Zurich Herald, 1936-01-16, Page 2By Mak M. Morgan
USE IMAGINATION IN
COOKING POTATOES
An industrious statistician has fig-
ured out that men generally order
]French fried potatoes when they eat
M hotels and restaurants. Perhaps
the reason men eat French fried po-
tatoes in hotels is that they never
het then at home. Yet they are not
ard to do. The preparation, how-
ever, should be careful.
Chips or Saratoga potatoes must
be cut in thin, transparent slices.
French fried potatoes must be cut
uniform in thickness. Shoestring po-
tatoes or potatoes Julienne must be
cut in tiny strips, literally shoe -
;strings. Souffled potatoes must be
cut lengthwise in slices with a per-
fect clean eut—no jagged edges.
Cutting Devices Handy
There are clever devices on the
market for cutting potatoes that in-
sure perfection and since this type
oaf potato cookery makes such attrac-
tive .serving for various occasions, a
set of potato cutters is a worthwhile
investment.
A fat that may be heated to a
high temperature without smoking or
burning should be used for frying.
A. high grade vegetable oil or a firm
Vegetable fat give satisfactory re-
sults because either can be made
very hot before the fat molecules
break down.
To snake French fried potatoes,
pare potatoes and cut lengthwise in-
to strips about 4 inch thick. Let
stand in ice water for an hour. Drain
and dry between towels. Fry in deep
fat heated to 395 degrees F. Cook
not more than twelve pieces at a
time. Cook until brown and crisp on
all sides. Drain on heavy brown pa-
per and sprinkle with salt. Serve
as soon as possible after frying.
Select Potatoes Carefully
The composition of the potatoes is
important in making potato souffle
because some kinds will not puff. A
waxy potato gives the best results.
Two kettles of fat are best. If one
is used the process takes longer. In
this case, let cooked slices drain on
crumpled paper while cooking the en-
tire batch at a low temperature.
Then raise temperature of fat and
finish cooking.
Select large potatoes and rub clean.
Do not wash. Pare evenly, slicing
out eyes or imperfections instead of
Butting around these places as one
usually does. Cut in lengthwise slic-
es not more than Ve inch thick. A
Enjoying The Night Life
Helen Vinson, charming moving
picture etar and wife of Fred
Perry, tennis star, is moved to
laughter by the antics of a perfor-
mer at the Trocadere, New York
City night club, which she attend-
ed. with a party of friends.
vegetable slicer will make perfect
slices. Wipe each slice dry and place
it between folds of a soft tea towel.
Heat fat to 205 degrees F. Or hot
enough to make bubbles rise to the
surface when potatoes are put in,
Put six or eight slices into kettle
and cook five mutes stirring with
a long handled fork or skimmer. Re-
move at once to second kettle in
which fat is heated to 425 degrees
F. Cook until puffed and delicately
browned and crisp, Drain on Brunn•
pled paper and , sprinkle with salt.
Keep in a warm oven, about 300 de-
grees F., until ready to serve to in-
sure crispness.
Fry Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are good French
fried. Prepared exactly as you do
Irish potatoes.
French fried onions can be done
two ways, By one method, you cut
in slices, separate into rings, and
drop into milk. Let stand an hour.
Drain and dip in flour. Fry in deep
fat heated in 385 degrees F. Drain,
sprinkle with salt and serve.
The other way to do thein is to
dip them in a thin batter made of 1
egg, 1 cup of milk, 1 cup flour, and
1/2 teaspoon salt. Fry in deep fat
heated to 385 degrees F. The first
method is the easier.
SUNDAY MEALS
It's heresy, I suppose, but such
beautiful heresy—the club that a
certain housekeeper group in a com-
munity not far away has formed to
promote the abolishment of Sunday
food orgies and incidentally, drudg-
ery.
Even when Sunday was primarily
a day of rest, it was never that for
mother. But now that it has become
the one time in the week when busy
people get a chance to see their
friends and relax a little, it is more
than ever important that the one
who prepares the meals gets a bit of
consideration.
