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The Seaforth News, 1941-08-28, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941 THE SEAFOR.TH NEWS THE MIXING ROM By ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home E,-00..0 t VEGETABLES WITH AN ACCENT Hello Homemakers! Once upon a time, meat and potatoes were served three times a day—vitamins were u'nicnown and no one guessed that vegetables contained minerals. * * * * Bnt, nowadays, scientists have probed the secrets of the carrot and the spinach and all the other memb- ers of the vegetable clan. These foods • are alkaline in reaction (ex- cept sweet corn) and help keep body tissues and blood neutral. They fur- nish vitamins which promote growth and prevent disease. Minerals found in all vegetables are calcium, phos- phorous and iron—necessities for bones, teeth, muscles , nerves and body tissues, * * * * Vegetables contain very little pro- tein in proportion to their weight, except the legumes (peas, beans and lentils.) Such vegetable meals should always be rounded out by dishes con- taining milk, meat, cheese or eggs. With the exception of potatoes, corn, beets, dried peas and beans, veget- ables contain little sugar, so a rich dessert can always be served with a vegetable plate. It is quite in order to serve a veg- etable plate mounds of 3 or 4 cook- ed or crisped vegetables on each plate) for a main course. Plan it Carefully to make a pleasing picture. Contrasts in colour, shape and tex- ture are the things to strive for, and you needn't worry unduly, over vita- mins and minerals. Just keep this simple rule in mind—Serve a hearty portion of two cooked vegetables— and another in a crisped, raw state. * * * * Are you a good vegetable cook ? Well—here's your chance. The simp- ler the foods, the more perfect should be the cooking and the more subtle the seasoning. Most green vegetables s are cooked in a small amount of water, in a tightly -covered saucepan, for the shortest possible time. Then they keep their "good looks"! More vitamin content is re- tained by constant even beat—so tarn your electric element from high to low as soon as steam comes from the saucepan. Firm textures are lost and flabby, soft products result from overcooking. * s * * Covering vegetables with water, for cooking, is out of style, too. Use a small amount of water, and a tight fitting cover and you save more of the valuable minerals. Save the veg- etable juices and store them in a covered jar in the electric refrigera- tor until you add them to any soup. You'll be glad, to, that vegetable dinners are thrifty dinners. That does not mean serving asparagus in December. Use vegetables in their proper season, when they are cheap- est and best. And while they are Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Assures Security for over One Million Partners H. R. LONG, GODERICH District Agent CUT COARSE FOR THE PIPE I HUM CUT FiNE FOR CIGARETTES .sem® D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office — Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist — Massage Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treatment. Phone 227. BUS 'TIME TABLE Lesvos Seaforth for Strafford: Daily 8.26 a.m. and. 5.15 p.m• Leaves Senforth ter Coderiah: Doily except Sunday and bol., 1.05 p.m,' and 7.110 0•m• Sun. and hal., 1.03 pm'. and 0,20 p.m, Connection at Stratford for Toronto, Hamilton, Buaale, London, Detroit, Tav,s' tock Woodstock, Brantford to As 1 f Is: Queen's, ecn's C num crriul Dick 1 nose cheapest and best, store for winter months ! Directions for Preparation of Vegetables Select vegetables that are fresh, firm, sound cod medium in size for cooking. Hoop green vegetables in the crisp- ing pan of electric refrigerator, until ready to use. Remove insects by placing in wat- er to which salt or vinegar has been added. Wash thoroughly; use a brush for root vegetables, Soak wilted vegetables, unpared, in cold water to freshen therm Pare carefully, for much of the mineral content lies near the surface. Scraping removes less of ibe min- erals than paring. Do not leave pared vegetables standing in cold water. They should be placed in covered basin in electric refrigerator. Cut vegetables, if necessary, to en- sure uniformity of size. Soak dried vegetables in cold wat- er until sufficient moisture is ab. sorbed to make them resemble fresh ones. Use 1 tsp. of salt for 1 quart of boiling water. Only 1 inch of water in bottom of saucepan is necessary for 1 quart of vegetables when you cook on an electric element. Turn the electric switch from high to low as soon as vegetables begin to boil. Cook only until tender. Ap- proximate cooking time is 10 min- utes for cobs of corn, and 25 minutes for root vegetables, * RECIPES Creole Squash 2 medium summer