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CONVOY OF APPLES
FOR HEALTH
Hello Homemakers ! Canada is
famous for apples and the apple is
king • of fruits whether fresh, dried,
evaporated or canned — a wholesome
food, easily prepared, and jolly good
eating at all times.
With honey and pour cooked tapioca
aver apples,. Bake in a tnoderate
electric oven until apples are tender.
Serves 6. If uslug pearl taploop or
sago, soak in same of th'e milk for
several ]lours before cooking.
TAKE A TIP:
1. For Turnip Apple Whip, simply.
add thick apple aauoe to whipped
maelted turnips, adding a dash of
anger, sett and pepper.
2. Sweet-sour Cabbage! Mix 1 table -
590011 vinegar,, 2 tablespoons boil-
ing water, 2 teaspoons sugar and
1 tablespoon butter. Pour over
boiled cabbage. Makes a .difference.
3. Make smaller sized • pancakee,
folks! Why?' Easier to flip and
more quickly cooked.
4, Name the beets — serve , large.
• whole bents by first boiling, scoop
out centre (and.save to serve cold
on the next day's salad plate);
fill 'with the following mixture;
chop 2 hard -cooked eggs and sea-
son with salt, pepper, dash of
curry powder and chutney sauce.
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs. N. C. asks: "Recipe ter
cookies using mincemeat,"
Answer:
Mincemeat Drop Cookies
Y.; cup butter, z/q, cup sugar,
nA cup corn syrup, 1 egg, 1 cup
mincemeat, 114 cups flour, 2 tsps.
baking powder.
Cream butter, add sugar and syrup.
Blend well together, Beat in eggs.
Mix in measured dry ingredieute and
mincemeat, Drop by spoonfuls on
greased baking sheet. Bake in electric
oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
Mrs. R. C. asks: "Vire still have
some cucumbers that have kept well.
Can we use saccharine for pickling?"
Answer: Fest, but precautions
must be taken. Pure saccharine (1
grain) tablets are very strong. The shows his tremendous energy and
14 grain tablet% is the equivalent of ability. He is just as outstanding hi
about 1 teaspoon sugar. Tbere are 48 his job as Prime Minister Churchill
teaspoons in a cup, therefore you is in his.
would use twelve 74 -grain saccharine a, Canadians may well feel confident
that their army is in the best hands
as long as General McNaughton re-
mains at its head.
General McNaughton is a native
of Saskatchewan, born there in 1887.
your questions on homemaking Iva- :He received his Master's degree in
leets and watch this column for science from McGill University and
replies. studied at the Royal Staff College,
and the Imperial Defence College in
England. He served in the last war,
and was wounded twice. Ile received
the Distinguished Service Order, the
Order of St. Michael and St. George,
and many other honours.
He was for several years head of
the National Research Council of
Canada, and from 1929 to 1935 was
Chief of the Canadian General staff.
He was given command of the first
division of the Canadian Expedition-
ary Force and since 1940 has been
Commander -in -Chief of the Canadian
Army Overseas.
soldiers are here to bring us health the editors were only told part of the, Canadians have every reason to
and help us to balance our 'food story, that something was hidden i feel proud of General McNaughton.
budget. 1 from us, or if we actually did see ev- . The highlight of our visits to the
The apple army will be a big erything that we were told not to say RCAF stations was the night that we
factor on the food front this winter. anything about it. If these people were permitted to see a bomber
Here's its duty roster. Sweet apple could have been present , at these squadron start for Germany and re-
order at breakfast . . a "golden- meetings, they would realize just how turn after delivering their goods.
crusted apple pie tor dinner . . a far from correct their thoughts are.! There is a great amount of detail -
steaming platter of apple dumplings In General McNaughton's own words ed preparation for such a raid; the
to top off the vegetable•suppei' • . 1' the editors were told to "tell the .planes are carefully serviced and
a satisfler during the ten minute people of 'Canada everything that loaded with bombs by the ground
morning rest, a juicy andappetizing will not give comfort to the enemy." crew and the crews are assigned and
dessert for the lunch box, and a Actually the trip itself came as a "briefed." That is to say they are
crunchy bite at bedtime. Quite a list, result of a suggestion from the Gen- told their destination, and objectives
isn't it ? eral that it would be an excellent and given every possible detail that
way to bring. a true picture to the will help them to reach their objec-
people of Canada of what is going live and return safely,
and men, 'Replying to other questions
the General said, that shipping was
one of our greatest limiting factors;
that the threat of invasion is not
over; that the young (dicer policy
would be continued; that the aver.
age age of Lieut -Colonels now is
about 88,. which is much younger
than in the last war,
The last conference with General
McNaughton Was just as informal,
and was more like g friendly fireside
chat. It opened in•a mess room at
headquarters, with the General sitt-
ing on the broad sill of a bay win-
dow with the editors grouped around
him while all partook of afternoon
tea.
