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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-18, Page 2��ABara ��,ewsT�►LK.S One of the handsomest of vegetables is the solid, beauti- fully shaped, purple -black and firm -skinned eggplant. Sadly, it is also one of the most neglected Of foods. In Israel, where eggplant of- ten takes the place of meat for a main course, these three re- cipes are favorites: Eggplant -Cheese Casserole 1 cup macaroni (elbow) 1%2 pounds eggplant 1 green pepper and two onions (diced) 11/ teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 No. 2 can tomato Wash the eggplant and slice 9A inch thick; saute in vegetable oil; then remove. Add the green pepper and diced onion, and saute until golden brown. Add salt, pepper, and tomatoes. Add thin layer of eggplant, half the macaroni, the rest of the egg- plant and the rest of the mac- aroni. Add 1/ cups of boiling water. Cover and bake 45 min- utes in a hot oven, 425° F. Un- cover. Dust with % cup grated Cheddar cheese. Top with 8. ounces creamed cottage cheese and grill until bubbly and pale gold. * * * Eggplant Fritters Boil whole eggplant, peel, and mash the pulp. Add a beaten egg, % cup enriched flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 3/4 tea- spoon salt and '/4 cup milk. Drop by heaping tablespoons on a hot, oiled griddle. Fry like pan- cakes, turning once. * * * Eggplant Salad Broil a 11/2 pounds unpeeled eggplant under a low flame about 20 minutes, turning often. Remove the skin and mash the pulp. Add 11/2 teaspoons salt, A teaspoon pepper, Pk table- spoons salad oil, and 1 table- spoon vinegar or lemon juice. Season to taste with garlic salt and onion salt. Serve cold on lettuce, for a salad that looks and tastes much like chopped chicken livers and is equally a gourmet's delight. Two eggplant dishes to com- bine with meat are easy and in- expensive. Your favorite meat loaf mix, put into a baking loaf pan in layers, alternated with thin layers of eggplant and served with mushroom sauce is excellent. SITTING DUCK — Ducks just. a$on't build nests in trees. That's for the birds. But this duck, txrrow, doesn't know that so she goes right on building in a tree in Greenville. Baked Eggplant with Sausage Wash and pare the, eggplant and cut .in slices about half inch thick. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dip in beaten egg and crumbs. Place in a greased, shallow baking dish. Spread each slice with about 1 table- spoon tomato puree. Add one onion that has been thinly sliced and fried lightly in but- ter. Top each slice of eggplant with a mound of bulk sausage. For color, you may use a thin slice of pepper and two link sausages. Bake in a hot oven (400°) about 25 minutes. Makes 6 servings. A very special company vege- table which may be prepared in advance and heated just before the guests arrive is this. Italian Casserole 1 medium eggplant 4 sliced fresh tomatoes 1/2 cup onion, finely diced ei cup butter 2 tablespoons brown sugar le cup buttered crumbs Wash and pare eggplant, cut intothin circles and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Dip in flour or in egg and bread crumbs and brown on both sides in a small amount of butter. Arrange layers of eggplant and tomato slices in a greased casserole, sprinkle each layer with onion and butter, brown sugar, and some salt and pepper. Reserve some tomato slices to garnish the top. Sprinkle top with but- tered crumbs. Garnish with to- mato slices. Bake in a mederate oven 40 to 45 minutes. Serves six. * * * Stuffed Eggplant 1 eggplant 1 eup diced bacon 1 cup sliced mushrooms 1/a cup finely chopped onion 1 cup bread crumbs 1/2 cup cucumber, chopped 2 tablespoons horseradish 1/ cup ketchup or chili sauce 1 teaspoon salt M teaspoon pepper 34 cup buttered crumbs Wash eggplant and boil 10 minutes. Cut in half lengthwise and scoop out pulp to make two shells about 1 inch thick. Re- serve pulp. Sprinkle shells with salt. Cook bacon slightly, add mushrooms and onion brown- ing about 10 minutes. Add bread' crumbs, cucumber, horseradish, chili sauce, seasonings, and chop- ped eggplant pulp. (Doesn't it sound wonderful? It is!) Fill the eggplant shells with the mixture, sprinkle with butter- ed crumbs. Place in a shallow baking dish containing a little water. Bake in a moderate oven about 35 minutes or until ten- der. For. extra color appeal, black olives may be added to the stuffing. A REAL DIFFERENCE Just before the balloting be- gan in the 1940 Republican Con- vention, the late Wendell Wil- kie sought to enlist the support of crusty delegate Jim Watson of Indiana. "Sorry, Wendell," snapped Watson, "but you're just not my kind of dependable, day -in -and -day -out Republican." "I am now," maintained Mr. Wilkie, "though I admit I once was a Democrat." "Once was?" snorted Watson. "Well, let me tell you what I think of con- verts. If a fancy woman truly repented and wanted to join my church, I'd welcome her with open arms. I'd even lead her personally to the front pew. But by the eternal, I wouldn't ask her to lead the choir!" HE'LL HAVE TO BE OUICK—This Conservation Department officer had better not waste any more time scratching his head over his department's new