HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-05-29, Page 7Oldest Settled Port
In, North America
To our right as we drove was the
River and Basin, and far across the
water we saw a Clark oblong that was
Port Royal Habitation, the oldest
permanent settlement of white peo-
ple hi America north of the Gulf of
Mexico. It stands on the site Samuel
de Champlain selected in 1605, and
the well he had dug is in the center
of the ancient courtyard.. The group
of buildings is arranged around the
yard id the manner of the sixteenth
century farms in northern Vrance,
and is fortified by a stockade and
by two cannon platforms. , . .
• The entrance gateway is framed
with hewn. oak and is roofed with
oak shingles as used in Picardy in
the sixteenth century. The studded
oak doors are handmade and hung
and fitted with wrought ironware
of period design. The peep -hole in
the' outer floor was known as a
"Judas." The coat of arms painted
over the doorway is derived front
that shown on Lescarbot's map of
Port -Royal. The arms are those of
France (left) and Navarre (right),
of which countries Henry IV was
King. The small building next the
gateway is described in tt picture
plan as "a small building in which
was kept the rigging for our pin-
naces. This the Sieur de Pourin-
court had later rebuilt and there the
$ieur de 13oulay lodged when the
Sieur de font returned to France."
The interior wall boarding is spruce,
the fireplace is of stone, the -windows
are of leaded glass, and the cantle
Scones are as would be made by the
sd(iths of that time. The roof is
covered with hand -split pine shingles,
Next there is the blacksmith shop,
where ironworkers made tools, uten-
sils, and arrow heads, the forge being
built of hand -made bricks and stone.
The windows are filled with oiled
parchment. The kitchen has its huge
bake -oven in the part known as the
Almost idle—Typical of many cities that felt the impact of the oil
strike, this service station seems pretty dead. To keep busy even
though there is "No Gas," these men advertise lubrications,
repairs and other services for motorists.
bake -shop, the whole being in two
spaces wherein was prepared enough
food to feed eighty-four persons.
The community room was also the
dining room, and the great table is
there. Champlain and his fifteen
gentlemen ate around it three and a
half centuries ago to form the first
social club in America, and our guide
proudly reminded us when we were
there that the Order of the Good
Time still exists and members are
scattered through every province of
Canada and every State of the
Union.—From "This is Nova Scotia,"
by Will R, Bird.
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dam Ar.dtkews
They make surveys regarding
nearly everything these days; and
when 'soldiers in the United States
Army were queried about their fa-
vorite desserts, it was found that
Banana Cream Pie topped them
ali.
Weil, it goes pretty well with
most Canadian appetites too, espe-
cially when it's made from the
following recipe,
BANANA CREAM PIE
cup sugar
5 tablespoons flour
teaspoon salt
2 cups milk
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon butter
r/ teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ripe bananas
1 baked, nine -inch pie shell
(1) Combine, sugar, flour and.salt
in top of double boiler. Add milk
slowly, mixing thoroughly. Cook
over rapidly boiling water until well
thickened, stirring constantly.
(2) Cook ten minutes longer,
stirring occasionally.
(3) Stir small amount of the hot
mixture into egg yolks; then pour
back into remaining hot mixture
while beating vigorously. Cook one
minute longer.
(4) Remove from heat and add
butter and vanilla. Cool.
(5) Peel and slice bananas into
pie shell and cover immediately with
filling. Top with meringue or
sweetened whipped cream. Yield:
One nine -inch pie.
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Excepting for good old rhubarb
it will be a while yet before our
own fresh fruits are widely avail-
able. However, with the "houghten"
sort some pretty tempting des-
serts chi be prepared without too
much bother, For instance, these
PINAPPLE LIME TARTS
1 No. 2r/ can sliced
pineapple
1 package lime -flavored
gelatin
%4 cup- heavy cream_
6 individual pastry shells,
baked and cooled
(1) Drain pineapple, reserving
syrup. Cover and refrigerate the
slices.
(2) Acid enough water to pine-
apple syrup to make one and one-
fourth cups liquid,' Bleat and dis-
solve gelatin in this mixture, then
chill until thickened,
(3) \'skip cream till stiff and
fold into gelatin.
(4) Fill tart shells. Chill. Just
before serving, top each pastry' with
a pineapple slice and garnish with
a maraschino cherry. Yield: Six
servings.
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LIME AND GRAPEFRUIT
BAVARIAN
1 No. 2 can grapefruit
segments
1 package lime -flavored
gelatin
?4 cup sugar
1% cups (one tall can)
evaporated milk, chilled icy
cold
cup coarsely chopped
pecans
(1) Drain juice from grapefruit
segments. There should be one and
one-fourth cups. If not, add water
to make that amount, 1Teat to boil-
ing point.
