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Zurich Herald, 1955-12-01, Page 2TABLE TALK dam anacews. Time to at least think about that Christmas turkey and the following hints about how to ;+toast it may come in handy. The directions for roasting, you'll notice, are a bit different from ghat most of us are accustomed tm — no water — no basting — but they come from a just -pub - t, red booklet " put out by the 'Oohed States Poultry and Egg National Board, and we can be sure that they tried all methods before settling on this as the best one. Anyway — here they are! * * "Correct roasting is slow cooking by dry heat on a rack :ln an open pan• It requires no water, no basting, no cover and o searing. Always roast turkey alone in one continuous cooking period. Low temperatures assure 'better flavor and appearance, :less shrinkage, and less loss of ;juices. A shallow open pan al - !lows the heat to circulate Found the bird, roasting it evenly. A rack at least 1, inch high raises the bird off the bot- tom of the pan, keeping it out of the juices. "For best results follow these ;simple steps: 1. Rub cavity :lightly with salt. 2. Put stuffing 1n wishbone area to fill it out. Fasten neck skin to back with *ewer. 3. Stuff cavity well, but Io not pack tightly. 4. Truss mrd and place on rack in shal- low pan. 5. Grease skin thor- oughly with fat. If meat ther- mometer is to be used, insert so that bulb is in center of in- side thigh muscle or the thick- est part of the breast meat. Be sure bulb does not touch bone. G. Cover top and sides of bird with a loose cap of foil or fat - Moistened cloth. 7. Place in pre -heated oven set at 325° F. fi. Do not sear, cover, or add salt. 9. If cloth dries slightly during cooking, moisten with fat from bottom of pan. 10. When turkey is % done, cut trussing string between drumstick and tail. 11. Roast until tender. * * * When buying your turkey, re- member that you'll need to 1 pound of bird per serving (and if your family likes left- over turkey — which most families do — you'll want to buy more). If you get a frozen turkey, you'll need two days for thawing it in the refrigerator or six hours under cold running water. If you want to add originality traditional turkey, make • CARACAS — Ex -President of Argentina Juan D. Peron is shown after his arrival in Cara - ms, Venezuela. He defended the actions of his regime, claim - tog that he had tried to stabi- hze the Argentine economy and "avoid the fleeing of foreign ex- lehange"; that he had sought Sao increase the industrialization of the country, necessitating the multiple exchange rates he had 'Imposed. twice the amount of stuffing needed. Stuff the turkey as usual, and •then to the extra dressing add mushrooms and bake in a loaf pan. Cut this loaf into 'one -inch slices. Place them in a .half circle around turkey,. garnishing with green parsley sprigs and whole, fresh cranber- ries. As your turkey is carved, it's easy to serve a slice of stuf- fing on each plate. When it's time for seconds, the man of the ouse will find he has more time to take the suffiing out of the turkey cavity. :k * If you'd like minceceat pie for your dinner, try this filling •with your favorite pastry. Makes 1 9 -inch pie. MINCEMEAT FILLING 2 cups mincemeat 1' cups unsweetened apple sauce 1 orange, diced teaspoon each, cloves and nutmeg Combine all ingredients and fill pastry -lined pie pan. Put top pastry on and bake at 450° F. for 30 minutes. Or, try making a ` one -crust 9 -inch pumpkin pie filling with evaporated milk. PUMPKIN FILLING 1 cup sugar 1% teaspoons cinnamon • ?'z teaspoon each, cloves, . all- spice, nutmeg, ginger a n d salt 2 eggs Ph cups cooked pumpkin 1% cups (1 tall can) evapora- ted milk 1 9 -inch unbaked pie shell Blend sugar, salt and spices together. Beat eggs with milk and add to first mixture; add pumpkin. Pour into shell and bake at 425° F. for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350° F. and continue baking about 40 min- utes or until knife inserted in pie mixture comes out clean. Cool. Beetles Succeed Where Guns Failed If Nelson were alive to -day he'd have drafter a new signal for the recent Trafalgar Day: "Stand by to sink the Victory beetles." For half a million pounds is needed to save the life of the world's most famous ship, Nel- son's H.M.S. Victory. The threat of the breaker's yard hangs over Victory in her dry dock a Portsmouth. What French cannon -balls