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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-12-02, Page 6' 1:IA8ff TALKS Hunters, and lovers of wild glome on the table, rave about the deliciousness of wild rice, Personally, I can take it or let it 'alone; but by experience I know that it is either too hard to get Or too expensive for the average budget. Anyway, here's good news! According to Lucile Fitton, writing in The Christian Science Monitor, your worries are over. Here is what she says: * * * Finding yourself with a taste for wild rice but a very tame budget seems to be a common predicament. But serving wild rice ,with wild fowl is a must, for they have more in common than the adjective. Maybe even at the going price for wild rice, you will want to splurge on the night you are having your hus- band's boss for dinner, but for other times you can turn with satisfaction to — not resort to — poor man's wild rice. a 5 Start with ordinary white rice —not the fancy, processed type. You will still be saving, how- ever, if you buy the best quali- ty', the .longest grains, you can find. After giving it close in- spection for dark or discolored grains, rinse it in a sieve, * 5 One cup of uncooked rice will yield three, remember. Toss the rice up and down while it is still in the sieve to remove as much excess water as possible. Then turn it into a large iron (or heavy) skillet in which a quarter pound of butter has been melted. Keep the rice mov- ing in the pan so that every grain becomes amber - colored. The aroma will remind you of popping corn, and some of the rice grains may pop around in the skillet. It is important not to let a single grain burn for this will destroy the subtle flavor you are trying so hard to copy, and under -browning will bring you back to just what you bought -- ordinary white rice: hence the importance of watch- ing reeking until you achieve those golden grains. # a * Although the browned rice smells good enough to eat, the 9liumber, Please? — While still In the middle of his lunch, Gus - lav, the squirrel, decides to call his girl friend. Just what the happy tidings are is a big se- cret, Gus keeps the reason for his frivolity as well hidden as he does his supply of nuts, hurled somewhere in Orebro, Sweden. inside of the gr a i ns are not cooked. Therefore, add 9 cups of bouillon, cover, and let the rice bake for 45 minutes in a 325" F. oven. The 11001110n may be canned, made from cubes, Or stock you have made yourself. Add salt sparingly if you use cubes; otherwise, 1 teaspoon should be enough. m * 5 If you are trying for a delec- table facsimile ref the wild rice gathered by Indians and sold in the stores for the price of a reservation, uncover the skillet the last 15 minutes, Encourage grain • by - grain fluffiness by tossing them with a large fork every few minutes this last pe- riod of baking. Then, behold! , You could count every plump, topaz grain if you wanted to. a a k Alongside duck or other fowl is not the only position that can be occupied by poor man's rice. It goes under creamed anything -- chicken, turkey, giblets, lob- ster. crab meat, ham -- or any combination of these. Or chinks of fowl or fish eau be added to the browned rice before it is shoved into the oven, destined as the piece de resistance, Mush- rooms, chopped onions or celery, diced peppers, and slithered al mends are good. too. it is risky, however, to saute onions or mushrooms at the same time. and in the same pan with the rice. Keep both under control by doing them as sepa- rate processes. a a ' We all want to encourage activities that center around home and family, but occasion- ally we shy away from the sticky mess which often results from a bout of candy making. Here are two recipes that make delicious candy with a mini- mum of fuss and dirty dishes: The first one requires no cooking of any kind and can be made by quite young children. It is very rich and good, and some families always have a big supply on hand for holiday callers. No -Cook Fruit Balls 1 eup figs 1 cup dates 2 cups walnut meats (pecans are good, too). Put the stemmed figs, pitted dates, and nut meats through a food grinder. Use the fine cut- ter. Press the mixture into small balls ab out an inch in diameter. Press firmly and roll in powdered sugar. You will find it practical to double fir triple the above ingredients! * * * Next comes a great favorite of many, a no -cook fudge. It's rich, easy to make, and very, very good, At Brownie or Boy Scout candy sales, it goes like the proverbial hot cakes. Young folks like to go out in the kit- chen, whip up a batch of this fudge, and be settled in front of the TV in twenty minutes with a plate of candy ready to eat. Never -Fail Fudge 1 egg well beaten 3 tablespoons of eream or top milk 1 teaspoon of vanilla iii. teaspoon of salt 1 pound of powdered sugar 4 squares chocolate melted with 1 tablespoon butter li cup chopped nut meats i z cup marshmallows cut in small pieces, Mix the ingredients in the order given above. Spread in buttered 8" x 8" pan,Let cool a few minutes. If in a hurry set in the refrigerator, Cut in squares and pitch in! i MOURNING --With his head bowed in grief, a Lobrador dog ceps a viol! at the side of a puppy killed by an automobile on highway. The older • dog remained at the side of his companion until the police removed the body. Christmas Seals Mark Theis SOth Birthday it's just 50 years ago, this Christmas season, that the ,now - familiar Christmas Seals first went On sale in Denmark. The 1954 seals, fittingly designed by a Danish -born artist, Jargon G. Hansen, commemorate