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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-09-23, Page 8The old saying "you can have 0 etxrauch even good thing" certainly oesn't seern to apply to Milk. Liquid, semi-liquid, or ,powdered, it's something that should be a "must" for young and old. •Yes! And middle- aged too. The following recipes call for evaporated milk —• and they're worth while trying now. or elip- eting for future use. d Blue Pudding (Serves 6) 1 large can undiluted evapor- ated milk 1 carp water 2 eggs 1r cup sugar teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon nutmeg 4' teaspoons vanilla 2 cups cooked rice %4 cup shredded coconut Beat milk, water, eggs, sugar, salt and flavorings until smooth. Pour over cooked rice, mixed with 1/4 cup shredded coconut in 2 quart casserole. Place cas- serole in pan of hot water. Bake in moderate oven (350° 1!'.) 30 minutes. Stir lightly but thoroughly. Continue baking 30 minutes. Top with remaining coconut during last 5 to 7 min- utes. Cool before serving. * * * Pineapple Upside Down Cake (Consists of two parts—the bat- ter and the caramel) Batter cup shortening % cup sugar 1 egg 11/2 cups flour 34 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder =yz cup undiluted evaporated milk %2 teaspoon lemon. extract Blend shortening with sugar and egg until fluffy. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with. milk. Add flavoring. Beat 1 minute. Caramel 1/ cup butter 34 cup sugar 34 teaspoon salt 3/ cup almonds 1 can sliced pineapple Maraschino cherries Melt butter slowly in heavy 10 -inch frying pan. Add sugar and salt. Stir until melted. Re- move from heat. Arrange pine- apple, almonds and maraschino cherries in caramel. Pour in batter. Bake in moderate oven (350-370° F.) 30 minutes. While hot turn upside down on plate. Serve warm with whipped cream. Lemon Cake Pudding (6 servings) 's cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour ?�. teasoon salt 2 egg yolks i.a cup undiluted evaporated milk ee cup water cup lemon juice teaspoon lemon rind egg whites 34 2 Mix sugar, flour and salt to- gether. Beat egg yolks. Add evaporated milk with water, then lemon juice and rind. Add sugar mixture and mix well. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold into custard mix- ture. Pour into 1 quart shallow baking dish. Set in pan of hot water. Bake in slow oven (325° F.) until set, 50 to 60 min- utes. Cut in squares. Serve warm or cold. Pink Velvet Pie .(Makes one 9 -inch pie) 16 graham crackers, crushed fine (1 cup) cup melted butter 1 package strawberry jelly powder Ye cup hot water 34 cup lemon juice I4 cup sugar 1 tall can undiluted evaporat- ed milk chilled for whip- ping 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind Mix crackers with butter and line well greased deep 9 -inch pie plate, saving about 1/4 cup of mixture for topping. Dis- solve jelly powder in hot water. Add lemon juice and sugar and let stand. Whip chilled evapor- ated milk to a stiff froth. Add jelly mixture to whipped milk and continue whipping until stiff peak is formed. Stir in lemon rind. Pour over cracker crust. Top with remaining crumbs. Chill about 4 hours. .4 Srgin � 1fs icebox Slashing from the west through the ice cap which sits atop the world, the icebreaker Burton Island made an extensive survey of thee northland this summer, making a study of the ice breaker in the Bering Sea and Bering Straits of the far north. Scientists accompanied the expedition to collect sea water and ice for further tests and analysis. Another icebreaker, the Coast Guard's Northwind, cut through from the east to cross the path and thus make the two ships first to complete the passage of McClure Strait. It was a joint Canadian -U.S. project Icebreaker Burton &stand battered through ice heaps eight and ten feet deep. °Capters scouted easiest route. Eurvlval ariprr►ent was testedeieniI il+s ud Ise eµaaOronetio SOME ERROR—Sgt. Robert. G. Burdick, stationed in Tokyo, Japan, was out of luck when he;tried to cash this check, It was er- roneously made out for $100075 and also $75, depending on how one looked at it. Becaluse`it was half right and half wrong, the check was worthless.. firdick got the check from his mother. 21. ghat the Babb w r;''ay Have Cost His _Life All of Britain was shock- ed by the news that the three- year-old son of Samuel Savile Kent, of Road Hill House, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, had been taken from his cot during the previous night, brutally mur- dered, and hidden in a pit in the garden. It was on June 30th, 1860. Medical evidence establish:'., ed that he had been suffocated, then cruelly stabbed and his:. throat had been cut. , His nurse, Elizabeth Gough, who slept only nine feet froiii him, swore that she had heard r nothing, His father and mother, r who slept in the next xoom; made similar statements, so did the six adults occupying th e floor above. Yet it soon became obvious that the crime could only have been committed by one or more of these nine. In the house at the time were: four children by Kent's first" wife (two elder daughters, Con. stance, aged sixteen, and schoo boy William) and the .childre of the second marriage (the murdered child;. Savile, his sig rxno^Evehriell:sv-nus.geuarid '„w, Mheeeei xdeeraiidotibe:O: s 11 ee;:. What manner of man was this Samuel Kent, fifty-nine, inspec- tor of factories for the West of England? Evidently a