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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-07-20, Page 6Successful Ways To Dry Flowers Next winter when the white monotony of the landscape be- gins`to make you feel low -spirit• ed, take out those boxes of sum- mer and falleclried flowers you've made, and; place your prettiest arrangements about the house, Your garden will bloom o s of q in wwith the same gay c summer days. Early spring through autumn is the time to start gathering the field and garden flowers swwhith which appeal to you. a small amount at a time so the task is not tiresome, but enjoy- able, The secret is in gathering perfect speciments at the height of their color peak—which is just before the flower bursts into full bloom. Flowers should be gathered when moisture is at a minimum, usually at midday, and the drying process started as soon as possible. Here are two methods of drying I have found most successful— Meal and Borax Method — Thoroughly mix one part pow- dered borax with six parts of white corn meal, and cover the bottom of a carton or box with an inch or more of this mixture. A florist's corsage box lends it- self nicely to the processing of short -stemmed flowers as the narrow base requires less mix- ture and the flexible sides per- mit free use of your fingers. Through trial and error I found this is the best way to keep the shape and color of such flowers as zinnias, marigolds and Queen Anne's lace. Hold flowers face down and lightly fluff the mixture under. up and around them until they are barely covered. Lift out and put them in another carton or arrange on wax paper. For a perfect job, place the flowers so they do not touch, arid only one layer to the box. Let stand in a dry place from one to three weeks, depending upon the flow- ers used. This mixture may be used over again for many years. When gathering flowers or other material for drying,. place them in a small amount of water to keep fresh in transit. Be sure to remove, or dry thoroughly, the wet stem before treating. Hanging Method—Tie flowers in loose bunches and hang, heads down, in a dark, dry, well -ven- tilated ,place. In three weeks or less they will be thoroughly dry and may be stored in boxes, even between sheets of wax paper or in cellophane envelopes. Put them in a dark place until they are needed. Space is saved by using wire coat hangers from which several bunches may andbe suspended. To easily ti hang them, wind rubber bands several times around the stems, loop over the hanger and catch In the stem ends, In this manner, the bunches may be easily re- moved with a slightte tug. fowers There are many r •available for drying, You will not only find pleasure in seeking them out and experimenting for yourself, but will doubtless make some interesting discoveries of your own. By Charlotte D. Herr- man in "Horticulture" FOXY BANDIT A new -style mail theft is re- ported from Sweden, Ins meek- sele, North Sweden, a pd n put down his bag containing let- ters and registered mail worth several hundred dollars for a few moments. Then someone asked him the way to a certain street and when he Went to pick up the bag it had vanished. Spotting tracks in the snow leading from the van, he follow- ed them for a considerable dis- tance, until he found a very mangled postbag outside the en- trance to a fox's lair. Birthday Charmers Now in its 186th year, the United States Army takes to charms — as well as arms in, celebration. • Barbara Whiten, above; I holds the Army's new M-72 rocket grecede. The "hip pocket rocket" is made to order for guerrilla warfare. Barbara does better with a typewriter at Army Ordnance Missile Command. • Terri Janssen, left, Miss California of 1960, is "Castle Girl" of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at El Monte, Calif. TABLE TALKS O Jam Andpews. have it," writes Mrs. M. P. Hodg- don. Here is her drop cookie recipe. DE LUXE DATE NUT COOKIES ,,i cup butter 1 cup light brown sugar (packed) 1 egg, unbeaten 11/4 cups flour l/2 teaspoon salt le teaspoon soda 1 cup shredded fine, sweetened cocoanut 1 cup walnuts In large pieces 1 2 -ounce package broken walnuts 14 pound dates, seeded and cut fine 2 teaspoons vanilla • 2• teaspoons fresh lemon juice Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Cream butter, add sugar, and beat until creamy. Add egg. Sift together flour, salt, soda, and add to first mixture. Add nuts, dates, cocoanut, and vanilla. Add lemon juice last. Drop by tea- spoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet; bake 10-15 minutes. fi * "I would like to submit this recipe for chocolate marble nut cookies," writes Mrs, Joan Lind- say. "It was developed to avert a culinary disaster while making chocolate pinwheels. The dough would not roll out properly, so these marble cookies are the re- sult." CHOCOLATE MARBLE NUT COOKIES Some young homemakers were talking about keeping their fa- milies supplied with cookies — cookies for between -meal snacks, for picnics, for after -lunch des- serts — and they agreed that the best way yet found was to make large recipes of family favour- ites and 'freeze the dough not used in the first baking. That