that event. It all goes back to 1903 and Einar Hoiboell, a Danish postal clerk who gave his spare time to sick and poor children, As the great flood of Christmas letters and packages poured in, he wished that each piece of mail would mean pennies for the children he loved, The idea came --•a special stamp for holiday mail could be sold to raise money, King Christian later approved the plan. So, during the Christmas season of '1904„ four million special stamps were sold in post offices throughout Denmark. The money raised went to- ward building a sanatorium for children with tuberculosis, At the same time, Sweden picked up Holbell's idea and issued similar stamps. in America, the Danish -American philanthropist Jacob A. Riis heard of the seals and published a magazine article about it in 1907. The first United States seal sale on a nationwide basis was sponsored by the American Red Cross in 1908. In 1910 the National Tuberculosis Association became a joint spon- sor and In 1920, took over the task completely, To date, the seals have brought In $335,704,044,50. Last year's drive produced $23,889,04.4,50. Christmas Seal sales are now held each year in 45 countries throughout the world. At left is the first Christmas Seal, bearing the portrait of the late Queen Louise of Denmark. Four million of them were sold in 1904. The other stamp is the first Christmas Seal issued nation- ally in this country. It bore the symbol of the Red Cross, which sponsored it in 1908. N., \fVV "V^W'1,!-ti,d•L V-V'V'V U J'U-V'ti V'J k u GREETINGS 1-1954 Youngsters in a Christmas dance decorate the 1954 Christmas Seals. Designer Jorgen Hansen says they are "the healthy, happy children Einar Helboell dreamed of when he proposed a Christ- mas Seal to fight disease." Oldest Rose -Bush In The World Visitors from all over Europe are making special journeys to ancient Hildesheim in Germany to see and admire the oldest rose -bush in the world, which to- day stands 95 feet high. For this bush, with its myriads of pink and white blooms, is at least 1,000 years old and may well live another 1,000 years. It stands, sheltered from all north and east winds, close to the city's cathedral. In the ca- thedral are historical art treas- ures, but it is the fabulous rose- bush which lures sightseers. Seventy years ago, in 1884, the rose -bush was found to be suffer - hog from old age. Drastic action. was immediately taken to pre- serve it for posterity. Specially constructed pipes were installed so that the roots could be perpetually watered in dry weather. A team of gar- deners "nursed" every new shoot with loving care. The rose bush was saved. It was threatened with extinc- tion again in March, 1945, when fire bombs destroyed much of the blooms and foliage. But the roots were undamaged and, al- though the tree did not bloom that summer and autumn, new shoots afterwards appeared. To- day the bush is taller than it has ever been. C (L) A1JSE ANI) EFFECT A Beirut, ,Lebanon, landlord has found himself in a tough ' spot because he tried an old i trick on a tenant of his. !The landlord asked the tenant to sign three leases which he I himself had already signed: one 1 25 per cent. higher than the rent she'd actually agreed to pay which he wished to show any I prospective buyers of the props er•ty; one showing the actual M rent - intended to be the valid 6 .lease; and one 25 per cent. low- ' sr than the rent she'd agreed to Ipay - for the income tax col- lector, The tenant signed all. three W- than tore up the'first two, She stow pays 25 per cent. less rent, Some Salesman The Columbia Broadcasting System, on its interesting pre - gram, We, The People, once trotted out the world's greatest salesman, James Moran, Here's a fellow who has sold every- thing from airplanes to adver- tising space on a barber shop ceiling. "Probably the only thing you couldn't sell, Jim," a friend re- marked one day, "would be an ice -box to an Eskimo." Jim Moran grinned. "Bet you five hundred dollars 1 can do it!" "You're on," said his friend, "I can use five hundred dol- lars." Moran f 1 e w to Vancouver, bought a shiny new ice -box and shipped it to Juneau, Alaska. When he arrived in °Alaska he hired a dog -team, and some guides, loaded the ice -box on a sled and started out to find an Eskimo. B u t there wasn't an Eskimo to be found around Juneau. For seven days Moran and his guides travelled north with the ice -box. When they had gone five hundred miles they finally arrived at an Eskimo village. Moran went from igloo to igloo, trying to explain his ice -box to the Eskimos. Somehow the Mea of buying a box to keep things cold didn't impress the Eskimos. Moran conceived another idea. 1'Ie called on an .Eskimo named Charley Pots -to -Lick. "Char- ley," he said persuasively, "this box is good to keep food warm! See, how much collier it is out- side the box? You need this box to peep your food warm" That sounded reasonable to Charley. He bought the ice- box for fifty silver dollars end a wolf -skin, SAME AGAIN? NO THANKS On December 4111, 1905, a man threw a bottle at the judge at Leeds Assize Court when sen- tenced for stealing. On .Decent - her 4111, 1985 — exactly twenty years later — the same mon stood again in the same dock in the same court charged with the sane offence, This .time, however, there was no bottle — he had 'been search, ed beforehand and four warders stood around him! s He The World's Worst us l Prince Ali Kamel Palmy Bey had all that the world can give, Young, handsome, with a charm that fascinated women, he had inherited from his father bound less wealth and all that goes with it --- a