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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-06-21, Page 2Round steak is such a flavor- ful meat that it is fortunate there is usually a plentiful supply in the markets all year. Today, some markets cut round into top and bottom por- tions with or without the round bone in the top portion. A bottom or top round of beef cut to one inch thick is very good cooked in the following way: Dip the meat into flour seasoned with salt, pepper and a choice of chili powder, thyme, garlic salt, or curry powder. Brown well on both sides in a little fat. Cover with thin -sliced onions and add about one cup of water or beef bouillon. Cover and cook slowly on surface heat or in a moderate oven (350 deg. F.) at least one hour. One and one-half hours may be needed to make this meat fork tender, writes Margaret Carr in The Toronto Star. F * k As you know, Swiss steak be- gins with a thick round steak. Seasoned flour pounding into the meat with a meat hammer increases tenderness and retains the juice in the meat. Although Swiss steak need not always be cooked with tomatoes and on- ions, these are favorite flavors. * u * Here are two variations of Swiss steak which we have found very good. PAPRIKA SWISS BEEF 2 pounds round steak, i• inch thick 2 tablespoon fat x/s teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon salt 1 clove garlic, peeled 1 cup water 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce. $/ cup sour milk or cream 1 teaspoon paprika 2 tablespoons flour Melt fat in a frying pan. Rub the meat with salt and 11s tea- spoon paprika. Brown the gar- lic in the hot fat. Remove the garlic. Add the meat and brown well en both sides. Add water and Worcestershire sauce. Cover and cook slowly about two hours. Add sour milk and one teaspoon paprika. Continue to cook slow- ly 15 minutes. Remove the steak to a hot platter. Thicken the broth with the flour mixed with FROST VICTIM — Robert Burn- ham, sees hopes for a prosper- ous summer nipped in the bud as he examines one of some 12,- 000 tomato plants killed by late spring frost. Crop damage in the millions is expected to result in eastern part of the U.S.A. in wake of recent record-breaking frigid weather. 3/2 cup cold water. Stir and boil five minutes. Serve the gravy over the meat. u SKILLET .SWISS STEAK 2 pounds round steak, y/s inch thick x/ cup flour 2 tablespoons fat 2 teaspoon salt x/s teaspoon pepper 1/4 cup sliced onions 2 cups tomato juice 2 tablespoons flour Pound flour into steak with meat hammer or the edge of a heay saucer. Melt fat in a heavy skillet. Brown meat well on both sides. Add seasonings, onions and tomato juice. Cook slowly for two hours. Remove meat to a hot platter. Add enough water to remaining broth in skillet to make 11/2 cups. Thicken the broth with the flour mixed with 1 cup cold water. Stir and boil five minutes. Serve gravy over meat. * * * Today's desserts, being a two - in -one affair, not only ease the matter of meal preparations, but are guaranteed to help fill up those "hollow legs" you may hae been noticing lately. TWO-WAY WRITE CAKE 3 cups siftted cake flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3,4 cup butter 13cups granulated sugar 13teaspoons vanilla 4 egg whites 1 cup milk Cream butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar gradually, creaming well after each addi- tion. Add vanilla. Add egg whites, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each addition. To creamed mixture add 1 cup dry ingredients which have been mixed and sifted together. Blend thoroughly. Add bz cup milk and continue with one cup flour mixture, rest of milk and remaining flour mixture, blend- ing after each addition. Pour into two nine -inch cake pans which have been greased, lined with waxed paper and paper greased. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375 deg. F.) 30 to 35 minutes. Cool. First Day Dessert ORANGE FROSTED CAKE x/4 cup butter x/2 teaspoon grated orange rind x/4 teaspoon salt ?4 cup icing sugar 2 egg yolks 2 cups icing sugar 1/4 cup orange juice Cream butter, orange rind, salt and 1/z cup icing sugar. Add egg yolks and beat well. Add two cups sugar alternately with orange juice. Beat until light and creamy. Cut one layer in half. Frost one half, top with second and frost sides and top. Second Day , Dessert FLUFFY CUSTARD SAUCE 1 cup milk 2 egg yolks 1/ cup sugar V2 teaspoon vanilla cup heavy cream Fresh fruit. Scald milk. Beat egg yolks slightly. Stir in sugar. Pour milk over egg mixture. Cook in a double boiler, stirring constant- ly, until custard thickens. Add vanilla and cool. Just before scrving whip cream and fold into custard. Cut cake layer into serving pieces and spoon custard over. Garnish with fresh fruit. Makes four to six servings. "I had an operation ,and the doctor left a sponge in me." "Gosh, do you feel any pain?" "No, but I sure get thirsty." SHADES OF CAPTAIN COOK— A ship -model builder and master craftsman is helping reconstruct the memory of Britain's 18th century explorer and navigator, Captain James Cook, via ship models: Here A. J. Barnes dusts the rigging of a scale model of Cook's "Endeavor" of 1763, It was shown at a special exhibition In Cook's honor at the National Maritime Museum in London, England. NO SCOWLING FOR THIS FRAULEIN Margit Munke, lefi, has been elected "Miss Europe of 1956" at the annual beauty con- test, held this year in Stockholm, -Sweden. The new queen, shown being congratulated by Miss Holland, Rita Schmidt, was the Deutschland entrant, Miss Germany. TEE HEE — No babe in the woods with trick clubs, Paul Hahn is puzzled only as to why you're puzzled about the triple -jointed wood. A trick -shot artist, Hahn recently teed off with his bag of tricks at a tourney. He claims it's possible to make a 250 - yard drive with his wacky club. Christianity is The Answer Faced with unprecedented Is- sues, mankind has need of the healing power of the Christ, Truth, as never before, The Christian Science Board of Di- rectorsdeclared recently. "Humanity is searching for the answer to its problems, and nothing but Christ's Christian- ity can supply this answer," the Directors stated. The vital role the Science of Christianity must play in the solution of world problems was underscored in a message from the Directors read at the An- nual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mas- sachusetts. Taking note of the tremen- dous changes taking place throughout the world, the Di- rectors said: "With the breaking Of the barriers of time and space, the mental outlook of men stands out in increasingly sharp relief, revealing an unpre- cedented clashing of ideologies. Other changes are taking place. Materia medica is more and more tracing physical effects to mental causes. The churches are reaching out. for spiritual heal- ing„ To meet the challenge of the times, spiritual alertness and consecration are needed, they emphasized. "We need to retain the spirit of the sturdy pioneer, to guard against apathy, superficiality, and the intoxication of ease in matter," the Directors said. Their message was read before some 7,500 Christian Scientists by Theodore Wallach, retiring First Reader of The Mother Church. The election of Clifford A. Woodard of Belmont, Mass., as President of The Mother Church was announced at the meeting. Also announced was the election of Arnold H. Exo of Chicago, I11., as First Reader, and Miss Leslie Harris of Birmingham, Ala., as Second Reader. Roy Garrett Watson and Gordon V, Corner were re-elected Trea- surer and Clerk, respectively. Drive With Care Churchill's Was A Real Romance When Sir Winston Churchill was a younger man, writing the story of his adventurous early years; there was one chapter he decided to leave out. "I haven't said a word of my marriage," he confided to a friend. "That's something I'm keeping to myself." And the strange sequel is that to -day, amid all the shelf -loads of books written about Churchill, his 'marriage is still glossed over . .. • as if even his most zealous bio- graphers have been unable to quar- ry out the facts. But let's glance at a Bucking ham Palace garden party when Sir Winston stretches out his hand to a tray of tempting sandwiches, then catches his wife's warning eye and remembers just in time that he can't talk to the Queen with his mouth full. Or peek into his London home' when he is roaring, "Clemmy! Clemmy !" On learning that his wife is out, he finds himself unable to work and roams through the house disconsolate. The blunt truth is that in the eyes of the world Churchill mar- ried the wrong woman—and then she quietly proved herself the right woman in the eyes of all history. Now we'll go back to the tempes- tuous Edwardian years when red- headed Winston Churchill was storming through Parliamentary convention like a cyclone, already