Zurich Herald, 1953-06-11, Page 2Most people cook asparagus
just one—or at most two ---ways
11 that happens to be the case
with you, just try serving this
delicious vegetable according to
some of the following recipes.
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ASPARAGUS EPICURE
16 asparagus tips
slices bread, cut in two
diagonally
1 cup thin cream or top
milk
2 hard -cooked eggs, ,iced
1 tablespoon butter or
margarine
Salt
Paprika
Cook and drain asparagus and
arrange on triangles of hot but-
tered toast, allowing four tips to
each serving. Heat the cream in
a saucepan, add butter and esea •
sonings, then riced eggs and pour
hot over asparagus tips at sery
ing time to moisten toast Gar
Wish with thin strips of pimiento
Four servings.
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ITALIAN ASPARAGTJS
Asparagus stalks
Melted butter
Browned bread crumbs
1 garlic clove
Parmesan cheese
Clean asparagus, removing the
tough ends and cook only until
just tender. Melt butter, adding
a bruised garlic clove as it melts
Remove garlic and add to butter
one tablespoon bread crumbs
browned in butter. Place aspar-
agus stalks on hot buttered toast
and pour butter over each sery
ing, topping each with one tea•
spoon of grated Parmesan cheese
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ASPARAGUS IN JELLY
Asparagus stalks
3 hard -cooked eggs, sliced
2 cups asparagus stock
Gelatin
Salt and pepper
Cook and cool asparagus stalk:
cif uniform length. Prepare plain
gelatin by following directions on
the package and add it to the
asparagus stock. (This is prepared
by simmering the butts in water.
In a mold which has been rinsed
with cold water, place a layer of
egg slices, cover with a layer o•i
asparagus and sprinkle lightly
with salt and pepper. Continue
until the mold is filled, then pour
ever it the gelatin mixture Store
in refrigerator several hours be.
fore serving.
With this mold, serve either
hot or cold mayonnaise to which
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Decollette — The provocative
wavy neckline of this daring
dress by a Parisian designer is
copied in the wavy brim of the
gold straw hat. The creator of
this slim black crepe dinner
gown keeps jewelry off the
throat to emphasize the gown's
low neckline.
If
a little chopped tarragon, chives
or parsley has been added. It's
good, however, without dressing
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ASPARAGUS WITH
MACARONI AU GRATIN
3 quarts water, boiling
1 tablespoon salt
4 ounces elbow ,macaroni
2 tablespoons butter or
margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1. teaspoon salt
rk teaspoon pepper
: teaspoon dry mustard
12 cups milk
1/2 cup grated cheese
Cooked Asparagus Spears
To boiling water, add salt and
macaroni and boil until the lat-
ter is tender—about 10 minutes.
Drain and rinse. While macaroni
is cooking, melt butter or mar-
garine in the top of a double
boiler. Add flour, salt, pepper and
mustard and stir until Fmooth.
then add milk gradually, stirring
constantly. When sauce is smooth
and thick, fold in the grated
cheese. Spread cooked macaroni
in a buttered baking dish and ar-
range over it the cooked aspara-
gus spears. Pour the cheese sauce
evenly over and top with crumbs,
dotted with butter or margarine
Bake at 350 degrees for about
25 minutes. Serve hot. Five sery
ings.
ASPARAGUS CHEESE OMELET
6 eggs, separated
6 tablespoons rich milk
te teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
lei pounds asparagus,
trimmed and cooked
2 cups medium cream
sauce
1 cup grated or diced
sharp cheese
Beat egg whites until stiff but
not dry. Beat yokes in a separate
bowl with salt, pepper and milk.
Fold in whites lightly. Turn into
a hot greased skillet and cook
over low heat until lightly
browned on the bottom. Place in
a 350 degree oven and bake un
til omelet is firm when lightly
pressed—about 10 minutes.
Place cooked, drained and sea-
oned hot asparagus on one side
of the omelet and fold over to
enclose asparagus. Turn out on
a hot platter. Meanwhile. heat
cream sauce and cheese until
blended and season to taste. Pour
over omelet and serve at once.
Fear servings.
FRENCH FRIED ASPARA.GUS
24 asparagus stalks. of '
uniform length
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon salad oil
tg teaspoon salt
cup warm water
2 egg whites, beaten stiff
Combine flour, salt, salad oil
and warm water and beat until
smooth. Cool for one hour, then
fold in the stiffly beaten egg
whites. Partly cook asparagus
stalks and drain. Dip each stalk
in the batter, remove with a
fork and drop into deep, hot fat.
Fry to a golden brown on both
sides. Serve on a hot platter gar-
nished with lemon slices and
sprigs of watercress. Six sem
ings.
Tommy was showing off his
new bicycle. He went up the
road, and on corning hack shout-
ed to his mother: "Look, Muni --
no hands!"
"Oh, be careful, Tommy!" said
his mother. "You'll hurt your-
self!"
Tommy laughed, and cycled up
the road again. When he next
appeared he called out: "Look,
Mum—no feet!"
"Oh, be careful!" repeated his
mother. "You'll hurt yourself!"
