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Zurich Herald, 1953-11-19, Page 2Here's an old-time trick that makes doughnuts much easier to digest by those who find the or- dinary fried sort too greasy for eomfort. Plunge the doughnuts 'quickly into a bowl of very hot water just as soon as they are taken out of the hot grease. Drain them On absorbent paper as usual. If done quickly, the doughnuts do not become soggy, •but excess grease is floated off, a * For those who do not care for :fried doughnuts, there are baked doughnuts that are delicious. Baked Doughnuts (Makes about 11/2 dozens) 34..cup scalded milk 3 tablespoons shortening 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon nutmeg y teaspoon cinnamon 1 cake yeast 2 tablespoons lukewarm water 1 egg, beaten We cups plus 2 tablespoons sift- ed flour iron -on Designs in Vibrant Colors faam e EASY! Just a stroke of your iron—and lovely, bright flowers M yellow, green and blue spar- kle on kitchen, bedroom and guest linens! No embroidery, and they're washable . . . 14 motifs to use on curtains, tablecloths, napkins, aprons, sheets and pil- lowcases! Iron 'em on—that's all! Wash- able! Pattern 780 has 14 motifs; six baskets, 23/4 x 4 to 41/2 x 93/4; eight flower sprays, 11/2 x 13/4 to 1 x 3 inches. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1,123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. EXCITING VALUE! Ten, yes TEN popular, new designs to cro- ohet, sew, embroider, knit — printed right in the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book, Plus many more patterns to send for —ideas for gifts, bazaar money- anakers, fashions! Send 25 cents for your copy. 780 Melted butter Powdered sugar Pour hot milk over combined sugar, shortening, salt and spices. Cool to lukewarm. Stir the yeast with two tablespoons lukewarm water, and add this to cooled milk mixture. Add beaten egg and mix well. Stir in the flour, beating well. Cover dough with a clean, moist cloth, and allow it to stand in a warm place until it has doubled in bulk, about one hour. Turn dough out onto a well -floured board, turning it over several times to shape it into a soft ball. Lightly roll dough Out to one-half inch thickness, being careful not to stretch this soft dough. Cut dough with a floured three-inch doughnut cutter, and carefully place doughnuts two inches apart on a well -greased cooky sheet. Brush the tops with melt- ed butter and place the sheet in a warm spot for 20 minutes, or until the doughnuts have doub- led in bulk. Bake at 425°F. for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the oven, brush the tops with melted butter again, then roll in powdered sugar. ;p g * Jelly Doughnut Muffins 2 tablespoons shortening 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg beaten 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt / teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 cup milk Y2 cup tart jelly Melted butter 1 cup finely chopped nuts Cream the shortening and sug- ar, then add the egg and mix well. Alternately add the dry ingredients, sifted together, and the milk to the creamed mixture. Place half the batter in well - greased muffin tins. Place 2 teaspoons jelly on top of each half-filled tin, then cover with remaining batter. Bake at 400° F. for 2 minutes. Remove from the oven, turn out of muffin tins and roll them immediately in melted butter, then chopped nuts. * h Now for a basic doughnut recipe that can be "dressed up" in dozens of attractive ways. BASIC DOUGHNUT RECIPE (Makes about 21/2 dozen aver- age -sized doughnuts.) 2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon soda i8 teaspoon nutmeg ?/s teaspoon ginger 2 tablespoons shortening Id cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/3 cup buttermilk Fat, for frying Thoroughly cream the short- ening and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Sift the dry ingredients together, then add to the creamed mixture, al- ternately with the buttermilk, beating after each addition. Chill dough, then turn it out onto a Iightly floured board. Work with only part of the dough at a time. Roll dough out to 7/4 -inch thick- ness and cut with a floured cut- ter. Fry in deep fat heated to 375° F (hot enough to delicately brown a 1/4 -inch square of bread in 30 seconds). Fry doughnuts about 2 or 3 minutes, turning them over after they are brown- ed on the bottom. Fry about 4 'resein.g li:ngengerrtent .