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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-07-18, Page 3By Mair M. Morgan ,CHAMPION COOKS USE ONLY FINE 1NGREDIENTS Flavor and Texture Most Important in Prize Winning Just now when fresh ripe fruit is coming on the market, ambitious eooks are. making up their jars of fruit for winter use and for exhibi- tione and contests. About half the battle in really good cooking is in knowing what the finished product should be like — to recognize per- fection. Champion cooks have found that flavor and texture are most import- ant. In judging jelly, for instance, 75 out of 100 is given for flavor and texture. This flavor is, of course, the zestful tang of the fresh, fully -ripe fruit and jelly of perfect texture holds its shape when turned out of a glass, yet quivers when the plate ton which it rests, is moved. . Many cooks will produce a jelly that sets, but which slumps with a weary lurch when it is turned out of the jar. An even greater number of cooks never achieve a really flavor - Some jelly. Year after year they boil under -ripe fruit and sugar for a long time to concentrate enough pectin to get a 'jelly, and while under -ripe fruit has more pectin than the better quality ripened fruit, it hasn't the fine flavir of the ripe product, and whatever flavor it has deteriorates in the long cooking. Of all the gorgeous Canadian fruits of which much flavor is -sacri- ficed in jelly -making, red currants top the list. This is because under - ripe cuarants are used. Modern cooking methods haus eliminated that waste of fine red ).currant flavor by the addition of ism. fruit pectin to give a -jelly of perfect flavor and texture. Recipes for use with concentrated liquid pectin are simple ant! economical and the first rule is to follow them accurately. I-Iundreds of cooks have taken first prize for both black and redcurrant jelly made from the following re- cipe: Red or Black Currant Jelly. 5 cups (21,6 lbs.) juice 7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar 3A cup bottled fruit pectin With black currants. crush about 3 pounds fully ripe fruit; add 3 cups water.. With red....currantsi crush about 4 pounds fully rilf6.!3ruit; a dd 1 cup water. To prepare juice, bring mixture to a boil, cover, and simmer 10 minutes. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure sugar and juice into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a .boil over hottest fire and at once add pectin, stirring constantly.'; Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1/2 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly: Paraffin at once. ;iVlalkes 11 six -ounce jars. sugar as can be dissolved in it with- out thickening. This makes an ex- cellent salad for a children's party, for it contains nothing except the foods children like, and is strongly alkaline in its reaction. SCALLOPED POTATOES Into a well -buttered baking dish put a layer of thinly sliced potatoes, salt, pepper and a thin scattering of finely cat cheese and, one-half the thin white sauce (1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon butter, to 1 cup milk). Repeat and cover with buttered crumbs, Bake in moderate oven about an hour, until the white sauce bub les through and the potatoes are well done andbrownon top. If cheese is omitted, add small pieces of but- ter to each layer of potatoes. In order to save time of making cream sauce, a small amount of dry flour can be sprinkled over layers of potato, and milk added to cover the potatoes. GARNISHED PLATTER Cold boiled ham, . French friend potatoes, green peas and a slice of tomato make an excellent platter for supper. Place the tomato on a crisp leaf of lettuce and surround it with a trio of pickles—an onion, a piece of cauliflower and a small whole cucumber—and you will make the platter far more attractive. Further- more, you will have added to its piquancy and to its food value. TASTY MACARONI DISHES Do you want something "different" for the family—something that will "just touch the spot" at the evening meal? Then try one of these tasty, Y.ealthful, easy -to -prepare macaroni dishes. Either recipe is very easy to follow, and the result is very easy to enjoy: Macaroni With Tomato Sauce Break the macaroni into short lengths. Cover with plenty of boiling water and boil until soft, . twenty to thirty minutes generally being re- quired. Stir occasionally with a fork to prevent sticking to the kettle. Turn into a sieve 'and drain thoro- ughly. Place in the serving -dish and cover with tomato sauce. Serve grated; cheese with it. This cheese may be milted with the tomato sauce. Bak :Macar.Qluil.,• . ith : Cheese, 2 cups macaron1, broken -TM" short lelas 1/L pound grated cheese 2 tablespoons butter 134 cups milk Salt and pepper Boil and drain the macaroni as directed in the preceding recipe. Ar- range a layer in the bottom of a pud- ding -dish. Over it sprinkle some of the cheese and scatter over this bits of • butter. Add a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Fill the dish in this order, having macaroni on top, well oiled with butter, but without cheese. Add' milk enough to just cover well and bake until a golden brown hue, one-half hour usually being suf- ficient. Serve in the dish in which it was baked. ASPARAGUS DISHES Scrambled Eggs With Asparagus Cut asparagus into one inch lengths. Cook in salted water 15 minutes. For 3 cupfuls of asparagus allow 4 eggs. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a double boiler, aer teaspoon well nd a little pepper peep and the beat- en eggs. Stir gently over boiling water until eggs begin to thicken. Add drained asparagus. Cook until thickened but not dry. Serve hot on toast. Serves 4. Save water in which asparagus is cooked to make: Economy Soup To one cup of asparagus liquid add 14,, cup cold mashed potatoes, and cook together five minutes then rub HOUSEHOLD USES FOR SALT At this time of the year garden- ing is the favourite outdoor sport of Many families. A little salt goes a long way in the successful cultivat- ion of a flower or vegetable garden. It does any ;garden good to give it very light applications of salt, about nce ounce for every square yard. Such yegetables as beets, asparagus and onions, and flowering plants Ouch as sabbatia, grow better for a Minch of salt. SUMMER HODGE PODGE Cut up a liberal supply of any fruits and berries you have on hand, mixing then- as you would for a fruit cup or punch. Oranges, apples, pineapples, grapes, cherries, peaches, ears, plums, strawberries, rasp- berries—all are goo , and there Should be at least . three or four varieties used. Cook, place on crisp lettuce leaves, and just before serv- ing, sprinkle liberally with a sauce Consisting of two parts orange juice, one part lemon juice, and as much Versatile Comedian After being laughed at by theworld at large, Harry Langdon, screen and stage comedian, s • having a little fun of his own since putting his latent ' don stbrushaattributes to hery seems to be protesting against, Nancy Carroll the chubby cheeks n g ---- CUNDAYCy00ESSON • LESSON III . ed as a sceptre, and was the symbol of royalty. The king held it in his hand when he sat in council (22:6), or in his house (19:9); it was kept by his side when he sat at table (20:33); stuck in the ground by his pillow as he slept in camp (26:7).— A. F. Fitzpatrick. "And Abner and the people lay round about him. "Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time." A natural desire, on the part of Abishai, in such a time of pur- suit, and with the odds s'r greatly in favor of Saul. "And David said to Abishai, De- stroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless ?" The divine provi- dence thus gives David opportunity not to slay his enemy, but rather to conquer hint by a new kindness. "And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him." As anointed Saul was God's property. Therefore only God's hand could tauch his life. "Or his day shall come to die;" i.e., he may die a na- tural death. "Or he shall go down in- to battle, and perish.". "Jehovah forbid that 1 should put forth my hand against Jehovah's an- ointed." nointed" The grace we specially Com- -, ,sG1s, ni n Ben era ed through unwillingness to wait for God's time! DAVID (THE GREAT HEAR 1 Samuel 26:5 12; 2 Samuel 27. GOLDEN TEXT. -- Not 1dking, each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. Phillippians 2:4. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING TIME. — David was born in 1092 B.C., and died at the age of seventy, in 1022 B.C. The passage in I -amu el falls probably about 1068 B.C., B.C., when the time of Saul's` `death was about 1063 B.C. PLACE. — The life of David is identified at various periods with a great many places in Palestine. His second sparing of Saul took place at Hachilah, about 20 miles north of Jerusalem. The report of Sail's death comes to him while he is at the city of Zizlag, the exact identifica- tion of which is not known. "And David arose." He was hiding in the wilderness of Ziph. "And came to the place where Saul had decamp- ed; and David beheld the r• place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his shots:" See I Sam. 14:50, 51; 20:25; 2 Sant. chaps 2, 3. "And Saul lay within' the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him." "Then answered David and,said to Uriah was also aa.,, ed elsewhere tie. "And tQ Abs aY the104 Zeruiah, brother _Joan' sa mg.' The first mention of David's valiant but hard-hearted nephews, the sons of his sister Zeruiah, who play such an important part in his history. "Whoo warp?,a0And Abishaiwn with me to Saul sad, I to the camp will go down with thee." "So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head." The spear serv- Athimetaera= c-zsjw ,ept1o,11 FU MANCHU "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!" (Ps. 42:5, 11; 43:6; 107:8, 15, 21, 31). "Jonathan is slain upon thy high places." The hero of a hundred fights, slain at last in those mountain strongholds of his country which he had once won and defended so successfully (1 Sam. 14). "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan, very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." This may be supposed to include both the love of the bride for her husband and the love of the mother for her son. They that love one another perfectly are made one soul by their disposition of mind. "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" The weapons of war are the heroes of war considered as instruments of battle. Not only is there in David's lament no revengeful feeling at the death of 'his persecutor ... but he dwells with unmixed love on the brighter recollections of the departed. through a sieve. Melt one teaspoon' of butter in the saucepan, add one teaspoonful of flour and blend well. Add strained ' liquid Stir 1 until smooth. Add one cup milk and stir. until hot. This quantity serves four. Asparagus Rarebit This is an excellent method of us- ing left over asparagus. 1 tablespoon butter 1/8 cup milk 1 tablespoon tomato catsup 2 cups cookeu asparagus cut in pieces 1 tablespoon flour 1 cup grated cheese 1/e teaspoon salt Melt butter in a double boiler. Add flour. When blended add inilk slog!