Zurich Herald, 1955-01-20, Page 6TA LE TALKS
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Every year a big United
States flour company conducts
a nation-wide cookery ,
the size of which you can im-
agine when. I tell you that $23,-
800 was the grand prize won by
a Mrs. I(oteen of Washington,
D. C.
Before giving you the prize
winning recipe I might as well
admit that I never saw or tasted
sesame seeds -- and never heard
of them except in the Arabian
Nights (remember "Open Ses-
arne?" )
However, some of you may
have a greater knowledge of
them, and anyway here is the
$23,000 recipe.
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Bake at 450° F. for 12 min-
utes, Makes 9 -inch pie.
PIE SHELL
2 to 4 tablespoons sesame
seeds
1 cup sifted flour
3/2 teaspoon salt
cup shortening
3 to 4 tablespoons cold
water
Toast sesame seeds in 9 -inch
pie pan at 325° F. for 8 to 10
minutes until light golden brown.
Remove seeds, then turn oven
to 450° F.
Sift together flour and salt
into mixing bowl. Add the toast-
ed sesame seeds.
Cut in shortening until par-
ticles are the size of small peas.
Sprinkle water over mixture,
a little at a time, while tossing
and stirring lightly with fork.
Add water to driest particles,
pushing lumps to side, until
dough is just moist enough to
hold together,
Form into a ball. Flatten to
about 1/2 inch thickness. Smooth
dough at edges. Roll out on
floured pastry cloth, or board, to
a circle 11 inches larger than
Inverted 9 -inch pie pan.
Fit loosely into pie pan. Gen-
tly pat out air pockets. Fold edge
to form a standing rim; flute.
When pick generously with fork.
Bake at 450° F. for 10 to 12
minutes until golden brown.
Cool.
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DATE CHIFFON FILLING
1 tablespoon gelatin
1/4 cup cold water
11/4 cups milk
2 egg yolks
Y4 cup sugar
348 teaspoon salt
1 cup pitted dates, chopped
fine
a/ cup whipping cream
beaten very thick
1 teaspoon vanilla
AR Dressed Up—And someplace
to go, if they ever put a body on
the jaloppy, Actress Ann Miller,
one of the reigning queens of
the New Year's Day Tournament
of Roses, waits for her float to
be finished.
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons sugar
Nutmeg
Soften gelatin in cold water.
Beat together milk, egg yolks,
the Y4 cup sugar and salt in top
of double boiler until well
blended. Cook over hot water (or
directly over low heat, stirring
constantly) until mixture will
coat a metal spoon.
Add the softened gelatin; stir
until dissolved. Chill until al-
most set, stirring occasionally,
Fold in the whipped cream,
vanilla, and dates.
Beat egg whites until slight
mounds form when beater is
raised. Add 2 tablespoons sugar
gradually, ' beating well after
each addition. Continue beating
to make a meringue which
stands in stiff glossy peaks when
beater is raised. Fold into the
date mixture.
Spoon into cooled baked pie
shell, heaping into fluffy mounds.
Chill until firm. If desired,
sprinkle lightly with nutmeg
before serving.
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Now for a few good candy
recipes, which are a handy
thing to have around in weath-
er too strenuous to allow the
young folks to be out-of-doors
very much.
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When making candy, you are
more certain of success if you
use a thermometer, although
good candy can be made with-
out one. A deep saucepan, meas-
uring cup and spoons, a large
wooden spoon for beating, and
pans for cooling are other ne-
cessary items of equipment.
Then select recipes that lend
variety as well as • attractive-
ness, and your candy reputation
will be made.
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These uncooked fruit snow-
balls will add a decorative note
t0 any box or plate of candy.
FRUIT NUT SNOWBALLS
? cup shredded coconut
1 cup raisins
1 cup dried apricots
3/2 cup roasted, unblanched
almonds
1 tablespoon honey.
Confectioners' sugar
Toast coconut to a delicate
brown in moderate oven. Rinse
raisins and apricots and steam
5 minutes. Drain, Put fruits and
almonds through food chopper,
using medium knife. Add honey
and coconut and b l e n d thor-
oughly. Shape into small balls;
roll in confectioners' sugar.
Makes about 24 balls,
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An old favorite is peanut
brittle. This recipe is chock full
of peanut meats. Be sure to
pour it out in a thin sheet, mak-
ing it easy to break and easy to
eat,
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PEANUT BRITTLE
11/2 cups sugar
1 cup white syrup
Y2 cup water
V2 teaspoon soda
34 teaspoon salt
1 pint shelled peanuts
Cook sugar, syrup, and water
together until the mixture
threads from a spoon. Add pea-
nuts and cook until mixture be -
c o m e s brittle in cold water
(300° F.). Remove from heat.
