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The Seaforth News, 1953-06-04, Page 2Most people cook asparagus just one—or at most two—ways If that happens to be the case with you, just try serving this delicious vegetable according to some of the following recipes. ASPARAGUS EPICURE 16 asparagus Ups 4 slices bread, cut in two diagonally 1 cup thin cream or top milk 2 hard-eooked eggs, riced 1 tablespoon butter or margarine Salt Paprika Cook and drain asparagus and arrange on triangles of hot but- tered toast, allowing four tips to each serving. Beat the eream in a saucepan, add butter and sea sonings, then rived eggs and pour hot aver asparagus tips at sere ing time to moisten toast Gar • nish with thin strips of pimiento Four servings. "ITALIAN ASPARAGUS Asparagus stalks Melted butter Browned bread crumbs 1 mune clove Parmesan cheese Clean asparagus, removing the tough ends and cook only until. just tender. Melt butter, adding a bruised garlic clove as it melts Remove garlic and add to butte,: one tablespoon bread crumbs browned in butter. Place aspar- agus stalks on hot buttered toast and pour butter over. eacn sere ing, topping each with one tea. epoon of grated Parmesan cheese ASPARAGUS IN JELLY Asparagus stalks 3 hard -cooked eggs, sliced 2, cups asparagus stock Gelatin Salt and pepper Cook and cool asparagus stalk: .;f uniform length. Prepare plain gelatin by following directions op the package and add it to the asparagus stock. (This is prepared by simmering the butts in water.' to a mold which has been rinsed with cold ,water, place a layer of egg slices, cover with a layer oi asparagus and sprinkle lightly with salt -and pepper. Continue until the- mold is filled, then pour ver it the gelatin mixture Store tri refrigerator several hours be .,,re serving, With this mold, serve either net or cold mayonnaise to which Decollette — The provocative wavy neckline of this daring dress by a Parisian designer is copied in the wavy brim of the gold straw hat. The creator of this slim block crepe dinner gown keeps jewelry off the throat to emphasize the gown's low neckline. a little chopped tarragon, chives or parsley has been added. It's good, however, without dressing ASPARAGUS WITH MACARONI AU GRATIN 3 quarts water, boiling 1 tablespoon salt 4 ounces elbow macaroni 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 1e teaspoon pepper Ye teaspoon dry mustard 1!;; cups utilk cup grated cheese Cooked Asparagus Spears To boiling water, add salt and macaroni and boil until the lat- ter is tender --about 10 minutes. Brain anti rinse. While macaroni is cooking, melt butter or mar- garine in the top of a double boiler. Add floor, salt, pepper and mustard and stir until smooth. then add milk gradually, stirring constantly, When sauce is smooth and thick, fold in the grated cheese. Spread cooked macaroni in a buttered baking dish and ar range over it the cooked aspara- gus spears, Pour the cheese sauce evenly over and top with crumbs, dotted with butter or margarine Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. Serve hot, Five sere ings. .s „ :N ASPARAGUS CHEESE OMELET 6 eggs, separated 6 tablespoons rich milk ,s teaspoon salt Dash of pepper Ire pounds asparagus, trimmed and cooked 2 cups medium cream sauce 1 cup grated or sliced sharp cheese Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry, Beat yokes in a separate bowl with salt, pepper and milk. Fold in whites lightly. Turn into a hot greened skillet and cook over low heat until lightly browned on the bottom. Place in a 350 degree oven and bake un tit omelet is firm when lightly pressed—about 10 minutes. Place cooked, drained and sea- oned hot asparagus on one side of the omelet and fold over to enclose asparagus. Turn out on a hot platter. Meanwhile. heat cream sauce and cheese until blended and season to taste. Pour over omelet and serve at once. Four servings. FRENCH FRIED ASPARAGUS 14 asparagus stalks of • uniform length 1 cup flour 1 tablespoon salad oil is teaspoon salt s cup warm water 2 egg whites, beaten stiff Combine flour, salt, salad all and warm water and beat until smooth. Cool for one hour, then fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Partly cook asparagus stalks and drain. Dip each stalk in the batter, remove with a fork and drop into deep, hot fat. Fry to a golden brown on both sides. Serve on a hot platter gar- nished with lepton slices and sprigs of watercress. Six ser, ings. Tommy was showing off his new bicycle. He went up the road, and on coming back shout- ed to his mother: "Look, Mum— no hands!" "Oh, be careful, Tommy!" said his mother. "You'll hurt your- self!" Tommy laughed, and cycled up the road again. When he next appeared he called out: "Look. Mum no feet!" "Oh, be careful!" repeated Inc mother. "You'll hurt yourself! Again Tommy went off up the road, and it was some time be- fore he reappeared. When he did however, he called out, not quite so cheerfully: "Look. Mum—nn teeth!" Granddaddy of Them All—Locomotive 40, a woodburner built for the Grand Trunk in Portland, Me., in 1872, for passenger service, is the oldest engine attached to the C.N.R.'s museum train. Built originally as a coal burner,this engine switched to wood at a time when most locomotives were going modern with coal. Weighing 0 mere 38 tons, it hardly compares with today's average steam locomotive, which tips the scales at 320 tons. Purchased in 1903 by the Chaudiere Valley Railway, the woodburner is reported to have been the