The Seaforth News, 1961-05-04, Page 2When Breakfast
Was A Real Meal
What has become of thefor-
midable family brealefas's of
yore?
I frequently meditate on this
matter as I ride to the office
these chilly mornings, fortified
by nothing more caloric than a
hot beverage and maybe, ii I
have been a good boy, an apple.
My breakfast used to include
one boiled egg — no toast — as
well. But the egg seemed lone-
some without the company of
another egg, bacon, toast, but-
ter, and marmalade. So well,
we drifted apart.
What reawakened my interest
in the subject was the 'recent
"Jolmsonian Breakfast Gather-
ing" in a London hotel. The
200 persons who attended were
confronted with a gargantuan
and, to me, mouth-watering
morning menu which reportediy
included a choice of:,
Oysters, shrimps, prawns, toil-
ed eggs, mutton cutlets, beef -
_steaks, kidneys, tongues, ribs of
beef, turkeys, squabs, teal, game
pie, muffins, baked potatoes,
rice, and cheese,
I am surprised kippers were
not mentioned, but especially
pleased to hear about the kid-
neys. Somehow to me, English
country life of a generation ago
was epitomized by the drawing -
room play in one scene of which
the characters were bound to
come downstairs in the morning
in scarves and blazers, make a
beeline for the sideboard, raise
the silver cover, sniff, and mur-
mur appreciatively: "Alt, kid-
neys!"
Maybe millions actually exist-
ed on toast and tea or fried bread
and dripping. But my ideal Eng-
lishman always had kidneys or
kippers. Didn't yours?
The Johnsonian breakfast was
the idea of actress Edana Rom-
ney, who is campaigning here to
revive tate tradition of the hearty
morning meal. I know she can
count on the enthusiastic sup-
port of certain children of my
acquaintance, who recently
munched their way from Boston
to St. Louis and back on a star-
vation breakfast diet of pan-
cakes, waffles, and kindred
dishes. And during the Christ-
mas holidays, a boy I know re-
gularly assuaged the pangs of
hunger by having a big bowl of
cereal before his parents arose.
The arrival of the milkman was
his alarm clock, writes Henry S.
Hayward in the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
A substantial British break-
fast nowadays is likely to In-
clude porridge, kippers or plaice,
bacon or sausage and egg, toast
or rolls, and marmalade. The
only place I ever encounter such
a breakfast myself, however, is
on a train — which may be one
reason I am so fond of trains.
To set the record straight, a'ld
more important to retain the
good will of the provider of my
substantial evening meal, I must
say that my sparse breakfasts
are self-imposed. Train and bus
timetables are deterrents. So is
the prsopect of a three -course
business lunch.
But the greatest contributor to
the decline Of the size of break -
Teets, I suspect, is the decline Of
the servant. Who put those
steaming kidneys on the side-
board? Net the wife. Not the
husband. It was Jeeves, of
course. And who provided Dr.
Johnson and Boswell witdt their
colossal repasts? Why, it was
the comely serving - wenches.
And the muffin -man brought in
the muffins. The Stilton cheese,
my father used to say, could
walk in by itself,
Those were the days! What we
need now is "instant Servant"
Meanwhile, let's draw straws to
see who washes the dishes,
WATCH THE NO•SEi — This looks
like a kitchen mixer, but it's
the ' latest beauty treatment in
England, Elizabeth Laughton,
of Birmingham, demonstrates
the steam bath facial, given
mechanically.
WATCH THIS MAN — The pedestrian in this picture hqe lust robbed a bank. Photographer -n
Eureka, Calif., snapped his picture a few seconds after holdup. Police arrested. Charles
Peterson, 36.
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TAB�LE TALKSndmws
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Bernard L. Troup, a 49 -year-
old electronics specialist won the .-
1.T.S. Men's National Cooking
Championship recently with. his
"potato chip lasagna."
For his efforts, Mr. Troup won
a week's •all -expense trip. to Mi-
ami for himself and his wife and
was awarded a $1,000 check by
the Potato Chip Institute, spon-
sor
poresor of the championship search.
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The missile man's recipe which
sent the judges into orbit fol-
lows;
POTATO CHIP LASAGNA
Meat Sauce
(This may be prepared a day
ahead and refrigerated.)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 pounds lean ground beef
2 cups finely chopped onion
34 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
2 garlic cloves crushed.
I No. 21/2 cans tomatoes
4 6 -ounce cans tomato sauce
3 teaspoons basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 whole bay leaf
Heat oil in large heavy skillet
and saute beef in oil until pink
color disappears, stirring fre-
quently. Add onion, garlic, to-
matoes, tomato sauce, and rea-
sonings. Simmer gently 1 hour.