Add soda and salt. Beat thor-
oughly. Spread thin in shallow,
buttered pan. When cold, break
in pieces. Store in covered can.
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Children may enjoy making
this simple cereal candy.
PUFFED CORN SURPRISE
1 8 -ounce bar semisweet
chocolate, chopped
6 marshmallows
1 eup pre-sweetened puffed
corn cereal
Line bottom and sides of loaf
pan with waxed paper. Melt
chocolate over hot water Cut
Look To Listen—Powered by a tiny battery to right of dime, shown
for comparison, a new -type hearing aid which masquerades as
on eyeglass frame is now in production. Clear plastic tube, shown
on lower ear frame, conducts amplified sound to the wearer's
;ear: The battery, which screws into oar frame, has a fife -in -use
of about 180 hours. Frames may be fitted with clear glass for
those with good eyesight who yet want to dispense with para.
phernalia of more conventional hearing devices, according to
the manufacturer.
When In Rome . . . Mrs. Wanda Jennings, "Mrs. America of
1955," tries her hand at preparing a dish of Italian spaghetti,
under the watchful eye of a chef at a Rome hotel. She won her
title because of her proficiency in cooking, meal planning and •
housekeeping.
marshmallows into eighths.
Pour half of chocolate into pan;
cover with marshmallows and
cereal. Spread remaining choc-
olate over top. Allow to hard-
en and cut into squares. Makes
12 squares made in 8x4 -inch pan.
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Everyone has his own favorite
fudge recipe, but here is one
that does not require cooking.
UNCOOKED FUDGE
4 squares unsweetened
chocolate
3 tablespoons butter
3 cups sifted confectioners'
sugar
1/.4 teaspoon salt
4 cup hot milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Melt chocolate and butter,
over boiling water; remove from.
heat. Combine remaining . in-
gredients and mix well. Add
chocolate mixture and stir un-
til blended. Spread in greased,
8 x 8 x 2 -inch pan. Chill in re=
frigerator, or let stand at room
temperature for several hours
or until firm. If desired, 2 to 2/3.
eup chopped nut meats may be
added before turning into pan.
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Fondant is the basis for so
many decorative candies that
you may want a "refresher"
recipe for it. Stuff dates or
prunes with it. Color it and top
it with nuts. Make balls, of it
and roll them in chopped nuts.
Put halves of pecans or walnuts
together sandwich style with it
-- these are only a few of its
possibilities.
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CREAM FONDANT
2 cups sugar
3/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon light cern
syrup
1 cup evaporated milk
Mix ingredients thoroughly.
Bring slowly to boil, stirring
constantly. Then cook over
medium heat to soft ball stage
(238° F.), stirring all the while.
Cool. Beat until creamy. Knead
until smooth and plastic. Flavor
as below. Set in refrigerator in
covered dish overnight to ripen.
Makes 1 pound.
Vanilla Fondant: After fon-
dant is kneaded, add 1/2 tea-
spoon vanilla and knead just to
distribute flavoring. Let ripen,
Maple Fondant: Add 1/2 tea-
spoon maple extract in same
manner,
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stoping Bag
ui d Opportunity
Six weeks ago Mrs. Phyllis
Angel was a Montreal house-
wife who knew no more about
manufacturing than the average
consumer. Today, as one of
Canada's thousands of small
back on enough hard work and
initial sucess to provide the
opening chapters for a Mrs,
Horatio Alger story.
Mrs. Angel entered the light
manufacturing business because
she couldn't find exactly what
she wanted in the shops, After
losing a favorite shopping bag.
which an aunt had crocheted for
her, she was determined to re-
place it with one which folded
up and slipped into her hand-
bag. Trudging from store to
store convinced her that she
would have to produce it for
herself' as her preference in a
%hoping bag existed only in her
mind. A few weeks later she
found her own design so satis-
factory she decided to produce
it for Others, too.
After going through the for -
Malities and legalities of chops-
ing a name for her business',
having . it duly registered and
obtaining a permit, she ap-
proached her first buyer with
her first handmade sample.
"I had to make everystitch
of it by hand as I didn't even
own a sewing machine and I'm
a terrible sewer," she recalls.
However, she found buyers
didn't exactly leap at the oppor-
tunity of looking at a shopping
bag. Nor did their eyes pop
when they saw hers.
