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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.
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of the
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average Tess than $500 per loan.
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Chartered Banks' loans related
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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.
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"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.
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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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