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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1944-07-27, Page 6VW BOWL - Sy Asia 1,4 Oka' Memincliiiiiiiike Hello Homemakers: While distant fields seem very attractive to picnic planners, it has taken an "AA" gaso- line ration to enable many families to discover the possibilities of their own backyards. After all a picnic is more or less a matter of eating outdoors. So why not plan frequent suppers or lunches that can be carried outside. You'll find that children think it is ,an adventure, and it's not much troub- le. A shady spot with some cushions or a rug to sit on, a place to put the extra food and you are all set. Tryon have enough small trays, so that each person can have his own, it 'will be perfect. No dining room to clean up, few dishes to wash and everybody's happy. The picnic is a great institution. LUNCH Picnic appetites are likely to be big, so plan the eats accordingly. Sand- wiches are easy to prepare and good -to serve; use soft rolls or bread sliced not too thin. Salads in chilled bowls should be filling, potato with onion, raw cabbages with radishes, jellied beet with peas, string beans with raw ,carrots. Relishes, the ones you can pick up with your fingers, stimulate the picnic meal—radishes, wedges of cucumber, small tomatoes, 'strips of pepper, pickled eggs, etc. Desserts are not a problem during the fresh fruit season: serve fresh fruit and a few cookies, Order half pints of milk for the day and chill before serving, SANDWICH FILLINGS 1, Five medium sized eggs will make about one cup of filling, '2. Mince or grind cooked tongue, ;beef, perk or other meats. Season with salt, pepper and mayonaisse or relish. " B. Crisp vegetable fillings may be served at the picnic on the lawn Illendod for ()Uglfy. TEA rei ARDEWr 1tLiAP11. In the summer mulches are used to , face of the soil also allows the air to tbsps; bacon potatoes fat 1 turnip Cut meat in cubes, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Slice onion, brown meat and onion in bacOn fat; add bailing water to cov- er, cover kettle and simmer until meat is almost tender, about .1 hour, then add' vegetables. Carrots may be Slic- ed, cut in strips, or if small, left whole, Potatoes may be cut in balls or diced; turnip should be sliced. continue cooking until meat and vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes longer, re- moving cover during last few minutes. Thicken gravy in pan with milk and flour paste; season well. Serves 4. OVERSEAS LETTERS FROM LOCAL BOYS (continued from page I-) the Germans usually blow up every- thing if they are forced out. However war is not supposed to be a source of enjoyment for anybody anyway. As you will see our advance is quite satisaftcory in fact they took Caen sooner,- than was figured, The Ger- mans are taking an awful beating on all fronts which is just what the doc- tor ordered. Our artillery ,is hitting him very heavily and the R. A. F. and Am'eripan .airforce hammer away at him all the time. I think the soon- er he folds up and silently slips away the better it will be for all concerned, However they seem to have plenty of fight left in them. Watched quite a sight the other night. We heard that a fleet of heavy American bombers would be over. Their first waves came 'in around 10 m. The sky was blue with very few• clouds and it was broad daylight. The fight the Germans put up was very intense from the start to the finish. Those airmen who fly right into it to get over their target sure must have what it takes., Wave after wave of them went. over to unload right on the target. As the ground trembles from their bombs we feel, at least •1 feel happy in one way, but a bit sorry for those troops who have to take it. It was a glorous sight to watch. Next morning our troops moved in for the kill at Caen, Allied fighters were all ,over the • sky that night but never found a single German fighter, It is great to have the superiority on the land and in the air and on the water. Many thanks for parcels and letters. Love to all, Aylmer. * 4' * * The, following are extracts from let- ters received by Mr. and Mrs. W'ilf. Henry from Cpl. Ken Murray who is in India with the R. A. F. Ken was employed at Lloyd's prior to his en- listment. The first part is from a let- ter written on. July 1st., and the latter from ode of June 8th. Dear Anne and Wilf: I am fine and dandy and having a bit of a rest now, I am at Murrae for a couple of weeks on leave for the first I have had since a year ago. • It is a pretty nice place here and is about six thousand and some odd feet above sea level, Although its pretty warm during the day it is nice and cool at night. Quite often we get rain and immediately the temperature drops considerably. The other day there was quite a lot of hail stones fell with the rain. It is all hills and valleys here and reminds me a lot of Northern Ontario, There are a lot of pine trees and rocks everywhere. The roads are winding and built on the sides of the mountains. They are not very wide and if one went over the edge it would often mean a leap of a few 'hundred feet or more. In the town itself there is