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The Seaforth News, 1955-07-07, Page 2a TABLE TALKS Dainty pancakes rolled around a filling, make an unusual main slash for special luncheons or sup- pers, For this purpose, you can use your favorite pancake recipe, Or make the base from a recipe that requires very little flour, just enough to hold the eggs to- gether. Both types of pancake ire baked on a griddle and fold- ed around a rich filling, A sauce to pour over them completes this dish. CHICKEN PANCAKES IMPERIAL 3 eggs 1 teaspoon salt ee cup milk 2 tablespoons flour Fat for frying Beat eggs with salt, milk, and :flour until smooth. Pour 2 table- spoons batter into heated, lightly greased skillet to form a pancake 7 inches in diameter. Cook over medium heat to a light brown on one side only (pancakes are not turned.) Continue making pan- cakes, placing each, brown side flown, on moisture -proof wrap or clean towel GRAVY AND FILLING 1 tablespoon butter or chicken fat 1 tablespoon flour le teaspoon each, mare and paprika I cup milk or chicken broth Salt and pepper to taste 2 cups finely chopped cooked chicken 1 coin :crated or crumbled Cheddar cheese To make gravy; melt the fat Over low heat; blend in flour, mace, and paprika. Add milk or chicken broth all at once, stir- ring constantly until uniformly thickened and bubbly. Add salt and pepper. Remove from heat, For filling: add enough gravy to moisten chicken, Spread about ba cup of the mixture on each pancake. Roll tightly. Place in shallow baking dish. Pour rest of gravy over rolled pancakes, end sprinkle cheese on top. Bake d'FIX. MY PLANT? — Small boy hopefully watches as Hans Gruhn, municipal "plant doc- tor" for Frankfurt, Germany, diagnoses ailment of the lads favorite plant. As many as 100 persons bring ailing vegetation to his arboretum daily where She fifth -generation horticul- turist conducts his "clinic." at 375° F, 20 minutes or until sauce is bubbly. Serve hot. Makes 6-7 chicken pancakes a a * If you want to vary this chicken stuffing, add •chopped . ripe olives and chopped celery to the chicken. Or, add a little chopped onion (pan fry it first) and about 1/4 teaspoon curry powder to the chicken. Y g * If you waist to serve pancakes for dessert, roll and serve them with a sauce, or spread jelly or fruit on them before rolling them jelly -roll fashion. Here is an easy recipe, using a small am- ount of your favorite pancake mix and a little bit of grated lemon rind, FRENCH PANCAKES 3 eggs, beaten ?z cup milk '.z cup pancake mix e teaspoon grated lemon rind Combine beaten eggs and milk; add pancake mix and lemon rind, stirring until smooth. Place about a teaspoon of but- ter in a small frying pan and heat until butter bubbles. Pour in enough batter to coat bottom of pan with a thin layer, Bake until delicately browned en un- der side; turn and bake on other side, Roll up and serve with fol- lowing sauce. CHERRY SAUCE 1 No. 2 can dark cherries cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 tablespoon Lemon juice Heat cherries, Combine sugar and cornstarch thoroughly. Add gradually to cherries, stirring constantly. Cook until thickened, Add lemon juice, & * Instead of using cherry sauce, you can spread each hot pan- cake with tart jelly, roll up and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Or, roll your pancakes around fresh or frozen strawber- ries. Sprinkle with confection- es' sugar and top with sour cream. Or, roll pancakes around a cream cheese filling—just add 1 tablespoon sugar, th teaspoon cinnamon, Y4 teaspoon nutmeg and a little grated lemon rind to softened cream cheese (8 ounces), and serve with thawed frozen strawberries. * * Still another stuffing for des- sert pancakes may be made by combining chopped cooked prunes and chopped walnuts moistened with a little honey to give spreading consistency, And here's another: COTTAGE CHEESE FILLING 2 cups creamed cottage cheese Bei chopped celery ae cup chopped green pepper Combine ingredients in top of double boiler over boiling water. Remove double boiler from heat; cover and let cheese mixture stand ever the hot water while baking pancakes. Use 1 spoonful of this stuffing for each pancake. Roll and serve with fruit sauce. MERRY MENAGERIE "2 hate to say this, dear, but Junior looks almost HUMAN!' DESIGNED BY HAPPENSTANCE—Some modern sculpture looks like an accident, by design, but this surrealistic bit on brief display was created quite by accident. Electrician used his rubber glove to protect connection to a power pole knocked down by a motorist during a rainstorm, SOME THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY — Not eve n $200,000 will help four-year-old Patricia Porro, right, jump rope like the other kids in th is picture are doing. Pattty, lost her left leg when she war hit by a