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The Wingham Advance Times, 1934-12-06, Page 2PAC, I TWO WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES LamtatiossunG The famous energy -producing sweet—an easily digested food invaluable for infants, growing children, and enjoyed by the whole family. A produet of The Canada Starch co., Limited The Winghain Advance -Times Published at WINGHAM ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning by The Advance -Times Publishing Co. Subscription Rate - One Year $2.00 Six months, $1,00 in advance To U. S. A., $2.50 per year. Foreign rate, $3:00 per year. Advertising rates on application. SUPERSTITIONS Superstitions are hard to kill. Hu- manity is credulous because most of us want to believe in something we can't explain. The story that has been going the rounds for several years about the curse laid by the Egyptian Pharoah, Tut -Ankh -Amen, upon who- ever might despoil his tomb, I have heard seriously discussed by other- wise intelligent people, who informed me gravely that every one, or nearly every one, of the members of the expedition which found the treasures in that ancient tomb a few years ago had since died 'a mysterious death. A check-up by Directors Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of . Art proves that out of the forty persons present when King Tut's mummy was unwrapped, thirty-three are still alive and in good health. The seven who died lived to an average age of sixty. That doesn't sound as if Tut's curse had been very effective, but I imagine people will continue to repeat the or- iginal tale for generations. It is more interesting than the truth. * * * * IMPATIENCE Most of the world's troubles come from trying to do things in too much of a hurry. That is true in the case of individuals; it is particularly true in the case of those groups of indi- viduals which we call nations. And I am certain that nine -tenths of the world's troubles today root. back to some sort of impatience. Ifit were not impatience we would not see Russia today under the dom- ination of a ruthless and despotic handful of Bolsheviks, Italy controll- ed by a dictator, Germany under the iron heel of a tyrant. Grant that the purposes of all of these and other dictators is the noble one of making their countries better places to live in —in the future. I prefer a system which gives the living present first consideration. We have seen too many predictions go wrong to believe that any ldiid of large-scale planning for the future of a whole people can ever work out according to plan. Even single indi- viduals responsible to nobody but themselves, seldom find that their plans for themselves will work. • * * * The interest taken in the marriage of the Duke of Kent to Princess Mar- ina of Greece is proof that the Royal family does much to hold the British Empire .together. *. *, * * In the world of crime there is some one who always takes the place of the higher criminal. A few weeks ago in the United States Dillinger was con- sidered as enemy No. 1. Baby Face Nelson of his gang, took his place. Now both are dead, who will be the next public enemy No. 1? Organized gangs have made little headway in Canada. May this state of affairs long continue. * * * * The Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission has an objective placing power at the disposal of virtually ev- ery farm and farm home. The pres- ent cost of power is such that the farmer in general r this afford cannot installation, but if some plan can be devised so that the present surplus of power could be utilized in this manner, we believe that it would not only benefit the farmers but the whole province. * * * * The school children should long re- member the marriage of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina. Any person who causes a school holiday is bound to be popular with the children. * * * * A typical London fog hung over London as the. Royal Party made their way to Westminster Abbey for the Royal Wedding last Thursday. The streets and parks were crowded -with people. It takes more than a London fog to dampen the zeal of the loyal British people. * * * * Hon. Robert Weir, Dominion Min- Cream butter and sugar. Add jelly ister of Agriculture, won the Junior Championship and Reserve for Fe- male Herefords at the Royal Winter Fair. On behalf of his many friends in this district we extend congratula- tions. 2 tspns. cloves 2 cubs butter (or shortening) 8 egg yolks, well beaten 1 cup sour mills 6 cups raisins 1% cups figs, chopped 2 cups. sugar 8 egg whites, stiffly beaten 2 tspns, baking powder 2 tspns. cinnamon 2 tsp.us. nutmeg. 