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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-10-15, Page 2After You Have Used GREEN TEA alar You here a eti nde►rd by which to judge other tees. Salada is the finest produced in the world, -- Tra► it. FREE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA UPON REQUEST. " SALADA," TORONTO T'"- 7lr o � r deter PICKLES—PUNGENT AND POPULAR, A few well -selected varieties of pickles and relishes, not too difficult to prepare and that will serve for all purposes, should be found in every cellar or storeroom. All of the fol- lowing recipes can be prepared late in fall after the heat and tush of sum- mer work. Vegetables and fruit for pickling should be in perfect condition, the vinegar of good quality, and the spices fresh and pungent. A porcelain -lined or agate kettle should be used for the cooking, and' the stirring spoons should be wood, silver or agateware to prevent any chemical change when they come in contact with acids. Many recipes call for alum and other chemicals to preserve the color of the pickles, but these are all more or less harmful and should not be used. Try lining the kettle and cover- ing the vegetables with cabbage or grape leaves during the scalding pro- cess. A late planting of cucumbers will afford a supply of pickle -size gherkins late in summer, or the cu- cumbers may be gathered early and kept in a medium brine until wanted. CHOPPED RAW PICKLE. Chopped raw pickle requires two quarts of chopped tomatoes (that are just beginning to redden), two cup- fuls of grated horseradish, two heads of celery, chopped, two green peppers,. cleaned of fibre and seeds and chopped, one quart of vinegar, one cupful of brown sugar, two-thirds of a cupful of salt, one-third of a cupful of white mustard -seed, one cupful of nastur- tium seed. Sprinkle the salt over the vege- tables and let stand 24 hours. Drain,. add the other ingredients and mix thoroughly. Put in a large earthen- ware jar, cover and put in cool place. Stir every day for a week, adding more vinegar if necessary to keep covered. SPICED GRAPES. For spiced grapes, use eight pounds of grape', four pounds of sugar, three cupfuls of vinegar, four stick of cin- namon, one ounce of whole cloves, two blades of mace. Remove skins from grapes by squeezing between thumb and fore- finger. Set the skins aside and cook the pulp until the seeds can be re- moved by straining through cheese- cloth or strainer. Return pulp to the etove, add the skins and when this mixture has simmered about ten min- utes add the other ingredients (having the spices tied in a cheese -cloth bag). Cook until shiny and as thick as jam. Put in sterilized jars and seaL MTSTARD PICKLES. Mustard pickles are a little trouble- some but are delicious and well repay the time spent on there. The recipe here given will make three gallons of pickles. For 24 hours soak three quarts each of small cucumbers, sliced green to- matoes, button onions, cauliflower (broken into flowerets), six green pep- pers cut into strips and one cupful of pasturtium seeds, in a brine made of /our quarts of water and one pint of pelt. Drain well and scald in a mix- ture of one part vinegar to three parts Chew it aftercues' j Teal it stimulates appetite and aids digestion. It makes your good do you more good. Note bow it relieves teat stuffy Ieelinti niter hearty eating. Whitens he W s teet sweetens breath and Welke goody that f.a-st-n. R25. ISSUE No, 41-.-'24. i t, ..1'; t ?to, water. Drain again and put on stove with the fallowing sauce; One large cupful of flour, six table- spoonfuls of dry mustard, two table- spoonfuls of tumeric and sufficient vinegar to make a thin paste, one ounce celery seed, and three pounds of brown sugar. Boil all the ingredients in this sauce until tender. Seal in jars. PLAIN ROLLED COOKIES. One cup sugar, 1 cup shortening, 1 egg, 11/4 tsps. vanilla, 2 tsps. baking powder, pinch of salt, to cup milk, 1/4 cup currants, flour to make rather stiff dough. Cream together the sugar and short- ening. Add to this the well -beaten egg; the flavoring and the milk. The currants should be added while knead- ing the dough. Add the flour with which the baking powder and salt have been mixed. Roll thin and cut into desired shapes, Bake in a rather hat oven until delicately brown about ten or twelve minutes. These are delicious additions to the school children's lunch boxes. GRAPE RECIPES THAT ARE GOOD. The advent of fall brings with it the delicious ripe grapes, and many are pondering how they may preserve them for winter use. These recipes are all very tasty and you will like them this winter. Grape Preserves—Rinse grapes in cold water and drain. Squeeze out the pulp from each grape and heat it gradually, cooking until the seeds come out easily. Press through a sieve just fine enough to keep back the seeds. Cook the skins and the pulp ten minutes and add an equal amount of sugar, cooking until the liquid thickens. Store in earthen or glass jars. This also makes a fine filling for cakes. Grape