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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-03-18, Page 3JP THURSDAY,, MARCH 18, 1943 THE SFAF.QRTH NEWS T E riti1XIN13 11011%/IL Py ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist FISH, EGGS, CHEESE, MOVE UP IN RANK I Hello Homemakers! Lent is here again — the season when meats part oompan ywith the daily vegetables and the alternative proteins move up in rank, This is the time we find fish, eggs, cheese, milk and legumes re-. placing meats and therefore high- lighted on our Nutri -thrift 1Vleuu. They are easier on your pocketbook,, too. Wartime cookery — with the ern phasis on saving both food values and fuel — tells us that these pro- tein foods require constant tempera- tures and exact cooking periods. Here's a suggestion: to enhance the flavour oi' eggs and legumes, serve them ' accompanied by turnips, cab- bage or onions. To add zest to dishes, cook green vegetables with fish; to keep down your budget, open your, home xcanned String beans and tomatoes. RECIPES Vegetable and Cheese Casserole 1 eup vegetables (cooked or canned), 1 cups hot milk, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 4 cup melted fat, 1R cups old cheese, few grains pepper, few grains paprika, 3 eggs, 1% tbs. parsley. Pour hot milk over crumbs and add fat, parsley, onion, grated cheese and seasonings. Add beaten eggs. Put vegetables into greased casserole and pour mixture over them. Bake 45 minutes in electric oven at 360 de- grees. Serves 6. Fish and Chips Thin slices of potatoes are placed in a sieve and dipped into cold water for 5 minutes. Shake and drain on a towel. Fry in deep fat heated to 385 degrees, or until an inch cube, of bread will brown in 20 seconds: Drain o$ paper, sprinkle with salt and serve hot. Slice fish % inch 'in thickness. Make batter, of 2 cups flour, V. tsp. baking parlor, r%1 ,tsp. salt, pepper, 1 beaten egg, 1 tip, melted fat and enough milk to make a smooth con- sistency. Dip fish in batter and fry in deep fat until golden brown. This fat cannot be turned in for salvage but maye be used again for fish if it is stored (covered) in a cool place. Haddock Souffle 3 tbs. butter, 3 tbs. •'flour, tsp. salt, few grains pepper, few grains cayenne, 1 cup milk, 3 eggs separated, 1% cups cooked, flaked haddock. Melt butter, blend in. flour, salt, pepper and cayenne. Add milk and cook over electric element turned Low, stirring until thick. Add beaten' yolks. Bring to boiling point. Add fish. Feld in stiffly beaten whites. Pour into greased casseroe and bake in moderate electric oven at 350 de- grees for 1 hour. Vegetable and Fish Casserole 1 cup canned peas, 1 cup cook- ed and diced carrot, 1 cup left- over fists (flaked), 1 tb, lemon juice, 2 cups white sauce, 1 O. minced parsley, seasoning 09 salt and pepper. Combine peas,. carrots, flaked fish, seasonings and lemon juice; add to white sauce. Cook 15 minutes on electric element turned Low. TAKE A TIP: On Preserving Leather Goods 1, Badly . stained leather may be cleaned with Oxalic acid solution (2 tsps. to 1 cup water) —remem- ber it is poisonous, Do leather all over. Use shoe paste in 2 thin coatings. If article is brown, use `brown shoe paste. Do not use treatment often. 2, Keep heavy leather shoes in con- dition by applying layers of dub- bin grease. (Goose grease is ex- cellent.) Use palm of hand to smooth in gradually. 3. Do not use anything on hand bags which will soil your clothes, Ordinary leather cases, such as utility cases, may be given a thin coat of varnish or shellac, 4. It is advisable to keep patent leather bags or shoes for warm spring or summer days — patent leather cracks easily in eold. 5. Dark leather shoes may be treated with a thin coat of wax. 6. If fine leather articles get very wet, press into shape while wet (or wet again and press into shape.) Then pad, wipe thorough- ly and let dry at room tempera- ture — do not put near heat. THE QUESTION BOX' Mrs. K. J. asks: "Can frozen fish be put in pan and baked immed- iately ?" Answer: Frozen' fish should be thawed out at 'room temperature, to save electricity, then baked. If not, fat and water spatter more, requiring more time to clean utensil, Mr. S. T. asks: "When is fish cook- ed, and is the nutritive value lost in over -cooking 9" Answer: Fish requires a short cooking period. When fish separates or flakes it is done. Over -cooking drains out nutritive' fish oils and also makes it unpalatable, Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Seaforth News. Send in your questions on homemaking prob- lems and watch this column for replies. Move to Morris Twp.— Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Richmond have' moved with their family to the homestead faim on the 9th conces- sion of Morris. Previously they had been living near Seaforth where Mr. Richmond has been employed on the farm of W. L. Whyte.