-• dhviously pressed for time during his recent visit to the U. S. S. Iowa at Spithead, England, Petty Offi- ater Ernest Chiverell of the Royal blavy waits in the ship's tailor shop while his trousers get a "lend-lease crease," Applying the steam is ship's serviceman Edwin Rottinghous, Model Pair — Model looks at mocielas Louise Baker gets a close- up of "Vesta" the world's first transparent dog. Just displayed at the annual Veterinary Symposium; Vesta will soon tour many leading cities. Developed by the .Gaines Dog Research Center, Vesta is modeled after a female Great Dane. She was construct- ed by the Deutsches Gesundheits;`Museum, Cologne, Germany. She was flown here, where electronics experts installed an intri- cate sound system which enables Vesta to "talk" for several minutes. As she outlines interesting, facts about herself and dogs in general, each of the various',organs mentioned lights up. (Every detail of her body, including skeleton, teeth, muscular system and internal organs, is faithfully reproduced in plastic. Vesta is life-sized, being 51/2 feet long and 31/2 feet high. at a time, and drain well upon removing them from hot fat. y * * Some variations follow: Chocolate Doughnuts—Omit the butter and spices, and add 2 squares (ounces) melted chocos late. Nut-Nuts—Add 1 cup finely chop- ped nuts, and the grated rind of 1 orange along with the last addition of flour. Another time, substitute coconut for nuts. Jelly or Fruit Filled Doughnuts —Place a stoned date, some rais- ins, or 2 teaspoons jelly between 2 rounds of doughnut dough. Press the edges of the two rounds firmly together moistening with bit of water. Lower them into deep hot fat very carefully. For variety, crinkle the edges of the dough before frying, or, for special occasions, cut dough- nuts into heart, diamond, or ani- mal shapes. New Twists—Cut dough into ob- long pieces, then make 3 length- wise slashes in the dough, but do not cut completely through to the end. Twist or braid these 3 sections before frying. Goody Balls—Simply make small balls of doughnut dough, fry, and then roll in sugar. Good Fortune Doughnuts—Cut the dough into horseshoe shapes, then, after frying, stud these horseshoes with cloves to re- semble nails. Rabbit Doughnuts—Encase a slice of sharp cheese between two rounds of doughnut dough be- fore frying. Seal and moisten edges as for fruit -filled dough- nuts. Doughnut Delights—Make with slices of apple or fresh peaches. Even firm berries are good. En- case the fruit between two rounds of doughnut dough, seal- ing and moistening. Serve hot, with a topping of sweetened whipped cream. When Rale Starts down Shut What would you say it you were sitting patiently in a wait- ing -room and suddenly the win- dow opened itself — or shut — itself — although nobody h a d gone near it? "Ghosts?' Non- sense. It's the weather that does it. Pilot models of such wu.ctows, which will close autocratically when it rains and open again when the rain stops, have been constructed by a New Yore firm. Small electric motors art the cause of the "ghost" action They are worked by relays that are connected with small printed - circuit grids installed outside the window. When even one drop of rain strikes the grid, the mechan- ism is started off and the win- dow is shut, When the grid dries, the window is automatically opened. lattt the device can be set to respond to any degree of moisture -- from a fine mist to a heavy downpour. When manu- factured in quantity the whole thing will come out cheap enough for the ordinary home -owner to 'he same company has already been turning out e device which automatically raises and ,,lowers car -hoods, according to {he wea- ther. It is — excuse us while we go and shut the windows. Aprove not of him who com- mends all you tiny. rr ettkile F DEATH '/IPED OUT HRTY THOUSAND St. Pierre, on the Island of Mar- tinique, lay under the shadow of Mont Pelee—Naked Mountain. It had been a volcano, but now it was believed to be extinct, The crater had been transformed by time into a beautiful lake. The once barren and forbidding moun- tain sides were now cloaked by prosperous plantations of sugar cane. But Mont Pelee was not extinct, merely slumbering. Deep inside it had a burning heart that was growing stronger and more fiery with every passing year. On May 5th, 1902, the sleeper stirred. Black smoke poured from its crater and molten lava flowed down its sides, catching a score and more plantation workers off their guard. Those who lived on the moun- tainside heeded Pelee's warning, and moved to the city of St. Pierre below, swelling its popu- lation to something like 30,000. On the night of May 7th, the mountain sent up a magnificent display of natural fireworks. At ten minutes to eight on the morning of May 8th Mont Pelee opened up full blast of its awful artillery. Streaks of flame shot hundreds of feet into the air. Day became night in a matter of min- utes as the smoke pall darkened the heavens for miles around. Then, choked by its own lava, Pelee blew its head off. Thous- ands of tons of incandescent ashes rained down on the city. Sudden- ly, like the opening of a mighty furnace, the flank of the moun- tain facing the city burst open in a gigantic fissure. An immense volume of steam, fiery ash and poisonous gases gushed on the city withan un- believable force. In three minutes that awful suffocating jet of death wiped out 30,000 souls. It was no ordinary volcanic eruption, no steady flow of molten lava—it