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Zurich Herald, 1952-06-19, Page 7In a recent issue of "13e.tter Living" Mrs. Clara Gel;lxard .Sny- der --a real expert -makes the fol- lowing sxiking statement: --- ern more than 20 years, of teaching bread -malting, I have heard more husbands brag about their wi. es' skill at malting good bread fhan about their pies, calces, or eve's meat dishes. Maybe the fragrance of baking bread reminds them of home and mother. Or maybe men just like good food." * * * A statement which, I may say, I heartily personally endorse; also Mrs. Snyder's recommendation to start off with a good sponge, as a foundation, and from that sponge make bread, rolls and as many other .variants as you may fancy, * * * SPONGE BASE 2 packages dry or compressed yeast cup lukewarm water 1x/a .cups scalded milk, cooled to lukewarm 11/2 cups lukewarm water 1 tablespoon sugar 4 cups sifted, enriched flour Sprinkle or crumble yeast into the 1/2 cup lukewarm water. Stir Cantil dissolved. Put milk, the 1/ cups water, sugar, and 3 cups of the flour into a large bowl. Mix until smooth. Stir in yeast and re- maining cup of flour. Beat until shiny and smooth, 3 to 5 minutes. Cover. Let rise in a warm• place 45 minutes or until double. Makes about 5 cups sponge. The "large bowl" should hold at least two quarts, "Lukewarm" liquid is cooler than most folks think. Test like baby's formula: Put a drop on inside of wrist. If it feels neither hot nor cold, it's right. "Warm place" for the sponge or dough may be near a radiator, in a warmed oven or set the bowl in a pan of warm water. You can use any of the three forms of milk. Replace the scalded milk and 1/ cups lukewarm water in this way: Use 1/2 cup dry skim milk and 3 cups lukewarm water, or 1/ cups evaporated milk and 134 cups warm water. * * *. TIPS FOR BREAD AND PLAIN ROLLS 1. Knead the dough well -turn, fold, push, push; turn, fold, push, push. * a * 2. Let rise for 1 hour, or until light. Test by pressing dough with Anger. If dent remains, it is light enoughto shape. into 1oaves and rolls. * * Before shaping the loaves, dough is punched down and divided into 3 balls. Cover and let these rest 10 minutes to recover from all this punching and dividing. * * * 4. To shape a loaf flatten ball of dough to a sheet 34 inch thick, Press firmly with palms, stretching lightly. Gives bread a fine, even grain. * * * 5. Fold dough as if folding a towel lengthwise. Press down. Stretch lengthwise into a strip. Pick up by ends, pull gently; "spank" center on the board. * * * 6. Dough is now about twice as long as bread pan. Now fold this atrip into thirds: Bring each end to center, overlapping them a bit. Seal; square up. * * * 7. Press down firmly with knuckles to seal, Again, press and flatten dough into a rectangle about as long as bread pan and about three times as wide. * * * 8. Fold lengthwise in thirds to form a roll. Press edges to roll with side of hand to seal. Press down /-inch at each end and fold under to seal ends. 9. Place roll in greased bread , pan, seam -side down. Grease tops, cover, and let rise 1 Hour or until a bit .more than double. 13ake as •directed in recipe. .* • * * 110. To make rolls, flatten ball of •dough, ,rut .in .straps, then in walnut - size pieces, .Shape into small balls lay rolling between hand and the board. 11. Or finish •to satin smoothness by rolling .each like a tiny balloon as shown, Roll im the greased pan; place / amts :apart. Complete as directed * k* When howl is full of bubbly sponge: SWEET ROLLS AND COFFEE CAKE 2 cups Sponge Base 3/4 cup sugar 11/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup melted shortening 2 eggs 2% cups sifted, enriched flour Sir down, then measure sponge into a larger mixing bowl. Add other ingredients in order listed. Mix well after each. Beat until smooth and shiny. Cove r, LeLt rise in warm place 1 hour to double. Stir down batter than proceed as shown Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375 degrees F., 20 to 30 minutes. Makes twelve 3 -inch Butterscotch Pecan Rolls, 8 small Cinnamon Puffs, one 8-by8-inch Coffee Cake. Cinnamon -nut Topping Mix 34, cup sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Sprinkle / teaspoon on each puff; / cup on coffee cake square. I usually keep a covered jar of this topping on hand. It will make many good things, including cinnamon toast. Base for Pecan Rolls Into each 2 -inch muffin cup put 2 teaspoons brown sugar, 1 tea- spoon butter or margarine, a/4 tea- spoon water, and 5 pecan halves. Then fill each, half full of batter. * * * This is the way to finish up the bread: BREAD AND PLAIN ROLLS Remaining Sponge Base (about 3 cups) 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon melted shortening Sifted enriched flour, to make a soft dough, 3 to 4 cups Pour sponge into a large bowl. Add sugar, salt, shortening, and 3 cups flour. Mix thoroughly. Sprin- kle 14 cup more flour on a board. Turn out dough. Khnead, working in more flour only if necessary. (Test for enough flour: hold ball of dough in one hand. If top is gently rounded and just hints at wanting to flatten out, it's right.) Knead about 7 minutes, until satiny. Grease top and put into lightly greased bowl. Cover and let rise in warm place 1 hour or until doubled. Punch down and let rise again 1 hour, until a little more than doubled. Test for lightnessas directed. Punch down and divide the dough into 2 balls for 2 large loaves, or into 3 balls for 2 smaller loaves and 1 small pan of plain rolls. Shape into loaves and rolls. Put in greased pans, cover, and let rise until light, about 45 minutes for rolls, 1 hour for bread. Bake rolls in hot oven, 425 degrees F., for 15 to 20 minutes. Then lower to 400 degrees F. for bread and bake 50 minutes to 1 hour. Capital Increment. In Baltimore, Salvatore Volpe explained to cops who kept him from jumping off a high bridge: "I am making too much money and don't know what to do with it." CjYyc, 'Ce4`SS PUZZLE .ACROSS ��n3. Type of 1. South window American 4. Wing shrub 6. Curtsey' - 8. Pain 12. Precious stone 13. Letters 16, Tableland 16. Members of state army 11. Before 18. Cozy room 19. Rectory 20, Circuit 22. Vapor 23. Place 24. Nervous twitching 25. Male swan 28, Halt quart 29, Ask payment 30. Sleeveless garment 31. Behave 32. weep bitterly 39. Exposed 34. Engliski letter 35. Exelude. 36. Minute element 39. Light bed 40. Animal's foot 42. Issues forth 44, Classify 46.73everage 46. Sacred image 47. Large plant 48. Marry 49. Saucy DOWN 1. Arrive 2. Pertaining to music drama 5. Flat cap 6. Not closed .7. Covering of false hair 8. Boost of maps 9. Social group 10. Pronoun 11. To be (Lat.) 14. Shrug 18. Performed 21. Flying mammal 22. Cotton -seeding machine 22. Mineral spring 24. Vat 26. Upper shell of a turtle 26. Telephone girl 27. Couch 29. Female deer 3U. Hansom 32. Portable chair 83. Wager 34. Light boat 35. Plied with medicine 30. Become liquid 37. Hebrew measure 28. Title 39. Grant 41. Proceeded 43. Marble 44. Tear 12 13 17 Answer Elsewhere on This Page Ram Roundup -A lone horseman, keeping a close eye on his herd, drives a flock of Merino rams toward a gathering -point in New Zealand. During such trips the fuzzy -coated ram-bunctious animals -and herdsmen too -get little time to enjoy the majestic scenery that surrounds them. UNDAY SCIIOOL LESSON By Rev. Dr. Barclay Warren, B. A., B. D. The Call of the Fishermen. Luke 5: 1-11. Memory Selection: Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. Mark 1: 17. The young chap in college who flipped a coin to determine whether he would enter the ministry or study law, certainly didn't have the Divine call that the fishermen re- ceived. In last Sunday's ' lesson, Simon was introduced to Jesus. To- day he puts his boat into service for Jesus. Simon is a thoughtful listener as Jesus sits in the boat and teaches the people on the shore. But Simon is challenged further. When Jesus finished speaking, he said, "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught." It seemed use- less for the night's work had been fruitless but Sinton was quick to obey. The net broke under the strain of the multitude of fish en- closed. The two boats were filled and began to sink. Simon was over- whelmed. His own heart was re- vealed to him. He fell at Jesus' feet and exclaimed, "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord." Jesus dispelled his fear and assured him that henceforth he would be catching men. The four fishermen left their nets and their boats to follow Jesus. The became the four leading men in the group of twelve who attended on Jesus in his min- istry. Only men who have caught sight of their own heart's need and of the greatness of Jesus Christ to meet that need are suited to proclaim the message of eternal life. But that is not all. Before a man leaves a secular occupation to give full tune to the ministry he should sense the Divine imperative saying, "Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men." Otherwise the man will be ineffective. Helps To Cough Up Things They Swallow The little Jessies and Johnnies of pre-school age who swallow or in- hale buttons, parts of toys and about anything that can be put intd the mouth present a problem to mothers and physicians. The re- moval of these foreign bodies is never easy. Sometimes there is dan- ger of death. Dr. I. Newton Kugel - mass, has discovered that the rectal administration of aminophylline will dislodge the