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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-02-12, Page 2"TABLE "TALI(S Er claw, Aivirat , Although the old - fashioned two -crust pie is hard to beat, the a0open-faced" kind has one great advantage, It has "eye -appeal" fn addition to its other attrac- tions, and the number of different filings you can put into an al- ready -baked shell is almost end- less. Here are a few fine fillings which. I'm sure your folks will Mack their lips over. 4 .a a DOUBLE LEMON Pl1E s§ Cup Sugar 2 Tablespoons Flour Sei Teaspoon Salt 1 Egg Yolk 1 Cup Scalded Cream 1 Package Unflavored Gelr(in gid Cup Cold Water ane Cup Lemon Juice Grated Rind of 1 Lemon ne, Teaspoon Vanilla 2 Egg Whites I Baked 9 -Inch Pastry Shell Combine sugar, flour, salt and egg yolk. Add to scalded cream In top of double boiler. Cook un- til thick, stirring well. Dissolve gelatin in cold water. Add to hot mixture. Cool. When mixture jells, add lemon juice, rind and manilla. Beat egg whites until eiff. Fold into filling. Pile into pastry shell. Chill. fg et, Cup Sugar 31 Tablespoons Corue' , tr I/ Teaspoon Salt n'a Cup Water Juice of 1 Lemon Grated Rind of 1 Lemon 1 Egg Yolk 2 Tablespoons Butter Combine all ingredients except egg and butter. Cook and stir un- til thick. Pour a little over beat- en egg yolk. Return to hot mix- ture. Cook 5 minutes. Add but- ler. Cool and spread over filling. e t+ 5 APRICOT - GRANGE MARMALADE PIE 3 Cups Cooked, Unsweetened Dried Apricots tor Canned Apricots) 1 Cup Orange Marmalade to Cup Apricot Juice 1 Tablespoon Quick -Cooking Tapioca xs Teaspoon Salt Pastry for 9 -Inch Pie Drain apricots. Combine mar- malade, juice, tapioce and salt "'Casbah" Cutie — Modelling a pair of black pedal pushers and bra, lesioned in North African 'Style, Joan Bell also displays the smart sleeveless jacket arid ° hat at a fashion show, Coffe&Raisin Pilau IIIX DO1tOThY MADDOX. �)D you ever have pilau? It Is a concoction of rice, spice and u varying number of other ingredients that rsnge from meat and fish to fruits and nuts. Try the following dessert pilau. Your 'amy will love it. COFF16E RAISIN PILAU (Yield: 6 serving's) One package pre-cooked rice, regular strength eatee, cup golden raisins, lb sup chopped walnuts,.% teaspoon salt, rla teaspoon nutmeg, 3 cup brown sugar Slimly packed, 1 cop heavy cream, whipped. -Prepare pre-cooked rice according to package directions, using coffee instead of water. Stir In remaining ingredients except cream. Mix well, Cool, Fold In whipped cream, reserving enough for gar- nishing. Spoon into !sherbet glasses. Top with reinaining whipped cream and chopped walnut meats. Everybody likes upside-down gingerbread. Try it with pineapple or pears. PXNEAP'rLE•UPSIDE-DOWN GINGERBREAD (Yield: 9 servings) Telspnsr: Two tablespoons butter or margarine, 3f4 cup molasses, to cup sugar, 6 slices canned pineapple, 6 maraschino. cherries. Melt butter or margarine in an 8 x 8 x2 -inch pan, Blend In mo - Seisms and sugar; heat just to boiling point. Over this arrange pine- apple and cherries; set aside uetiltgingerbread batter is mixed. GINGEIRBREAD BATTIER One and one-half cups sifted enriched flour, 1 teaspoon salt, a teaspoon double-acting baking powder, ee teaspoon ginger, iz teaspoon nutmeg, r/4 teaspoon cloves, Ifs cup shortening, 14 cup sugar, ?Q teaspoon soda, In cup molasses, I egg, ifs cup sour milk. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. (moderate). Sift together first six ingredients. Cream together shortening, sugar and soda. Add molasses Stir in 3/4 cup of the flour mixture. Beat in egg. Add remaining a Delicious Ooffee-Raisin Pilau brightens any meal, even midnight snacks• and late ai'ternoott lunches. dry ingredients alternately with sour milk (about 34 of each at a time). Beat ars minute, Pour batter in the above pan over pineapple and cherries and spread to sides and corners. Bake one hour or until done. Coot 18 minutes before removing from pan. Note: Pear -Upside -Down Gingerbread: Replace pineapple with pears in the above recipe. Pour over apricots and mix. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Top with lattice. Bake in hot oven (425°F.) 