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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-07-18, Page 6l7 �" ;ry?}:Y'TM`W�.vF're',!'. fFi' is �+r ins B VN. et By ANNE ALLAN Hydro Homo Economist • HOME FROZEN DISHES Hello, Homemakers! Once t h e 'idbg days" are upon us we begin seerehing for cooling foods to make the hekt more bearable. Home -froz- en salads and appetizers can be very tempting indeed. Home-made ice cream as cooling and refreshing -- nourishing • and delectable—it's no troubleto serve, and simplicity itself to make, with the help of your re- frigerator freezing trays. There .are really five different types ot` ices—sherbets, mousses, parfaits', ice cream and ices? Unfortunately a great many home- makers purchase a refrigerator, and without asking any questions or read- ing directions, attempt home frozen dishes.' 'Dhey place the mixture in the tray and then turn the dial to freezing point—w1hieh is the wrong method! True, .the mixture will freeze, but it will be full of large icy articles—or layers of ice—be dis- appointingly tasteless. For a smooth, rich, true flavor and fast freezing, the following rules should be closely followed: 1. The finger-tip control 'of your refrigerator should be turned to the coldest point at least 40 minutes be- fore the ice-cream mixture is stirred up. • 2. The bowl and ingredients of the mixture should be thoroughly chilled before mixing. The food will then freeze more quickly. • 3. If you .want an especially per- fect dash, do not try to freeze ice cubes when freezing ice cream, sher- bets, etc. 4. Wetting the bottom of the tray causes the tray to freeze to txhe shelf; in the unit and so tends to hasten the freezing. 5. Use recipes tested for the elec- tric refrigerator. RECIPES • Excellent Basic Recipe for Ice Cream 1 quart milk 2 cups sugar 1/3 cup flour 1/s teaspoon salt. Mix sugar, salt and flour thorough- ly. Scald milk and add dry mixture. Cook until thickened over shot water. Stir occasionally. Chill. Vanilla Ice Cream 1 cup basic recipe 11,2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup cream, whipped. , Whip Cream just stiff enough to slightly hold its shape and ao it still pours from the bowl. Fold into other ingredients. Stir several times dur- ing the freezing. Strawberry Ice Cream 1 cup milk ee cup sugar In teaspoon salt 1 cup whipping ...Cream 1% cups strawberry pulp (put • through sieve) 1 tablespoon aisl_1 teaspoon flour Few "drops ret%; coloring if desired 6 tablespoons sugar added to, the berries. Scald milk,+ add flour mixed with su- gar and salt and cook about fifteen minutes in a double boiler. Cool, add the strawberry pulp sweetened with the additional sugar and fold in whipped cream. Freeze until firm, shirring once or twice 'before mixture is frozen in the refrigerator. Quan- COPERATION BETWEEN CANADA'S SOLDIERS AND IRMEN In addition to the Canadian airmen with the fighter and bomber commands in Britain the R.C.A-F. has now formed a complete Army Co-operation 'Squadron. This photo shows Canadian •Artillerymen dis- cussing. a problem of co-operation with Canadian. pilots. A' Captain, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is briefing three Lysander pilots to do a job .for the artillery. Portable wireless set, with operator at the controls, is seen alongside. tity: 8 ser'lnings. Serve with salted nuts. French Raspberry Mousse 2 cups raspberries„ slightly mashed (strawberries may be used) 2 cups sugar 1 pint whipping cream % cup milk 1/3 cup lemon juice. -Combine berries, sugar and lemon. juice and let stand . until sugar is melted. Fold into whipped cream and stir twice before freezing. When al- most frozen, stir in the half cup of milk. Quantity: 10 servings. Take a Tip 1. Orange rinds can be used in a number of interesting and unusual DV Are A Guide To Value TISEMENTS • Experts can roughly estimate the value of a product by looking at it. More accurately, by hand- ling and examining it. Its appearance, its texture, the "feel" and the balance of it all means something to their trained eyes, and fingers. •' But no one person can be an expert on steel, brass, wood, leather, foodstuffs,' fabrics, and all of the materials that make up a list of personal pur- chases. And even experts are fooled, sometimes, by concealed flaws and imperfections. • " There