(2) Combine gelatin with the
sugar. Pour hot grapefruit juice
over gelatin -sugar mixture and stir
until dissolved.
(3) Chill mixture to the consis-
tency of unbeaten egg white. Then
whip chilled milk very stiff and
fold lightly but thoroughly into the
gelatin mixture.
(4) Place a grapefruit segment
into the bottom of each of eight
sherbet glasses. Pile Bavarian on
top and garnish each serving witn
grapefruit segments.
(5) Chill at least two hours. Just
before serving, toast pecans in. mo-
derate overt (375 degrees F.) until
crisp, about five minutes, and sprin-
kle over the top of each serving.
Yield: Right servings.
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GRAPEFRUIT CUSTARD
WITH MERINGUE
1 No. 2 can grapefruit
sections, drained, or one
and one-half cups fresh
grapefruit sections
194 tablespoons cornstarch
r/ cup sugar
Dash salt
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2 cups milk, scalded
2 eggs, separated
f teaspoon lemon or
orange extract
% teaspoon vanilla
(1) Place well -drained grapefruit
in a casserole.
(2) Mix cornstarch, one-fourth
cup sugar and salt, Add a little
scalded milk. Return to remainder
of milk, while stirring, and cook,
stirring, till mixture boils,
(3) Beat egg yolk slightly. Add
a little of the thickened milk and
return to mnillc. Cook, stirring con-
stantly, over hot water or a very
low flame till mixture thickens.
(4) Cool, add extract and van-
illa and pour over grapefruit.
(5) Beat egg whites till foamy.
Add remaining fourth -cup sugar
gradually and beat till stiff. Spread
meringue over custard and bake in
a slow oven (325 degrees F.) fif-
teen -minutes, Chill before serving.
Yield: Five servings.
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CITRUS JELLY
2 envelopes gelatin
IA cup cold water
1r/q cups boiling water
z/ cup sugar
ya teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
12/3 cups fresh, canned or
frozen orange juice
;4 teaspoon orange or lemon
extract, optional
1. No. 2%Z can peach halves
(1) Soften gelatin in cold water.
Acid boiling water, sugar and salt.
Stir until gelatin and sugar are
dissolved. Cool,
(2) Stir in lemon juice, citrus
juice and extract, if used. Arrange
pieces of fruit in bottom of mold,
add just enough gelatin to cover
and let stand till gelatin is alnnr..t
firm. Add rest of cooled gelatin and
chill. Yield: Six to eight servings.
DUCKS POOR DRINKERS
"A duct( just can't hold his
liquor!" officer Dugan P,resnehen,
of Vinita, Oklahoma, declares.
The officers recently arrested a
woman and her pet duck for being
drunk. Both were drinking beer
when arrested in a Vinita beer
tavern. "The woman wasn't in such
bad shape," Bresenhen said, "hut
the duck couldn't stand upl"
How You Can Save
4n Gats Consumption
How would yon like to get s
third more gasoline mileage out of
your car? You can do it if you
memorise a few simple rules and
carry them out while driving. You
will save one gallon out of every
three you are using now.
Proof that this can be done is
shown in the famed economy run
which this year wan held between
Los Angeles and Sun Valley, in
April. Expert, but not professional,
drivers take stock passenger cars
—exactly the tame car you may
select off the showroom floor—and
get a miiinnum of 33 per cent,
more gasoline mileage than is
achieved by the average motorist,
There are no special gadgets or
gimmicks, But there are tricks in
the trade, which the average
motorist can learn and appy with
profit.
Here are the ways you can save
on gasoline consumption;
In starting your car, get into
high quickly. Racing your motor
in first or second eats up gas. In
city traffic, utilizing this practice
can result in a substantial saving
on fuel bills.
Avoid fast getaways. Leave them
to the movies, they eat up gas.
Use the brake while holding
your ear in line on a hill. Using
the clutch as a still -holder not only
wastes gas, but wears out the
clutch as well.
Drive at a steady, moderate
speed. At 50 smiles per hour you
get 20 to 30 per cent, more mile-
age than you do at G0. It's safer,
too.
Keep your eye on the instrument
panel. Any radical deviation from
normal should be reported to your
service station dealer.
Keep a light foot on the gas
pedal. ,Jamming down in sudden
spurts floods the carburetor and
'Wastes gas.
'Pune up your engine before talc-
ing a trip, Carburetion, ignition
and valve troubles are frequent gas
and power robbers.
Three to seven cubic centimet-
ers of gasoline are used every time
you step on the accelerator or spill
gas out of the bawl by a sudden
stop.
