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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-05-01, Page 7,BL<... ekaw, Ancvews. From a great many Isnropean countries we have imported the secret of making their favorite. delicacies, but few of these have gained wider popularity --in our cities at least ---than Danish pastry. But even the best versions Produced by restaurants and conanerciai bakeries here usually Zeck souuc- tlting of the buttery tenderness which marks the crisp, tender' sort baked in Denmark—as any traveller. to that land will testify. * * * Hellish pastry admittedly in- volves quite a bit of time and effort in its proper preparation. As a matter of fact Danish housewives themselves buy the pastry oftener than they bake it. But for some special occasion—such as that late Sunday Breakfast --it's well worth the bother, especially if you use this somewhat simplified version of the recipe used in Denmark. which has been devised by Mrs. Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, home economist of The New York Times. * * 5 Although the dough used is Of the ordinary yeast type, it is greatly enriched by the butter spread on it while being rolled out. It is the repeated rolling and folding of the mixture, together with the dottings .of butter between the layers, that make the finished pastry so deliglit- fully flaky. » * * DANISH PASTRY . 3/ teaspoon salt 1/4 cup sugar 134 cups butter 14 cup scalded milk 1 package or 1 cake yeast (active dry or compressed) cup warm water, lukewarm for compressed yeast 1 egg, beaten 3 cups sifted enriched flour, approximately. (1) Add salt, sugar and one- fourth cup butter to scalded milk. Cool to lukewarm. (2) Sprinkle or crumble yeast into water and stir till dissolved. (3) Combine milk and yeast mixture and add egg. (4) Add and stir in about half the flour. Beat till smooth, Add and stir in enough more floor to make a soft dough. (5) Turn out on a floured board and knead till smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl,. grease surface and let stand in a warm place (80 to 8S degrees F.) till double in bulk, (6) Punch down and refrigerate one hour, (7) Roll dough into a rectangle about one-half inch thick. Dot two- thirds of the dough with one-third of remaining cup butter. Fold dough in thirds, beginning with unbutter- ed portion. This makes three lay- ers. 8) Repeat step No. 7 twice. Re- frigerate at any time that dough and butter are too soft for easy handling. Chill the finished dough one-half hour or overnight. .9) If dough has chilled overnight, let stand at room temperature till soft enough for rolling, Roll and shape as directed in following sug gestions or as desired, (10) Place on greased baking sheets and let rise till double in size. To glaze, brush with a beaten egg which has been blended with one-fourth cup milk and one tea- ' spoon sugar. (11) Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) till well -browned, about twenty minutes. If desired, frost with confectioners' icing. Yield: twelve to sixteen pastries. * * * In Denmarlr there is a great variation in the manner of shaping the buns and in their fillings. Here are a few of the many ways in which the pastry may be formed, also recipes. for a few of the most popular fillings. HOW TO SHAPE DANISH PASTRIES Cock's Combs: Roll dough to one-fourth inch and spread with a poste tnacle by creaming equal measure of butter and sugar. Cut into four -inch squares. Flare a spoonful of filling across center, moisten edges, fc'dd into a rectangle and press edges to seal. Cut four or five deep slashes in sealed edge. I.et rise, brush with glaze and bake. Spandauers: Roll cinugi to one- fourth inch, spread with paste made by crc•rnniug equal measure of butter and sugar. Cut in font's inch squares. Place filling in center. Fold corners to center and press flown. Let rise, brush with glaze and bake. Drop a teaspoon of jelly in center of each and ice. Filled Triangles; Doll slough to one-fourth inch, Spread with filling and fold in thirds. Cut into four - inch squares and then cut each square into two triangles, Let rise, glaze, 'hake and frost. Filled Rounds: Cut large rounds of dough which has been rolled to one-fourth inch. Place filling across center, raise opposite sides of dough 'and overlap at center. Press to seal. Let rise, apply glaze and bake. Frost, if desired. Filled Figure Eights: Cut rolled dough into finger -wide strips, twist into coils and shape into 8's, S's or rounds. Let rise, glaze, 011 renters and bake, • * d CHEESE FILLING 1 cup cottage cheese, sieved 134 tablespoons flour 134 tablespoons sweet or sour cream 2 eggs, separated r/ cup sugar 1 tablespoon butter, melted teaspoon vanilla or grated lemon rind 3 tablespoons currants or raisins 34 cup chopped blanched almonds. . (1) Mix cheese, flour, cream, egg yolks and sugar. Add butter and 'vanilla and mix till smooth. Add currants and almonds. 