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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-03-22, Page 3Popovers Popovers are a happy change from the muffins and rolls usually served at luncheons and breakfasts. Strangely enough, however, they bespeak an un- known realm to many a housewife and she hesitates to include them in lier menus. Yet the secret of delicate popovers lies in the simple and easily controlled factor—temperature. The materials—milk, flour, eggs and salt—required to make popovers are always at hand. If an emergencY arises, it's an easy matter to stir up a dozen of these fascinating shells and they are sure to be liked. Woman's World "Popping" Explained When the physical change that takes place during the baking of pop- overs is understood the mystery of their "popping" becomes clear. Milk Contains a large percentage of water and the sudden application of intense Sheat to the popover batter causes the water rapidly to change to steam. Steam is, of course, many times the volume of water and stretches the gluten walls of the flour to their ut- most. This with the help of the egg ' forms the hollow shell of the popover. This explains the necessity of pre- heating both the pans and the oven. Iron or cast aluminum gem pans and glass or earthenware custard cups are suitable for popover haking. The lighter weight gem pans can be used, but the popovers do not always "pop" as they should. You will find popovers au unusually versatile breadstuff. They can be Used as a case for creamed chicken or Leh in place of the usual timbale shell nor patty case. Creamed dried beef served in popovers is a bit more fes- tive than plain dried beef. Used for a dessert with a filling or with a sauce poured over them they reduce the amount of sugar in the menu to an appreciable degree. Popovers piping hot from the oven served with fresh maple syrup make a deliciously sea- sonal early spring dessert. The following rule will make twelve popovers of two-inch iron gen pan size. Two eggs, 1 cup bread flour, 1 scant cup milk, 1-3 teaspoon salt, ?% tea• spoon melted butter. Mix and sift flour and salt. Add milk gradually, beating to make smooth. Beat eggs until light and add to first mixture. Beat with the clover beater for two or three minutes. Heat muffin pans until hissing hot and grease thoroughly. Fill each pan. half full with popover batter and place at once in the hot oven. Bake for 20 minutes at this temperature, then low- er the heat to 350 degrees F. and con- tinue baking for 20 minutes longer. 'urn off heat and let stand in the oven for five minutes. Serve at once. Pre. heat the oven to 450 degrees F. Laplanders are more trouble to make but are very delicate and crisp. Two cups of milk and 2 teaspoons melted butter are used and the whites and yolks of the eggs are beaten sep- arately. The whites are folded in last, • Butterscotch Rice Pudding • ee cup rice, 1% cups evaporated milk, 23 cups water, 2 tablespoons butter, 1% cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, separated, ' teaspoon salt, 1, tea- spoon easpoon vanilla. Wash rice thoroughly. Blend evaporated milk with water . 'Add tluee cups of milk and water mix- ture to rice and cook in. double boiler until rice is tender (about 40 minutes). Melt butter in heavy saucepan. Add one cup brown sugar and stir until it boils but do not let it burn. Add re- maining cup of milk and water, stir- ring until sugar is dissolved. Pour ,slowly over well -beaten egg yolks. Add salt. Combine with hot rice in double boiler. Cook about five min- utes. Remove. from fire and add vanilla. Pour into a buttered baking dish. Cover with meringue made by beating egg whites until stiff and add- ing remaining 3r cup brown sugar gradually. Bake 15 minutes in a slow oven (300 degrees F.) or until mer- ingue is golden brown. Serves eight. The Lowly Cabbage Cabbage has been the most ma- ligned and poorly cooked of any of our Winter vegetables. The ever popular corned beef and cabbage is hardly fit to eat as many people serve it. One average portion of boiled cab- By Mair M. Morgan bage or cole slaw will provide as much vitamin B as a good sized pota- to or four large carrots or four large- sized onions. And then nothing has been mentioned about its valuable mineral contribution to the diet. Cab- bage provides plenty of phosphorus and iron as well as sulphur and mod- erate amounts of other minerals. Raw cabbage is rich in vitamin C, but cooked cabbage loses part of its po- tency in this particular anti -scorbutic vitamin. This is one reason for serv- ing,, raw cabbage frequently in salads, cole slaw and similar dishes. Loss of appetite in children often yields to the added vitamin B pro- vided by the introduction of cabbage dishes In the menu, raw preferably, but cabbage at any rate. How to Cook Cabbage One of the main reasons people say they do not like, or cannot digest