After talking in a conversational
manner about many matters, includ-
ing shipping problems, the manufac-
ture of weapons, especially those
made in Canada, transatlantic air
transport, training and equipping of
troops, food and army medical ser-
vices, he suddenly Leaned forward
and asked, "Would you boys like to
come upstairs with me?" He then led
the way upstairs to his office.
Here the conversation was resum-
ed for some time. After about an
hour and a half had been spent in
this, way, an officer entered with a
note and General McNaughton said
he would have to confer with a visit-
ing American officer but that if the
editors cared to return later he
would have to confer with a visiting
Americanofficer but that if the edi-
tors cared to return later he would
be glad to talk further with them,
Rising,, he shook hands with each
one as they left.
General McNaughton is tall, lean,
and speaks in a quiet, confident tone
that shows that he knows just what
he is talking abou. One cannot help
but be impressed with his quiet, kind-
ly manner, which at the same time,
tablets when 1 cup of sugar is called
for.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Seaforth News. Send in
Editor Tells of
Trip Overseas
By Walter R. Legge
Altogether; the Canadian editors
met the guiding genius or Canada's
overseas forces three times, the first
just before we began our itinerary
An apple convoy of several millions in England, the second time at an.
. has just arrived from the orchards inspection of new equipment, and
of the country, safely delivered at the third time just before we left
local market ports. Full of healthy, for home.
fighting spirit, these rosy-cheeked Some people seem to think that
RECIPES
Apple Cake
1 cup sifted cake flour, 11
tsps..baking powder, 14 tsp. salt,
6 tbs. sugar,a tbs. shortening, 2
egg yolks, i/z cup milk, 4 apples
pared and sliced thin, 'A tap.
cinnamon, 1 tsp. grated lemon
rind, butter.
'Sift flour, baking powder, salt and
2 tablespoons sugar together:,Cut in•
shortening and mix, welt Beat egg
yolks, combine with milk, and stir
into first mixture. Beat well. Pour
into greased shallow pan and cover
with apple slices. Sprinkle with re-
maining sugar, cinnamon and lemon
rind and dot with. butter. Bake In
electric oven (400' degrees F.) about
35 minutes. Serve •with Lemon Sauce,
for 8.
on overseas. I Briefing takes place several hours
Naturally the location of General before the take -off, as the crews have
McNaughton'A headquarters is not to do quite a bit of making ready,
easy for strangers to find. Our hue and also haveto study the objective,
proceeded to a "rendezvous," where route, etc.
we were met by dispatch riders on ' The editors met the crews and
motorcycles who guided us in to the conversed with them before they left
mace. The meeting was held in a to go on board their planes. It is
large conference room, from the hard to describe the feeling in the
windows of which was a vista of j room. The boys realize the serious
peaceful countryside. I business they are doing, and they go
General McNaughton sat down. in about their preparations, making
his chair, but soon he was sitting on sure that they have everything they
top of the desk in a most informal, need, with no nonsense, yet lightly,
manner. and surely.
Welcoming the Canadian editors, The zero hour approached and our
the general said that with young men guide suggested that we go down to
away front Canada for months and the place of take -off to see them
Years, everything should be done to start. The station, like the others,
was so big that we got into a car to
drive over.
Getting out of the oar, we started
to walk over some ploughed ground,
when one of the party ' exclaimed,
"What are those lights up pin the sky
over there?" referring to four lights
in the sky. Hardly had our guide re-
plied that they were flares evidently
from a German raider when about
four other sets of flares appeared in.
the sky, followed by the flash and
echo of an explosion.
