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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-05-22, Page 7TABLE Ti iavvz.Andrews Most everybody knotty. _ I holm.... how good carrot pudding is. Bnt did you ever try making grated carrots an ingredient for a calve' If not, you're (.;Hing to be pleasants ly surprised whcti you try this. CARROT CAKE 1a cups sugar lis cups water ll cups grated carrots 1 cup raisins ys cup shortening 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 egg 2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon soca 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts 1, Combine sugar, water, grated rarrota, raisins, shortening, cinna- mon and nutmeg, Boil 5 minutes, Cool for 2 to 3 hours. 2. Beat egg until light, Stir into cooled mixture. 3. Sift together the flour, soda, cream of tartar and salt. Add, stirr- ing until well blended, 4, Blend tS cup of the chopped nuts into the batter, 5. Pour into a greased loaf pan (10 by 5 by 3 inches) and bake in a preheated moderate oven 1350" F.) about 45 minutes. n, Coot and frost with Marsh- mallow Frosting. Sprinkle remain- ing chopped nuts over the top, MARSHMALLOW FROSTING 2 tablespoon butter ;$ cup milk 14 teaspoon almond flavoring 6 tablespoons marshmallow cream Ili cups sifted confectioners" sugar (about) 1. Heat butter and milk together. Add almond flavoring and marsh- mallow cream. 2. Beat in sugar gradually, beat- ing until thick enough to spread. * * * MOLASSES SPONGE CAKE 4 eggs r/ cup cold coffee 1 teaspoon vanilla as cup sugar Vs cup molasses 1% cups sifted cake flour i3 teaspoons baking powder 4 teaspoon salt 54 teaspoon cream of tartar 1. Separate eggs. Adel coffee and vauUln to yolks and beat until thick and light. 2. Beat its sugar and molasses gradually. .3. Sift together 3 tines the flour, baking powder and salt. Fold into egg mixture in thirds, 4, Feat egg whites until light and foamy, Add cream of tartar and continue beating until whites are ahnnst stiff but not dry. Fold into sponge batter. Pour into a 10 - inch ungreascd tube pan. Cut gently through batter with spatula or knife 2 or 3 times to remove any air porkete. Bake in a pre -heated slow'. oven (325° F.) for about 1 hour. 5. Remove from oven and invert until cool. Then remove front pan and frost with Coffee Frosting .Wade with confectioners' sugar. COFFEE FROSTING 2 tablespoons warm coffee (about) 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Add coffee to the sifted con- fectioners' sugar, beating until frosting is of good spreading con- sistency. it should be rather thin.) :odd additional coffee if necessary. 2. Stir in vanilla. Spread on rooted ..eke. SPICED CHOCOLATE CAKE 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1 cup mashed potatoes 4 eggs 2 1 -ounce squares chocolate 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 11a teaspoons cream of tartar ra teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon cloaca IS teaspoon nutmeg as sup chopped nuts 1 cup chopped dates 'i cup sour cream 1.( rt;tm butter and sugar to - timber until light. ,' Add mashed potatoes, beatis;4 well. 3. Beat eggs mita light. Add to crea n,,,a mixture grathtally. 4. Melt chocolate and stir into creamed mixture. 5. Sift dry ingredients nts together, n, Mix nuts and slates with -a little of the flour. Add flour al- ternately with sour cream to creamed mixture, mixing well. Add outs and dates, 7. four into a rectangular baking pant (13 by 9,; by 2 inches), and bah,. in a slow oven (300° F.) about 1'i hours. 8. Cool and frost with Cream - Cheese Frosting, CREAM-CHE,SE FROSTING 1 3 -ounce package cream cheese 2 ounces chocolate 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about) 2 to 3 tablespoons !i, teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1, Soften cream cheese, 2. itfelt chocolate and add to the cheese, 3. Adtt sugar, cream, salt and vanilla. Beat until smooth and of spreading consistency. * N: * FEATHER CAKE 2 cups sifted flour 154 cups sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder a teaspoon Galt cup shortening 1 cup milk ;i teaspoon lemon flavoring Itt teaspoon vanilla 4 egg yolks (or 2 whole eggs) 1. Sift cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together into a mixing bowl. Add shortening. 2. Combine milk with lemon and vanilla flavorings, Pour ,4 cup of the liquid into the dry ingredients and shortening, Beat for 2 minutes :medium speed of electric mister), scraping down the sides often, 3. Add remaining liquid and egg yolks. eat 2 minutes longer. 