cab- bage is because of improper cooking. It is often cooked until it turns pink or dark in color, and if that is the way your cabbage looks when you serve It, you are overcooking it. Properly cooked cabbage should be white or slightly green in color. It should be covered and cooked in plenty of rapid- ly boiling, salted water, for not more than 12 minutes by the clock. Cab- bage cooked in this way is still crisp and fresh looking and will not injure auyone's digestion, provided the' per- son is well and normal. Cabbage thus cooked will be appe- tizing. Make it more so by season- ing with butter or cream, salt and pep- per, and some finely mince: parsley or finely chopped raw carrots. . Before cooking the cabbage, cut it in eighths or in inch thick slices or wedges. This makes it easier to serve. Young o,r new cabbage should be cooked for seven minutes only. Red cabbage requires about 20 minutes for proper cooking. • Cabbage With Parsley Chop 1 head cabbage fine as for cole slaw. Cook in rapidly boiling salted water for 7 minutes (because shredded it cooks more quickly). Drain, season with salt, pepper, 1-3 cup butter and 1-3 cup finely minced parsley. Spanish Cabbage 1 pound- head cabbage, 6 large dry onions, 2 tiny hot red peppers, ?'r cup butter, ye teaspoon chili powder, salt and black pepper. Cut cabbage in quarters and cook till just tender in boiling water with the hot peppers. Boil the onions, sliced thick, for five minutes, then drain the water off. Pour fresh boiling water on them and cools few minutes till ten- der. Lift onions and cabbage out of the liquid and place them together in a baking dish. (Onions may be left whole if preferred). Add salt and pepper and enough of the cabbage liquor to make them quite moist. Dot the butter over them. Dust half tea- spoon chili powder over the vege- tables, cover the pan and bake one half hour in moderate 400 degrees oven. Serve very hot with meat as the vegetable course. Milton Cabbage Shred white cabbage in thin ribbons, pack it into a sauce pan tightly. Just cover it with whole fresh milk, using about three cups of it, and boil till tender, about 15 or 20 minutes, Stir occasionally to prevent scorching of the milk. Shake about 3 tablespoons of flour over each 1% quarts cabbage, let it boil up; add salt and pepper, two tablespoons butter and two table- spoons thick rich cream. Serve hot. This will be slightly creamy and thick- ened. Cabbage Au Gratin Prepare a thin white sauce of one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon flour, one cup milk. Add half a cup grated cheese and salt and pepper to taste. Shred a medium sized head of cabbage and arrange in a baking dish in alternate layers with three hard cooked eggs which have been sliced. Cover with the cheese seasoned white sauce and bake in a moderate oven about :one hour. Sauerkraut Sauerkraut is simply fermented cab- bage. All the vitamins and minerals of cabbage are preserved in the form Ice -Bound! Dorothy Clinton and Doris Crilbley see packs of ice jammed against their Passaic, N. J. home as they survey the scene from their 'porch. Streets of the town were blocked after a six-foot wall of ley water swept through them of sauerkraut, and in addition it con- tains the added value of slight acidity which increases the flow of gatric juice. The fermentation which the cabbage undergoes when becoming sauerkraut produces lactic acid which is one of the most valuable of clean- sers. Sauerkraut and pleasing appetite. Raw "Nest" Salads For fancy service, shredded cabbage makes beautiful salads. Shred the cabbage very line, place it on plates in form of nests, and use whatever other food is desired inside the "nests." The cabbage may be quickly marinated with plain French dressing before being formed into the nests, and should be very cold before using. Prunes stuffed with chopped or grated raw carrots! whole hard -cooked eggs; cream cheese balls dipped in minced parsley or sieved hard -cooked egg yolks; tiny potato balls; French -fried croquettes in form of tiny balls—all of these foods make interesting fillers for the cabbage nests. Dampness Should, your store cupboard be in- clined to dampness, use blotting paper instead of ordinary paper for lining the shelves. This will collect a cer- taro amount of the moisture. When necessary, take the blotting paper out, dry it, and replace. Stumbling Feet Roughen the soles and heels .of a small child's new shoes with a nutmeg grater, and many a fall will be avoid- ed. The Pot Lid To keep lid on a boiling pot, drop a teaspoonful of butter into the water when boiling dry beans or other starchy vegetables to stop annoyance of the lid of the pot jumping off, as it will otherwise do. The butter acts the same as oil on troubled waters and keeps it calm and manageable. If the edges of the saucepan are well but- tered, it also helps. 1,000,000 Idle Acres Reclaimed by Colombia Bogota.