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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-10-29, Page 2TABLE TALKS Here in Canada, of course; we don't use Born meal in our cook- ing to anything like the extent they do "down South." Which is rather a pity, as it is both nourishing and economical. One of the reasons for its lack of popularity here is, I believe, that we Canadian cooks just don't know how to handle corn meal and turn out stuff that is flat and uninteresting. So here are three recipes which I think wi11 give your folks new ideas Of how good corn meal can be. SO11R-OREAM CORN BREAM 1 e. yellow corn meal 1 c. sifted flour 1 tsp, soda 1 tbisp, sugar I tsp. salt 1 egg ! o. sifted flour 1 tbisp. melted shortening Sift together dry ingredients. Add beaten egg. Pour in cream (if cream is' very thick, it niay take a bit more for the right consistency). Add shortening. Pour batter in greased 8x8 -in. pan, and bake in a moderate (37e°) oven until golden brown. 5 5 e HAM UPSIDE-DOWN CORN BREAD 1 t1 -Ib.) centre slice Ilam, cut 't inch thick 1 c. yellow cern meal 14. c. sifted flour 444 tsp. baking powder r1 tsp. salt 1N tsp. soda 1 c buttermilk 1 egg Sift together the dry ingredi- ents. Stir in the buttermilk. Beat the egg, add it, and mix. Cut the ham into serving -size pieces and dry, When nearly done spoon corn bread batter on each piece. Continue tfrying (ham un- derneath) about five minutes, until corn bread thickens. Then turn and fry on corn bread side. You can serve these cakes with spiced apricots or pickled peach- es, a green vegetable, and a toss- ed salad. Y k 5 CORN MEAL FRITTERS 1 e. yellow corn meal 3Cr a sifted flour, 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tap, salt 1 egg 1 tsp. melted shortening t.a c, milk Sift dry ingredients into bowl, Combine liquids and stir into flour mixture. Blend well. Heat one inch melted shortening or lard to 375° in frying pan. Drop batter by tablespoons into hot fat. Cook until light brown, Serves six. You might like to try the frit- ters for lunch or supper with a currant jelly sauce, Canadian bacon, fried bananas, and a salad. For variety, Jean uses one - Wedding Bells. Nora Edding- ton Haymes had her day in the Los Angeles divorce court Last week. After testifying that croon- er Dick Haymes had treated her cruelly, drank too much, and in- sulted her friends, she was grant- ed -.n interlocultory divorce de- eree. Then on Monday, she clear- ed the way for the scheduled marriage of Dick Haymes and Rita Hayworth en Thursday morning in Las Vegas before his deportation hearing by notariz- ing a waiver to permit Haymes to get an immediate Nevada div- orce. Half 'td' Plait — One half is act- ress Midge Ware. The other half is just a reflection of the quali- fies which inspired judges of a beauty contest to name Midge GS the girl with the "trimmest torso," Tuning In A Heart—Johnny Sujam's heart is being "broadcast" through an electro-phono cardiograph machine to anxious lis- teners, Janet Cahill, 9, and members of the Variety Club. The organization donated the machine to the medical staff of the La Rabiada Jackson Park Sanitarium. TIE FARM FRONT vatusea Stumps can be tough. Every farmer knows there are times when a stump can be more stub- born than a mule and will, un- der certain conditions, scorn the best efforts of man, horse or mechanical equipment. When this happens it is time to con- sider blasting -- under 'any con- ditions one of the quickest and cheapest ways of removing stumps. 4 # k Actual procedure for stump blasting should be determined by the size and condition of the stump and nature of the soil in which it is anchored, says J, E. Carson of the explosives divi- sion of one of the leading manu- facturers. Usually, stumps can be removed cleanly by blasting alone but on occasion some pull- ing will be required for com- plete removal. 5 a While preparation of the stump for blasting is not difficult, it should be done with extreme care, Mr. Carson ,varus. Loading must suit the nature of the roots and charges placed to break their hold on the soil A dia- gonal hole should be punched with a crowbar or drilled with a soil auger until its bottom is a fair distance below and just be- yond the centre of the stump. ' The explosives charge should be loaded right to the bottom of the hole, the cartridges being tamped in with a wooden rod. A broom handle is ideal. * Where a heavy charge is re- quired, it will be necessary to first "spring" the hole by firing with a very small charge in or- der to provide a pocket of suf- ficient size to accommodate the larger charge. a a a For stump blasting Mr. Car- son recommends the use of stumping powder of 20 per cent strength or "Blasto]" of 60 per cent strength. If stumps are in dry ground cartrides should be slit and tamped well into the bottom of the hole. In wet ground stumping powder should not be slit but loaded intact. "Blastol" cartridges, an the other hand being water-resistant, may be split even when holes are wet provided charges are fired reasonably soap after loading. All holes shoufd be filled right to the collar with sand r n earth before firing. "Plant breeders are doing ex- cellent work in producing potato varieties which are resistant to various diseases and are less at- tractive to certain insects," J, W. Scannell, Assistant Chief, Plant Protection Division, De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, told the annual meeting of the Potato Association of America, f Hut he added, "While many of these varieties appear to show definite resistance to some specific problem, they frequently do