3 cups apple (chopped) 1 tbspn. molasses 1 cup grape juice 11/ cups currants 1% cups citron, finely cut 4 cups nut meats, Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder, soda and spices and sift together 3 times. Cream butter thor- oughly until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, mixing well; then molass- es and milk, Combine one-half of flour with this mixture, add grape juice and beat well; then add remain- ing flour, nixed with fruits and nuts. Fold in •egg whites. Bake . in two well -greased loaf pans, lined with wrapping paper. Bake in a slow ov- en (800 degress F.) 4 hours. Light Christmas Cake 4 cups sifted flour % tspn. soda 1 tbspn. lemon juice 1 ib. blanched almonds finely cut 1% cups sugar xia lb. citron, finely cut 1 tspn. baking .powder 11 tspn. salt %lb. each crystallized orange pineapple and red cherries, ly cut 1 cup butter or other shortening 1 lb. sultana raisins 10 egg whites, beaten Sift the flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, salt and sift to- gether three times. Sift one cup of flour mixture over fruits and nuts; mix thoroughly. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, nd a cream together until light and fluffy. Add remaining flour mixture to the creamed mixture, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition un- til smooth. Add lemon juice, fruits and nuts. Fold in egg whites. Bake in slow oven (250 degrees 'F.)' 2% hours. This makes six pounds of f fruit cake. Mincemeat Fruit Cake a/s cup butter 1 cup currants Ys cup gralpe jelly 3 cups flour 1% tspns. baking powder x tspn. soda 1 cup sugar 1 cup broken nuts 3 eggs, well beaten 1 tspn. vanilla 3'4 tspn. salt 2 cups mincemeat peel, fine - YULETIDE RECIPES Althought Christmas is a. few weeks away it is not too early for the housewife to give some thought to the Christmas menu. The latter part of November or early December is the time to think about the cakes, puddings and mincemeat. Remember that fruit cake improves in flavor if ll allowed to stand because it mellows with age. Use a. heavy pan for bak Insure and Make Sure All the best old established Companies. FIRE! AUTOMOBILE! ACCIDENT Thirty -Five Years in the Bust- " Hess. Abner Cosens Insurance and Real Estate. 3 eggs 2 tbspxls. chopped orange peel Ya cups raisins 14 cup chopped figs xA cup grape juice Cream . shortening and sugar toge- ther, add bread crumbs, baking pow- der, salt and spices. Add beaten eggs and riff thoroughly. Add scalded milk. Add orange and lemon peel, raisins, currants, figs, nuts and grade juice to the first mixture and beat thoroughly, Fill a greased pudding mould` % full, cover tightly and steam for four hours, Serve with hard sauce. English Plum ,'Pudding 8 eggs 1% lbs. seedless raisins 1 cup flour 3 sour apples, chopped fine tspn. ground allspice 1 tspn. salt Rind of one lemon 111 cups dried bread crumbs % cup sugar 2 oz. citron, cut fine 1/ lb. chopped almonds 1 tspn. ground cinnamon x tspn. ground cloves 1 cup fruit juice 1 cult suet, chopped fine 1 cup molasses Soak fruits and almonds in the fruit juice over night, then add the rest of the ingredients. Boil from four to eight hours, keeping covered with water and boiling the whole time,. or steam. Serve with hard sauce. Suet Pudding. 1 cup chopped suet 1 cup sweet milk 14 tspn, soda 1 tspn. cinnamon % nutmeg 1 cup molasses 3 cups flour 1 tspn. salt % tspn. cloves 1 cup seeded and chopped raisins very suet must be chopped ve Y fine and worked with a wooden spoon or fork until creamy. Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add molasses and milk to suet. Mix thoroughly. Add flour, soda, salt and spices sifted sev- eral times. Add raisins before blend- ing ingredients. Mix thoroughly and turn into a well -buttered mould. Steam two and one-half hours. Serve hot with hard sauce or lemon sauce. Uncooked Mincemeat 1 Ib. butter 1 lb. currants 1 lb. raisins 1% lbs. apples 1% lbs. brown sugar 1 lb. mixed peel 1 level tbspn. cinnamon 1 nutmeg, grated Juice and finely grated rind of 2 lemons Clean the fruits and chop the ap- ples, raisins and peel. Stir in the su- gar, butter, spices and lemon juice and grated rind. Pack in jars until ready to use. which has been whiplped with fork. then the eggs. Beat thoroughly. Sift flour, measure, add soda, salt and baking 'powder. Add mincemeat to cake batter. Then a little flour, then the currants and nuts and the rest of the flour. Bake in a lined Ioaf cake pan at 325'degrees F. for about two hours. Economy Christmas Cake 1 cup sugar 1/ cup .coffee (black, strong) 1% cups graham flour 4 tspns. baking powder 1 tspn. cinnamon 1 lb. raisins 1 lb. chopped dates 11 cup molasses ,ng the fruit cake and line it with 1/a cull.) fermented jelly 1,4 cup white flour two thicknesses of heavy waxed pap -1/a tspn, salt er.' As soon as the cake is done re- • tspn. each auspices, cloves, mace move it to ;a wire rack to cool hut .do not tear off the waxed paper. When the cake is cool wrap it in several layers of waxed diaper and tie up with a white cord. Store in ail' air -tight box or stone jar to ripen. �* .