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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-06-24, Page 3TABLE TALKS Strawberry -time once again and .in :case you'd like a little change from the regular "short- cake" or "with cream" methods of serving the luscious 'berries,: the following are worth trying. HONEY -STRAWBERRY BASKETS 3 cups strawberries e-1 cup honey 2 tablespoons cornstarch (or 4 tablespoons flour) ee teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter pastry Prepare berries and place in a bowl. Add a little " honey to cornstarch and blend well; add remaining honey. Pour over berries. Line large muffin. pans with, rich pastry. Fill with berry mixture, Add a dash of cinna- mon and a dot of butter. Rake at 400°F. 10 minutes; reduce heat to 350°F. and bake 20-25 minutes ,longer. * * * MARSHMALLOW - STRAW- BERRY WHIP 14 graham crackers Y cup melted butter 1 cup milk 32 Marshmallows (1/z pound) 11/2 cups cut-up strawberries 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup heavy cream, whipped 1/4 teaspoon salt Crush graham crackers and combine with melted butter. Spread over bottom •of greased 8 -inch square pan. ' Combine Marshmallows and milk ' in a sattcepan. Heat, stirring occaslon- ally, until marshmallows are melted. Set aside until cold. Add crushed strawberries, lemon juice, salt, and whipped cream. Pour mixture over graham cracker crust. Chill overnight before serving.' * * * MACAROON - STRAWBERRY WHIP' 1 egg white 2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup fresh or frozen (thawed) strawberries 1/a cup.. heavy cream, whipped 3 cup's'' crumbled coconut maca- roons Beat egg white until stiff; blend in sugar and strawberries. Fold in whipped cream and macer- eons. Pour mixture in refriger- ator tray and freeze. Eight serv- ings. If you''dlike a strawberry des- sert` with an added taste, try combining rhubarb with berries in individual cobblers. Help - Prince Wan Waithaya- kon, foreign minister of Thai- land, said his country would ask the UN ••to send a peace -obser- vation committee to determine the extent of Red threat from Indo-China. Cod Chowder BY DOROTHY' MADDOX A TALI. glass of cold milk and a Alice of chocolate Cake— that's one of ate faeorite sum- mertime snacks, it's s whole - Atom one, too. Mick is a basic food, about the best known source of the calcium ;live need, as well as a good sup- plier of riboflavin and protein. e Some of our daily requirements milk can be supplied by ice am, in milk drinks and in fees using milk.: So let's•look tt one recipe that will add to hat wonderful sense of feeling youthful and fit. This New England chowder is made with nonfat dry milk which possesses all the nutrition of fluid milk .except butterfat. It is also very economical. Cod Chowder (Makes 2 quarts) One quarter cup diced salt pork,, 1 medium-sized onion, sliced; 2 cups diced, uncooked potatoes; 1 teaspoon salt, Vs tea- spoon pepper, ns teaspoon pow- dered thyme, 2 cups water, 1 pound fresh or frozen cod fillets, 3 cups liquid nonfat dry milk, 4 tablespoons flour. Saute salt pork until crisp in a 4 -quart saucepan over low heat. Add sliced onion and cook until More milk—as a beverage or tender, about 5 .minutes. Add potatoes, salt, pepper, thyme and water. Cover and Winner over low heat 10 minutes. " Remove from heat. Cut fish fillets into -1-inch cubes, add to potato mixture. Return to heat. Cover and cook in cooked dishess paeans better 5 minutes longer or until pota- toes and fish are tender. Remove from heat. Blend small amount of liquid nonfat dry milk with flour to make a smooth paste, add with remaining liquid milk to chowder. Return to heat and cook, stir - health and more youthfulness ring constantly, until chowder comes to a full rolling boll and is slightly thickened. Serve hot with a pat of butter over each portion. Note: Any mild flavored fish fillets may be used, such as had- dock, sole or halibut. • STRAWBERRY - RHUBARB COBBLERS 2 cups sliced strawberries 2 cups diced rhubarb 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups sugar 2' cups water Drop biscuit dough to which 2 tablespoons of sugar have been added, Combine sugar and : water and cook 5 ininutes; ' add• vanilla. Combine diced strawberries and rhubarb and divide equally be- tween 8 well -buttered indi- vidual baking dishes. Pour syrup over;fruit. Droit batter by spoon- fulls over fruit, making a single mound on each. Dent each mound and drop in 1 teaspoon each butter and. sugar. Bake at 450°F. 15-20 minutes. Serve warm with cream, HowCanl? Q. How can 1 renovate hat bands? A. Brush with a sponge or. small brush, with a solution made, by dissolving lee on of white castile - soap in 4 oz. of alcohol, towhich is . added 1 oz. each 01 sulphured ever and water of ammonia: Rinse in blear rain water. Q. How can I re -size a rug? A. Dissolve 1 pound of granu- lated glue in 1 gallon of boiling. water. Tack the rug, lace down, on the floor, and apply the hot. glue to the back with a white- wash brush. Q. How can .I remove old var- nish and paint? A. Dissolve thoroughly one ' quart of good caustic soda in three quarts of lukewarm water and apply with a coarse sponge. Q. How can I drive away red ants? A, Use camphor gum, or pieces of cotton dipped • in spirits of camphor and place about the .haunts except near food. Or, spray with oil of sassafras, or strew whole or ground cloves about the panty shelves. Q. How can I remove spots from w.a11 paper? A. Place a sheet of blotting . paper 'and a warm iron over it aver the grease spots on the wall paper. Care should be taken that the iron is not too hat. Mail Call - Pvt. Daniel A. Reiss, stationed in Bamberg, Germany, hasn't had a minute to spare since his 21st birthday gift arrived from his fiancee, Louise Gordon. It's a 3200 -foot letter and ee for Dan's managed to read through the first quarter mtle'of the letter, If took Louise about one month .he type the greeting. What's Going On? - Dean Mos- ley, 6, and brothers Jerry, 10, at right, and Charles,. 