squash 2 tbsps. fat 2 tbsps. minced onion 4 tbsps. minced sweet pepper 4 tbsps, bacon fat 214 cups stewed tomatoes 1 tsp. salt 14 tsp. pepper Peel and slice squash. Roll ligbtly in flour then brown in the hot fat. Saute onion aid sweet pepper in bacon fat until browned. Add toma- toes and seasoning and cook until blended. Pour over summer squash and turn the electric element to simmer for about 20 minutes. Serves 6 to 8. s $ * $ Cauliflower with Cheese 1 head of cauliflower 3 tbsps. butter or baking fat 3 tbsps. flour 114 cups milk 14, tsp. salt 14 tsp. pepper 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce s/* cup grated cheese Break cauliflower into flowerets. Cook the vegetable in salted water 10 to 20 minutes until tender. Drain. Melt butter in another saucepan and fold in the flour. Add milk gradually stirring quickly until thickened, (for about 5 to 6 minutes). Add season- ing and cheese. Do not cook any longer. Pour over hot cauliflower. Serves 6. Carrot Fritters 2 cups cooked mashed carrots 1 tsp. sugar l,4 tsp. salt 1 egg, well beaten a dash of pepper 14 cup flour Combine the hot, finely mashed earrots well with the sugar, salt, pepper and egg. Stir the flour 10 thoroughly. Shape by rounding table- spoonfuls. Fry in deep Tat. -375 deg- rees on electric element turned to low, two minutes. Drain on soft paper. Serves 4. "Green Tomatoes Pickled Whole" (An Old Stand-by) 1 plc. of green tomatoes 1 qt. of boiling water 44. cup of pickling salt 1 qt. vinegar 2 lbs. brown sugar 14 tsp. cayene pepper 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. mixed spice 1 tsp. celery seed 10 whole cloves Dissolve salt in boiling water, put in a few tomatoes at a time and boil for 12 minutes, remove each to- mato carefully with a wooden spoon to prevent spoiling shape, drain thoroughly and pack in jars, Tie spices in a muslin bag, put into the vinegar, add sugar and boil until slightly thickened, remove spice hag. pour liquid over tomatoes, filling sealers full, and seal tightly. Maybe You'll Have To Walk Considering the discomforting pros- pects of gasoline rationing that night melee enforced pedestrians of motorists, an authoritative article by the noted podietris;t, Harold Kahn; fn The American Weekly Magazine with the August 31 issue of The De- troit Sunday Times, is particularly timely. He gives valuabe advice about conditioning our pompertd feet for the emergency. Be sure to get The Detroit Sunday Times this weer: and every week. ABOLISH THE BLACKOUT ! My reasons for wishing 10 diecon- tinue the black -out can be briefly summarized as follows, says en Eng- lish writer: It is impossible to hide our coast- line. The 'black -out accentuates rivers and other natural landmarks. Tho target effect of fires or fifth - column signal lights is enormously increased. If required, its effect can be com- pletely cancelled out by the dropping of flares. It adds greatly to the terrorizing effect of the raids. It hampers terribly the work of the A.R.P. and rescue squads. It adds to the difficulty of the fire- lighters and makes their work un- necessarily dangerous. It tends to destroy social life, Thousands of man-hours are waste ed every night in the process of "blacking•ont." Electric power is wasted and eyes strained, due to day and night black- outs in many factories. Hinders the use of fighters at night because flying -fields have to be illuminated. Slows down railways and hinders loading. Slows clown road traffic and wears out nerves of transport drivers. Accentuates position of railway lines and locomotives as seen from the air. Causes malty thousands of road deaths and injuries. Even if none of these objections existed, it would still be a waste of time, as it has been proved that it does not ]tinder the enemy, whereas its effect in hindering ourselves has been enormous. Is there an alternative to the block-out? In discussing any scheme WP must bear in mind that it is not only desirable to provide an allevia- tion of the many discomforts and dangers of the black -out, but also to see if it is possible to attain the de- fensive advantages of biding milit- ary objectives and confusing the enemy, that the blackout so miser- ably fails to do. It is to the achieve- ment of both these ends that I have directed myself in developing a sys- tem of light camouflage. Nobody who has ever driven into the headlights of a stationary car, second is to mount the lamp on a small eecenta•ically operated gimbal similar to those employed on house- hold fans, which provides the neces- sary optical confusion. A further amplification of this idea that would greatly add to the cones sion of the enemy, and even more completely upset all his attempts at navigation, is the possibility that it suggests of anchoring small