Again Tommy went off up the
road, and it was some tune be-
fore he reappeared. When he did.
however, he called out, not quite
so cheerfully: `Look. Mum—no
teeth!"
Granddaddy of Them All—Locomotive 40, a woodburner built
for the Grand Trunk in Portland, Me., in 1872, for passenger
service, is the oldest engine attached to the C.N.R.'s museum
train. Built originally as a coal burner, this engine switched to
wood at a time when most locomotives were going modern
with coal, Weighing a mere 38 tons, it hardly compares with
today's average steam locomotive, which tips the scales at 320
tons. Purchased in 1903 by the Chaudiere Valley Railway, the
woodburner is reported to have been the last of its species to
operate in Canada.
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Major job is to cut a 27•fooe deop channel along 120 mile
stretch from Montreal, Canada, to Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Other channels require dredging. Seven locks, five dams
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ship route from vast new ore
deposits in Labrador lo Mid-
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supply 3,400,000 hp of
electrical energy to
New York, Ontario,
Quebec and New Eng-
land.
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602 ft. elevation
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Pians for Seaway Take Shape—Canadian plans to construct the St. Lawrence Seaway include
deepening of the waterway to 27 -foot depth, required for ocean-going ships. The above map
shows present depth of places which must be dredged. MacArthur Lock at Sault Ste. Marie
Canal is constructed to seaway specifications. Of the 2350 miles which will be opened to
ocean traffic, only an approximate 100 miles need revision. It is estimated three years will be
required to complete the seaway. Dotted line shown in the insert is the route which will be
used in the event the United States participates in the project.
They're Hoping For
$15,000,000 Find
Plans are afoot to reclaim one
of the lost treasures of the sea
with the help of every device mo-
dern science can offer. Un-
daunted by past failures, the
Bartman Expedition aims to raise
the five -million -pound cargo of
a treasure ship which has de-
fied all attempts as salvage since
it sank in 1782.
In that year the three -masted
ship sailed .into a sea fog on the
Indian Ocean and was wrecked
on the inhospitable coast of Pon-
doland, South -East Africa. Across
the jagged reefs a few score sur-
vivors, men, women and children,
struggled ashore, while t h e
wreck, with its £5,000,000 cargo,
settled gradually deeper into the
sands.
After five months of wandering
and attack by hostile native, only
nine white men, seven lascars,
and two coloured women reached
safety.
Such was the end of the "Gros-
venor," blue riband clipper of the
old East India fleet. The super-
stitious whispered of the solid
gold peacocks, stolen from the
ancient coronation throne of the
Moguls, which were said to have
been carried aboard in secrecy
the night before she sailed from
Trincomalee.
Through the years the fabuloue
treasure has enticed and ulti-
mately .foiled a dozen highly
organized salvage expeclitions
Recently a former Harley Street
doctor, Dr. Nico Bartman, form
ed a new syndicate, intending to
find the treasure with all the.
scientific accuracy of a delicate
surgical operation,
In a sea -lashed gully, confined
between two up -jutting rocks of
a perilous reef, but steadily sink-
ing into the sands, the position
of the wreck is known with some
accuracy.
An Admiralty diver once
glimpsed the hulk as a huge mase
of hardened shell and sand ex-
tending across the gully.
One company attempted a trea-
sure bid with a dredger equip•
ped with long movable pipes to
suck up sand from one side and
eject it on the other.
- Yet the difficulties of approacn
in the angry seas were tremene
dous, and the dredger herself was
washed on to the reef. Few trea-
sures have seemed so temptingle
near, yet so inaccessible.
Convinced that the "Gosvenor'
survivors actually landed their
treasure and buried it, another
prospector blew up hall the
beach—to uncover nothing more
than a flaking cannon -ball and
a few gold pieces worn so thin
as to be of little value.
Cheating Neptune
The Iast attempt of all was
when the Grosvenor Bullion Syn
dicate sought to cheat King Nep•
tune by tunnelling forward from:
the shore through the solid rock
reef towards the. wreck, The tun-
nel was pushed forward to e
length of 138 yards—berme the
sea flooded in.
Now the Bartman expedition
plans to tow a prefab Mulberry
harbour to the site.
New radar a n d electronic
sounding equipment will, it is
hoped, bounce back the -heerfut
news of treasure below.
With an adaptation al •snort"
:rubtnarine breathing apparat•u ,,
divers will be able to remain un
der water for six hours at a
stretch. Faced with ttri': well
equipped salvage clw'st t h e
"Grosvenor" will. perhaps :y'iclre
ita treasure chests at last..
lorse S
by BOB FLUS
In an article entitled "Our
Illegal Federal Elections" in
MacLeans' Magazine Blair Fras-
er says that "most of our law-
makers become lawbreakers in
the very act of getting elected
because they do not publish ac-
curate statements of their cam-
: paign expenses." He also an -
ewers the question where the
"big' money required" comes
from.
Where Does It Come From?
Speaking of the Liberal and
Regressive - Conservative par-
ties Mr. Fraser continues that
"lh.ere is nothing to choose be-
tv, een thein in their methods of
fi ^lancing; both get approximate-
' 1:; the- same amounts from ap-
peoximately the same sources."
