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Zurich Herald, 1954-10-07, Page 2,New ways of preparing fav- orite vegetables often add zip to your meals, So don't be nfraid to add that something extra when you're in an ex- perimental snood, even if you have to give your family a sales talk to get your revolu- tionary evolu-tionary ideas accepted. Scalloped Eggplant l eakediunn eggplant 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons`eaeh of chopped green pepper and onion 2 cups canned or .stewed to- matoes 1. teaspoon salt Pepper % coup bread crumbs Prepare eggplant and cut into small even pieces. Melt 2 table- spoons butter and brown pepper and onion in it. Add tomatoes, telt. pe per and egg sant. rad 10 10 minutes. Pour into greased baking dish. Melt re- maining butter and spread with breaderumbs over top of egg- plant.. Bake at 350 F., 20 min. :x * * Colorful carrots may be pre- pared in many ways and always add beauty to your dinner table. Use a vegetable brush instead of a paring knife to avoid waste ie cleaning carrots; or drop them in boiling water for 5 min- utes, then douse in cold, and skins will slip off easily. For a quick, hot dish. try thenhred- ded and braised. raised Fresh Carrots 2 cups shredded fresh carrots 1 tablespoon boiling water 2 tablespoons butter Ye teaspoon salt Cook first 3 ingredients to- gether until tender (about 5 minutes) in covered saucepan, over medium heat. Stir in salt. Serve hot. Four servings. a * * Two vegetables in one dish make a real picture—cauliflower served with all its natural beatuy intact, white and tender, SNiIE"S OFF—Model Pat McGrath, wearing five sheets of three- • cent stamps, steps out of an airplane. She was taking part In a fight to commemorate the first regular surface mail by air to 14 Pacific northwest cities. with colorful yellow cheese sauce in which Wrenched beans make positive green accents. Here is the way to prepare this dish: Cauliflower With Country • Sauce 1 medium size cauliflower tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour ri pound processed cheese, sliced 1 cup cooked, French - out green beans Salt and pepper Cook whole caluiflower until just tender in a small amount of boiling, salted water. Drain, saving 1 cup of the liquid. Make a sauce with butter, flour and . cauliflower liquid. When thick and smooth add cheese and stir until it melts. Add green beans and mix lightly. Season with salt §nd pepper and pour dolt: ca uiflovver. • * * Try this unusual recipe for creamed spinach — it's easy to fix. Creaaned Spinach 3 cups cooked, chopped spin- ach • 1 cup cream 4 tablespoons flour Salt and pepper. Combine butter and flour and cook together over low heat until smooth and frothy, stir- ring frequently. Add cooked, chopped spinach and cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add cream; salt and pepper to taste; cook over moderate heat for 3 minutes. * :,tt If you want a creamy, flav- orful corn pudding, try this one made with cream of mushroom soup. Corn Pudding 3 eggs 1 cup cream style corn 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup Pepper Heat oven to 325° F. Break 3 eggs into a 1 -qt. casserole. Beat well, Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Place in a pan of hot water and bake at 325° F. for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until silver knife inserted in centre comes out clean. Makes 4 to 5 servings. Have you ever tried a fresh, snap -bean ring in. which to serve creamed seafood, mush- rooms, or chicken? This is the -xray to make the ring. yqFres�h Snapp -Bean Ring Frenehed 3 tablespoons butter, melted 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon minced fresh onion r� teaspoon salt 1e teaspoon black pepper 14 teaspoon ground nutmeg Paprika Chopped parsley. Slice beans very thin and cook in smallest amount of boil- ing water possible. When tender (7 to 10 mins.) drain and com- bine with butter, eggs, milk, onion, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Pour into a greased ring mold, Bake in pan of water at 350°F. until firm (45 to 50 minutes.) Unmold onto warm platter. Fill with desired filling. Garnish with paprika and parsley. Serves 6. .F;' i'iRe4w?:i•d 9e eery, DUNG HIGH — Some 300 feet above a Miami street, a trio of German aerialists perform a breath -taking balancing act on ea cable stretched between two hotels.' Known as the Zugs- pliz artisten troupe, they did the tact for 'benefit of crippled children's Society. a e, • it o n Hints er s• A LOVELY APETATE gown dew neo to d r wa h e. a is •an bene 'bus tJredress' lace in a daisy pattern. ttractive things. for