Have your carburetor adjusted
for a lean mix and a low idle. A
richer Mixture, more gas with the
• air, will give you faster accelera-
tion and marc speed, but you pay
for it in fuel costs. Spark plugs
should be clean and the spark gaps
carefully spaced in accordance
with specifications, I -lave your dis-
tributor cleaned and the points ad-
justed meticulously.
Wind plays an important part in
incl saving. A luggage rack on top
of the car sets up wind resistance
and so do wide open windows.
Drivers in the economy run drive
slowly when, bucking headwinds
and make it u? on the downgrades
or when they have tailwinds. On
upgrades the experts leave their
motors in high gear until the speed
Imps to about 25 miles per hour,
hill your gas touts frequently.
Air in the tank mixes with the gas,
leaving moisture which is hard on
:he motor. Never overload the en-
gine. Avoid surging your throttle,
Choose the right oil weight. The
wrong weight can cause a Irea of
as much as seven -tenths of a mile
per gallon.
(-rnsscross your tires and keep
the exact tire p', -.sure required
Keep the air filter clean. The
rxlinnst lines and muffler should
he changed every 30.000 ntiies.
Taking these steps will pay off
m increased performance and pow-
tr.
"One may live without bread;
not without roses."
—Jean Richepin.
Testing " br'i s
Dr.
G. E. Hilbert, of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, has de-
veloped an apparatus that tells ex-
aetly how much warmer one cot-
ton fabric may be than another.
Usually the warmth of a fabric
is rated by determining the differ-
ence in energy (heat) required to
maintain a body at constant tem-
perature in cold air when uncov-
ered 110(1 when covered with test
materials. I)r. I Iilbert's apparatus
applies the sante principle. but in
addition the fabrics are subjected
to a wind at low -temperature.
A nnetal "arm" clothed in a sleeve
of the test fabric is lowered into a
home freezer hs which a fan creates
the necessary wind. This contbia-
ation of wind and cold tempera-
tures, which can he regulated as
desired, provides a better means of
estimating the warmth of a fabric:
woven for cold weather than is
possible when the usual tests are
made in still cold air.
They Eat Hair -Cream
On Strawberries!
When a worker in a British
factory turns out some commodity
for export to the tropics, he is not
always certain that it will be used
for the purpose intended. Castor
oil, for example, has been sent
abroad in large quantities not only
for oiling machinery and for its
medicinal value. Sonic people take
it as you take molasses --on bread.
Small boys steal a lick of castor
oil while their mothers' backs are
turned.
In the latest statistical and econ-
omic report of the United Africa
Company are further details about
the extraordinary tastes and ideas
of Africans. On the Gold Coast
they love hair cream spread on
bread or with strawberries; in Lau
there is a big demand for carbolic
soap—but not for washing. Some-
one discovered that carbolic soap
.is irrestible to a local fish called
the giwa ruwa, so it is used as bait.
Clothes lines are not always used
to hang garments in the sun. Africa
is becoming mechanized, and a line
with a brass ring on one end seems
a godsend to those who visit to
tie odds and ends to their trallcrtS
Old motor tires are cut into atilt.
able pieces and used to sole shoes;
a certain perfume dropped on cubit
sugar makes a sweet much priced
at parties. Export manufacturers
would do well to study and cater
for this new market.
She Can Draw 'Em—With under-
standable p r i d e, Mrs. Doris
Gregor, a graduate of Boeing
Aircraft's drafting school, views
the section of a modified 8-50
bomber which contains a part
she drew on her drafting board.
In eight-week courses, the com-
pany's school has turned out
271 students, 25 per cent of
them women.
Hands That See—Running her sensitive fingers over the lines of an
ancient monument, Helen Keller, who conquered blindness and the
loss of hearing, "sees" Egyptian art at the Antiquities Museum in
Cairo. One of the most admired women of her time, Miss Keller
was invited by the Eyyptian government to help formulate a social
program for that country's blind, Her companion, Polly Thomson,
is at right.
Warning to Trespassers: rMamasr Pack Arde ry
Gun-shy? Then you'd better :soy away from the windows in the
home of Mrs. Emil Mentel. (left), the trees near the hoose of Mrs.
Norman Stadtler (center), and the pea patch of Mrs. Opal Smith.
Or you're likely to acquire a hole—bullei-sized—in your head, Just
the other day Mrs. Merited sent four slues whistling the way of a
Peeping Tom. The shootin' finger of Mrs, Stadtler began to itch
when word teat erconel ihu; i'=.'o sscopOU Gu: rv: '.',ere Inddiisg in
woods near her home. High school baseball players are what
Mrs. Smith is aiming to ain't at. She lives next to the town's only
baseball diamond and has declared, "Not one more boy is going
to chase a boll int,, my ctrsrc'0rs " (The ballplayers are getting ow
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