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The Seaforth News, 1954-04-08, Page 24 T LE TALKS eiate narea� In many homes Easter Sunday breakfast is a meal that ranks just behind Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners. And for an Easter breakfast—or at any Other time for that matter---noth- Ing goes better than a real Cof- eee Ring, made with yeast. Take my word for it, you'll find it well worth the little extra time it takes to make. * P n COFFEE RING Sweet Dough: 2 pkgs, granular yeast (or 2 cakes compressed yeast) lei cup warm water le cup sugar 1 tsp. salt 4e cup butter eup milk, scalded 1 egg yolk Pi cups sifted flour Soften granular yeast In warm water, 110°; compressed yeast in lukewarm water, 85°. Mix together sugar, sat, butter, and hot mik. Cool until luke- warm. Add egg yolk, yeast, and 2 cups of the flour. Beat thor- oughly. Add, a little ata time, enough of the remaining flour to make a soft dough. Turn out on a lightly floured board and knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes). Place dough in lightly greased bowl, turn once to grease sur- face. Cover; let rise in warm place until double in bulk, about 11 hours. When light, punch down, turn out on floured board and knead lightly, • Roll into rectangle 21 x 10 inches. Filling: 1 egg white 1 tsp. almond flavouring Ii cup sugar 8 to 10 drops green food col- oring 1 cup blanched ground al- monds or other nuts 2 tbisp. melted butter Beat egg white with a fork until slightly foamy. Add almond fiovouring. Grad- ually blend in sugar. Add col- ouring and nuts. Brush dough with melted but- ter; spread with nut mixture. Roll dough lengthwise, as for jelly roll. Shape roll into ring on greased cookie sheet, around oven -proof container about 4 inches in diameter. Cut through the ring diagon- ally with scissors. Then cut off a diagonal slice 3e inch thick. Pull slice into petal shape, and /lop it, Cut next two slices in same way, and place them on either side of first slice, over- lapping it a bit. Repeat cutting around the roll, forming a ring three petals wide. Lightly press the outside edges of the finished ring with the palms of both hands, to make it compact and circular. Let rise in warm place until doubled in bulk (about 40 to 00 minutes). To keep ring from spreading, fasten a strip of well-olled pie tape around the outside of the ring. Then the ring will rise 'rather than spread during bak- ing, and stay the size of your nerving plate. Bake in moderately warm (325°) oven 30 to 95 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow to cool about 15 min- utes. Remove tape. Loosen ring from baking sheet and remove container from centre. Glaze: 2 cups confectioners' sugar 4 tblsps, water eup sliced or chopped nuts la cup candied or canned pineapple, cut in small pieces Mix sugar and water until smooth. Spread over ring. Garnish with nuts and pineapple. If you bake the ring ahead. of time, and freeze it, heat in a warm (260°) oven 10 to 15 min- utes if ring is at room tempera- ture, 25 minutes if ring comes direct from the freezer. 'Sidewalk Supers' Get Recognition In addition to all of this con- cern about the welfare and property of tenants, the (Rocke- feller) Center devotes a great deal of time and money to cul- tivating the good will of the public. This policy was estab- lished firmly during the period when Nelson was particularly active in the management—by 1950 he was less directly con- cerned in the daily operations—. but it had actually been inaug- urated by his father. Nelson once told how his father formed the famous Sidewalk Superin- tendent's Club for excavation watchers in 1998 and how more than 75,000 persons become mem- bers and eleven branch chapters were organized in the country. "While the work was at its busiest in the construction of the Centre," Nelson related, "my father stopped on the sidewalk to gaze down into a deep excava- tion,where a big steam shovel was work. You know how it is —the impulse that makes a crowd gather and watch men doing jobs with ponderous ma- chines like a big steam shovel. Father has more than average interest in that sort of thing, and he was standing there en- tranced, watching the jaws of the shovel close over a huge She Outdoes Easter Bunny—Easter time is egg coloring time, and Martha Kopacz has already made up her batch_ of Ukranian- style eggs. She made the intricate designs under the direction of Gloria Sumach, a consultant to a dye company. mouthful of reek and earth. A watchman employed on the job walked up to him and said in no uncertain tone: 'Move along, buddy! You can't stand loafing here!' My father obediently moved along and didn't stand loafing there any more. "But Out of the incident came the idea of establishing a place where people could watch con- struction work at the Centre in comfort and without being chas- ed away." Mr. Rockefeller as- sumed that other passers-by didn't like to be moved on any • more than he did and he had special openings cut in the board fences so that any one could watch without interference, The Centre's public relations experts quickly developed the idea and began presenting pedestrians with cards certifying their mem- bership in the Sidewalk Super- intendent's Club."