4. Pour cake batter into two fl- inch greased cake pans. Bake in a preheated moderate oven (350° F.) for 25 to 30 minutes, 5. Cool and frost with fluffy white frosting. Top with shredded coco- nut, if desired FLUFFY WHITE FROSTING 3 egg whites ;la cup sugar 6 tablespoons light corn syrup teaspoon cream of tartar teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Combine egg whites, sugar, light corn syrup, cream of tartar, and salt in the top of a double boiler. Place pan over boiling water and beat mixture with rotary beater mail mixture stands in peaks. 2. Remove from water, add vanilla and continue heating until Frosting is thick enough to spread. When cake has cooled, spread with irnsting. cream LOW NECKLINE A diplomatic publisher complitn ruled a socialite front Richmond cos her splendid appearance and added. "I)o you feel as well as you look?" She answered, "There are only two things the matter with tor; Dandruff and a badly spoiled stomach." "Aren't you lucky," commented the publisher, "that only one shows?" The lady reported the conversa- tion faithfully to her husband a moment later. He nodded slowly and asked, "Honey, did you have rnur hat on at the time." jilt^ay,:wi �firx,t( New Artificial Kichtey—A close-up view shows us the intricacies of the newly developed "Guarino kidney," a unit which can be man- ufactured for as little as $400 to $500. Two brothers, Dr, John Guarino and Louis Guarino, an engineer, developed the apparatus Sheds Light on Painting Four-year-old Paul Davidson was properly hnpressed when painter John Forzaglia, three- year-old entrant in an art exhibition, explained why his watrecolor, "A Choo-Choo With a House and Two Suns," has two suns. The reason: two make the "choo-choo" and house brighter. The Ki.g Took Only One Bath A Year , . Saturday night, by tradition, is bath night. But the tradition doesn't go very far back. By 1850 only four per cent of London's houses had bathrooms, and there were only one or two public bath -houses. The first modern -type "bath -house" was built in 1828, • but it was not popular, chiefly because the water had to be carried by hand to the bath -tub. The bath -tub gradually evolution- ized British life in the nineteenth century, for during the previous 300 years people had considered washing and bathing to be detri- mental to health, Even Queen Elizabeth strongly disliked washing, but had to resort to strong perfume instead. Louis the XIV of France had but one bath a year, and washed his face less than once a month. Tie too, was a firm believer in perfume as a cleanser, lvfarie Antoinette was more extravagant in the use of water, for she washed herself about once a week. Unbecoming! By modern standards people curd ing those centuries were unbeliev- ably dirty, and only if they were in dire need of a bath would they take one. This attitude towards washing was prevalent among ail classes, and, if anything, the rich were more averse to washing than the poor. To have a bath was thought to be an unbecoming advertisement of uncleanliness. It had not always been like that, and the ancient Greeks and Romans, for instance, were very bath -con- scious, The Greeks had warm baths about 3,000 years ago, tite well-to- do citizens having bathrooms in their own houses, and the poorer classes frequenting public baths. It was the Greeks who gave the Romans the idea of bathing, and by the first century A.D. the daily bath had become a 6rntly establish- ed habit to he taken before the evening meal. One of the hest remaining ex- amples of a private Roman bath ran he seen at Chentworth Villa, in Gloucestershire. From excavations, we can deduce the comfort and luxury that sur- rounded a Roman in a public hath. The Stahian Baths at Pompeii are a good example. The centre con- sisted or an open court where gym- nastic exercises were taken before and rafter. Adjoining this, there rtes a swim- ming -bath. On one side, waiting - rooms, an undressing -ronin„ furn- ished with benches, lockers and niches. A tiled paving led to a cold - water bath. From )fere a bather would go into a warns -air room, and, last of all, he would immerse ltin,.elf in a hot-water Molt Gambling, too Similar public baths were built in Great Britain, the hest known be- ing at Wroxeter, near Sbrewsbhry, on the site of the Roman city of Ilricnnittm, and at Bash. The re- mains at Wroxeter give ns a good idea how the different chambers of the baths were heated. 