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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-10-12, Page 7Beun.liole Beans Are Just Plain Beans Why People do things contin- ues to puzzle people, and this brings us to the subject of bean - bele beans, which are enjoying an astonishing renewal In Maine and elsewhere, This bids es pause and ponder. The bean -hole bean is just a baked bean, and offers no partieular excellence you can't get more easily in some less tedious fashion, But all at once people seem to be baking bean - hole beans with new vigor and enthusiasm, I suppose we would look ask- anee at some lady who, equipped with modern laundry, insisted on pushing a wheelbarrow of dirty clothes to a brook and pounding shirts with a board. But we ac- cept the odd activities of the Patio Cook who leaves a fine range in his kitchen and goes out on the back lawn to burn frank- furters on a wire rack. Me, I sense a big difference between that and the kind of orderly home -cooking we do on a camp- ing trip when we are miles in the wilderness and make -do. Our outdoor cooking attempts to achieve on our primitive equipment what we might do if we had a stove with us, Thus, if we were on a wild mountain somewhere, and wanted some - baked beans, we would dig a hole, gather some rocks, and be- gin the long, drawn-out program of bean -holing with the idea of having, come supper, something like what we would have if we were home. The point may be worth extended analysis: The baked bean had a humble origin. Historically he was asso- ciated with near -famine and the stringency of Puritan days, He thus suffers by comparison and has a rude and unenviable con- text which he does not truly de- serve, The long faces of meditative piety with which our early set- tlers are always depicted have a willy-nilly connotation of die- tary monotony, That their larder was limited in both quantity and variety is remembered by the scholar while more stalwart nu- ances are neglected, Much of this becomes the tradition of beans, although I may have stated the thing badly. I think we have at national ambition to eat some- thing better than beans, born of our pioneer reliance on same and our great belief in progress. I think to some extent, how- ever, the bean -legend about Sun- day cooking can be discarded, We have been told that Satur- day aturday baking of beans was to set up a Iaborless Sabbath, and it is a pretty tale and perhaps so. But beans are an item that are best baked in concert, and the labor of preparing a pot in bygone times made it wise to do a lot at once. Beans baked on Saturday could sustain the body on a laborless Sunday, but this doesn't take into account that beans -baked on a Saturday are better on a Sunday, anyway, and also on a Monday, and continue to get better right up to a Wednes- day, when they should be used up. The early folks, if this had been their reasoning, might have continued several days before lifting a finger. So, I think a bean -hole bean baked specifical- ly for Sunday, if that had been the intent, would often have been baked on a Thursday, and thus the whole pretty notion ex- plodes. Apart from that, however, baking beans presupposes a bean pot, and this created a problem. The open hearth on which the settlers cooked offer- ed no way to handle such a pot for baking purposes. They could use a reflector and make pies and cakes and bread, but the pot of beans was too big, and need- ed too long a fire. The answer was a bean -hole. A hole in the ground was lined BEAR FACTS - This bruin stop- ped to talk to a friend, but discovered that it was only a sign. He, however, would be quick to agree that forest fires are dangerous and a menace to his way of life, Smokey turn-, ed out to be a better friend than he thought. United Nations Agenda is Long and Crucial.... sERiN This teem Pettit el test -West strussalscoiddbesoma most important U.N. test. ,ii,• RED CHINA Perennial question of slating Communist regime grows hotter.. moots et-vistsu :les !iiGl,: THE POMO' Ruuta'e secewelof tasting gives new urgency to rector tent ban and disarmament. GAZA U.N. cease-fire troops still patrol Nis battle. raued between Israel and Egypt, LAOS East-West seek accord on future of thie jungle land. 'SOUTH VIET NAM Bloodshed continues as gorernmutt fights attacks by guerrilla from Communist North Viet Nam.; BIZERTE Tunisia wants French withdrawal. ALGERIA Violence still punctuates negotiationsbetwaee Franc and Algerian rebels. 