HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-11-21, Page 6:>MI ANNE ALLAN
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WAR TIME FRUIT CAKE AND
MINCEMEAT
Helly Homemakers! After packag-
ttug parcels for the lads overseas, and
giving towards the Christmas war
• benefits, there are few extra pennies
for Luxuries these days. You may
feel that the large Christmas cake
full of nuts and imported fruits
should be cut out.
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But the motto in Canadian homes
is "Carry On"—and in this spirit the
Christmas of 1941 will be celebrat-
ed. Some of the garnishings of the
traditional dinner may be dispensed
with; there .may not be quite the va-
ralety of nuts and 'fruits in the cake
nor will the cake he as large.e_, Sat
the festivities must go on.
Preparation's for Christmas usually
start with the mixing of the cake
and mincemeat •a month ahead of
time to allow for mellowing and rip-
ening. With .tire third successive
wartime Christmas in mind,. we sug-
gest •an inexpensive cake—but at the
request of several readers the rich
fruit cake recipe is also printed. One-
half the recipe will make enough to
serve for several occasions. Some
homemakers write that they are not
using almond paste — just frosting.
Others–tell 'us that they will make a
good 'cake and decorate it with piec-
es of cherry and slices of citron this
year.
PICOBAC
Pipe Toixacco]
FOR A MILD, COOL, SMOKE
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The wartime Christmas cake is no,t
very rich nor is it expensive — but
spic•ey and festive looking. This cake
aiay be made a week previous to
Christmas day. (But do not forget
to file this recipe if you are not go-
ing to make it this week), A plain
butter icing may be used as frosting.
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The mock mincemeat recipe will
make a satisfying dessert even in
plain pastry. Green tomato mince-
meat is another useful recipe. As for
the carrot pudding—it's delicious any
time, and it is really economical to
make and bake. You just put a, layer
of wax paper over the baking dish;.
Be a string•,around the rim and place
on a stand in the well -cooker of the
range with only one cup of hot water
in the utensil. Why not try carrot
pudding in place of plum pudding this
year?
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RECIPES
Wartime Christmas Cake
'.a cup lard
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg (well beaten)
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1% cups all-purpose How -
1 teaspoon baking soda
1,h teaspoon salt
1 eup Sultana raisins
1a teaspoon allspice
1a, ..teaspoon nutmeg
teaspoon cinnamon
'1/e cup chopped citron peel
'4 cup chopped orange peel
i; cup cherries (cut in thirds)
12 eup almonds (blanched and
chopped. , "
Cream lard until soft. Add sugar
gradually and cream thoroughly. Add
beaten egg and beat info mixture. Add
applesauce and mix well. again. Sift
the dry ingredients together and mix
! CHRISTMAS PUDDING PREVIEW
1
TTS rook -house magic the services agree as James Morgan, top chef of
the Canadian National Railways dining cars mixes the more than two
•score ingredients required to make 24,000 individual helpings of pudding
to he served on trains during the Christmas season. Two tons of pudding
are needed to fill thatorder and as men of the Navy, Army' and Air Force
then travelling will have their share, representatives of the services were
invited to •see the job get under way. They crowded Chef Morgan but
did not cramp his style• and this season's four thousand pounds of puddin'
material were assembled and cooked in a work spaee 12 feet long by 30
inches wide — the kitchen of a dining car parked in the yards at Montreal
— leaving scant clearance for stout cooks.
The photograph shows. left, to right, Signalman Merrill Rumson.
RCNVR: Chief Instructor Chef, James Morgan, CNR; .A/C -1 Joseph
Clark, RCAF; and Drummer McLean Anderson. RCASC.
1'
one-half cup of this mixture with the
raisins, citron peel, cherries and al-
monds. Add the remaining dry in-
gredients to the cake ralature and
fold into the floured fruit and nutn.
Turn lato a loaf pan 10x5x3,1/2 inches
lined with two layers of oiled paper.
Bake in an oven at 300 deg. F. for
11a hours or until done, if you are
putting the- batter into different sized
Pans.
Carrot Pudding
1 cup grated raw carrots
1 cup grated raw, potatoes
1 cup chopped suet
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup raisins'
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 teaspoon cinnamon
',i teaspoon nutmeg
Si teaspoon cloves
ys teaspoon salt
11/s cups flour
1 teaspoop soda,
Mix and sift dry ingredients and
add to other ingredients. Blend well;
Put into buttered pudding dish. Ar-
range in steamer or well -cooker of
range and steam four hours. Delic-
ious with lemon or nutmeg sauce and
the left -ovens may be warmed up and
served with a different sauce.
