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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-08-31, Page 6Low Cost Foods In Mexico City Beans, rice, tortillas, milk, fish, soap -- all cost a peso (eight cents U.S.) from Mexico CitY's new supermarkets on wheels. The trailer trucks full of low - east foods are roving poor neigh- boihoods of the city in a cam- paign to stabilize baste food prices and improve diets for low- income families, They deliver 150 tons of food every day to 326 locations in 200 workingman Odors.They reach more than 2,000,000 of the 5,000,000 resi- dents of the modern capital, many living in crowded settle- ments • or adobe dwellings on the shabby fringes where the pave- ment stops, water is carried in buckets, and meals are cooked over charcoal braziers. President Lopez Mateos order- ed low-cost foods for the poor when he took office. 2' years ago. He placed the job in the hands of the federal food pur- chasing and distributing agency which had begun selling beans and tortillas at cost during the previous administration. Broadening the diet, the agency set up a processing and packing plant and readied 56 streamlined trailers to distribute the foods. "The first few days out we didn't get beyond the first stop before we were cleaned out," says one of the gray -uniformed drivers. "People stocked up with everything they could carry. They figured such a good thing couldn't last. But we we're back the next day at the same time with the same goods and the same prices. Now they're buying less and gaining confidence." Queues are waiting at every stop as the red trailers, pulled by diesel units, arrive in the neighborhoods. Pulling up to the curb, the two-man crew of each truck un- fold mechanical stairs to the trailer, turn on air conditioning, indirect lighting, taped music, and take their places — one in- side to help the customers lo- cate what they want to buy and the other at the cash register. The trailers are lined with self-service shelves containing everything from detergents to canned hams, soups, potatoes, flour, sugar, salt, dried fish, can- dies, and milk stored in cartons in refrigeration units. There is no limit to what one housewife may buy. If any food runs out the operator radios the central plant and a "feeder" truck is sent out. The one peso foods are only one-half or one-third the retail prices in most grocery stores be- cause the distributing agency buys up entire crops from far- mers and eliminates the middle - mend Families which before ate only tortillas and beans now are able to buy meat and milk. Children are getting balanced meals. It is expected that the low-priced packages will drive down retail prices sustaining a lasting fight against inflation. The agency is readying eight more trucks to sell clothing and shoes and toilet articles. "We feel we have a mission In this program," said an agency spokesman. 'We are introducing new and healthy foods to the poor with an honest value for their money" THE SIMPLE LIFE In Venice, the Duke of Wind - sore was lunching daily on one banana and a dish of vanilla ice cream, a repast curiously out of keeping with the splendiferous image created by the duke and his duchess on their arrival: One gondola for themselves, and a second for 36 suitcases and the duke's golf bag. A as 551, TABLE TALKS Gy Jam Andrewr. FILLET BURGERS make an easy -to -eat, satisfying lunch. Every- one gets a big, toasty -warm bun stuffed with a golden -fried fish fillet, tasty spread, and juicy slice of tomato. The burger, like baseball, has become a familiar part of the summer scene. Served indoors or out, it is a menu favourite for casual dining and can be the answer to the lunch or supper problem on a busy day. Some of the best burgers are made with seafoods. For porch or patio lunching home econom- ists recommend hot, toasty Fillet Burgers, Salmon Burgers, and Tuna Burgers. All three proved very popular with taste -testers. Try the Fillet Burgers when you have small fillets on hand such as sole, ocean perch, or fillets from small game fish. FILLET BURGERS 1 pound small fish fillets 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1/2 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons chopped pickle 1/2 cup chopped onion 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 tablepsoon prepared mustard 6 split heated hamburger buns 6 slices tomato 44. teaspoon salt Dash pepper Thaw fillets if frozen. Divide into 6 portions. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Combine flour and salt. Roll fish in the mixture. Pan fry in about 1/4 -inch of melt- ed fat or cooking oil, very hot but not smoking. When fish is browned on both sides and will flake easily on testing with a fork, remove from heat and drain on absorbent paper. Combine pickle, onion, mayon- naise, and mustard; spread 5n heated buns. Place a portion of cooked fish on bottom half of each bun. Top with a tomato slice and sprinkle tomato with salt and pepper. Replace bun tops. Serve hot. Makes 6 bur- gers. e n SALMON BURGERS Keep these Salmon Burgers in mind when a quick, hearty snack is called for. The salmon patties cook in a jiffy and can be pre- pared in advance, then refriger- ated until needed. 