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Zurich Herald, 1953-04-16, Page 2TABLE TAMS Ar d ew . To a real lover of stews ---and most men are just that -there's nothing like the perfume of sim- mering meat, vegetables and Apices assailing the nostrils when they come home at the end of the day. Or even in the middle of the day, for that matter. So here are some recipes guar- anteed to satisfy even the most discriminating stew fancier. * Back in great -grandpa's day Brunswick stew was generally made with squirrel. But most modern recipes call for chicken instead, for which I, for one, ani thankful. But it's a grand dish, properly made, and no mistake. * * BRUNSWICK STEW I four -pound chicken, cut in pieces Flour cup salad oil 21/2 cups canned tomatoes 3 cups lima beans 3 cups whole kei.°nel corn 2 teaspoons sugar teaspoon cayenne 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 11/2, tablespoons salt lles. cups water 14 cup chopped onion Shake chicken with flour in paper sack and brown in salad oil. Add onions; stir until onions are transparent. Add tomatoes, water and seasonings. Cover and simmer until neat is almost ten- der. Remove chicken, and strip from bones, leaving meat in large pieces. Add vegetables to stew; return chicken meat to stew; continue cooking until vegetables are tender. Serves 8 generously. Variations of this stew may be made by using 2 pounds of bone- less lamb or veal instead of chick- en. Cilbe meat before cooking. Short ribs may be used to make a savory stew. For varia- tion, use noodles in this instead of potatoes. ,, A stew with dumplings may snake seconds necessary for the real stew lover. So, while this recipe serves 6, you had better increase the ingredients if you expect many calls for more. If there's any left you can skip a Queen's Piper -Alexander Rod- erick MacDonald, of Kettins, Scotland, dresses in his full re- galia of the Royal Stuart tartan, when he plays the bagpipes for Queen Elizabeth H. He plays for her on the grounds of Bucking- ham Palace every morning, and also at royal banquets. Mac - Donald's medals attest to his more than 20 years of service in the British Army, day and then serve it under crusts in individual pies -- and no one will recognize the former stew! STEW 'N' DUMPLINGS 2 pounds beef stew meat Flour 3 tablespoons fat 2 cups water 4 peppercorns. 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 4 carrots, sliced 6 small wedges cabbage (about 1 pound) 1 medium onion, sliced Roll meat in flour. Melt fat in deep skillet and brown meat well Add water, peppercorns, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 1 hour. If necessary, add water so there is 1 inch of liquid in pan. Spread vegetables on top of stew meat. Cover. Simmer 15 min- utes. * 4 DUMPLINGS 2 cups sifted flour 1 tablespoon double acting baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ? 9. cup shortening 1 cup tomato juice Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in shorten- ing until mixture is the consist- ency of corn meal. Stir in toma- to juice. Drop dough by table- spoonsfuls onto vegetables. Co- ver and cook 15 minutes. If ne- cessary, remove dumplings and vegetables to thicken gravy, SHORT RIB STEW WITIlI NOODLES 2 pounds sllort ribs of beef 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 2 cups water 4 cup chopped green pepper teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 2 bay leaves 4 carrots, cut in halves 4 small onions 2 teaspoons flour 1 tablespoon water ."•. ? A teaspoon gravy sauce (optional) 4 ounces medium noodles Sprinkle beef with salt and pepper and brown quickly in heavy skillet. Add water, green pepper, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaves. Bring to boil and add carrots and onions. Cover;.reduce heat .and simmer gently 1 hour. Drain off excess fat, Mix flour with 1 tablespoon water and gravy sauce and gradually stir into the stew. Add noodles to stew; cover and simmer about 20 minutes longer, or until meat, vegetables and noodles are ten- der. Serves 4. A universal favorite is oyseer stew, easy to make but special in its exact ' requirements. It should always be served steam- ing hot -and the oysters must be cooked only until edges curl. Some stew fanciers like a small amount of thickening added to an oyster stew (about 2 table- spoons flour for 1 pint of oysters) while others like it thin. If you do add it, do so before putting in the milk. OYSTER STEW 1 pint oysters with liquor 21/2 cups milk and?^i cup thin cream 3 tablespoons butter (or more) .e teaspoon salt Dash pepper Heat oysters in their liquor; add seasoning. When edges of oysters curl, add milk and cream; bring just to boiling point, Heat soup plates and place butter in each plate. Pour stew over but- ter. Garnish with dash of pa- prika. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 2. (Later garment 6 Apostle of the �lantllPd 9 Sk111 12. ;it succession 1, wort -known ':amity of Italy 14 Working party 16 I'out'dat.lon 16. On the higb water 17. Poem 18. 