nothing much except shops, pictures and dance hall. Have been to the dance a couple Of times but it is pretty hopeless. I think the youngest girl there was in her forties somewhere. I was with a Cradian officer from Galt last night, , I have seen him sev- eral times before and ran into him, yesterday. He is ,here on a course of some kind, They have a Canada House in Calcutta now. I hope to go down there on leave if possible later. on. I gUess it is quite a nice place, the officers and the other ranks all muck in together. They mess and share the Same roorna,:' I believe the only dif- ference is the price, costing officers a quarter a day more, I guess the people are worried now that the invasion, has siarted. There will be few people that haven't got somebody overseas, There has been a lot of young chaps .sent over, I am glad X. came when I did, It will be nice ifJack Bateson gets home for Xmas this year, The art crew only do three years away now so I guess his leave will be up now as he Cattle over awhile 'before I did— Whether I told you or not our tour is the same one, three years, and mine will be up on Pet, 10th, next So with good Tuck should be home next Stinitner. There la lots to do here in the WO of sports, There is football, -tennis, badminteri, horse riding, shooting and lots of Indoor ganteg. It is a great place UP here for cool- ies. You will see them plodding up the hill with great bundles on their backs. They get half bent over and have a rope tied around what they are carrying and around their chest and forehead and , they sure carry some weight. I saw one the other day with a refrigerator on his back, and it was not a small one either. They say they have been known to carry a piano. The 'weather has been hot I think the highest has been 119 degrees but it has gone down to near the 100,inark this past'few days. There was a dust storm to-night which is a usual occur- rence and when they are on you can't see a thing and the dust and sand comes in everywhere. Sincerely, Ken. * * The following letter is from Alvin Hammond to hiS parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammond, Alvin speaks in his letter of Ralph, who is his bro- ther who is also in France. • France, July 7th., 1944 Dear Mother and Dad: Just a few lines again folks to let you know I'm still fine and still going strong, I have been receiving your mail just fine and real fast. I just finished writing Lila and just started yottra and I stopped to watch our bombers, The sky Is just black with them, we watch- ed them drop their bombs and away, and now 1'11 have to stop writing for awhile, they are coming again, another force, gee its lovely to watch. It's more exciting than a hockey match. I'm sure glad I'm on this side. I was going to stop writing and watch the fun but I wouldn't get this letter finished before dark so just continue, it sure gives us heart to see such a mass of our bombers, they are as far as we can see. wish you could see them, I'm so excited Lean hardly write, I could fill this whole letter about it but it would be just repeating like _Foster Hewitt's broadcast. The old sky is ',just black with smoke it makes me awful, glad I'm in this army and .not Jerry's, Well folks I haven't much news for you that you don't al- ready know, bet you know more about how we're doing ever here than we do at least you'll know quicker than we do but We don't care as long as we keep going ahead and not back, I haven't, seen "Ralph or heard front butt for a long time but I enquire for for him every day, and he's fine and going strong, Cte 1 hope we soon get this war Over I would like to get home to thy little.• puppy It seems like ten years singe I left good old Canada, but I'm sure we're in the last round of this scrap now and Its going to be a knock- l out-round for us So keep the chins up and the , fingers crossed and we sure won't let old Canada down. Remem- ber when we used to listen on the rad- io when. the Germans were coming through France and I told you some day the old Union Jack would fly higher than ever,' well You can start cutting longer poles now for we're going to knock hell out of Hitler's mob here when we get going. I think everything has gone real well so far, considering the weather and the huge amount of men and equipment that it tales to fight a war but we are getting it over and things will roll before long, I hope you two old dears aren't worry- ing yourselves sick over,there and al- ways thinking of the worst, we get lots to eat and the weather doesn't bother us, we have clothes for all wea- ther and don't forget we're both chips off the two toughest blocks in Canada? You both always weather through 'any- thing that came along and the same guide that helped you through is help- ing Ralph and I through. I've asked Him many times' for assistance and He's right behind me, so please don't worry just build yourselves up for a big reunion before long. So for now dear folks I'll have to close and I'll write you often. God" bless you both, Love, Alvin. - P. S. I suppose yoti read in the papers abbut the A, A. battery from Guelph and Listowel shooting down all the planes in one evening