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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-02-01, Page 3oaschold Department Useful Hints anti General Information for the Busy Housewife Gleeful Recipes. Bran Gents—Mix a cup of white flour, two cups of bran and a cup and a half of milk, a teaspoon a soda, two tablespoons of molasses and one egg. Bake h gem pane twenty minutes. Cocoanut jumbles--•Creatm a cup of sugar and half a cup of butter. Add a cup of milk, half a cup of cocoanut, two eggs, two teaspoons of baking powder and flour enough to roll, Drup by spoonfuls on a buttered pan. Cottage Pie—Line baking dish with mashed potatoes. Fill with chopped meat of any kind, after seasoning with onion, salt and pepper. Over thie pread a layer of any cooked vegetable. Cover with buttered cracker crumbs and bake .in moderate oven about one- half hour. Cornstarch Cake.—One cupful corns starch, two•• of flour, one of butter, two of sugar, one of sweet milk, one teaspoon of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, yolk$ of six eggs. Split the cake after it is cold, take the whites of the eggs, and, with sufficient sugar to sweeten, spread on layer, then put an top; press a few pieces of pop- corn over top, Fruit Puffs.—Sift together one and one-half cups flour, one and ode -half teaspoonfus baking powder, two table- apoons granulated sugar and one- third teaspuon silt; add two-thirds cup dates, stoned and chopped, two tablespoons melted butter, one cup milk and one egg, the white and yolk beaten separately. Bake in gam pans in a hot oven and serve with lemon sauce, or any preferred, Use raisins, chopped figs and fruit instead of dates for a change. Pudding Sauce.—Mix two table- spoons flour with ono cup sugar, add a little cold water to stir smooth, then one and one-half cup boiling water, a pinch of salt -and better the size of a walnut. Let rook until clear, and flavor with a generous teaspoon lemon extract or the ,juice of half a lemon. Minced Ham. --Two cupfuls minced ham, four eggs, a scant half -cupful flour, one cupful milk, one-quarter teaspoonful pepper. Dissolve the Dour in the milk, bring to a boil, and add the ham and pepper. Separate the eggs, beat yolks thoroughly and. the whites till stiff. Add yolks to' mixture, and fold in the whites. Put In a buttered baking dish, set in a pan of hot water, and let the puff rise to the top of the dish. This takes from one-half to three-quarters of an hour. Remove from the water and brown. Rice Cake.—Cook, drain and cool half a cupful of rice. Mix it with a quart of milk, a little salt, the yolks of four eggs and beat. When it is smooth, add alternately half a pound of flour and a heaping teaspoonful of balding powder mixed with the stiff whites of the four eggs. Cook in spoonfuls on a hot greased griddle: Eggless Dutch Loaf.—Use one cup £ul of light bread dough, add half cup of sugar and me tablespoonful of but- ter. Work all together until very smooth, Add half cupful of raisins and any desired spice. Shape into loaves. Let raise to double the size. Bake forty-five minutes in moderate oven. Nut Bread.—One egg, one cup gran- ulated sugar, one and one-half cups sweet milk, four cups flour, four large teasppons baking powder, one and one- quarter cups chopped nut meats and a pinch of salt. Pour to two baking pans, let stand fifteen minutes, then bake forty-five minutes in a slow oven, Tea Crumpets.—Put two well -beaten eggs in one quart of milk and as much flour as will make thein rather thick- er than batter pu {ding. Then make bake stave or griddle very hot and 1 grease it well; pour a large spoonful of batter so that it may run the size of a saucer. When ready to use, toast them crisp on both sides and butter them. Boiled potatoes are ever so much better if they are boiled gently, The sirmnering burner of the .gas range is just right for this, Test with a fork at the end of a half hour, and when mellow drain off the water, and if they must stand bofere serving place a cloth over them rather than a tin cov- er, Old potatoes with a strong flavor should be pared before boiling and soaked in cold water, For creamed potatoes use chopped, baked or boiled potatoes. When these are mixed with the ingredients for the cream sauce., set the saucepan over the simmering burlier upon an asbestos mat, This slow process will ensure a delicious creamy mixture. Kitchen Knowledge. , Corn starch, arrow rout or tapioca may be. used to thicken cream soups, Oranges, banana:: and figs cut up to- gether' make a very delicious dessert, Winter fruits that need cooling are most wholesome cooked without sugar. Thin colii beef served with potato salad and brown bread is a good sup- per. When making pudding soak the bread or cake in cold milk; it makes it light. Hot milk causes