lost of lis species to operate in Canada, tk v 2 . Melte job is to cut a 27400teleep cheese' along 120 -mile stretch hem Montreal, Canada, Pa Ogdensburg, N, Y, Other channels require dredging. Seven leaks, five dam fanned CANADA-ONLYt` ' trXstlAbA t z SEAWAY Seaway would give protected sfliip, route from vast new ere deposits in Labrador to Mid. west steel mills ids is 4e nwa Ogdensburg Mso it it.0 NA i4 1. Superior 602 ft, elevation '� Sault Ste, Marie acArthur Lock (27 1 JOINT U. S. -CANADA SEAWAY .i: Power prolect would supply 3,400,000 hpof electrical energy to Now York, Ontario, Quebec and New Eng. land. ontreal i M NH arra Boston OWA j; Ir vAl4ei �il! Cli II HI tliI II isi ilil!jfl! N til Pittsburg tai 21(1 J, P. I Miles 0 100 Plans for Seaway Take Shape—Canadian plans to construct the St. Lawrence Seaway include deepening of the waterway to 27 -foot depth required for ocean-going ships. The above map shows present depth of places which must be dredged. MacArthur Lock at Sault Ste, Marie Canal is constructed to seaway specifications. Of the 2350 miles which will be opened to ocean traffic, only an approximate 100 miles need revision. It is estimated three years will be required to complete the seaway. Dotted line shown in the insert is the route which will be used in the event the United States participates in the project. They're Hoping For $15,000,000 Find Plans are afoot to reclaim one of the lost treasures of the sea with the help of every device mo- dern science can ober, Un- daunted by past failures, the Bartman Expedition aims to raise the five -million -pound cargo of a treasure ship which has de- fied all attempts as salvage since it sank in 1782. In that year the -three-masted ship sailed into a sea fog on the Indian Ocean and was wrecked on the inhospitable coast of Pon doland, South -East Africa, Across the jagged reefs a few score sur- vivors, men, women and children, struggled ashore, while t h e wreck, with its X5,000,000 cargo, settled gradually deeper into the sands, After five months of wandering and attack by hostile native, only nine white men, seven lascars, and two coloured women reached safety. Such was .the end of the "Gros- venor," blue riband clipper of the old East India fleet. The super. stitious whispered of the solid gold peacocks, stolen from the ancient coronation throne of the Moguls, which were said to have been carried aboard in secrecy the night before she sailed from Trincomalee. Through the years the fabulous treasure has enticed and ulti- mately foiled a dozen highly organized salvage expeditions Recently a former Harley Street doctor, Dr. Rico Bartman, form- ed a new syndicate, intending to find the treasure with all the scientific accuracy of a delicate surgical operation, In a sea -lashed gully, confined between two up -jutting rocks of a perilous reef, but steadily sink- ing into the sands, the position of the wreck is known with some accuracy. An Admiralty di v e r once glimpsed the hulk as a huge nese of hardened shell and -sand ex- tending across the gully. One company attempted a tree - sure bid with a dredger equip- ped with long movable pipes to suck up sand from one side and eject it on the other. Yet the difficulties of approach in the angry seas were tremens dour, and the dredger herself was washed on to the reef. Few trea- sures have seemed so tempting] v near, yet so inaccessible. Convinced that the "Gosvenor" survivors actually landed their treasure and buried it, another prospector blew up halt the beach—to uncover nothing more than a flaking cannon -ball and a few gold pieces worn so thin as to be of little value. Cheating Neptune The lest attempt of el] wa_, when the Grosvenor Bullion Syn dieate sought to cheat King Nep- tune by tunnelling forward from: the shore through the solid rock reef towards the wreck. The tun nel was pushed forward to e length of 138 yards --before the sea flooded in. Now the Hartman expedition plane to tow a prefab Mulberry harbour to the site. New radar a n d electronic sounding equipment will. it is hoped, bounce back the "herrfut news of treasure below. With an adaptation of 'snort" submarine breathing appuatuc, divers will be able to remain un. der wafer for six hours at 0 stretch, ]'aced with this well equipped salvage quest t h e "Grosvenor" will perhaps t'it'le its treasure (bests at feet. orse Sense® by BOB ELMS In an article entitled "Our Illegal Federal. Elections" in MacLeans' Magazine Blains Fras- er says that "most of our law- makers become lawbreakers in the very act of getting elected because they do not publish ac- curate statements of their cam- paign expenses." He also an- swers the question where the "big money required"conies from. Where Does It Come From? Speaking of the Liberal and Progressive - Conservative par- ties Mr. Fraser continues that "there is nothing to choose be- tween them in their methods pf financing; both get approximate- ly the same amounts from ap- proximately the sane sources." He figures that more than half of the eight million dollars the two parties expect to spend in the coming federal election will come from "big corporations, like the chartered banks, the in- surance companies, the steel companies, the mining, the pulp and paper, the automobile, the oil companies and' so on." The second category are the contractors, "the people who ac- tually get government business" and who are "the heart and soul and spinal column of provincial party funds." The third and fourth