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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-04-01, Page 6r�Yu TABLE TALKS clan And xwa: Men -folks are fond of jolting of "pie like mother made," over- looking the fact that many mod- ern housewives lack the oppor- tunities for gaining the exper- ience those of a former genera- tion had. Whereas, at one time, pies were baked by the dozen in many homes, today quantities— and families—have shrunk con- siderably. However, there's nothing more satisfying than a really good pie; and these hints, by Eleanor Richey Johnson in The Christian Science Monitor, will help any- one to achieve the flaky, tender crust, which is the foundation of good pie -making. * * * There are four ingredients -- flour, shortening, salt, and water, Measurements should be accur- ate. Fallow these simple rules and you'll be almost certain to suc- ceed: Sift salt with flour; have shortening firm but not hard; blend shortening with flour -salt mixture with pastry blender; measure water and sprinkle over flour -salt -shortening mixture; mLx when this is done; shape part to be rolled into ball and place on lightly floured canvas and roll lightly, turning dough around to roll evenly in all di- rections. PIace rolled dough in pan, pressing into place. To bake a pastry shell, fit it snugly into pan and prick all over with a fork. Flute or crimp edges. Bake at 475° F. 8-10 min- utes until golden brown. Cool in pan on cake rack before putting in filling. * * If your family is fond of spices in pies, here are a few sugges- tions you may find useful. Add to apple pie either cinnamon or nutmeg (you may like a little cinnamon in the crust, too.) For peach pie, use a sprinkle of cinnamon. Prune .pie is im- proved for some tastes by adding grated orange rind and cinna- mon. Use nutmeg for custard pie, and for pumpkin use cinnamon, mace, and ginger in the filling with nutmeg sprinkled on top. Try adding a little cinnamon or mace to your chocolate pie, nutmeg with rhubarb, mace with cherry, and cinnamon with raisin. • * * RAISIN APPLE PIE 1 cup seedless raisins I cup water % cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour % teaspoon salt 2 large cooking apples - 1 tablespoon lemon juice Pastry for double 9 -in. crust 31 cup grated Canadian cheese Nautical But Nice—A yachting cap and boat wheel lend a salty flavor to this picture of shapely Freda Jones. He'sLucky The Crust Was Nic' n Soft Chuck Mohlke, a fellow student, stuck his head through the target at the pie -throwing concession, Anne wound up, aimed, and fired her fast ball. The result—Chuck got a pie in the eye and the student fund received a nice slice of profit. From Chuck's look, the pie really made a "hit." Anne Lehmicke is a pretty coed, and pictures below show that she has control which many major league pitchers wish they had. Recently the school decided to hold a carnival to raise funds for a new student union and Anne pitched in. When Showing big -league form, Anne Lehmicke pitches a pie . . . , which finds its mark an Chuck Mohlke's face. Rinse and drain raisins. Add water and boil 5 minutes. Blend sugar, flour and salt together and stir in raisins. Cook and stir until mixture boils thor- oughly. Cool slightly. Pare, core and dice apples; add apples and lemon juice to raisin mixture and turn into pastry -lined pie pan. Sprinkle with cheese; cover with pastry. Bake at 425°F. 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F. and bake about 40 minutes longer, or until apples are ten- der and pastry is browned. * a * RICH PRUNE PIE 134 cups prunes 2 eggs le cup suggr 3s cup dark corn syrup 1/ teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons melted butter or margarine 34 cup coarsely chopped wal- nuts Pastry for single 9 -in. crust Cut prunes from pits into small pieces. Beat eggs lightly. Addi3- sugar, syrup; Salt and but- ter and blend well. Stir in prunes. Pour into pastry -lined pie pan and sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 425°F. for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F, and bake about 30 minutes longer. Cool before cutting. COCONUT BANANA CREAM PIE cup sugar 5 tablespoons flour 34 teaspoon salt 134 cups milk, scalded 3 egg yolks, beaten slightly 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup shredded coconut 2-3 ripe bananas Combine sugar, flour and salt; add milk slowly, stirring con- stantly. Cook over boiling water until thickened. Add egg yolks; continue cooking about 2 min- utes; cool. Fold in vanilla and �a cup -coconut. Pour into chilled corn flakes crust. Cover with sliced bananas and meringue. Meringue Beat 3 egg whites until stiff; add 4 tablespoons sugar, 1/4 tea- spoon salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla and continue beating un- til very stiff. Spread over