over here commanded by lvlajor,013. M. Osier of Toronto, well that's our battery, he's our Major, and Major F. L. Charles- worth whom you met in Guelph and who was our Major is now 2nd. in command of our wholeregirnent. Lila sent me the piece she read in a Tor- onto paper and wondered if that was our battery, well it is and we/were sure proud of it. * 111 AtISS Barnard in the following letter to his parents, Mr..and Mrs. Ed.' Bar- nard of Bluevale, says he is in. the Moose Squidron. England, jury 1st,, 1944 Dear TvIother and Dad: / ant fine and hope you are all the Same, We are getting along fine and as I told you in my last letter I am With the famous "Moose sqttadron. We think it is a great squadron and• Most of the fellows here are Canad- ians. I guess,it IS a big boliday to-day back 'there 'but it is just another' day of the year here. Another few days and it will be 8 months since I Went down to Halifax but It sometimes seems longer elan that. I was at church last Sunday here In c DAV and if poSsible I AM going to4notroW. We have quite a nice chapel here, the pad- re is from British Columbia and he is certainly a swell• fellow, I have to fly to-night, 'They have been keeping us pretty busy the last while. We will be getting a week's leave before long now. It was two years ago yesterday that I received my wings out at Dafoe, Sask., and since then I have flown al- most fourteen hundred hours. I sup- pose the farmers will all be busy hay- ing around there now and I would not mind if I was back there doing the• same thing, but I feel certain that this thing will be over by this tirrie next year and we will be back there again. I-am in my fourth year in the air force but at times it doesn't seem that long. Remember me to all the folks around' there and be sure and take care of yourselves. Your loving son, Russ. PASTEURIZE MILK IN ' SUMMER COTTAGE; Asa health measure summer cot- tagers and other residents in small, districts where commercially pasteur- ,ized milk is not readily available are' advised by 'the Division of Dairy Re- search, Dominion Department of Agri culture, to make their milk supply safe• by home pasteurization. The only equipment required to do this job is• an aluminum double boiler and afloat-, ing dairy thermotheter. The latter may be purchased at many hardware stores and from dairy supply houses. The procedure is as follows-,-half fill the lower part of the double boil- er with water, and put the milk in the upper half. A boiler of 21/2 'quarts capacity will, be required to pasteur- ize two quarts of milk, Place the. therMometer in the milk and the doub- le boiler on the stove. Examine the- thermorneter from time to time until it register.s a temperature of 140 degreeS' degrees P. Then turn down the heat slightly because the water will be hot' enough to bring the temperatttre of the milk up to the desired 146 or 150 degrees. Maintain this temperature for 30 minutes. Then the milk sho•uld bo immediately covered up and cooled' to 50 degreeS Or below. In cold weak ther this can be done by setting the (vessel tontaining the milk 'in cold' Watt dr, but in ituntnertinie a mixture of ite and water is neteStarY. Place the cooled mill in a refrigerator or in• a cool cellar or cooling pit. The ntilk should be used within 24 hours for in, font feeding and within 48 hours fur adults, Milk to he pastutrized should be fresh. Care in thoroughly Clean., ing the utensils it itriPortatit, hen is a Dollar Not a Dollar. a When it won't buy a dollar's worth, of goods! Sr instance, compared.to present... clay; standards, your dollar of the last war was worth, note dollar . . but sometimes el. • less Alan 0,.. Housewives, who went marketing in 1917,, had to part with fora four-pound jar of jam which you buy to-day for ... Dad's winter underwear ,set him 'back then,as compared to the he could buy itforto.clati.. You get a lot more far your money NOW because price ceilings an& 14117 044 other anti•inflationary measures have keptthe value of your dallarbil I GHt ••••11•1•4 That's why if will pay you to see that selfish spending never undermine's price control in Canada. Remember you protect your dollar's worth when you • use your money wisely . when, you pay offdebts =a ...`refuse to bug needless luxuries... give black markets a wide beith .. and dont hoard goods. I promise to give my support to keeping the Cost of living down. I will buy only what I need. I will observe the ceiling whether buying or sell- ing goods or services. I will pay off old debts, save for the future, invest in Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates. And I will support taxes which help lower the cost of living.• Published by THE BREWING INDUSTRY -(ONTARIO) to help reveal the dangers that inflation represents for all the , people of the Nation. Po I 144 /fie 10/ '40 MO. ,fr 40.1r, INDUSTRY 00.ARio. STRAW' OR OTI4ER , MOISTURE MULCHES Al-SO , ESCAPES PREVENT ESCAPE FROM . OF MOISTURE _A UNTILLEO SOIL DUST MULCH PREVENTS E.-SCAM OT= MOISTURE 'rk • • . • • • . .•• • • • •• • • • : . 4 • . • ... • .•7 „ . 1,.„ 1 ' „ • • n it . 