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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-08-27, Page 3TMLfl TALXS Jam AraDeNS It's pickling time or just about; so today's column will be made up with some hints that may be helpful. "Why do I get soft pickles?" "Why do I get hollow pickles?" many young house- wives enquire. Softness and hol- lowness may be caused' because the vinegar used was not strong enough, or the brine too weak. Chick the label of the vinegar bottle to be sure the vinegar is 4%—unless recipe instrricts you differently. Pickles such as dills will also become soft if they are stored in open containers and pickles exposed above the brine. A. note about spices: Wonder- ing how to avoid the darkening of pickles that ground spices are bound to bring about? Use cold kitchen logic and place whole spices in a bag, or tie in a piece of muslin and lower away into the pickle -pot. Merely remove bag before transferring pickles to jars. Pickling Statistics. In using coarse pickling salt (not iodized), it is handy to know that the av- erage weight of a cup of salt is about -10 ounces or % of a pound, .][Don't ignore your pickling - lime tools. The type of cooking utensils you select will influence the colour of the pickles. For best results, use enamelware, aluminum and stainless steel. Spoons? You can't go wrong with wooden, stainless steel or alum- inum. * * :N Utilize dry mustard this pick - :ling festival. It's a good cook's trick to anliven •winter -bound meals. Here's a line-up of the wide, choice of recipes from which you may select: Small Cu- oughly and then rinse. To steril- ize, cover with cold water, bring slowly to boiling point, boil 20 mins. Keep jars in water until ready to fill. Remember too, large mouthed jars are easy to fill. * i„ ,N Are you a "working woman" or maybe just a hard-working woman? Here's a pickling pro- ject that involves little time and effort. Alternate layers or raw sliced onions and green tomatoes in a crock, add coarse pickling salt and your favorite array of spices. Place a heavy weight atop this. After several days, turn to them again and drain juice, add vinegar and sugar. What have you created? Crisp, interesting, uncooked pickles. It is always wise to concentrate on one type of pickles in a pick- ling session. Don't try to rush your pickles. Small quantities too, spell pickle perfection. Here's a dependable, delicious Mustard Pickle Dressing to add after the vegetables are prepar- ed; Mix 1 cup flour, 6 table- spoons dry mustard, 1 tablespoon turmeric. Add enough vinegar to make a smooth paste. Add 2 cups sugar and more vinegar (2 quarts in all,) and boil until thick and smooth. .,* Do you realize that you car. prepare pickled cantalope just as you can watermelon. Indeed you can—peel cantalope, de -seed it, run for the cookie -cutter once more to create those intriguing shapes from the pulp of the can- talope. Finally cook in similar syrup as that for watermelon pickles. * ,< +, Some pickles must be sealed airtight, for instance Tomato Chili Sauce, or Chili Sauce from i umber Pickles, Mustard Beans, Celery Relish, Good Olde Home- made Mustard Pickles, Uncooked Fickle, Tomato Catsup, Carrot Blelish and Apple Chutney. Some sure -sugar facts in pick- ling: Sugar is used in nearly all pickles. One of the main causes of shrivelled or tough pickles, stems from adding the sugar too rapidly. Well -cured cucumbers lake up sugar faster than uncur- ed or poorly cured cucumbers and give a better textured pickle. * r, Argument: Why should I'make pickles when the store shelves are stocked with them? For the Jun of it; for the pride of it; for the art of it. Horne pickled goods make unique gifts — buy small, attractive jars that can be put to use afterwards; paint flower designs on them with glaze paints, after the pickles are pre- pared and jarred. +k +k +N To .lar Your Memory: You won't be a perfect pickier until your technique is perfect in the Jar Department. Hinds of Jars: vacuum sealed metal covers for most pickles (new covers each season, .please). The rubber rings on these jars will also have to be changed each pickling ''do". Preparing Jars: Inspect care- fully, discard those with the slightest nick, run finger around edge to detect nick or crack. Test rubber ring by folding the ring double, press firmly. Good rub- ber does not crack. Washing Jars: do this thor- MERRY MENAGERIE n'He's going through that 'King A.rthitr•knlghthood' phase!" fruits, and various kinds of rel- ishes. However, pickles such as Mustard Pickles, Dills, Green Tomato, Pickled Onions may be kept in