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Zurich Herald, 1953-02-05, Page 2Casseroles can be dressed up with almonds, mushrooms or other good things and made into special party dishes or they can combine leftovers of yesterday's dinner and be plain family 'fare. But, in either case, they are a convenience and a time saver for the home cook because they can be prepared beforehand and pop- ped into the oven to heat while the salad is being tossed or an extra vegetable cooked. a * Many casseroles combine meat, lisle or chicken with both h starchy and a green vegetable, and constitute a meal -in -one dish that needs only a salad and a sweet to make a well-rounded meal. 41 4 Y A short-cut for casseroles that eall for white sauce is the substi- tution of canned soup for the eauce. It saves time and adds laver to many casserole dishes. Cream of mushroom, cream of celery, cream of chicken and to- mato are perhaps the most popu- lar soups to use in casseroles, ac- cording to Eleanor Richey Johns- ton, writing in The Christian Science Monitor. For toppings, potato chips, corn chips, plain and cheese crackers, corn or rice flakes or bread crumbs are equally suitable, the one chosen often depending on the taste of your family as well as the unain ingredient in. your casserole. When thinning the soup, you us- ually get the right consistency by Adding about aa can of milk or less to your can of soup. N a W A basic recipe, with several variations, for casseroles made with canned soup follow. TUNA -MUS IMO OM CASSEROLE 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup t i cup milk Chain Drive—Shipyard worker Alfred Johnson begins the long task of chipping rust from the Queen Elizabeth's 330 fathoms af bow anchor chain, as the Gouge liner lies in drydock at Southampton, England. The *hip is getting an extra -special oing-over in preparation far her Coronation Year sailings. 1 can (7 ounee) tuna, drained and coarsely flaked 1 E;;, cups crushed potato chips. 1 eup unsalted cooked green peas, drained. Empty soup in small casserole; add milk and mix thoroughly. Add tuna, 1 cup of potato chips and the peas; stir well. Sprinkle top with remaining 1,a cup potato chips. Bake at 350" F. for 20 min- utes. a a CRUNCHY CHICKEN CASSEROLE Follow proportions and direc- tions for making tuna casserole, using cream of chicken soup, cooked cubed chicken, cornflakes and unsalted cooked lima beans (drained). * * SALMON - CELERY CASSEROLE Follow proportions and direc- tions for tuna casserole, only use cream of celery soup, salmon and cheese crackers with unsalted cooked green beans tdrained), LOBSTER - IItUSUROOM CASSEROLE Follow proportions and direc- tions for tuna casserole, substi- tuting lobster for the tuna. A good combination for a spe- cial dinner casserole is cauli- flower and ham. This is the way to combine them in a casserole. CAULIFLOWER. - HAM SCALLOP 1 cauliflower 3 tablespoons batter or mar- garine 3 tablespoons flour 1 t.e cups milk Salt and pepper 1 cup chopped ham ae• pound Canadian cheese, • sliced 1 cup soft bread crumbs Separate cauliflower into fiowerlets; cook until slightly un- derdone. Make cream sauce with butter or margarine, flour, milk and seasonings. Add cheese and stir until cheese is melted. Place cauliflower in a casserole, sprin- kle with the ham and cover with the cheese sauce. Make wide border of the crumbs around the edge of baking dish. Bake at 350° F. 20-30 minutes, or until crumbs are lightly browned. Serves 6. If you have leftover cooked meat or if you've bought a small remount of luncheon meat, fix a casserole this way: LUNCHEON MEAT min CORN x`z pound luncheon meat 1 No. 2 can whole kernel corn 14 cup chopped parsley Ste teaspoon salt Sia teaspoon pepper 3 cups medium white sauce 1 cup rice cereal 2 teaspoons melted butter or margarine Cube meat and nix with drained corn and parsley, Sea- son. Put layers of corn mixture and white saucein greased baking dish, Crush cereal slight- ly; mix with melted butter and sprinkle over F. about 20 min- utes. Serves 6. * If you like a casserole dish us- ing fresh ground beef, here is one your family will enjoy. IiAM.BURGER CASSEROLE 1 pound hamburger 1 cup fine dry bread crumbs 1 cup milk: 2 medium onions Mci;rls In i nfgland—Looking like typical Canadian majorettes, these pretty English girls give a Western atmosphere to the American Air force European championships football game at London's Wembley Stadium. They went through their paces be- fore the game and at half-time with expert baton twhfrfing, struts and cheers. Fast "Stepping" Paraplegics—Rolling through intricate twists and turns of a fast-moving square dance, pretty paraplegic co-ed Bruce Aldendifer is swung by her partner, Marvin Berron. Both are students and participate ina special programme for paraplegics college students. -Looking on