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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-09-17, Page 7How To Battle "Tattle-TGrey" Housewives who feel they are battling `.cattle -tale grey" all alone every wash clay have a helping hand in an ingredient hidden in most of the new syn- thetic detergents Today's "whiter -wash" discov- ery is a chemical with the jaw- breaking name of sodium car- boxymethyl cellulose, known in research labs as sodium CMC. When synthetic detergents were first developed their great- est advantage was their efficiency in washing fabrics in hard water. [However, chemists were not en- tirely satisfied with their cleans- ing properties. An ingredient or two seemed to be missing. The early synthetics were ef- fective dirt removers but were not as efficient as soap in keep- ing soil suspended in the wash water and preventing it from being redeposited on the fabric. After numerous washings this soil accumulated on the garment giving it what housewives called a,. "tattle -tale grey" appearance. The search for better synthetics was spurred by a shortage of soap -making fats in Europe. Af- ter much testing, sodium CMC proved to be the "tattle -tale grey" antidote the chemists were looking for. Like many new ehemicals, however, it was found to be more versatile than was at first apparent., Repeated tests have shown that it increases a detergent's ability to keep a fabric white and ob- tains the same degree of white- ness in about half the washing time. It is also an enemy of heavy, deeply -ingrained soil. The percentage of sodium CMC in a box of synthetic detergent is generally small, varying from one-half to two Per cent. Since natural soaps are superior to synthetics in their dirt -suspend- ing power, the addition of sodium CMC is not necessary as a "tat- tle -tale grey" preventive. However, sodium CMC , has been found to improve other properties of some soaps, such as their washing ability and whiteness retention.- In the soap - and - water - conscious Nether - lue erries, ice M id MakeTasty Desserts BY DOROTHY MADDOX 11:MMUS, firms, cultivated blueberries served in a sauce over a rice Bavarian pudding make a delicious, eye -appealing dessert. Best of all, in these hot days, it can be prepared in advance, and the pre-cooked rice used gives added £fixture to the pudding. RICE BAVARIAN (Makes 8 servings) One-half package (3/4 cup) pre-cooked rice, 1. tablespoon gelatin, i1/4 cups milk, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, Ir'z teaspoon salt, 1 egg, slightly beaten, 3/4 teaspoon vanilla, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon lemon rind, 1/z cup cream, whipped. Prepare pre-cooked rice as directed on package. Cook. Combine. gelatin and 1/4 cup of the milk in miffing bowl. Mix well. Combine sugars, salt and nutmeg in double boiler. Add remaining 1 cup of milk and egg and mix well. Place over hot water and cook, stirring constantly until mixture coats spoon. Pour over gelatin and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Cool. Add vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon rind, Chill until slightly thickened. Then fold in rice and whipped cream, Serve with Blueberry Sauce. BLUEBERRY SAUCE (Makes 21/2 on1s sa,ume) Two cups fresh blueberries, 1 cup water,'4 teaspoons flour, 319 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, dash of cloves, 2 teaspoons butter, 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Bring 1, cup 'of the berries and water to a boll and simmer 3 minutes. Combine flour, sugar, salt, and cloves. Add to hot fruit. Add remaining berries, bring to a boil and cook 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add butter and lemon juice. Serve warm, if desired. for Sunday dessert: Try this quick and easy crunchy blueberry pie CRUNCHY TRUE BLUE IP 1E Crust: Twenty graham crackers, finely rolled (1% cups crumbs), 3 cup softened butter or margarine (1/2 stick), 1/9 cup sugar. Blend graham cracker crumbs, softened butter or margarine and tuear Pour mixture into 9 -inch pie plate. Firmly press into an This refreshing dessert, a rice Bavarian pudding with plump, cultivated blueberries, can beprepared epi a ysn advance, a life-saver c even layer against bottom and sides of plate. 