a junior Minister at only thirty- one, able to earn $1,500 a night by giving lectures . . and probab- ly Britain's most eligible bachelor. The richest mothers in the land cultivated his acquaintance for the sake of their daughters. The love- liest debutantes of the year thirst. ed to meet Winston.. In America matchmakers surrounded him with lovelies, but Winston stayed ab. sorbed in his thoughts, scarcely noticing. "Don't you think she's a rare beauty?" he was asked of one girl. "She is beautiful to you," young Winston observed abruptly, "hut not to me!" What was worse, when he went to Dundee to contest a by-election, his every speech was drowned by a suffragette who rose in the audi- ence fiercely ringing a handbell. Re was in no mood for women. Then one evening in a dingy pub- lic hall he espied a twenty -three- year-old girl sitting under the gas- light at the edge of the platform. And Winston Churchill fell in love at first sight. "Introduce us," he begged a friend. "1 don't care who she is -- I shall marry her !" But Lovely, intelligent Clemen- tine FIozier had other ideas. She had- already refused an eligible suitor. Her own father and another had separated after an unhappy marriage and Clementine did not wish to make the same mistake. Her grandmother, the Countess of Airlie, may have advised can ttou. Churchill's friends, too; by no means regarded Clemmy as the catch of the season: "Charming, well-bred and pretty," Beatrice Webb summed up, "but not rich, uv no means a good .match !" Yet Winston was very much in earnest. His own father had pro• posed and been accepted within three days .. and Winston wasted no time. Against the prosaic back- ground of political coin !nit tee rooms, min the draughty corridors of Cortachy Castle, ander the beech trees of Airlie, he was by turn gentle and insistent and tender The ash -blonde Ciemetrtine could not long resist sa nrdrni a wooer. She east a single regretfulglanee at the obseu'iti' she enjoyed as the daughter of a Scots '(lttarda atlieer with a bust ni Lloyd's. Within a matter of days Win. ston achieved his dearest wish, and the swift news of the engagement put Clementine's picture on the pages of every newspaper and near- ly every magazine in the land as "The Woman of the Year." "This conquest made all else possible," Winston Churchill de- clared long afterwards. And on ono occasion, while listening to a re- cital of his political achievements, be interrupted testily to say "But you have forgotten my most bril- liant achievement — my ability to persuade my wife to marry me." Londoners gave them an ovation on their wedding eve when, in- stead of the conventional bachelor party, Winston and his fiancee ap- peared in a box together at. the theatre. The next day the House of Commons aetually adjourned for the marriage ceremony. The honoured church of • 5t. 'Margaret's, Westminster, was pack- ed with the feathers and furbel- ows of society. And when the hap- py pair left for their honeymoon at stately Blenheim Palace the departure farewells were of al- most royal calibre. It was 1908. "My marriage was much the most fortunate and joyous event in the whole of my life," Sir Win- ston asserted not long ago. "What can be more glorious than to he united in one's walk through life with a being incapable ' of an ig- noble thought?" But Lady Churchill knew from the start that marriage with so controversial a figure could never be humdrum or placid. Her first baby, Diana, had to be specially guarded in her pram lest suffraget- tes should kidnap her. The Church• ills lost one of their daughters through pneumonia; and in the death of this little three-year-old they knew the dark brunt of tra- gedy. Shortly after daughter Mary was born, Winston fell ill with appen- dicitis just as an election was pending. So Clementine Churchill fought the election campaign. There were political reverses. At a meeting in Belfast ten thousand troops had to be sent to keep order and angry Orangemen threatened to throw Churchill in the river. But Mrs. Churchill quietly made sure that she accompanied her husband wherever he went, know- ing that reliance on her opponents' chivalry was more prudent than her husband's bulldog courage. His stock was never lower than after the disastrous Dardanelles campaign when Winston resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty and angrily insisted on entering the Army. His secretary was in