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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-05-22, Page 31�< Most everybody knows --I hope - how good carrot pudding is. But did you ever try making grated carrots an ingredient for a cake? If not, you're going to be pleasant- ly surprised when you try this. CARROT CAKE 1% cups sugar 1/3 cups water 1% cups grated carrots 1 cup raisins Ye cup shortening 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 egg 2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts 1. Combine sugar, water, grated carrots, raisins, shortening, cinna- mon and nutmeg. Boil 5 minutes. Cool for 2 to 3 hours. 2. Beat egg until light. Stir into cooled mixture. 3. Sift together the flour, soda, cream of tartar and salt. Add, stirr- ing until well blended. 4, Blend ;2 cup of the chopped nuts into the batter, 5. Pour into a greased loaf pan (10 by 5 by 3 inches) and hake in a preheated moderate oven (350° F.) about 45 minutes. 6. Cool and frost with Marsh- mallow Frosting, Sprinkle remain- ing chopped nuts over the top. MARSHMALLOW FROSTING 2 tablespoon butter 1/4 cup milk 3, teaspoon almond flavoring 6 tablespoons marshmallow cream 13/4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about) 1. Heat butter and milk together. Add almond flavoring and marsh- mallow cream. 2. Beat in sugar gradually, heat- ing until thick enough to spread. * * * MOLASSES SPONGE CAKE 4 eggs cup cold coffee 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 cup sugar 3/ cup molasses 11/4 cups sifted cake flour 1% teaspoons baking powder Ye teaspoon salt teaspoon cream of tartar 1. Separate eggs. Add coffee and vanilla to yolks and beat until thick and light. 2. Beat in sugar and molasses gradually. 3. Sift together 3 times.the flour, baking powder. and salt, ''old .into egg mixture' in thirds. 4. Beat egg whites until light and foamy. Add cream of tartar and continue beating until whites are almost stiff but not dry.. Fold into sponge batter. Pour into a 10 - inch ungreased tube pan. Cut gently through batter with spatula or knife 2 or 3 times to remove any air pockets. Bake in a pre -heated slow oven (325° F.) for about 1 hour. 5. Remove from oven and invert until cool. Then remove from pan and frost with Coffee Frosting made with confectioners' sugar. COFFEE FROSTING 2 tablespoons warm coffee (about) 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Add coffee to the sifted con- fectioners' sugar, beating until frosting is of good spreading con- sistency. (It should be rather thin.) Add additional coffee if necessary. 2. Stir in vanilla. Spread on cooled cake. SPICED CHOCOLATE CAKE 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1 cup mashed potatoes 4 eggs 2 1 -ounce squares chocolate 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1% teaspoons cream of tartar ye teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon Ye teaspoon cloves Ye teaspoon nutmeg 3/4 cup chopped nuts 1 cup .chopped dates 2/2 cup sour cream 1.Cream butter and sugar to- gether until light, 2. Adel mashed potatoes, beatiig well. 3. Leat eggs until light. Add to creamed mixture gradually, 4. Melt chocolate and stir into creamed mixture. 5. Sift dry ingredients togcth6r. 6, Mix nuts and dates with a little of the flour. Add flour al- ternately with sour cream to creamed mixture, nixing well. Add nuts and dates. 7. Pour into a rectangular baking pan (13 by 9% by 2 inches), and bake in a slow oven (300° F.) about 1/ hours. 8. Cool and frost with Cream - Cheese Frosting. CREAM -CHEESE FROSTING 1 3 -ounce package cream cheese 2 ounces chocolate 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about) 2 to 3 tablespoons cream 54 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Soften cream cheese, 2. Melt chocolate and add to the cheese. 3. Add sugar, cream, salt and vanilla. Beat until smooth and of spreading consistency. * * * FEATHER CAKE 2 cups sifted flour 11/4 cups sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt IA cup shortening 1 cup milk ;,14 teaspoon lemon flavoring YI teaspoon vanilla 4 egg yolks (or 2 whole eggs) 1. Sift cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together into a mixing howl. Add shortening. 2. Combine milk with lemon and vanilla flavorings. Pour % cup of the liquid into the dry ingredients and shortening. Beat for 2 minutes (medium speed of electric mixer), scraping down the sides often. 3. Add remaining liquid and egg yolks. eat 2 minutes longer. 