The best thing to do about it,
many housekeepers have found, is to
plan a main meal that can be chief-
ly cooked the day before. Then for
supper rely upon such aids to quick
hospitality as cheese trays, canned
soups, boxed cookies, boxed beverag-
es
You can make your own pumper-
nickel, by the way, if you care to
take the trouble. And certainly no-
thing goes better with cheese and
beer.
Pumpernickel
Two cups smashed potatoes, s cup
lukewarm potato water, 2 yeast cak-
es, % cup corn meal, 11/z cups cold
water, 11/ cups boiling water, 5 tea-
spoons salt; 1 tablespoon auger, 2
tablespoons butter or other shorten-
ing, 1 tablespoon caraway seed, 6
cups eye meal, 2 cups wheat flour.
Stir cold water into cornmeal and
when smooth put over the fire. Add
boiling water, stirring constantly and
cook until it forms a mush. Add salt,
sugar and butter and cool to luke-
warm. Add mashed potatoes, yeast
cakes dissolved in lukewarm potato
water and stir well. Stir in flour
and rye meal. Mix and knead to a
smooth stiff dough using whoat flour
on the board. Put into a large mix-
ing bowl, cover and let rise in a
warm place until double in bulk.
Shape into loaves, roll in corn meal
and put in greased bread pans. Let
rise again until double in bulk and
bake 1 hour in a moderately hot
oven (375 degrees F.)
Pumpernickel is delicious toasted
to serve with cheese, A good way to
please everyone is to let those who
want it toasted, toast it on an ei`ee-
tric toaster when they are ready to
eat it.
TWO GOOD RECIPES
FOR BREAD PUDDING
Bread pudding used to have Such
a bad reputation along with prunes
and hash that conscientious house-
keepers preferred to use left -over
8
bread for something else rather
make pudding of it.
Lately, though, with the passing
of the old-fashioned boarding house,
bread- pudding has assumed its right-
ful place as a good and nourishing
dessert.
When you serve bread pudding for
dessert stress vegetables and fruits
in the remainder of the meal. For
instance, have hetu'ty soup with crisp
crackers, followed by fruit salad, the
whole topped off with a glorified
bread pudding.
Quality Pudding
Three eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup
soft bread crumbs, 112 teaspoons
baking powder, 1 cup chopped seal -
nuts, 1 cup dates, few grains salt,,'
teaspoon vanilla.
Beat yolks of. eggs until thiek and
lemon colored. Mix and sift. sugar
and baking powder and combine with
bread crumbs. Add with dates and
nuts to beaten yolks and fold in
whites of eggs beaten until stiff.
Add vanilla and spread about 4 'inch
in a shallow pan which has been but,
tered and dusted with flour. Hake
in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.)
until firm, about forty minsseees.
Spread with jelly and cover. with
whites of eggs beaten until .stiff
with powdered sugar and juice of Ve
lemon folded in. Put in a slow oven
(300 degres F.) to puff and brown
the meringe. Serve warm with any
sauce.
HOUSEHOLD HINT
The need to keep bottles .-tell-
labeled and poisons out of the reach
of children is shown. by the report
of 500 or more deaths each year from.
acute poisonings in children under
five years of age.
Grit imbedded in the back x" a
rug tltet is not rcaebed wbexi : y
the top of the rug is cleaned s;','fly
cuts the fibers fund causes the fug to.
wear more Quickly.
Before shampooing rugs, coverings
on chairs, or similar fabrics, the col-
or should always be tested la an ont-
ef-the-way place to see that it "does
not run.
Spanking may keep the child, from
doing what grown-ups dislike but it•
does not develop character, this has
to come from right guidance.
Sweet potatoes go well with meat.