'Bake in moderately hot oven (3'75 deg. F'.) about 8 minutes. Cool. Filling: Two and one-half tablespoons cornstarch, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 cup water, 1 quart cultivated .blueberries, 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Mix cornstarch and sugar. Gradually add water and stir until cornstarch and sugar dissolve. Add to berries and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and becomes clear Remove from heat, add lemon juice. When thoroughly cool, pour into graham cracker crumb crust. Chiu. .Just before serving, gernish with whipped cream. lands, the addition of sodium CMC to soap compounds is now compulsory as it was discovered that the chemical cuts down the amount of soap required and im- proves its efficiency. The chemical is also employed as a warp -sizing by textile mills to protect the yarns from the abrasive action of the looms. Oil -men use it in drilling, paper makers as a coating and farmers as a soil -conditioning agent. Some researchers are convinc- ed that a teaspoonful of sodium CMC. added to the rinse water will act as a soil resistant by keeping clothes clean longer and making them wash more easily. Housewives have yet to verify this. Sodium CMC is still only manufactured for industrial use and as the unseen agent in boxes of synthetic detergents. Wheat likes cool soil; and you can grow more wheat per acre by taking the temperature of your fields this fall, So—out with those thermometers! I don't know �f it would do any good to take along a stethescope and blood - pressure tester as well. But that's mere foolery—the temperature thing is strictly on the level. * * * You can grow more wheat per acre by taking the temperature of your fields this fall. "For top yields, don't sow win- ter wheat until the soil stays at 65 degrees or lower for several days," say Colorado researchers. More and more wheat growers in the Plains states are using a thermometer to decide when to plant, In late August and Sep- tember they take soil tempera- tures thre inches down, in the middle of the afternoon. * * As soon as soil temperatures drop to 65 degrees and stay there, they start putting in wheat. Later -seeded plams use less moisture than wheat that comes up in August. They aren't as apt to dry out and winter -kill, either. * . That cool soil keeps root rot out of the picture, and it's usual- ly after the Hessian fly -free date. * When you plant early, the rank fall growth saps moisture out of the soil. This, along with root rot is usually too much for the wheat. You lose part of the stand through winter drying. Some scientists say that you can lose a fourth — or more — of your crop. - Once in a blue moon you may come out ahead with early seed- ing, because you get earlier pas- ture. But moisture is usually the big problem, and you don't get much extra pasture in a dry fall. For the past seven years, re- searchers at Colby, Kansas, have harvested an average of seven to eight bushels more -per acre Cagey Kids—Justice triumphs at the Buffalo, N.Y., Zoo as two The youngsters, aged 10 and 12, find themselves behind ba rsboys were kept in the monkey cage for a short period to teach there and other mischievous children not to throw stones at the cininedis, from mid-September wheat than from wheat seeded August 20. The September -seeded wheat weighed about two pounds more per bushel, too. * "Even without drought, there's something about the make-up of an early plant that makes it more likely to winter -kill," explains Agronomist H. H. Laude. e; * * "Wheat planted too late runs the same risk, so it doesn't pay to wait longer than October 1," adds Laude. Tests show that it takes 7% inches of moisture to make straw. Then you get about two bushels of wheat for each additional inch of moisture up to 17 inches. That moisture includes rainfall stored in the soil at planting time. • Wheat growers, working with researchers, have discovered that soil temperatures above 65 de- grees—especially from 75 degrees to 90 degrees—give root rots a chance to take hold early. Even though you plant late, it will still pay to get your seed- bed ready early, In 11 years of testing at Lincoln, Neb., wheat from land plowed in July aver- aged as much as seven bushels more than wheat on ground plowed in September. In 23 tests under continuous cropping near North Platte, Neb., late plowing resulted in 11 fail- ures. Early plowing, with only seven failures, averaged seven bushels better. * * * Have You Got Lucky m mb r? at. AnaDews, Here's the recipe for a Sweet Pepper Relish- which you'll find really tasty when used "as is" and which — mixed with mayon- naise—makes a marvelous Thous- and Island dressing. SWEET PEPPER RELISH 12 green peppers 10 sweet onions (medium) 12 red peppers 1 pint vinegar 3 cups sugar 3 tablespoons salt 3 tablespoons mustard seed Grind green and red peppers and onions with coarse blade in your meat grinder. Pour boiling water over mixture. Let stand 5 minutes; drain. Make a so- lution of vinegar, sugar, salt and mustard seed.