The Seaforth News, 1955-06-16, Page 2Everyone likes to try a new
rrauce with ever -popular spaghet-
,ti. That's why we think this
savory eggplant sauce will be
welcome at your dinner table.
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Spaghetti With Eggplant
Sauce (6-8 servings)
One half cup .butter, I me-
dium-size eggplant, pared and
eut in cubes; 3a cup chopped
melon, 8 8 -ounce cans tomato
sauce, 1 cup water, 1:; cup chop-
ped, carried pimento; 1 medium -
/deed green pepper, diced; 1 tea-
spoon salt, to taste, !a teaspoon
thyme, 2 tablespoons salt, 4 to
et quarts boiling water, 1 pound
spaghetti, .grated . Parmesan
cheese.
Melt butter over medium heat.
Add eggplant and onions and
saute 10 minutes, stirring occa-
sionally. Add tomato sauce, wa-
ter, pimento, green pepper, 1
teapsoon salt, pepper and thyme.
Cook over low heat 30 min-
utes, stirring occasionally, Mean-
while, add 2 tablespoons salt to
rapidly boiling water. Gradually
add spaghetti so that water con-
tinues to boil.
Cook uncovered, stirring oc-
casionally until tender. Drain
;In colander, Serve eggplant
sauce with spaghetti and sprin-
kle with grated Parmesan
cheese, if desired.
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Maybe you want a soup that is
a meal in itself. Served with big
elites of bread and a salad, this
salmon - and - vegetable soup
makes a wonderfully hearty
lunch.
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Cream of Salmon -Noodle Soup
(About 2t4 quarts)
One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts
belling water, 8 ounces wide
egg noodles (about 4 cups), ?4
sup butter, ra cup finely chop-
ped onion, ?4 cup all-purpose
Sour, 6 cups milk, 1 734 -ounce
Tan salmon, drained and flaked;
ee cup cooked Lima beans, salt
and pepper to taste.
Add 1 tablespoon salt to
rapidly boiling water. Gradually
add noodles so that water con-
tinues to boil, Cook uncovered,
stirring occasionally, until ten-
der. Drain in colander. Melt but-
ter over low heat; add anion
'and saute until tender. Add
Awe and blend.
Gradually add milk and cook
until slightly thickened, stirring
constantly.
Add salmon, Lima beans and
malt and pepper to taste. Add
noodles. Cook over low heat 15
minutes, stirring ' occasionally,
Serve immediately.
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Floating island was a favour-
ite dessert of past days. Some
modern recipes suggest cooking
the meringue before serving it
en the custard, but in grand-
mother's day this was' not al-
ways done.
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FLOATING ISLAND
4 egg yolks
3 cup sugar
34 teaspoonful salt
2 tablespoons salad oil
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Meringues
Beat egg yolks in top of
double boiler. Stir in sugar and
salt. Add oil and milk gradual-
:ty, stirring to mix. Cook over
simmering water until mixture
is of custard consistency, stir -
ging constantly, When done, it
will coat metal spoon. Cool
slightly, stir in vanilla. Cover
and chill. Serve topped with
spoonfuls of uncooked meringue.
Six servings.
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MERINGUE
2 egg whites
le cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat egg whites until foamy,
then gradually beat in sugar and
vanilla until mixture stands in
soft peaks.
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STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
The shortcake of grandmoth-
er's kitchen was usually made
with two pie -size layers. Fresh
strawberries were between and
on top of the layers, and wedge-
shaped pieces were served with
sugar and cream. The shortcake
was biscuit dough to which,
sometimes, a little sugar was
added. If you like this touch of
sweetness in your shortcake, add
from 2-4 tablespoons sugar to
a biscuit recipe calling for 2
cups flour. Serve with either
whipped cream or vanilla ire
cream, if you like.
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Grandmother early learned to
use what she had in cooking
and she had recipes for many
types of bread pudding. Often
she used molasses or honey in
place of sugar. Here is a recipe
using honey,
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HONEY BREAD PUDDING
1% cups day-old bread cubes
41 cup liquid honey
2 tablespoons butter
le teaspoon salt
2 eggs beaten
3s teaspoon vanilla
• 1% cups hot milk
Place bread cubes in baking
dish. Combine honey, butter,
salt, eggs, and vanilla. Slowly
stir in milk, Pour mixture over
bread. Set baking dish in pan
of hot water and bake at 350° F,
30-40 minutes until pudding is
set. Serve with cream or rte
cream. Four servings.