garbage truck. Her parents were awarded $200,000, largest individ- ual settlement in the state's history, but Patty would rather have her leg. CLOSING THE DOOR ON DRAFTS—Like a huge trophy mounted on the wall. the tail of a DC -6B sticks out of the "Byrne Doors" of new million -dollar hangar at San Francisco's International Airport. The modern doors close tightly around the fuselage, keeping drafts from mechanics working inside the hangar. ANYTHING GOES Try pulling a clumsy 21/4 -ton cutter two miles in the open sea. Yet a crack British Navy crew can speed over such a choppy course in less than ten minutes. The Navy's annual pulling regattas are the chief sporting event of each fleet's summer cruise. Everyone takes part, from the youngest rating to the oldest officer, and the boats used range from a fifteen -foot skiff dinghy to the ten -ton launch carried in a battleship and known to all as "Jumbo." Racing crews are formed from seamen, engine -room ratings, artificers, artisans, w r it e r s, cooks, stewards and Royal Ma- rines. The Marine band make up their own crew, with the bandmaster wielding the tiller instead of the baton. There is a special race for "veterans" who, in the Navy, are men aged thirty-five and over. In the small ships' regatta there is even a race for captains. Training starts at least six weeks beforehand, and the crews practise early and late. Excite- ment grows intense as the re- gatta date draws near, and rival ships. note each other's form with the jealousy of Derby trainers. On the day of the event the fleet anchors in two lines a- breast, and the course is marked out in between. Spectators clamber to every vantage point, in their ships, and as many en- thusiasts who can find room crowd into the ships' motor boats. These are the "chucking - up" parties who cruise behind their favourites cheering them down the course. The winning post is abreast the flagship, from the bridge of which the results of each race are signalled. There is no attempt at style in a Navy regatta. By contrast with the Varsity boat race the rowing is jerky and the strokes chopped. For the boats are heavy and deep in the keel, with a beam of nearly six feet. The stretchers against which the oarsmen's feet are braced are just above the bottom boards, and the thwarts fixed and un- yielding. The boats must be just as they are on service with all fittings intact. Sole concession is that the oars may be cut or shaved to suit individual taste. Even so, as these are made of either ash or fir and measure fifteen to seventeen feet in length, they are no light weight. Yet it is not infrequent for an oar to snap. off in the middle of a race. At one time when this happened the luckless oarsman .1 was required to plunge over -- board and thus lighten the boat of his weight. Nowadays a spare oar is carried, Before the first World War the rules covering the condition of boats were less strict, and Blab - orate grooming preparations were customary. It was the aim of every ship to procure a cutter built in the dockyards at Malta or Hong Kong since these were constructed of lighter woods. Every inch of paint was care- fully scraped off and the planks sandpapered to a velvety smoothness. Then several gal- lons of white of egg were ap- plied. This special coating was said to reduce friction and aid the boat to skim over the sur- face. In these regattas points are awarded to all boats completing the course. Cups, trophies and other prizes are competed for, and the ship gaining the highest number of points wins a.. large silver cock. This is 'a relic from older times when competing crews actually carried a live cock with them. The bird was stowed out of sight tmtil one of the boats managed to get ahead of her rivals. Then he was brought out and plantecT on the bow thwart to crow defiance all the way down the course. The system of awarding points to competing crews was once explained to a party of visiting Russian naval officers in Tsarist days. "Do you have the same system in your Navy?" the Rus- sian admiral was asked. "But, yes," the brasshat beam- ed. "In our regattas the winning crew receives fifty lashes per man, the second crew one hun- dred lashes, and the third crew —Siberia! Once when rivalry between two crack ships of the Home Fleet, whose crews hailed re- spectively from the Portsmouth and Chatham port divisions, had been particularly intense, the Portsmouth ship's boats scraped home to victory by a slender margin. Circling in their drifter round their deefated rival the Ports- mouth men let themselves go with hurricanes of cockcrows. On the forecastle of the Chatham ship lay a consignment of bagged potatoes awaiting stowage. Tempted by the proximity of the drifter, a Chatham man sud- denly seized a handful of pota- toes and hurled them at his gloating rivals. in