—Blyth Stan- dard. Pte. Chris Ellis of Toronto, badly burned and shocked during a bombing raid overseas, receives a blood serum transfusion hi a Canadian' military hospital in England, Major S. D, Gordon, Toronto, administers the trans- fusion, assisted by Lieut. (Nursing Sister) D. R. Campbell, Edmonton. The dried blood serum, collected and processed in Canada through the Canadian Red Cross, is bottled and packed in the airtight tins shown, onthe bedside table and sent overseas where it is available for Canadian incl British serv- icemen, Supplies have also gone to Malta, Libya, Egypt and other Middle East theatres of war. Canadian blood serum, .released through the Canadian Red Cross, also saved the lives of thousands of British civilians injured in the battle of Britain. London In Wartime By Walter 11, Legge.. We arrived in Landon late in the ',evening after an lull -day train Jour 'inv. There was no n10on that night London In the bleak -out is really black. There were army automobile. to meet us and we 11ad a sudden and complete introduction to being drive tltrougli the blackness at what seem ed to us to be about thirty miles a hour, and on the ,vrong side of th street. Our car narrowly missed a pedes urian who was courting death by dodging' across the street in tit middle of a block, If he had been snit it looked to us as if he would have been entirely at fault, but our guide ch said that in such a case the auffeur would be "Joe", which in army part once is the fellow who gets all the blame, London in the'daythne is just as strange to us. On the streets are men and women in uniform from all prints Of the world, "S" signs on nearly every corner pointing the way to shelters, other signs showing where 'there are tanks of static water, shel- ters hull t in the streets, closed stores, store windows boarded over except for small lights of glass, and if there were anything else needed to show that are in the war zone, We could look up and see countless bal-1 cons in the sky, The barrage balloons, which look something like huge fish, are a silver color that blends with the sky, so that they are hard to see at any die - stance, but in spite of that, one could often count forty o' more. The static water is for usfl in fight- ing fires in case the water mains are destroyed or are inadequate, In many cases the basements of buildings that have been demolished are cleaned out, cemented, and filled lvith water. The number of stores that are clos- ed, is astonishing. Most store win- dows have been broken by concus- sion even when the buildings have not been hit, and there would not be enough glass to replace them even if it were safe to do so. Therefore the windows have been closed up, leaving Only small panes of glass three or feet square in the centre, The acute shortage of labor is ap- parent in many things, as for in- stance, in the elevator services, or "lifts" as they are known there. Peo- ple are expected always to walk downahtairs, no matter how many stories, and to walk up if not more than three stories. No one is supposed to have more than one bath a week, and then to have only five inches -or less of water in the tub. The hotels no longer give a fast service for laundry, and one must allow several days before ex- pecting its return. Debris .from bomb damage has been well cleaned up, but little or no attempt has been made to rebuild. Plans for a finer and more beautiful London still exist only on paper. Transportation is much better than we expected. Taxicabs are under severe restrictions' as to gas and speed, but it is possible to get one when required, with a little delay. The principal method of travel in London is to take the underground or a bus, and there are plenty of the latter. They are of the double deck type. People queue up for them in a very orderly manner which is a tre- mendous improvement over the crowded confusion usually found around the entrance to a street car in Canada. The London subway system is said to be the finest in the world, and it probably is. Most of the subways are much deeper in the ground than those in America, For that reason they have suffered little or no dam- age, and the stations make excellent shelters. At nearly all these stations there are now double deck iron cots, similar to those used in soldiers' barracks, We were told that there are still a few people who regularly sleep in the subways, but it was a long time before we actually saw some of them. There are many things in London that are the same as ever, - The pig- eons haven't left Trafalgar Square, although there may not be quite so many, It is a mystery what they live on, as people are not supposed to give them any food. And the orator's still hold forth in Hyde Park. Our hotel was just across the street front that part of the park where Free Speech is enjoyed or abused, according to your viewpoint. Frere the soap box speakers can say anything they wish without fear of rosecution. There are not so many isteners now,'but on the Sunday that ve went over to hear the orators the show. Later, when we queried a Cabinet Minister about these orators, some of 'whom appeared to preach al- : Most treason, he declal'0d that "Every entitling needs a good ventilating system." .theatres are still providing ,good shows, but on account of the black- s out, the curtains go up at about half- ; past five o'. six o'clock for the n evening performance. Prices for oreh- estra seats, or "stalls" as they are n called over there, are very high, but e about half the price is for taxes, A large proportion of the audience is in 'I uniform, — probably men on leave, Although only automobiles for mil- itary or authorized purposes are used, there are many on the streets. Some of them are driven by gas which is carried in huge fabric bags • which cover the roof of the car, and are about four feet high when in - Hated. We were told that one filling of gas will drive the car about a hundred miles and costs about six dollars. Many of the sighs in London were of great interests to us, On one res- taurant, there was a sign "Kidney - Bacon -Toad", which caused us to wonder if the people of London were even eating toads, However, it was explained that "Toad" is the name for a sort of sausage roll. Another restaurant had a sign, "This restaurant will stay open dur- ing raids as long as the walls are standing," Another