4. Pour cake batter into two 8 - inch greased cake pans. Bake in a preheated moderate oven (350° F.) for 25 to 30 minutes. S. Cool •and, frost with fluffy white frosting. Top with shredded coco- nut, if desired. FLUFFY WHITE FROSTING 3 egg whites 3/4 cup sugar '6 tablespoons light corn syrup teaspoon cream of tartar teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Combine egg whites, sugar, light corn syrup, cream of tartar, and salt in the top of a double boiler. Place pan over boiling water and beat mixture with rotary beater until mixture stands in peaks. 2. Remove from water, add vanilla and continue beating until frosting is thick enough to spread. When cake has cooled, spread with frosting. LOW NECKLINE A diplomatic publisher complim- ented a socialite from Richmond on her splendid appearance and added, "Do you feel as well as you look?" She answered, "There are only two things the matter with me: Dandruff and a badly spoiled stomach." "Aren't you lucky," commented the publisher, "that only one shows?". The lady reported the conversa- tion faithfully to her husband a moment later. He nodded slowly and asked, "Honey, did you have your hat on at the time," c p't tiz'Il < • New Artificial kidney -A close-up view shows us the intricacies of the newly developed "Guarino kidney," a unit which can be man- ufactured for as little as $400 to $500. Two brothers, Dr. John Guarino and Louis Guarino, an engineer, developed the apparatus Sheds Light on Painting Four-year-old Paul Davidson was properly impressed when painter John Forzaglia, three- year-old entrant in an art exhibition, explained why his watrecolor, "A Choo-Choo With a House and Two Suns," has two suns. The reason: two make the "choo-chop" and house brighter. King Took Only t,t 4� a• f%1' y i` ... a. Y O • Saturday night, by tradition, is bath night. But the tradition doesn't go very far back. By 1850 only four per cent of London's houses had bathrooms, and there were only one or two public bath -houses. The first modern -type "bath -house" was built in 1828, but it was not popular, chiefly because the water had to be carried by hand to the bath -tub. The bath -tub gradually evolution- ized British life in the nineteenth century, for during the previous 300 years people had considered washing and bathing to be detri- mental to health. Even Queen E4izabeth strongly disliked washing, but had to resort to strong perfume instead. Louis the XIV of France had but one bath a year, and washed his face less than once a month. He too, was a firm believer in perfume as a cleanser. ' Marie Antoinette was more extravagant in the use of water, for she washed herself about once a week. Unbecoming! By modern standards people dur- ing those centuries were unbeliev- ably dirty, and only if they were in dire need of a bath would they take one. This attitude towards washing was prevalent among all classes, and, if anything, the rich were more averse to washing than the poor. To have a bath was thought to be an unbecoming advertisement of uncleanliness. It had not always been like that, and the ancient Greeks and Romans, for instance, were very bath -con- scious. The Greeks had warm baths about 3,000 years ago, the well-to- do citizens having bathrooms in their own houses, and the poorer classes frequenting public baths. It was the Greeks who gave the Romans the idea of bathing, and ' by the first century A.D. the daily bath had become a firmly establish- ed habit to be taken before the evening meal. One of the hest remaining ex- amples of a private Roman bath ran be seen at Chentworth Villa, in Gloucestershire. From excavations, we can deduce the comfort and luxury that sur- rounded a Roman in a public bath. The Stabian Baths at Pompeii are a good example. The centre con- sisted of an open court where gym- nastic exercises were taken before and after. Adjoining this, there was a swim- ming -bath. On one side, waiting - rooms, an undressing -room, furn- ished with benches, lockers and niches. A tilers paving led to a cold - water hath. From here a bather would go into a waren-air room, and, last of all, he would immerse himself in a hot-water bath Gambling, too Similar public baths were built in Great Britain, the best known be- ing at Wroxeter, near Shrewsbhry, on the site of the Roman city of Uriconiunl, and at Bath. The re- mains at Wroxeter give us a good idea how the different chambers of the baths were heated. The baths were each built on short, square pillars, so that there was a spare beneath the two doors. A fire, which was continually fired, filled this space with flame and heat. The extent to which Romans be- lieved in bathing can be judged from the fact that at one time there were no less than 850 public baths in Rome, • As today, there were either separate baths for men and women, or, when only one public bath was available, different hours