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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-05-06, Page 2AftMet.. ran TALKS date Anchiews. Lamb stew is either one thing or the other -- a dreary, unin- terested sort of dish or a real treat. By following this recipe you'll be able to serve something that even the most critical will smack their lips over. SAVORY LAMB STEW 134 pounds lamb shoulder 2 tablespoons fat 4 cups water 34 cup celery leaves 4 sprigs parsley ee bay leaf 2 teaspoons pepper ee tsp. monosodium glutamate 12 small onions, peeled 3 large carrots, cut in 2" pieces teaspoon ground ginger. 3 teaspoon ground rosemary y4 cup all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon lemon juice Wipe meat with a damp cloth and cut in lee" cubes. Heat fat in a large, heavy sauce pqt and brown meat slowly on all sides. Add the next 7 ingredients. Cover tightly and simmer about 35 minutes. Add onions, carrots, ginger and rosemary. Simmer about 25 minutes longer, or until vegetables are tender. Then thicken the stew — mix flour with ee cup water. Stir into the hot stew. Bring to a boil, stir- ring constantly, and cook 2 min- utes. Stir in lemon juice. Makes 6 servings. * * h Almost a meal in itself is this highly satisfying dish; and while the recipe calls for frozen lima beans, the unfrozen sort will do just as well, or something else can be substituted. SHORT IRIBS & VEGETABLES 2 pounds short ribs of beef, cut in serving pieces 2 tblsp. all-purpose flour 13 teaspoons salt el teaspoon pepper 2 tblsps. fat or beef -fat drip- pings' 1 eup water 2 carrots, cut in 1% strips 12 small white onions 1 12 -ounce package frozen lima beans Wipe pleat with a damp cloth. Combine flour, salt and pepper; sprinkle over meat, coating well. Heat fat in a heavy skillet and brown meat welt on all sides. Add water, Cover tightly and cook over low heat, about 30 minutes, or until meat begins to seem tender. Add carrots and .onions; cook 15 minutes more. Then add beans and cook •an ad- ditional 10 to 15 minutes er until tender. Thicken gravy, if desired. Makes 4 servings. * * * FAVORITE CAKE (2 eggs) Zee cups sifted Cake Flour 214 teaspoons baking powder el teaspoon salt Rare Stare — G aring from his eage in Paris, France, is a "Grand Duke" owl,'a rare and dangerous species captured re- cently in the mountainous Isere region of the French Alps. The feathery creature is on exhibi- tion et an ornithological show, 34 cup butter or other short- ening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 3/4 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt; and sift together three times, Cream but- ter thoroughly, add sugar grad- ually, and cream together until light and fluffy, Add eggs and beat well. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased 8 -inch layer pans in moderate oven (375°F.) 25 td 30 minutes. Spread Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake. * WONDER CAKE (1. egg) 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder See teaspoon salt 34 cup butter or other short- ening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten $/ cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times. Cream but- ter thoroughly, add sugar gradu- ally, and cream ;together until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat very thoroughly. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in greased pan, 8x8x2 inches, in moderate oven (350°F.) 45 to 50 minutes. Spread with frosting. This Was Real Run way Romance In the year 1770 the pleasure city of Bath was aglow with pretty girls, handsome men, music and love. Amid the gaiety no one lost his heart more rapidly than ris- ing playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan as he listened to the singing of lovely Elizabeth Linley. She was only sixteen and he an impetuous nineteen, A witty friend remarked that he had about as much chance of win- ning her heart as a doorpost, for she was the toast of the town. Wherever she went, in purnee room or assembly room, Eliza- beth was escorted by the beaux and fops Of the werld.of fash- ion. But Sheridan soon learned that a certain Captain Mathews pestered her with his attentions more than all other admirers. And though the alluring singer did not know it, -Mathews was a married man. A practised and heartless phil- anderer, the captain vowed he would blow his brains out un- less she return his love. With youthful folly Elizabeth felt subtly flattered by these suicide threats. And she innocently be- lieved his protestations of de- votion. Into this situation Sheridan def t 1 y inserted himself by courting Mathew's acquaintance. Saying nothing of his own love, he was soon to all appearances deep in the older man's friend- ship. Then he learned the startling truth. Mathews was an impostor, whose rank of captain had merely been self -awarded. With an unhappy wife in the back- ground, he was just another adventurer with Bath as his playground. Acting as go-between, Sheri- dan' was able to see Elizabeth and tell her the truth. Though half -infatuated, she reluctantly consented to write Mathews a farewell letter. But it was no sooner written than she relent- ed and Mathews called at her house. Brandishing a pistol, he now swore to take both her life and his own unless she would pledge her love to him. She pleaded for time. And it seemed to Short In The Saddle Spurs, boots and saddles, all in tot sizes, lent a Wild West effect to the recent Children's Horse Show at Pinehurst. Leslie Dickson, 20 -month-old contestant is shown hibove nonchalantly