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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-10-11, Page 2. h, Yet Cle,an. and elica ee. Full (A Arom is blended Erma selected ]tach -grown teas, famed for their fine €flavoury qualities. Imitated yet never equalled. Author of "All for a Scrap or Paper;""Dearer Thar, Life," etc, Published by ',o ',Wader & Staughton, Limited. London and Toronto CHAPTER V.—(Oont'd,) "Yes, I have stopped two bullets, one in the foot and another in the shoulder, but I quickly got over it, I have been wonderfully lucky, You will get used to it after a look seem a plucky chap; you don'to like the sort that runs away. Although, mind you, I have seen plucky chaps hook it." "No, I'ni not plucky," said Tome "but I dont think I would run away" "Wait till the shrapnel is falling around you; wait till great pieces of jagged shell mow men down on your right and on your left. Still we have stuck so far, and we must stick to the end. Still, from a military standpoint," and here the sergeant spoke judicially, "our holding Wipers is a bad policy. You see, it's a sali- ent and the Germans' guns are all around ns; but if we made a straight line we should give them Wipers, and that would have a bad effect Just look in here," and he pointed to a house, the front of which was com- pletely blown away, but the rest of which remained comparatively intact. "There's the room just as those poor blighters of Belgians left it," continu- ed the sergeant. "See the baby's shoes, and the kiddy's dress? There are one or tura pictures on the wall, not of much value, or those blooming souvenir -hunters would have got 'ern." "Do you think we shall lick 'em ?" asked Tom. "Lick 'em! Of course we shall," said the sergeant, who had served nearly twenty years in the Army. "Mind you, it will be no easy job. Up to now they have had the upper hand of us, both in men and munitions; but we are gaining on 'em now. What I can't stand is those blooming swipes, those shirkers who sit at home and who call themselves men. I tell This road was constantly swept- by the I'm for conscription out and out. German machine guns. Presently,, is no job to be played with; if we don't when they came to a house used as a; put forth our strength we can't beat first dressing station close to the be-; 'em, But just think of those swine, ginning of the communication trench,' who read the papers and talk about Tom felt his heart grow cold. Still, beating the Germans, who strut about with set teeth, and a hard look in his with their patent -leather boots and eyes, he groped his way along the fine clothes, and try to make out that trench, through Piccadilly, and Hay - they are gentlemen, but who won't market, and Bond Street; and White -I face the music; that's what sickens hall (for in this manner do the' me, Who are we fighting' for, I soldiers name the various parts of the should like to know? We are fightihng zigzag cuttings through the clay); • for them; and for our women, and for while all the time he could hear the the country. They think they can pep, pep, pep, pep of the machine DOMESTIC SCIENCE AJ HOW Thirteenth Les enn -Bread: thirty-five to fbety minutes for med- iunr-sized loaves, Weighing about six- teen to eighteen ounces before baking; from forty to sixty minutes for loaves weighing from eighteen to twenty-six ounces. Shortening is used to make the bread renderand.to neutralize the aeid in the flour; it also furnishes fat to the food value of the bread, Two methods are employed for tine making of bread, 1''irst, the sponge method. This calls for a sponge of light batter. The mixture is set to rise and then the re- mainder of the flour, salt and shorten- ing is added. The dough is then work- ed for fifteen minutes. •After this it is allowed to rise for the second time, Now it is molded into loaves, given a short proof and then baked. Second, the straight dough method. hi using this method the salt, shorten- ing, sugar and flour are mixed with the liquid and yeast into a stiff dough that can be worked without sticking to the hands. This method is quicker, because it is possible to have the bread finished in about four and three-quar- ters hours. This method gives very When making bread usa a thermo- meter and scale for accuracy, so that you will have a positive knowledge of how and what you are doing. Modern inventors have made It possible for the baker to manufacture bread of a uniform. quality. The housewife's lack of knowledge of this most important part of the home cooking has resulted in the nu- merous lenge baking plants that are a feature of all large cities. Theory has caused many failures; few women really understand the underlying principles of fermentation. History tells us that the Egyptians were probably the originators of bread. The following fable illustrates the dis- covery, of the method of converting grain into bread.. The story goes that a slave, while grinding the grain one day between two stones, a sudden shower wet the "Wait till you have seen it, my lack" meal. The slave fled from the storm, replied the sergeant, forgetting in his haste about the meal. For some weeks Tom was in the When the storm was over and the sun neighborhood of Ypres without talc- had come out he returned to his grind- ing any part in the