craft or buoys on the rivers and less tubn- lent waters around our coast, thus making it more difficult to distingn- isle the coastline and altering the shape of England from that which appears on the enemy's maps. If the system of moving shore lights were adopted this would effectively prev- ent reyent the enemy airmen from discrim- inating between the sea -borne lights and those an land. ft may prove im- possible to disguise the presence of broken water, but I believe the ex- periment at least to he worthy of a trial There will be many who will talk of the difficulties in the initial in- stallation and subsequent continual maintenance of so vast and compre- hensive a system, but compare it for one moment with the cost and dan• ger of the blackout. And what are these great difficulties? The cost might be mentioned, but that is cer- tainly not serious, if the idea has any value at all. I make bold to sug- gest that the cost of twelve hours' hostilities, based on our present war budget would be sufficient to cover all the coats and drive the eontrae- tnr far into the realms of the excess Profit tax, The watching anci maintenance of those lights would provide a worth- while and intelligent occupation for the very numerous members of the IIome Guard. This would almost completely eliminate the mainten- ance costs of the scheme. with the exception or the current consump- tion and the bort-out bulbs. This consumption of power would be but a fraction of that used in lighting the streets of our cities in peace. time. The use of flares by R.A.F. raiders venturous history! That innocent -looking tapioca mad- ding, adding, easy of digestion, highly nutri- tious and one of the purest forms of food -starch, began life as ---a poison! We know who discovered America; but who discovered tapioca? Surely the man who first realized that this poison -plant eould become a marvellous source of food must have been a great scientist, a super - chemist deeply learned in all those wonder-working changes whic'h ap- plied chemistry can bring about? In very early times. long before white men came to South America some unknown Indian tribe discov- ered the secret ! It was an unknown Indian tribe of forest -dwellers, whose name is lost 1n the mist of ages. The name "tapioca" is a native Brazilian word for the food sub- stance prepared from cassava -starch, the product of the large tuberous. rooted cassava -plant. Two varieties of cassava are found in South America—bitter cassava and sweet cassava. Sweet cassava is non-poisonous, and can be used as an i ordinary vegetable, or as a food for. cattle. Yet although bitter cassava roots contain a considerable percentage of prussic -acid, it is t0 this, and net 10 the non-poisonous variety that count- I less generations of South American Indians have looked for their princ•i• pal food supply, and which has now become a valuable addition to the food -reserves of the whole civiilzea world, Readers of adventure stories are familiar - with "manioc," the South Americau Indians' substitute for bread. "Tapioca." "cassava," and "manioc" are derived from the same plant. AMBASSADORS FROM SAVILLE ROW Sell Suits to U.S.A. At £30 A Time Eminent citizens of the United States, including industrialists, state- smen. society folk, and financiers have been showing their sympathy has proved successful with the ex- with Britain by ordering more suits ception, which our pilots have more' than ever from a band of travelling than once reported, that when there 1 tailors, who have just rteurned to is even the slightest low-lying mist Saville Row and its neighborhood. or cloud the reflexion of the flares on Among these 'ambassadors' for this mist creates a halation which men's wear were representatives not makes it almost impossible to loc- only of the tailors but of the haber- even at a mile distance, can have ata the targets. It is just such a hal- dashers and the bootmakers as well. failed to appreciate how completely ation as this that I wish to lay per' For sixty years they have been visit - everything behind those lights is manently over the whole country. ing America every spring and aut.