Challenged To A
Oral With
Sausages
The air has been thick lately
with challenges thrown out by
ministers of state in France and
certain South American repub-
lics, none of which, fortunately,
has been accepted. In one of
these President Somoza of Nica-
ragua challenged President
Fi ueres Of Costa Rica to a duel
with revolvers to settle a quar-
rel between their countries.
The idea is an excellent one
--- for it is better that one or
two men politicians should die
than thousands of innocent citi-
zens But President Somoza for-
got the first rule in duelling;
that the challenged titans has
the choice of weapons.
President Figuares might have
chosen howitzers — or hockey
sticks — and then where would
Somoza have been?
Numerous duels have been
fought in the past and differ-
ences settled without recourse to
the use of conventional weapons
such as rapiers and pistols.
At the turn of the century the
swashbuckling writer, Richard
Harding Davis, challenged a re-
porter of the 'Chicago Sun' to
a duel. The reporter knew that
Davis was a deadly shot, but he
also knew his rights, and when
accepting agreed to fight with
custard pies at six paces.
Davis realized that if he ac-
cepted he would become the
laughing stock of America, and
though it meant a loss of face,
there was no option but for him
to decline. America laughed
heartily and for some weeks the
reporter was a national hero.
If a challenged man keeps
his head he need never fight, for
FOOLED YOU, TOO—
These two Blackfoot penguins at the zoo in London, England,
are slipping in a little beaking despite presence of the (King)
penguin. But if you think that the big fellow is hiding his head
in bashfulness at such goings-on, take another—and closer—
look. The King's white vest shows that he's actually turned in
the opposite direction. He's just taking a nap.
the weapons of his choice may
so nonplus his opponent that he
will withdraw from the contest,
This happened when Isaac
Putman, a general in the War of
Independence, was called out to
a duel with sabres, "Sir," he
wrote his opponent, "I have
been challenged, so the choice
of weapons is mine. I suggest
that we shall sit in a room in
which shall be placed an open
barrel of gunpowder. On it shall
be placed a burning candle. The
first man to leave shall be ad-
judged a coward and the loser."
Isis adversary's nerve could
not stand such a sbatterine test,
so the affair was called off.
Another bloodless duel was
the result of a challenge thrown
out by Bismarck to the Russian
scientist, Virchow, for some
imagined slight. Bismarck was no
novice when it came to handling
arms, whereas " the'_ Professor
hardly knew which way a bul-
let left a gun. So after a good
deal of thought he accepted, ad -
cling that as it was his privilege
to choose the weapons, he lied
decided upon sausages.
Two sausages would be placed
nn plates, one packed with dead-
ly disease germs and the other
free from them. Bismarck would
select and eat one, after whieh
Virchow would devour the
other.
Bismarck paled when he react
Virchow's letter -- and declined.
One of the first of such duels
oceured at the end of the eigh-
teenth century when duelling
was taken seriously. Colonel
Lennox called out the Duke of
York, who apparently had a
sense of humour, and chose
pistols loaded with corks instead
of lead. Early one morning they
repaired to Wimbledon Com-
mon, then the fashionable
ground for such affairs, and at
the word, both fired. The re-
sult was that the Duke's peri-
wig was slightly disarranged,
after which the contestants
shook hands and drove to
White's for coffee.
The town of Carlyle, Illinois,
was the scene of a most unusual
duel he 1936 in which both men
were the losers. But as they
were millionaire oil men who
Acting as commanding officer over her eight sons, all of whom have served in the armed
forces, is Mrs, William D. Adams, Their combined service totals 34 years. They ore pictured
during a family reunion In her home.
didn't know how to get rid of
the gold that flowed into their
coffers, they enjoyed the affair
immensely.
They met in the street and
went into a restaurant for din-
ner, a meal priced at one dollar
They sat at the same table.
and each insisted on being
served by a pretty waitress,
When they finished, one of the
oil men plaited a $15 tip nn his
side plate,
"Hugh!" snorted his friend,
looking disparagingly at the lip
and planked down twice as
much on his plate.
