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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. JAN. 6, 1WS Every year a big United States flour company conducts a nation-wide cookery contest, the size of which you can imagine when I tell you that $23,-000 was the grand prize won by a Mrs. Koteen of Washington, D. C. Before giving you the prize winning recipe I might as well admit that I never saw or tasted sesame seeds -- and never heard of them except in the Arabian Nights (remember "Open Sesame?") However, some of you may have a greater knowledge of them, and anyway here is the $23,000 recipe. Bake at 450° F. for 12 minutes. Makes 9-inch pie. PIE SHELL I to 4 tablespoons sesame seeds 1 cup sifted flour Vz teaspoon salt Vs cup shortening 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water Toast sesame seeds in 9-inch pie pan at 325° F. for 8 to 10 minutes until light golden brown. ~\re seeds, then turn oven .A*8 "i50° F. *% 'Sift together flour and salt into mixing bowl. Add the toasted sesame seeds. Cut in shortening until particles are the size of small peas. Sprinkle water Over mixture, a little at a time, while tossing and stirring lightly with fork. Add water to driest particles, pushing lumps to side, until dough is just moist enough to hold together. Form into a ball. Flatten to about % inch thickness. Smooth dough at edges. Roll out on floured pastry cloth, or board, to a circle IVz inches larger than inverted 9-inch pie pan. Fit loosely into pie pan. Gently pat out air pockets. Fold edge to form a standing rim; flute. Then pick generously with fork. Bake at 450° F. for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown. Cool. DATE CHIFFON FILLING 1 tablespoon gelatin M cup cold water VA cups milk 2 egg yolks V* cup sugar Ys teaspoon salt 1 cup pitted dates, chopped* fine ' % cup whipping cream. beaten very thick 1 teaspoon vanilla All Dressed Up--And someplace to go, if they ever put a body on the jaloppy. Actress Ann Miller, one of the reigning queens of the New Year's Day Tournament of Roses, waits for her float to be finished. 2 egg whites 2 tablespoons sugar Nutmeg Soften gelatin in cold water. Beat together milk, egg yolks, the Vt cup sugar and salt in top of double boiler until well blended. Cook over hot water (or directly over low heat, stirring constantly) until mixture will coat a metal spoon. Add the softened gelatin; stir until dissolved. Chill until almost set, stirring occasionally. Fold in the whipped cream, vanilla, and dates. Beat egg whites until slight mounds form when beater is raised. Add 2 tablespoons sugar gradually, beating well after each addition. Continue beating to make a meringue which stands in stiff glossy peaks when beater is raised. Fold into the date mixture. Spoon into cooled baked pie shell, heaping into fluffy mounds. Chill until firm. If desired, sprinkle lightly with nutmeg before serving. Now for a few good candy recipes, which are a handy thing to have around in weather too strenuous to allow the young folks to be out-of-doors -very much. When making candy, you are more certain of success if you use a thermometer, although good candy can be made without one. A deep saucepan, measuring cup and spoons, a large wooden spoon for beating, and pans for cooling are other necessary items of equipment. Then select recipes that lend variety as well as attractiveness, and your candy reputation will be made. These uncooked fruit snowballs will add a decorative note to any box or plate of candy. FRUIT NUT SNOWBALLS y2 cup shredded coconut 1 cup raisins 1 cup dried apricots Y2 cup roasted, unblanched almonds 1 tablespoon honey Confectioners' sugar Toast coconut to a delicate brown in moderate oven. Rinse raisins and apricots and steam 5 minutes. Drain. Put fruits and almonds through food chopjjer, usirt| nfedium knife. Add honey and coconut and blend thoroughly. Shape into small balls; roll in confectioners' sugar. Makes about 24 balls. An old favorite is peanut brittle. This recipe is chock full of peanut meats. Be sure to pour it out in a thin sheet, making it easy to break and easy to eat. ^ PEANUT BRITTLE IV2 cups sugar 1 cup white syrup Yi cup water V2 teaspoon soda Vi teaspoon salt 1 pint shelled peanuts Cook sugar, syrup, and water together until the mixture threads from a spoon. Add peanuts and cook until mixture be-comes brittle in cold water (300° F.). Remove from heat. Add soda and salt. Beat thoroughly. Spread thin in shallow, buttered pan. When cold, break ■ in pieces. Store in covered can. Children may enjoy making this simple cereal candy. PUFFED CORN SURPRISE 1 8 ounce bar semisweet chocolate, chopped 6 marshmallows 1 cup pre-sweetened puffed corn cereal Line bottom and sides of loaf pan with waxed paper. Melt chocolate over hot water Cut marshmallows into . eighths. Pour half of chocolate into pan; cover with marshmallows and cereal. Spread remaining chocolate over top. Allow to harden and cut into squares. Makes 12 squares made in 8x4-inch pan. Everyone has his own fayorite fudge recipe, but here is" one that does not require cooking. UNCOOKED FUDGE 4 squares unsweetened chocolate • 3 tablespoons butter 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar H teaspoon salt Vi cup hot milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Melt chocolate and butter over boiling water; remove from heat. Combine remaining ingredients and mix well. Add chocolate mixture and s'j^im-til^-ended. Spread ^*«-8 x 8 x 2-inch pan. Chill in refrigerator, or let stand at room temperature for several hours or until firm. If desired, % to % cup chopped nut meats may be added before turning into pan. Fondant is the basis for so many decorative candies that you may want a 'refresher" recipe for it. Stuff dates or prunes with it. Color it and top it with nuts. Make balls of it and roll them in chopped nuts. Put halves of pecans or walnuts together sandwich style with it -- these are only a few of its possibilities. CREAM FONDANT 2 cups sugar Vs teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon light corn syrup 1 cup evaporated milk Mix ingredients thoroughly. Bring slowly to boil, stirring constantly. Then cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (238° F.), stirring all the while. Cool. Beat until creamy. Knead until smooth and plastic. Flavor as below. Set in refrigerator in covered dish overnight to ripen. Makes 1 pound. Vanilla Fondant: After fondant is kneaded, add Vz teaspoon' vanilla and knead just to distribute flavoring. Let ripen. Maple Fondant: Add Vi teaspoon maple extract in same manner. Lost Shopping Bag Found Opportunity Six weeks ago Mrs. Phyllis Angel was a Montreal housewife who knew no 'more about manufacturing than the average consumer. Today, as one of Canada's thousands of small back on enough hard work and initial sucess to provide the opening chapters for a Mrs. Horatio Alger story. Mrs. Angel entered the light manufacturing business because she couldn't find exactly what she wanted in the shops. After losing a favorite shopping bag which an aunt had crocheted for her, she was determined to replace it with one which folded up and slipped into her handbag. Trudging from store to store convinced her that she would have to produce it for herself as her preference in a shoping bag existed only in her mind. A few weeks later she found her own design so satisfactory she decided to produce it for others, too. After going through the formalities and legalities Of choosing a name for her business, having it duly registered and obtaining a permit, she approached her first buyer with her first handmade sample. "I had to make every stitch of it by hand as I didn't even own a sewing machine and I'm a terrible sewer," she recalls. However, she found buyers didn't exactly leap at the opportunity of looking ut a shopping bag. Nor did their eyes pop when they saw hers. "I knew there was nothing really ingenious about my design," she says, "so I simply drew their attention to its main features. Since so many women loathe carrying shopping bags, I tried to make mine attractive selected a heavy nylon taffeta with a rich sheen, which folds up easily to about handkerchief size. The fabric retains its icrispness and ,a snap fastener lieeps the bag' neatly collapsed when not in use." One of the first buyers she called on immediately threw up his hands at the mention of "shopping bag." "Why, I've so many shopping bags, I would like to sell you some," he said. After finally agreeing to "just look at" her sample, he admitted that it filled a need and was unlike any he had in stock. A few minutes later Mrs. Angel left his office with an order for five dozen. Another store which was already carrying a fold-up type, ordered three dozen because