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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-03-26, Page 2BLE TAINS atvz Arid ewc Although the old - fashioned two -crust pie is hard to beat, the `open-faced" kind has one great advantage. It bas "eye -repeal" en addition to its other attrac- tions, and the number of different 1563ings you can put into an al- ready -baked shell is almost end- less. Here are a few fine fillings which I'm sure your folks will amuck their lips over. U • DOUBLE LEMON PIE: as Cup Sugar 2 Tablespoons Flour lee Teaspoon Salt 1 Egg Yolk 1 Cup Scalded Cream 1 Package Unfiavored Gelatin as, Cup Cold Water La Cup Lemon Juice Grated Rind of 1 Lemon Ito Teaspoon Vanilla 2 Egg Whites 1 Baked 9 -Inch Pastry Shell Combine sugar, flour, salt and egg yolk. Add to scalded cream to top of double boiler. Cook un- til thick, stirring well. Dissolve gelatin in cold water. Add to hot mixture. Cool. When mixture :)ells, add lemon juice, rind and vanilla. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into filling. Pile into pastry shell. Chill. a4 Cup Sugar 31s Tablespoons Cornee r h ae Teaspoon Salt 'Ya Cup Water Juice of 1 Leman Grated Rind of 1 Lemon 1 Egg Yolk 2 Tablespoons Butter Combine all ingredients except egg and butter. Cook and stir un - thick. Pour a little over beat- = egg yolk. Return to hot mix- ture. Cook 5. minutes. Add but- ter. Cool and spread over filling. APRICOT - GRANGE _MARMALADE PIE 3 Cups Cooked, Unsweetened Dried Apricots for Canned Apricots) 1. Cup Orange Marmalade to Cup Apricot Juice 1 Tablespoon Quick -Cooking Tapioca Ss Teaspoon Salt ;Pastry for 9 -Inch Pie Drain apricots. Combine mar- analarae, juice, tapioce and salt. ''Casbah" Cute — Modelling a air of black pedal pushers and ra, desipaned in North African style, Joan Bell also displays she smart sleeveless jacket and hat at a fashion show. Coffe& Pilau 5 a 18X »OkrOThY bIIAIU"DOX DID you ever have pilau? It is a concoction of rice, spice ani s. varying number of other ingredients that range from meat .es id fish to fruits and nuts. Try the following dessert pilau. Your farxiiy will love it. COME -RAISIN Passel.' (Yield: 6 erxviansss) raisins, 1/2 eup chopped walnuts, ea teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon nutlet, , ea cup brown auger firmly packed, 1 cup heavy cream, whipped: Prepare pre-cooked rice according to package directions, usiing coffee instead of water. Stir in remaining ingredients except creche Mix well. Cool. Fold in whipped cream, reserving enough for gar- nishing. Spoon into ,sherbet glasses. Top with remaining whipped cream and chopped walnut meats. Everybody likes upside-down gingerbread. Try it with pineape e' or pears. PINEAPPLE -UPSIDE-DOWN GYNGERBdtEAD (Yield: 9 met -rings) Topping: Two tablespoons butter or margarinetie cup nnolas$s, a4 cup sugar, 6 slices canned pineapple, 6 maraschino. cherries. Melt butter or margarine in an 8 x 8 x 2 -inch pan. Blend in nt}i. - ,Yeses and sugar; heat just to boiling point. Over this arrange piri4. apple and cherries; set aside until gingerbread batter is mixed, 1 1 Coffee-Ralsin Pilau a nr gl4tas any meernoon al, even One package pre-cooked rice, regular strength coffee, ee cup golden "U-o�.,, rt 010,11 ,:,r,':J4,p, GIN GERBII:EAD BATTER One and one-half cups sifted enriched dour, cit teaspoon sad, i teaspoon double-acting braking powder, act teaspoon ginger, ttz teaspoon nutmeg; 3/4 teaspoon cloves, Sus eup shortening, le cup sager, to teaspoon soda, 3/2 cup molasses, 1 egg, arse cup sour milk. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. (moderate). Sift together firstist ingredients. Cream together shortening, sugar and soda. Add rnolasieb Stir in le cup of the flour mixture. Beat in egg. Add rernainlnl Midnight a;naeks• dry ingredients alternately with sour milk (about time). Beat tee minute. Pour batter in the above pan over pineapple and cherries and spread to sides and corners. Bake one hour or until done. Cool* 15 minutes beforeremoving from pan. Note: Pear -Upside -Down Gingerbread: Replace pineapple with pears in the above recipe. xe of each at a Pour over apricots and mix. Four into unbaked pie shell.. Top with lattice. Bake in hot oven (425°F.) 