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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-01-27, Page 4The yVinghani Advance-Times, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 19M Hello Homemakers! It takes a holi day gathering to remind us that we do not see enough of oui* friends. Purely time could be spared to visit With nearby friends and relatives more often this year, We have decid ed to tuck a sample of cookies in a jar and take with us or have some homemades ready for someone we must phone and ask to come over and bring her sewing or knitting on Wed nesday afternoon. Having planned the day now plan to use one of our fav ourite cookie recipes. Busy Day Drop Cookies 1 cup shortening 2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs H cup sour milk 3% cups sifted flour 1 tsp, salt 1 tsp. soda 1 cup cut-up nuts Mix together thoroughly the short ening, sugar and eggs. Stir in sour milk and add dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Stir in the nuts. Chill in the electric refrigerator about one hour Drop by teaspoonsfuls on baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes 6 dozen. Fudge Squares 2 cups sugar CHICK STARTER New Formula | ■ f fl FOR 25% Greater Growth! No matter what breed you choose, make sure the feed you choose is— New Formula SHURGAIN Chick Starter Superior quality plus high energy plus local manufacture are the chief contributing factors to this GREATER GROWTH “d GREATER VALUE ■ ■ fl A ■Remember your Egg Profit Program begins with the chick. fl i fl CANADA PACKERS LTD WINGHAM Believe it or not... #/z; zSfef eouM te ytiff/ The man whose picture belongs here is, not necessarily a celebrity or a leading citizen. Indeed, he might be any one of millions of Canadians. How did so many people benefit their communities so greatly? Simply by insuring their lives! In this way, they set in motion a series of events which have far-reaching effects on themselves and their fellow-citizens. Take for instance the new high ways, schools, bridges, power plants, homes, hotels, hospitals and other important works now being built from coast to coast. Many of these projects have been financed with money which life insurance com panies have invested for their policy- holders, Or look at the workers streaming ».out from some new industrial plant. They may owe, their jobs to life insurance policyholders who provide the money needed for investment in that plant’s expansion*. Good health, too, is promoted by life insurance policyholders. Several important medical research projects, supported by life insurance company funds, are waging war against polio, heart ailments, cancer and other dread diseases. But perhaps the life insurance owner’s most important service is not any of these things. It is the way he provides for his family so that they will not be a financial burden to his relatives or the community. So, if you own life insurance, be proud that in all these ways you’re helping to make Canada a better land to live in 1 AT YOUR SERVICE A trained life underwriter, representing dine of the more than 50 Canadian, British and United States life insurance companies in Canada, will gladly help you plan for your family's security and your own needs in later years. Rely an him! THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA "It is Good Citizenship to own Life Insurance" L-6S3D « • 4 ounces chocolate % cup butter 4 eggs Vi tsp salt 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup cut-up nuts Sift the granualted sugar. Melt four squares chocolate with butter and cool. Beat eggs with salt then beat in sugar, chocolate and vanilla. Stir in flour and nuts, Pour into 9x13 inch pan, lined with wax paper and greased with butter, Bake at 325 degrees in electric oven for thirty minutes. When epol cut into oblong pieces. Cornflake Macaroons 2 egg whites 1(8 tsp. salt 1 cup sugar 1(4 tsp. banana extract 2 cups cornflakes % cup cocoanut 14 cup cut-up nuts Beat egg whites with salt until stiff but not dry. Fold in sifted granulated sugar and remaining ingredients. Drop the batter by teaspoons on a well- greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees in electric oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove at once from pan with knife. G unidrop Cookies 1(2 cup shortening 1|2 cup brown sugar 1(2 cup white sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup flour % tsp. soda % tsp. baking powder % tsp. salt 1|2 cup cut-up nuts 1(2 cup gumdrops 1 cup fine oatmeal 1 egg beaten Cream shortening then beat in brown and white sugar and vanilla. Sift and measure flour then resift with soda, baking powder and salt and shake over nuts, gumdrops and •oatmeal. Stir into sugar batter alter nately with the egg Pinch off pieces of dough and roll into one inch balls. Place on cookie sheet and flatten with spatula. Bake at 350 degrees in elec tric oven for 10 or 12 minutes. Makes about forty. NOTE: Fine cocoanut may be substituted for -nuts. TAKE A TIP 1. Shiny baking sheets produce light, even browning of cookies whereas dark pans cause brownness before cookies are baked. 2. A deep sided pan does not allow cookies to brown on top. 3. Bake second patch of cookies on. inverted pie plates or jelly roll pan. 4. Bar cookies are usually more flav orful and chewy than drop cookies. However even the Brownie recipe may be used as a drop cookie if you add two extra tablespoons flour. 5. To decorate cookies brush the tops lightly with milk or cream then shake candy shot over them. THE QUESTION BOX Miss C. T. asks: How can I remove macaroons successfully from pans? Answer: If freshly baked macaroons begin to bijeak, place the pan on a hot wet dishcloth. If the cookies curl return pan to oven, for 2 or 3 minutes. Use a sharp knife to lift them from pan to plate. Miss J. R. asks: Can you tell us why the cookie press design does not re main on the baked cookie? Answer: The press usually calls for a rather firm dough. Chill the dough about M 'hour before using in the press. Mrs. D. C. asks: Is there anything we can do for two new cookie sheets that we used in the bottom of preserving kettle and they have film on them? Answer: Boil the pans in the kettle using 2 qts. water and 1|3 cup cream of tartar. Or, someone suggests coat ing the tops with beeswax. IB BECOMES GREATER THREAT TO MEN The tuberculosis picture_in Canada in the last 20 years has changed not only in degree but in design, says the* Canadian Tuberculosis