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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-08-26, Page 3lw9d Y R'u Like To Boiled Oar? • --- There are plenty of cookery books published in different countries every year, but up at Fort Yukon, Alaska, there has just been produced a cookery book which must surely be some- thing out of the ordinary. It deals exclusively with Eskimo cookery. Published by an Alaskan Chil- dren's Orphanage, the book con- sists of recipes supplied by Eski- mos themselves, and the authen- ticity Of each item and the suc- cess of eaoh dish is vouched for, It is doubtful whether the book will circulate among high-class hotels. Its appeal may be said to me decidedly specialist. How- ever, some of the dishes, if popu- larised by stylish restaurants, might become fashionable. In every case the instructions are simple, and the dishes them- selves appear highly original — to gourmands outside Eskimo cir- cies, that is. They include bears' feet, seal flanks, walrus tails, caribou hooves, and boiled owl. The editors of the book warn readers that they may find some of the ingredients difficult to ob- tain, You have just shot an owl and want to eat it? This is what the book says: "Pluck the feath- ers, clean the owl with, a knife, and put in a cooking pot — have lots of water in the pot — add salt to make it taste good." How long should it boil? Unfortu- nately the book does not say. The Eskimos do not need milk to make ice cream, "This is the way they do it. "Grate reindeer tallow into small pieces. Add some seal oil slowly while beat- ing with hand. Afterwards add a little water until the mixture is white and fluffy. If you have some berries handy you may add them to the ice cream. If you have not, do not bother. The ice cream is perfect as it is." Keep Swedish Delicacy on Harrel for Coffe BY DOROTHY MADDOX+ efeRIENDS of ours just book from Sweden, report On a wonderful sett -spice cake they ate there, "The aroma was familiar; apicy, like American gingerbread, but the 'face' was different. Instead et a fiat square, there was a high #lid handsome cake whioh had been baked in a tube pan (the kind we use for fancy gelatin desserts), "The cake wasn't frosted as ours usually are, but it didn't need finishing with frosting. Lining the buttered pan with fine dry sake eruthba made it come out beautifully smooth and pretty. '' - "The Swedish people call our American cakes frosting cakes. 'they're a little aweet for their tastes." e A2 the cake slices fell, we could see chips of candied orange peel and citron. "We put those in especially for the holidays," said our hostess, "and the rest of the year, we serve the conte plain. "It's so quick to stir up, and keeps so well that most people always' have it on hand to serve when friends drop in for codee," Home economists of the Pillsbury Test Kitchens adapted this recipe for us. They lined the pan with chopped note instead of cake crumbs, believing the flavor and texture of. nuts would appeal more to American tastes than a plain crumb finish, Goad Soft Woo Cake (God iveiek Pepparkake—fironeunced God Illeyook f'eppexeleal a+ ) Melt rib cup butter or margarine; cool. Sift together ISS cups enriched flour, 2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder, lee tea- spoon soft, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground cardamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon ginger. Beat 3 eggs with rb cup sugar and le cup firmly packed brown cougar until very thick. Stir in 3 tablespoons finely chopped citron, d tablespoons finely chopped candied orange peel, 1'f cup blanched abnonrta, chopped fine, and half of the dry ingredients. Mix' well. Blend in ei cup light cream. Add the remaining dry ingredients; mix welt Add the cooled, melted butter; stir just until blended. :rime Treats Soft Swedish Setae Geke, served with ()effete. to trent Hull's wet - come at any hour of the day or evening. Turn into 9- or 10 -inch tubb pan which bas been generously greased and coated with finely -chopped almonds or other nuts. , Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 60 to 60 minutes, Cool in pan 15 minutes; invert on wire rack. Serge warm or cool. • Note: If desired, cake may .be baked in Ox5x3-inch bread pan, Citron and candied orange peel may be omitted, if desired. SWEET REVENGE A chap in England might have rushed into court to prove dam- ages to his reputation. But he chose a more effective method. An English lady, self-appoint- ed supervisor of village morals, accused a workman of having re- verted to drink because "with her own eyes" she had seen his wheelbarrow outside a public house. The accused man made no ver- val defence,` but the same even- ing he placed his wheelbarrow outside her door and left it there all night. With the advent of mechanical methods of harvesting potatoes, the general use of insecticides such as DDT, and Organic fungi - aides which promote growth and delay maturity of potatoes, vine killing has become increasingly popular with potato growers. The reasons for killing potato vines prematurely are to help growers spread their harvest season, to prevent secondary growth of tubers, the oversizing of tubers, and the development of late blight, Also, the killing of vigor- ous vines prevents the clogging of diggers and speeds harvesting operations. The methods most generally used fOr killing potato vines at the present time, says N. M. Parks, Division of Horticulture, Ottawa, are chemical sprays or dusts, Or the use of mechanical shredders or beaters. Each of these methods has certain advan- tages