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F. and bake 30 minutes. h * TUTTI-FRU :`TI X'IE 1 Cup Grapefruit Sections 1? 2 Cups Orange Sections 144 Cup Drained. Crushed Pine - Apple 1 iediunr Banana, Sliced ,s Cup 11.Taraschino C:terries, Halved 2 Tablespoons Butter ea Cup Sugar 3 Tablespoons Quick -Cooking Tapioca a,4 Teaspoon Salt Pastry for 9 -Inch Pi' Combine all ingredients except pastry and butter. Pour into un - baked pie shell, Dot with butter. Top with pastry. Bake in hot oven (425°F.) 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°F. Bake 40 minutes. R ORANGE -RAISIN PIE 2 Cups Seedless Raisins 3 Tablespoons Lennon Juice 544 Cup Sugar 34 Cup Water 2 Tablespoons Butt tr 3 Tablespoons Flour ee Teaspoon Salt Ilia Cups Orangt_,.,8-ettteins Pastry for 2 -Crust Pie Mix raisins, lemon juke, sugar and water,.in _a sauce -pans Sir/neer slowly for 15 minutes, or until raisins are plump. Melt butter. Add flour and salt, beating until asarooth. Gradually add some of the hot juice from the raisin mix- ture to the flour, stirring until smooth. Pour into raisin mixture, and cook until thickened. Add orange sections. Pour into pastry - lined 9 -inch pie pan. Top with pastry and brush with milk. Bake in a hot oven (425°F.) '0 min- utes. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake 25 to 30 min- utes. WHAT HAPPENED AT JERICHO People might have been told "to go to Jericho" when there was, in fact, no other place. For British and American archaeolo- gists now excavating in Jericho have proved that it is a town at least 6,000 years old. No other town in the world can claim 6,000 years of contin- uous existence. Moreover, the walls of Jericho were not all blasted down by the noise etf Joshua and his men. There were several walls round Jericho and it is one of the walls that has now been uncov- ered to provide the evidence of 6,000 years of age. Most of this wall was made from stone slabs, but some preshaped bricks were used. So man learnt to make bricks before even pottery was invented, Keeps Smiling --- Although her legs have been kept in traction sap ints since Jan. 12, eight -month-old Jerri Ellen Burkholder keeps ea cheerful smile on her face. A fall broke her left leg above the knee, but both legs are raised io keep her from turning. "• Bangkok's Buddha — Watching serenely aver the Thailand capi- ettal`ls` Bangkok's famous Buddha, well known to the city's teem- ing population as "Wet Indira Viharn." An idea of its height can be estimated by examining the tiny human figures in the foreground, Danish People Gan Smile At Themselves Denmark consists of the pen- insular of Jutland as well as 500 islands, most of which are kept apart by bridges, the bigger ones, at any rate. A bridge between Funen and Zealand is the only one lacking for the present. Denmark is low-lying — from approximately four feet below sea level to 570 feet above it. It makes up for being low by being beautiful. At any rate, it is a pleasant country to look at. Den- mark has a smile for everbody who likes to see a smile, just as some other countries shout with laughter or look sad or even pos- itively gloomy. An English writer once declar- ed that Denmark resembled a red cow in an enormous green field. Add that it is a gay cow and a pleasant field and the re- mark is true enough But there are also broad streams and blue lakes about the country, idyllic fjords, beaches where water laps the white sand, unexpected cliffs that you can fall over if you lean out too far; there are stretches of moorland so flat that you stop believing the world is round, dunes with masses of san I al- most indistinguishable from a sample of African desert, damp rich marshes, wood, with pale green beeches and picnic baskets, and Rebild's heather -covered kills and dales,. Dotted. about amongst it all ate thousands of gardens, surrounding thousands of small white farm a, and ancient parks surrounding ancient castles. , . Thera are hundreds of gay, queer. amusing towns, whore gay, queer, am u sin g people go a r o u n d speaking twenty different kinds of Danish. These is a waterfall in Tutland. It is four feet high. There are a racks too—but these are all kept on the island of Bornholdm.. A visitor from Florida once said that Copenhagen had two winners, a white one and a green fone. 