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CHILD' S PLAY
India ink blobs
By HUNTSINGER
& BUROKER
A gallnut grows on oak and
other trees, and is hardly a
pretty object to look at. It is a
swelling about the size of a
Ping-Pong ball caused by the
. eggs of gallflies. Although
fairly common in America,
this blight -like object actually
is imported from the Orient
and. Iceland.
Why? To manufacture inks,
particularly black and India
ink. There's a recipe for mak-
ing this liquid it% "World Book
Encyclopedia" which is
enough to make anyone grate-
ful this taken -for -granted liq-
uid comes ready packaged in
bottles into which one merely
needs to dip a pen.
Making India ink is a com-
plicated process. One must
crush a pound of gallnuts,
mix, soak, boil and strain this
brew once it has been com-
bined with other substances
such as iron sulfate, gum ara-
bic, ,and carbolic acid. A visit
to a stationery store is cer-
tainly easier.
So although an
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special
set for
that very
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moment
ink -making
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Jewellers
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project is hardly recom-
mended or easy to do, it can
still be interesting to use this
media for an interesting
change of pace compared to
Working with paint, crayons
or chalk.
To create a picture such as
in the accompanying illustra-
tion, place some drops of ink
in various spots on a piece of
light colored construction pa-
per: Bend over until your face
is just a few inches from these
blobs and gently blow each
one. The India ink will flow in
whatever direction it is sent,
although of course, there is no
way to predict the pattern
form such spreading will
take.
Next, use a very fine paint
brush to feather the remain-
ing ink. Just as in painting,
work quickly while creating
desired designs. Part of the
fun of this project is that it
can't be controlled. And, ,nat-
urally,
naturally, no two paintings can
ever possibly be the same, so
if you make these for friends
or relatives you can guaran-
tee them "a genuinely origi-
ii al work of art."
Aside from the interesting
designs, however, the results
have another feature. You
will find a remarkable blend-
ing of heavy and light lines
that remind one, somewhat,
of delicate Oriental paintings.
Like.the Egyptians and Rd -
mans, these ancients experi-
mented with all types of ink
making. They .used such ma-
terials as lampblack, glue,
soap and resin. Modern chem-
icals have added immeasura-
bly to painting possibilities in-
sofar as ink is concerned, but
techniques still remain a mat-
ter of developingindirridual
skill and talent.
They say-
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PLEASING --- Blobs become beautiful when India ink drops
are blown into pleasing patterns.
COOKING CORNER
Blintzes, knishes
favored by family
By SUSAN DELIGHT
Jewish cuisine is a mixture
of dishes of many lands
adapted to kosher rules, says
Mrs. David Gross, who is of
Jewish ancestry.
"There are really two dis-
tinct types of Jewish cook-
ery," she says. "The Israeli;
type originated by the Se+
phardic Jews is more autono-
mous, more traditionally its
own.
One of her family's favorite
dishes, .and one she prepares.
often, she said, is blintzes.:
hree
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knows how to run them and, of
course,, how to make the spare
parts.
Burt Baty was towing a trailer
loaded with wood. He rode on the
back with his brother Ed and his
sister, Mrs. Marie Harold. They
had come from London, hauling,
the 5i -year-old rear -mount trac-
CHEESE BLINTZES
Batter:
1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. salt
4 eggs, well beaten
1 cup milk pr water
Filing:
11 lbs. dry cottage cheese
1 or 2 eggs, well beaten
1 tbsp. melted butter
2 tbsp. sugar
'/a to 1 tsp. cinnamon
Sift flour and salt; mix eggs
with liquid. Stir in flour. Mix
until smooth to form thin bat-
ter. Pour onto hot, lightly •
greased six-inch skillet
enoughbatter to form a very
thin cake. Tilt ,an from side
to side so that batter spreads
evenly. Cook over low heat on
ohne side only, until top is dry
and blistered. Turn out on
clean cloth or paper, cooked
side up. Allow to cool. Repeat
until all batter is used.
To make filling: Mix cheese
with eggs, butter, sugar, and
cinnamon. Place one table-
spoon of mixture on a baked
crepe. Roll up and fold in the
ends. Just before serving, fry
days of
tion engine he has owned for eight
years.
It was still in use in 1950, after
running first a sawmill and then a
feedmill near Shakespeare. "My
dad and my brother worked in
steam and I had worked with dad
when very young. I heard they
were not using it anymore and
bought: it,
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CHANTRY'S
HOUSE OF LIGHT
48$-l0th Ave.
