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Christmas Fruit Cake
It's Not Too Soon To Make
This Cake
Even. If a more rigid economy
has been the rule in the kitchen
since the outbreak olf war, .Christ..
'mss is still the big time of the year
and will be celebrated as usual.
Fruit cake is standard ,in most
homes at this. season and the sooner
it is made the finer it will be. The
flavour improves with aging and by
tvtiliztng these days before the
hectic rush of Christmas shoplping
o for such Measurable tasks as mak-
ing your fruit oaks, life will prove
less contused in, the days to 001110.
CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE
1 pound '(43 cups) sifted cake fiour
1 tspn•, double -action baking powder
• teaspoon cloves
14 teaspoon chanamon
mi2 te5JOpon• 'mace
1 pound butter or other sbortentn.g
1 pound brown sugar
10 eggs, well beaten
3i ,pound peached cherries
as pound candied pineapple
1 p011112 dates, seeded and sliced)
1 pound raisins
1 pound currants
1,1i pound citron', thinly sliced
It pound candled orange &: lemon
peel
• pound. nut meats, chopped
1 cup molasses
1 cup honey
14 elrp cider
Silt flour orce, measure, add baking
powder and spices,, and sift together
three times. Cream shortening thor-
ough1Y, add sugar gradually, and
cream toast:her until light and iluffY
Add eggs, fruits, peel, nuts, ' honey
molasses and cider. Add flour grad-
ually, TUTU ituto four Sx8x2aneh
Pans which have been greased, lined
with heavy paper, and again greas-
ed. Bake in slow,. oven (250 degrees
11.) 3 to 3% hours, Makes 10 pounds
fruit cake.
Frets of Interest
About Your
Christmas Turkey
There is no kind of poultry meat
more delicious than 'Wilkey, It is
rapidly growing 111 pcipular favour
for its economy, tine flavour and
tender eating qualities„
'The delicate flavour of turkey
pleat cianbines well with many
other foods, By Iakiiful (blending
turkey meat can be made the basis
of a great variety; of good .dishes,
An important factor .that con-
tributes to the ease of digestabiljty
of both white and dank turkey meat
is The abort -nem •ob the tiny in-
dividual meat fibres, which makes
therm easlity treed in the digestive
proceslsee•.
Turkey meat +has quality of suc-
culence, taste.and .texture; it is
savory end leas a dellghttul tang
and aroma; also 'it has a pleasibg
dressed apipenrnnoe,
It is an emilb•arae5ilng situation•
for'•(11e host to find himself faced
With the Basic of •curving a turkey
which is not large enough to pro:
vide for ell •at the table, As a
rough figure it is 'fairly safe to
allow two pounds of turkey for
ear.11 personto be served, •
The turkey le no king of lards
iu ',the poultry 110rltl, The prtucl•
pal cottage 111 'the ' first 13o4(010
festal meal of the Pil'grinl Fathers!
over 200 years ngo was turkey
have glorified the, turkey' and it
line taken a con,tplpuous ,Place on
all cocasions, for speoial cefebr'a-
laces,
The turkey flied Its origlu in
Nonfat America and thouelu there
are an!any, varieties of this bird
throughout the wlonld, all are
descended, from the wild turkey of
bhle continent.
The! original maid North. Amert'
Gan turkeys were, of two amain
varieties, ane !bonze and the other
blarkilmQuae in ,color. Today the
bronze breed cll turkey Is by far
the most gr•ae:n1 among the
domestic turkey Rocks 01 this
country.'
• The housewife would be well ad-
vieed when going to buy the
Christ,n155. turkey or other poultry
to ask for !birds that have ben
gnarled according' to Government
Standards and which have been
tagged acicording to puede. Cana-
dian. Grade Special sill Grade , A
turkeys are the fine* quality
produced.