failed to do when she fought at Trafal- gar, the deathwatch beetle has done. Victory, say the experts, ur- gently needs a £500,000. "surgi- cal operation." Her "heart of oak" must be replaced by teak and steal. Why not use oak? Because seasoned oak could not be ob- tained from the forests of Eng- land and correctly matured un- til about 1875. By then it would be too late. For many years the Victory— launched at Chatham on May 7th, 1765—has been attacked by the dreaded death-watch beetle. Every Trafalgar Day Nelson's famous signal, "England expects ." is hoisted in Victory. On the quarter-deck, where he fell, a memorial service is held. In 1844, thirty-nine years after Trafalgar, Queen Victoria visited the warship with Prince Albert. When she came to the spot where Nelson fell, she stood silently gazing at the tablet re- cording the fact. Then, in a voicetremulous with emotion, the Queen read aloud slowly the words of the inscription: "Here Nelson Fell." Stooping, she plucked two leaves as mementoes from the Trafalgar Day wreath of laurel which had been placed on the historic spot. It is believed that those leaves are still preserved in the archives of our Royal Family. POUBLE-JOINTED-This calf can't stand by itself, because it has five legs. The "extra" leg of the animal, born on the Frank Veldheer farm, separates from the right hind leg about halfway down and appears to end in two hoofs. The calf also has a double hip joint, Veldheer says the calf seems to be perfectly healthy. lunposf Points to Tomorrow Three-dimensional symbol at right recently pointed the way foi scientists meeting, Insigne of the Association for Applied Solar c g g rM v Energy, arrows show that sun is initial source of all of mankind's energy forms. Scientists discussed theory and practice of har- nessing ar nessing directly the sun's energy. They foresee a spectacular r l a• Q, future for use of solar radiation, but caution that mankind's pre- s �i l i A't tiwv sent engines will not soon be outmoded. Among devices already past the theoretical stage are two, shown below. Pilot model of radio, left, uses current generated by light-sensitive cells atop its�fi` case, Solar oven, right, of aluminum, does the roast to a turnly,l`� tx while milady suns herself. Solar water heaters are already em- ployed by more than 30,000 Japanese:.fan)ilies. And solar stoves are on sale in sun -drenched Egypt. "Sunpost" points the way . . . to solar -powered radio and to meals done to a turn by sun -heated solar ovens - Pi ugh Turned Up Fortune in Gold A treasure worth a hundred and fifty million dollars — and all of it in instantly saleable gold -dust -= would mean fabu- lous wealth to its finder any- where in the world. In Persia, where the peasants work for a few dollars a year, and where even for highly placed civil servants a salary of $600. a year is considered quite high, where there are neither hospital services nor a huge fighting service to eat up the revenue, $150,000,000 would go a long way towards running the entire. Persian state for a year. This fortune was found only a few months ago by Muham- mad and Fawzi ploughing their narrow strip of stony ground in the province of Kerman. They were ploughing with a wooden ox -plough. Their com- bined resources would not have run toa cheap western steel plpugh, let alone h tractor- driven plough such as the most modest farmer in Canada can afford. When Muhammed saw . a gleam of metal in the bright north Persian sunlight and bent down to pick up a gold coin, he called Fawzi over to search the ground. Eventually they found another gold coin. Both coins bore a classical type of head, and an inscription that the two men could not have understood, even if they had been able to read. The coins were gold right enough, as Fawzi discovered when he • changed them in the market at Ban. Gold is gold to the Persian peasant, and the head of the monarch or the in- scription on a piece of money doesn't matter very much, pro- vided that the metal is genu- ine. Ban is a small town in the province of Kerman, a district famous for its carpets. Buyers from all over the world come to Kerman, and their presence in the district has sharpened the wits of the locals. So when the money -changer displayed the two gold pieces on his market -tray, and the head- man of the town saw them, he was sufficiently knowledgeable to perceive that the unusual coins were worth an inquiry. His inquiries