way, future bakings are done in a jiffy. "I use one of those recipes that says at the end, 'Serves 50,' " the mother of four children said. There was a chorus of laugh- ter, but they agreed that was the way to keep the .family cookie jar full, "I always like to make the refrigerator type of cookies be- cause I can shape the dough into a roll, wrap it, and freeze it. Then, when I take it out of the freezer, I can slice it without thawing and bake as usual — hut you all know that, I'm sure," said another mother. All seemed to agree that refri- gerator cookies are the easiest to. keep and tomake, since most other doughs must be thawed or partially thawed before baking. One of the young homemakers, however, declared that in her opinion baked cookies store most conveniently for the busy cook. to thaw "It's easier simply when a crisis occurs than it is to bake," she said. "However, you do it — freez- ing the cookie dough or freezing the baked cookies — either me- thod is a great convenience in bringing up a family," she de- clared, with a chorus of agree- ment. e "I have had many requests for this recipe. I would like to share it with my friends. I would appreciate it if you cam find space in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor so that all may LOOKING FORWARD - President Charles de Gaulle studies a , model of a towering apartment building which may be built in the French capitol, Paris. le cup butter eel cup sugar 1 egg 1 tablespoon milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 11/,. cups siftedflour e teaspoon baking powder 4 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 square unsweetened chocolate, unmelted Cream together the butter and sugar; add and mix in thorough- ly the egg, milk, and vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt and stir into the first mixture; add the nuts. Divide dough in half and add melted chocolate to one half, making a chocolate dough. Put the 2 doughs in the same bowl and knead together to make a marble effect, Form dough into balls the .size of walnuts; place 3-4 inches apart on a slightly greased cookie sheet, Flatten balls with the bottom of a glass dipped in flour to 1/4 -inch thick- ness, Bake at 350 degrees F. for 10 minutes, recipe for chocolate nut cookies that, it seems certain, would be good. for freezing. CUOCOLA'FE NUT COOKIES le cup shortening' 1 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten 2 -squares unsweetened' chocolate, melted cup chopped nuts 2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder le teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons milk Cream together the shortening and sugar; add egg and beat well. Blend in the melted cho- colate and` nuts. Sift together the dry ingredients and add to first mixture alternately with milk, Mix well. Shape into 2 rolls. 'Wrap in waxed paper and store in refrigerator. Chill. Cut into 1/4 -inch slices; bake at 375 degrees F. for 15 minutes. *. h * "H e r e is my favourite and much used brownie recipe;- vourite because they please guests and are quickly and easily made. The melted butter in the baking dish gives a tasty, crisp crust to the brownies, while the inside remains moist and fudgy. I often serve them with whip- ped cream. as a dessert," writes Miss Site Oldham, BROWNIES (114 cups) 1 tablespoon baking powder 5 cups sifted flour Cream butter and sugars; add eggs and mix well. Sift together flour, baking powder, and cin- namon several times, thenadd to first mixture, mixing well, Add nuts. Form into 4 loaves. Chill in refrigerator until firm. Slice in 1/8 -inch cookies and bake on a•, greased cookie sheet at 375 degrees F. 10-12 minutes, Mrs. Armstrong also sent a Big Circulation Profits he arrived Avenue office month, Lew husky editor of unexpectedly eight top tell you," are under If they fail current 37;000, the has been e last two 960) and lla on Esquire, puts out the and The reason: A cut-rate subscription five years) a base. a magazine market "Man's Taboo of the 25- decided early to a June cover Fast 3c the 35 -con continued two months began to so buyers. at a reported $1.5 million, . oil -rail elan magazine radioman Gerald counteract the publisher Arthur denied ant. His editors, already jobs. can I remove from plastered prevent their newly - applied a paper P Ind fill fuller's fairly grease. E WITH C But No Pr fit Shortly afterat hit Madison Ave o n Morning lastOi1- lenson,the Coro- net magazine, sum- moned his editors. "I think I shouldhe said, "negotiations way to sell Coronet. record cir- culation a pcket-: of 3,1 losing size monthly. oearg money for th s been ($600,000 in 1 Inc., a serious drainprofit- ablewhich also Gentleman's Esquirelarge, Quarterly. ag, long-term, built un list ($10 for high cir- culationto oleer advertisersUnable rategeared complete as (a. 1959 to the male Gland"), story tile: 25 -year-old the editors thise -d monthly magazine yearar to change it line: women (a Cook- book").: "Glamorous)Fancy a -copy But to lose magazine ago, the money and, and h out publishers Among those prospective asking interested, were the Price of familyeand Murchison chain the 'MacFad hain owned by r. tell. rumors To Stein Coronet that