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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-03-12, Page 2Pointers On Pies Chocolate Meringue Pie with a flaky, tender crust, is the star of this silent movie. The pie -making Stints illustrated above, from top to bottom, cover the rolling of the chill- ed dough, pinching the edgy together if it cracks; making a double up- right fold of pastry for a fluted rim and fluting it with the fingers; pil- ing a meringue lightly from the edge in, pushing it into each crinkle. Chocolate Meringue Pie Canadians need desserts rich in heat and energy during the snappy, cold days of w.nter and early spring. Chocolate Meringue Pie is one of the most deliciouy of these dess.tts with its geed filling, and perfect pastry. Perfect pastry is the basis of all gond pies and it is easily made by the new method of using a fine cake flour to give a light, flaky crust. One of the first rules in pastry making is to use cold ingredients and handle them lightly. A second important pointe.. is to t se water cautiously. Too many cooks dump the water on the flour and shortening mixture, then have to knead and handle a soggy dough mixture and this is one of the commonest causes of tough pastry. The best way to add water is to sprinkle I teaspoon of cold water over a portion of mixture and toss to- gether lightly with a fork — just enough to make it hold together — then leave it, Add water to another portion and form another damp ball. Continue until all flour is dampened, then wrap slough in waxed paper and chill thoroughly. The finest plain pastry is made from this simple recipe. 2% cups sifted cake flour ih teaspoon salt 2-3 cup cold shortening 1-3 cup cold water (about) Sift flour once, measure, add salt, and sift again. Cut in shortening until pieces are about the size of small peas. Add water, a small amount at a time, mixing lightly with fork, lIandlle as little as pos- sible, Wrap in waxed paper, chill thoroughly. Rolf out on slightly flour- ed board. Bake pastry in hot oven (450 degrecs I'.), Makes enough pastry Tor one 9 -inch two -crust pie, or fifteen 31 inch tart shells. CHOCOLATI MERINGUE PIE 3 squares unsweetened chocolate cut in pieces 23 cups milk , cup sifted cake flour teaspoo.. salt 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 2 tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 baked 9 -inch pie shell 2 egg whites 4 tablespoons sugar Add chocolate to milk and heat in double bo'ler. When chocolate is melted beat with rotary egg beater until blended. Combine anger, flour add salt; and gradually- to chocolate mixture and cook until thickened, stirring constantly; then continue cooking 10 minutes, stirring occasi- onally. Pour small amount of mix- ture over egg yolks, stirring vigor- ously; return to double boiler and cook 2.minutes longer. Remove from boiling water; add butter and vanilla. Cool. Turn into pie shell. Beat egg whites until foamy throughout; add sugar, tablespoons at a time, beat- ing • after each addition until sugar is blended. The continue beating until mixture will stand in peaks. Pile lightly on filling. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 15 minutes, or until delicately browned. Winter Diet In the old days of sailingships 'then men were at sea for months at a time, barrels of sauerkraut were usually part of the ship's stores as a safe- guard against scurvy—that wast:ng disease caused only by lack of fresh vegetables and eating no fresh meat, says Jessie Marie De Both. The ship's cooks, even in those days, knew that a varied diet, with a proper bal- ance between foods, was vital to health. The modern home -maker, with facilities and a range of vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, and fowl, at her command even in mid -winter, which a queen could not have bought with the crown jewels a hundred years ago, is still no differently situated from the queen's chef or the ship's cook when it comes to providing her family with a balanced diet. The modern home -maker must pay even more attention to the subject, because today her family are leading mostly an indoor life. It takes real thought and planning to provide the correct diet for that. The best way is to plan meals for the entire week, building each day progressively from breakfast