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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-11-27, Page 2North American Nymphs—Three beauties from rhe three North American notions of Canada, Mexico and the United States make nap this inspiring pyramid on water skis at Florida's Cypress Gardens, At left is Yankee, Jannette Burr; on top, Amparo Batani Mexico, and at right, Carol Ann Duthie of Toronto, Canada, Strange Creatures That Live 'Down Under" A. rnere century or two ago Europeans used to think of Aus- tralia as a part of the world where everything stood upside down. Those who landed there found so much to amaze them that its reputation as an Alice - through -the -looking glass world increased. Now a well-known writer -and broadcaster on the "oddities" of Australian life has published Unique to Australia, a book that will add to such legends. Bill Beatty, the author, shows Aus- tralia as a country full of aston- ishing paradoxes. Here may be foamd earth- worms more than six feet long, whose groans can be heard from underground: lizards that bark, fly, change colour, and run on their hind legs like their prehis- toric ancestor, the dinosaur; spi- ders that ish with line and bait for moths, others that live un- der water in a bubble of air like a diving -bell, butterfly fish walk- ing with rear fins on the sea floor, fish that climb trees and have two lamps under their eyes to attract their prey, archer fish that shoot insects with a drop of water six feet above the surface. There is the dugong, or sea cow, with the face of a pig and body like a miniature elephant, suckling its young by holding them to its breast with flippers. (The Dugong is supposed to have originated the mermaid myth,) The Tasmanian devil or tiger turns out to be neither devil nor tiger, but a harmless wolf. The dingo or native wild dog be- comes savage only when crossed el 2 P' TA L Jane Andews, The average Canadian family iloesri t eat nearly as much honey es it should, Some of us have it fairly regularly on our tables, but Sail to use it in our cooking to the extent they do in other lands. The firm, sweet honey cookies eaf Germany — lebkuchen — are perhaps the most famous Christ- mas rookies of a country that tan boast many famous Christ- mas cookies. Then there's the celebrated honey cake of Holland, said dozens of other delicacies I traven't the time or space to mention. So here are a couple of simple aecipes that make use of this very fine food most delightfully. Give them both a trial. I'm cer- atin you'll be glad you did. HONEY CREAM CHEESE FILLING (For layer cake; also may be used as a dessert sauce) 2 three -ounce rake cream cheese Dash salt tablespoons mild -flavored honey LKS Vanilla, orange or lemon extract Cream the cheese with the salt and honey. Flavor as desired. Yield: enough to fill an eight -inch layer cake. A d A HONEY FROSTING (Also may be used as a pudding sauce) 1 cup mild -flavored honey 1 beaten egg white 1 teaspoon vanilla. Boil the honey to 240 degrees F. (stage when a drop in cold water forms a firm ball). Add it in a fine stream to the egg white. Whip till stiff and add vanilla. This frosting is marshmallow -like and remains spreadable for hours. Yield: enough for tops and sides of two eight -inch layer cakes. "'Way Down East" in the United States they call this an "Election Cake." It was, and still is—if skilfully made—a round, rich raised loaf, with a delicious buttery taste. In the early days it took more ee II 4(1 bA an r r ` At7W. ORO,e TON loaS 'RrGMT` �. 13 ,e EARNINGS BEFORE , 4CO3,3 7. �•uo.,t cr ,..vF.e ____....___t ,9•" I ,ate t 1940. _ .t �.1 *31 AOAU'k': IArtrt( $511855 055353 —.__u+rtes rtorn, ---- .ear."c r,u•e etc as Blast vs, West—In Canada—The charts shown above were used as exhibits by the Canadian Pacilc Railway at recent hearings before the Board of Transport Commissioners at Ottawa to refute argu- ments that the burden of freight rotes is borne largely by the western provinces. The first chart for gross ton miles shows that the railway's service in western Canada is substantially greater ghat that in eastern Canada. The second shows that average revenue per ton mile is much greater in eastern Canada and that She dierence has been increasing since 1946. The third chart shows that the net earnings of the company, before income tax, once higher in western Canada than in eastern Canada, have 'oven lower since mid -1948 despite the fart That two-thirds of the C.P.R. mileage is in the west. with- the Whits man's domestica- ted dog. The emu cannot fly, btit will race a galloping horse; the female does Pee courting, but the male looks after the ehieles. Astonishing All the world today knows about the platypus, that queer furred creature that is part rep- tile, part bird, part animal, with its duck's bill, webbed paws, its habit of burrowing to lay eon - shelled eggs like a lizard's, div- ing under the water for food, and suckling its young, but the paradox of all paradoxes is the