He figures. that more than half
of the eight million- dollars- the
two parties expect to spend in
the coming federal election will
come from "big corporations,
like the chartered banks, the in-
surance companies, the steel
companies, the mining, the pulp
and paper, the automobile, the
oil companies and so on."
The second category are the
contractors, "the people who ac-
tually get government business"
and who are "the heart and soul
and spinal column of provincial
party funds." The third and
fourth groups are made up of
people who want their chosen
party or candidate to get elect-
ed.
The writer declares that the
CCF and Socia] Credit are fin-
anced by the small individual
contributions of their members
and friends, but believes that
Social Credit "may, with two
provincial governments in pow-
er, get a piece of the big non-
e Mr. Fraser also maintains that,
as the law demands publication
of the full amounts disbursed in
the- campaign, the two old parties
are lawbreakers, because they
rarely publish the correct fig-
ures.
Conflicting Interests
Farmers should keep in mind
that "who pays the piper, calls
the tune." They are doing busi-
ness with the very same corpo-
rations who are putting up the
large campaign contributions.
They are buying from them and
selling to them. Most of the time
their interests are directly op-
posed.
Farmers are also dependent
on the trade and tariff policies
of the party which forms the
goverement. Frere, too, conflicts
may arise.
A case in instance is the loan
by the federal Department of
Agriculture of a technician to
the canning industry. Dr. Jones,
a civil servant in the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, was sent to
Italy to advise Italian producers
in processing tomatoes to make
them acceptable to Canadian
consumers.
The Deputy -Minister of Agri-
culture, Dr. J. G. Taggart, ad-
mitted, that possibly "the econ-
omic aspects had not been con-
sidered." He was also aware of
the depressed conditions in the
tomato industry and of the at-
titude of some processors who
were prompting the daily press
to attack marketing legisiation
and maintained farm prices.
Farmers' Own Program
Farmers cannot match the
nee*e
financial contributions of the
large corporations, but they can
exert considerable influence by
using their votes intelligently in
the interest of their own group.
Instead of going to the gov-
ernment, cap in hand, after the
election to beg for some conces-
sions, our farm organizations
should present their programs —
if they have any — to the par-
ties before the election and in-
vite there to take a stand on the
demands of the farmers.
This should be repeated on
the county level. Every county
faun organization should call a
meeting before any election and
invite all candidates running in
the riding. By getting them all,
the meeting would be definitely
non partisan and so would give
ev ay.
eteelevedual producer .the-
chance to form an opinion and
make up his own ,mind.
A week or two before the
meeting the :farm program should
be presented to the candidates
to give them time to get ac-
quainted with the problems and,
if necessary, get information
from their party leadership.
Any candidate who does not
feel qualified to discuss agricul-
tural questions might be permit-
ted to bring along a person
authorized to speak for and
commit his party. The candidate
himself should declare whether
he is prepared to vote against his
party in the House on any points
to which he has pledged him-
self.
Pin Them Down.
It is high time to make an
end with those vague and genial
declarations like "Boys, I don't
know enough about fanning to
give you an answer, but — if
elected — I will work for you
and look after your interests."
Let us enlighten them on the
interests of the farmers and pin
them down before we send them
to Ottawa.
Rural population is constantly
decreasing and politiciane like
to tell farmers that their vote is
not important anymore. Yet,
due to the distribution of the
constituencies, the farmer's vote
carries considerably more weight
than an urban vote. In many
mixed urban -rural ridings it is
decisive.
If farmers would quit plug-
ging for a party like for a hockey
team and start voting , for their
own farm program, they would
soon see results.
A political party is not an end
in itself, but a means to an end:
good and just government.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions, wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1,
123 - 18th Street, New Toronto,
Ont.
Perfume "Concerts"
A French scientist recently sug-
gested that scent manufacturers
should hold periodical "perfume
concerts." His idea is that smells
whose tones are in harmony
could be piped to members of
the audience through rrubber. tub-
ing.
According to Britain's Smell
Society, this notion might well
be extended to the international
field, That British smells are the
best in the world has long been
the claim of the founder of the
society, London solicitor Am-
brose Appelbe.
High in the British money -
spinning smell spectrum are the
odours of roast lamb and mint
sauce, newly rain -wet earth, pig-
sties, sweating horses, and roast
beef.
The Smell Society, founded in
1935, once claimed such eminent
adherents as Professor Julian
Huxley and G. B. Shaw. Today
psychiatrists have swelled the
membership, for they maintaixs
that certain smells are a valu-
able aid in psycho -analysis.
Smells have already been tried
out in the movies. Pre-war, the
showing of the African film "San-
ders of the River" was accom-
panied by appropriate odours in
the auditorium.
Regal Beauty—ATI eyes turn in
salute to Iran's lovely Empress
Soraya, She is seen above
alighting from a plane at the
airport in Rome, Italy.
The Price Of Freecloert—Two sisters buss If. Franciszek Jarecki who
flew to freedom from a Palish airf eld, landing his Russian MIG
in Denmark and seeking sanctuary. The girls, Wanda Grzyb,
at left, and her sister, Joyce, are rnernbers of the Polish National
Alliance,