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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-06-17, Page 7TABLE TALKS Green Peas What stakes better eating than dewy, round green peas, fresh from the vine? „Personally I don't believe that any garden vegetable tastes as delicious as, those tender first peas. Rut before you know it; those vines are liable to be loaded, and that's when you have to really hustle to catch the peas at their best for the can or freezer. And that's the perfect 'ime to freeze or car a good supply for next winter - before they have time to get tooold and starchy, Cook the frdshiy picked and shel- led peas gently and only until tender. This takes from 10 to20 minutes, Drain and season with butter. Save the liquid to use in sauces and gravies, and use it as part of the liquid in a rich cream sauce. Peas With Cream 2 tblsp. butter 2 small onions 1 heart of lettuce 1 bunch of parsley e pts. shelled peas 1 tsp. salt • Boiling water c. liquid from peas c. cream Melt fat in saucepan. Add whole onions, heart t ' lettuce and parsley (both well tied), peas, salt, and suf- ficient boiling water to cover the bottom of pan. Start the cooking of peas over high heat. After 10 tmin., reduce heat, and cook peas with the saucepan tightly covered, so that no steam will escape. When peas are 'ander, remove onion, let- tuce, and parsley. Drain peas. Add 34 c. liquid from thr peas to cream, and pour over the peas. S_rve very hot. Peas team up with meats or eggs for main -•dishes es does no other vegetable. Their rich green can make .a dish colorful and appetiz- ing. Scalloped Salmon .and Peas 1 c. bread •or cracker crumbs 2 C. salmon, flaked 2 c. cooked peas 2 c, milk, scalded 1111. 2 eggs, well beaten 1 tsp. salt 2 tblsp. butter Place in buttered casserole alter- nate layers •of •crumbs, salmon, and peas. To .hot milk .add well beaten eggs, salt, butter., ,and pour •over* salmon 'mixture in casserole. Bakr in moderate .oven (350 F.) until brown and firm. Yield 6 servings. Savory ,Green Peas 4 tblsp. butter 4 tblsp. flour' 2 c, milk • lb, cheese, grated tsp. salt rA tsp. pepper 3 c. hot, cooked seasoned peas 8 hard -cooked eggs, coarsely chopped • chopped onions Make cream sauce with butter, flour, and milk. Add 34 of the cheese and stir until melted. Season with salt anti pepper. Place the hot peas on platter ,and cover with the cheese sauce. Sprinkle with the chopped eggs .and onions, then with the remaining shredded cheese. Place under broiler just long enough to melt the cheese, Yield:- 8 serv- ings. Chicken and Vegetable Pie 1 ,c, peas c. celery, .chopped fine '.c..diced rcaw potato 1 small onion, chopped fine •c. water 2 ,c, •diced cooked chicken 1/c. 'white sauce 1 tsp. salt tsp. •pepper Mix vegetables together .and cook in ki ,oup.of water,until.almost tend. .er. Drain, Mix vegetables with the. cooked mhiclaon :and ,white sauce. Add seasoning ;and put into a shal- low. ,ba'1,'ing dill'. Cover with the Rich .pastnv ,adlleil to about 1/4 -inch thickness. Bake in hot oven (400F.) for 25 nein.. ,ar ,uneil pastry ,is brown- ed. Yield: 10 servings, Take Your Choice -There is no lack of variety in beach fashions this year. Here are three of the latest creations by top Cana- dian designers. The dressmaker type (upper left) is of nylon printed twill carrying a gay sailfish design, A neat one-piece number in crisp nylon taffeta with contrasting white piping is shown (upper right). The cool -looking black and white two- piece suit (below) is another nylon twill which should' prove highly popular With those who find sunbathing as exhilerating as swimming. Nylon's ability to keep its shape, its quick - drying and lightweight properties, make it an ideal fabric for beach wear. • THE GREEN THUMB... By Gordon L. Smith Summer Mulching ° Summer mulching is no longer an experiment, but a proved garden practice, A covering for the bare soil surface provides conditions which are natural to your plants and beneficial to them. - Mulching benefits the gardener as well in many ways. Two of these are the elimination of numb cultivation that would other- wise be neces- sary, and the sup- pression `of weeds. Even if them was no ,other gaits, these two would snake nnilch- ing worth while. Then, too, a prop- erly mulched garden requires ,little or no watering. * 4 * Here, briefly, is what summer mulching accomplishes. It prevents erosion and soil .baking; •dheeks evaporation of much-needed soil moisture; and shades the soil, keep- ing it cooler during the ,day and. warmer at night. This in turn re- sults in an increase of soil bacteria which transforms raw fertilizer :ma- terials into nourishing plant food. The mulch also holds rain water., giving it to the plants •gradually.. • Mulched areas for this reason al- most invariably show increased root activity. * * * Ahnost any plant .material ,may ire used for mulching. This includes low -growing plants, usually re- ferred to as ground covers. These are of the utmost value in a shrub - CROSSWORD PUZZLE, 1, Ladder steps 9. Cold dish 11. Leave 12. Device for firing an explosive 14. Litre ,15. Share 17. Tanist 18. Strong liquor 20. Flying animals 21. Hoarse cry 2z Radiate 129 Dmntate ;25. Dust particle 26. Saber '28. Spolce monot- °nouely ' 30, Anger 31. Eters Ur -. 