groups are made up of people who want their chosen party or candidate to get elect- ed. The writer declares that the CCF and Social Credit are fin- anced by the small individual contributions of their members and friends, but believes that Social Credit "may, with two provincial governments in pow- er, get a piece of the big mon- ey," Mr. Fraser also maintains that, as the law demands publication of the full amounts disbursed in the campaign, the two old parties are lawbreakers, because they rarely publish the correct fig- ures. Conflicting Interests Farmers should keep in mind that "who pays the piper, calls the tune." They are doing busi- ness with the very same corpo- rations who are putting up the large campaign contributions. They are buying from them and selling to them. Most of the time their interests are directly op- posed, Farmers are also dependent on the trade and tariff policies of the party which forms the government, Here, too, conflicts may arise. A case m instance is the loan by the federal Department of Agriculture of a technician to the canning industry. Dr. Jones, a civil servant in the Depart- ment of Agriculture, was sent to Italy to advise Italian producers in processing tomatoes to make them acceptable to Canadian consumers. The Deputy -Minister of Agri- culture, Dr. J. G. Taggart, ad- mitted that possibly "the econ- omic aspects had not been con- sidered," He was also aware of thg depressed conditions in the tomato industry and of the at- titude of some processors who were prompting the daily press to attack marketing legis,ation and maintained farm prices, Farmers' Own Program Farmers cannot match the financial contributions of the large corporations, but they can exert considerable influence by .using their votes intelligently in the interest of their own group. Instead of going to the gov- ernment, cap in hand, after the election to beg for some conces- sions, our farm organizations should present their programs — if they have any — to the par- ties before the election and in- vite thein to take a stand on the demands of the farmers. This should be repeated on the county level, Every county farm organization should call a meeting before any election and invite all candidates running in the riding. By getting then all, the meeting would be definitely non-partisan and so would give every individual producer the chance to form an opinion and make up his own mind, A week or two b e f ore the meeting the farm program should be presented to the candidates to give t h em time to get ac- quainted with the problems and, if necessary, get information from their party leadership, Any candidate who does not feel qualified to discuss agricul- tural questions night be permit- ted to bring al o n g a person authorized to speak for and commit his party. The candidate himself should declare whether he is prepared to vote against his party in the House on any points to which he has pledged him- self, Pin Therm Down It is high time to snake an end with those vague and genial declarations like "Boys, I don't know enough about farming to give you an answer, but -- if elected — I will work for you and look after your interests." Let us enlighten them on the interests of the farmers and pin them down before we send then to Ottawa. Rural population is constantly decreasing and politician.; like to tell farmers that their vote Se not important anymore. Yet, due to the distribution ell the constituencies, the farmer's vote carries considerably more weight than an urban vote, In many mixed urban -rural riclipgs it is decisive. If farmers would quit plug- ging for a party like for a hockey team and start voting for their own farm program, they would soon see results, . A political party is not an end in itself, but a means to an end: good and just government. This column wetoomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try to answer any question, Address your letters to Rob Ellis, Box 1, 123 • 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont, Perfume "Concerts" A French scientist recently sug- gested that scent manufacturers should hold periodical "perfume concerts," His idea is that smells whose tones are in harmony could be piped to members of the audience through rubber tub- ing. According to Britain's Smeii Society, this notion might well be extended to the international field. That British smells are the best in the world has long been the claim of the founder of the society, London solicitor Am- brose Appelbe. High in the British money - spinning smell spectrum are the odours of roast lamb and mint sauce, newly rain -wet earth, pig- sties, sweating horses, and roast beef. The Steell Society, founded in 1935, once claimed such eminent adherents as Professor Julian Huxley and G. B. Shaw. Today psychiatrists have swelled the membership, for they maintain that certain smells are a valu- able aid in psycho -analysis. Smells have already been tried out in the movies. Pre-war, the showing of the African film "San- ders of the River" was accom- panied by appropriate odours in the auditorium. Regal Beauty—All eyes turn in salute to Iran's lovely Empress Soraya. She is seen above alighting from a plane at the airport in Rome, Italy. The Price Of Freedom—Two sisters buss Lt, Franciszek Jared(' who flew to freedom from a Polish airfield, landing his Russian MIG in Denmark and seeking sanctuary. The girls, Wanda Grzyb, at left, and her sister, Joyce, are members of the Polish National Alliance,