"I knew there .was nothing
really ingenious about my de-
sign," she says, "so I simply
drew their attention to its main
features. Since so many women
loathe carrying shopping bags, I
tried to make mine attractive
selected a heavy . nylon taffeta
with a rich sheen, which folds
up easily to about handkerchief
size. The fabric retains its
crispness and a . snap fastener
keeps the bag neatly collapsed
when not in use."
One of the first buyers she
called on immediately threw up
his hands at the mention of
"shopping bag." "Why, I've so -
many shopping bags, I would
like to sell you some," he said.
After finally agreeing to "just
look at" her sample, he admit-
ted that it filled a need and was
unlike any he had in stock. A
few minutes later Mrs, Angel
left his office with an order for
five dozen. Another store which
was already carrying a fold -up
type, ordered three dozen be-
cause it considered hers more
attractive.
Since then she has sold to two
other department stores and a
number of smaller retail outlets
in Montreal, rented i sewing
machine in a factory and en-
gaged an operator. To date Mrs.
Angel herself has been doing all
the cutting and packaging in cel-
lophane. She has obtained two
small machines for heat -sealing
and attaching the dome fasten-
ers and plastic tabs.
"I find I'm actually enjoying
all my business problems and
believe me I have most of the
problems if none of the organi-
zation of a big manufacturer, I
must go to a chain store and pay
fifteen ' cents each for my car-
tons and then carry them
away."
She has found that getting
help is the easiest part of her
operation, selling the hardest,
because' "stores are very sales
resistant these days," and pack-
aging the most important. She
cautions would-be manufactur-
ers against going into business
to make money quickly. "If
you need money desper-
ately," she • says, "go to work,
but not for yourself,"
A new Canadian, she came to
Montreal eight years ago with
her engineer husband a n d
grown-up son, Auburn -haired
and energetic, she says this is
her first fling at business. Prior
to her marriage she was with
an English newspaper feature
service, but since then has al-
ways been too busy taking care
of her family and home to give
manufacturing a thought until
the day she lost her shopping
bag.
"HAVE -A -LOOK" SURGERY
Samaria, an African native,
has been renamed "Have -a•
Look" by hospital authorities in
Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Samaria had a. pain in the stom-
ach, so he got a knife and open-
ed up his stomach to have a
look. Now heis recovering in
hospital -- and his stomach is
as painful as ever.
100,000 AtFii ne ral
Of "Powder Puff
Shlek"
What was he really like —
the screen's fabulous lover, Ru-
dolph: Valentino, the "Sheik" of
the 1920s whom young men
aped and Women went crazy
about?
"As strange a man as 1 ever
met," says Hollywood director
Adolph Zukor, who cast the
young Italian for the part after
he had worked as landscape
gardener, dishwasher, gigolo,
and "bit '"actor in the studios.
He hardly moved his lips when
c he sang...His acting was mostly
confined to protruding his large,
occult eyes, drawing back the
lips of his wide, sensuous mouth,
baring his gleaming teeth, and
flaring his nostrils.
Always in Debt
Improvident, with expensive
tastes, he lived from day to day,
and all his life was in debt.
Zukor's corporation raised his
salary far above the contract
terms. This only whetted his
appetite, which became down-
right unreasonable after "Blood
and Sand," with America's lads
imitating him, women organiz-
ing fan clubs and mobbing the
theatres.
He rarely smiled, on the
screen or off; Zukor cannot re-
call ever having seen him laugh,
yet he could be charming vrhen
he wished. But he could be
violently tempermental, too.
One day Zukor saw him ar-
guing with an assistant director.
His face paled with fury, his
eyes stared wildly, his whole
body quivered, he was near hy-
steria. The situation grew worse,
and finally he walked out with
no intention of returning.
Arrested for Bigamy
He was married; but the re-
lationship did not last long.
Later he fell in love with the'
beautiful Winifred O'Shaugh-
nessy, who preferred to be
known as Natacha Rambova.
She was art director for Alla
Nazimova, one of Zukor's stars,
and like Valentino, believed
herself to be guided by a super -
neutral power. They were mar-
ried before his divorce decree
was final. Arrested in Los An-
geles for bigamy, he got out of
it on the plea that the marriage
had never been consummated.
Natacha appeared cold, mys-
terious, and affected Oriental
garb and manners, but it was
felt that she would be a good
influence on him, and she
brought him back. But now,.
