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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-9-7, Page 6About the House /:useful Hints (iy� y. and Gene al Info ma- V.ton for the Busy Housewife Tested Recipes. Mex:can .Pickles. ---Select feu quarts green tomatoes, six large pep Pers, three onions, all chopped fine. Put a layer of this mixture in earthen jar, thea; a layer of salt al ternately, and let remain overnight Then drains the water off, and tie0 on tablespoon each, of peppercorns, mus bard seed and whole cloves. Simrne the whale for twenty minutes in thre pints of good vinegar, and set away i a cool place. After three weeks you cff the vinegar and add as much: fres In another week the pickles will b ready for use, Fresh Pineapple for Occasions,--. Take a very fine ripe pineapple, par it and cut carefully all the eyes; the with a silver fork strip all the pl from the core. To one pint of the aid one and one-foerih pounds o lump or crushed sugar and stir oc e :anally until all the sugar is dis solved. Put in glass fruit jars an se.`c-w down the covers cis tight as pos s!lee Th`s keeps a long time and i deli: leas, Riluharb elari:talade.---We -h and pare rhubarb and ut in one half-inch pieces; there ehoulc} be two quarts. Add one cla.art n+f :•:9n;ir, 4'olver and let static} overnight. In the morning .put it et'.wpan. Aid greeBRI tin:} and juke cif one orange, e,ne:-half cu,, Need- ed rai::n eat ier stall laiee c• ere one-helf eup 1 r.glieh walnuts, leruleen it piece=. Bring all to boiler; and let simmer until thick. Seal in jars, Chutney Sauce.—Select twelve green, sr ur erteLes , two green peppers, pie ge tai tomatoes. four small on - it > ., one o.:p s esled raisins, one e f %integer 1if strong eiilutei. tt teide i^arene mixed spices, two tele- 1^ A sale and two cups brown t Remade e,a< from peIrarer , add en...toee and e^nions. chopped fine: mashie, iii-, spices, Bear, salt and vin - i gee, Pit on and let simmer slowly fie ak':t three-fourths hour, Then the apples and cook unel they are tereler but rot mushy. Put in h tt and .seal. Delicious relish for meats. Honey to Keep Without Candying. -- To keep h.eney all the year round with�:7tut he-neti ing , it is only necessary to place. the honey, which has been str inn: previously. in a pan or pail, white: may be p1..eccl inside of another c re �. p :ening two e=r three bits of e .<.1 :tri ,'rr' the pail containing the ' 1 , e;-, tc, prevent it from burning tine, the nett.'m. Then fill the outer c : ith water and just bring it to the l ei} r ;, point, skimming off the wee end fe en which gathers upon the t I" As soon as it comes to the l:S,.iC:r'i ;' point remove frani stove, and at -or a few tninla , es skim and pour iraa jar; to t'eeill. Cover tightly and pl ce in a cool ;:eller. It will pay far the trouble. Cucumber Pickles.—Over one-half a perk of small cucumbers pour a bort t,.,. brine rnade of five pints of wa- ter and t'tr cups of salt. Stand twenty- #'nap• hours, drain and wipe l an : cover with five pint,; of bell- ing vinsgar. Again stand twenty- four hours and drain. To fresh vine- gar held. two green peppers, chopped, e one-haiff pint white mustard seed, one- half ':.once each of whole cloves, cin- namon, allspice. ginger root and alum, • two pounds of brown sugar and one a babiespoonful of celery seed. Scald and pour balling hot over the pickles. ; t Do not tie the spices in a bag. The cucumbers will shrivel up when the p hot vinegar is poured over them, but after standing for a fortnight they a will be plump, firm and delicious. They will keep indefinitely stored in i a covered jar or crock.• m Canned Sweet Peppers. --(hut off the stem end, remove the seeds with a ' pair of shears and cut the pepper round awl round in a long strip, one- f fourth of an inch wide. Put the strips into a deep dish and pour over enough boiling salt water to cover them. Close the dish with a cover •, b and let the peppers stand all night in the water. Turn them oat into a b colander and let them drain dry. Put into a quart jar and pour over them 'fr ane and one-half cups of boiling hot b vinegar, to which has been added one cupful of sugar and two small pieces co of c'nnamon stick. Let the peppers ' it stand for three days, then dram off the vinegar, heat boiling water and pour'' so over them again, then seal.. Use dam mostly the red peppers with a few of the green. It will take two `dozen ' in peppers to fill a quart jar.' These carried peppers are much -superior to in the imported "pimento," and should ha be used more generally than they are tr for salads, sandwiches aril Spanish • rice. It is welltowear rubber gloves i in preparing the peppers. on Watermelon Rind Preserve With th ne Orange and' Lemon.