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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-12-24, Page 6.1.441deit If TM ,?r ciam A.iX*ews Moat dishes from various coun- tries is my "bill of fare" today and I'm sure you'll find these somewhat different ways of serving up the familiar pork, veal and so on, well worth try- ing. SWEET-SOUR SPARE1t11',:3 2 pounds pork spareribs 1 tablespoon salad oil 1 small piece ginger root 1 clove garlic, crushed ii cup sugar te teaspoon dry mustard T• teaspoor salt 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons soy sauce 3 tablespoons vinegar • 1 cup writer Cut spareribs in 1 -rib pieces and place in large skillet. Cover with hot water, bringing to boll, and simmer 10 minutes. Drain and dry thoroughly. Heat oil in skillet and add spareribs. Turn to brown on all sides. Peel gin- ger root and chop fine. Place in bowl with garlic, Add all dry in- gredients, then the liquid ingre- dients. Stir until smooth. Pour over spareribs in skillet and sim- mer 20 minutes. Serve hot. Serves 4. VEAL SCALLOPINE 1 pound veal, sliced very thin le cup flour le cup grated nippy 'heese Dash pepper 1 cup sliced mushrooms le cup butter or margarine 1 can condensed bouillon (1`e cups) Cut veal into pieces about 2 inches square, pound well with mallet or edge of saucer. Mix flour, cheese and pepper; dredge veal in this mixture. Brown veal and mushrooms in butter in heavy skillet. Blend in remain- ing flour -cheese mixture and bouillon; heat and stir until sauce starts to thicken; cover; simmer 5 minutes, Garnish with stuffed olives, Serves 6. Beal Caoll—Robert E. Hopp mod- els the gasheated work suit he designed for cold -weather wear. Hot propane gas, supplied by a 21/2 -pound metal unit clipped to the belt, is circulated through the suit in rubber tubes. The suit, which weighs 1012 pounds with the heater unit, can keep a man warm for 12 hours in 30 -degree - below -zero -weather. ADOBO 1 pound pork chops 1 inch thick 1 clove garlic, a.'hopped line 1 bay leaf :i4 cup vineg..r 14 cup water 12 teaspoon salt Dash pepper Spinach or cabbage; cooked. Brown chops in skillet. Mist garlic, bay leaf, water, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Pour over browned chops. Soak for 5 min- utes. Cover. Bring quickly -to boil. Lower heat and simmer until nearly dry. Remove chops from skillet. Add canned or fresh cooked cabbage or spinach. Stir lightly with fork. Serve on hot platter topped with the pork chops. Three servings. ,, * :Y If the man in your family likes a Ragout, here is one made with pork hocks that will win praise. It is good served with boiled potatoes, carrots and cabbage. It serves 4. PORK HOCK RAGOUT 1 pound pork ?rock (4 pieces) 4 tablespoons shortening 1 onion, sliced 2 teaspoons salt 1 bay leaf (optional) ?e teaspoon whole cloves (op- tional) 1 cup water Yi pound ground beef le pound ground pork 1.1 teaspoon pepper Browned :flour .(about ?is cup) Brown hocks in 2 tablespoons shortening in a heavy kettle oz' skillet. Add onion, 1 teaspoon salt, bay leaf, cloves and water. Cook 2 hours, or until fork ten- der. Add water from time to time if necessary (there should be about 2 cups liquid at end of cooking period). Mix together the ground beef, pork, pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt. Form into 1% -inch balls and r o 1 I in browned flour. Brown in second skillet in 2 tablespoons shorten- ing. Add browned meat balls to pork -hock mixture and cook 34 hour. Just before serving, thick- en broth with 4 tablespoons browned flour mixed with liquid left in pan after frying meat balls. Chicken almond stirs the im- agination to see pictures of the Orient, and here is a modernized version. CHICKEN ALMOND— CANADIAN VERSION 2 tablespoons butter or mar- garine ^:t cup celery, cut in 1 -inch pieces i4 cup sliced onion 2 cups diced, cooked chicken (turkey or veal is good too) ?4 cup canned mushrooms 1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 tablespoons soy sauce 1 cup clear chicken consumme 1 cup unsalted toasted al- monds Melt butter in skillet and add celery and onion. Stir and cook 2 minutes. Add chicken and mushrooms.. Heat 8 minutes more. Combine cornstarch, soy sauce, and consomme. Stir slow- ly into chicken mixture. Stir and heat carefully 5 minutes. Stir in almonds. Serve over hot fluffy rice, serves 6. FIVE - IN - ONE As the result of three years of experiments a Bury St. Edmunds fanner now has a stock of 5,000 fruit trees, each single tree pro- ducing five separate varieties of the same fruit --apple, pear, or. plum. TEN TONS of succulent turkey, like the one proudly shown here by Ito! aee Merest, chef instructor for the Canadian Nationel