waiting her turn in the ring to be judged for the lead line class. That's A Dog? — It may be hard to believe, but this black bundle resembling a ball of wool is really a Hungarian shepherd dog. The dog was on exhibition recently at a West Berlin, Germany, dog show. the wretched Elizabeth that to take poison herself was the only way. out. TO -day her behaviour smacks of the "School for Scandal" comedies that framed the eta, but Bath itself was a gigantis stage and the emotions of the heart ran true and deep. Lock-' ing herself in a room with a bottle of laudanum. Elizabeth dutifully sat down and wrote her will. But perhaps she had also coquettishly a r r an g e d. through a friend for handsome Sheridan to be .told what was happening. At the right moment the young playwright broke in, sent. for a doctor, went in search .0f Mathews and returned to urge Elizabeth that it would be best to leave Bath. Escape with someone who, loved her, he pleaded, was ,the: only way. One day, wh ice: Elizabeth's ente'-evereePietee out town, she entered a sedan chair.. Not far away, in a closed cafe riage, Sheridan was waiting. And as boy and girl drove away they had the pleasure of seeing Mathews waiting on Elizabeth's doorstep. By dawn Sheridan and Eliza- beth Linley were boarding a packet -boat for France. Youth- fully ignorant of the •ways of the world, neither could see a better way out. So c hivalrous was Sheridan that he intended to find a con- vent in France where Elizabeth could rest for a while before de- ciding her future plans. Once at sea, however, both decided marriage was the natural out- come of their escapade. In a little church near Lille they went through a ceremony of marriage and the priest in- stantly recommended a convent which would temporarily re- ceive Elizabeth. Thus the couple parted on what should have been their honeymoon! Back in Bath, however, Sheri- dan found that Mathews had not been idle. In the advertise- ment columns of a local news- paper he had inserted a notice stigmatizing the playwright as a liar and scoundrel. Sheridan challenged the bogus captain to a duel. With seconds and swords, the two met by candlelight in a London tavern. The blades crossed—and swift- ly Sheridan disarmed his op- ponent. Mathews had to swel- 1 low his words and apologize for the libel in writing. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's parent's had brought their daughter home. But the drama was by no means ended. Writhing un- der public contempt, Mathews insulted Sheridan again — and again the playwright challenged him to a duel. Ile had shown mercy to his opponent. But this time—at dawn ,on a hillside near Bath — luck was against him. His sword broke off at the haft. Instead of allowing him to surrender, Mathews struck at him again and again. They left the young play- wright for dead. Even his seconds fled. Distracted at hearing the news, Elizabeth rushed to the scene. But fortunately Sheridan had crawled away. A friendly shepherd had found hien and dressed his wounds. Soon Sheri- dan recovered. And when he was twenty-two and Elizabeth Linley was still only nineteen they were again married, this time in the English way. ;Under Fire -- Dr. J. Roberi Op- penheimer, adviser to the Ato- ic Energy Commission, has ,, suspended• t on : security rids, pending an investiga- tion by the commission's security board. He is one of the world's foremost atomic physicists, and directed the construction of America's first A-bomb. Ail Dane With Cards • A recent issue of one of the a best known businessman's mag- azines carries a straight-faced and capable article on the "uni- versal card." This isn't the kind of card that bears hearts and spades and is certainly universal among both bridge and canasta players. It is a punched and cod- ed bit of cardboard designed to tell personnel managers at the flick of a switch what manner of men they are shepherding. Now, because. we are not wholly unsophisticated we are aware that there are great hum- an as well as economic values in such advices, They help to get. square pegs out of round holes, they can aid top management in discovering future general sup- erintendents, and they can res- cue able young men from under the thumbs of frustrated, petty tyrants. But because we are also a bit fed up with "mechanical brains" and other mechanistic paving stones to a push-button world we may be pardoned a few skeptical though not deroga- tory observations. This card carries on its face the .usual identifying data from photograph to thumbprint. Its margin i.s notched so that in the twinkle of aneye one of those marvellous electronic selector machines will classify the em- ployee according to 14 personal- ity. characteristics reduced to measurability on some scale — from his "extroversion rating" to his "political affiliation," from his "salary gradient" to the "Moss. Social Intelligence" score of his wife. So ardent a try at.comprehen- siveness—at keying every pos- sible factor in the personal equa- tion—leaves us half surprised not to find something akin to what ',Paul found on Mars Hill:. an- other notch dedicated to "the unknown traits." And noting that "information of a private nature" . is to be entered on the back of the card, we would hope that such information might lead to a personal "intetview to Mind out what the guy is really like, —.Prom The "Christian Science Monitor. CAMERA THAT'S SMALLER THAN PGARETTE.LIGHTER r x: The millions of picture -goers who saw that delightfu<1 fit* "Roman Holiday," starring the brilliant and beautiful y o