assignment—a census of the state's rob. bit population. While he's adding up totals, the bunnies, ex- perts at multiplication, may well have census takers outnumber- ed before they acquire enough data to determine new date for the hunting season. Fashion Ti TIE THIS — Simulated pearls, "tied" with rhinestones, set off wool and flannel shirtwaists for Fashion's fall wardrobe, Fall Necklines Just for Fun FASHION FUN—Just for fun is this conversation piece, an Eng- lish import fashioned of green -tinted wool. Huge tie sets off the elastic -base overblouse, which is worn with pleated, un - pressed skirt. Life ; ore I' ra vatic Than His ; ov.eis Grasping a stable beam with your two hands, could' you lift a horse between your thighs? Or, thrusting four fingers into four gun barrels, carry them at arm's length? French author Andre Mau- rois, in a new life of "Alex- andre Dumas", says that Du- mas' father could do that when, as a dragoon, he became re- nowned for his Herculean ex- ploits. The son's Herculean exploits were in loving a formidable number of women. three •of whom bore him children, and in writing a prodigious number of plays and novels, including "The Three Musketeers," "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Black Tulip." Brought up in the country at This, from the future King, was virtually an order, so the confirmed bachelor had to legi- timize a union with Ida that was already nine years old. Dumas was a prodigy at love, as at literature. Over -generous, he was often in debt. "I have never refused money to anyone," he would say, "except to my creditors." Asked to contribute twenty francs towards the cost of a bailiff's funeral, he said: "Here are forty francs. Bury two!" Paid for newspaper serials by the line, he introduced a char- acter, Grimaud, the taciturn valet who replied only in mon- osyllables. One per line meant so much easier money! 'La Presse' and `Le Siecle,' however, ruled that a line, to count, must extend at least half- way across the column. The day this happened, a friend who found him striking out entire THIS GAME WASN'T HOT — The deck may cool off, but so will they. That's how these icemen feel while playing cards on a 300 -pound cake of ice. Ice even formed the chairs. Villers-Cotterets, young Dumas used to roam the woods with an old poacher. One day he resolved to go to Paris, see plays, meet famous authors, but he had no money. Very well, he would poach his way there with a gun. He did so, arrived with four hares, twelve par- tridges, two quails, and in ex- change for them got a lodging in a hotel for two days. Years later when he was be- coming famous he met Ida Fer- rier, an actress who had been given a small part in the play "Teresa" on which Dumas col- laborated. She was so moved . by the audience's appreciation that she threw herself grateful- ly into his arms, saying he had made her future. He took her out to supper, then to his home. She stayed fourteen years. He contracted cholera in the 1833 epidemic that swept Paris. One evening when he came in his cook, Catherine, said: "Oh, Sir! How pale you are!" He went to a mirror. He look- ed terrible. "That's funny," he said, "I'm cold." "Ob, sir!" cried Catherine. "That's how it always starts." Dumas went even paler. "We haven't a second to lose" he cried. "Quick, a piece of sugar dipped in ether, then a doctor!" Feeling weak, he went to bed Catherine, taking leave of her senses, brought him --instead of the piece of sugar—a wineglass full of ether. No longer know- ing what he was doing, he grab- bed it, drank it in a single gulp, then fainted. When he came to the doctor was at his side, and the cholera had vanished, Un- intentionally Catherine had dis- covered a remedy for the plague! One evening he took Ida to a reception at the palace of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans. She was eager to see the royal. home, and Dumas thought she would pass unnoticed. The Duke, however, sizing up the situation, welcomed them cor- dially, but as they were leaving said to Dumas. "It is, of course, understood that you could have presented only wife to me," pages from a manuscript, asked: "What are you doing, Dumas?" "Killing Grimaud," he re- plied, "I made him up for short lines. Now he's worthless." For a sensational Act IV cur- tain to Dumas' play, "Antomy," actor .Bocage had to stab the . heroine, then throw his dagger at the feet of the husband who had burst in on them, saying coldly: "She resisted me. I mur- dered her!" In Rouen a stupid stage man- ager had the curtain dropped without waiting for this last line. Bocage, enraged, locked himself in his dressing -room. The audience, robbed of the famous ending, protested. Marie Dorval, the heroine, re -assumed her deathlike pose in the arm- chair, but still Bocage refused to return, though the manager had raised the curtain, desper- ately hoping that he would, to complete the ending. The audience shrieked, threatened to wreck the bench- es, so realizing that something must be done, the "dead" wom- an sat up, resolutely marched down to the footlights, and de- clared: "Ladies and gentlemen,. I resisted him. He murdered me!" Then, with a deep curtesy, she made a queenly exit—to