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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-05-27, Page 6r• L TALKS data Andvews In all probability there is no place in the world where you can find such a diversity Of cook- ery recipes used as in Canada and the United States. That's because these countries have, over the years, attracted settlers from almost every nation ®- and many of them, in coming here, have brought along the mdemory of their favorite dishes. In the Ukraine, for instance, they have — or used to have --- a special dough called "Babka", 'mender and toothsome. Th e Ukrainians combine this dough with meats, as a main dish, or with fruit, as a dessert, take my Word for it, Babka is worth try- :hsg --- you'll find ways Of using exp left -over meat or fowl. Just grind it up, make a Babka roll -- and then watch it disappear! .AJBKA DOUGH 1x/s c. sifted flour seet tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking powder 3/2 c. lard or shortening 1 egg, beaten 3 tbisp. milk Sift dry ingredients together. Cut in lard with two knives until pieces are the size of small peas. Add egg and milk, mixed. Toss with fork until dough holds to- gether. Flour hands, pat dough into ball. Chill several hours, or overnight. Roll on floured board into rectangle 16 x7 inches. Spread with one of the following fillings. Roll lengthwise. Shape roll into ring in a 9 -inch greased pie pan. Bake in moderate (375°) oven 40 to 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Makes 6 servings. MEAT FILLING c. onions, chopped 1 tblsp. butter, melted 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 1 c. ground cooked- meat 1 c. chopped celery 34 tsp. salt Brown onions in butter. Add % eup soup. Mix in meat, celery and salt. Spread on dough (see Babka recipe). Dilute remaining soup, and serve while hot over Babka. u ,p I. CHICKEN FILLING 1 c. cooked chicken, chopped 1 c. chopped celery ettettetatateett Stretching The Truth — This Paris elan sidewalk salesman says his rubberized socks will put bounce In your step, and fit you "for- ever." Could be he's posing be- side the Seine because a doubt- ing prospect invited him to go jump in the river, tblsp. chopped parsley 34 tsp. salt 1 can condensed cream oI chicken soup Mix dry ingredients with ;ft cup soup. Spread on dough (see Babka recipe). Dilute rest of soup; serve over Babka: FRUIT FILLX?W 1 e..mixed dried fruit, ground 1 apple, peeled, chopped fine ? a c. honey 2 tblsp. brown sugar c. orange juice 1 tsp. grated orange rind 34 tsp. cinnamon le tsp. nutmeg Mix all ingredients ................ Mix all ingredients. Spread on dough (see Babka recipe). Serve with sweetened whipped cream. And although this next one doesn't come from so far away as the Ukraine, 1 think you'll find the following recipe pro- vides a welcome answer to that ever-present in most homes -- demand for "more cookies." CHOCOLATE HERMITS 1.34 c. sifted flour 2 tsp. baking powder 34 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon le c. shortening 1 c. sugar - 1 egg, well beaten 3 squares (I oz.) unsweet- ened chocolate, melted 1 tsp. vanilla c. milk 1 c. raisins, chopped 1 e. nuts, chopped Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and c inn am 0 n. Cream shortening. Add sugar gradually, cream until fluffy. Add egg to creamed mixture ' along with chocolate. Blend well. Add vanilla and milk. Stir in dry in- gredients, raisins, and nuts. Mix well and chill lh hour. Drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet. Bake in moderate (350°) Oven 15 minutes. Makes 2'dozen cookies. Some ogs Are O.K. Mat Not The oad-Hog Figures don't lie, and they show that the largest percentage of bad accidents occur on1 straight open highways when one or both of the parties in- volved are "hogging" the road, or "opening up" t0 pass a car en front which in all probability is touring at a reasonable speed. Your traffic rules insist that you keep to the right side, of the road and in particular, to the right of any dividing line. Moreover, if you yourself are warned that another car is over- taking you, you ere to draw over to the right and, allow him to pass. Too many accidents occur through refusal by one driver to yield to another his right to overtake. When you overtake another vehicle, do so only when you are absolutely certain there is no oncoming traffic that can force everyone concerned into a squeeze -play that may mean death to the loser. 