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Zurich Herald, 1954-06-17, Page 2*�1111 ,,, ; i dam Anattews. ,i'.� TABLE TALKS lii 11 tut L.:m..47'4444i Margarine and other butter substitutes are getting a terrific advertising "p 1 a y" nowadays— and here I might say that I don't believe Mrs. Kate Aitken ever dreams what a shock it has been to her countless listeners to hear her sponsoring one of them. There's a line in Omar Khayam that might fit, but I won't quote it. However, the producers of but- ter may have been a bit lax in the way of publicizing same — and the following article by Jeanne Hamm, stolen from the (Philadelphia) Home Journal, is well worth reading, clipping and passing around. * * * Dairymen's families can help the dairy industry get back on its feet by using more butter themselves — in cooking and on the table. That's what the wives of dairymen in the states of Wis- c o n s i n and Washington are saying. * * * In fact, the Washington State Dairy Wives' Association was organized last November just to, promote wider use of all milk products, Mrs. Harley A. Brown, president of the King County Club, Washington, tells us: "Now that the price of butter is so much lower, all of us can afford to use a lot of it at home. And we need to urge city people to use more good, wholesome dairy products, too." * * The Dairy Wives of Washing- ton and the University of Wis- consin sent us some of their best butter recipes to share with you. (Wisconsin homemakers tested and approved the University recipes.) When we tried these dishes in our Farm Journal Kit- chen, we agreed that they cer- tainly made fine eating. * * * If you want more good recipes that call for butter, you can send ten cents for the leaflet "Butter Recipes." The address is: College of Agriculture, Bulletin Room, University of Wisconsin, Madi- son, Wisconsin. * * * REFRIGERATOR PIE Crust: 5 oz. plain chocolate cookies (about 11/2 to 2 c. crumbs) 1/ c. melted butter Crush cookies to make crumbs. Take out 3 tablespoons of crumbs New President—William R. Knox of Boston, Mass., today was named President of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, at the Annual Meet- ing of The Mother Church at- tended by Christian Scientists from many parts of the world. to use for topping; add butter to remaining crumbs. Mix well. Pack, as crust, into 9 -inch pie plate. Filling; 1 c. milk 1/4 lb. (32) marshmallows 1 c. heavy cream, whipped Scald milk in a large sauce pan. Add marshmallows a n d allow to melt. Cool until mix- ture begins to thicken. (Add fla- voring if desired.) Fold in whipped cream. POur into choco- late crust. Sprinkle top with cookie crumbs. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours, or until set. BUTTER SPONGE CAKE 11 egg yolks 2 c. sifted sugar 1 c. milk, scalded 1 tsp. vanilla 21/4 e. cake flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 c. butter, melted Beat egg yolks and sugar until light-colored and fluffy. Add milk and vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder. Add to batter. Fold in butter. Bake in 2 greas- ed, 8 x 8 inch pans in moderate (350°) oven, 30 to 40 minutes. Fluffy Frosting: 1 c. sugar 4 egg whites 1 tblsp. corn syrup 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar Mix all ingredients in top of double boiler. Set over hot water and stir constantly until mixture becomes very hot. Pour into mixing bowl and beat by hand or with electric mixer until it stands in peaks. * * * EASY HOLLANDAISE SAUCE 1/ lb. butter 3 egg yolks Juice of a lemon (about 2 tblsp.) Combine all ingredients in top of double boiler. Let stand un- til all ingredients are at room temperature. Just before serving, heat over gently -boiling water until thickened (about 4 min- utes), stirring briskly with wooden spoon. Do not over -cook. Makes about 3/4 cup of sauce. Serve at once en broccoli;°aspara- gus or other cooked green vege- tables. * * * Nothing tastes better than fresh butter on thick slices of home- made bread. But for variety, you can fix many kinds of but- ter spreads for sandwiches or to eat on,crackers. Just watch the. youngsters wolf them down— with a glass of milk—after a 4-H meeting! The men will like them, too, when they stop by the house for a quick snack. Here are some spread recipes from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin: FLAVORED BUTTER SPREADS Use 1/4 cup butter as a base for preparing any of the follow- ing spreads. Cream or whip but- ter, add ingredientsas indicated, and mix thoroughly. Store in tightly covered jar in refrigera- tor, ready for use. Cheese Butter: Add 1 to 3 tablespoons Blue, N u w or 1 d, Roquefort, or Parmesan cheese rubbed, through a strainer. Sea- son to taste. Garlic Butter: Crush 1 to 2 cloves of garlic with 1 teaspoon salt, few grains black pepper, 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce, and a drop of Tabasco sauce (sauces may be omitted). Honey Butter: Add • 1/4 cup