led him straight back to Muhammad and Fawzi whom he ordered to say noth- ing of their find. He then re- quested the men to lead him to the field in which the two coins had been found, and hav- ing marked the place, went away, to return soon afterwards with two or three of his rela- tives, all sworn to secrecy. The exploring party, having dug the field at the point where the coins had been found, ex- posed the surface of a brick - and -stone vault that their picks quite easily broke through. Throwing a blazing torch in- to the hole they had made, they saw that the air was pure— otherwise the torch would have gone out, The headman's secre- tary and nephew then volun- tered to go down into the vault at the end of a rope. It was his cry of wonder which nearly caused the man paying out the rope to let it slip. The men on the surface rushed to the lip of the hole, and shouted down: "What is it?" The voice of the man in the vault held strong overtones of fright, for the Persian peasant is a Mohammedan whose religion contains a powerful element of the old paganism. The man at the end of the rope was now certain that he had been lower- ed into some demon -haunted cavern. "Let me up!" he bellowed, and -was promptly hauled to the surface. When his alarm had quieten- ed, he was closely questioned by his uncle. What the headman learnt was enough to allay any fears of the supernatural in that official. He untied the rope from around his trembling ne- phew's waist, fastened it to his own and gave the order to his assistants to lower him into the hole. What the headman saw al- most took his breath away. He found himself in a long, vaulted chamber, the walls of which had been 'plastered, and which still bore traces of frescoed decora- tion in a style quiteunfamiliar to him. Even with his scanty knowledge of the 'past, he could feel that he was in the presence of. very great antiquity. A bolted door, the bolts and hinges badly rusted, showed how access could be had to the chamber in • the ordinary way, and something about the sturdi- no4of, walls and door con - win d the man that . this cham- ber had been built .specially to contain something of great value. What, indeed, he did not know was that he was in one of the provincial treasuries of the Sassanid Kings of Persia whose dynasty was overthrown when the Arabs invaded Persia in the. seventh century A.D. It had taken more than a century for the Arabs to conquer Persia, and there must have been plen- ty' of time to build and fill a dozen treasuries such as this. A signal was given and the rope was drawn up. Orders were given to Muhammad and Fawzi that on no account must they breathe a word of this find. Perhaps it would have been better for the headman's plan had he let Muhammad and. Fawzi see exactly what lay beneath that vaulted brick -and - stone roof. But he did not. He set a guard over the treasury, and bid the two ploughmen make themselves scarce. Then he went off himself to get extra assistance. What he had found was a hoard of gold -dust, all in earth- enware pots. Of all valuables, gold -dust is the most easily marketable in the whole of the East. Portable, .virtually un- traceable; needing no smelting down to disguise it, there isn't a money -changer from Smyrna to Sinkiang who won't buy it— and no questions asked. Unfortunately for the head- man's plan, which was simply to collar the whore of the gold - dust for himself and his asso- ciates, Muhammad and Fawzi had wives. And the wives felt that they, at least, hada right to know what it was that their husbands had found. And so, eventually, what with one person and another talking, the news reached the governor of Kerman, . and then, in due course, it carie to the notice of the Government at Teheran. A commission swooped d o w n: nearly everyone who had had anything to do withthe find was imprisoned --the headman and his relatives are still languishing in jail—and the gold was collected and valued A hundred and fifty million dollars! The law of Persia gives a third of treasure to the finder a third to the owner of the land in which it is found, and a third to the state. It is unlikely that Muhammad and Fawzi will share $48;000,000 but they have already learnt that they will be richer than many a Persian has ever dreamed of being. Animal Murderers When Vivian Messiter was found murdered in 1929 he had a neat round hole in his head, such. as a bullet makes. Detec- tives