'The statement is a bit un- just ---From "We Danes and You" Iby Mogens Lind, illustrated by .kleriuuf 3ensenfus. The National r'ravel Association of Denmark, 3952. Authors' Aliases Novelist Agatha Christie has completed fifteen years of pub- lishing books under a no the r nom -de -plume, Mary Westma- cott. Miss Westmacott carne into being for the author's straight novels; Agatha Christie has al- ways been the writer of detec- tive stories. And few of her mil- lions of readers know the author's real name. It is Mallow - an, for she is the wife of Profes- sor Mailowan, the archaeologist. Authors often use pen-naiiaes because they are shy. Joseph Conrad's real name was Joseph C. Korzeniowski; George Eliot was a woman—Mary Ann Evans —in real life. Arnold Bennett wrote many articles over the sig- nature of , "Jacob Tonson." A certain "Mrs. Horace Manners" who wrote learned articles turn- eu out to be Algernon Charles Swinburne. And the author of Alice in Wonderldnd, Lewis Car- roll, was an Oxford Don and mathematics lecturer named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. In 1931 the literary world was surprised to learn that novelist "George R. Preedy" was really Miss Marjorie Bowen (Mrs,, Ar- thur Long). Said she: "I wasn't trying to work a hoax. I wanted to get away from the type of writing done by Marjorie Bowen and to try something different." COMEBACK: When Jerry Wald, now a pro- ducer, was writing his radio col- umn, "The Wald's Have Ears," he devoted much space -to attacking Rudy Vallee. He avalanched some caustic and belligerent letters from Vallee's loyal female fans. Jerry took a bundle of the most juvenile and badly written let- ters, tied them with blue ribbon and sent them to Vallee, with the note: "Read these and you'll see what kind of fans we have," Val- lee sent the pile back with the note: "Read these and you'll see what kind of readers you have." BigMoneyin The Lecturing Busbies With a car salvaged from a Southampton scrap heap, a sec- onhand ,,movie camera and a year's savings, an American schoolteacher named Austen Steers spent his summer holiday making an amateur movie of Britain's scenery. Then he went home and be- gan lecturing and showing his one-man movie to schools and women's clubs—and so far he has talked his way along a cir- cuit of 35,000 miles and grossed $15,000. Another young man named Russell Curry lectures feminine audiences on "How to Dance" and takes his elderly mother along with him. When he has explained the intracacies of the rumba or samba, he grabs Mama to show how simple it is. Since she's about the average age of the audience, the show goes over big—and he's netting $12,000 a year. These are just two success samples of the gift of the gab, instances from the gib boom in talk. The great American lec- ture business is chattering pros- perously into another ten mil- lion dollar season. Every winter an average 25,- 000,000 Americans listen to some 3,000 professional lectures. In small exclusive groups, in mil- lionaires' drawing -rooms, and in enormous crowds in vast muni- cipal auditoriums, this year they'll lap up the lowdown on everything from atom spies to the Queen's coronation. Ever since Charles Dickens crossed the Atlantic with his little reading -stand and. earned $282,000—equivalent of to -day's £100,000—British speakers have been prominent in the gold -rush. Talk is one of our export trades. Sir Gerald Campbell, former ambassador in Washington, went back not long ago and earned $500 every hour he spoke. An- thony Eden made $1,200 with a brief chat in New York. Nice work if you can get it? In fact, the lecture business means travelling hard, sleeping badly ---and indigestion. Beverley Baxter was once snowed up in Texas when he was supposed to be arriving in California. Even- tually, after juggling 'plane and train schedules, he arrived at his Los Angeles auditorium only a few minutes late to find his audi • ence patiently waiting. Lecture agents pay the travel fares but take 50 per ceat. of the fee. At an annual