fighting. Dur- ing, IIe found that the sodden mass ing that time he got accustomed to that was the grain before the storm the constant booming of the guns, and had come was now a dry hard calve to the fact that any moment: a shell This was the first production of un- satisfactory results. ilk might fall near him and blow him into leavened' bread. Milk, part water and part milk, or eternity. On more than one occasion,' Modern breadmaking dates back all water may be used in malting too, ho roamed around the ruins of from the Romans, who derived the art bread. One medium-sized pbt'eto Ypres; and while he could not be called from their Greek and Egyptian cap- may be added when the water is used. an imaginable lad, he cold not help be- tires of war. Historians state that Milk increases the food value of the ing impressed by the ghastly desola- the Romans made unleavened bread in bread. The milk must alway tion of this one-time beautiful city. 200 B. C. ' scalded and cooled before using. In many of the streets not one stone In many portions el the Old World' The Sponge Method. was left upon another, not one of the this style of bread is still made. In Sift the flour and then set it in a inhabitants who had formerly lived this country unleavened bread is made place where it will have a temperature there remained; all had fled; it was in- into biscuits and crackers, sometimes of 80 degrees. Now to prepare the deed a city of the dead. To Tom the called beaten biscuit. It depends sponge. Heat the utensil in which ruins of the great Cloth Hall and the upon the amount of air that is beaten the sponge is to be made by filling it Cathedral were not the most terrible; or incorporated into the dough to give with hot-water. Let the water stand what appealed to him most were the it its lightness, nn the utensil until it is heated thor- empty houses in which things were Flour. ! oughly; then empty out the water and left by the panic-stricken people. A knowledge of flour is necessary dry the vessel. Bedsteads twisted into shapeless for successful baking. There are two: Then place in a bowl three cupfuls masses; clothes half burnt; remnants distinct kinds. One is known as of liquid, testing it with a thermo- of pieces of cloth which tradesmen had spring and the other as winter wheat. meter to see if it is exactly 80 degrees been in the act of cutting and stitch- Spring wheat flour contains the larg- Fahrenheit. Crumble in the yeast ing; children's toys, and thousands of est percentage of gluten. This spring cake and acid two tablespoonfuls of other things which suggested to the,wheat is ground into two dirtrnct sugar and three cupfuls of sifted flour. boy the life the people had been living,' varieties, known as soft spring wheat, Beat with a spoon for five minutes. Not a bird sang, not even a street dog and hard spring wheat. Cover and set in a place free from all roamed amidst the shapeless- desola-I Winter wheat is divided into two draft for one and one-half hours, tion; the ghastly horror of it all pos-; varieties similar to that of the spring Then add six cupfuls of flour, one and sessed him. Great gaping holes in, wheat flour, namely, red winter flour, one-Isalf tablespoonfuls of shortening the old ramparts of the city; trees, which is the hard winter wheat flour,' and two teaspoonfuls of sa:,. torn up by their roots and scorched' and the soft winter wheat flour, The Knead for fifteen minutes, then put by deadly fire: this was Ypres, not de-' last-named flour contains a large per- the dough in a greased bowl; now turn stroyed by the necessities of war, but. centage of starch. It is used for it over, This will grease the dough by pure devilry. I pastry and cakes, ' andprevent it forming a crust while At last Tom's turn came to go up to; To get successful results the flour and . Cover and let rice for two the front trenches. It was with a,must be blended, The fancy patent hoy prepared for all-aroend family urs. strange feeling at heart that he, with flouothers, crept along the pave rend to-' rs _ that are on the market are es- Mold into loaves, place in well s o •eased an and set away to rise for had to bo very careful, because this; Pastry flour' or soft winter wheat one hour. At the end of this time • ward the communication trench They baking purposes s ' bake the loaves in an oven registerin flour, will not naive good bread, ten 825 degrees Fahrenheit for forty-five in to the low percentage- of gluten The flour should be kept or stored in a minutes, room that averages about 70 degrees Use a scale when ready to mold the Fahrenheit and in a container that loaves. Weigh twenty ounces to each may be kept closed and away from all loaf. Divide the balance of the dough foods that have a strong odor. For into rolls, weighing two ounces each. successful results the !tome baker This recipe will make two loaves of bread, weighing, after baking, about seventeen and one-half ounces apiece, and ten rolls. • Straight Dough Method. Two cupfuls of water, 80 degrees Fahrenheit, one and one-half table- nfuls of sugar, one and one-half g must have: Good flour of a reliable brand. Good, active fermentation. Yeast food. The proper amount of salt. The proper temperature. The proper manipulation. spoo stop at home and criticise, and then guns, and the shrieking of the shells. The proper baking. when we have done the work. share There was no romance in war now, When starting to make bread select the benefits. Great God!"