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Charge 63 Attempt 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 rt) 11 14 15 17 W2 23 :5 24 27 28 25 29 20 26 30 31 33 "4 54 35 36 ..,{•wt f 57 40 41 42 46 38 39 44 4-' 40 49 30 56 59: 55 Answer Elsewhere on This Page A "Short" Ride -"Shorty," the world's smallest full-grown hot se, gives airline passenger service representative Pat Powell a "short" ride. The 59 -pound, 30 -inch long horse is to be on exhibition at a children's playground. Millions Would Die For "Golden Stool" If you travel through the Brit- ish possessions in Africa, you. will find that almost every native tribe has its own ideas about its ancestry. But nowhere will' you, find a stranger story than in Ash- anti, a small British possession bordering on the Gold Coast colony. The Ashantis worship a golden - stool; to them it is the mother and father of their people and - the home of their souls. Legend says that their ancestors came out of a hole in the ground, and to keep watch over them the Gold- en Stool rose from a lake. Nation-wide wars have been fought over that Stool, and its power over. ,the :million natives is so great that any one of them would willingly die for it. The Stool has a throne of its own in a secret jungle hiding -place. Even the king, Prempeh II would not dare to sit on it. Back in 1899 Sir Frederic Hodgson, governor of the nearby Gold Coast, paid a visit to Ashan- ti. It was a brief period of peace between two of the seven Ashanti wars which were fought with the British before the country was finally defeated, Sir Frederic showed a fatal lack of tact, for the first words he said were: "Where is the Golden Stool? Why am I not sitting on the Golden Stool this very mo- ment? Why did you not take the opportunity of my coming to bring the Golden Stool and give it to me to sit upon? These words had the effect of causing a new war. Then, in 1921, the British tried to build a road through its jtuigle hiding -place. The tribal labourers were so frightened that they refused to. work. While they dallied the custod- ians of the Stool dug it up and re- buried it m a safer spot. That night have been the end of the trouble, but one of the custodians stole some of the Stool's golden ornaments and sold them. The Ashanti immediately put the blame on the British. That was quite enough to cause - another war, but the British au- thorities managed to track down the thief and his accomplices be- fore the trouble could come to a head• After 11:ese unfortunate epi- sodes it seems as though -the Brit- ish paid more respect to the Stool. In 1942 the Government ceded a large section of the Crown lands to the king "for the support and dignity of the Golden Stool of Ashanti." Nowadays the Stool makes rare appearances when there is some special ceremonial. It is carried in state on a litter and defended by hundreds of armed tribesmen. Even the British Commissioner, who rules Ashanti jointly with the king, pays honfage to the Stool when it is carried past. It has become a symbol of power in the land. When Ashantis' only daily newspaper announced recently: "EISENHOWER GETS WHITE HOUSE STOOL," every- body who could read know what it meant. A woman arrested for shop- lifting told the court thal she tried a hat on, and it was se small she forgot it was en her .head when she left the shop, Thread Prom Sox Cut Prison Bars Recent sensational prison es- capes just go to emphasize the fact that no jail has yet been built that will hold a really de- termined prisoner, provided he has the patience to wait his op- portunity. The ingenuity ui prisoners who have made up their minds to es- cape is astonishing. Albert Rum- ford, who was lodged in a New Jersey jail, induced bis wife to send him a cake into which she, had carefully baked a few hack- saw blades. With these he sawed away the bars of his cage while his fellow • prisoners sang lustily to drown the noise of - scraping. Then, by tying together sash -cords, he lowered himself . to the ground =,rid escaped: -• An even more ingenious fellow was ‚Frederick Treadwell, who langished in Lyon County Prison, U.S.A. His friends tried the old dodge of sending him hacksaw blades in cakes and other eatables, but the v arders broke to pieces every article of food sent hime. But Treadwell was not baffled. Every prisoner was allowed soap; and of sand there was plenty. So, he painstakingly unravel- led the socks his wife had, lov- ingly knitted for him and satu- rated the threads in soap, so that sand would adhere to them. Then he cut through the bars of his cell! A thread was passed round each bar, and by pulling the ends alternately with either hand, he managed to wear away a tiny groove each day. Time was of no consequence, for be was "inside" for life. But the most persistent es- capist of all was a Frenchman named Salvador, who escaped 82 times from jail and 14 times from the galleys. In 1807 he was sentenced to death, for training those who tried to prevent his r •nr n<. The judge at Toulon who sentenced him declared that "DO prison could be construct- ed that be could not escape from." Asked Off To Attend Grandma's Funeral Became One Of Screen's Greatest Actors Is there any more accomplish- ed film star than Charlie Chap- lin? "Yes!" decided the New York critics recently ... and at their annual meeting they voted Sir Ralph Richardson the best actor of the year. Sir Ralph was elected tops for his performance in "Sound Bar- rier." Chaplin was •second with a mere five votes to ten. Yet, not so long ago, as success sagas are measured, the actor of the year worked in a dreary, dusty office, sticking stamps on envel- opes and filling inkwells. One day he asked for an af- ternoon off to go to his grand- mother's funeral. Never was the hoary excuse so true and mo- mentous. The old lady's lawyers told him he had inherited £200. The bequest meant liberty to choose a career -and freedom to mould his whole future, Ralph Richardson