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Zurich Herald, 1954-02-25, Page 2TABLE TALKS ameAnamon According to an Italian friend of mine, the reason why we Can- adians don't use more "pasta"- the name which includes macar- oni, spaghetti, etc -- is simply because we don't know how to cook it properly, or serve it up in a tempting manner. For those who have to watch their budgets — and which of us doesn't, these days? — mac- aroni is a real help. So here are a few recipes well worth your trying — and please remember that it's all important to have the salted water really boiling before you put in the macaroni. , 4, o SPAGHETTI SOUFFLE 4 ounces elbow spaghetti 3 eggs, separated 2 tblsps. each, chopped green pepper, onion and parsley 1 cup shredded Canadian cheese 1/4 tsp. salt x!; cup scalded milk 2 tblsps. butter or margarine Tomato sauce Cook spaghetti in boiling salt- ed water until tender (about 7 minutes), Drain and rinse. Com- bine egg yolks, green pepper, onion, parsley, cheese and salt. Combine milk and butter. Pour over egg yolk mixture, stirring well. Fold in cooked spaghetti. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold into spaghetti mix- ture. Pour into greased 11/2 -quart casserole. Set in pan of water. Bakein 325° F oven about 50 minutes. Serve with tomato sauce. Makes 4 - 6 servings. * * * CHEESEBURGER LOAF 4 ounces bread noodles 1/2 pound ground beef 1 egg 1/ cup catsup 2 tblsps. chopped onion 3/4 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1/ cup shredded raw carrot 2 tblsps chopped green pepper margarine 2 1 -ounce slices Canadian cheese Buttered bread crumbs Cook noodles in boiling salted water until tender (about 6 min- utes) ; drain and rinse. While noodles are cooking, combine ground beef, egg, catsup, onion, salt and pepper, mixing until well blended. Combine noodles with carrot, green pepper and butter, mixing lightly. Place noodle mixture in bottom of greased 41/2 x 81/2 loaf pan. Spread meat mixture in layer over noodles. Top with slices of cheese. Sprinkle with bread crumbs. Bake at 850° F. about 30 minutes. * * * MACARONI WITH CHICKEN 1 tblsp. (salt 3 quarts boiling water. 3 ounces elbow macaroni ail cups) 1/4 cup butter or margarine 2 tblsps. flour 1 teaspoon curry powder Salt and pepper to taste Dash ginger 2 cups milk 3 cups diced cooked chicken. 1%a cup sliced ripe olives 2 tblsps. chopped parsley 1 tblsp. minced onion Add the 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradual- ly add macaroni so .that water continues to boil. Cook uncov- ered, stirring occasionally, until tender. Drain in colander. In a saucepan, melt butter or margar- ine; blend in flour, curry pow- der, salt, pepper, and ginger. Add milk and cook until thick- ened and smooth, stirring con- stantly. Add cooked macaroni, chicken, olives, parsley, and on- ion; mix well and heat to serv- ing temperature. Garnish with unpeeled red apple slices and ad- ditional olives. TOSSED MACARONI SALAD 8 ounces elbow macaroni (2 cups) medium sized head lettuce, shredded bunch chicory, broken in pieces 2 medium-sized tomatoes, cut in wedges 2 tblsps, chopped onion 1/4 cup chopped celery 1 green pepper cut in thin strips 1 Cup blue cheese 2 tblsps. vinegar 2 tblsps. lemon juice 1/2 cup salad oil 1/2 teaspoon meat sauce 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt 11/2 teaspoons salt $i teaspoon freshly ground pepper Dash paprika Cook macaroni in rapidly boil- ing salted water; drain in col- ander; rinse with cold water and drain again; chill. Combine chill- ed macaroni, lettuce, chicory, tomato wedges, onion, celery and green pepper; toss lightly but 1 thoroughly. Chill. Cr u m b l e cheese, and combine with re- maining ingredients in small bowl; mix thoroughly. 'Add' this " mixture to chilled salad; mix lightly. 