is a• surer index of value than the senses of sight and touch . . . knowledge of the maker's name and for what it stands. Here is the most cer- tain method, except that of actual use, for judging the value of ..any manufactured goods.. Here is the only guarantee against careless workmanship, ' or the use of shoddy materials. • This is one important reason why it pays to read advertisements and to buy advertised goods. The product that _is advertised is worthy of your confidence. • MERCHANDISE MUST BE GOOD OR IT COULD NOT HE -CONSISTENTLY ADVERTISED ' Bili ADVERTISED GOORSL so ways. Preserve title halves and use as a shell to hold a sweet fruit sal- ad. ., • 2. To improve the flavor of cher- ry, peach: or apricot pie, sprinkle with a few drops of almond extract. Lem- on juice will also improve the flavor of • fresh blueberry' pie. 3. Keep the dripping from pure pork sausageto enrich the ,flavor of - fried eggs, "and for frying potatoes cottage style or hash brown. QUESTION BOX Mrs. D. 4..asks: "Is there anyway of beating egg whites, so that they will be very foamy?" Answer: If you adds a pinch of salt—before beating—they will foam up, and be less likely to become wa- tery (if left standing). Mrs. A. L. L. asks: "Should a tin 'hiss' when opened?" Answer: This usually means there is a good vacuum in the tin. The `hiss' comes when air rushes in to fill the vacuum. However, if either end of the `tin is bulged, the hissing may be . an outrush of gas from the tin—arid suggest that the contents are- •spoiled. Vacuum packed' coffee is the -exception. Anne Allan iuvies you to write her c/o The Huron. Expositor. Just send in your -questions on homemaking problems, and watch this little cor- ner of the column for repliesL pOs1tc r Established 1860 Phone 41 ,. , Publishers, $ ' ORO . ,. .... �+', ►� SEA,FO1114 Beware { Poison Ivy (By C. A. M. Black in Standard) Sally went up to the Laurentians for a week or ten days. But only two days after her departure, the tele- phone rang and the caller was . Sally! "Come on over," she said, "I'm a ruined woman!" "Good grief, Sally, what's happen- ed? I thougl}t you intended tn stay a week." "I thought so, too," answered Sal- ly, grimly. "But I'm back and I wish I'd never gone. Three days ago I wasn't a bad -looking weeche But you ought to see me now! I'll never be the same again." And indeed she was a sorry sight. Gone was her school -girl complexion. Where her face was not covered by an angry, fiery rash, clumps of water lien logk like the tag winter. Her eyes: were bynswellings. Moreov- er, her a and legs 'were in like condition. Poison ivy had certainly done a good job of work!' "It's not only the looks of me," groaned Sally, peering disconsolately into her hand mirror, "but it scratch- es like the seven years 'itch. And all those blisters throb and pain abom- inably.' Why on earth I had to select a clump of poison ivy as the spot for a sun bath, I don't know?" ' "Well, wiry did you?" ""Because I didn't know the stuff wsls poison ivy! I wouldn't know it if I met it in the Sahara Desert! I've ways heard •of it, but I've never en it to recognize: it. Tri fact, I ouldia't Oen ldiow' it now. It was y when'my skin began to itch and UQ';'t�iht sonilbne told me wihat s •the cause." ' Corrinien Weed Sally is going-tU ;pay tor her ignor- fl ce with several more uncomfortable v izeks`' in bed. ,And it is astonishing to discover that many other 'Canadians who go - every sum mer to the country are like:. Wise as unacquainted with this. harm- fl'i, plane as was Baily. Yet it is one oi? the (host Gori• iter weeds in Can - and the I:tnited Staten. `f'LeafletS . threes, let it be" , oison •ivy 'cans a1waye bee distin- ished by its three jeaflefs t'(t'kking '' ;coiCvpotthd he,'Surfae ;oil the 1 ptietb Is crinkled eiid;; the -edges are 1rkAitally Scalloped;, or sltghtlp teethed jiriiztilihifi this • Witch 'of the wood, t es i >rhe� foifrb• of an, •erect° add ' hnw . rte'` ell 0 at tliei' itueii � i is . �' .ill, p• t t ei utd' tSfnetritte, _411dI t aii111g and 'lit -4t :Inas , be a long woody '`Ono wl'biffg4, around tress, ;bis aerial tele: 1i9CSidefitiall�'v if ai*On4 ie lnie rester , Montreal blisters end of almost b (Colntinuet}4m Page 2) every aspiring ivilot. I looked over the lay -out adnnir- ingly, been though it had been toned down, to