lesser-known spiny ant -eater. This does something even thethe kangaroo cannot — by growing a pouch for its young only when they need it. There are some astonishing birds, like the lyre bird, which • mimics any bird or even human sound in the bush, or the tall and solemn brolgas, which performed square dances a million years be- fore 11111 -billies ever thought of them. There is a great deal about the customs and way of life of the aborigines, the teeming marine life of Queensland's Great Bar- rier Reef, and such strange - nat- ural features as the treeless Null- arbor Plain, the immense Ayer's Rock rising out of fiat desert in Central Australia, and the Great Artesian Basin, which has the world's largest underground stor- age of water, MERRY MENAGERIE "He takes king-size cat naps( Twelve hours earths" than a day to make. The fruit had to be prepared and the dough allowed to rise. But commercial - 1y prepared yeast works a lot faster than the old, homemade sort, and nowadays the risen dough is ready for the oven in just a few hours. And so, even if we in Canada don't happen to have an elec- tion looming close—or have we? —I'm going to give you the recipe. Election' or no election, it's well worth giving a trial. 1sLtC'I'ION CAKE1 1 yeast cake °i eup lukewarm water 2 cups milk, scalded 1 teaspoon salt 6 cups sifted flour 2 cups raisins, chopped 1-4, cup sliced citron aft. cup butter (at room temperature) 2 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon le teaspoon nutmeg 3 large eggs or four medium eggs Molasses. (1) Sprinkle yeast on luke- warm water. (2) Cool milk to lukewarm and add salt and softened yeast. (3) Add a third -cup of the flour to the chopped raisins and sliced citron. Mix well. (4) Add yeast mixture to re- maining flour and beat with a wooden spoon till well blended and "stringy," Set in a warm place (80 to 90 degrees F.) to rise till double in bulk. Setting the pan of dough in water of 90 to 100 degrees F. in temperature helps to give rapid rising—forty- five to sixty minutes. (5) While dough is rising, cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream till. fluffy. Add cinnamon ,and nutmeg (0) Add eggs one at a time and mix thoroughly. 17) Add creamed mixture to dough and beat till no spots of white dough show. Add (raisins and citron and mix. - (8) Let dough rise till double in bulk (thirty to forty minutes). HI) Cut down dough and stir till smooth. (10) Turn into three one -quart round pans or casseroles, well greased, and let rise till dough reaches tops of pans (forty -live to sixty minutes). (11) Bake on lower shelf of a moderate oven 1350 degrees .F.) thirty minutes,' lower tempera- ture to slow (325 degrees F.) and continue baking thirty to thir- ty-five minutes longer. If tops brown too fast, cover after first thirty minutes with aluminum foil, Glaze when done with molasses, return to oven for live minutes to set glare, Yield: twenty-four servings. FISHING TIP Nylon leaders arc snntc(inu r. hard to straighten 01.11.. This can . be a,:eomplished easily by draw ing them through a piece of rubber. .A bout tetra() will serve the purpose well. \vhat. would . many Bshrrtnrn have given tt, have known this when nylon leaders• were first introduced1 i urcrnalien Preview England Prepares For Its Most Splendid Ceremony 50,000 Silkworms Spun the Yarn for 'Queen's Purple' Robe for Elizabeth liy ROSETT1 HA iGROVE NEA Staff Correspondent London ---Thousands of people he England already are busy pre- paring for what will be recorded next Tune in their country's his- tory as the most splendid core ()nation of all times, The crowning of a soverign is always a sensational event. But this time every man, woman and child in Britain is taking a deep- felt, affectionate interest in it because the Queen is a young woman whom they have follow- ed since her birth and the first Queen to be crowned since 'Vic- toria, Elizabeth II is beloved of her people because she has convince ed them that she is not only beautiful but courageous and deeply conscious of her duties, in spite of her youth. Further- more, she is the daughter of a soverign who died at his task, the wife ofe a prince charming and the mother of two beautiful children, The (robes- of state which the Queen willwear when she is crownedeori sTune 2 will be the most ifeleetlayet seen in West- minster 'Abbey. Fifty thousand silkworms have provided the yarn for the 20 yards of the richest silk vel- vet known as the "Queen's Pur - pie" which will fashion her trail- ing robe and the satin for the gown she will wear beneath it. Both will be. all -British and both will be encrusted with the most gorgeous embroidery ever executed by the Royal School of Needlework and representing the Royal Insignia. a a a The raw silk has been pro- duced on Zoe, Lady Hart Dyke's sills farm at Lullingstone in Kent. Started 20 years ago, the farm supplied bolts of silk for the coronation robes of George VI and the Queen Mother. Big worry of middle-aged Miss Lilly