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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-09-02, Page 2:TABLE TALKS 1 tz A,.ews Going! Goingi Gone! The auc- tioneer's old phrase might easily be applied to summer -- and summer fruits, In the beginning of this season, we always think the long, lazy days will be end- less — perhaps they lull us into a sense of false security. For there comes a day when the air lies almost a tinge of fall. That's the time when many homemakers realize that fruits have come and gene — but their jelly shelves are still standing empty. Well, the last of the summer fruits are in season now so don't forget to make as many homemade spreads as possible with these flavorful fruits. And with the modern short boil method of making jam and jelly the sparkling color and fresh fla- vor of the fruit are retained be- cause the fruit or juice is only boiled 1 minute. The preparation time is short and the yield great- er than with the long boil me- thod. Here are some tested recipes. Why not make some jam or jelly today? APPLE JELLS and HOTTER YIELD: About 15 medium gasses jelly and 15 medium glasses butter. To prepare the fruit. Remove blossom and stem ends from about 5 pounds fully ripe apples; cut in small pieces. Do not peel or core. Add 10 cups water; bring lo a boil and simmer, covered, 10 minutes. Crush with masher and simmer, covered, 5 minutes longer. Place in a large sieve lined with a double thickness of cheesecloth. Drain and measure 'i cups juice into a very large saucepan. Use juice for making jelly; use fruit remaining in sieve :ler making butter. APPLE JELLY 7 cups juice 9 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin To make the jelly. Measure su- gar and set aside. Add powdered fruit pectin to juice in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat and stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir 'in auger. Bring to a fall rolling boil and boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and pour quickly into glasses. Cover jelly at once with 7/a inch lsOt paraffin. APPLE BUTTER 7 cups fruit pulp 9 cups sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon allspice le teaspoon cloves Who Dat7 — This unidentified kitten seems a bit puzzled after lumping on a mirror -topped table and getting her first look at her own reflection. 1 box powdered fruit pectin To make the butter. Measure sugar and set aside. Remove cheesecloth from sieve and put fruit through sieve. Measure 7 cups pulp into a very large sauce- pan. Add spices. Add powdered fruit pectin to pulp in saucepan and mix well, Place over high. heat and stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and ladle quickly into glasses. Cover butter at once with 7/e inch hot paraffin. Makes about 15 six -ounce glasses. JELLIED TOMATO SONSERVE (Using fresh or canned tomatoes) 3 cups cooked tomatoes and lemon 6 level cups sugar 1 bottle liquid fruit pectin Scald, peel a n d crush w e 11 about 21 lbs. fully ripe toma- toes, Take about 4 cups crushed tomatoes and boil hard without cover for 10 minutes to coneen- trate pulp. Add the juice and grated rind of lemon. Measure 3 cups of mixture into large kettle, add sugar and mix well. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard for 2 minutes, stirring constantly, remove from heat and stir in liquid 'fruit pectin. .Skim and pour quickly. If plain tomato fla- vor is preferred omit the lemon and use only 27/4 cups cooked tomatoes. For use with meats add LA tea- spoon each of powdered allspice, cloves and cinnamon; may also be flavored to taste with Worces- tershire Sauce. Nothing Safe From The Crooks Heavyweight crime seems to be on the increase in many parts of the world. Crooks are steal- ing bigger and heavier articles which would seem to entail hard labour in more senses than one. It took thieves two days of grinding hard work to remove an iron bridge in France some time ago. Another man stole two cannons each of which weighed a quarter of a ton. Near Albert, in France,, a long stretch of rail- way line was lifted" by pers- piring but persevering thieves overnight. Parts of houses are sometimes taken away, A massive staircase vanished from a London house. And some years ago there was a run of Adam mantelpiece thefts from large London homes. It must have taken three men to carry each mantelpiece. Nine upright pianos and a baby grand disappeared from the house of a building contrac- tor. A live whale weighing over 50 tons was stolen from a rail- way truck as it stood on a sid- ing in Poland. The specially con- structed tank with its enormous Occupant was removed one night. Next day the Owners received a note from the hard-working thieves offering to return the whale on payment of $1500. But the impossibility of feeding the whale compelled the thieves to abandon it before the money could be paid. Steam -rollers, granite tomb- stones and even an aircraft han- gar hr ve been stolen at various times. It's still a mystery how thieves removed the fifth green of a New York golf course some years back. Police finally loc- ated the 400 yards of green stacked in a cemetery, six miles from the course. Pit-iful Sight—Drought-stricken Missouri has its troubles doubled by a plague of grasshoppers that aro eating everything Phe drought didn't burn up. So voracious are the insects that they strip' peach trees of foliage and even