—From 'Those Rockefeller Brothers," by Joe • Alex Morris. Something About Fred Allen Fred Allen. His real name is Fred Sullivan, Was born in Cambridge, Mass., May 3:, 1895. He was an orphan when he was fifteen. Had one brother, Bob, who used to work for the gas company in Boston. He died late last year. He likes to be alone, He sel-' don Is. Takes snuff to clear his head, Read that Caruso used to do it. For a comedian, his fust lines on stage were tragic. At the age of ten he played one of the Three Wise Men in an entertainment given in St. Anthony's Church. His lines were: "Sorrow is sigh- ing, breathing, dying—Sealed in this cOld, stone tomb." He can still recite the role. Shares his dressing room dur- ing rare stage appearances with a pretty girl, Portland Hoffa, It's okay. She's the wife, writes Sid- ney Skolsky in The Police Ga- zette. ekeeereMeefeeWie ""Grand" Garage Idea --Prof. Peter Birkenhalz thinks his "ball garage" would be the answer to Munich, Germany's parking problem. Shown with a model of his invention, he claims the circular garage would (accommodate 1,000 cars, The project would he 170 feet high and could be built by a new, non - scaffolding method. He was working in a hardware store in Boston when his the- atrical career started. A friend had been booked for five dollars to appear in an f. The friend got cold feet. He went on in the friend's place f three dollars. Was billed as "Paul Huckle — European Entertainer," After his initial appearance he quit the hardware store for the stage. He became "Fred St. James, World's Worst Juggler." In those days he wore a red wig while he juggled, The first day he ever wore a pair of long pants was the day he graduated from high school. He isn't superstitious. To be superstitious, he claims, is to break the first commandment. He has one of the greatest col- lections of books on comedy. Has 600 volumes° in the collection, Every Sunday he works fourteen hours, answering-^rrespondenee d writing gags. When a kid he was popular at school. He worked in the Boston public library and had access to the teachers' room --where all the answers were. Got the name of Alien in this manner. Had been working in Australia for three years, His salary was ''95 a week. On re- turning to America he knew that the Keith office would give hint booking --but at the same salary. He decided to change his name so the booking office wouldn't know him. His agent, Edgar Al- len, said take mine. He has done better by the name than the or- iginal owner. He doesn't smoke. Is continu- ally chewing tobacco, He is a moderate drinker. Met his wife when both were playing in the "Passing Show of 1922," She was a chorus girl. They were married in 1926, He says h' marriage is grand be- cause it isn't like being married. His back teeth are all chipped. The result of a trick he: •:sed to do when juggling. Always carries a pocket full of note paper with him. When he thinks of a gag, or an idea for a yarn, he jots it down. Also he carries a eard re which he lists what he has to do during the day, A sample card roads: "Get hair- cut. Attend TV rehearsal. Buy book, Meet wife at 5:30." Wears only Iwo pieces of jew- elrry. A watch given to him by the lute Jack Donahue, dancing star of the twenties, and a ring given to him by his aunt when he was graduated from high school. The ring, originally worn Anniversary Ride — At 88, Eugenia Frazier still gets around, particularly on her birthday. Each birthday Miss Frazier demonstrates her prow- ess by bicycling to the post of- fice to pick up her cards from well-wishers. on the ring finger, now rests on the pinky, There are only two places in New York outside of his home where he'll eat. One is a small Italian restaurant where he eats only salads. The other is a'deli- catessen in the Broadway dis- trict. Never goes to nightclubs. Pre- fersto stay home and read so he can "discover new and painless methods for intriguing the way- ward fancies of shy public." Can trace almost any gag back to its original source. Was ac- cused of taking a line—it was so hot that I took off my skin and sat around in my bones—from Mark Twain. He proved that Twain took it from Sydney Smith, a British churchman who was born in 1771. Has gunpowder narks on This right hand. A property man ac- cidentally shot him. Isgi'sts upon getting eight hours sleep. Gets up every morning at ten to go to gym. Has a sign in his living room telling guests that they can stay and have a good time until two o'clock, Then they have to leave because "I need my sleep." For a comedian he is a most melancholy individual. P.S. He retired from the stage in 1932 and started a long and successful radio career. His was the first network show to intro- duce amateurs. Made his first TV guest appearance in 1939; now has a show of his own, spon- sored by a cigarette manufactur- er, Be and Portland share a mod- est mid -Manhattan apartment. Portland does her own house- work, Likes to type personal letters to friends, Dislikes dictating. Never uses capital letters on typewriter, Is proud of nxs middle-class background. Will gladly sum up his memories of boyhood in Cam- bridge, "Our family didn't have a tree. There was nothing shady about my ancestors, My parents weren't people. They were folks. The difference is that people dress for dinner, but in our house you ate in your shirt sleeves -- if there was anything to eat and you had a ,hilt" -The Editor). The keeping quality of eggs depends 1;0 a large extent on the quality Of the shell, Any crack or imperfection in the shell re - faults in rapid loss of interior quality. A good hard shell which can resist considerable slxocic is a highly desirable characteris- tic. tide a're a niiniber til ga- tors which affect egg shell quality. The breaking strength of the shell is l o w e r in hot weather. As egg production de- creases, the breaking strength tends to decrease and as the bird approaches the end of its laying year, egg shell strength decreas- es. But two factors are of para- mount importance in egg shell quality, says T. M. Macintyre, Poultry Nutritionist at the Ex- perimental Farm, the