32. Forebear ,a5 Band '88 God of love 80 Light knock Itig 4t Stn 42. Lair 43, Situations 45, .'8'e- 46. Article _ 47, Small bodies of ore 49,,,Npar 50. Bewail 52. Erase 54 Withers 55. Fashion DOW!, 1. Renew 2. higher 3. Pile 4. Snatek 6. Endeavor 6. Prepared to plant 7. Boats 8. Rest 9. Exist 1e Discuss 11. Defies. 81. Boxing rin* 12 Remarry 34; Regions 16. Prefix meaning 36. hurries 36. Corsair ' 37. Puff up 40. Request 43. Ice-cream. container 49. Do not dela . 47. 33y 48. Crafty 61. bfyself 53. Spanish article three 19. Golf club 21. Cooperate secretly 23. Weeds 15. American jurist 27. Numeral 29. Steep 32. Bicycle propeller 11111111 11111- 111111111111111 iias 1 The answer to this puzz e is elsewhere on this page, bery border or in shaded areas where lawn grasses do not thrive. Mulches in a flower garden should of coarse be as inconspicuous as possible, and for that reason granu- lated peat moss and shredded to- bacco stems are popular. But there are many other substances which serve the purpose almost as well, such as buckwheat ]tills, leaves and coarse compost. Hemlock and pine needles are especially good for acid -soil plants; and 'for mulching a rock garden stone chips are best Larger stones placed in a perennial border often work wonders; and newly planted trees like a mulch of sand, two inches or so deep, spread es far as Me branches of the trees extend. * * * All .the substances mentioned may be •used in the vegetable or fruit garden as wen.; and in addition there ,are strawy manure, straw, marsh or salt hay, ground corn- cobs, ,shredded •cornstocks and a host .of ,others. Among the wood products used for mulching we might mention are 'mulch paper, sawdust .and ex- celsior. .Lawn ,clippings have not been mentioned because the beat place for them is right on the lawn where they fall. * * a 'From many parts of Canada .and the iUnited States comes word of - one ''crop" that shows signs of ,extra -luxuriant growth this year - .anal it is one which we .could very 35513 do without altogether. The three -lobed leaves of Poison Ivy ,are shooting out front old vines that have climbed walls and tree trunks. as well as creeping along The ground. Spraying with 2-4-D on a sunny day is an easy way of destroying Poison Ivy. Two applications may be needed in shady places. But every precaution against infection should be taken while .:praying, in- cluding gloves, long sleeves and scrubbing with strong soap when the job is done. And dontt f, get that 2, 4-3) is hard on spraying equipment. However car e f u l 1 y sprayers are rinsed some residue is abnost certain to remain and eat tiny holes in the metal;' Best plan is to mix the 2-4-D, in a gallon -size glass jar, and screw on a plastic gadget to sprinkle the foliage. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM By Gwendobne P Clarke Aly menfolk have been very busy this week re -seeding our spring crop, One field had to be worked all over again and the entire field re -sown. Another field was re -seeded just where the showing of green shoots was thin and bare. Most farmers are doing the same thing. It is di;,couraging, of course, but then it is lust 0 'experience that farmers have to take ever; so often. Anel if the crops - come -along all right in the end I ant sure there will be very little complaining. Of course some farnncrs, with lighter soil, man• aged to gel their grain in and grow- ing before therain came. Their fields are really looking -splendid. Another big chang, took place this week. Partner turned the cows out to pasture. The date was May 27. (CBC please note - the date might interest your dairy experts.) * * * You would think cows would be gloriously content their first day out on the grass wouldn't you? But no! Aft..r the first hour, during which time they in turn chased each other around or ate voraciously at the fresh green grass, after that they began to bawl. Some of them re- membered their off -spring in the barn so they'bawled to get back into the stable. • Others bawled be- muse they were thirsty. They didn't need to be thirsty; there is plenty of fresh running water in the creek but it isn't what they had been used to, so, like spoilt children, they tried bawling to see if they could get what they wanted that way. But that kind of thing doesn't work with cows so well as it does with children -that is, some children. Still other cows were neither thirsty nor over- burdened with a mother complex - they just bawled because the others bawled - and usually the ones that have, nothing to bawl about are t: e ones that bawl the loudest. Cows are not so very different from th ' iman race after all, are they? * * * ?lasn't it been grand to