HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-08-09, Page 7Rocco"n Pie And
Other swell Eats
A 1'11u'gi)1 fi: h cla•1cLtil, ta'
comlranieti by waters male from
the flour of cattail rook. o17i•ned
the dinner. The main coulee lee wtis
a mixed creole of lido, the vette
tables wet e Int (tenni 44'1 nil
spikes, milkweed butts, and itay-
lily buds cooked with tee ter
mushrooms, After muffled wed
ginger and mint heaves, the chef
was toasted by his guests with
dandelion and blackberry wing,
chef Euell Gibbons had earned
the toasts. Ht believes that it is
healthier, cheaper, and more fun
to forage for find than to buy 11
in a supermarket, and the din-
ner party he and his wife ;ewe
in their home in a Glen Mills,
Pa., housing development last
month was proof of the pudding.
The rugged 50 -year-old free -
lame writer had gathered all the
food from nearby streams, ponds,
fields, and roadsides and then
'whipped, up the dinner to vele-
brain publication of his hook. on
wild cookery, "Stalking the Wild
Asparagus,"
Gibbons started poking up
free food as a boy in New .Mex-
ico, when he found his first wild
asparagus he has foraged in
/Hawaii (he is now working on a
new book to be called "The
Beachcomber's Ilandbeok'•), and
he has indoctrinated his wife and
two married sons with the forag-
ing habit, "It is easier to `10
native' in many sections of the
XIS. than in the South Saes," he
says. "1have collected fifteen
species (of wild plants) that
could be used for food on a
vacant lot right in Chicago."
Getting something for nothing
is, of course, a basic human in-
stinct. But hunters and fisher,
men are about the only people
today who indulge the urge at
the primitive. food - gathering
level, Though Gibbons offers
some rare recipes for fauna
(woodchuck in sour cream, race
coon pie, French -fried carp), his
emphasis is on the nation's flora.
Included are such old standbys
of colonial America as elderberry
wine and sassafras tea. Then
there are the plants eaten with
gusto chiefly by other nationali-
ties: Dandelion leaves, relished
by Italians; purslane, the sprawl-
ing weed prized by both the Per-
alans and Indians, and gobo, a
domesticated version of Amer-
ica's common burdock (whose
*Beed roots are often an ingredi-
ant in the Japanese sukiyaki),
Per all the edibles, common and
!,uncommon, Gibbons has found
dome use in a variety of fascinat-
ing new recipes:
Cattail spikes: Cut just before
they break through the papery
Oheath that encloses them. Husk,
boil quickly, smother in melted
butter, and eat like corn on the
eob.
Wisteria blow: Gather wisteria
¢lusters at the height of bloom,
Dip in batter made of 1 cup of
flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tea -
:spoon baking powder, 2 eggs,
and % cup milk. Fry in deep
fat, heated to 375 degrees, about
four minutes. Drain, sprinkle
with orange juice. roll in gran-
ulated suga,r and serve piping
hot.
Probably the book's most mod-
ern adaptation.of an ancient re-
cipe was developed by a Gibbons
eon, "the best forager of all." The
American Indians used to make a
drink rather like pink Lemonade
from red sumac by pounding the
heads in water, As a short cut,
Gibbons' son dumped a basket of
sumac heads into the washing
machine, covered them with wa-
ter, and set the washer to run
ten minutes, then caught the
water in a big kettle as the wash -
€r pumped it out. Strained and
with sugar added to taste, there
it was: Sumac-ade a la automatic
washer, From NEWSWEEK
if you want to know how old
e woman is, ask her sister-in-Iaw
E. W. Howe.
WHiRLY-G(RL Feeling as if she could take oft under her
own power is Mrs. Rosemary Weidinger. She just won her
helicopter pilot's license, making her member No. 41 of the
Whirly-Girls, which is an international organization of qual-
ified women helicopter pilots.
Water From Jordan
For Christenings
More parents are asking that
water from the River Jordan be
used for their babies' Christen-
ings, these days, a British clergy-
men states,
It has been widely believed
for centuries that water from
the Jordan has special qualities
which confer blessings on adults
es well as children who are bap-
tized with it.
The Duke of Kent, Prince Ed-
ward when he was baptized in
1935, was sprinkled with Jordan
water at the gold font in the pri-
vate chapel at Buckingham Pa-
lace.