inherited ability of the bird to produce good shells and the diet of the bird, ,k Experimental work has shown that it is possible to improve the quality of the egg shell by selec- tive breeding. The hardness or thickness of the egg shell of the average flock can be consider- ably improved by a selective breeding program, in which hens producing eggs of poor shell quality are removed from the breeding flock. Present knowl- edge indicates that by this prac- tice most flocks can be improv- ed to a certain extent, but ul- timately a point is reached be- yond which further improve- ment is practically impossible without affecting other heredit- ary characteristics, k * * Nutritionally, a lack of miner- als and vitamins, particularly New Gloves Don Lady -Like Airs Gloves are putting on lady -like airs this spring and are actually competing in prettiness with the hats they are intended to com- plement. Colors have gone fra- gile as porcelain and styles ultra feminine, Double -woven nylon in various weights seems to be the favored fabric since so many of the new designs will Owe their daily daintiness to nightly rinsings and unpunctured finger - tips. The term double -woven nylon sim- plex is somewhat of a misnomer. Actually it is a knitted fabric produced on a simplex knitting machine in two thicknesses and then interlocked during the com- plicated process, White is leading the parade of glove colors folowed by spring- time navy, pink, champagne, powder blue, yellow, cognac, French endive or lime and the high shades. The trim, tailored look of previous seams is giving way to such elegant touches as French knots and self -stitched embroidery, hand-fagotting and Open work; cuffs with pleats, ruffles and scallops and backs with scatterings of hand - sewn seed pearls and rhinestones. Styles are either chopped off at the wrists or six, eight and 10 - button lengths f o r wearing crushed down with the new short -sleeved coats and suits. Glove length are always refer- red to in terms of buttons even when the style is a slip-on with- out a single button anywhere. The button length of any glove is easily determined by measur- ing the distance between the base Of. the thumb and the end of the cuff, One inch equals one button in glove language. Far example, a four button glove extends four inches above the seam at the base of the thumb. calcium, manganese, and arts: D has an adverse effect on e shell quality, In egg shell aqua ty studies it has been chow , that the source Of calcium, sit well es the presence or absence 0f insoluble grit, has an end quality. Birds fed clam shells or oyster shells plus le- sOlubie grit, produced egg shone of superior quality to those from birds fed oyster shells. Th4 clam shells fed in this trial were harder than the oyster shells cud limestone, and it is thought that the presence of a hard substance in the gizzard in the form of In- soluble grit or a hard calcium compound favours the produc- tion of better egg shell, * n 5 In a study of different feeding methods it was found that bird fed an all -mash ration produce eggs with stronger shells than did —s fed a grain and mash or grain and pellet ration. The explanation for this seems to be that the birds on the all - mash ration, being unable to pick and choose their feed, received a more balanced diet. * +k * Ten years of pasture experi- ments on Illustration Stations in Eastern Canada have amply de- monstrated that a combination of re -seeding and fertilizing old pastures is much more effective than either one alone. P e P A, E. Barrett, Chief of the Il- lustration Stations Divisior, De- partment of Agriculture, Ot- tawa, in a recent speech stated; "One of the striking things that cause out of our fertilizer work on pastures has been the greater efficiency of fertilizers when applied to complete stand of grass . , . In our present day approach to pasture fertiliza- tion it is essential that a suffi- cient plant population be pres- ent in the sward to make effec- tive use of applied fertilizers, P 5 a "Recent work we have done in the province of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia has emphasized the value of seeded stands versus simple fertiliza- tion of old sods particularly' when they are sparse and open with high weed content," Three years results on four stations in the Lennoxville dis- trict of Quebec, showed an in- crease of 11.54 tons of green herbage grasses and clovers) per acre from re -seeding; 13.29 tone from fertilization, but an in- crease of 24.83 tons from a com- bination of the two. This was an average increase of 8.27 tons per acre per year over the untreat- ed pasture. In terms of feeding value this represents an increase of 137 cows days at the rate of 120 pounds of green herbage per cow per day. e W P One of the features of a com- bined program of fertilization and re -seeding is the extension of the pasture season. On the fertilized and seeded plots 87 per cent of growth had been made by June 17, 90 per cent by July 16 and the remaining 10 per cent by August 29. In the case of the natural sward 91 per cent of all production had been made by June 17. P W P Mr. Barrett stated that as facilities permit, certain phases of pasture irrigation will be in- vestigated, as this is a field that has as yet received very little attention in Eastern Canada. Those wishing to do so can ob- tain a complete mimeographed copy of Mr. Barrett's address by writing Information Service, Department of Agriculture, 01. tawa. Happy Couple --- Queen Elizabeth's personal chaplain, Cannon Charles Earle Raven, 68, and his bride, Mrs. Ethel Paine Moore, 80, leave Trinity Church after their marriage at Boston's Back Bay.