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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-12-23, Page 71E NEW YEAR'S DINNER BY CAROI.,I Reset goose for the New Year's feast is an old rale. and if the goose' is tender and well cooked it is as tempting a dish as one could possibly serve. But unless one is .sure the bird is fairly tender, it is not a bad idea to eschew tradition and pin one's faith to some other fowl or joint. Many of the geese that I have en- countered might well have been am- ong those heroic Roman birds which saved their country several centuries ago. My own choice for the New Year's dinner is a fine hath or a roast. Tur- key or other fowl le served for Christ- mas, and for New Year's we want a change. A ham baked brown and crispy with appropriate vegetables and side dishes will make a most acceptable dinner. Here is a menu that is not too costly or difficult to prepare: Fruit Cup Ram Baked with Pineapple Homemade Pickles Celery Mashed Potato Creamed `Spinach Beets in Butter. Sauce Tomato Jelly Salad Cheese Puffs Toaisted Apple Pie with Maple Sugar Coffee Fruit Cup may be made of fresh or tanned fruit, or a combination of both --one or two bananas, mi apple and an orange, a few nice firm canned peach halves or canned cherries or pears. Cut the. fruit in neat, small pieces, place the apples in slightly exalted Water to prevent discoloration and keep all in a cool place. Just be- fore serving mix the fruits, sweeten slightly, add some of the syrup from the canned peaches or cherries, with a plump raisin err two, or a maras- chino cherry, and serve in small sher- bet cups or tall slender glasses. Place each Vass on a doily -covered bread ancd butter plate, with a fern leaf or flower at the side. Ham Peaked With Pineapple. For a large dinner a whole halm, weighing Froin eight to twelve pounds, will be required; for a smaller affair one might use a picnic hale or the butt end c.E a large ham, Wash and scrub the lam well, then let it soak over- night in culcl water to which a little vinegar has been added. In the morn- ing trim off the hard skin near the end of the baste and lace over the fire in cold water, with one onion in which a few cloves have been inserted, a carrot, a sprig of parsley and a bay Peat. Simmer until tender; this will re- quire from three to four hours, as cording to the size of the hem. Leave in the kettle to cool, then remove, trim neatly, peel- oft the outer skin and brush all over with well beaten egg. Then ever thickly with fine dry bread =min, sprinkle a little brown eugar and paprika ' over the surface and stick whole claves in symmetrical rows over the entire ham. Then bake in a slow avctr about sixty minutes. Half an hour before it is finished p'xuce pineapple slices cut in quarters all round the Nein and pour •a little of the pinecaeole juice into the roasting pan; the pineapple should brown slightly in the ham fat. In serving, place th, ham. on a .large platter and garnish with pineapple, on each piece pricing e strip of pimiento for color. For the gravy, add two tablespoon- fuls of floor to the fat in the roasting pan and stir over the fire to a smooth paste, then add two cupfuls of the laiquor in which the ham was boiled and half a cupful of pineapple juice. Cock till smooth and sightly thicken- ed, season to taste and strain into a ,sauce boat. Creamed Spinach is very delicious and quite different from the ordinary method of serving the vegetable. Pick NE DING. over and wash very easefully a. peck of: spinach, place over the fire to cook in plenty of boiling salted water, adds• ing a pinch of baking soda and a tea- spoonful of sugar. Cook about ten minutes or until tender, then drain very carefully, pressing out all the water possible, and chop very, very fine. Make a rich white sauce by cooking together to a paste two table- spoonfuls of butter and flour, then add a cupful of rich milk, or part cream if convenient, and season with half It teaspoonful of salt and a quar- ter teaspoonful of paprika, a clash of nutmeg or mace, 'and pepper to taste. Beat one egg well; and pour the hot sauce over it, whiptfor a moment or two,' then pour over the spinach, mix all well, and serve in a hot dish. Sprinkle the top of the spinach with paprika or garnish with strips of pimiento. Beets in Butter Sauce. Boil beets, without peeling, until tender, then drop into cold water land slip off their skins; cut into cubes and pour melted butter mixed with a little vinegar over them. Season to taste. Tomato Jelly Salad. Empty a quart can of tomatoes into a saucepan, add half a cupful of water, a chopped onion, a ,•mall piece of bay leaf, half a cupful of sugar, a tablespoonful of vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer fifteen minutes, then press through a sieve and add two table- spoottuLs