CS erxi•s from a:°`madriceta PLk9Pi RSA By F. (BOB) VON PILLS We hear an awful lot about the farmers of Canada "pricing themselves out of the market" by asking a fair price for their wheat and other products. We hear that the "excessive" demandsof labour for higher wages and social security meas- ures are causing high prices. We hear the president of the National Dairy Council decry- ing floor prices for butter and cheese as "creeping socialism." We hear that marketing boards established for the order- ly marketing of farm products are an "infringement on per- sonal freedom." What we never hear of read of is criticism of • high profits made by manufacturers, pro- cessors or distributors. Supply and Demand • Farmers are constantly being told by the press, by presidents of Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade and all kinds of "experts" in trade, commerce and finance to leave the regula- tion of prices to the sacred law of supply and demand. I/ we would only forget about orderly marketing, floor prices and cooperatives and let prices go downand down, and down, eventually they would be so low that somebody would buy what we had to sell, Nobody, however, has told us yet how we would pay our taxes, wages, fertilizer, repair parts for old machiriery, not to . speak of the instalments on new implements, which after all are needed to work the land, pay wages to the worker in the irti- plement industry • and pile up the profits for the corporations. Excessive Profits Farm income has gone down in the last two years by about 25 per cent, In the same time costs of production have in- creased by more than 6 per cent. In other words the pur- chasing power of the farmer is down over 30 per cent Figures for the national in- come of Canada show that in 196'3 farmers had an even small - SE .. er share of the nation's wealth than in the past. Farm opera- tors' share of the total income was 8.7 per cent, while farm _operators totalled 13 per cent of the national labour force. Company reports, however, show record smashing profits for little firms as well as big ones. The increase in net prof- its for 1953 over 1952 were greater than any that have been seen since the days when price controls were lifted, And the first part of 1954 shows them higher yet, Let's Find Out We submit that excessively high profits are the main cause of high prices, leading to over expansion and eventually to a collapse of the economy. We suggest to the farmers of Canada, especially in Ontario, to raise their voice and demand a public investigation of the re- lationship of wages, prices and profits as a first step to a solu- tion of the problem of unem- ployment and shrinking farm markets. * * . This column welcomes criti- cism, constructive or destructive, and suggestions, wise or other- wise, and will endeavour to an- swer all questions. Address mail to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby, Ont. AL 13ut Nis Shirt Feeling drowsy, Horace D e u e 1, of Long Beach, Calif., pulled his car into the grass verge, switched off the engine and settled down for a snooze, Sometime later, on waking, he was disgruntled to find that durirng his nap, thieves had stolen his watch, wallet and ring — all without disturbing WM. He drove to the nearest police station to report his loss. Having given the station sergeant de- tails he returned to his car, but that, too, was missing! A car thief had driven it off. NGE eumd.oLtri.e, P. C Zezic Anybody g o t "exhibition feet"? It is my guess that quite a few people are so afflicted, in- cluding myself, for most of us seen to take quite a lot of punishment in search of pleas- ure. However, that's the way it is and I suppose that's the way it will be as long as there is a C.N.E. and people to attend it, I was down Friday and Sat- urday but Partner wouldn't go at all.. Last year it was Part- ner went and I who stayed at home. Friday I did not do much else except take in the tea on the Balcony and sit around and talk to press club members whom I knew and a few others that I met for the first time, If you have • the same interests it is amazing the number of people you ; ieet with whom you share mutual acquaintances — that is equally true no matter what your interests may be. That evening the Women's Press Club was putting on a cooking class, demonstrating how to prepare a club -women's lunch. And I,was awarded two chicken legs, beautifully fried! I took them home to Daughter but as there was no one around when I got there (Friday night shop- ping) I sat down and ate one of the chicken legs myself, since I hadn't bothered with any sup- per