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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-12-13, Page 2atvz And. ewe, High bine to be thinking at that Christmas baking so, with- out further ado here are recipes for a fruit cake and a pudding. Take the word of countless lovers of good foods who have sampled them, they're both really deli- cious. * 1. e PLUM PUDDING WITH HARD SAUCE 2 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking powder r.5 teaspoon each; soda, salt. cin namon, nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon allepiee 1 cup each; raisins, currants xis cup each; chopped figs, citron, candied eb.•rries, blanched almonds 1 tablespoon (•be,peetl cetelied orange peel 1/2 euu each ehupm +d a p p l e, chopped suet, iudseaee. milli 2 eegs, well beaten Sift their ie!,•r. n�.,r:e<t11'e, :,t,i begirt; pee ,dcr, se,ei, salt. and. spine, and eiit irecther three Once, Sift le eiip ;lour mixture over dried frees and nuts and rule well Combine reinieir g ingrtdicntes :tdd it cur and ?,pat thoroughly. Add i'ruit and nuts. Turn into ;., e,el ;nnktls, filling ee full; ...reel. ti '1]tl Steers: abnut 3 hnwee St iva hot with hard Ranee, SaI' [, 12. For hard Sauce, ,.rerun. 2S :• n be -1, add ;Sena: .e!!e. ruff: e t ,•o, to- :iic,ur, . 1.11!1 du:f;a, ThCs, WM oi!n t •JI!lia nr (1.;,•t- ,1 sair:..hili. '` r FR f1' t';'a K IS I 1 ek,} 41s cup, sifted Cale flour 1 teeepnon le.klnre ponder teas"lion e•;eli; shies:, 11‘11111. /TM?, Mall' 1 noteinl hurter or either ehea•aen- inN 1 pound brim eager 10 eggs. well beaten 4 pound each: vandied cherries, candied pineapple, mixed candied lemon and orange peel, thinly sliced citron, chopped nut meats 1 pound each: sliced dates, rais- ins, currants 1 eup each; honey and molasses Vs cup cider Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and spices, and sift together three times. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add re- maining ingredients in order. Then add flour gradually. Turn into loaf pans, 9x5x3 inches, which have been greased. Bake in slow oven (250'F.) about 4 hours, or until done. Makes 10 pounds fruit cake. Store several days to a month before using. To store, brush lightly with port, brandy, or grape juice, wrap in waxed paper, and keep in air- tight box. * * CHRIST14IAS TREE COOKIES 21/2 cues sifted cake flour 11z teaspoons baking powder se teaspoon soda le teaspoon salt a e teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup butter or other shortening 1 eup sugar 2 eggs well beaten 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted Sea flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt; sift three times. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, creaming until light. Add eggs and choco- late and beat well. Add flour in small amounts. Chill. Roll §s inch thick on slightly floured hoard. Cut with floured cooky mutter in Christmas tree shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet; brush with glaze mixture made by mixing beaten egg with 1 cup milk. Decorate using colored sugars, candies, or coconut. Bake In moderate oven (350'F.) 9 minutes. Makes 30. (Other cuts ters may be used, such as wreaths, stars, and crescents.) SUGAR COOKY STARS lei cups sifted cake flour et teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoon salt. 1 cup butter or et' • 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, nee, r cid baking powder and salt, and sift again. Cream butter, add sugar gradually creaming until light. Add eggs and beat well. Add vanilla. Add flour, in small amounts, mixing well after each. Chill. Roll le inch thick on slightly floured board. Cut with floured cooky cutter in star shapes. Decorate, using colored sugars or candies. Bake on un - greased baking sheet in hot oven (4001".) 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 3 deem. SCOTCH SHORTBREAD 2 cups sifted cake flour iz cup butter le eup powdered sugar Sift flour once and measure. Cre;em butter thoroughly, add stu.;ir gradually, and cream to- gether until light and fluffy. Work in flour, using finger tips. Pros into greased pan, 8x8x2 inches, and prick with fork. Bake in moderate oven (3500F.) 50 minutes, or until delicately browned. Cool slightly and cut in squares before removing from pan. Makes 16 squares. Short- bread nia,v also be cut in tri- angles or strips. These a ar (o To School by Boat For school transportation, most children depend on their feet or a bus. But there's one group of young Canadians who answer the call ofthe school bell each morning after a quarter -mile walk, a bus ride and a boat trip! They are the 18 youngsters who live on James Island, B.C. just off the south-east coast of Vancouver Island. They start their 'ay by walking to a wharf and climbing aboard a small boat which takes 15 minutes to carry them across the channel. Then they scurry onto a waiting bus for the rest of their complicated journey to school in Victoria. Their island home, about one mile long and half a mile wide, is the site of an explosives plant of Canadian Industries Limited. Their fathers work at the plant and every day a company boat serves as a "school bus" for chil- dren of employees who must at- tend school in Victoria. A boat ride is a thrill for most children. But these youngsters are seasoned sailors. After all, they've travelled this stretch of channel since birth, so choppy seas never faze them. However, they do have their thrills, es- pecially in winter months. There are storms which make the most sea -worthy passenger unhappy, if not actually seasick, and stray logs from broken booms some- times create an obstacle course for the little craft. But as with most boys and girls, the rougher the weather the more fun. Once in a while, in their exuberance, they want to rough -house a bit but veteran boatman Jim Bond is used to childrens' antics and has a way of keeping them safely seated. There's never been a 'Boy Over- board!" under his watchful eye. On the return trip at night Jim hears all about the day's activities. To his young passen- gers he is more than a boatman. He's a companion, confidant and adviser rolled into one. The small shack where he spends his time between scheduled trips is a favorite meeting -place for young islanders. And more than once Jim has rescued a would-be Huckleberry Finn carried too far from shore in a 1tome-made boat. For teen-agers who live so close to the sea, it's handy to have an adult friend who is also a skillful boatman! YOUNGSTERS' DELIGHT — These two youngsters thrill to the possibilities in what seems to them a prime playhouse. it's a replica of an old British building; built by Col W. Johnstone on his estate at Burlington, Prince Edward Island. It is just one of many replicas of famous buildings he has created through the years. QUICK AND THE LAME—Four-year-old Marlene Olsen, right, watches her 20 -month-old sister, Karen—hoping that some day she'll be as lightfooted as Karen. Marlene, a polio patient a ince 1955, is the U.S. 1957 March of Dimes Poster Giel. Hher picture will be displayed on millions of posters and coin canis- ters throughout the nation beginning January 2. Swept Off Feet 3y a Ghost When his pretty and vivacious daughter Hettie came knocking at his study door, the Rev. Sam- uel Wesley, an irascible man at the best of times, slammed clown his quill pen and shouted a bad- tempered "Come in!" Hettie, alone of the nineteen children of the ambitious would- be poet -parson. was not afraid of the Rev. Samuel, one of whose sons was later to become famous as John Wesley, founder of Methodism. Now she came into the room and said: "Father, the children are being frightened in their beds by very strange noises. Please come and reassure them," "What nonsense is this!" snor- ted the parson. "Oh well, I sup- pose I must come. When he entered the bedroom all the children were huddled under their bed -clothes. The room was silent as he stood there. with Hettie beside him holding high the flickering candle. He was about to return to his sturdy, resolved to deal with the culprits next morning for un- necessarily disturbing him, when a sudden loud rappine startled him. A series of terrific knocks reverberated from the bedroom ceiling, folinwad by eurinus rum- blings. This, certainly, was not the dein of miseh!evvotts children. "To -morrow;" the puzzled and now rather scared parenn en- nounced, "I shall buy a mastiff We'll soon tt.nesrth the rascal who is corcealpd somewhere in the house and stop this non- sense," That sv^s nn Tee .reel !