Wallower 364-1679
ONE OF THE FAVORITE entries parade at the Blyth
Threshers' Reunion, September this young lad
perched on a mini -tractor. Undaunted by the diminutive
size of his machine, the youngdriver putted around the
track along with the vintage eam engines and tractors.
in
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the
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I c sifted flour
1 tsp baking powder
1ttsp. salt
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1 tbsp1 vegetate oil
4 'ps, well -beaten
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6large potatoes, cooked end
mashed (Note)
3 chopped, sauteed.. onions
1 tbep, flora"
2 beaten eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Meat
2 gips. leftover cooked,
ground meat
1 cup maAed Potatoox
(t; if did)
2
tbeps: cookutg oil
1 small onion„ minced
1 egg, well beaten
Salt and pepper to taste
T4 make dough: Mix and
sift. flour, baking powder and
salt. Form well Center,. Add
water,- oil and iegggs. Mix and
form into smooth dough. On
lifOtly Owed board, roll out
o
tone-eig hth inch thickness.
Cut into' rounds or squares.
Mix filling ingredients well.
Fill center of rounds or
squares. Moisten edges , of
dough and fold over to form
envelope, by pressing edges
firmly together. Put in hat,.
oil -greased pan. Bake at
degrees until brown and crisp
(Note) Packaged mashed
potatoes, made according to..
directions, can be substituted
for potatoes.°
Except for some bbiler•wo k, it.
hasn't cost him much but it's only
for shows, he said.
Murray Draper of Clinton was
carefully polishing the ' water
tank of a steam engine. Unlike
the threshers it never moved. It
ran pulleys in .a factory: He owns
the engine jointly with William
Hearm and George Lewis $„
tells the -story the:
engine, kt w s 'cast in England
and assembled in London, Ont.,
its 1905. It was used in a factory
until 1922 when it was taken to
Sherlock Manning Piano Co: Ltd.,
Clinton.' There it ran a 95 -foot
long, 2t4inch wide belt that
powered 47 pulleys; all attached
to different machines that made
piano pads. In 1948 electric
motors took over.
Mr. Draper worked in the same
factory, too, and knew about it.
"It worked well only it wasted
power if all machines were not
being, operated at once." Then,
when the engine was no longer in
use, the three friends bought ,it
for $100 and put it together on a
metal frame. Mr. Draper could-
• n't say how much money they •
have spent on it. "It's mainly a
lot of work," he said, "hundreds
of hours."
Doug Taylor of Hamilton had
never worked . with threshers.
"But I had seen them when I was
a kid and was fascinated," he
said.
Then he grew up, made money
and decided to build himself a
quarter scale working model of
Case, 1915. He mentioned a few
places he had to contact: castings
from a man in Manitoba, a
governor from a Man in Wichita,
Kansas and a few other places
closer where he got one piece
' after. another. Three years later
and $3,000 and "a lot of time" he
had his model and there it was,
operating a threshing machine
'made by his friend.
"He and his wife aren't here
right now," he said, "but he
worked on one of them and he
built that 'from memory. The
seeds get stuck in it but he will
overcome that."
And the purpose of the occa-
sion?
It was more than an occasion,
Mr. White said. It's a movement
to restore antique machinery. He
took off his hat. It was full of
w
*battanamith.t1 elil* iia
events he had atter; most of
them in the United States.
"I went to a`ll these places and I
saw how they were restoring old
machinery," he said, "and here
in Canada it wasball being melted
away or just lying. around."
In 1956 he was one of . the first
directors when the event started
in Coruna. Then in 1962 Hugh
Chisholm, Harold Turner and
Simon Hallahan got the first show
going in, Blyth. He couldn't find
either of them in the crowd,
though. '
"But we are glad it's being re-
stored," he said. "What we need
is financial support."
Then it was Sunday,, three days
di a reunion of people and
machines that have in one way or
another shaped their lives were
over. They were loaded on
trucks, pick-ups and cars. They
headed in different directions,
some to the farms they worked on
andwhose owners still have the
original bills of sale, others to
different places, but all to be
taken care of, to wait for another
day when, in style of their times,
they will sing their glories.
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SPECTATORS GOT A VIEW of what early machinery was like at the Blyth Threshers'
Reunion and Hobby Association Show in the park beside the Blyth arena. The whole thing
started with a parade of vintage tractors and steam engines which were at one time a
common sight in the fields of Midwestern Ontario.