2) Fold in beaten egg whites. Yield: two cups. * 5* PRUNE FILLING Grind or chop one cup pitted and drained cooked prunes and one- half cup cooked apricots or raisins. Add one-half cup dry berad or cake crumbs and one-fourth cup honey. Heat, stirring constantly, till well blended. If too thin, add more crumbs, if too thick. add lemon juice. * * ALMOND PASTE FILLING Cream together one-half cup each butter and sugar. Add and blend in one cop almonds, ground. SPY STUFF In a "top-secret" Nazi espionage school, where the cream of the German secret service operatives received final instructions, the fac- ulty included a Herr Linz. His particular job consisted of teaching the little niceties of behaviour that would enable his proteges to min- gle freely in English society, pass as one -hundred -per -cent Britishers, and send back vital information to Berlin. One of his last-minute tips always was this; "Open an account at a well-known bank, and 'acci- dentally' drop the book before ac- quaintances. This will reassure them as to both your social status and your financial responsibility." A great many of Herr Linz's pupils succeeded in reaching Lon- don, but every one of them was apprehended before sending a sin- gle vital message home. The drop- ping of a bank book was a little signal arranged between the Bri- tish secret service and its highly regarded agent, instructor Linz. rhe Pearlies Are Cotnm' Resplendent in their pearl ▪ button -covered duds, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Matthews Watch as a London bus is unloaded in New York. Leaders of London costermongers, the Matthews will take part in a good -will tour during which three of the double-deckers will cover 8000 miles. Cancer Artillery—Looking through a plate glass water tank, two Feet thick, we see a nurse, acting as a model, lying beneath the world's largest radium therapy unit. The huge device, which contains one -fortieth of the world's supply of radium, is used primarily for the treatment of cancer. Fantastic Sums Spent On Tombs Willie Moretti, a New York gangster who was killed recently, left- most elaborate arrangements for 1115 own funeral. He was buried in full evening dress made by an expensive tailor,. and his bronze coffin, specially constructed to his own order long before he met his death, cost over five thousand dollars, Many people would consider $300,000 a fantastic surfs to spend on a tomb. Yet when the heirs of the late Alfred Irenee du Pont were informed that it was the first bequest in heir relative's will they thought it a trifling amount com- pared with the millions he left. So the armament king of Wil- ington, Delaware, was given a con- crete and granite tomb 210 feet high (about half as high as St. Paul's Cathedral), with a tower on whicli an arrangement of flashing beacon lights and a carillon of bells was installed. A lift built to accommodate six passengers carried visitors to the top. John Milburn Davis, of Hiawa- tha, Kansas, began building his tomb long before he died. When his wife died in 1915, people of the town in which he lived hoped he would perpetuate her memory by presenting a school, hospital or park to the community. • Instead, Mr. Davis turned her- mit, devoting all his money to building a tomb for his wife and himself. NEWSPAPER STUFF Three good newspaper stories are going tate rounds. Joe Williams recalls the dodge of a lazy column- ist on th cold Telegraph who took a long editorial of Arthur Bris- bane's and reprinted it word for word in his own column, contribut- ing one original sentence at the end. It read, "What on earth does Brisbane mean by all this?" Cosmopolitan's promotion shark, M. 1, Pitkin, tells about a circus advanceman named Flanagan who dropped in to a small-town news- paper office and asked the cost of a full-page ad. "One hundred bucks," said the editor. "And a half - page?" One hundred bucks," And a quarter -page?" One hundred bucks," "Your rates aren't very elastic," commented the exasperat- ed circus man. "How do you cal- culate them?" "That's easy," the editor assured him, "Your show is due here on July 12th, I've got the only paper in town, and on the 13th I've got a note due for exactly one hundred bucks." During Mark. Twain's early days in the newspaper business hi Mis- souri, relates Irving Hoffman, he received a letter from a subscriber stating that he had found a spider in his paper, and asking if this was an omen of good or bad luck. Twain replied, "Finding a spider in your paper is neither good luck nor bad. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant was not advertising so that be could go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undis- turbed peace ever afterward." HIGH PRICED Louis Sabot is authority for the story that Miss Beatrice Lillie toy- ed with the notion of vacationing in Bermuda after her last play end- ed its run. She contacted the owner of an estate there and asked fat particulars by mail, The owner answered, "My place 18 on a small island, so you will need my boat- men to ferry you to Hamilton and back. The estate rents for $25,000, but with the boatman's services in. eluded, the price will be $30,000." Miss Lillie cabled, "Kindly ru•e photograph of the boatman." TRUTHFUL Arthur Kober's five-year-old daughter, Cathy, attended a birth- day party where the food had been seasoned too strongly for her lik- ing. Quite naturally she remarked to the hostess, "This is awful," "Oh, no," corrected her nurse, "It's very good. It's just a little differ- ent, You'll get to like it:" "No," said Cathy, 'I won't like it. It's just awful." On the way hone, the nurse ex- plained, "When you're eating out, dear, it's all right to say the food is good if you like it, but if you don't, just leave it on your plate and don't say anything." The next Saturday, Cathy went visiting again. For lunch, she was served creamed chicken, which she loves, and peas, which she always hated. She finished the chicken, tasted the peas, then looked at the nurse, and in her best Emily Post voice remarked, "These peas are delicious—but awful." elpin ' The Wrights Learn To Fly r One night after my work was dote, 1 went over to see the Wrights. Mr. Orville had cooked. the supper. Mr. Wilbur was wash- ing the dishes. Their flying machine was lying on the nand. "flow does it go?" I asked, Mr. Orville picked it up. "It's a glider," he said, "It weighs only about fifty pounds. It hag a top wing and a bottom wing, like the. gliders we have read, about. It is seventeen feat between the wing tips. It has runners to land nn.. "When are you going to fly?" I asked. "The winds are riot good," said Mr, Wilbur. "'inc day it blows too hard. The next day there isn't wind enough. We'll try it out on the first fine day." I looked up at the night sky. "Tomorrow will be good," I pro. mised. "There will be a light wind. Why don't you take your airship aver to Kill Devil hill? Maybe it will elide down the hill on the runners." I was trying to be funny. "Yes, let's do it," agreed Mr. Orville. Next morning I helped the Wright brothers carry their glider. It was four miles across the hot sands to Kill Devil Hill. I wanted to see them fly. The wind was blowing just hard enough. They pointed the glider down the hill, right into the wind, Mr, Orville lay down on the middle part of the bottom wing. Mr. Wil- bur and I stood on each side. We gave the glider a push. It did go into the air! It carried Mr. Orville with it. It went only about three feet above the ground. It stayed up for only five seconds. Then it fell to the ground. "How was it?" called Mr. Wil- bur. "It wasn't very wonderful," re- plied his brother. "But I wanted to fly in a glider. Now I've done so. It's your turn." We carried the glider back to the top of the Bill, Mr. Wilbur lay down in the big kite, We gave him a push. This time the glider didn't go up more than two feet. But it stayed up twice as long. "It works!" cried Mr. Wilbur, as he crawled out. "Want to try it, Bill?" I shook my head, "No thanks, Mr. Wright. I shan't try to fly till I grow wings." Day after day those men worked out there in the hot sun, Flies buzzed around them, Sometimes they used their gilder as a big kitq. They stood on the ground wit string in their hands. They pulled the elevator up and down. They - bent the wings when the machine went too much to the right or left. One afternoon they came over tap my house. "We're leaving an the boat tomorrow morning," said Mt'. Orville. "Thanks for all the help you've given us." "What do you think now about tieing?" I asked. "We didn't do what we ,toped to do," replied Mr, Wilbur. "We thouklrt we could glide around itt the air for hours. I've counted up the time. We've been up in the air just twelve minutes, all together. The glider is out there on the sand. Do anything you like with It." "'Thanks," I said. I held out my hand. "It's been very nice to know you." "You haven't seen the last of us," said Mr. Wilbur. "We'll be hack next summer." — From "Yesterday