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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1945-07-05, Page 6Hello, Homemakers! All indica tions point to a scarce supply of domestic fruits this season. When ordering, think of others and buy only what you need. In this way there will be some for every one. To help stretch the short supply, serve fruits in ways sugested below lather than in large individual portions. STRAWBERRY BAVARIAN CREAM 2 tbsps. granulated gelatine, 11 cups cereal cream, 1 box fresh strawberries, cup sugar 1 tbsp, lemon juice. Soften gelatine in cup of cold imam, Scald remaining cup of cream. Add gelatine mixture and sugar. Stir until dissolved and allow to cool. Blend lemon juice with berries and add to the cool cream mixture. Chill thoroughly. Stir every half hour to ,,,krevent berries from sinking to the bottom. When partially set, pile lightly into sherbet dishes. Keep in Electric refrigerator until serving time. Garnish with slice of straw- berry. FRUIT CHOCOLATE CAKE Sift together: 3 cups cake flour, 2 cups sugar, % cup cocoa, 2 tsp, soda, Ve tsp. salt. Add 2 eggs, unbeaten, cup butter or shortening (melted), 2 cups sour cream or buttermilk, 2 tsps. vanilla. Mix well. Bake in three layers in electric oven at 375 degrees 'for 25 mins. Turn out , and cool. Place layers in tiers with crushed sweetened fruit between. VELVET ICE CREAM a (No Whipping Cream Required) 2 cups cereal cream, 1 tsp. gelatine, % cup sugar, 1 egg white, dash of salt, 1 tsp. vanilla. Cream should be very cold. Pour 1 cup off the top of the bottle. Beat until frothy with a dover egg beater. Remove two tbsps. of remaining cup of cream and dissolve gelatine in this: scald the rest of the cream in the top of double boiler. Add softened gela- tine, stirring over hot water. Add sugar and salt. When thoroughly dis- solved, combine two mixtures, add vanilla; pour into refrigerator freezing tray. When partially frozen, remove from tray, and fold in a beaten egg white. Stir mixture thoroughly, us- ing a fork, and pressing out all lumps. s Cooling "SAL T EA ism YO CAN UR STEAL BUSINESS 10. No 'business can afford to face 4444 which should be covered by imam. since, Let us analyse lour needs, explain bow -insurance can protect your business. from loss in many ways and arrange plan: red Pilot Policies to cover all eventualities. We .write Pilot Insurance to cover seb ected risks in Automobile, Fire, Personal. Property floater, Burglary, Cargo, glova, tor, Teigne, Plate class, General and Pals lie Uability, Fidelity and Surety Bonds. H. C. MacLEAN, WINGHAM A. W. KEIL, GORRIE REPRESENTING PILOT INSURANCE COMPANY GLASS JUG TAKING A salt. SAMPLE WATER, •ev C. I . LAY' 0•101•••••••••11, T9- ARDEN ..•••••••••••rOgnI.••••••••••/..•••••••••••• SAMPLE RAP11 WINEMOVIL TEST SHOWING HOW LIME SIZEAKS °OWN CLAY PAINT YOUR LIVING ROOM WFIB Osiaze . AMAMI ND WIN SAW VELVET This new lustre wall paint is easily applied and dries over night to a rich, velvety sheen. It leaves no unpleasant odor, and being an 6i/ paint, it washes perfectly. Painted walls are highly sanitary and very lunch in style, and we can thoroughly' retennnend this special wan paint. 245-0 For Sole by: The Wallpaper Shop Phone 228 WingItam, OnL .77.7777. WINGHAM ADVANC-TIKES Thursday, Jul 5th, 194$ Return to refrigerator and continue freezing, stirring occasionally to keep smooth, Freeze until firm, but not hard, (If firm before you wish to use it, turn control to normal refriger- ation temperature to prevent mixture from, freezing solid.) Serve topped with fresh fruit, FLAPPER PIE (It won't Collapse when served). 14 graham crackers, Ye, cup white sugar, cup soft butter, I. tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup diced or small fresh fruit, 2 cups milk, Va cup white sugar, 2 egg yolks (or one whole egg), 2 tbsps. corn starch, 1 tsp. vanilla. Roll crackers until fine, Add sugar and cinnamon. Mxi well. Rub in the soft butter. Press this mixture into bottom of nine-inch pie plate, reserv- ing 34 cup of crumbs for the top. Make a custard by scalding milk and pouring on mixed egg yolks, sugar and corn starch. Return to heat and stir until thickened. Add vanilla and pour into graham cracker shell. If desired, whip two egg whites witlo two tbsps, of sugar and put on top of filling. Sprinkle with crumbs' and fruit. Bake at 275° in electric oven for twenty mins. • * * * TAKE A TIP When baking fruit pies: Use a deep baking dish and heap fruit well up in the