HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-02-24, Page 7r-l'--7SAVORY DRIED -
BEEF DISHES
BY ELIZABETH SHAFFER.
That the jar of dried beef on the
pantry ;shelf ie itivaluiable at times
When the tripe to town for fresh meat
st be few and far between oe the
„?uPply of hemeebetchered meat is ex-
hausted, may well be listed es one of
the things that every farm women
'knew% But I do think that often we
• trouble ourselves to little in our pre-
paration ef this steple. Just because
'dried beef can, if neeessary, be, served
the way it comes from the jar or be-
.
cause we have become used to serving
frizzled, or, if creamed, always on
toast 1n just the same old; way, is no
e Ireason why we should continue seeh.
;practices indefinitely.
Dried beef may be prepared in few-
er Ways than eame meats, perhaps, but
'this is only another reason why we
should strive to achieve as much var-
iety ae possible. Mos of the methods
'of preparing dried beef use the meat
creamed as a foundation. The dried
beef May be creamed in two ways.
Here is the first one:
1/4 pound of dried beef, 3 tableepoon-
Ifuls of flour, 3 tablespioonfuls of but-
ter or bacon fat, 11/e. cupfuls of milk,
epeelt of pepper.
' Shred •the beef into small pieces.
IM,elt the butter or bacon fat in a pan
`and blend into it the flour ;ancl pepper.
IAdd the milk gradually. Stir until
thick, add the beef and cook a few
Iminutes longer. Most dried beef is so
'wait that it is unmeceseary to add any
to combinations in which the meat is
used. If it is too salty let the dried
beef eland in hot water ten minutes
before using.
The ;second mtehod is:
Use the same quantities of ingredi-
'ents an for No. 1. Shred the beef.
'Melt the butter or bacon fat in a fry -
Ing pan and in it brown the ehredded
beef. •Dredge with the flour, and add
the milk slowly, stirring the mixture
until thick.
Piquancy may be added to the
creamed dried.beef by the ;addition of
chopped pimiento, green pepper or
stuffed olives. •
Creamed dried beef may be served,'
not only on hat toast, but equally well
an mashed potatoes, hot bailed rice or
hominy. When served on any one of
these packed eggs may top the cream-
ed dried beef.
Sometime try mixing the creamed
'thied • beef with a cupful of bread
crumbs end two sliced hard-boiled
eggs. Pour the mixture into en oiled
baking dish and bake about twenty
minutes in a moderate oven.
For baked macaeordi and dried beef
boil one-helf cupful of macaroni, drain,
and rinse in cold water. Then altern-
ate layers of macaroni ,and creamed
;dried beef, sprinkle with buttered
crumbs and bake.
' Eggs and Dried Beef No. 1. Shred
Ione -quarter pound dried beef. Melt a
-tablespoonful of bacon fat in a frying
pan and add four eggs, beaten well
ran.d combined with one-quarber cupful
of milk +2,11,d the shredded beef. Stir
constantly until the eggs are sot.
Eggs and Dried Beef No. 2. Shred
ne-quarter 'omlet of dried: beef and
•4brown it in butter until crisp. Add to
Iit one-half cupful of grated cheese
And one cupful of stewed tomatoes,
!highly seasoned. Simmer four or five
minutes before stirring in three well -
:beaten eggs. Continue heating slowly
(until the mixture is of the consistency
if scrambled eggs. Serve on hot but-
tered toast.
Farmer's Account Book.
•Frequent reference has been made
in recent issues of the farm press to
• ithe desirability a making an inven-
tory or taking stock of farm supplies,
• implements, live sthek, etc., during the
ienenth of March. The suggestion is a
good ane and the Dominion, Experi-
;mental Farms System has published
• an extremely .simple Farnier's Account
Book in which are several pages espe-
eially designed to assist the farmer
pin making such an iffitentoey. To
"keep accounts" in this book requires
)lee special knowledge of accounting,
simply the ;ability to write and add,
!and a record, of transactions can often
bo made in less than one hour a week.
A few plain directions as to making
entries ;and taking inventories, a table
of silo capacity, and a gestation table
'se given on the insicle-cover pages of
the book.
