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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-05-08, Page 6Not Least..' I- Piltish �y. Sr ANNE ALLAN- ,\ Hvdra H9m. Etonenitt:Gt.. -.'wb NUTRI-THRIFT MEALS elio "Hoiieina'hersl We have cola- : 'ed a, new word for. you—'Nutri-thrift' Mae,•ls. Every cookery suggestion of The Mixing Bowl is based on sound nutrition principles and thrifty reci- pes that will save many coins. Our ,purpose in this is to assist you to cook well and economically — to plan meals in advance, and to include in your menus those foods which pro- vide the maximum amount of 'nutri- tion. • The formula -for good eating is sim- ple:' Below is a list of the protective Foods required in your daily 'Nutri - thrift' menu. This list- is given by Dr. McHenry, Head of the Department JUST 4 FU. PER CAKE INSURES DELICIOUS BAKING q n eeeeee ce ST s. R0y4 1 YEAST CAKES M °•KE: PERFECT 8REAo hi 111 MADE IN CANADA . FULL STRENGTH ... DEPENDABLE IN THE AIRTIGHT. WRAPPER u. of Nutrition at the University of Tor- onto: Other foods to make up the en- ery requirement may be chosen ac- cording to taste, but those listed here should come FIRST, if at ell possible: Three glasses of milk; 6 slices of chole wheat or enriched flour bread; 1 serving of meat, or .fish or lentils; 1 %egg or serving of cheese; 1 serv- ing of potatoes; 1 serving of yellow or green leaf vegetables; 1 serving of tomatoes •or tomato. juice; 1 serving of fruit; .1 serving of whole grain product (cereal, porridge or pudding). Canadian homemakers know the importance of thrift in the kitchen and so are on -the alert to buy care- fully and waste nothing. - One of the best ways to avoid waste is to serve well -cooked, appetizing foods with "eye -appeal so there will be nothing left orf the plate. For, example, . a roast 'of lamb carefully cooked, so that it does not •dry., out, will be eat- en to the last scrap. Dry, tasteless lamb, on the other hand, may sit around for days because it lacks ap- Petite appeal. T T Do write us if you wish copies of the folder, "Four Meals ,From One Roast." NUTRI-THRIFT MENU, Breakfast Cooked oatmeal with prunes • Scrambled Eggs — Toast Coffee • or Milk Dinner Filled Lamb Roll Escalloped Potatoes --Browned Parsnips . Whole Wheat Bread and Butter Poor Man's Pudding Supper Fish — Vegetable Chowder - Cottage Cheese—Rhubarb Salad Canned Cherries Peanut Cookies Milk RECIPES ' Filled Lamb Roll Boned breast of lamb Salt and pepper 2 tablespoons meat sauce ae lb. pork skusage 1 small onion, chopped 1 cup canned, tomatoes Lamb breast should be spread with sausage; roiled, and tied.. Brown,on all sides in a hot pan; season, add chopped onion and canned tomatoes and meat sauce. Cover and. '•cook, on element turned 'Low', allowing 30 miputes pier.9.1.1 a , -- , • Poor Man's Pudding 1 quart milk - 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons sugar 2leve1 tablespoons rice Pinch of salt. -.Wash rice well and, put ihbaking (By Margaret Butcher) • Reading, England.—Perlhap's, indeed when this war is over soniehody will start building small houses on a hu- mane plan, and instil just the merest bit of imagination into those local gents who get round a table and de- cide what shall, and shall not, be built;• who decreed that every house in this road should have its best rooms—with French windows—turned to the northeast. We.o also did not think of giving us a cupboard to bless ourselves with, and who' put the grate in Yny front room in the corner, and dish with salt, sugar and butter: Pour milk over and bake very slowly for at least 21h hours, stirring twice dur- ing first hour. - Peanut Cookies 2 tablespoons butter 3/4 cup sugar , 1 egg, beaten 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 teaspoon salt . ea cup flour ee teaspoon peanuts, chopped 2 teaspoons milk. Dream butter, add sugar and egg. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add to egg mixture. 'Stir in milk and peanuts. Drop from tea- spoon ,on greased baking sheet one inch apart. Bake 121-14. minutes in oven at• 3,25 F., * * 4c Take a Tip News letters from the Department of National War Services report that from one state in the U.S,A., an av- erage of 758 pounds of scrap metal per farm has been collected. Here's what you can do to help collect for our Canadian ,salvage' campaign: 1. Make a `roundup' of all manner of bits and pieces of metal—alumi- num, copper, .brass, steel, iron,• zinc. or, lead: 2. Please collect any 'live' rubber— no matter how small—rubber ily- swatters, date stamps or typewrit- er key tips. 3. Bottle of all kinds and jars should. be salvaged separately, except milk bottles which should be re- turned to the dairy. 4. Waste paper, such as envelopes, writing paper, crumpled paper of all kinds, must be tied together. 5. Newspapers and magazines or books, should be kept clean, and tied in •firm bundles of about 60 pounds. 6: Any fabrics..thatare not wearable or repairable . should be bundled together. 7: Bones (except fish bones) should be wrapped securely and marked. * * aF' - i• ..•eUESTiOt'l..E eS . Due to 'shortageof, space, all let- ters have 'been" answered direct by mail. 