sliced bananas on pie, covering filling completely to the crust. Sprinkle with remaining coconut Place in 325°F. oven for 10 minutes, or until meringue is lightly browned. Cool before serving. Crust Crush 4 cups corn flakes into crumbs. Combine with 3/4 cup sugar and 1 cup butter or mar - Little Sucker—Maryanne Perry is a iii A•,��>: -and cqa half months. Maryan disreDgardsrthe t bon age of levee ttle and le and drinks liquids through a straw, an unusual feat for a hill her age. Art Original—Opera singer Dorothy Weeenskiold displays the original Scout hat during Girl: Scout Week. Looking on are Scouts Ellen Wilson, left, and;Nora Black. garine. Mix thoroughly Presse �, Atom Research evenly and firmly around sides' and bottom of 9 -in. pan. Chill. . Affects Our LEMON SPONGE PIE Comfort I tablespoon butter 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour 3 . 3 tablespoons fresh lemon jdice 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel 2 eggs, separated I cup milk 1 8 -inch pastry shell baked 8 minutes at 425 F. Cream butter, gradually add sugar, salt, flour, lemon juice and peel, Pour in beaten egg yolks and milk, stirring well. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into first mixture. Pour into partially baked pie shell. Bake at 350°F. 40 minutes until light brown. • What's Going On Here? Specially constructed baths are provided in many of the halls where members of the Assem- blies of God movement worship in Britain. New converts to the move- ment undergo immersion in the. baths. Wearing only light garments, they ' line up together ready for immersion — a five-minute cere- mony conducted by their pastor. The Assemblies of God move- ment has more than five million adherents throughout the world. There are nearly 500 Assemblies of God meeting halls in Great Britain and Ireland where the movement was first established in 1924, It had its origin in the Pente- costal Movement or Latter Reign Outpouring movement in the United States about fifty years ago, SOCK SHOCK Before retiring to bed John E. Trimmer locked the door of his flat climbed into bed, and as a precautionary measure put his salary of 113 10s, in one of his socks, then replaced it on his foot. When he woke next morning he ' found that although the "safe -keeping" sock was still in place, the contents, other than five toes' and a foot, had been stolen while he slept. When painting waIls or wood- work, tint the paint for the first coat slightly lighter than the paint to be used for the final coat. Then you can tell when the final' coat is all on, • Years of research which cul- minated recently in the launch- ing of the U.S. Navy's first atom - powered submarine, the Nautil- us, will pay dividends for Cana- dian housewives right in their living rooms. In their search for material to be used in the interior of the submarine, the designers laid . down the following require- ments: It must be 'durable and wear -resistant. It must provide the comfort and pleasant ap- pearance important to maintain the morale of the men cooped up in the undersea boat. Hundreds of different materials were in- vestigated—some still hot from the chemist's vats. For the coverings. of furniture; padded areas, wall space, the de- signers came up with the oldest, and 'yet the newest, of the ma- terials used by man—genuine leather. This is what their re- ports said: "Leather has many qualities that man has been unable to duplicate in synthetics. It has a luxurious feel, it takes on a fine patina with age, and where a puncture in a aplastic soon be- comes a tear the fibres in leath- er hold it firmly together." What this means for the aver- age housewife, who will never get • closer to the Nautilus than through the newsreels, is that the furniture in her home is now being covered in the same beauti- ful, but tough, leather used on the atom sub. As a result of experiments and research carried on in recent years by the tanners of uphol- stery leather—the leather that covers chairs and sofas, decorates table tops and beautifies new automobiles — there have been developed leathers which have the feel and beauty of high fashion, and are more wear -re- sistant than ever before. In automobiles, leather is be- ing used more widely every year because it has been found that it will outlast the life of the car, and adds less to the price than the seat covers that the average motorist buys over the years. So, the next time you slide across leather into the driver's seat, ar stretch out in a comfort. leather chair, think kindly of the risen on the Nautilus. They helped you get where you're sit- ting. Love Letters Written To Order When a young man in Paris falls in love nowadays and feels incapable of writing a really effective love letter to the girl of his choice, he hurries off to the office of bespectacled