heaviness. Eggs, fruit and whale -wheat bread make a perfect .early breakfast for El business man.When mixing- fruit or nuts in a cake, they should be addled before the flour. They will then be evenly dis- tributed, Dates are so nutritious and can be cooked in so many different ways, it is surprising they are not more general- ly used. Five' cents worth of tartar emetic mixed with an equel amount of sugar, moistened and placed where the ants are, will drive them away. It is a very wise plan to put sheets of newspaper under bedding and ear - pets, and in frosty weather to tie them around water pipes to prevent bursting. When the spring of a window shade is run down, it is a good idea to wind it up with a button hook—putting tne hook •around the small metal enol which is to be turner, Beets are much better and sweeter baked than boiled. They should be put in the oven in a baking pan and turned frequently, then when tender served with olive oil and lemon juice. Shoulder of pork is delicious when stuffed. Buy a nice fresh shoulder; have the butcher bone it, then stuff it. Sew it up tight, roll it in a cloth and boil it two hours. Then remove the cloth from it, put it in an iron baking pan and bake it two hours, BUILD MERCHANT ARMADA. Britain Will Construct Vast Fleet of Mercantile Shipping. The creation of a mighty armada of British mercantile shipping within six months after the end of the war was prophesied by a high naval authority ie a statement made in London re- cently, Facilities for shipbuilding in Great Britain, it is asserted, have been so greatly augumented during the war that British yards can easily outdistance all German competition.ne "Once o' effort•is concentrated on merchant shipping," this official said, "it will be possible to build vessels in less than ninety days, and perhaps faster, if they are standardized ships. Even with -o much labor diverted to war purposes we have been able to construct 9,000 -ton liners in three months' time. "The stimulus to shipbuilders work - ng under war pressure and on war.vessels will continue when it comes to building merchantmen, for the men will accept the challenge of. the Ger- mans. Never in her history has Bri- tain had at her disposal such a highly efficient and large body of shipbuild- ers as she will have when the war closes. We can view the future with equanimity, regardless of German pre- dictions." Suitable Accompaniments to Meats. Roast beef—Tomato sauce, grated horseradish, cranberry sauce, pickles. Roast pork—Apple sauce. Roast veal—Tomato, mushroom and onion sauce. Roast lamb—Mint sauce, Roast turkey—Cranberry sauce, currant jelly. Boiled fowl—Bread sauce, onion. aauce, lemon sauce, jellies. Roast mutton—Caper sauce. Goose or duck—Cranberry sauce, jellies, apples save,. WAR FOOD FLOWER BEDS. Convalescent Homes Plant Gardens in Potatoes. o s. Sir Alfred Mond, the First Commis - loner of Works, London, England, is etting an example to local authorities n dealing promptly with food produc- ion in parks and open spaces. With the,ICing's approval he has given in- tructions for the grounds of the Con- valescent Home for Officers of the Navy and Army, at Osborne, Isle of Wight, to be planted with potatoes, Before the war those portions of the grounds open to the public, not- ably the Swiss Cottage gardens, were a blaze of colo'' all the summer. Very little gardening has been done since, but the decision of the First Coin- missioner of Works cannot fail to be an object -lesson in the use of idle ground. Worcester Cathedral sehoolliays during the Christmas holidays dug up the Cathedral close, an acre -plot, whose ancient elms were blown down last year. Some folks don't know the value of money and others over -value it Boiled mackerel—Stewed goose- berries. s Boiled bluefish—Cronin' 00 lemon sauce. Boiled salad—Mushroom sauce, par- sley or egg sauce. Fresh salmon—Green peas and cream sauce. Boiled halibut—Egg sauce. Time and Heat in Cooking. Roasts of meat should be put in a vory hot oven and the heat reduced in fifteen minutes. The usual allowance of time for a Medium rare roast is fifteen minutes for every pound of meat, The length of thne required for baking potatoes depends on the sike of the tubers, but 111 average time for fairly large potatoes is .forty-five min- 0005, General Nivelle—of Verdun—France's New Generalissimo. "I leave you after a splendid clay, We have once more teeter' our methods, and the result le conclusive. Once more the Second Army has shown its moral and material supremacy over the enemy. Victory is cer- tain, I give you my word on that, as Germany will learn to her cost," With those ringing words, General Nivelle bade adieu to his staff at Ver- dun, on leaving •to take up the post of French Generalissimo en the western front He cleared the outworks of