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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-02-04, Page 3THE MIXING BOWL wAmo AUAN *Om M.w. 11••••04a MAKING SOUPS THE BACK- BONE OF YOUR MEAL Hello Homemakers! Why is it that everyone utters a big "u -m -m" when the fancily gathers around the table where big bowls of soup are steam- ing. Ts it the aroma and the chim- neys of steam trona each gay bowl? And there will be more exclamations: it your soup is really good, How satisfying, how delicious soups can be. savoured with tete simple seasonings every homemaker can keep on her pantry shelf. Serving hearty and wholesome soups often during the snappy, cold weather will benefit the health of your family — and your budget. So let's plan soups as a main course — an easy and satisfying Meal, The' water in which vegetables are cooked, left over vegetables, scraps; of meat, meat stock, gravy, left -over rice, macaroni — these should never, under any circumstances, be wasted. Keep them in a jar in your electric refrigerator overnight, As a good foundation for many nutritious soups use 2 pounds of neck of mutton of shin of veal. Rave the butcher saw the bones into small pieces. Cut up the meat and brown half of it along with a diced onion in a little fat. This. gives better flavor and color to stock soup. Soak the re- maining meat and bones in cold water about an hour. Then bring quickly to a boil, using "High" heat, but' turn back to "Simmer" at this point to stearal for about two hours. An hour before removing from heat, add vegetables and seasonings, using a cup filled with diced carrot, turnip, onion and celery; a sprig of parsley, one bay leaf and three peppercorns. When done, skim off fat and drain, The possibilities of using this stock are endless; add macaroni,, noodles, ride, barley, .beans, peas, lentilsor sliced vegetables, A Nutri -thrift menu suggestion is: e hearty bowl of soup accgmpa nied by cheese biscuits or rolls, a dish of fruit for dessert and milk as the beverage unless you are selecting one of the tasty cream soups given below. RECIPES Curried Onion and .Rice Soup 2 tbs, baking fat, %/ cup finely chopped onion, salt, 2 tbs, flour, r, tsp-, curry powder, 1/3cup coasted rice, 4% cups milk, few grains pepper. Add anion and 1/ teaspoon salt to melted fat, Cover and cook over low neat until soft, stirring constantly, Turn electric element to "Low"; wild flour, curry powder and rice Mid mix well, Add stills gradually and cook, stirring constantly anal thickened. Season with salt and pepper. Six servings. 'Cream of Cabbage and Lentil Soup s/4 cup dried lentils, 1/4 1b. salt pork, 1 tsp. salt, 1% cups finely shredded cabbage, 1 tb, baking fat, 31/ cups milk, few grains pepper. Soak the lentils overnight in cold water. Drain, add the shoed salt pork and 2%/$ cups fresh water, Cover and cook until tender, adding more water if necessary. Acid the salt near the end of the cooking time. Drain and boil clown the liquid to about 1/ cup. Press lentils through a sieve. Cook the cabbage in the baking fat on electric element turned "Low," Add the milk, pepper, lentils and, lentil liquid, -edit more salt if desired. Re- heat, Six servings, Clear Tomato Soup 1 qt. brown soup stock, 21 cups tomatoes, -34 tsp. pepper- corns, 1 small bay leaf, 3 cloves, 3 sprigs thyme, 4 tbs. baking fat, 2 sprigs parsley, 1,4 cup each onion, carrot, celery, raw ham. , (diced), salt, pepper. Cook onion, carrot, celery and ham in baking fat five minutes. Add tom- atoes,. peppercorns, bay leaf, cloves, thyme and parsley, cover 'and cook slowly one hour on small electric ele- THE SEFPORTII NEWS ment, Strain carefully, add hot stock 'and season with salt and pepper, (This recipe may be used for jellied scup or for salad,) THE QUESTION SOX airs. N.'C. asks: "Is it all right to stake sauerkraut at this time of year? How much salt is necessary and how long• should it stand before using " Apswer Yes. Use 1 ib. of pure salt (not iodized) for 40 lbs. cabbage. Be sure salt is evenly' distributed through the cabbage, When the emelt is near- ly full, press cabbage down with an enamel or heavy porcelain plate. Keep weighted down and allow to staid for several daysuntil cabbage looks grey-white, Set crock in a cool- er place to prevent any more scum forming. Melted wax may be poured over it at the end of a week and the crock of sauerkraut left for 1 month before using, Aurae Allan invites you to write to her e/o The Seaforth News. Send in your questions on homemaking prob- lems and watch this 00i110111 for replies, The patient was sitting up for the first time. "I wouldn't let then oper- ate on me again for a million dol - las," he groaned. "I'm sorry," said the doctor to the patient, "but I shall have to op- erate on you again." The convalescent let out a roar, "Nothing doing, he cried. "I. won't stand for it." "But," argued the doctor, "it is something that just has