foreign bodies where treatment with emetics and other means fail. In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Kugelnass gives details of six cases in which aminophylline induced infants and children to cough up objects that they had swallowed or inspired. In two cases no foreign bodies had passed down the gullet but there was difficulty in swallowing. Amino- phyline brought relief. A pearl button that lodged in the larynx of a 5 -year-old girl brought on a croupy cough and a fever. When she received aminophylline she brought up the button. So with the ivory tip of a pencil that lodged in the larynx of a 7 -year- old girl, and with the glass eye of st doll that had found its way into a branch of the windpipe of an- other girl. Don't Mistreat That Watch Of Yours A watch is a precision instrument, a machine. And as such it needs the regular expert attention of a qualified jeweller for lubrication and cleaning. Watch parts spin a total of half a million times a day, and the balance wheel turns as fast as the wheels of a locomotive travell- ing at 60 m.p.h. Here are some tips provided by the Watchmakers of Switzerland, an association of Swiss manufac- turers with a reputation built up over the past four centuries. 1. In the first place, buy your watch £rout' an established qualified jeweller :olt. watchmaker. You will then kno that when you get it your watch will be in the same condition; 'heady oiled, as when it left the factory. • 2. Tali& ytur watch to a jeweller at leas 'onis,-,,.year for oiling. Every -monAs la even better. 3. 1)o 'hot'.;; take • your watch off your wrist or out of your pocket and lay it on a cold surface. The sudden change of temperature may damage Vie main spring: 4. Win�3i your watch regularly at the same; ;hour each night or each morning. 5. Do not poke about inside the mechanism. If something needs doing let the expert do it. Process To Stop "Freezer urns', Longest River In The World H s Water For Its Banks The 'United States research ship, "Atlantis," recently completed an investigation of the Gulf Stream, Using ingenious under -water ther- mometers which instantly measure changes in ocean temperature as deep as 900 feet, the ship has track- ed down the baffling meanders of the Gulf Stream over vast areas with pin -point accuracy. Results may mean a tremendous advance in long-range weather forecasting for the Gulf Stream is one of the most important in- fluences on temperature and rain- fall. If asked to name the longest river in the world most people would answer the Mississippi, she Amazon or the Nile, each about four thousand miles from the source to mouth. Purple Waters They would be wrong, for it is the Gulf Stream. that takes the honours. Even though its banks are water ins,ead of land, the Gulf Stream is a river, and its five - thousand -anile course through the two oceans is the longest in the world. From the Gulf of Mexico it flows northward near the • coast 'of North America until it reaches the Newfoundland Banks. There -it turns and sweeps eastward across the Atlantic. Between Florida and Cuba it is about fifty miles wide and has " a speed of four miles an hour. Its deep blue almost purple waters are clearly defined against the light green of the seas. Off the coast of Florida the tem- perature of the Gulf Stream is 86 degrees. Opposite Labrador, some two thousand miles north, the tem- perature has fallen only eleven de- grees. In fact, like an immense hot- water heating system, the Gulf Stream warms the coast of Europe and is largely responsible for the temperature climate of Britain, which, located in the same latitude, would otherwise be as cold as Lab- rador. Scientists' explanation for this strange seagoing river still leaves much unanswered. They say that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, driven westward by the trade winds, pile up in the 1,500 -mile cir- cular basin of the Gulf of Mexico. Having no other way to get out, they sweep northward between Florida and Cuba as the Gulf Stream. Yet the baffling thing is how this amazing stream manages to keep its identity, its peculiar colour and temperature while flowing thous- ands of miles through the ocean against the forces of counter cur- rents which even cross its course. Through heat and cold ai.d rain, through all seasons year by year its waters never slacken and its heat never fails. It raises the tempera- ture of Great Britain by 12 degrees. It covers the shores of Scotland with evergreen leaves, melts the icebergs that have broken from their parent glaciers in the far north and are drifting southward and carries firewood from the burn- ing Gulf of Mexico to the extreme north of Norway. Doliolids It also carries young sea nettles from