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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-07-08, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943' TH S)AFORTH NEWS • THk 'Mil INV BU * ltl L By ANNE AL:AN Hydro Home Economist YOU'RE ELECTED TO DO VOUR'OWN CANNING Hello Ilomemakei's! To -clay's know- ledge of nutrition - particularly of the importance of vitamins and min- erals in our daily diet -'has made us realize the value of home -canned veg etebles, Grocery store shelves are no longer plentifully stocked with can- ned goods. So nowadays canning for the family really comes under the. heading, of "duty," especially if you haven't adequat storage facilities. Testing, kitchens. have- ben busy making thorough studies in search of a sure canning method, Water bath sterilization is the method we recom- mend, although the pressure cooker (not available at present) is best. For those who have pressure cool- ers, canning "bees" could be organiz- ed to help our vegetables to the full- est possible extent. STEPS IN CANNING VEGETABLES 1. In buying war -grade rubber rings, buy according to type of jar: read label on the box. If pre-war rubber rings spring back after be- ing folded double, they may be used. Before using, jour boiling water over rings and zinc tops and let stand about one minute. • 2. Pint jars are preferable for vege- `tables. Jars and glass tops must be free from nicks and cracks. Match the lids — do not let lids "rock" on jars, 3. Sterilizing equipment is import- ant. Thoroughly scrub every uten- ail and bowl to be used with a good brush in hot, soapy water, '-Then rinse and sterilize, For wat- er sterilization, half fill each jar with clear water, place glass tops in position and stand jars in boiler o1' large kettle, Add spoons, knife, bowls and funnel. Bring water to boiling and let boil 15 minutes,. Take jars out when ready to fill, one at a time. 4. Preparation of vegetables: , (a) Use fresh vegetables. Can them an hour or so after gathering and meantime keep in cool place as bacteria begins to grow when theyare in warm kitchen. (b) ' Sort according to size, discarding over -ripe, bruised or blighted ones. (c) 'Washing . cannot be stressed enough — wash pods or vegetables •thoroughly in two or. three waters. Then pod, stem or trim, and wash again. Lift out instead of draining and put in sterilized bowl, Don't wash too many at once, (d) Cut in uniform OM, using scalded knife, and put in salded kettle, 5, Pi'e cooking is recommended to ensure quick and thorough heat penetration. Clover vegetables with boiling water and boil for 3 or 4 minutes. 6. Prepare to fill jars. Place steril- ized jar on scalded pie plate; put rubber ring on; insert funnel and have scalded utensils ready. (Beep utensils On plate—not 00 unclean table). 'Wort; quickly; pack fairly loosely to allow for exPalisioll. Fill to within '✓ inch of ` top, or 1 inch if canning peas or. corn, Pour hot liquid, in which they were precooked, up to brim; slide sterilized knife down in jar to let out air;, add 1 teaspoon salt to each pint jar; place glass. top on, and partially seal. With serewtop sealers, screw tightly, then unscrew a half turn; with wire -clamp jars, adjust top clamp but do not spring down lower one, 'T, Processing by hot water bath. Set filled jars on rack in wash, boiler, large preserving ketle or galvanized iron pail. The rack may be a wire rack, a shingle or a chopping board. You may have to' improvise a lid to lit container, Pour hot water into processor or coker to cover the jars two inches above tops. Count the time of sterilization from the time the water bolls. keep water boiling. Have hot water ready to add to keep sealers covered — if they at'e• not covered, it may cause seepage from jars. 8. Remove jars as soon as cooking time is up to avoid over -process- ing. Place jars, several inches apart, on table to cool,. Do not turn -upside o d wn. Frequently, during first 15 min- utes'after removal, keep a bended ear to the sealers. Imperfect seals may be detected by a slight hiss- ing sound, or notice a collection of small bubbles at the rim, If this occurs, have sterilized knife and glass top within reach; open jar, remove any food particles on rub- ber or on edge of glass, reseat glass top in another psition or change glass top; adjust screw top without adding liquid. NUTRITION MADE EASY AS A.B.C.! Get this new book of balanced menus so easy a child could follow. e. At last ... here's a completely practical plan for good nutrition. A book of 63 "nutrition -wise" menus, literally as easy to use