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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-05-10, Page 2t MIIM011.`51c:.,- T &ate. And cws. British cooks complain that American recipes have unfami- liar ingredients and odd meas revements. American cooks try tempting British recipes and Ives disappointing results mat we need .is an Anglo- American cookery conference in which teaspoons and table- s: peons, level . of heaping, cups sand basins can be sorted out s<nd standardized through inter- !alk nal culinary agreement. In the meantime The Chris- tian Science 1Vlonitor's food col- umnist, Eleanor Richey John- stoic, sought to clarify for .Alroeriean and Canadian readers n recipe a British reader kindly seat in for OATCAKES. Mrs. Johnston has added the tlevor of fun to the account of :Ater experiments, which we *Aare with our readers for good xeeasure. She writes: A * Dear Woman's Department: We had a big snow here day before yesterday — and guess 'what I fed the birds? OAT- CAKES! I had sop for lunch today -- end guess what I ate with my soup? OATCAKES! There is something I am won- dering why was ever invented -guess what it is? OATCAKES! I'm sending you a box of something to try tasting. Guess what? OATCAKES! Three times I have tested this :recipe. The first, using the orig- inal amount of milk, took 3 cups Of flour in addition to the cup of oats, It went to the birds and they could hardly eat it. Next I tried In cup milk. That took 1 cup flour and wasn't eaaty enough. Today I tried i/a cup . milk and it seems all right. I'm sending you some. I'm handicappped by the fact that I have no idea what an oatcake should be like or taste like or look like. My three weeks in England didn't pre- pare me for oatcakes. Here is the recipe—not much Tike the original, but the best 1 can do. Oatcakes X, cup oats (quick - cooking kind) 2 ounces butter c- 1¢ cup milk R to 1 teaspoon salt, according to taste 9 tablespoons sifted flour Melt butter and stir oats into it. 'Let -stand overnight. Heat milk; add all other ingredients staid mix well. If more liquid is needed to make a soft dough, add additional milk. Knead a :little and roll as this as possi- ble. Cut in strips, place on cooky sheet, and bake in very bet oven. When oatcakes are colored, turn and bake 5 min- utes longer. MERRY MENAGERIE • OAerPcuev. dftlionl Yr KA. 'p.m Ital.. "Don't ask! He just does it so be can tell you he's a ham smoking!" Spring is shortcake time, and soon you'll be using ruby red strawberries, pink-meated peaches, purple or red raspber- ries for your dessert. Traditional shortcake is made with two pie - size layers put together with fresh fruit and then cut in wedges to be served with cream. Or, you may want to serve your shortcake in individual portions. If you do, just make the short- cake in biscuit sizes. Strawberry Shortcake 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder le teaspoon salt 2-4 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons shortening Milk 1 quart strawberries Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Cut in fat Stir in milk quickly with a fork until soft dough is formed—% cup for roll -and -cut biscuits, 1 cup for drop biscuits or "muffin" biscuits. Bake at 450° F. 15-20 minutes. Wash and hull straw- berries and put between and over shortcake. Serve with cream, whipped cream, or ice cream. * * Another strawberry dessert, easy to make and serve, is Strawberry Cream Refrigerator Cake. Save whole strawberries with which to garnish this des- sert. Strawberry Cream. Refrigerator Cake 1 cup heavy cream IA cup confectioners sugar 1 teaspoon orange extract % cup crushed strawberries 1 dozen ladyfingers Few whole strawberries for garnish Whip cream with sugar and orange flavoring until stiff. Fold in crushed strawberries. Have ready a glass dish (about 6x6x2) limed with waxed paper. Ar- range 6 ladyfingers in bottom of dish and spread half the straw- berry cream mixture over them.. Repeat, using other half of lady- fingers and cream. Chill in re- frigerator 2-3 hours. Unmold on serving platter, remove waxed paper, and garnish with berries. Serves 4-5. A pretty dessert made with ice cream is an ice-cream sand- wich loaf. Frost