make it useful rather than beautiful, eigaa,: of its former 'magni- ficence were ,apparent. "This 'must have been a swanky Place in the old days, f' 1 suggested.' Flydmg Officer Nicol used to be an- other working newspaper man. "I wouldn't know," he said. "My dues in. the Hunt Club weren't kept up very well." • When the land and buildings were purchased, there -were questions in Parliament and suggestions that they had been bought Whelp out an organ- ization which was •about to pass out of existence. I don't know anything about the truth or otherwise, but the people who built the old Hunt Club never dreamed 'of the scientific won- ders it would one day contain. Testinee Brain Waves ,After a briefcall at the office of Squadron Leader .McPherson, officer in command at No. 1, I.T.S., I went to the office of Flight Lieutenant C. B. Stewart. This brilliant young doc- tor, a graduate of Dalhousie Univer- sity in the Maritimes, is carrying on Dr. Banting's work, but he took time off to guide me personally through the , building where the atircraftmem are tested, mentally and physically, to see whether they will be able to stand the strain of flying and fighting five miles above the earth. • As we started down the hall, 'we. met .a young man whose appearance was startling. He looked as though he had just come from the hands of an electrician: r^Five long wires • hung down: from 'his head. Twp' of thegn seemed to be soldered to the top of his head, in among his hair, two more were attached to.the back of his neck and one hang from his lea ear. Lit- tle patches of hair had been shaved off and the wires attached' at impor- tant points. 'Dr. Stewart explained that the two in front were over the part of the brain controlling muscu- lar co-ordination and the two on the neck indicated the place where the optic, nerves entered the brain'. The one on the ear was just a ground 'wire. By using a complicated elec- trical xnacthine, it was possible to measure the brain waves of the man who now looked like something that had wandered out of a cartoon com- edy. The Young aircraftman was told to enter a small room and lie quietly on a bed. The wires were attached to binding posts on the wall.' He was told that he wasn't to think of eine thing exciting, such as an, evening with .ham best girl, but to try to -cpme as near as possible to thinking about nothing at ail'. Out in the next room, the Flight Lieutenant touched .a switch. A broad ribbon of white. paper .began,to creep over a table. On, it were four wavy lines, drawn by pens actuated by the wires from the head of the man whom I could see 'through "the window, lying peacefully on the bed. This patient was normal. The wavy lines had no sudden variations. His electro -encephalogram showed that he had passed one more test. A few are abnormal: Suddenly. the black line .takes a jump to one side. An aircraftman with a 'record like that may take a fit up in the air some clay. He won't be rejected on that one test alone, but the' chances are, that the titheand expense ';31' training Lem would lie wasted, so when he ::bows• other symptoms as 'well, he is finished es a pilot- . Low Pressures and Oxygelt lIn the next room, a large cylindrical structure stood in the centre of the room.. It looked like the bottom of silo. The -outside was reinforced with teel and planking and large metal 1.Ipes ran around it. A porthole of. heavy 'glass was built on one side and there wrI.s a desk with 'a microphone near the windrow., Dr. Stewart opened a door and we entered a circular, room, lined with burlap. Seats for ten persons raa around the aides and in the ce ,e•e was a table with a chair where the doctor sat. THis strange room is used to test eh? _ ability to stand high altitudes, endrom, which means sumac poison plant. The poison sap is a non-vol- atile oil found in all parts .of the plants, roots and stalk and leaves. Some people seem to have an im- munity against the poison and can handle the plant without effect, but it is as well not' to rely upon this ad- vantage. --It has happenedthat those who have escaped for years are sud- denly dismayed to find that the sup- posed immunity -'has gone with the wind. Other people have an intense allergy and burst into a rash at the slightest touch of any part of the plant. Usually, while the poisoning