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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-10-29, Page 2TABLE 'KS olapa Here in Canada, of course, we don't use corn meal in our cook- ing to anything like the extent they do "down South." Which is rather a pity, as it is both nourishing and economical. One of the reasons for its lack Of popularity here is, 1 believe, that we Canadian cooks just don't know how to handle corn meal and turn out stuff that is ;slat and uninteresting. So here ere three recipes which I think will give your folks new ideas of how good corn meal can be. SOUR -CREAM CORN BREAD 1 e. yellow corn areal 1 c, sifted flour 1 tsp. soda 1 tblsp, sugar 1 tsp. salt 1 egg �lz c. sifted flour 1 tblsp, melted shor.tenine Sift together dry ingredients. Add beaten egg. Pour in cream (if cream is very thick, it may take a bit more for the right consistency). Add shortening. Pour batter in greased 8x8 -in. pan, and bake in a moderate (37a°) oven until golden brown. k1A1l1 UPSIDE-DOWN+* CORN BREAD 1 (1-1b.) centre slice ham, cut )1 inch thick 1 e. yellow corn meal • c. sifted flour CA tsp. baking powder Vs tsp. salt Vs tsp. soda 1 c buttermilk 1 egg Sift together the dry ingredi- ents. Stir in the buttermilk. Beat the egg, add it, and mix. Cut the ham into serving -size pieces and dry. When nearly done spoon corn bread batter on each piece. Continue tfryirig (ham un- derneath) about five minutes, until corn bread thickens. Then turn and fry on corn bread side. You can serve these cakes with spiced apricots or pickled peach- es, a green vegetable, and a toss- ed salad. * P * CORN MEAL FRITTERS 1 c. yellow corn meal a/4 a sifted flour 1 tsp. baking powder. 1 tsp. salt 1 egg 1 tsp. melted shortening c. milk Sift dry ingredients into bowl. Combine liquids and stir into flour mixture. Blend well. Heat one inch melted shortening or lard to 375° in frying pan. Drop batter by tablespoons into hot fat. Cook until light brown. Serves six. You might like to try the frit- ters for lunch or supper with a currant jelly sauce, Canadian bacon, fried bananas. and a salad. Wedding Bells. Nora Edding- ton Haymes had her day in the Los Angeles divorce court last week. After testifying that croon- er Dick Haymes had treated her cruelly, drank too much, and in- sulted her friends, she was grant- ed an interlocultory divorce de- cree. Then on Monday, she clear- ed the way for the scheduled marriage of Dick Haymes and Rita Hayworth on Thursday morning in Las Vegas before his deportation hearing by notariz- ing a waiver to permit Haymes to -get an immediate Nevada div- orce. Ihlalf 'N' Half One half is act- ress Midge Ware. The other half is just a reflection of the quali- ties which inspired judges of a beauty contest to nam© Midge cat the girl with the "trimmest torso." Tuning in A Heart—Johnny Bujam's heart is being "broadcast" through an electro-phono cardiograph machine to anxious lis- teners, Janet Cahill, 9, and members of the Variety Club, The organization donated the machine to the medical staff of the la Rabiada Jackson Park Sanitarium. 1IIIJARN FRONT John ,Stumps can be tough. Every farmer knows there are times when a stump can be more stub- born than a mule and will, un- der certain conditions, scorn the best efforts of man, horse or mechanical equipment. When this happens it is time to con- sider blasting — under any con- ditions one of the quickest and cheapest ways of removing stumps. * 4 * Actual procedure for stump blasting should be determined by the size and condition of the stump and nature of the soil in which it is anchored, says J. E. Carson of the explosives divi- sion of one of the leading manu- facturers. Usually, stumps can be removed cleanly by blasting alone but on occasion some pull- ing will be required for com- plete removal. . While preparation of the stump for blasting is not. difficult, it should be done with extreme care, Mr. Carson warns. Loading must suit- the nature of the roots and charges placed to break their hold on the .;oil. A dia- gonal hole should be punched with a crowbar or drilled with a soil auger until its bottom is a fair distance below and just be- yond the centre of the stump. The explosives charge should be loaded right to the bottom of the hole, the cartridges being tamped in with a wooden rod. A broom handle is ideal. * * ,* Where a heavy charge is re- quired, it will be necessary to first "spring" the hole by firing with a very small charge in or- der to provide a pocket of suf- ficient size to accommodate the larger charge. * * For stump blasting Mr. Car- son recommends the use of stumping powder of 20 per cent strength or "Blastol" of 60 per cent strength. If stumps are in dry ground cartrides should be slit and tamped well into the bottom of the hole. In wet ground stumping powder should not be slit but loaded intact. "Blastol" cartridges, on the other hand, being water-resistant, may be split even when holes are wet provided charges are fired reasonably soon after loading. All holes should be filled right to the collar with sand or earth before firing. :$ * * "Plant breeders are doing ex- cellent work in producing potato varieties which are resistant to various diseases and are less at- tractive to certain insects," 3, W. Scannell, Assistant Chief, Plant Protection Division, De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, told the annual meeting of the Potato Association of America. But he added, "While many of these varieties appear to show definite resistance to some specific problem, they frequently do not seem to stand up when put into commercial production. Also many of the new varieties lack quality. In Canada, Green Mountain is used as the standard• for quality and no new varieties are introduced that do not equal or better Green Mountain quali- ty. "Some horticulturists claim that the reduced per capita con- sumption of the potato is at least partly due to the poor qua- lity we now find On our mar- kets. The tubers themselves are usually very attractive but when cooked they lack quality," rx * N Mr. Scannell, staled