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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-12-13, Page 3or TA LE elate Andrews. Last week I wrote about that Christmas turkey and while it may seem a little early to be talking about the "leftovers," still T don't think you'll mind a couple of hints, * * *• The day after Christmas perhaps you are wondering what to do with leftover turkey, * * * If you have some of. the big pieces of turkey left, you may want to freeze them, The frozen pieces may he spread over several weeks of occasional eating. Be sure to label packages, "Roast Turkey— Dec. 25, 1951" and it will be better if used within three or four weeks. * * * When you've stripped the bones, shunter them with a little onion, celery, and seasonings for turkey stock, or for soup with rice noodles. * * * When you've put away your tur- key, you may want a meal of roast beef, pork, lamb, or veal for a change. Here is a recipe for a cran- berry topping for roasts. For beef, pork, or ham, the combine oranges with the cranberries. For lamb or veal we combine mint with them. Some folks prepare a two or three - pound roast in the ususal way ex- cept that they do not salt as heavily as usual. They make the fol- lowing toppings and allow them to stand one hour before putting over the hot roast for the last half hour of cooking. CRANBERRY, -ORANGE TOPPING 1/ cups fresh cranberries 1 orange 3/4 cup sugar Wash, but do not peel, orange. Grind cranberries and orange and add sugar. * * * CRANBERRY -MINT TOPPING 1/ cups fresh cranberries / glass mint jelly or 3 mint leaves 3/4 cup sugar Grind cranberries and if fresh mint leaves are used, grind them with the berries. If jelly is used, add to ground berries and then add sugar. * * * You may like golden brown, hot buttermilk rolls with your roast. Here's a recipe that makes really fine ones: BUTTERMILK ROLLS 1 yeast cake 2/ cups buttermilk 4°".. cups flour (more may be 34 rk F sr heeded) teaspoon each, soda and baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons shortening 2 tablespoons sugar Dissolve yeast in / jcup,.butter- miik and add this to remaining buttermilk. Sift dry ingredients to- gether. Cream the sugar and short- ening and combine with flour mix- ture. Mix in buttermilk -yeast mix- ture. Work together , well and let rise in warm place until it doubles in bulk (about one hour). Work down and make into rolls and let rise about one hour. * * '* If you like to look with pride at your rows of canned vegetables and fruits that you have neatly placed on shelves, think how decorative orange carrots will be when added to the reds, greens and yellows already there. CARROT PICKLES Fresh, medium-sized ^ carrots 1/ cups vinegar 1 cup sugar Cinnamon sticks 1 teaspoon cardamom seeds Scrape carrots and cook in slightly salted water' until firmly done. Drain. Pack while hot; length-. wise, in hot sterile jars. Make syrup of the vinegar (if it's strong, add about '4 cup water), sugar, cinnamon sticks broken in. small pieces and cardamom seeds. Pour ' hot syrup over carrots, filling jars, Seal while hot. * * * An icing for cake which is new and novel and easily made has crushed Graham crackers as one of its ingredients.. NOVEL CAKE FROSTING / cup' condensed milk 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar 2 tablespoons cocoa 3/4 cup crushed Graham crackers 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix all ingredients and spread over cake. *. * • * Here's a recipe for Grapefruit Pie that's decidedly worth trying. GRAPEFRUIT MERINGUE PIE 1 cup sugar 5 tablespoons corn starch 1 teaspoon salt Grated rind of one lemon 11 cups boiling water 3 eggs, separated / tablespoon butter 3/4 cup grapefruit juice 1/2 cup lemon juice 1 baked 8 -inch pie shell / teaspoon baking powder 6 tablespoons sugar Combine sugar, corn starch, salt and grated lemon rind in top of double boiler. Add boiling water gradually and cook over flame, stir- ring constantly until thick. Place over hot water and cook 10 min- utes. Beat egg yolks slightly and add to mixture. Cook one minute. Remove from fire and add butter and fruit juices. Cool' and pour into pie crust. Beat egg whites until frothy and add baking pow- der and beat until stiff. Cut and fold the six tablespoons sugar into whites. Spread over pie and brown under broiler for one minute. Distance Dialing If you've ever watched a toll operator at work for 10 minutes you won't believe it. But if you live in Englewood, New Jersey, and want to talk to Aunt Mabel in San Francisco—or 10 other cities —you can prove it. You can dial her on your own telephone. And soon, they telt us, the automatic long-distance dialing being tested in Englewood will be extended to most of North America. We've often been grateful for