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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-11-11, Page 6TABLE TALKS atm Andrews arty fall, when a little heat from the kitchen stove makes for comfort and the fragrance of good food fills the room --- Then you know that "something's cooking." If it's a plump young chicken roasting to deep golden brown, that's family news! * * * And more news is that there is a new way to make stuffing. No matter how many different stuffings you've tried in your .cooking career, here's one you should experiment with and in- vite friends in to try. It offers a new, interesting flavor that will Intrigue them. Its base is pret- zels. * Stuff a plump young chicken just before roasting, allowing 11 cups of stuffling per pound of ready -to -cook weight. (Or you may want to bake your atuiiiing in a cesserole in the same oven, and serve it decorat- ed with tiny pretzels as pic- tured.) If you do stuff the chicken, rub the cavity with a little salt before putting the stuffing in ; stuff lightly and close by placing skewers across body opening and lacing shut 'with a cord. Tie drumsticks to the tail, fasten neck to back with skewers and shape wings "'akimbo" style, bringing tips onto back, writes Eleanor Richoy Johnston in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. Next, place the trussed chick- en breast up on a rack at least -1/4 inch high in a shallow, open pan, and brush skin with fat. Then cover top of bird with fat - moistened thin cloth or a loose cap of aluminum foil (do not wrap in cloth). Roast at 3250 for 25-30 minutes per ready -to - cook weight, Do not sear, add water, or cover. If cloth dries during cooking, moisten with fat from bottom of pan. When your chicken is two thirds done, cut string between drumsticks and tail. To test for doneness, move leg by, grasping end of bone, When it's done the drum- stick -thigh joint breaks or BIKE PAPOOSE — Mrs. Louis l.ipschultz, a teacher at Vassar College has found an easy way to get around the campus and still take her daughter, Elizabeth, along, Using an In- ciian cradle board, she wraps her baby up papoose style and puts her an her back. She says little Elizabeth loves it. e moves easily. Or, try the drum- stick meat, which is very soft when pressed between fingers. Do not pierce meat with fork, * * PRETZEL STUFFING EN CASSEROLE 3 cups pretzel crumbs (9-12 ounces) fine to medium i/ cup chopped onion u cup butter, or chicken fat 4cup diced celery 34.2 teaspoon poultry seasoning yt teaspoon ground sage 1'S teaspoon ground pepper 11/4 cups chicken broth or bouillon 1 egg, beaten Grind pretzels in meat grind- er or food mill (the latter usually makes o n 1 y fine crumbs), Saute onion in fat un- til soft but not browned. Mean- while, blend celery, seasoning, and crumbs, To crumb mixture add stock or bouillon, egg and sauteed onion with the fat. Toss with fork to blend ingredients. If desired, add more seasonings. The addition of salt depends on saltiness of pretzels and stock or bouillon. Press lightly into greased 1 -qt. casserole. Bake at 325° F. about 45 minutes. Makes 4-4/ cups stuffing. * * * Perhaps you would like to serve smothered chicken some cool evening, or, you may pre- fer to oven -barbecue it. Here is the way to do both. SMOTHERED CHICKEN 1 young chicken, 31/4-41/4 pounds 1-132 teaspoons salt na teaspoon pepper 1/4 teaspoon ginger 34 cup flour 1/a cup fat 2 cups cream or rich milk Disjoint chicken. Mix salt, pepper, ginger and flour. Rub into chicken. Cook in hot fat until golden brown, Sprinkle any remaining flour mixture over top. Heat cream to boiling point and pour over chicken. Add more cream if necessary, enough to half cover chicken. Cover tightly . and bake at 350°F. until tender, 11/4-2 hours. Serves 5-6. Oven Barbecued Chicken For this delectable indoor dish, use either plump broiler - fryer chickens cut in half, cut up poultry (fresh or quick froz- en), or a young 4-7 pound tur- a-key. -Place heves or quarters of bird, skin side up, in roast- ing or broiling pan. Pour sauce over them 1/4-1 inch deep. Bake, uncovered in 325° oven. Turn occasionally and baste each time, leaving sauce in the rib cages when halves are turned up. As bird cooks: sauce will thicken into rich gravy (if sauce becomes too thick, add a little hot water). * :g QUICK -CRICK BARBECUE SAUCE MAKES 1 QUART 1 medium onion grated, or 1 teaspoon onion powder / teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon salt • 1 teaspoon prepared mustard 2 teaspoons sugar 1 can condensed tomato soup (1032 oz.). 