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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-12-24, Page 6!cYTABLE datvz A c yews Witt dtr.iies front vari,aus (14411., tries is my "bill of fare today and I'm sure yoit'11 find the somewhat ditfertutt Ways of serving •ap the Milliner pork, veal and ,o on. well worth try- ing., SWEET-SOUR SPARERIBS 2 pounds pork spareribs 1 tablespoon salad oil 1 small piece ginger root 1 clove garlic, crushed cup sugar teaspoon dry mustard !a teaspoor salt 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons soy sauee 3 tablespoons vinegar t cup water Cut: spareribs in 1 -rib pieces and place in targe .skillet. Cover with hot water, bringing to boil, and simmer 10 minutes, Drama and dry thoroughly, Heat oil in skillet and add spareribs. Turn to brown on all sides. Peel gin- ger root and vhop fine. Race in bowl with garlic. Add all dry in" gredients, then the liquid ingre- dients, Stir until smooth. Pour over spareribs in skillet and site- I mer 20 minutes, i erne hut. Serves 4. VEAL SCALLOPINE 1 pound veal, sliced very thin in cup flour ':i cup grated nippy 'heese Dash pepper 1 cup sliced mushrounns !-:i cup butter or margarine j can condensed bouillon (1't cups) Cut veal into pieces about 2 inches square, pound well with mallet or edge of saucer. Mix flour, cheese and pepper; ciredee veal in this mixture. Brown veal and mushrooms in butter in heavy skillet. Blend in remain- ing flour -cheese mixture and bouillon; heat and stir until sauce starts to thicken; cover; simmer 5 minutes. Garnish with stuffed olives, Serves 11. Real Cool!—Robert E. Hopp mod- els the gasheated work suit he designed for cold -weather wear. Hot propane gas, supplied by a 21/2 -pound metal unit clipped to The belt, is circulated through the Suit in rubber tubes. The suit, which weighs 101/2 pounds with the heater unit, can keep a man warns for 12 hours in 30 -degree - below -zero -weather, d.DOB() 1 pound park chops 1 Molt thick 1 clove garlic, chapped • line 1 bay leaf • t!r. trop vineg.r 14 eup water In teaspoon salt , Dash pepper Spinach or cabbage, cooked. Brown chops in skillet. Mix garlic, bay leaf, water, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Your over browned chops Soak for 5 min- utes. Cover. Bring quickly to boil. Lower heat and -simper until nearly dry. Remove chaps from skillet. Add canned or fresh cooked cabbage or spinach. Stir lightly with fork. Serve on hot platter topped with the pork chops. Three servings. 1t the man in your family likes a Ragout, here is one made with pork hocks that will win praise. It is good served with boiled potatoes, carrots and cabbage. It serves 4. • FORK HOCK RAGOUT 1 pound pork hock (4 pieces) 1 tablespoons shortening .1 onion, sliced 2 teaspoons salt 1 bay Ieaf (optional) /a teaspoon whole cloves Lionel) 1 cup water is pound ground beef +s pound ground pork at teaspoon pepper Browned flour (about is eup) Brown backs in 2 tablespoons shortening in a heavy kettle or skillet. Add onion, 1 teaspoon salt, bay leaf, cloves and water. Cook 2 hours, or until fork ten- der. Add water from time to time if necessary (there should be about 2 cups liquid at end of cooking period). Mix together the ground beef, pork, pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt. Form into 11/2 -inch balls and roll in browned flour. Brown in second skillet in 2 tablespoons shorten- ing. Add browned meat balls to pork -hock mixture and cook 1,12 hour. Just before serving, thick- en broth with 4 tablespoons browned flour mixed with liquid left in pan after frying meat bath. (op- , Chicken almond stirs the im- agination to see pictures of the Orient, and here is a modernized version. CHICKEN ALMOND— CANADIAN VERSION 2 tablespoons butter or mar- garine +a cup celery, cut in 1-ineh pieces t4 cup sliced onion cups diced, cooked chicken (turkey or veal is good too) la cup canned mushrooms 1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 tablespoons soy sauce .1 cup clear chicken consumme, 1 cup unsalted toasted aI- monds Melt butter in skillet and add celery and onion. Stir and cook 2. minutes: Add chicken and mushrooms. Heat 8 minutes more. Combine cornstarch, soy sauce, and consomme. Stir slow- ly into chicken mixture. Stir and heat carefully 5 minutes. Stir in almonds. Serve over hot fluffy rice, serves 6. GIVE -IN - ONE As .the result of three years of experiments a Bury St. Edmunds farmer' now has a stock of 5,000 fruit trees, each single tree pro- ducing five separate varieties of the same fruit --..apple, pear. or plum. TEN TONS of sutuuient, turkey, like the due proud!y shown here by Itotnee Chnrest, chef insttuotor for the Canadian National