domineer- ing philanderer type who soon, left his first wife in the seclu sion of her own room and car- ried on an affair with the good- looking nurse, Mary Pratt, en- gaged to look after the childreti. Gradually,' he handed over to her the household management, and asserted, unjustly, that the wife had been kept secluded be- cause she was insane. In May, 1852, shortly atter he had taken Baynton House, East Coulston, near Westbury, Mary Pratt left the family for the first time to visit friends in De- vonshire. The next day Mrs.' Kent, who had been in good health, was suddenly seized by terrible pains, and died in great agony three days later — ac- cording to the local doctor, from an internal obstruction. Maly returned immediately, a n d in places where the Kents had pre- viously lived suspicion grew rife that she and Kent had brought about the wife's end. For fifteen months, Mary con- tinued to live there as gover- ness. Then, in August, 185$, the ' family went up to London, where she married Kent at Lew- isham Church. The next year they moved to Road Hill House. Re -investigating the whole case in her absorbing book, "Saint with Red Hands ?", Yseult Bridges shows that, once many became a mother her- self, her affections shifted to her own children. Her s t e p;- children s h e treated harshly, regarding Constance a n d Wil; liam as encumbrances, dressing them shabbily a n d making drudges of the elder girls. Once when Constance, just en tering her teens, took up the cause of William, who was lie:. glected and never sent to school,' both were locked in their roomt for several days with little .food: Told that she would not b returning to school, Constane; cut off her long red hair an in an old suit of William's ra. off with him to Bristol, hopin to find there a ship to tak them to their elder brother, Ed ward, officer in a ship servin the West Indian islands. Foot- sore and hungry, they were sent; back from Bath by the police and thrashed on their return, Denplte all this, Constant appears to have been alway . tender to her little step-brothez Savile and loved smaller 4h114 rren, She was a serious, thought. 1 girl, By the ie : Jule el 1860 *AO xnuree, r? sa th cough, latiiil been with the f a m i l y some months, She was an attractive girl of twenty-one, recently a lady's maid — and, it is alleged, Kent's mistress, like Mary when she was governess. Miss Bridges, in fact, points out, two astonish- ing parallels in Kent's life: (A) 1.—In 1844, when Mary Pratt was engaged as nurse, the first Mrs. Kent was thirty-seven and expecting a baby. 2.—She had three children living: two girls and a boy. 3. — She had been married sixteen years. 4. —Mary was twenty-one. (B) 1.—In 1860, when. Eliza- beth Gough was engaged as nurse, the second Mrs. Kent was thirty-seven a n d expecting a baby. 2—She had three children living: two girls and a boy. 3. —She had• been Kent's mistress for sixteen years. 4.—Elizabeth was twenty-one. No. less. astonishing was the behaviour df the chief people concerned. Elizabeth said she noticed that ` the child was not in his cot at • 5 a.m., thought perhaps Mrs. Kent had heard. % aanc , talker him to her kt k,.i fc rm her;. till 5 a:in. 'tie upper t bedclothes had been remade and smoothed, obviously by a practised'hand. Mrs. Kent gave no. immediate orders for the grounds to be searched when a drawing -room window was found to have been opened from the inside, not forced. Kent lay in bed for some time before sending word to the village constable, . and driving four miles to Trowbridge to in- form Police Superintendent Fo- ley. At Southwick, • on the way, he told the turnpike keeper, "I °o " have had a child stolen and car - tied away ht a blanket" He also mentioned the blanket to the policeman's wife, though later he denied any reference to it. This was remarkable because the body, wrapped in the blan- ket, was not found until after he had left. Foley so bungled his inquiries that plenty of time was left to remove clues. A woman's blood- stained nightdress, found in the unlighted boiler -stove, vanished unaccountably. Kent was actu- ally able to lock in the kitchen two policemen detailed to watch for anyone going to reclaim this clue. In the end both Constance and the nurse, Gough, were charged with the murder. But they were not committedfor trial owing to insufficient evidence, The coro- ner was a friend of Kent whe had often been entertained at his house. The murder remained unsolved. In 1865, Constance exitered an Anglican House of Retreat. Then came the amazing sequel. Under the spell of prayer and fasting she impulsively confessed to the murder. At the trial which fol- lowed she insisted on pleading guilty, and was sentenced to death — a sentence later com- muted to life imprisonment. Was she really guilty or, de- luded by religious hysteria, merely expiating the sin of an- other — her father? Miss Bridges' theory is this: Kent, in his se- cret intrigue with the nurse, had formed the habit Of. visiting her in the nursery late at night. Little Savile was a precocious child and a tale -bearer. He woke, saw them together and immedi- ately cried out. Frantic at the thought of be- ing discovered, Kent snatched a piece Of the nurse's clothing (found with the body), held it over the child's mouth to pre- vent his screaming, and acci- dentally suffocated him, then cut his throat and stabbed him be- fore disposing of the body, Why? Because of recent years