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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-04-22, Page 6TABLE TALKS To paraphrase the title of an old song, "Any Time's Cookie Time" ----at least it is in most ]households. So here, without further ado, are some cookie re- cipes well worth trying. * m a SALTED PEANUT COOKIES 11/ cups all-purpose flour or cake flour, sifted 34 teaspoon baking powder • 9f teaspoon soda 32 teaspoon salt 1/. cup shortening 1% cups brown sugar (firmly packed) 1 egg, unbeaten cup milk as/x c Grape -Nuts, Raisin Bran, or Bran Flakes cup salted peanuts, chop- ped Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt and sift again. Cream shortening; add sugar gradually and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Add flour, alternately with milk, mixing well after each ad- dition. Add Flakes and peanuts and blend. Drop from teaspoon onto greased baking sheet; flatten alightly with fork. Bake in moderate oven (375°F) 8 minutes, or until done. RAISIN COOKIES Substitute raisins for peanuts in cookies. Increase salt to 3/4 teaspoon in home recipe, 1 table- spoon in party recipe. � � r CHOCOLATE CHIP PEANUT COOKIES Omit cereal flakes in cookies. Add semi -sweet chocolate chips and vanilla with the peanuts. Use 1 package chips, 1 teaspoon vanilla for home recipe; or 4 packages chips, 4 teaspoons vanilla for party recipe. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. $,* * CHOCOLATE MARBLE COOKIES 2 cups sifted cake flour or all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder g teaspoon salt cup shortening % cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten 1 tablespoon milk 1 square unsweetened chocolate, melted Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and milk and beat well. Add hour, a small amount at a time, mixing well after each addition. Divide dough in two parts. To one part, add chocolate and blend. Shape chocolate and plain doughs into separate rolls, 1/ inches in diameter. Place rolls together and twist, to give marb- led effect. Roll in waxed paper MERRY MENAGERIE eTop—how would E look with a. heV' and chill overnight, or until firm enough to slice. Cut in 14 in, slices. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in mod- erate oven (375°F.) 10 minutes or until done. Makes about 5 dozen marble cookies. to W CHOCOLATE PINWHEELS Mix dough for Chocolate Marble Cookies. If necessary, chili chocolate and plain doughs until firm enough for rolling. Then roll each on floured wax- ed paper into rectangular sheet, lie in. thick. Turn plain sheet over choco- late sheet; remove waxed paper. Roll as for jelly roll. Chill until firm. Cut in 1/4 M. slices. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in mod- erate oven (357°F) 10 minutes, or until done. Makes about 5 doz- en pinwheels. This dough may be used to make plain chocolate and vanil- la cookies. Shape chocolate and plain doughs into separate rolls. Chill, slice, and bake as directed in above recipe. k * PARTY BUTTER COOKIES 2 cups sifted cake flour ai: cup butter 34 cup sugar 1 egg yolk, unbeaten 34 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once and measure. Cream butter, add sugar grad- ually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg yolk and beat well. Add flour, a small amount at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla and blend. Divide dough into two parts, shape in rolls, 1/ inches in dia- meter, rolling each in waxed paper. Chill overnight, or until firm enough to slice. Cut in 1/4 in. slices. Or chill dough in bowl and press through cooky press. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (400° F.) 4 to 5 min- utes, or until done. Makes about 6 dozen small butter cookies. These cookies are also very good if sprinkled with chopped walnut meats before baking. ALMOND STICKS Mix dough for Party Butter Cookies and chill. Pinch off pieces of dough and roll into sticks, 11 inches long and 1/4 inch in diameter. Then roll sticks in finely sliced blanched al - monies. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (400°F.) 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle with confec- tioner's sugar. Makes about 5 dozen almond sticks. 4 * * FAVORITE ICEBOX COOKIES 2 cups sifted flour I%a teaspoons baking powder t/ teaspoon salt 1/ cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten 1 cup shredded coconut 1 tablespoon milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift. again. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, and cream together thoroughly. Add egg, coconut, milk and vanilla and beat well. Add flour gradually, mixing well after each addition. Divide dough into two parts; shape each in roll, lee inches in diameter, and roll in waxed butter or cooky cartons. Chill overnight, or until firm enough to slice. Cut in 1/4 in. slices and bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (425°F.) five minutes or until done. Makes about 8 dozen cookies. Zan Reflective — Dr. Albert Einstein, originator of the theory of rela- tivity, relaxes In his Princeton, N. J., study. The world-famous scientist celebrated his 75th birthday on March 14 Anent e £:.... ... ..< t:1' Hello, Sweetheart — Eric Trobehn greets Miss Charlotte Studte, the girl he's been trying to marry. for the past 40 years, as she arrives In Anchorage, Aleska. Two world wars, lost addresses and unemployment prevented the childhood sweethearts from climaxing their romancethat started in Germany. Both are looking forward to art "early" marriage. Case Of The Missing Wheel -- Four-year-old Ronnie Nickels is having mechanical troubles. A wheel kept coming off his toy truck and suddenly it disappeared. While making repairs re- cently, Ronnie put the hub cap in his mouth, and then reported it missing. He's pointing to its position „in his stomach, as shown on the X-ra,. liber Too COstly So They Live hi Caves When a stranger visits a hone in Coober Pedy he knocks on •the chimney -pot, It's the quick- est way of attracting attention because in Cooper Pedy one of Australia's richest opal fields --- everybody lives in caves and holes in the ground and only the iron chimneys stick above the earth. The name Coober Pedy is aboriginal and means "white men in the holes." At Coober Pedy, on the fringe of Australia's "dead heart," there is no standing timber to build homes. To bring it over the hundreds of bare desert miles is too costly, so the miners have gone into the