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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1948-5-5, Page 7Gingerbread Man By hazel Dean Gint.tt Li.0 and tett briru 1ht• fire on a fro-ty ,ifterniioin 14 hat a comforting theeght that is to the bwv 110111t make', Anil how n ming, 10 mind a emy picture of w ‘ter - day Grandma's country kitchen, 'with the kettle singing on the hearth and the big stem! cookie crock crammed with goodies. And, wonder , ( childhood's wonders, a pan of eri,p little gingerbread men, complete with currant eyes and a big, white frosting grins k * * Gingerbread is the oldest of all sweet cake's and the gi.. ser cakes and cookies made by our halters today had their origin on the Greek island of Rhodes about 2800 MC, Rhodes youngsters in those days begged a "tnclitate" 11001 the cookie jar, for so the Greeks named their gingerbread, probably because of its rich, golden color, Soon the island brrante famous for these toothsome little cakes and it wasn't long before the harbors of Rhodes were crowded with ships from distant lands, their merchant captains bartering( eagerly for this new delicacy. The Egyptians learn- ed the secret of the recipe when they were still builds g pyramids and traders gradually spread the word of the confection to still other ports. * * * During the Thirteenth Century ginger flavonred sweets were estab- lished as part of the average family menu in England. Strange as it may seen, the ginger goodies you buy from your bakery or baker's basket today is more like the original Grecian product than many of the "ginger" cakes baked 1 y England's housewives of long ago. ()Id recipes show that many a rook skipped the ginger entirely, substitul' ig such ingredi- ents as honey, saffron, pepper cin- namon, cloves and red coloring, mixing these with grated bread. But ginger confections continued popular in Merry England despite the housewives' "gingcrless days". Well into the Eighteenth Century, gingerbread was offered on festive occasions as a "gift of honor" from workers to employees and from children to growtutps. * * * In the day of Peter the Great, Russia had perfected the art of "honor" gingerbread to a lavish and somewhat breathtakit.g degree. On the occasion of tb'it famous Russian Tsar's birth, his fatherwas presented with 120 gigantic gingerbread loaves. One represented the coat of arms of the city of Moscow, another the Kremlin surrounded by horsemen, yet another duplicated the Imperial Eagle. Ile Bookshelf , 1 And All Your Beauty By William R. Watson And All Your Beauty presents a new and fascinating approach to the story of Canada based on a trailer trip made by the author, his charming wife and their dog, Keltie- Wherever the trailer goes on its roman tic eighteen -month journey across the 1ioniinion the breath- taking, sometimes austere, often fast, always variable and forever magnificent scenery conies to life with authentic intensity. As the trailer moves from region to region the people speak freely and openly, with first -name famil- iarity, to the two young voyagers, discussing government institutions, industries, natural resources, com- munities and every -day activities, until Canada, in spite of (he near- ness and influence of the United States, stands out as something dis- tinctly nctl different. enc. And All Your Beauty, profusely illustrated, is instructive, interesting, stimulating, challenging and inspir- ing, and at the same time is hill of quiet chart, and piquant humour. It is paced at a fast, sustained tempo a'1td is written in a fresh, free, easy -to -read style that is a delight, And All Your Beauty—By William R. Watson—The Macmillan Com- pany of Canada—Price $3.80, Opera Star, Insurance Executive, Cabinet Minister Support Crippled Children Benefit — Marjorie Lawrence, opera star, wvho ,lade a miraculottti recovery from polio and still performs supported by a special stand, sang her first Ce-tadiau performance in aid of the Easter Seal Fund for Crippled Children at Maple Leaf Gardens recently, and is shown congratulating Mr. Earl Putnam, (left), President of Canada IIealth and Accident Assurance Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, for his $1000,00 cheque presentation to the fund during the radio show. honourable Paul Martin, Minister of National IIealth and Welfare (right) also appeared on the program. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FA By Gwendoline P Clarke Dear Town People, living snug ly in your comfortable dwellings protected from the four winds of heaven by other houses, and by shops and buildings'— I wonder if Simi know hat a high wind feels like. •' you don't and would like to know, try staying in the country sometime in one of those old farm houses, ma• of which seem to have been built on the very spot where the wind can gee a clean sw ep at them. Oh, it's a grand and 'orious feeling, I can tell you, to have rhe wind beating at your doors and windows and to see the odd shingles go swirling by until you wonder if there will be any left on the barn roof at all by the time the wind has dropped. And perhaps you want to hurry the potatoes for dinner, and you put an extra stick of wood on the fire. But it crackles and blazes so merrily you get all jittery in case the 'pes should catch fire. So you shut off the drafts again and let the potatoes go hang. A late din- ner is better than a burnt house. * * * And then someone cones to the door — ten to one it's an agent be- cause it is always agents and such like who choose the roughest days to call. But you open the door and the visitor comes in. And so does the wind. It whips the daily paper off the table, scatters it all over the floor, opens up a few doors that haven't been shut properly, gets the dog so excited he barks like fury. This in turn frightens the kitten, so she jumps on top of the sewing machine, where she stands with back arched, ready for battle. By the time you have everything collected and quietened down you are either so mad you tell the agent you don't want anything, and never will want anything, or else you feel so sorry to see ]him out rn such wind you ask him to stay to dinner. * * * Of course with the wind we also get the dust. Go where you will, lemon -oil the place as you like, in a hoar it is always possible to once again write your name in the. dust - Olt yes, it's a great life in the country with a strong wind blow- ing, and then Spring at last arrives —you go down to the cellar—you look first at the coal -bin and yott try to figure out how long the coal will las at so tetany shovel-fuls a day. The potato bin is the ,next thing to catch your eye—it too, is dwindling too fast. But the fruit and tomatoes are banging out pretty well—it may not be neces- CRSSW PUZZLE A CROSS 1. Thrifty 7. Noblemen 15. Complain 14. Concord 10. ny 15. smuts 18, Concerning 19. Baseball glove a1. Attempt 22, Claetai hill 04. Ago 16, O'llIcic 27, Deface aa. nog:, 90, Seed Coverings 82, Social affairs 89.Oonttnent 24. ]razor clam 8a Shako 28 lute! paste 40 ledger weapon 42 Celtic Neptune 48 Ancient Hindu scripture 46 Sheep 40, Iletltlnn't star 47. 011 (suffix) 48, Scalloped 51, to proportion 62 Plant again 24 Flightless bird 69 Sets out 57 Pebbles DON.N 1. Fashions 9. 'Withdraw 4. Donation 6. Odds and ends 0. ISp sties 7, Navlgati on guides 8.13abylonlan 31,1edgo god =Unpaid debt 4, venture 89. Smacks n 06.gtlish 26. village 27. Amba 88. Deletes 41. wilts plants 44, Tho ninnies 40. Forbid 49. Stoop 60. Metro loco 61 Continent (ab,) 66, Among 10. Mouth 11. Regular 12, Scoffs 17 vases 20. Told tales 23. Friendly 20. College officers 20. Relieved 29. Pepe i tong 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 19 24 20 • 16 14 18 20 25 29 'a 22 26 30 31 23 27 ■ 34 35 39 43 4 52 32 53 " 40 44 8 49 41 36 42 37 38 46 SO 54 99 51 50 57 The answer to tbl8 pusle fs a sewhere dtt this page. nary to live on prunes for very long after all. Prunes—they are what Partner calls—"C.P.R. straw- berries," * * * By the way, if you put fruit away last year without sugar and have more fruit than jam, now is the time to make use of it. Take one pint jar of fruit, add to it two cups of sugar, boil until it seems ready to set and you have twenty-four fluid ounccs of good, wholesome jam. Just lately I have taken to making marmalade and the family scents 'to like it. I followed the grape -fruit knife, then cut the fruit cipe that comes with bottles of commercial pectin, But I have my own method for preparing fruit. I peel it very thinly with a curved grape -fruit, orange and lemon re- in sections and slip out the pulp. It is much quicker than the ordin- a e way. Of course I use my pres- sure cooker for making the marma- lade so that once the fruit is pre- pared the rest of the business takes no longer than half -an -hour, Patience Pays When Feeding Your Baby A -o:" Starting solid foods is an ent rely new experience for your baby. Be patients Begin with a small amount —say, two or three tastes the first day, four or five tastes the second day, and so