of gelatin dissolved in a quarter cupful of cold water. Stir over the fire until the gelatin is thor- oughly incorporated with the tomato liquid, then pour into a wet mold, or in individual nods, and set away to become firm and toad. Turn out on crisp cabbage 'leaves and serve with mayonnaise or boiled salad dressing. Cheese Puffs are very savory serv- ed with any salad. To make them, grate enough cheese to make a full I cup; butter thin salt crackers lightly and sprinkle thickly with the cheese and lightly with paprika. Place in a 'hot oven until the cheese melts enc !puffs delicately. Toasted Apple Pie with Maple I Sugar. Make an apple pie from your I best recipe, and shortly before serving place it either at the top of a very hot oven, or under the flame of the gas broiler to brown well Meantime flake enough maple sugar to make one cup- ful. Sprinkle over the pie and serve at once. Here is the menu for another sav- ory New Year's dinner: Vegetable Appetizers Boned and Stuffed Leg of Lamb Browned Potatoes Brown Gravy Celery Relish Currant Jelly Onion Souffle • Pineapple and Date Salad Charlotte Trifle Coffee Vegetable Appetizers. Boil a red beet till tender, slip off the skin. and cut into very thin slices. With a very small cooky cutter trine the beet slices evenly, then place in French dressing foe an hour. Take out and dip in finely chopped parsley. Ar- range on smell plates with sliced hard-boiled eggs treated in the same way, placing a beet slice and an egg slice on tiny crisp leaves of lettuce. Onion Souffle.. Boil the onions until tender, then drain and chop very fine. To one and a half cupfuls of the chop- ped onion, allow three tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour and one scant cupful of milk; snake a sauce of the butter and flour, and when thick add the chopped onion with salt, pepper and paprika to suit your taste. Then whip in the yolks of two eggs, beating well, after which fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Pour in to a buttered pudding dish and bake from twenty to thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve at once,, as souffles scop fallll. Mother's New Year. The sense of speed is all about us. The farmer is continually replacing his old machinery with new and mod- ern implements that will help him to reduce his production costs. The man in the factory is, all the time, replac- ing the old machine with a new one that will turn out more pieces to the minute. Even the children find their time crowded to the last minute with thein' many school notivities, athletics and music lessons. And all this hustle and bustle of the family, the home -maker trust sonve- .how find time and ability to rneke her home all, in the broadest sense that the wrd implies --a haven of rest, comfort, and cnnipanionshi'p, as well as a piece fo'i refueling the body. As the soil is the factory for the fanner, co the home is the factory for the hone -maker, and undbubtedyy the mast imrfurrtant one. At this time of the year, when each and every one is looking forward to the new ye,er• -a year which promises much in measure of health, happiness, and prosperity—it is fitting to give thoughtful consideration to the things that mother need to run her home factory to give the greatest happiness to lorsebf and her family. Ante de- vice that would lightens her labor and shorten her hours devoted to houses keeping would liberate that time for home-nrnking, of which no 'home can have too much.. the, year head when •mavrketing your products. Dortt"t Ship your hogs His Position. Mary----"I-le says he has a ,goad Peale. -tape in the tie cb:rartm•ent of the big stone." May --"So he, has ---. he's bitn:le wrapp;."r, my clear." The New Year. Bravciy I face the year that is to he, In unknown ways, the paths my feet must go, Hopeful that I will find around some turn The outstretched hand of friend I jay to know. And if each earning day, my labors do nes, I homeward wend, the starry sky above, I shall be truly blessed if I can see At op'ning door, the little ones I love. —Alix Thorn. Horticulturaj Council Trophies Awarded in Ontario, The School Grounds Planting Glom- petition instituted by the Canadian Horticultural Council is closed fox the I second year. The report of the judlg ing committee shows that Elmo, Seh,00l Section No. 2 near Listowel has again won the cup for the northern section. In the eastern and western districts, however, new sehoole have won the respective cups this year: Section No. 2 In the township of Beanie near Manchester, for the eastern district, and Section No. 1 in Essex county, near Wheatley, fox the western, The winners in the eastern end western di'stri'cts of 'past year were successful this year in winning awards of merit certificates with which to decorate their school walls. This