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F. and bake 30 minutes. °. 4 4 TUTTX-FRU 'TI PIE 1 Cup Grapefruit Sections 111 Cups Orange Sections ?fi Cup Drained Crushed Pine - Apple 1 'tedium Banana, Sliced t e . Cup Maraschino Merries, Halved 2 Tablespoons Butter $a Cup Sugar 3 Tablespoons Quick -Cooking Tapioca Ed Teaspoon Salt Pastry for 9 -Inch Pi - Combine all ingredients except pastry and butter. Pour into un - baked pie shell. Dot with butter. Top with pastry. Bake in hot even (425°F.) 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F. Bake 40 minutes. ORANGE -RAISIN NE 2 Cups .Seedless Raisins 3 Tablespoons Lemon Juice IS Cup Sugar to Cup Water 2 Tablespoons Butter 3 Tablespoons Flour le Teaspoon Salt 134 Cups Orange Sections Pastry for 2 -Crust Pie Mix raisins, lemon juice, sugar and water in a sauce -pan. Simmer slowly for 15 minutes, or until raisins are plump. Melt butter. e Add flour and salt, beating until smooth. Gradually add some of the hot juice from the raisin mix- ture to the flour, stirring until smooth. Pour into raisin mixture, and cook until thickened. Add orange sections. Pour into pastry - lined 9 -inch pie pan. Top with pastry and brush with milk. Bake In a hot oven (425°F.) '0 min- utes. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake 25 to 30 min- utes. WHAT HAPPENED AT JERICHO People might have been told "to go to Jericho" when there n -as, in fact, no other place. For British and American archaeolo- gists now excavating in Jericho have proved that it is a town at least 6,000 years old. No other town in the world can claim 6,000 years of contin- uous existence. Moreover, the walls of Jericho were not all blasted down by the noise of Joshua and his men. There were several - walls round Jericho andit is one of the walls that has now been uncov- ered to provide the evidence of 6,000 years of age. Most of this wall was made from stone slabs, but some preshaped bricks were used. So man learnt to make bricks before even pottery was invented, Keeps 5miltng -- Although her legs have been kept in traction splints since Jan, 12, eight -month-old Jerre Ellen Burkholder keeps a cheerful smile on her face. A fall broke her left leg above the knee, but both legs are raised to keep her from turning, Bangkok's Buddha — Watching serenely over the Thailand capi- tal is Bangkok's famous Buddha, well known to the city's teem- ing population as "Wat Indere Viharn." An idea of its height can be estimated by examining the tiny human figures in the foreground. Danish People Can Smile At Themselves Demnark consists of the pen- insular of Jutland as well as 500 islands, most of which are kept apart by bridges, the bigger ones, at any rate. A bridge between .Funen and Zealand is the only one Iacking for the present. Denmark is low-lying — from approximately four feet below sea level to 570 feet above it. It makes up for being low by being beautiful. At any rate, it is a pleasant country to leak at. Den- mark has a smile for everbody who likes to see a smile, just as some other countries shout with laughter or look sad or even pos- itively gloomy. An English writer once declar- ed that Denmark resembled a red cow in an enormous green field. Add that it is a gay cow and a pleasant field and the re- mit/lc is true enough .But there are also broad streams and blue lakes about the country, idyllic fjords, beaches where water laps the white sand, unexpected cliffs that you can fall over if you lean out too far; there are stretches of moorland so fiat that you stop believing the world is round, dunes with masses .of san 1 al- most indistinguishable from a sample of African desert, damp rich marshes, woods with pale green beeches and picnic baskets, and Rebild's heather -covered bil]s and. dale:. Dotted about amongst it all ate thousands of gardens, surroindiug thousands of small white faro ;, and ancient parks surrounding ancient cartes. , . There are hundreds of gay, queer, amusing towns, where gay, queer, amusing people go a r o u n d speaking twenty different kinds of Danish, There is a waterfall in Tutland, It is four feet high. There are racks tob—but these are all kept on the island of