through dinner, and then linking each day to the next day's meals. There must be some bulk and roughage. A BALANCED OVEN MEAL MENU Stuffed Pork Chops Candied Sweet Potatoes Creamed Cabbage Tomato Salad Date Meringue Pudding STUFFED PORK CHOPS 4 thick pork chops (cut for stuf- fing), 1 cup cooked Tice, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 chapped pitnientos, salt and pepper to taste. Method: Wipe chops, stuff with rice to which the butter, pimiento, and seasoning have been added. Place in a hot skillet and brown on both sides, Cover and reduce heat. Cook an hour. CANDIED SWEET POTATOES Method: Peal the boiled or steamed sweet potatoes and cut them in thick, lengthwise slices. Lay them in a pan which has been rubbed lightly with fat. Dot potatoes with butter, season with salt, pepper and sprinkle thickly with brown sugar. Bake until a rich brown. Stew aver On Exhibition Fair Paintings regarded as the most important and representative of contemporary American art are being displayed at the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Diego, Cal:, Fair. Above. is a photographic reproduc- tion of Gari Melcher's "The Pot Hunters". a little cinnamon before baking, if desired. CREAMED CABBAGE 2 level cups cooked cabbage (cut fine), ?a. cup melted butter, 2 table- spoons flour, IA teaspoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1a,:; cups milk. Method: Add the seasoning to the flour and then all to melted butter. Blend well before adding milk. Cook over low fire stirring constantly until thick—stir in cambbage and reheat. Serve. Note: For a hearty luncheon dish melt a level cup of cheese in the sauce before adding the cabbage. Serve with poached eggs on toast. DATE MERINGUE PUDDING 2 cups cooked cereal, I cup chop- ped dates, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 cups milk, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs. Method: Mix all ingredients except egg white. Pour into buttered bak- ing dish, bake ?f hour. Cover with meringue of beaten white to which 4 tablespoons sugar have been added and brown in oven. THREE-HOUR OVEN DINNER Oven Baked Rice Carrots a la King Show -me -Dessert COTTAGE HAM Method: Rub a Cottage Ham (3- 4% lbs.) with one-fourth cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon mustard; stick sur- face well with cloves. Place in a baking pan and bake at 300 deg. F., 35 minutes to the pound. ,Serve with horseradish sauce. HORSERADISH SAUCE Method: Pare; dice- and cook car - pared horseradish and' 1/s teaspoon salt to 1 cup cream, whipped. OVEN BAKED RICE % cup raw rice, 2 cups boiling water, 1 teaspoon salt. Method Add the washed rice and salt to boiling water. Pour into a casserole or baking dish, bake in oven until flakes of rice are tender and water absorbed. Use cover on dish. CARROTS A LA KING Method: Pare, dice and cook car- rots until tender, Drain. Prepare 1 cup medium :hick white sauce to which has been added 1 teaspoon grated onion, 1 tablespoon each finely diced celery, minced parsley and pimiento. Pour sauce over carrots. "SHOW -ME -DESSERT" 1. cup butter, 11 cup sugar, 2 beaten egg yolks, it cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt, A teaspoon baking powder, 3 ial,,espoons milfl. Method: Mix all ingredients as for cake, Spread in a pie pan. Whip the whites of two eggs --add t.i. cup extra of sugar and heat well; Spread on top of pie, sprinkle same chopped nuts on top. Bake in slow oven 25 minutes. Serve with whipped cream, if desired, Froth January to March is the best time to plant carnation cuttings for the reason that at this period the plants are strong and vigorous. Later on the plants will be weakened by flower production. A great deal of information on the subject may be gleaned Ening the circular on carna- tion culture issued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture: Ottawa. Swagger Shirtrnaker Don't you love this Iittle rig It's the new shirtmaker frock with shoulder yoke and soft bodice ful- ness, Simple to sew! The sleeves cut in one with the bodice. This model is •stunning in cra- vat print silk crepe. It will look so gay 'neath your winter coat, and you can wear it right through the spring. Cotton, linen and tub pastel silks are nice to fashion it for later season wear. Style No, 3487 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 3(1, 38 and 40 -inch bust. Size 16 requires 314 yards of 39 -inch material. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. The Duke of Connaught is winter- ing at Bath, England, and was pre- vented by failing health from mak- ing the trip to London to participate in the strenuous activities of the roy- al funeral. The Duke, 85 -year-old uncle of King George, attended a commemorative service at Bath Ab- bey. LESSON Xl — MARCH 15 Jesus Teaches His Disciples To Pray GOLDEN TEXT — "If we ask any- thing according to his will, he hear. eth us." — 1 John '5:14. TUE LESSON IN I I' i SETTING Time -•--All the events in this chap- ter °teetered in November-i)c:cc•>'uber A.l)„ 29. 1'lac,• — rennet, as in the preced- ing lesson, "And it came to pans, as he wart praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said veto hun, Lord, teach us to pray." They hud no doubt entered into a life of prayer at. the beginning of their fellowship with Jesus, with great earn r'stness and perhups with faith- ful regularity, but, as persecution and misunderstanding arose, as the first thrill of their discipleship passed, and the burdens of their ministry be- came heavier, their prayer life 'rimy easily Have become mechanical. . "And he said auto them." The •fol- lewing prayer has been divided. into two parts. The first has been called "The Purposes of God," the second has been called "The Pilgrimage of blahWh." "en ye pray, say, Father." In the 01d Tc'staanent God is seldom spoken of as Father, and, • then, in reference to the nation Israel, not to the vidual (Deur. 32:0; Isa. 63:16; Jer. 3:4, 19; 31:9; Mal. 1:6; 2:10). Thus the Lord Jesus really gives to men, for their life of fellowship with God, a new name. "Hallowed be thy name." The name" or God expresses ,the character of God. To hallo his nano means to treat as holy, to venerate (1 Pet. 3:15 Isa. 29:23). "Thy kingdom come." The earth is the very centre of God's king- dom. It is here that he had proposed to reveal his glory in the ages to come. Jesus is to be King over all the earth and to sit on the throne of his father David. This is the true and ul- timate meaning of the prayer, "thy kingdom come." "Give us day by day our daily bread." We might translate the first phrase, literally "continue giving to us." The petition includes more than that of the one in Matthew, where, interpreting literally, the petition is for bread "for the coming day." 1n Luke, the petition might be para- phrased: "Continually give us day by day our bread for the coming day. "And forgive us our sins; 'for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us." Some one says. That is not the ground of grace anri that does not belong to us. Let it be remembered that Jesus slid not give that prayer to men outside the King- dom. He gave that to men inside the Iiingclom. If I go to a ratan oniside; steeped In sin, I do not say, If you promise to forgive, you will be for- given. The ratan outside gets his for- giveness with no condition, when he prays, but, once he is in the kingdom he does not get forgiveness unless is ready to forgive, unless he has for- given. "And bring usenet into tempts- ting," Temptation is soinetimes spo- ken of in Scripture as coming front God, sometimes as coming from Sa- tan. God tempts no man to evil, but for gond; he tries and tests. as he tempted Abraham and the children of Israel in the wilderness. Satan tempts unto evil; he tries to infuse evil into the human mind, • "And he said unto them, which of you shall have a friend, anci shall go unto him at midnight, and say to h'm, Friend, lend me three loaves." In the Orient, to avoid heat, travel is ofton engaged in at night. When the•books are opened, it will be discovered that more importunate and prevailing prayer has been offered at midnig%rt than at all the other hours of the day and night taken together'. "For a friend of mine is emu) to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before hint." Even the deepest poverty was not held to excuse the primary Eastern virtue of hospitality. "And he from within shall answer 3 FU MANCHU By Sax Rohner My next recollection was of sitting up, Mayland Smith's arm about me, and Inspector Ryman holding a glass to my lips. My first confused thoughts were of the girl. "Smith," I asked, "did you bring the pigtail with you that we' found on Cadby?" "Yes, Petrie.] hoped to meet The owner --- and I diirf.... "1 handed it back to her after we got up the ladder and you fainted. Disguised, she man- aged to slip away in t h e excitement. 