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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-07-22, Page 2A friend of mine was saying, just the other day, "These 'ready - mix' cakes are all vera well— and a great help to women who are too pressed for time to do zeal baking, But personally 1 like the kind you sometimes get at church socials or picnics—the kind that just make you go look- ing for the woman who made it, to beg for the recipe." And there are plenty of folks of the same opinion. So here are three cakes that — well, I was almost going to say are guaran- teed to have your friends "beg- ging for the .recipe," * WHITE WONDER CAKE 32 c. shortening 11/s c. sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 21/4 c. sifted cake flour 21/2 tsp, baking powder. 1/2 tsp. salt 1 c. milk 4 egg whites. Cream shortening. Add sugar and vanilla; beat until fluffy. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to cream- ed mixture alternately with milk. Blend until smooth after each addition. Beat egg whites until stiff enough to form peaks. Fold into batter. Pour batter into 2 well -greased 8 -inch cake pans. Bake in moderate (375°) oven about 25 minutes. Cool. Put layers together with— Lemon Filling 3 tblsp. corn starch 1 c. sugar 1/s tsp. salt 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1 c, cold water 1/4 c. lemon juice 1 tblsp. butter 1 tsp. grated lemon rind Combine corn starch, sugar and salt. Stir together egg yolks, water, and lemon juice. Add to dry in- gredients. Cook until thick, stirring con- stantly. Remove from heat; add butter and lemon rind. Cool. Spread over bottom cake layer; top with other layer. Frost with— Lemon Cream Frosting 1 c. butter 21 c. confectioners' sugar 1 tblsp. cream 1 egg yolk 1 tblsp. lemon juice Few drops yellow coloring Cream butter . Blend in all other ingredients. • Beat until smooth. (If mixture seems too stiff to spread easily, add a few drops of hot water.) * * * YELLOW ANGEL CAKE 6 eggs (about), separated (you need 1/4 c. yolks, 3/4 c. whites) 34 c. cold water 11/4 c. sugar / tsp. vanilla 1/4 tsp. orange extract 312 tsp. almond . flavoring 11/4 c. sifted cake flour '/4 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. cream of tartar Beat egg yolks until very thick and lemon -colored. Add water. Beat until thick. Add sugar gradually, beating con- stantly—about 10 minutes with electric mixer at highest speed. Fold in flavorings. Sift flour and salt together at least 3 times. Carefully fold into egg yolk ;mixture. Beat egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar. Beat until stiff enough to form peaks. ?old into batter. Pour into ungreased 10 -inch angel food pan. Bake in moderate (350°) oven about1 hour. Invert and let cool in the pan about 1 hour. Frost with Seven -Minute icing. * ,k * CHOCOLATE ANGEL FOOD CAKE 3/4 c. sifted cake flour 1 c. cocoa 11 c, egg whites (10 to 12 eggs) 1/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cream of tartar 11/4 c. sifted sugar 1 tsp. vanilla Sift flour and cocoa together 4 times. Add salt to egg whites. Beat until frothy, `Add cream of tar- tar. Beat until stiff enough to form peaks. Fold sugar into whites, 1/4 cup at at time. Add vanilla. Fold flour mixture into whites, 2 tablespoons at a time. Pour batter into ungreased 10 - inch angel food pan. Bake in medium (375°) oven 1 hour. Invert pan and let cake cool, in pan about 1 hour before tak- ing it out to be frosted. Remove any loose cake crumbs, so frost- ing will go on smoothly. Orange Frosting' 1 pkg, (3 oz.) cream cheese 1 tblsp. orange juice 21/4 c. sifted confectioners' sugar 34 tsp. grated orange . rind, Blend cream cheese and orange juice. Add the sugar gradually, blending well. Add orange rind; blend again. Eve Smoke Moths Or rh r k Beetles? What has three pairs of legs, does little walking; wears a fur -coat, though it isn't winter; has, twelve eyes, but can't see farth- er than its nose? It's the cabbage grower's rea- son for gloom — the caterpillar. Despite its being endowed with six intricate eyes either side of its head, the insect can see no more than that part of the cab- bage leaf it is chewing, nor farth- er than the twig upon which it may be crawling; all else appears a blurred and misty background. No less astounding is the dis- covery that certain insects can walk or fly around without much difficulty though they be minus their heads! Harold Bastin, in his fascinating, vividly illustrat- ed book, "Freaks and Marvels of Insect Life", explains that these wonderful "Look, Mum — No Head" goings-on are due to the extraordinary nervous system of the insect. While the brain is, of course, the centre of the nervous system, the rest of the body boasts a number of "nerve -knots" which function as minor brains. Thus, though it may have had its head knocked off by an enemy, the in- sect can still move, although its course would naturally be some- what erratic. How many of us have smoked moths or drunk beetles? How many of us haven't! Discussing the insects which are either friends or foes of mankind, Mr. Bastin reveals how tobacco mer- chants and manufacturers are finding it hard to keep the cater- pillar of the tobacco -moth away from cigars and cheroots. Simi- larly, the importers of coffee ber- ries are sorely tried by a cun- ning beetle whose presence does not affect the quality or aroma of the coffee. "Hence," writes the' author, "when buying old coffee one is likely to purchase also a quantity of ground -up beetles into the bargain!" An extremely entertaining work, Howling Success -- That's what 15 -month-old Lrsa Leong does best, according