Catsup—Cover two quarts of grapes with vinegar and cook until soft. Press through a sieve and add one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful each of cloves and allspice, and a little cay- enne. Cook slowly until thick and store in bottles. Grape Juice—Weigh the grapes and for each ten pounds nee three pounds tf sugar. Cook the grapes in a por-i celain kettle with five pints of water; to a peck of grapes. Dover and bring slowly to the boiling point, stirring: occasionally. When boiling hot, turn. into a heavy bag and let drain. Add the sugar and heat again to the bail- ing point. Skim and store in steriliz- ed fruit jars or bottles, THE SECOND DAY OF THE ROAST. Sometimes when we have a good- sized roast, we wish to serve it hot the second day before we commence on it as cold meat. An excellent way to vary the roast slightly from the. first day, especially if it is veal, or lamb, is to follow this method: Put the feast into a covered recep- tacle, standing it on a wire rack with feet. Put water in the bottom of the container and steam the roast briskly for half an hour. This may be done on top of the stove. Then uncover, set in a hot oven, and dry off for ten minutes more. In putting the meat above the hot water, it does not lose its juices, and remains moist. If the wire rack is not at hand, the meat may be put into a steamer or set upon an open wire plate support- ed underneath by a bowl. While this process is going on, pre- pare a portion of delicious dressing. Put a minced onion and a couple of tablespoonfuls of sweet fat into a fry- ing pan. Toss until a golden brown. Be careful not to burn. Set aside for a few moments. Take any pieces of dry bread, crusts, or cold, buttered toast which may be on hand. Dip quickly into a basin of cold water. As soon as moist, remove, squeeze out the water, and chop up line in the same chopping bowl which has been used for the onion. If liked, an egg may be blended with the bread mixture. Now put the seasoned dressing into the frying pan with the onion and fat, and mix through thoroughly. After the mass becomes hot and inclined to be a little dry, add two or three, table- spoonfuls of the thickened meat gravy left from tbe day before, Heat very slowly, and when the dressing is smok- ing moking hot, pat into a smooth cake, fry lightly on one side, and fold over, The Ghost Book BY CLAR'ENCE hIEILY. PART III. Fairly awake, but trembling with fright, Wombold hastily examined the object that lay in his lap, It was a large business ledger, musty, worn, and stained with time. Stamped upon ite mildewed cover was the infernal monogram In a trance of fear, Wombold Open- ed its yellowed leaves. His own hand- writing stared up at him out of the ghostly past, over a guilt -haunted hiatus of forty years. With a thick sigh, the old man fell back upon his pillow in a dead faint. Almost as frightened as his master, Otu ran into'the hallway crying for help. He was met almost instantly by Miss Armitage, who pressed by hitn into the room. "Get the housekeeper! Get some hot water!" she ordered as she saw Wom- bold's white face againat the pillows. Otu ran to obey. In a few moments he returned with Mrs. Crane, the housekeeper, followed by one of the maids with a pitcher of hot water. Miss Armitage's" vigorous measures were already restoring a semblance of animation to the master's bloodless visage. His hands stirred feebly, and presently he opened his eyes. Mrs. Crane who had mixed a stiff dose of whiskey and hot water, brought it to the bedside, and Wombold revived under the potion; but with restored consciousness his nervous terror also began to return. He caught Miss Armitage's hand. "Where is it?" he begged. "Where is the book?" The girl shook her. head. "Don't think of it now," she said. "Don't think of anything till morn- ing orn- in "But I must think of it!" he cried. "What was it? Where has it gone? Was it the ghost of a book? Didn't you see it7" He turned to Otu. "Sure, I see," agreed the Japanese. But by this time Wombold was bab- bling feverishly, paying little atten- tion to those about him. "Do things like that have their as- tral counterparts? I saw it. I felt it in my hands. Am I to be drawn balk into past time where all these dead and gone things are assembled? Shall I see him there? Oh, Henry, have a little pity on me! I'll send it, Henry. I'll pay it back, every cent, with in- terest. Now! Now Get Carrington! Get him on the telephone! I must send it to -night. Oh, let me alone!" He shook off the restraining hands of the women, and would have left his bed for the telephone below stairs, if to quiet him, they had not promised' to call his lawyer. After some difficulty Miss Armitage succeeded in arousing Mr. Carrington, and induced him to come to the Wom-' bold residence at once. By morning a draft for $85,000, the amount7of the. original defalcation with interest add- ed, was on its way to the little New England town, inclosed in a registered letter addressed to Henry Hart's widow. In the sunny library Miss