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Elizabeth.
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a delicious variety of cookies which
-may be .made under the sugai' ration
and without putting any undue strain
on the family allowance. Considerable
experimental work has been done - in
Canada's Kitchen in the Consumer
Section, Dominion Department -of
The highlight of our visits to the
R.C.A.F. stations was the night that
we were permitted to see a bomber
squadron start for Germany and re-
turn after delivering their goods.
There is a great amount of detailed
preparation for such a raid; the planes
.are carefully serviced and loaded with
bombs by the ground crew and the
crews are assigned and "briefed".
That is to say they are told their
destination, and objectives, and given
every possible detail that will help
them to reach their objective and re-
turn safely.
Briefing takes place several hours
before the take-off, as the crews have
to do quite a bit of making ready', and
also have to study the objective, route,'
-etc.
The editors met the crews and con-
versed with them before they left to
go on board their planes. It is hard
to describe the feeling in the room.
The boys realize the serious business
they are doing,' and they go about
their preparations, making sure that
they have everything they need, with
no nonsense, yet lightly, and surely.
The zero hour approached and our
guide suggested that iwe go down to
the place of take-off to see them start.
The station, like the others, was so
so big that we got into a car to drive
over.
Getting out of the car, we started
to walk over some ploughed ground,
when one of the party exclaimed,
"What are those lights up in the-sky
over there?" referring to four lights
in the sky; Hardly had our guide re-
plied that they were flares evidently
from a 'German Raider when about
SAW BOMBER BEFORE
AND AFTER NAZI TRIP
This is the sixth of a series written
by Walter R. Legge
Here troops at an eastern se aboard training centre in the U.S.
engaged in the military problem of dislodging Axis troops entrenched
on a section -of the coast, climb up the perpendicular wall of a bloat
which stood between them and the enemy. Smoke screen laid doWn by
WI *Makers leticts reality to the picture,
CLIMBING TO THE ATTACK
MANY DELICIOUSCOOKIES CAN BE MADE WITHIN SUGAR RATION
four othee sets of flares appeared in
the sky, followed by the flash and echo
of an explosion.
Then searchlights appeared darting
over the sky, and clouds of pin points
of tights as the ack-ack came into
action. The raid actually was about
twenty or thirty miles away, but the
flares made it bright even where we
stood, and the sound of the bombs
could be heard and the bursting of the
ack-ack shells clearly seen.
After some time, the noise and lights
died down and everthing was again
quiet and dark.
The word ,came to warm up the
machines, and the signal was given to
begin. Immediately there was a new
noise, the roar of planes warming up.
After several minutes of this, an-
other silent signal was given, and the
first plane took off, followed by many
others. Another one developed trouble
and was scrubbed.
The scene wastypical of what takes
place on scores of stations nearly
every night.
After the last machine had taken off,
the silence seemed to be unnaturalas
we made our way back to the mess.
There seemed to be a great many
lights about the grounds but we were
informed that they were made in such
a way that they could not be seen
from the air.
The station had no sleeping accomo-
dation for us, so we made ourselves
as comfortable as possible in the arm
chairs to pass the four or five hours
until the bombers should return.
Having managed to fall off to sleep
in a chair, it seemed only a few min-
utes before we were being awakened
as it was nearly time for the planes
to be returning:
Going to the control room, we found
the first plane was reporting back. On
the wall was a large operations board,
listing with full particulars the mach-
Agriculture, to develop new recipes
and adapt others to wartime condi-
tions. Here is a recipe for honey
wafers which requires no sugar: 2
cups honey, % cup shortening, 1 tables
spoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon grat-
ed lemon rind, 1 egg, 41/2 -5 cups
ROYAL GROUP WITH MRS, RoasEvar •
baking soda. Melt honey over a low
heat, being careful that it does not
boil. Add the shortening, lemon juice
and rind and cool. Add the slightly
beaten egg and lastly the sifted,
measured dry ingredients. Drop by
half-teaspoonfuls onto a greased bak-
ines that ,were out on the raid. As
they reported it was marked on the
board and their instructions for land-
ing given them by. a radio which
could only be heard a few miles.
All Machines had returned except
one, when we finally left for another
building where the crews report on
their return and are questioned by ins
telligence officers. A. full report is
obtained from each man who answers
such questions as, did they attain their
Objective, how were they sure it was
the right one, did they encounter much
opposition, flack, etc., how long were
they going and how long returning,
how did they come back and a score
of other questions.