Railways, will be served !aboard C.N.R. dining cars this Yuletide. More than 22,000 apeeial Christ- mas dinners will be served over the holiday eeasote topped off with pglere pudding a la CNR's own special recipe. Christmas -On -Wheels For The Next 10 Years — J. T. Callahan points out to Raymond Geist some of the toys the two-year-old.bay will receive each Christmas for the next 10 years. This Christ- mas he'll receive an airplane and automobile both Targe enough for him to ride, as well a tri- cycle, kiddie -car, wagon and sled. He is being given the transportation toys to honor his being the one -millionth person toy ide on the latest form of transportation ..;. the world's first moving rubber sidewalk, installed at the B. F. Goodrich Co, exhibit in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. News Trickle — New Yorkers it Tinies;Square reach for copies of the. Sunday Herald Tribune ::the; first Manhattan paper to be published in a week. The srallY-thick edition was lit-cited;:to eight pages. Admiral's Love For Frail WO Two Warships When a British naval squad- ron arrived at a seaport an Chile during the 1914 war, the Admiral in charge sent his steward to buy'; fresh fruit. Ashore, however, the steward got very drunk, and had to be - bundled by comrades into the ship's boat, which pushed off for the flagship, leaving the basket, of fruit behind. Waking later, he remembered the fruit, and, fearing the Admir- al's wrath, begged the wireless operator to ask a collier to bring the basket to their refuelling rendezvous off the coast the next day. No one suspected that, about one hundred miles away, several German ships were making for Valparaiso. The Gneisnau's radio caught the message: "Bring out the Admiral's basket of fruit."' Direction -finding equipment in- dicated the position of the Brit- ish squadron, and within four hours the Germans had sunk the Good Hope and Monmouth. That, basket of fruit •cost us two good ships and 1,200 lives! Cdr. A. B. Campbell, serving at the time in H.M.S. Otranto,. dis- ". closes this in his engrossing ren miniscences, "When I Was in. Pa- tagonia." One amusing story is that of fakir who came aboard the troola-,. ,,. ship Orient at Bombay to enter e; Iain her company. He hypnotized,,;; a dozen volunteers made them mark time, take off their jackets; . then their pants. "Jump over the.:°` side," he next ordered, and, they rated to the port rail, "The+ other side," then as they turner;;':' and raced to the starboard side,;:. "Back again!" Finally he lined%; thein up and said to each, "Wake:;;_,; • up, big man," and they canoe round.• The captain ordered the mast e er-at-arms to see him down the gangway and give him something:`-' for his show. Later, Cdr, Camp... bell asked, "What did you give that fakir?" "Give 'ink? Why, sleep!: he replied, "I give 'im a good t' hiding for mucking abaht with', the Army!" When Campbell brit went tm sea, ships didn't carry a surgeon; .only as medicine chest containing", numbered bottles, Otte a chart; Attiring a znan with mall nun t- bered circles marked over his body. When as man reported sick, yea asked hbw where he fieit fft, referred to the chart, and gave him a dose from the bottle with --the corresponding number. Unfortunately No. 13, for the stomach, soon emptied, so for the rest of the voyage, Campbell gave any roan complaining of tummy trouble a dose made up half from bottle 6, half from 7, making 13 --"arid, believe .me," he says, "it cured him!" He ' once broadcast some tales about Tierra del Fuego, including one about a dog with four nos- trils. Some listeners who thought, them untrue, wrote to the B.B.C.• Campbell was asked for confir- mation, but he was unable to pro- duce proof. Six months later he met, at a Broadcasting House lun- cheon, Mr. Lucas Bridges, an au- thor who lived at Tierra del Fu- ego. "Do you live in that white house with green shutters half a mile from the shore?" Campbell asked, "That is my house; have you been there?" "Yes, but you were away in Chile at the time. By the way, have you still got that dog with four nostrils?" • "No, poor old Jack died last year, but I have a photograph of him" --and Lucas produced it :From his pocketbook, substantiat- ing the Cernmander's story. Retired admirals and many others also doubted another broadcast story of a wooden -leg- ged albatross. Later a letter came from an old shipmate in Fre- Cantle, Auiitralia, who had heard the broadcast and recalled how .the bos'n had put a wooden leg on an albatross that fell on the deck when they were crossing the Great Australian Bight.. He was one of the i seamen, he said, Who held the bird while the op- eration was carried out! Yet