' There are paps for the entries of
receipts arid expenditures (both of
which may be seen at a glance on the
same page) eelative to cattle, horses,
• sheep, swine., poultry, crops and labor,
and ample space for miscellaneous
• item. There is a page on which to
•;retard ,amounts owed to and owe& by
• the Aim and forms on which may be
made inventories of land, buildings,
• live stock, feed, Supplies and machin-
• ery. There is elso a page where the
• 'year's business may be seneuerizell,
with a few .directions to assist in fill -
ling out intelligently at the end of the
year. • Further, „glee ie a table an
• (which to enter acreage and yield ercips
and one on which to keep a live stock
service, record.
The. book may be obtained from the
Publieations Brandi ef the Dept. of
IAgriculture, Ottawa, At a nominal
'charge) of tea cents. No postage need
be placed en letters of ;application.
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SUNLIFE ASSURANCE -COMPANY
CANADA
TOWER OF STREWTH
1 9 2 6
ASSURANCES IN FORCE (net) Si
An Increase of $235,393,000
New Assurances Paid . For
• An Increase of $72,412,000
Total Income - -
An Increase of $9,825,000
Payments to Policyholders and
Beneficiaries -
Total Payments Since Organiza-
tion - -
Reserve for Unforeseen Con-
tingencies -
•Surplus over all Liabilities and
Contingency Reserve -
An Increase of $5,371,000
ASSETS at December 31,1926
An Increase of $42,195,000
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256,490,000
265,889,000
78,972,000
38,576,000
257,816,000
11,000,000
34,011,000
345,251,000
Dividends to Policyholders increased for
seventh successive year
EXTRACTS FROM DIRECTORS' REPORT
The operations during the past year have re-
sulted in substantial advances in all depart-
ments. . .
The new policies paid for. . . . almost double
the figures of two years ago.
The assurances in force, after deduction of
reassurances, . . . show an increase of
'4 over twenty-three per cent. ,
• Policies and group certificates now outstand-
ing aggregate well in excess of half a
The figures relating to resources and earning
power are equally satisfactory.
The high quality and profitable character of
our investments has again been demonstrated.
As a result of continued reduction in prevailing
rates of interest, and of satisfactory industrial
conditions, there has been a further rise in the
market values of our long-term bonds and of
our preferred and other stocks. The appraisal of
our securities made by the Government Insur-
ance Department shows that the excess of
market values over cost has increased during the
year by $6,894,266.26. In addition, the sum
of $1,729,364.52 has been realized as net profit
from the redemption or sale of municipal deben-
tures and other securities which had risen to
high premiums. The rate of interest earned on
the mean invested assets has also risen to the
remarkable figure of 6.69 per cent, as the result
of substantial dividend increases, bonuses, and
stock privileges received in connection with
many of our holdings.
The quality of the investments listed in the
assets may be judged from the fact that on
99.55 per cent of the bonds and on 99.71 per
cent of the preferred stocks, not one dollar of in-
terest or dividend is in arrear for even one day.
On our common stocks the dividends now being
received are greatly in excess of the dividends
payable on the same stocks at time of purchase.
The total surplus earned during the year
amounted to $20,457,077.28. From this the
following appropriations have been made:
The sum of $2,000,000 has been de-
ducted from the official valuation of our se-
curities to provide for possible fluctuations in
market values. This raises the amount set
aside for this purpose to $5,000,000.
In other words, tlue value at which our
securities are carried in the balance sheet is
$5,00.0,000 less than the appraisal made
by the Government authorities.
The account to provide for unforeseen con-
tingencies has been increased by $1,000,000
bringing the total under this heading to
$11,000,000.
The book value of our Head Office building
has been written, down by a further sum of
$250,000 though it certainly could not
be replaced at even its original cost.
• An additional amount of $400,000 has
been set aside to provide for greater longevity
of annuitants. The total held under this head-
ing in excess of Government requirements,
is now $1,500,000.
The reserves on the newly acquired busi-
ness of the Cleveland Life, and on other re-
assured policies, have beerfraised to the same
high standard as that used for the valuation
of liabilities under our own contracts.
To our policyholders, profits have been
paid or allotted during the year to the amount
of $9,235,526.80.
After making these deductions and alloca-
tions an addition of $5,371,564.56 has been
made to the undivided profits. The surplus
over all liabilities, contingency accounts and
capital stock, now stands at $34,011,565.25.
For six years in succession we have increased
the profits to participating policyholders. Dur-
ing this period our profit scale has been doubled.
