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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1950-08-24, Page 3Corn! corn on the cob—off the cob—corn ground or flaked—corn the food of a thousand variations, all of them good. No wonder our predecessors on thia continent, the Indians, held the plant in deep re- verence, almost worshipped it in fact, And although modern methods -of processing make fresh corn—or al- most-as-good-as-fresh—a table pos- sibility the year around, this is the season when we seem to appre- ciate it most acrd serve it in as many ways as we can. Here are a few, scale of which may be new to you, and all well worth trying. CORN FRITTER MUFFINS 12 slices lean bacon 2% cups sifted cape flour teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1 cup milk I cup scraped, cooked, fresh corn Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Score bacon by cutting deep slits on one side % inch apart, Line sides of muffin pans with bacon strips, cut -side up. Line bottom of muffin pans with circles of waxed paper for easy removal. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Beat ,egg. Add milk • and corn to egg. Blend. Adel to dry ingredients and ,mix just until all flour is dampened. Spoon batter into bacon -lined muf•- fn pans, malting 2/ full. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees F.) 30 min- utes. Serve hot. flakes 12 to 14. ,k :k CURRIED CORN CHOWDER 1 tablespoon chopped onion 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 3/4 teaspoon curry powder 2 cubes chicken bouillon I cup bot water 4 cups hot milk I% cups cut, cooked, fresh corn 3/ to 1 teaspoon salt / teaspoon pepper Slowly cook onion and pepper with butter in top of double boiler over direct low heat until soft and lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. Place over hot water. Blend in flour aad curry powder. Stir in bouillon cubes dissolved in hot water. Mix well. Add milk and corn and heat through about 30 minutes, stirring -frequently. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve hot. Makes 7 Cups. BRAN AND CORN SCALLOP 2 cups out, cooked, fresh corn 2 cups cut, cooked, green beans 1% teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons grated onion I tablespoon flour 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup milk cup buttered bread cubes Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. .Alternate layers of corn and beans in greased quart -size casserole. Sprinkle salt, onion and flour over each layer. Dot with butter. Pour milk over all. Top with bread cubes. Bake in a moderate oven (350 de- grees F.) 40 minutes. Makes I ituart. 'Serving suggestion: Top with #,rated sharp cheese and brown un- der broiler a minute br two before nerving time. HAM AND CORN FRITTERS { r/ pound finely. ground cooked ham 2 cups cut, cooked, fresh corn 2 tablespoons chopped onion Black pepper 2. eggs Mix ham, corn and onion to - a, tether. Acid clash of black pepper. < 13cat eggs about 10 •minutes with beater until thick and lemon colored. Combine with ham and mix thoroughly. Spoon batter onto hot lightly greased griddle or skillet, - C'ook 4 to 5 minutes on each side until nicely browned. Serve prompt - Makes 18 2% -inch fritters, CHICKEN -CORN GRIDDLE CAKES Ix/ cups's'ifted flour */, .teaspoon soda 3 teaspoons baking powder 3/ teaspoon salt I tablespoon sugar I cup sour milk I egg 2 tablespoons melted chicken fat I cup cut, cooked, fresh corn 1 cup diced cooked chicken Mix and sift dry ingredients, Add {' mur milk slowly, Add -beaten egg and beat until smooth. Stir in melted fat, corn and chicken and blend well. Cook on hot griddle about 4 minutes on each side. Makes lis calces. CORN AND CHEESE SOUrFLE I teaspoon fnineed green pepper 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 3 tablespoons flour Ir/ cups milk I .cup corn, cut from cob . I cup grated cheese Salt and pepper to taste 3 eggs, separated Sante .green pepper in butter, Blend in flour. Cradually add nlilk and cook until thickened, s,drring cunstantly, Remove .from heat and add corn and cheese. Salt and pep- per to taste, Add -beaten, egg yolks. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into a greased 1% -quart eas- serole and bake in a mudernte oven (350 degrees f.) 40 oto 50 minutes. Serve at once. Serves 4. :k :k CORN WAFFLES 2 cups sifted cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons corn meal 2 teaspoons sugar 2 egg yolks 1./ cups milk I cup scraInd, cooked, fresh corn 3 tablespoons melted butter, margarine or bacon fat 2 egg whites Sift flour, baking powdcr, salt, corn meal and sugar together. Beat egg yolks and blend in milk. Mix dry ingredients with egg and milk to form suiopth batter. Stir fn corn and butter. Beat egg, whites stiff and fold into waffle batter care- fully but thoroughly. Balte in a hot waffle iron 5 to 6 minutes until nicely browned, Serve at once with desired spread. Makes 8 4% -inch - square waffles. Fur -fetched Parasol=Keeping pace with Dame Fashion can be. an expensive undertaking as dealers at the Fur Industries Fashion Show .proved by dis- playing this mink -trimmed parasol. Basking it the expen- sive shade of the fur -fetched creation is Betty Cagney, who gave visiting department store owners a knowing winkk when they discussed the "high over- head" in their business. She Bakes Twenty ILI Fruit Cakes Per Day Turning out 20 five -pound fruit cakes a day is no more trouble now for Mrs, F. C. Pierson than taking a class in Latin, though when she first tools on her C.N.E. baking job she considered even one fruit cake was a fair clay's effort. During the school year Mrs. Pierson teaches languages, next term at the South River Continua. tion School near North Bay. Last year she taught at Port McNicol. But school holidays are too lona to suit her. A widow, and for 30 years the wife of the postmaster at Becton, Ont., she believes that keeping busy when one is alone is the secret to keeping healthy, and so for the second summer is at the Exhibition, Her life has always been busy. After giving up her teaching job in Tottenham to be married, she -was supply teacher in Beeton, and tutored half the youngsters in the neighborhood. The 200 fruit cakes she is on the way to completing, with 140 already safely in and out of the oven: are for the luncheons and afternoon teas held daily by Mrs, Bate Aitken, women's director, during the Big Trair. Twenty cakes a day she has set as her quota, F Fowl P-ay—A flurry of feathers proved too much for this farmer, five-year-o'd Robert Stamey, so he closed his eyes and event right on with the straggle to Its' this indignant rooster to the family frying pan. Later, young Stamey opened his eyes and mouth to a hard-earned chicken and dumpling dinner. This brown -haired, bright-eyed school teacher, is also makin4 cookie hatter—enough for 36,000 cookies, if you please, which will be put into the deep freeze and baked a; needed, Another job, which site takes easily in tier stride, is the making of 100 gallons of salad dressing. She also prepares daily luncheons for 35 members of the women's division staff a ho, under -firs. Kate Aitken, have been busy for weeks doing the parer %� ork that must precede the splash and excitement of opening day. t Professional :chefs move into thy. women's building kitchen as soon as the Ex., opens and Mrs. Pierson moves into the pantry. Not that she minds in the least for there she becomes storekeeper, making cer- tain that supplies of staples are ample for the hundreds of patrons who will fill the Balcony Restaur- ant. "Do you want to go on the books or work in the kitchen?" Mrs. Pier- son was asked when she first went to the C.N.E. "Give me the kit- cfien," was the quick answer. This complete change from the school room, the excitement of it all, and being able to use most modern of kitchen equipment, like the giant electric mixer, and the dish -washing machine, she finds a welcome and useful change. THUMB e Gordot> Smith The garage is often a liability as far as the- garden is concerned. Or it may be the tail house next door that steals privacy. Clothes- lines, compost heaps and play equipment—all of these pose prob• lems, They can, however, be con- cealed in such a way that they become attractive, useful features. Many people make the mistake of thinking they can hide a house with a large group of shrubs and evergreens. Evergreens tend to be pyramidal and so do nothing to conceal the house next door above the first floor windows. "Then, too, evergreens are wide at the base and take up the most room on the gardener's own property, A shade tree or a flowering tree with a broad head will do a better job. If the neighboring house is high, an elm, honey locust or staple could be planted. 