Clara Armitage was engaged in clearing out the drawers of her typewriter desk. She was softly humming a gay little tune, bright as the sunlight itself, and on her face was a queer little ensile, half amused, half wistful, such as that with which sympathetic grown-ups regard the tragedies of childhood. From the deepest recess of the bot- tom drawer she drew out a small pack- age of cards, of the size and general character of business cards, but"hav- ing nothing printed on them except a circle enclosing a monogram composed of the letters "H" and "F." Shh ran these thoughtfully through her fingers for a moment, then slipped them into her pocket, went out into the hall and mounted the stairs. On the floor above she knocked' at Mr. Wombold's bed- room door. There being no audible reply, she entered. Mr. Wombold lay in an easy chair before the window. He looked as if he were just emerging from a. grave illness, His skin had exchanged its wonted healthy pallor for a tissue -like fragility, his great eyes seemed un- usually sunken in his emaciated fea- tures and he was wrapped in a list- less apathy such as belongs to the period of early convalescence. Miss Armitage came forward and took a seat by his side. He regarded her vacantly, without change of ex- pression. "Mr. Wombold," she said. "I am go- ing away. I have come to say good- bye." "Good-bye?" "Yes. I am going back to my home in Connecticut." " "What for?" "I—I am going to be married," Miss Armitage confessed with a blush. The old man sighed. "It goes on," he said, "just the same, doesn't it? Life, that is—it goes on and on till the end:" and may be transferred to a warm platter with the dressing at one end. With the hot gravy and mashed 'pota- to and a little jelly to give lest, the Meal will be quite as good, if not better, as on the first -day when the roast was served, noes isenion, By this time the meat will be hot, MInard'e Liniment treats cute. "Mr. Wombold,' cried the girl, ' I can't bring myself to go away and leave you in this condition, a prey to all these superstitious fears, You have been very good to use, and I want to talk to you a little. Won't you listen?" He aequiesced with a listless drops ping of the eyelids. "Do you remember six years ago," she went en, "when I applied at your bank for work? I had just come from the East, I had come on purpose to find you, Mr. Wombold." Wombold glanced at her with a vague interest, "Find ins?" he repeated. "Yes. When you gave me a place, I tried from the first to make myself so efficient that you would make me your private stenographer. When you did that, I worked harder than ever, hop- ing to make myself so indispensable that you would always keep me with you, I succeeded in that, as you know, By the time you retired' from business, three years ago, I had my plans all Iaid,o I knee?* from little things I'd ieeen, like not starting anything on Friday, and avoiding the number thir- teen, and so on, that you were super- stitious. So I got you into the way of studying occultism and spiritual- ism. I was so sure of my plans that I even had these cards printed then." She heldupthe package of cards. Wombold's: color had come back, and his eyes took on some of their old-time brilliance as he stared wonderingly at her. "You had them printed—those cards? What for?" "For my plan. But, tell me first, even if nothing mysterious had hap- pened to induce you to pay back the money, wouldn't you still be glad you did it?" "Yes," he said strongly. "It should have been done long ago. I have wish- ed to do it, but I was held back by pride, by the shame of confession—" ""I know," she hastily interrupted. "I thought that was it. And now I want you to know that it was I who placed one of these cards by your breakfast plate last April. The story of the man who called to see you and left one of them was just a fabrication on my part. There wasn't any such man." "But Mme. Charleroi?" he objected, in dazed amazement. "She gets her percentage of the thirty-five thousand, never fear. It may be betraying her to tell you so, but I think you ought to know.. As for that old ledger, I had it sent to me from home. It was I who came in and put it on your chest that night." "You!" he cried. "In mercy's name, who are you?" Her merry laugh had nevertheless a trace of tears in it as she caught, his hand and answered: "My dear old friend, I am the granddaughter of Henry Hart!"' (The. End.) He—"And your dad owns this estate with no encumbrances 011 it, you say?" She—"None but ma and myself." Mackintosh for His Daughter. Some few years ago ' an English family rented a place In the Highlands fore. few months. It was near a loch, and one morning the partyengaged a boat to take them aoross. The weath- er 'lad become unsettled, and the fath- er said to the boatman, "By the way, can you tell me where I could get a mackintosh for my daughter" The boatman rested on his oars for a mo- ment or two, and then said, "There's not ferry many Mackintoshes beer - abouts, but there's a fine young Mac- donald, a bachelor, who lives at the loch, and be might be suiting the young lady." Precaution. John wrote the following letter to his sweetheart: Dearest, darling, girl of my heart; I would swim the deepest rivers for yon! 