Magyar Hírek, 1985 (38. évfolyam, 2-26. szám)

1985-10-26 / 22. szám

JOGGING IN BUDAPEST

If my memory serves me right it was the humorist Pál Peterdi who wanted to recruit joggers by telling people that no expensive equipment was needed, not even a track, this method of keeping fit required only their legs, and a little regularity, perseverance, and some self-discipline. About ten years ago. when they began to appear in the early hours of the morning and late in the evening, the imperturbability of the joggers was tested by smart remarks by their less fit (and envious?) brethren on the streets. Today, however, they no longer draw incredulous glances, jogging is common and provokes no-one

The present state of jogging has much to thank to a series of excellent sports events and to popular advocates of jogging, for instance Sarolta Monspart, former world champion of orienteering. She was the master of ceremonies of the by now traditional Futapest* fun-run on the last Sunday of April, she sent the runners on their way and received them at the tape. As usual, the participants— more than 2,100 them covered 12 kilometers. Well-known athlete finished in the more prestigious placings but Futapest belonged really to the common jogger. The encouragement and cheers of the spectators lining the route from the

People’s Stadium to Buda across Elizabeth bridge, and back across the Chain bridge along Népköztársaság útja right to the starting place was given mainly to them, and the confidence building sense of achievement of “I have completed the course” meant more to them than any medal. A couple of weeks later they faced a tougher test: the Ibusz Marathon. Forty two kilometers between the Sports Hall and Békásmegyer ! Three thousand runners from twentytwo countries!

The calendar of Futapest Club shows further races in June, September, and October over distances for 3 to 20 km. Members of the club can take part in joint trainings sessions, they receive the journal, Tempo free of charge, can nominate in groups to race abroad, get lists of results by mail, and firms, which sponsor the jogging movement— among them the publishers of Magyar Hírek—give presents to the club to be raffled at the end of the year.

An age limit? That does not exist. Lightly stepping septuagenerians create no sensation in jogging circles...

ISTVÁN BALÁZS

* Untranslatable pun, meaning (Buda)pest is running. (Fut = run)

RECIPES

Apple soup. Ingredients (for four): 500 grammes peeled cooking apples, 0.3 1 sweet white wine, sugar, lemon, cloves, cinnamon, salt, I tablespoonful of flour, a nut of butter.

Dice the apples and add the condiments to taste. Cook the mixture in 0.5 1 of water until the apples are tender, then break them through a sieve. Make a light thickening using the butter, diluting first with 0.3 1 of wine and then with 0.2 1 of water, add the apple pulp and let it boil well together. Add a few more diced, cooked pieces of apple either before serving, or individually to the plates

when serving. It is equally delicious hot or cold.

Chicken of Nyírség. Ingredients for four serves: 4 good-size breasts of chicken, 4-5 peeled apples, salt, ground pepper, one coffee-spoon of grated nutmeg, 50 grammes grated cheese.

Place the chicken breasts seasoned with salt and ground pepper into a buttered ovenproof dish, and braise them under a lid until they are tender. In the meantime cut the apple into slives, cover the tender chicken pieces with them, snrinkle the nutmeg over them and put the dish back into the oven until the chicken is completely tender. 3-4 minutes before the dish is ready sprinkle the grated cheese over the lot and place back in the oven to let the chesse half-melt. Garnish with vegetables, baste with its own juice.

Paprika ragout. Ingredients for four: 500 grammes of green paprika, 1 can (150 grammes) of luncheon meat, 1 large onion, 50 grammes of smoked bacon, 0.2 1 sour cream, 1 coffee-spoon of red paprika, salt.

Render the finely diced bacon, and let the sliced onion wither in its lard until it turns yellow. Wash the paprika. take the seeds out, slice and add the slices to the onion. Add salt to taste and let the paprika braise in its own juice until tender. Mash the luncheon meat with a fork and mix well with the tender paprika. Sprinkle the mixture with red paprika, and let it cook without the lid, stirring from time to time, until the liquids evaporate and only the lard is left. Now add the sour cream, but do not allow to boil. Delicious with baked potatoes.

M. K.

Radio Hungary in English

The programmes are broadcast in English on Tuesdays and repeated on other days as presented below

October 1st to October 7th

Hungarian war criminals tried by the people’s court in 1945. The legal basis on which the people's court was operating, the number of people called to criminal responsibility, the sentences passed by the court, the international reaction to calling the Hungarian war criminals to account and the reasons for Regent Miklós Horthy not being brought to trial. The above issues will be discussed by historians with the assistance of recollections, memoirs and original documents.

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Hungary on the eve of the First World War. The events leading to the war. A review of major international events right before and after the turn of the century and the immediate international background to the First World War.

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Endre Ady, the poet Part One. Ady's ancestors, his schooling and early verse. Ady in Debrecen, in Nagyvárad. His visits to Paris, the Léda cycle.

October 22nd to October 28th

Endre Ady, Part two. Ady’s religious poetry, his marriage and a cycle of poems of happy love. His anxiety over Hungary’s future, his last poems.

During the first three months of programming in the 9th year of the serial The Origins and Development of the Hungarian People Hungarian Radio will continue to adopt the previous method of repeating revised and updated versions of the most successful instalments of our serial broadcast during the basic four year of programming between the autumn of 1977 and early summer of 1981.

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