Verdun of the enemy by his October victory at Douaumont-Vaux. His hist act was to witness the magnificent victory between the Meuse and the Woevre of. December 15, He planned the coup; Generale Petain and Mangin carried it out under his eyes. General Robert Nivelle is in blood half an Englishman. His mother Was the daughter of one of Wellington's officers; and other English corrections were Elisabeth Carter, Dr: Johnson's friend, and a grandfather, the cele- brated writer, George Sale, translator of the Koran. ROADS IN CUIINA, Made So Narrow That Vehicles Cannot Pass. Every Chinese road is a forced contribution on the part of individual Chinamen to the public welfare. But nothing on earth is of so little interest to a Chinaman as public welfare. That he should be compelled to make any contribution to it is extremely galling to him. Add to that the fact that the road is made across bis land is still counted as part of his land when it canes to paying taxes, and you may form some idea of the re- luctance with which the Chinese land- owner gives up his portion of the public highway. The very sight of neighbors and strangers making use of that strip of land brings the bit- terest resentment to his bosom. Ian order to lose as little soil as pos- sible, he puts the road at the end of his field, where the adjoining owner must share one half of the public donation with him, But Ms neigh- bor's land may not be of the same length as his, so that the two pieces of road do not fit together well. Chinese highways have a wonderful tendency to zig zag, The road is the exact width of the Chinese vehicle. It is true that carts must meet somewhere, but for such inevitable meetings no provision is made; in such case the drivers must turn out on the planted field. To prevent that, the owner has cut a ditch alongside the road, as deep and as steep as a gas -main ditch in our cities, The driver on the toad can neither turnout for the driver he meets; nor can lie pass under or over him. Jest how the two will pass is one of the many Chinese puzzles, which the landowner does not think that it is his business to work out. Constant travel over this narrow road causes dust, which is -.blown across the near -by fields, and tramples the surface of the way down hard, Both causes lower the road percepti- bly. As soon as the rains begin and the land has received its all of water, the remaining moisture seeks the lowest level—which is the road. But one road is still lower than an- other, so that the water flows in the direction of the lower "highways." The higher roads form creeks, and the lower ones collect the watery into lakes. In any case, travel is out of the question during the rainy reason. The action of the flowing water is not favorable to the roadbed. The water tears away the looser soil and cuts great gaps in the path. Gradual- ly the roadbeds become well-nigh im- passable. The farm • doos en oo, not trouble him- self about the uneven road; he Is con- cerned with his field. In case some soil has been carried away by the water, he digs into the roach and throws whatever soil he can get back into his field, It sometimes happens that a road is lowered as much as one foot during a single year. Next year's rains will well( still worse havoc; but why should the farmer worry? Public welfare ie canceen ed, not lie. If folks wish to travel by a better road, they may look for one. The obvious suggestion that roads be built higher thar the fields fails on deaf ears. One faniei could not do it by himself. To find two fm'mers agteeitig on this one issue would be too much to expect in Chinaa. As for the traveling public, not one of them would raise ft finger to encourage or assist the farmer; that would help too many other people The municipal government en its part has enough to do keeping the imperial highway in order; rural roads are none of its con- cern. Should the Chinese villager cunie to see some day that the welfare of the many is the welfare also ..l' the few, and that service is worth while accord- ing to the benefit it affords, these troubles will doubtless have an end. Meanwhile, traveling in the "and of Confucius is, not a pleasure, but a penance. GROW FOOD IN SCHOOL PLOTS. Minister of Education Urges the Cul- tivation of Garden Space. That the value of Ontario's food production could be increased by $10,- 000,000 by proper cultivation of gar- den plots and vacant land in urban municipalities of from one to nine thousand population, is the statement Hon. Dr. Pyne is making to school teachers and inspectors in an endeavor to "speed up" food production in the province next year. The Minister has issued instructions to teachers of agriculture and horti- culture in the schools to devote their attention to practical food growing next Summer, increasing the