1/2 1/4 ft4rrn ¢c�sgive strcn3t!i to Cfr, onr moderation jives it earm. the jkuse Jen who think o Tam Pau(Ritditcr Seagram tomorrow practice moderation ,today Getting Her Money's Worth' —'When Helen Mack of Glasgow, Scotland, paid $10 to kiss screen star Errol Flynn during a Frankfurt, Germany, program to raise March of Dimes funds, she ex- pected to get her money's worth. All she got was a brother -type peck, left, from Flynn, and she felt she was being short-changed. Grabbing the actor, right, the Scotch lassie moved in for what she called a real "Scotch kiss," All Flynn could say was, "Even if it is for the March of Dimes, I am selling myself too cheaply." Country Where Pigs Really Do Fly The little 'plane was climbing high over the steamy jungles of New Guinea, and the pilot watch- ed the altimeter. Nine thousand feet read the dial, Ahead lay a jagged mountain range, 12,000 feet high, which he had to clear. He glanced back into the cab- in where his only passenger slept heavily. The man on a stretcher was a violent mental case who was being flown to the.'. hospital on the coast. Before tak- ing off he had been heavily dosed with drugs. "That'll keep him quiet for the trip," the doctor had said. Ten thousand feet . . . Then the flier's heart jumped as he glanced back into the cabin again, The doctor hadn't allowed for the effects of the high alti- tude, and the dangerous patient had come to and was stalking the pilot! The demented man came near- er. Then he sprang. The pilot let go of the controls and threw everything into a do-or-die punch. It clipped the man on the jaw, and he fell .with a groan to the floor of the 'plane, where he lay still. Still the pilot fought for height, watching his passenger. He cleared the peak and, safely_ over, went down steeply into a valley. At five thousand feet. ,the drug took—charge once more, and kept the patient in a safe___ sleep until the landing. That was the recent nerve - shattering experience of a char- ter pilot in New Guinea, where .flying conditions are perhaps the worst in the world but where • the saying is, "You fly or stay home." From Lae on the coast to Wau, the fabulous mining area where $6,000,000 worth of gold is produced each year, is only 65 miles, But it takes ten days if you go by land -over a track too deep for mules. Everything in the town at Wau (700 white men and 6,000 native workers), including the gold- mining dredges which weigh , 2,500 tons each and the hotel's pianola, have been flown in piecemeal by air. The 183,500 square miles of Papua and New Guinea are a net- work of 'dromes, many of them of pocket -handkerchief size, perched on the slopes of the mountains. The 'planes used are mainly Austers, Dragon Rapides and Da- kotas. Pilots don't fly by instru- ments—it's too dangerous. They always fly round clouds. But accidents are few, thanks to the high skill of the men who fly there. No one nervous about flying should contemplate an aerial holiday in New Guinea. At Goilala, in Papua, the pilot always tells nervous passengers to shut their eyes during take- off. The "plane races over the strip on the mountain slope and takes off over a cliff edge with barely flying speed. Within a few yards it has to bank vertically to prevent running into the steep cliff directly ahead. At Pahpeenee, among peaks up to 15,000 feet, there is a strip where the pilot has to alight on the edge of a deep mountain gorge and brake his landing run dead against a vertical mountain- side. As at Goilala, when taking off, he has to get his 'plane airborne for the lift over the edge of a sheer drop into the valley, Where 'dromes can't be hack- ed out. of the mountain slopes, supplies are dropped from the air by the "free drop" and the "storepedo" methods. In the first, supplies are in one bag in- side another and dropped with- out a parachute; though the outer bag may burst when it hits the ground, the inner one saves the contents. The store- pedo is shaped, as the name ',suggests, like a torpedo and may or may not be attached to a parchute. By these means even gelig- nite, bottled beer and eggs have -'been dropped safely to settlers and prospectors. Australian war ace, 36 -year- old Bobby Gibbes, D.S.O., D.F.C. and bar, runs an airline, Gibbes and Sepik Airways, which "•,serves a wild area of 20,000 square miles of jungle, fierce •rushing rivers, and rugged 'peaks. His strange cargoes bear out the unofficial motto of the airlines in . this Stone Age part of the world: "If you can get it into the 'plane, we'll fly it." Gibbes' cargoes in one recent month included: A crate of birds of paradise for the London Zoo. Ducks, chickens, cattle, dogs, and cats. Pythons for an Aus- tralian zoo. Natives, says Gibbes, seem to carry everything they possess, „ ven old tins. "You can weigh thein. in at night for the next day's flight," he says, "and in the morning they will have ac - Cumulated another forty pounds of luggage apiece. One couple even acquired a new baby in ;the short period between weigh- ,ing in and take -off; the mother j(tst went off into the scrub to ve birth to the child, and was uite ready to continue the Burney /, wean, pigs; fly. in New Guinea, h one of them didn't go flus ° and came down faster than e'..went up. It was in' the pio- neer days of flying and the pig, a? Berkshire boar, was put in the open cockpit behind the pilot's, apparently well strap- ped in. Airborne, it got its rear legs free and began kicking the ply - and -canvas fuselage. In self-de- fence the pilot had to -loop the loop and unload the pig in mid- air. The pig was almost cer- tainly welcomed in the cooking pots of the native village near . which it fell. Gibbes' airline often carries headhunters. The Sepik River, in northeast New Guinea and bordering Dutch New Guinea, is the chief source of native la- bour and there white recruit- ers go to sign up wild natives for labour on the plantations. "LITTLE WILLIE" Willie,, down at Grandpa's farm, -Blew, up the horse and cattle barn. Then he said, "It is surprising To see how Grandpa's stock is rising." PASTURE MANAGEMENT Realizing that good pastures can result in added income to farmers, the Maritime Fertilizer Council has come out with a number of basic rules on pas- ture management for the guid- ance of cattlemen. They are: 1) For a long-term pasture one should select the very best land with a good sod, as near to the barn and water supply as possible. 2) If fencing is convenient and cheap, rotational grazing in two or three fields will ' as- sist materially . in maintaining a good award and allow wild white talover to go to seed. This is a good precaution in case of severe winter killing. 3) Complete fertilizers con- sisting of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash are generally neces- sary. If the soil is extremely acid and cannot be convenient- ly put into a cultivated rota- tion, a top dressing of lime should be applied — preferably in the fall. 4)' It is much cheaper to treat a good soil with fertilizers and by harrowing, than to plow and re -seed it for pasture pur- poses. If the sod is gone them it no .option, 6) Fertilize at least half au sere for each full-grown ant. mal, 6) Keeping the grass well grazed early in the season will encourage wild white clover to develop in place of poorer grasses, thus increasing the nu- trient value of the herbage and snaking better late summer pas- tures. 7) On naturally dry soils, it fresh water is handy, it will often pay to install n spray or other irrigation system. * '1; * Grazing • on oats sown as a nurse crop to clover and timothy has been found to be an excel. lent supplementary pasture for part-time grazing without in- jury to the new seeding. An acre of oats fertilized at seeding time with 400 to 500 pounds of high nitrogen • fertilizer such as 6-12-6 or 5-10-10 should pro- vide an hour or two daily graz- ing for six or seven cows when oats are 10 to 12 inches high for a period of at least two weeks. Board a,nd Logic — German act- ress Margret Jacobs, at 'Ham- burg, contrasts her outline with an ironing board's. Authorities recently banned all "bosom - developing remedies" as dan- gerous. Margret thinks if ban is not lifted a lot of women will look like ironing boards. Meet The Champ — Rise and Shine, winner of the "Best in Show" at the Westminster Kennel Club's 78th annual dog show drapes his forepaws over the top -title cup. The two-year-old cocker spaniel, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan is handled by Ted Young, Jr. (right). T EU WINTER AND SPRING SAILINGS TO BRITISH PORTS: First Class from $192 Tourist Class from $140 At Thrift -Season Rates ROUND TRIP FOR AS LITTLE AS TO FRENCH .PORTS: First Class from $217.50 Tourist Class from $155 VESSEL From NEW YORK From HALIFAX TO QUEEN MARY Fri. FEB. 26 MEDIA Fri. MAR. 5 SAMARIA Fri. MAR. 5 QUEEN ELIZABETH Fri. MAR, 5 ASCANIA Fri. MAR. 12 QUEEN MARY Sat. MAR. 13 PARTHIA✓ Fri. MAR. 19 SCYTHIA — QUEEN ELIZABETH Sat. MAR. 20 FRANCONIA Fri. 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