in America," by Harold B. Clifford. SLIGHT ERROR A favorite picture star who mar- ried well—and often—found it expedient to get a divorce in a hurry it few months ago. Her lawyer suggested Mexico. "But I don't speak Spanish," she protest- ed. "That's all right," said the law- yer. "Whenever there's a pause, . all you have to do is say `si. si.'" The star created a great sensa- tion in the little Mexican village, and when she appeared in court, the whole town turned out to wit- ness the event. There was a great Ileal of emoting and bowing, and the star said "si, si" very firmly on numerous occasiions. Suddenly the crowd gave a great cheer. "Well, I guess I'm divorced," she said complacently. "Divorced, my eyel" cried her perspiring attorney. "You've married the mayor!" KNEW WHICH ONE Little Wendy set out for Sunday services in her best bib and tucker, equipped with two shiny niclrels— one for the collection plate and one for an ice-cream cone on the way home. She scarcely had left the house when one of the coins slip- ped out of her fingers and rolled into a drain. "Gosh darn." said Wendy. "There goes the Lord's nickel," Sports bear Sports Only 3 Wheels; Another Even Sports a Phonograph New York—The most amazing automobile in a collection of amaz- ing automobiles -the International Motors Sports Show—is a three - wheel job called the Jetmobile. It's either a genuine peek into the future or a one-way ticket to a bad dream. The Jetmobile is the creation of a young designer, Richard Harp. The model on display is the second one he built; the first was destroy= ed by fire after it won first prize as the most unusual design in a Washington show. His friends chipped in to help him build the new one for $2500. It was finished four hours before the New York show deadline. "I think conventional cars are too blunt," says Harp, "so I bor rowed aerodynamic • line sfor my car." The Jetmobile is decidedly nn - blunt. It has a long nose, housing the plexiglass- enclosed driver's scat, which looks more like a rock - pit. The engine ie in the rear and the whole creation is low and sleek. Harp says he could design a family car on that style if he had the money. The show included more than 100 care, ranging from stock sports cars—like Jaguars, Fugnttie, MGs and Siatas — through conventional Foirds and i(aieere and Nasse and •Cadiltars with custom bodies and on to nue.of•a Eind crista, cars. There are old rare in and among the ret -inspired designs of today. Many powerful d'arknrds and Dnrsenhergd and Rolle. Roy ere of the '.)Os are ..till handsome travel for sports -car fam•iers. But the major portion of he show is given "ver to the real sports ram. These ere usually low convertibles with antisnal features and strange designs. Some have chain driven. Some have right-hand controls, Some lutve the instru- ment panel on the floor There are gear shifts on the wheel, on the floor and on the dashboard. Some took like mobile peanuts and others seem two blocks long. Most of theta arc imported. and it isn't baud to tell which. There tvaa a warning sticker nn 0115 Italian -made Siam. u-hieh read! "In the first 100 miles NO 11-l< c'T;F.D the limit of .1800 RPM." Taut America is prorhiriug some thew sports cars. Packard unveiled its new Pan.Antrrican which is a Inner, sparkling creation. The con. By RICHARD KLEINER vertible top, when folded, is cov- ered with a metal lid, decorated with the radio aerial which juts toward the rear at just the right angle for spearing flying pedes- trians. The instrument panel and white leather. The luxurious custom-made jobs have some fabulous touches. One has an electric phonograph 'built in. Many are air conditioned. A few have bars concealed in an rests and other likely places. One custom car was big enough to include a desk for the travelling executive. Another car on display was the Phantom Corsair, original- ly built as "The Car of Tomorrow" for the New York World's Fair in 1939 at a cost of $37,000. Tomorrow hasn't come yet for that car; it'ta still too futuristic for today's tastes, It is practically a hide-out, be- cause glass is minimized. The headlights are almost concealed and so would be any passengers riding in the car. When you open the door, part of the roof lifts up so you can enter it. Also on view is the chassis of it sports car first exhibited in 1915. It was made in Ireland. Many of its features are just now coming into general use. Some are still considered advanced by car design- ers. There were no samples distribut- ed. 3,e.DEfb YOUR WAY here is Richard Harp's "Jetmobile;" a three wheel car with room far only one passenger ---and barely that,