'KASHMIR Indian -Pakistani claims to territory Contain .germ of war. Newsmap WEST NEW GUINEA Netkerlandi, Indonelio both - lay claim to this territory. ANGOLA Portugal b under tire for bloody suppression of rebels, seeking independence. AGONIZING AGENDA -Opening of the 16th session of the United Nations General Assembly finds.no less than 77 pressing international problems on the agenda. News - map lists 12 of the more important ones, some new and is not offfie a ly on the agenda itis expected o dominate THE CONGO U.N. central grows, but 'situation remains unstable 011i ':,.; discussions in the assembly. The question of admission of Red China may be one of the most fiercely fought over issues. Russiu's attempt last year to turn the office of Secretary-General into a three -headed affair may be side. tracked this session, but almost any minor issue -such al seating new members -could erupt into a major crisis. With selected round rocks and a fire was kept burning in the hole until the rocks, were hot, Then a pot of beans would be set in and covered with earth, precautions being s b Ing taken that no dirt sifted into the top. Then the pot of beans would derive heat from the rocks and would con- tinue to bake for a couple of days or more. But, when an oven of any kind became available to the pioneer woman, she naturally gave up this outdoor, bother- some, primitive bean -hole. Some of the first ovens were stone, such as Quebec folks still use to make bread for tourists; and then they got the brick ovens that were built into chimneys. The principle of these was exacts ly like the bean -hole's - a fire that heated things up, and bak- ing with the residual heat, The difference was the convenience of being above ground, or in the house. Next came iron foundries and stoves with ovens and con- trolled heat. Woman undoubted- ly hove a sigh of relief and con-, 8idered her burden greatly light- ened. Never again would she have to go out and use a make- shift hole in the ground. So, emancipated, why do peo- ple now go out back and dig a hole and haul rocks and bake bean -hole beans? My guess is that we are in a left-handed re- discovery of the art of cooking, and we are fumbling somehow with the great truth that food has glamour and its preparation is an art. We have been led astray by the grocer, who told us food should be quick and un- complicated, much as a litho- . graphed reproduction on a cal- endar offers us the talent and skill' of a great artist, but not exactly. Somehow, baking bean - hole beans lets us reach back and grasp the spirit of cookery. Because of the way things have trended, what once was drudgery and make -do becomes something ofa miracle -who would even suppose that a great, wonderful supper could be brought up from a simple excavation on the ground? The great lesson from this, perhaps, is that you must never• discount the reactions. of man- kind, Just as the space age bursts upon us, and we are about to project into a new era of amazement a n d wonder, everybody starts baking bean - hole beansagain,This doesn't prove anything, perhaps, except that humans are wonderful peo- ple. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. ROZ'S SECRET At an age (49) when most women are ready to loosen the stays and let down a little, hy- peractive Rosalind Russell, whose energetic singing and dancing galvanized the Broad- way musical "Wonderful Town" in 1953, is busily making three movies in a single year ("Ma- jority of One," "Five Finger Exercise," "Gypsy") while run - nine the household for her hus- band, producer Fred Brisson, and 18 -year-old son, Lance, The way to keep the pace? "By ris- ing a half hour before I normal- ly Would," she said, In fact, Roz went on, "sleep is highly over- rated." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Tllhii'ARN FRONT Jokuumeit.. What happens to a highly selected flock of laying birds when selection ceases? ' A, P. Piloski, of the Canada Department of Agriculture, re- ports that fewer eggs were pro- duced but the eggs were larger and the shells thicker. ' This was one of the changes observed when two strains of highly selected White Leghorns were bred without selection for five generations. Albumen qual- ity remained unchanged but the number of eggs dropped rapidly at first and egg size and shell thickness increased with each succeeding generation. The occurrence of blood and meat spots varied in the two strains, these being peculiarities which are not influenced • by selection for egg production, said Mr, Piloski. * * A commercial producer with a flock of specialized laying hens should get a feed conver- sion ratio of at least five pounds per dozen eggs when using an all -mesh feed program. This was the conclusion reach- ed by CDA economists after tabulating results of independent tests by