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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-03-06, Page 3li gni .1 iii 1411W 'I TABLE wTALI[S elate A friend of mine was saying the ether day that most of the cake fecipes in this column lately had been of the simple, easy -to -make variety. I told her that it was done purposely as I know how busy Most of my readers are, and how little time they have for "fancy" Booking, Still, there are occasions such as parties, anniversaries and so on, when something extra -special seems to be called for. So here you are, folks—cakes that you can serve With full confidence that they will ease even the most discriminat- ing. * * * BIRTHDAY CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate cup boiling water 1% cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder lrA teaspoon salt 1% teaspoons cinnamon % cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 1 cup sugar 2 eggs cup buttermilk Line the bottoms of two 1 -pound coffee cans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately low, 325 degree F. Melt chocolate in a double boiler over hot water. Then add water and stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Sift to- gether flour, soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in flavoring. Beat in sugar gradually and continue beating un- til light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time beat thoroughly after each. Stir in chocolate mixture. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture al- ternately with buttermilk in this way: Add one-third of dry ingre- dients, then half the buttermilk; repeat; end with dry ingredients. Beat only .enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition. Pour into lined cans. • Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until Rake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in cans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Loosen around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool, Then split each cake horizontally into two Myers. Fill and frost layers with Chocolate Raisin Frosting. CHOCOLATE RAISIN FROSTING 1 cup .augur` 3 tablespoons butter % cup milk 1 egg, slightly beaten 4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted ' 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring cup chopped raisins Cook sugar, butter, and milk in lop of double boiler over boiling water until sugar dissolves. Stir in egg and blend thoroughly. Remove Brom heat; stir in chocolate, van - lila, and raisins. Cool. Fills and frosts Birthday Chocolate Cake or sss 8 -inch layer cake. * * * FLUFFY WHITE CAKE 234 cups . sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon salt cup shortening IA teaspoon vanilla flavoring 34 teaspoon almond flavoring 134 cups sugar 3; cup milk 34 cup water ! cup egg whites (about 4). Line the bottoms of two 8 -inch Bayer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderate, 3S0 degree . Sift together flour, baking pow - Ser, and salt. Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in vanilla and almond flavor - fags. Beat in sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Combine milk and water. Add sifted dry ingredients to sugar Mixture alternately with milk mix- ture in this way; Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat; encs with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition. Whip egg whites until stiff with a rotary beater or electric mixer. Gently fold into the flour mixture. Pour into lined pans. Bake 30 of 35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on wire racks 5 minutes. Loos- en around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Then split each layer horizontally into two layers. Put layers together with Strawberry Jam. Frost top and sides with Cream Cheese Frost- ing, CREAM CHEESE FROSTING 1 3 -ounce package cream cheese 2 tablespoons milk %teaspoon almond flavorings 3% cups sifted confectioners' sugar Few grains salt Put cheese in a medium-size bowl and mash with a wooden spoon or electric mixer, Add milk, salt, and almond flavoring and beat until smooth and creamy. Add sugar gradually, continue beating vigor- ously until smooth. If frosting is too stiff to spread, add a few more drops of milk. Frosts top and sides of one 8 -inch layer cake. P.S.—If a tinted frosting is de- sired, stir in a few drops of food coloring, after all the sugar has been added. * * * CARAMEL PARTY CAKE 1% cups milk, scalded 1 cup sugar 3 cups sifted cake flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup shortening 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 4 eggs Heat milk in double boiler over boiling water. While milk heats, put 1 cup of the sugar in a heavy skillet. Place over low heat. Stir constantly until golden brown and sugar is dissolved. Stir very slowly into hot milk and continue cooking • until it dissolves again, stirring occasionally. Measure. Add addi- tional milk if necessary to make 1N, cups. Cool to room tempera- ture. Line bottoms of two 9 -inch layer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately hot, 375 degree F. Sift together flour; baking powder and salt. Beat shortening until creamy. Beat" in the second cup of sugar gradually and continue beating until Light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each. Add sifted dry ingre- dients to egg mixture alternately with milk mixture in this way: Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat, end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thoroughly after each addition. Pour into Lined pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the cen- ter comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Loosen around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Fill and frost with Caramel Seven -Minute Frosting. CARAMEL SEVEN -MINUTE FROSTING 1% cups 'brown sugar 2 teaspoons light corn syrup Few grains salt 2 egg whites 24 cup water 2 teaspoons grated orange rind Combine the first five ingredi- ents in the top of a 2 -quart double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with a rotary beater or electric , mixer until mixture holds its shape, about 