HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-09-27, Page 3It is/1'i . t, very lung ago that 1
gave a recipe for pastry fu which
vegetable oil took the place of "re-
gular" shortening, and I an sure
those of you who tried it found it
highly satisfactory. ;however, a re-
cent bride has written asking for
instructions on how to make pas-
try "like grandmother did" and of
course I am glad to oblige -and
also toss in a few of the sorts of
pie fillings which "grandpa" un-
doubtedly used to relish.
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The quantities given in the pastry
.recipe will yield enough for a two -
.crust nice -inch pie. And please re-
member, no platter what type of
shortening you use, the secret of
successful pastry is that "light
hand,"
PLAIN PASTRY
2% cups sifted flour
/ to three-fourths teaspoon salt
Y cup shortening
Y3 cup cold water, approximate-
ly.
(1) Sift together flour and salt.
(2) Add about half the shorten-
ing and chop in with a pastry blend-
er or two knives till mixture re-
sembles coarse yellow corn meal.
(3) Add remaining fat and chop
till mixture is the sire of small
peas.
(4) Sprinkle water over the top
about a teaspoon at a time, while
tossing the dry mix up , from the
bottom of the bowl with a fork.
Use only enough water to make the
particles of dough stick. together.
Remove dampened portions as they
form and press together, Chill
briefly.
(5) Divide dough into halves, pat
lightly with rolling pin until flatten-
ed and roll each to an eight -inch
thickness on a floured board or
pastry cloth, rolling from the cent -
out --not back and forth. Use as
directed for pis, Yield: pastry for
a two -crust mile -inch pie.
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PLUM CREAM PIE
IA recipe for pastry
/ cup sugar, approximately
1/8 teaspoon salt
3/ tab4espoons cornstarch
2 cups scalded milk
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
11/2 pounds plums
/ cup cream, whipped.
(1) Fit pastry into a nine -inch pie
pan without stretching. Trim off
pastry from edge with scissors.leav-
ing pastry one -fourth -inch wider
than rich of pan. Crimp edge with
fingers. Prick bottom and sides
with tines of a fork. Bake on the
lower shelf of .a hot oven. (450 de-
grees F.) till brown, fifteen minutes
or longer. Leave in pan to cool.
(2) Mix one-fourth cup of the
sugar, the salt and two and one-half
tablespoons of the cornstarch in a
double boiler. Add milk, stirring,
and cook, stirring till thickened,
Add gradually to egg yolks. Return
to double boiler and cook over hot
water, stirring, fill mixture thickens.
Flavor and cool. Turn into pastry
sb ell.
. (3) Pit plums, acid retraining
one-fourth cup sugar and a tables-
poon water. Cook, stirring occas-
ionally, till plums are just soft.
'(4) 'Blend remaining tablespoon
cornstarch with a little cold water,
.add to plums and cook, stirring, till
thickened. Add more sugar if de-
sired, Cool. Spread over cream mix- '
tore in pastry shell,
(5) Cover with whipped cream or
float spoonfuls of whipped cream
over the surface.
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CRAB APPLE CUSTARD PIE
/ recipe pastry
2 cups .peeled, cored and sliced,
crab apples
% cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
3 egg yolks
teaspoon vanilla
2 cups milk (tray be part
cream),
(1) Line a nine -inch pie pan
with pastry and crimp edge or press
10 pan with tines of a fork, Fill
with apples,
(2) Mix sugar and flour. Add egg
yolks, vanilla and milk and blend.
Strain over apples.
(3) I3akc on the lover shelf of a
hot oven (450 degrees F.) fifteen
minutes. Reduce heat to slow (325
degrees F.) and bake about thirty
minutes longer, Cool.
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GREEN TOMATO AND
APPLE PIE
1 recipe pastry
1 to one and one-fourth cups
brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour or one
tablespoon either cornstarch
or quick -cooking tapioca
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups verythinly sliced
green tomatoes
2 cups thinly sliced, peeled,
tart apples
2 tablespoons butter or mar •
-
garine.
(1) Prepare pastry, wrap in wax-
ed paper and chill while preparing
filling materials.
(2) Mix brown sugar, flour and
spices.
(3) Linea nine -inch pie pan with
pastry. Fill with two layers each of
tomatoes and apples, sprinkle each
layer with part of the sugar mix-
ture. Dot with bits of butter or
margarine.
(4) Moisten edge of pastry, cover
with top crust and press together.
Trim off excess pastry and crimp
with fingers or press with tines of a
fork. Cut gashes in top for escape
of steam,
(5) If a glazed top is desired
brush the crust lightly with milk or
with beaten egg, diluted with an
equal amount of water. 'Bake on
lower shelf of a hot oven (450 de-
grees F.) fifteen minutes. Reduce
heat to moderate (350 degrees F.)
and bake about thirty minutes long-
er or till apples are tender and
crust is brown.