on. Gradually, the baby will get used to the new food, and make it part of his regular diet, As a rule, you can take it for granted that the baby will like a new food. In most cases, he will accept it, but if he firmly refuses to taste the new food, take it away. Chances are, when you offer it again in a week or so, the baby will have com- pletely forgotten his objection. Make an issue of his refusal to eat, how- ever, and he may retain his dislike for the food—perhaps permanently, Whether you're expecting your first, or bringing up your fourth, there's help for you in our Reader Service booklet No, 203. Contains the latest data on feeding, bathing, clothing, toilet training, recognizing illnesses. .Based on the findings of many doctors and nurses, it is a valu- able guide for mothers. Send T HIR T Y CENTS (in coins) for "Baby Care" to Reader Service, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print NAME, AD- DRESS, BOOKLET TITLE and NO. 203. Pampered Pooch According to a dispatch from the West Coast, Myrna Loy's new French poodle is to occupy the fanciest doghouse in all the Mtn capital. It bas two rooms—an aton- ing—and an electric fan in the roof. for air conditioning, Just what color the draperies will be hasn't, as yet, been announced, Our Pers- onal reaction is that Hollywood must really be in the doldrums when the press agents have to send out staff like this, Pretty Please The brave man who decided to build a house had n woe -begone expression on his face as lie watch- ed the inexperienced crew slowly working on the future dream house, He went over to the foreman, clutched him by the collar and pleaded 'When I hired you last week you told me how good yo t and your crew were. Please tell it to 100 all OVeragain—i'nt get- ting discouraged. TABLE TALKS What goes better for supper than a honey sort of savoury stew, or an old-r:shioned deep dish ,teat pie — especially when it's made from lamb, curried, and attractively served with rice? Jf-nt-nt-m — it's something that makes a hit with the whole family. Here's a recipe that's really worth while. Curried Lamb Stew 111 pounds stewing lamb salt, pepper, paprika 3 tablespoons fat 3 cups water 34 cttp sliced onions 1/ cups celery, cut in sntall•pieces 14 teaspoons curry powder 3 tablespoons flour 34 cup cold water 35 cup pickle relish 3 cups hot cooked rice Cut lamb into 1 inch pieces. Sea- son with salt, pepper and paprika, Brown in hot fat in heavy skillet. Add water, onion and celery ( if you can get it!) Cover and simmer 1 hour. Mix curry powder and flour with cord water, Add to lamb, stir- ring until slightly thickened. Cook slowly 10 minutes. Stir in pickle re- lish. Serve on fluffy rice. Serves 6. Supper Casserole 1 pound sausages cup diced green pepper 3 cups cooked noodles 2/a teaspoon nutmeg. 2 teaspoons lepton juice 1 cup grated cheese 1 cup apple sauce Lightly brown sausages over slow heat,. Remove from pan. Cook diced green pepper in sausage fat until tender. Mix green pepper and 4 tablespoons sausage drippings with hot, cooked noodles and place half in a 1 -quart casserole. Place apple sauce, mixed with nutmeg and lepton juice, on top of noodles. Sprinkle with half the cheese. Cover with remaining noodles, Place cooked sausages on top and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake in moderate (350 degree) oven 10 minutes. Serves 6. Queen -Mother Helps Find U.S. Dollars The spirit which has always car- ried the British sh people along in -the face of shortages and adversity is by no means dead. \Venting to help in the battle for United States dol- lars, so badly needed to finance necessary British purchases in that country, Queen Mary decided to do her bit. Not long ago the Queen Mother personally worked a set of six tap- estry chair covers, their presented thein to the British Women's Home Industries. They were offered for sale to American buyers, and brought the surprising sum of ten thousand dollars. When a woman of Queen Mary's age and exalted position takes need- le in hand to help the general cause, it is just further evidence that while `Britain mays be clown temporarily, she's a long way still from being finally counted out. About 4,000 years ago ancient Britons planted crops by pushing a pointed stick in the ground and dropping a seed into the hole. Sorne Notes From The Farm Front By John Russell In the i''e ort troublons till's it i9 rue .10.04110.7 4110.7 to note that 00 the whole, t, an t l an farmers hate resisted a temptation 10 wallah many at,et}- to their