7 minutes. Fold in orange rind. Fills and frosts one 9 -inch layer cake. Shelley's Fellow —Hollywood actress Shelley Winters snuggles up close to her fiance, Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, as the.couple arrives at New York's Idlewild Airport. The tempestuous blonde movie star says they will wed in April "if things work smoothly enough." Beaming Duo—Movie queen Elizabeth' Taylor clasps hands with her new husband, Michael Wilding, shortly after arriving at a London airport. The 19 -year-old star and the British actor, 41, were married Feb. 22. It was the second trip to the altar for each of them. "Pardon me, but could you spare twenty-five cents for a cup of coffee? Marriage Proposal Just 22 Years Late What an infinite variety "of ways there are of asking .someone to marry you, from the old-fashioned "Will you do the the honour, of be- coming my wife?" to the modern "How about getting hitched, baby?" - There's the proposal business- like, for instance. Never a second of time was wasted by Edgar Wallace, who dictated his hundreds of books at high speed. One day, his secretary was taking down a sentence when he stopped before the end and said, "What about popping round to the registry office and `finding out what we have to do about it?" They downed tools, dashed round to investigate, got married, and after the ceremony returned to the unfinished sentence. One of the most cold-blooded and calculated proposals must have been that made by John Ward, of Scranton, U.S.A., to Mattie Weav- er. They met for the first time as members of a class to which a pro- fessor gave a lecture on courtship and marriage. Using . the students as guinea - pigs, he: gave different couples the reasons why they should suit each other. 'Ward and "Miss Weaver were so convinced by his argu- ments that they immediately fixed the wedding date. Then there's the blind proposal, the parties to which have never seen each other, though probably have admired a highly glamorous photograph. Sometimes such offers • of marriage are made as the result of pen friemndship, and, of course, film stars are .quite accustomed to receiving impassioned proposals from their fans. It is estimated that 100,000 such "love" letters are received in Holly- wood each year: The postman brings Anes Blyth an average of twelve proposals a week, but six of them are from;the same .titan, a Texan cattle.'raricller. Sailors' Lucky Dip The blindest proposals of all have been made by sailors who throw overboard bottles containing offers of marriage to the first wo- man who reads thein. One such proposal, though in this case it was addressed to a par- ticular woman, has just reached its destination,' twenty-two years too late. The :nail concerned was a nook on board the Gertnan liner Thuringia, The bottle holding his proposal was found by someone on the Isle of Wight, who forwarded it to Germany, Neither the cook, who is now a 1 baker in $yit, nor his sweetheart, who lives :tear Worths -on -Rhine, had married—and they don't intend to do sonowl One of these blind proposals had a very happy ending in New York quite recently, when Samuel. Jamie- son married Myrtle Thomey, Two radio amateurs, they 'carried on their courtship by means of short- wave transmitters. One lived in Texas, the other in Indiana, so they didn't meet until their wedd- ing day. The proposal topsy-turvy is not uncommon when a woman sets her heart on. a particular man. During the Napoleonic Wars, the March- ioness of Sligo was present at the Old Bailey when Sir William Scott was thejudge trying her son. Sir William gave such a very paternal •,lecture that she sent up a note to the Bench saying how very,', good it would be for the young man if' lee could have such a father :for the rest of his life. The judge acceptedirthis tactful offer; Iii7"Sierlieregemeny. years ago, a wealt?fli34"uure•-'had 'a `•:beautiful young 'daughter who fell in love with a handsome barrister. He took ' no notice of her, so she determined to attract his attention. Anonymously, she sent him a challenge to a duel, declaring that he had insulted her, Amazed, he arrived with his second to find a masked woman who pointed a rapier at his heart and issued the ultimatum: "Either you wed me or you fight" She refused to let him see,her face until he had made his decision, , The young man racked his brain, his friend advised "him that she must be a woman of character to show such initiative, and so the barrister agreed to marry her. Her beauty when revealed de lighted him, and their marriage was a very successful one. He later became Lord Lieutenant of the country. Happily, the proposal romantic does still exist, judging by the evi- dence of letters to the Press writen by quite ordinary people recently, A Suffolk woman was given five red roses, each with a small label on which was written one word, The whole sentence read: "Will you be my wife?" Another modern proposal took place in the middle of a thunder- storm, The couple concerned were sheltering .in a telephone kiosk Their breath made the ,glass steamy, and the man wrote on it: "Will you marry me?" Not Dead Yet People write learned discussions full of statistics which are intended to prove that Great Britain is finished -as a great nation, We don't believe ie 'and our disbelief has been heightened by an item we just read in a British paper. , The actors were playing. "St. George and the Dragon" in.:whic . St. George is supposed to slay the dragon with his lance. But it hap- pened that the dragon's lance hit t. the lance of St. George at an iii opportune second and St George's lance went flying off the stage, grazing•thc nose of the flute player in the orchestra, St. George never hesitated. He.`,• . tackled the dragon with bare hand took his lance away front hint and slew him right on schedule. Furthermore the flute player with the injured nose retrieved his flute and continued to play, hardly missing a note. You can't lick people like that --From The Wall Street Journal SLEEP 'r aNITE iEDIC1N tablets taken aeecordlau ee direbctler's Is sa safe way ib Indus. *lamp ere quiet the naives when Nate. el.00 Deu Stara. ani I areedlei!n Toronto 2. Like To Your Passage To The Moon? Are you thinking of emigrating? 