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GRAPE PIE WITH CRUMB
TOPPING
1 quart Concord. grapes
3/4 Cup sugar
1 to two tablespoons lernon
juice
1 tablespoon quick -cooking
tapioca or cornstarch or two
. tablespoons flour
recipe plain pastry
Ya cup flour
Ya cup brown or' white sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, optional
2/ tablespoons butter or mar-
garine.
(1) Slip the pulp out of the grape
skins. Set skins aside. Cook the
pulp till the seeds loosen and strain
to remove seeds.
(2) Mix sugar, lemon juice,
tapioca, grape juice and skins. Let
stand, stirring once or twice, while
preparing pastry.
(3) Mix flour, sugar and cinna-
mon. Add butter and chop till mix-
ture forms crumbs.
(4) Line a nine -inch pie pan with
pastry. Trim off excess pastry with
scissors, leaving a rias about a
quarter -inch wider than pan. Turn
this rim up and crimp with fingers.
(5) Turn grape mixture into
pastry and sprinkle crumb mixture
over top,
(6) Bake on the lower shelf of a _
hot oven (450 degrees F.) 'ten
minutes. Lower heat to moderate
(350 degrees F.) and bake about
twen ty mini tes longer,
:\ little learning is a dangerous
thing! Drink deep or taste not the
Pierian Spring; there shallow
draughts intoxicate the braid, and
drinking• largely sobers us again.
-Pope
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Purr-ls-It is said that "a 'cat may look,rot a king," but in this in-
stance it looks in a mirror at a "princess" in a bonnet of matched
cultured pearls valued at thousands of ,dollars. The pedigreed Si-
amese cat, "Princess Imperial Mooky," .got the chance to model
this fabulous headgear at the National Retail Jewlers Association
show.
Doubles' Troubles
Inquisitive crowds followed a
tall and elderly Norwegian as he
toured the South Bank Exhibition
recently, He looked like King
Haakon; but welcoming officials
learned that he was merely an
Oslo business man. Even in Nor-
way Mr. Olav Hegstad is often
saluted for the King -just another
case of double muddle.
Arrested 300 Times
•
And pity Albert Pankler, a re-
tired Ruhr miner who wears a
hanging forelock to conceal a dis-
figuring birthmark on his fore-
head and has been arrested for
questioning 300 times since the
war because he resembles Hitler.
Asked why he hasn't shaved off
his moustache to lessen the resem-
blance, he complains: " grew mince
first. In fact, I'm not Hitler's
double. He happened to be miner"
Mrs. Mary Knoll was mobbed in
New York because she was mis-
taken for. the Duchess of Windsor.
In Switzerland, two or three years
ago, Mr. Victor Jones, a Surrey
licensee, was hailed everywhere
he went as -111e late Ernest Bevin.
From Peru -Soft durable llama
is used for this coat which
features large carry -all pockets
with button emphasis. It has a
high little shawl collar. The
fabric is woven from the fleece
of the Peruvian llama.
With thick rimmed glasses and
black hat, Mr. Jones was Mr. Be -
vin's double - and the " former
Foreign Minister was holidaying in
Switzerland,. too, As Mr. • Jones
changed trains at Lucerne, eager
crowds demanded his autograph.
At Interlaken the telephone in his
hotel, room had to be disconnected
because there were so many incom-
ing calls. One newspaper even pub-
lished Mr. Jones's picture and an-
nounced he was Mr, Bevin incog-
nito!
An Oxfordshire head waiter, Mr.
Peat,' had lots of fun, too, be-
cause' he looks like a certain Mr.
Churchill. The resemblance was
heightened when he smoked cigars,
but now he says he cannot afford
them; And both Mr. Peat and Mr.
Churchill had a double, as it hap-
pens, in Dudley Malone, an Ameri-
can actor.
When the real Churchill went
to Washington during the war,
Malone donned a spotted bowtie
and hurried there, too. Though
egos; made him sick,. he gallantly
stuck one in his mouth. Crowds
followed hila everywhere. In the
opulent Carlton Hotel he ordered
cocktails before a hushed audience.
He strode through the Press
Building while reporters tailed him.
Some people thought that the
real Churchill was his impersonator.
Evenutally Malone landed himself
a job -playing tile part of Church-
ill in a movie!
Seting Newfoundland
.It is not fair to Newfoundland to
arrive by air. Early in the morning
we flew out of the great wall of fog
over the Banks and, sleepy-eyed,
saw a sunlit sea at last. But I look-
ed back at the fog, an awesome
spectacle.' It was indeed a great
wall, blue -grey, nearly black, as
clear-cut as a cliff. , , .