Association. Two decades ago tuberculosis was considered to be predominantly a dis ease preying on young women, though by no means confined to them. Graphs showing tuberculosis death rates by age and sex were dominated by a great peak which represented women in their twenties. Year by year that peak has been chiselled down until now the death rate of women in their twenties is 15.3 per 100,000—less than half that of men in their forties. Tuberculosis death rates in Canada are now assuming.the same pattern as those of other chronic diseases, the rates increase with age. It/is-note- worthy that this is reflected in mor bidity also. More than half the ad missions to sanatorium in 1952 were men and women over 40 years of age. Slowly but surely tuberculosis is be coming more of a threat to men than to women. Not only are death rates higher for men but about 60 per cent of new cases reported in 1952 were men. During the years in which the death rate has declined so rapidly the num ber of beds available for treatment of tuberculosis patients has increased from 8,292 to 18,376. Added to this there are more clinics and the use of mobile X-ray clines has carried diagnosis- farther afield thah was pre viously possible, Canadians have reason for satisfac tion but not for complacency—not while there are 10,000 new case's year ly, an average of 26 daily with 27 some days, Meanwhile figures for the world as a whole serve as a reminder of the menace turberculosis still holds. It still causes 10,000 deaths daily. I At the Library | i By Omega e ROBERT BURNS Perhaps poetry is undefinable, but among the many definitions that have been given is one that goes: "Poetry is the music of the heart expressed in words”. That is the one we think of this week, for this is the week of the birthday anniversary of Robert Burns. Burns was born on January 25, 1759, on a small farm near Ayr; he lived a life marked' by poverty, alcoholic ex cesses, many love affairs and intervals of heady fame; and he died in 1786. Burns was widely acclaimed in his last few years (it is reported that ten thousand people followed his coffin to the graveyard), and time has added to his reputation. He spoke for the people and to the people His themes— love, patriotism, the sorrow of parting, the joys of comradeship, the .virtues of family life, the hatred of entrench ed wealth and privilege—had univer sal appeal. Bit it was the lyrical ex pression of these themes that made Burns a great poet, Of hjs longer poems we will mention three, each of them different but each of them characteristic of Burns. There is the wonderful "Tam o' Shan- ter” with its picture of the convivial Tam before he sets out on his famous ride: Kings may be blest, But Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious! There is "The Jolly Beggars” which portrays a group of joyous, earthy vagabonds who sing such stanzas as: Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes; Let them cant about decorum Who have character to lose, and A fig for those by law protected! Liberty’s a glorious feast! Courts for crowds were erected, Churches built to please the priest. And there is "The Cotter’s Saturday Night” with its picture of family love, religous and patriotic devotion, as "With joy unfeigned, brothers and sisters meet” in their parents’ home at the end of the week. To under stand Burns is to accept and under stand all these poems; to realize that there is a place for the honest boozer, Tam o’ Shanter as well as for the toil- worn cotter. If one prefers poetry with a satiric sting he can find it in Burns—in the already mentioned "The Jolly Beg gars”, in other poems like "Holy Wil lie’s Prayer”, and in a series of short verses and epigrams such as. s .......Tlie Toad-Eater Of Lordly acquaintance you boast, And the Dukes that you dined wi' yestreen; Yet an insect’s an insect at most, Tho’^it crawl on the curl of a Queen! For other tastes there is the delight ful humour of "Last May a Braw Wooer”, the sympathetic insight of "To a Mouse”, the moralizing of “A Man's a Man for a’ That”. But it is for the short poems and songs about fellowship and ro mantic love that Burns is most widely known. One thinks of the love songs written to Jean Armour and Mary Morison; one thinks of the lament of the rejected lover in "The Banks’ ’o Doon”; or one thinks of those two wonderful stanzas from "Auld Lang Syne”. We two hae run about the braes And pu’d the gowans fine; But we've wandered many a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. We two hae paidl’d in the burn, Frae morning sun till dine: But seas between us braid hae roar’d Sin auld lang syne. It is in verses like these that the lyrical genius of Robert Burns makes itself felt. To return to them after the joylesspess of some modern poetry with its concealed meanings, its literary allusions, and its esoteric appeal is like catching a whisper of spring in the dead of winter. 0-0-0 At the library there is an excellent edition of Burns’ works entitled “The Scottish Edition of the' Songs and Poems of Robert Burns”. It is an ex cellent book for browsing through: it has large, clear print, wide margins, page headings, a good index, and over forty reproductions of paintings based on people and incidents in the poems. It also has a introductory essay by the Earl of Rosebery who comments on the poems and on Burns' moral weakness in a forceful if rather grandiloquent manner.. There are other good editions of the poems, such as that of the Every-’ man Library which has the addition of a glossary of Scotch words and phrases. A glossary is helpful, though not necessary. -A few day§ ago we heard a local citizen—and not a “Burns lover”—declare that he had been reading some of Burns' poetry, was surprised at how good it was, and at how the rhythm of the lines seemed to carry the meaning even when the sense of one or two words was not completely clear. This is Burns Week, so beg, borrow or steal a copy of the poems, or dig up your old school anthology and ye’ll find yerseif "contented wi’ little hhd cantie wi’ mair”. 0 • 0 • 0 FOOT NOTES: "Renown at Strat ford”, contrary to what we reported last week, is in the library and has been in demand. o • o ’ u In the Biography section at the li brary there is a critical study of Lord Rosebery, the writer referred to above. It is called “The Man of Pro mise” and is written by E, T. Ray mond. We haven’t read it. 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