1 eup vinegar 1 cup water 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 cup cooking oil Blend dry ingredients in mix - ng bowl or quart jar. Add re- maining ingredients in order given, Mix thoroughly, For oven barbecuing, add i>2 cup water. This amount of sauce barbecues 4 chickens outdoors and 3 indaors. IN A HURRY -- Trailing clouds of vapor from their jet engines, 13 Stratojets streak the sky on a nonstop flight from their base in England to March Air Force Base, California. The trip took less than 15 hours. HIGH "SEE" — Television anten- nae atop the Empire State Build- ing in New York City mark the highest point to which man has ever raised a structure --r 1472 feet above ground lever More than 15 million persons Live in the four -state area reached by the multiple -station broadcast- ing equipment. Died in Debi, Bid Nis Name Lives O Paris. — The Citroen car . fac- tory, one of the famous names in European automobiles, ;is 40 years old. It is still producing, and selling all over the world, the 15 h.p. front -wheel drive saloon v 'h which Andre .Citro- en revolutionised the car mar- ket in 1934. The youngest son of a Dutch diamond dealer, Andre Citroen became, a few years after leav- ing school, the builder and boss of factories in France and Rus- sia. In Czechoslovakia he help- ed the famous Skoda works to get started. Given total powers to reorganise a French automo- bile firm in difficulties, Citroen in six years found himself at the head of a concern produc- ing 12,000 cars a year. When the first world war came he was authorised to found a factory in his own name to make 50,000 shells a day. At the armistice he converted the factory to make cars. Citro- en launched numerous new models without waiting for the equipment to pay for itself, ran up debts, gambled, and distri- buted money generously. He had Notre Dame Cathedraland the Place de la Concorde illu- minated at his own expense, giving as his explanation: "Too beautiful to leave in the dark." Deeply in the red, he obtain- ed. the support of a banker who took over his accounts. But always ambitious, full of new and costly ideas, Citroen was soon posting a notice in the workshops stating defiantly: "The bankers have been kicked out. I am again in sole charge. —' A Citroen." Maurice . ad- Lf Re Pay That silver -haired 66 -year-old French singing comedian, Maur- ice Chevalier, is off to the United States in October to discuss plans for a suggested film of his life story, a Paris correspondent has revealed. It was gay Maurice Chevalier who staggered the entertainment world in 1930 by earning in London the biggest salary then known to a stage artist — $12,- 000 a week. To -day he often earns $18,000 a week. He once received $2,500 for singing one song in Prague. Pretty good go- ing for the man who began life as a carpenter's apprentice, son of a Paris house -painter. Chevalier learned his quaint "Engleesh" from an armyser- geant, his fellow prisoner in a German camp in the first world war. Since he was thirteen he's been singing of love, hope and work — in that order, with the emphasis on love. With his charming smile, Chevalier will tell you; "In my life have been many lovely wo- men, but the one who influenced me most was my wonderful mother." She got him his first singing job at twenty francs a day. He owns a luxury villa near Cannes and can retire when he likes. His famous straw hat has been his "trade -mark" for years and he would not part with it for a fortune, In private life he's actually quite shy and modest, He once admitted; "I have some- times been afraid of my own fame." Cut apron -ironing time by eleminating ties on bibless aprons. Put a wide heti at the waist, and insert in it a plastic belt from the dime store. Buckle belt in back, Slip belt in and out of your aprons when you launder, Careless Commas Cause Trouble When an advertisement in a Glasgow newsagent's window informed the public • that there was a "Settee for sale by a lady with nice upholstery and Queen Anne legs," it caused a good deal of unintentional amuse- ment. It