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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-07-24, Page 3) "TABLE TALKS ,i,,,,,Arvitv.vs • With fresh fruit so plentiful, the dessert- problem is considerably simplified during the s u .111 m e r inooths. Still,• most families soon get tired of "just plain fruit" to end :11 Meal; and the dessert recipes which follow, although all com- paratively easy to prepare, should be a help. What's more, included are some that are equally delicious Whether served hot or cold. * * * Mixed Fruit Deep -Dish Pie 2 b. prepared ripe fruits (green- gage, plum, loganberry, black currant, pear, apple, peach, apri- cot, blackberry — at choice) Sweetening for fruit (sugar, honey, golden sirup) S oz. self rasing flour 2oz. margarine or other shorten - 1 tablespoon sugar A little milk for mixing dough, and glazing pastry The fruits should be quite ripe, the largest kinds being cut into cubes. Put the prepared fruits and sweetening in a deep baking dish. Place a pie funnel in the center. Mix flour and sugar. Rub in shortening. Add just enough cold :milk to make a smooth dough. Grease the edge of the pie dish, and cover with a • pastry band anode by rolling a piece of -the pastry dough into a thin rope under the hands on -'a • floured - board. Brush this band with Milk. Roll out the rest of the •dough to a sheet that will fit the top of the pie dish, and fix to band. Brush with milk. Bake in a mod- erate oven, 375° F. for 45 minutes or until pastry is well browned. Take from oven, brushtop with hot milk, sprinkle with sugar. Very good hot: delicious cold. Serves 4 - 6. * * Lemon Delight 1 oz. flour. 1 oz. cornstarch. 1 lemon. Yolk of egg. 3 oz. sugar. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 pint water. Mix flour and cornstarch and make into a smooth paste with a little of the water. Boil the rest 4)f the water with the rind of the lemon for a minute, then strain water into the flour paste, stirring Bring mixture to the boil .once more , constantly stirring. Now stand pan in another pan containing boiling water, a n d double -pan cook for ten minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon. Off :the ,stovei stir in the butter a fitly -piece at a time. Next, stir in the lemon juice, the sugar, and the beaten egg'"yoik D4'able-'.; pan cook for five minutes more, then pour into little brown pots. Serve when cold. A blob of ,cream is sometimes added at serving time. Serves. 4. * * * Chocolate Pears 6 ripe medium pears 2 oz. shortening fats 2 oz. sugar t 1 tablespoon black treacle or molasses 1 tablespoon cocoa flour pint milk 2 drops vanilla essence Cream fat and sugar very light. Stir in treacle or molasses, stir in cocoa powder. Stir in a table- spoon of the flour, then stir in the rest of the flour in small lots, al- teraating with tablespoons of milk. Adcl vanilla essence. Peel, core, and cut the pears into large cubes, and.spreadthern on alightly greased baking dish. Cover with the choc- olate mix. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven, 375° P. Delicious hot or cold. To vary, add an ounce of ground almonds to the choco- late mix before spreading on the pears. Serves 4 - 6. * * Dessert Cream 2 oz butter or unsalted marg- arine. Vz teaspoon. sugar 2 teaspoons cornstarch TA pint of milk Make a smooth paste of the Queen of Waves—Chosen queen of the fourth annual Gold Coast 'marathon powerboat race, curvy flf)*Pla Wetz waits ready to flag AO -winner of the two-day race. New Ta * BY RONA MMES. (NE of the newest trouble ‘-••v shooters for the many re- pair jobs that pop up around the house during the sum - trier is a new plastic tape. Waterproof and impervi- ous to oils, this tape is thin, black and pliable. It sticks on contact, is not affected by prolonged sunlight or in- tence cold, Every houseWife comes up against a pair of rubbers, IlOW and again, that are torn but must see service in some w c a 1 h e r emergency. This new tape provides the right solution. And it's equally good for mending a leaky ice - bag, or for insulating electric wming Because it has a rubber- like ability to stretch over twice its length, this tape is fine for wrapping the ban- dies of golf clubs, baseball hats and tennis racquets. It's just as effective for fishing. rods, tool handles or a...leaky hose. And it turns .in•a top .nerformance in .splicing lamp akes 'Handymn' of Housewife Bird's Nest In Roof. Plastic tape mends a cracked thermos top and leaves it ready for use. Tape is waterproof. cords, repairing rubber mats, replacing putty around win- dows or for stopping up leaky water pipes. It's uses could make a lengthy list. 