breeders and feed com- panies and CDA poultry feed experts. An examination was also made of previous relevant sur- veys 'in Canada and the United States. From these data it ap- peared that feed constituted about 65 per cent of total cost of. production for an enterprise of more than 1,000 birds, and approximately 50 per cent of the total cost for is smaller enterprise, „ 4 a Court Action by Canada De- partment of Agriculture live- stock officers to uphold the beef grading regulations was recently successful in Toronto. Magistrate Hugh D. Foster imposed fines of $400 each on Globe Meat Packers Ltd. of Tecumseh Street, Toronto and two of its officers, Leon Diener, 62, and Aizek Triebicz, 53, for selling, offering for sale or possessing for sale an agricul- tural product under a grade name that did not meet the requirements of the Act for that grade. Ace ing to evidence, a num- ber of s and a carcass were found to ave been illegally re - stamped from one grade to a higher grade in November, 1960. The official grade marks had been stamped over or partially removed. s „ „ The leaf -roll virus may pos- sibly be spread by aphids that overwinter on stored potatoes, states N. M. Parks, a potato specialist with the Genetics and plant Breeding Institute, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Last spring a severe infesta- tion of aphids was found on small sprouts in a batch of potato tubers stored at 40 degrees F. in Ottawa over the winter. „ t, e Three weeks before planting they were placed in shallow trays in lighted storage at 70 degrees F. for green sprouting. When the sprouts were one-half inch long they were found to be infested with both winged and wingless forms of the aphid Myzus P ersicae, y These aphids, Mr. Parks points out, are known to spread the leaf -roll virus. Outdoors they nosy Lecome infected from diszsacd sprouts and, in storage, from the sprouts of infected tu- bers. e • „ Producers of certified found- ation seed potatoes, he warns, should keep a close watch for aphids in their storage rooms. Aphids may enter the storage with the potatoes whenharvest- ed and remain dormant all winter. Winged aphids can enter the storage when it is opened in the spring. Because aphids can enter the storage on other vegetables, Mr. Parks does not recommend use of the potato storage as a com- mon storage. He also believes it is important to clean the storage thoroughly during the off-season so that no vegetable matter remains. Fragrance From Your Windowsill Among flowering bulbs there are several of the more un- usual kinds that can be grown indoors for winter flowering, or planted outdoors in frost - free locations. Window -sill gar- deners can add interest and fra- grance to their potted plants by including some of these lovely flowering bulbs. Best known, of course; is the polyanthus narcissus, which can be grown in soil or among peb- bles in water. The Paper White Grandiflora is very fragrant, bearing clusters of dainty flow- ers at the tip of each stem. There is also a yellow variety a bit less hardy. Allow about six weeks from planting to blooming. Keep them away from the light ' at first' until roots have had a chance to grow. Planting a few more at intervals keeps these flowers coming into blooril from November into February" Big amaryllis blooms among one's house plants are a drama- tic addition to the indoor gar- den, The Giant American hy- brids are of immense size on strong stalks, several n a stalk. o They 'come in scarlet, crimson, bright red, and rose, or with red and crimson markings on white. Another variety is called the South African (although orig- inally all were from South Africa). It is an earlier bloomer, equally handsome. Bulbs are big, and should be planted one to a pot, a Ohird out of the soil. After blooming, they put out leaves and should be watered and fed until the bulb ripens. Oxalis makes lovely hanging baskets. Plant six to eight of the little bulbs to a six-inch container, in sandy, loamy soil, covered with about an inch of soil. Keep close to the light to prevent spindly foligae. Bermu- da Buttercup is bright yellow, Bowiei a deep pink. The dwarf Grand Duchess is available in lavender, pink, and white, writes Millicent Taylor in the Christian Science Monitor, Freesias are deliciously fra- grant, filling a whole room with perfume , and of the daintiest form. They will flower from January onward in the house. A six-inch pot will hold about a dozen little bulbs, set upright about two inches apart and barely covered with good, fi- brous, sandy loam. The Teco- lote Hybrids are blue, pink, red, rose, white, yellow, lavender, and purple. Ixias