In addition to this, fast machines
are equipped with automatic cameras,
which record the exact bombing.
The editors were again given an ap-
portunity to talk to these crews who
had just returned from an important
raid.
Just as we were ready to leave this
room, word came in that the missing
bomber had finally arrived home, hav-
ing experienced some difficulty which
had delayed it about two hours. As
far as this station was concerned the
press could report that "from this op-
eration all our machines returned
safely."
It was a memorable night. Few
newspapermen have been able to go
to a station and see what we had seen,
on their first visit, and probably 'no
others had a German raid thrown in
for good measure.
Later that day, after a good sleep,
we were shown the work of_the con-
trol room by Flying Officer Jos. Ham-
mett, the senior Canadian control of-
ficer, and his talk was a marvel of
concise information. Under present
.control, the number of avoidable ac-
cidents has been cut very low, and•
no possible help to land any. friendly
plane is ever overlooked.
Diversion to other fields, full info's.
mation as to the condition of all .land-
ing fields, and other aids, even to
sending up planes to assist are among
the means taken to help machines in
trouble.
If an extra large machine ,for in-
stance, with sonic of its instruments
out of order, needs a special field for
emergency landing, full information
can be collected and given out in, a
few seconds.
# England is covered with airports all
standing by constantly on the alert to
give this help.
Newspaper reports showed that the
raid of the previous night had- been
most successful, and fires were still
burning there when our daylight ob-
servers returned during the day.
Later we were able to see some of
the photos taken by„the bombers that
night over the objective which was
Duisburg,
The information which is obtained
regarding the effectiveneks of these
raids on Germany is truly reinarkable
Many of the bombers are equipped
with cameras which -automatically take
photographs of the explosions of their
bombs. When these are . compared
with photographs taken before and
after the actual raid the story is pretty
complete.
When the German propaganda rep
ports that all bombs fell in a field or
on workmen's houses, they cannot fool
the R.A.11, for they know exactly
where they MI and what tlaniage they
did.
ies,
Accurate measurements and careful
attention to the. directions for mixing
and baking are all-important for sat-
isfactory results in wartime recipes
.many of which can be obtained by
writing to the Publicity and Extension
Division, Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa.
NEW VICTORY DRESS
Clever designing is demanded of
clothing manufacturers to meet the
restrictions imposed on them by the
Want•ime Prices and Trade Board. In
the blue angora model pictured above
a dress has been designed similar in
appearance to its 1941 Autumn
counterpart but 122 dresses are now
being-made out of the material which
was formerly used in the manufacture
of 100 dresses,
These pictures can be enlarged to
tremendous size. At some of the sta-
tions, the editors saw pictures about
five or six feet square, mounted on
heavy cardboard, which could be stu-
died in very great detail. In many
cases there were pictures of the same
location taken before and after the
raid, and the comparison was ',most
interesting,
The day after we watched the Ger-
man raid in the neighborhood at night,
the following reference to it appeared
in the district papers, "A number of
people were rendered homeless, and
emergency feeding-centres were open-
ed during the night after an enemy air
attack on a Northeast town, There
were a number of casualties".
WHY BRITAIN WANTS
LEAN NOT FAT BACON
If Britain wants more bacon, why
not feed hogs to much heavier weights.
or up to 300 pounds or more? This'
is a question ,being commonly asked
by many people throughout Canada,
and it is a logical question, say of-
ficials of the . Dortenion Department of
Agriculture.
The answer is that Britain wants
lean bacon because, due to shipping
space being limited, it is more econ-
omical to send lean meat than to send
fat on the backs of hogs. It is cheap-
er to send fat in the form of lard
which can be shipped without refrig-
ration.
The advocates for prodnoing heavier:
gs Meet the demand for Cattad-
ian bacon refer to the heavier hogs
raised in the 1.7nited States. With the
British bacon ration fixed for the
time being- at four ounces per week
per person, the British -people natur-
ally want to get AS flinch lean meat
as possible so that, in the cooking,
there will be little waste,
One of the principal reasons that
Britain is buying bacon in Canada is
because the Dominion has developed
bacon hog. A hog which when fed
to a live weight of from 200 to no
pounds will provide the greatest pos-
sible amount of lean meat, and lean
meat means meat food in its most ec-
onomical and concentrated form and
utilizes valuable refrigerated -.shipping
space to the best 'advantage.
It is true that a hog will put on
more weight quickly after it has reach.
