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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-07-09, Page 2, ICE BOX CAKE. 1 trap (6 -ounce package) semi -sweet chocolate chips cap sugar 3 tablespoons water 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1 teaspoon essence of pep- permint (or 4 drops oil of peppermint) 1 cup undiluted Evaporated ,1 mdlk 2 tablespoons lemon juice 8 egg whites 16 (about. 4 ounces) marsh- mallows, diced 112 to 16 lady fingers (or thin eake slices) Melt chocolate with sugar and water in double boiler, stirring to blend; remove from heat. Gradually stir chocolate mixture into egg yolks. Add peppermint send blend thoroughly. Cool. Chill evaporated milk in re- frigerator tray until Ice crystals form around edges of tray (about 20 to 25 minutes). Whip until Stift' (about 1 minute). Add -lemon juice and whip very stiff (about l minutes longer). Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry; old together egg whites, whip- ped milk, the marshmallows and cooled chocolate mixture, Have loaf pan (9x5x3") lined with waxed paper. Arrange lady singers on bottom and sides of ),:tri , Pour in half of chocolate mixture: cover with lady fingers. .Add remaining chocolate mix- ture and top with lady fingers. Place in freezing ' compartment until firm (about 2 to 3 hours). 'Llnrnould. Slice for serving nlfaites 8 to 10 servings. ItlICBAR1l CUSTARD PIE '1'trem: 450°F. for 15 minutes 350°F. for 25.30 mintates. Pastry for 9" pie ll egg y,„ cup white sugar cup corn syrup !; teaspoon salt l tablespoon corn starch 3 tablespoon melted butter c eltps rhubarh, cut in I" pieces IVJctitt.d: Lite t 9 -inch pit pan with pastry. Beat egg till light; add sugar. corn syrup, salt, corn Starch - and incited butter, Add t.hobarb: pour into raw shell. ("ever with criss-cross lattice everk of -inch strips of pastry. Price rn hot oven (450°F.) tor I minutes; reduce heat to 350'F. mitt continue cooking for 25 to 311 n'nrn;es, e: until •rhubarb is i r t•i?er; .FRESH CHERRY P111 450.350`F. 'IME-': 49-43 minutes. Pastry for a 9" pie cups white sugar teaspoon salt e tablespoons corn starch cups pitted sour cherries 3:s cup corn syrup 11 tablespoons butter !s. cup ground blanched almonds (optional) 'Method: Line a 9 -inch pie pan nate pastry. Mix together the sugar. salt and corn starch. Sprinkle half this mixture on the unbaked crust; add cherries, Sprinkle with remaining sugar mixture; add corn syrup. Dot with butter and almonds; cover with top crust. Bake in hot oven (450'F.) for 15 minutes; reduce heat to 150'F. and continue bak- ing 25 to 30 minutes, or until done. Note: The addition of ground a,ltnends gives cherries ,, drli- tlous natural flavour. FRk:SI1 GOOSEBERRY 1'IE Raked pastry shell, 9" 3 cups gooseberries 1', cups cold water 1 cup white sugar 5 tablespoons corn starch 5 tablespoons cold water 2 egg yolks 1 tablespoon white sugar Method: Wash and snip goose- berries. Add 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar; cook gently in top of double boiler over direct heat until berries are soft but un- broken. Dissolve corn starch in remaining lir cup cold water; add to gooseberry mixture; cook and stir till smooth and thick. Place over boiling water; cover and continue cooking for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Beat the egg yolks slightly with 1 tables spoon sugar; acid to gooseberry mixture; continue cooking 3 minutes. Pour into 9 -inch baked pastry shell; cover with mer- ingue and bake in moderate oven till slightly brown. MERINGUE 2 egg whites 4 tablespoons white sugar Is teaspoon lemon juice Method: Stiffly beat egg whites; add sugar and lemon juice. Beat again till mixture peaks. CHERRY -GOOSEBERRY .PILE Temp.: 450-350"F. 'bine: 40-45 minutes. Pastry for a 9" pie Pe cups white sugar i s teaspoon salt 2'a tablespoons corn starch !N teaspoon =tee 2 cups pitted soar cherries 2 cups gooseberries, snipped tis cup corn syrup 2 tablespoons butter Method: Linc a 9 -inch pie pan with pastry. Mix together the sugar, salt, corn starch and mace. Sprinkle 1/4 of the mixture on unbaked crust, Add mixed fruit, corn syrup, clots of butter and remainder of sugar -starch mix- ture. Cover with top crust; bake in hot oven (450°F.) for 15 min- utes; reduce heat to 350'F. and continue baking 25 to 30 minutes. or until fruit is tender. Note: If a sweeter filling is desired, the sugar may be• in- creased according to taste. Long Job! Fiver nun. ion books covering more than sixty utiles of shelves are housed at the British Mu- seum Library. London. A ropy of nearly every book ever publish- ed is to found there. For twenty-two years, week m, week out, eight scholars have been steadily at work catalogu- ing this colossal library. They recently reached the Ds, which means that at