is most unpleasant, sufferers recover end have no scars or after-effects. But there have been cases where death has resulted in the cases of abnormally sensitive -skinned individ- uals. It is as well to take no chances and to keep at a distance, just as one would with a skunk. Poison ivy is one of Nature's children endowed with the power of enforcing respect through fear. And because it' has Gestapo characteristics, it is a wise precaution to know its appearance. Proper Treatment The first symptom of poisoning is an itchy skin. Unless this is treated at once, the white blisters will fol- low. But if immediate remedial 'meat. sures are taken the spread of the poisoning can be checked and the us- ual advanced stages averted. At any suspicion of contact with the plant, wash the part involved in lukewarm running water, using a plentiful lather of. suds ftom any good non-irritant soap. The object is to get iid of the oil which is most per- sistent, so washing in still water is not advisable. Dry the surface of the skin with soft lint or rleansing tis- sue. Then dab on rubbing alcohol by means of a soft pad. Follow this with an application of a two to four per cent wartreesolution of perman- ganate of potash to neutralize the poison; ' this leaves a brown color which can be washed off with a weak solution of oxalic' acid. If the .hands have been affected, re- member not to put them near the face, until the poisoning has been stopped, otherwise the trouble will be spread unnecessarily. On no account scratch the itching skin. Never put ointment on the blisters when the' acute stage has been reached'. And no bandages should be used, for these tend to spread the infection to adjoining sur- faces. . Sone people employ carron oil as a renxerly; and if the itching continues they sprinkle bjcarbonate of soda ev- er the skin already moistened by the carron oil. CaII a Doctor Still another first aid measure is a lotion made of 1% drams of ferric chloride, 1% ounces of alcohol and 3 ounces of water, shaken 'together, un- til the ferric chloride is dissolved. One individual swears by a 5 per cent solution, of ferric chloride in 50 per cent grain alcohol; and another in a solution of one part of ferrous sulphate in. 5 parts an 'Water, Either of these is supposed to neutralize the poison. If applied to the skin be- fore .going into the woods, protection against infection is given. A good prev''entative, recommended by the U.S. Public'tealth service, is vanishing cream' mixed with 10 per eeiit• of sodium p'erborate. Thea • pre, 4iaratlon must be freshly mixed just before using and it slxeuld be snteari ed on exposed skin before• vetit rring within range of the poison Ivy pl{aait: 'Thel'e' aloe many other ptes'criptione equally good: lyngniries of a numl,etl of individuals will probably'resiuit in as many different recommendations. 'rile main things 18 to have some rem- edy at hand. If the infected person seems unduly sensitive to the 'poison, there should be iib hesitation: about calling a doc- tor. Deraivatatls Venenata, as skin poisoning Is, Called by the medical fan - miter' is more serious with some peo: pie than with • others. Indian' Cure Seine people are able to ,see'tlre a wteitl�ltsi?ary fi casts, of imintii%ftY by Ineane bf' did• :itnmu,niling prepitratfob But 'hie cannot always be felled UP', en. In seats -C eig'it -lilts no ikesnit wlaat8d ver. In. tat/Moor dare on thl " continent, the Inhiana (;right the white ratan their 'Iiaiirre hif v'eihttde. :ine,stlretiainely, to bh 'few; tiff" s •'T(olfbb' :leaves' Of the tiolsAtt to AWL ntit. ti ifft sr' Boit Ie'ptonEt , ennadlin, Cain floe italic uctiu , 000hog, anti. men: Lquid ll..'�j, D. ritecdption. al c s etautleaasooibepgnbt7.F,R,!lnamuckhtstenI "co"iteleenssel lie}tie proves it, ofmoney back. Ask Your drugsuf today foc D.D-A. FRese,el TION. • where air ..gets thin and oxygen scarce. Usually a class of ten takes the test at once,,twith a doctor keep- ing watch through the window from outside a nd giving instructions through a loudspeaker, while another do.otor•sits at the centre table. The officer on the outside Manipulates valves and the air is gradually drawn out.. Indicators : shows the altitude at which the air is: similar to that in- side the circular room, • 5,000 feet above sea level, 10,000 feet, 15,00 or