Then searchlights appeared dart-
ing over the sily, and clouds of pin
points of lights as the ack-ack came
into action, The raid actually was,
about twenty or thirty miles away,.
but the flares made it .bright even
where we stood, and the sound of the
bombs could be heard and the burst-
ing of the ack-ack shells clearly seen.
After some time, the noise and
keep up their contacts with their
own country. When they are out of
Apple Fritters touch, they are out o fsympathy, and
1 egg, r/x cup flour, 1 tsp. sugar, , things go wrong, and it is difficult to
', cup water, 1 tb. meltedfat, j find the reason. "Go back and inter -
speck of salt. a pret us to the people of Canada, We
Beat egg. Add salt, sugar and water. in the army are the expression of the
Add flour, a little at a time, beating purpose of the people in Canada."
well. Then add melted baking fat. He went on to say that we are up
Pare, quarter and core apples. Dip against an extremely serious busi-
quarters in batter and fry in deep fat. nese. We started with a tremendous
lack of preparation, • and are not out
Apple Tapioca of the woods yet, but in spite of die -
1/3 cup fine tapioca (or sago i asters we are now on the up -grade.
substitute) or 14 cup pearl tapi- The mission of the press is to tell
oca, 14 tsp. salt, 8 cups milk, 6 fully what is going on, and the people
small apples, homy, will give their backing materially
Cook tapicoa with salt and milk in and morally. The General believes in
top of doifbie boiler until tapioca le telling. everything that can be told
transparent. without hurting ,the Allied cense.
Core and pare ,apples. Stack three Speaking of the Dieppe raid, Gee -
or fon` cloves in each. Arrange apples oral McNaughton said that his upper -
in greased baking dish. Fill cavities most feeling was pride in our officer's
PAGE THREE.
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lights died down and everything w
again quiet and dark.
The word came to waren up the
machines, and the signal was given
to begin, Immediately there was a
now noise, the roar of planes warm-
ing up.
After several minutes of this, an-
other silent signal was given, and the
first plane took off, followed by many
others. Another one developed
trouble and was scrubbed.
The scene was typical of what
takes place on scores of stations
nearly every night. After the last
machine had taken off the silence
seemed to be unnatural as we made
our way back to the mese. There
seemed to be a great many lights
about the grounds but we were in-
formed that they were made in such
a way that they could not be seen
from the air.
The station had no sleeping ac-
commodation for us, so we made our-
selves as comfortable as possible in
the arm chairs to pass the four or
five hours until the bombers should
return.
Having managed to fall off to sleep
in a chair, it seemed only a few min-
utes before we were being awakened
as it was nearly time for the planes
to be returning.
Going to the control room, we
found the first plane was, reporting
back. On the wall was a large opera-
tions board, listing with full particu-
lars the machines that were out on
the raid. As they reported it was
marked on the board and their in-
structions for landing given them on,
a radio which could only be heard a
few miles.
All machines had returned except
one, when we finally left for another
building where the crews report on
their return and are questioned by
intelligence officers. A full report is
obtained from each maw who answers
such questions as, did they attain
their objective, how were they sure
it was the right one, did they encoun-
ter much opposition, flak, etc., how
long were they going and how long
returning, how did they come back,
and a score of other questions.
In addition to this, most machines
are equipped with automatic cameras
which record the exact bombing.
The editors were again given an
opportunity to talk to these crews
who had just returned from an im-
portant raid.
Just as we were ready to leave this
room, word came in that the missing
s
bomber had finally arrived holm,
having experieneed some difficultY
which had delayed it about two
hours. As far as this station wisS con-
cerned the press couldreport that
'"from this operation all our meal -
Ines returned safely.."
It was a memorable night. Few
newspapermen have been able to go
to a station and see what we had
seen, and their first visit, and prob-
ably no others had a German raid
thrown in for good measure,
Later that day, after a good sleep,.
we were shown the work of the con-
trol room by Flying Officer Jos,
Hammett, the senior Canadian con-
trol officer, and his talk was a marvel
of concise information. Under pres-
ent control, the number of avoidable
accidents has been cut very low, and
no possible help to land any friendly
plane is ever overlooked,
Diversion to other fields, full in-
formation as to the condition of all
landing fields, and other aids, even
to sending planes up to assist are
among the means taken to help ma-
chines in trouble.