to be done. You see, I made a serious mistake. When I stitched you up I left one of my rubber gloves inside of you." The patient was incredulous. Is that why you want to open me "Yes," said the surgeon, The patient smiled feebly. "Don't be daft, man," he said. "Here's a quarter—go and buy your- self another rubber glove." "How do you like this dress I got for my eighteenth birthday?" "Hmmm, it certainly has worn welt" • The Territory of , New Guinea (Frons the Canadian Inatitute international Affairs,) 3, The Territory of New Guinea, mandated urea administered by Au tt'alie for the League of Nations, one of three divisions of the getter area known as Ne w(iuinea, T1 other two are Dutch New Csuiuea, an Papua, an integral part of the Austr liau Commonwealth. since 1906. It in the Territory however that t Jape have established their stronge foothold, and it is to this part New Guinea that press despatch generally refer. The Territory comprises the nor, east portion of the main island coo nlonly referred to as the mainland the Bismarck Archipelago, in whit are the islands of New Britain, Ne. Ireland, Lavongai, and the Admil'alt Islands; and Bougainville and Buk hi the Solomon group. The total are is approximately 93,000 square mile with a (pre-war) white population o some 6,000, and a native poptdatio estimated at about 000,000. The extremely mountainous natur of the terrain, together with dens jungle growth make ,revel and eve existence very difficult. Known a "The most inhospitable country i the world," it is not surprising tha nearly half of the area remains lm plored by the white man, despite th fact that three large , rivers affor possibilities of water transport, Th whole area is volcanic, with man active craters. In fact the Territor has the dubious 1101101• 0f having th largest crater in the world within it boundaries, The advent of war in the Pacifi has brought front-page prominent to the towns of the Territory. Rabau Lae and Salamaua, generally un known in pre-war years, now crop n regularly in the news and radi broadcasts. Rabaul, administrative capital un der the Australian mandate, lies a the north-easterly tip of the island o New Britain, overlooking a very fin harbor. The town is in the volcani zone and has six active volcanoes lit eraily on its doorstep. Originally buil by the Germans, and with addition by the Australians, Rabaul has wid avenues and streets, good deep -ovate harbor facilities, a fine botanical gar den, a good museum, and variou playing fields, In pre-war days Rabaul airport some 20 miles from the town, formed one terminus of the Australia: New Guinea air servioe. A subsidized mai and passenger steamer service also operated between New Guinea and Australia while other steamship lines matte Rabaul more or less regultfi port of call. A large radio station was located at Kokope, some 30 tulles to the south-east of Rabaul. Salamaua is a modern tropica town built on a narrow isthmus ap proximately three to four hundred yards wide and about a mile in length with mountains at either end of it rising to about 6,000 feet. Al- though quite small, the town was noted for attractive bungalows and flue gardens; tennis, swimming and ,social clubs provided relaxation for the residents. It was the sea and air- port for Wan, the capital of the Mo - robe gold fields. which is only 35 air miles distant. About 20 miles north of Salamatia lies the small town of Lae, since mid 1941 the capital of the Territory. Lae was district headquarters for the leading oil company in the area and was also a supply base for the nearby gold fields. In pre-war years the al- most complete lack of harbor facili- ties forced ocean going vessels to unload into lighters, a procedure which was considered hampered by swells from the open sea. Gold is by far the most important product of the Territory, with copra second on the list, It is reported that the agricultural reaources of the Territory are cap- able of considerable development, hough up to the time of the Japan - se invasion few such commodities ere being produced on anything ap- roaching a commercial scale. Coffee ave evidence of becoming a fairly mpot'tant crop, an da few cocoa plan - tions were just coming into bear - 5. It is said that the, Territory offers cellent climatic and soil conditions r both these products. About 1.300 eves had been planted to kap°, and ere were strong hopes that it might produced on a large scale, Expet•i- ents wore in progress in the com- ercial production of. robber, sisal <1 rice. 