earth to make their homes and found they have the perfect residence for the climate. Their cave -homes are cool in summer, when tem- peratures go up to 130 degrees, and warm in winter when night temperatures drop well below freezing point. With pick and shovel, they have hewed much of their fur- niture, beds, seats, tables, and chairs out of the sandstone. The post office which serves the thirty households, the sav- ings bank, and the store are all underground. So are the streets! These have been developed from disused galleries and tun- nels made by the opal miners (or gougers, as they are: called) over the thirty years since men first mined opal at Coober Pedy. In 1915, a gold prospector calledlititchison and his young son camped near persent-da,•,. Coober Pedy. They rode camels, and one morning as they broke camp the boy picked up a stone to throw at a came]. It flashed in the sunlight, and the boy showed it to his father. Hutchison took it to an ex- pert, who said it was opal but of very poor duality. The first big discovery of opal at Coober Pedy came 'some years later when six prospectors with supplies for five months rode out into the desert. They sank many shafts, and then, when their supplies were nearly exhausted and their camels had strayed, they sold their claim to Jim and Dick O'Neil for a cart and two camels the brothers owned. The O'Neil% lived on rabbits and saltbush, a fleshy shrub, for seven months. Then they struck a rich pocket of opals worth 450,000. The rush started. Three early prospectors to the new field won $75,000 worth of opals. Others did nearly as well. Wa- ter -sellers also prospered in a region where only six inches of rain falls in a year. One hun- dred gallons fetched $15. Coober Pedy went on yield- ing opals in good quantity until the war brought the field al- most to a standstill. Women lived there with their husbands and children — some of whom were born underground. Now Coober Pedy is recovering as an opal field and miners are corning there in increasing num- bers. What is stepping -up opal shining is a steadily growing American interest in this loveli- est of gems, finest of which are worth up to $39,000.. l+ oririerly, the chief buyers were .Indian princes and wealthy Chinese. Opal, with its Aneteoric shafts of light and pulsing star -glints, consists of silica (a hard white mineral) in which there is a certain amount of water. The formation of an opal takes un- told ages,. For aeons, water as- cending to the surface of the earth has pemeated silica in a jelly-like state. It is the water in the now dried and hard sili- ca which breaks up the surface of the Dight in the way that prism does. The opal gouger's task is to find the layers or bands of opal in the earth, He digs shaft down seventy feet or more. It' tough work and often wasted, because there is little on the surface to indicate to a gouger where opal night be found. Some finds have been of great interest to scientists. At White Cliffs in New South Wales, gougers uncovered the almost perfect opalized ekeleton of et plesiosaurus, an extinct sea -rep- tile. This ancestor of the Loch Ness ,monster roweled the seat of Central Australia in pre- historic times and then ' died. The bones (with the exception of the head) have turned to flashing opal and are White in the British Museum. At White Cliffs, too, miners unearthed the three- foot long Skelton of a dog shady and the opalized shapes of shell fish, and sea lilies. Opal fields abound in good stories of chance -found riches. At one field a down -on -his -luck miner was contemplating throw - Ing himself into an old shaft. Idly, he watched a kingfisher pecking at the sides of the shaft. As the clay fell away front' the bird's beak, something flashed joyously in the sunlight. The miner reached out wonderingly and found a gem worth $200. At another field a collie pup scratched out $2500 worth of the pulsing fiery gems while hie master was pegging out a claim. At one field, Yowah, in Queensland, a prospector lei buried in opals. When he died, his mates buried him in bbs mine. Many years later, some men began to work the mine again and soon found rich opal. They worked round and under- neath the dead man, who is now propped up by poles and en- cased in his rich opal -bearing . oblong of soil. THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE TO THE BIBLE SOCIETY (From the London "Times" of March 8, 1954.) " A message from the Queen congratulating the British and Foreign Bible Society on their third jubilee was read at a commemorative meeting in Melbourne yesterday. "The Queen, who is a patron of the society, spoke of the completion of 150 years of `vigorous and constructive work.' "'My family have always taken a deep interest in the work of the society,' she went on, 'and I pray that in Aus- tralia and throughout the world your labours in fostering a wider and deeper knowledge of the Scriptures may meet with continuing success.' "The anniversary was remembered yesterday by the aux iliaries of the Bible Society in England and Wales and in other parts of the world. At the Festival Hall, London, on Saturday, 3,000 children attended a meeting at which was cut a birthday cake, weighing 950 lb., a present from well:wishers in Aus- tralia." m* The 150th anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was observed throughout Canada in churches from coast to coast on Sunday, March 7. The annual meeting of the Upper Canada Bible Society, held in Convocation Hall on Monday evening, was part of the observance. Word has just been received from Montreal that a great service of Thanks- giving was held there on Sunday afternoon in` the Salvation Army Citadel, at which members of all the Protestant churches in Montreal were present. In Quebec` city there was an ex- tremely well attended service of Thanksgiving in the Anglican Cathedral at which the .preacher was the Rev. J. S. Thom- son, M.A., D.D., LL.D., Dean' of the Divinity Faculty of McGill University, Montreal. The General Board of the Society in Canada will meet in Toronto on March 17. Particular reference will be made to the 150 years of service and the guest speaker at the luncheon will be the Rev. Dr. William Manson of Edinburgh, guest lec- turer at Knox College, Toronto. wwwyyy�aa t oul prcfcrs !�4 cra io x N n .• S '1' 'N 'EC ..4 8 B.C.-,A.D. 65 the J4ouse of $ea9ram a e a . • • . . . . b . ID Men who think of tomorrow practice moderation today