are two fellow wheel- chair occupants, Moe Trux'ell and James Lee. 3 medium potatoes (about 2Ve•:` cups peeled and sliced very thin) 1 can peas or 1 package.: frozen peas, cooked. e- Liquid from peas plus -Vater'`'' to make 1 cup ' 3-4 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons butter Salt and pepper to season Add crumbs and milk to meat and mix well. Chop 1 onion'very fine and add to meat mixture. Shape meat mixture into 12 'balls; roll in flour to coat lightly. Melt:' butter in skillet and add other. onion which has been sliced thin; cook gently until onion is trails. parent. Remove onion and save. Add meat balls to skillet and turn until they are browned on all sides. Arrange meat balls, peas and potatoes in 2 layers Ole greased 2 -quart casserole. Add butter remaining in skillet and the liquid. Sprinkle with season- ing. Cover and bake at 35e. 1+'. until potatoes are tender (*Mt 40 mins.). Serves 6-8. a a a . For an unusual vegetable .c -� :serole, try this sweet potato- prune otatoprune combination. PRUNE - SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE _ Cook 4 medium sweet potatoes; remove skins and cut lengthwise in slices about z, inch thick. Place alternate layers of sweet potatoes and prunes that have been cooked unsweetened and pitted (you'll need 1' cups). Sprinkle each layer with brown sugar (xaz cup). Salt. Add cup prune juice and 2 tablespoons lemon juice, Pour over top Ye cup melted butter or margarine. Bake uncovered at 350° F. 40-45 minutes. Baste with sirup in dish. A Bet About Horses Started The Movies The greatest entertainment in- dustry in the world started as a private bet between two Amer- icans. More than seventy years ago Governor Leland Stanford, of California, bet a friend 25,000 dollars that a horse at full speed took all four feet off the ground at once. To prove his theory he employ- ee Eadweard Muybridge, an en- terprising British photographer, to record with a camera a series of pictures of The Engineer, one of Stanford's thoroughbreds, gal- loping. It took Muybridge six months is. coordinate horse and cameras to prove Stanford's point. He did it by setting a row of cameras so that they all clicked within a fraction of a second of each other. As the horse galloped past h s set off the first camera, and the others worked automatically. He put the series of pictures in a stack, and later, thtunbing thein through, to his amazement Muy- bridge saw that The Engineer ap- peared to be running as the pho- tographs flipped. Muybridge's discovery started the manufacture of animated books of pictures. In 3881 he in- vented the zoophraxiscope, which was the forerunner of the moving picture camera, This machine was years ahead of its time, and was not appre- ciated at its true value. But it worked on exactly the same prin- ciple as the cinematograph which followed it. The zoophraxiscope guided Thomas Edison, and other pion- eers of the motion picture, in their experiments. HARD TO GET "No, I wouldn't say he was mean, but he's lefthanded and keeps his money in his right- hand pocket.'" King enry Wanted :His Horses Big King Henry VIII had very def- inite views about the horses of his day. They were not big -enough. He took it upon himself to iin- • prove the species by dictating that every horse in England un- der a certain size was to be founded up and killed. Under the supervision of Government inspectors the yeomen of the day spent a whole month massacring small horses, and except for the few wild stallions which escaped Henry's dragnet, every light fast horse in the country was wiped out. To carry a man in armour the heavy horses which Henry desir- ed had their advantages. But for racing they were slow and clumsy. There were races, of course. But they were either conducted on small ponies, refugees from the great massacre, or the "cart- horse" types which followed. 'Nobody though to question Henry's decision, and in the cen- tury that followed these massive steeds came to be accepted as ,the typical British^kbgrse. Then came the invention of gunpowder, and almost over- night the heavily armoured war- rior became obsolete. A lighter, faster and more mobile cavalry was needed. About the same time, too, sporting people begin to think of breeding horses to run faster. ' Full Circle James I was one of the first advocates of a new breed, de- claring that English horses were hopelessly slow. Various attempts were made afterwards to import lighter horses and cross -breed them with our own. But most people thought • that no good would come out of it, and a petition was made to James II to do something to pre- vent the good old English horse, "fit for the defence of the coun- try," from dying out. General Lord Fairfax declared violently that the result of cross- breeding English horses with "strangers nearer the sun" would