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The Seaforth News, 1954-06-10, Page 2When you're buying eggs do you choose those with white shells rather than brown ones? Do you, like lots of women I knew, refuse to have anything to do with the brown -shelled kind, and even pay a higher• price for the white ones? Well, if you do, it might be well to ponder over this state- ment from the United States Poultry and Egg National Board: "Shell colour may vary from white to deep brown. Colour Is a breed characteristic. Shell colour does not affect flavour, the nutri- tive value, or the cooking per- formance. Neither is it a guide to yolk colour. There is no advan- tage to the consumer in paying more for brown or white eggs of the same quality end size," Now, with that struigntened out, seeing that eggs are fairly reasonable in price just now, a few recipes making use of the invaluable "hen -fruit" might not be amiss. MOLDED EGG SALAD 2 envelopes untlavoured gelatin 1 cup cold water 14 cups mayonnaise or salad dressing Juice of 1 lemon °i teaspoon salt 2 drops Tabasco satire 1 teaspoon grated onion 12 hard -cooked eggs cup chopped parsley '.S cup finely chopped green pepper or celery Soften gelatin in the water. Dissolve over boiling w a t e r. C'oo1 slightly. Add mayonnaise, Id -Timer — William "Uncle Adams, a former slave who fled i•om the south in 1863, smokes a cigaret as he celebrates his 109th birthday in a hospital. Barn 20 years before slavery's abolition, "Uncle Bill" lived to nee another historic decision af- fecting the Negro—the Supreme Court's ruling that racial segre- gation in public schools was un- constitutional. He now keeps hos- pital workers fascinated with his extensive knowledge of the Holy Bible. lemon juice, salt, Tabasco sauce, and grated onion. Slice eggs; place center slices around the inside of an oiled r i n g mold (1 -114 -quart size). Separate re- maining yolks; chop w h it e s. Combine yolks with half the gel- atin mixture; place as a layer in ring mold. Then add parsley and green pepper as a layer. Cover with the egg whites mixed with remaining half of gelatin mixture. Chill until set, Unmold on large platter. Fill center with vegetable or chicken salad. Gar- nish with salad greens, Serve with French dressing. DEVILED EGGS 0 hard -cooked eggs 1 tablespoon softened butter 2 teaspoons lemonjuice or vinegar 'Is teaspoon salad mustard 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce " teaspoon salt ly teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon salad dressing Cut eggs in half. Remove yolks Press yolks through sieve, and combine with remaining ingredi- ents. Beat until smooth. If de- sired, add more seasoning and salad dressing. Ref ill whites Garnish w i t h parsley. 'Twelve stuffed eggs. a 14 EGG and CIIEESE CAKES 4 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon grated onion 'a cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder la pound sharp cheese, cut in ?:i -inch cubes Salt and pepper le cup fat for frying Combine eggs with o n 1 o 0, flour, salt, pepper, and baking powder. Adel cheese, Heat fat in frying pan until a drop of water sizzles. Drop large spoonful of mixture into hot fat. Brown well on both sides, t u r n i n g once. Serve promptly with jelly. Makes 12 cakes, w 14 When you're unshelling hard - cooked eggs do you sometimes get annoyed because the shells are hard to remove, and also be- cause dark spots appear on the yolks? Perhaps you may be using the wrong method — letting them boil, rather than simmer just below the boiling point. HARD -COOKED EGGS Cover eggs with cold water in pan so that water comes at least 1 inch above eggs. Bring rapidly to boiling. Turn off heat. Cover and let stand 15 minutes. Cool eggs promptly in cold water. Or — Bring water in pan to rapid boiling, using enough to cover eggs as above; meantime warm very cold eggs slightly in warm water to avoid cracked shells. Transfer eggs to boiling water with spoon; reduce heat to be- low simmering, cover and hold for 20 minutes. Cool as above. To remove shells from hard - cooked eggs, crackle shell and roll egg betwen hands to loosen. Start peeling at large end of shell. Dipping in a bowl of water helps ease shell off. Helped, Anyway — Jixson--- "What gave the English language its fluency, variety, and force?" Jackson—"Off-hand, I'd say it was the alarm clock." Two -Wheel Tuner — Bike riders can now enjoy their favorite radio program as