honey and blend thoroughly. Nut Butter: Add 2 to 4 table- spoons finely chopped pecans, hazel nuts, or almonds. Season with salt. Olive Butter: Add 2 table- spoons finely chopped green or stuffed olives, and a few drops of onion juice. Parsley or Chive Butter: Add 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped pars- ley or chives. Pocket -Press — Tiny newspapers, below operator's right hand, and at right on table are turned out by this miniature model of a huge newspaper press, which was on display at the Inter. national Paper and Printing Exhibition In Dusseldorf, West Ger- many. Complete in all its operations, the miniature machine de- livers, cut and folded, a four-page paper whish comes off the press at point between the operator's hands. The Quick Change — Parisian designer Andre Ledoux created this twosome that will probably make many women happy. It's form -fitting white, linen swimsuit, left, that has a side zipper for easier dressing. The strapless swimsuit can easily be converted into a dance frock, right, with the addition of a wide skirt. Multicolored spots decorate both suit and skirt. Colourful Land Silent, Yet dive Tibet is a most colourful land. All the stones and rocks, the sands and limestone hills, are red -brown; although the hue is light it is maintained into the farthermost distance, not just close at hand. This clarity of at- mosphere is almost beyond the imagination of a European. Peaks forty miles away seem very close and are likely to be a hundred miles if they form a background. One's eye travels across• the red - brown sand to the startling -white of the summit snows, and some- times these are reflected from blue or pale green lakes at one's feet. Wherever there is water there too willbe gay flowers,' but even out in the driest ground, some tough and mare venture some plant will always offer a bright new blossom, $eing big and spacious Tibet seems still and silent which is one of the country's many para- doxes, for it is at the same time a land loud and alive with birds and animals. Roaming over the plains are the wild ass, the wild, sheep, and the gazelle. Tiny mouse hares scuttle in and out of holes. Marmots, like rabbits with short legs and ears, pierce the silence with shrill whistling. Overhead sings the lark, itself invisible, swallowed up whole in the vast void of the sky. In summer the scene changes when the monsoon breaks in June across the Himalaya. A haze of . damp air spreads across the red -brown land and beautifies it anew. Far distant shadows take on a brilliant, unimaginable blue. The great peaks, formerly stark and near, become again remote. Ever-changing cloud-scapes wrap them around. They are no long- er of our world but belong to the unknown, mysterious world of the heavens to which mountain- eers are called. Although rain accompanies the monsoon cloud the weather would not be called foul , by British standards. It brings benefits by more water for more flowers and pastures, colour for the sunset- tings. Across seemingly infertile tracts, carpets of grass and green herbs unroll with a magical swiftness. At all seasons high winds sweep across the loftiest summits, whirling powder -snow from the ridges far and high through the air. But at night- time when the sky is ' clear, the topmost snows flash to the moon, their white fires glowing on a vault blue -black. --- From "The. Story of Everest," by W. H. Mur- ray. DUG OWN GRAVE IN SPARE TIME Having attained his 85th birth- day, Mr. M. Magner, of Limer- ick, Ireland, decided to pass away some spare time by digging his own grave. The grave was lined with bricks, and the mortar mixed with milk; the constructor thought milk was the best med- ium. for "holding." During the recent cold spell Mr. Magner went to buy some milk, and on the return journey slipped and fell. He died. from. his injuries; later was laid to rest in his own grave. _�'n4:.<•.n..T............_:.:�33.'u'u':4:S:.y:ii.Y 1.`iG:i`SS; �f�¢yc Remote -Control Sting — This B - 47E Stratojet packs a remote - control sting in her tail. The tur- ret, mounting a twin 20 -mm. cannon, depends on recognition of an "enemy" image on a radar screen. Once sighted, automatic devices supply firepower when the foe is in range—unless the operator counteracts the "brains" order. A GE development for the huge Boeing ship, it opera- tes on an all-weather basis. Boys Battle Eagle Three boys have had a victori- ous fight with a large eagle which carried off their small dog to the top of a tall tree near Tyson's Corner, Virginia. Twelve -year-old Irving Hazen- ner, and his companions, Frankie and Wayne, were in the woods about half a mile north of their home hunting for flying squir- rels. They had several dogs with them and a puppy, a three- month -old terrier named Whisk- ers. "The puppy was a little way from us in the woods," Irving said. "We heard him screaming, and then the first thing we knew, we saw the eagle fly up