1 can (15 ounces) salmon. 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup butter, melted 34 cup dry bread crumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1/4 cup chopped parsley 1 teaspoon dry mustard Vs teaspoon salt 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs 6 heated buttered hamburger buns Drain and flake salmon, re- serving salmon liquid. Cook on- ion in butter until tender. Add salmon liquid, zh cup dry bread crumbs, egg, parsley, mustard, salt, and salmon. Mix well. Shape into 6 patties the size of the buns and about % inch thick. Roll in crumbs. Pan fry in fat which is very hot but not amok- ing. When patties are brown on one side, turn and brown on other side. Drain on absorbent paper. Place in buns, Make 6 burgers. M „ , TUNA BURGERS Tuna Burgers, heated and served in individual foil cozies are convenient for a porch sup- per. If desired, they too can be, made ahead of time, stored in the refrigerator, then heated at meal time. 2 cans (7 ounces each) tuna 2 cups thinly sliced celery S. cup chopped peanuts 1 tablespoon minced onion 1/2 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 cup grated cheese 8 buttered hamburger buns Drain and flake tuna. - Add , celery, peanuts, onion, mayon- naise, lemon juice and grated cheese. Mix thoroughly. Fill buns with tuna mixture. Wrap each in aluminum foil, Place packages on a baking sheet and heat a hot oven (450°F.) for 10 to 15 minutes. Makes 8 burgers. * * t Finnan haddie is a popular seafood product with an inter- esting history. It seems that many years ago, a quantity of wood stored in a building in Findon, Scotland, caught fire. After the flames were put out, it was found that some haddock which were in the building had taken on a rich, golden brown colour and when cooked had a delightful, smoky flavour. This lucky accident was the beginning of a new branch of the Scotch fishing industry and for many years smoked haddock was mar- keted as "Findon haddock". Later, as a result of popular usage, the name became short- ened to finnan haddie. Finnan haddie is sold in fresh, frozen, and canned forms. Next time you are looking for some- thing new in the way of a hearty snack, try these Scotch Plaid BEAR HUG — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (center) hugs Soviet cosmonauts Maj. Oberman Titiv (left) and Maj. Yuri Gagarin In Red Square during a 31/4 -hour welcome to Moscow for Maj Titov who recently returned to earth after orbiting the globe 17 times, Khrushchev added some somber notes to the festivities by boasting that Soviet scientists had proposed building a bomb with a yield equal to 100 million tons of TNI, a yield 5,000 times as great ors Pie atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Sandwiches. They are delicious, attractive, and economical, SCOTCH( PLAID SANDWICHES Xcan (7 ounces) finnan haddie OR '134 cups peeked flaked - finnan haddie 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion V4 cup mayonnaise 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 4' slices bread I slices Canadian processed cheese Mash finnan haddie well with a . fork. Add chopped onion mayonnaise, and Worcestershire sauce; blend well. Toast bread slices on one side only under the broiler. Spread untoasted side with fish mixture. Cut proces- sed cheese into strips and cross strips over fish in a plaid design, Place under broiler and broil until cheese melts. Serve piping hot. Makes 4 servings, * e * With a package of frozen fish fillets in your freezer, you are covered with just about the fi- nest meal insurance you can buy. Fillets, plus a little imagination, equal some of the tastiest treats to come from the kitchen, A fine example is this recipe for Ocean Club Sandwiches. Bright red tomato wedges tire the ideal garnish for this sandwich plate, OCEAN CLUB SANDWICHES 1 pound fish fillets 1 egg, slightly beaten 1/i teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon water % cup package. dried bread crumbs 18 slices buttered toast 34 cup tartar sauce 2 cups grated Cheddar cheese 18 thinly sliced green pepper rings 6 tomatoes, quartered Thaw and separate frozen fil- lets. Divide into 6 equal por- tions. Combine egg, salt, and water. pip fish in mixture then coat with crumbs. Pan fry in about 1/4 -inch of melted fat or cooking oil, very hot but not smoking. When fish is browned on both sides and flakes easily on testing with a fork, remove from pan and drain on absorbent paper. Place a portion of cooked fish on 6 toast slices. Spread fish with tartar sauce. Cover with 6 other slices of toast. Top each sandwich with 3 cup of grated cheese and 3 green pepper rings. Heat under broiler until cheese melts. Cover with re- maining 6 slices of toast. Fasten layers together with a toothpick at each corner. Slice sandwiches diagonally in quarters. Serve at once, garnished with tomato wedges placed between the quar- ters. Makes 6 servings. Greatest Waterfall Almost Unknown From Upington we continue to th West through a countryside more and more desolate, rocky and scorched. The fences