1 owed her your life -- 1 had to square the account...." W.F. ESS and say, 'Trouble hie not," It ;s the trouble that ,he minds, not t>he Vert - Ing with the bread, It is the nioo+l of a man made heartless and seltlr:t by comfort. Comfort able people, we know are apt to• be • hard-hearted. "Tho door'is now shut." The .Rlast- ern doors were not so easily opened as aro, those of our northern hre'afies,' where all ono needs to do' is to twin a key 1:1 the lock incl• take hold of a knob. "And my children are with one in bed; I cannot rise and give iltee." in Oriental homes, frequently ttbe ntombers of entire families •y ebld siren in the srJme mem. "1 say unto you, Though he will, not rise and give him because he iit his friend. yet because of his impoefrun- ity," The English word importttitity conies from. the adjective impoiftlne, which in turn comes from a Latin word meaning unfit, unsuitable, trou- blesome, grievous and hence means the condition of be'ng unseasonable or inopportune and in this case, trou- blesome pertinac'ty in solicitation. • "Ile tivtll• anise and give him as many as he needet.h." Possibly the man's generosity may have •been in- creased by his own conviction that he had. rap to this point, acted moot sel- fii'hly. "And I say unto you." The "I" here is emphatle.• The same voice in the Preceding verse introduces a state- ment based upon the natural roneion, but the voice in this verse introdeces• a stateme4 lased upon the defthlte authority of'the Lord Jesus, who done can make promises to men cuntx;rn- ing•t.he,effectualness of their prayers before theeiheone of grace, ""Ask and it shall be given unto you;"seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you." These three verbs are in the present imperative and mean continue asking. John 1(i:24; Matt. 21:22; Mark 11:24. "For every one that asketh reteiv- eth; and he that seeketh ftndet ; s,ncl to him that knocketh it shall be op- ened." What an experience it is, 'what a more than heavenly joy it is, when the door is at last opened, an') the loaves are handed out. • "And ,of which of you that 1- a fa- ther shall his son ask• a loaf, and le give him a stone? or a fish, and be ler a fieb give hint a serpent? -Or if. he shall ask an .egg, will he give hhn a scorpion." Similar words were i' e en by our Lord in his Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 7:9-11. The appeal of; the Lord. Jesus here is to persc.nal ex- perience. "If ye then, being evil, imps, Low to give good gifts unto your ehilcttpn, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that asic him?" It is evident, that none of the disciples, with the pos- sible exception of Mary of Bethany, asked for the Spirit in the faith of this promise. It was a new and stag- gering thing to a Jew, that, in advance of the fulfillment: of Joel 2:23, 29, all might receive the Spirit. To go back to the promise of Luke .1:.13 is to forget Pentecost, and to ignore the truth that now every believer has the. indwelling Spirit (Rom. 5:9, 15 1 Corn 6:19; Galatians 4:6; 1 John 2.20 and 21). Wealthy, Young People Should Have to We& "The day will come when young people who have incomes from es- tates Will be required to work, be- cause, unless they do, their •indolence pauses unsatisfactory mental vibra- tions. "This is shown when the yc.ong people commit suicide or indulge in excesses which are detr'mental to themselves and those around them." This opinon was expressed by T. W. Read, in a paper on "The Psych- ology of the human in Indastry," which he delivered to members• of the Industrial Transport Association in London. • Fate of Fu Manchu? B-30 4 ioii i19 Sax nn inspector Rymen had lent me a reefer, and he and Smith w re helping me info a cab when another question de- manded an answer of my bewildered senses. "Fu Manchu? Did he gat away, ...'" - 'There was some door at the back, ..' "' Smith re shed slowly. "No one has seen him...." "Do you thick he may...." "No,' Smith rasped, "Not until I see him lying dead l>ss. fore me shall I believe ill"