and disadvantages, depend- ing upon circumstances. Until further research work has been done no one method can definitely be recommended as being super- ior in efficiency. The chemicals now most fre- quently used for vine killing are the diniiros in spray form, either with or without activators, and aero cyanamid as a dust, Other chemicals such as copper sulphate and common salt in spray form have proved effective, but certain hazards attend their use- Copper sulphate in the absence of lime and copper sulhpate and common salt mixtures should be used with caution unless the spray machine es resistant to such corrosive materials. (: e. a Vine killers are sold under various trade names such as Dews 66 Improved; Sinox General; Adams Handy Killer; Green Cross Top Kilter, etc.; all of which if used In accordance with direc- tions on the container will effec- tively kill potato vines. Aero cyanamid special grade in dust form, applied when the plants are wet with dew or after rain, has proved very effective for potato vine killing or plant defoliation. It produces a' gradual and com- plete k`' of the foliage within a few days after application; giving much the same effect as a light frost or natural maturity. With a gradual killing of the tops the danger of discoloration of tubers usually asscciated with a rapid killing of the vines is lessened. r '1 Aero - lnamid contains 21 per cent nitrogen; therefore in one product it offers the two -fold ad- vantage of a vine killer and fer- tilizer. The residual nitrogen will be available for the succeeding crop. The pre -harvest killing of potato vines is a practice which is recommended and can be em- ployed by most growers to ad- vantage. While n must be recog- nized that killing vines pre- maturely will reduce total yields considerably, it usually increases the percentage of marketable potatoes. 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The electric tricycle, propelled by storage batteries, is large enough to carry two passengers and their clubs. maturity, size and general quality of potatoes; all Of which are so essential in supplying consumers with a quality product. „ To measure the effectiveness of various treatments recommended for prevention of bloat in cattle, the Experimental Station at Summerland, B.C., needed a pas- ture that could be depended upon to produce bloat 4 Pasture fields seeded to recom- mended mixtures cannot be re- lied upon for this purpose so a "bloat" pasture containing a high percentage of Ladino clover and Ladak alfalfa was established at the Station. Approximately 50 per cent of the animals grazed on this pasture will bloat daily. The Station reports a product consisting of detergents in alco- hol, prescribed by veterinarians as a restorative and a sister pro- duct in powder form advertised as a preventative were tested. The preventative was added at the rate of two grams per cow for the morning grain feed of half the Summerland milking herd. The remaining half were considered a control group. The treatment of two grams per cow was ineffective, so the rate was increased first to four grams and later to six grams daily, without any apparent control. Cows bloated within five hours of the Ems of treatment. Another attempt to control bloat featured the use of straw. The cattle were again divided in- to two groups and straw placed in the field containing the treatment group, The cattle ate very little of the straw and bloated as usual. It was suggested that a molasses spray added to the straw might have induced give ter consumption and resulted in some reduction in the bloating Placing the treatment group in a field of fall wheat that had been saved for pasture, for three hours from 6 10 6 a.m., showed the most promise but the supply of tall wheat soon became exhausted. QUITE TRUTHFUL in an interview with the press. a famous operatic tenor stated: "I never smoke. Smoking des- troys the control and the quality of the voice." "But didn't you endorse a ci- garette?" a newsman inquired. "It seems to me I remember some ads "Ab," said the tenor. "Do you recall what I said? 'These ciga- rettes do not irritate my throat' Quite tree, 1 never stroke them." ?slakes Big Preiiis Making Dummies Terrence and Clarence, the two ventriloquist's dummies who caused Danny Kaye so much trouble in "Knock on Wood"— and looked so absurdly Like him —are, according to Kaye, "almost human," and cost about 800 dol- lars each to produce. Their eyes and eyebrows move in all directions, their ears wig- gle, their eyelids open and shut and, since the lower lip is made of rubber, you don't see the crack that's visible in most dum- mies on both sides of the chin. They were made by Glen Cargyle, who is fn his late twen- ties and is still a student working for his M.A. degree. He was an amateur ventriloquist as a child M Independence, Missouri, but gave up actually operating the dummies to design and mechan- ize them as a hobby. It has turned into a most pro- fitable business for Cargyle, who produces the figures for many of America's 1,000 professional ventriloquists, malting an aver- age Of sixteen a month for his world-wide clientele, each one being an original model and quite different from all the others. It took hire 164 hours t0 design and mechanize the first model for "Knock on Wood," using sponge rubber, plaster and wood and carefully moulding the fea- tures to resemble photographs of Danny Kaye as a lad in his early 'teens. Once tlic prototype was finish- ed and approved seven dummies had to be made, only two of them fully mechanized. but all looking alike. The