the Gulf (they look like pack- ed acorns) to the hungry whale that awaits them i n its northern limit. One section of the stream, ming- ling with the cold waters of the Newfoundland coast, causes the A month ago I purchased two frozen chickens which had been "hone packed" at the farm where I bought them. Now I notice that they are developing "freezer burn", those dry, scaly patches familiar to housewives using home freezers, states a writer in The Christian Science Monitor. The air left in the package to be frozen is one of the enemies of successful freezing and is often difficult to eliminate when packing odd shapes such as fowl, roasts, etc. When I inquired of the men at the local freezer plant about this problem, they told me that they had wrapped some fowl successfully in what I would call a "mummy style" of package, with cellophane wrapped round and round the bird. They also use some sort of elabor- ate vacuunn-creating device when packing for the plant and I in- ferred that this was too expensive to be practical for the average home. However, it led me to what I have found to be an ideal solution. I have brought my own tank - style vacuum cleaner into the pack- ing operation and with perfect re- sults. Now when I have a fowl to wrap, I place it in a plastic bag made for this purpose and available at all suppliers of freezing materials. Next, I insert the metal tip of the vacuum cleaner hose into the neck of the bag, and turn on the machine. In a moment the bag is deflated - tight against the bird and I pinch off the bag and slip out the hose. The bag is twisted and doubled back to form the familiar goose neck closing and secured with an elastic . band• When I have something to pack which might be bruised or crushed by this method I slip it into a plastic bag Gard close it temporarily until it is frozen solid in the quick freezing compartment, Thus fruits, stews and all fragile items can be protected as perfectly against "burn" as can meats and fowl. dense banks of fog that are always at menace in that area. Besides simplifying weather fore- casting, more knowledge about the Gulf Stream's behaviour may malip it possible to tell in advance what kind of fish will be available from season to season. Before 1927 cod were practically unknown in the North Atlantic. Then the Gulf Stream began to drift farther north and cod began to appear in ever-increasing num-. hers. The north Atlantic is now one of the principal fishing grounds for the fish. Disastrous Catches A few years ago there was an ex- ceptiontlly strong flow round the. British coast. It brought mild weather with it, but instead of in- creasing catches of fish it cut them down by half. The current brought with it mil- lions of small jellyfish known as Doliolids, which the ordinary fish dislikes intensely. The herring and other North Sea fish fled north- wards towards the Arctic, and fishermen had a season of disas- trous catches. The persistence and steadiness of the Gulf Stream has 'often been illustrated. In a 1900 hurricane the coffin of an actor named Charles Coghland was swept off a ship near Galveston, Texas, drifted into the Gulf Stream and finished up 2,000 miles away. Use Molten Metal For Cooling Turning atonic energy into pow- er needs a plant known as a re- actor. The "fuel' is plutonium, product of the atomic piles. The heat released is so great that in America's latest reactor molten metal is used for cooling. The name given to this plant is "Clemen- tine," and the reason for this chris- tening was made public recently. One of the scientists who had helped to design the reactor left before it started working, His in- terest in the result was naturally keen but the securit' ban on infor- mation prevented him finding out anything. So he sent his former colleagues this telegram:- "in elegram:"in a cavern, in a cavnan, ex- trapolating must be fine. Since you're the miners, forty-niners, tell me how is Clementine" As 49 is the code number for plutonium, the worker; still at the reactor station were able to tran- slate his request. Ever since the re- actor has been known as Clemen- tine. False Alarm. In Indianapolis, po- lice rushed to the freight yards to look for a dismembered body in a ...boxcar, found. Howard. Finley, rest- ing beside his wooden leg. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking "The Kid" Grows Up -There's a span of more than 30 years be- tween the movie "hard guy" above and the ragamuffin peeping around the window ledge. But, they're one and the same -Jackie Coogan, now a 37 -year-old Hollywood character actor. Thirty years ago he was "The Kid," a wide-eyed moppet who became famous at the age of four as a "straight -pian" to the great comic, Charlie Chaplin.