palace at Ulnae's on the Nile, yachts, racing boats, limousines, slaves -- but for all his charm there was something about Fahmy Bey, a hint 10 lat- ent cruelty, In Paris he fell in love with Marie Alibert and pursued her with all the ardour of tm Eas- tern wooing, Even when he re• turned to Egypt he wrote to her "The torch of my life" — begging her to come to him. Ev entually, when she received tele- grams that he was ill, she went to Egypt only to find that his "illness" was a ruse to bring her to his side. He was delighted that she had come, and showered on her ev- ery extravagance that Oriental infatuation could devise. At last, won by his fervour, she consent- ed to adopt his religion and to marry him, The festivities in Cairo were like a page from the Arabian Nights. Sheep were roasted whole, and :For days and nights the guests feasted "on the choicest wines and food. But an Eastern wife exists simply to do her husband's bid- ding, and as Bernard O'Donnell vividly reveals in "Crimes That Made News", Madame Fahmy was • soon to realize it. If she failed to submit to her lord there were blows instead of caresses, She had none of the freedom to which a Western woman is ac- customed, but was guarded night and day in his house by Nubian slaves who terrified her. When Fahmy deigned to take her out with him, he abused her and struck her in public, He ev- en insulted her in the presence Of menials. This was the state of affairs when, in July, 1923, the couple were staying at the Savoy Ho- tel, London. Madame Fahmy had consulted a doctor who advised an immediate visit tO France for an operation, but Fahmy Bey flamed into rage when he heard about it. ' As they sat at luncheon in the hotel, the leader of the orches- tra paid her the compliment Of askingher 10 choose her favour- ite piece of music. "Thank you," she replied, "But my husband is going to kill me In twenty-four hours and I am not very anxious for music." The heat and tension of That July day increased, building up to the greatest thunderstorm • London had known for years. And when at last the fury of the thunder heti passed, it was Fahmy Bey who lay dead — and his wife stood arraigned for mur- der. She had shot him as he savagely attacked her in their hotel suite, The law of England knows no such excuse as the "crime pas- slonel," but the law will not per- mit the accused t0 stand de- fenceless. Indeed, Madame Fain my had the greatest advocates of the day to her defence. But in- comparable as were Sir Edward Marshall Hall and Sir Henry Curtis -Bennett, the lady was in many ways her own best advo- cate, She gave evidence from the witness box through an inter- preter, and the court listened as she told el the sudden change in her husband after marriage. She related how he had fired a re- volver over her head to cow her; how on another occasion he struck her a blow which dislo- cated her jaw; and how he had sworn the terrible oath that she should die by his hand.' Then, with arnmatic effect, Marshall Hall produced a docu- ment, It was dated six months before her husband's death and. showed how she had feared for her life. It read: "I, Marie•Marguerite Alibert, Of sound mind and body, formal- ly accuse, in the case of my death by violence or otherwise, Ali Bey Of having contributed 10 my disappearance. Yesterday, 21st January, 1923, at three o'- clock in the afternoon, he took Isis Bible or Koran — I do not know what it is called — kissed' it, put his hand on it, and swore to avenge himself upon me tO- morrow, in a week, a month, or three months; but I was to dis- appear by his hand , , , I desire, and demand justice for my daughter and my family:" The drama was not yet over, however, In vivid words Mar- shall Hall drew a• picture of Madame Fahmy's life with her husband -- surely one of the , worst husbands in the world — of the threat to disfigure her with acid and sand, of the crescendo of cruelty and humiliation to which she had' been subjected, He described in powerful phrases the terror of that night when, with lightning intermittently flooding the darkness, the grim, relentless figure of the Oriental advanced on his terrified wife, Marshall Hall held the little pearl -handled pistol in 'his grasp, As he uttered the words, "10 her horror the thing went Off," the weapon fell from his fingers with a clatter to the floor. In little over an hour the jury returned with their ver- dict. Deathly pale, with trem- bling, black -gloved hands grip- ping the ledge before her, Ma- dame Fahmy never raised her eyes. At the pronouncement, "Not Guilty," her lips framed the words, "Ohl Merci . " as the thronged court burst into cheers, Mr. O'Donnell has been a crime reporter for more than twenty-five years during which e, s he attended more than three — hundred murder trials. In his gripping book he not only speaks Of the great Yard detec• fives with whom he was on familiar terms, but throws a fascinating light on the sombre details of many crimes which were never known to the pub- lic, He has helped to find the vital eine which cleared an innocent woman; he spent the eve of exe- cution with a woman distracted with terror over her husband's coming ordeal; and he writes touchingly of a woman's noble love for an ignoble murderer and of her insistence upon see- ing him after execution, $AL.tv's SanIEs It's your own doing, dear. You told me to take up a hobby and my hobby is bargains." SMILE. --Prince Charles, the Duke of Cornwall, smiles in this c:fficiai court photo in honor of his sixth birthday. This ie one of the birthday studies of the Prince taken by photographer Marcus Adams in London.