Lee, who will' soon go to work at - the 'Warner mills at Braintree, Essex, is that "my knife doesn't slip," Her job is hand -weaving the 20 yards of velvet for the Queen's corona- tion robe, So just in case of mis- hap, Mrs. Hilda Calver will weave a duplicate length of 20 yards. Both are skilled crafts- women in the hand -weaving of silk velvet. The silk has to be looped over a slatted wire and cut by hand. The two women cannot produce Command Portrait of Elizabeth II by Dorothy Wilding shows her wearing the diamond and pearl- tiara worn by queens of Britain since Queen Victoria, Sash and star is the Order of the Garter. Diamond necklace was a wedding present from the htizam of Hyderabad, the bracelet from her husband. more than 18 inches a day, so it will take three months to com- plete the yardages. A director of the mills says "their task will be one of the utmost responsi- bility. The knife has only to slip once and the whole thing is ruined." Nobody knows what style dress the Queen will elect to wear under her purple robes. It must- necessarily be a formai evening gown with a deep de- coliete to premit of the cere- mony of Anointing and also to set off the magnificent crown jewels she will wear. It is prestuned that Royal Dressmaker Norman Hartnell will be entrusted with the mak- ing of the coronation robes. n „ u According to the office of the Earl Marshal the Duke of Nor- folk it has as yet not been de- cided what headdress the Queen will wear to the coronation. If she follows the example of her father, site would wear a Cap of State of purple velvet edged with ermine. Nine youths of noble birth will be appointed to carry the Queen's train, Four peeresses have to be chosen to hold a pall of cloth of gold over the Queen when she is annointed with the Holy OIl, This precious oil usually is made in sufficient quantities to, last several coronations. But the reserve supply was destroyed by bombs during the war and the Queen's chemists have been commanded to make more, It is a fragrant oil distilled from orange flowers, roses, cin- namon, musk, jasmine, flowers of benzoin, civet and ambergris, The formula dates back to the 17th Century. - (Next week: The •aeeresses and "mock ermine.") Thousand -Year -Old Ceremony at which Elizabeth will be.crowned Queen of Britain includes spec- tacular procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminister Abbey and back again, Here the last coronation procession, in 1937, passes through Parliament Square, KEEP TOOLS FROM RATTLING The best way to keep tools from rattling around the luggage compartment Of .the car is to fashion a rubber kit having a separate pocket for each tool. One can make it out of an old inner tube, sewing one piece onto another to form the pockets, When the tools are placed the tube is tied in a roll and there'll be no more raffling, TALL TALES Herb Shriner, a--te)evisior, comic in the Will Rogers tradi- tion, observes, "A man will soon be able to get clear around the world in two hours: one hour for flying, and the other to get out to the airport" "We didn't need a plane in Kansas one day last summer," he adds. "Wind blew so hard it got a hen turned clear around the wrong way, Before it could get straightened out and headed into the wind again, it laid the same egg six times!" MAKE- YOUR CHOICE A senior in the Pulitzer School of Journalism observed, "Even barbers matte more money than authors do today. 1 don't 1:now whether to take a job in Gre- eo's barbershop when I gradu- ate, or write novels." Dern ,Ackerman suggested, Miss coin, ray boy, lir'ads or tales!'r Thousands Die In Battle For Honey STORY of a strange battle be- t tween insects comes to us from Nyeri, Kenya, where bees invaded the inner and outer walls of an old house and established a thriving hive. One day recent- ly a large number -of ants "on safari" arrived and invaded the hive, hungry for the large amount of honey - in it. The an gry bees joined battle with the ants at dusk, and as . the ants sent reinforcements the bees came out to meet them, All night long the battle raged, while the worried owner of the house, wearing a gas mask to protect his face, watched and listened. At times the grass was black with insects as the two sides struggled for supremacy, The house owner thought at first that the ants would win, but he was wrong. When daylight came the lawns were littered with the bodies of hundreds of thou- sands of ants. If any had es caped alive, they had vanished, And the victorious bete were back in. their hive with their honey rafr-. REAL RELIC Plain three was the man who had a car so old that he asked the Liccnee Department for both rapper and lower plates this year' emeamesesse Highball 1-- Charier Fleischer, 2, is having the time of his young life being chief engineer of the model railroad system on dis- play in a department store. Toy department officials„ wise in the ways of boys of oil ages, have designed the display so that. vis- ito,s ran operate all the trains.