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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-08-20, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942 TITT S GAFORTI N W$ PAGE THREE THE MIXING HOWL Ay ANNE ALLAN Hy** Now* etM.wIN JAM JARS CIN THE ASSEMBLY LINE Hello Homemakers! Now is the time when those who have fruit In their own gardens or who buy it in large quantities will be thinking Answe)'I Honey blas the tendency to take out the colour io these fruits and make them slightly tart, Exper- iments Prove that most reople pre- fer to substitute 1 cup honey for 1 cup of every four cups of sugar required, Mrs. S. 112, asks; "What wil 1 re- move stiolcy fly paper froiu a rug?„ Answer; Serape off as much as possible, rub with kerosene or car- bon tetrachloride, then sponge with a cloth wrung out ofwarm water. Mrs, J, B. says; "Jelly which was made from juice that had been divided and put into two kettles, about conserving it by making it turned cloudy from the liquid made into jam, You .can make use of the of the first batch, fully ripened fruit and put your jam Answer: Cloudiness may be due into odd jars without tops since to having cooked too long before you will be using the Inexpensive ' straining off the juice, and the light method of covering with melted wax. particles of skin would be floating in To lirepare the fruit, just pick the I the liquid made from the top liquid. Eruct over, then wash, it, Weigh the Stir liquid constantly while making sugar. To draw the juice out of the jelly on your electric range. berries, cover them with the sugar and allow to stand overnight. When heated in this sugar -juice mixture There Was Plenty until a syrup is formed and the ber- ries are hot through, they absorb the syrup and tend to 'plump up." That is what, you 'want. Then leave your of Punishment It is difficult for teachers of thig berries In the syrup to cool—to help generation to understand the tactics this process. The' mass can then 'be of those who taught 70 to 80 years cooked or slowly concentrated in an ago. Today the teacher goes to his electric oven set at a temperature first school after almost a year's of 250.275 degrees. training in •a normal school, where A quick method of making jam is all the difficulties of school manage - the following; Prepare fruit, 'weigh, Ment are discussed and the proper then crush with a wooden potato way of dealing with them explained, masher. Blueberries and hard bey-, having special care that the rights ries may be run through the food of the pupils are safeguarded.. In the chopper. A. short cooking with the old days the teacher was a law unto addition of a small quantity of himself and ofttimes the pupil came water—before the sugar is added—' out second best. helps extract the pectin from the! This was probably due to the con - fruit, Add sugar (% lb, to 1 lb. fruit,iditions under which the children or substitute 3 cups light corn syrup were taught. The small log school for two of the cups of sugar), stirring houses were crowded with pupils, into the boiling mixture and cooking !ranging from five years to .young until a good jelly test is obtained. If men and women. There were no the fruit does not contain pectin or blackboards and little equipment of acid, either may be added as in jelly any kind. Beyond the few school or preserves. books, slates and pencils brought by Commercial pectin directions are the children were theblue beech switches supplied by the teacher. It often happened that since blue beech was scarce the teacher had to stock up with ordinary white beech and maple switches. Some teachers used these instruments of punishment Wash 4lbs. plums and out in half, quite sparingly, while others cooled. removing pits. Break a few pits and I off their wild fits of exasperation at add kernels to the. fruit. Pour la.C9Pisome mischievous lad by using them water over every 1 ib.% plums and:very freely on the hands of the cul - heat slowly to boiling point. Cook ,prig gently for one half hour. Measure One, teacher in School Section No. easy to follow and this method saves both time and cost of fuel. RECIPES Damson Plum Jam (Requested) and add an equal •quantity of sugar. Eimer one hour and pour into' steril ized containers. Seal at once._ Ripe Gooseberry Jam 1 qt. ripe gooseberries, 3 cups sugar, 1 cup cold water. Wash gooseberries and remove stems and blossom ends. Add water and cook until skins are soft, Add sugar and cook ,rapidly until thick and clear. Pour into sterilized con- tainers and seal when cold, Pear Marmalade . To every pound of peeled and cored pears which have been sliced very thin add % pound of sugar, 3¢ ounce of green ginger root, scraped or grated, and half a large lemon. Place the pears in the preserving kettle in layers, sprinkling each with sugar, lemon juice and grated ginger root, Allow to stand 2 or 3 hours, then heat slowly to the boiling point. Cook until clear and thick, If prefer- red, the ginger root may be crushed and placed in a little bag which can be removed from the mixture before Pouring into glasses. TAKE A TIP 1. Because of the chemical .nature of honey, syrups tend to froth easily at boiling point; therefore use a large saucepan.