Other ingredients:
pound potato chips, crushed
slightly, combined with
1 13s -ounce package corn chips
crushed
4 8 -ounce -packages Mozzarella
cheese
1 6 -ounce package Romano
cheese, grated (for topping)
2 pounds small curd cottage
cheese
Paprika
Parsley
Butter a large flat baking dish.
Place ingredients in baking dish
in this order: % of meat sauce;
3.1 of potato and corn chips; 'l4
Mozzarella and cottage cheeses.
Repeat these layers. Place last
3S of meat sauce on top. Sprinkle
top with grated Romano cheese.
Bake 45-60 minutes at 326° F.
Garnish top with paprika and
parsley,
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A basic French dressing for
salads contains 4 ingredients —
oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
Sometimes a little garlic is add-
ed. One part vinegar and 3 parts
oil are often used, but for some
tastes only 2 parts of oil to 1 part
of vinegar is more agreeable.
Add to this hard -cooked eggs,
anchovies, chopped onion, chop-
ped chutney, tomato catchup,
mustard, Worcestershire sauce,
Tabasco sauce, cheese, chopped
olives, capers, fruit juice, honey,
chopped green pepper, chopped
red pepper, or choppedparsley
for the dressing you like. In the
same manner, basic 'mayonnaise
may be made into some other
dressing by the addition of one
or two of the following—chopped
celery, chopped green pepper,
pimento, whipped cream, horse-
radish, chopped pickle, chili
sauce, chopped stuffed olives,
chopped parsley, or capers.
Cooked salad dressing also has
just as many variations. By ex-
erimentation, ybu can 'arrive at
your own favorite dressing for
almost any kind of salad.
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Lemon juice may be used in
all dressings instead of vinegar.
Here is a recipe for thi's type of
, French dressing.
'LEMON FRENCH DRESSING
24 cup olive or salad oil
16 cup fresh' lemon juice
14 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
16 teaspoon black pepper
1 clove garlic, mashed
le, teaspoon powdered dry
mustard (optional)
Combine all ingredients add
shake or stir until well blended.
Strain to remove particles of
garlic. Chill. Shake again be-
fore using. Makes 1 cup dr^cs-•
ing. .
A sour cream salad dressing
adds interest to such fresh vege-
tables as cucumbers, cabbage,
and lettuce. To make a simple
one, mix x/a cup pineapple juice,
1% teaspoons lemon juice, lit
teaspoon salt, and 1 tablespoon
sugar, Add to this, le cup .sout
cream and mix until smooth.
A more elaborate sour cream
dressing is this one: Combine
bite -size pieces of iceberg let,
tune with canned garbauzo or
other cooked dried white beans
which have .been drained and
Marinated ' in tart French dress-
ing for several hours. Serve with
this:
SOUR -CREAM VEGETABLE
DRESSING
1 cup commercial sour cream
4 cupfinely diced onion
. cup finely diced green
pepper
Vs cup finely diced celery
1 medium peeled, diced
cucumber
Combine in redients and chill
thoroughly. S e r v i on crisp
greens.
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MACEDOINE SALAD
1 small cooked cauliflower •
6 stuffed Spanish (lives
1 cup cooked carrots (cut hr
cubes)
1 cup cooked peas
Separate cauliflower in small
pieces. Marinate each vegetable
separately in French dressing
and let stand in refrigerator. Ar-
range vegetable on crisp lettuce
leaves. Sprinkle with sliced
olives. Serve with French dress-
ing. •
ARTICHOKE SALAD
1 can artichoke hearts
1 tablespoon chopped red
pepper
1s teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped green
Pepper
Drain liquid . from artichokes;
addsalt and marinate in French
dressing. Chill. Arrange arti-
chokes in nests of crisp lettuce
or water cress and sprinkle with
(shopped peppers. Serve with
French dressing.
If you want a party vegetable
salad, try this Borsch ring;, it is
truly unusual. Unmold it on a
platter that is lined with lettuce
and fill centre with cucumber
slices that have been moistened.
with sour cream. Surround the
ring with cooked or canned vege-
tables that have been chilled and
marinated, in French dressing —
green beans, asparagus tips,
cauliflower carrots, or zucchini
strips.
BORSCH SALAD RING
- 1 envelope (1 tablespdon)
unflavored gelatin
14 cup cold water
1 can julienne beets
2 bouillon cubes
1 tablespoon grated onion
2 tablespoons lemon juice
a teaspoons prepared horse-
radish -
2 tablespoons sugar
Dash of powdered cloves
Ya teaspoon monosodium
glutamate
Salt and pepper to taste
Soften gelatin in cold water,
Drain beets, reserving , liquid.
Measure beet liquid and add'
enough water to make. 1% cups.