the modern telephone system, es- pecially when living where writing a note often seemed easier—and quicker — than telephoning. Once we watched wonderingly while two paragons of politest persistence successfully plotted to break through or circumvent a traffic block on the long lines to get our mes- sage through. Maybe the system is a national monopoly; maybe it has its faults. Even so, it's so much more efficient—and human—than the average state-owned system as to offer an object lesson in what private enterprise can do. We suppose this mechanizing of toll calls is another step of pro- gress. We understand it is going to cut time in completing calls, and that the machinery can even choose the clearest among alternative routes. It's also supposed to bill us automatically. Still, we have some questions. How does it know when Aunt Mabel has actually fin- ished talking? If she isn't there, will it call us back in 20 minutes? And what if we call the wrong number in San Francisco? Can it straighten that out and make us feel it really wasn't our fault? Nashville, Tenn., Federal revenue agents who raided a still arrested three nen and let eleven "drunks" go free, The latter were identified as a sow and ten piglets which had spent touch time with their noses in the mash. The Hull You Say? -Well, you'd be wrong because John Neuss of an electrical appliance firm is not 'finishing off the bodies of miniature vessels. He's actually doing precision work on a group of hull -like' unitswhich will be fitted to the underbelly sections of F-84 Thunderjets. Called pylons, the units, used for carrying auxiliary fuel tanks, armament such as bombs, rockets, napalm tanks, can be jettisoned if necesary. Safety For The "Death Seat"—A new idea in auto safety is the "Safe -t -table," demonstrated above by Norm Nicholson, When the car jerks to a sudden stop, the rubber -cushioned table springs out from the dashboard and prevents passenger from going through the windshield. Developed by an auto stylist, the table may also be used for writing, as map board or for lunch But, its main purpose is to cut the toll taken by the right -front "death seat," where seven out of 10 persons killed in auto accidents were riding. Colombia To Columbia — This six -week-old jaguar cub takes his first curious look after arriv- ing at the Philadelphia zoo from Colombia, South America, He weighs only five pounds now, but- after three years of stuffing. himself with American chow he's expected to worry the scales up to 200 pounds. Quite a food jag-uar. New and Useful . . Too . . Lightweight Chain Saw Lightweight chain saw, for one or two-man operation is designed to do heavy-duty jobs. For ease in carrying over rough ground, the saw can quickly be dismantled into two sections weighing less than 35 lbs. each. Powered by 9 h.p. Motor. * * * Polishing Aid For both home and industrial users, applicator and abrasive are combined into one convenient unit. Offered in a choice of sizes, the polishing units are made of cotton —impregnated with any one of a variety of polishing, buffing, oiling, or other compounds— then ma- chine -rolled in cellulose tissue with both ends exposed for use. In the home, cleaning and polishing of metals glass and porcelain are its main uses, while in industry it aids in the finishing of metal hardware parts, polishing operations in ^the making of jewelry and furniture, and the buffing and polishing of optical lenses. * * * Big Toe Broiler Got cold feet? New warmer heats your toes up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Working on principle used for de-icing of aircraft sur- faces, it will be produced in a wide variety of colors; can be plugged into ordinary outlet. * * * TV Color Screen A three -color plastic screen, flesh tone sepia in the centre, and hand -painted with blue band on top, green strip along the bottom, fits television screens from 10 to 20 inches. Resultant effect is claimed restful to the eye, since each color gradually grades into the other. No special tools required for ap- plying screen. When a pretty Greeley, Colo., housewife was undressing for bed she saw two gleaming eyes behind a mask staring through the glass of her front door. She screamed and her husband summoned police, who arrested the peeper --» a raccoon perched on a crossbar of thb screen door. Food That Heals Periodic measurements of the strength of tissue in healing wounds under conditions of controlled diet have shown that certain sulphur compounds in food are necessary if wounds are to heal rapidly, ,Says Dr. Martin B. Williamson of Loy- ola University. The compounds. are sulphur amino acids, which occur in the proteins of eggs, milk, wheat, corn and soine other foods. The "healing index" — a 'number which expresses the rate of