- blacked-out. Imagine how this condi-I1 The greatest advantage of the flare umn (they are going back again this tion of affairs would be aggravatedis that the bomber can hide behind year) and the orders booked are well if the lights were not only flashing this general illumination, which up to what they were before the war. but oscillating. It is the amplification Iblinds the gunner and pales the One highly -placed executive who had of this system applied to the wholesearchlights, leaving the bomber se- already bespoken eleven suits for country that I would introduce, and ! once in the darkness behind, Why himself, gave a second salesman an have consistently advocated, as the not reverse this important advan- order for five costume lengths Inc only scientific way by which it istags and let the whole country hide his wife rather than send !rim empty possible to prevent the enemy bomb- behind the general illumination of its away. Another distinguished man er from discriminating successfullyown lighting system? orderedfourteen suits; a woman between open country and built-up The effect of such a system in member of an old blew York family. areas. lighting the country behind the ten costume lengths; and a well - The system of light camouflage re -lamps would be comparable with known politician wrote out a cheek lies in the main on the use of a very that of a person standing some dis- for 1,000 dollars, remarking that, if great number of relatively small tance behind the headlights of , a his order did not run to that sunt, the searchlights with a very short -foots car. Although quite invisible to any- balance could gc towards a Spitfire. ' wide-angle beam pointing upwards.ore ahead, he would be conscious of Expensive as these suits are, and They need not, in fact, he very much a condition of twilight. Given a suf- one may cost as me't'h as £30, there larger or more powerful than normal aslant numhe• of lamps, this twi- is more than that in it for Britain's motor -car headlights. If it should ire light would enable us to go about at war chest. As the designs are exclu- considered necessary to employ ex- night not only with a new safety sive, other American men will soon isting material Inc such a purpose, from aerial attack, but with an al- ask for there too and eventually they then I see no reason why these most equally important safety from will go Mtn suits turned out by mass motor -car headlights should not. Ret- all the surface dangers of the black- production with a resulting demand wally be used. The system provides out. The work of rescue squads and upon the mills of Yorkshire anci for the stationing of these lights other A.R.P. workers, transport both Scotland, pointing upwards over the whole of by road and rail, and the convenience the country, 'so that England prey- and social life of the ordinary Eng-; LONDON'S FARMER BOYS tints to the enemy raider nothing lishmau—all would benefit equally --.-- hitt a confused and frightening mass from the return "nut of darkness Look After the City's 12,000 Head of of lights, behind which nothing he into twilight." Livestock seen. At first sight, such a sugges- Put its advantages go much fur•' The heart of Landon is now get - tion might appear staggering, or even titer than this, for it also provides ling from its own farms hundreds of impossible, but let us investigate in aid for our active offence against tons of meat and vegetables a year more detail what it amounts to. I i enemy invaders. It puts the mark for the hospitals and other Motile. Taking the area of England lo be enemy bomber against a bright 111111-, tons of the Metropolis, approximately 50,000 square utiles, thous background, which would en- London's citizens are the farmers we would require a minimum of 0110 sure successful attack by our lighters of 4,5(111 acres, muscly within the wide-angle beans searchlight in the operating above it, and thus enable Green I1e1L and in the midst of the centre of each quarter of a square them to operate under daylight eon- 'blitz' area. They own 1,51111 bead of mile. Thus, 200,600 such lights will ditiors pedigree cattle, :loud pigs. 7,(011, head PAGE THREE A LONG -WEARING MILE -EATING TIRE BUILT TO SAVE YOU MONEY AND WORRY DRIVE IN...SEE IT TODAY! We have your sera W. G. i RIGHT barred to Germany; but now Britain is not only holding these new mark- ets but increasing then( on merit. Such at the moment is the flood of drders from overseas that her clock - makers are booked right into 1042; some of them are indeed doing ex- port business only, so big is the de- mand. And they are adapting themselves readily to their new customers. Clocks for hot countries no longer go in wooden mountings but in plas- tics to resist the attacks of insects. Another line is in stainless steel with tile face, enamelled by hand. India is taking wall clocks, electric and spring, in large quantities. Canada and Australia are big buyers of these and of travellers' clocks in leather cases. Since the days of Tampion, who developed the craftsmanship of clock - making to such perfection that to- day, specimens of his workmanship have fetched as much as £4,000, and Harrison, the inventor of the chron- ometer. Britain has been known for design and workmanship wherever clocks tick. It was cheapness that let Germany in, and here Britain is now working out a campaign to sell cheap alarm clocks to all