have a little warm wearther? It has even been warm enough to work out- side so ' have at lastmanagedto pull a few weeds out of the flow- er beds. While working I have also been bird watching. Last year I said how I wished I had a really good bird book and one of my New, -- And All Of Them Useful Engine Starter. Moderately priced and easy to install on most cars, trucks and motor boats, this starter does not interfere with the normal operation or running at the motor. It makes it, possible for the operator to start the engine by merely turn- ing on the ignition key; and if the engine stall at a traffic light, on a hill or at a railroad crossing, it automatically cranks the engine. Cold Paint Stripper. A new pro- duct that requires no heat and is non -inflammable, and that removes paints, enamels, lacquers and syn- thetics .abnost instar.' . It requires no neutralizing other than a pres- sure water wash .or wiping well with a rag; and refinishing can then pro. ceesl immediately, One Car Garage Pattern. To help meet the "tremendous demand for one -car garages, this pattern sinnpli- fies construction of an architectur- ally styled garage and tool house. Measuring 13 by 20 feet the garage contains ample room for even the longest car,' and revision is also made for a garden tool room cotn- plstely partitioned from main part of garage. Indoor -Outdoor Thermometer. A doable -feature thermometer which is hung adjacent to a window and tells you how cold it is outdoors and, ai - .the same time, the temperature in. side your house. Light Weight Cycle, Designed especially for the' American market this mew British 'bicycle 'weighs only 25 'pounds 11,ouncts, 11 is 21 pounds lighter than the average bicycle on this side of the Atlanl$e.and .8 pounds lighter utast usual 13rftislt cycles for the home market, - For Preserving Food. A combina- tion of a thermoplastic resin with an odorl .ss and tasteless preserva- tion for the coating of fresh food, particularly .fresl eggs in their -.shells, Vegetables, fruits and other foods can also be treated with it, j For Cooler Homes. A new elec- tric lecttric fan, weighing only thirty-five , pounds, is claimed to deliver nearly twice as much air as other fans the same size. Company engineers have found that an exhaust fan set three feet from a window is 50%a to 100% more efficient than when set flush to the wall ; .ltrs' wr telling me : the book I should get. Acting upon his ad- vice 1 bought "Birds of Canada" by P, A. Taverner and found it to be exactly t+' I needed. Given the opportunity for close observation, identification c the various birds is a simple matter with this book to guide you. Yesterday there Were a pair of birds on the lawn - slate -grey, black cap and chestnut undertail. They were very interest- ing to watch and my book informed me they were "cat -birds." That same evening I heard a lovely little songster at the back of the house; every so often' he seemed to say "Jerry -bob , jerry-bob." I couldn't see him but I sat quietly and watched. Presently he flew down to the clothesline and to my delight 1 saw it was one of my little cat -birds, liis mate was ans- werieg from a distance so perhaps they are nesting no'•' too far away. * 5, * How strange it is that weather conditions -bad for certain types of growth are good for others. This cold, wet spring, for instance -so bad for crops, seems just exactly right for fruit trees. But perhaps I shouldn't generalize -1 am judging only by our own Early Richmond cherries. The trees were loaded with blossom and it looks as if every blossom has "set". 1 have hopefully inspected the harvest apple -it too was a solid mass of bloom -abut it is too early yet to speculate on results. * * * Well, June 7 is getting very close - and yet there seems to be very little excitement in tin air. Personally anyone could have my vote who would tell me where I could get a good used electric refrigerator! Of course I am not serious -my vote could never be got by bribery. I vote as I please and I am not influenced by election promises but by party records. Which party? Why, the right party of course - and you know which that is, don't you? The 1-1ard Part Like all successful writers, Stephen' Leacock was constantly being its- portuned by ambitious would be authors to impart to them his magic recipe ..for writing success. They wanted to know just how he wrote his delightfully funny paragraphs. To thisapplication, the humorist would reply, "It is not hard to, write funny stuff. All you have to do is to procure a pen and paper, and some ink, and then sit down and. write it as it occurs to you." "Yes, yes," the would-be writer would prompt. "The writing is not hard," Lea- cock would conclude, "but the oc- curring -that my friend, is th€ difficulty," Answer To This Week's Puzzle LI®'MIT s rim A a OOLUDO®"DOD®OEi LI S P AOTA©n -"B® EOM. t3 1 OD© C Gi© EMI -i- V 1 E;- morn QiEIDfl©© brio N ©r EIRE:.. 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