Zurich Herald, 1954-06-10, Page 2TkILE TALK
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When you're buying eggs do
you choose those with whit e
shells rather than brown ones?
D0 you, like lots of women I
know, refuse to have anything
to do with the brown -shelled
kind, and even pay a higher
price for the white ones?
Well, if yam. 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 Booking 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 and size."
Now, with that straightened
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 unftavourecl
gelatin
1 cup cold water
11/2 cups mayonnaise or
salad dressing
Juice of 1 lemon
34 teaspoon. salt
2 drops Tabasco sauce
1 teaspoon grated onion
12 hard -cooked eggs
x/4 cup chopped parsley
1 cup finely chopped green
pepper or celery
Soften gelatin in the water.
Dissolve over boiling w a t e r.
Cool slightly. Add mayonnaise,
Old -Timer — William "Uncle
Adams, a former slave who fled
from the south in 1863, smokes
a cigaret as he celebrates his
109th birthday in a hospital.
Born 20 years before slavery's
abolition, "Uncle Bill" livedto
see 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 ring mold
(1 -11/2 -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. Unmrld
on -large platten Fill center with
vegetable or chicken salad. Gar-
nish with salad greens. Serve
with French dressing.
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DEVILED EGGS
6 hard -cooked eggs
1 tablespoon softened
butter
2 teaspoons lemon juice
or vinegar
teaspoon salad mustard
1 teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
z teaspoon salt
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. Refill whites
Garnish with parsley. Twelve
stuffed eggs.
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EGG and CHEESE CAKES
4 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon grated onion
11i cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
4 pound sharp cheese,
cut in 1,i -inch cubes
Salt and pepper
1,4 cup fat for frying
Combine eggs with o n i o n,
flour, salt, pepper, and baking
powder. Add 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, turning once.
Serve promptly with jelly.
Makes 12 cakes.
3'
11$
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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 enfoy their favorite
'radio program as they pedal along. This man's right hand locates
the receiver, and the lamp -like piece on the left side of the
handlebar is the loudspeaker. Batteries which operate the set are
under the seat. The antenna is attached to front wheel. Manu.
iacturers claim the radio can- be installed In five minutes.
Mary's Lamb Never Had It So Good — Sally the lamb 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 Iamb, but backed down under the tearful protests
from their two daughters. -
eer Things That
eop a Have Eaten
Privation once forced the late •'
Dr. Archibald Fleming, Bishop -
of the Arctic, to eat his 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
.Elis 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 untilonly 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 Port 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, may
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 -1 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."
More 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 enbugh
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 it 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, Sinanthroptts Peki-
nensis — to give him his scien-
tific narne -- 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 relics
into special boxes, labelling them
"officers' clothing" and dispatch-
ed them, under special escort,
Keep 'Em 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 war, or faced
with starvation, human beings
may eat anything. - The Dutch,
just before their liberation in
1945,.ate thousands of 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 had
startling qualities. For instance,
according to a treasured book -
lohg used by. the .Harbordfamily
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."
ow To Really Take
Weight Off
Do you want to get your
weight down? 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 Trust 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 he ,,'.. r•
to do twice es much lifting and
pushing with less effort
our own planet.
And for real "load shedding"
there are even better places.
Max's has a couple of tiny moons,
and on One of thorn, Deimos, en
man of 168 pounds would weigh
only z a quarter of a pound! Not
only that but he would be able
to jump over housetops . , , ten-
nis courts 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.
Ati 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
fall as gently as a feather.
"Icebox Element"
In Pictures
David Selznick once queried
nie 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 enjoying 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.
ing, 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,
but 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,
completes the charming duo.
Peace Now—Muggins—"Do you
ever quarrel with your wife?"
Huggins -- "We used to, until
we both realized I 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's
$150,000 museum of household items of yesteryear, as well as
other curios;