centre. Sprinkle with sugar and mix in a tbsp. of corn starch if the fruit is very juicy. Flavour to taste; lemon juice is al- ways good and a suspicion of spice can do wonderful things. Be sure to slit the crust, for slits are not just decorative, they prevent sogginess by allowing steam to escape. Deep fruit pies are baked in an electric oven preheated to 425°. The temperature should be reduced to 350° after 15 mins. baking and pies left to continue to bake for another 15 to 20 mins. • * * * THE QUESTION BOX Mrs. M. S. asks: Bread moulds very quickly in our bread box. How can I prevent this loss and inconvenience Answer: Bread stored in a venti- lated bread box should be unwrapped of its waxed paper covering. Once a week the bread box should be given a thorough washing with hot soap suds; scalded and let dry. (A little vinegar added to the water will help kill infecting moulds.) Mrs. S. T. asks: How do you top jam with paraffin wax to prevent a crack between jar and wax? Answer: Leave jam until partially cool, then pour on a thin film of melt- ed wax (having melted it in a can over hot water). Store the jam in a cool, dark place for a day and then rover with a thicker layer of wax. Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Advance-Times. Send sat you*. suggestions on homemaking problems and watch this column for replies, MIN600"0"4,1111 Household Hints By MRS, MARY MORTON f, mom!, lllllllll llllllll Buy enough fish for Tuesday dinner so that you have some left over for chowder next day, If you don't like chowder, serve it flaked and creamed, An egg salad makes a substantial luncheon dish and I'm giving you a recipe that will probably please all the family. It is a good salad to take on a pcinic too. * * * * Today's Menu Breakfast Tomato Juice Ready-to-eat Cereal Top Milk Toast Milk Coffee Luncheon Egg Slaw Hashed Brown Potatoes Fresh or Stewed •Fruit Brown Bread Butter Milk Tea Dinner Broiled Fish Baked or Scalloped Potatoes Lemon Sponge Pudding Iced Tea * * * Egg Slaw 1 tbsp. grated onion 3/2 c. chopped celery 2 c. shredded cabbage • c. diced tomatoes 2 tbsp. chopped green peppers 4 or 5 hard-cooked eggs, sliced 2 tbsp, chopped pickle % c. salad dressing Vs tsp, salt Pepper or paprika Combine ingredients and serve on lettuce or other suitable greens. Serves 6. * * * * Lemon Sponge Pudding c, sugar % c. flour Vs tsp. melted table fat c. lemon juice 1/2 tsp. grated lemon rind 2 or 3 eggs 11/2 c. milk Mix sugar and flour together, add salt, fat, lemon juice and rind. Beat egg yolks well and add milk; combine with sugar mixture. Beat egg whites stiff but not dry, and fold into milk mixture, Pour into greased custard cups or baking dish and place in shallow pan of hot water. Bake in a moderate oven (350 deg. F.) 40 to 45 minutes. Serves 6. Hints On Fashions Pure silk, printed in dashing de- signs and charming colors, is used for the important afternoon frocks thiS summer. And women devoted to real silk are topping these frocks with large hats and wearing long gloves to create a pretty summer picture. This frock has an ice blue ground with vivid green and shocking pink outline printed flowers. Short, loose sleeves, V neckline and a centre seam from neck to hem are some of the details of this figure flattering frock, The belt terminates in a jabot on one side. A sailor adrift on the main Had signalled an aircraft in vain So he just gave a hail„ And a pro-ally whale Mildly spouted him ti pto the plane. OVERSEAS LETTERS OF LOCAL iNTEREST The following letter was received by. The Advance-Times from Ken Somers, who is serving with the R.C,A,F., on the Continent:. Sec, B, g 6Q9$ .sere, Echelon R, AM.aFynd .;2lo13:11,9.4A5, Dear Wally,ancl Bill; One' of the English lads here receiv- ed some home-town papers to-day which suddenly reminded me that the old mail-man hasn't been breaking his back with editions of The Advance- Times these last couple of months, Now that the war here is over and Eisenhower, Montgomery, et al have nothing important to do any more, I shall take a very slim view of it if I am not placed considerably higher on the priority list. Two old friends, Bill Brawley and Teddy Tiffin gave me subscriptions to Reader's Digest and Times respectively, for Christmas, so far this year I've had one of the former and about three of the latter. Yep things had better be different from now on. Fortunately ordinary mail has come along very well, so I have managed to keep abreast of doings in the old home town