Zukor says in his engrossing
memoirs of fifty years 'of film
life — "The Public is . Never
Wrong"—they had two Powers
to deal with. She began. to insert
herself into the smallest details,
and he backed her in everything.
His new pictures, "Monsieur
Beaucaire" and "The Sainted
Devil," were less successful.
$80,000 Trip
But the Valentino cult con-
tinued, Newspapers poked fun
at the sleek hair and powdered
faces of the. "sheiks." Things
were not helped when he wore
a slave bracelet given him by
Natacha, but he raged at any
suggestions that he discard it.
Zukor'e firm did not renew
his contszact, partly because Na-
tacha wanted even more con-
trol over his pictures, so with a
new company founded for the
purpose he began work on a
film dealing with the Moors in
early Spain. Author: Natacha.
The pair spent $80,000 travel-
ling hi Europe for background
material and exotic props, then
the "`story was shelved and
"Cobra" . substituted, with Na-
tacha in full charge. It did poor-
ly, and the venture folded up, so
did the marriage. Shortly after
Joseph Schenck of United Art-
ists took a chance with "The
Son of the Sheik," Valentino's
last picture.
skikermeteweseermemeisee
His publicity became less fay-
ourablee the fun poked at the
"sheik" increased, and he grew
more irritable,
He was in Chicago when the
"Tribune' had an editorial head-
ed "The , Pink Powder Puffs"
about a face -powder coin device
in the men's cloakroom at et.
dance hall.
Many of the young men car-
ried their own powder -puffs,
and by inserting a coin could
get a sprinkle of powder. The
editorial viewed this with alarm,
placing most of the blame on
"Rudy, the beautiful gardener's
boy" and expressing sorrow that
he hadn't been drowned long
ago. An earlier editorial had
poked fun at the slave. bracelet.
According to his business
manager, Valentino's "face pal-
ed, his eyes blazed, and his.
muscles stiffened." He dashed
off an open letter " to the Man
(?) Who Wrote the Editorial
Headed 'The Pink Powder
Puffs'," and gave it to a rival
newspaper. "I call you a con-
temptible coward," he wrote,
challenging him to a boxing or
wrestling contest, expressing the
hope that "I will have an oppor-
tunity to demonstrate to you
that the wrist under the slave
bracelet may snap a real fist
into your sagging jaw," and
closing with "Utter Contempt."
SUICiDE AND RIOTS
When Valentino, stricken with
appendicitis, died in 1925, Zukor
was stunned by the hysteria
which followed. In London a
woman dancer committed sui-
cide, in New York another shot
herself on a heap of his photo-
graphs. His body was laid in
state at Campbell's Funeral
Home, New . York, and imme-
diately a crowd of 30,000, mostly
women, gathered. Rioting began
as police tried to form queues.
Windows were. smashed. Mount-
ed police charged and women
rubbed soap on the pavement to
make the horses slip.
Acrowd of 100,000, mostly
women, lined the street for the
funeral, at which Zukor was one
of the pall -bearers.
Zukor is similarly frank about
other famous stars - in this well -
illustrated cavalcade of film his-
tory, written from the personal
angle. T. A.
Dade :;Ig Profit
S - Iling Spiders
Cobwebs hanging low over
the bar used to be a special
attraction in an old-world inn
in Herefordshire. But recently
health officials ordered the li-
censee to take them down. Said
the licensee: "We spent years
cultivating those cobwebs. The
old place won't seem the same
without them."
A few years ago a young
unemployed Frenchman raised
thousands and thousands of tiny
spiders and built up a business
selling them to wine merchants.
The insects were turned loose
among consignments of new
wine so that they could leave
cobwebs all over the bottles,
making them appear like rich
vintage wine.
More fantastic still was the
use made of cobwebs by the
doting and wealthy father of
two pretty daughters when they
were married in Louisiana, in
1855. He arranged for enormous
quantities of a special species
of Chinese spider, to be shipped
to his mansion..
He also bought in California
gold and silver dust weighing
500 lb.
The spiders were turned loose
in the mile -long avenue of great
pine trees and soon the pines
were linked in a fairyland of
cobwebs.
For a whole day Negro slaves
blew the gold andsilver dust
on to the webs with bellows.
Next day the two brides walk-
ed slowly under this glittering
canopy to the altar.
vg 4
Don't Worry, There's A Window Between 'Ern --This squirrel and
eat have a noon confab each day at the home of Mrs. Byron
Filkins, The, conference, according to Mrs. Wilkins, appears to be
friendly and satisfactory to both animals, !Mackie, the cat, is 17
years old.