—Take the rind of one melon, pare and cut in small ki pieces through a coarse meat or fruit on chopper. P:t ace in . a preserving ket ch tle, cover with water and boil about an hour or until fruit seems tender. Scrubf . in four large lemons thoroughly and the saltie number of oranges. Cut in t,h pieces, remove seeds and run through in chopper. After fruit has been boil- an ed rather tender add oranges, and tem- to on. Measure tip two -Osiris the th amount of sugar in same measuring cup in which the fruit was mea, fed. Add to fruit, boil :for one, hour`' (not too' fast) and stir fruit occasionally --d t so it does not stick to the bott ✓ Lower the flame at the end of an hot _ , and if the syrup seems to boaldo too much add a little water now a ; • then. Stir all thoroughly, mix _ : ter with syrup. This preserve require often lifting and stirring e keep juice evenly distributed fruit. The proper proportions of r , sugar to melon rind are twelve cups of e : sugar to eighteen cups of rind. When'' n preserve. is finished if rind is not suf- ✓ ficiently heavy one cup of sugar may �h be added' and boil a short time, stir - e ring well, i f Pickling Wisdom, 0. When pickles are under considera- it tion the most important item is vine- uP gar. All things taken into account, 5 it is best to use the vinegar obtained f from cider, since many of the color- - less varieties are often made with an - acid that is injurious to the stomach. d The difference of cost between the - eider vinegar an tithe white is not s much. Dearly &1 vegetables that are made into pickles, especially gherkins, cu- cumbers and onions, require a preli- minary soaking in brine. Half a . cupful of salt is usually -Wowed to four quarts of the pickles. The are placed in a stone Brock, the sa s trewcd over them, water is paired until it eoverti them, and a weight plate is laid on top to keep the pickle from floating, This is left, for: ever days. When the pickles are remov from the brine they should be look over to see if there are any soft spotted ones. .All pickles should be closely wate e y after they are put up, at Ieast for month ar so. This to ascertain they are keeping well. They shoal not be eaten unless they have had a least a two months' mellowing. a though longer than this is safer stil Sweet pickles are usually mad from peaches, pears, plums and wa termelon rind, and, except when th fruiter must be peeled, they are les trouble to prepare than the tart pick ' les, since they do not have to be tai in brine before preparing, Spice currants, gooseberries, cherries an grapes may be put up a little at time, as one has the fruit and the lei sere for the task. Other fruits ma be spiced. Here is a good recipe for spice grapes: Remove the skins from th grapes, pub the pulp aver the fire an stew gently until it can be rubbai through a sieve, thus removing all th seeds. Weigh the pulp, and to ever five pounds of this add a pint of cide vinegar, four pounds of brown sugar four tablespoonfuls of ground cinna mon and two of ground cloves. Stew together until it is very thick. Pou into jelly glasses and seal. ITHE GOLIATH OF ENG ND IS BEER A MORE TERRIBLE ENEMY THAN GERMANY. ., ern' -It Has Killed an Army Greater Than wn That - Under Arms and To-daye wa- will Arthur Lee, in the London . Daily to ; Mail thus condemns the drink evil in with ' Great Britain: - „There is some hope for those w love our land. The Government Picking up n pebble to throw' at great Goliath. It is like a miracle to read that the Government has dared to touch the pot of beer that all these years has been more ter- rible than Germany, more powerful than the Church of England, and more sacred than the Front Bench of the House of Commons. A British Government that was not afraid of beer would be a spectacle indeed for gods and kaisers. A Brit- ish 'Government that could conquer beer would make Consuls jump for. joy, and Germans fly for their lives. For it has been the unwritten law of governments since most of us were born that you must not touch this thing. You may take a man's house in England now, you may take his motor -car, or his workshop, ar the. se business he has built up during fifty It years, or the money he has saved for his old age; you may take away his in .liberty and his only son, but you ed mu: t not touch his beer. If you are , s the Government of the greatest era -1 dpire on the earth, if the fate of hu- man liberty is in your hand, and " if ed a pot of beer stands in your path, or you must not kick it out. Let it be; it is -the holy thing of England. h- ` And what is this ' thing before a which kings and governments bow if down? What has it done for us in d these bitter days, in the days in t which we should have found the . 1- strength we need so sorely now? I• If it is true, as it is, that in fifty e years we have thrown away an army - as great as we have under arms to- e day, it is beer that has consumed s quite half of it. It has cut down - the flower of our manhood less d quickly, but not less horribly, than d German shells are doing now. d Sapper of Strength. '110 is o R l O A T T L'7 C:7 e� +nig �� Gil k kY r�' { G C 0.DSR 5 E.TH THATYOU GET iT -- COSTS � T T ORDINARY I #S people with shillings and pounds to spare and save that they will want so badly soon? Alas! their gold is being eaten up..: The Moloch who consumed the lives of little children , has a rival in this thing that stalks through our streets consuming the people's vital strength. It is not open to dispute that, with the money lost through drink, we could payF off, as the war goes on, 5s; of every Li the war is costing us; it is not open to