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makes the potatoes more netritieus and
easy to skin.
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THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs, J, C. says:, Homemade soup is
the best welcome sign at our home,
Here is the recipe you liked. (We did
too—very much.)
DUTCH BROTH
6 onions, 5 tbsps, baking fat, 3
cups cold water. 1 egg yolk, 3
tbsps. flour, 2 cups scalded milk,
salt and cayenne,
Chop the onions and cook them in
2 tbsps. of fat for 5 mins., then add
water and cook thirty mins, Press
through a sieve. Make a paste of the
remaining fat and the flour, combine
it with the scalded milk and add seas-
oning, Cook 5 mins., stirring constant-
ly. Add this milk mixture to the onion
mixture, Mix thoroughly and add the
egg yolk, slightly beaten. Serve with
one tsp, of grated cheese on the top.
Mrs. T. B. asks: Do you keep tea
biscuit dough in the refrigerator?
When I do this, the tea biscuits are
hard and dry.
Answer: Dough may be kept for 2
or 3 weeks in an elbctric refrigerator
if rolled in wax paper so that, the
parcel is airtight or if stored in a small
covered dish, Do not knead after you
take it out but bring it from the re-
frigerator about 15 mins. before you
roll it out.
Mrs. K, T. says: Our family enjoy
this sauce with steamed puddings.
Boil 1 cup of molasses for 1s, min.
Take it off the electric range and add
a tbsp. of butter, 1 tsp. lemon rind. and
2 tsps. lemon juice. Stir well and pour
over steamed pudding or steamed cake.
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Anne Allan invites you to write to
her eao The Advance-Times. Send in
your . suggestions on homemaking prob-
lems and watch this column for re-
plies.
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Household
Hints
By MRS. MARY MORTON
Have you had your quota of liver
this week? Try making the liver into
patties if the family is inclined to rebel
against its frequent inclusion in the
daily menu. They'll probably eat it
and like it in this guise.
Today's Menu
Liver Patties ' Boiled Rice
Buttered Beets
Lettuce with French Dressing
Honey Sponge Cake ' Coffee
Liver Patties
% lb. liver
c. bran flakes, slightly crushed
3/4 tsp. salt
1 tbsp, 'bacon' fat
Dash of pepper
1 egg, slightly beaten
2 tbsp. water
1 tbsp, chopped onion
Wipe liver, remove skin And mein-
brarte and put through food chopper.
Combine all ingredients and blend well.
Melt small amount of fat in skillet,
drop liver mixture from spoon
into skillet, forming patties. Saute 5
minutes, or until done. This makes 6
patties.
Honey Sponge Cake
4 egg yolks
1/2 c. sugar
c. honey
2 tsps. grated lemon rind
1 tbsp. lemon juice
3/4 tsp. salt
1 c. sifted cake flour
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ANOTHER VICTORY
LOAN COMING UP! WE
JUST SEEM TO
PAY AND PAY
NOT REALLY, GWEN
AND IT'LL BE WORTH
MORE AFTER THE
WAR
WELL,THINK OF ALL THE
THINGS YOU CAN'T
BUY NOW !
SAVE
AND SAVE, YOU
MEAN...AND LUCKY
TO HAVE THE CHANCE
HOW DO YOU FIGURE THAT ?
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.imerimmoomrima,
FOR PEACETIME SPENDING
In a few weeks, our Govern-
tnentIS goitig to ask us again
to put every penny we can
spare into Victory 13onds,
doing this, we'll save our
/hooey now, when spending
it actually harms the war
Went. And well have it after
Victory is won, when spend, mg it will help keep Canada.
prosperous. It surely makes
tease to do that!
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WHEN THEY —KiEAN SO MUCH,.,
TO CANADA AND TO US ?
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Quality You'll Enjoy
Hello Homemakers! We are, more
.aware of distant lands than ever be-
fore, Letters from 11w Low Countries,
Italy and the East tell us of interesting
foreign peoples—their customs and
their dress. Perhaps your boy spent
,his last leave with a Belgian family
and enjoyed a dish native to Belgium.
Maybe you would like to try one at
'Dome,
BELGIAN HUTSEPOT
(Pot Pourri)
Put one pork shank in boiling water
to cover. After cooking thirty mine.,
add one tbsp. salt.