of the day were allotted to each sex. During the course of the fifteenth eentury, however, mixed bathing became fashionable, The bath- houses became places where danc- • ing, gambling, and drinking would go on unrestrictedly all day, and there: were even stories of bathing orgies. In.,order to root out the abuses of n;:ed bathing, all bathing was condmned by the Church as sin- ful. its agitation not only put an end `;;to the scandalous orgies of bathhouses, but it killed the people's sense of personal hygiene untih';they regarded cleanliness itself as sful. BIG TREE t. A ; iant Douglas fir tree, recent- ly ;1,e ed on Vancouver Island for ]un'a' had a circumference of 15 feed ,, as 1106 years old, and must ha , been a huge tree when the Ma Carta was signed 1215. In spite f its venerable age there wa' ``all a lot of useful wood in thi's ricient .giant of the forest. Says We Need Special Knobs To Tune Out Radio "Commercials" My first experience of American commercial radio was of the on - and -off kind. I was staying at a friend's house, and whenever the radio was on he would leap to his feet at definite intervals throughout the evening and turn the thing off, wait a minute or two, and then turn it on again and resume his rent, He didn't like commercials. Ap- parently he had developed a very finely tuned commercial sense, be- cause he could tell just when an advertisement was about to begin and he could tell to the second when it was due to stop. In this way he was able to provide him- self with noncommercial radio and a good deal of no doubt valuable exercise writes John Allan May in "The Christian Science Monitor." At first this amused me. Then, discovering a superior attitude that was floating around loose at the time, I adopted it, It seemed to me that there was something vaguely u n e t h i c al about his methods. It wasn't just that some- body else was: paying good money to provide tis with programs that we were receiving free (half the time we weren't even paying at- tention). But both my friend and I are newspapermen, and as such are ourselves dependent upon ad- vertising for our pay checks. It seemed to me that we were almost morally obligated to listen to the commercials, Maybe we ought even to turn the volume up and fetch in the neighbors. "But we don't force people to read the ads in the paper," my friend remarked in defending his system. "They can read the ones they want to read and skip the ones they want to skip. The ads have to be good to catch their attention. Also they almost always provide a valuable service for the readers; there are dozens of ads they want to read, I object to being forced to listen to much of this radio stuff. And, furthermore, some of it is not merely stuff -it is also nonsense." With this he jumped up Iike a shot from a catapult and just managed to cut off a commercial at the first half word, thus pre- serving intact his amateur status. I am afraid I was very young at the time, and I did not altogether d Disappeared Six Years Ago • Now Turns Up Safe and Sound 5tieIi three-year - old Helga Miche disappeared while playing in a cC bled side -street near her par- ents ,,home in Mainz six years ago, the ijlice suspected foul play. Two montfms later, the tragic corpse of a three-year-old child was found, frozen to death and unrecognizable, and ill the town sadly watched the path4,tic funeral. Yet little Helga has just returned to life safe and sound, found living happily in the U.S.A., adopted by an American couple._ Who should claim such a child? The legal but make-believe parents whohave reared and educated her • . or the father and mother who had ;given her up for dead, living in a land and speaking a language she has completely. forgotten? Should a nine-year-old leave the only home she has known to live with parents who are "strangers"? These human problems in the case of Helga Michel have caused rifts of deep controversy. Picture the problem: On one side of the Atlan- tic her parents by adoption, com- fortably off Americans, who have accustomed little Helga to every luxury, and are willing to sacrifice their own domestic happiness for the child's sake. In Germany, rail- wayman Karl Michel and his wife, overjoyed at the tl.ought of the homecoming of the child whom they mourned. "Our Helga has grown a big girl," says Mrs. Michel. "I know it will hurt her new parents to part with her, but I pray they will per- mit us to have her.. • ." Either way, it's headache or heartache in this amazing dilemma .. and behind it lies a whole tangle of mother -love. For it was in No- vember, 1950, that a thirty-one- year-old woman named Caroline Kern was arrested for kidnapping a