sign on a badly wreaked building read "You may think this is bad, but yon should see our Berlin branch." ' On the whole, we found the people of London to be cheerful and opti- mistic, so busy at the task of winning the war that they have little time for anything else. Everyone is anxious to help strangers, (and the city is full of them), so we found it surprisingly easy to make our way around. More and Better Potatoes Wanted Nummisimimmillill1011111111— ,1 IANIMALS DEAD or - DISABLED Quickly removed in clean sanitary trucks. Phone collect 219 MITCHELL or Ingersoll 21 WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED there Wes a fair sized crowd. It is excellent free entertaimnerit, as there always are a number holding forth on all kinds of subjects. One of the most popular just now is "Menoltiln" who waves a number of flags in the air, and talks about what the negrroes have done to help the world. He wears a colorful costtime to add to With the war demand, for more good potatoes in 1943 comes the need for planning and action by po- tato growers. Time, labor, machin- ery, fertilizer and spray materials must now be conserved as never be fore to avoid Iost motion and waste of chemicals, says John. Tucker, manager seed potato section, Special Products Board. Eleven per cent. more potatoes is the goal in 1943, and this can be readily attained with approximately the same amount of labor and materials as was required for the 1942 crop, if proven sound practices are more generally follow- ed. All good potato growers will agree that the average yield in 1942 of 140 bushels per acre is not goods- enough. ood"enough. Many growers average more than double this yield, which means that many other growers are producing far below average yields. The most frequent cause of low yields is poor 00000 2 3 You can take your fat drippings, scrap fat and bones to your meat dealer, He will pay you the established price for the dripping and the scrap fat. If you wish, you .can turn this money over to your local Voluntary Salvage Committee or Registered Local War Charity, or— You can donate your fat dripping, scrap fat and bones to your local. Voluntary Salvage Committee if they collect them in your eom- munity, or— You can continue to place out your Fats and Boxes for collet tion by your Street Cleaning Department where such a system is in effect. seas Department of National War Services NATIONAL SALVAGE DIVISION seed. Next is low fertility and poor methods of pest control. It is funda- mental to start off a crop with good seed. Otherwise the fertilizers and spraying materials used are wasted. The country simply cannot now af- ford to waste any materials, time and labor on fields planted with cull seed, especially when good certified seed has been made available in quantity to the country for the ex- press purpose of aiding the industry in that respect. A survey has shown that in some provinces less than ten per cent of the seed planted would qualify to certification standards, and that many, fields are planted with a qual- ity of seed which could not possibly produce a good crop, no matter how much fertilizer was used. If every grower planted certified seed; either the crop could be doubled, or the present quantity produced annually could be harvested from about half the present acreage. This gives food for thought, says Mr. Tucker, especially when it is realized that most of the certified seed produced in Canada has to be exported to find a market, and that another million bushels are sold an- nually as high grade table potatoes, because ofthe lack of home demand for high quality seed. Countries. thousands of miles away, are paying high transportation charges to ob- tain Canadian certified seed by the shipload every year. About two mil- lion bushels are exported annually, while only about half a million bush- els are sold in Canada each year as seed. Much of the acreage at present is planted with inferior seed, the bulk of which night better be used for starch purposes or fed to stock. Table stock growers are urged to insist on certified seed. It is readily obtainable through' reliable potato dealers and established seed houses, or may be purchased from the seed growers direct. Lists of growers are obtainable from the Plant Protec- tion Division, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, or from the local District Seed Potato Inspectors located at Charlottetown, P.E.L, Kentville, N.S., Fredericton, N.B., Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, One-, Guelph, Ont., Winnipeg, Man., Ed- monton, Alta., and Vancouver, B.C. Mrs, David Cowan, $lyth v Mrs. David Cowan passed away at her home in Blyth on March 4th in her 89th year. She was formerly Margaret Jane Parker of East Wa- wanosh and had lived in Blyth since her marriage in 1887. Her husband died in 1931. Two daughters and one son survive, Mrs. J. J. Dick <An nie) of Brandon, Man., Miss Margar- et, at home, and Walter, of Detroit, Mich. Want and For Sale Ads, 1 week 25c. ON BONE HUNT "Scrappy" gets on a new scent for bones in the National Salvage Drive, If the terrier had his way Dhtny Dinosaur would eche down from his perch in the National Museum and give up his ancient frame to the cause of victory -War industries are calling for bones and more bones for vital glue and glycerine, bone char for refining purposes and bone meal for fertilizer to produce ,more foods. Tons of bleached buffalo bones from Canadian prairies have been shipped to glue factories. In the new intensified drive retail dealers air enow acting as collection agents for household bones as a service to them. eountly,