u n g British actress Audrey Hepburn, will remember that while she was going about Rome pretend- ing not to be a princess, she was recognized by an Am e r i c an newspaper man, Gregory Peck, who get a pal to take photo- graphs of her without her know- ing it, The camera this man used was about the shape and size Of a cigarette lighter. TO throw her off the scent, he put a cigarette into his mouth, took out the camera and pretended to be lighting his cigarette, whereas actually he was taking pictures of her, The camera could not, Of course, light his cigarette. His pal gave him a light on the pretext that the lighter didn't work. Now most people, I'm pretty sure, thought that tiny camera was just a filni stunt.. There couldn't, they felt, be a camera so small that could take such excellent pictures. Well, there is, you know. And I have one exactly like it, writes R. J. Min- ney in "Tit -Bits". The pictures it takes are astonishingly good. Sharp and Clear Let me tell you about it. The camera is made entirely Of a very light, bright nnetal and is no heavier than a cigarette - lighter. It is three inches long and one inch wide, My cigarette - lighter is nearly as long and half as wide again. The film used is not quite two-fifths of an inch wide, and just over two feet long, On this it takes fifty ex- posures, each of them extremely tiny of course. But; the images are • sharp and clear. There are nearly three hun- dred springs and wheels and bits of lens and metal. The lens is of. wide angle and extremely sensitive. The camera can be used at quite close range, as close as eight inches from the face of the person photograph- ed all the distances are very carefully marked and the camera can be adjusted quite easily to one foot or one foot four inches from the object (or to infinity) before being put into operation. This close work is, 0f course, very useful for copying docu- ments and the camera was indeed used for this form of ,spying in the film "The Thief," " of which Ray Milland was the star. .The speeds, Jeo, •.are of -;an.. astonishing range You can work ep as fast as one -thousandth of a second and slow it down to hall a second or more if you choose. And the action of the trigger is almost inaudible. Nobody could possibly suspect that you were taking a picture, unless, of course, you :held it to your eye and began fiddling with the adjustments in full view. Built into the camera there are two filters, one green and the other orange. These are for photographing clouds and snow scenes, which though almost in- visible on the film, enlarge up with amazing clarity. You would think — I know, I did — that this camera was evolved during the war f o r espionage and various forms of military and aerial reconnais- sance. But it is not a' product of the war. The model I have was pre- war. It was rnade in Riga, which is the capital of the small' and almost unknown state of Latvia, now on the other side, of the Iron Curtain. Until the outbreak of war in 1939, Latvia was an independent state. Russia seized it at the t i m e Germany overran Poland and it remained in Russian hands until the German slttack on Russia by Hitler in 1841r When the German armies swept through Latvia, the chiefs se* the factory, were entranced bj( this amazing little camera, an transferred i t s manufacture t Wetzlar, in the very heart O Germany, After the war, Wetzlar into the zone Occupied by U troops, They saw the eamero. and marvelled at its ingenuit7 and its capabilities. Productioit was stepped up and thousands -0 the cameras were shipped over- seas for sale in Canada and the United' States. So Claimed Damages Insurance companies frequent- ly meet the queerest claims. A Hucknall„ Notts, last year, feet instance, an 8-1b, vegeable mar► row cut from a family's garden exploded in the larder—presurns• • ably from gases formed inside the over -ripe fruit—completely wreclfing some crockery. Tragically, at Liverpool, a one- year -old child was killed by a tyre, burst. The little boy was' playing in his front garden when a lorry passed by. The tyre ex- ploded directly Opposite him, and he died from injuries. At Epping Forest, two Christ- mases ago, a man and his wife, sitting in their car, had the 'mise fortune to be charged by a herd of deer. The leader, an unusual- ly aggressive buck, rammed their car with such force that it went bouncing down a bank. The herd charged after it and the lucla. less couple found themselves assailed by a forest of lashing hoofs, , striking the roof and thudding through the windows, The husband escaped bruises, but his wife, injured in her ribs, had to go to hospital. A claim with an altogether brighter aspect originated from the Belgian Congo after a motor- ist had bumped into a hippopo- tamus. In filling in his claim. form, he regretted that the third party had on this occasion, scut - ted before he could get parti- culars. The insurance agent Hucknall, Notts, last year, for in this case the usual "knock for knock agreement" hardly applied! The Bride Actress Susan Ball, who suffered a leg amputation. earlier this year, is shown in her wedding gown as she poses for wedding pictures before her marriage to actor Richard Long at Santa Barbara, Cali`. They'll Get The Point — Their thoughts obviously on the impend- ing needle, three grade school students listen as school Principal F. J Kelsey explains' polio vaccine request forms. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is supplying the Salk polio vaccine for this spring's tests, results of which will not be known until 1955.