'rhe baths trere each built on short, square pillars, so that there was it spare beneath the two doors, A fire, which was continually fired, filled this space with flame and. heat. The extent to which Romans be- lieved in bathing can be judged from the fart that at one time there were no less than 850 public baths in Rome, As today, there were either separate baths for' nen and women,.. or, when only one public hath was available, different hours of the duty wore allotted to each sex. Inning the course of the fifteenth centery, however, :nixed bathing .. became fashionnhkt. The bath- houses became places where dare- 1 ing, gambling, and drinking would go on unrestrictedly all day, and there were even stories of bathing orgies, 1n order to root ottt the abuses of it j -ed bathing, all bathing was condemned by the Church as sin- ful. Its agitation not only put an and to the scandalous orgies of hath -houses. but it killed the pe;nle's sense of personal hygiene until they regarded cleanliness itself as sinful. BIG TREE A giant Douglas fir tree. recent- ly felled on Vancouver Island for lumber, had a circumference of 15 'eel, was 1106 years old, and must have been a huge tree when the Magna Carta was signed 1215, In •pits of its venerable age there was still a lot of useful wood in this ancient giant of the forest. Says We Recd Special Knobs To Tune Out Radio "Commercials" My first experience of Antcricett commercial radlo was of tire, on - and -off Ind. I was staying at a friend's house. and whenever the mil, was on be would kap to his feet at definite intervals throughout the evening and torn the thing riff, wait a minute or two, and then turn it on again and resorbs hes Seat. Ile didn't like e nnnterchal.. Ap- parently ire bad developed a eery finely tuned comanrttiai sense, be- cause he could tell just When an advertisement was about to begin and be could tell to the scernxl when it was clue to atop. In this way he was able to provide; hint - self with noncommercial radio and a good deal of no clotiltt valuable exercise writes John Allan May in "The Cltristian Science Monitor." At first this amused me. Then, discovering a superior attitude that was floating around loose at the time, 1 adopted it. It seemed to me that there was something vaguely ti n e t h f c a 1 about his methods. It wasn't just that some- body else was paying good money to provide uswith programs that we were receiving free (half the time we weren't even paying at- tention). But both my friend and 1 are newspapermen, and as such are ourselves dependent upon ad- vertising for our pay checks. It scented to me that we were almost morally obligated to listen to the commercials. Maybe we ought even to turn the volume up and fetch in the neighbors. "But we don't force people to read the ads in the paper," my friend remarked in defending his system. "They can read the ones they want to read and skip the ones they want to skip. The ads have to be good to catch their attention. Also they almost always provide a valuable service for the readers; there are dozens of ads they want to read, I object to being forced to listen to much of this radio stuff. And, furthermore, some of it is not merely stuff—it is also nonsense." With this he jumped up Bice a shot from a ratapult and just managed to cwt off a commercial at the first half word, thus pre- serving intact his amateur status. I ant afraid I was very young at the time, and T did not altogether Child Disappeared Six Years Ago Now Turns Up Safe and Sound When three-year - old Helga Miche disappeared while playing in a cobbled side -street near her par- ents' hone in Mainz six years ago, the police suspected foul play, Two months later, the tragic corpse of a three-year-old child was found, frozen to death and unrecogniza.de, and all the town sadly watched the pathetic funeral. Yet little Helga has just returned to life safe and sonnei, found living happily in the C.G.A., adopted by an American couple. \Clot should claim such a child? The legal but make-believe parents wbn have reared and educated Iter or the father and mother who had given her up far :lead, living m a land and speaking a language slit, has completely forgotten? Should a mine -year-old leave the only Lome she has known to live with parents who are "strangers"? 1'hcse human problems in the case of Helga Michel have caused rifts of deep controversy. Picture the problem: On one side of tite Atlan- tic her parents by adoption, com- fortably off Americans, who have accustomed little 1-Ielga to every luxury, and are willing to sacrifice their own domestic happiness for the child's sake, In Ctrmany, rail- teayntan Kari 'Michel and his wife, ,n:rjoyed at the tl ought of the 'tomrcort:ittg of the child whom • tin v utonrucd. "Our Helga has grotto a big yirl," says Mrs. Alichel. "I know it will hurt her new parents to part with her, bitt 1 pray they will per. mit us to have her. Either tray, it's headache or h,.