fairly well. I'm afraid it will take me a couple of years to get ac- quainted with all the new citizens, though when I get home, along Main street especially. I say when I get home advisedly, as our status as radar mechs, attached to the R.A.F. makes things pretty complicated. They claim our "breed" is in very short supply, in fact all we can look forward to is a month's leave, then we can "volunteer" to either return here or play in the Pacific theatre for awhile. Some choice e Censorship has been largely lifted now, so I can perhaps write you of things in a little more detail. It has been very hard to write from over here, up till now, which will be some excuse for not having written you more often, I hope. When I last wrote you we were nore or less comfortably esconsed in what was formerly a convent, back in Belguim. It was located in a little town called Zgventum (also spelled Saventhern by the Flemish) only a few mile* out of Brussels. It was a big building and these were really round- ing into pretty fair shape there, both as our living quarters and at home a mile or so away. I will never forget our first couple of months at that field surely no where in the world has there been so much confusion in so few square miles. It is reported that three men on Flying control went stark rav- ing mad, but of course this is only a rumour! Aeroplanes, they were as thick as cars on Main street on a Sat- urday night in July. Honestly, you could stand anywhere on that field and all you could see, in any direction was aeroplanes, parked wing-tip to wing-, tip, and it was a really huge drome. 1 have known our kites to come back from an operation and take nearly two hours to get all clown, in between showers of Dakotas carrying everything from peanuts to grand iianos, Forts, Libs., Spits, everything in fact, many of which were limping home from missions with various parts nissing, Many's the hair-raising land- 'ng we saw there and the Beiges were almost worn out putting up the fences knocked clown by kites with no brakes, All this, and not a few doodle-bugs too, just to liven things up a bit. Most of the latter were concentrated on Antwerp though, a few miles further north and believe me they really had their share of them. We used to see them roaring that way every night, amid a red shower of ack-acks. Then came the Archennes 'break through and our kites could almost drop their bombs and return without even bothering to take their wheels up, New Year's eve I had the pleasant job of being in charge of a guard and our post was the bomb dump, There were Jerrie over head all night, had been for several nights, but fortunately they were either only taking pictures or just out for the tide. We got out of there plenty fast the next morning. We had just got back to our domicile when a large group of fighters (Spits we thought) flew over, On closer view these "Spits" all had swastikas on them and about two minutes later the War was on in Zaventurn. You Will have read all about Jetties at- tempt that New Year's Day to knock out all the kites in Belguim, on the ground. We were very fortunate the the most of ours had just gone off on a little job of their own, but he start did a good job on what was left, even if many were just junk before he at» rived. Jack' Herd can tell you all about the visit they paid his wing jest a.few miles away. However Serry made the mistake Of sticking maid to see the result and fun just a little too long and paid for his folly by loSing over 200 kites be- fore he got back, so it wasn't all one- sided. They paid. .us only one more Short fleeting visit all the time we were there, which showed how puny the Lufftwaffe had grown, as we were less than 200 miles from their own borders, A good many boys from Wingliant may, have had reason to rejoice, or curse our kites, depending on how close their bombs dropped to them. They were medium bombers (Ameri- can Mitchell's) and some of their tar- gets were as close to our lads as the bowling green is to Main street, Next to the rocket-firing Tiffies I doubt if any wing was of more help, Before D, Day the o•ocket sites were our big tan, get and our Ai,O.C. told us that up to then we were responsible for 45% of those destroyed, which really was a big help to Southern England. He gave us quite an outline of our abhieve- ments and its cost in men and machines here on V day, both were high. I have told you how much I and every service ,man ever saw liked Brussels, and you