Heat mixture to boiling; add
bouillon cubes and softened gel-
atin; stir until dissolved. Rud
remaining ingredients, extc pt
beets. Cool, then chill, When
mixture begins to thicken, fold
in beets. Turn into oiled 1 -quart
ring mold; chill until firm,
Serves 5,
Don't Get Neurotic
Over Your Weight
"I caught a glimpse of myself
in the mirror this morning," a
man who had longbeen over.
weight told the psychiatrist, "I
was surprised how fat I have
become," Boasted another fat
man: "I'm a' good-looking guy."
These responses may cone tis
a surprise to many weight. •
conscious people. Yet they aren't
unusual, Drs. Albert Stunlcard
and Myer Mendelson of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania have
telkod to more than a hundred
overweight men end women,
aged 20 to 64, to find out: Are
fat people neurotic about the
way they look? In the current
issue of the Journal of the Amer-
ican Dietetic Association the psy-
chiatrists offer their finding:
Three-fourths . of the heavy-
weights who were interviewed,
looked upon their fat selves. with
relative equanimity.
But the remaining obese peo-
ple were in bad emotional shape.
- "Just looking at myself in a store,
window makes me feel terrible,"
a 300 -pound man said. "I just
look at myself and say, .'I hate
you, you're loathsome'."
The psychiatrists believe that
for a fat person to become neu-
rotic about hisweight he must
have become both obese and
emotionally unstable during
childhood or adolescence, and his
parents must have poked fun at
his avoirdupois. Only prolonged
psychoanalysis will help. The
reason: Neurotic feelings of self -
loathing are constantly being re-
newed by every glance in the
mirror—and in a fury of self-
punishment, the fat person goes
on overeating.
PSev 'CI+Yea's" C de
For ramous Moore
' Like some benign version oil
the seven -yeas' locust, it was
back again. On the day it came
to Atlanta, Ga•, people started
1inineeup to see it at a.m., an
hour before the box office open.
ed: In Knoxville,, Tenn., 600
people, had to be' turned away
the first night. This month, al-
ready seen by 90,000 Atlantans,
it had infiltrated every major
Southern city, and in mid-May
it would be heading ,North, As
it had every seven years since
its premiere in 193.9, "Gone With
the Wind" had 'risen ' again.
During its life span, however,
"GWTW" has undergone a meta-
morphosis. On the way down to
Atlanta last month for the gala
"Second World Premiere" of the
movie, a friend remarked to'Vi-
vien Leigh, otherwise known as
Scarlett O'Hara, that, the movie;
the city, and even the mayor
were the same — that, in fact,
nothing seemed to have changed
In 22 years. "Well, God, I have,"
said Miss Leigh, smiling grimly.
She could have said the same
thing for the picture.
Miss Leigh still gets mail
(from as far away as Japan)•
addressed merely to "Scarlett
O'Hara, Hollywood." To South-
erners, Soarlett and Rhett (Clark
Gable) are less fictional' charac-
ters then flesh-and-eblood famili-
ars, as much a part of their heri-
tage as grits and hush puppies,
axed as 'real as the folks next
door. In Atlanta; several people
Mold producer David Selznick
that they had met him when he
was filming there, and that such -
and -such a house, which he used
in the movie, was still standing;
this was awkward for Selznick,
since he shot the movie entirely
in Hollywood. At Southern cos-
tume parties, an almost standard
figure is Aunt Pittypat,' a lesser
character whom most Northern-
ers remember with difficulty.
Scene devotees have seen the
movie 60 times.
For all its familiarity to its
fans, the most eosnrnon reaction
among those who see it more
'than once, including Miss Leigh.
and Olivia tie Iluvilland (Mel -
ante), is, that they l'hid entire
scenes which Vhea have forgot-
ten. Even familiar scenes some-
times inspire new reactions; The..
most:, famous line in movie his-
tory is probably lthett's parting
remark to Scarlet: "Frankly, nil'
dear, 'I don't give a damn." "Aft
past showings you could atwaytt
hear a murmur from the crowd
at that line," says The Atlagt :
Constitution's movie editor Pail,
Jones. "Women would say! 'lie°l
be back.' This time there wet
no murmur. It looked as tpxqug
they were no longer ,on Seer
-
let's side,' but had switched over
to. Rihett,
"Bow do women make moun-
tains out ofmolehills?" asks a
reader, They merely add a little
dirt.
CONGO HOPE — Differing Con-
go faction see in Gen. Victor
Lundula, army commander In
Sta'n'leyviile, a possible key to
solving the nation's civil strife.
tundula is a conservative re-
garded as' most Influential
member of Stanleyville govern-
ment, including leftist Premier
Antoine Gizenga.