as A.B.C. !Allyou need, to make sure your family is wisely fed. We give you 21 days of menus ... grouped as meals, keyed 'as "A", "B", "C", "D" and "E". You simplychoose a breakfast of any letter, and ,team it up with any,-lupcheon and dinner of the same letter... And there you have a day's meals, as nourishing as they are appealing. Makesure that your family is wisely fed! Send for your FREE copy of "Eat -to -Work -to -Win" today ! Learn the easy way to meals both healthful and delicious! Sponsored by THE BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) in the interests of nutrition: and health as an aid to Victory. • YOURS FREE To get your FREE copy of "Eaf-to- Wotk•to-Win",0 lust.. send your name and, address, clearly printed, to "Nutrition for Victory", Box 600, Toronto, Canada. era The a,rtritional statements in " Eat-to-lIrork-to-grin" are acceptable to Nutrition Services, Department of Pensions astd National Health, Ottawa, for the Candia,, Nutrition Programme. 1.(1\W Q211II of the total number. of Loans outstanding in Canada's Chartered Banks average Tess than $500 per loan. Through bank loans, Canada's Chartered Banks help Canadians to benefit themselves, their fellows and their country. Many of these loans are small— but all contribute their share to the day-by-day activities of Canadian enterprise. Some further facts about Canada's Banks: Chartered Banks' loans related to agriculture as shown on the last official return to Parliament, totalled $340,118,473. This sum included loans to farmers, ranchers, fruit raisers and to grain dealers and grain ex- porters. Every general manager today heading . a Chartered Bank ear tered; the bank as a junior in some small branch. Up to and including February, 1943, no fewer than 6803 *!nen ;and 154 women bank employees had enlisted in the armed forces. Canadians in every walk of life and in every part of Canada are served by more than three thousand branches and sub -agencies maintained by the Chartered Banks to facilitate the nation's business, THE CHARTERED BANKS OF CANADA USE TOMATO JUICE TO CAN NON-ACID' VEGETABLES Eveu experienced homemakers have had some spoilage with Peas, Corr;, or string beans, These veget- ables are difficult to home can (without pressure cooker) because they are non-acid. We can now rec- ommend the following procedure add acidity. Wash string beans, string top and tail, wash add cut in uniform sizes, Put into ketle, coves' with wat- er and boil 3 minutes. Pack to within 1 inch of top, 1111 Jar half full of can- ned tomato juice or hot, cooked, strained tomatoes, then fill to top with liquid used in pre-cooking, Pro- cess in water bath for 11/2 hours, Re- move, test and cool. TIME CHART Product Pre -Cook Water Bath Beans 2 mins, 11/2 hrs. (in tomatoes) Beans 3 mins, 3 hrs. Beets ()mole) 15 mins. 1/ hrs. Corn 1 min. 1 hr. Spinach Steam 5 mins. 3 hrs. Peas 3 mins. 3 hrs. * a i Write Anne Allan fol' copies of "Nome Storage of 'Vegetables," "Preparation of Vegetables for Freez- ing Lockers" or "Canning with Press- ure Cooker." liTese will be sent with- out obligation, A Doughboy Looks At England The big troop transport was cut- ting through a heavy sea like the veteran of the waves that she really was. Transformed from a majestic luxury liner, she had been built in Britain and was returning to the homeland *with a cargo of U. S. fight- ing material to pour into the ever- increasing stream of united venge- ance against Nazi atrocities. It was a conglomeration of Yank brain and brawn from all walks of life, mustered into the service from California to Maine and poured into uniform. An interesting lot, as varied as the colors of the rainbow. We were sailing somewhere into •adventure, Most everyone sensed that it would be the British Isles, and there were mixedfeelings concerning what lay ahead. There were all sorts of apprehensions about air raids, poor food, and various restrictions. Most everyone could think of a better place to be. •It was perfectly obvious that we had something in common with the English, as we were in the same boat.. And there was a memory of „Dunkirk • and Landon and •,Coventry that .called for the deepest admiration for the way they were taking it — and passing it back. Upon arriving, we found ourselves in a beautiful country of green fields and villages. How were we to under- stand the people and their ways and co-operate to the fullest extent ? I have a pal who after several months in Britain says he can't understand the natives here and that it em- barrasses hien to keep asking "What?" Obviously an exceptional