the present rate of progress, their vast job will not be completed until the year 2036. . But by then, it is computed, the early volumes of the cata- logue will be a century out of date. So once more a team of scholars will have to undertake the cataloguing. It's really a job that never ends, One of the rare books in the British Museum library is a first edition presentation copy of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adven- tures in Wonderland,' dated 1865. It was bought by the Museum for 11,320 last year. r,oeso't Feeze Him --All eyes are on hula dancer Pauline Kaka- } ono, except those of Pvt. Franklin D. Smith, at left, who calmly floes on Sho ring. He was wounded in Korean fighting and was me of 126 wounded and sick military personnel aboard the Consolation who were greeted at Peorl Harbour by hula dancers end other attractive welcomers. Now It's '3-D' in Church—The world's only '3-D' stained gloss window is the pride of Trinity Lutheran Church, in Jackson, Miss. The window appears to be in three dimensions, because it has five panels of glass, each six inches apart, Parts of the scene are set in each pone, thus making the picture appear ie have depth. Rev. and Mrs. Wade H. Koons are shown in- specting the window, Went After Gold But Got Horse Whipping One of the strangest arrivals at the Coolgardie goldfields dur- ing the Western Australian gold- rush of the 90's was the Hon. Robert Montagu, son of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Mr. G. F. Young, who worked there as a mine official after taking part in the rush, says Montagu had been sent out by his family to "get experience." ".A11 you fellows," said the Hon- ourable, "must call me Bob, or Monty—Take your pick." He was a good, unaffected, plain fel- low, anxious to scrap all pride, pomp and ceremony. "My dear chaps," he declared. "you've no idea what being a second son to a lord is like. One gets utterly bored being a sort of not -wanted addition to the family." Cartloads of Luggage He had so much luggage that Paddy, the carter, had to make two trips to Coolgardie for it. There were guns and rifles in cases, surveying instruments, water -filters of all sizes, com- passes, hunting knives, felt - covered drinking vessels, camp - stools, waterproof sheets and sim- ilar bedding woollen -lined, mos- quito nets, trunks full of clothes, technical and other books, port- able lamps, and so on. All was well until he began troubling himself about a mining company promoter named Wills who often came out to the camp from Coolgardie. "Why do you always address Wills as 'Mister'?" Bob asked Mr. Young abruptly one day. "He's a nobody. We always allude to him as 'Louisa.' He is an old woman, really—a bore. Pater all - ways goes to sleep when he's about. Somehow or other Wills got into our circle and has some- times stayed at Beaulieu Abbey. We never seem to be able to get rid of him under four or five days." One morning Wills turned up on a bicycle with a buggy whip strapped to the handlebars. "Yotmg," he fined, "call the men up. I'm going to thrash this cad publicly," He stamped angrily into the bough shed to drag Bob out. but he wasn't there. Even- tually he was found hiding be- hind the tent, crouching in the dead branches forming the side. And there Wills used the whip, demanding: "Did t-ou write this letter to your father? . , , Do you think I'm a rogue and misrepre- sent conditions here?" Finally, Wills threw the whip into the camp -fire and left, End of Goldmining From then on Bob began to drift off, He'd make some excuse to go to Coolgardie, take e trunk with him, theh return within a week, mooch about disconsola- tely, do the trip again with an- other trunk and another, until within six weeks he'd cleared his gear, left without saying good- bye, and never came back. That was the end of his goldmining, writes G. F. Young, in e vivid account of his goldrush adven- tures in "Under the Coolibeh Tree," Is The Moon (iDeadrs? li the rocket trip to the moon planned by the Canadian Rocket Society in '960 -is successful, we may at last learn the answer to some of the mysteries that have long puzzled us. Perhaps the most intriguing riddle of all is as to whether there is lite on the moon. Though most of the evidence is against the existence of life we cannot dismiss it as impossible. Some scientists believe there may be a chance of mosses and lichen growing in a few spots, It -may be that on the moon there are forms of life beyond our present conception. We cannot be sure, until Man has been there. that the moon is "dead.' Another mystery which has lung puzzled scientists is how were the craters formed? Are they old volcanoes, or were they made by 'meteors striking the surface when the moon was in a molten state? Will the rocket men