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 cornet of the column for replies. Save something regularly, because: You strengthen Canada's might for war. Youheipfinancepurchases inCanada for our Allies. You form the habit of thrift that safeguards your future. You open for yourself the door to opportunity. And you smooth the path for: post-war readjustments. Money„ in the bank gives you a comforting sense of security. fr 1;0 ARTARTE R OF CANADA in such a, Peeitiou that—short ok Peek- ing e king a Ole Lily the well and pxoj.ecting a portion; ,,qf oneself eves the garden —it ie :iiapeesible to sit on the right- hand 4'0e -et it. Wonderful, isn't it? Mostly Half Frozen So d arc': half frozen most of the time, thanks to these cunning wags; and outside my window there is a deep valley, white with snow, and snow on the hills beyond, with this' trees and hedges showing smoky brown. Last night there was another fall; and for three days I have work, ecl at home, with frequent journeys across to the post office; for 'I "real- ly cannot venture on the bicycle with a glassy road under me. And now my voice has entirely disappeared, thanks to the cold; so that looks like more •scram!blings to post. If you get complaints from our Can- adian boys about the weatheia don't "think they are attempting a, queer sort of hILmor. They are just think- ing what I have thought for years--• that• it contrives to be a lot colder over here, temperature or no temper- ature. But there is one grand thing: •the days are getting longer. I do, not set out now with my lamps 'alight, riding into the sunrise, and then com- icg back with the last gleam of sun- set. m It's when- the light begins to return that we realize -how stupifying the blackout_, •'bas been. I suppose that, down underneath, there le a,sense of groping and frustration, all through the winter. And now, before long, there . will be evenings on the Allot- ment, I hope. It is a melancholy sight now a flat white stretch with a few rows of frigid looking green stuff showing through; and, of course, the pergola arrangement which the Gar- dening Partner, with a terrific amoupt of 'sawing and hammering, put up last week. •It ie intended for the encour- agement,; later on; of certain logan- berries; but, with his customary op- timism, he remarks: "I dare say the March gales will bring the whole lot down." And who am. I to contradict him? • Celepletely Winter Tamed Downstairs there is •a blackbird hopping around, completely winter - tamed. It does not even bother to get out, of the way when one walks down the. path to the gate, and it goes into the kitchen for scraps, right un- der the nose of the old cat. I did not see• it this morning, but I trust that' the cat did no' go back on par- ole. There has,.. most certainly been a truce of some kind between them. One is intrigued, somehow, by .the idea of a 'tiesCe between enemies—in a world VaMel1 seems to be seething with' enemies of the most deadly kind. Animals, at least, obviously possess some sound sense and idea of fair' play. I denot suspect the cat of of- fering Protection—as a prelude to gobbling. I•t is either a case of tacit understanding, or a little matter of "Well, take a chance -on it• if you like, old chap—but look out for yourself." Some folks • have a lot to learn from animals. . • • My good 'friend the doctor Lias, just pepped in, and pronounced 'Acute Laryngitis' -which • sounds very grand for a Temale who .can't. speak • above a whisper. And •no bicycling over the' hills. and dales for at least a week; so now we know where we are; don't we? There was _something very surreptitious ii the way Iegreeted• him at the front .door; ,the candled if she . caught anything' of our , husky murmurs—must have thought it ex- tremely odd,, I'm sure. Now I shall have to try to_ rope in somebody to run down to 'the ehem•ist; aj� here we come up against more of our dif- Acuities, for things don't get deliver- ed nowadays. • No •More Repairs Last week, by some evil mischance, both my watches went wrong, and it is quite impossible .to •get watches mended in the 'shops. 'They have put up notices, most of them, to that ef- fect: 'No More Repairs.' In despera- tied I have % mailed them to s: friend wbli lives right up in the north of England, where she thinks she may be able to get a man to do something about it. What a businesrl it all is! If this man can't help I suppose I shall be trundling off next week with' an alarmclock strung round my neck —to make the effect still more pic- turesque: 'Stranger -things than that will be happening no .doubt; ,;before we're through. This. sounds like a -moan, I know; but et's a qualified one. Maddening as all these things are, the truly ex- traordinary part of It is 'that they are no worse. In the main, I suppose, most ' of these difficulties are no greater than the ordinary ones felt by folk living in really isolated plac- es: But it makes• one feel that quite a lot of spare, time has been wasted in the past. How is- it, •.for instance, the,Laeelsiat know how to repair a watch? I have a cousin who, in a strictly amateur capacity, not only knows how to re- pair a watch or re oldek, but can de- sign and actually make the latter. Revival Needed Perhaps tele war will revive the love of crafttmaanth4p? I hope so; 'be. cause your,Otaftsman has a con- Saleilee, and ' 'e"Fail. do With a lot of Conscience be the Mete, one veAer friar an'othee. We' liaVe ail been tee Mast* peod i ed ite Mild, lefanetaeand a lot ott'lo Meant an , , .ftlasd.letbd igen every'-. (Co ., anething I had lateWle on the. Li< before. t could gee) two of the fele huge n ators:und ,the 1pag winks 'wig a ' green light out ueafi the tip.