with him in his claws. We hadn't seen the eagle before then. '"He took Whiskers up in a tree. We ran over, but we couldn't 61imb the tree. It had no branch- es near enough to the ground. But there was a smaller tree next to it. Frankie climbed up. We pushedthe little tree over to- wards the big one, and he got on to the big tree. He climbed up to the nest and fought the eagle off and got the puppy down." "The eagle was flying around me," said Frankie later. "He was grabbing nay pants and tore them. SO I hit him. I just hit him. One good one with my fist. He flew off to a branch and sat there. There was a baby eagle and two big rabbits there in the nest, too, I got the puppy and climbed. down. I sure was scared." Israel, which recently celebra . ted the shrth anniversary of its founding, is the first Jewish state to exist in the Last 19 'een- turies. Smog May Prevent Sleeping Sickness Smog, that choking, murder- ous curse of our cities to -day, may soon be hailed in non- industrial Africa as a great boon. It is science's best answer to that age-old pestilence, sleeping sickness. Artificially reproduced, smog is the latest weapon in an all- out attack against the tsetse ,fly, chief carrier of sleeping sickness fatal to African cattle.' Smog will be laid on, a Government scientist declares, in bomb form by aircraft. As the insecticidal smoke generators burst, the browsing tsetse should be poisoned. Field trials in East Africa will take place shortly. Smog bombs, I amassured, have one prime advantage over older fly control techniques. As they hit the ground they will discharge their lethal vapours in rising clouds, so catching the tsetse with an effective puff from be- low. Hitherto, tsetse swarms have been sprayed from the air. Apparently, the flies' backs are not nearly so vulnerable. At present this pest makes it im- possible for the farmers to graze cattle in some four million square miles of good African farmland. If smog can snuff it out, Africa will become a far richer agricultural country WOIM MUSIC A soldier from Brooklyn was on maneuvers in West Texas. He strolled out into a nearby mes- quite break during a rest period, and returned shortly with a rattlesnake rattle. "Where did you find it?" asked one of his pals. "I got it off a big woim," the Brooklynite replied. Grim Humour, The French police have an. ironic turn of mind. In the case of a certain anarchist who Was giving trouble, they were loath to imprison him, as this would Only make a martyr of him. SO they gave him a medal of honour and published it in the Press as being bestowed "1 or services rendered." The horrified anarchisit fled the country to es- cape the wrath of his fellow plotters who would not believe that he had not been selling in- formation to the Government. A jest of another kind was played upon a prisoner who was awaiting trial. It was suspected by his fellow rogues that he was a man who had the ear of the authorities, and might seek to save himself by turning State evidence. During the course of the trial he was permitted to have his meals sent in to him. One day as he lifted the cover from the dish he found that someone had sent him a human ear. A grim warning. In another case the positions were reversed. A detective at a mortuary opened a receptacle expecting to find a -body — and discovered the mortuary keep- er's beer. Perhaps the most piquant story is that of a doctor who was giving evidence at ar, in- quest at which the famous path- ologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury was present. The doctor fainted in the witness box. He was carried out, and for want of a better place, was laid on a table. He opened his eyes to find himself stretched out on a thing like a slab with the great pathologist bending over him. He fled. But what grim jester can com- pare with fate? A young burglar courted a housemaid as an excuse to examine a house he intended to rob. He succeeded in bringing off a rich haul. He was genu- inely in love with the girl, but she became suspicious and even- tually won the truth from him. She was horrified and insisted he must make restitution, and become an honest man, or she would never marry him. To please her, he went back to the house one night to replace the jewels — and was caught in the room with the jewels in his hand. Remember? — If there's gray in your hair, and the kids call you "Grandpa,". you do: It's Polo' Negri, star of the silent movies, and as glamorous as ever to the _. young in heart of yesteryear. She recently arrived in New York from Hollywood, on a rare business trip. Carriage Trade -- bike many little girls their age, Barbara Rupe, left, and Peggy Ouintey are often seen pushing their doll bug- gigs along the street. But there are no dolls in the buggies. The aIrls are taking their rabbits for a stroll. Sometimes they are ccompanied Scott Burns right, who takes his rabbit along In a toy jeep. Tl,e'kids got the pets for Easter.