space de- voted to plants of food value and lim- iting that given to flowers. "With the same object in view the home garden projects should be en- larged and extensive use made of va- cant lots and other unoccupied) areas in order to take advantage of the po- tential labor of boys and girls from eight to sixteen, much of which in the ordinary course of events is not utilized," says the Minister. The in- spectors are urged to enlarge the scope of agricultural education and to induce school boards that have not established classes in agriculture to undertake the work, and so utilize school and hone garden space. What Belgium Slants. At a meeting held at Paris in Jane- 1 ery to protest against enemy deport- t ation of Belgian workmen a 11. Varde•- vekle of the Belgian Cabinet, himself 0 a Socialist, read from a. manifesto is- sued by his countrymen, the victims' of German slavery, as follows: "What- t ever be our tortures wo want peace ; •only with the. independence of our' country and the triumph of justice."; It is as natural for normal iridinulu- e ahs to applaud this heroic stand a5 it; is to condemn, even impatiently, the agitators for peace who afford the t secret agents of dastardly enemy in- I g trlgues a golden opportunity for ser-; f vice, 1 FOX-HUNTINGrg ] IN ENGLAND FAMOUS BRITISH SPOIt'l' MAY PERISH Alc'1'Elt THE WAR. Many Prominent Hunting Men Are Among the Fallen on Europe's Battlefields. Fox-hunting circles in England are reported by' the London Daily Tele- graph to he seriously disturbed over the prospects for their sport after the war'. They are now trying to combat a movement which, if successful, would exterminate all existing foxes, and would thus absolutely destroy the sport. In time of peace fox-hunting has always been held in contempt by nt certain portion of the community, It hes been denounced as cruel to foxes, as the sport of the wealthy, as a detriment to agriculture, and as a sinful waste of money. Now, in time of war, the attacks have redoubled, and the champions of. the great Eng- lish outdoor sport fear that the re- formers may he able to destroy it ab- solutely. It cannot be said that fox- hunting Is keeping eligible men out of the army. No class rushed with greater determination to arms than the sporting 'community in England, nor the country gentlemen and their families. Now that there is conscrip- tion, no man who is qualified to serve can remain at !tome to chase the fox, It Is urged, however, that there are hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the British Isles which are re- served for fox-hunting which ought to be used for the production of food, though, as the hunting takes place only in the Fall and Winter, it is not plain how it interferes with agricul- ture. Hunting and War. In defence of their sport the mas- ters who have remained at home be- cause.they are too old to go to the front or because the nation has de- ckled that they are more useful on the north side of. the English Channel, have been compelled to point out what a great part in the war hunting men have filled. Up to the present cavalry has not played a very import- g ant part in the fighting along the b Western front, although there are ex- oeptions to this rule, and in the Mons d retreat the cavalry did work that will t never be forgotten. But if it is ad- e nutted that cavalry is likely to prove important in this war or in future wars it is not to be denied that in the production of cavalry horses the sport of fox-hunting has had a leading role. The ideal hunter is the ideal charger, 1 and that is as true to -day as it was in the days of Charles O'Malley. Sport Makes Good Soldiers. The sport, however, is one that c makes demands upon those qualities sf of manhood that are likely to be most valuable in time of war. A man can- not follow the hounds without having plenty of nerve. Often the coldest kind of courage is needed, Quick thinking is stimulated. Riders get "an eye for country" which would be invaluable for a leader of mounted troops; and if it were not for the hunting there would not be nearly so 0 many men who are at home on horse- 11 back. The sport conduces to physical hardihood and to longevity. Mr, W. $ de Salis Filgate was master of the Louth hounds for more than fifty n1 years, and in that time he slid not miss in len Palmer, killed in action, was a M. F,1•I„ of the Gattistock, and Captain M. K. L. Loyd, who hunted the 'Lam - erten }mends, was eisa ]tilled in the war. Brig. -General, the Earl of Lang- ford, one of the heroes of the Galli- poli expedition, hunted the Westmeath hounds. He was for a long time re- ported wounded and missing, but is now listed with the dead. A famous hunting man and poloist who died in the Egyptian campaign was Major Leslie Cheap. Staggering Blow to Sport. Lieut. -Col. Harold Brnssey, another noted polo player and devoted hunter, is among the fallen, as Is Colonel R. J. Carden, Mr, Cecil Audio, noted art- ist and master' of the South Berko, has lost his only son at the front. Mid- shipman Eden, Lieut, ,I, Twinbarrow and LIeut. 