—Over 1,000,040 acres of idle land in the hands of private own- ers has been returned to the govern- ment as a result of action by Minister of Industries Francisco J. Chaux, ac- cording to El Espectador. Approximately 760;000 acres of the land had been granted to the owners by government concession while the remainder was government land on which squatters had settled and for which no legal title was held. It is expected that further study of land grants, of which there have been over 7,000, will result is the re- turn to the government of other large areas. The land recovered will be granted to colonists who will make use' of it. A great part of the land in question is op highways and near large centres of consumption. Radios in India Bach of the 600,000 villages in India is to have a commercial radio receiv- ing set, the villagers paying a small fee toward the cost and upkeep. juice has a refreshing taste, which stimulates MUTT AND JE T ---. f3v BUD FISHER SEs^ x Dotiur KNow wHA ' You WOU4.t) 17O tarriAouT M a- NERE WE ARE, OUR: CAR STUCK iN A De'rct' AND - • Strong -Willed Children Present a Real Problem Parents of Such Boys or Girls Must Agree On a Course to Follow and Work It Out We want our children to be ambiti- ous. Nothing is dearer to a mother's heart than to dream of the day when her boy or girl will set up his will against the world and beat it. If she is an observing person she knows that few people succeed through lucky breaks. Also she knows that few get there altogether by brains. It takes fortitude, persever- ance and above all "will" to make a place iu the world. Something asser- tive, shove, push and the determina- tion to get what one wants. But this is a terribly hard thing to get into a child, for it must be encour- aged in childhood if it is to be real, and at the same time make him obedi- ent. Handling the Strong -Willed The chances are that almost every time he wants his own way he isn't allowed to have it. This time it isn't a free and equal fight with other can- didates of his own ability and age, but an unfair balance where his opponents are his parents, older, wiser, stronger, and with the sceptre of authority on their side. So what is to be done? Shall she give in to Bob or Mary when they want to do things she doesn't approve of and enlist her husband to do the same thing, or shall she take a chance and continue to dominate and dictate and see to it that they obey unques- tionably? No Half Measure If all children were alike the answer might be to take a safe middle course, and to do both, encouraging obedience, at the same time being careful not to break spirit. Usually a keen parent can and does work this out pretty well. But the truth is that the very strong-willed child presents a problem and baffles the best of us. He seems to know no half -measure but wants his own way all the time. He doesn't want to compromise or listen to rea- ean. It sems then as though there is just one solution. Let him be his own master, but try to instill in him a strong sense of right and wrong. Let him be controlled, but controlled by himself. Let him be judged, but judged by himself. l3rtt sh Justice is Impartial —A weary week -end spent in bed recovering from a vile attack of die - temper, So I do fall back on an old, old book of wit and humor I did ones have the good fortune to 'win at school, And 1 canoe on this odd story told of Justice Mauls to illustrate the axiom that justice in England is imp partial. He was passing sentience oro a man convicted of bigamy who bad defended himself on the ground that his wife had run away five years be- fore and had married a hawker, since when he had not heard from her and so had married again. But the learned ;edge was not eon), tent with this explanation and achnin-' istered a pretty homily on law. "I will tell you what you ought te have done," he said. "You ought td have instructed your attorney to brim an action against the hawker for damn' ages. That would have oast you aboulli £100. When you had recovered sura% stantial damages against the hawked you should have instructed your proei tor to sue in the ecclesiastical cau�rtf for a divorce 'a nnensa et thoro.' That would have cost you two or three hum dred pounds more. When you had obi tained a divorce `a miens' et thorax you would have had to appear bri counsel before the House of Lords fod a divorce 'a vinsulo inatrimonii.' T bill night have been opposed in its stages by both Houses of Parliae ment; and, altogether, you wouldhavi had to spend about a thousand a twelve hundred pounds. You twill prob( ably tell .me that you never had thousand farthings of your own the world; but, prisoner, that maker no difference. Sitting here as a Bruno ish judge, it is my duty to tell yogi that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and san, other for the poo:." So my week -end in bed not with its