Railways, will bo sorraaboard C,N.It. dining cars this Yuletide. Moro than 22,000 special Christy inns dinners will ho nerved over the holiday sesson, topped eft with ppt000 pudding a le CNR:'a awn npeelal metes. Christmas -On -Wheels For The Next 10 Years — .1. T, Callahan points out to Raymond Geist some of the toys the two-year-old boy will receive each Christmas for the next 10 years. This Christ- mas he'll receive an airplane and automobile both large enough for him to ride, as well a tri- cycle, kiddie -car, wagon and sled. He is being given the transportation toys to honor his being the one -millionth person to tide on the latest form of transportation .... the world's first moving rubber sidewalk, installed at the B, F. Goodrich Co. exhibit, in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. - News Trickle -- New Yorkers at Times Square reach for copies of the Sunday Herald Tribune — the first Manhattan paper to be published in a week. The usually thick edition was limited to eight pages. Admiral's Love For Fruit Cost Two Warships When a British naval squad- ron arrived at a seaport la Chile during the 1914 war, the Admiral in charge sent his steward to buy fresh fruit. Ashore, however, the steward got very drunk, and had to be bundled by comrades into the ship's boat, which pushed off for the flagship, leaving the basket of fruit behind. Waking later, he remembered the fruit, and, fearing the Admir- al's wrath, begged the wireless operator to ask a collier to bring the basket to their refuelling rendezvous off the coast the next day. No one suspected that, about one hundred miles away, several German ships were snaking for Valparaiso. The Gneisnau's radio caught the message: "Bring out the Admiral's basket of fruit" Direction -finding equipment in- dicated the position of the Brit- ish squadron, and within four hours the Germans had sunk the Good Hope and Monmouth. That basket of fruit cost us two good ships and 1,200 lives! Cdr. A. B. Campbell, serving at the time in H.M.S. Otranto, dis- closes this in his engrossing re- miniscences, "When I Was In Pa- tagonia." One amusing story is that of a fakir who came aboard the troop- ship Orient at Bombay to enter- tain her company. He hypnotized a dozen volunteers made them mark time, take off their jackets, then their pants. "Jusnp over the side," he next ordered, and, as • they raced to the port rail, "The ether side," then as they turned and raced to the starboard side, "Back again!" Finally he lined them up and said to each, "Wake up, big man," and they came round. The captain ordered the mast- er-at-arms to see him down the gangway and give him something Mr his show. Later, Cdr. Camp- bell asked, "What did you give that fakir?" "Give 'int? Why, sir," he replied, "I give 'ire a good hiding for melting abaht with the Arntyl" When Campbell fiat 'want to sea, ships didn't early a surgeon; Only a medicine chest containing slumbered bottles, plug 9 chart a', -aging a mann with small num- bared circlet) marked over hie body. Whera a test reported etch, rtes inked him where he felt 1111, referred to the chart, and gave him a dose from the bottle with the corresponding number. Unfortunately No. 13, for the stomach, soon emptied, so for the rest of the voyage, Campbell gave any man complaining of tummy trouble a dose made up half from bottle 8, half from 7, making 13 —"and, believe me," he says, "it cured him!" He once broadcast some tales about Tierra del Fuego, including one about a dog with four nos- trils. Some listeners who thought them untrue, wrote to the B.B.C. Campbell was asked for confir- mation, but be was unable to pro- duce proof. Six months later he met, at a Broadcasting House lun- cheon, Mr. Lucas Bridges, an au- thor who lived at Tierra del Fu- ego. "Do you live in that white house with green shutters half a mile from the shore?" Campbell asked, "That is my house; have you been there?" "Yes, but you were away, in Chile at the time. By the way, have you still got that dog with four nostrils?" "No, poor old Jack died last year, but I have a photograph of him"—and Lucas produced it • from his pocketbook, substantiat- ing the Commander's story. Retired admirals and many others also doubted another broadcast story of a wooden -leg- ged albatross. Later a letter came from an old shipmate in Fre- mantle, Australia, who had heard the brbadeast and recalled how the bos'n had put a wooden leg on an albatross that fell on the deck when they were crossing the Great Australian Bight, He was one of the seamen, he said, who held the bird while the op- eration was married out! Yet another story—told on the Brains Trust -.