tears. His mother was in despair at the thought of her brilliant son in the trenches. Only Mrs. Churchill re- mained calm, collected and efficient. In one of her rare moods of con- fiding her private affairs, Lady Churchill has told some of her secrets of managing her famous husband. "In competition with men, never become aggressive in your rivalry. You will gain far more by quietly holding your con- victions. But this' must be done with art, and, above all, with good humour. And in more prosaic terms she once confided: "First and most important is to feed him well. You must give him a good dinner. His dinner is a very important item in his daily routine." Yet these are inadequate sign- posts, surely, in the Churchill:' forty-eight years of married life. Clemmy cheered her Winston when his country was against him, kept his faith alive when the world mocked. And always there was peace in her heart while his soul rode the tempests. As Sir Winston Churchill him- self summed up in the closing phase of his great public career : "It would not be possible for any pub- lic man to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we call in En- gland one's 'better- half.' " "Why are you looking so cheerful?" Brown asked his friend Jones. "Well, you see," laughed Jones, "my wife has lost her engagement ring." "Well, what's there to be so cheerful about in that?" asked Brown. "I'm waiting for her to tell me. I found it in my trousers pocket." Double -Crossed The Fight Fixers Boxing is a sport in which almost anything can happen, but rarely is , a , world champion called upon to "bribe" opponents to fight hirim, as heavyweight Tommy Burns was, It happened at a time when Press and public were clamour- ing for a contest to settle once and for all who was the better boxer, Philadelphia Jack O'- Brien, or the title-holder, Tom- my Burns. O'Brien, however, was in no hurry to lay his claims before a referee, so it was not until Burns stalked him down in a Los Angeles cigar store and taunted him with cowardice, that a match was agreed upon. Soon after this a most curious proposition was put to the cham- pion of the world. Burns was asked to lie down in the elev,rr enth or thirteenth round, and to sign a $1,000 agreement to keep his word. Anxious to get O'Brien into the ring at all costs, Burns signed. Now where was the champion to get a thousand dollars? A friend came to his rescue and the sum was paid in notes — forged ones as it happened — though the O'Brien camp` was never to know this. During the weeks before the fight, bets poured in on O'Brien. The smart boys knew all about the little arrangement, and stak- ed every spare dollar on the' challenger. The big shock came when the men stepped into the ring. Burns walked straight over to the re- feree and told him that he meant to keep faith with the public, and asked that all bets made on O'Brien to win up to that time be declared void. The ref. stared. Such an an- nouncement could only mean one thing: there had been a "fix," and this was the double-cross. He held up his hand for silence. and said his piece. When the bell rang for the first round, O'Brien stood in his cor- ner as if thunderstruck, his back to the ring. Spinning him round, Burns clinched and whispered in his ear: "Fight your best, Jack. I'm out to beat you now I've got you here at last. This is a real fight." "Not many seconds had passed before O'Brien knew all too well that this was true," writes Denzil Batchelor, who tells this exciting story in his vividly writ- ten book about another heavy- weight, Johnson, in "Jack John- son and His Times." Burns fought with crude fury and at theend there could be no doubt that he was the winner. "Only Jack Johnson remained unconvinced," says Denzil Bat- chelor. This tough Negro desired to let the world know that he was better than Burns. Just how he did it, nearly slaughtering his opponents on his way to the top, makes thrilling reading. CHECKED MATE — Easy -launder, no -Iron cotton seersucker it checked in bright red on white for informal summer wear. It's styled in the long -torso cardi- gan fashioned for freedom of, movement. e DINNER FOR TWO—Opera and concert soprano Charlene Chap- man shares a tidbit with Musetta, a pet ocelot, in her homes. Musetta, named for a character in "La Boheme," is one of a, small zoo in Charlene's home, She owns five other animals:. a boxer dog, a macaw, a cheetah, a monkey and a kinkajou