eat the fruit, leaving the pits hanging on the branch. Photo shows a common sight in the peach orohards, Portrait of a Princess—Princess Anne of England smiles as er fourth birthday portrait is snapped in London. She is wearing a frock of figured voile over taffeta. I- x'ww Can 1 ? Q. How can I remove tar from fabrics? A. To remove tar or grease stains from any material with- out injuring the fabric, apply a little eucalyptus oil with a flan- nel cloth; rub gently .:until spots disappear. Or, rub a little lard, kerosene, sweet oil, or butter on the spots; let them stand a few hours, then wash with soap and warm water, Q. How can I save sugar when sweetening drinks? A. Instead of sweetening the beverages with plain sugar, make a syrup of sugar and water for this purpose. It is far easier to govern the sweetness and is also more economical. Q. How can I give a faint fragrance to clothing? A. Add a lump of orris root to the boiler on laundry clay and see what a delicate fragrance it gives the clothes, Q. How can I prevent scorch- ing cakes? A. If the oven is too hot when baking a cake the cake is very liable to scorch, particularly if the ingredients are rich. Rich cakes require a much longer time to bake than plain ones. Q. How can I clean set rings? A. The crevices of the ring can be cleaned, and the original brilliancy .restored, by dipping a brush in warm soap water and scouring. Q. Haw can I remove grass stains? A. if the stains are first sponged with alcohol, the usual laundering will remove them, Q. How can I whiten yellowed laces? A. Add dissolved soap to equal parts of milk and water until a strong suds is formed. Add a teaspoonful of borax for each quart of liquid, put in the lace and boll for a half hour. Q. How can I roll a very thin dough? A, Fasten a piece of muslin smoothly and tightly around the rolling pin, and the dough can be rolled just as thin as desired. • Q. How can I loosen corns? A, It is claimed that they will loosen by binding a piece of lemon round it, changing the ap- plication daily for about three or four days. Then soak the cern in warm water and it can be removed very easily, Q. How can I remove peach stains from linen? A. By first soaking in glycerin and then washing in hot soap- suds. Q. Ilow can I remove the odor of smoke from a room? A. Put a basin of water in the room, leave overnight and keep a window slightly open. The air will be sweet by morning, COME-IIACIS Noticing a piece of paper •flut- tering under the windshield wiper of a new car parked in the street, a curious New Yorker stoped to read it. On the paper was neatly written: "Attorney— am inside attending to business." Below, also neatly written, was this: "Policeman—I attended to mine outside." And on the door was a parking ticket. WASTED SYMPATHY "What flavours of Ice cream Isave you?" The pretty waitress answered in a hoarse whisper, "Vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate." Trying to be sympathetic, the diner said, "You got laryngitis?" "Ido," replied the girl, with an att ort, 'just vanilla, strawberry' and chocolate." Turkish Sayings 1. Who buys cheap buys dear. 2, Do not roll up your trousers before reaching the stream. 3. Give nine, save ten, 4. If God closes one door, lie opens a thousand new ones. 5. If you are an anvil be pa- tient, if you are a hammer be strong. 8. In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain. 7, It is more difficult to con- tend with oneself than with the world, 8. Locks are to keep out friends, not enemies. 9. Many will show you the way once your cart has over- turned, 10. Roses grow where a teacher strikes. 11. Sweet is the music of a dis- tant drum. 12. Too many cooks retard the dawn. 13. What crosses one's . mind can cross one's path. 14. You cannot dig a well with a needle. 15. You cannot straighten a dog's tail by puling it into a mold, 16, You cannot skin the same sheep twice. —From "A Brief Selection of Turkish Proverbs," selected and translated by Mubin Manyasig. haps' Most , ,°pular indoor Sport Pachinko, a simpleton's game of chance, is Japan's most popu- lar indoor sport today. Because of it, horse -racing has declined, restaurants have lost their lunch-time customers, housewives have neglected their babies, and there has been an alarming increase in petty crime an suicides. The :raze is worrying social workers, psychologists, doctors, and tax -collectors. It has been the subject of a lively congres- sional debate in the Diet. The cause of it all is a kind of poor 'man's pin -table. If the ball falls into one of several nail -fenced cavities, the player wins 10, 15 Or 20 steel balls. He may play these, or swap them for cigarettes, sweets, or a var- iety Of other inexpensive prizes. Pachinko statistics are stag- gering, In the past year the Sap anese have spent 11.7 per cent of the entire national budget on pachinko. There are over a mil- lion such machines in the coun- try—one for every eighty citi- zens—and 10,000 pachinko ar- cades in Tokyo alone. The Monopoly Corporationes- timates that 13 per cent, of the nation's cigarette production is sold by pachinko parlours. Not a week passes without a pub, a sweet shop, a restaurant, or a shoe shop closing to reopen again es a pachinko den. In Osaka, a cabaret dropped its hostesses in favour of the game. Special pa- chinko halls are reserved for school children who flick the steel balls for