later sorrow torr 51', ld War One. Only a comparative few have sought to extend their holrliug+ and too boom in farm land with specula - live prices has 11,,v, loped, As .t result fano are not near- ly as over-esteudt 1 cs they were in 1819-J020. instead lacy are invert- ing in (hirable geode end' as cars, trucks and implements; and with the extension of rural electrification ready markets for rleetrieai appli- an•ei of many 1. inks are found in rural areas. * * * One of these days you may le driving your tractor or car with ;olid gasoline, which you will buy by the pound and handle with its much safety, and in miuh the sante way, its a pound of butter or box of solea biscuit Solid gasoline is already a reality; but it is regarded of such mih.ary importance that it is still kept a "top secret" and is not yet avail- able for co tiii r. ial rise. One great advantage of this solid gasoline is that it is—believe it or not—fire- proof. a * * The fanner is better off than he ]las been for a long time — writes A. P. Piclintan — but, after all, what other business could or would keep running year after year on the minute return on investment and labor which farming gives? The farrier works from 80 to 76 ]tours a week. He ,lust be a bit of a veterinarian — nutrition expert — agronomist — mechanic and mete- orologist. Ile is the executive, per- sonnel, purchasing, sales and ac- counting divisions, all in one. For- tunately lie finds his chief reward, not in his scanty monetary returns, but in a way of life which is satis- fying to hitt, and which he wouldn't trade for any other. * * * Synthetic hormones are putting a profitable punch into the farmers eternal struggle for beats and big- ger crops- Apple and pear growers are already getting millions of dol- lars every year becaust of chemicals which spur fruit production; and within a few years probably a dozen other commodities will be added to the hormone horizons being explor- ed, as scientists believe that as yet they've only scratched the surface of hormone research. * * * According to some authorities, tobacco users would do well to wash their h;111,1, 11,n , h 1,t i • .,-t- tnm out 11,uutto 1 a-1", ,1 u 1., fore Staling prat Ow, closer 111,i1)11 e man i „ l,laul nuc,• rr ua - tinn' pre,. tit le t p, t,, c1' 1 7!1!'i,• is '141(711of Irtn,laitting thee) if some of f vire t 1,7-, e l t1 gala, u. r 1(1<ud .;Ir'ti l r. work, with II, tometoes. * • t 1w`t, t gr oat leg in lir e.,Ht is still petit muni of a 1741111,1e. 10 1919 a J tar it i;u•:ucr Yo! ,1.2n for brahri of tsln at. r:,'01 ie lt(7 porlc!'t at 314-ketoen. Thirtt'eu year., later --in 19777 --.lie got 211 cents a hnsiel. iloettidion, -1r1t as that es. plain the situation of one Western man who said that, 'e the 1.17,1,'. Lr was ],ratty. lue9:y. fir had Lorrtoccd ^yv,tltta tar buy h!. farm: laid $'n. 00 in principal and inter,– t; and now only owed 751, 1 out the property. * * 8 If y rt happe:tr• l t,. be wilting the Brlg:an '. ,i,ge and vow Cana- dian apples on sale, yiet''.1 hardly believe your ryes. kart ',arty t71 -r Iran some 000 1,117es of chair! Ca- arlian apples reairhed that distant region, and caused much favorable coi:nent bec:ere of their quality and ti:e care with wi,fch they here: parLerl. 11:tir early arrival was ors'li appreciated as tirnith African apples do not reach the Belgian Congo market till 'Mardi or April. * * * A real opportunity to develop a sew market fur Canadian seed po- tatoes is seen in Italy. Imports of this commodity are estimated at something like 50 thousand metric tons a year, and in the past has conte almost exclueiveiy from Northern Europe, But much educa- tional work will have to be clone before tle Italians accept the Cana- dian potato, as their taste is for the yellow -flashed, non -starchy variety to which they have become used in the past. * * * Unthrifty apple trees have been brought back to health and good yields by one grower who plants frons 4 to 8 young trees right close to the old trunk and grafts thein right into it .For this purpose he uses almost any sort of young tree, even crab apples. Water and plant food taken by the young trees from the soil go into the main trunk, and their roots finally replace those of the sick tree. a * * And then there was the farmer who was a very, very careful driver, When lie came to a railroad cross- ing he stopped — looked — and listened. And all he heard was the noise of the car behind him crash- ing into his gas tank. 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