Clean and cut one small head of
Savoy cabbage, six potatoes, 14 cups
of diced' carrots, 2 cups diced onions
and add 1/2 tsp. pepper, 1/2 tsp. nut-
meg.
Put all together in the cooker with
the pork shank and simmer for about
2ahrsr
KHOPTHA
1 small bead Red Cabbage, 1
onion, 1 apple, 1 tbsp. rice, la bay
leaf, -1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. salt,
dash pepper, 2 tbspi. vinegar, 3
tbsps. sugar, 1. tbsp, shortening.
Clean and shred cabbage. Peel and
core apple. Cut ,up apple and onion
and put in pan with one cup of water;
add all ingredients except vinegar and
sugar. Simmer 11/2 hrs., adding a little
boiling water if necessary. When
thoroughly cooked, add vinegar and
sugar and boil five mins., stirring
meanwhile.
Serve with Roast Dressed Pork.
ZOETE KOEK
6 cups flour, 114 cups honey,
1 tbsp, baking powder, 2 cups
water, 2 cups brown sugar, 1/2 tsp.
extract of anise, 2 eggs, 2 tbsps.
molasses.
Mix thoroughly and bake in electric
oven above 325 degrees.
This may be stored for weeks after
'being cooked, in an air-tight container,
A slice of fresh bread should be put
in every two or three days.
In Flanders it is known as Zoete
Koek (Sweet Cake), In Antwerp
and Brabant it is called Honing Koek
(Honey Cake), and in Holland it is
called Lekker Koek (Delicious Cake).
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TAKE A TIP
1. After our supply of chili sauce
was exhausted we opened a couple of
tins of tomatoes, drained off the juice,
added minced onion, celery and a few
spices, then simmered for Vs hour—
and the family are happy again,
2. Here is a special onion dish which
keeps the aroma to' itself. Select
onions of the same size and peel them.
Pierce each one right through the
centre to keep the heart from popping
.out. Place onions in a casserole and
pour a tin of mushroom soup over
them, Cover and bake in electric
oven at 350 degrees for 40 mins.
3. Keep slivers of raw carrots in a
covered jar in the refrigerator for those
who go looking for something to eat
at all hours, Crisp' crunchy carrot
sticks are easy to prepare thank
goodness, because they disappear more
quickly than'cookies.
4. Peel a ring around the small
serulthed potatoes and boil them. This
3/a. tsp, cream of tartar
14 c, 'honey
1340 egg yolks with rotary beater
until light and fluffy, add 1/2. c. sugar,
first 1/2 c, hatless salt, grated lemon
rind and lemon juice, and continue
beating until very thick and light.
Sift cake flour, tneasure and carefully
add t4 egg mixture, folding it in gently
but thoroughly, Beat egg white with
rotary beater until foamy, add cream
of tartar and continue beating vatil
stiff,
Slowly pour in the other 1/2 a, honey,
beating until' whites are stiff and
thoroughly mixed with honey. Gently
fold white mixture into egg yolk mix-
ture, pour the fluffy, thick batter into
an ungreased 9-inehatthe cake pan, and .
bake in a 'slow oven (300 deg. F.) for
about 1 hour and 10 mins., or until
eake springs back when lightly 'touch-
ed and a' toothpick comes out clean.
Remove from oven, invert, and let
stand in tube until thoroughly cooled.
Then remove from pan.
Hints On
Fashions
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The tunic is an integral part of some
of the most attractive of the new town
costumes. Shocking pink, dull"and
shiny striped fabric is used for this
urbane -tunic made with cap sleeves
and bow-tied neck-line. A few gathers
at the sides just below the belt and
lucite buttons are other ,details, It is
worn over a slim, straight black crepe
skirt.
FAMILY ALLOWANCES
Question:—Can children living else-
where move to Canada and receive the
allowance immediately
Answer:—No. They must have liv-
ed in Canada for at least three years;
except for the children of Canadian
service 'men or women, and those
whose parents are temporarily away
from Canada.
Question:—Do the children of Can-
adian service men or women overseas
get an allowance immediately upon
their return to Canada?
