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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-02-17, Page 2F4,BLE TALKS Root vegetables, such as beets, turnips, carrots and parsnips, deserve a much more prominent place in our winter -time meals than they get in many homes. They're cheap, even if you don't raise your own, and they're good body-building food. * * * If you want to get away from the usual boiled and -buttered method of serving root vege- tables, why not try them French fried, in a vegetables chowder, or raw as relish sticks, or in a salad? Or try combining them with meat, cheese, or eggs for a main dish. The recipes here are real family favorites. * * V PARSNIP CASSEROLE 3 c. mashed cooked parsnips 1 c. cubed cooked ham 1 c. canned mushrooms 1 c. grated process cheese % c. crushed ready -to -eat cereal crumbs Season mashed parsnip with salt and pepper to taste. Combine ham, mushrooms, and cheese. Alternate layers of parsnips and ham mixture in greased 2 - qt. casserole. Sprinkle top with cereal crumbs. bake in moderate (350°) oven 25 minutes. * * * Variation uses 3 cups sliced cooked parsnips, 2/3 cup pasteur- ized process cheese. Alternate layers of parsnips and cheese; bake in moderat (350°) oven 30 minutes. Top with sliced bacon that has been baked 15 minutes in the oven on a rack in shallow pan. Makes 6 serv- ings. * * * CARROT LOAF c. finely chopped celery 1/2 c. ehbpped onion 2 tblsp. butter 1 qt. mashed or riced cooked carrots 3/4 c. cracker crumbs 3 eggs, beaten 1 tsp. salt 1/s tsp. pepper 4 tsp. crushed savory Pan fry celery and onion in butter. " . Combine carrots with crumbs, eggs, and seasonings. Add elery and onion. CURBSIDE KING—Andre Pierre, "King of the Boulevard Ven- dors," uses a jester's scepter to smooth on some of the cream he sells so successfully as a Par- isian street merchant. His °smooth" salesmanship won him the coveted title, which is awarded annually. Line bottom of greased loaf pan with foil. Spread mixture in pan. Bake in moderate (350°) oven until knife inserted comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Makes 8 servings. TURNIPS IN CHEESE SAUCE 3 e. crisp, fresh turnips 1/4 c. butter 1/4 c. flour 1?4 c. cream or top milk 1 c. grated process cheese 1 tblsp. chives Slice turnips and cook in boil- ing salted water 8 to 10 min- utes. Drain; cover to keep hot. Melt butter, stir in flour, add cream and cook, stirring, until thickened. Add cheese and stir until melted. '' • Add turnips to sauce. Sprinkle with chives Makes 6 servings. k * * RED FLANNEL (HASH 4 c. chopped potato 1% c. chopped cooked beets 34 c. chopped onion 1 clove minced garlic 1 (12 oz.) can diced cooked corn beef 3 c. cream 1/2 tsp. salt i4 tsp. pepper 34 tsp. dry mustard 6 eggs Chopped parsley Mix al] ingredients but eggs, • parsley. Spoon mixture into greased 2 -quart casserole. Bake, cover- ed, in moderate (350°) oven 25 minutes. Remove cover; shape six hol- lows in hash with back of spoon, drop an egg in each. Season. Bake 20 minutes. Add parsley. Makes 6 servings. ILLOGICAL Two flies were strolling along the ceiling. Suddenly one of them paused. "You know," it said, "human beings are very silly." The other fly shrugged. "Peo- ple are silly? How do you make that out?" The first fly tapped the ceil- ing with 'its foot. "W"ell, take a look," it chirped. "They spend good money building a nice ceil- ing, then they walk on the floor." RUGGED 'il' Mrs. Joseph M. Clark is 74 years old, but when it comes to hand work, she can outdo many a younger woman. For the past 15 years or so, she has made a living for herself and her invalid husband by making: braided rugs. She makes the braids by hand, too. Here she poses beside her latest and largest creation, a 10 x 12 -foot, all -wool hand -braided job. It is believed to be the largest of its kind ever made. Mrs. Clark worked on if three or four hours a day for six months. Scared y Hwiter's oar Dr. Lutz Heck, for many years director of the Berlin Zoo, was trapping monkeys and baboons in the wilds of Abysinnia when twenty to thirty warlike Arussi • natives swooped on hien with spears raised and surrounded him. He had been told that attacks on solitary Abyssinians in this region were no rarity; and. a French hunter had been mur- dered. With rifle ready, he waited as the menacing ring closed round hib. He could not speak a word of their language, -Then he:thought of a simple means of showing that he had no evil intention: he burst into a hearty laugh. That they under- stood. 