compensation, v.lbeit the judgmen was given long before the change the divorce laws of aur Mother Conn try. Modern Homes Call Bring Out Best Usually the strong-willed child is a pretty smart child. He is quick to see justice even as he is quick to resent injustice. Character growth that includes sym- pathy, generosity, truth and service is to be made much of in such a child. The stronger the will the more of the virtues will he need to carry that will to a great end. To thwart the independent boy or girl is absolutely necessary •only when undesirable traits have got a start. What we must guard against in this, however, is in jumping to the conclu- sion that they are no good because they refuse to obey us every minute. Try to so the good in them and bring it out. Be chary of negative orders to avoid argument. And bl.a.ze a trail that parent and child niay follow to- gether rather than against each other. Nurse will and you have ambition backed by real force; break it and you kill both. Parents should agree on a course and work it out together. Most Quoted Newspapers Ottawa Journal has completed a year as leader of Canadian daily news- papers in the matter of quotation by', contemporaries. Editorial or other' matter from The Journal's morning' and evening editions was reproduced and duly credited by other newspapers 1,746 times in the last quarter of 1933. The Globe holds second place, and the Mail and Empire has regain- ed third. As in the previous three months, the twenty-five newspapers standing highest in this compilation made by the Dominion Press Clipping Bureau, Toronto, include seven small- city dailies published in Western On- tario. All of the first ten are On- tario newspapers. There are 101 tabulated and a number of dailies published in provincial capitals and other large cities from coast to coast are found midway, down the list, while many small Onterio newspapers• of local circulation and small ex- change lists achieve much higher standing. (The Sentinel -Review, an excellent paper published in the small city of Woodstock, is high up in the list.) Baltimore Artists Will Rent Pictures Baltimore.—The artists of Balti- more have hung a "for rent" sign on their works and have inaugurated an installment pia for selling their pic- tures. By the former plan, persons enter- taining guests may rent the works of Baltimore winters for a day, Week or month—at a rate agreeable to the artist. The interested artists have formed an organization—it's purpose not to sell the pictures but to get them into circulation. Sisters Named After Three Virtues The county recorder's office in Jefferson, Iowa, recently brought to light the fact that there are three sisters who are named after the three virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith Hillman, Hope Kinsey and Charity Haseltine granted power of attorney to L. C. Joy for purpose of perfecting a corn loan, The sisters are married now and live in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin, respectively, For Flat Roofs New York.—Pitched roofs have n4 place in the new order of home coni struction, and flat roofs, which servi as an evening gathering place for thi families, will supercede them, it was predicted recently. "Pitched roofs had a place in homi architecture in the days when buiideil knew less about construction and in4 terials, but with to -day's knowledge, they are no more necessary than' ail pitched roofs on skyscrapers," sail Mr. Affieck. "Among the objeetioni to fiat roofs in the northern states >! the question of snow. But by building the roof with a watertight slab au# proper drainage the need fon the slop ing roof hae been eliminated. "There is now a definite trend to ward what we call the modern hone( which owes its beauty to its simpliq ity. At the World's Fair in Chieag nearly all of the model homes were 0 flat roof design. "The modern home with a fiat roe offers an apartunity to take advantagl of space that formerly was entirel` wasted or did little good. It is easily possible to install roof gardens at • low cost and to provide space wheii the family may gather at its 1}leasur "The fiat roof fits in ideally wi modern architecture and material Coucrete Homes have been design and built to strike a new note in hon beauty. Simple straight walls wi tricky frills eliminated cut down r Pairs and construction costs." "An Awakening" To think I once saw grocery shops With but a casual eye, And fingered figs and apricots, As one who came to buy. To think I never dreamed of how Bananas sway in rain, And often looked at oranges, And never thought of Spain. And in those wasted years I saw No sail above the tea, For grocery shops were grocery short Not hemispheres, to me. —Melbourne Wilson A pat on the back is just as easy t4 give as a dig in the ribs. Loudspeakers may be divided ro ly into two parts. 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