Rich Fruit Cake
1 lb. chopped pitted dates
1 lb. seeded raisins
1 lb. seedless raisins
1 lb. currants
'.•i Ib. chopped candied pineapple
1,i Ib. slivered candied citron
1,4 lb. chopped candied cherries
14, lb. split almonds or pecan halves
4 cups sifted pastry flour or 3%
9
cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1I teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt - F
1 teaspoon ground mace
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
32 tablespoons (1 Ib. less 4 table-
spoons) soft butter
• 1 lb. brown sugar "'
9 eggs
1/3 cup cranberry sauce or currant
jelly.
Prepare all the fruits and nuts; the
dates 'Mould be chopped, the seeded
raisins separated, the seedless rais-
ins and currants washed, drained and
spread out on a shallow pan to dry
slowly n the oven. Chop the pine-
apple, sliver citron, chop the cherries
and cut the peels fine. Combine these
fruits and add the nuts. Measure the
flour and sift three times with the
baking powder, soda. salt and spices.
lase part of the flout' to coat fruits
and nuts.
Cream the _shutter and gradually
blend in tiheEIrown sugar. Beat the
eggs until very thick and light and
add, combining well, Mix in the dry
ingredients, then the fruits and nuts.
Add the cranberry sauce or currant
jelly. Combine the mixture very
thoroughly and turn into• pans which
have been lined with three layers of
greased heavy papes. Dake in a slow
oven, 275 to 300 degrees for 21/2 to
31 hours (depending on size of pans)
snits amount of batter makes 4 deep
six-inch squares or the equivalent;
2%/2 hours baking is sufficient for the
six-inch squares. For large cake, al-
low„314 to '4 hours.
Gumdrop Cake
1/2 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1'.cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
'/ teaspoon salt
1 Ib, gumdrops (no black ones)
:1 lb. seedless raisins.
Cream butter well, blend in sugar
well. Beat in eggs. Add milk alter-
r.ately with dry -ingredients, ad flour-
ed fruit Last. •
Mock Mincemeat
4 lbs, cracker crumbs
11,4 Cups flour
1 cup molasses
1/3 cup lemon juice or vinegar
1 cup raisins, seeded and chopped
c'u'e butter
2 eggs, well beaten
Spices.
Mix .ingredients in order given, add-
ing spices to taste. This quantity
will make two pies.
APPOINTED TO WAR POSTS
H. M. Long Jas. Stewart Hon. J. G. Taggart
Prominent Canadians who have been appointed to special war posts.
in connection with the new price control regulations are shown above.
Harold M. Long has been named Special Assistant to the Minister of
Finance. Mr. Long is President of th,e H. M. Long Company, Ltd., of
Montreal and was the organized of Atfero, a company set up to handle
the transfer of American 'bombers to England by air across the Atlantic.
James Stewart will be Administrator of Services in the new set-up. Mr.
Stewart is assistant general manager pf the Bank of Commerce; Toron-
to. Hon. J. Gordon Taggaret, who has been appointed ]Food Administra-
tor, is Minister of Agriculture for the Province' of Saskatchewan.
Wales In -Wartime
A few years ago two men went
down a. ,colliery in Glamorganshire,
Wales, to make a survey. Six hours
later they had not returned: they
had been buried by a heavy fall of
debris. Three of the Welsh redness
began to remove the debris, but the
timbers supporting the cavity began
to fall in on them. They set up tem-
porary supports; these collapsed too
and nearly buried them. '
So it was decided to tunnel through
to the entombed men. For six hours
the rescuers worked, exposed all the
time to the greatest danger from the
pressure on the hastily constructed
and lightly timbered tunnel. At 3.30
a.m. theygot through. A human
Green Tomato Mincemeat
3 pints chopped appies
3 pints chopped green tomatoes
4 cups brown sugar
1 1/3 cups vinegar
3 cups raisins
3 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
3/ tieaspoon allspice
% teaspoon mace •
% teaspoon pepper •
2 teaspoons salt "
1, cup butter.
Mix apples with tomatoes' and
drain. Add remaining ingredients, ex-
cept butter, 'bring gradually to boil-
ing point, and simmer three hours,
then add butter. Turn into glass jars
^as'boon .as made.