13,_; aren't really up to mischief with _ that garden hose. Why The Seems 131, In Color The sky appears blue to us be- cause the light from the sun is broken up and scattered by the tiny particles of air, dust and water vapor inthe atmosphere. Sunlight, like all white light, is made up of all the colors of the spectrum, the same colors we see in the rainbow. If you were to take rays of light of all these dif- ferent colors, and mix them, you would have white light, There is much that we have still to learn about light. We are fairly certain that it has a wave- like nature — in other words, waves of light spread out, some- thing like the ripples you see spreading through a pool when you have thrown a stone into the water. Light of different colors moves in waves of differ- ent lengths, The waves of blue light are much shorter than those of red or orange light. When the light of the sun pas - es through the earth's atmos- phere and strikes against the tiny particles in the air, the blue part of the light is of just the wave -length to be scattered by these particles. The red and . or- ange light, having longer wave- lengths, passes right through the atmosphere. The scattering of the blue light makes the sky look blue. Also, because it is scatter- ed in the sky, it does not come through to our eyes as part of the color of the sun itself. For this reason, the sun looks much yellower to us than it really is, because the blue light has been left behind in the sky itself. In the morning and in the even- ing, at sunrise and sunset, how- ever, you have often noticed the beautiful reds and oranges of the sky. At these times, the light of the sun passes through a greater layer of atmosphere than. it does at other times of the day. It strikes more of the dust par - ticks near the surface of the earth and then the red and or- ange waves of light are scattered. Most of the color of any kind that we see In the sky is caused by light and the atmosphere. If there were no atmosphere, the sky would always appear a ,very deep black. Without any atmos- phere, however, there would still be some color in the heavens. The stars that are blue or red or yellow:. any color --would still keep their same colors, since these colors are not in any way due to the effects of the atines- phere of the earth. Deadly Volcano Struck City Twice In days such as these, when man-made destruction is common talk, it is well to reflect that Mother Nature- has a few tricks up her sleeve which can, on. occasion, put some of our puny efforts in the shade. For instance, there was the horrifying episode when a vol- cano destroyed the city of St. Pierre on the island of Mar- tinique, West Indies, just over fifty years ago. The volcano of Mont Pelee had given anoccasional rumble over - the years, but nobody had been unduly alarfned. Suddenly por- tents of coming disaster appear- ed in the dense clouds of vapour which began to curl up the moun- tainside,. and in the evil -smelling gases which reached St. Pierre. Towards -the end . of April, 1902, a rapid series of detonations began, and a high column of vapour and ashes rose above the mountain and gradually extend- ed until fine dust fell over the island and darkness crept omin- ously towards the ill fated.:town. Afrightful and incessant storm of rain and ashes began. ' Earth- quakes started and grew steadily worse. Finally, on May 8th, a great cloud, intensely hot and thickly charged with ashes and stones, • was ejected from Pelee, The crater was choked by the thick lava of the eruption, and the blast, instead of expending itself upwards, found a more destruc- tive course, curled over, and rolled down the mountain to the sea. St. Pierre lay in its course. The volcanic avalanche swept over the flourishing city, and in a few horrifying seconds killed its 30,000 inhabitants. It was thought Pelee had done its worst, but in the following August the volcano excelled all its earlier efforts in a climax of terrible violence which left the island a grey, desolate waste. For the second time St. Pierre was utterly annihilated, a city of the dead, shrouded in a pall of ashes. The greatest volcanic eruption of modern times was not a cone- shaped mountain which we usually associate with eruptions like that of Mont Pelee, but from a long open rent in the earth. It occurred at Laki, in the south of Iceland, during the summer of 1783. It began with the opening of a vast fissure, over twenty miles long. From this appalling chasm burst forth torrents of gleaming lava, accompanied by clouds of suffocating vapours and crashes of thunder. - The floods of molten lava sent long .fiery arms racing headlong down the valleys and overwhelming them in ruin. The rivers were boiled away and the lava 'swept on till it filled up to the brim the glens and ravines and over- flowed into the open country on either side. Only a few people were killed directly, for Iceland is a sparsely populated country, but hundreds were ruined, and thousands died the following year owing to the famine and pestilence •which fol- lowed, That was the greatest erup- tion, but the most stupendous volcanic explosion on record was that which in 1883 altered the map