other five were used tor the rough scenes when Danny threw tlient to the ground and smashed thein and when the foreign agents ripped them ruth- lessly apart in their search for the stolen secret plans. Cargyle's trade is a highly spill- ed one, and its secrets are as closely guarded as the mysteries of the Magic Circle. There are be-lieved to be no more than four craftsmen throughout the world who design and fabricate custom-made duintnies for ven- triloquial use. One works ex- clusively for L, Davenport and Co, of London, " but his name is never revealed t0 anyone, he himself beitig pledged to silence about his faselating and unusual job. From the hands of this skilled craftrnan, who has been making models for nearly fifty year's, came ;probably the best - known dummy in Britain: Archie And rews, There are, as a matter of fact, now two Archies, Both were awaiting the atten- tion of the mystery man who created them when I called. "Just in for minor repairs and a refit" I was assured, Dummies ap- parently, require maintenance at regular intervals. The only im- portant difference between the two Archies is that the newer one can stick his tongue out. But they each took about four months to make and cost some- thing in the region of $250 each. Archie's creator has made dummies that cry real tears, sit on a chair and smoke a cigarette, look like Farmer Giles (complete with bald head and white whisk- ers), Donald Duck, POpeye the Sailor, a Chelsea Pensioner, a koala bear and a cat, Orders for these hand - made models come in from Egypt, Sweden, Holland, Australia and there are many from the United States. Perhaps the strangest was from a clergyman who re- gularly preaches his sermons with the assistance of a dummy. CHANGING FASHIONS IN BABIES' NAMES There's a revival in Britain of the so-called Victorian names for children, especially those of girls. Sarah, Jane, Katherine, Feli- city, Penrietta—these were fav- ourite names when Queen Vic- toria reigned, John and William were the most popular names for boys. When Queen Elizabeth came to the rone in 1558, John was the leading name for a boy, closely followed by William, Thomas, Robert and Richard. Charles, George and Arthur alai ,ecame popular before the end of th. century. 'Tht until nearly 200 years later did Joseph, Sam- uel and Frederick begin to rival their popularity. Mary, Elizabeth and Margaret have always been consistent popul names for girls through many centuries. BLOOD WILL TELL A lady who needed transfu- sions found that her blood type matched that of a renowned mi- ser. She received three pints of his blood; for the first, she sent him fifty dollars; for the second, twenty-five; and when she re- ceived the third, she acknow- ledged it with a short note of thanks. N UI IOL L `":SON Os ftev. R. Uarolue Warren, B.A. 8.4D, Growth Through Christian Ser, vice, Galatians 6:1.2; James i122g 26-61; 2:14-l'h; 1 John 3316-16. Bemory Selection: Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2, e. If one is to develop as a Christian he must have exercise. A vital part of that exercise will come in serving others, We must be doers of the word and not hearers only, We are eager to help those in need in a practical way. Some are advocating that we give part of our surplus wheat to those countries where people are starving. It is a noble thought. But we must not ask the farmer to pay the bill. We must reimburse him for his toil and then the wheat will be the gift of Canada. Present- ing what we do not neea must not blind us to another and more exacting obligation. India needs and wants agriculturalists who will teach the people how they can produce more, them- selves, The missionary is need- ed though not so much wanted. When the gospel is received the sacred cows will cease to ream the streets living off the preclude of the land instead of producing for the people. Let us send more missionaries, as well as doctors, nurses, agriculturalists and tech- nicians of various kinds. We can only fulfill Christ's law by bearing one another's burdens. When someone stum- bles we should have sufficient of the spirit of Christ that we can go to such a one and help him to fellowship with Christ. If you want to be happy — and who doesn't?—makee,others happy by helping then to know Jesus Christ. NOT APPRECIATED The lady was taking a Hirst Aid course, and she,d never had a chance to show off her knowledge. But one day as she was walking home from class she spied a man lying prone in the middle of the street, Her lessons came back to her in a flash. This was her big opportunity. She rushed out and knelt over him. Then she began to give him artificial res- piration. She pressed down ore his chest, then up, then down, then up. Finally the man stirred. "I've curedhim," the wOman thought. "Look, lady," the man told her tiredly, "I don't know what you think you're doing, but I'm trying to get a wire down this manhole.' DUMB OPERATOR A drunk in the Empire State Building stepped into an open elevator shaft and plunged 30 stories to the bottom. Miraculous- ly, he landed unhurt and, ris- ing, he shook his fist at the air above him. "I said up, not down!" Upsidedown to Prevent Peeping FALL SEASON -- in hospital, four-year-old Judy Combs recOveIS from her second serious fall in less than three weeks. Judy fell from the fourth -floor window of her mother's apartment and landed in a dirt courtyard. She suffered only a lea t d cut, body bruises and a dislocated spleen. In her previous fall, from thio same window, she hit a clothesline, It bounced her to safety on the second -floor fire escape.