there had been some throat - slitting crimes in t h e district, evidently the work of a maniac who had never been caught, and this might be assumed to he one of them — hence the opened drawing -room window. Carefully sifting clur;r• <Ind testimony overlooked at the time, and the evidence at in- quest and trial Miss Bridges makes a fascinating study Of this grim mystery, one of the most gripping in the annals of crime. One wonders if there was not another unsolved mystery in his first wife's death? Goats '" That ost Their S ve ell Four very puzzled billy -goats are wandering round a hill in Connecticut too confused to nib- ble even a tempting jam tin. The reason: they've lost their smell, They were fed with chlorophyl - lin tablets by their owner, Dr. Charles HoetTle, a veterinary surgeon of Wilton, Connecticut. Before the chlorophyll was added to their diet the four buck goats — two Alpines, a Toggen- burg and a Nubian — had an aroma which was overpowering at thirty yards. Even after they had been scrubbedwith detergents their perfume was such that their best friends wouldd have stayed silent — and away, After the chlorophyllin was given to them they were so ef- fectively deodorized that Dr. Hoeffle had to hold his nose right down on their coats before he could detect a faint trace of odour, Fired by Dr. Hoeffle's success, other Americans are reported to be experimenting with—skunks! NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT — Until Jack Frost "cures" all hay fever sufferers for another year, these 80 needles and some 20 serums will look good to hapless sneezers. Used in lengthy allergy tests, they're viewed by amazed 10 -year-old Robert Blumert. PARIS FASHION REACTIONV HELLO N E. STRING BEAN By Rosette Hargrave, NEA Paris Fashion Writer Paris (NEA) -- The appear- ance on the fashion scene of "Madame String Bean" would appear to have caused more of a sensation in Canada or the United States than in her native land. The • majority of Frenchmen are inclined to take the vagaries of fashion czar Christian Dior in the same philosophical spirit as they would any other new school of art. Few would be ready to take up arms for the cause. Nevertheless, the H -line is be- ing commented upon pretty widely, not only in the woman's page of Parisian and provincial dailies but also in the sober weeklies. "Express," a political publica- tion, devotes a half page to it. After explaining the cycle of any one fashion, the writer con- cludes: "The 'String Bean' lady, as she appears at her birth, Is supremely, elegant, supremely boring, supremely joyless with her effaced bosom and narrowed shoulders. But let us take heart: she will get over this phase. "When this fashion comes down into the Parisian streets, it will do so bereft of all exaggeration.. Remember the aggressive New Look? The strangled waistline, bulging hips and skirts swishing around the ankles, once they had been broken in like a pair Of new shoes by the Parisienne, gave place to the youthful swing- ing dresses which every woman has warn since 1947." * By 1956, say the experts, the :New Look will be as old hat ai: the dodo. It will have lasted 10 roam 'the life span of any ono style. By then the "string bean," inspired by t'be Matta freseoeta Vertes, successful pain t e r, poster artist and cartoonist, says: and Japanese prints, will have been adapted and adopted. Meanwhile Dior so far has re- ceived about 50 letters (less than when the New Look ' was launched), about equally divided for and against from people at home and abroad. Those in favor acclaim the "new elegance of the bustline"; those against protest against the "suppression of woman's most charming asset" (from an Ameri- can whose name cannot be dis- closed). The following cable, however, caused quite a stir in the Dior entourage: "I hereby challenge you to a duel on behalf of the American man. I have glamoriz- ed .and transformed the natural and full bustline. I am insulted by your recent attempt to flatten the bust and feel compelled to fight for the rights of the Ameri- can male who enjoys the glory of an untrammelledand unham- pered bosom. I await your reply as to choice of weapons." To which Dior replidd: "A cable demands a cable. Thank you for your interest but pins, needles and scissors are weapons too dangerous to fight with. Best regards." A Dior spokesman de- clared the author of the first cable was not a manufacturer of brassieres or falsies. Perhaps the most pertinent appreciation of Dior's "Madame Haricot Vert" appeared in "Sewed' Soir, " popular Parisian weekly, by seasoned author Paul Reboux: "The advantage Of the H -line is that it does away With fraud: I1 a woman's charms are suppressed, a man no longer runs the risk of being duped." "Fashions pass but the bosom remains." But M. Josipovici, author, movie producer and husband of beautiful actress Viviane Romance, protests: "I am against this obsession of an elongated silhouette. Above all else, women must remain feminine, The H - line is merely an androgynous complex (something to do with girls and boys looking alike—Ed.) from which Leonardo da Vinci suffered." Author and playwright Jean Cocteau tries to get to the heart of the matter: "What is meant by 'raising the bust'? What would women do if they were ordered to wear their bosom be- low their waistline, for example? Women are prone to think too much of their outward appear- ance or line. They neglect their innermost line."