^ let, Silence had descended on the months of hountin,p, two m"uths during which the story of the £,'bust -ridden Rectory at Epworth, Lincolnshire, became a retdneel sensation. On the following' evening Samuel Wesley seated himself as usual at his desk. But now beside him lay a magnificent mastiff. Silence had descended on the rectory. Mrs. Weslev and the children were all in bed. Then suddenly there came from the study ceiling nine ter- rific rano. Wesley sprang to his feet. The mastiff ernneeed, whimpering. Wesley stood, listening. Then, addressine the ceiling, he an- nounced in a loud vniee: "If you wish to speak to me, come forth!" He was answered by nine more knocks, again in a series of threes. Since the ghost made no Bien of materializing as requested. Samuel Wesley derided to aban- don work and en to here The next nicht nothing hap- pened and the poet-narson work- ed late. But no sooner hed he taken his elope 1n bed heeire his sleeping wife than a strange noise woke her un. Both listened in the dark to el:mein.cs sounds like the rni'ling of chains. "Leet us light rending and f.T0 through every room in the house." Sensual seeee<tr d, ner- werslle This they did. But thnueh they could find no intruder, the chance - Inc, noises followed them. They returned to 'bed nnw as frightened as their children by these horrid night-time distur• banees. During the weeks that follow- er the hauntines erntinued. There were constant loud ran pings in the children's bedrooms which caused them to cry out and dive under their bed -clothes. The visitation began to fray the nerves of the Wesley family and Samuel took to rushing at whatever corner of the room the nolle appeared to come from and slashing wildly at it with his stick. He also took to talking to who- ever—or whatever --it was that made the din, challenging it to come to his study "like a man." But the only answer he got was louder raps than ever. One day, after a more than us- ually noisy night, Wesley de- cided to ask the Rev, Hoole, vicar of the neighbouring parish of Huxley, to come and live in the rectory for a week and give his opinion of the ghostly dis- turber. The vicar of Hoxley duly came. The first evening, after supper, he took the family prayers. While he was praying there came a terrific uproar of raps and clanking noises. The good vicar was to have stayed in haunted Epworth Rec- tory for a week, but he fled that night, a thoroughly terrified man! It was after that that the ghost began new and even more un- pleasant forms of hauntings. One night Samuel and his wife were awakened by something coming down heavily on their bed. But when they sat up to in- vestigate they found nothing. Worse was soon to follow. One day as Wesley entered his study he was pushed from be- hind quite violently. He swung round ... only to find himself alone. By this time he had taken more and more to shouting at the ghost and his shouting only ad- ded to the terror of the younger children. But it had a contrary effect on the four grown girls, in particular on pretty Hettie. She had for some time made jokes about the ghost, giving him the nickname Old. Jeffrey. She had grown accustomed to the thumps and raps and was no longer frightened by them. But whatever mischievous spirit haunted Epworth Rectory, it did not apparently care about being taken lightly, Very soon the light-hearted attitude of the elder Wesley girls was changed to a sense of fear. One day Hettie was talking with her slaters in the large din- ing -room of the rectory when she suddenly stopped and point- ed at the door. As the girlseyes followed Hettie's finger they saw the latch moving. Hettie was a stout-hearted girl. "I'II take it by surprise," she said. "It's Old Teffrey." Tin -toeing to the door. she sized the latch. Bet it resisted her efforts, held firmly on the other side as though by a strung hand. All her strut' les to open the door were in vnin. One evening the four elder girls were seated in their bed- room planing cards when the snook took a hand in the game. It was daylight. They were in happy mood. Old Jeffrey was far from their minds when suddenly Nancy cried out: "Oh. help! I'ni rising in the air!" As the others stared in aston- ishment they saw Nancy rise in her chair some feet from the floor and remain susnended. That amazing phenomenon, vouched for be all four Sisters, remains unexplained to this day. Samuel Wesley was almost at his wits' end when an old par- ishioner suggested a remedy. "What ghosties and the like can't abide," he mumbled, "is contrary noises to their own, It's well known, for I heard my grandmother tell of it." He then suggested that to exorcize the ghost 'he parson sould "blow a hunting horn loud through every room in the haunted house" Samuel Wesley was not a hun- ting man, nor could he blow a horn. But he hired a huntsman to go through Epworth Rectory blowing his horn. But this curious method of exorcism had no effect .The loud rappings, the bangs in the night, the rustlings—and the occasional push in the back for the Rev. Samuel—continued. Then, assuddenly as they had begun, the hauntings ended. Old Jeffrey, having thoroughly