they pedal along. The man's right hand locates the receiver, and the Tamp -like piece on the loft side of the handlebar is the loudspeaker. Batteries which operate the set are under the seat, The antenna Is attached to front wheel. Manu- facturers claim the radio can be installed In five minutes. Mary's Lamb Never Had It So Good — Sally the Iamb is merry when feeding time comes at the home of her mistress, Mrs. Florence Byers. She cradles on her mistress' lap and drinks milk from a bottle. Sally is three months old and has been with the Byers' since she was 14 days old. Re- cently the family was tempted to sell the lamb, but backed down under the tearful protests from their two daughters. Queer Things That People Have Eaten Privation once forced the late Dr. Archibald Fleming, Bishop of the Arctic, to eat 1115 own boots. He survived. But recently in an Austrian village a farm - worker named Alois Kratzhuber undertook to gorge his own heavy "leathers" if someone would give him three bottles of schnapps to wash them down. A cattle -dealer obliged, and Alois accepted bets as to the time needed to consume 'his un- savoury feast. Sooner ,than ex- pected he tore his boots to pieces and, resorting generously to his bottles—his thirst was, in fact, tremendous — chewed and swallowed their soles, heels and uppers until only the nails were left. He then collapsed, having reeled badly before reaching the last heel, and next day died in hospital from alcoholic poisoning. In the Part of London's bonded warehouses you find such edible, enticingly named products as "grains of Paradise," St, Ignatius seed, dividivi (an Eastern root, not a Co-operative fruit!) and dragon's blood, all of which, when brewed up into drugs, niay disappear into perfectly normal insides. But, however eager to experi- ment, one should hesitate, I think, before taking a draught, chief ingredient of which is powdered rhino horn. This makes a favourite and much prized pick - me - up, which endows grizzle and hardy tribal war- riors, both in Africa and Asia, with powers of fanatical strength, indestructible valour and invinci- bility in battle.' No stratagems are spared in some West African districts by native poachers Surreptitiously they shoot or spear the rhinos roaming in big game preserves to strip them of their "ivories." Mor e astonishingly; Chinese merchants buy large quantities of this uplifting horn from Lon- don's ivory traders and sell it in China either for medicinal pur- poses or as "family raising seed. Rhino horn fetches up to eighty shillings a pound — proof enough of its current magical properties. City exporters wish rhinos grew more than a modest thirteen pounds of horn apiece. They can't get enough of it, Many Chinese "reds" in Korea used 1t as a fighting stimulant, just as the Abyssinians drank rhino horn potions before hurt- ling spears upraised in a mad, shrieking charge against Musso- lini's armoured columns. At present Dr, Harry L, Sha- piro, head of New York Metro- politan Museum's anthropological section, is charging the Chinese, 'not with having faked their oldest man, Sinanthropus Peki- nensis -- to give him his scien- tific name — but with having eaten him and his sister. Shortly before Pearl Harbour, the Director of Peking's Medical College put these priceless thou- sand -thousand -year - old r e l i c s into special boxes, labelling them "officers' clothing" and dispatch- ed them, under special escort, Keep '@m Short — Toby Gerard wears a newspaper swimsuit, a symbol of being chosen 1954 "Queen of Stringers" by journa- lism students. Already a part- time reporter for a newspaper, Toby is also the current "Nation- al College Queen." by train to Tientsin for safe storage. But Japanese soldiers waylaid the train. Imagine their anger when, bursting open these cases, they found not serviceable uni- forms but sealed jars, packed with ugly brown bone fragments. Instead of throwing away such rubbish, however, they were cunning enough to sell it to Chinese traders. Now comes the story's strang- est twist—and Peking Man's un- happy ending The traders, Dr, Shapiro ' h i n k s, supposed the skull remains of Peking Man and his "mate" to be dragons' teeth. Were It otherwise, no one, they probably reasoned, would have taken such care over their packing and transport. So they crushed the teeth and sold them as long life pills, Under stress of wet, or faced with starvation, human beings may eat anything. The