to judges of the New York Chinese community's loth annual baby contest. She's a little young to try in her beers, but Lisa is well supplied with fearful "victory" cups, at any rate. THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Power cranes, picks, shovels and human muscle went into action recently to dear the way for the construction of the Canadian National Railways new 20 -storey hotel hi Montreal. The busy scene above, left, shows the demolition of a temporary traffic bridge at the Central Station site. At right is a sketch of what the large hotel, with its more than 1,000 guest rooms, will look like when it is completed in 1957. Between the hotel and the International Aviation Building is a 28 -storey office building which the railway proposes to erect. The area ..is expected to develop through private capital into a magnificent shopping, theatre, office and apartment centre larger than New York's Rockefeller Center. Pi rs,:. power Power is the rate at which energy is being spent, or the rate at which work is being done. Though it may be expressed in terms of horsepower, it bears no exact relation to animal horse- power. What we term horse- power is so called because it originated from the results of experiments carried out with. strong draft horses by James Watt more than a century ago. He wished to find out the rate at which a horse, under average conditions, does it work, and he fixed this rate, as a round figure, at 550 foot-pounds of work a second, or 33,000 foot-pounds a minute—that is to say work equivalent to that needed to raise a weight of 550 pounds one foot high in one second. Watt took this as the value of one horsepower, although he realized that it was a higher rate of work than an average horse can maintain for a full day. Of course, a horse, if stirred by a whip, can exert a much greater effort, but only for a very short time. The expression horsepower is qualified in, several ways. What is called "indicated horsepower" is the horsepower exerted on the piston of an engine. Some of this power is absorbed in driv- ing the engine, and the balance that remains for doing the work of driving machinery is known as actual power given out by the engine or motor. Electrical horsepower is the equivalent of mechanical horsepower; one elec- trical horsepower is equal to 746 watts. The watt was named for the great inventor who ex- perimented with horses. It is the amount of power brought by a current of one amprere flow- ing under a pressure of one volt. The Speed Sound No.. Sound travels four and a half times more quickly in water than in air. Through steel it travels faster than through any other substance — about sixteen times more quickly than in in air. Perhaps you have noticed, too, that sound travels more quickly in warm air than it does in cold air, as temperatures also affects the rate. Sc xnd does not travel at the same speed even through differ- ent kinds of gases. The lighter the gas, the faster the sound travels through it, ifthe pres- sure and the temperature of all the gases are the same, If the air we breathe were hydrogen,: instead of being a mixture of nit- rogen and oxygen, we should hear a clap of thunder much more quickly than we do On an average, sound takes about five seconds to travel one mile through air. If a storm is four miles away from us, we hear the thun- der about twenty seconds after we see the lightning, If the Mr were composed of hydrogen, we should hear the thunder about five seconds after the flash. In a thunderstorm it is some- times fun to figure out how far away the lightning is For every five seconds that you can count from the moment you see the lightning flash, to the time you hear the thunder, you must add one nine to the distance between the lightning and you. Here are the speeds at which, sound travels in different gases when the temperature is at zero degrees centigrade (32 degrees Fahrenheit), and when the pres- sure is the same as that of the atmosphere at normal times: hydrogen, 4,163 feet a second; air, 1,090 feet a second; oxygen, 1,041 feet a second; carbon ,diox- ide, 856 feet a second. Very few people are as broad- minded as we think we are. "Waddle We Da Today?" — Paced by her mistress, Alice Olhau- sen, left, "Lillibeth" stops traffic on her daily walk. The duck doesn't want to cause any "quack -ups," so she follows her mis- tress carefully, and avoids fowl play under the wheels of traffic. By E. (BOB) VON MI AS The proposal of the President .of the Manitoba Farmers' Union, '`j }:Soliulz, :,'that the :M. F. U. and .. the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture and ' Cooperation of Agriculture and Cooperation shall amalgamate and become one organization, giving up their present name, character or act of incorporation or any Other present identity and re- organize . under the n am e 'United Farmers of Manitoba,' inay well open one of the most important chapters in the his- tory of • Canada's farm move- ment. . Right Approach In his letter of June 10th, 1954, to Mr. J. D. Welton, Presi- dent of M.F.A.C,, Mr. Shulz says that "several years ago the majority of farmers did not know that we had a farm or- ganization and did not care. To arouse their curiosity and wake them up a new one had to be started. Now that the economic pinch is getting tighter and they need help, they are beginning to look around and they find two conflicting groups instead of one strong organization that could really do something or them." Mr. Schulz offers amalgama- tion as his "own personal idea" not coming officially from the M.F.U. and says that the right approach would