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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-05-20, Page 2Where is probably no cut of meat that suffers more from im- proper cooking than, that old stand-by, the pork chop, Far too many otherwise expert cooks just shove them into a frying pan, turn on the heat and let it go at that. It's far better to braise pork chops and cook slowly, rather than fry, Brown them well, add liquid, cover and slow -cook for about 1 hour, Then you'll have ehops so tender that you'll hard- ly need a knife. And, of course, chops aren't the only cut of pork that needs thorough cooking. Underdone pork is something that nobody should ever serve or eat! * * * Pork Chops Creole 4 loin pork chops 3 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt, 1A teaspoon each, pepper, garlic salt, and thyme 4 slices onion % cup uncooked rice 1 No. 2 can tomatoes Combine flour and 3'i .the salt, pepper, garlic salt, and thyme; dredge chops. Brown lif ere little fat. Place browned ,chaps in bottom of casserole; tpp,7" with slices of onion and ride Season tomatoes with remaining salt, pepper, garlic salt and thyme; pour over rice and chops. Cover and bake at 350°F. 30 mins. Re- move cover and continue baking another half hour, basting oc- casionally. Serves 4. * * * PORK CHOPS WITH APPLE SLICES pork Ioin chops, cut 1 inch thick 1 teaspoon salt 3/8 teaspoon pepper 3 firm apples 1 cup water of cup red cinnamon drops 2 cups sugar Brown chops on both sides in :frying pan. Season with salt and pepper. Cover tightly and cook for 45 minutes, or until well done. Boil sugar, water, andcinnamon drops together until cinnamon drops are dissolved. Cut apples crosswise into lis -inch slices. Simmer apple slices in syrup un- til just tender, but not overcook- ed. Remove from syrup and drain. * * * Lemon Barbecued Ribs 3.4E pounds spareribs 33. cup lemon juice , ... .. . . lis cup catsup or chili sauce 1 teaspoon horseradish sauce Bash tabasco sauce 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce a cup fresh orange juice 2 teaspoons dry mustard %teaspoon paprika i/ cup honey or brown sugar 1 clove garlic 2 Iemons unpeeled and sliced 1 teaspoon salt Cut ribs in serving size pieces; place in roasting pan and brown at 450°F. for 50 minutes. Drain off fat. Combine remaining in- gredients except sliced lemons; brush over ribs. Place a slice of lemon on each piece of meat. Reduce heat to 350°F. for 1 hour, basting frequently with sauce. Serve 5 or 6. * * 4. Serve this sweet and pungent pork with hot, fluffy rice for a really tempting dish. Sweet and Pungent Pork 2 pounds lean pork, cut in small pieces Salt and pepper 1 cup brown sugar 4 tablespoons cornstarch 1 teaspoon salt :1 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 No. 2 cans pineapple chunks k green peppers, cut in strips 3 medium onions, cut in rings Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper. Cook thoroughly in large frying pan, turning to brown evenly. Mix together in a sauce-. pan brown sugar, cornstarch, salt, vinegar and soy sauce. Drain syrup from canned pine- apple chunks and measure; add enough. water to make 2 cups; pour into brown sugar mixture and mix well. Cook until slight- ly thickened, stirring constantly. Add green pepper, .onion and • pineapple chunks, Cook 3 min- utes, Remove from heat, add pork and let stand at least 10. minutes, Just before serving, bring to boil, stirring constantly. Serves 8. Warm Fiospitality In A Codd Land It's a good country where the spirit neigborliness and warmth of welcome that belong to a frontier is not forgotten in the easier way of life that comes with comforts of civilization. Alaska is that kind of a good country. Although it is still a frontier and there are many parts of it where hospitality is still a "must" from the stand- point of survival„there there are also towns and cities where every comfort and convenience are available and yet where hearts and homes are always open. Ketchikan, the first port of call in southeastern Alaska for the boats northward bound, is an example. When a friend in the States writes friends in Ketchikan that friends of his will be in for the three or four hours the boat stops, the Alas- kans make a note of the date and are on hand when the pas- sengers land to greet the "friend" and take them out to see the new pulp mill, the totem poles, and the sheer beauty of the majestic scenery that lies on every side. Not long ago a young engi- neer who has been working on one of the new projects under construction In this booming town, brought his wife and three children up for a week's holi- day. They took the summer cot- tage of people who had gone south (which means to the States) for the time -they would be in Alaska. A resident engineer and his wife welcomed the young fam- ily in true Alaska style. The • Beeby On File — New:born'babies at a San Francisco hospital are filed away for safe keeping. The infants are bedclecI down in a plastic -lined steel drawer that slides between the mother's room and the baby's nursery. This allows the mother to be with her baby, left,'and permits her to watch above the drawer, as nurse, Tight, cares for child in air-conditioned nursery. Alaskan engineer's wife went out to the cottage with flowers from her garden, a freshly baked pie of generous propor- tions, and loaves of homemade bread. He arranged a couple: of boat trips for the whole family. At noon one day, he learned from the young engineer that the mother and three boys were in town shopping and he promptly called his wife. '•She didn't ask if he wanted to in- vite the family for lunch. "Tell Helen we are expectingthein all to have lunch with us," was her answer to her husband. Forthwith, she multiplied the open -face grilled sandwiches she was preparing of bacon, cheese, and tomato, from ,eight to 18. Because, instead of four places, she would now set nine, She did it with happy enthusi- asm. Places were set at the breakfast table in the kitchen for the three children and at the table before the living -room window• for the grownups —the window that gives a view of 'the blue water of the harbor and the bordering blue and gray mountains beyond. With the generous sandwiches with homemade bread as their base, and parsley for garnish;. she seryed plenty of milk, and 'a juicy' apple pie e. la mode, fox`:' dessert. It was no trouble for the l ess. She made no fuss nor about .