certificate was also won this year by South Dor- chester School Section No. 6, Bel menet; Hudm'an's Bridge School Sec- tion No. 10, Hudrnan's Bridge; Haw- thorne Scheel Section No. 16, Haw- thorne; and Section No. 31, at Wes- ton. The committee in charge of the Ontario competition were George Simpson, Ottawa, past president of the Ontario Horticultural Association, as chairman; J. Loclde Wilsons secre- tary of the Ontario Horticultural As- sociation, Toronto; A. H. MacLennan, Prof. of Horticulture, Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph; Mr. W. E. Groves, secretary of the Canadian Florists' and Gardeners' Assocvathert, Hamilton; and Capt. L. F. Burrows, secretary of the Canadian Horticul- tural Council at Ottawa. The awards were decided by this committee who based their decision on photographs, essays, and other evidences of their work submitted by the competing schools. "First Footing." To ensure good luck coming to the 'house some people like a dark man to be the first to enter the door on New Year's Day. This •o'.d custom is known in the South of England as "first footing." In other localities a fair man is' considered luckier. Another okl "first footing" custom, which is especially prevalent in Scot- land, is that all those who oome first to the house of a friend after twelve o'clock must not come empty-handed. Friends come laden with cakes, bread, and other good things. Perhaps out of this old custom has sprung the more modern surprise. party of to -day, when guests all bring some share of the feast. It is still customary, in Bohemian circles for a number of friends to descend upon a house that has not seen much good fortune during the year and bring food and drinks with them. Everyone partakes of the fare, but when the guests have gone there is always enough over for the morrow. Prayer at the Beginning of a Year. I do not ask my feet be led In ways of perfect joy and ease Nor that I shall be free from tears And things that worry and dis- please. I only pray I may be strong And quick to do the things I see Are good and right and should be done By timid, wavering folk like me. Then when another new year conies, When all these waiting twelve months fade, I may be rich in kindnesses, And olid friends held and new friends made. —Rebecca Hetian. Few farm machinesave to stanch more abuse from exposure to the! weather than the cultivator. It seems 1 the most natural thing in the word to unhitch from the cultivator at the end of the row when the dinner bell rings, and leave it there, maybe until the following week. No wonder it gets rusty and the paint washes off so quickly. A small, light stone -boat, upon which the cultivator can be load- ed in a minute, is a handy thing to "Couldn't they find a bettor none take the implement to the shed or I tor her than Flo?" barn. It would :last far longer if "No, she keeps up a steady stream treated that way. DEAL— ors �Jcye✓%�.aarr✓-' A SMART DAYTIME FROCK. Following the fashionable straight silhouette, this attractive frock has a bodice front slightly gathered to a plaited skirt front, while the back is quite plain. An effective scalloped yoke is applied over the skirt in front and flared scalloped cuffs finish the long dart -fitted sleeves. The collar is of the becoming convertible type and a narrow best completes this modish frock. No. 1463 is for Misses and Small Women and is in sizes 16, 18 and 20 years. Size 18 requires 3%S yards 39 -inch, or 2% yards 54 -inch material. Width at lower edge of dress with plaits pulled out about 64 inches. 20 cents. Our Fashion Book, illustrating the newest and most practical styes, will be of interest to every home dress- maker. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. BOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain. ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and , address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade. !aide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by ;return .snail, Flow of the Stream. MY HOUSED R 1 RESOLUTIONS NEW YEAR BY NELL B, NICHOLS. With the new year I am evolving resolutions and plans to follow in an effort to make my home more satis- factory during the next twelve months. Now I aim reviewing the ex- periences of 1926 to discover the les- sons they have taught. Cooking is one task I hope to sim- plify. I have resolved, to prepare large quantities of food at a time, whenever it is possibiea When cookies are baked the ba.teh will be large. Likewise cakes will be made in large amounts, at feast eight .'ayrers at a time. Two of these I shall put to- gether with frosting for imanedriete use. The other six layers will be stored in tightly covered earthen jars. When needed, two of them will be put together with a hot icing, the :steam from which will freshen the cake. Pie