was a superheated hur- ricane which had burst from the fissured side of Mont pelee. It scalded, burnt and suffocated. Once inhaled into the lungs it brought about instant death. Peo- ple were struck dead just as they stood or sat. A child was found clutching her doll; a clerk bent over his desk, pen still in hand; an. old man was still in the at- titude of drinking from a bowl. Houses collapsed like packs of cards, ships turned turtle off the shore. Two million tons of ash fell on Barbados, 200 miles to the south. • . In a matter of minutes St. Pierre was transformed from a *gay city to another Pompeii, its streets buried under six feet of ash. The frightful toll of life e .Cob This feline ''gour- t' wouldn't trade one of his whiskers for cat food, but you better not pass him up when corn on the cob is on the menu. With some aid from his mistress, Mrs. Frederick Woltman, the S:i #t"ese cat gnaws the cob clean and meows for seconds. Modern Etiquette: Q Is it ever permissible for the pian to walk on the inside of the pavement when accompanying a woman? A. Only if they are making their way through a rough, jost- ling crowd, and the man can pre- tect the woman better by keep- ing on the inside. Q. What should one do at the dinner table if one is asked a question just at the moment one is conveying a bite of food to- wards the mouth? A. Most certainly don't put the food into the mouth and then attempt to answer the question. It is much better to return the fork to the plate, answer the question, and then resume eat- ing. Q. If a person does not intend to go in costume, should he ac- cept an invitation to a fancy- dress ball? A. It is better if he does not accept. Any person should ac- cept an invitation only if he is willing to enter into the festivi- ties in a sincere manner. Q. Isn't it all right to mail out handwritten wedding invitations? • A. Yes. Informal notes, writ- ten ' on one's personal stationary, taste. are in perfectly good would seem easier, however, when the guest list is large,• to mail out the engraved type of invitation. Q. Is it proper for a man to offer his hand In greeting to as woman? A. Under ordinary circum- stances, the man never offers his hand to a woman unless she of- fers hers first. However, if they are very good friends, they usually offer their hands simultaneously upon meeting. 4. What is considered thio standardised fee for the bride- groom to give to the minlxtem who performs tite wedding cere- Many? • A., There is no standardized fee, The bridegroom gives ae- cording to his means, taken by Vesuvius in the first and seventeenth centuries was mora than doubled by Mont Pelee', savage outburst. It was not a volcano but a hur- ricane which brought disaster to hundreds of British families on the evening of December 28th, 1879. A. howling gale was ripping slates from roofs and littering the streets of Dundee with brok- en glass. Suddenly a man was seen running throught the streets, shouting a fantastic story that the recently constructed bridge over the Tay had collapsed. The rumour persisted, and pres- ently a party of men arrived to confirm it. They had watched the lights of a train as it started to cross the Tay. It had gone at hundred yards when the river was swept, by a particularly violent blast of wind. From the bridge there had suddenly blazed up a cascade of brilliant sparks, Then all was dark—and the lights of the train were seen no more. What were the facts behind this story? At 4:15 that Sunday afternoon a train comprising six coaches and a brake van had left Edinburgh for Dundee. Many of the passengers were on their way home for the New Year celebra- • tions; others were people return- ing from Christmas visits to friends, and a few were railway workers going off duty. At 7:10 p.m• the signal cabin on the south side of the Tay sent word that the train had passed on to the bridge. The operator on the Dundee side began to transmit is acceptance of the mes- sage—and found the communi- cation was broken. As it was no longer possible to contact the Fife side, the greatly alarmed locomotive superintend- ent, Mr. Roberts, resolved to ven- ture alone on to the bridge to find out what was wrong. On hands and knees, he crawl- ed farther and farther out over the turbulent waters of the Tay. To his horror he found that the thirteen girders, each 250 tons in weight, which formed the central structure of the bridge, were gone. Nothing but the iron piers which had supported them re- mained. Gone was the bridge, and gone was the train. There was not a single survivor. LAYS "CANNED" EGGS Allen Dunham, aged 12, of Portland, has a pet goose—a, goose somehow different from the rest. No, she doesn't lay golden eggs, but she's very particular where she lays them. The goose lays all her eggs in an empty quart jar. ‘itr [If dee s iv( stred' i to ie On( niodTrition Ltie t car the J-kuse jean pau(i is iter � f Seagram Wig voko the to laorr'o poi** NothrotMorga frohy wt.t