dispute that something like this is actually tieing done in Russia now, where the people who eaved sixpences in peace time under vodka rule are giving up vodka for their country's cake and saving sove- reigns. Only in England. But, happily, enemies do not have their way in Russia—or in France. It is only in England, in the land the noblest men on earth would die for !that this foul enemy of our race ca work its will. If our ships are want- ed for the war, and we must go shot of something, we must sacrifice the books and papers that build up our minds, we .must sacrifice the food that builds up our bodies, but the poison of the national life must come in. It does not seem to have oecurred though the last takes first place for endurance and pluck. His energy never flags, and, according to a French soldier, "he works until he drops from sheer exhaustion." Behind the firing -line the French have instituted training -camps for the purpose oP instructing the dogs in their various duties. Here they are taught how to guard advance trenches against entity attacks, how to carry messages, how to jump trench -para- pets, how to scout, patrol, and act as sentries, Their comfort is an impor- tant consideration, and dug -outs for doggies are as well screened and com- fortable .as Tommy's own, - Rice, horseflesh, and military his - cults form their chief diet, and, judg- ing from the truly excellent condition of the dogs, they thrive on it. Nurseries for the puppies are - erect- ed close to the firing -line. Last year the dogs were some 250 - strong, but their numbers have now greatly in. creased, and it Is no unusual sight to , see puppies playing unconcernedly n about. on the mountain slopes, within close range of the German' guns. a1 -' el yb sl da e -h d si n Y g t r 0 It has bred weak joints, weak mus es, weak brains and little stunted odies with feeble minds, where we Could have had men fit or soldiers nd women fit to make a soldier's erne. It has chained our men in urns that are not worth fighting or; it has put a millstone round the eck of industry so that we have'ag- ed behind our enemy; it has poured ur wealth into the gutter; it has ritten "rejected as unfit" against e names of half a million men who ere willing to join our army now France.. And how did our beer -god help us Shen the hour of peril struck at st? It is just a year since it im- rilled our national safety, and we are not likely to forget it. This time last year with the fate of Eu- , rope u-;rope a balance, the beer -god stalkedabroad in every street and factor d dockyard, and held sway so mi that the director of trans warned the Government that supplies to the army and navy might ; the director of naval eat that shipbuilding might come to a standstill; manufacturers of explo- sives warned the Government that ,they might not be able to deliver the goods; and Admiral Jellicoe warned the Government that the ef- ficiency of the fleet was imperilled. So this thing has served the army and the navy. And what of the peo- ple? What of all those milli to a single member of the House of Commons to ask why we should give up sugar and paper for beer, when the tonnage of all is about the same, and the things we give up are help- ing England, and the thing that comes in freely is lielping our foes. Mr. Me - Kenna preaches economy. Lord Sel- borne urges us to grow more food; but Mr. Runciman imperils the fruit of all our orchards, and makes tons of it not worth the picking, by keep- ing out sugar to let in beer. The fruit must perish on the trees, the child must even Iose its sweets, but its father may have the beer that too often sends him home to beat it. It is the English madness; it is the mystery of war. Even we in our old age, when this traitor bas per- ished with all others, shall hardly believe it. Who outside air asylum an believe this simple truth about he power of beer in England—that, depending on foreign sources for aur ood, we set aside as much land for beer and whiskey as for bread with his result: that if the German navy ould blockade us our children would hunger for bread in two months, but ur men could drink beer for a year or for ever? I w - th NV r in 0 Kitchen Measures. It is so mach easier to measure in- gredients than to weigh them out that the housekeeper saves time and work by acquainting herself with certain equivalent weights and measures. Without staggering her with an array of items and figures, which nine wom- n out of ten forget, here is an equiva- lent table that any housekeeper can keep in mind. A cupful of flour or milk means half pint. Two scant cupfuls of butter packed ightly make a pound. Ten eggs of ordinary size make a ound. Four even cupfuls of dry flour make pound. A gill of liquid is a half -cupful. Two cupfuls (one pint) of water or ilk make a pound. The juice of an rdinary lemon is. about a tablespoonful. A breakfast upful of bread crumbs equals about our ounces. Useful Hints. The cleverness of a cook is gauged y her use of leftovers. Tired, aching feet may be refreshed y soaking in hot water. Stale breadcrumbs are crumbs eshly grated from a loaf of stale read. One of the secrets of successful ffee is to wash the pot every