shells too vvi+ti be made in: 'large quantities, They will be stored under inverted crocks. When placed in the oven after being filled, to brown the meringue, the pastry will be fresh- ened. Salad dressings and many vege- tables may be cooked for several niea+ls at a time. I also am going to roast large pieces of meat at a time, for left -overs have many possibilities. Even the breakfast cereal will be pre- pared in largo enough amounts so there will be remnants for use as the foundation for raisin, chocolate and other puddings. BAITING DAY. I am setting aside Friday as a weekly baking day. If the morning is employed for cooking the same mixing bowls may be used for many batters and dough,. So dish -washing is re- duced. The oven, too, is ready at all times. Saturday has been niy baking day in.the past year but it is a poor time for cooking—so many other things to be done then in preparation for Sunday. As to the c:eanin•g, I am going to try to clean a room a day, with the exception of Tuesday, when washing is in order. On Saturday the hiving and dining rooms and kitchen will be cleaned. I 'haven't found a way to make the washing easier. But 1 will have the I house in order when Tuesday arrives. I I also expect to simplify the areal preparation on washday by advance 1 preparations. Frequent changes in clothing, although they mean merle pieces to be laundered, are desirable, for slightly toiled garments may be cleaned more easily than badly soiled ones. I am not going toe waste time iron-,ing clothing that does not need to be pressed. I shall continue to use ern:4 Turkish towels., which require no iron- ing, for drying the dishes I cannot drain. Sheets dried outdoors will be folded and used without pressing. DISTRIBUTE THE CANNING.. Canning is another duty in most faxen. homes. I 'am expecting to make my budget this month based on am- ounts mounts consumed the past year. Then I .am going to distribute the canning throughout the twelve months. I will begin now with the preparation of conserves from dried fruits and crane' berries end in February with orange and grapefruit marmalades, This month and next I am going to sew. Bedding, curtains, aprons used many ether articles may be made and be out of the way long before the anneal housecleaning season. I haven't forgotten recreation in my, plans. With the passing of every. year. I appreciate more keenly the' value of play. Some social life, which affords one an opportunity to forget' cares and work, is essential to happi-' ness. I am going iso attend my club meetings and go to other gatherings' where I may obtain new ideas aro learn what the rest of the world is thinking about. I am reticent about telling what I am going to do, for talking and dreaming -are easier than doing, but I have learneci that viewing the past' in :an effort to determine which me! thods brought success and which ones failure is an excellent method of im- proving one's scheme of living. Sche- dules cannot be fo lowed to a, T; :m- exnectod happenings prevent. Bu: 1 find a plan of some kind better than- none. A PARTY FOR NEWYA.'S EVE For invitations, cut from yellow cardboerd the outline of a large open - face watch (like grandfather's old rang at midright, should be hung, from the chandelier. Make the clack conspicuous by twit ing it with gar Janda, .and on each sl one). Cot it double, making the fold place a red candle in a caudb•o.tr come at one side, and loop a small ring .analestick shaped ilke an hour -glass. of gold cord through the fond. Over This can be done by turning two cone: the front of the '`watch" pasta a so the points meet end running three 'smaller circle M white paper and short pieces of cord from base to case draw upon it the numenies and hands., using black ink. The hands should both point to twelve. Inside write the following verse: to represent the supports. These eau be built right over any straight candlestick. Be sure your clerk is right to the second. When the guests have all arrived ask each one for the exact When 127 conies to our town, time according to his or hex watch and We'd like to have you here, according to whether their watches So come around next Friday night are slow, -fast, or just right, telt the To greet the brand-new year. owners their fo::tares for the coming 1 On one M the inner sides write "lir' your name and addrss-s and on the. NEW LEM*. 1 e9.;1' 1 k'or (ale game, just before the clock other write "Come at ' iI and stay as g' . late as you like." This admonition is t strikes eleven, pass around maple very wise, for if your guests come tool leaves cut from green cardboard and early, the time before midnight is `: numbered. Use light green far the' likely to drag a bit. i girls anti dark green for- the boys. As, For simpler invitations svelte this I the c loc l.strikes, every one must "turn' "t e;:r.'