can imagine the rude Wakening I had the night I returned from a leave in England to find every one packing the old bags for Germany. Good-bye Canada Club and all the nice ice-cream and cokes, and er 'girls! Had some tall scrambling to do but manag- ed to get most of my stuff on board our wagon, leaving the rest with some people who had been very kind to me in the village. We had a very inter- esting trip through Belguim and Hol- land, even if our trucks were no Rolls- Royce. We were all amazed, as we had been on our entry into Belguim, at the sights in Holland. Everything there, houses, towns, streets were as neat as new pins, despite the long five years, The houses were all painted in vivid colours of course the wind-mills were a big attraction. The roads there were even better than in Belguim, here they were not only straight but smooth as well. All the fellows will have got a kick out of going across the border onto the "sacred" soil, and as I did, an even bigger one on crossing the Rhine. The engineers sure did' wonderful work there. Our first night on German soil was spent amongst the wrecks of doz- ens of gliders, which landed there just previous to the Rhine crossing. It was a most interesting spot, but I'm sorry to say there were a good many Brit- ish graves, fellows who were killed without even having the chance to fire a shot. All the -Way here it was the same story, every town we went through was just a mass of bricks and rubble, with just the narrowest trails to. go through. The people in the towns, particularily, know what war means now, at long last, We can't figure out yet where all the people have gone to from these towns, there. can't be a dozen liveable houses in any of them, Our journey ended at a drome some ten miles •N. W. of Osnatuch, on the edge of the Ems-Weser Canal, over which there is hardly a bridge left standing. The country around here is as beautiful as any in the world and the farms would turn most Canadian farmers green with envy. Lovely soil, fine buildings, and a good bit of forest in fact I've never seen one mean farm. There war ended just a week after we got here (which added to our anguish at having left Brussels) and cycling about the country is my only relaxa- tion, kicking a foot-ball around with the English lads not interesting mfr. Hence I've seen most of the country- side and really these people must have been truly mad to throw all this away for such a will-of-a-wisp. Of course all the farms are wonder- fully stocked too, and I need hardly tell you from which it came. It is 'to be hoped it will soon return there, It is hard to say -what the people feel, I can't speak with them even if it was permissable, They avoid you for the most part, though many nocl*and appear as if they would like to be friendly, But always one must rem. ember that after all they are the people responsible for these last six yea rsand all the horrors lately un- fold ed, Well I could ramble on considerably but this is perhaps already too long, so will leave the rest till I see you in person: I would like to be home by Septemberliut of course that is in the lap of the Gods, or the ItC,A.F,, neither of whom seem to Speak my language these days, Anyhow it wilt be a real thrill to see you all again and in the meantiMe all the best to all of you, Sincerely liven Somers. RIGID /ZATIONING Of the three countries Canada, Britain and, the United States — taut atone operates rationing programs for eggs, fluid milk, lard and shorten- ing, cereal breakfast foods, citrus fruits, dried fruits, dried beans and peas, rice, tea, chocolate, and candy. Through supplying food to the starv- ing nations in Europe and the curtail- ment of shipping to bring in its Own supplies, Britain has had to make its rationing still more severe with the end of the war in Europe, By HELEN MARSH "We need a Boatload of Cement" Gladys Arnold, former newspaper woman in Paris, now attached to the Information Service of, the Fighting French, has just returned from a three-months' visit to France-1;er first since she had to leave the country in 1940, I listened to her tell her story the other day, and it was a grim one. "The French have lost a million homes a million children, '75 per cent of their vehicles, 2,000 miles of railway lines and 6,000 bridges. Last winter there was no heat anywhere—in homes, of- fices or stores., You wore everything you owned all the time, and' broke the ice in your ink-well before you started to write, Often there