1f you can't be certain—DON'T OVERTAKE. Never pass on a curve or rise —for you can never tell what is coming and if you guess wrong, it's just too bad. When you CAN pass safely, always signal your intention. And, once you have passed your fellow driver, DON'T CUT BACK SHARPLY in front 01 hien. He prefers his share of the road to the ditch, and he has a right to it. IT'S, AWFUL LONESOME DOWN HERE •--Pboto by Mori 8nulth5ria ems Man Rescues St. Bernard - "Snowbound Gem," 160 -pound St. Bernard whose ancestors stili rescue stranded travelers in the Swiss Alps, is herself on the receiving end of a "rescue" effort. Her owner, E. P. Everhard, constructed this five -customer canine cafeteria to help "mom" with her 10 -pup chore at mealtime, (Only nine pups are in the picture •— the 10th went out for lunch.) More Than One Bolam Every Minute Should you chance to walk in- to a certain shop in the heart of Londonthe man behind the counter will probably try to sell you a pair of spectacles with witch it is claimed you you can see ghosts! From under the counter he will produce the spectacles—re- sembling pectaclesre-sembling something which snigfit be included in the kit of a space man who hopes to be rocketed to the moon! They have plastic, dark -blue lenses and a frame o£ imitation tortoiseshell. "Sensitive" people who wear the spectacles are en- abled to see "psychic entities" at a seance, or ghosts at a haunt- ed house! People who have bought the glasses have, apparently, .seen wonderful things with them. One wearer, for example,. "saw love- ly astral colours." It is also claimed that .the spectacles can help a person to see "the aura which surrounds everybody and to understand the world be- yond." The price of these remarkable spectacles? Ten dollars! And, be- lieve it or not, some folk have actuallybeen gullible enough t4:, pay for • them. One man who purchased "a' essay reported that he has been trying for a week to see something wonderful and other -worldly through them. He aded that he was now suffering from slight. eyestrain. It's amazing but true that some people, even in 1954, will unhesitatingly believe every- thing they're told. The more fan- tastic it sounds the more credu- lous they are. They'll swallow anything. Some men and women today are just as gullible as the Am- erican visitor to London ' who "bought" Nelson's Column for $15,000 `from Arthur ("Sales- man") Furguson, the notorious confidence trickster,soon after World War I. Strolling through Trafalgar Square looking for victims one sunny day, Ferguson saw the American gazing in admiration at Nelson's Column. Introducing himself as "a Government offi- cial," he offered to show the visitor round London. During Athe tour Furguson told his victim that the British Gov- ernment had given him the job 01 selling many of Our treasured monuments to help pay the war debt to America, "It'll be an awful wrench to part with Nelson's Column, but it will have to go for the knock- out price of. $18,000," he said, with a dejected air. The American believed him, but haggled about the price. Fur- guson pretended to get in touch with his "superiors" and even- , tualiy agreed to take $15 000. It was not until the American phoned a firm of contractors to have the Column, removed that he realized he'd been tricked. Swiftly the contractors w;;nt to the police, but Furguson was ou'eker. He escaped to Amer;ca w'th the $15,000. But before he went he manageu to "sell" Big Ben for $3,000 to another gullible testier! Furguson, who died in 1938, was always proud of his Nelson Column "sale," which he regard- ed as his greatest coup. In Am- erica he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for selling the Steele of L.berty to a mil- lionaire philanthropic Australian who planned to re.erect it in Sydney Harbour. The Australian believed him when he said the statue had to be removed to widen New York Harbour. In Poland a few years ago a wealthy business span met a plausible rogue who convinced him that he had actually been "by rocket projectile" to the giro-:....::, ...... Taking No Chances, — Gasoline station owner Owen Yates tests George Russell's pitted windshield for evidence of radioactivity. Yates borrowed the Geiger counter to test pockmarked car wind. shields. So far, all have been negative. moon and found there land rich with gold and silver. The Pole "bought" the plot of land on the moon for the bar- gain price of $15,000 before real- izing he had been swindled. Within an hour of leer arrival at a luxury south coast hotel in 1923, a lovely, auburn -haired wo- iiian—apparently educated and cultured—had made friends with the other woman guests. ' One evening when she appear- ed dressed for dinner she was wearing a "pearl necklace" which she casually mentioned had been valued at $75,000. The other women ' gasped • with ad- miration. They were permitted to handle and "try on" the wonderful necklace. The woman laughingly suggested that One of the wo- men should wear it at dinner while she in turn wore the oth- er's diamond necklace "just for a change." Everybody swallowed the story, as well as an excellent dinner. The exchange was made. But towards the end of the meal the auburn -haired romanc- er'suddenly begged to be excus- ed for a few moments while she fetched something from her room. What she "fetched" was her suit -case and fur coat, and