was almost as misleading as the advertisement. inserted by the lady who needed domes- tic help. She belonged to that category who splash commas in- discriminately because of their decorative effect, for when her copy appeared, it ran: "Wanted, occasionally respectable wo- man." The advertisement columns can give much amusement. In a London evening paper a Mr. Thomas, who wanted more comfortable taxis, wrote, " The driver will be entirely enclosed, and the passengers will have comfortable seats and better in- terior fittings." Even The Times' falls down, for one of its advertisements told the readers that, "Director recommends highly private Lady Secretary, Ph.D., trained Hoster's College.. , ." Faulty punctuation can cause amusement, consternation and sometimes trouble. It may prove costly and even tragic. If what you write is for publication, be extra careful, for a comma in the wrong lace may land you in court, as it did the owners of one newspaper that wounded the feelings of a certain peeress and was said to have injured her honour. A careless typesetter made a gossip writer say, "I hear that Lady M— paid her dressmak- er the other day, a most un- usual form of compliment." Without the comma it'would not have been such a juicy tit -bit for her enemies. Another editor, when check- ing a society column, saw that a reporter hed written: "Above all the ladies in the town Mrs, McGilligan . was distinguished for her chastity." Instead of crossing out the final word and substituting "charity," he placed a question mark inside brackets after it, so that the report read: "Above all the ladies in the town Mrs. McGilligan was dis- tinguished for her chastity(?)," Mrs.,M. was justifiably annoy- ed and sued the editor --- with success. Some years ago a merchant sent a telegram to an agent who was negotiating a deal on his behalf. The agent telegraphed the price asked by the owners of the commodity, and in reply the merchant wired, "No, price too high," One can visualize his anger when the goods were purchased in his name and he was presen- ted with a thumping bill. He protested, but a telegram was produced which bore the words, "No price too high." His wire should have read; "No Stop Price too high." Not long ago the Bishop of Gambia wrote a letter to 'The Times' bringing to their notice the fact that they had omitted a comma in a sentence in a letter he sent them. This altered the meaning. The sentence prin- ted was, "I should like to plead with some of these men who now feel ashamed to join the Colonial Service." The comma should have appeared after "ashamed." In 1934 the Czechoslovak par- liament passed an Act giving a tax relief scheme to farmers in districts where the harvest that year had failed. But when the text was published it was dis- covered that a full stop had. been stubstituted at one point for a semi -colon, which made the scheme applicable in same of the affected districts but not in others. There was no option but for Parliament to sit and pass the Bill anew, replacing the full stop with a semi -colon. Curiously enough, because of a typist's error a similar mis- take was made the same year in a Bill passed by the Ceylon Legislature. It was not discover- ed till Parliament broke up and the members had left for their holidays. They had to be recall- ed and the Bill altered, at some cost, The classic instance of mis- takes of this kind was that which occurred many years ago when the American government passed a Bill enumerating cer- tain articles that were to be admitted free of duty. Among the items were "all foreign fruit -plants," meaning plants for transplanting, propogation and experiment. But in error a clerk typed, "all foreign fruit, plants, etc." By the time the error was rec- tified the revenue had lost - $1,200,000.00 A man's life was forfeit once because of a comma. This oc- curred in 1916 when Sir Roger Casement was tried and hanged for treason. He was charged under the Treason Act of 1351, written in Norman French, and but for a comma Casement might have escaped. But the comma made al]. the difference in the interpretation of the taw, Happily, punctuation once also saved a life. Tsar Alexander III scrawled on a petition for pardon: "Pardon impossible; to be sent to Siberia." 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