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Shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, minced onions, grated greens, etc., are good, mois- tened with 'very little seasoned salad dressing, TAIE A TIP Stains on, summer clothes may be removed at home if treated immediate- ly 'using the folloWing steps: a few drops of stain remover should be ap- plied to the stain. Rinse material, If stain is stubborn, hold the stain in steam over the spout of a boiling ket- tle. Apply "remover" again. 1. For berry stains use javel water on white cotton, linen or rayon with warm water before applying lemon juice or peroxide. 2. Mercurochrome stains are remov- ed by treating all fabrics with wood alcohol, then vinegar, and then wood alcohol again. 3. Mildew left for any length of time is almost impossible to re- move. Wash as soon as noticed in hot, soapy water, then put into javel water and oxalic solution (three or four tbls, for quart of water) alternately. 4. Grass stain on white cotton, linen, or rayon may be removed with javel water or peroxide, but use wood alcohol on coloured fabrics. 5. Lipstick: sponge marks on cot- tons and linens With a stain re- Mover or carbon tetrachloride; on all coloured fabrics, work in cold cream, then follow with carbon tetrachloride. 6, Paint 'may be removed by soak- ing stain in turpentine or carbon tetrachloride. All stain removing agel.ts should be removed by sponging or washing all material, then press, using absorbent cloth over cleaned material, * * * * THE QUESTION BOX H. G suggests: FRESH LEMON CEREAL COOKIES 1 /2 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar 2 eggs unbeaten, 2 teaspoons grat- lemon rind, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 3 tablespoons Water, 1 cup' sifted pastry flour, 11/2 cups rolled bats, 8 `teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt. Cream shortening, gradually adding sugar; cream until light and fluffy,. Add eggs and beat vigorously, Add lemon juice, grated lemon rind and water, Sift together, flour, salt and baking Powder. Add sifted dry in- gredients to sugar mixture; then add rolled oats, mixing well, Drop from teaspoon on greased pan, Bake in, electric oven 375° IT, for 12-15 minutes, (Hake 1 cookie first; if it spreads too much, a little additional flour may be required.) Mrs, B. G, asks: Should Jelly be boiled slowly or rapidly? Answer: Jelly Should 'be 'boiled rap- idly. Long, slow boiling will destroy the pectin necessary for jelling, Miss J. D. asks; Should jam be made •with cane or beet sugar? Answer: The test on cane and beet sugar shows them to be chemically the same. Either will be successful. Anne Allan invites you to write to her in care of,The Wingham Advance- Times. Send in your suggestions on homemaking problems and watch this column for, replies, Hints On Fashions The tunic looks like a first fall fav- orite since it occurs so freqUently on dresses that are distinctly harbingers of early autumn. Color does a good job in this tunic dress, which uses dark brown crepe for the skirt and aquamarine crepe for the tunic top. The belt is of dark brown suede. It has a classic collar and a concealed front fastening. The tunic would also be nice with a purple or black skirt. HOusehold Hints By MRS. MARY MORTON If your 'teen age boy or girl is working this summer vacation, see that the job is not too hard for the child's strength, See also that the youngster gets a good, nourishing breakfast be- fore he or she starts out in the morn- ing, and has an adequate lunch as well as dinner and plenty of play and sleep. A dry earth or dust mulch can be used to prevent the escape of moisture as illustrated in the accompanying Garden-Graph. Such a dust mulch is one of the objects of cultivating the soil, in addition to keeping down weeds, A dust mulch can be obtained by loosening a thin layer of soil, only 4rt itIch Qr so deep, Loosening the sur- .. „protect the roots of vegetables, fruit tees or berry shrubs from heat and drought. Mulching the soil helps to -conserve the moisture in the soil by preventing evaporption. Mulches also help to keep the soil in a cool, loose and friable condition. Listen To ‘‘SUCCESS°° SELF POLISHING LIQUID WAX AND PASTE ELC)OR WAX every FRIDAY morning at 10.15- 31 prizes awarded each broadcast Prom C1CNX Winghatn 9O On Your Dial For sale at all Grocery and Hardware Stores. To-day's Meriu Breakfast Oranges Slices or Apple Sauce Oatmeal with Top Milk. Bacon Toast Marmalade or Jelly Coffee or Milk Luncheon Cheese Souffle Scalloped Tomatoes Fresh Vegetable Salad tread Butter Cookies Milk Dinner Fricasse of Veal with Vegetables Turnip Greens Sliced Cucumbers Peach Short Cake Tea or Coffee Cheese Souffle 2 tbsps. butter tsp, salt 8 tbsps. flour Few grains % c. milk Cayenne c. grated Yolks of 3 eggs cheese Whites of 2 eggs Melt butter, add flour, stir until well blended; pour on gradually cup scolded milk, then add cheese, salt and tayettne, Remove from fire, add well beaten yolks, cool mixture and fold its well beaten Whites of eggs, Pour into buttered baking dish and bake 20 Min-. titea in slow oven OM degrees F.) Serves 4, 'Veal Pritasse with Vegetables 2 lbs. Veal 1 onion breast 4 or' 5 small I shank shoulder ttr 4 Medittnt taffeta