the world when peace comes. be required, which is not at all a ser- ious number. A few firms, working an a purely peacetime basis, produce literally millions of motorcar head- lights every years, There are in this country at present hundreds of thou- sands of cars whose owners are per- mitted by law to use only one of their headlights. If but a proportion of them volunteered to give ' then' other beadhglrt—not a great sacrifice in view of the consequences 01 the black -out to every one of them—then by that method alone a sufficient number could be gained. It. is a known fact, and any pilot who has been an active service will confirm my argument, that to look clown into the beam of a large and brilliant light 10 possibly the most confusing thing that can be experi- enced. To ire expected to fly edntinu- ousiy over an immense expanse of flashing lights is a far more worry- ing task. The two most important essentials in connection with the development of this system are, firstly. the use of the thermostatically controlled lamp that flashes intermittently, and the It is, of course, one of the essen- of poultry and 55e sheep. tial features of the scheme that it In the year of the 'blitz' these does not illuminate the cities as dis- farms. run by the London County tinct from the countryside, but etaCouncil, produced more than ever ectively prevents them from being before :itiu,o0(t eggs. 55(i,00 gallons distinguished, which their present of milk, 351 tons of meta, 1,658 tons nightly bombing makes it 011v1011s of vegetables and 81 tons of fruit, that the black -out does not. They are even "digging for via - On the outbreak of the last Great ory" in London's famous parks. Two War the late Earl Grey stood at his window and said to a friend: "The lights are going out over Europe.r' A flgnrative truth of those days has become a very literal and unpleas- ant troth it this war. The whole eotnta'y has been phiigecd into a blackness that damps our ,spirits even more effectively than 11 dark- ens our streets. I look forward to the day when, gazing Trott my window. I can say: "The lights are up over England!" TAPIOCA "Tapioca pudding again to -day! Why couldn't you give us something, a bit more interesting?" More interesting? 1 ? There is rrnb: ably no foodstuff in all the world that hasa mhre_mystericnts and .id-. hulcb•ed acres arc being worked by borough councils for food growing. Sheepgraze. on 600 acres. And in the centre of London alolte individual Londoners are raising food from their allotments on 410 acres. PEACE ALARMS Are Being Prepared by Britain's Ciockmakers British clockmakers are the latest witnesses against Nazi sea' claims. With a loss as 10(0 as from one-half to two per cent., they are cmainuing to send their clocks to Canada, Aus- tralia, India. South Africa ail the South American Republics. They are shipping to -day hell as malty r a ai as they were before the war. At first that was bemuse the 02980.Imes, are ICE CREAM MEN SAVE LIVES OF BRITISH DIABETICS The ice cream industry of Great Britain has come to the aid of the considerable number of diabetics in the country by mal ing sure that they get the insulin which keeps them alive. nisulin, which is made from an ex- tract of pancreatic glands. was form- erly a big import and it must be frozen within half an hour of the killing. British slaughterhouses were not equipped for freezing and an aoute shortage of insulin seemed im- minent. The ice cream men came to the rescue and promtply transferred their freezing machinery to the slaughterhouses, of which there are 000 in the country. The glands are frozen here and they are then taken in motor vans. equipped with refrig- erating apparatus, to the cold stor- age plants of the ice eream merch- ants. The result fs that to -day Brit- ain possesses not only a large and growing reserve of pancreases. spin- al cords and thyroid but of bottled blood, to which the scheme has been extended. The big manufacturing chemists, employed on Government work. are now drawing their supplies of gland material from these stores of the ice cream merchants. It was early morning, very quiet and the soldier on sentry was enjoy- ing a pipe. He spotted the colonel in the distance and put the pipe in his Pocket. "Didn't I see you smoking?" asked the colonel when he came trp, "Let me look at y0111• pipe." The sentry pulled a pipe from his pocked awl handed i1 over. It was cold. The colonel lues satisfied. When he had gone the sentry pulled a still gloving tripe teem the other pocket. \ly old dad knew a thing or two 101101 he advised tie to have two of everything" he said to himself. Mr.—"I'm convinced that China heeds a firm hand," lir s.=I've told the new tuaid , but it's 00nse." that,r '!rent olid Fie r Sols Ads. 3 weelw '50c