otif the Straits of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra, In prehistoric times there existed a gigantic crater on this spot, of which the volcano of Krakatoa and its neighbours are the wreck- ed and shattered relics. Krakatoa had been' dormant for two centuries before its im- pressive awakening in 1883. On August 26th a thick cloud of dense vapour rose above the island to a height of seventeen miles, and by next morning a rain of ashes had spread to Ba- tavia, plunging it into total dark- ness. Then came four earth- ' shaking explosions, One of which could be heard 3,000 miles away. When next the island was seen, two-thirds of it had been completely blown away. Eight square miles of land had been replaced . by eight square miles of sea, which in places reached a depth of 1,000 feet. Though Krakatoa . was - unin- habited at the time, the mighty banks of water hurled up a hun- ` dred feet high by the explosion devastated the shores Of Java and Sumatra and destroyed about 40,000 people. So great was the sweep of these immense sea waves that a warship was carried inland . and left stranded three miles from the coast and 30 feet above high water mark. • Really Wide Vision A fly can not see in all direc- tions at once, becauseone:: part .of its eyes must lie against the fly's head, and in that direction, at least, the fly can not see. But it is true that the eyes of flies, and of many other insects, can see in far more directions at once than ours can. This is especially the case where the eyes are very rounded and bulging. We must not suppose that this means clear vision at the same time in all directions; but it does mean that, while looking in one direction, the insect can get a hint of movement much farther round the corner than we can. The proper way of saying this is•that their field of vision is very large, even though it does not quite amount to seeing "all ways at once." The eye of the fly is made somewhat like a precious stone that has been cut into many lit- tle"faces, or facets. The number of these tiny facets on the eyes of insects is extraordinary. A male ant, for instance, may have twelve hundred facets on each eye, and the number on the eye of the dragon fly has been reck- oned as high as seventeen thous- and. Eyes made in faces, or fac- ets, are called compound eyes. Bike.RUding Perils Down In Africa) Do .chimpangees in their wildi state keep monkeys as guardsR look -outs .or servants? Nearly every troop of chimps, roaming in the. Uganda forests, appears to have an old male blue monkey attached to it. Be tags around with it all the time. Perhaps he acts as .. the chimps° mascot. No one yet knows his true function. The latest annual report frern the Uganda Protectorate's Game and Fisheries Department is again a wonderful medley : et wild -life lore, presented with dry humour. Natives show little scruple about poaching sprightly black - and -white Colobus monkeys. These monkeys, when very young, have almost pure white skins, which artful poachers sell and use as decorative cover= for bicycle saddles. In Uganda even cycle -riding may expose one to hair-raising hazards. An official pedalling to work in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, suddenly saw a hippo pop up ahead of him—and charge. He tumbled off his bike and bolted. When he gathered enough courage to return he found the infuriated beast had smashed his bicycle to pieces, Sometimes Hippo are shame- lessly snared. One such "beauty of the Nile" struggled free from a native trap, but with a band of one inch thick cable wire round its neck. The flesh was cruelly torn. Two months later when the Game Ranger saw it again, the skin had healed round the noose, while the wire's broken end stood straight up from the hippo's neck like a television aerial. Itcan be dangerous tc get drunk, too, After an alcoholic spree with his friends, a man slumped down- unconscious in his hut. His reeling dreams must have ended with a- crunch, for a lion padded in and mauled him severely. • He died a little later in hospital. Unnecessary destruction of elephants is deplored. Fewer elephants were killed in the Pro- •ttorate in 1952 than in any ;one year since the Game Depart- 'nt began in 1925. But one gierne guard, who was hunting elephants, added to the year's bag against his "will. He had picked, out an elephant in a small herd which had been raid» ing crops and shot it, while the other elephants in a turmoil stirred up a swarm of bees. The bees attacked the game guard, who ran helter-skelter towards the stampeding elephants. So, with bees thick upon him, he had to stop and shoot another massive jumbo to get himself out of peril. The most touching story, how- ever, is of an elephant helping its young over a steep bank. The youngster was unable to scramble up the slope by itself. So its mother, kneeling down on the bank's top, stretched out her trunk, grabbed him and hauled him gently to her side, as if she were a high-powered crane. Irish Guards Band to Visit :r Canada: The Regimental Band of, the Irish Guards will travel to. u Canada this summer to play at t the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. This will be the band's first trip to Canada since 1934. Directed by Captain C. I -I, Jaeger, the band consists of 614 musicians. Colonel of the Irish Guards is Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis. What A 'Break - Painter Salvador Dali displays one of his many creations, called "Soft Self Portrait.", The Spenish-born artist held a press conference in Rome, Italy, to announce his "rebirth° as a cubist painter.