a roar of frenzied applause! Gertrude La wrel ce 9:.dHer Cara :;res Gertrude returned from her Skylark tour in November of 1940. She was home only a few days when she—or rather we --acquired a canary all our own. It came in the form of a beleated wedding present from Woellcott. The canary's name, Woollcott advised his "Darling Amends," was Franklin. Woollcott's admi- ration of our recently re-elected President was intense... Thecanary's name caused Gertrude some misgivings. If she was going to have a pet named for an important person- age, she preferred that the namesake be British.. , . "All right, let's call him some- thing else," I said. "I don't sup- pose he knows his name." She studied the canary thoughtfully. "I don't think we can change his name," she said. "Look, Ri- chard. Who does he make you think of? Those very bright eyes. And that stiff, backward tilt of the head ... Doesn't he appear to be looking through prince-nez down an elongated chin? . . . "You'll just have to put up with the name, darling," she de- cided. "After all, he's your President." "And a good friend of your country," I reminded her . . . Until Gertrude called me to acknowledge the resemblance, it had never occurred to me that one canary was not an identical replica `of every other. On my way to the office that morning, I found myself stopping instinc- tively before a Sixth Avenue pet shop. A number of canaries fluttered appealingly in indi- vidual wicker cages in the win- dow. One, high up on the wall, caught and held my eye. He was a large, puffy bird. "Corpu- lent" was the word that came to me. His round, small -beaked head was sunk between his shoulders. There was something dogged and aggressive about him which was heightened by a bald patch on the top of his head. If his beak had held a thick cigar .. . I told the shop to deliver the bird to Gertrude. On the card I wrote: "Call me Winnie." From the moment of their in- troduction, Winnie and Frank- lin took to each other. They shared a large cage. Winnie moved along the perch to one end (did my imagination de- ceive my eyes, or was there a 'nautical roll suggestive of a certain famous . Former Naval Person?). With an unmistakable wink, he invited Franklin to hop up on the other end. This Frank- lin did immediately, with his accustomed self-assurance. There the two chirped and chuckled to each other, sang duets and occasionally solo serenades, one pouring out his song, to which the other listened attentively and courteously, with • head cocked. — From "Gertrude Law- rence as Mrs. A.," by Richard Stoddard Aldrich. The chief cause of divorce is marriage. Probing Secrets • Of Human tirains Scientists are going to ex- amine the brain of Professor Albert Einstein, originator of the Theory of Relativity, who died recently. They are trying to learn something about one of the greatest intellects of our day and will seek to add to the store of knowledge which medi- cal research is steadily building up concerning the human brain. Examination of the brain is a. regular feature of post-mor- tems. Where, in a case of sud- den death, the cause of death is doubtful, changes in the brain may indicate cerebral injury even when there is little out- ward sign. Death may be due to certain types of asphyxia or to alcoholism, or the effect of other types of poisons which af- fect the cerebral system. An injury to the brain may alter a person's whole outlook on life. Men have been known to recover from terrible injuries to the front of the brain and to be more cheerful, even full of -pranks. Research in this direc- tion has led to the evolution of an operation on the brain which has benefited the inmates of mental institutions to such an extent that they have been able to return to useful work. Some strange effects have resulted from injury to the brain. Professor. Gross mentions a murder that occurred in Ba- varia in 1893 when the wife of a schoolmaster named Brunner was mortally wounded and two of his children killed. Brunner was suspected to be the mur- derer. When the wife recovered consciousness she was question- ed, but was unable to say who had attacked her. When her statement was prepared she signed it "Martha Guttenber- ger" instead of "Martha Brun- ner." Inquiry showed that Gutten- berger was not her maiden name, but the name of her for- mer sweetheart. The police went after this man, arrested him and he con- fessed. The woman must have recognized him the instant he struck her and his image re- mained in her subconscious mind. MMM-USHROOMS — Mushrooms are a byproduct of steelmaking —at least they are in Butler County, Pa. Take an abandoned limestone mine (limestone is used in smelting ore), with its constant, 56 degree tempera- ture, high humidity, and dark- ness; add culture for the mush- rooms to grow in, season for the camera with one of the pretty harvest hands. Mmm-ushroomsl LADY WITH A PROBLEM—Mrs. Una Schmidt Fine washes clothes a's her snn 2 -year-old son watches. Mrs. rine married Alfred D. Fine after she was convinced that her husband was killed in Koree. But Schmidt appeared as one of the 11 airmenreleased by the Chinese Communists. Mrs: Fine says she is undecided about what to do when he returns.