searched for a gun. But there was no gun. The man had been killed by a hammer with a pointed end. For reasons similar to this, great care is used by police in African territories when inves- tigating cases in which natives have apparently been killed by wild beasts. Members of secret societies such as the "Leopard Men" wear gloves made from leopard's paws, ,. complete with claws, with which they mutilate the bodies of their victims. In another case an old tiger was thought to be responsible for the deaths of several people whose heads had been smashed in as though by One blow of a great paw. But no traces of tiger could be found. The killer was eventually re- vealed to be a crazy old man who used a slender war club weighted with a large .piece of metal shaped like a tiger's claw. A classic case of a man who tried to pin his murder on an animal was revealed by Bertil- lon, the French . detective. Baron Zeidler was found dead in a stable where he kept a high- spirited stallion. On the baron's skull were the marks where horseshoes had struck with ter- rible violence. Bertillon refused to have the stallion destroyed, and demon- strated the animal's innocence by producing the man who had murdered the baron by crushing his skull with blows from a club to which a pair of horse- shoes had been affixed. By examining the shoeprints in Zeidler's skull he showed that they were made at an angle Only possible if the horse had kicked the man while he was standing On his head! Modem tittquette... By Roberta Lee Q. Does the receipt of a birth announcement obligate one to send a gift to the baby? A. There is no obligation, but, it is a nice gesture, If, however, ... one feels one cannot afford a gift or is not on intimate terms with the new parents, then a congratulatory card or hand- written note would be in order. Q. What should a person say when about to be introduced to the person for the second time? A. A suitable expression would be, "Thank you, but I have al- ready had the pleasure of meet- ing Mr, Williams." Q. Is it all right, when enter- taining dinner guests, to use a folded napkin to brush t h e crumbs off the table? A. This is quite all right. Q. My wedding is to be very small and doesn't warrant the mailing of engraved invitations. How should I word the short notes of invitation to those friends I should like to attend. A. They may be worded exactly as the engraved type of invita- tions are. Q. Is it proper for a dinner guest, when . he has finished a meal, to push his plate a little away from him to signify that he has finished? A. Definitely not! The dishes never should be moved by the guests. A guest's way of showing he has finished is to place his eating utensils on his plate. O. Should a letter to a man always be addressed to "Mr."? A. Always, unless, of course, he bears some such title as "Dr" or "The Reverend." Q. I have had several dates with a certain young man and think quite a lot of him. His birthday is near, and I am wordering if it would be pro- per for me to give him a gift. A. Properly, you should give this young man a gift only if you are engaged to him. Otherwise, a suitable card is the proper re- membrance. Q. Is there any rule of etiquette that governs the length of mar- riage engagements? A. No; but long engagements are not so common as they were years ago. The usually accepted length of an engagement today is about six months Q. What is the minimum num- ber of cocktails courtesy reauires that a host serve his guests before dinner? A. One apiece is correct -- and enough. Q. Isn't it alt' right, when intro- ducing a man to a woman; merely to say, "Miss White, Mr. Black"?' A. Yes, with a slight pause be- tween the names. SINK STOPPER WAS SNAKE When Mrs. Sandra Burger, of Bloemfontein, South Africa, found her kitchen sink blocked, she fetched a spanner and un- screwed the nut in the bend to poke the drain clear. A two -foot .long cobra poked his head out and stared her in the eye as the nut came away! She gave the snake a wallop on the head with the spanner than shouted for help. A kitchen knife wielded by her son finished off the job CANNED ART -- A youngster in West Berlin, Germany, displays the ingenious toys he made of empty food cans in grammar school. At left is a miniature steam roller, and at right is a rider on a motorcycle. 'Other students in his class were given rags, empty boxes, wire., old nails and screws to test their creative, . abilifies.