A friend of Princess Marina,
then Duchess of Kent, had sent
her a bottle full of the water for
the Christening.
Fifty years ago the water was
far more popular than now. In
1910 it was selling in England
for 75, a pint.
Belief in its peculiar spiritual
efficacy is at least as old as the
wars of the Crusades,
Then many pilgrims were
drowned while trying to bathe in
the Jordan during very rough
weather.
A canon once risked his life
by climbing the steeple of a
church in Northamptonshire to
sprinkle a new weather -vane
with water which had been
brought specially for the purpose
from Jordan.
Arabian Sheiks
Cali This Sport
A favorite diversion among
oil -rich Arabian sheiks is hunt-
ing the oryx, a swift, double -
horned antelope that can move
at 25 miles an hour for long dis-
tances without flagging. The
sheiks have often been seen
chasing the oryx across the sands
of the Arabian Peninsula in jeeps
and Cadillacs, shooting them
with automatic rifles and sub-
machine guns. This is considered
great fun. But the Oryx can't
reproduce as fast as hunters
shoot, so only a fee; oryx were
left at last count. The sport is
dying,
A living legend is also dying.
When an oryx is seen from the
side, its straight, 2-foot-Iang
horns appear to blend into one.
This profile apparently helped
create the legend of the unicorn
Wk,LDING WI',I _- Douglas Deeds of San Diego, Calif.,
Welded beer cans into these striking conversation pieces.
—the mythical beast mentioned
in the writings of Aristotle and
Pliny the Elder, and celebrated
since Biblical times for its
fierceness and bravery (male
oryx shield their females and
young freak attack and have
been known to charge headlong
into a threatening car).
The plight of the Oryx -unicorn
has aroused the world's animal
lovers, including Britain's
Prince Philip. "Some Arabs be-
lieve they must prove their
manhood by killing an oryx so
that they will inherit its legen-
dary courage a n d virility,"
Prince Philip said in a recent
New York speech,. "Now this
may have made a little sense
years ago , , , when . , . the odds
were a bit more even, but to-
day, when up to 300 car -borne
parties go out together to get -
brave -quick by mowing down
oryx with Tommy guns, the
whole thing becomes sheer
Idiocy."
Early this year, the Fauna
Preservation Society of London,
with the help of the World
Wildlife Fund, organized project
"Save the Oryx" and dispatched
leathery -faced Ian Grimwood,
chief game warden of Kenya, to
the Aden Protectorate. After a
ten -week hunt with noose and
pole, two male oryx and one
emale were captured, then
lown to a Kenya game farm.
Their benefactors now plan to
move the trio to a suitable en-
vironment such as in the hot,
low-lying New Mexico or Cali-
fornia deserts. Far from the
sheiks of Araby, the oryx herd
of three may increase to respec-
table size within three decades
or so. "Then maybe we can re-
turn some to the Arab lands,"
Grimwood says, "if the Arabs
have seen the light by then."
There was already one good
omen in Kenya last month: The
female, conservationists report-
ed. may be pregnant.
Morley Came
Before Manders
Among photographers and re-
porters in the courtly horse coun-
try of Virginia, a gentlemen's
agreement discourages publicity
about First Lady Jacqueline Ken-
nedy and her family. Yet after
4 -year-old. Caroline Kennedy won
a blue ribbon aboard Macaroni
al a pony shote near Halfway,
Va., The Washington Star ran
the story plus on -scene photo-
graphs of Caroline and her
mother. Story and pictures were
the product of a Star contribu-
tor — admittedly no gentleman
-- named Dolores Phillips, who
also sold a set of pictures to the
Associated Press (for S500), Tell-
ing how she rejected the First
Lady's request that the pictures
be withheld from publication
(Mrs. Kennedy: "Please, you
know how I feel about Caroline
about publicity" Mrs. Phil-
lips: "I feel differently-. I have a
job to dee enterprising news -
woman Phillips said afterward:
"I wouldn't dream of violating
her privacy at Glen Ora But
when she corned out of those
walls, she's anybody's game •'
"When does a boy become a
man?" asks a raeder, When a
woman ran make him believe
anything sire says,
Polities were more popular in
the days when candidates hand-
ed out cigars instead of promises
of Utopia.
"Children need education after
they have left school," says a
headmaster. True, they must
learn that they dost know ev-
erything,
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