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QUESTION BOX
•
Mass C. D. B, asks: "Recipe for
Honey Pound Cake."
Answer: Honey Pound Cake — 3/4
cup shortening; 3/4 cup sugars % cup
honey; 4 eggs; 2 cups pastry Hour;
1/2 teaspoon ginger; tn teaspoon bak-
ing soda; '34 teaspoon cinnamon.
Cream shortening and sugar. Add
honey and beaten egg yolks. Sift the
flour with ginger, cinnamon and soda
and add to first mixture. Fold in
stiffly beaten. egg 'whites' and .flavour-
ing. Beat five minutes. Put in a
warm tin with high sides and bake
in oven at 350 deg. for one hour.
Mrs. M. Mc. asks: "Will a gum-
drop cake be rich enough to substi-
tute for a Christmas Cake? Can you
use large gumdrops?
Answer: We think you are wise to
serve this economical cake. Large
gumdrops may be used but,- stir in
just as the batter .-is poured into the
baking pan. (Never use black gum-
drops, however).
Anne Allan invites 'you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Just
send in your questions on homemak-
ing problems and watch this little
corner of the column for' replies. • ( in
engin was formed and the buried men
p sed out from one, rescuer to an-
other. They were no` sooner clear
than the tunnel closed in and collaps-
ed. The entire rescue tent] nine hours.
This incident happens to be a re-
corded deed of gallantry (the three
rescuers received the •Edward Medal)
but only the mangers and their neigh-
bors, in the mining towns know how
Many such rescues are carried out
every year.
Welsh Miners in Air Raids
A miner's .courage must consist of
more than generous impulsiveness
and the capacity for quick decisions.
He has to be capable of working slow-
ly when the danger is increasing min-
ute by minute; of being able to use
stihisfled. head when• he is buried or half
A display of this sort of courage,
however, is almost an everyday mat-
ter in mining Wales: , Today it is
needed in many other places as well.
For during the past year, in• London,
Coventry, Portsmouth and many other
cities of'Britain, not only men, but wo-
men• and children, have been buried
under piles of debris, and exploded
sewers and gas mains have provided
dangers as great as fire damp and
coal gas. Men who were skilled in
tunnelling and shoring up, men who
knew which brick, when pulled out
from the mess, would bring down the
whole structure—and which, on the
other hand, would release a buried
victim—were badly needed both to
carry out rescue work and to train
other workers. Welsh miners who
had had to leave Wales after the last
war, when the mines began to close
Ind the great depression started,
found their skill and their coolness in
demand.
That is why there are' a consider-
able number of Welshmen in the Res-
cue Services today, for this service
ligs for• "trapped casualties" and at:
ends to partially destroyed buildings
which might be a danger to the pub-
lic. Ten to six rescue workers rush
to the scene of the damage as soon
•as the warden's report comes to the
control center. Their gear consists of
ladders, lifting tackle and fii'st•aid kit
(for their own casualties). They start
heir work by shining their powerful
electric lamps dawn on the wreckage
-it gives heart to the people under -
heath.
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The Welsh Guards in France
These Welshmen in the Rescue Ser-
vices light the damage the enemy has
done; some of their countrymen have
fought the enemy himself" with no
less gallantry. One battalion of the
Wel•s'h Guards ariatved on the West-
ern Front -on May 222, 1940. They em-
barked for England less than a week
later—but between their two voyages
a good deal had happened. On May
2311d they were attacked by enemy
tanks. These. they forced to with-
draw. Enemy artillery bombardn,ent
tlien started up and under its cover,
early next day, the Germans attacked
strongly with tanks and armored fight -
g vehicles on the battalion's" right
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for the war is far from finished. We must do better and better
until Victory is achieved. This means larger investments in
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NOVEMBER 21.E 1941
and center. The line wags bald 141
spite of heavy casualltles, although
the men had little time to digin.
An officer then arrived from brig
ade headquarters giving orders that
the battalion should withdraw into
Boulogne. They withdrew, still Under
fire, and took up positions with their
backs to the Inane River, where they
helped the French troops block the
roads to the east. In the afternoon
the brigadier gave the order to fight
it out—Boulogne was to be held,. Road
blocks were strengthened and houses
«ere searched for fifth columnists, of
w hwn they were not a few.