was no heat to cook hot meals. A typical restaurant meal, costing anywhere from a dollar up, consisted of a big bowl of soup, a dish of boiled cauliflower, a dish of mashed potatoes thickened with flour, and water, and, if you were lucky, an apple." One of ,Miss Arnold's stories brought home one of the daily miser- ies one doesn't think of over here. That is the dreariness of waking up every day and looking out your win- dow on a mass of rubble. Said the Mayor of Caen to Miss Arnold, "We need food, we need clothes, we need medical supplies, yes, all of those things, but what we need most is a boatload of cement. Look at all 'those bricks out there. We could rebuild if we had something to hold them to- gether. Man was not made to live in the midst of ruins." * * Pat on the Back For CBC Every year the Institute for Educa- tion by Radio of Columbus, Ohio, holds an "exhibition" of educational radio programs and grades them. This year CDC took four first awards, • 'eluding all the awards given in the cultural programs division, and one for a broadcast in the series devoted. to programs for use in schools. Commented the judges the .C13C.. programs "were by far the finest sub- mitted," "represented radio at its best," and displayed "intelligent use of radio." Different Needs for a Different War The change over from the European theatre to the Pacific theatre has al- ready made a great difference to the kind and quantity of Canada's war ef- fort, Some goods which were in criti- cally short supply for years will soon be in ample supply; other goods which required thousands of workers to pro- duce will not be needed again. What all this means is that Cana- dians as a whole can look forward to a change in the things they can bily for themselves. A few things which have been plentiful may become scarce, but generally it will be the -other way about. The government's policy is to relax controls as soon as possible, and already dozens of restrictions on pro- duction have been lifted. But it is also determined to keep up the fight against inflation—that dread post-war- menace—by maintaining con trols wherever necessary and for as long as necessary. Already travel restric- tions have been eased, special excise• taxes on household appliances using gas or electricity have been lifted, per- mits to buy inner tubes are no longer necessary, restrictions on production of certain household goods are no more. Two repeals are of special interest to the farmer. The first is the lifting of all restrictions on the import and manufacture of repair parts for farm machinery, and the provision of 18,000 tons of farm implements to the Vet- erans' Land Act. The second is the lifting of restrictions on the schedules and routes of passenger buses. * * * Canada's cattle population nearly equal's her hurrian population, with 10,- 346,000 contented bossies chewing their cud on Canadian farms. Canadian farmers have been raising cattle for a long time—nearly 400 years. Jac- ques Cartier brought a few cows with him on his third voyage, and Cham- plain imported milk cows from France in 1610. Cattle were introduced into Acadia in 1632. Small wonder the Canadian farmers knows his dairy business. Do you know anything about the soil in your Victory garden? Upon its composition and fertility depends the success or failure of your Victory vegetables. Why not look into the Matter? Take one or more representative soil samples from the garden area and have them analyzed, The accompanying Garden-Graph shows how to take a soil sample, Helpful information concerning a soil includes: 1. The type: clay, silt, sand or much loam. along with a color description,. 2. The degree of' acidity rat alkanlittity. 2', The quantities of available phosphorus and potash. Ni- trogen, the third major .clement requir. Led for satisfactory plant growth, is usually not an important test factor be- cause of the constantly varying amount of it present in garden soils. On the basis of these soil tests specific recommendations may be ob- tained about how to make your garden grow. Illustrated in the Garden-Graph is a simple test showing how lime breaks down , clay, making it more porous. Take a funnel and press day down into it. Place the funnel in the neck of a glass jug and pour rainwater on top. None will pass through the clay, Remove the water and add a sprifikiing of powdered lime. Then again add rainwater, After a sliott time the water will gradually pass through and drop into the jug.