At one time, M. Canada, roast
turkey was co•natldered only as a
holiday dish. Now that the price
of the turkey is moderate it is not
an. extravaganee to serve turkey
on all occasions throughout the
Year,
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The Secrets
D
Good Looks
by
BUST DEVELOPMENT (1)
Moth/Iry is so desirable to a Wo-
man as a shapely curved bust. Not
only does it enhance the beauty of
one's figure, but it helps enoruious-
ly to gain that "dress appeal" that
is so enviable,
`Many of my readers ask for ad
vice en this, subject—some have no
bust development; others are too
heavily developed, In must cases
treatment will hying improvement,
although patience and delicacy of
treatment are essential_
THE BR JSSELS POST
cold, Drain, and pack th ops. jai's sils: Do They
Make a broth by corking 9}aeit, i Ton
Serve a Purpose?
breast bone, neck and other Tarte
by salted. water one hour, Drain
and pour over meat in jara, Adjust
rubber rings and toes of ears Qr
s'ealete, . Fanttally seal, Sterilize
The second method in as follows:
'(0111 birdie anti draw at once, Wash
easefully and thoroughly cool, Out
into joints, Cover with water and
cook until, meat 'can be. removed
from 'bonen; Pack meat 111 jars
Stain. broth and allow. 1/_; . teaspoon
wilt to each, cu'•p. Pour over meat,
Adgust Tubber rings and tops of
jure or sealers. Partially seal: Sterl-
To can ciuicken. stock—Cover 'with
cold water bones, skin, and 'any
&anal bits of clhicken. Simmer slow-
ly until all meat drops from bones.
Stain and pour broth into jars or
cans. Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt- to
each pint and sterilize 90 minutes in
water bath or 50 minutes at 10 lbs.
pressure. '
To can, chicken broth With rice;
For each gallon of strained broth al-
low 12 oz; of nice.' .Cook rice 20
minuites•, Fill jars full of rice. Add
soup stock. Allow aft ,teaspoon, salt
to each pint jar. Adjust .covers and.
Partially, seal. Sterilize as for chick-
en ;stook. A. little celery and onloen
may be added if desired,
The `i "Monte.
1 hous!ehrold b Metan ' H m
l u
Preservation of Meats, Pouttry, and
Soup" may 1)5 obtained on ap-
plication to Publicity and Eixtension
Division, Dominion! • Department of
Agriculture ,at Ottawa.
icor under -developed .breasts,
treatbrewer's yeaet'is often effi-
cacious, an it helps to provide in-
ternal stimulation at the mammary
glaady of the breasts. The usual-
- dose is about three dessert -spoon-
fuls 'diluted in halt a glass of water,
taken three times a day.
In addition, regular exercises, es-
pecially designed to develop the
breasts, 0110u1d be consistently
carried out, Cue good exercise is
as fellows.: Stand erect with body
r.:er:chcd tc its full height, head up,
heels together, toes, Straight ahead
and arms' 'hanging relaxed at sides.
L:arm, straight out at sides,
level with shoulders. Now twirl
your arms twenty times forward
a17;d then 'twenty times backward,
keeping elbows anti wrists rigid so
that the action is in. the. shoulders
A further article will deal with
over_develp'ped busts and related
problems. iSby ,new 'booklet- on
Beauty Care deals practically with.
problems of bust development. Send
tour .one -cent stamps tor your copy,
and write fuhp shout pour personal
beauty pre biers, All letters are
treated+ in confidence, Address:
Miss Barbara Lynn, Box 75,
Station B,, Montreal, Que.
Catzning
, HOME CANNING POULTRY
EASILY DONE ON FARM
Poultry meat eau be canned as
easily as any other product, Five
general'Hiles should be observed in
connection with it,
1, tlsr. fresh ,but Properly cooled
mon
2, :Remove bone gristle,' and. ex=
cam. fat, Pnnk In jai's 01' cans;
3. Sten'iline one 1i0u' at -15 lb,
prps5u'e, or therm, .hems ihi.
m,n.ter bath,
4, Seal as soon agremoved from
sterilizer, and
5. ',tars 'eontaindnlg meat should
not be allowed to cool 'while
11:ve'ite•dl 1eratlse the fat will
harden at the bottom rather
titan at the top of the jai',
.Tber5 are two muutilods of ('caning
;multi, The drat is: 11111 birds then
thoroughly cool and urns. t�'ash
carefully, Disjoint legs and wines,
Out Irene! 0arefully train bone. Dip
pleees to 1.10111ng water, ,then into
Biologist Believes These
Appendages Have
Definite Value
The medical fraternity , has long
beep in doubt about the value of
taneils, says the Sit, Thorna5• Times
J'oural,, One viewpoint is. that -they
etre (1001 5, 'because they have no
function in time body and frequent-
ly, bedoine infected, pausing a van
lacy of troubles. The other view-
point is that they do perform some
'useful function, the nature of
which has not ae yet been definite -
by determined Dr, 1, 8, Pohl, a Ber-
lin biologi;it, reports experimental
work o•n anirnals which indicate
that the tonsils have an endoerine-
glandl function and that they eon•
tribute a hormnine that aids In the
grOPlth. lasing fish. and saisn and--'
;ers' as experimental subjeets, he
fed pass group of each with dried
substance from the tonsils of hogs,
and control groups 'were given the
same material after ,they were all
treated with X -rayls. Another set
of control groups were given, dried
tissues of the spleen of hogs. lie
,found a ranch greater increase in
size in" the animals receiving ,the
normal tonsillar material than in
the control groups.