Bor'nholeim.. . A visitor from Florida once said that Copenhagen had two winters, a white one and a green one. The statement is a bit un- just --From "We Danes and You" by Mogen. Lind, illustrated by Ilerluuf nensenius, The National }:ravel Association of Denmark, 1952. Authors' Aliases Novelist Agatha Christie has completed: fifteen years of pub- lishing books under another nom -de -plume, Mary Westma- cott. Miss Westmacbtt came into being for the author's stuaight novels; Agatha Christie has al- ways,, been the writer of detec- tive etecttive stories. And few of her mil- lions of readers know the author's real name. It is Mallow - an, for she is the wife of Profes- sor Mallowan, the archaeologist. Authors often use peen -names because they are shy. Joseph Conrad's real name was Joseph C. Korzeniowski; George Eliot was a woman—Mary Ann Evans —in real life, Arnold Bennett wrote many articles over the sig- nature of "Jacob Tonson." A certain "Mrs. Horace Manners" who wrote learned articles turn- ed out to be Algernon Charles Swinburne. And the author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Car- tel], was an Oxford Don and mathematics lecturer named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. In 1931 the literary world was surprised to learn that novelist "George R. Preedy" was really Miss Marjorie Bowen (Mrs.. Ar- thur Long). Said she; "I wasn't trying to work a hoax. I wanted to get away from the type of writing done by Marjorie Bowen and to try something different." COMEBACK! When.Jerry Wald, now a pro- ducer, was writing his radio col- umn, "The Wald's have Ears," he devoted much space to attacking Rudy Vallee. He avalanched some caustic and belligerent letters from Vallee's loyal female fans. Jerry took a bundle of the most juvenile and badly written let- ters, tied them with blue ribbon and sent them to Vallee, with the note: "Read these and you'll see what kind of fans we have," Val- lee sent the pile back with the note: "Read these and you'll see what kind of readers you have." Big Money In The Lecturing usiness With a car salvaged from a Southampton scrap heap, a sec- onhand movie camera and a year's savings, an American schoolteacher named Austen Steers spent his summer holiday making an amateur movie of Britain's scenery. Then lie went home and be- gan lecturing and showing his one-man movie to schools and women's clubs—and so far he has talked his way along a cir- cuit of 35,000 miles and grossed $15,000. Another young man named Russell Curry lectures feminine audiences on "How to Dance" and takes his elderly mother along with him, When he has explained the intracacies of the rtunba or samba, he grabs Mama to show how simple it is. Since she's about the average age of the audience, the show goes over big—and he's netting $12,000 a year. These are just two success samples of the gift of the gab, instances from the gib boom in talk. The great American lec- ture business is chattering pros- perously into another ten mil- lion dollar season. Every winter an average 25,- 000,000 Americans listen to some 3,000 professional lectures. In small exclusive groups, in mil- lionaires' drawing -rooms, and in enormous crowds in vast muni- cipal auditoriums, this year they'll lap up tbe lowdown on everything from atom spies to the Queen's coronation. Ever since Charles Dickens crossed the Atlantic with his little reading -stand and earned $282,000—equivalent of to -day's £t00,000—British speakers have been prominent in the gold -rush, Tally is one of our export trades. Sir Gerald Campbells former ambassador in Washington, went back not long ago and earned $500 every hour he spoke. An- thony Eden made $1,200 with a brief chat in New York. Nice work if you can get it? In fact, the lecture business means travelling hard, sleeping badly—and indigestion, Beverley Baxter was once snowed tip in Texas when be was supposed to be arriving in California. Even- tually, after juggling 'plane and train schedules, he arrived at his Los Angeles auditorium only a few minutes late to find his audi- trete patiently waiting. Lecture agents pay the travel fares but take 50 per cent. of the fee. At an annual slave mar- ket in