be to submit it to the membership of both or- ganizations or decision. The conditions and principles, as outlined by the M.F.U. Presi- dent provide for affiliation of the new organization with both, Canadian Federation of Agricul- ture and Interprovincial Farm Union Council. Grassroots Level To keep the weight of the or- ganization at the "grassroots level and give the rank and file of the members the opportunity to take part in the making of policies. Mr. Schulz upholds the union principle that "the or- ganization shall definitely be re- quired to maintain at all times local organized groups through which producers may join the organizations, which shall meet periodically to discuss general agricultural problems for the purpose of making proposals on policies." Voting delegates for conven- tions shall be members in good Hands, Hands, Hands They're only ceramic, but they form a clutching frame about the portrait of Mrs. Fred Richardson. Making detailed replicas of her friends' and relatives' hands is only one phase of her ceramic hobby, The hands are flesh -toned and perfect to the tiniest scar, Shepherd y ave Janet its me According to a tale of ancient Greece, one day a shepherd boy of Crete, tending his flocks in the hills, found himself held to the earth with what seemed to be more than the usual force of gravity. He discovered that the iron nails in his shoes and the iron tip of. his shepherd's staff were being attracted by a pecul- iar mass in the ground. To him the mass looked like rock. The lad's name was Magnes, and so it came about by association with this story that the kind of "rock" he noticed was given a form of his name, magnetite, and any small piece of it was called a magnet. Magnes could not know, as we do today, that the "rock" he had chanced upon was really a special kind of iron ore, which has the property of attracting other iron to it -- the property of magnetism. Most of us are familiar with the little horseshoe -shaped mag- nets that will pick up iron filings or nails. Even as far back as the sixth century B,C., Thales, the Green philosopher, knew that magnetite, called a lodestone in ancient times, would attract pieces of iron. Probably the most important and one of the first practical uses of magnetic iron was the compass needle. The Chinese are said to have discov- ered it as long ago as twenty-five centuries. Anyhow. it is certain that the compass needle was known in very early times and in widely separated countries. Early makers of compasses realized not only that the needle points to the north (in the North- ern Hemisphere) but that it dips and the dip increases as one goes farther north. William Gilbert (1540-1603), an English physician, suggested a reason for this be- havior, that the whole earth is itself a magnet. This theory, however, had to be discarded as too simple. It did not, for one thing, account for certain slight variations in direction to which the compass needle points. The real answer to the mysterious behavior of the magnetic needle seems to lie in the fact that the sun affects the magnetic force of the earth. Variations of the mag- netic compass needle seem to keep pace with the eleven -year cycle of sunspot activity, in ad- dition to the daily variation that appears to have something to do with the rising and setting of the sun. Prahle-D Towns What is a Prairie -Dog Town? Prairie dogs are large,fat-bod- ied ground •squirrels. They live in colonies, 'a maze of burrows, called "towns." Though they show curiosity and bark saucily when they think they are safe, prairie dogs are always on the alert for danger. When a pair of coyotes, which hunt prairie dogs, approaches a town, one coy- ote lies quietly outside. Its mate then walks openly, without any stealth, into the colony, As it strolls on through the town, the prairie dogs bark and dive into their burrows. 'They stay hidden until the enemy has passed. The coyote that stayed on the edge of the town now slinks into the colony and crouches low near the emouth of a burrow. The prairie dogs cautiously stick out their heads and see only the first coyote walking away on the oth- er side of the town. First one prairie dog and then another come out and sits up to yelp at the disappearing enemy. Then the coyote that hid rushes at the nearest prairie dog and the pair of cunning hunters dines, standing chosen and sponsored by local organizations, Accepted in Principle This proposal has been accept- ed in principle by the annual convention of the M,F,A.C. and committees have been appointed to discuss the methods and pro- cedure under which amalgama- tion is to be brought about. If and when accomplished, it will set a precedent for other prov- inces, eventually produce what has been so sadly lacking, an organization truly representative of the farmers of Canada. It will be imperative for far- mers to watch that any new or- ganization be based on direct individual membership.- and that voting power in annual meet- ings and conventions be given to representatives duly elected by the local groups. The undemocratic principle of the Canadian Federation of Ag- riculture that "delegates entitled to vote at the annual meeting are the members of the Board of Directors." should be done away with. Most encouraging is the pro- posed name of "United Farmers of Manitoba," Translated to On- tario it might mean the revival of the old fighting spirit of UFO . This column welcomes criti- cism, constructive or destructive, and suggestions, wise or other- wise. it will endeavour to an- swer all questions. Address mail to Bob Von Pills, Whitby, Ont. ISSVE 30 -. 1954