This is the view familiar to trav-
ellers between Britain and Ameri-
ca who stop for a day or an hour or
two at Gander and say: 'What a
country!' But if you come in from
the sea to any of the innumerable
fishing villages (or "outposts") on
a sunny day, you would say you
were in Norway, or Cornwall, or
(ex,cept for the whale rolling and
blowing in the bay) a Swiss or an
Italian lake. Every house is of
wood, and every church and,
since you can paint wood in any
colour you like, the distant views is
varied and gay... ,
Many of .the coves and water -
villages arc enchantingly pretty,
and the Bay of Islands, on the west
coast, is an estuary with a gracious
beauty of which any country might
he pround-From ' "Independent
Member.' by A, P. Herbert.
Is The Color Fast?
Tf you have any doubt as to whe-
ther a fabric is color fast, test
it before using, An easy and sure
way of doing this is to stitch a
sample of the material on a piece
of white cloth, then wash and iron
it. If the color is not fast, the
white cloth will be tinted and
streaked.
A good deal less than a century
ago -in fact there are probably
people alive who remember the inci-
dent -the great British scientist,
Sit'' 'William Crookes, threw a real
scare into millions of people, He
announced that the world was fac-
ing a terrible food shortage finless
new sources of fertilizer nitrogen
could he discovered quickly -some-
thing which, at that time, seemed
highly improbable.
* * *:
Sir William had arrived at this
frightening conclusion by adding.
up the known supplies of Chilean
nitrate of soda, guano deposits, and
a small number of industrial by-
products which could be converted
to fertilizer, and had balanced. this
total against the nitrogen tonnages
required to produce sufficient food-
stuffs for the increasing population.
* 4: *
• Sis William's prediction never
came to pass, however, because
chemical science stepped into the
picture in most impressive fash-
ion,
Approximately 20,000 tons of
nitrogen are present in the atmos-
phere above every square mile of
the earth's surface. The problem
then resolved itself into one of ex-
tracting nitrogen from the air in
a commercially feasible manner.
* *
The electrical discharge from a
flash of lightening causes some of
this atmospheric nitrogen to com-
bine with oxygen to form nitric
oxide. As this cools, more oxygen
atoms are extracted from the air
to product nitrogen dioxide, which
combines readily with water to form
nitric acid. This process takes
place during every thunderstorm,
with the result that a substantial
portion of the rain falling upon the
earth during such a storm is a dil-
ute nitric acid. Thus Nature has
her own way of replenishing the
earth's supply of nitrogen necessary
for plant frowth. But this assis-
tance from Nature is hardly enough
where large commercial farming
operations are constantly depleting
the the fertility of the soil.
* * *
In the early part of the 20th
century, two Norwegian chemists,
Birkland and Eyde, obtained nitric
acid from nitric oxide and, with the
use of an electric arc, were the
first humans to succeed in the fix-
ation o f atmospheric nitrogen.
Since that time, many processes
and products have been developed
for the purpose of enriching the
soil and contributing to the ever-
increasing abundance of the world's
farming areas.
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By heating calcium carbide with
nitrogen in an electric furnace, an-
other nitrogen fertilizer is produc-
ed which not only supplies a readily
absorbableplantr
nutrient, but pro-
vides a plus value by helping to
eradicate weeds. Potassium fertil-
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izers, derived from potash deposits,
improve the shape, color, and ship-
ping and packing qualities of fruits
and vegetables. They also strength-
en stalks and stems and increase
the plant's resistance to disease,
drought, frost, and incect damage.
Phosphatic fertilizers, which were
originally produced from hones
treated with sulfuric acid now are
obtained primarily from phosphate
rock, Alone, or in combinations
determined by precise chemical
analysis, these fertilizer compounds
are playing an essential role in
the feeding of the world's expand-
ing population.
* *
What with their atom and hy-
drogen bombs and one thing or
another, scientists have been getting
something of a bad name lately,
That's why I thought it mightn't
be a bad idea to pass along to you
the above reminder that -without
the scientists -by this time farmers
would be in a bad way. And every-
body else, when you come right
down to it.
Rockets Aren't New
ROCKET RECORD: A rocket
operates on the principle of a New-
tionian law -that every action (in
this case a backward rush of gas
from the rocket's tail) produces 'an
opposite reaction (forward move-
ment of the body of the rocket).
The Chinese used rockets as wea-
pons in the thirteenth century. The
British used them in the War of
1812; rockets were the `bombs
bursting in air" in Francis: Scott
Key's "The StarspangIed Banner."
In World War II alt major powers
developed rockets for firing front
ships, tanks, planes, bazookas. Re-
cently at the rocket proving grounds
in White Sands, N.M., a rocket
called the Viking set a world's
altitude record for a single rocket
-135 miles. This was far short 'of
the over-all record set at White
Sands in 1949 *hen a captured
German rocket, at the peak of its
speed, launched a smaller rocket
which reached 250 miles. These ex-
periments are part of research on
guided missiles for global war -
such as rockets with atomic war-
heads. The research has a long way
to go. The Viking used up its fuel
in seventy-five seconds,
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