not seem to stand up when put into commercial production. ' Also many of the new varieties lack quality. In Canada, Green Mountain is used as the standard for quality and no new varieties are introduced that do not equal or better Green Mountain quali ty. "Sonie horticulturists claim that the reduced per capita con- sumption of the potato is at least partly due to the poor qua- lity we now find on our mar- kets. The tubers themselves are usually vert' attractive but when cooked they lack quality." ^.v Mr. Scannell, steed the certi- fied Seed inspector was kept busy trying to become fully acquainted with the characteris- tics of these new varieties. When he did learn something of a var- iety which has given promise, he suddenly discovered it was ne longer being grown but had been replaced with a new variety with a new set of characteristics. U 0 0 The variety which has come forward quicker than any other introduced is Katandin. It has led the production field of certi- fied seed in the United States and Canada for many years, ac- cording to Mr. Scannell, although in 1035 Sebago topped the list in Canada. One old variety Which Inas survived is Irish Cob- bler, still popular in many areas. Bliss triumph has remained popular in certain districts but has been replaced in some places by Pontiac. Netted Gem has re- mained popular on the Pacific coast and White Rose is also producing there to quite an ex- tent Production of certain varieties in Canada is influenced by the export trade and frequently re- quests. are received for fairly large quantities of varieties dis- carded a few years earlier due to lack of markets, Some grow- ers attempt to anticipate this by producing a variety which is not in demand in Canada, with the hope that it can be sold on the export market. The licensing system in Canada tends to keep down the number of varieties introduced each year, but it is still felt there are far too many varieties on our certi- fication list. This year's list in- cludes the names of 48 licensed varieties, of which 36 were en- tered for inspection. SUCH IGNORANCE A lion was out walking and decided to ask the other animals who was king, After' going round most at the animals, all of whom said, "YOu are king; 0 lion," he came to the elephant and asked, "Ele- phant, who is king?". The elephant picked up ,the lion in his trunk and smashed him to the ground. The lion, getting up and walking away, said, "All right, there's no need to get mad because you don't know the answer," N AY SC11001 LESSON ay les R Bat day War en B A.. S. D. God's Plan for the Dome Deuteronomy 6:4.9; Ephesians 5:26.32 Memory Selection: God setsetb the solitary in families; Psalm 08:7. Religious instruction should be- gin in the home. Here where love abounds the most continual and effective training can be given. Let the love of Christ have free course in the hearts of the parents and there are no unsolvable problems. A nation is no stronger than' its homes. The ideals that make for happy homes are threatened today. Not so many years ago any wo- man who had diverced three husbands and married a fourth would be the object of shame, Today she is widely publicized, glamourized and even idolized, This trend is indicative of low- ering of ideals. An increasing harvest ofwrecked marriages is on the way. Judge Joseph Sabath, an out- standing figure in the Court of Domestic Relations, has had a long and varied experience with the affairs of broken homes and wrecked marriages, He says: "Ninety thousand people, w h o have come to the parting of the ways through bitter recrimina- tions have stood before me to testify of broken homes, sordid betrayals, and the unbelievable rancor which cause separations. Out . of my fifty years of mar- ried life and my .twenty years as a divorce jurist, I have framed a decalogue for those who are married or are contemplating it, which I think would prevent at least ninety per cent of the marital smashups." His rules are as follows: 1. Bear and forbear. 2. Work together, play together, and grow up together. 3. Avoid the little quarrels, and the big ones will take care of themselves. 4. Compromise. (Give and take.) It is the anti -toxin of divorce. 5. Practice sympathy, good hu- mor, and mutual understand- ing. 6. Dont grouch before break- fast — or after it, 7. Respect your "in-laws," but dent criticize them Or take criticism .from them. B. Establish your own home, even in a one -room flat. 9. Fight for each other, but not with each other. 10. Build your home on religious faith, with love and forgive- ness as the watchwords. MERRY MENAGERIE "Go back to bed, stupid ... do you want some early bird to get von?" Do Atomic Bombs Effect Weather ? The average New York girl — who usually glows with a handsome sun tan by the middle of May—was a pale, frustrated creature this spring. She went on wearing wool suits at a time when she should have been in backless sun -dresses. She had trouble drying even her nylon underwear after lannder- ing it. Spring in the north-eastern United States brought a dreary succession of cold, damp clays instead of the normal sunshine; the chilliest, wettest surmg on record. Floods, tornadoes and cloud- bursts bit violently and fre- quently in areas of the country where they had seldom before been experienced. Fog en- shrouded cities where it had previously been only heard of, The "year of the mildew" is one newspaper's name for 1953. House -painters were work- ing up to three months behind schedule because unbroken spells of rain kept them indoors. Nurserymen found seed stocks sprouting in their sacks. So far as sports events were