'With it, any housewife can turn into an efficient Mrs. Fix -It, thereby making her husband happy. ,Neiv plastic tape is waterproof and impervious to oils,. melds, pro- . .longed sunlight or cold. It's ideal for patching an led:half. cornstarch and a little of the cold milk. Boil the rest of the milk, pour it unto the cornstarch paste, then cook gently for two minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon, Let this cornstarch mixture cool till lukewarm. Meanwhile, cream the butter or margarine with a fork till very light, add the sugar, and cream up again. Gradually add the luke- warm cornstarch mix to the creamed butter or margarine, beat- ing with a fork. Then whip briskly for 2 minutes. The result- ing cream is thick, light, and deli- cate in flavor. It is an excellent garnish for fruit salad, pie, jellies, and light cakes. Serves 4. * * Apple Slices 1/2 1‘lb. apples Pastry dough as in recipe above for Mixed Fruit' Deep - Dish Pie Sweetening for fruit (sugar, hon- ey, or golden sirup) A little flour for sprinkling. Milk for glazing. Peel core, and slice apples, put in pan with sweetening and very little water. Stew gently until apple' areZO'CWqi- .1.1C1t.-PV09091c. Roll out'' three miaiters Of the dough into a sheet to cover a tin about 10"x6"x1/2". Grease tin, •line with rolled pastry; sprinkle with flour, fill with cooled apples, moisten with apple juice, Roll rest of dough into paper -thin sheet and cut into half-inch strips. Fix strips slantwise %inch apart, over apptes, then brush with Milk. Bake in a :moderate oven, 375° F. 35 minutes. Excellent hot or cold. To vary, dust cinnamon and dot butter on apples before fixing strips. Makes about 12 slices. Sponge Gateau 5 oz. self raising flour. 1 heaped teaspoon baking der. Tiny pinch salt. 2 oz. butter or margarine mixture of both). 3 oz. fine sugar 1 egg. 4 tablespoons milk. 2 drops each, vanilla lemon essence. Line a greased 7 x 7 x 1 inch tin with greasproof paper. Sift together the flour, baking pow- der, and salt. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter or margarine very light, add sugar and cream up again. Beat the egg and. stir in. Gently stir in a quarter of the flour etc,, then stir in a tablespoon of the milk. Add the rest of the flour in similar lots, and the rest of the milk alternately. Stir in the essences. Do not beat after all the flour is added. Turn the bat- ter into the prepared tin, pow - (or a essence, Bake 25 minutes, top shelf, in moderate oven: When the cake. is cold, take from tin carefully, and removell paper. The cake keeps we and is best used the clay 'after baking, For Chocolate Cream Gateau Split the cake, sandwich with jam, cover top with Dessert Cream, grate eating chocolate over, * * * Raspberry Trifle 1 large sponge cake or several small ones 1/2 lb, ripe raspberries. 1 pint thick setting custard. Dessert cream (as in the recipe above). Split the sponge cake and sand- Wich with crushed raipberries, re- serving a dozen large berries for decorating the top. Put the fruit - filled sponge cake in the bottom of a glass bowl. Pour the cooled custard over the cake then stand the bowl till the custard is firm and cold, Spread the Dessert Cream over the custard. Decorate with the resei.vecl raspberries ac- cording to faSte. Note% To make the thick, setting cus- A Terrifically Big Job In a government office in the sha- daws of Westminster Abbey an ex- ecutive leafs through a thick book containing every detail of the Coro- nation of King George VI, fifteen years ago. To -day it is like a pilot's book charting a mighty river of pomp and pageantry, an encyclopaedic "inquire within" to the most solemn and elaborate ceremonial of church and state. It shows that the last Corona- tion took eleven months to .prepare and cost the Ministry of Works alone nearly half a million. On this evidence officials know that the pre- liminaries of our new Queen's crowning will take at least a year . and wistfully they explain that in these days of labour shortage and scarce materials, its going to be a rush even .at that. Yet already the first swift memos are changing hands: "Dark blue and slver-grey hangings used as Abbey background for • OeOrgeV, blue and gold for George VI. Sug- gest rose and silver for. Queen El- izabeth?" The British national flair improvising gorgeous royal occa- sions must now be harnessed to an intricate meshwork of historic pre- cedent, and from relative obscurity emerge all manner of officers and dignitaries to discharge traditional duties or claim hereditary privi- leges. Heralds, pursuivants, swordbear- ers, ushers of the Red Wand and the Grew, Gold Stick, Silver Stick, the Clerk of the Cheque ... on the great day these functionaries will appear in their magnificent emproi- dered costumes, an essentiel part of the spectacle. IM the oak -panelled library of the College of Arms, with its vellum scrolls and glowing heraldry, the early inquiries pour in. A Norfolk squire is anxious to prove his an- cestral right to cook the Queen's wafers. Fur is indispensable to' his crimson 'cape. There's a silver- smith eager for a dispensation to market a coronation spoon. Despite this