healing as measured in Dr. W-illiamson's re- search—is much greater on high than on low -protein diets in ex- perimental animals. The high -pro- tein diet gives this higher index because more sulphur amino acid is available for building new tissue. In Denmark ornithologist Holger Poulsen announced that birds do not sing from happiness or mating impulses but through a "hormonal process activated by light." Suez Canal—"Dream Of The Centuries" Changed The Map Of The World Kipling may be responsible for the popular notion that the Suez Canal is the dividing line between East and West, As a matter of fact, the Moslem World extends far out from both sides of the canal and the great Afrasian desert sweeps on from Egypt to the Ara- bian peninsula and to Central Asia. In the compact little world of the Greeks, Egypt was a part of Asia and all the desert to the west was Libya. Africa only came in with the Romans. The boundary between Asia and Africa, in spite of the canal, has remained as insignificant as the boundary between Europe and Asia, where the low Ural Mountains cut across but do not alter the Eurasian plain, and the great Slav power has long been in undisputed control of all the lands on both sides of the chain of hills. * * * Yet the opening of the Suez Canal eighty-two years ago this month had a strong appeal to the imagination of Europeans. The severing of the continents of Asia and Africa at Suez, like the later and greater splitting of North and South America at Panama, was a triumph of man over a hostile en- vironment. The event was fittingly celebrated. As it was a French en- terprise, Empress Eugenie headed the list of distinguished guests. The Emperor of Austria cane, the Crown Prince of Prussia, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Prince Henry of the Netherlands and hun- dreds of less exalted persons. Khe- dive Ismail of Egypt paid the ex- pense of the guests from and back to Europe and all the bills for the stay in Egypt. Wheni he heard that Empress Eugenie would like to visit the pyramids of Giza while she was in Egypt, he set ten thousand peasants to work to build a road seven miles long, from Cairo to the pyramids. The Suez celebration on this lavish scale hastened the bankruptcy of the Khedive, the sale of his shares in the canal and the eventual occupation of Egypt by the British says a writer in The New York Times. * * * The British, who are now re- solved to defend the canal at any cost, were not interested when the canal was first proposed. Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary, thinking of Napoleon's Egyptian ad- venture of 1798, looked upon the daring enterprise as another French scheme to get a hold on Egypt. He had a strange idea, too, that use of the canal might . disturb established trade relations. So the British Government declined the shares offered to it and even brought the work on the canal tee a standstill in 1864 by a protest to the Sudan in Constantinople against the Khedive's use -of forced labor for the benefit of a foreign company. Forced labor was stop- ped—the Khedive paying the com- pany £3,000,000 for this breach of co' -act—and the work was fin- is' with the help of machinery. In the end Egypt had put up nearly half the cost of the canal. ' * * * The importance of the canal to the British appeared on the open- ing day—Nov. 17, 1869. The first ship to pay the tolls showed the British flag. Soon afterward three- quarters of the trade going through the canal was British. The story of how another British Government reversed the policy of Lord Pal- merston and acquired a big stake in. the canal has been told again in a new life of Benjamin Disraeli by Hesketh Pearson. "Dizzy" bor- rowed £4,000,000 on his own re- sponsibility to clinch the deal for the Khedive's share and let Parlia- ment approve the purchase later. It was less extra -constitutional than another famous canal acquisition— the Panama Canal case — where President Theodore Roosevelt said he "took" the Canal Zone and let Congress argue about it afterward. * * * The Suez Canal concession is for ninety-nine years. So on Nov. 17, 1968, the Egyptians can take over the property from the French - British company. The next seven- teen years should allow time enough to provide for the continued safe operation of this vital link in the world trade routes. The canal, which was the dream of centuries, will not be allowed to disappear in the sands of the desert and ships will not have to resort to the long voyage around the Cape of Africa. Yet it was the discovery of the sea route to India nearly five hundred years ago that made the building of the canal inevitable. The old navigators changed the map of the world and prepared the way for the canal builders. Vasco da Gama is the