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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-05-03, Page 3Popovers Popovers are a happy change from the muffins and rqlls usually served at luncheons and brbakfasts. Strangely enough, however, they bespeak an un- known realm to many a. housewife and she hesitates to include them in her 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. 4P4.11k-11-0-•-•• Woman's World 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, cola 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. "Popping" Explained When the physical change that takes place during the baking of pop- overs is understood the mystery or their "popping" becomes clear. Milk contains a large percentage of water and the sudden application of intense heat 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 lutea 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 an unusually versatile breadstuff. They can be teed as a case for creamed chicken or Ash in place of the usual timbale shell Or patty case. Creamed dried beef eerved in popovers is a bit more fes- tive thau 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, 1/ tea - )moon 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 dower 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 rail:Lutes at this temperature, then low- er the heat to 350 degrees F. and con- tinue 'baking for 20 minutes longer. Turn 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 lend yolks of the eggs are beaten sep- arately, The whites are folded in last. Butterscotch 'Rice Pudding 1/4 cup rice, 1Ve cups evaporated milk, 21/4 cups water, 2 tablespoons 'butter, 11/4 cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, separated, I-42 teaspoon salt, 1/4 tea - Spoon vanilla. Wash riee thoroughly. Blend evaporated milk with water . :Add three 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 live min - Utes. Remove from fire and add :tranilla. Pour into a buttered baking dish. Cover with meringue made by beating egg whites until stiff and add- ing remaining y, cup brown sugar 'gradually. Bake 15 minutes in a slow oven (300 degrees F.) or until neer- 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 mauy people serve it. One average portion of boiled cab - 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 lookwhen 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 anyone'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 o,r 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 or 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, 1/4 cup butter, 1/4 teaspoon chilipowder, salt and black pepper. Cut cribbage 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 cook 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 hat 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 11/4, 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 Cribley 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 icy 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 juice has a refreshing and pleasing taste, which stimulates appetite. Raw "Nest" Salads For fancy service,eshredded cabbage makes beautiful salads. Shred the cabbage very fine, 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 bails—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- tain amount of the moisture. When uecessary, take the blotting paper out, dry it, and replace. • 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 in 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 Stumbling Feet • .1 give in to Bob or Mary when they Roughen the soles and heels of -et -ant to do things,she doesn't approve 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 tha. same as oil on troubled watere 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 1,000,000 acres of of and enlist her husband to do the same thing, ar 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 ,11.1111.01,114 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- son. It sews 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. 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 traita have got a start, What we must guard against in this, however, is in jumping to the conclu- sion that they areno good because they refuse to obey us every minute. Try to se the good in them and bring it out. Be chary of negative orders to avoid argument. And blaze a trail that parent and child may 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 idle land in the hands of private own- contemporaries. Editorial or other 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 750,000 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 in 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 on 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. 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. tho previous three months, the twenty -live newspapers standing highest in this compilation made by the Dominion Press Clipping Bureau, Toronto, include seven email - city dailies published in Western On- tario 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 Ontario 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 instalhnent pia for selling their pic- tures. By .the former plan, persons enter- taining guests may rent the works of Baltimore minters for a day, week or month—at a rate agreeable to the artist. The interested: artists have formed an organization—ibe purpose not to sell the pictures but to get them into circulation. Sisters Named After Three Virtues The County recorder's •office ie. Jefferson, Iowa, recently brought to light the fact that there are three sisters who are named artar the three virtues, lesith, Hope and Charity, Faith Hillman, Hope Kinsey and Char* Haseltine granite/ power of attorney to L. a Joy for purpose of Perfecting a corn loan. The sisters are married now and live in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin, respectively. )3ritish Justce Is impartial weary week -end spent in bed recovering from a vile attack of dis- temper. So I do fall back en an old, old book a wit and humor I did once have the good fortune to 'win at school. And 1 came on this old story told of justice 1Vlaule to illustrate the axiom that justice in England is im- partial, He was passing sentence on a man convicted of bigamy who had defended himself on the ground that his, wife had ran away five years be- fore and had married a hawker, eines' when he had not hearrd from her and Butt the learned uclge was not con) so had married again. bent with this explanation and admiraj istered a pretty homily on law. "I will tell you What you ought ie have done," he said. "You ought td have instructed your attorney to bringi an action against the hawker for cleanel, ages. That would have oast you abouts £100. When you had recovered subt stantial damages against the hawk4) you should have instructed your proca tor to sue in the ecclesiastical ceurt for a divorce 'a manse et thoro.' Thai would have cost you two or three hum.' tired pounds more. When you had ob.), tained a divorce 'a inensa et thero! you would have had to appear 14 counsel before the House of Lords fed a divorcee 'a vinsulo lnatrimmvii.' T bill might have been opposed in its stages by both Houses of Parliae ment; and, altogether, you would havvi had to spend about a thousand of twelve hundred pounds. You twill probe ably tell me that you never had thousand farthings of your own the world; but, prisoner, that make no differerce. Sitting here as a Brib ish judge, it is my duty to tell that this is not a country in. vrhi there is one law for the rich and wr other for the poor." So my week -end in bed not witho its compensation, .albeit the judgmen was given long before the change i the divorce laws of aur Mother Coun try. Modern Homes Call For Flat Roof' New York,—Pitched roofs have ni place in the new order of home cos struction, and flat roofs, which serval as an evening gathering place for th families, will supercede them, it wa predicted recently. "Pitched roofs had a place in howl architecture M the days when buildeil knew less about construction and etis terials, but with to -day's knowledgi they are no more necessary than asi pitched roofs on. skyscrapers," sail Mr. Afilect. "Among the objectioul to flat roofs in the northern states the question of snow. But by buildiN the roof with a watertight, slab an1 proper drainage the need for the slos ing roof has been eliminated. "There is now a definite trend N ward what we call the modern homi, which owes its beauty to its simplii ity. At the World's Fair in Chicag nearly all of the model homes were flat roof design. "The modern home with a flat roe offers an oportunity to take advantagi of space that formerly was entireli wasted or did little good. It is easill Possible to install roof gardeus at 4 low cost and to provide space wheal the faintly may gather at its pleasur "The flat roof fits in ideally wi modern architecture and material Concrete homes have been design and built to strike a new note in ho beauty. Simple straight walls wi tricky frills eliminated cut down a pairs and construction coets." "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 shell Not hemispheres, to me. —Melbourne Wilsene A pat on the back is just as easy 101 give as a dig in the ribs. Loudspeakers may be divided rot ly into two parts. Many of theist o4ttA to be. • MUTT AND lEFF By BUD FISHER KNO; WAii'si" YOU WOOLD DO WrdelOUT M- HERE WE ARE, OUR. 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