Then followed a terrific shelling of
the quay and the town of Boulogne,
and shortly afterward came the order
to withdraw to the quay. Despatch
riders could scarcely reach the co>h-
panies—so heavy was the ahellin:g—
and one company could not be found:
it was holding a road block against
tremendous assault. It was never with-
drawn; when last seen it was fighting
it out against impossible odds.
The battalion, with one company
missing, then went across the bridge•
end dispersed in the railway station
and the pier shelter. Through heavy
bombardment from the air and in-
tense shelling, three destroyers forc-
ed their way into the harbor: One
was hit and set on fire. The other
two took off what was left of the
battalion and the other troops.
Welsh Seamen vs. U -Boat
Other Welshmen meet the enemy at
sea. A ,snail merchant ship, the
steamer Sarastone, had to drop out
of a convoy because of engine trou-
ble. She was making only two knots
when a German submarine appeared.
"We dyad only one gun with a sailor
manning it," said Davies, a member
of the crew, later. "The submarine
closed in to aim a torpedo, but we
kept changing course so that the en-
emy couldn't get us where .he wanted
us. Again and again the -Germans sig-
nalled us to stop, but we weren't hav-
ing any.
AU the crew gave three ringing
cheers for the King. Shells from the
submarine dropped all around us. We
waited for the enemy to come within
range, and then our .gunner let him
have it. We cheered ourselves hoarse
when our second and third shots scor-
ed direct hits.
"When the smoke—cleared— away we
saw the U-boat's big gun had been
shot away. The Germans brought
smaller guns into action but our gun-
ner was on the target and shell after
shell hit the submarine: We left the
enemy floating helplessly on the sur-
face of the sea and plugged our way.
home."
The Celts of Britain
Of the three peoples that make up
the British Isles, the Welsh alone
have kept their own language-through-
out
anguage throuth-out their country—or, it would', be'
more accurate to say—have kept alive
the native language of Britain, for
Welsh ad it is spoken today „could
probably be tolerably well understood
by theBritons who fought Julius
Caesar in 55' B.C. They are the Celts
of Ancient Britain—descendants of
those Celtic -colonists who swept over
Britain from the continent", imposing
their language, their religions, their
social order and their art on the peo•
pies already living there. (Of those
pre -Celtic people, even, Wales con-
tains a greater proportion than the
rest of Britain. They brought the
makingeof tools and weapons in stone
and bronze to Britain and have left
behind them their strange immense
Monuments of stone in the Welsh.
.counties of Carnarvon and Pembroke.
The stones of Stonehenge were car-
ried—no one knows how—from Wales
to Wiltshire by these people).
The Romans built their roads
through Wales and set up forts in
watch over the valleys,, but neither
they nor the Saxons even really pene-
trated the country. The Welsh were
a nomadic, mountainous people who
retreated fo the heights when the 1t
vaders came, and eluded, rather than
defeated, the foreigner.
Only the Normans, with their mix-
ture of severity and shrewdness, were
able to bring abouta union between
the two countries, but they neVer ac-
tually dominated the country. Edward
1, the first Norman king who was by
feeling and upbringing also as Eng-
lishman, built his castles at strategic
points, encouraged the growth of cit -
les and, when his wars against them
were over, treated the Welsh people
with reasonableness: The first -Prince
of Wales was his son and this prince,
when King, was the first monarch of
England to; summon Welsh represent-
atives to Parliament.
Natural Villagers
But the way of life of the two peo
ple, English ands. Welsh, was radical
ly different and continued to be dif
ferent. The Welsh lived in tiny scat
tered villages on hillsides; they were
not natural, townsfolk. They had no
a.ndlord and tenant System as .had
he English. The eldest son had not
rimar.y rights; land was divided eq -
rally between all the children. Conse-
quently, "the whole countrie was
sought up into small pieces of
round and intermingled upp and
owns with one .another, so as in ev-
ry five or six acres you shall have
en or twelve owners," as a Welsh
istoriari•'w1dte in the 16th century.