slave mar- ket in New York. professional lecturers give ten -infinite sam-• e pies of talk to hundreds of as- sembled committee women. The ladies weigh these human trail- ers one against another and choose their personalities months in advance. Would Igoe Provided she like to lecture? can sparkle as well as talk her head off, lec- ture agents say there's a real box-office opening in America to -day for a genuine British house -wife. There's an opening, too, for Mr. Winston Churchill. He has been offered the biggest lecture contract yet—a fee of $600,000—if he will make a tour of the States and speak on any subject he chooses. What a rage he would be if he were in a position to accept.. Don't forget that it was at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, that he advocated his "fraternal association" of the English-speaking peoples. How Dewt Plant* Search F ►r Water Theto great isat of n art both -the witlnaut . . desert plants and the desert ani- mals have learned to prectice, but it is the plants' appee t'ance that has been most obviously modified by it. Most of the birds show no outward signs that 'they live in a land of little rain, sued the quail who ;sit thirty feet *p in the saguaro, pecking moisture from its fruit, look, on the ground, as sleek as their cousins who drink when they like.... Almost every plant, en the other hand, has modified itself in some visible way and announces to the most casual beholder that moisture is precious.. . Certainly the lines along which the plants have worked We few and they are directed toward 'three simple ends: to get water, to conserve it, or to get along most of the time without any... To get water, one may of course send roofs deep; this is as might be expected certain trees do, though the method is the more remarkable in certain plants, notably the yucca, whose above -surface size is modest. Up the slopes of the gleaming gyp- sum dunes in White Sands, New Mexico, one may see the yuccas lifting their oddly lush masses oa lily blossoms above the burning, bone-dry powder in which it does not seem possible that anything could live and in which, as a mat- ter of fact, precious few other things tan. The secret is a root which may, I am told, go forty feet down to the soil below the gypsum. Sometimes, on the other hand, it is hardly worth while for a plant to go down because there is little water even at forty feet. Hence, the kind of plant which grows in any given desert region depends in considerable part on whether there is water beneath the surface. Ten or fifteen miles north of where I am settled, the yuccas grow everywhere in the loose, rocky soil of a mountain- side where there is little earth but where the loose gravel al- lows water to soak in. Here, on the fiat, packed sand, they do not. The saguaro flourishes be- cause its method is not to go deep but to seize quickly and to store up what falls in rare, brief, sud- den downpours that run off quickly without penetrating far below the surface. These mon- ster cacti, sometimes as high as fifty feet, sometimes weighing as much as two tons, and sometimes iivizlg , as long as two hundred 'teears, have no real tape roots at all. Just below the surface of the soil, as flat disk -like network spreads for yards around them; when a rain comes they quickly take up the water from a wide area, swelling visibly and some- times absorbing as much as a ton of water from one rain. After that they may go a year, if neces- sary, without taking in water again,—From ''The Desert Year," by Joseph Wood Krutch. THRIFT An Aberdeen woman went to .her kirk one Sunday and heard at impressive -sermon on the Geod Samaritan, So impressed was she that on her return she said to a friend, "I'llnever turn. a beggar awa' free my door ony mair." A few days later a tramp knocked at her door, r'nd, true to 'her resolve, she ran indoors and cut a slice of bread from the lodger's loaf. Ammunition for Hue War—Workers supervise final sie„s in the production of influenza vaccine. To meet the demand for vaccine caused by the nationwide influenza epidemic, more of the vaccino has been packaged and shipped in ten days than is usually pro- cessed in a year.