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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-11-21, Page 6:>MI ANNE ALLAN Hydro Nemo Economist 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. * * * 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 * * * 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. * * * 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? * * * 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. * * * 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. ,t 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 80 % COMPLETED! ON TO VICTORY! AFORT A NAVAL GUN EVERY MONTH—FOR THE DURATION This is Sea f orth's objective in the National War Weapons Drive • We've nearly done itl Our community is close to its objective in the War Weapons Drive. But more pledges are urgently needed. Our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen are counting on us. More regular purchases of War Savings Certificates mean more weapons for our forces. Each of us must do his part --- not one of us 'must shirk his duty. Let''s all get behind this drive for the last push to success. Remember --our present objective is just a start. Our job for the war is far from finished. We must do better and better until Victory is achieved. This means larger investments in War Savings Certificates --- month in, month out, for the duration. 'Let's make our effort a power drive for Victory. SEAFORTH WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE Buy more and more WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES REGULARLY ONO 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. he Welsh, it fact, are still an art.tural People; the lnhabitatits et l+Ipith "Wales, who 1.1V0tsi ileotiaYtain 1 t P b g d R h a c a E c a 0 ti b G e el a in 0 a b p1 w w a.n bo .b sp th T 011 f 't+..•I ren Love fo take it. Dr. Chase's Syrup is pleasant to the taste and remarkably effective in the relief of Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, eta 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 (Continued on Page 7) CKNX -- WINGHAM 920 Kos. 326 Metres 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. EerIe,, Sales Boolcs are the best Counter Check Books ]made in Canada. They cost no more than ordinary books and always give satisfaction. - We are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or quantity required, See Your Home Printer First THE HURON EXPOSITOR Seoforth d Ontario