-was of a bald- headed span Campbell knew, who was allergic to marmalade, and when. he ate it steam rote from the top of hia head! Until letters came confirming the story, the Commander had difficulty in convincing the B.B.C, Governors that he hadn't over. stepped the mark. IVIany were front bald fathers grumbling that now, when the children passed the marmalade, they wanted to Nee the steamt A. friend told him: "When nny kids pass me the mar- malade now, I laugh so much I have to wipe my glasses before I can read the paper!" On Easter Island, Campbell once saw a Karaite funeral at which, after the Catholic service and burial, relatives and friends round the open grave gave three hearty cheers. Some time pre- viously, he learned, they had heard three cheers given by a ship's crew for an anniversary. It seemed a fitting conclusion to any special occasion, 10 was ad- opted for burials! Among the first-class passen- gers in one of Campbell's ships heading for Fremantle from Ade- laide was a well-known racehorse owner, Watching a deck service conducted by a elergymau in chocolate and gold hood and stole, he suddenly exclaimed; "That's a coincidence; the fellow taking the service is wearing my racing colours. Come along to the wireless room," he added, "I want to send a radiogram ... I've got a horse running at Adelaide tomorrow and I think that par- son's gear is a decided tip." It won at five to one. He sent for the parson, told him: "I've made a bit of money out of you," and handed him 225, saying, "I put five pounds to win for you." Campbell himself once dreamt, before the Derby, , that a grey horse romped home with a 50 - yards lead, but thought it non- sense because the jockey was talking French all the time. Some clubmen to whom he men- tioned the dream almost shouted, "Don't you know that the jockey who is riding the grey has been racing in France for the past two years, and speaks French fluent- ly„ They at once laid a large suns on the filly Tagalie. And she won the Epsom classic easily at 100 to 8. Another well-lusowri Austral- ian bookie took a large party of relatives and friends to Europe in Campbell's ship, paying all their expenses, When the collec- tion plate was brought round at a Sunday morning service in the saloon, the bookie ftunbled in his pocket, obviously embarrassed, then asked in a husky whisper: "'flow much is it? 1'11 pay for the lot," When Melba was award, the congregation would only pre- tend to sing the hymns, mouth- ing the words quietly, in order not to drawn her beautiful voice -.-for she would never sing at the Ship's concerts. When a bish- op with a raucous voice began braying the hymns one Sunday, a passenger sitting behind hips dug him in the ribs and whis- pered hoarsely: "For Heaven's sake, keep your mouth shut, you're spoiling the whole show.' Commander Campbell's hu- mour and ability to yarn well make his book first-rate enter - tai Innen t. nter•tainsent. Hints For Safer Winter Driving Stuck In Snow? Don't race that engine—you'll only get in deeper. Rock your car back and forth by gently accelerating in Low and Reverse alternately. Don't Iet your wheels spin and you'll usu- ally manage to get free, e 8 8. Starting On Ice? Slay out of low gear --that just makes your wheels spin. Try second gear, or even "high," then accelerate very slowly and evenly. You'll get bet- ter traction this way and start off without sliding or slipping. N 8 N On The Skids? Never jam on your brakes suddenly when you're travelling on icy pavements. Pump the brake pedal up and down gently to bring your car to a gradual stop, If you start to skid, always turn your wheels m the direction of the skid until you straighten out, • „ Aztec Dimaggio? — This chunky Aztec stone image, on display in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, could very well be playing baseball, waiting with a short bat for that horsehide to sizzle toward home plate. Safe Christmas Is A Merry One — It's not pleasant to think of a gaily decorated Christmas tree as an instrument of destruction. But your beautiful tree is a serious fire hazard. Because of its natural pitch and resin, it is highly combustible, and once ignited is almost impossible to extinguish by ordinary methods. Illustrat- ed below are "do's” and "don'ts" to observe in the handling of your tree, -es suggested by the National Safety Council. nepoot wiring before pettier ,When needles start falling die- lights on the tree. card the tree immediately, fier evening the presents Ills- ttoao of alt the paper. Eleetrio trains arc, fun, but are dangerous around the tree. Jse Iigtste ®pproved he OM triigerIrfSpro BLabmvtei vi, When you leave the house mkt! • epee the tree I1.Rhis ere out,