1'f it is low, dog- wood, flowering crabapple or haw- thorn will give the same illusion of distance without taking up too much space. Flowering Trees A pair of flowering trees at the rear of the garden may form a screen for the neighboring house. It may also shade the terrace and France has 'ern, too—Just as in Canasta, the war ,care and f lit fear of accompanying shortages brings the hoarders out from antler the rocks in France, too. Dere, as part of a national cam- paign to combat such foolish practices, a Paris agency displays a stgtl telling its customers, "We have oil, sugar, coffee and soap,. Do ;tot stock up. It is inyour interest. Tl ank you,*" serve as the focal point of the gar- den. Making each plant fulfill sev- eral purposes is particularly impor- tant on the small property. If the house was built before the days of the attached garage, this building is probably in the far corner of the property. In that case, a screen of shrubs is obvioas. This, however, may tate up too mucin room. Instead, the'side of the gar- aze can serve as the bads of an arbor. The ground underneath may lie paved with brick or stone laid in sand, and the top of the arbor provide a place to grow roses, grapes or clematis. Since the arbor is not attached to the house, it is probably secluded and may turn out to be the ideal' place for out- door living. Such an arbor may help to solve the problem of what to do with tools and garbage pails. A board and lattice fence can close in the arbor at either end. Nearest the kitchen, a cupboard on the outside conceals waste paper receptacles and garbage cans. On the inside of the arbor, the fence can form the back for cupboard -benches, in which small hand tools and stakes can be kept. At the other end of the arbor, the fence could screen the clothesline, the compost pile, or any area not for public view. Garage Next Door The garage next door is some- what more of a problem. How- ever friendly the neighbor may be, he is. probably not going to wel- come the building of a lattice on his garage. If it is close to the property line and perhaps in the opposite corner from your own garage, posts kith chains between them•might be put up. Or an iden- tical lattice in front of each of the garages may tie the whole back- yard together. Such a structure should be , almost as tall as the eaves of the garage, assurning that it is one-story high. A problem that exists on almost all suburban properties is the nar- raw strip between the drive -way and the side property line, It may be a foot wide or all of six feet and quite unattractive. If it is a lawn, it is a nuisance to mow. if it is too narrow for a real shrub border, and a hedge is put in in- stead, constant trimming will be necessary. The hedge that is allow- ecl to grow naturally will need some trimming to keep it within bounds. An inexpensive and attractive solu- tion is a fence with square wooden posts. The posts are left to weather and •then strung with wire. The fence may be covered with any attractive vine. The space in front, however narrow, can be a cutting border. Or, if it is in shade, a groundcover and spring bulbs might be planted. If winter effect fs important, euonymus or ivy will grow to a thick. green wall in a f: w years' time. A groundcover of myrtle will be true green all win- ter, and the daffodils and other early bulbs popping up through it will be easily seen in early spring A Specialty Border If this area is in full sun, it is a perfect place for a specialty bor- der of hemerocall is, iris, peonies or any perennial the gardener wishes to experiment with or collect. As a matter of fact, an interesting use of this narrow strip can even call attention away from the garage doors, which are usually open, Calling a tree a liability may seem harsh. But anyone wiro owns a small property with a Norway inaple, linden or other heavy -headed tree, knows that they sometimes areta't worth the room they take. It is quite possible that paving under that tree, with brick or stone laid right on the earth, may fur- nish exactly the sitting area or children's play space that is needed. ']'itis will mean, of course, design- ing the