busy undertow, for- mal preparations officially began only when the Queen announced the day and signed an Order in Council establishing a Coronation commission. This, in turn, dis- charged its first responsibility by setting up the Court of Claims, that curious tribunal which meets only before the crowning of the Soverign solely to judge those who claim a right to take part in the ceremony, writes Harold A. Al. bert in "Tit-Bits." Dean 'and Chapter of West- minster, for instance, enter their claim "to instruct the Queen in the Coronation Rites and Ceremonies." The scholars of Westminster School -ill urge their privilege "to be' present in the Abbey to acclaim the Queen," a relic of mediaeval cheer -leading that sees sixty seats reserved for schoolboYs. Then there are the claimants tra- ditionally privileged to carry the orb ancl scsptres, to bear aloft the crown on its velvet cushion, to car- ry the Bible and chalice or the 'var- ious Coronation garments. The clerk of the Crown enters his claim to record the proceedings and to receive five yards of star- let cloth as his rightfpl fee. By tard, use 2 pint-size packets of custard powder to 1 pint milk, then follow the directions printed on the package. While the ells. tard is cooling, beat in a tea- spoon of butter in tiny pieces. When ripe fruit is not available, canned, bottled, or frosted rasp- berries are suitable. Serves 4-6. • long usage, the governor of an Edinburgh hospital claims a place as hereditary poulterer, but tact- fully forgoes his right to "every other cock bird within the Queen's yard." Learned judges in wig and gown, and counsellors in the breeches and -gold braid of Court uniform, solemnly hear these pleas in the Privy Council chamber in Downing Street. Each petitioner must be heard afresh for every new mon- arch. The title of Lord High Chamber- lain carries with it a claim to livery and lodging with the Crown at all times in return for taking the sov- ereign a bowl of water to wash in . . . but five peers are competing this year for the honour. The right to provide a glow: for the mon- arch's hand invariably sees a duel of wits between the Duke. of New- castle and Lord Salisbury, the peer protesting his right o ancestry but the former usually providing his claim by his tenture of land as Id of the manor of Worksop. -'::Beore the court are unrolled yard -long pedigrees, while solici- tors pursm: the tortuous blood re- lationships. Some families still enter claims as a matter of form for an office perhaps .long extin- guished. On the last occasion, an elderly lady vainly urged her plea as a herbstewer. "My family last performed the office for William IV," she admitted. "But you never can tell—it might have Won me a front -seat view." A Lincolnshire farmer, too, caus- ed a sensation with hi- 500 -year- old family claim as Champion of Eng,land, an office which empow- ered him to ride into Westminster Hall in full. armour and challenge any who disputed the Crown to mortal combat. When the Court of Claims decided this was outside its province, the farmer entered his right to carry the Standard ... and won. It is small wonder if the num- ber .of Coronation guests tends to increase. In 1937 the Ministry of Works successfully increased the Abbey 'seating accommodation from 2,000 to 9,600. This' time it is hoped to pack in at least another 400 places. Tiers or seats must be built for 1,500 peers and peeresses, for mem- bers of the House of Commons and the erfii•e diplomatic corps, for, enormous overseas contingents and other spectators, Mir! alone neces- sitates 11,000 3,-ards of felt floor covering. and 1,900 yards of carpet. At the last Coronation, great curtains of shimmering silk divided the sanctuary an Edward the Con- fessor's Chapel, and the A hbey 416cor also involved 2,500 yards oflo blue venr, 18,000 yards of gold braid with bullion fringe, 1,000 yards of brocatelle and some 6,000 yards of muslin. None of this is available for re -use to -day. Adults of 60 years or more con- sume 10 per cent of all baby foods, a trade survey shows. elf It0, km, won desto Werfd r.noi , 'It's called "it, budget flat,' der It's Unbalaneed!" • TO SUIT EVERYBODY A man who had been very poor all his life made a fortune almost over- night and began to splurge in almost every direction at the- same time. One of his greatest joys consisted in inviting old cronies up to see his sumptuous new estate. "Come and see the grounds," he boasted to one of them. "I will show you my three . swimming pools." "Three swimming pools," echoed the friend. "Isn't that a bit exces- sive ?" 