Instantly, the other added to
his tip. His friend took up the
challenge. "I'll be darned if I
let that skunk beat me!" he de-
clared, as his pile of silver in-
creased,
The waitress looked on with
interest. When ultimately both
men were cleaned out of ready
cash it was found that they had
between them contributed $350
in their novel tipping duel. The
waitresses were the winners
Unorthodox duels don't al-
ways end harmlessly. In 1608
two hot-blooded Frenchmen, M.
tie Grandpre and M. le Pique,
both fell madly in love with a
gorgeous prima donna from the
Imperial Opera.
Tf de Granpre entered per
dressing -room with a magnifi-
cent bouquet, he found le Pique
waiting with a much better as-
sortment of blooms whet' he
emerged.
If 1e Pique gave her a diamond
bracelet, he discovered the fol-
lowing week that his rival had
givin her one of diamonds as
well.
In the end both decided to
fight it out, and the weapons
named were two balloons in
which they would ascend into
the clouds, and a blunderbuss
apiece to fire at each other.
When some hundreds of feet
up, the wind carried their bal-
loons within range of each ether
and M. de Grandpre's discharge
tore a huge hole in the envelope
of his rivaI's ballon, sending the
poor fellow hurtling to his
death,
Unibrturiately for the victor,
the prima donna changed her
mind when she heard of the
duel — and married an even
richer man,
In 1037 two swains of Verona
quarrelled over a girl and
agreed to settle their differences
with a duel. They chose their
own weapons. So one turned up
with a spade and the other a
pick -ase.
!'here were no seconds and no
witnesses. At the first light of
day they started hacking away
at each outer and continued to
tight until they were so badly
injured that they could not go
on, Their cries attracted passers-
by, who took them to hospital in
a serious condition Eventually
both recovered, hut the girl had
the gond sense to realize that
life with men so stunicl could
never be happy and married
another,
FAIR ENOUGH(
An attractive young Govern-
ment typist made a practice 0.1
arriving at the office a few min-
utes late every day, Repeated
warnings by her supervisor had
no effect. Finally he announced:
"Miss Brown, len tired of talk -
ink about your tardiness, 1 am,
therefore, suspending you for
one clay without pay. When
would you like to take the day?"
"Well if it's all right with
you," she replied, "I'd like to
use it up being late."
Lost r Head GivingShe
The scaffold that workmen
were busy erecting in the mar-
ket -place of Winchester was for
a woman --an elderly and gentle
woman of good family whose
only crime was that she had
sheltered a fellow creature fn
distress. It was the first day of
September, 1685.
Among the hundreds who pass-
ed through the market -place
that day there was scarcely one
whose heart did not go out in
pity. But no voice was raised in
protest, for Lady Alicia Lisle
had been condemned by the
Lord Chief Justice of England,
and that Chief Justice was
"bloody" Jefferies,
The rebellion of James Scott,
Duke of Monmouth, was over.
His hopes had vanished at Sedg-
moor in. Somerset where his
army had been routed and he
himself captured,
After the battle two men, John
Hicks and Neitln"op, persuaded
an acquaintance named Dunne
to ask Lady Lisle if they might
shelter at her house at Elling-
ham, in Hampshire, She gave
permission and directed that
they should be supplied with
food .There is no evidence that
she had any knowledge of the
identity of either man, or that
they were soldiers who had
served under Monmouth.
An informer by the, name of
Barter saw the three men in
conversation with Lady Alicia's
bailiff, and immediately report-
ed the matter to Colonel Pen.
ruddock, who was stationed in
the district. He took a body of
troops and surrounded Lady
Lisle's house. He questioned the
bailiff who freely admitted the
presence of two strangers. A
' search was matte and Nelthrop
was found hiding in a chimney.
At once the Colonel charged
Lady Alicia with harbouring
rebels and entertaining the
King's enemies.
On August 27tb, 1685, the trial
of Lady Lisle opened. The ori-
ginal charge had now grown to
the following: "That, intending
to stir up war and rebellion
within the kingdom, and to de-
s prive the King of his crown, and
to put him to death, she had
traitorously concealed, sheltered
and maintained in her dwelling
house, at -the -parish of Elling-
ham, one John Hicks, knowing
him at the time to be a traitor."
Lady Lisle, who was not only
old and frail, but deaf, pleaded
not guilty. She asked the judge
to eonsider her infirmities and
allow her to have a friend by
her side to inform her of what
was passing.
With a deceptive smile Jef-
feries nodded his consent,
Mr. Pollexfcn, stating the case
for the•Crown, exalted Hicks to
be the chief instrument in Mon-
mouth's rebellion.