'Sugar cane, tapioca and to- m, generally grow wild, although pall quantities are cultivated by the .fives for their own use. Lumbo' as produced in small quantities £o' port, but transportation. Millen!.ea In the jungle apparently preclude arge-scale development of the in- sery, , The search for oil in Australia ates back to the early clays of this Many. Bvidenee of its exiatenee as given both by seepages and geo- t e w p g i ta ex fo a th be nn m an ba sn 8414 ex fi 1 du "Commandos Strike at Dawn," the vivid photoplay of Canada's Armed Forces produced by Columbia pictures, portrays' the Canadian Army so well that the film 1$ rated as ono of the best of this war. Based upon Norway's si resentment of German aggression; and starring Maul. Muni, the movie shows battle tactics of the Canadians above, as they, storm a "Nazi" airfield, Lower picture was an off -the -set camera -study of Greta Grenstead, one of the star- oe lets, chatting with A. Gerlock and Dong Allen, telegraphists aboard an auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Navy. w logical surveys, til slice the first ephemeral oil boons in 1911 prospect- ing has gone on intermittently. In 1'e - cent year's the Australian government has subsidised the efforts of private companies and great things were hopod for, Australia was the Territory's best export customer, with England as second best. In 1954 Canadian exports to. the Territory 'were valued at 06,- 666 while by 1936 their value had increased to 813,883. Up to 1939 there were no Canadian imports from the Territory, but in 1940 Australian and New Guinea interests establish- ed a vegetable oil extraction plant In Vancouver and a small amount of copra was costing lute Canada from the Territories, Il. During the last quarter of the nine- toeath century Germany showed an increasing interest in the South Wes- tern Pacific, so much so that the Australian Colonies, fearing that Ger- man annexation of New Guinea might constitute a threat to their security, demanded that tate British Govern- ment permit Queensland to annex New Guinea in the name of Her Maj- esty. I nfect, in 1S83 Queensland rais- ed the Union Jack at Port Moresby and annexed the territory, -subject to confirmation by London. The Brit- ish Government, however, refused to confirm Queensland's action, The bit- ter feeling created throughout Austra- lia by this refusal forced the British Government to reverse its decision and in 1884 to proclaim a Protector- ate over the coal tof New Guinea and contiguous islands with the exception of the territories east of the Dutch boundary. Germany protested and England agreed to limit for the time being her protectorate to the south coast and islands and entered into negotiations with Germany regarding the north eastern areas. But in :De- cember, 1834, while negotiations were actually under way, in fact while Bismarck and a British Foreign Office official were discussing the question in the foreign office in Berlin, a cable was received from the Premier of Queensland telling of the formal an- nexation by Germany of the territory under negotiation, The Terrtto•ies were under German rule from 1884 to 1914, first through the German New Guinea Company to whom an Imperial Charter was grant- ed in 1885; the company's rule last- ed until 1889 when the Imperial Ger- man Government took over, On August 6th, 1914, the Australian Government received a telegram from the British Government asking if they would seize certain South Sea German controlled territories includ-' i.ng what later became known as the Territory of New Guinea. Australia agreed and on September 12th, 1914, the occupation was completed. In 1919 Australia received a Class "C" mandate from the League of Nations. W. L. Siebert Passes at Zurich William L. Siebert. postmaster 1t Zurich, died on Jan. 27, after n lengthy illness at his home. He was in his 8411: year. Mr, Siebert was born near New Hamburg, where he farmed in his youth, but entered business in 1887 as a general merch- ant and was in the following places, Canada, Kansas; Crediton, Platteville and •Dashwood. He moved to Zurich in 1913 and three years later was ap- pointed postmaster. I -Ie also served as court clerk for a number of years, Surviving are his widow, formerly Anna Kolb, with whom he celebrated their diamond jubilee in Aprii; three sons, Edgar and Frank, of Detroit, and William C„ at home; three daugh- ters, Mrs. W. R. Major, Toronto; Nora, a trained nurse in Lansing, Mich., and Mrs. Clare 'Hoffman, Galt. One daughter, Vera, predeceased him in 1939, and one son, Albert "Babe," a well known hockey player, was drowned at St. Joseph late in August, 1939, Two children died in infancy. Also surviving are one sister, Mi's, Flora Brown, Crediton; two half sis- ters and two half brothers and 10 grandchildren and one great-grand- child. The funeral service was held. on Friday. A service was conducted first at his hone and later in the Zurich Evangelical church, with Rev, O, B. Heckendorn officiating. later ment was in Lin.glebach cemetery. Ib An intimation to slow paying sus- n - toners given by a shopkeeper: C "All persons indebted to our shop s are requested to call and settle. All A indebted to our ship and not knowing t it are requested to call and find out, Those knowing themselves indebted