Dutch, just before their liberation in 1945, ate thousands 0,f pounds of their precious tulip bulbs. Seventy-five years earlier, at the siege of Paris, the Germans forced the 'French to live on cats, dogs, rats, mice, and other ver- min. Some old ladies made an edible hash out of spiders. Not all the unconventional eat- ing is done abroad. Women, even in England, when approaching childbirth, sometimes show pecu- liar cravings. Several, a Harley Street specialist tells me, find it extremely comforting if they can champ a clay pipe. Apparently, the pipe's raw material supplies a blood deficiency, and helps them to bring a robust child into the world. A schoolmaster's wife, for the same reason, enjoys blackboard chalk. Many British home-made remedies and prescriptions bad startling qualities. For instance, according to a treasured book long used by the Harbord family at Gunton Hall, Norfolk, treat- ment for a fishbone lodged in the throat was a dose of gun- powder. The patient had to "swallow a thimbleful of gun- powder in a spoonful of beer." How To Really Take Weight Off Do you want to get your weight clown? Nothing easier. Weigh yourself on a weighing machine downstairs. Then pop upstairs and do it there — your poundage will be slightly less. Not enough? Then go to the equator. There will be a definite lessening of your avoirdupois of about two ounces. But for a really substantial de- crease in weight you must take a trip to Mars, Here, reduction would certainly be something to write home about. An earth- bound 140 pounds would register only fifty-six. With a "walking on air" feeling you would hr p,o, to do twice as much lifting and pushing with less efiorl our own planet. And for real "load shedding" there are even better places. Mars has a couple Of tiny moons, and on one of them, Deimos, a man of 108 Pounds would weigh only a quarter of a pounds NOt only that but he would be able to jump over housetops , .. ten- niscourts would have to be at least a mile long or "faults" would always follow. A player would take "steps" of 100 yards or more to return the ball. An extra hard kick at a foot- ball would send the ball Off the planet altogether, to be lost for good among the stars in space. (A real time -saving tactic if your, side was one or two goals up.) On• Deimos it would be as easy to rise as to fall. Our visitor would find it a simple matter to jump 100 feet in height, stay up there for an hour or more, then tall as gently as a feather. "icebox Element" hi Pictures David Selznick once queried me concerning "the icebox ele- ment" in one of my pictures. By this he meant the thought and discussion that a good film ought to provoke when the family re- turns home from the theatre for a midnight snack, His metaphor was a good one and the graphic image it conjured up remains in my memory. I am very much aware that. the admission prices at many of our better theatres are rather steep, but they are bargain prices if the film is good enough to provide a take-home dividend worth pondering over and onjOying. along with the crackers and milk and cold chicken from the icebox. I've struggled through some months -long chores of reading stories, working on scripts, find ing locations, casting, costum- ing, rehearsing, directing, edit, Mg, scoring . only to say to myself, when the finished pro- duct was viewed in its entirety, "What did I make that for?" The artist makes his own world, his own heaven or hell, as the case may be. That is his lot. And the pictures he produces un- fortunately can make a heaven or hell for those who view them. The movie director has a voice, a powerful and articulate voice, and he should use it well—From "A Tree is a Tree" by King Vidor, Plumb Perfect — They're pretty, hut it's their posture that won these pretties posture honors dur- ing a "best posture" contest. Bar- bara Lohrman, 21, is at left, and charmer Jacqueline Johnson, 18, rcmpletes the charming duo. Peace Now—Muggins--"Do you ever quarrel with your wife?" Buggins — "We used to, until we both realized 1 was wrong." Vanishing Americana — Bill Schilling, 81, of Northfield, examines. some of his 101 -piece collection of a once -necessary item of pot- tery, outmoded in large part in recent years by the welcome and widespread availability of indoor plumbing, The "china depart- ment" forms only one section of the former newspaperman'., *150,000 museum of household Dense of yesteryear, as well as other curios.