concern- ed, all baseball records for rain- outs and freeze -outs were shat- tered. One unhappy householder re- ported: "I've got mildew in my cellar you could harvest with a scythe." What caused this unprecedent- ed wet and cold? The answer is riot yet certain, but some far- sighted weather experts believe a clue can be found In London's unusual November fogs, Those experts tip to now are in a 'minority because their theory is an extension 01 the popular belief that the atom bomb explosions round the world can be blamed for up- setting old Mother Nature. The official United States Weather Bureau discounts that idea, Bureau technicians dismiss as "trifling" the effects of the atomic explosions that shake the Nevada desert, Australia's Monte Bello Islands, and boil up the waters of Pacific atolls. The forces 01 energy. eeleased during an average thunderstorm they say, are five times mightier than the exploding of the higgest known atom bomb. The Weather Bureau's Dr, Harry Wexler says flatly. "All available evidence of the effects of atomic weapons, including ob- servations by competent meteoro- logists at Bikini, indicate that ef- fects, if any, of an A-bomb on weather can only he of a local character." Opponents et Dr. Wexler',. dic- tum, however, think the Weather Bureau overlooks the importance of the giant dust clouds which arc sent. soaring into the atmos- phere every time a bomb goes off in Nevada. That dust, his cri- tics believe, holds the secret of the wild and freakish weather :from which great sections of America have suffered, In May a dust storm, the strangest in man's memory, des- cended on New York, depositing a thick coat of red particles on bnildin.t, parked cars and ped- eslrirums, Experiments have proved that radioactive dust from the desert 2,000 miles away has ruined photographic plates and film spools. The same dust was traced in cardboard boxes manufactured in Ohio. The Weather Bureau's own files, containing data covering the past three centuries, show that cold, cloudy summers regu- larly lolow major volcanic er- uptions, Dust flung up into tha atmos- phere when Krakatoa erupted in the Pacific in 1833 with such shattering and tragic effect caus- ed "golden sunsets" for years af- terwards, The eruption of Tomhoro in the East Indies, which killed an estimated 12,000 people n 1815, brought about the celebrated "year without a summer" in 1816, when parts of New England saw frost and snow every month out of the twelve, ("Eighteen -hun- dred -and -froze -to -death" is the way that year is indicated in local folk lore.) Now the A-bomb school ui met- eorologists is pointing to the London "pea-souper" as an ex- ample of what microscopic par- ticles of solid matter suspended in the air—in London's case they aro., particles of smoke—can de to weather conditions. And consider the havoc wrought by fog, Bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy and, asthma are only a few of the scourges brought about by this menace One of the most protracted Lon- don fogs on record, in 1879 caus- ed 13,717 deaths in six weeks. Those smoke "fragments" serve as the core around which the fog clouds cling. Much the same effect plagues Los Angeles where, on an otherwise sunny day, "smog" settles over the city and obscures vision over more than a few yards. `The much -reviled rain -makers, who were employed by the City of New York two seasons ago to break a dry spell that threaten- ed a grave water shortage ach- ieved results, by providing arti- ficial "smoke" fragments to gather rain and mist. From low-flying 'planes, these weather men scattered particles of dry ice and powdered chemi- cals. Sometimes within minutes rain began to fall, to the delight of drought -ridden farmers and the consternation of holiday- makers, who were rained out of camps and resorts just beyond the city limits. Volcanic Effects Since weather reporting is still an inexact science, plenty of time remains for the "heretics," who assert that A-bombs bring Roods, to convince their dis- believing colleagues. One of their spokesmen, Jerome Alexander, says: "While the energy released by a bomb may not compare with the energy in- volved in such natural manifes- tations as volcanic eruptions, the dust it hurls high and wide may exert a trigger effect on weather." A Parson had occasion to re- prove a small boy for swearing. If you feel you must say some- thing, just say 'Bother'!" he said. "Your father doesn't swear, does he?" "Oh, no, sir." "Well, then, if he were work- ing in the garden and suddenly stepped backwards on to a rake which flew up and hit him on the head from behind, what would he say?" "He'd say, 'You're back early, clear!" Install glass brick in the walls under kitchen cupboards, to bring daylight onto your work coun- ters. Ttibe lights under cupboards can ensure adequate artificial light at" night. Eye -savers, es- pecially under corner cupboards. Where'd He Come From?—Many people would like io know how this grasshopper got inside the hermetically sealed speedometer panel of Earl Cole's 1953 Ford, but none has yet come up with an answer. Cole, who's put 53 miles on the new car, took it into a garage and mechanics tell him they'll have to take the case apart to remove the insect. Vigil Rewarded—Tension is keen in humans and dog alike as members of the Bethesda -Chevy Chase, rescue squad administer oxygen to a collie pup, removed from a deep hole just moments before. As the pup's mother, "Dusty" and owner, Mrs. George W, Imrie, keep vigil, Dick Shauks, left, and Charles Cherry bring the ineldent to a happy ending. The pup soars was frisking abdu9.