=nail e in this amazing dilemma . anti behind it lies a whole tangle of mother love. For it was in No- sembcr, 1050, that a thirty-one- car•old woman named Caroline Kern was arrested for kidnapping e child and pleaded she had done it our of sheer affe'rtion. \s the police que.tin:,ed her, 1..'aroline, confessed to enticing sev- eral yomtg children from their beau. S. Often she did not know their names but she gave as much information as she could, Anrl on her list of the children she had lur- ed away was three-year-old 1-Ielga. Caroline had promised Iter toys and streets, and the date and place of the kidnapping matched the known details.:al,c cared for Helga "litre a ntotlter," she said, until she felt the time had come for parting. Then she left the little girl at the gates of an orphanage . , and little Belga wife abso4md in the tragic chb tide of twelve million men, e.tsr 11 and children who were '•atml tt,ntlaring from Ilse°r botite. .,titer the war. Through a lied Cross reception camp, Helga was cared for while the International Tracing Service tried to establish her identity. It was thought the her parents had perished in an air-raid; and event- ually Helga crossed the Atlantic to find a new life through a child - adoption society in the States. Caroline 1:ern's confession, how- ever, set off a fresh hunt through the Tracing Service files and es- tablished Helga's real identity. The foster -parents in :\merica sent photographs to the police in 3lainz . , . and the astonishing chain of cir- cumstance was nearly complete. Now• from America comes a gen- erous and open-hearted gesture. Helgti s foster -parents suggest that the Michels should visit America as her "aunt' and "uncle," hiding the truth until they tan regain the child's affection, But Elizabeth Michel is not sure whether her overflowing mother -love could en- able her to keep the agreement once she clasped the child in her arms. Here indeed is a riddle as unfathomable as the identity of the frozen, nameless Write who was bur- ied in Mainz in Helga \iirltrl', :tante six years ago. agree with hint, A month later iC had my own radio and I was st lot older, Now 1 was jumping up and down, My tinting was not at good as Itis, but I gol just as mucks exercise. I thought: Sweet are the uses of advertisement, but bitter its abnscs, By this time another point bad occurred to no-. Doubtless it had occurred r lot .artier to everybody else. It was this We do not see above, tit wvah!y "1'attt tt of Diplomacy" in this newspaper the words, "Presented By the Mouse- trap Cheese Corporation." And halfway through our leading edi- torial, thundering perhaps about the state of the r'est's ,neral and mat- erial defenses. we do not staddenly conte across the advice, "Eat '1'irub- ber, the Candy Par with 'Uglt'r Nor at the end of these columns do yutt find some merry little jingle like: "Tlte Derby Hat i. Isere to stay. Wear a Derby unlit and day. 1f you wish to lead the way, Wear a Derby, Como What May." We write our c,,lu,,,, s and our news stories and our editorials, and the advertisers carne their copy, we put them together 11,e best way we know, and the tender gets his quarter's worth for tt 'nob he. pays his five cents. The reader can choose what he ,canis to read. What is more, he ran also sit down and stay sat. It seems to me 10 be a very fair arrangement. 1 ant rather afraid that American radio has gone rather too far along its own chosen road to turn back now. But as an Englishman front way back in the dim, noncommercial era I wonder whether these folk pondering the bright future of English radio and television might not consider a development of commercial radio along newspaper Tines. Quite how they could work it 1 don't know. But certainly on television advertis- ing without sponsorship seetns a reasonably practical proposition. At the same time some company might market a long-distance switch or remote control so that my friend (and everyone with the same prejudice) could turn the volume down from his easy chair without having to jump to it. There's such a thing as over- exercise, you know. This column was brought to you through the courtesy of Mrs. Joy May, who trade the hot chocolate and also did the washing up. Holes in His Head—Jerry Bynum, 5, has two holes in his head, but he isn't complaining. The holes were drilled in his skull to give support for a specially designed bow which is helping to correct Jerry's curvature of the spine. The unusual treatment, being given at Fort Worth Hospital, causes Jerry no pain. TI a Beehive Look -- With a boom in oil and iron providing big budgets for new homes, apartments and office buildings, Vene- zuela is witnessing new treads in architecture. The first units of a development in Caracas displays a beehive brick design which creates a statural air flow and gives protection frcm the sun, Each studio apartment runs the full width of the building,