sweets, pencils, and toys. Doctors report cases of sprain- ed Thumbs resulting from over- indulgence. Japanese wags call• it pachinkosis. A young wife was granted a divorce from her tailor husband who spent all his time and lost all his money at pa- chinko. A clerk committed sui- cide after a run of bad luck, An employee in Tokyo's Popeye Pachinko Parlor was stabbed by a pachinkomaniac when the en- raged player's winning streak was interrupted. A 72 -year-old woman lost her temper at an unco-operative machine, smash- ed the glass, eut herself, and bled to death. .o PLAIN HORSE SENSE Sy !F. 004Q8) VON IPKX+.1S 11 was with considerable sat- isfaction that we listened the other day to Mr, C. I. McInnis explaining to the Grey County Hog Producers the necessity of establishing National Marketing Agencies. Mr. McInnis said that among the hog producers all over Canada the idea seemed to be prevalent that the orderly marketing of bogs could not be accomplished provincially, but had to be done, on a national scale. Committee Appointed At the Semi -Annual Meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in Amherst the last week of July, the matter carne up for discussion and a com- mittee was appointed to study ' and promote the establishment of a National Marketing Agency for hogs. This agency would handle any surpluses by selling to the pro- cessors and distributors only the number of hogs required for domestic consumption and by disposing of the surplus in the world market. The Fat Stock Corporation, re- cently established by the Na- tional Farmers Union in Britain, was mentioned as an example, also the sales organizations of farmers in the Netherlands and in Denmark. Welcome 'as the acceptance of the principle of national market- ing by the Federation of Agri- culture is, we hope that the ap- pointment of a new committee "to study" the problem does not mean that Canadian hog pro- ducers will have to wait another year or two until theory is put ino practice. It took the Farmers Union in Britain exactly three months to organize their new sales system, Blames Packers The recent drop in hog prices from a high of about forty dol- lars to the present $28 per hundrerweight was blamed on the packing industry which was said to have bought and stored hogs on speculation hoping for a further increase of price. When the expected rise of price did not occur, the packers threw their stocks on the market and caused a further decline. This explanation sounds rather thin in view df the well known shrewdness of the management of the packing industry. Whatever the reasons may be for the instability of the market in the last two years, it is open- ing up the minds of some of our farm leaders for the need of more producer controlled marketing, instead of less. Get Action It is rather late to start "to lay the foundation" for a Na- tional Marketing Scheme; this should have been done years ago. Instead of taking first steps now in exploring possibilities, we should have had a scheme blueprinted, ready to be put in- to action whenever the need arose. However, it is better late than never. There are a few points though that fanners might be well advised to keep in mind. Firstly, they will find that in order to stabilize the hog market, they will have to control all live stock. Prices of hogs and beef are interdependent. Secondly, contrary to Mr. Mc- Innis' opinion, we believe that new legislation is needed, pre- ferably in the form of a federal act setting up national agencies under federal charters, Thirdly, instead of taking council with government depart- ments in Britain, Canada's farm- ers should deal directly with British buyers, be it the National Farmers TJunion and its subsi- diaries, or the Co-operative Wholesale Societies. The present writer has always plugged for the idea of producer controlled orderly marketing on a national scale and at times has been under heavy attack for the free and open expression of his views and opinions, He will continue to speak up with- out fear or favour. This column welcomes criti- cism, constructive or destructive, and suggestions, wise or other- wise. It will endeavour to an- swer any questions. Address mail to• Bob Von Pills, Whitby, Ont. A IDEAL SHERLOCK An instructor in one of those speed-up courses, where they do four years' work in an hour and a half, realized that the class was -- beginning to crack under the strain, and decided to ease the situation with a nonsense ques- tion. "If a chair has four legs, he began, "is painted white and rolls on wheels, how old am I?" Without a second's hesitation, a boy in the back got up. "Forty-four," he said. "Correct," said the amazed in- structor. "Absolutely correct, sir, Do you mind telling me how you arrived at that answer?" "Well," said the student, "my brother is twenty-two, and he's only half nuts," Dab Drying — Dabbing a fey remainingdrops of water fron her legs is pretty Julie Padilli as she prepares tosoakup sun light. New Machine Reads for Blind—In Modena, Italy, electrical en- gineer Ontonio Rubbiani, right, demonstrates his new reading machine for the blind to sightless Guiseppe Cerroni, who "reads" a newspaper with his finger lips. The machine consists of a photo -electric cell mounted on a framework, right, which trans- mits electrical impulses, letter by letter, to corresponding dowels on the keyboard of the reception box, left. eminent