the certi- fied seed inspector was kept busy trying to become fully acquainted 'with the characteris- tics of these new varieties. When he did learn something of a var- iety which has given promise, he suddenly discovered it was no longer being grown but had been replaced with a new variety with a new set of characteristics. The variety which has come forward quicker than any other introduced is Katandin. It has led the production field of certi- fied seed in the United States and Canada for many years, ac- cording to Mr. Scannell, although in 1935 Sebago topped the list in Canada. One Old variety which- has survived is Irish Cob- bler, still popular in many areas. Bliss triumph has remained popular in certain districts but has been replaced in some places by Pontiac. Netted Gem has re- mained popular on the Pacific coast and White Rose is also producing there to quite an ex- tent. Production of certain varieties in Canada is influenced by the export trade and frequently re- quests are received for fairly large quantities of varieties dis- carded a few years earlier due to lack of markets. Some grow- ers attempt to anticipate this by producing a variety which is not in demand in Canada, with the hope that it can be sold on the export market. * * The licensing system in Canada tends to keep down the number of varieties introduced each year, but it is still felt there are far too many varieties on our certi- fication list. This year's list in- cludes the names of 48 licensed varieties, of which 36 were en- tered for inspection. SUCH IGNORANCE A lion was out walking and decided to ask the other animals who was king. After going round most of the animals, all of whom said, "You are king, 0 lion," he came to the elephant and asked, "Ele- phant, who is king?" The elephant picked up the lion in his trunk and smashed him to the ground. The Iron, getting up and walking away, said, "All right, there's no need to get mad because you don't know the answer." OH SC1100L l ESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren 13. A., 13. 1). God's Flanfor the Home Deuteronomy 6r1-9; lEphestans 5:25-33 Memory Selection: God settetn the solitary in families; Psalm 68:'7. Religious instruction should be- gin in the home. Here where love abounds the most continual and effective training can be given. Let the love of Christ have free course in the hearts of the parents and there are no unsolvable problems. A nation is no stronger than its homes. The ideals that make for happy homes are threatened today. Not so many years ago any wo- man who had diverted three husbands and married a fourth would be the object of shame. Today she is widely publicized, glamourized and even idolized. This trend is indicative of low- ering of ideals. An increasing harvest of wrecked marriages is on the way, Judge Joseph Sabath, an out- standing figure in the Court of Domestic Relations, has had a long and varied experience with the affairs of broken homes and wrecked marriages. He says: "Ninety thousand people, w h o have come to the parting of• the ways through bitter recrimina- tions have stood before me to testify of broken homes, sordid betrayals, and the unbelievable rancor which cause separations. Out of my fifty years of mar- ried life and any twenty year& as a divorce jurist, I have framed a decalogue for those who are married or are contemplating it, which I think would prevent at least ninety per cent of the marital smashups." His rules are as follows: 1. Bear and forbear, 2. Work together, play together, and grow up together. 3, Avoid the little quarrels, and the big ones will take care of themselves. 4. Compromise, (Give and take.) It is the anti -toxin of divorce. 3. Practice sympathy, good hu•. mor, and mutual understand- ing. 6. Don't grouch before break- fast — or after it. 7. Respect your "in-laws," but don't criticize them or take criticism from them. 8. Establish your own home, even in a one -room fiat. 8. Fight for each other, but not with each other. 10. Build your home on religious faith, with love and ,forgive- ness as the watchwords, MERRY MENAGERIE "Go back to bed, stupid , , . you want some early bird to gel you?" ane eee eese eeeelie •;:xw . ..� > 4�, yeti.'; ilircigetetia Airport, Venezuela 52 Ganaclian mbassadors s o f Goodwill HE CANADA STORY is being told abroad as perhaps no other living nation's story ever has been told .. , told as only art, the universal language, can tell it. When The House of Seagram commissioned the painting of 52 portraits of Canadian cities by distinguished Canadian artists and then dis- patched those paintings by air on a 30,000 -mile international tour, it was with the earnest hope that greatly increased understanding and goodwill toward Canada would follow. There was little doubt that these graphic glimpses of the Canadian skyline and landscape would bring to people of many lands a deeper interest in Canada and a warmer feeling of friendliness for the Canadian people: Today the Seagram Collection is barely halfway on its international tour—and the actuality is daily out- stripping the Most optimistic of Advance estimates. Throughout Latin the America , : e in San ,Juan, Havana, Mexico City, Caracas, Rio de Janeiro, Sao. Paulo, Buenos Aires Canada, through Seagram's airborne art gallery, is Page One news. Not only at the time of the formal previews for leaders of government, industry, the professions and society, but throughout the seven - to -ten day public showings in each city the Canadian paintings and the cities they represent are major topics of interest in the news pages, on radio, and television, ineveryday conversation. As these Canadian ambassadors of goodwill leave Montevideo for Rome, Paris, London, Stock- holm, Geneva and Madrid, more than 60,000 peo- ple already have studied the collection"and carried home brochures reproducing the paintings in full colour. More than that,wehey have carried away vivid personl impress - Mons of Canada as a great and grow- ing country ---a land of vast natural and industrial resources and remark., able human reeonrcefulne fas