it considered hers more attractive. Since then she has sold to two other department stores and a number of smaller retail outlets in Montreal, rented a sewing machine in a factory and engaged an operator. To date Mrs. Angel herself has been doing all the cutting and packaging in cellophane. She has obtained two small machines for heat-sealing and attaching the dome fasteners and plastic tabs. "I find I'm actually enjoying all my business problems and believe me I have most of the problems if none of the organization of a big manufacturer. I must go to a chain store and pay fifteen cents each for my cartons and then carry them She has found that getting help is the easiest part of her operation, selling the hardest, because "stores are very sales resistanjt these days," and packaging the most important. She cautions would-be manufacturers against going into business to make money quickly. "If you need money desperately," she says, "go to work, but not for yourself." A new Canadian, she came to Montreal eight years ago with her engineer husband and grown-up son. Auburn-haired and energetic, she says this is her first fling at business. Prior to her marriage she was with an English newspaper feature service, but since then has always been too busy taking care of her family and home to give manufacturing a thought until the day She lost her shopping bag. "HAVE-A-LOOK" SURGERY Samaria, an African native, has been renamed "Have-a-Look" by hospital authorities in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Samaria had a pain in the stomach, so he got a knife and opened up his stomach to have a look. Now he is recovering in hospital -- and his stomach is as painful as ever. 100,000 At Funeral Cf "Powder Puff Shiek" What was he really like -- the screen's fabulous lover, Rudolph Valentino, the "Sheik" of the 1920s whom young men aped and women went crazy about? "As strange a man as I ever met," says Hollywood director Adolph Zukor, who cast the young Italian for the part after he had worked as landscape gardener, dishwasher,- gigolo, and "bit " actor in the studios. He hardly moved his lips when he sang. His acting wat, mostly confined to protruding his large, occult eyes, drawing back the lips of his wide, sensuous mouth, baring his gleaming teeth, and flaring his nostrils. Always in Debt Improvident, with expensive tastes, he lived from day to day, and all his life was in debt. Zukor's corporation raised his salary far above the contract terms. This only whetted his appetite, which became downright unreasonable after "Blood and Sand," with America's lads imitating him, women organizing fan clubs and mobbing the theatres. He rarely smiled, on the screen or off; Zukor cannot recall ever having seen him laugh, yet he could be charming when he wished. But he could be violently tempermental, too. One day Zukor saw him arguing with an assistant director. His face paled with fury, his eyes stared wildly, his whole body quivered, he was near hysteria. The situation grew worse, and finally he walked out with no intention of returning. Arrested for Bigamy He was married, but the relationship did not last long. Later he fell in love with the beautiful Winifred O'Shaugh-nessy, who preferred to be known as Natacha Rambova. She was art director for Alia Nazimova, one of Zukor's stars, and like Valentino, believed herself to be guided by a super-nautral power. They were married before his divorce decree was final. Arrested in Los Angeles for bigamy, he got out Of it on the plea that the marriage had never been consummated. Natacha appeared cold, mysterious, and affected Oriental garb and manners, but it was felt that she would be a good influence on / him, and she brought him Rack. "But n'ow, Zukor says in his engrossing memoirs of fifty years Of film life -- "The Public is Never Wrong"--they had two Powers to deal with. She began to insert herself into the smallest details, and he backed her in everything. His new pictures, "Monsieur Beaucaire" and "The Sainted Devil," were less successful. $80,000 Trip But the Valentino cult continued. Newspapers poked fun at the sleek hair and powdered faces of the "sheiks." Things were not helped when he wore a slave bracelet given him by Natacha, but he raged at any suggestions that he discard it. Zukor's firm did not renew his contract, partly because Natacha wanted even more control