'Not at all," the host assured him. "One has cold water, one has -hot water, and one has no water at all." "One with cold water I can under- stand," conceded the guest. "I can even see a reason for one with hot water. But what's the idea of a swimming pool with no water at all?" The host shook his head sadly. "You'd be surprised, Joe," he con- fided, "how many of my old friends can't swim." Makes Family Sick Have you ever been poisoned by' 4 lily? Do strawberries bring you out in pink spots? Are you allergl. to oysters? If so, specialists of 4. new Liverpool hospital clinic may be able to help you. They've opene4 a special department to inquire in- to some of the world's quaintest aihnents. They want to know why some people cannot handle tulip bulbs without fingers swelling, why 6thers sneeze at sight of a tomato or gasp if a mouse has breathed the same air in a room. The doctors are inquiring into the conditions of allergy, the strange sensitivity that in one way or an- other affects one person in every three, sometimes with alarming re- sults. The discomfort of hay fever, with its watering eyes and sniffles caused by floating pollen, is the best-known of allergic symptoms. Trt one instance, a woman's skin peeled and her life was in danger merely because she had taken home a bunch of chrysanthemums. Another patient collapsed on smelling a ball of musk in a museum. These were cases in a million. Many asthma victims cannot sleep on a feather pillow, and over 00 specific causes of asthma have already been traced, ranging from pork chops to the smell of seaweed. Many people, however, can with- stand feathers, dusts, hairs and antipathies that cause trouble in others. A puzzling case was that of an entire family suffering froin asth- ma. Face powders, tomato fungus, certain paint lacquers and other al- lergy causes were tested on them without positive results. Then the clinic doctor brought a box of spar- row's feathers into the room and all the family gasped for breath. The trouble was a sparrow's nest under the eaves of their house! Due to an allergy, there are pretty blondes who cannot wear fur coats. One girl sneezed whenever her boy- friend cuddled her on the sofa. The trouble was horsehair. Test- ing foods, the specialists found one man apparently allergy -proof. He could drink noodle soup, swallow all types of strawberries by the pound . . . and then trouble came when he ate a radish. The doctors are finding that the condition of allergy can be here- ditary through at least five genera- tions, but descendants of one fam- ily are not all allergic to the same thing. Your grandmother may be hypersensitive to strawberries, but you may be troubled by kippers! IA& Margaret Meets Winnie—Margaret Truman and Winston Church- ill pose for photographers in London where Miss Truman was a luncheon guest of the British Prime Minister at his famed quarters in 10 Downing Street. BAND CONCERT -From Countryman's Year, by Haydn S. Pearson WAN)? men and women now living and working in cities remember the band concerts that were an expected part of the summer social' season in the country. Every Wednesday evening during July and August the Centerville Town Band climbed into the circular bandstand on the village connuon and gave a concert. For ten months its members had been working and rehearsing, in their blue coats with yellow braid and big yellow buttons, freshly pressed white duck trousers, and snappy visored caps that reminded one of a high naval officers' headgear, they presented an imposing appearance. It was hard to realize that the handsome, dignified man blowing the tuba was Jeff Smith who ran the grain mill, or that the tall, distinguished -looking conductor was Eben Jones who published the local weekly. Soft, golden light from the kerosene lamps with big reflectors made a beautiful contrast with the darkness outside. Not that the men needed light; they knew the pieces by heart. Farm families came from miles around—whole families in two - seated democrats; elderly couples in fringed -top surreys; young folks who sat holding hands in stylish top buggies. Sometimes the teams were put in the horse sheds behind the church and the town hall, and the people sat on blankets around the common. "Not too close," Father used to say, "Music is better at a little distance." However, young men of eight or ten summers believed that the nearer they got, the better the concert. The applause was generous, and Eben always gave his famous bow an imitation of the bow he had seen at a big concert in the city. It did not matter that the audience also knew the pieces by heart, The music the band played was the kind that could bear repetition— stirring marches, waltzes, and the folk songs that will live forever: "Annie Laurie", "Stanee River", 'F'low Gently, Sweet Afton," and "Old Black Joe," And when at last it grew late ( a little after nine), the band always played "Good Night, Ladies," It was the custom for every- one to sing with them. Out through the peaceful night floated the sweet music, slow ht moo, but gloriously melodiou,s, as several hundred ;no) and women, boys and girls joined bt The band concerts may not ha -t e been great n tisk, but they were music from the heart.