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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-07-29, Page 3TABLE TALKS elarue Canned Elderberries Wash, stem and pick over care- fully. Place the berries in preserv-. fn kettle. Cover them with a syrup made in the pro- portion of 1 cup of sugar to 3 cups of water. Bring to boiling point. Fill hot jars to overflowing and seal immediately. Since elderber- ries lack acidity, lemon juice, sour apples or rhubarb are 'generally need with them when using for Pies or sauce. If desired, rhubarb or apple or cranberry juice may be used with the sugar to make the syrup, instead of 'water, Elderberry Jelly Cover the berries with water, af- ter stemming and washing them; boil 10 minutes, then mash and drams. Bring the juice to boiling point and add 1 cup of sugar to each cup of juice and boil until the jelly -test is reached, then seal. and store: For a quickly made and deliciously flavored jelly use the quick method (using commercial pectin). For this jelly the berries should be on the tinder -ripe side. A little lemon juice may be added if desired, s, Elderberry and Apple Jelly Use elderberries that are not too ripe. Wash, pull .from largerstems, but do not attempt to remove the smaller ones. Place in a kettle with water not quite to cover. Cook until soft. Drain through a jetty bag without squeezing. Add an equal amount of apple juice ex- tracted in the usual fashion for making apple jelly. Measure. Bring to the boiling point quickly. Add three-fourths as much sugar as juice. Stir constantly and boil ra- pidly until mixture shows the jelly teat. Pour into sterilized glasses. When cool, cover with paraffin and seal. This makes a tender, richly red jelly of unusual flavor. Choke Cherry Jelly 3 cups juice 6554 cups sugar 1 bottle commercial pectin To prepare the juice, stem about 3 pounds of fully ripe choke cher- ries. Add 3 cups of water. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 15 minutes. For strong cherry -pit flavor, add 4 tablespoonfuls of crushed pits during the simmering. Place the cooked fruit in jelly bag and allow juice to drain out. Measure sugar and juice into a large saucepan and mix. Bring to boil over hottest fire and at once add commercial pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard for half minute. -Remove from the fire, skim; pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. Wild Grape Jelly Wash and stem grapes. Place in preserving kettle, crush, and add 34 cup of water for each two quarts of grapes. Cook until pulpy and seeds are free. Extract juice through jelly bag. Let juice stand a day or two as a precaution against crystals. Measure and bring to a boil in preserving kettle. Add qa much sugar as juice, by mea- sure. Boil rapidly over high heat until the syrup sheets from the edge of spoon. Skim and pour into sterilized glass. Paraffin at once. Note: Wild grape and crabap- ple jelly (equal parts juices, W4 cup sugar per cup of juice) has an ex- cellent flavor and makes a good ac- companiment for roast fowl). The Jelly Test The jelly test is made by dipping a large spoon into the boiling syrup. Lift the spoon so that the syrup runs off the side. When the `ayrup no longer runs off the spoon in a steady stream, separates in- stead into two distinct lines of drops, which "sheet" together, the cooking should be stopped. When the jelly -maker gets to this point her job is practically finished. She has only to remove quickly the scum that forms on the syrup -then to pour this syrup carefully into sterilized glass con- tainers. After the jelly is set it must be sealed and .stored. Original of "Uncle Tom" Lies Here -In a little cern:., at Dresden, Ontario, lie the mortal remains of the original of one of fiction's best-known characters -"Uncle Tom", irnmortaiized in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". He was the Reverend Josiah Henson, who began life as a slave in the Deep South and later -assisted by the famous "underground railway'' -finally reached Canada and freedom. The house in which he lived for the balance of his days still stands in the neighborhood. HRONICL Y,, }.ti INGE _ euz,-dol%n.e P. Cloy e If this column seems somewhat wild and wandering this week put it down to the heat or humidity, or something, because there is certain- ly plenty of both and I -feel as if I had it all. I just feel that way even though I know I'm wrong because Partner just carne in from the hay- field and he looks like a walking grease spot. Why don't we copy the white folk living in tropical coun- tries and have a siesta during the heat of the day? Come to think of it that wouldn't do .either -not in hay- ing tine, because as soon as the heat subsides the dew comes up. And anyone who has worked in a hayfield knows what hay is like to handle if the dew is on it -that is the farmer's main argument against daylight saving time. Well, in between mopping my brow I art carrying on a three=way fight with the robins and starlings. The cherries are ripe and we are all determined to do each other out of a picking. As soon as the starlings come down for a feed the robins.