are seldom grown but not a bit difficult. They, too, are of several' colors, dainty, about a foot high, with con- trasting centers. Plant them three inches deep, four to six inches apart. African Corn Lily is their other name. Sparaxias are somewhat similar and very popular for outdoor planting in Southern gardens. White and yellow Callas, anemone, ranunculus, and the spring -flowering Dutah bulbs usually planted outdoors in Northern gardens at this season can also be raised indoors as pot plants. Try crocuses, grape hy- acinths, or scillas. Forcing the Dutch bulbs for indoor blooming during the winter includes early planting and a period of dark and cold. Burying the pots under leaves outdoors until January or so is often done in the North. Large hyacinth bulbs also can be grown in special hya- cinth glasses. Lilyof-the-valley bulbs specially bred for raising indoors will come into bloom planted in bulb fiber. WY sc11oo1 JJCSSON By Rev, R. Baralay Warren. B,A., B,D, Bow Christians Grow Philippians 3:8-17 Memory Selection: I press to- ward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14, We cannot grow into the king- dom of God; we must be born into it, Jesus made this clear in his talk with Nicodemus. John, chapter 3. But having come into the kingdom by the new birth it is essential that we grow. Paul lamented the slow growth of the Christians in Corinth. He said, "And I, bre- thern, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to. bear it, neither yet now are ye able, For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divi- sions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" 1 Corinthians 3:3. How often in church cir- cles the same situation exists today. I heard of a place where they were redecorating the church. Three different groups of the members wanted three different shades of green paint. They concluded by using all three, Sometimes when an in- dividual or a group insists that a thing should be done a certain way, the real question is, not so much which is the better way to do it, but who is going to have it his way. Personal pride has done a lot of damage. Our lesson shows how Paul grew as a Christian. He was made conformable to Christ's death. He died to self and be- came alive to Christ. He count- ed all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord. He re- nounced his own righteousness which was of the law and revel- led in that which is of God through faith in Christ. He was completely surrendered to Christ. And this was no mere passive surrender. He put ev- erything he had into the endeav- our to fill the purpose which God had for him. Like an athelete he , was on the stretch for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Christ was all to him. Nothing else mattered but to be more' like Him and to carry out His will. This is the happy Christian life; when we are completely sold out for Christ. Q. When eating a soft -fried egg, is it all right to put a small piece of bread on the end of the fork and use this to dip up the yolk? A. This is quite all right. ISSUE 40 - 1961. ss shore inland 234, stapmmer CROSSWORD 5. Frei7. es, 29.'Sitlo in 8. Fruit 09. Title 8. Procession, 41. Covered with PUZZLE 10. Mean baked clay 11. Rainy 43. Frolic 19. Cohateliation 44. Try. 21. Tennis stroke 45, tinglish ACROSS 1, To speed 4. Lawful 9. Handle roughly 12. Tavern 13. staring open-mouthed 14 Thorough- fare lab.) 16 Rind of huov 30. Indian fetish 17 Steep 20. Regale 22. Pr the sun 22 Pressed sato ranks 50 Pertaining to a a knot 29 Airier 29 African monkey 30. Roy 38. Roof edge. 35, Stitch 30. Eons 84, Chaire 40 Metal fastener 42 Water gates 40. Bracing 43. Rubbish 49 Anchor tackle 60. Restrict 53, Gr. letter 64 Shoshonean Indian 66 Musical. study 60. Spike of corn 57. Couch 50. Discourage 59, Gypsy gentleman DOWN 23. Epochs county 1. Allusion. 24. Plunges Into 47. Cuote 2. Barden water 49. Young 3. Come in 20. Regulation reporter 4. Framework 28. Allot 51. Worthleno of stripe 30. Gibbon dog 5. Self 31. Ferman 52 Cyprinold 8. Channel from 92. Faithfu fish MMAOMMAIMANAMM MINIUMMEMMOMME MINIMMOMMINEMM WINEWNSINWMANME MEMMEMIUMWMOM ®®®W©■■■UMIUMWME EMMOMMREWM OM a W■■ ` M mow ■■ imma mon mg imam ■■® s Answer elsewhere on this page crazeseems goingto ridiculouslengths, the or lock FOR SMALL FIRES - The compact to be i g thereof, Actually, however, 'this miniature fire truck (No. 'A) was built so that it is exactly one-third the size of the 100 -foot big brother behind, by the city of Miami, Fla. It will make a planned 6,500 -mile trip across country, s'cpping off at some 31 cities so that the Miami craw can •demonstrate the amazing ve:licle, e