—and here it was a grim, ghastly reality. After a reliable brand of flour. Store it en the sergeant indulged in some un- following the lines 01 the trenches for a proper container in a place that has printable language—"I would like to well-nigh an hour he was informed the right temperature. Sift the flour get hold of them." that he had now reached the front before using. The use of. compressed "Isn't it dangerous here?" asked line and was within a hundred or a Yeast eliminates all doubt and uncer- Tom, as another shrieking shell pass- hundred and fifty yards of the Huns, tainty of the old style liquid and dry ed over their heads. For the moment there was a compara- yeast, "Not just now,' replied the other; tive quiet, Orly occasionally did he For successful results it is necessary "their shells are falling on the other hear the sound of a gun, while the to supply the yeast with a food for side of the town. Of course," he ad -I shrieking of the shells was less fre- active development. This food is not ded casually, "they may fall here any'quent. Danger seemed very far found in the flour, therefore it must moment." I away; he was in a deep hole in the be supplied. The food necessary for "I asked you just now," said Tom, ground, and above the earthworks the active development of the yeast is "whether lies the carbon "Yyouhated d,"lrepli del thes ser-;couldheeat hehut? of Themenwhom his which is a ns. How sugar. ecessaar ry principle of the geant, "and I went off on another company was sent to relieve seemed process of fermentation. track. Hate 'em 7 Well, it's this' in high good spirits too, they laughed Salt is added to the bread for two way. At the beginning I don't know i and talked and bandied jokes. "There purposes—first, to flavor the bread h and make it palatable, and also to supply one of the mineral elements es- sential s -e ntial to the human body. Second, to control the process of fermentation. If too little salt is used the bread will lack flavor and be of a coarse, rough texture, while if too much is used the action of the yeast 'will be retarded Have Confidence in Yourself and Do and the bread will show a loss of Not Lean Upon Others. volume. Power Is the goal of every worthy for Teimn peraturesuccessful is breach- the comakntrollinging. The ambition, and only weakness comes room in which the bread is made must be free from all drafts. The proper' temperature is 78 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and 80 degrees in winter. Use a thermometer and eliminate the guesswork. By this is meant that the dough, most be worked sufficiently by rolling and kneeling, if made by hand. If a , breadmixer is used the breach moat be. worked for the period of time as per instructions as supplied with th_ ma- chine, Time for hand manipulation is from fifteen to twenty minutes and from five to ten minutes when using the mixer, salting. The baking of the breath will require care. It must not be placed in an oven of uncertain temperature, then the door closed and the bread left to luck, The oven should register 326 degrees Fahrenheit when the bread is placed in it, The bread should be watched carefully and if the heat of the oven is not evenly distributed (that is, if one part of the break bakes faster than the Otho'), the bread must bf irioved or turned. Remember that while the oven re- gisters a high degree of heat, if you were to place athermometer in the center of the loaf of bread you would find that itrequires nearly fifteen min- utes for the heat to reach the center of the Clough to heat it to the boiling point or 212 degrees Fahrenheit. For this reason sufficient time must be for the interior of the bread to be well baked, The timo allowance shefold be from that I hated 'em so mut . Yes, what seems no danger here,' thought Tom, you call Belgian atrocities were hell- An hour passed and still all was com- ish; but 'twasn't that, and as long as paratively quiet. they fought fair that was all I cared (To be continued,) about. But when they got using that poisonous gas they came it a bit too strong. No, lad, I never hated 'em HOW TO WIN SUCCESS. till then. But when they used that stuff and laughed about it, ay, and laughed to see our poor chaps writh- ing in agony, I felt I must kill every German I saw. Of course, we've got over it now a bit, and we're all sup- plied with helmets, but when they from imitation or dependence an oth- used it first we had simply nothing to ers. Power is self developed, self gen- defend us. Yes I have done some erated. We cannot increase the rough bits of worst in my time, but I strength of our muscles by sitting in never met with anything like that. When you see your own pals getting a gymnasium and letting another exec - bluer and bluer in the face, and cough- else for us. ung and gasping, oh, I tell you it made Nothing else so destroys the power us mad! We didn't feel like showing to stand alone as the habit of leaning any mercy after that, Besides, they upon others. If you lean you will have no sense of fair play, the swipes, never be strong or original, Stand was in a scrap once, and after a alone or bury