New York, professional lecturers give ten-minute sant- pies of talk to hundreds of as- sembled committee women. The ladies weigh these human trail- ers one against another and choose their personalities months in advance. Would you like to lecture? Provided she can sparkle as well as talk her head off, lec- ture agents say there's a real box-office opening in America to -day for a genuine British house -wife. There's an opening, too, for Mr. Winston Churchill. He has been offered the biggest lecture contract yet—a fee of $600,000—if he will make a tour of the States and speak on any subject he chooses. What a rage he would be if he were in a position to accept. Don't forget that it was at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, that he advocated his "fraternal association" of the English-speaking peoples. ow Dealert Plants Search For "Water The great art of how -to-do-. without . , , is an art both the desert plants and the closest ani- mals have learned to pr Mien but it is the plants' appet.ranee that has been most obviously modified by it, Most of the birds show no outward signs that they live in a land of little rain, tad the quail who sit thirty feet rap in the saguaro, pecking moisture from its fruit, look, on the ground, as sleek as their cousins who drink when they like...', Almost every plant, on the other hand, haat modified itself in some visible way and announces to the most casual beholder that moisture is precious, , . Certainly the lines along. which the plants have worked aro few and they are directed toward three Simple ends; to got water, to conserve it, or to got along most of the time without any... To get water, one may of course send roots deep; this is as minizt be expected certain trees do,' though the method is the more remarkable in certain plants, notably the yucca, whose above -surface size is modest. Up the slopes of the gleaming gyp- sum dunes in White Sands, New Mexico, one may see the yuccas lifting their oddly lush masses of lily blossoms above the burning, bone-dry powder in which it does not seem possible that anything could live and in which, a; a mat- ter of fact, precious fern other things can. The secret is a root which may, I am told, go forty feet down to the soil below the gypsum, Sometimes, on the other hand, it is hardly worth while for a plant to go down because there is little water even at forty feet. Hence, the kind 02 plant which grows in any given desert region depends in considerable part on whether there is water beneath the surface. Ten or fifteen miles north of where I am settled, the yuccas grow everywhere in the loose, rocky soil of a mountain- side where there is little earth but where the loose grrn'el al- lows water to soak in. Here, on the fiat, packed sand, they do not. The saguaro flourishes be- cause its method is not to go deep but to seize quickly and to store up what falls in rare, brief, sud- den downpours that ruin off quickly without penetrating far below the surface, These mon- ster cacti, sometimes as high as fifty feet, sometimes weighing as much as two 'tons, and sometimes living as long as two hundred years, have no real tap roots at all. Just below the surface: of the soil, as flat disk -like network spreads for yards around them; when a rain comes they quickly take up the water front a wide area, swelling visibly and; some- times absorbing as much t•.s a ton of water from one rain. After that they may go a year, if neces- sary, without taking in water again.—From "The Desert 'Year," by 'Joseph Wood Kruteh. THRIFT An Aberdeen woman +_• est to her kirk one Sunday and heard an impressive sermon on the Gsod Samaritan, So impressed was she that on her return she said to a friend, "I'll me ce turn a beggar awe' free my door ony main" A few days later a tramp knockedat her door, : ncl, true to her resolve, she ran indoors and cut a slice of bread it oro the lodger's loaf. Ammunition for Flue War—Workers supervise final sleet in the production of influenza vaccine. To meet the dernand for vaccine caused by the nationwide influenza epidemic, more of the vaccine has been packaged and shipped in ten days than is usually pro - ceased in a year.