time is used. Enamelware can be cleaned with ap and whiting rubbed on with a p cloth. Never dry a silk blouse before iron -- g it. It is a good plan to oil stout walk - g shoes with kerosene and vaseline, If and half, before going on a wet amp. Fresh frt is and green vegetables' pply the iron and mineral matter cessary to the general well-being .df - e system. A simple salad is made with any nd of seasonable fruit sliced, served lettuce leaves and sprinklal evith opped nuts. When you want to thread a sew - g machine in a hurry, remove the. ool already on it, but do not un- read the machine. Put a new spool place, tie the two threads together' d pull the thread gently through the eye of the needle. Break oft e first thread and thread the needle. If you can get a'hoa�s e at a bargin rive the bargain. I la pe in th y an mightily ports stop equipment war•ned the Governor DUG -OUTS FOR DOGS. The Three Breeds Mostly in Use In the Fighting -Line. The introduction of dogs into the fighting -line is due to a young French Lieutenant, who brought the dogs over from North-Western Canada and the Labrador last year, when the question of transport among mountainous parts became a question of such serious im- portance. The dogs were first utilized in con- nection with drawing loads aver dif- ficult passes by sleighs, etc. They now draw their loads on light railways which run regularly to and from the trenches, and they find no difficulty with the steepest incline or the heaviest load. The Labrador, Canadian, and Alas- kan are the three breeds mostly in use, TF FLIES Two striking models adopted by the younger set are reproduced here. In one of white and blue linen, the waist and upper part of the skirt were of , white linen and the sailor collar, cuffs and lower part of the skirt were Blue, 7336 White and B11ye Linen Combined. Very large_ pockets were placed on either side, The larger the pockets the more up-to-date the dress, now -a - days. This dress, like many of the present models, hangs from the shoul- • Machine Gunners Wear Gas Masks. on British West Front BRITISH: orr'rc:IAL PI-IOTOGRA.PII from the Western front showing British machine gunners wearing the' gas rgasirs in action. >0 ders and is therefore ideal for sports., The other dress is in Russian style, It is of rose-colored silk jersey with black collar, cuffs and belt, and but- toned all the way down the front with small black buttons, The waist has box plaits in the front and back stitch, ed as far as the waistline and leftgfree below it to give more fulness to the lower part. Colored embroidery and beads are particularly favored for trimming the darker dresses that are brought out on cooler days,Purple on black, and Bald or mustard color on dark. blue, give excepeloually goad results. White glass beads on dark blue serge is another very effective suggestion. The Popular Rats. - Any number of white and colored. felt hats in both small and large shapes are warn at present. The 7332 Graceful Russian Dress. trimming is either a ribbon band, plain or plaited, oi• fruit Or flowers cut out of silk or velvet and placed against the crown or on f the brim. White hats of silk or satin with a flange of chiffon around the 'brim are also considered very smart. Some are trimmed with a large bow of white satin directly in front. The mid-season hats used for, other occasions than sports are in large sail- or shapes, also in small and medium sizes. White satin erowns with black velvet brims are highly favored, as well as the all -black and all-whibe hats. Sometimes the order is re- versed and the crown is made of black velvet with the brim of white satin or straw. The trimming used on this type of hat is generally a wing fancy or ribbon arrangel in some attractive manner. Color is introduced in some ofthelargeblark hats for semi - dress wear, especially in those for flit: younger girls. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer or from, the ,McCall Company, 70 Bond St., Toronto, Ontario. LONG STRUGGLE AHEAD. French Premier Does Not Anticipate an Early Peace. A difficult and prolonged struggle before the war is ended is prophesied by former Premier Viviani, in the French Cabinet. In an address before the general council of the -depart- council of the department of Creuse, held at Gueret, he said: "Although victory is certain, it will require hard and prolonged efforts to break Prussian militarism Iand prevent recurrence of its crimes... There can be no peace before the at- tainment of victory, before adequate reparation is made and before jus- t;ce triumphs." ' In an address before the General Council of the Department of Aube Bienvenu Martin, the former Minis- 1ter of Justice said: I "The French will not submit to the peace of the . German Emperor, who boasted he would force his ad- versaries to accept peace on bended knees.. They will accept only such a peace as assures them legitimate reparations, as well as . their inde- pendence and security, and they will bearpatiently all sacrifices in order that, in conjunction with the - efforts of their faithful allies, such a peace may be imposed " -When pr, ospel ity turns a rnan'a head it makcv a pitiftel sight of him,