114 your eye on Australia? Or South America? Or maybe it's Africa? Well, don't make a hasty deci- sion, If you wait a mere 50 years g,i' so, your choice may •not be i+',limited to these countries, or, in- deed, to any country on earth. : By the end of the century it may 'be possible to emigrate to Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, or even the Moon. This is the hope, if not yet the !plan, of the British Interplanetary Society, whose members claim, with the customary caution of scientists, that within 30 to 50 years they will have made the first trip to the moon. But it's no use trying, through the Society, to book your passage. You would probably be suspected of facettiousness, which is some- thing the Society does not encour- age. It is very sensitive to the fact that most people still regard space- ships and journeys to the moon as strip -cartoon and film subjects —entertaining, but hardly to be taken seriously. Like Tibet This is an idea it wants to cor- • rect. The 360 "Fellows" of the Society —members with high scientific or engineering qualifications— genuinely believe that space travel is not only possible but probable— and soon. Many of them, working for the Government on rocket research, are satisfied that even with the materials they already have it would be possible to send an ex- pedition to Mars (where the climate is believed to be like that of Tibet), The only knowledge they still lack is how best to assemble those materials into a spaceship. It is this problem, says the Society's chairman, Mr. A. C. Clarke, that is holding things up and may do so for several years to come. ELECTRICAL STORM All Magic The poetry of earth, of course, is to be :mindinte yyeiy created thing ':Our spirits, when'e'they're`ttaned-to the right pitch of primal astonish- ment and delight, discover enchant- ment in any sun -warmed rock, any whisking October oak leaf, and shimmering drop of rain pn the nearest blade of dooryard grass. The creation is one continuous and inexhaustible glory; this garden is all magic. Still, we're likely, most of us, to grow a little dulled, from a sort of fatigue of familiarity. We forget to be feeling the sunlight on us. We don't hear any more all the astonishing little earth - musics, such as, say, crickets' , Whatever else we may neglect to notice, we are pretty sure to be • struck:.and stirred by the tumbling, spring -bursting "conkerr-eel" of red -winged blackbirds in an April marsh, the honking clatter of wild geese in their autumnal passing ... The speed, the aerial expertness of birds is, of course, one of the first things about them to enchant us. We stand on an autumn hilltop and watch the migrant hawks flash by, or -we see swallows skimming across the farm lands almost like darts of light, and in an instant we are caught up, in empathy, in the bird's world of rush and buoyance. How fast, really, do these winged brothers of ours go, up in their world of air and sunlight and the whistling wind? Most of the commoner small birds have a flying speed of about forty-five or fifty miles per hour. (They often go much more slowly, of course; we're speaking of maxi- mums.) Doves and pigeons can go arrowing along at sixty-five. If the guesses of ome nineteenth- century aninializers were right, back in the days when there were still passenger pigeons thronging the American sky, those may have been able to fly even more swiftly. The wild geese? They are able to touch seventy; and that's about the record speed, too, for ducks.— i Reprinted frons "This Fascinating Animal World," by Alan Devoe. "After all," he points out, took five year® and &° 10 million to get the Brabazon into the air, and this problem is 100 times more difficult," Met and Argued The Brit i s h Interplanetary Society was founded in 1933—ten years before the first rocket was invented, and when the idea of visiting the moon only existed in the minds of imaginative novelists. Yet Mr, P. E. Cleator, a young engineer living in Cheshire, manag- ed to find about 100 men like him- self, who believed fervently enough in interplanetary travel to form a society. In those days, recalls Mr. Clarke, was was an early enthusiast, all that the members did was to meet and argue. During the war the Society went into temporary retirement, though the members continued to argue by post. In 1946 they re-formed the Society and, because the war had rnade everyone rocket -con- scious, new members were not hard to find. For a subscription of about $5 a year the 1,129 "lay" members— those with no particular scientific knowledge—can go to the monthly meetings and attend lectures, exhi- bitions and film shows which keep them up-to-date with the latest developments in engineering and astronomy. Many of them went, last Septem- ber, to the three-day Second Inter- national Congress on Astronautics (the first was in Paris in 1950), organised by the Society at Caxton Hall, Westminister. Here they met delegates from interplanetary societies in fourteen different countries — for Britain, though she was one of the first, is not the only country 'that is reaching for the moon. The ' Society's "Journal," pub- lished monthly, caters for both kinds of members. "Far Too Risky" Mental stimulation is provided for Fellows in articles with title® like••"A Note on the Use of Dim- ensionless Parameters in Astron- antics"; but less technically -minded readers can skip. that and :turn Straight to the . Notes and News column. Here they can Learn that at the "Fifty Years .of Flying" exhibition,. held at Hendon in July, the. ex Lord MaYor retinelote volunteer; ed to go t� the moon—but-on 'the second trip and that six boys be- tween the ages of seven and twelve, interviewed by a Society official about their willingness to go, said they were not- very keen on the idem because they thought it would be "far too risky." SAFES Protect your BOORS and DASH Proms FiRE and THIEVES. We have a size and type of Sate, or Cabinet. for sus purpose, Visit Ito or write for ®noes etc.. to Helot. W. J. 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