'The tension went out .of their faces and his. Negoti- IN H RSE SENSE By F. (BOB) VON PILIS Approval of the 11/2 per cent deduction from all payments by the Ontario Whole Milk Pro- ducers Association practically assures the establishment of the proposed equalization fund. Cream producers and cheese milk producers already have adopted the plan. and Undoubted- ly concentrated milk producers will do the same at their an- nual meeting in February. It is these three groups that stand to gain most by co-ordinating the sale of milk and milk products. Milk Pool The funds collected by this levy will include the set-aside used in recent years for nation- al advertising. The main pur- pose, however, will be the mar- keting of milk and milk prod- ucts if and when they are in surplus. With several million dollars at their disposal,.the dairy farm- ers of Ontario will have consid- erable influence on market trends. After this first start of co-ordinating their activities, they will soon find that the,na- tural next step is the pooling of their milk and the expansion • tONCRIETE SOLUTION TO PARKING PROILLEM--Construction work» er Leo Haynes has the derrick norm lower the boom on Officer Ted Harter, left, just as Haynes' parking-rneter time runs out. Haynes "cemented" relations with the police by riding this con. trete bucket from atop new City Hall building. of the scheme to the other prov- inces. It has always been the opinion of this writer, even at the time when he was a whole milk ship- per himself, that a milk pool is the only solution of the market- ing problems largely created by the present division of cow milking farmers in four groups. Pooling will eliminate the dumping of any surplus of one group into the market of an- other. Eventually it will also lead to an equalization of the returns farmers receive for their milk whether it goes into butter, cheese, a tin or a bot- tle. Little Difference There is very little difference in the costs of producing milk except those caused by health regulations and geographical lo- cation. As far as health goes, we .could never understand why such stringent regulations were prescribed for milk being sold in a bottle while at the same time consumers are permitted to swallow uncontrolled numbers of bacteria and the occasional dab of manure in their butter or cheese. We do hope to see the day when every milk pro- dueing farmer will be compelled to keep his barn and cows clean, not to speak of the milking utensils. Geographical location, of cource, has quite a bearing on costs and it stands to reason that a farmer in Temiskaming will run into more expense feed- ing his cows than his colleagues in Western Ontario. Zoning and Grading If milk for the bottle has to come from barns with concrete floors, milk for butter and cheese should too. The same principle applies to cooling of milk or cream. A bacillus is still a bacillus and has the same effect whether it comes on the table iri a bottle or on a dish. No farmer, presently shipping to a creamery, a cheesery or a concentrated milk plant, will ob- ject to putting concrete floors in his barn or installing a milk cooler provided he gets paid ac- cordingly. We suggest thatzoning of the province according to costs of production areas and payment to producers based on grades should be studied by farm or- ganizations with a view to an early implementation of the plan, ating by signs and gestures, they got a share of the game loaded on his horse, and in- return help- ed to guide him hack to camp. Another time, on a rhino -bag- ging expedition in East Africa, he was breaking up camp when suddenly a huge rhino approach- ed. This was the moment he had always feared, for if •it at- tacked, his native boys would all run off and then the young rhino they had captured might escape with the intruder. But by now he had learnt how to treat rhinos. He just walked towards it and roared at it at the top of his voice. It started, stood still, then turned and went off at full speed. His boys laughed with relief. He gives a breath -taking ac- count of rhino -netting in "Ani- mals My Adventure " He heard a young bull breaking through the jungle in front of him, then something reddish - grey came rushing at him pell-mell, pitch- ing one of his native boys into the thorns at his side. Seeing it gallop away and about to break out beyond the nets set to trap it, he raced to cut it off. Like lightning it galloped back, ran its head into the meshes, and was caught. But the net slid away; the rhino jerked itself from under- neath and was almost free. Ole - sen, a fellow -hunter as strong as a bear, jumped on it, throw- ing his arms round its neck. It gave a loud squeak and carried him away with it. Quickly Heck ran to his aid, holding fast to a hind leg. Then everyone rush- ed up, rolled ,with the rhino in a cloud of dust, and finally se- cured it. Another time a young rhino rushed at Heck, full of rage. He threw himself on it, clutched it round the neck, and held on, Furiously it aimed at him with head and horns. He had to duck right down to the ground. It dragged him against the walls of thorn, but he hardly noticed the tears