* * Dark Fruit Cake 5 cups sifted cake flour 1 tspn. soda 1111111RN1Mall Ii,11anall! AU... Maid. Creamery i:.uyers Of I� r am E nd y TRE UNITED FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED. WingbautoO11 11'O. phone 21* I1InsailI0II011111a1ll1MOIIIIIMINLMIN T imsreinunin 111110 *masa 111 A CANADIAN .EXILE most Historic Apple Tree in North America grated nutmeg ala lb. walnuts 11 lb. lemon peel ✓ cup milk Mix sugar, molasses, milk, coffee and jelly. Mix and sift all dry in- gredients together. Combine these two mixtures, Dredge the fruit and nuts with 14 cup flour and add to mixture. Stir well and turn into but- tered and lightly floured cake pan and bake in oven of 300 degrees F, for about 114 to li/a hours. Old -Fashioned Mincemeat 1 ib. chopped apples / lb. raisins xis lb.. fine sugar % tspn. mixed spices 44. currants 1/z lb. suet, chopped fine 2 oz. candied, chopped peel 1 lemon, juice and grated rind Mix all ingredients well together and keep in a cool dry place, in close- ly -covered jars. For a large quantity doublethe recipe. Steamed Plum Pudding x/: cup shortening 8 cups soft bread crumbs 1 tspn. salt 'A tspn. cinnamon 1s, ts,pti. ,cloves N, cup scalded milk 2 tbspns..'chopped lemon peel 14 cup currants 1 cup sugar. 1/z cup nuts cut in pieces' 1 tspn. baling powder 1l tspn. nutmeg tspn. mace Although no longer in Canada, the e A 1.1'`' Thursday, December 6, 1934 vance - Times fliers Here is a real offer that will save you money Give yourself and your family lasting enjoyment and entertainment the whole year through ®.. This is all you have to do. and you will receive the whole 4 publica- tions for one year from the date we receive the coupon. Here is the amazing combination , low pricer El Maclean's (24 issues) 1 yr. Chatelaine 1 yr. DCanadian . 1 yr. ® National Horne Monthly 1yr. [� Pictorial Review. ..1 yr. ❑'Canadian Horticulture and Home Magazine ...1yr. Our Guarantee to You! This wonderful offer is avail- able vailable to old and new subscrib- ers to this newspaper. We guarantee the fulfillment of all magazine subscriptions and you have positive assurance that this generous offer is exactly as represented. Re- newals will be extended for full term shown. MAIL COUPON TODAY es* Please clip list of Magazines after checking 3 Publica- tions desired. FLU out coupon carefully. Gentlemen: I enclose $ Please send me the three . magazines checked with a year's subscription to your newspaper. NAME STREET OR R. F. D. TOWN AND PROVINCE most historic apple tree in .North America is intimately connected with the Dominion, This 108 -year-old tree which still bears fruit annually is lo- cated at Fort Vancouver in the State of Washington where it was planted in 1826 by officers of the Hudson's Bay Company who were ,the rulers of Old Oregon and thereabout. Prior to the treaty of 1846 which fixed the boundary between Great Britain and the United States at the 49th parallel, Fort Vancouver was the principal Pacific depot in Canada and distrib- uting centre of this Canadian com- pany. The Fort was built in 1824. Later on, anticipating the result of the 1846 treaty, the Hudson's Bay Company decided to move to unequi- vocally British territory and selected Camosan, the Indian name for the territory, on the southermost end of Vancouver Island. It is the site of the city. of Victoria, but Camosan was• chosen not with a view to becoming a city, but as afavourable spot on which to erect a fort. This was done in 1843. Shortly afterwards the name of Fort Camosan was changed to Victoria in honour of the late Queen Victoria. The story of the planting of the tree is as follows: In 1826, at Lon- don, Eng., a farewell dinner was giv- en to Captain Simpson and a number of other officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, who were, ready to set sail; for the Hudson's. Bay post at Fort Vancouver. Apples were being serv- ed for dessert. One of the ladies seat- ed next to Captain Simpson, on cut- ting utting an apple, dropped the seeds into. Captain Simpson's pocket, telling him to plant them when he reached his destination, and perhaps they would grow. Upon the arrival of the party at the fort, the factor, Dr. McLough- lin, insisted that the seeds should be planted immediately, detailing his own gardener to look after them. The seeds were planted in small boxes and kept where they could not be touch- ed by anyone. After several years, the tree bore its first crop—one apple. This apple when ripe was picked by Dr. McLoughlin, who carefully cut it into 17 slices, one for each person seated at the table. Next year the. tree bore 20 apples, and has been bearing fruit ever since. WHAT THE WELL-DRESSED TRAVELLER WILL WEAR ate,. IfY ou oitt the trek to the south, collar and tie of ,white taffeta should hand knitted wool scarf, and you will town on a Sunny afternoon slop into theensemble nsctnble of celanese checked be in your trunk. For en .route, wear have things all your -own way, and this shirtwaist frock and jacket of crepe (1), 'above, with the little -girl the crepe suit of tweed (1), with the for your first step -out to see the striped crepe shown in (3).