crocks. Although they require a close -fitting cover, they need not be sealed airtight. If you put the above pickles into jars, you may cover them with heavy brown paper and tie se- curely with wet string. They will keep * Vinegar Quiz: which variety is the choice for pickling? • Your selection of cider vinegar (made from apple juice) or white vine- gar, is a matter of your family's good taste. Either are ideal for pickling. Cider vinegar has a mel- low flavour; white vinegar may be preferred when making light coloured pickles such as onions or cauliflower. k * b You must be sugar -wise too, in pickling. Watch your variety and amounts White granulated is your common friend in autumn pickling, but once in a blue moon, golden brown sugar is preferred in some pickles. Use your own good taste—you'll know when you are seeking a different subtle flavour in your pickles. CAUTION: If you are over- generous with the sugar ladle your pickles will be shrivelled. * * .N To preserve vegetables in coarse pickling salt; BEANS — 1 lb. coarse salt to 4 lbs. beans PEAS — 1 lb. coarse salt to 5 lbs, peas CORN' — 1 lb. coarse salt to 4 lbs. corn Method: blanch vegetables 3 mins. — at simmering temp, (180 degrees F.) Chill in ice cold water. Cool vegetable to approxi- mately lukewarm (60 degreesE'.) Before salting. Drain thoroughly. A layer of salt :first on bottom of crock, then layer of vegetable and so on until full, ending with layer of salt. A wooden cover then applied and weighted down with heavy object.` In a few days brine will form. Make sure brine covers vegetables. They will keep in this manner indefinitely. When ready to use soak them over- night in fresh water. Cook in usual manner, Patriot Honored—A proud 'smile brightens the wrinkled face of Madame Aucouturier as a nedar is pinned to her dress by Admiral Auboyneau atSaigon. The" aged patriot was honored for assistance to French and Viet Namese forces in Indo-China. Bloody Nose Was,4,: Making of Cha; Many years ago there lived e fighter famed far and wide as the Nonpareil, the original Jack Dempsey, middle -weight cham- pion of the world. While in San Fransisco one day, he dropped into the gymnasium of an ex- clusive athletic club for a work. out. - Unable to find- a sparring part• ner, the Nonpareil sought out the boxing champion of the club and asked him whether he would care - to go a few rounds with him. -The club champion was a tall slim dignified -looking bank clerk. The invitation from the great champion awed the young man but he eagerlyacceptedthe chal- lenge. hatlenge. It was an opportunity not to be missed, hot even by an amateur. For a while the two men spar- red easily with the amateur hold- ing his own against the middle- weight champion. Then sudden- ly, the Nonpareil brought up a hard right flush to the generous- ly proportioned nose of his ad- versary. The blood gushed from the wounded member. Fists swing- ing wildly, the young man lost his head and sailed into the great Nonpareil, determined to reduce him to powder. The champion cleverly side- stepped, clinched, and pinned ;hid, opponent's arms to 'his •sk$ "Cool off, son," he whispered soothingly, "I'm sorry I gave you a bloody nose. Come on, let's be friends." The words calmed the amateur quickly, He left the floor for the dressing room and began to change. A few minutes later the Nonpareil joined him and threw a fatherly arm around his shoul- ders. "Your're not a bad fighter, son," he said. "You have the spark of a champion. Take my advice and go into the ring. I'm sure there's a great future ahead of you. P11 help you all I can.' The twe men became fast friends. They boxed together of- ten and the eager young ama- teur learned all that the Non- pareil could teach him of the art of fisticuffs. The boy was an apt and will- ing illing pupil. So well did he learn his chosen trade that, in time, he burst upon the sports world with a new kind of boxing magic, the cleverest boxer yet seen am- ong the heavy men of the ring. The day came when the former bank clerk flung out his drama. tic challenge to the champion of the world—John L. Sullivan! His impudence was met by jeers, laughter and abuse. This danc- ing master, this dude, this softie, in the same ring with the great John L? Ridiculous! In twenty-one bloody rounds, the challenger stabbed and par- ried, till the champion's face was a bloody mess. Finally the grand old champion went down, knock- ed out by the young upstart. And it was a bloody nose than led the dignified young bank clerk to that moment in the ring that is every fighter's goal --the cry of the announcer when the