11. Assheton Biddulph were all the sons of masters of hounds. All have been killed, and the Tele- graph compiles a list of many noted hunting men who were early in the field and first among the fallen, Sev- eral hunt secretaries have been killed, and it is no exaggeration to say that there is not a hunt in England or Ireland that has not mourned many members killed in action, died of wounds or so disabbsl that never again will they be able to take their old places. The sport has suffered not only arum the loss of leaders and prominent supporters in aetlon, but from the death of veteran masters, whose places because of the war are not likely to be filled, Even the wo- men are working for their country. Therefore, the great old sport is left naked to its enemies, If the war should result in the destruction of fox-hunting, there can he no doubt that a great many thousands of fine old English gentlemen and their fami- lies will continue to cherish for Ger- many a hatred, passing the hatred of women, as long as they live, GRAVES OF SOLDIERS. Prince of Wales Speaks at Meeting of Committee on This Work. The Prince of Wales attended a meeting in London recently of the committee for the care of soldiers' graves at which there were present Sir Geo. Periey and other representa- tives of the Dominion. The Prince mentioned that 150,001) graves were now registered, "Over', 0 of 400 burial grounds have already! een laid out under advice of the Director of the Royal Botanic Gar-. ens. I have seen how beautiful hese cemeteries look when the flow-' rs are out, It is especially gratify- ing to me to know my visit from the ! front should coincide with the first attendance of this committee of re -h presentatives of the Dominion Gov- ernments. As the army in the field s now an Imperial army, so this cum- , mittee should be an Imperial coo- ittee, entrusted by the Empire with the task of fittingly and enduringly Is ommemorating the common sacrifice the hest blood of the generation, a acrifiee which forms one of the ! t sacred links of the Empire." The committee subsequently eon -;t sidered the questions of marking the !o graves of the Dominion soldiers who ; e died in England. Ig Hick's Share Doubtful. re Grippe in Children, During an opidemie of grippe a great number of children are sure to be among the sufferers; for they are constantly exposed to infection in schools. It would be a good thing If eases of grippe were quarantined) like those of scarlet fever; the habit of regarding ft as at comparatively trifl- ing malady from which there is no es- cape, once an epidemic has started, le unfortunate, *a Children of all ages—not even ex- cepting nursing infants-.-•aulyer from grippe, and the symptoms are often as severe as they are in adults. 10 ie certainly worth while to take all pains to keep the sick away from the well, and to see that young children are not taken into overheated or over -crowd- ed places or exposed to prolonged cold, Grippe is probably taken by breathe ing in infected ah' and therefore very cold outdoor air is more healthful than the stagnant, contaminated air of our !rouses. At the same time, many peo- ple carry the theories about "harden- ing" their children too far. They keep them outdoers, often insufficient- ly clothed, until they are thoroughly chilled, and their vitality is so much lowered that they fall victims to the first germ that comes their way: Brisk play in frosty weather is a tonic for all children, but there are days in our winter climate when children aro better off in a well -ventilated play room than outdoors. An interesting experiment waa3 made in one hospital during a grippe epid- emic. Generally every child will take the grippe, once it has got a foot -hold in a hospital ward; but in thus case a double wall of gauze was pmt up be- tween the different beds, and no drafts strong enough to carry the germs from one bed to another were permitted. Although the same nurses took charge of all the children, most of the chil- dren escaped the disease. Special care should bo taken to pro- tect very young babies from the grip pe, for it usually goes hard with them. If a nursing mother is suffering from an attack, she should be careful not to breathe or cough over the baby, and should hold a handkerchief before her face whenever the baby nurses. Many children suffer from a persist- ent cough and rise of temperature whenever they have grippe, and those symptoms last until warm weather tomes. They should be strengthened by tonics and given a change of air, i£ that is practicable:—Youth's Compan- ion, Winter Diseases. This is the season of the year when uclr respiratory diseases as pneu- monia, grippe, bronchitis and tonsiittis, lam their greatest toll. Chief on he list is pneumonia, which in. the Winter months causes more deaths han tuberculosis. Grippe is also seri- us both in its immediate and remote ffects. Much can be done to avoid this roup of diseases. Avoid overheated rooms with their ry devitalizing atmosphere. Don't sleep in warm air, open the indows. Get sufficient outdoor exercise; don't uddle yourself in the house. Avoid wet feet, wear rubbers on wet ays. Wear sufficient warm clothes, but on't overdress. If you have been unavuida.bly chilled y undue exposure or have gotten your et wet, a hot bath and a hot drink, refer•ably. hot milk. Don't neglect any cold. If you get grippe, relax at once, re- sin at home in bed in a uniform mperature, until your doctor as - lees you that you may safely go out. he after effects of grippe are not in- oquently disastrous. Avoid crowds. One grippe suffer - sneezing and coughing in a crowded all has the ability to infect many of e occupants of the hall. xtent of Greater London Sixty Years From To -day. There is something almost breath - king in the statement by Mr. Arthur ow, in a lecture to the London So- ty, that, in loss than sixty years— at is, during the lifetime of not a w of our readers—London will have population of twenty millions. A cetrtury ago England's capital Id, roughly, a million people. To -day e counts three million more inhabit- ts than the whole of England held en Elizabeth reigned, There are actually more people In e Greater London of 1914 than in other' and Wales combined; a mil- li and a hair more than in the whole Australia; with New Zealand •own in, and three times us many in Norway. According to Mr, Crow, such as - aiding figures will seem almost con - Two Irishmen were one day going; d ver a bridge and saw the following' otice: I w "Any person saving a life will get 5, and for a dead body $2.50," lc Said Mick to Pat: "We ought to a single day they were out, either cub- bing or regular hunting, and be never altered a meet for his own conveni- ence. Many simnel. instances might ae quoted if it were neeessory, but hat fox -Minting has the advantages mentioned is not denied by talose who pilose the sport. How Are the Mighty Fallen! A notable list might be compiled of he prominent hunting men, masters nd others, who have fallen in the present war. The Earl of Faversham, who fell last September, not only fill- s a large place in public affairs, but was master of the Sinnington hunt in Yorkshire. Lorca Lucas was an en- husiastic fax bunter, as well as a teat authority upon agriculture. He ell on the field of honor, Sir Robert 'ilmer, who died of wounds several onths ago, was formerly master of he Blankney, and that he treasured emery of his early days •is proved by he fact that he left $2,500 to the {clow oC hue former lnntsman. Mu - or ',alienator, who was killed last lay, also left a bequest to the Hunt ervants' Benefit Soeiety. Major Al - !in Don't save all your smiles for the! t parlor --use a few in the kitchen; t m t w, No num has 0 right to expect his j wife to be a good could unless be is n that kind -of a provider', 1 g ake some money out of this," d "Three for ye," said Pat, "You fall d the water, and I will pull yoe out." "All right," said Mick, and he drop- b ped over the bridge. Pat, after trying some three or four! fe times to get Mick out, was arrested' p by a voice from the water, calling out: "Sedad, if you don't look sharp, we! m shall only get $2.50." to s According to the German papers a fr new regulation has been issued in re-' gard to old boots and clothing. Pot' er the year 1917 only two pairs of so - h called "shoes de luxe" will be allow- - th ed each ,person in return for cast-ofi' but stili wearable pairs. The utiliza- tion of cast-off clothing is entrusted to communities which will have a - anonopoly of purchase of the articles. E The exchange of old for new articles will be carried out on the ticket sys- tem, the number and character of the to changes allowed each person being to Cr regulated by appropriate ticket. ci, '1Vumee may live longer flax, men,, tin but, as 0 rule, they don't live quite fe as ntuclt, a New Regulation. LONDON IN 1977. he sh an wh tin Se Ifo of tin 115 tr temptable to limn" T.,ntndoner of 1977e when the population of 01)1' capnat• will be greater than that of the Brit- ish Isles in the year of Waterloo, and when her people will outnumber those • of five European countries to -clay -- j Ilollsud, Denmark, Norway, 5weclon, turd aieekeerland _.combined, The London of dist.t pays Will spread over an minas more than i'otir':' times ams large as the county ea Middlesex.