upset the Wesley family for two months, during which the tem- per of its head had become fray- ed to near frantic point, van- ished. One member of the family did claim to have seen Old Jeffrey once—pretty, gay Hettie who said that she had seen the figure of an old man clad in a long white nightshirt which trailed on the ground. Nobody believed her. And in fact, some suspected that the whole eerie affair was nothing more or less than a mischievous prank on her part. But there was never any real evidence that she was responsible. It was towards the end of the hauntings that John Wesley, then a schoolboy at Charterhouse, came home on holiday, heard of the hauntings and very soon ex- perienced them for himself. When he was an old man and world-famous he sat down and wrote a full and circumstantial account of the uncanny events which made life at Epworth a constant nightmare for the fam- ily for two months in the year 1716, and made Old Jeffrey one of the best authenticated ghosts in history. ---- INSULT TO INJURY A Lexington, man was well and truly drunk, but with what little vestige of sense he had left, decided that sleep was the best plan. He staggered off the road, found a comfortable place and slept. Time passed and eventually the man was charged by the police for sleeping between rail- way lines. During his sleep a freight train and cars had run over the lines, the only injury to the reveller being a badly bruised hip. His protests against the charge were dismissed. REPENT AT LEISURE After listening to evidence concerning John Baron's at- tempt to rob the poor box in a church at New haven the judge gave him a choice: attend church every Sunday for one year, or speed 30 days in jail. Barone promised to become a churchgoer for one year. n!? By Anne Ashley Q. What is a good fertilizer for a fern? A. Use sodium chloride eight parts, potassium nitrate four parts magnesium two parts. Mix and bottle. Dissolve a tea- spoonful of this mixture in at quart of water and water the fern about once a week. Q. What is a good application for burns? A. Scraped potatoes are a very cooling application for burns and scalds. Change the application frequently. Q. How can I remove mortar and paint from window glass? A. Wash with hot, sharp vinegar. Q. How can I drive away sparrows that are around the eaves and underneath the cor- nices of the house? A. They can be driven away if one will make a few cheese- cloth bags, 1111 with mothballs, and hang them near the haunts of the sparrows. Q. How can I clear water that has a milky appearance? A. By dissolving a small piece of rock alum in a pint of boiling water, and using this much to a tub of water. Q. How can I clean undressed kid gloves? A. Try rubbing them very lightly with fine sandpaper. Q. How can I keep vegetables hot for an hour or so after they are cooked? A. When cooked, drain and cover securely, then wrap well in paper and set in the oven without fire. They will keep steaming hot for a long time. Q. Should anything be done to a brass kettle that has not been in use for sometime, be- fore using it again? A. Yes; wash it with salt and vinegar before using. Q. How can I prevent fat from splattering on the stove? A. It will not splatter when frying if a little salt is added to it. Q. How can I remove a broken cork that has fallen in- side a bottle? A. Pour enough ammonia in the bottle to float the cork and put it away for a few days. The ammonia will eat away enough of the cork to permit its easy' removal. Q. How can I stop the burn- ing of oil? A. When oil is burning, throw on meal, flour, sand, earth, or gravel. Water spreads the flames and increases the danger. Q. What can I do if an oven gets too hot while baking ES cake? A. Place a vessel of cold water on the shelf beneath the cake. This will reduce the heat, DOLLS FOR THE WORLD'S CHILDREN—Winners of a nationwide, teen-age doll contest appear with their creations at United Na- tions, N.Y. First place winner is Nancy Schieber, 16, center, with "Alfred the Beefeater." Runners-up are Cynthia Harvey, 15, left, with "Cindy" and Margaret Barrett, 19, right, holding baby doll "Mary." Nancy will make a 16 -day trip to Europe, during which she'll distribute dolls for needy children. BEGIN CLEARING SUEZ CANAL—Sunken ships set Port Said as a salvage vessel (center) begins scored behind It. Egyptian forces are report they retreated south before the Angle -French block the northern entranoe to the Suez Canal operations to remove a wreck, partially eb- ed to have sunk 21 ships in the waterway as invasion force,,