- Put pepper -onion mixture in vinegar solution Let come to boil and boil 12 minutes. Bottle and seal. Are you dominated by a num- ber? Is there a number which is linked with almost every im- portant event in your life? Many people do have a lucky number, but very few can be said, to be so haunted by one as Longfellow, the poet, was haunted by 9's. He was born on 27-2-1907. 11 you add the figures together they total 27. Add those two figures and the total is 9. All through his life that number was to follow him. He was 18 when he (Al col- lege — 1 and 8 total 9. [Vine years later, when he was 27—s' again —he became a professor at Har- vard. He was there for 18 years, and during his lifetime published 18 volumes of poetry. The year he was apponned to Harvard was 1836, which when you bring it down to a singe dig- it, is 9. He resigned his position in 1854—again 9. The exact date of his resignation was 16-2-1854 —which still adds up to 9 The date of his first wedding was 14-9-1831, and his second was 13-7-1843. Both these nets of figures add up to 9. His second wife died when he was 54. They were ma:•ried for 13 years. His most monumental work was his anthology. "The Poets And Poetry Of Europe." which was first published in 1854 (9). 27 years later it was reprinted and a supplement added. The to- tal number of pages in see new edition was 1,116 again the 9 W. E. Gladstone, the Vsetorian Prune Minister, was haunted by number 5. He won his first Par- liamentary election in 1834 when he was 23. The number of votes recorded at that election was 887; which totals five. His appointment as Colonial Secretary was confirmed on the 23rd of the month, and he was made Chancellor of the Ex- chequer on the 23rd of the month. When he was 59 he was made Prime Minister. The year was 1868. He died on 19-5-1898 and was buried on 28-5-1898. Both these sets of figures, brought down t0 single digits, total 5. * It is interesting to remember, when,preparing or eating onions, that they belong to the lily family—close kin to the flowers so much loved at Eastertime. While "onion" is the universal name for this bulbous vegetable now, it was not always this way. Ancient names for it in Sanskrit, Hebrew,. Greek and Latin were apparently unrelated, showing the widespread culture of onions during prehistoric times. Onions were introduced by the Spanish into the West Indies and soon spread to all parts of the Americas. Leek and garlic are forms of the onion. There are so many''' ways of preparing onions for your dinner table that you should have no trouble finding ways for suiting all your family with this versa- tile vegetable. Here are some suggestions for preparing this plentiful vege- table. GLAZED ONIONS 1 quart sliced, raw onions 2 tablespoons butter or margarine le cup brown sugar Melt butter in heavy skillet; add brown sugar and blend. Add onions and cook over low heat, turning frequently until tender (20 to 30 minutes). Serves 4. * * * When you're stuffing onions, they should be in the form of little cups when you put the stuffing in, If you want to use them as cups for peas or cubed carrots—they make a lovely ring for your roast platter fixed this way—you needn't put them in the oven but cook them longer on top of the stove. STUFFED ONIONS 6 large onions ?/2 cup corn chips, lightly crushed 1 teaspoon chopped, parsley 2 tablespoons butter or mar- garine le cup hot water le cup ground, cooked meat 3 tablespoons finely crushed corn chips for topping Peel onions, slice off tops and remove centers. Boil gently for 10 minutes; drain. Combine corn chips, ground meat and season- ings. Pili onions with mixture. Combine hot water and butter in baking dish, Bake at 350° F., basting occasionally. When al- most done Sprinkle with crushed corn chips and brown. ar a * Perhaps you like the zippy taste of cheese with your onions; here is a bake that lifts this vegetable into the luxury class! Cheese -Onion Bake 11/2 cups thinly sliced onions S 11/4 cups shredded cheese 6 tablespoons butter, melted 11/2 cups coarse salt -cracker crumbs e teaspoon curry powder 11/2 cups hot milk 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs, beaten Few grains cayenne Place sliced onions with 2 tablespoons butter in 8x8x2 baking dish. Cook in 325° F. oven until onions are transpar- ent. Combine remaining butter, cracker crumbs, and curry pow- der. When onions are cooked, re- move from baking pan. Press 