child and pleaded she had done it out of sheer affection. As the police questioned her, Caroline confessed to enticing sev- eral young children from their homes. Often she did not know their names but she gave as tnueh information as she could. And on her list of the children she had lur- ed away was three-year-old Helga. Caroline had promised her toys and sweets, and the date and place of the kidnapping matched the known details. She cared for Helga "like a another," she said, until she felt the time had come for parting. Then she left the little girl at the gates of an orphanage .. and little Helga was abso•J=ed in the tragic ebb tide of twelve million amen, W01111.11 and children who were found wandering from their homes after the war, Through a Red Cross reception camp, Helga was cared for while the International Tracing Service tried to establish her identity. It 'was thought the her parents had perished in an air-raid; and event- ually Helga crossed the Atlantic to find a new life through a child - adoption society in the States. Caroline Kern's confession, how- ever, set off a fresh hunt through the Tracing Service files and es- tablished Helga's real identity. The foster -parents in America sent photographs to the police in Mainz , and the astonishing chain of cir- cumstance was nearly complete. Now from America comes a gen- erous and open-hearted gesture. Helga's foster -parents suggest that the Michels should visit America as her "aunt" and "uncle," hiding the truth until they can regain the child's affection. But Elizabeth IVlichel is not sure whether her overflowing mother -love could en- able her to keep the agreement once she clasped the child in her arms. Here indeed is a riddle as unfathomable as the identity of the frozen, nameless elite who was bur- ied in Mainz in Helga lichel's name six years ago. agree with him. A month later 1(' had stay own radio and I was IS lot older, Now I was jumping up and down. My timing was not MI good as his, but I got just as mucic exercise. I thought: Sweet arks the uses of advertisement, but bitter its abuses. By this time another point had' occurred to me. Doubtless It had occurred a lot earlier to everybody else, It was this: We do not see above the weekly "Pattern of Diplomacy" in this newspaper the words, "Presented By the Mouse- trap Cheese Corporation." And halfway through our leading edi- torial, thundering perhaps about the state of the West's moral and mat- erial defenses, we do not suddenly come across the advice, "Eat Tirub- ber, the Candy Bar with 'Ugh'1" Nor at the end of these columns do you find some merry little jingle like: "The Derby Hat is here to stay. Wear a Derby night and day. If you wish to lead the way, Wear a Derby, Coale What May," We write our columns and our news stories and our editorials, and the advertisers write thcir copy, we put them together the 1,,rt way we know,;, and the reader gets his quarter's worth for which he pays his •. five cents. The rea'i'r can choose what he wants to read. What is more, he can also -a 'town and stay sat. It seems to me to be ,: very fair arrangement. I am rather afraid that American radio has gone rather too far along its own chosen road to turn back now. But as an Englishman from way back in the dim, noncommercial era I wonder whether these folk ponders,g the bright future of English radio and television might not consider a development of commercial radio along newspaper lines. Quite how they could work it I don't know. But certainly on television advertis- ing without sponsorship seems a reasonably practical proposition. At the same time some company might market a long-distance switch or remote control so that my friend (and everyone with the same prejudice) could turn the volume down from his easy chair without having to jump to it. There's such a thing as over- exercise, you know. This column was brought to you through the courtesy of Mrs, Joy May, who made the hot chocolate and also did the washing up. Holes In His Head -Jerry B) slum, 5, has two holes in his heed, but he isn't complaining. The notes were drilled in his skull to give support for a specially designed bow which is helping to correct Jerry's curvature of the spine. The unusual treatment, being given at Fort Worth Hospital, causes Jerry no pain. The Beehive Lok -- With a boom in oil and iron providing tc•4 budgets for new homes, apartments and office buildings, Vene- zuela is witnessing new trends in architecture. Tho first units of a development in Caracas displays a beehive brick design which creates a natural air Slow and gives protection from the sun, Each studio apartment runs the full width of the burldir c;.