your ambition to be hard tussle, and after losing lots of somebody in the world. ;nen, a lot of Garmau> held up theirman who tries to give his chil- hands and shouted, We surrender, The Out officer a young chap new to the dren a start in the world so that they , ob, and knowing nothing of their will not have so hard a time as he ricks, instead of telling them to come had is unknowingly bringing disaster ricks, us, told us to go to them, they hold- upon them, What he calls giving thein ing up their hands all the time; but a start will probably give them a set - no sooner did we get near them than back 'in the world. Young people Head they up with their pistols and shot two of our chaps. They thought our officer was going to take it lying down, and when they were taken pris- oners they laughed and said ,every- thing was fair in war; but our young Officer saw red, and he said 'No my 'lads, yeu are going to kingdom come.' 'What! shrieked those German, swine, 'drill you kill men after they have sur- endered?' 'You are not men,' said e, lieutenant; 'men don't shoot after e ve surrendered -'yon! Y' Y Germans ..n otha t "Andthen?" asked Tom, "then--" "Ah well," replied the sergeant grimly, "there Were no questions ask- ed in the inoreing, "Great Goal" said Tom, "what a ghastly thing war isi" all the motive power they can get. They aro naturally loaners, imitative, copiers, and it is easy for them to de- velop into echoes or imitations, They will not walk alone while you 'furnish crutches; they will lean upon you Just as long as you will let them. One of the greatest delusions that a human being could ever have is that permanently benefited he is o y by con- p tinned assistance from others. jr. your grain contains a large per- centnge of foreign material, clean it. It keeps better, Need low grades and screenings on the farm. tablespoonfuls of shortening, one and ore -half teaspoonfuls , of salt. Mix well, Crumble in one yeast cake, stir until dissolved; now add six cupfuls of flour. Work to dough and then knead well for fifteen minutes. It must now be smooth and elastic. Put in a greased bowl and set to rise in a place free from all drafts, with a tem- perature of 80 degrees Fohrenheit for three hours. At the end of this time mold into two loaves. Put in greased pans and let rise again for fifty minutes. Now, bake in an oven of 825 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty- five minutes. This amount of dough makes two loaves of bread, that will average about fourteen ounces apiece, or one loaf and eight rolls, weighing two ounces each., Points to Remember. Use good flour. Sift -.he flour. Scald- and cool all mills or water used in making bread. The temperature for success must be 78 degrees in summer and 80 de- grees in winter; also the room must be free from all drafts. Thorough manipulation, Follow the recipe closely. Remem- ber that judgment must be used, It -is impossible to gauge the accurate amount of flour to any given amount of liquor. Flours vary in the amount of moisture they absorb; for this rea- son it • easily will be seen that one brand of flour will require a little more or r little less moisture than another, When the -amount of liquid is known, it is a very easy matter to 'withhold one or two tablespoonfuls of flour or to add the same amount, The yeast must be fresh. By this is meant that it must have good color, a pleasant yeasty odor and be firm to the touch. The compressed yeast is the best kind to use. Brush the top of the loaves of bread, when taken from the oven, with melt- ed butter. Place a pan of boiling water on the floor of the gas oven while the bread is baking. Use a thermometer first, last and al- ways. Don't guess at your work. Know what you are doing, This is the baker's greatest tool, ile takes no chances; he knows, and in knowing lies the secret of his success. Any thermometer will do that will register from' the freezing point to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, , when preparing the brea d , but do not use this thermometer in the oven. A regular oven thermometer can be purchased at a very reasonable price, It will save. its cost in three months. The assurance that the oven temperature is of the right degree conveys to you a peace of mind that is above money valve. 43'4 It is hard to break , the, chains of habit. .Xt took one man six months to stop saying "Gee Whiz." - Perhaps habit has kept you ordering " the same tea as before " when you had intended to buy Red Rose. This will be a - reminder. So next time you Will order Red Rose. You will be pleased, we are sure. Kept Good by the Sealed Package r 6' ca 4ia4 LONG-LIVkD SEEDS Some Have Germiiiated After a Century Has Gone By There are few questions more hotly argued by gardeners than the life of seeds. Some people are prepared to swear that wheat ant pea seeds taken from mummy cases thousands .of years old have germinated.' On the other hand, scientific farmers will assure you that the seed of wheat loses its life within, at most, ten years. A good deal of evidence undoubted- ly exists to support the theory that many seeds are exceedingly long-lived. Some years ago a grass lawn at.Oulm-' stock, in Devonshire, was broken ups' and turned into a risery. The follow- ing spring the whole of the ground was - covered with most exquisite pansies! , This lawn had not been dis- turbed for fully a century, and no pansy seed had been sown anywhere near. In any case, the pansies that have come up did not resemble those in any neighboring garden. The only possible solution seems to be that the seed had lain buried in the ground, awaiting its chance to germinate. The longest known survival of any seed is that of a certain Egyptian lily, A dried seed -pot kept in the South Kensington Museum contained seed which was tested a.nd found to grow after a period of ninety-five years. Melon seed has grown after being kept for forty years. Turnips will last eight or ten years. It is assert- ed that haricot beans have germinated after lying by .for a century. Mary: 'Has your sweetheart been ordered to camp?" 