a tale steadfastly how• was inesninout looker' ever, were' for other Q. How greas, stains walls ant thus bleedini through w a l e paper? pocket over A. Tape each 'stain this pocke with some earth, whici+ should in short time ale sorb the 1 cap sugar 2 eggs 'A 'cup butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 tablespoons cocoa 1 cup flour Melt butter. Combine well the sugar, eggs, a n d vanilla. Sift flour. and' cocoa together. Add % of melted butter to sugar - egg mixture. Mix and gradually add 'flour mixture,'continuing to stir. Place remaining butter in an 8 -inch square baking dish, then pour in brownie mixture. (Encourage melted utter to run over top of batter). Bake in 375 degrees F. oven 20-25 minutes. "You won't find money grow- ingo- on trees," states a philos- opher. If you do, there's been . some grafting going on, After 10 Years Of Tranquilizers ' New Problems Comes A New Drug By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Association NEW YORK — (NEA) — It is now 10 years since a rhesus monkey in New Jersey swallow- ed the first dose of a compound called meprobomate and shed: his irritable personality in favor pf PSYCHIATRISTS AND NEUROLOGISTS * * "For those who Like to bake cookies, I send this, one of my treasured recipes,"writes Mrs. Olive Armstrong, of her butler cookies. You will.note that she gives a wide choice in the amount of butter used — her ingredients call for 5/A to 11 cups. of butter. "Butter it a must in this recipe," she writes, ICEBOX BUTTER COOKIES 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 3 eggs, well beaten 1 tablespoon 'Armenian % to 11 cups- butter l pound chopped pecans ISSUE 28 — 11061 fic drugs like sedatives, anti- histamines, ulcer powders, appe- tite depressants. ppe-titedepressants. On muscle - relaxant - with - tranquilizer alone we spend an annual $15.5 million. so fast? How did it all happenthree big Research turns up reasons. First, obviously, because a SURGEONS ALL OTHERS INTERNISTS OSTEOPATHS / WHO PRESCRIBES T11E1V1? than other doctors together. Psychiatrists and neurologists prescribe only 11 per cent. General practitioners more glorious adjustment. to his labor- atory environment—thus giving the U.S. a new drug, a new word, a new way of life. The new drug, word and way: tranquilizers. In this frantic decade since clinical work began, the tran- quilizer has burst like a Fourth of July rocket over the Ameri- can scene, bestowing: • Dramatic hope ona the phar- ar- maceutical industry, y Desperate o r and Average Household, • Revolutionary tools for psy- chiarty, agriculture. and enter- tainment, • New problems to replace the old ones now washed andy with the daily gulp pill. Today, the U.S, spends an an- nual $250 million on tranquil- izers—end only one-fifth of it is spent on patients in mental hospitals. Most of the rest of the tran- quilizers bought wind up in the family medicine chest, and the average family's at that. Psychiatrists and neurologists prescribe only about 11. per cent of all tranquilizers used, Over. 50 per cent are prescribed by general practitioners. But even these figures don't tell the whole story, In addition to the, $200 million we' out-pa- tients spend on outright trap- quilization, millions more go for combinations with ether' speei- q ran uilizer app was just like the old days reduces anxiety with •' affect- habit-forming ffect DRIV ARE ! turns all day at the office or PTA. Put onto the prescription shelf for the family • doctor, general practitioners have been given the tools to treat emotional stress (or even illness) without relying of a specialist, thus • making them one of tranquilizers' best friends. And third, with laboratory scientists turning up new varia- tions of basic formulas thap pear to hit only target symptoms, the. market continues to grow. Schering, for example, aims one of its tranquilizers at heart ailment patients, and others at beef steers, chickens and tur- keys (nothing like a tranquil animal to put weight on and keep it on). Well, if tranquilizers feel good to man, beast and family doctor, you can imagine how they feel to the- drug industry. Miltown, which tranquilized that rhesus monkey so few years ago, is still on sale. So is Thora- zine, which turned the title in mental hospitals six years ago for the first time in history. But today, both these pioneers hold only a part of the booming mar- ket; there are 30 competing tran- quilizers marketed under 70 -odd names. That they work is proved daily as discharge rates in mental hos- pitals continue higher then ad- missions, But how do they work? In one hospital experiment where a ward was taken off ears to be a non- tranquilizers for a while, one h attendant reported, obit -forming compound which it —bedlam.' Mg conscious 'ous perception — the To the casual observer,it was way sedatives might. In short, as good a description of tranquil- it's the, perfect drug for the hat- izers 10 years after as you could householdertied sleeps lee sea despair. l ualparts of hope and right atnight but who SO 'TO 64 YEARS WHO TAKES THEM? Most tranquilizers are prescribed fog "normal everyday neurotics." Biggest users are In their 20th and 30s.