champion has sunk into the dust of defeat: "The winner and new champion—James J. Corbett!" PLASTIC VALVE FITTED TO HEART A severe attack of rheumatic fever in her childhood left Mrs. Betty Stilleman, of Beverly Hills, with a defective heart valve. "Shortness" of breath and ex- treme fatigue made life miser- able for her. Doctors studied her case, and finally a surgeon performed a new operation involving an arti- ficial valve made of plastic and - shaped rather like a bottle. This two-inch "valve" was inserted into the' heart to replace the de- fective natural one and performs its job perfectly. Opening to let blood surge through, it then closes to prevent any backward !flow. Iron Curtain Tales An urchin in Slovakia was be- ing catechized by a Soviet in- spector. "Who is your father?" queried the inspector. "The in- comparable Stalin," . proclaimed the urchin. "And your mother?" "The incomparable Soviet Union," said the.., urchin in the same parrot -like tone. The in- spector allowed himself the shadow of a smile, and asked, "What would you like to be when you grow up?" The urchin answered fervently, "An or- phan." A Budapest merchant, travel- ing through Russia and border- ing states, sent his friend a series of tell-tale postcards. The first read: "Greetings from Free Mos- cow," the second, "Greetings from Free Warsaw," the third, "Greetings from Free Prague." Then there was a month's silen- ce, after which a final message arrived, postmarked Paris. This one read "Greetings from Free Rabinowitz." k 4 * Three prisoners at a labor camp in Czechoslovakia engaged in surreptitious converse. Whisper- ed the first prisoner, "I'm here because I was suspected of being in sympathy with Radek." The second reported, "I'm here be- cause I was said to be plotting against Radek." The third pris- oner said, "I'm Radek." 1�i ..Plain Horse Sen _-- by BOB FLUS Judging by the results of the election Rt. Honourable James G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture, must have been right when he said in his cam- paign; "The farmers never had it so good, they are making more money than ever before. There are no surpluses and the British markets are not lost." Not only he himself re-elected, but most of his colleagues with him. Only in Saskatchewan did the farmers really think it was time for a change, although they returned Mr. Gardiner to his job in Ottawa.' Benson's Nightmare. This means that Canada's eco- nomy will continue to be geared to that of the United States. It might be interesting therefore to look and see how agriculture is faring South of the 49th parallel. Anthony West in his 'Letter from New -York" in Saturday Night describes the "nightmare" of Mr. Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, caused by this year's bumper crops of wheat, corn and cotton. He says that the drought (in Texas and Colorado) and the farm surpluses are forcing Mr: Benson to "slap on more of the controls his party was calling `creeping socialism' last fall, and pay out more federal aid." Admittedly there is not de- pression—yet—but it is evident "that the slightest deviation to- wards a free market and the re- laxation of Democratic buying and support policies will produce one." Something Dynamic On his return to Washington from a tour through the country recently, Mr. Benson was given a lecture by a group of Repub- lican Congressmen who thought that "he wasn't doing enough to ensure their re-election in '54" and who wanted "something dynamic from him to sweeten the voting farmers." Instead of holding up to them their refusal of Mr. Eisenhow- er's proposal to use the huge crop surpluses in Government stores as "propaganda give-away material" in famine and distress areas to fight growing Commun- ism, instead of plugging for the $150 million appropriation for drought relief, Mr. Benson point- ed to one "principal difficulty which faced him." He wanted legislation enabl- ing him to get rid of the l34,. 