- appear obins•appear from nowhere and chase thein away. The commotion that ensues attracts my attention and then I go out and scare the robins away. Or I try to -they don't scare very easily. * * * My cat -birds have disappeared. When my sister was here we hunted around until we found where they. had their nest -in a lilac bush by • the front door. We didnt touch it, of course, but I am wondering if the birds were so annoyed at our discovery of their hideout that they decided to take up quarters else- where. Lucky little birds - they don't have to worry about the hous- ing shortage. 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Cereal gran . Baffle .Sheep .Secondary Eater . Distant DOWN y Knock Cin Color Cut 1. Johann.c,J nswer to This Puzzle Will Appear Next Week Suppose we build here?" Mrs. Cat- bird agrees, so they go to work and they build. Just like that ... no worry, no fuss, no permit needed. They don't have to worry about plumbers, carpenders or bricklay- ers and how much an hour they charge. and when their home is finished they don't even have a mortgage to worry about Oh, for the life of a bird{ True it might be a short one- a prowling cat might add finis to a promising career even in the middle of a joyous song. * * * Coming events cast their shadows before ... this morning Bob walked in with a binder canvas to be fixed so it looks as if lie is thinking it won't be long before the wheat is ready to cut. But I am allowed a day or two of grace so that I won't have to touch that awful canvas in this terrific heat. When 1 have a bin- der canvas to deal with I always do as Much repair work as I can on the sewing machine and by the tirne I get through disentangling the slats from the sewing machine and myself front the slats I am hardly fit to live with for about an hour. That is about the only time I say to myself, and mean it --"Oh why did 1 ever marry a farmer?' * * * Come to think of it t don't know which I dislike more - mending binder canvas or peeling hard boiled eggs. We are very fond of devilled eggs in this family but to my way of thinking the "devilish" part is not in the dressing but in prying the shells free from the eggs. If anyone knows of a sure way of doing this little job without leaving half the white on the shelf or bits of shell sticking on the peeled- egg for goodness sake send the informa- tion along. Sometimes I think 1 could write another version of "The Egg and I." You have probably guessed by this time that we are -having devilled eggs for supper to- night. Pursued, "You'd better give .pie that raise I asked for, Mr. Jones," said the clerk. "I'liree other companies are after me." "A likely story," said Junes. "Just what companies I'd like to know?" "Gas, Electric and Telephone," was the prompt reply. Ac GREED Gordon Smith When it comes to hedges, the gardenerhasa wide choice. There are either evergreens or deciduous shrubs; slow- growing or quick growing species; ( plants that are best left to assume their own natural shapes; and others which lend them- selves to shearing in to geometric Patterns. Thesortof care you give your hedge will depend, of course, on what type it is. * * * Privet is one of the most popular of all shrubs for hedging; and far too often it is so badly grown and tended that it looks nothing like what it should -a "solid wall of living green." Usually bought in two or three-foot sizes, it is mis- takenly cut straight across the top at planting time. This causes ex- cessive growth at the top while the base remains bare. * * * Proper pruninc is essential if you want privet -or any other deciduous shrub - to form a dense green growth at the base. When planted privet should be cut to within four inches of the ground, or at the most, six inches. Other deciduous shrubs should be cut to within twelve inches of the ground. * * * If the growth is vigorous right from the start, the hedge may be cut back in July or early August at a point about eight inches above the previous cutting. But if a late start -bad weather or poor soil has pre- vented much progress since plant- ing, it is just as well' to delay the shearing till the following spring, when the hedge can be cut to a point from nine to twelve inches above the previous cutting. * * * From then until the hedge reaches the full height desired, upright shoots should be cut twice a year, as in this way many .side shoots get a chance to develop and a thick hedge is formed. Sides of the hedge should be cut snore frequently than the top for the same reason. As soon as two inches -or at most three -appear, your hedge clippers sliould be brought into use. * * * Old hedges that have been allow- ed to get straggly present a real problem as no amount of shearing at the top will induce them to form dense greenery at the bottom. All you can do is cut them all the way back to within six inches of the ground, after which they