Ma- dame Fees, who is France's only public letter writer. She at once sits down and, after asking him a few questions and noting his coy replies, writes a letter throbbing with love and devotion, f u'l l of felicitous phrases, calculated to delight the most sophisticated young woman. The lover pays the public letter writer a modest fee, hurries home, copies the letter, and posts It the same night. The other day, for instance, a young labourer fell desperately in love with a pretty girl, daughter of a high army officer. Off he dashed to the public let; ter writ e r, who immediately wrote a winner! That couple will marry in the spring. On a fine day there's often a queue o u t s i de Madame Faes° office door. A smart young man carrying a bouquet of flowers wants her to write just the bon mot for the note he plans to send with flowers. A man of fifty has fallen for an attractive and lonely widow and is sure that Madame Fees' ready pen will help him to win her hand. It invariably does. - Old people often seek her help. An elderly business woman who finds filling in tax forms more and more difficult with her failing sight enlists the ver- satile letter writer's aid. Foreign workers in Paris who seek new jobs go to her and she helps them advertise their ser- vices. Madame Fees is about the most tactful woman in Paris and many of the letters she writes for people begin with the words "My Sweet Friend . " Her clients' secrets are perfectly safe with her. They call her "The woman everyone can trust." One Game Lasted .. Over Ten Years A. "marathon" chess game last- ing 14 hours between Russian and British chess masters recent- ly attracted world attention. But chess matches are played that last for weeks — and' at least one went on for ten years! Chess is the only serious game that cqn be played by post ancj there are always thousands ok 'games in progress in which the opponents never meet face to face. They play' by past, without boards or chessmen, just ex- changing diagrams on paper or sending their moves in the "shorthand" of chess, like P-IiR8. This shorthand is international, understood by any player, what- ever his nationality, and inter- national games by post are be- coming increasingly popular. They can last a long time when each move takes three or four weeks, The British Cor- respondence Chess Association have an international tourna- ment and a game between a Bedford hairdresser and a South American player not long ago took two years. But this is nothing . like a record. A barrister in the High Court mentioned that a postal match with the English Bar tak- ing on the American Bar took four years, During the war postal chess was popular with men in the services despite the danger that the censor might mistake the moves for a spy code. But with constant moves from one place to another, letters sometimes took months to catch up. In one match between a civilian in England and an Army captain, they got in nine moves in four years! Then the captain was invalided home and they finished the game face to face in a couple of hours. The record is probably a pos- tal ,game started in '1915 between a civilian and a naval officer. They got in some moves before the naval officer was killed at Jutland. More than 10 years later the officer's daughter, now grown up, came across the cor- respondence, wrote to the friend and suggested they finish the game. Her father had obtained a winning position and she was able to consolidate the victory. One compensation for the days and weeks that may pass between moves in postal chess is that a player can conduct ser- eral games simultaneously with- out strain One U.S. 'player not ,long ago was playing 600 simul- taneous post ad games — and always Sound something interest- ing in his post! Money Making Mouse Walt Disney, it is reported, collect's an average of two and a half million dollars a year—as a sideline. It is paid to him, or his company, by the 700 licensees in 26 countries who want to use Disney's Micky Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, or other characters in reproductions of the figures, or as trademarks, decorations and devices on such widely dif- fering products as notepaper, dolls, gramophone records, soft- drink bottles, hats, and crockery. The amount of the royalty payable is said to be assessed on average sales of the product con- cerned, and may be anything from a fractional percentage to ten per cent. It started in 1930 when a sta- tionery firm paid Disney 300 dol- lars for the right to sell post- cards with a Mickey Mouse de- vice printed on them. Candy Lover—The scent of his ,favorite candy brings Teddy out of temporary hibernation as owner Bob Williamson stands by. The bear, raised from a cub by Williamson, ducked for cover as soon as snow and icy temperatures hit the midwest.