man we really have to thank for the Suez Canal and Ferdinand Magellan for the great canal at Panama. As a very refined -looking woman was shopping at a fruit stand, her dog, unseen by her, licked some fruit, to the proprietor's extreme annoyance. After this had happened several times, he politely called it to the woman's attention. Turning to the dog, she snapped sternly, "Priscillal Stop that this minute' They're riot washedi" Plants Grow Better Under Artificial light By DOUGLAS LARSEN In a, brilliantly lighted basement room of the Department.of Agri- culture's research laboratories at Beltsville, scientists are getting clo- ser to the elusive secret of life itself in plazas. For the first time in the history of agricultural research they are able `to measure the exact effect which,.,*light has on plant cell growth. Past research, and work in tlye; development of better vari- eties ,of vegetables and flowers, up to nolo, has been hampered because natural light can never be accur- ately controlled. Although the room has only been in operation a few months, it has already been used to help start development of a brand new vari- ety of disease -resistant potato seed. In fact, use of the• room for de- veloping new varieties of all kinds of seeds now appears to be one of its most valuable by-products, according to Harry A. Borthwick and Marion W. Parker, the two plant scientists in charge of the project. It also could be a factor in re- volutionizing the world's food pro- duction if it helps in providing the answers about plants which Borth- w'ck and Parker are seeking. The room is 20 feet long, 10 feet wide and 7r/, feet high. its vital feature, the lighting equipment, was developed and installed by General Electric engineers. Eighty-eight "slimline" fiuorescent lamps, sup- plemented with 24 60 -watt incandes- cent lamps, provide the illumination. . The lamps are the same as those used in your home. The fluorescent and incandescent lamps provide all the light nour- ishment with none of the harmful elements of sunlight --which plants need for growing. They give an illumination..level of over 2,000 foot candles, which is more than 40 times the level prevailing in modern stores and offices. The thing that makes the Belts- ville installation unique is a simple method of stepping up current cycle for the lamps, plus an automatic means of keeping the light intensity Continually fixed, Research being done in the con- trolled environment room by Borth- wick and Parker will supplement Work of a similar, highly practical nature already under way. Theirs is basic research aimed at answer- ing all the questions of the effect of light on plant life. The other work is aimed at specific problems in the field. In Hawaii, for instance, tests are under way to determine whether light can be used to increase the sugar crop there, It is believed that if a cane field can be lighted for a short time during the night it will keep the cane from forming a flower at the end, at which stage it ceases to grow sugar in the stalk. Finding out just exactly how much light a cane field needs, and at what time of the night, could result in much bigger sugar crops. The same information has a similar application to other crops. It is possible. through artificial lighting, to make many areas of the world with short days far more productive. The great variety of weather and clay -length probably lessens the need for widespread artificial lighting to increase food production. However, in Florida. as one small example, artificial light used at night could be used to help grow onions by altering the day- nir•ht cycle. There is a wide field for practi- cal use of light research in flower growing. Poinsettias, for instance, need a great deal of darkness, and their blooming time is difficult to control by ordinary growing means. With artificial light, however, their blooming can be controlled exactly. In the development of new seeds of all kinds the controlled envir- onment room will have its most practical application, in addition to its use as a tool in basic agriculture research. When the technique of new seed production in the room is more fully developed, it will be possible to produce new varieties of all kinds of seeds which can be tailored for use in any part of the entire 'world, regardless of what light conditions might exist there. However, 'if the room is able to help Borthwick and Parker achieve their ultimate goal, the discovery of the secret of plant life, it is impossible to predict just what tre- mendous benefits to civilization will result. 3y The Light of the incandescent lamps, this Agriculture Depart- ment research worker tends some test plants. Under artificial Tight, the vegeta'ion sometimes does better than under sunlight,