•. having =nine :histeid; four, all of a sudden as hi ri , was nearly ready. Hers'. wa:s just natural, easy Alaska Hospitality with the warm welcome • that makes visitors glad they have come north. Great Ballerina Tours America American life rather over- whelmed Alicia (Markova) when she first arrived in the States, and in some aspects it still amazes her. In a community where people read condensed novels because they have not the time to study the detail of the full length. work she felt that they appreciated the out- line rather than the detail of the ballet. She wondered whether it was possible for artistes to deve- lopas they should in cities where life was lived at such high pressure. How could they pos- sibly find peace and leisure for contemplation in such an atmos - here? She looked back on the Diaghileff days at Monte Carlo • 1 CUNARDt tined A5CANIA Boatdeckman the Englishp Matthew Masap of the racing pigeon that fluttered exhausted on to the liner's .bridge 350 miles out in the Atlantic as the 14,000 -ton vessel was bouncl for Canada recently. Weary from battling a storm, the bird circled the ship for a full day before alighting, Moscrop, himself a pigeon fancier, fed the weakened biro! corn, built a cage and soon nursed it back to strength. The pigeon had a racing tag and an identification band marked NUR 0176 When the Ascania docked in Montreal, the captain sent a letter off to the National Union of lacing Pigeons advising that the bird would be brought back to England in the Ascania and asking that its owner be advised. * when the dancers cut themselves off from big -city life in order to be. quiet and think seriously about the parts they were call- ed upon to interpret. The tem- po of American life made seri- ous solitary contemplation more than difficult . The one-night stands on the coast-to-coast tours proved gruel- ing for Alicia, when she first experienced them. Nothing like them exists in Europe. In Bri- tain the distances between the big cities are a matter of only a few hours, and the cities them- selves are large enough to ac- commodate a ballet company for a whole week. This means that the dancers can live in a'hotel and make themselves at home for a week or longer before they move on to the next place. In America, it is all so different. Only New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco are large enough t o permit a ballet company to stay for any length of time. Most of the other cities are visited for only two or three performances, and in many cases for one night only . , , One December morning, at three o'clock, to be exact, I xe- call a gr o up of the world's greatest dancers waiting for a bus to take them to Miami twelve hours away. Alicia was stretched out on the pavement with three overcoats — mine and those of Jerome.Robbins and John 1Criza—as her mattress, and her own hatbox as a pillow. Next to her, on three suitcases, lay Jerome Robbins, fast asleep. Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, An- nabelle Lyon, and Nora Kaye were playing some sort of a new card game .. . Such were the nights we sprint in the war years as we travelled the length and breadth of the United States. I am happy to say, though, that we were never` guilty of giving slovenly per- formances, Nothing would have been more unfair to those bal- letomanes in vast states suets as Texas, where ballet came but one night a year. -w• Prom "Alicia Markova," by Anton t,Solin. `Chute The Works—Its test run completed, a Ryan "Firebee" guided missile is lowered to the desert in New Mexico on its own 70 -foot parachute. The parachute, which may be op- erated either by remote con. rot or automatically, saves the axpens ve, 600 - miles -. per. - hour 'device for further tests. Color -Blind Bees By the scent of a little honey it is possible to attract bees to an . experimental table. •Here we can feed them On a piece of blue cardboard, for example. They suck up the food and, after car- rying it back to the hive, give it to the other bees. The bees re- turn again and again to the rich source of food which they have discovered.... :We perform the following ex- periment. On bur table we place a blue card and around it we ar- range. On each card we set a little watch glass, but only the glass dish on the blue card con- tains food (sugar -water). In this way we train the bees to come to the color blue. Since bees have a very good memory for places we frequently ,change the rela- tive positions of the cards. But the sugar is always placed on the blue card so that in• every case the color indicates where food is to be found. After some hours we perform the decisive ex- periment. The cards and' the glass dishes soiled by •th.e bees are taken away. We place on the table a new series of clean cards of different shades of gray, each with an empty glass dish, and somewhere among them we place a clean, blue card provid- ed, like all the others, with an empty glass dish. The bees re- member the blue color and alight only on the blue card; distin- guishing it from all shades of gray. This means that they have a true color sense, ... If we try to train bees to find their food on scarlet red, they alight not only on the red cardboard but also on black and on all the dark - gray cards in our arrangement. Thus red and black' are the same to the eye of the bee; in other words, bees are red -blind. Froni these experiments it is clear that bees have a color sense, but that it is ,not quite the same as that of a normal human being—. . It is interesting to consider the colors of flowers in relation to the color sense of laces. We can understand at once why scarlet- red flowers are so rarely found in Europe, since the visiting in- sects are red -blind. There are, however, many scarlet -red flow- ers in America and in Africa; but long before we had learned anything about the color sense of insects it was known that this shade of red is typical of !lowers visited and pollinated by birds. --Froom "'Bees: Their Vision, Ch.a'xnical Senses, and Language," by Karl von Frisco.. 