another story—told on the Brains Trust -was of a bald- headed man Campbell knew, who was allergic to marmalade, and when he ate it steam rose from the top of Ns head! Until letters came confirming the artery, the Commander had difficulty in convincing the B,B.C. Governors that he hadn't over- stepped . the . mark. Many were from bald fathead grumbling that now, when the children passed the marmalade, they wanted to epee the steamt A friend told him: "When my kids pass rime the Mar- malade now, I laugh so much I have to wipe my glasses before I can read the paper!". On Easter Island, Campbell once saw a Kanaka funeral at which, after the. Catholic service and burial, relatives and friends round the open grave gave three hearty cheers. Some time pre- viously, he .learned, they had heard three cheers given by a ship's crew for an anniversary. It seemed a fitting conclusion to any special occasion, so was ad- opted for burials! Among the first-class passen- gers in one of Campbell's ships heading for Fremantle from Ade- laide was a well-known racehorse owner. Watching a deck service conducted by a clergyman in chocolate and gold hood and stole, he suddenly exclaimed: "That's a coincidence; the fellow taking the service is wearing my racing colours. Cozne along to the wireless room," . he added, "I want to send a radiogram , , . I've got a horse running at Adelaide tomorrow and I think that par- son'e.gear is a decided tip." It won at five to One. He sent for the parson, told him: "I've made a bit of money out of you," and handed him £25, saying, "I put five pounds to win for you." Campbell himself once dreamt, before the Derby, that a grey horse romped home with a 50 - yards lead, but thought it non- sense because the jockey was talking French all the time. Some clubmen to whom he men- tioned the dream almost shouted, "Don't you know that the jockey who is riding the grey has been racing in France for the past two years, and speaks French fluent- • ?" y. They at once laid a large sum on the filly Tagalie. And she won the Epsom classic easily at 100 to 8. Another well-known Austral- ian bookie took a large party of relatives and friends to Europa in Campbell's ship, paying all their expenses, When the collec- tion plate was brought round at a Sunday morning' service in the saloon, the bookie fumbled in his pocket, obviously embarrassed, then asked in a husky whisper: "How much is it? I'll pay for the lot." When Melba was aboard, the congregation would only pre- tend to sing the hymns, mouth- ing the words quietly, in order not to drown her beautiful voice —for she would never sing at the ship's concerts. When a , bish- op with a raucous voice began braying the hymns one Sunday, a passenger sitting behind him dug him in the ribs and whis- pered hoarsely: "For Heaven's sake, keep your mouthshut, you're spoiling the whole show.' Commander ;Campbell's hu- mour and ability to yarn well make his book first-rate enter- tainment, Hints For Safer "Wafer Driving Stuck In Snow? Don't race that engine—you'll only get in deeper. Rock your car back and forth by gently accelerating: in Low and Reverse alternately. Don't let your wheels spin and 'you'll usu- ally manage to get free. n 5.* Starting On Ice? Stay out of low gear—that just makes your wheels spin. Try second gear, or even "high," then accelerate very slowly and evenly. You'll get bet- ter traction this way and start off without sliding or slipping. 5. :a On The Skids? Never jam on your brakes suddenly when you're travelling on icy pavements. Pump the brake pedal up and down gently to bring your car - to a gradual stop. If you start to skid, always turn your wheels in the direction of the skid until you straighten out, Aztec Dimaggio? — This chunky Aztec sione image, on display in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, could very well be playing baseball, waiting with a short bat for that horsehide to sizzle ..:.toward home plate... Safe Christmas Is A, Merry One --- It's not pleasant to think of a gaily decorated Christmas tree as an instrument of destruction. But your beautiful tree is a serious fire hazard. Because of its natural pitch and resin, it is highly combustible, and once ignited is almost impossible to extinguish by ordinary methods. Illustrat- ed below are "do's" and "don'ts" to observe in the handling of your tree, as suggested by the National Safety Council. 6uspect ;miring before nutting lights on the tree. When needles start falling dist: card the tree irnanediatelr. Ater °polar the presents die. nese of ah the paper. Electric trains are fee, but are dangerous around the tree. *ben yo $A leave theltotilse intim a O tate Ire. llghite ere out.