at the "Ex." It was the first time I had ever won any- thing in my life. I suppose Friday and Satur- day set another attendance re- cord but still it seemed easy enough to get around, and the weather was perfect of course I took care to avoid places where the crowd seems to con- gregate. It is funny, too, how each building draws a particular type of people. Car -owners and hope -to -be car owners or those looking for a new model, wan- der around the Motor Show for hours. The cattle, horses .and other livestock have their own following. Music lovers and those in need of quiet rest ap- preciate the programme at the Band Shell. The Flower Show crowns is not easy to define. _ " ° sk4ed s Wander aim- lessly in and out -except those who really appreciate and understand the beautiful floral display. There was certainly a wonderful showing of African violets, including several varie- ties I had not seen before. How the people who had the exhibit ever grew enough violets to supply the buying public at the C.N.E. I can't imagine. Their supply seemed inexhaustible and the price very reasonable. If I had to name any one par- ticular building at the C.N.E. as my favourite, I think I would say the Ontario Government Building. It has a variety of displays, all of them interest- ing and educational. This year I thought the model of a min- ing district was particularly in- teresting, especially as Daugh- ter was with me and able to explain all the details. Dee spent a week's holiday a few years ago at Bourlemaque where her uncle was stationed for a while. The man in charge heard her telling me this and that and seemed to be somewhat amused,. As we passed hint h remarked: "Thie young lady seems to know what she is talk- ing about!" Of course we ea w all the birds, beasts and fish in that same building and one of the • beavers really put on a show. Two of them were sleeping but this fellow was standing up, clinging to the wire fence and accepting bits of cookie from the onlookers. His actions in some respects were similar. to those of a monkey — but far more attractive. A girl kept holding a small piece of cookie in her hand and the beaver would put his hand through the wire fence, pick the cookie out of her hand quite daintily and eat it. If the cookie was more than one mouthful he held it with both hands and nibbled pieces off it. You couldn't speak of his hands as anything but "hands" — no other word would describe them so well. His feet, of course, were wide - webbed after the style of a duck, only bigger. • And his tail—well, I suppose no other animal has a tail anything like a beaver. We looked at the model Lay- out of super -highways, particu- larly 401, ,but getting any infor- mation from the fellow in charge was like trying to draw blood from a stone. However, I suppose we shall know. the de- tails all too soon. Then we had a little conversation with an officer in charge of a police cruiser on display. There has been quite a bit of discussion recently a b o u t. mechanical direction signals—do they, or do they not, comply with the Law? This officer said: "Technically, yes—if they are in proper work- ing order and used properly— but don't trust to them entirely —use your fiend too—and be sure` you have a good set of tail lights." He seemed so <rery much in earnest 1 had a feeling that his experience on highway patrol may haw been pretty grim. Of. course, we had tosee the Coronation. robes • apd. regalia with eft. C. M. P. officer in charge. I wondered what mea- sures he would take to raise an alarm If anyone took any liber- ties with the display. We walked through the train with the glass dome and thought it very wonderful Some of these coaches are already in use and pulling in and out of the Toronto Union every day. By next year the C.P.R. expects to have 173 on the rails. Let's take a trip, shall we? Poor Josephine! What is the largest amount e er received by a woman as a dress allowance? Probably the 450,000 francs ($54,000) a year which the ardent Napoleon .gave to his Empress Josephine. Josephine was so keen on dress that she sometimes spent more than that annually. In at least one year she spent $120,000. One summer she bought 520 pairs of shoes, 87 hats, 73 cor- sets, and 980 pairs of gloves in addition to many coats, gowns and furs. NO FISH STORY -- Little Edgar and Sherry Lynn Styron didn't c.atch these huge Blue Marlin, but the photographer caught the record catch. Weighing, from left: 236, 320 and 176 pounds, it is believed that this is the first time three games fish of this size were ever landed in one,,day oily any part ell the United States coast.