They may be sliced raw, spread over
a slice of ham in .a covered baking
dish, and cooked in the oven, Or
they may be sliced lengthwise and
baked in a roasting pan around
spare -ribs, or a roast of meat.
A baby will learn to like new foods
if mother gives these new foods one
at a time, in small amounts; when
the baby is hungry.
Since many accidents happen in
the home, dark corners and shadows
should be removed from all stair-
ways, especially from the cellar
stairs.
To remove the hulls on corn l;er
nels in making hominy, soar; 5
quarts pf the shelled grain foe. 15
hours in a solution made by doly-
iing 5 ounces of lye in 6 quaff) of.
water. eap,
Cream or yellow lamp shades give
off a warm glowing light, and a
white globe in a shade increases the
amount of light given off.
Floors—After a new floor has been
laid or an old one has been repaired,
it should be sandpapered with the
grain, swept, and dusted before stain
or varnish is applied. A filler should
be applied, after which the floor
should be rubbed across the grain to
remove surplus filler. The floor may
be treated with stain, wax, shellac
and wax, or two coats of shellac.
Varnish should he applied, freely to
not more than six boards at a time
and it should be brushed in with the
grain of the wood. The strokes
should not overlap.
Papering a Room—A heavy dur-
able paper is best, as it will give
longer service than thin paper.
Heavy wallpaper in kitchens and
bathrooms may be made waterproof
by applying a thin coat of varnish.
A wall should be sized before paper
is applied, as proper sizing will pre-
vent peeling. Canvas should be tack-
ed on all ceiled or wooden walls and
should be sized. When the size is
dry, the paper may be pasted on.
"I believe that it is not written in
the book of fate that I shall die with
my foot on the accelerator and my
hand on the wheel." — Sir Malcolm
Campbell.
"Time spent in labor is rarely
lost; on the contrary, work often
makes us happy."—Andre Maurois,.
When Movie Goers
Must Dodge Balls
Along about the first of the year
Metro acmes to have a sizable frac-
tion of tile movie -going public looking
at the world through rose (and blue)
colored glasses, Seeking a novelty to
charm its fickle audience, the company
has revived the steroseapie film
which first was tried publicly about
eleven years ago. The process has
been improved since then and sound
has been added. The result is Audio-
seopiks by Pete Smith, is scheduled
for release on Jan. 1.
J. F. Leventhal and J. A. Norling,
who have been dabbing in sterosco-
pic films for several years, produced
the new Andioscopik. It was made
somewhere on Fifty-fifth Street at an
unmentioned cost and under unmen-
tionable difficulties. If all goes well,
they may make a whole series; they
think they can clo better the next
tine e.
Mr. Leventhal was host at a four -
man preview of his picture in one
of the Metro projection r000ms last
week. He grinned happily as one
spectator ducked when a pitcher
wound up and tossed a baseball right
of the screen at his head. If there
had been an ywomen present, unques-
tionably there would have been
screams when a magician conjured
a white mouse onto the tip of his
wand and poked It out, seemingly
within arm's length of the innocent
bystanders.
No question about it, the Leven-
thal-Norling •camera has created a
weird third dimension for a two-
dimensional screen. Things come and
threaten to land in your lap. An
inebriate asks his audience to have a
drink, proffers a filled glass — you
can almost smell the neutral spirits
—and then, visibly rebuffed because
no one will accept it, grabs a syphon
of seltzer and squirts it in your eye.
Well, almost in your eye. It's foolish
to duck, but you probably will.
There is a woman on a swing who
soars right out into the audience;
there is a fire-eater who brandishes
a torch in your face; there is a slide
trombone that slithers out until it is
just inches from your nose; there is
a Skelton that tries to wrap itself
around your neck, and there is an
alarm clock that conies so close you
feel like shutting it off.
To see all this, you have to hold a
strip of pasthoard with two gelatin
lenses — one magneta, one blue-green
-before your eyes. They used the
same instrument of torturing for the
old steroscopic films, but the results
were not so good, Mr. Leventhal ad-
mits that sound is a great factor in
heightening the illusion. The seltzer -
squirting episode, for example, is
doubly effective, because you hear the
zizz and the splash when it strikes.