it with whipped cream and decorate with pieces of fruit. Ice -Cream Sandwich Loaf 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 3/4 teaspoon vanilla / teaspoon lemon extract 7.1/ eups sifted flour 1e i teaspoons baking powder Yi teaspoon salt % cup milk, warmed 3 tablespoons butter ice cream whipped cream Beat eggs; beat sugar into eggs. Stir in flavorings. Sift to- gether the dry ingredients, and fold into egg mixture just enough to. moisten. Melt butter in warmed milk; sir into first mixture. Pour batter into greas- ed loaf pan and bake about 35 minutes at 350° F. Remove from oven; let stand five minutes, the invert on cake rack When cool, lift pan off. Slice loaf cake in half lengthwise. Place layer of ice cream on one layer (pre - packed , ice, Cream may be sliced the desired thickness for this layer). Place second layer of cake on top Of ice cream. Top with Whipped cream. Keep in refrigerator until serving time, then, slice . and serve • at table.. $N APPLE. PIE ORDER—An apple tree grows right through the roof of this building in Pittsburgh. Richard Palumbo, who with his brother Dominic works in the building of the built-in timber, says the tree saves the necessity of using another supporting post. TOO POOCHED TO PARTICIPATE—Cleo, TV's sad -eyed basset hound, is• dog-tired after spending a day with the 11 offspring of her stand-in, "Beauty." Beauty was stunting before the camera to give the star a rest (?). odern Etiquette... Q. Is it necessary to acknow- ledge receipt of birthday or anniversary cards? A. If you mean by this, a note of acknowledgment, no. However, when you meet the sender of the card, it is always good manners to mention that the card was received and ap-•: preciated. Q. Is it the duty of the bride - elect to buy the dresses and ac- cessories for her bridesmaids? A. No. It is her duty to select the designs and material, but the bridesmaids must pay for their own outfits. Q. When hors d'oeuvres are served on picks, should' they be eaten from the picks, or re- moved and eaten with the fin- gers? A. You should use the pick for conveying the morsel to your mouth: Q. Is it correct to send out informal handwritten invita- tions to a very simple wedding? A. Yes, such as, "Dear Jane: John and I are being married at four o'clock Saturday, the first of next month. The ceremony will be at such -and -such church. We hope that you will come, Affectionately yours, • Betty." Q. Is it permissible to sip wa- ter while one has food in one's mouth? A. No; this is considered bad manners. Only when one has taken a bite of food into the mouth that is too hof to handle is a sip of water condoned. Q. What would be the cor- rect way for two unmarried sisters to register at a hotel? A. They should register: "Miss Shirley Walton, Miss Sue Walton, .Detroit, Mich." Q. How long should one stay when making a call of condol- ence at a friend's home? A. This call should be espe- cially brief — not longer than about ten or fifteen minutes — unless, of course; the bereaved friend asks you to stay longer. Q. Should a woman keep her hat on • when at an afternoon card party? A. She should remove it if the party is in a private home. If in a public place, she may either remove it or keep it on, as she wishes. Q. Is it correct to eat short- cake with the fork, or should a spoon be used? A. The fork should be used. Q. Is it considered proper for a 'guest at dinner to stack his used dishes when he has finish- ed eating? A. No;, he should leave ahem as they' are. ' How Gay Were Those Middle `w ges? It is strange that so little at- tention should have been paid to the gaiety of the Middle Ages. Now and then this unfamiliar aspect strikes an observant read- er so powerfully that, in its turn, it interferes with the gen- eral perspective. Elizabeth Bob- • ins . Pennell, contemplating con- vent and castle and town, reach- ed eached the conclusion that when the Western world was young it was on the whole a very merry world, `Drollery,' she wrote in one of her earlier essays, 'was the order of the day, Artisans and nobles, peasants and serfs, high arid low, all dearly loved a jest, and all went chaffing through life as if it were a carnival, and one's aim