ISSUE 17,— 1961
A Fourth Front Against Cancer
Science Advances Toward The Goal
By DR. GEORGE E. MOORE
Director, Roswell Park Memorial
Institute, (Written for News-
paper Enterprise Assn.) -
BUFFALO, N.Y. — (NBA) --
A
A lot of things cause cancer
radiations from the ground be-
neath us and the sky above;
chemicals in the air, food, water
and drugs we take, perhaps even
the substances our bodies pro-,
duce. Some viruses may cause
cancer.
Everybody is exposed to can-
cer-causing agents but only one
in, four people comes' down with
the disease. Three don't. Of
those who do and are treated
for it, one of, three is cured.
It Is quite apparent- that
some people have great resist--
ance to cancer; others are very
susceptible to it... Between these
two extremes, the rest of us
probably have varying degrees
of resistance and susceptibility.
When a normal cell becomes
a cancer cell, its genes often
change. In human cells, the'
number of chromosomes may
increase from the normal 46 to
50, or 70, or 90 or almost any
number. Chromosomes are bags
of genes which control the in-
•herited characteristics of the
cell and of the 'person.
Scientists are finding that all
of us have some cells with odd
numbers of chromosomes. In
those of us who don't develop
cancer, apparently something in-
side,_us destroys these cella or
keeps them in check so that
they don't multpily and destroy
Es.
The surgeon and the scientist
see innumerable instances of ree
sistance to cancer and the
lack of resistance. Here are some
common examples: -
Patient A is shot through
with cancer. The surgeon re-
moves the original tumor; but
he leaves numerous cancerous
masses in other areas of the
body. To his and the patient's
surprise and delight, the cancer
colonies throughout the body
shrivel up and disappear. The
patient may live several years,
seemingly without canoes, be-
fore the disease recurs and kills
the patient.
Patient B seems to have only
a small, slow-growing, localized
cancer, The surgeon removes it
and, for good measure all the
adjoining tissues to which it
might have spread, To his dis-
may, hidden colonies come to
life, spread rapidly and soon kill
the patient.
Patient C is the most remark-
table — and unfortunately the
rarest — of all In the last stages
of cancer, he develops an acute
infection, anti 'fol' a few days,
his life- hangs by a thread, He
recovers from the infection
and the cancer, which was about
to do him in, no longer can be
found. Apparently something in
his resistance to the infection
overcame the cancer as well.
There are bits of evidence -
some seen every day in a busy
cancer centre — which point to
natural resistance to cancer.
Some of us take it as a good
sign when we find that the pa-
tient's cancer is surrounded by,
and his blood loaded with, the
cells and substances which pro-
tect us during infection. These
include, white blood.ce1ls which
eat utf` invading viruses, and
germs and antibodies which des-
troy the infecting "bugs."
When a cancer patient does
not develop a fever or show
other signs of resistance to an
infection or when, as has hap-
pened in a few experiments, he
will accept and grow a skin
graft from another person, we
know that his outlook is most
unhappy. Healthy people over-
come infections and reject grafts.
We can depress animal resist-
ance to infection, tissue grafts
and cancer transplants in several
ways — with large' 'doses of X-
rays -or of the hormone, corti-
sone, or by subjecting the ani-
mals to stresses such as other
diseases, poisons, or extensive
surgery.
The big problem is to raise
resistance. If this can be done,
cancer may be beaten.
It is likely that some human
cancers within the foreseeable
future 'may be controlled or
cured (but not prevented) by•
vaccines made from cancer cells
or cell components. I believe that
other human cancers may never
respond to this treatment be-
cause either they resemble nor-
mal cells too . closely for anti-
bodies to form against them, or
they produce potent poisons
which suppressthe body's forces
of resistance.
It is bagele conceivable that
the patient's own healthy lymph
nodes or a well person's lymph
nodes, which have been remov-
ed and incubated with a portion
of a patient's cancer, may be
transplanted to the patient and
will destroy his cancer. This has
beep done in animals with occa-
sional success. A great draw-
back to this technique is that
the new' host — the patient —
produces antibodies which quite
rapidly destroy the anti-cancer
lymph node transplants from an-
other person.
In the last 10 fast-moving
years, great strides have been
made in the field of cancer im-
munity.
Animals have been vaccinated
successfully against specific can-
cers and against viruses which
cause cancer. The first faltering
steps have been made in efforts
-to cure terminal cancer patients
with vaccines made from their
own tumors, While no miracles
have been achieved, the results
warrant expanded study.
Perhaps the next 10 yearn will
bring even greater progress.
(NEXT: Human Cancer Vac-
cines.)
DR. MOOSE oaf work in his laboratory at the Roswell P-'gh
Inilitule,