took a last quick look at his insurance office -and promptly sacked himself. "They were going to sack me, anyway, the same day," he adds drily. . Granny knew he wanted noth- ing but to be close to the theatre. Young Ralph picked out the smallest seaside repertory com- pany in England and frantically begged to be allowed to pay for the privilege, of acting in small "walk-on" parts. "Nothing do- ing," he was told. But then the manager noticed a fleck of paint on the youngster's sleeve, learn- ed he had been to art school, showed hi.m the canvas set -pieces waiting to be painted for the fol- lowing week ' . . . and so Ralph Richardson began his acting career as a. scene -painter. In . fact be had to be scene - painter, scene - shifter, sound - effects man and prompter rolled into one. Crouching beneath the stage, he followed the script by candlelight. When the actors for- got their lines, they stamped on the boards - and a shower of dust often put the candle out! Such were the inauspicious be- ginnings of th.e quiet and modest personality whom it is rumour- ed may one day become Britain's first actor baronet. There have been plenty of actor knights, but why not a "Bart." for the man whom the critics describe with such glittering. words as "genius" and "greatest -in • laving. memory?" • .Moviegoers remember how he stole: latrels from Olivia de Ha viland in "The Heiress," how su- perbly he impressed distinction. on Carol Reed's "The Fallen Idol." They recall his consum- mate performance opposite Vivi- en Leigh in "Anna Karenina," his bank clerk study in "Hone at Seven." The Christmas before last, America's casting experts had to choose a pre-eminent actor to play Scrooge in a Christmas night coast-to-coast television hook-up of "A Christmas Carol." They de•- termincd to secure Sir Ralph Richardson at any cost. He flew the Atlantic simply to play Scrooge for one night. Stop- ping, only to shop on behalf of his seven-year-old son, Smallie, he flew home next day with a hale of New York toys and cans• ed a nursery sensation. Again, when Carol Reed cast him as the salty merchant sea captain in Conrad's "An Outcast of the Islands," Richardson de- monstrated his painstaking thor- oughness. Day by day, in swel- tering heat, he donned his full sea -togs, no matter what shots were being taken. One uncom- fortably torrid day Carol Reed decreed that the camera would be focused only for close-ups from the waist up and, therefore, com- plete costume wouldn't be need- ed. • - Richardson quietly insisteel>, "If I was wrongly dressed," he said, "It might show by the w I stood," Last year, when Sir Ralph turned film producer, he ap- proached the film studio with the zest of a new idea. "I don't like films that drag on, become ted'. ous," he said. For three weeks he rehearsed his cast as thor- oughly as for a stage play. A phenomenon of patience, he even fussed about the angle of an actress's elbows. Then he tools his company on the floor ,so dis- ciplined and word-perfect that "Home at Seven" was shot with- in fourteen days - the fastest British . first feature n'lade hs modern times, "Acting on the screen," says Richardson, "is like acting under a microscope. It's like seeing one's own passport photograph the size of a house, moving -ant and talking. So discipline must be severe," Keenly aware of his faults, Sir Ralph Richardson seldom. attends ' his own premieres. One day, he saw himself advertised in a hoc- ror film, "The Ghoul." Unable to remember it, he bought a ticket -and found it was a quickie made nineteen .years before when he was taking small film parts. Though Sir Ralph began with £200, he has come up the hard way. Gradually he progressed from scene -painting and sound effects to walk-ons and shall speaking roles. When a famous, Shakespearian actor visited his home town, Richardson pestered him for an audition. The great man consented to hear him as he changed from stage costume to street clothes, but quickly yell- ed, "Stop, Stop!" "Won't I do, sir?" asked Ri- chardson, almost in tears. "You're all right, you're hired,' said' the great man. "But you're standing on my trousers!" For years Richardson played nearly every role in a Shakes- pearian stock company. When at length he asked for a five -shilling raise he was refused. No one ever thought he would climb to stardom. "Now I've put on make-up se many times," says Sir Ralph, "that I'm afraid one day when I wipe it: off there'll he .nothing left underneath-"- Medic,O: Hint t' rostbtte T,•e‘.,riletit. The best way to treat frostbitten feet, legs or hands is by rapid tbawing in a waren bath at a temperature of 95 to 113 degrees F. This ans- wer to an old and serious prob- lem comes from Canadian aur- geon.s after many careful experi- ments with animals, They Lound that, to be most effective, to rnat- kedly reduce the loss of limb, the thawing must be immediate, rapid and penerating. The \:arm bath does the job; so also does dia- thermy. The rapid thawing painful, but it can be made more tolerable with sedatives. Love Laughs At international Boundaries Kiss across border on De!roit's International Bridge is given by Jevan Urosevic to his bride, Evangeline. He could net enter U. S. nor she Canada. Love laughs at locksmiths and other barriers, even the Iron Cur - fain. This refugee couple, Rudoif Persing and Marianne Pfalz, took their vows in the American sector refugee camp inside West Berlin. While other refugees attended, Camp Pastor Schultz per. formed the ceremony.