If you want to cheat and peek at
the filum without the glasses, you get
a blurred double -image with a reel
and blue border. That is because a
double image is being projected, one
being blue and the other red. Mr.
Leventhal explains it this way:
"The stereoscopic camera is ac-
tually a combination of two cameras,
so that the axes of the lenses are
parallel, or nearly so. When the
camera is turning, each lens makes
its own picture. One of the nega-
tives is treated with a blue -dye, the
other with a red dye. Then from the
two negatives, a single positive is
!made with the images slightly over-
laping.
"f you were to project this print
and look at it through the red gela-
tin only, the red image would not be
visible. The blue image would be. The
reverse would be true if you were
to look through the blue gelatin.
"Now, if the relationship of the
right and left eye of the spectator
to the right and left image on the
screen is properly correlated, the ef-
fect of depth is attained."
That, briefly, Is the way it is. If.
the Greeks had a word for it, it would
be the "anaglyph method." Mr.
Leventhal, •of course, makes no claim
of having.•ariginated the process; it
is about as old as the stereopticon.
A11 that he and Mr. Norling have done
is add a few technical improvements
and liven the result with sound.
Ottawa Requires .
2,096 New ,Houses
OTTAWA,—The Board of Con-
trol had under consideration a re-
port from a sub -committee of the
National Construction Council of
Canada saying at least 2,096 new
dwelling units are needed here to
house low wage earners and relief
tenants.
The report; presented last week,
said at least 576 existing occupied
dwelling units might be demolished
to make room for new and more sat-
isfactory dwellings,
It added rehabilitation of 1,309
dwellings should be launched and
that 5,025 families are occupying
3,529 dwelings, causing serious over-
crowding.
The report disclosed the existence
of conditions conducive to juvenile
delinquency and crime, mentioned
serious lack of adequate sanitary
facilities and existence of grave fire
hazards, It added that there was a
serious lack of cheap satisfactory
housing in the capital.
A Winter Albino
This is the true story of a bird
that willingly exchanged freedom
for captivity, A doctor in a Home
County keeps a few birds in cages
that are large enough to be called
aviaries. In one of these was a hen
bullfinch whose personality so pleas-
ed a wild bird that he would come
daily and perch on the cage and
talk to the imprisoned beauty.. He
was so insistent that at last he 'was
admitted to the cage, and ever since
has evidently relished his position.
But a strange thing has happened.
When he first carie to sing on the
cage he was clad in the full salience
of color, of red and black and white
and other subtler tints, Today all
his colors, save a slight and delicate-
ly diffused pink on the breast have
faded into whiteness, He looks a
born albino.
The bird appears to ,be very fit;
and his Spring moult is awaited with
eagerness. Will his colors be re-
stored to him or will he grow into a
revived whiteness? — London Spec-
tator.
How To Deal With
Parasites Of Horses
It is as necessary as it ever was
for the young farrier to learn all he
can about the care•of horses. Para-
sites of horses and the diseases caus-
ed by them are always of consider-
able importance, Young animals par-
ticularly are more susceptible and
less resistant to the ravages of these
pests and may be permanently af-
fected, if nothing is done for them,
before they reach the age of useful-
ness. Dr. A. E. Cameron, chief vet-
erinary inspector of Health of Ani-
mals Branch, Dominion Department
of Agriculture, states in the bulle-
tin on "Parasites of Horses," issued
by the Department, that a large
variety of parasites of horses, both
external and internal, exist in Can-
ada, or may be introduced into the
Dominion, and consequently it be-
hooves the horsemen to be constant-
ly on the watch. to prevent the seri-
ous damage which follows heavy in-
festation by these pests.