and not wishing to call are requested , d to remain in one place long enough forus to mita' them." t Sibie Teaching In the Schools — i3ibie teaching in the Public schools is the livoat' topic for discussion by public sebool boards to -day.' In the County of Huron every WW1). bat one, has Bible Teaching ,taught; in the schools by the local clergy, at the re- quest of the Board. Recently the Board of Education at Goderiail has requested the Clergy fo give Bible instruction 141 the Collegiate Institute as well. Twenty-four municipalities In the County of Grey have encour- aged the teaching of the Bible in the schools, anmany of the town;in Bruce. Lueknow has had13ib1e teach- ing in the schools ,.for the past twelve years, undertaken weekly by 'the ministers, and last week Kin- cardine schools began similar instruc- tion. Toronto is conducting classes` in Bible teaching in some grades as well as London, and Owen Sound carries out the plan of teaching in all sohools and in all grades. Fifteen counties including Huron have asked the Department to provide for religi- ous instruction in both Primary and Secondary Schools and the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo, Hamilton, Brantford, Fort William and Niagara Falls supported a similar resolution. In the past six months 40 school boards have requested the Depart- ment to provide for Bible Instruction in the schools each week. All this is evidence of the recognition by educa- tional authorities that it is imposs- ible to teach anyone his duty towards his neighbor apart front his duty to- wards God, upon which this relation- ship of brotherhood ultimately arises. Groundhog Called Fraud As a Weather Prophet — Tuesday, says the legend, we'd know if winter in on the way out or if we have to endure another six weeks of it. For Tuesday, February 2, the groundhog was supposed to come out of his long winter sleep and take a look at the world. Legend also adds that if the little rodent sees his shadow he goes back into his winter retreat and we're in for another month and a half of snow, sleet, frost, ice and other winter- equipment. intei equipment. If there's no shadow, winter is ,(unofficially at least) over. And what a winter — the worst on record in some parts of Canada. , However, with the coming of the weatherman and his regular fore- casts, it was found that he and the groundhog did not agree. So one of them had. to be proved wrong. Alas, it was the poor little groundhog. The origin of the superstition is rather obscure, but it is believed to have had its sourct in Germany. The Ger- mans attributed the prognosticating powers to the badger, but on this side of the Atlantic the honor was transferred to the groundhog — or woodchuck. Groundhogs have been called fraudulent weather prophets ! by such authorities as Dr. Raymond Ditmars, curator of the Bronx Zoo and Willis R. Gregg, chief of the United States weather bureau, L. L. Snyder, zoologist of the Royal Ont ario museum, asked about the myth,said sometimes the temperature of the earth where they are hibernating rises to a point where it has the sante effect as warm weather and the little rodents wake up naturally. They think it is spring and scurry out of their burrows to the good earth. Sometimes it is spring when they come out but if it doesn't seen, right they scurry right back and go to sleep again. These appear to be the facts of the case, With the poor little groundhog so well debunked, it seems almost a shame to keep up this business of consulting hien every year. It seems a columnist some years ago, referring to the ground- hog myth, said: "It would have died out a long time ago but for the newspaper humorists." Funeral of Mrs. J. Torrance The funeral of Mrs. Joanne Tor- rance, who died in Toronto early on Friday at her apartment, Was held on Saturday from Wesley Will- is United Church, Clinton, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, followed by interment in. Bayfield cemetery. Mrs. Torrance, formerly Joanna McDonald, was in her 36th year. She had been an invalid for the past five years. Lately she had spent the winter months in Toronto, attended y her daughter, Miss Maude Tor ante, returning to their home at 1108011 for the summer. Three sons urvive, They are, John, Lethbridge, lta.; Mervyn, and Alfred, Toronto; wo daughter's, (Margaret) Mrs. George Foote, Port Arthur, and Miss Maud, at home. Services were •con ucted by Rev. A. Lane, pastor of the church, The choir was in at- endance. The Indian chieftain opened a speech to his tribe with: ft "You all know me as Old Chief 11 Trainwhistle, but since I am extreme s ely democratic I hope that, for short, you will free to call me Toots." Auntie --"Belt what has your boy •ienil'e army career got to do with im staring at every pretty' girl he ees?" Niece—"Oh, he's 911 the observation covert." Want and For Sale Ads, 3 weeks 50c. Want and For Salo Ads,' 1 week 25e.