over his pictures, so with a new company founded for the purpose he began work on a film dealing with the Moors in early Spain. Author: Natacha. The pair spent $80,000 travelling in Europe for background material and exotic props, then the story was shelved and "Cobra" substituted, with Natacha in full charge. It did poorly, and the venture folded up, so did the marriage. Shortly after Joseph Schenck of United Artists took a chance with "The Son of the Sheik," Valentino's last picture. His publicity became less favourable, the fun poked at the "sheik" increased, and he grew more irritable. He was in Chicago when the 'Tribune' had an editorial headed "The Pink Powder Puffs" about a face-powder coin device in the men's cloakroom at a dance hall. Many of the young men carried their own powder-puffs, and by inserting a coin could get a sprinkle of powder. The editorial viewed this with alarm, placing most' of the blame on "Rudy, the beautiful gardener'* boy" and expressing sorrow that he hadn't been drowned long ago. An earlier editorial had poked fun at the slave bracelet. According to his business manager, Valentino's "face paled, his eyes blazed, and his muscles stiffened." He dashed off an open letter " to the Man (?) Who Wrote the Editorial Headed 'The Pink Powder Puffs'," and gave it to a rival newspaper. "I call you a contemptible coward," he wrote, challenging him to a boxing or wrestling contest, expressing the hope that "I will have an opportunity to demonstrate to you that the wrist under the slave bracelet may snap a real fist into your sagging jaw," and closing with "Utter Contempt." SUICIDE AND RIOTS When Valentino, stricken with appendicitis, died in 1925, Zukor was stunned by the hysteria which followed. In London a woman dancer committed suicide, in New York another shot herself on a heap of his photographs. His body was laid in state at Campbell's Funeral Home, New York, and immediately a crowd of 30,000, mostly women, gathered. Rioting began as police tried to form queues. Windows were smashed. Mounted police charged and women rubbed soap on the pavement to make the horses slip. Acrowd of 100,000, mostly women, lined the street for the funeral, at which Zukor was one Of the pall-bearers. Zukor is similarly frank about other famous stars in this well-illustrated cavalcade of film history, written from the personal angle. T. A. Made Big Profit Selling Spiders Cobwebs hanging low over the bar used to be a special attraction in an old-world inn in Herefordshire. But recently health officials ordered the licensee to take them down. Said the licensee: "We spent years cultivating those cobwebs. The old place won't seem the same without them." A few years ago a young unemployed Frenchman raised thousands and thousands of tiny spiders and built up a business selling them to wine merchants. The insects were turned loose among consignments of new wine so that they could leave cobwebs all over the bottles, making them appear like rich vintage wine. More fantastic still was the use made of cobwebs by the doting and wealthy father of two pretty daughters when they were married in Louisiana, in 1855. He arranged for enormous quantities of a special species of Chinese spider to be shipped to his mansion. He also bought in California gold and silver dust weighing 500 lb. The spiders were turned loose in the mile-long avenue of great pine trees and soon the pines, were linked in a fairyland of cobwebs. For a whole day Negro slaves blew the gold and silver dust on to the webs with bellows. Next day the two brides walked slowly under this glittering canopy to the altar. lock To Listen--Powered by a tiny battery to right of dime, shown for comparison, a new-type hearing aid which masquerades as an eyeglas's frame is now in production. Clear plastic tube, shown on lower ear frame, conducts amplified sound to the wearer's ear. The battery, which screws into ear frame, has a life-in-use of about 180 hours. Frames may be fitted with clear glass for those with good eyesight who yet want to dispense with paraphernalia of more conventional hearing devices, according to Don't Worry, There's A Window Between 'Em--This squirrel and cat have a noon confab each day at the home of Mrs. Byron Filkins. The conference, according to Mrs. Filkins, appears to be friendly and jatisfactory to both animals. Blackie, the cat, is 17 yean old.