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Zurich Herald, 1956-09-20, Page 6„„, TABLE TALKS rillgt✓f"eYr-'Z'M4;Y (am i 6citi .rw s. 2 didn't have space enough to print all the pickling recipes last *reek, but as the "season” is still en, here are the balance of them. at * * * CORN RELISH 3 cups corn (cut from cob) 2 cups coarsely chopped cucumber 2 cups coarsely chopped ripe tomatoes 2 cups coarsely chopped celery cup chopped green pepper cup chopped sweet red pepper 2 cups chopped onions 11/2 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon dry mustard 1/2 tablespoon turmeric 21/2 cups vinegar 13A cups brown sugar Mix ingredients well. Simmer, uncovered, until thickened — about 50 minutes, stirring fre- quently, Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal. Yield: about 8 cups. i/2 * * * PEPPER RELISH 31 Ib. (15-18) sweet red pep- pers. 3 Ib. (12-15) green peppers 3 lb. (12-15) medium onions 4 cups vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon mustard seed 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon celery seed 2 tablespoons salt Wash pepers, remove seed cores. Peel onions. Put vege- tables through food chopper, using coarse blade. Place in large preserving kettle, cover with boiling water and let stand 5 minutes. Drain thor- oughly. Add vinegar, sugar, apices and salt; cook until vege- tables are tender — about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour into hot, sterilzed jars and seal. Yield: about 12 cups. * * FRUIT TAMALE 8 large or 12 medium ripe tornatoes (3 lb.) 1i/2 cups coarsely chopped peaches 11/2 cups chopped pears 2 cups chopped apples 13/ cups chopped onions 1 cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons whole mixed pickling spice 1 small hot red pepper (2tbsp. chopped) or 6 small dried chili peppers 23/ cups brown sugar 2 ceaspoons salt 13/2 cups vinegar Combine chopped vegetables and fruits, Tie spices (including dried chili peppers if used) loosely in a cheesecloth bag. Add spice bag, sugar and salt to vinegar, bring to boiling point and add other ingredients. Cook, uncovered, until thicken- ed — about 1 hour, stirring oc- casionally. •Remove spice bag; pack in hot, sterilzed jars and seal. Yield: about 8 cups. * * ,g MUSTARD BEANS 2 pounds yellow beans cups cut beans) 2 teaspoons tumeric 3/2 cup mustard 34 cup flour 1% teaspoons salt 2 cups brown sugar 4 cups vinegar 4 teaspoons ,celery seed Wash beans, trim ends and string it necessary. Cut into 1 - inch lengths. Cook in boiling, salted water until just tender. Do not over -cook. Mix tumeric, mustard. flour, salt and brown sugar to a smooth thin paste with 3/2 cup of the vinegar. Heat remaining vinegar and celery seed to the boiling point. Slowly add hot vinegar to the mustard paste, blending well. Cook, stirring constantly until slight- ly thickened, about 5 minutes. Add beans to mustard sauce, blending well. Bring to boil and pour into hot, sterilized jars and seal. Store in a cool, dry place. Yield: about 8 cups. * * * CHOW CHOW 30 medium green tomatoes (71/2 lb.) cup table (bag) salt or 3/4 cup coarse salt 3/ medium cabbage (3 cups minced) 3 green peppers 2 sweet red peppers 3 medium onions 63/ cups vinegar 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon celery seed 1 tablespoon mustard seed 34 tablespoon whole cloves Put tomatoes through food chopper, using coarse blade. Combine with salt and let stand 1 hour, Put into cheesecloth bag arid let drain overnight. Add cabbage, peppers and onions which have been put through food chopper. Mix vegetables together and add vinegar, sugar and spices, tied loosely in a cheesecloth bag. Cook, uncovered, over Iow heat and until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Pour into hot, sterilized jars and seal. Yield: about 12 cups. * * * CURRY SLICES 1 tablespoon whole mixed pickling spice 2 cups vinegar 3/2 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon curry powder 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon salt 34 teaspoon pepper 2 quarts sliced, peeled medium cucumbers 2 cups . sliced, peeled small white onions 3 green or sweet red pepper, chopped Tie whole spice loosely in cheesecloth bag. Combine vine- gar, sugar, curry powder, mus- tard, salt and pepper and bring to boil with spices. Add cucum- bers, onions, and chopped pep- s per and bring to boil. Boil 5 minutes Drain and save liquid. Remove spice bag and pack vegetables into hot, sterilized jars. Bring vinegar mixture to boiling point and pour over pickles, to overflowing, Seal. Yield: about 8 cups. 34 AWFUL EXAMPLE A teacher was giving a health (8 talkto her class, and warned her pupils never to kiss animals and birds. "Can you give me an instance of the dangers of this, Harry?" she asked one boy. 