of the futin'e first the an- swer? The craters otter a further puzzle. Look carefully at a large photograph of the moon and you will see bright lines like the spokes of a wheel radiating from some of them. No one knows what these really are. 0. Ia f. (r e Sense., by BOO ELLIS The battle of politics is warm- ing up and points and issues are being thrown around freely. Farmer's will do well to ]seep their heads cool and not get Int volved in party politics, Economic conditions are not what they were in the forties when the fanners thought they did not need to worry about the future and were not interested in farm policies of the parties, but just plugged for thein like they would for their home team. Times have changed. The trend is downward and — unless the cold war changes into a hot one —the trend is likely to continue downward. WANT PROGRAM Our traditional British markets are gone, our great neighbour to the South, on whom so many hopes had been pinned, is closing the borders to our farm products, Canadian farm surpluses are growing and dragging down prices in the home market. On top of all that Canadian farmers, for the first time in many years are experiencing the effects of being undersold by im- ported foods. Five million pounds of Italian tomato paste, 12 million pounds of. cheese, millions of eggs from Holland rime into Canada in 1952/3. These are buyers' times and the farmers will have to do a selling job in order to get rid of their goods and yet be able to make a decent living. To do this they need a pro- gram. A program which should be developed by the farmers themselves in co-operation with the federal government; a pro- gram which should be put into action by the federal government in co-operation with the farmers. STOP, LOOS AND LISTEN The basis for such a program is given in the many briefs submit- ted to the federal government by the Federation of Agriculture and the Farmers' Unions. It is up to the farmers to pick the party which is willing to commit itself to a clear cut and precise line of action. Mr. Cold -well of the CCF was the first one to come out with "Forward Prices based on Pari- ty". Mr. Drew of the Conserva- tives followed up with "Fair Floor Prices". Mr. St. Laurent for the Liberals now says it can- not be done. All this sounds inte,restamg, but it is too vague and wants to be clarified. That it can be done has been provers in Other countries, but what are "fair" prices for the farmer and what is "parity"" NOW 15 TRE TIME This is D-day for the farmers of Canada. Unless they make quite sure before the tenth day of August what opportunities the future government Of Canada is going to give them, they will squawk in their kitchens and meetings for the next four or five years as they have been doing for the last two. They should ask Mr. St. Lau- rent why he thinks that farmers should not have some security in their prices; they should ask Mr Drew what he considers "fair' price; and they should go to the trouble of finding out what Mr. Coldwell understands by "Peri. tv" Now is the time 10 do it and not after the election when a group of men will sit in Ottawa and do so as they please for the next five years. This column weieomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether -constructive or destructive and ti'r111 try to answer any question. Address your letters to Bob Elite, Bee t, 123 - 18th Street, New Toronto. Ont. WIIAT ARE THE ODDS? if yeti have a cold the odds are 12 to 1 against your having caught it through e kiss. The chances are 4 to 1 that 1f you want to put on weight you can. And 5- to 1 that you can also take it off, The chances are 5'"• to 1 against your staying on a die recommended by a physician for as long a period as he prescribes, even that you get the minimum requirement of sleep. The odd, are 12 to 1 against your getting a .minimum amount of healthfu, exercise each day, 170 to 1 a ains' your seeing your dentist at leas' twice a year, 1'z to I agains' your health being better next year, 145 to 1 you ore's t,+l:e bath every day. "Old" Is New—An old design becomes new among modern aircraft with the production of this twin -engine plone using "old-fashioned" pusher -type propellers. The five -passenger plane is said to attain speeds greater than any other type executive plane, but can be operated at unsually low speeds, Note the unorthodox seating of the engines. POINTING OUT THE TROUBLE SPOTS—American Secretary of $tate, John Foster Dulles, at right, points out the European trouble zones to Senator Alexander Wiley (R., Wis,), .left, chair- man of the Senate foreign Relations Committee; and Foreign Aid Chief Harold Stassen. Since his appointment to the cabinet poet, Dulles has visited many of the countrlea which are united agaainst the threat of Red aureola,