whole backyard for that focal point, but frequently a more irt,teresting scheme results. If it is an old fruit tree, or a high -headed apecinien like elm, oak or honey locust, a circular seat built around it may turn out to be a favorite retire*L How, To Pronounce Welsh Feuds Of the Welsh alphabet, the let- ters that seem to be difficult of pronunciation are in reality not so. The dd that presents itself so fre- quently is soft as th in thou; f is like the English v; h has the same power is in the English "hand"; ng as the ng in "long"; cg and th are hard as in the English words "peat," "dog," and "thin." The re- maining letters have the sante power as they have in English, with the exception of two, which offer a slight difficulty in their pronun- ciation by an English tongue. These are the gutteral ch and the aspirate 11, The names of two stations on the South Wales Railway illustrate the sound (Longher or Locher, and Llanelly), and it is amusing to lis- ten to the remarks and the humor- ous manner with which the peas- ants hear the guards murder "the Queen's Welsh." There are no sounds in our language equivalent to these of ch and 11, but most of cur readers will be able to enounce them when they are informed that the former has the same sound as ch in the Scotch "loch" (a word with which all are familiar) and that the latter expresses the sound of the Italian gl, or the aspirated 11 of the Spanish. Tlaving mastered these letters—a work of little labor—there will be no difficulty in learning to read Welsh, which is incomparably easier than English or French, from the fact that in Welsh no letter in a word is mute, and the accent with significant exceptions, is al- ways uniformly placed on the secs« and last syllable. Those who are of the opinion that Welsh is hard or dissonant would do well to hear any Welsh preacher of note in his native tongue—hear him display the dela resources of Lis poetic language, and pour out his harmonious sentences in solemn and sonorous tones, and they will see cause to alter their opinion, and understand why it is he excites the enthusiasm of his hearers, and learn at the same time that it is'possible to waken powerful emotions even in those who are titter strangers to the language of the speaker,—Frotra "The Book of South Wales," by Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Ball. (1861) WITH THE Junior Size Eve -18 -month old Portland :4lason, slaughter of screen star Tames Mason and his wife. Pamela, is shown modeling a fig -leaf sun shit fashioned for her by her par- ents. Miss Mason looks cool, anywa}'. z*_' .42.i �a A7 THE MO LSONq PHOTOGRAPHER WILL AGAIN BRING YOU THE PICTURE STORIES OF ONTARIO FALL FAIRS.. AMONG SOME OF THE FAILS HE WILL COVER. FOR YOUR READING ENJOYMENT ARE THE FOLLOWING: SUTTON - •• - - •• Aug. 11-1; BELLEVILLE Aug. 14-1' PETERBORO •. • - Aug. 22-21 INGERSOL.L - Aug. 2; ZURICH - - - - - - Aug. 21 DRESDEN - - Aug. 29 3: C.N,E. - - - - - - - Sept , PORT PERRY - - - Sept. MILVERTON - •• - Sept. I PORT ELGIN - Sept. HUNTSVILLE - - - Sept, ; MARMORA • - - - Sept. f ORONO - - - . - . .• Sept. c- TAVISTOCK . • • Sept. 9 BEAMSVILLE _ - Sept. 9 PAISLEY - - Sept, 12 SHELBURNE ., - -. Sept. 1.'i LONDON -- - - Sept. 11 -IC KINCARDINE - - - - Sept. 15 BEAVERTON - •• - • Sept 1C BINBROOK - - •• - Sept. U FERGUS - - - - - Sept. IF, NEW HAMBURG - Sept. 16-16 VANKL' EEK HILL - - - BURFORD - - - - Sept• 15-16 RODNEY - - - - Sept. 20 COE HILL - ,• - Sept. 20 MARKDALE - Sept. 21 OHSWEKEN - -. -� Sept. 21-23 PARK HILL - - - •• Sept. 22 NORWICH - - - •• Sept. 23 BLYTH - - - •• M - Sept. 23 SCHOMBERG - •• - Sept. 23 LISTOWEL - - - Sept. 25-26 ARTHUR - - - - ; • Sept. 27 AYLMER - - - - - Sept. 27 MITCHELL - - - Sept. 27 BRUSSELS - -• •• Sept. 29 BRETON - - - • - Sept. 29 HARRISTON -• •• - Sept. 29 CALEDONIA - - - - Sept. 30 BOLTON - - - - - Sept. 30 LEAMINGTON - - Sept. 25-30 MT. BRYDGES - - - Oct. 3 MARKHAM - - - •• Oct. 5-7 rEESWATER - -• •• - Oct. 6 GRAND VALLEY - - Oct. 7 ERIN - - - - - - Oct. 9 BURFORD - - - - Oct. 7-9 NORWOOD - - - - Oct. 7-9 WOOD13RIDGE - - Oct. 7-9 ALVINSTON - - - - Oct, 11 4,NCASTER - - - Oct. 1.3-14 Dud'ing the next 12 weeks this p;lher will publish dozens of pictures of your Fall Fair ;end other fairs in Ontado. Watch for these on the spot pictml es of Ontario Fall'Fairs.