'Yes, miss, my Aunt Alice used to kiss her dog." "And what happened?" asked the teacher. "It died," Two Blondes and a Bomb (Verbal)--- •ATALIE TRUNDY 16 -year-old Natalie Trundy, a blonde screen starlet, has un. leashed a mild bomb at Mar- lene Dietrich, another blonde actress. Natalie, arriving in MARLENE DIETRICH New York from Rome with two poodles and several w e 11 - chosen words, called Marlene a "cold fish". She said that at a press conference, the veteran film queen threw her gloves in- to Natalie's face, declared she'd never make another picture with her and 'thereafter "never spoke to me", Natalie, on stage and in TV since she was 10, had been making her film debut with Marlene in "The Monte, Carlo Story". FAN MAIL — KING SIZE — Hollywood actress Kim Novak stands behind what may well be the world's largest postcard. Her' admirers in Anderson, Ind., sent the 40 -by -60 -inch card to her after thousands signed their names to it. The postage charge was $3.93. A Super -Spy Who Never Existed Who is the world's most in- trepid spy? Many people would say Robert Throckmorton Lin- coln, whom Radio Moscow calls "Colonel Lincoln". Born in Slippery Rock, Ar- . kansas, in 1909; he used to be a rum -runner. No superlative can do justice .to his skill. He fought and won single- handed battles in Persia against a whole army of Soviet oper- ators; penetrated to secret Atozn- grad and returned with a com- plete H-bomb; calmed unruly tribes in Afghanistan, disarmed a band of Jap conspirators on a Pacific island who plotted to as- sassinate General *MacArthur, and discovered Hitler alive in a Patagonian cave some time after the world was satisfied that he'd died. Known by a score of aliases, he is frequently seen in dif- ferent places simultaneously, is a champion marksman, dare- devil pilot, expert mountaineer, a wizard in codes and ciphers, a man of a hundred faces. There's only one thing wrong with him, Ladislas Farago tells us in his book "War of Wits"— a revealing world survey of the secrets of espionage and sabo- tage—he doesn't exist. He was cooked up over an after-dinner drink one night in 1948 in Teheran by U.S. Am- bassador John Wiley and his political officer, Gerald Dooher. Listening to Moscow radio, they were reduced to helpless laugh- ter by a Soviet tale about a ubiquitous U.S. agent,' and de- cided to oblige the Russians by creating Robert T. Lincoln out of their imaginations. To the dismay of Moscow propagandists, he was suddenly everywhere, his name and ex- ploits were on everyone's lips. It was soon common to meet people, especially in bars, who swore they'd actually seen him, worked with him, or shared a room with him. The bubble burst in April, 1950, when Cyrus L. Sulzberger of the 'New York Times' picked up a clue to the fabulous Lincoln in Teheran and exposed him as an amusing fraud. But his name continues to turn up at intervals on Radio Moscow, which claims that Sulzberger's story was printed to camouflage the fact that Lincoln is still as active as ever. He's real to this extent, Farago says: he represents the intelligence officer as he exists in the popular mind. How mistaken that conception can be is further illustrated by the case of Berthold Jacob, a German journalist who in the 1930s wrote extensively about the German army then being secretly rearmed, and published a book giving practically every detail of its its organization; the personnel of the revived General Staff, the army ' group com- mands, various military districts, even the rifle platoons attached to the recently formed Panzer divisions, and the names of the 168 commanding generals, with biographical sketches. When Hitler was shown the book he flew into a rage, sum- moned his intelligence adviser, Col. Walther Nicolai, and de- manded: "How is it possible for one man to find out so much about the Wehrmacht?" Nicolai decided to find out from Jacob himself. An agent, Hans Weseman, was assigned to contact him and trap him. He set himself up in Basle, near the German border, as literary agent, masquerading as a refu- gee and striking up friendships With exiles from Nazi Germany. Then he got into touch with Jacob in London, inviting him to come to Basle t0 discusi e Iiterary deal. Jacob went with his wife,who was left at a hotel while he and Wesemann went to a fashionable restaurant to lunch. While Jacob excused him- self for a few moments, Hans Wesemann slipped a knock -out drug into his drink which soon put him into a doze. Apologizing of the waiter for his "inebriated" friend Wesemann asked the waiter to help carry him to a waiting car. A moment later he was on his way to Germany. On arrival in Berlin he was driven straight to Gestapo H.Q., where Col. Nicolai at once de- manded: "Tell us, Herr Jacob! Where did you get the data for your confounded book?" "Everything in my book," Jacob replied, "came from re- ports published in the German Press, Herr Oboerst!" He explained that an obituary notice in a Nuremberg paper told him that Maj. -Gen. Haase was C.O. of the 17th Division, recently transferred there, for he was described thus when attend- ing a funeral. In an Ulm paper Jacob found a society -page para- graph about the wedding of a Col. Vierow's daughter to a Major Stemmermann. Vierow was described as the C.O. of the 36th Regt. of the 25th Division, and the Major as the Division's signal officer. Also present at the wedding was Maj. -Gen. Schaller, described as comman- der of the Division, who'd come from Stuttgart, where it had its H.Q. That virtually ended the in- terrogation. Nicolai