Henry VIII, who abolished so much,
holished this system also in the 16th
entury, but the English system of
enant and landlord did not suit
Wales, and for 200 years and more
he Welsh peasant suffered fromalien
nd absentee landlords who looked to
ngland for their cultures and politi-
al interests. Evictions were frequent
nd discontent increased, and this dis-
ontent led to the great Liberal re-
oit of ,the farmers in the 19th cen-
iry, when the Tory landowners were
eavily outvoted. Finally, the Land
mamiss•fon on Wales set up by Glad -
tone gave support to the farmers'
aims, and the situation was largely
dijusted. •
But meanwhile, Wales had altered
character. It is one of the oddities
f history that a people so utterly
grieultural and even nomadic in
ackground• should now, in most nen-
e's minds, be associated, entirely
ith one of the greatest industries-
0oal mining.
Until the early - 19th century the
&oh lived entirely on their cattle
d sheep, driving the cattle over the
rder to self to the j inglish for
reeding or for meat, and carding,
inning and weaving the wool from
eir sheep in their own farmhouses.
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slopes overlooking rich valleys and
pasture lands, still raise the mountain
sheep of Wales, whose wool makes
such excellent tweed, and the famous
black cattle.
Farmhouse industries still persist
in the isolated farm of North Wales;
occasionally even, farmer craftsmen
can be found: 'not only in the North,
but in the -West and South of Wales,
whet car, make kitchen dressers cr
carve Wooden spoons' and bowls al-
most as finely as their ancestors.
Wood turnery, in fact, is as Welsh a
talent as singing. It is a well-known
fact in London that most of the small
dairymen in that city have Welsh
names—and the small bakers too.
Nevertheless, today Wales and the
Welsh are identified, with coal.
Welsh Mines Developed
Actually, Coal mining on a large
scale did not start in Wales till the
19th century; though copper smelting
developed in the 16th century and ir-
onmaking in the 18th. lilt the furn-
aces and foundries were Isolated in
the hills, and the lumber needed or
their smelting eventually ran, low.
Then the problem of transporting the
iron to its market arose and was solv-
ed, almost at the same time, by the
steam engine. (The first steam engine
to run on rails ran, in fact, through
Merthyr)'
The steam engine required coal and
so coal mining dame into its own,
starting as a subsidiary industry to
ironmaking. It was the great iron -
masters, the pioneers and adventur-
ers of England, who led the way 'tdl
the industrial revolution in Wales by
erecting their foundries and furnaces
there. And even today, Wales remains
a metal working Country; copper and
nickel refining, zinc smelting, and, of
course, the iron and steel industry
still give employment to a large part
of the Welsh workers.
The coal industry has suffered ser-
ious trials since 1914. At that time
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WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, Nov. 21-9.15 a.m., . Ham-
mond Organ Varieties; 12.45 p.m., Dr.
Bell's Program; 8,Clifford on the Air;
8.30, Gulley -Jumpers.
' Saturday, Nov. 22-9.30, a.m., Kid-
dies' Studio Party;., 6.15 p.m., "NHL
Hockey- Players"; 7, Artie Shaw Orch-
estra; 8, CKNX Barn Dante.
Sunday, Nov. 23-10.46 a.m., Organ
Music; 1.15 ,p.m., Gene Autry; 17,
Church Service.,
iVlonday, Nov. 24-7.30 a.m., "Ever -
ready Time"; 1.07 p.m., .Waltz Time
in Vienna; 6.15, Jim 'Maxwell, news;
7.35, The Lone Ranger.
Tuesday, Nev, 25-9.15 'a.m., Sweet-
hearts; 11.45, Diek Tadd, songs; 5.30"
p.m., Kiddies' Carnival; 7.45, Adven-
tures of Charles Chan.
Wednesday,e. Nov. 26-8.05 a.m.,
Breakfast Club; 10.30, Church of the
Air; 6.40 p.m., Reginald Dixon, organ;
8; Sewers Bros. Quartette.
Thprsday, Nov. 27-8 a.m., Jim
Maxwell, news; 12 noon, "Farm' and
Home Hour"; 7.30 p.m., Marie .King,
songs.
Receives
Sad News
Receives Sad News
On Friday morning last Mrs. Alex
Smith•, Elgin Ave., received word that
her nephew, ISergt. Pilot James Gar-
fieldi MacKay, was posted as missing
after air operations over enemy ,terri-
tory on the 5th inst. The young lad,
a native of Ottawa, went overseas last
April with a detachment of the Royal
Canadian Air Force. Twenty-four
hours after receiving this message,
Mrs. Smith was notified by cable of
the death of her mother, Mrs. Mac-
Kay, Larne Harbor, Nol'thern Ireland.
—God.eric L ignal-Star.
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