.ution" on -correspondence cards: over a new leaf and write a resolution lon the back of it. Then the leases are' !passed around and every one tries to' guess who wrote the re olutions, writ-' ing the numbers on a slip of paper with the names opposite. An appropriate centrepiece for the refreshment •table could be made by using a large book, covering the backs With Christmas greens t,r2• the with red paper. In the centre insert background, decorating for the Nevv Yeartwo leaves *of stiff white paper on affair will b' simple. You can which, in large letters, -write "A' ea i v gig ,the required touch by cut - be New Year." The book should: tort; hell: of all fres from roil midhe ki pt elc)sed until the guests are, silver CELrillt)rtt`d, ..tringirg them on seated, and narrow red ribbons run- g RESOLVED: That 11a -al begin the New Year with a jolly good time from 9.30 pan. until 11;30 a.m., at the home of Mary ;smith. Please sign on the dotted line and return. ' cord and hanging thein in festoons wing roan its pages to each plaice freers doorways, over windows . andshould endin tiny ted cardboard' of talk." i under the pictures. Real bells, to be booklets with the truest,' names writ ten on there, and sealed with little New Lear seals. Tnside could be written a good avislt for the New Year, or you could use calendars or diaries for favors. If the t.able is round it could, be, covered with white paper with the face of a clock drawn on it.. The hands could be cut from Meek cardl. board. Cardboard cut in the shapes of hour -glasses will make clever place - cards, Cunning little favors ran be made by dressing tiny doIis in flowing robes, adding long white beard of miter, and paper scythes. These rep- resentations of Father Time coal be fastened to paper cups fulled with nuts or candy. Ti -IF. CANADIAN HOMEMAKER v1 series , rvee�ry a�rtielc coverlet PLANNING . BUILDING . FINANCING DECORATING , FURN 5HiNG GARDENING at.a.. eopyrr3I else, • TWO WAYS TO BUILD -BOTH HAS .ME Now that you have the site and have ee::ste,2:ir the plan, the next thing to, conceder is just how you are to build. There arc 'tw•o ways of sting about it. 1 First, you can throw the respoussi-r allay for the •em'tirre job on the should-' ers of a general contractor, with whom you eau make arra:agentrents to have the house buu9lt by a c'ertai'n date at ! an agreed-upon total pais, plus extra t charges tor any changes that you ' made 'outing the period of eonstrnc-I tion. S:amn+d•, you 'can buy the rnater"iells anctb employ day :labor, and practically ! build: the Nouse yourself, with the ed. vice and supervision of a building con -1 hooter.. lathis case the contractor heis "no axe to ,abed,' and ho ma • bo depended on to see that 'everything is done in the most efficient manner. There is no inducement Dor hlun to sldanp any thing. He will slake a charge based cn •c•cste, Pines a peercent- age, for profit. The drawback to this scheme is that It is difficult to estimate what the fin'a'l const will be, and it gives rise to the tendency on the part of the owner to make changes as the work proceeds, These changes speedily increase the, cost, and in tite end your home is like. ly to cost yea Inuclt more than you fguresi. It is trues tite added cost will almost always represent added velue gid conve'ttlettce; but if your resources airs small and the house are Ufl 'ri>rott- tions one the ca'ntraet method is usual - BITS 1y the hcf. t. You get what you pay for, Serve sandwiches (cult in the shape alai you know it: advance lust what ; of clocks, bel!Io and hour -glasses), Cho tz,M.rt'I co.'t w+:Ai Ire. olives and reory, ice-cream and is: Payi:i*nL sltrm!d bi' blade fat reglrtar cake iced in white with th'e c cek di.+a1� itvtervals art tI c� rate cif ot;g'l:t,y leer cont, dlrawte upon it with a 'brush of tsh,..t value, of the work donee. The melted chocolate ASso, rich eaokies rpm,sipUttt, tvwi •enty per cent. to be re. (cut in the shape of be'fr), coffee die ta.ln,ed until thirty-one 'days after t.lro cocoa with whipped cream, and creaxnt nomplrcfi'on of the work to safognarut ......,,,K elle �` against liens for unpaid, material% or labor. Liens initat 1)8 regfs'te•rod with. In thirty trays from the completion of One of our horses developed the bad a contractor's, work and not more than habit of pulling at the hatter in the Stoll. We put a stop to it by 7Cae'tees ing a enua'll chain acmes, the et*ttt jitat• -behind the, mare, She; gtt so that alk tow string would hold her. Iii iaha, could just few something aca+oss the eta, t'lint wee enottglu twe)rly ptIr s'ea't of the caoa:tract price can he tttite'eted from you. This thirtyo+n'e ciavueaiso,gives y'c«tt an crp'portnndty to thoroughly inspect Ito work and be satisfied thaat it has beet executed according to contract.