AnSwer: ---s Yes. Children of any
Canadian man or woman serving over-
seas get an allowance immediately
upon their taking up residence in Can-
ada, So do children of Canadians who
have been temporarily out of Canada
on business, war work or the like, No
allowance will be paid except in Can-
ada to a Canadian resident.
RURAL HYDRO RATES
ARE TO BE REDUCED
Hon. George H. Challies Made An-
nouncement of Rate Change and
a .five Year Plan For Rural
Extension of Hydro
A further rate reduction to all rural
hydro consumers on the first block
of energy from 4c to 3.5c per kilowatt
hour, 'effective on all bills rendered on
or after May 1, 1945, will result in an
estimated saving of $300;000 a year.
'This was announced by Hon. George
H, Challies, vice-chairman of The
Hydro-Electric Power Commission of
Ontario.
The eke reduction was a result of
A stimulated programme of new serv-
ices inaugurated 'during the past year.
Uniform rates for eleetrical service
to rural areas were introduced by tire,
Commission on Powers, 1, 1944, bring-,
substantial benefits to 97 per 'tent
of all farm and hatnlet consumers Serv-
ed by the Commission, and resulting
in a estimated saving of $500,000. The
new energy rate of 3;Se on the first
block, with second and third rates re-
maining unchanged, will be a sub-
stantial Wittig. shared by 01 fatal by-
tltO .coatOrneirS, lifr, Chilies stated,
It
Plan 7000 Mile gAte1W94,
.A programme which will make On-
tario one of the most highly electri-
fied farming areas in the world, bring
still greater benefits to both existing
and new rural cousumers and open up
a big market far electrical appliances
and farm equipment was outlined by
Hon, George H. Challies when be an-
nounced an intensive five-year rural
electrification plan to he .undertaken
by Hydro, in the immediate post-war
perioa.
Involving an expenditure of some
$g„goo,000 by the Hydro. Commission
on labour and materials with the On-
tario government providing a grant-in-
aid to cover fifty per cent of that cost,
the plats, it is estimated, will result
in the construction of over 7,000-miles
of additional rural lines, which will
bring Hydro service to approximately
57,900 new rural cansumers, of whom
32,00 will be farmers,
Mr, Challies also announced that. the
government would re-invoke The Rural
Power' District ',bans Act to assist
farmers finance the purchase of neces-
sary equipment and appliances and that
the interest rate on loans would be re-
duced from 5 to 4 per cent.
GIRLS ARE NEEDED
FOR ONION WORK
Fifty. girls of high school age or
older are required for an Ontario
Farm Service Force Camp at Tiled-
ford, Ontario, Alex.M.aciaren, Director
of the Ontario Farm Service Force
announced today, ThiS camp, which is
in the heart of an onion growing sec-
tion; is to be opened on May 15, and
Mr. Maclaren is now asking for appla
cations from girls willing to work in
this section of the Province, The
work will consist very largely of trans-
planting and care of onion crops in
the area, The camp itself is in a very
fine location, and it is one of the finest
of the farm service force camps oper-
ated under the supervision of the
Y.W.C.A. Any girls wishing to apply
for a place in this camp are asked to-
communicate at once with the ()Mario
Earth Service Force, Parliament Build-
ings, Toronto,
Mr. Maclaren said that applications
have been coming in 'Very well for the
camps to be opened in April and on
May 1 in the Niagara Peninsula, but
that more applications are urgently
needed to fill up the Thedford Camp.
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NEW VICTORY BONDS
IN TWO MATURITIES
Long Term Issue At 3% Interest.
Short Term at 13/4 %.
Finance Minister Ilsley announced
Canada's Eighth Victory Loan,' open-
ing April 23 with a minimum objective
of $1,350,000,000, will be offered in two
maturities — one of 18 years and five
months and the other of four years and
six months.
The 1611g-term issue, bearing interest
at three per cent, will mature 'at 100
October 1, 1963, and will be callable
on or after4959 while the shorter is-
sue, bearing interest at 13/4 per cent,
will mature at 100 NoVernber 1, 1949,
and will not be callable before matur-
ity.
Both issues will be dated May 1,
1945, and will be issued at 100, The
first interest coupon of the three-per-
cent issue will be for five months,
with succeeding coupons falling due
-semi-annually on April 1 scrici October
1.