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B KI Burnt!—A Poor Farmer But a Good Poet • Some wise pers00 Once made the re. »lark that "a great man Is like other' people—only ordine 7 more do botil good deed* and bed deeds, and are sometimes so ereaesthiealt eatot:10 themselvcleveres,nd does seneibie deeds on a large Seale and makes 0. fool of himself on a large scale too. The story of Robert Burns, the great farmer -poet, told in "Robert Burns, His Life and Genius," by Andrew' Dakers, la very largely the story of a man who made a fool of himself, on a very, very groat scale. He could not resist a drink or the eyes of a pretty girl, says Mr. Dakers, and bemuse of these two weaknesses he was in trou- ble of some kind or other nieot of his life. But the author of this . book is a pretty canny Scotebman himself, and, after granting tbat Bobby Burns did act like a fool a good deal Of the time, - he asks how many men there were in Barns' country in his own time who lived more soberly, and also how many men there are who are worth their salt who haven't made fools of themselves in some way or other at some time or other. Robert Burns' life, after he had reached the age of tsbentythree, was crowded with one love affair after an- other—one of them very unhappy, an- other as beautiful as anything in his own poetry, and stili another one just plain funny. There were plenty of gos- sips around to turn them all into scan- dal; but Burns lived to turn theta into the greatest love poems in the lang- uage, and to silence tbe gossips. Handsome, unusually strong—he could lift a plow and toss it on the back of a wagon without seeming to exert himself—and with "an easy way about him," Bobby Burns was just as attractive to the opposite sex as they were to him. That was bow, when one morning his dog ran over a sheet that had been stretched on a lawn to il,y in the sun, and he went up to apolo- glze to the girl who had plat It there, a few minutes later he had conquered, and had been conquered by, Jean Armonr, the "lovely Jean" who later became his wife. But Jean's father disapproved of Burns—not because he was penniless—and tore upthe mar- riage paper he had given to her. Down on his luck anal generally dis- gusted with life, Burns decided to leave Scotland for gooti, and go to the Indies—and he ereparod to publish his book of poems now, for no other reason than to get the money to pay for his passage. In the meantime lits plans were changed by itis meeting the pretty Mary Campbell and becom- ing engaged to her; but his "Highland. Mary" became suddenly ill and died. It was after this that the poet last his balance a little, and began a ritltculous high -brow kind of philandering — though iunocent enough --with a .ifrs. M'Lehoso. But Bobby Burns soon got his feet on the ground again, in spite of the fact that at the age of twenty-seven he found himself famous and the non of the social world of Edinburgh. He married Jean Arinour..who::e father`s attitude had changed once Bobby's Pockets were jingling with coin, set- tled down on a fare at Fl!ielantl, and took a position as fm,,:"man for, tho district. This time lie learned a lea - son that a great many meg amore and after stun have had to learn—that nmalting a living ,11t se farming is 1' Joh that doesn't :two time fttr mane ether occupations: He died a poor man, and one of his last letters on re- cord was a plea to a friend for ten pounds to save bits from a debtor's jail. Burns' tribute to hie wife, given In a letter to another friend, is worth • "The most placid good nature and sweetness of disposition; a warm heart, gatetully devoted with all its pewee. to love sue; vigorous bea!Lb and sprightly cheertulnees, set off to the best advantage by a more then com- mon handsome figure—these, T think, in a woman, may make a good wife, though she should never have read a page but the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, nor have danced in a brighter assembly than a penny pay wedding." A Memory.. The sun, a crimson -flaming disk, Is slipping 'heath the low -brewed hill; Over the pond's bright surface still An elm -tree leans, and swallows dip And shin withtitin edea, plaintive, shrill. \Villi wavering tine the rail-feuce rune Zigzagging through gold-rntsted fields, And myriad midges, in deuso shields, Deuce like cloud' wreaths, a curling smoke Of incense day to evening yleltls. This picture, viewed in childish hour -- Pend, elmdi re e, midges, swallows fleet, The distant hill, dim flelds dew- ssvect--• hose clearly as T saw to -night The sun set o'er a city street: --Morena() A. Westacott Load is produced mostly from the.. nt!nes of ]Mast and West Kootenay and other areas in British Columbia" from the rich deposits of Mayo diistrict, Yukon territory; at Notre Dame des Anges, Quebec; and at Claletta, On tario.