case as . regards the language, but their way of doing things is sometimes incom- pi ehensible — everything backwards, from driving on the wrong side of the road to eating their chow off the back of the fork while juggling it in their- left hand, If ever yon see a cart going down the road before the horse you will know instinctively that it wa's 'Made in England," Matter of fact, it is a common sight to see dump trucks built back -end forward and running hi the wrong direction. I have come across some of the oddest mechanical gadgets. They are a constant source of amusement and amazement to me. The astounding thing about, them is that the doggoned things really work. You would think the English had some sort of a per- sonal understanding with the laws of physics to get by with what they do. The first time we got a close-up of a Stirling bomber we were flabber-. gasted. It was built like a huge box car and •you could almost hide one of onl' trim Flying Fortresses under- neath its wings. After contemplating it for some time one of the boys cracked, "And the darn thing flies!" To which I added, "Yeh; and it hauls bombs •too." It 18 amazing what the English can de with small means. I met a chap who had a tiny shop in his back yard. For tools he had a couple of beat -up old wrenches, the.mere sight of which would make an American mechanic curse; a drill press ingeniously made out of a pile of junk, and a small lathe Of ancient vintage, He was building parts on contract for nation- al defense and , so help me, you couldn't tell but what the finished article hadn't been manufactured by a Chrysler or General Motor's factory. Ile took me to a friend's place, a similar shop only larger, He was building electrical welding machines of his own design on government contract, Got the idea from an Amer. lean mechanics magazine. It was orig- inally a simple transformer unit for thawing 0111 frozen water. plpc's. When he saw I was fascinated by it,. he showed mo in detail flow it was built so that I could make one of MY own when I get back to the States. That's the way with them; 1f they have something good they are willing to share it and go to no end of trouble to please you, Almost without exception they are out staudingly unseliiali and liospituble. I know, (or 1 have often tried to pay more than they asked for good or services and they steadfastly refuse to "profiteer" as they call it, And 3 have been stranded in out - of -the- way places 'late at night and been made a welcome guest by the first strangers $ met on the street. Their home to me is an open door and nowhere in Britain have I felt a stranger. Cycling over the countryside late at nightI look up and see the same comforting stars I slept under on the western prairie, I breathe the same free air and speak nay mind without fear of a Gestapo shadow The doors of innumerable religious institutions are open to my choosing, He, as at home, I am a free man. In meditation I thank God that there are men and women in Britain who had the heart of lions and the courage of their convictions to stand alone against the aggressor in the darkening shadows of a war-torn world until the nations from across the sea would come to their deliver- ance, and united, they could break the Nazi yoke. The morning skies are an azure blue and white puffs of cumulus clouds drift lazily across the fresh green fields bordered by a network of hedges that crisscross the rolling countryside and disappear into the distant haze. It is easy now to see why this little spot of earth is so dear to the Eng- lishman's heart. Frankly, I like it too. Nerve He had the nerve, he supposed. That was what people generally said. "Yohnny, you've got nerve all right," they said, as often as not, after he had screwed himself up and sweated blood, Cautiously now he supposed he had. eH started to sing to himself as he turned the aircraft toward base. It had been like learning to Iride a bicycle all over again. i. It meant as much and it cost as much. They had been afraid at home to let him have a bicycle in case he killed himself. They put It off so long that everyone else not only hada bike but could ride without touching the handle -bars. At school he had not dared to let on that he couldn't ride, and in the end he went home and lied, and told them how he borrowed bikes at school and rode without touching the handlebars. So he had got his own bike and he slipped down Alnia Road in the dusk. Where the pavements ended, where nobody could see him he mounted the thing, He wobled out betwen the hedges, veering and plunging