At $1,350,000,000, the minimum •ob-
jective of the three-week drive will be
$50,000,000 above that of the Seventh
Loan last fall, when Canadians in-
vested 4,517,000,000, an all-time high.
The 'minimum •objeetive for individuals
in the new loan will be ,$.675,000,000,'
an increase of $75,000,000 over the last
campaign, , In a statement accompanying toe an-
notmeentent of maturities, Mr, Ilsley
said that even if the war in Europe
should, end shortly Canada's expendis
.tures, and zonsequently the country's
borrowing 'requirements, for the next
fiscal year would continue to be high,
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BELGRAVE
Thart-offering Meeting
The WA A, of. the United Church
held their Easter Thank-offering sera-
ice in the' caureb on. Sunday evening,
April 1st,
,Rev; Mr. Dunlap introduced the
Rev, Reba Hem The subject of her
discourse being "The Head, the :Heart
and the Hope of the world" and taken
from John 3-16. Mrs. Dunlop and
Mrs, Jas. Michie sang a duet,
Mrs: J. A. Brandon has returned to.
her home after spending the winter
with friends in London.
• Miss Lois McGuire, London, with.
Mr, and Mrs. Harry McGuire.
Mr. Jas. McCrae, Toronto, with his
parents, Mr. 'and Mrs. Robt. McCrae.
Mr. and. Mrs. Eugene Armitage of
London, with ,aar. and Mrs. Jack Mc-
Burney.,
Mrs. Win. Cole while visiting her
daughter, Mrs, Neil Montgomery, of
London, had the misfortune to fall and
break her waist,
Miss Norma. Van Camp, London, and
Pte. 'Clare VanCamp, Chatham, spent
the holiday with their parents. Mr. And
Mrs. Wm. _VanCamp. . ,
Miss Dorothy Wade of Benmiller,
with her parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. Clar-
enee Wade.
Miss Ruth Nethery, London, with
Mr. and, Mrs. Chris-. Nethery,
Miss Mary Yuill of Fergus, and
Miss Myrtle Yuill, Harriston,' with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Yuill.
Miss Ferrol Higgins, Gait, with Mr.
and Mrs, Nelson Higgins.
Miss Elaine Walsh and Miss Marg-
aret Milligan, Toronto, 'spent the
week-end with Mr..and Mrs. Gordon
Walsh.
- Mr. and Mrs. Goldie Wheeler and
baby of London, with -Mr. and Mrs.
Herb Wheeler,
Master Jimmie Young of Lucan, is
spending the. holidays at the home of
his aunt, Mrs. Jack Mcl3urney.
Miss Shirley Chamney, Stratford;
with Mr, -and Mrs. R. Chamney, •
Mn Norman Stonehouse of London,
with Mr. and Mrs. R. Stonehouse. •
Mr. and Mrs. B. Miller of Listowel,
were the guests of their cousins, Mrs.
J. A, Brandon and Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Miller,' •
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wade and
family. visited with the former's par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. •Wm. Wade of
Fordwich.
Miss Lois Kelly, London, with Mr.
and Mrs. Wm, Kelly.
While visiting friends in Clinton,
Mrs. Win. Geddes fell and received a
severe shaking up and has since been
under the doctor's care. We hope far
a speedy. .recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hutton, Wing-
ham, with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Leitch.
Successful Euchre
A very successful euchre and dance
was held in the Forester's Hall, on
Thursday evening. Mrs. P. Shoe-
bottom and Jim Coultes getting the
high score for euchre. McDowell's
orchestra supplied the music.. The
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proceeds of this dance go, to the ;cig-
arette fund.
Minister Urged To Stay
Tn Belgrave United Church on Man-
day, April 2nd, the official board of
Belgrave and Brick met with a good
attendance. The Rev. G. H. and Mrs.
Dunlop were urged to remain" iii Bel-
grave with an increased salary. A
pastoral relations committee was nam-
ed, composed of Robert Coates, Jas,
Michie, Chris. Nethery, Earl Ander-
son, Lawrence ,Taylor, •
V-day is to be observed by a re-
ligious service in the. church on• that
day, at 8.30 p.m., and the congregations
of, other churches are to be invited to
Participate.