mor. There is no prarticul'ar sensation felt by the person inside the tank, but above 10,000 feet, or two miles, the nails turn a bluish tinge, ;which is al- so apparent in the lips. The brain ' seems unimpaired, but that, is an il- lusion. To prove this, the aircraft- ' glen are given simple little problems to do—to change a sentence into a common code, or something of the kind. Like a car driver with a few drinks, who thinks he can drive as well as ever, they don't know they axe making mistakes. As the air :s exhausted, the )margiin of error aris- es. Another teat follows.. A rubber -oxy- gen mask is fitted' over the nose and r.,outh. A tube hangs down from it and the end of this is •Iugged into a . small pipe which rune around the in- • side, of the wall. With a supply of oxygen available, the teats show nor- mal brain operatign no matter how high the .pilot ney "`fly." It is an in} ressive lesson, thoroughly taught. 43 Degrees Below Zero I wondered what would happen next as Dr. Stewart led me into another room. Young mein were elimbin4g out 91 flying suits of various, , types, and hanging them on hooks along the ;all. Equipment, as well as men, moat stand the tests. The Flight Lieutenant opened a door similar to :those on large refrig- erators and we entered a cold cham- ber. The temlpetature txbere was said to be 20 above zero, but we didn't stay long, going on into a second and a third, through large insulated doors each time. The second refrigerator chamber was kept around zero and the third' at 20 below. In ordinary summer , clothes, it began to feel chilly, but such temperatures are . encountered in high flying. In the third refrigerator room there was a Metal ohamber, somewhat like a large concrete mixer, oaten outside With an asbestos eo npound. My guide unscrewed a circular door like e, big porthole and the two of us climbed inside. There was only room for two at a ,time there, and a cold artificial wind blew conthivall'y. Dr. Stewart pointed to a thermometer; which registered 43 degrees below zero, a temperatures encoui tered four or five miles, above the earth. It is possible to exhaust, the air from this chamber also. We did not stay, long. As we came out again through the -various cham- bers, even. zero temperature felt w arm. Modern medical 'Me claim such a pp'a.ctiee is extreide • dangerous. On the other hand, ` animals, evert the, domestic cow, can .' d eat -vine an all°*ith' inspf►liity. ' • 1 Once- a person has Offered an at- tack of the 'pplimmillky be;eeems" more 'susceptible blieretitte Irl each a cure that person a'houlyd " ado that in fog tion can be l `'ar. y 9 tl E anythzttg; that has tench t1 boil plane For instaned; a s i id -1r34.yr ave.', some of tbe'011. i%, tintless the sux-' -face Is..carefUily djliltiefeeted that oil may • remain, a aotrLiif r so7iiee of tan ger. - . If, in an' effort to Oz'aalicate *)iia mis- chievous planet, It is putleil up +by' the roots and burned; those Suseelitille should keep out of scathes of flee 'smoke, whitih will carr r''the Hoerr oil droplets a eonsidei b1e 'distti*e, In winter, "ton, the beiiieti aii4*sttiilc are just as', much a 'mee4he to alit; the green garb of sunihhe1` . +�itere 18 aft authentic case of the Xr S5ed and dried' .plant, sent as a �aota4ieal speel-- inen;to a eolir#btot fit, doe iiitritl if g� tofu`, bei n ' .respon lble tar. 04 ',it severe Inreetspn bnfiged b +; the rei:,ip, feint .Qt the lift r'h� Al't itt aft, 'the bis a4vlce tl pall bei glen to ilii'yo11$ Who: i gutib :t11 elle oountlyy!''s A t�kititl tiltlrs ant. '01 lidisdii� lith titi1111 of like'tl1 i plagtisee, :y w r thati8 the le4ipt , 7alii toot tl Sob . NEXT "WEEK—"The Link Trainer." • The night is more suited to prayer than the days. Judge_not thy friend till thou stand= est in his -;place. • 1 !; The hearthstone is still the nation's cornerstone. To know the value of .money, try to borrow 'some. - Strong 'of limb and swift of foot..,.. misfortune xis. Keep true; ddecide on what is right and stick to it. Make up your mind to accept what you' cannot alter. a_1 ' Indolence. is stagnation; nrent is life. --Seneca. Employ - Honor lies in honest toil. --Grover Cleveland: To bear is to . conquer our fate.- Campbell, • ' CS.Bars pent Counter Imntle#n t, r end altrs give �. eatiS etion.,,, • agents end t: �'. ti a t a