will grow up properly. This DOES NOT APPLY to evergreens, which will not grow up again .if crit down. * * * The chief handicap to any {,edge is weeds. A narrow -strip of bare ground should he maintained on either side of the hedge, and if this is hoed regularly the little weeds will be destroyed. * Evergreens -such as pine,spruce, hemlock and the like -are treated differently, when used for hedges, than privet' and other deciduous shrubs. They usually make very little growth for two or three years after being put in position, as the shock of transplanting' sets them back; and they should not be cut back severely after planting. After the evergreens really get going, they may send up quick verti- cal growth. In order to induce den- sity they should be shortened; but generally one shearing per year, after they have started growing, is enough. The city of Chicago has grain elevator facilities sufficient for snore than 27,000,000 bushels of grain. 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After crossing to Canada he settled near Dresden where he passed the remainder of his life. He is buried in a nearby cemetery. Inside the house a picture on the wall shows Henson as an elderly, white -bearded colored man dressed in clerical garb while nearby hangs a printed description of "THE P. EAL LIFE STORY OF UNCLE TOM" With the Movie and Radio Folks By Grace Sharp For his next picture Cecil B. De - Mille turns again to what has always been his greatest mine of source ma- terial -and one, by the way, which requires no royalty payments -The Bible. "Samson and Delilah" will be the great director's fourth pic- ture based on Biblical sotgces, the others being "The Ten Command- ments" (1923); "The King of Kings" (1926); and "The Sign of the Cross" (1932). * * Victor Mature will be seen ib the part of Samson while Hedy Lamarr has been signed for the part of Delilah; and as one observer re- marked when the casting was an- nounced, "with that pair playing opposite one another they won't need any steam heat on the sets, even if the filming doesn't start till October or November." * * * In the *matter of these "give- away" programs the radio folks - and especially south of the Border -seen to be in much the same position as that of the hunter who had the bear by the tail. They're afraid to Jet go, and even more scared to hang on. But all joking aside, those same programs have the radio industry in the biggest dither it has been in since Marconi, or whoever it was, started the whole thing. Regular radio performers hate such programs; and why shouldn't they when top comedians and prime favorites such as Fred Allen find their audience rating drop with sick- ening suddenness when a "give- away" moves in on an opposition network, at the same hour. For what is a Bob Hope, a Bing Crosby or a Tack Benny when you can lis- ten in with the hope of winning - as one woman did recently -eight- een or twenty thousand dollars worth of articles including a com- plete hone, an automobile, a motor- boat, half a dozen suits of clothes and an overcoat, and other assorted junk too numerous to mention? * * .* The whale thing has' "snowball- ed" almost to joke proportions; and nobody is more bitter against these newer "give-aways' than these be- hind some of the older audience - participation programs, whose "and now for the $64 question" appears Chcrrtless I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet I know how the heather looks And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain ani I of the spot As if She chart were given. By Emily Dickinson.. negligible and cheap besides awards such as the one just mentioned. * * * Many of those close to the radio business wouldn't be too much sur- prised if -sometime in the not too far distant future -the heads of the industry got together and abolished the "give-aways," at least as net- work features. For that they have definitely cheapened radio and are gradually but steadily reducing it to the level of the midway shows at the C. N. E. can hardly be denied. * * * It is also whispered that among those who would welcome the doing•away of • the "give-aways" are those who are sponsoring some of the bigger ones. Expert analysis has been made of audience reaction to these programs; and it has been found that the moment that gives the listeners, their biggest thrill -the moment they remember best -is when the Announcer reads off the ever-growing list of things that are to be won. People clearly recalled the plain prizes -and yet couldn't remember the sponsor's name or the name of his product. And you may wager all the coffee in Brazil that astute advertisers are not going to continue paying big money for THAT sort of publicity very long. * * * Romeo -or maybe it was Juliet - once asked "What's in a name?" - the general idea being that one tag or label was about as good as an- other. There are some movie people, however, who would he glad to testi- fy to the contrary. 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