Contaminated water or food is a
great cause of disease, and stables
should be kept as clear of manure
as possible. Practically all organs
and tissues of the horse may be in-
vaded by mature parasites or their
larvae, and the methods of combat-
ing the ravages of the pests are fully
dealt with in the bulletin.
BOYS DON'T WANT TO BE
CRIMINALS — Under modern con-
ditions the under -privileged boy has
become a major social problem. Work
with him to date has proved that in
_many cases, the hazards of his un-
healthy life can be minimized. It
has also proved that he is probably
the most promising approach for an
attack on the terrific problem of
crime, which has grown of late faste
than Mr. Finney's famous turnip.
Boys don't want to be criminals.
They would rather go straight. ---
Julian
Julian Montgomery in the Rotarian
Magazine,
30 Days to Think it Over
A. young man from the country'
recently came to town, bought .sll
second hand car later in the day1
and went for a ride, Today he
in jail for a month and his license'
has been taken from him. He Sol -1
lided withanother car and seriously)
injured its occupant, Worse, he
ran away and failed to return) to the
scene, which is a criminal offence'
in itself.
All the fines in the world will snot!
atop some people, but making it im-
possible for a man to drives a card
at all is the most salutary manner(
in which to handle drivers who can't
be trusted with a car. If this young)
man makes good, he may yet get bis
license back and become a safe unit
on the streets. Meantime he must
think it ..out for himself, and it is
will he be wise and not feel
disgruntled and get into more
trouble. -- Kamloops Sentinel,
"We have now learned that evolu-
tion is not always from the worse
to the better. "—Dean. Inge,
"Class consciousness is worse than
ever when it is class ,subconscious-
ness."—G. K. Chesterton.
"Singing is like football, There
must be constant practice and aps
pearances before audiences."—Maria
Jeritza.
"You can grow a potato for the)
love of God just as well as you can
preach a sermon,—Sir Wilfrid Gree-
fell.
SLIP OFF JACKET
FORMAL WEAR
Here's the important velvet
double duty formal dress in new
street length. You can wear it for
luncheon, bridge or late afternoons
with its shirred sleeved jacket and
jeweled buttons down the back.
When you want to be especially
glamorous for dinner, theatre or
dancing, slip off the jacket. For
strictly formal evenings, make the
dress in floor length as seen in
small view.
Metal cloth or crepe silk will
make up effectively in this simple.
to sew model.
• Style No. 2949 is designed for
sizes 14, 16, 1S years, 36, 38 and
40 -inch bust. Size 16 requires 2%
yards of 39 -inch material for street
length dress with 1% yards of 39 -
inch material for blouse.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
Write your name and address
plainly, giving number and size of
pattern wanted. Enclose 15c iu
staanns or coin (coin preferred;
wrap it carefully) and address your
order to Wilson Pattern Service,
73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto
FU MANCHU
By Sax Rapier
D ::c to fingers touched my right eyelid as I lay like
one dead. Fortunately, my medical knowledge told me
what was coring --This creature sought to learn whether
was unconscious. I rolled my eyes up, as the
Id was adroitly lifted
11 arae lowered again, . ,
THE SEVERED FINGERS—The Lifted Eyelid.
An occupant of one of
The bunks had scrambled
to the floor. He was an
impassive Chinaman in
blouse and flowing
Trousers. The hunchback
led the way toward the
stair and they passed
behind the curtain.
"Don't stiff" hissed
Nayland Smith.
a tool re e• t and 'rite kraYnta
Q'2
She mon moved away.
Smith nxi; enured: "'��d,
Petrie! Ho took me on trust
after that. Have you noticed
the s+'lonce? Most of these men
are shamming... , They aro
not drugged.. s
se 4
"W h a t an
awful face that
man had Pe.
= fele, 1 t' s the
hunchback Nitoctive
C a d by saw going into
Sher? Yan'sl" Suddenly he
grasped my arm, "Ah, I
Thought sol Do you sea
that?"
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