be the ruin of England's heavy cavalry. He added that it was only being clone to produce "over -valued pygmy baubles" for racing men. But the Arab horse, with the added incentive of gunpowder, won the day. The real revolution in horse -breeding dates from 1706, when a Yorkshire mer- chant named Thomas Darley bought a bay colt in Syria and sent it back to Yorkshire. It turned out to be the inost valuable horse that ever_ lived, for from the Dailey Arabian are directly descended more than half the thoroughbred racing horses in the world. To -day the wheel has turned full circle, and it is the heavy horse which is in danger of ex- tinction. SALLY'S SALLIE RIAGE LICENSE "But he doesn't need any eooltng- oft period. Re's naturally cold• blooded." gook Burned Soup, So Had Him Roasted . Caught off a lee coast by a black south -easter, the 2,000 -ton windjammed Monkbarns clawed frantically for sea -room. With the screaming gale threat- ening to whip the masts out of her, giant seas flung the ship about like a child.'s toy. Superin- tending the desperate efforts to shorten sail was• the twenty-one- year-old second mate, for the cap- tain already bad his hands full down below. There, lashed to a table in the crazily bucketing saloon, lay the first mate. Torn from his hand- hold by a massive wave as it thundered aboard, he had been flung into the scuppers with a smashed skull and compound leg fracture. With no anaesthetics and only a block and tackle for bone -setting, the captain fought for the injured officer's life. Scarcely -was his crude surgery completed before another furious squall assailed the labouring Monkbarns. As she reeled under this fresh blow, the cargo of steel rails in her hold broke loose with a terrifying roar. Heeling over, with her yards almost touching the water, she wallowed within an ace of capsizing. But the superhuman efforts of captain and crew brought her safely to port, her cargo re - stowed, and with the injured first mate well on the way to recov- ery. The story of the Monkbarns is not an epic of the gale -whipped Atlantic or typhoon -infested Pa- cific. It happened in the Indian Ocean, where the tropic sun is always reckoned to blaze down and iridescent flying fish skim lazily over smooth green rollers. But in the southern wastes of this watery desert, ships meet some of the wildest weather in the world. any a brave vessel has fought for her life down there and lost, says Alan Villiers in his enthralling book, "The Indian Ocean." But the Indian Ocean can pro- duce other hazards besides its "Roaring Forties." While the twentieth century Comet sails overhead, linking East and West In airconditioned comfort; the Royal Navy still patrols below,, to check age-old piracy aridslav- ery in its costal waters. As recently as the last century no fewer than 1.9,000 ferocious pirates, operating from bases along the Trucial Coast, south of the Persian. Gulf, preyed on passing vessels. When they cap- tured an infidel ship she was first "purified." Then passengers and crew were bound and drag- ged singly to the gangway, where their throats were slit. Cut-throat's Great Wealth One of the worst of these fiends was Bahina ibn Jabir, who hail- ed from Kuwait, now a flourish- ing oil port. He commanded a gang of 2,000 cut-throats, a fleet of six ships and some coastal Ports. Piracy brought him fabul- ous wealth and a harem of 200 wives. One -eyed and hideous, scarred With sabre, spear and bullet wounds, Rahma never al- lowed his shirt to be removed or washed unless it either fell off or was torn off in battle! Outnumbered eventually in a sea - tight, he fired his own ship's magazine and blew himself and his henchmen sky-high. A bloodthirsty European pirate who once scourged the Indian Ocean was a man named Taylor. When his cook accidentally burn- ed the soup Taylor had hoax roasted alive, remarking that so fat a wretch should burn well! From one prize Taylor took so many diamonds that his 300 men got 42 apiece. One of them was given a single large stone as his share. Swearing he had been cheated, he seized a hammer and smashed at the priceless jewel until it split into fragments! In fascinating detail, Alan Vil- liers relates the colourful history- of istoryof this vast ocean and trio shape and men who have sailed upon its waters. The curfew tolls the Knell of parting day The line of cars winds slowly o'er the lea, The pedestrian plods his ab- sentminded way, And leaves the world quite un- expectedly. Sometimes It's Lard To Be A Lady—Curtsying in a fashion which no countess could equal, Christine Knox, 2, above, greets a titled visitor at the annual Children's Blue Bird` Party, in London. Below, Christine almost forgets she's a lady, tells Gustino de Meo to get off her train or she'll let him have it, as the amorous two- year-old attempts to steal a kiss.