SHUTOUT
First Baseball Player: "You didn't
do so well with (hat millionaire's
daughter, bey?"
Second Ditto: "Terrible—no hits,
no rums; no heiress."
WEWEIS'I]AY, DEC,, lith 10'39
Chinese May
",Not Be
. Flattering Us
When They Ray Whlte
.People Seeming Compliments
• May Be Translpting Kindly
I11 a G•hinetse refer, rattler broad-
ly, to the ' English as Eminent
People, the French as .Law -Loving
People and the' Amenieans as
Beautiful People, But let us, not
be too flattered,
American ''FBeautifui People"
' The Chinese have a halbit of: re-
,terring to the people of another
country by' the nearest phonetic
approach that country's name
has to a word in their own len-.
gunge, '11115 nearest Chinese ward
to English is Ying though it does
not look much like 'it), and Ting
means Eminent. The nearest .10
French is, Fa or Law,Loving, while
the word May, meaning Beautiful
is ,as' near as any Word in the
Chinese tongue to American.
These words, Ying, Fa, and May
have other meanings, but the Chi-
nese kindly apply the most 'com-
plimentary translation available,
00 we hardly know whether to' look
upon these Chinese generalize,
none ,about ourselves as flattering
or not,
HE'S REFORMED
"Young man, burglar by trade,
would like to get some different
land of work Toa much compe-
tition and too high a penalty is
reason for giving up my trade."
Want -Ad Column.
Pohl Miss
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WEDNESDAYS
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0 horse, you are a wonderful brute,
No buttons. to push, no horns to
moot;
You start yourself, no clutch to slip,
No spark to mks, no gears to trip;
No speed ours chugging in your
rear,
No lice1sie buying every year;
No windshield glass to break or
crack,
No plates to screw oma front and.
back,
No gas bilis mounting up each day'
S'te'aling the joys, of life away.
Your inner tubes are all
And thank the Lord they stay that
wee/
Your spark plugs never miss and
fuss, "VI
Tour captor never makes one. cuss,
Your frame in good for many a mile,
Your badly neier changes style,
Your warts are few and easily
met—i ISII ..
You've something on the auto Yeti '1
its up oo
tae lo* tost
... Take electric cooking, for example. Thanks to
the steady reduction in
Hydro cost you •can cook an
entire full -course meal on
the modern Electric Runge
for less than half a cent per
person! And here's another
electrical gift that saves
money, as *ell as work...
"Every year when 1 pack
my big Christmas bag, 1
notice how Electrical Gifts
have come down, down,
/f down in price. And that's
only half the story. At
today's low cost for
Hydro service, it's so very cheap to operate !inial
1' . the complete Electrical Laundry! One coat
will pay for the Hydro current used for an hour's
washing . and a full
hour of 'workless' ironing
on the modern Electric
Ironer costs lust one cent
for current, too.
"And most other Electrical Gifts cost even less to Use!.
One cent will operate the average. Electric Radio for
six hours ... the Electric
Refrigerator for 12 hours or
more ... the.Eloctric Cleaner
1r/z hours .. and a smart
LE. S. lamp for 5 hours!"
THE
e,NortmCsT
YES, Santa Claus Is right! Electrical Gifts permanently add to better, •
,
living ... and they lead to lower living costs! Today, due to Hydro's
consistent cost reductions, the average Ontario family can use an
enjoy nearly EIGHT times the amount of Hydro power service for o
TWICE the monthly hill of twenty-five years ago/ That's why electri
is your biggest bargain.
BRINGS YOU BETTER MIN
—and Lowers Living Costs! ts
H Y D R O -ELECTRIC POWER C O M M I SSION OF ONTA