was to arouse and be amused, There was a grotesqueness and Champ about the mischief of of those days which had never been before, and which can never be again.' . • The court fool of the Middle Ages was not a sardonic com- mentator, but, a cheerful acro- bat who could jump about, turn sommersaults, walk on his hands, m im i c courtiers, make merry jests, and, when he dared, play rough practical jokes. Hitard, the fool of Edmund Ironside, ac- quired cquired fame, though what leis- ure his royal master had to look at him, or listen to him, cannot be conceived°. - Professional fools have often- times been frowned upon by the great and wise and supercilious. Seneca observed that if a man desired to laugh at folly, he could do no better than scrutinize him- self. Christian the First, King of Denmark in the fifteenth cen- tury, having been presented with a pair of fools, declined their services. He said that if he want- ed folly, his courtiers could sup- ply his needs. But the men of the Middle Ages were less cynical because less egotistical. Self - analysis played little part in their devel- opulent. What they valued in a fool was the ready and recog- nizable joke at which they could freely laugh. Saint Louis, one of the wisest of his order, so rel- ished this fun -making that often, when it was proposed to read. some pious chronicle, he post- poned being edified until after he had been amused. • .. - The popularity of court fools. increased rather than diminished during the fifteenth andsixteen- th centuries, Cardinal Wolsey presented his own fool, Patch, to Henry the Eighth, greatly to the King's delight and to Patch's discomfiture. J o h n. Heywood, jester, dramatist, and scholar, survived Henry, and young Ed- ward the Sixth, who joked very little, and Queen Mary, who — so says Sir Frederic Madden — `was of a cultivated intelligence and fond of innocent fun.' Heywood could do more than jest. He made a Latin oration at the Queen's wedding. Men were then trained to listen to Latin orations. It speaks volumes for the discipline of a court. — From "In Pursuit of Laughter," •- by Agnes Repplier. Amos and Andy Just Keep Rollin' Along The "battle of the ratings" between Jackie Gleason, Perry Como, Milton Berle, Ed. Sulliv- an and other TV giants roars on unnoticed by millions of "Amos 'n Andy" fans who hick their dials week miter week to a program that goes all the way back to March, 1928, when Free- man Gosden and Charles Cor- rell took to the airwaves over a Chicago station for their first performance. What happened is radio his- tory, for within months the listening habit of a nation was changed! At 7:00 p.m. the whole fam- ily gathered around the radio to hear the antics of Madam Queen, Kingfish and the rest of the 160 characters Gosden and Correll created and acted; the financial difficulties of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. became a na- tional institution; phrases such as "Ah's regusted!"' and "Un - lax, boy unlax!" became part of the American vocabulary. Almost ' overnight Correll (Andy) and Gosden (Amos) were • in the $100,000 -a -year - bracket — when that really was money. But fame and success didn't change the warm and human quality of the show — or of its originators. Typical of their attitude was Gosden's remark after Presid- ent Hoover invited them to the White House: "We're just a couple of kids trying to make good." Just how "good" they made is indicated by these incidents, Once on the program Andy called a Harlem phone number that happened to be a real one. During the next few hours the poor woman who owned it re- ceived more than 600 calls. An- other time Amos lost his dog and mentioned it aver the air, He was swamped with dozens of pooches sent as gilts. r But• in 1053 despair hit their fans when Amos 'n Andy an- nounced their retirement after their 10,000th broadcast. CBS reportedly paid the tearer two - million dollars for the show title. A TV show built around the original program also Was started with an all -Negro cast. But Gosden acid Correll couldn't stay idle, Soon they launched "Amos 'n Andy Mu- sic Hall" over CBS on a five- day -a -week basis, and their de- voted fans still tune them in as regularly