reported to Hitler: "This Jacob had no ac- complice, my Fuehrer, except his own military journals and the Daily Press. He prepared his re- markable Order of Battle from scraps of information he discov- ered in obituary notices, wed- ding announcements, and so forth. This Jacob is the greatest intelligence genius I have ever encountered in my thirty-five years in the service." In intelligence, the smallest detail may give a clue to big problems. At one time during the last war we were really afraid that the Germans might have xnade important progress in the development of an atomic bomb, for it was discovered that they were hoarding thorium, which could be used in a well - advanced stage of an A-bomb project. After much involved probing, the secret hoard was traced to a German chemical firm manu- facturing thoriated toothpaste, which was simply hoarding all the thorium it could get to monopolize the market, This im- portant information satisfied us that the Germans were not using it for A-bomb purposes. One crucial riddle of the war showed the resourceful Winston Churchill acting as his own in- telligence officer. By March, 1941, there was ample informa- tion in London to indicate that a German attack on Russia was definitely planned. This was re- layed to the joint Intelligence Committee for sifting and evalu- ating for the P.M. and War Cabinet. When the Committee decided that an attack was unlikely, despite convincing data, because it did not seem reasonable, Churchill gave orders that all raw reports concerning the mat- ter be sent directly to him with- out bothering him with deduc- tions and evaluations. On March 30, a report reached him from a highly trusted agent in the Balkans, describing a movement of five Panzer divi- sions. This convinced Churchill that Germany was preparing to Invade Russia, and he promptly warned Stalin. But Stalin, sus- pecting similar reports from his own secret service, evidently thought it just a British plot. Farago, from first-hand ex- perience, gives a vivid inside account of methods and tech- niques, illustrating them• with dramatic stories of exploits. It is one of the .most informative books ever 'written on the subject. Pass The Pickled Carnations Chrysanthemum petals in the form of a salad were eaten at a luncheon given by a French naturalist recently in honour of a friend from Japan, where chrysanthemum salad is a high- ly favoured dish. The flowers were carefully washed and then served in the way that we serve lettuce or watercress. Flowers as food may sound fantastic to some people, but in many parts of the world they play an important part in the menu particularly east of Suez. Flowers have been cultivated India, as well as in the wild re- gions of Afghanistan, for many years. The petals of certain varieties of young flower are soaked in a sugar solution and boiled until they form a stiff paste, which is powdered, with More sugar and moulded. Such dishes are hardly likely to appeal to Western palates. The Chinese, however, fre- quently cook lilies in milk and eat candied jasmine. In parts of Morocco guests are offered a coarse porridge served with a jelly made from pomegranate flowers. In Tsarist Russia sunflowers were a favourite meal with many peasants. Visitors to Cey- lon have sometimes been asked to sample butter - blossom which, boiled and flavoured with cinnamon or cloves, is quite pleasant to the taste. In Turkey the common yel- low lily, which grows in ponds and marshes, makes what to a Turk's taste is a delicious pre- serve. It is also used for mak- ing a cooling drink. In Britain people living in the country sometimes make a kind of tea from stinging nettles. A pickled salad made from carnations was popular in Bri- tain in the reign of Charles II. It was eaten at great banquets, and a liqueur called clove gilli- flower wine was also much in favour. Some people living in the northern counties of England still boil the young shoots of bistort, or "patience, dock." for the table, like spinach. This plant grows profusely in fields and meadows where 'the soil is moist, It was formerly used as a substitute for bread in Siberia in times of scarcity. At least one London hotel has in recent years provided spe- cial dishes for epicures in which the petals of the rose, violet and jasmine were used. In France, the petals of orange and lemon blossoms and of the white locust flower have been used freely in food. .Vim . :':i:;: ::>':.. ..i!:. •:r(:•'<.i NO DIET REQUIRED — This two -week-old baby hippo at the Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England, will some day have a shape like Mummy's. Weighing a mere 66 pounds at birth, the hefty youngster now scales better than 75 pounds. Baby still has a way to go, for her mother, Belinda, weighs two tons, while Papa Henry, offstage, tops family with a firm 'three tons. INTEGRATION PROCESS—As a lone student pickets the high school in 'Clinton, Tenn., to protist against integration, an unidentified Negro woman passes him. After some violence broke cut among colored and white students, police escorted '12 Negroes to safety away from fho school they've attended since last Monday.