunate gentleman named Crofts. That they might be on the same level, Hudson was allowed to sit on a horse, and from there he proceeded to shoot his adversary dead. Twice, while travelling on con- fidential missions for the queen, 'he was taken prisoner, once at Dunkirk and once by Barbary pirates. Though on each of these occasions he was ransomed, he was eventually to die in prison at the age of sixty-three, after being accused of participating in the "Popish Plot." Living at the same time as Hudson were two other dwarfs. Measuring both together only 7 foot 2 inches, they were married at the queen's wish. I dare say she hoped that their children would also be dwarfs. If this was so, she was to be dissapoint- ed. The pair had nine children, of whom the five that survived grew to ordinary dimensions. Disguised As Baby In Paris, however, as late as 1858, a remarkable court -midget died at the age of ninety. This was Richebourg, who was only 23 inches tall. His youth had 'been spent in the household of the Duke of Orleans. During the French Revolution, when he was already in his twenties, he was disguised as an infant in arms and used to be carried in and out of Paris by a nurse with important and dangerous despatches concealed in his baby clothes. Except in Russia and Turkey, dwarfs in Europe ceased to be fashionable at courts and in the households of the nobility. In general, by about the middle of the eighteenth century, they had to find other means of support- ing themselves. They had little difficulty in doing so. Of the exhibited dwarfs in England; Borulwaski, a Pole, be- came one of the most popular. Though 39 inches tall, he had a sister who was head and shoul- ders shorter than himself. He is reported to have been hand- some and witty, and to have made a great deal of money. He lived to the age of ninety-eigk,.t, dying in 1837, after spending many years in comfortable re- tirement near Durham. The year of Borulwaski's death saw the birth of Charles Stratton in America. Of all midgets, Stratton, under the name of General Tom Thumb, is best known to fame. He was 25 inch- es high and weighed fifteen pounds. Barnum, the famous showman, was responsible for his exhibition, In Aniese t Ile aroused intense exelteinent and curiosity wherever he went. Hid In A Mull On one occassion, «heat being , mobbed by a too -enthusiastic crowd, he saw Fanny 1,11sler, the well-known dancer, in the dis- tance. Ile ran to her, leapt int* her arms, and hid himself in her ermine mull. In Englund General Tom Thumb --one Of the 1110Ft curious imports, surely, that has ever been received from across the Atlantic --appeared at the Ly- ceum Theatre. He imporsonated Greek ancient history, such as "David in combat with Goliath," "Sampson carrying Oil the Gates of Gaza," and "Hercules srug- gling with the Lion." We are net told if the lion was imper- sonated by a Mitten. He also ap- peared in Highland costume and dressed as Napoleon. . He was, we read, "perfect and elegant in his proportions," and that "when standing on the floor or parading the room, which he does dressed in a style of Bond Street elegance, his head scarce- ly reaches to the knees of a person of ordinary stature, and is about on a level with the seats Of the chairs and sofas." He was received several times by Queen Victoria and Pxinee Albert, and was given "substantial tokens of their royal favour." In 1882 Miss Lavinia Warren appeared in New York. She had, se says a contemporary account, "rich, dark, waving hair, large, brilliant and intelligent eyes, and an exquisitely modelled neck and shoulders. Were she of the average size, she would be one of the most handsome of wo- men." She was 24 inches high. Her parents, curiously enough, were exceptionally tall, as were six of their eight children, only Lavinia and her sister Minnie being dwarfs. Before going on exhibition, Lavinia had been a schoolmistress, and, in spite of her size, it is said she was always able to maintain the strictest dis- cipline. No Sense of Wonder Among her many admirers in New York was General Tom Thumb, After an extensive court- ship, he proposed, only to be told that Lavinia could not agree to marry without the consent of her parents. "You knave". she added, "that mother objects to your moustache." The General immediately shaved it oft, and necessary permission was given. On the 10th February, 1863, they were married in a fashion- able and crowded church. Since the chancel steps were imposs- ibly high for them, a little plat- form was built to bring them up to the level of the officiatingclergy. Permanent Paper Doll—Pretty as a picture after many washings is this cutout doll designed by Blanche Frame, a children's lib- rarian. About to be bathed by Diane Parker, 8, it is printed and sold in book form. The doll is made of a papery fibre which can be cut out, stitched and stuffed. The book covers make a closet for doll clothes, Coronation Confection—On display at Brighton, England, this huge cake is a detailed model of the forthcoming coronation. ceremonies for Queen Elizabeth II. The royal delicacy, which represents Buckingham Palace with the coronation procession moving down the Mall before it, took 250 working hours to make. Everything is edible, except the cavalrymen's swords and part of the palace railings,