a trice his mates followed his example, and salvoes of spuds showered among 'the crowing sailors. Swiftly recovering, the Ports- mouth. men bt-oke open a crate of new holystones (sandstone used for scouring decks) and hotly returned their enemies' fire. For several minutes the air was thick with flying potatoes and holystones until the drifter's helmsman managed to steer his craft out of range. On another occasion during an "all -comers' " race the umpires were astounded to see a battle- ship's launch streaking along at a spanking pace, her oars flash- ing up and down like sema- phores. Suddenly the clumsy lumbo" sheered sideways off the course, her oarsmen tumb- ling over like ninepins. Only then did the solution dawn on the mystified officials. The crew had secretly fastened a practice torpedo to the bottom of their boat. All went well un- til the rudders of the "tinfish" jammed and carried the launch out of the race. Whales Commit Mass Suicide Sixty-three pilot whales, many of them young calves, apparently committed mass sui- cide recently on this rocky shore of the island of Westray in the Orkneys. This is the second time in five years that such a large number of these creatures have chosen to dash themselves to death in this part of Britain. In 1950 no fewer than 100 pilot whales were found dead and dying along the coast of Stronsay Island. The sea was red with their lacerated bodies among the sharp rocks. Although they generally haunt the northern waters around Britain, whales have been found stranded as far south as Kent, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. In 1944 a herd of ninety were found dying on the coast of Wexford in Ireland. Not long ago a school of more than 500 pilot whales entered the harbour at Lerwick in the Shetlands. So dense were they that they could not dive with- out colliding, Baffled scientists are reluctant to believe that whales deliberate- ly commit suicide. For the whale, they say, is not a stupid creature. They rate its intel- ligence between that of a dog and a chimpanzee. Whales travel in herds under the leadership of an experi- enced bull. Experts say that the apparent mass suicide of a whole herd is really the result of accidental stranding. When hunting for food inshore these huge creatures sometimes be- come trapped on a falling tide. As their bodies are oval in shape, with the blowhole, or nostril, on top, they are unable to remain upright in shallow water and fall over sideways. When the tide returns the water enters the whale's blowhole be- fore the creature can be refloat- ed and it suffocates. As recently as last century, stranded whales were regarded by coast dwellers as a gift from providence. On one occasion an Orkney islander deserted his wife's funeral half -way to the graveside on hearing that a herd of whales had come ashore! Blame Your dues %rl The Grey Skies t1 Can our aches and pains, our good, and bad moods and our liability to accidents be blamed on the weather? • That is what doctors and weather experts in Germany are trying to find out. They hope soon to answer the questions: Does an aching joint or a tender corn really spell rain? How many of our health beliefs about the weather are superstition and how many fact? Take, for instance, the grim old saying that "a green the, makes a fat churchyard." Is it really true that mild win- ter weather is unhealthy? Scientists have already de- cided that a blustery, rainy, southwest wind is healthy in winter and that the dry, pierc- ing, east wind is not healthy in winter or spring. An -American doctor declares that cold weather inevitably means a shorter life, while hot weather often causes people to live to a ripe old age. Nearly all scientists agree that fog and smog are bad for us and that cold, damp air is nearly as bad. They also agree that over- exposure to continued sunshine may be injurious. One points out that the ef- fects of the weather on the ner- vous system are well marked. Overseas visitors to Britain who are accustomed to their native bright skies often become irri- table and melancholy after a prolonged spell of dull, British weather with grey skier, he states, LONG TALE — Perhaps the largest trout ever caught in western Wisconsin is measured for story -telling purposes by Yale Naset, who landed the 34 - inch, 12 -pound, 14 -ounce Ger- man brown trout on a siream- I might .give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel. Logan Pearsall Smith. EFFICIENCY EXPERT — This "temporary employe" of Egypt's Ministry of Finance is at work reorganizing the Archives Sec- tion's files in Cairo. When regular employes fled after encounter- ing five snakes in the files, authorities summoned snake charm- ers. By whistling, cooing and tugging these experts managed to clear the files of extraneous serpentine matter.