• 2. Grass stains may be removed by rubbing in thick hot soappsuds. If a stain remains, bleach with *yells water or hydrogen per- oxide. If the material is not wash- able, sponge with wood alcohol. 3. Surface mildew may be removed with javelle water. Deeply grown mildew is almost impossible to remove. Try soaking garment in soured milk and spread on green grass out in the sun. If the mat- erial is not washable, apply potas- sium permanganate until mildew is removed and then apply oxalic acid. 9, Ashfield, Huron county, was noted for the severity of his punishments. He always continued them until the boys showed signs of crying. The lads knew this and they stood the or- deal well. One day a manly chap of 13 or 14 was called up for whipping. The teacher's switches were being smashed on the boy's hands but there was no whimpering on - his part. We were all counting the number of strokes, 20, 30, 40 andstill no tears. We were rejoicing in his powers to stand the punishment, 50 slaps were counted off and still no signs of giv- ing in, but at 54 the boy put one hand up to his face and the teacher was glad to stop, even if the lad was only pretending to cry. Another day soon after that a little colored chap of about the same age received 63 slaps before he pre- tended to shed tears. I saw both of these boys punished and, large pieces of the teacher's rods fly in all direc- tions as the spectacle went on and he had to reach for fresh ones from his supply. Another teacher in the Isle of Skye Section, on the 12th conces- sion did his work differently. He us- ed a flat sort of paddle or long, wide ruler, which he used in a different way. When he wished to punish a boy lie had a larger one bend over a seat. Then he placed the culprit on the other's back where he held him solidly while a third boy warmed the mischievous lad's "seat of honor" with a paddle. It was no easy punish- ment. This same teacher gave one slap in punishment for each word misspelled. Even the rules in Len- nie's old grammar and the lists of adverbs and prepositions, if not re- peated correctly, were punished sev- erely with the same old paddle. Not all teachers were like these two, but a few, either through fear of failure in discipline or because of possessing an irritable temper, gave way to punishing severely and some- times unjustly, Is it any wonder then that such incidents could occur as Gavin Green narrates in his inim- itable story of the "Old Log School." His story tells of his early exper- THE QUESTION BOX Mrs. 11. T. asks; "Why cannot honey be used to can raspberries and cherries? Is it possible to use all honey to can peaches?" iences in the Dungannon school, which stands about half a mile north o. f the village, and the section is No, 8, in the same Township of Ashfield. He writes: • "My first teacher was Andrew Forbes, I do not remember if 1learn- ed anything under his teaching, as I was in the First Book, but I do re- member getting several whippings by him. What the whippings were for I' do not remember. He used a rawhide riding whip on me. My next teacher* was Wellington McVittie. He is the first teacher I remember learning anything from, but I had always been told that I was a big dunce; it ; is pretty hard to make a silk purse 1 out of a sow's oar. "In the winter time big, full grown boys and girls carne to school, Little boys, such as I, never learned any- thing much in winter, We were shov- ed aside to make room for the big fellows. It took the teacher all his time to keep order and do the whip- ping. He kept a boy beside him to act as monitor while he was taking a nap or reading. As the monitor called out the names of the pupils misbehaving they took their places against the wall. When the teacher awoke or finished his paper he took his rawhide and started in at the top of the line, giving from four to 10 cuts, according to teh grpvity of the misbehavior. r'One day one of the big boys, named Begley, was leaving school for good. He had it in for the teach- er to even up for a hard whipping he got from him once. The teacher had to go to the village for dinner and during his, absence Begley gathered up all the chewing gum, about the only luxury in those days. It was pine gum and had great chewing power. He got a tin cup full and put it on the stove to melt. We were all pledged not to tell. Just before the piaster came back to school, Begley poured the melted gum on his chair. Master entered, took his seat and be- gan to call the roll. Someone started to snicker and that set the rest go- ing. Master reached out to seize his rawhide whip but when he jumped up the chair stuck to his pants. I can see his red face yet. He had to call a big boy to help him get the chair pulled from his pants. Then he called the whole school to stand around the walls and questioned each one. He never found out. The pants were discarded for a new pair next day." esimaimmesammommilimew ANI1VLALS DISABLED Quickly removed in clean sanitary trucks. 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