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The keynote for,,, suecessfttl out-
door parties or fzmiiy picnics is
simplicity—just plenty of a few
foods with all the necessary trim-
. rriings, To save trouble and -ex-
citement, write down the menu
ahead of time. Fasten it to your
kitchen wall with a 'tiny piece of
Scotch tape and then you'll be sure
not to forget the mustard and hot
sauce that go with hamburgers or
the sugar that makes the beverage
palatable to some of the guests.
Check off each item as it is put
in the basket and there won't be
any last-minute breathless wonder-
ing if you have everything.
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Meats that can be eaten m buns
furnish one of the most conven-
ient types of picnic foods. They
can be cooked quickly and eaten
gracefully and they go well with
baked beans, potato or other salad,
or any one of a number of filling
casseroles that can be taken hot
from home. (A simple way to
keep these hot dishes warm is to
take them piping hot and covered
from the oven and wrap them in
many thicknesses of old news-
papers.
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If your picnic kit is equipped
'with two-pronged cooking forks,
try roasting franks on one prong
with small salted tomatoes and
.mushrooms (or small onions) plac-
ed alternately on the other, Every-
body likes these frank kabobs.
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If you have a. cooking grill, take
along a big skillet and heat the
meat in barbecue sauce which you
have made at home the day be-
fore. This takes about eight min-
tdes. Spoon up enough of. the
sauce to moisten the bun and you
won't need any other garnish. This
recipe makes one pint.
BARBECUE SAUCE
2 medium-size onions, shredded
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon salt
'Ye eup catsup
1 teaspoon chili powder
% cup water
teaspoon red pepper (if you
like it hot)
Place all ingredients in a heavy
. skillet and bring to boiling point.
Cover and simmer for 45 minutes.
If you want your outdoor meal
to be an extra special hamburger
party, serve cheese hamburgers.
CHEESE HAMBURGERS
pound of ground beef for
each hamburger
1 slice of sharp Canadian
cheese for each
Form each ;.a pound of beef into
two thin hamburger cakes and place
one slice of the cheese between
them. Pinch edges of the two cakes
together to enclose the cheese com-
pletely. Heat skillet and sprinkle
salt lightly over it before placing
the stuffed hamburgers in to brown.
When you have browned them on
both sides, cover then with your
barbecue sauce and heat through.
You may prefer plain hamburgers
-nixed with chopped onion, deviled
hamburgers, or hamburgers wrap-
ped with bacon. These may be
cooked on forks or grilled. When
they are cooked, you can put them
with a de luxe topping (hot sauce,
mustard and pickle) in your bun, or
eat then as plain as your taste
dictates.
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HAMBURGER PATTIES
(for 4)
1 pound ground beef
crrm'e;
1 teaspoon salt
IA cup chopped onion
Combine all ingredients and shape
into four patties. Broil about 10
minutes on each side. Serve in
bun with "trimmings."
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DEVILED HAMBURGERS
1 pound ground beef
1 teaspoon salt
cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
1 tablespoon horse -radish
1 finely mashed clove of
garlic
Dash of Worcestershire
sauce
Combine all ingredients and
shape into four patties. Broil about
10 minutes on each side. Serve hot
in bun.
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HAMBURGER -BACON
WRAP-AROUND BALLS
2 egg yolks
1 pound ground beef
2 teaspoons salt
teaspoon pepper
12 slices bacon, cut in half
Combine hamburger, egg yolks,
and seasoning and form into about
20 oblong balls. Wrap bacon
around each ball. Cook on sticks
over low coals until bacon is crisp
and meat is done.
"Best" Quilts And
C s tunterpanes
Excluding the great mansions
occupied by the colonial gover-
nors in eighteenth -century Ameri-
can, the home of the average citizen
was small and his family large.
There rarely were more than one
or two bedrooms and often a bed
was an article of parlor furniture.
Wealthy Nicholas Van Rensselaer
owned but two beds plus a built-in
sleeping -bank, according to the pub-
lished list of his household effects
at his death in 1695. To account
for the great diversity in sizes of
the earliest examples of bedcovers,
the bedstead of the period must be
considered. Important articles of
furniture were made to order by
journeymen cabinetmakers, accord-
ing to individual tastes and needs:
many four -post beds were only
four feet wide; extra width was
charged for at the rate of two
pence per inch aria a man's wealth
and standing in the community
were measured by the width of his
bed as well as the richness of its
carving. There were field beds, low
four-posters, wide and high four -
pesters and the "slaw -bank" or
built-in bed which was a feature
in the homes of the early Dutch
settlers.
From flax grown and sheep
raised on the home plantations,
they spun the thread, dyed the
yarn and wove it into materials
both coarse and sheer to be used
for domestic purposes. From Eng-
land, 'Wales, Holland and other
continental countries women had
brought to their new homes sturdy
hearts, dextrous hands and the
memory of colors and forms that
had been part of the Old World
culture; it guided their taste in
decorative stitchery. In cities and
near large settlements, there were
expensive schools for young gen-
tlewomen which advertised instruc-
tion in "all sorts of fine needle-
work, Turkey -work, quilting, and
Atomic Animasl Husbandry --Models at a recent Animal Fint Aid
course, ,"Spart," the pup, and "Tiger," the kitten, find themselves
agreeing wholehearted] with General Sherman's views on war,
in response to a Civil .a ense warning that hysterical ernirnals
would consfitute a grave public menace during an atomic attack,
the Association for the .Prevention of Cruelty to Animals began
first kid course designed to teach students how to care for
animals in on emergency.