000 Democratic employees still in the Department of Agriculture and to replace them by Repub. limns. Then everything would In all right. More than Doubt All he actually did was tighten up the regulations against t'h* importation of Canadian cheese. Mr. West expresses "more the, doubt" that a cabinet includirne men like Benson is "capable o'a holding off a depression." Canadian farmers may find ls the not too distant future the/ they have been betting toy heavily on the wrong horse. This column welcomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and BIZ criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try t0 answer any question. Addrese your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1,, 123 - 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. Some Doll—The girl above is no midget. She's just dwarfed by one of the "king-sized" marion- ettes which are attracting visitors. to Rome, Italy, this year. Up to five feet tall and weighing as much as 35 pounds, the dolls have been clashing swords in s� show depicting the Crusades. Some of the dulls, are values; at $1,000. UBdog Gets A N - rvous reakdown eca>>-se Of >:A 1stress's Drivin,. With deft fingers the white - coated London veterinary sur- geon examined the spaniel the small boy had brought to him with the statement, "1 think he has a sore back, sir." "Your dog," said the surgeon, "has a slipped disc. We shall have to operate." That afternoon they did, using the technique that surgeons use on human beings with slipped discs. In the same animal hospi- tal a retriever, seriously ill with pneumonia, was being given in- fections- of penicillin under an oxygen tent. It is all part of the extension of the benefits of medicine and dentistry to domestic animals. One United States veterinary surgeon has even claimed to have cured an English bulldog of that fashionable complaint of modern life — a nervous breakdown. The cause was a mistress who drove a motor car too quickly for his nerves, In laboratory tests at Princeton University, in the United States, pigs have been made jittery and neurotic after being trained to do difficult tricks. And Professor David M. Levy of . the same university tells of a dog that started limping be- cause it was jealous of a new baby iri the house and wanted to attract attention. Wild animals are comparative- ly free •from disease. Their life is rougher and they have no lengthy old age. As soon as they become unfit for the struggle for life they die or are preyed upon by other .animals. To -day; '`: veterinary surgeons cure dogs of kidney diseases, paralysis; tuberculosis and other illnesses. . United States veterinary sur- geons have been transplanting corneas from slaughtered ani- mals to living ones. Birds benefit, too. Canaries have their colds cured with drugs, Soft foods bring on dental caries in animals. Three cows fitted with false teeth were re- cently exhibited at the All Union Agricultural Show at Moscow. The cows were brought from the Ukraine to display the dentures, and Russian papers acclaimed the experiment as of national im- portance. A number of valuable Austral- ian Merino stud rams recently developed pyorrhoea, due, no doubt, to a somewhat artificial diet. Dentists were called in and gave the rams, some of them worth up to $10,000, t h e treatment that is often given to human sufferers from pyorrhoea. The dental surgeons performed what is called a gingevectomy— that is, the puffy upper parts of the gums were cut away under an anaesthetic. The rams are now reported to be chewing happily. Before long the old notion of looking for a gun when a race- horse breaks a leg niay be dis- carded. The Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania has been scoring over fifty per cent. successes in healing frac- tures. Even this hitherto miraculous bone mending is antiquated be- side the record of Peter Wehner. a dentist. Just before the war Wehner was attending a race meeting near Cincinnati. A favourite, Prince Pine, stumbled and broke his left foreleg. There was the usual call for a gun. Wehner's wife found herself running down the track, calling out, "You must not shoot him!" The veterinary surgeon said nothing could be done. When a racehorse breaks his leg there is one recognized way of setting it. The horse must be hoisted in a sling for two or three weeks in order to take its weight off the injured leg. Lungs and liver cannot stand the strain, and the wretched animal usually dies of pneumonia long before the bone knits, The dentist and his wife took up the challenge. They went home in a float with Prince Pine. And there luck played its part, as it has done so often in im- portant discoveries. Wehner set the leg and made a cast for it with the plaster dentists use for making the moulds of bridge -work. It set quickly, and was so hard that Prince Pine's kicking couldn't chip it. And it buttressed the leg so firmly that the horse could set it down within a day. Prince Pine raced again, and all America learned his story. To- day Wehner has twenty horses whose lives he has saved. A novelty in animal surgery reported from America is the "de - scenting" of Akunks. These make charming pets—but for one thing. Now vets are removing the scent glands, and everybody is happy.