On the first Sunday in .May and
thereafter for,the summer months, the
Sunday School will 'meet at 10 .o'clock
and Divine service at 11 a.m.
Brick Church MisSion Band ,•
The 'Brave Adventurers • . Mission
Band of Brick United Church held
their April meeting on Easter Sunday
in the church. Eva Dow; the, presi-
dent, conducted the meeting which had
the message of Easter as its central
thought. The worship .service follow-
ed the one outlined in the Sunday
School quarterlies, Elmer Shiell read
the scripture •and Billy Irwin led in
pi4yer. Doris Shiehl told the worship
story entitled "I am hope". Anne
Chamney sang a solo "Jesus-the King",
The. watch tower reported, Barbara
Irwin, 'read at Easter story which
took place in India.' The birthday
song was sung for Barbara Irwin,
Alice Marks and Joan Wightman. (It
was also sung for Ivan' Dow at, the last
meeting). .
During the business period, plans
were discUssed for the thank-offering
meeting.
A special feature of the meeting was
the leader, Miss C. McGowan, telling
about Palestine as she saw it. She
also read a little from the study hook
"Tommy TWo Wheels", In cloSing
the band repeated their Mission Band
prayer in unison.
Co-Op., Ass. $50.00; Woman's Instia
tute $25.00; Total $1224.25; Coulty-
grant '$750,00; Grand Total $1974,25..,
DONATIONS HELPFUL
TO THE SANATORIUM
Wingham Donations To Queen Alex—
andra. Sanatarium $69.46 Greater
Than Last Year
Colonel Ibbotson Leonard, President
of Queen Alexandra Sanatorium,,Lon-
don, and Mrs. Thomas F. Walker,:
Chairman and members of the Christ-
mas Seal committee in a recent letter•
to the Advaned-Times, expressed their
appl'eciation of the splendid response'
made by' the people of Wingham and.
Huron County"in the annual campaign.
The Huron returns which will be or
greatest assistance in enabling the
Sanatoriuin to maintain its travelling
clinics and to carry on its preventive
programme, research and education are:
as follows:
Wingham ........ ... ... $200.46
Goderich 442.27
Clinton 158.18
Exeter ...... ......... ........ ......... 218.18,
Other County centres ...„. 572.33*,
Total $1767.00'
The amounts received from the re-
maining six, counties of the Sanatorium
district are: Middlesex, $15,189.42;
Lambton, $3944.80; Elgin, $2944.14;
Kent, $3750.36; Perth, $2621,60; Ox-
ford, $4091.43, ,„
The success of the campaign was'
due, first, to the continued loyal sup-
port of former contributors. to many
increasing their givings 'and the many'
contributing 'for the first time.
The mailing of receipt cards accept-
able for tax. purposes has proved of
much apparent satisfaction to the -sup-
porters of the campaign.
The Christmas Seal Committee in
their letter extended sincere thanks to
the Advance-Times, the local chair-
man, Mr, J, Harley Crawford, and his-
committee, Mr. W. H. French, M. E.
S. Copeland; Mr. Cruickshank and
radio station CKNX. and the radio -
speakers including Rev. W. A. Bee-
croft, the Lions Club, movie theatre
and the Boy Scouts, also those who-
helped make the campaign so outstand-
ing a success,
Red Cross Over the Top'
The Belgrave Red 'Cross Society
have had another very successful
canvass, The quota was $1200 and
$1224,25 was collected together with
the county grant of $750 onaking a
total of $1974.25.
The collection was as follows by the
various canvassers:
Bruce Scott $102,00; Joe Dunbar
$99.50: Harold Procter $51,50; Lyle
Hopper $54.00; Harold Vincent $117.-
50 Lewis Stonehouse $46.00; Harry
McGuire $151.50; Jas. Michie $61,75;
Joe Holmes $32.00; Roy Pattison
$118.50; Jesse Wheeler $64.00; Wm.
J. McMurray $61.00; Ed. McBurney
$112.00; J. C. Nethery $78,00; Belgrave
Kitty: The man I marry must be a
hero,
Kattys Oh, don't be such a pessi-
mist.
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