1 cup of crumb mixture against bottom and sides of pan. Ar- range onions on crumbs. Com- bine milk, salt, cayenne, eggs, and cheese. Mix well. Pour over onions. Cover with remaining Va cup crumbs. Bake at 325° F. 30-35 minutes or until mixture is set. Dreams Came True W4IAY SCLIOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B. A., B, D. Courage for Christian Living 2 Timothy 1:3-14 Memory Selection, God hath not given us the spirit of fear;, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:'). Dreams come true — jeme- times. Take the case of twc Ita- lians, Claudio Nucci and Fausto Marinoni, who dreamt they could make a fortune by going to the races in Venezuela. Off they went from Rome, af- ter telling their fiancees that they felt sure they would return home quickly with sufficient money to marry. .. How right they, were. Within thirty-four days -of their depar- ture from Italy the two men had won 100,000 dollars. They seem- ed to know exactly the right horses to back. Resisting the temptation to spend the money, they packed their bags or. the last clay of the new and flew home. They are planning a joint wedding later this summer. 'Then they will return to Venezuela and buy a farm which they hope will yield another fortune. Paul writes to Timothy: "Be not thou ashamed of the testi- mony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner." A little later he added: "I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed." Paul w a s ever using that word: ashamed. For Paul was unem- barrassed with the gospel he pro- claimed. To him the gospel was an experience of the inner con- sciousness, a miracle operating on the heart, awakening the spiritual life witihin. It was the power of God unto salvation. And no man was excluded, The worst man could rise to the level of the best. Fear dogs the steps of men with its trinity of worry, in- somnia, and failure. As a stroke may paralyze the normal func- tions of the body, so fear par- alyses human effort in any out- reach of life. To meet this spec- ter of fear and its reactions the field of psychiatry has been de- veloped. It is a man-made sys- tem of having the patient talk out his obsessions with their background to the psychiatrist. By thus turning his mind inside out, the psychiatrist endeavours to help him. But let it be re- membered that there is no funda- mental conquest of fear that is not based on God, The famous philosopher, Dr. Joad, who died on April 9th, was for many years an agnostic. He went so far as to say that "The present generation has shown religion to be fiction" But world - war No. 2 completely shattered his illusions as to man's inherent goodness. Later he declared: "I had thought that evil was not , endemic in human nature—that economic reasons were respon- sible for it. But I have since become forced to accept the Christian doctrine of original. sin. Only a religious creed can counter this evil." Only Jesus Christ can meet the need of this frustrated age. The sooner we realize this and act accordingly, the better. l.'IUZED LOOSE The birthday party was getting on mother's nerves. She walked over to a bunch of particularly noisy children a n d announced: "There will be a special prize for the one who goes home first!" Marriage . dth If married, it's 2,600 to 1 you did not elope and 2,300 to 1 you met the girl you married through an introduction. The odds are 11/z to 1 in your favour, you can dance (whatever your sex), says Arthur Murray. Three to 1 that, if a girl, you will have a better chance to marry by leaving the town you now live in. But 7,.- 200 to 1 you will never win any kind of beauty contest. If a girl the chances are 2 to 1 you will. permit a kiss at the doe- after your first date (and if a txlgn, 1,000 to 1 you'll Want tine.. Thin odds are exactly even your en- gagement will last a year, 17,- 000 to 1 you will not marry a relative, 17 to 1 that your en- gagement ring will cost less than 50.00. BULLSEYE—IN BARREL One of the oddest rifles in exi- stence can be seen at the Small Arms School, Hythe, Kent. It has . a damaged muzzle and a blown -out breech. Why? Because as it was being fired by an unknown British soldier from a trench in 1916, a Ger- man bullet entered the barrel from the other end. Say experts "Chances of such a thing happen- ing again are many millions to one'" Helping Hands—Volunteer workmen swarm over the new home they are building in a race against time at Flint, Mich. This is part of a 3,000 -man project to rebuild tornado -torn Flint in Iwo days. The city was ripped by high winds during June,