'Copyright, 1050. by Cornell University Cor- nell Uiivereity. Dress, How Can I ? Q. HOW should natural -finish willow or wicker furniture be washed? A. Wash thoroughly with warm soapsuds containing enough borax to make the water soft. Scrub the reeds with an ordin- ary scrubbing brush and wipe. off with a dry cloth; set in the sun until all dampness has dis- appeared. Q. How can 1 make stockings wear longer? A. ,Do not put stockings aside for several days after wearing before washing then, as the moisture from the feet will quickly rot them. They should be washed as soon as possible after wearing. Q. -.How can I make it easier to clean woolens? A. Before attempting to clean a woolen garment, always brush it thoroughly. Much of the dust can be removed, thereby mak- ing the cleaning far easier. Q. How can 1 get rid of insects in the kitchen? A. Try laying a sheet of fly paper under the sink over night. The ` number of insects that are stuck to , it in the morning will astonish:: you. Never leave any food uncovered over night to attract• these insects. Q. RYlw can 1 brighten alumi- numwpans? A. Use: 'the darkest aluininuzn pan for cooking rhubarb, apri- cots, lemons or tomatoes. These foods contain acid and will brighten the aluminum, Q. How can 1 remove the cloudy appearance of plate glass? A. Clouded plate glass can be satisfactorily cleaned by rubbing briskly with alcohol. Q. How can I save thne when preparing string beans? A.. Remove the tops and strings, then, take a dozen or more beans, hold them on a board, and cut them across with a sharp knife. •It is much quicker and easier than break- ing each bean. Q. What is a good rule to foI- Iow when pressing garments? A. Never to place a hot iron on the right side of any material except cotton. Always lay a cloth between the iron and the fabric. Q. Sow can 1 keep the rain: from injuring porch pillows? A. Outdoor pillows should have an inner covering of oil- cloth, and en outer covering of some attractive washable ma- terial. Then there will be no worry about them on a wet day, as the rain will not injure thein. axes Make Footing Safer Visitors to public buildings are often on much safer footing than they are in their own homes. This is because building man- agement and maintenance staffs are usually more concerned with the safety of an individual than she herself is. Many ,.public buildings from hospitals to in- dustrial plants take extra safety measures to prevent anyone from skidding on their highly polish- ed floors. They do this by speci- fying the addition of a special anti -slip ingredient when .order- ing their floor waxes. This ingredient ee particles of sand -like silica so minute their diameter locos.., . s only one two -millionth of an inch. They are only one-fifth the diameter of t h e infinitesimal wax particles, but are m e c h harder. The principle behind we action of the silica particles when nix- ed with liquid wax is quite simple. By clinging to 'each wax particle they give the film e.xtea hardness. The foot presses the hard spheres into the larger, softer globules that Make up the wax coating on the floor. Energy is immediately absorbed at the point of impact, creating a snub- bing action which makes the surface slip -resistant, Of course, the walker is un- aware of what's going on under her feet. She just walks more confidently than she does on her own polished floors. These massed. collections of microscopic gre;ns are invisible because they are transparent. But their ability to reflect more light often results in a noticeably higher lustre with theeiilusion of greater depth of tint New Method For Treating Focus A couple of barrels is all the • equipment you'll need to treat your own fence posts, using the new double -diffusion „method just announced by the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. The method involves not one but two chemicals copper sul- phate and sodium chromate. You simply stand green, peeled posts, butt down, for two days in a barrel of the copper sulphate so- lution (18 poemds of copper sul phate crystals in .24 gallons of water). . Then ' you switch them to a second barrel of sodium chrom- ate solution (18 pounds of sod- ium chromate powder in 26 gal- lons of water). Leave th.em with the butts clown for one day, then turn the tops down for. a second day. The two chemicals combine to form a compound that will not dissolve nor leach,' One hundred pine posts treat- ed by double diffusion were set out in a Mississippi test plot more than 12 years ago. Ninety- nine of them are still in excel- lent condition. Your local farm or hardware store may not yet stock the chem- icals, but can probably order them from a chemical company. Twenty-five pounds of each . chemical will treat about 100 posts. The cost is somewhere be- tween 15 and 30 cents per post. Two warnings: copper sulphate is corrosive to iron, so you'll probably want to handle it in a wooden barrel. Both solutions can irritate your eyes and skin. Wear rubber gloves while han- dling the posts, and wash off any of the solution that splashes on your skin. Rinse the posts after treatment. Archway to Decision — Representatives of west and east attend- ing the Geneva conference cross this esplanade each day as they approach the Patois des Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. View is from an archway of the Assembly Hall in the Palais,