Al Fresco Art—A London sidewalk and brick wall become an art
gallery during the Hamstead Festival Open Air Art Show. Barbara
Duggan, one of the many young artists exhibiting, hangs her
work on chicken wire.
embroidering in a new way"; for
the most part, the average house-•
wife followed her own inclinations,
achieving vigor .in. her handwork
and, with surprising frequency, a
delicacy and charm which must
have been the result of fine feeling
rather than formal instruction. It
was a generation -to -generation af-
fair; mothers taught daughters and
it was required that every female
of tender years and decent up-
bringing learn to spin and do a
"daily stint" with the needle.
The reason for the generally good
condition of the few spreads which
have survived is that they were the
"hest" quilts and counterpanes, had
been used only on festive occa-
sions and had been lovingly cared
for between times. Often when the
best counterpane was on the becl
in the homestead's guest chamber,
the shades were tightly drawn so
the sun could fade neither the bed-
cover nor the carpet.
Seamen and traders brought
home to their families cotton prints,
palarnpores, glorious in form and
color, also precious shawls from
India; these were the source from
which many quilt designs sprung—
the Persian pear, the pomegranate,
the 'tree of life.—From "American
Quilts and Coverlets," by Florence
Peto.
New and Useful Too
Perfum.atic
Put in a coin, push a button and
milady is sprayed with her favorite
cologne. A non -electrical machine
that dispenses a perfumed spray
when coin is inserted holds four
popular brands of cologne with se-
. pirate coin chutes, for each brand.
Useful in ladies' powder rooms in
theatres, restaurants, etc. machines
can also be geared for use by de-
partment stores or drug stores who
.wish to 'use the machine on a com-
plimentary customer basis. Colognes
are contained in a metal baked
enamel cabinet weighing less than
20 lbs. and each of four bottles are
said to eject 1,000 sprays.
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Disk Sticks
About the size of a dime is disk
with adhesive on both sides, and
adhering to all surfaces, including
glass, metal and tile. Product does
not leave marks as a tack does
and will not stick to the fingers;
can be peeled off without harming
surface and can be re -used, Disks
are useful in offices for putting up
bulletins, and in store windows, etc,
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Tough Tire
Now available in Canada is new
off -the -road tire designed to be
used in logging, mining and con-
struction industries. Tire is steer-
ing or trailing wheel and has three
ribs for smoother riding, easier
steering and getting greater mile-
ae. Tread pattern said to give big-
ger resistance to slipping on steep
curves. Less vibration is felt in the
vehicle's steering column thus les-
sening fatigue and wear.
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Faucet Won't Freeze
Faucet for outside use will not
freeze even in low temperatures,
and can be attached to frame build-
ings by use of a notched flange.
Operated by a handle that turns
off a valve inside building, unit
comes in either galvanized pipe or
or brass and copper; has "loose
key" handle permitting detachment;
and a small valve for fast installa-
tion.
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Children'ti Circus
"Collection of plastic cirrus toys
is designed to bring the "greatest
show on earth" clown to the play-
pen level. Collection includes bright-
ly colored • three ring act plus ani-
mal cages, ticket booth, and a re-
volving merry-go-round.
Shampoo Without Water
Developed mainly for hospital
patients who cannot have their
heads soaked and for anyone with
head colds, etc. is an easy-to-use
detergeht type liquid. Applied di-
rectly to the hair from a shaker top
bottle, liquid is then rubbed out
of hair along with dirt.
Be Sure They're Dry
"What will they think of next?"
'Chis is a common exclamation
when someone learns of a tricky
new device for making work light
or sees another example of man-
kind's inventive genius.
But such will not be the the case
when the housewife stores away
her clean clothes while still damp
and takes then out later to iron
only to find they are badly Mil-
dewed, Phis problem is still on the
roster of those to solve.
Unfortunately mildew stains are
still easier to prevent than to re-
move. Damage results even from
elaborate methods contrived to
eliminate the gray stains which
permeate clothing during hot wea-
ther, says the American Institute
of Laundering.
Alert housewives will, therefore,
be careful to store away only the
garments that are perfectly dry,
ot June in January— but A Fan fair In Early Summertime
As most everybody knows, the greatest enemy to a successful fall fair is bad weather. If the Agricultural Secretaries whose
hearts have been broken by rain, sleet and even snow were laid end to end they would stretch from here to—well, quite a long]
way.
Some Ontario communities favor moving the Fair forward on the calendar to assure themselves of sunshine and favorable
conditions. One such is Maxville, in Glengarry County, where a successful Fair was held late in June. The section of "The Midway"
shown in the picture above apparently fascinates the younger generation just as much, no matter what the month; while the
trotters—or maybe they're pacers—look to have plenty of zip as they round the final turn into the stretch„