and bleeding wounds. Half lying on the earth, he gripped the fat, smooth neck yet more tightly and received some hefty kicks in the stom- ach. The rhino began giving out penetrating squeaks, cries to its mother for help. What if a grown rhino came on the scene and attacked? Heck's bbys, holding ropes, stood about idly to see the outcome of the strug- gle. Not until he roared at them did they decide to give a hand, grab the rhino's hind legs, and secure it. One day nineteen giraffe, in- cluding several young, came close to the camp. Heck's party edged them .out of the dense bush and stony hills towards the clear plain; then the chase be- gan. with the hunters racing af- ter them on horses. A gigantic bull was the first to be caught up; horse and rider reached only to the belly, and one could easily see under it. The horse shot past, caught up some cows, then went after the young ones at the head of the herd. Running beside a calf a hunter quickly slipped a leather noose over its head. The calf galloped on another. twenty yards, then slowed down. The man sprang from the sad- dle, held the giraffe fast, was pulled to and fro as it bucked and shied. Eventually it was. heaved and pushed into a lorry, then conned behind wire net- ting, but in the night managed to squeeze under 'the network and escape. With others they had better luck; 'on their best day they caught three. Heck once saw two bull gir- affe fighting. They did not face each other, but stood close to- gether striking each other side- ways violently with the pro- tuberances of their heads. The noise could be heard a long way off, and soon one of them moved away exhausted. An amusing young animal was a tame ostrich given them by a sawmill owner's wife. In the cool of the evening it would dance grotesquely, making strange leaps, twirling round flapping its wings, zigzagging between the tents, lifting its long legs in a ridiculous goose- step. Dr. Heck also had some peril- ous encounters with gorillas. A. big one in captivity suddenly attacked an assistant keeper, seizing his leg, throwing him down, then ,standing threaten- inly over him. He had difficul- ty in pushing the black giant away with a stick that. gave elec- tric shocks. It would have gone ill with him had not a chimp come to his aid and hit out at the gor- illa's back, with a stentorian shout. This diverted its atten- tion, and the keeper was rescued — with a dislocated knee -joint. Lucky Steeplejack There can't be many luckier mien than Vincent McNelis, of Philpinstone Lane, Bo'ness, in Scotland? He is an ace. among steeple- jacks. All over the world he has done steeplejack jobs — Pakis- tan, Australia, Africa. And he has had three remarkable es- capes from what seemed cer- tain death. The first, escape was when he Vat working on a 100 -foot chimney in London. For once he was at the bottom. A heavy tool was dropped from the top. It fractured his skull in two places. He recovered! The second time was at the top of a power station chimney in Poole, Dorset. He stepped on the hoist and prepared to be lowered gently down. The cables tangled, slipped, and the hoist plummeted straight down 280 feet. Yet under the heap of wreckage Vincent was found alive. He had landed on his feet, His left heel bone was in 15 pieces. His right foot was smash- ed. His third escape was in Aus- tralia, where he fell off the top of a chimney. Once again he was taken to hospital. The fall cost him a broken pelvis and a cracked spine. But he climb- ed the same chimney again in three months although he was still encased in plaster. Vincent .is a man with pluck. Now he has left Bo'ness again and has flown to Pakistan. "This time it's only a wee chim- ney we're building -130 feet," he says. FAIR OFFER "Your daughter is an incur- able flirt," complained the young man to the wealthy industrialist. "I admit that I was poor when I married her, but does that give her the right to carry on—to tell lies—to insult me in the pres- ence of my friends?" The industrialist pondered a moment: "My boy," he said, "you are perfectly right. You have only to say the word and I'll disinherit her." SALLY'S SALLIES X 2.9 °M.19I.11011.... ,-.ikM T .4 "You've always said you loved me. Now prove iti" Nice, but LJncomf rtable— Comfort's a matter of relativity as Europe weathers through its worst -in -years winter. Visitors thronging the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, swank French resort, above, find coats a neces- sary nuisance during their holiday on the usually mild Riviera. Below, a'haven by the trackside is not cis pleasant as a stretch of beach on the Riviera, but it is a welcome refuge from the bitter cold for the homeless of Paris, . France. French officials have made closed -down subway stations available as sleeping quarters for the unfortunate. Imcomfortable, hut mil.ce