- ly, stile until thickened — stirring constantly; add cheese, catsup, salt, and asparagus. When cheese is melt- ed, serve on toast squares; Serves four. crimes, ave "So David took the spear and the curse of water from Saul's head; and then gat them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake." A most vivid sentence. "For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them" The word is used es- pecially of supernaturally caused sleep (e.g„ Gen. 2:21, 15:12). "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives." Perhaps rather, loving and kindly. The words express the mutual affection which existed between father and son. f'And in their death they were not divided." • What gentler veil could be drawn over the horrors of their bloody death and mutilated bodies than in these tender words? "They were swifter than eagles." Cf. Jer. 4:13; Hab. 1:8. "They were stronger than lions" Cf. 17:10; Judg. 14:18. It's Smart ! "Ye daughters of Israel, in eepa le- er Saul, who clothed yp delicately." As the women took the lead in public festivities on joyful oc- casions, so it was they who remem- bered the fallen h when ornaments vas of n.curning. "Who put gold upon your apparel." This inci- dental, mention indicates how much Saul's sucessful wars, so briefly al- luded to in the history of his reign (1 Sang. 14:47), had enriched the na- tion. Style No. $056 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 1S years, 36, 35 and 4Q=inches bust. Size 15 requires ' yards of 89 -inch 4, 4044 with % yard of 35 -inch contrasting f0 ' dress; and 11/4 yards of material for jacket,. I+IiIENU7,Y ENEwa The. terrible capacity for destruct., iveness which the white ant possess,; es was recently again illustrated af, Darwin, Northern Australia. Short. circuits had constantly severed the% telephone service, and it was found that white ants had eaten through' cement, an inch thickness of earth» enware, a thick coating of vasclinei and arsenic, a quarter -inch lean cable and the insulation of the tele- phone wires! Yet in Burma this very destruct iveness is turned to account. Sandal- wood is one of the country's most precious assets, but the hard and fragrant' heart wood alone has value, As the tree grows, the valuable heart is overlaid by a soft and worth- less layer, forming eventually two- thirds of the trunk. It is here the the white ant comes to man's aid. When the tree is fell- ed and cut into lengths it is allowed to lie, and at once the ants get busy on the soft wood, which is sappy and sweet enough to attract them first. In a few weeks they deliver the heart free of all the worthless sap wood. Solilogiaay of a Civil Servant John Macomish in the New States- man and Nation (London) Seven' years have I, seven years have I sat Have sank my roots and gloried and grown fat Weaving j',he Governmental ara- besque At this desk, this my square and basic desk. I have ravelled out here with my dexterous hands The touch rebellion of entangled: :,trands; And the strands fall in line and in-, tertwine, All cross -connected, regulated, fine. Words, words my instruments what, can I not do, Deft scalpels, tweeters, what note do with you? Seven years have taught my dex-) terous hands to soothe Your aimless rout, and chisel you\ skin -smooth; You are my controlling supple). constables, My sensitive tentacles, nay spiky quills, My nimble penetrative X-rays) hurled Between the bustling atoms of the) Today's pattern will provide a basis for many variations. First, there's the original plan --pink linen with coral trim and coral jacket. Should you desire something very summery and dainty, then make the dress and jacket of some sheer cotton print. Again the dress is jaunty with- out the jacket carried out in plaided gingham, checked seer- sucker, striped shirting cotton, etc. By Sax Rohner f A sibilant breath from Smith toih me that he, fr'o'm' his post, could see the cause, of the shadow, which became station$ry. , It was the dacoit. who ope iatod the Zayat Kiss.He was studying the•inierior of the room'..., ,9 Fri:, .41 - Or you are troops m^•, oobolizzedd at thisr T Or 'Or 731 i balloons I float off into space, Fine liveried heralds whose lungs+ I inflate With the breath of a Secretary of State. I tilt my chair the sight. I will not topple ped in tight. The pattern will this fine Intricate elegant mine. back and admire down, I am strap - not topple down, safe pattern, of, Duchess Of York Makes Her First Airplane Flight London. — The Duchess of York made her first airplane flight recently: when with the Duke she took off for Brussels in a commercial plane from Hendon Airdrome. The Duke and Duchess of York flew to attend the Belgian Inter- national Exhibition as guests of the King and Queen at the Belgians. A squadron of air force fighting planes escorted the royal ship across the channel, 3 THE ZYAT KISS—The Man at the Window it; .. ,1,11` Now the figure at the window casta shadow on the floor in the form of a man. The moment for which Ney- land Smith and 1 waited had come °I . I was icy cold, ex- pectant, prepared for whatever horror might be upon ton )jr San aohmor aQd The Boll „dkAid t e• • There was absolutely no sound at the window, but the lithe form of a man clung there in the moonlight. A yel- low face was pressed against the panes .. • Thin hands raised the sash. One hand disappeared, and reappeared in a rrionient grasping a small, square box... There was a very faint cr ck ,