200 pounds, but heavier hogs invar-
iably carry a much higher percentage
of fat, Contrary to general opinion,
the extra weight is not put on cheaper
than the cost of putting on weight up
to 200 pounds. Heavier hogs mean
fatter Wiltshires and fatter bacon.
The British consumers have always
demanded lean bacon in peace time,
and, altogether apart from the consid-
eration of post-war trade, their de-
mand is exen more insistent in war-
time because they want the minimum
of loss in cooking.
The impressive fact is the British
want lean bacon, and the highest per-
centage of lean bacon cannot be se-
cured from heavy hogs—and so it's
a case of "The man who pays the
piper calls the tune".
SALLY'S SALLIES
"I remember once," said the soldier,
relating his experiences, "when a big
explosion tore up the main road."
"And what did you do?" asked one
of his listeners .
"I tore up a side street," replied the
soldier, emptying his glass.
CATTLE ARE FED
SCIENTIFICALLY
But Many Children "Just Grow"
Scientific feeding of farm animals
has made great strides in the last few
years and farmers realize that correct
feeding of animals pays dividends in
increased production, better quality
and healthier stock. '
Too often the animals on the farm
are better fed than the farmer's chil-
dren; for while the animals are given
scientific feeding care the children,
like Topsy, too often "just grow".
Children can't grown into strong,
healthy, happy human beings without
the foods which supply adequate pro-
teins for growth, carbohydrates and
fats for energy, minerals and vitamins
for health ant protection against. dis-'
ease.
According to Canada's Official Food
Ituless children need these foods daily;
more than one pint of milk and some
cheese, one serving of tomatoes or
citrus fruit (orange, grapefruit or
lemons) or of tomato or citrus fruit
juice; one other serving of fruit, fresh,
canned or dried. If citrus fruits are
not available use more tomatoes and
raw 'vegetables. One serving of po-
tatoes, preferably cooked in the skin,
and two other vegetables such as
cabbage, carrots, turnips frequently
served raw. One serving of whole
grain cereal grid 4-6 slices of bread,
This illustration ,released by The
Hydro-Electric Power Commission of
Ontario, graphically portrays the im-
portance of voluntary conservation of
electricity on the part of domestic con-
sumers.
Factories are working 24 hours a
day, ceaselessly turning out munitions
and equipment to back up our men
in the firing line, and ample electric
power must be available, at all times,
for this vital production job.
If industrial electrical equipment is
operated two or three times as many
hours per day as tinder peacetime con-
hours ditions, it will consume two or
three times the number of kilowatt-
hours of energy. To supply this ad-
ditional energy the turbines in the
generating station will require larger
quantities of water every clay.
preferably whole grain or white bread
made from Canada approved flour.
One serving cf meat or fish and at
least 3-4 eggs a week, an ,egg every
day is the ideal.
Provide these essentials first, then
add other foods. These foods will
supply all the elements necessary with
one important exception, Vitamin D
the sunshine vitamin is not found to
any great extent in - food, although it
is present in small amounts in sea.
foods, eggs and irradiated milk. Vita-
min D is necessary to build strong
bones and teeth, arid without it
dren develop bow legs and rickets,
caused by a softening of the 'hones.
What is known as thepeak demand
for power usually occurs late on dark
winter afternoons when the lighting
load comes on before certain factories
shut down for the day. In some cities
the daily peak demand occurs just be-
fore noon when the housewives are
preparing the midday meal on their
electric ranges, Even if a hydro-elec-
tric generating station is equipped to
supply the horsepower required to
meet this peak demand, there still may
not be enough water available to keep
the turbo-generators running near top
capacity for many extra hours per4,
day.
Titus under war conditions the say:
ing of energy by economical and care-
ful management in the home is an es-
sential and valuable contribution to.
the war effort.
During the summer months when chil-
4dren are out in the sunshine a good
deal of the time, enough Vitamin tt.
is absorbed through the skin. From.
October to May when the sun is not
so strong and less of the body is ex-
posed to its Erect rays children need
extra 'Vitamin D, and the best way to
get it is from cod liver oil, The rule
for children, including the teen-agers,
should be "A teaspoon a clay from
October to May."
Expectant Ind nursing mothers also-
need this extra Vitamin •D in order
that their babies will get a good start
in life and that the mother's health
Will he safe-guarded during this time....
pastry OR 4-4 .% cups all-purpose ing sheet and bake at 3'75 degrees
flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon 10-12 minutes. Yield 8-9 dozen cook-
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