along- side the roadside disappear. It is a wonderful feeling to spin along. these open stretches free. of all signs of human cultivation, At last once more there is an open horizon on all sides. How well I understand the' old no- mads who felt that the plains were too crowded if they could glimpse the fires from another camp. We make a short detour to the south and about thirty kilometers west of Upington the road dwindles into a couple of tracks in the sand. Out here in this corner, where Cape Province borders on South-West Africa in a wild and rocky lanscape, lies one of Africa's natural wonders almost unobserved, This is Aughrabies, the highest and most spectacular waterfall in all Africa. Suddenly the wheel traclgs stop at the edge of a whirling stream. We catch sight of a hut nearby and there find a mulatto shepherd, minding some goats and a few cows, who promises to take us to the waterfall the next morning. It is still so far away that we can neither see nor hear it, and it is impossible to go further by car, So we camp by the stream, one of the Orange River's many tributaries. It Is only when ight has fallen into deep silence 'that we become vaguely aware of hollow thun- der far away. Aughrabies comes from the lilottentit word Aukoe- rebis which means "the place of the noise," and when next morn- ing we wade across the stream after our guide, we can hear that we are drawing near to the place where the noise is coming from, From the south side of the river one cannot get close enough to see the great height of the falls, so we . have chosen the , northern side. But from here we now have to wade two kilometers through strong currents and climb rocks to reach the water- fall. The noise grows stronger, and at last there appears before our eyes an impressive and magnificent view of the giant waterfall, The enormous masses of water 438;000 HOURS -- Bought in a dime store 50 years ago, this cuckoo clock still keeps perfect time — and the cuckoo still pops out. Mrs. Helen, Gore, owner, holds the timepiece. Her father even carried the clock through World War I as a re- minder of home. from the Orange River are first forced into a narrow cleft and from there they tumble over 200 metres down into a deep ravine between steep, nakedrock-faces where the water is whipped' around into violent whirls and throws up spray to the height of a hundred metres. And through the cloud of spray a rainbow gleams. In the ravine below, the water is pounded into waves five or six metres high which fling themselves against the sides and rush on, and an uncanny echo reverberates in the depths. The Aughrabies was discovered in 1824 by a Cape Town mer- chant, George Thomsen, who was on a holiday, It was thus found long before the Victoria Falls. But in this wild and desert region it is so hidden that only a few people have seen it. Indeed, this natural wonder is so little known that ninety per cent of South Africa's inhabitants still think that Africa's greatest Falls are the Victories. But Aughrabies, "the place of the noise," is in- deed the highest and it is also the third largest in the world.— From "Kalahari" by Jens Bjerre, translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister. A budget is a family's attempt to live below its yearnings. ISSUE 34 — 1961 Ourgillar AUor►nnl Hod One WeKilksess Ever since the age of 12, when he first saw an artist at work 1 a shopwindow and. 'bought $19 worth of merchandise to get on of his paintings free, CI, Davi Thompson lies been fascinate. with paintings, Now 02 and wealthy, retired Pittsburgh in- dustrialist, in the past irwenty-five years he has become one of the world's leading collectors eft modern art, and his fifteen -roe home in Pittsburgh's seclude' South Sills ,suburb is a private gallery. The burglar -alarm system ia, the Thompson house is so ingeni- ous that it not only signals police of any intrusion, but locks the intruders in until they arrive, }i4 is considered absolutely burglars proof, Its single weakness is that it muss be turned on. One night last month, Thomp- son and his wife went out to dine with . friends, Although they noti'fted the police that the house would be empty, they for- got to flip the alarm switch. The police Checked the house once, and found nothing amiss; but the sight that greeted the couple's, return was so sickening that Thompson could hardly talk to detectives: Ten modern master- pieces were missing, ripAed, or crudely cut from their frames by obvious amateurs. They included six Pablo Plcassos; two Fernand Legers; a Raoul Duly and .a Joan Miro. Estimated value: Between $300,000 anti $400,000. Reward offered, "no questions asked": $100,000. It was the big- gest art theft in U.S, history. But it wasn't the theft that sickened Thompson .' most. In their clumsy efforts to unframe the pictures, the burglars had ' damaged another Picasso, mutil- ated a Picasso collage, and pun- ched a hole in a canvass. by Henri Matisse, /T3 .3t:NoR T,IME.:A'LA•m,F, Back To School Fashion Hint of Id1ii111 1111g 1 IJi Il li 11111 1111 UlMln 11111, 111,. 1jIlli I III Itl21 III 11 I I fiIIIIIIIA�Ii1:2G, d i::;�i�lll 4 Illilliljp