while thesimple women were awaiting her return to the table she was speeding in a car towards Lon- don with the diamond necklace. It was . worth $7,500, Her "pearls" were artificial and worth about $10. Her victim's gullibility had cost her dear. Yes, there are always plenty of people who can be induced to believe anything. Some of the charming, well-spoken men who move about Europe's big cities battening on the credulity of men and women rank among the aris- tocrats of crime. A dozen or so have such a gift for reading human nature that they can af- ford to travel like millionaires. One of these golden -tongued swindlers persuaded a ship own- er he met on the Riviera to part with $G0,000 for a spurious in- vestment—within an hour of making his acquaintance, Another travels round with a shapely brunette whose charms tl• ,x., Yg. HxW 'esu. "1`het's the man who canna to dinner last weep. zee's still here!" pay big dividends when the vic- tim is a rich young bachelor. She is invariably his "daughter" — whose "fortune is temporarily tied up abroad." The victim, ren- dered even more gullible by the girl's looks, usually advances a big "loan." Some years ago an apparently shrewd London 'business mall believed a well-dressed strang- er's story that he had perfected a wonderful machine which could reproduce currency notes of any country. The stranger showed hien a queer looking metal machine with electric light bulbs of dif- ferent colours. He demonstrated it by putting pieces of plain pap- er through one slot and taking out £5 and dollar notes from another, The business man was tempted —and fell.' He paid $1,500 for a share in the "profits" and never saw the stranger or his ingeni- ous invention again. IT WORKED, ANYWAY A doctor whose medical skill far exceeded the clarity# of his handwriting sent an invitation to a patient to spend an evening with him, adding that there would be music, cards, and so on. The friend failed to turn up, and sent no explanation. When they met the following day the doctor asked whether he had re- ceived the note, "Yes, thank you," replied the other. "I took • it to the druggist and had it made up, and I feel much better already." This Could Apply To Canadians Too A geed deal has been said lately 'about the need for en. Ear of America as well as a Voice of America. There Is a growing recognition that the Un- ited States has been failing in some important ways to under- stand what other nations are thinking and why. That gallant soldier who re- fuses the name of "hero," Maj, Gen. William F. Dean, has writ- ten a book that shows how much of value the listening ear and humble heart can learn. While enduring the terrible physical hardships of his Korean impris- onment—no more terrible in many respects than the normal hardships of his captors, he ad- mits with characteristic honesty —he made many discoveries. The most important was that "the ordinary Communist who guarded me and Lived with me really believed that they were following a route toward a bet- ter life for themselves and their. children." Not fine words, not bullets, but a practical program Of help is the only answer to such a faith, he implies. And understanding is the -answer to the hatred for Americans he found among otherwise kindly though. semi -barbaric enemies. Their hatred was for the self- confident aliens who callously called all Koreans "gooks" and were now, through the evil nec- essities of war, dropping bombs on Korean women and children, Part of this enmity would never have arisen, General Dean be- lieves, if American officers and men had behaved with more tact and respect for Koreans in the years before the fighting be- gan. And in a speech delivered in Boston a few days ago he point- ed out that every time stones are thrown at a Negro's house in the United States or conspicu- ous injustice is done to a Jew or a Nisei, Americans :rnay soon forget the incident but it is known by heart to every Com- munist schoolboy. Held prisoner as General Dean was, there is little to do but listen and think, Americans as a whole may learn to think more clearly the harder they listen. -- -From The Christian Science Monitor. Davey Jones — Suffering from exposure, George A. Ramsdell lies in a hospital bed after be- ing adrift in his 22 -foot sloop for nearly three weeks. The 30 -year- old skipper had lost 20 pounds during the period he had been given, up for dead. et§,Iia ,' `v• tette tettee ', Grass "Troops"' Move On Drought -- Judge James A. Schooling, left, examines ane of the many huge fissures opened in his parched land as a result of drought conditions: At"`right, said conservationist Albert lichte demonstrates how Reeds" canary gross can come to the aid of drought -stricken farmers. Toug .and draught -resistant, its roots system binds the land together and helps prevent erosion, It is said to Izt4"'especioliy effective when planted along waterways.