While the assurances in force have multiplied
two and a half times since 1920, the amount
paid or allotted as profits to policyholders has
multiplied five and a half times. We are gratified
to announce, four the seventh consecutive time,
a further increase in the scale of profits to be
distributed to our policyholders in the ensuing
year.
SUN LIFE AS
COMPANY
fh ANc
CANADA
SANITATION INCREASES PRODUCTION
BY FRANK PRICE HECKEL,
There is no respect in which modern
forming methods differ so widely from
those ef the past generation as in the
matter of sanitation. t nlay truth-
fully be said that the comparatively
recentadoption by farmers generally
of the principles Of hygiene, has prov-
ed to be the cornerstone in building
the modern structure of ecientiffe
farming.
The intense competition to which
farmers have ;always been subjeet, has,
served to keep them abreast of the
times. But the vital fimportanee of
sanitation in its relation to peoduction
was but dimly recognized a generation
or two ago and heal' wonder. In a
day when ignorance and superstition
attributed ell disease either to chante,
or to a visitation of providence, not
ttached to
much importance Was a
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cleaulinees alone es a means of pre-
vention. The discovery of germs and
their modes of tiranemission, and the
pioneer work of the immortal Pasteur
in his lield---from whose mono, by the
way, has bean derived the term "pas-
teurized" --has changed all this and
brought to the farmer's attention the
importance of sanitation.
• IIIDDEN GERMS OF DISEASE.
It has been definitely established,
that the germs ef dieetee lurk, in many
unsuspected phew,. Substances that
are life-giving under ordinary eondi-
tions, may be death -dealing melee
other conditions. For example, the
bountiful soil, from which we derive
our very susterrante, is fairly teeming
with the spares of that dread disease,
Warms more dome/only called "leek -
jaw " 'And the more fertile the son
for crops, the better it will support,:
also, germ life. We cannet, therefore,'
attack these genie by decreasing the
nourishment of the roil. This would
destroy all life implanted there, seed
e.s well as s are We are forced., there-
fore, to attack the probleme, sanita-
tics from Another angle.
The earth is merely a sterehouse
for the sues energy. Every farmer
knows that "mood old Mother Earth"
Is the source and support of tall crea-
tion, Therefore, we do not dare
• "tamper with the soil, We should only
put more nourishment into the sail to
render it, if possible, more fertile-, But
we can and should see to it, that this
"dirt," which is at once Iefe's camping
ground and death's burial ground;
the life -giver and the death dealer, is
kept where et belongs, outside of, and
never permitted to enter the enneed
body,
:Disease and dirt go hareldn-hand.
We may ;stiptly paraphrase the French
saying:
in moral "afflictione" 'seek
the Wernian, by saying:, in contagions
"look for the dirt." Gernes cannot
breed in the absence of moisture and
nourishment. Paint,and varnish. elim-
inate "dirt." The inference is obvi-
ous; germs cannot thrive en painted
surfaces. There are no greater aide
to farm sanitation, which means Arne
health, than. paint and iramish.
NO DIRT NO AISEASE.
It is important that the health of
live stock, as well as the health ef
the human occupants of a farm, be
considered: In his own interest the
farmer eannot afford to have un-
healthy live steek, er live steak whose
resistance to disease has been so low-
ered by unsanitary housing conditions,
that they "catch" anything going. The
lower ;animals are subject to quite ifta
mealy ;ailments as is man, They must
not only bo properly nourished, but
they must be pretected from the germs
of disease if they are to be kept iu a
healthy condition. Farniere should re-
member that health maintetvance, bah
f • men and stock is lax more a taut -
el
ter of prevention than of treatment
That "en ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of Mire is true. But, in the
light of modern science, we may go
farther. In a strict sense, there is no
"cure" for disease, there is only
treatment Unfortunately, treatment
does net cure disease, it merely re-
lieves the eufferer. There is a great
deal of confusion on these 'points. The
only important thing to remember is
that where thei is no chit thee° Is
DO disease. In this cenneetaon, the
farmer, who is vitally interested in.
these matters, will do well to remem-
ber that if he keeps his buildings clean
and ;sanitary; if he keeps his outbuild-
ings, partiouiarly those that house the
live stock, dey and well-peinted, he
will establish sanitation, promote
health and efficiency end thus realize
greater returns on his inveeementt,':
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