Lady Lisle interrupted to de-
clare in a quavering voice that
ehe utterly abhorrent the rebel-
lion.
Still in the same suave man-
ner Jefferies reproved her.
"You shall be fully heard
when it comes to your turn,"
he said, adding: "Though we ell
here as judges over you, by alt-
' thority from the King, yet we
are accountable not only to him,
but to the King of Kings, the
great Judge r,f Heaven and
earth. As to what you say non -
corning yourself, 1 pray God
with all my he reit you may be
innocent."
The chief witness for the pro-
secution was Dunne—a wretch-
ed, enneciencc .trielcen witness
who knew when he nersuadecl
(,adv Lisle to shelter Hicks that
she was ignorant of his identity.
"Ws do humbly desire," said
Pell ex ten, "t.hnt your Lordship
ter
would please to examine Dunn*
a little more strictly."
The examination was conduct-
ed by the Lord Chief Justice
himself. Dunne refiteed to ad-
mit he had told Lacly Lisle that
Hicks was a fugitive from Mon-
mouth's army. Jefferies aban-
doned his self-control. "It,is in-
finite mercy that for these false-
hoods of thine God does not im-
mediately strike thee into bell!"
he exclaimed. "How darst you
offer to tell such horrid lies in
the presence of God and of a
Court of Justice!"
Other witnesses came forward,
but they could give no informa-
tion as to whether Lady Lisle
knew that Hicks had fought for
Monmouth,
But Jefferies knew there was
one more witness whose worde
could be twisted into proof of
guilt—Lady Alicia Lisle herself.
When she stood up to answer the
case against her, Lady Lisle ad-
mitted she knew Hicks was a
Presbyterian minister against
whom a warrent had been issued
for non -conformity. But, she de-
clared, she had never suspected
he had been engaged in the re-
bellion.
Addressing the prisoner but
looking straight at the jury,
Jefferies snarled: "There is not
one of those lying, snivelling,
canting Presbyterian reseals, but
One way or another has had a
hand in the late horrid conspire
acy and rebellion."
Lady Lisle protested that she
would have been the most un-
grateful person living, had she
been disloyal to the King to
whom she owed her estates.
Jefferies glared significantly
at the jury again. "Ungrateful!"
he exclaimed, "Ungrateful adds
to the load, and is ,he basest
crime that anyone can be guilty
Of."
Brushing aside her prates:s et
innocence and ignoring her plea
to •call ladies of King James's
Court to give evidence of her
loyalty, Jefferies proceeded to
sum up. The proofs were as
plain as could be giver.. be con-
cluded, and as evident ss the.
sun at noonday.
Even so, Jefferies did not got
his verdict without a etruenlc.
The jurymen protested that they
had heard no proof that Lady
Lisle knew Hicks had . e.•rved un-
der Monmouth. But the power
of the Lord Chief J'astice was
supreme and his cruelty notori-
ous. The jury knew. ',ethane
that they could not save Lady
Lisle and might well endanger
their own lives. They r, tur-tneri
a verdict of guilty.
Jefferies smiled 'mom "If I
had been among yet/ end she
had been my own mother. I
should have found her ?uilt" "
he said. Then he passers sentence
of death by burning at the stake,
and ordered the sheriff to pre-
pare for execution tient after
neon. He added that a rr a nl:e ehf
four days might be granted, if
the prisoner confessed
Lady Lisle had nothing to ran -
fens, but her friends h^stened
to Ring James with r petition
for clemency, They ;emend atm
a personal plea from Laly L1 le
for a four-day respite and for
beheading instead of burning.
That most Christian monarch
declined to interfere with Jef-
feries' decision about the time
of the execution (which had, in
fact, been delayed while the
me .teugel's went to London'),
but was •rreeiously p"aced to
allow death by beheading.
On September 2nd Lady Lisle
was publicly executed in the
market-nlac_e at Winchester.
She died, says the old records,
with the resolution that became
her rank and her principles
THIS MAY GIVE YOU A SHOCK—you can generate electricity
by stroking the fur of a cot, but it would be a long time before
you generated enough to light a 75 -watt bulb for one minute.
Pretty Donna Braun shows the cat and instruments she used
to discover that it would take almost four hundred years,
assuming you patted the cat once every second, The imagin-
ative secretary for an electric company says it would take 10
billion cat pats ao the trick. She wired a cat to a voltmeter
to prove it,