upon the rocking road, his' feet jabbing the pedals, his teeth set. If other chaps could do it, if the merest idiot rode with easy nonchol- ance, so could he, Johnny, by next inorujng. In the morning he rode to school, sick and bruised, his body tensed as a drowning man's. He crashed inside the main gates riding without touch- ing the handlebars. "There's nerve for you", people said. "First time he rides a. bike he rides without touch- ing." They laughed. That he hadn't ridden before was no secret. His heavy face, his astonished eyes and wide open grin concealed his despair and his triumph. Ile happened to be able to put that face on it: he did not have to try. He smiledand raised both hands clear of the stick, cautiously enjoying the rare splendor of evening at two thousand feet above the crusted snow. For a torpedo job you need nerve. To drop down to the right height, to get into range, to fly two and one half degrees nose up, to make the right number of ]snots and, aiming body and brain 111 one mom- ent of decision, to press the tit need- ed nerve, the instructors said. They could do it themselves, they could teach, they could lead dummy at- tacks, thea could correct faults, but they could not hand out that fusion of brain and body which they casual- ly called nerve. Yqu had to have it, quick and easy, like letting go your handlebars for instance, Johnny had learned t0 fly, and fif- teen months' sweat found him sitting in his Beaufort singing and cautious. 'MAO/ell/WINCED Chi/CNEN ROIL SERVES .8 ESTIMATED CAST 85 2 cups flour 4 tsp..Magic Baking Powder i.tsp. salt 4 tbs. shortening1 egg cup milk 13.1 cups minced'ieftoyer chicken 4 tbs. milk 2 iso. finely chopped onions 2 tbs, chopped parsley Sift first 3 ingredients, mix in shortening, Beat egg in meas- uring cup, add milk to make 94 cup; add to first mixture. Roll out 3'r inch thick. Mix remaining ingredients, spread on dough. Roll uplike jelly roll and bake in hot oven (425° F.) 30 minutes. • Serve with leftover chicken gravy. E 1�%dsSS 0 1() 01110 COXTPtNS NO P�� MAGIC GIVES LEFTOVERS A LIFT MA01IA' CANADA ly reckoning that the nerve would be all right. For a week he had been carrying out torpedo attacks, His re- sults were assessed as excellent. 110 was never a smug type: but he was happy. Soon he would pass fully trained to an operational squadron. Meanwhile there was the splendid evening, a late tea in prospect, and then — why not — a pint atDinty's. But first, tea, the best meal of the day, heavy and unhurried, as the orderlies were putting up the black- out, and people talked shop un- restrainedly, and made optimistic plans for the evening. Pug yawned and watched Johnny's right hand move with unhurried pre- cision to the black ;.nob controlling the lowering of the undercarriage. The wheels stayed up. Instead of turning in to land, Johnny started another circuit. Pug got out the Aldis lamp, and oJhnny's right hand slid down to his second string, the red top of the handle pump fitted for pumping the wheels down manually. They knew the drill. It might happen to anyone anytime. Johnny fitted the handle and pumped. The whets stay- ed up. They circuited and went on pumping. Johnny glanced down at the run- ways surrounded b yice-fretted mud. He was hiwgry and he felt senseless pangs of fury at being unable to land, He glanced at his watch„ There Wes half an hour more daylight at the outside, if the weather did not Mose down with a bang, They stoog- ed around pumping. The wheels stay- ed up. It was forlorn in the ageing light. The indecisiveness and the lateness Continued on page 7 Urges Farmers Save Seed, Forage Crops If the substantial requests in Can- ada for alfalfa, red clover and alsike seed from the 1923 crops are to be met, it will be necessary for farmers to save and harvest as much seed of these crops this year as possible says Nelson Young, Seeds Administrator. Any seed harvested which will be surplus to the farmer's own require- ments should be sold through the us- ual commercial channels and the prices should assure a fair return. At present such seeds are retailing at the retail ceiling prices, said Mr. Young. In helping to overcome the short- age of protein feeds this year alfalfa red clover and alsike which are high in protein especially if cut early, should be more than ever relied up- on. While tliose engaged in dairying will need to conserve ah much of the forage crops as possible, they may find, they may be able to meet their feed requirements and still save a part of the crop for seed. 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