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Donald Hankey, the Englishman. who wrote so franlsiy and interestingly of the soldier's cucperl- encos ,at the front in "A Student in Arms," considers this matter in hie now volume, "A Student in Arms, Second Series." Mr. ilanlcey spent nearly the whole of two years et the front, in the trenches and In the sup- • Porting lines, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme. He says: Tho fact is that at the moment of a charge men are in an absolutely ab- normal condition. Their emotions seem to be numbed. Noises, sights, and sensations Which would ordinarily produce intense pity, horror, or dread have no effect upon them at all, and yet never was the mind clearer, the - senses more aoute. It is before an attack that a man is more liable to fear. Of all the h6urs of dismay that come to a soldier there are few more trying to the nerves than when ho is sitting in a trench un- der heavy lire from high -explosive shells or bombs from trench mortars - ',you can watch these bombs lobbed up, hto the air. You see them slowly wobble down to earth, there to ex -- pleas with a terrific detonation that sets every nerve in your body a -jang- ling. You can do nothing. You can- not retaliate in any way. - You simply Have to sit tight and hope for the best. Some men joke and smile, but their ' mirth is forced. Some feign stoical indifference, and sit with a paper and a pipe; but, as a rule, their pipes are i out and their reading a pretence. There are few men, indeed, whose hearts are not beating faster and whose nerves are not on edge,. Fear Rarely Obtains Mastery. But you -can't call this the fear of death. It is a purely physical reac- tion of danger and detonation. Per- sonally I believe that very few men, indeed, fear death. The vast majority experience a more or less violent physical shrinking from the pain of death and wounds, especially when they are -obliged to be physically in- ' active, and when they have nothing ' else to thinit"about. But this is a purely physical reaction which can be, and nearly ,always 1s, controlled by the mind. Last of all there is the re- pulsion and loathing for the whole business of war, with its bloody ruth- lessness, uthlessness, its fiendish ingenuity, and its insensate cruelty that comes to a man after a battle, when the tortured and dismembered dead lie strewn about the trench and the wounded groan from No -Man's -Land. But neither is that the fear of death. It is a repul- sion which breeds hot anger more of- ten than cold fear, reckless hatred of life more often than abject clinging to It. The cases where any sort of fear, even for a moment, obtains the mas- tery of a man. are very rare, EXPLODING A MYTH_ Revelations at Petrograd Cheapen Hindenburg's Vaunted Victories. The much -talked -of "Hindeniburg's strategy" has'proven to be a myth. In fact, the veriest novice in military af- fairs could have accomplished his greatest victory, which up till now has been referred to as the "miracle of the Massurian Lakes," in which 100,000 Russiahs were captured. This highly - vaunted victory looks cheap in the light of the astounding revelations from Petrograd, which show that c?er- man spies had obtained complete copies of all the plans for the Russian invasion of East Prussia. The testi- mony at the trial of Gen. Soukhomlin- ofi also showed that the Ministers and officials of the old Russian; Govern- ment were brought up in wholesale fashion, and conseceeeritly no great military skill, far less genius, was re- quired to achieve a victory over an army lighting under such conditions. The wonder is still that -the old Rus- sia was able to put up as good a de- fence as it actually did, particularly so when it is eonsiclered•that the en- tire army had been sold out by the Russian Chief of Staff. The revela- tions at Petrograd are only another proof of Germany's favorite system of warfare—that of spies and secretly= placed bombs. A Wisconsin farmer is the inventor of a simple brooder for keeping young pigs warm, heat being supplied by an ordinary hand lantern. Aro you a railroad employee? The Forest Fire is doing its best to thin out your en el e v op . Deserts pia tra'itor to freight and paseenger traf- fic, and Forest Fires aro the beedera of deserts. Forests when kept alive produce lumber mills, pulp and paper faetorics, busy towns, heavy tour(et traffic, job ...for evers'body. FlV$ thousand forest industries look to ypii to keep thou wood supplies fit for use.