as they did a genera- tion ago. Although Correll and Gosden don't do all the work, they still supervise every exit; every entrance, every sound ef- fect. Jack Benny, a veteran in his own right, recently paid them this tribute: "As long as Amos 'na Andy keep broadcasting, radio has po- tency as an entertainment me- dium. At the rate they've been going; this should be just about forever," • Their millions of fans hope so, because over the years, their wit and their humor have grown legend and endeared them to the public. Remember some of these typ- ical Amos 'n Andy jokes? SAPPHIRE: George, dis is a perfect finish to all de horrible things you done in 1949; You never supported me. You is gypped all your friends. You is short at de lodge. You is tricked Andy into marryin'. You is broken poor, Abigail's heart. Dat's a fine record. KINGFISH: Yeah, come to think of it, I guess I did have a pretty big year at dat! e * * KINGFISH: .Although you is up dere wid de preacher, you don't actually marry de gal. All you gotta do is stand at de altar, say "I do" an' slip the ring on her finger. ANDY: Well, if dat ain't git- tin' married, , dere's a lot of people on dere honeymoon dal is just lciddin' dernselvesl • * * KINGFISH: It's whut's inside a person dat counts. Abigail is got a beautiful Spirit, a wonder- ful heart and a lovely soul. ANDY: Yeah, I'd really have sumpin' if I could ever turn her inside out. * * * SHORTY; Abigail's brother is up heab to avenge his sis- ter, an' he say he gonna bring Andy back to her dead or, alive. KINGFISH: Holy smokes! Whut dyes dis feller, look like? SHORTY: Well, he's six foot two, an' he's carryin' a gun. De rest of his appearance is nuth- in' to worry 'bout. * * * KINGFISH: When Abigail's brother finds out she seed you, you know sumpn'? ANDY: What's dat? KINGFISH: De next time I tells dat story about you bein' dead, you may be layin' dere to back me up. * * * ATTORNEY: Miss Blue, is it not true that every time you went into Andy Brown's office, he wanted to kiss you? MISS BLUE: Oh, no suh, not every time. Sometimes he want- ed me to kiss him. * * * . CRAWFORD: I walked into de parlor and found Andy hug - gin' my niece, and he say he was teaching her joo-jit-soo. ATTORNEY:: Did you accept that explanation? CRAWFORD: Well, all I know is if dat was joo-jit-soo, de Japanese have a wonderful time. * * ANDY: If that leopard comes near me, I'm going to take this shotgun and give him another eyeball right in` -the centre of the forehead! * * •4 AMOS; I'm so miserable I'd have to cheer myself up to get in the mood to commit suicide. * * • * AMOS: If there's one thing I can't stand, it's pedestrians. Why don't dey get a car and defend themselves? * * * ANDY; She got her teeth from the dentist, her transfor- mation from the beauty parlor, her eyelashes from the drug- store and her figure from the U.S. Rubber Company. KINGFISH: Yeah. Between now and the wedding, a strike in one of them industries could kill the romance. * * * AMOS; There's an old Chinese proverb about a jailhouse: "It's better to be guilty on the out- side than innocent on the in- side." • KINGFISH: Now look heah. Andy. Lemme tell you about dis double indemnity wid de accident feature. Jus' suppose you was up in de Empire State Building — way up on de 79th floor. You lose your balance an' fall from de 79th floor to de sidewalk. My company will pay you $15 a week as long as you live. ANDY: Dey will, huh? KINGFISH: An' another nice little feature about dat part'lar accident, De time of de pay- ments don' start from de time you hits de sidewalk. Dey start .from de time you leaves de window. Bronze razor, dating back to the eighth century, B.C., was found recently in Ancona, Italy. Needed sharpening. Our bar- ber's got oneto match it in dullness if not in antiquity. HE TUNES WINNERS -Mechanic A, J. Watson, buttons up what he hopes will be the winning car in the annual 500 -mile Memorial Day classic of metordom at Indianapolis. Last year's winning car, also prepared for the track by Watson, is directly behind the ".8 -ball," The vehicles are sisters under the hood. Each is powered by a 270 -cubic inch, four'cylinder engine. Both will be entered in this year's race,