If an extra large machine, for in-
stance, with some of its instruments
out of order, needs a special field for
emergency landing, full information
can be collected and given out in a
few seconds,
England is covered with airports
all standing by constantly on the
alert to give this help.
Newspaper reports showed that
the raid of the previous night had
been most successful, and fires were
still burning there when our daylight
observers returned during the day.
Later we were able to see some
of the photos taken by the bombers
that night over the objective which
was Duisburg.
The information which is obtained
regarding' the effectiveness of these
raids on Germany is truly remark-
able. Many of the bombers are
equipped with cameras which auto-
matically take photographs of the
explosions of their bombs. When
these are compared with photographs
taken before and after the actual
raid the story is pretty complete.
When the German propaganda re-
ports that all bombs'fell in a field or
on workmen's houses, they cannot
fool the R.A.F. for they know ex-
VARNA
Mrs, George Connell is visiting
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr, and
Mrs. Roy Coruiell of Tucke'smitti,
Why Britain.
Wants Lean;
Net Fat Bacon
If Britain wants more bacon, why
not feed hogs to much heavier
weights or up to 800 pounds 01 inure?
This is a question being commonly
asked by many people throughout
Canada, and it is a logical question,
say officials of the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
The answer is that Britain wants
lean bacon because, due to shipping
space being limited, it is more econ-
omical to send lean meat than to
send fat on the back of hogs. It is
cheaper to send fat in the form of
lard which can be shipped without
refrigeration.
The advocates for producing heav-
ier hogs to meet the demand for Can-
adian bacon refer to the heavier
hogs raised in the United States.
With the British baoon ration for the
time being at tour ounces per week
per person, the British people natur-
ally want to get as much lean !neat
as possible so that, in the cooking,
there will be little Waste.
One of the principal reasons that
Britain is buying bacon in Canada is
because the Dominion has developed
a bacon hog. A. hog which when fed
to a live weight of from 200 to 230
pounds will provide the greatest pos-
sible amount of lean meat, and lean
neat means meat food in its most
economical and concentrated form
and utilizes valuable refrigerhted
shipping space to the best advantage.
It is true that a hog will put on
more weight quickly after it has
reached 200 pounds, but heavier hogs
invariably carry a much higher per-
centage of fat. Contrary to general
opinion, the extra weight is not put
on cheaper than the cost of putting
on weight up to 200 pounds. Heavier
hogs mean fatter WIltshires and fat-
ter bacon, The British consumers
have always demanded lean bacon in
actly where they fell and what dans- peace time, and. altogether apart
age they did, from the consideration of post-war
These pictures can be enlarged to trade, their demand is even more '
tremendous size. At some of the insistent in wartime because they
stations, the editors saw pictures want the minimum of loss in cooking.
about five or six feet square, mount- The impressive fact is that British
ed on heavy cardboard, which could want lean bacon, and the highest per -
be studied in very great detail. In centage of lean bacon cannot be
many cases there were pictures of secured from heavy hogs — and so
the same location taken before and it's a case of "The man who pays the
tffter the raid, and the comparison piper call the tune,"
was most interesting,
The day after we watched the Ger-
man raid in the neighborhood at
night, the following' reference to it
appeared in the district papers, "A
number of people were rendered
homeless, and emergency feeding
centres were opened during the night
after an enemy air attack on a
Northeast town, There were a num-
her of casualties."
How to Prepare Victory Thanks-
giving Dinner
Recipes for a simple, nourishing
Victory Thanksgiving Dinner, satisfy-
ing, yet without all the fol-del-rol
usually associated with "turkey time"
are presented in The American
Weekly with this Sunday's (Novem-
ber 22) issue of The Detroit Sunday
Times; also sortie timely tips on pre -
wiring diose Thnnics,iving vege-
tibles. Det Svndoles Detroit. Times.
In an examination given in New
York some time ago one of the ques-
tions asked was, "If a man buys an
article for $12.25 and sell it for
$;9.75, does he gain or lose by the
transaction?"
One of our modern sweet young
things, after studying for a while,
answered, "He gains on the cents but
loses on the dollars."
A man was warning his little
neighbor about being careful cross-
ing the streets. "Oh, don't worry,"
the child replied. "I always wait for
the empty space to come by."
• "It's not just the work I enjoy,"
said the taxicab driver. "It's the
people I run into."
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