• This waves ,splashed up over. the WiudaW when the motors speeded up .Twice the weves: were .,so high they came 'up ever the wing -,tip, Obscuring the green, light. Then we ,turned towards land, and there was a equder enoar, and I could feel the slap -slap of the waves on the bottom of the ship growing less violent and finally disappearing, and we were he the air. • The great ship circled - towards the south, The wing -tip light and all the interior, lights went out. Down below, little Irish villages and, the 'Cityof Limerick showed through the. clouds, for Ireland ,has no ;blackout. Minutes later, there were two or three light- houses, ighthouses, and the moon shining on, the open sea, then nothing more but clouds for hours and hours.' Lisbon From .the Air Lisbon, as seen . from the air, 'is one of the :most beautiful of cities. The Berwick arrived. over the mouth of the Tagus ,cover just (before the sun came up over the hills 'behind Lisbon. (The interior oi' Portugal la quite . mountainous in 'spots). Down below, a large fleet of fishing boats could be seen on the Atlantic, most- ly little sailing ships, but a few steam trawlers. Then there was Estroil, the health resort at the mouth of •the river, and then Lisbon set ort several hills. A new airport was being built outside the city, with broad modern roads leading to it, in contrast to ,the narrow lanes of the city itself. An Oriental cemetery with little tombs inside a high wall provided an odd touch. Twice the ship circled the city, losing height, and came do'vn on the river beside a Pan American Clipper, preparing to leave in a ;few hours. "How nice it would be," I thought, "to transfer •from. one „plane to the other, without even bothering to go ashore.'' But wartime travel isn't that easy in Europe: • Lisbo nison e of the most romantic cities be the world at present. It's a' poor magazine that ,hasn't had some story dealing with Lisbon and its re= fugees, its spies, the German Gestapo and such like. There has been a Whole. series of moving pietu`res, 'a'bout. Lis- bon, such as "One Night in Lisbon," "The Lady Has Plans," and "Affec- tionately Yours." 'The general idea seems to be that anything can hap: pen in Lisbon. I believe that is true; , anything can happen there, and most of it does happen. Some. of the things' that •.=have happened are "probably more exciting thain anything the fiction 'writers have produced. But alas! Some of the true stories must be kept secret until after the war. I didn't see :.much of Lisbon the first trine ('was there, but on the re- turn trip, I, saw far too much, ands I do not care if 1 never see Portugal again. Even when peace comes again, I think I would decline an invitation., • Lisbon After Dark On the •eastward trip the sliort stay in Lisbon and suburbs held some excitement, but it was pleasant. The Clipper arrived' after dark. My first impression of • •the Tagus "River was that it consisted of acres of mud flats. The tide must have been low that night and the bright searchlights on thing. :The clever, handy folk• are worth 'their.weight in gold nowadays, and we're finding it out. Those two lovely friends of mine, the retired Government official and his kind, charminig wife,, stand out sharply . as •self-reliant people. , its workshop and his scrap -heap, and her sewing machine and bit -bag, all make them marvelously independent. He has even- copied my mackinaw .(with some clever improvements) for him- self, and done every stitch of it with- ouf ,bele from aiiebody. The idea that a man should be helpless in about ninety Per cent of things is complete nonsense, of course. We know that • now. There is good news of the Truce. I have! just put a head outside my door and • heard the cat 'being told to "leave the blackbird .alone, as he -is having his lunah"; veep .lunch con- sisting of the bits left in the cats saucer. Can you beat it? the plane and on the chore Rhone on the mud as the Qlipper. e'ireled: around in search of ita anchorage. The trip to shore was over a long pier that ended in the customs office. There the British Embassy people picked us up, supplied us with plenty of escu- does (the Portugese money)- and gave the taxi driver directions where to take us. There followed a wild taxi ride through the narrow streets of Lisbon and out to Estoril. It was fax more exciting and undoubtedly more dan- gerous than the Clipper trip -across the broad Atlantic, but we arrived breathless at the Estoril Palacia, the finest hotel in Portugal. (It is this hotel you,see in some of the movies). There was a midnight dinner in the magnificent dining room, Valong with the crew of the Clipper, then a few hours' sleep, and away again in the early. morning- darkness to. Cintra, the airport that is used by British, 'Dutch, German and o Italian planes. -And . so to England. Seven Days in Portugal On the return trip I' spit seven days in Lisbon, which was about five too many. It was mid-October' when autumn storms were interesting with the Clipper schedules. At first, it seemed, I might have to wait ten days for a place on a Clipper; then it was more indefinite. It might be three weeks. As it has since turned out, it might be never. A prominent Canadian who returned a few weeks later had to go by way `of Africa, Brazil and Trinidad to get out of Lis- bon. The city is full of people try- ing to get out. For some of them it is . a matter of life and death. They must leave before the Germans get them: A place on the Clipper was not to be measured in mere dollars then (though it cost over $500, westbound). So stayed in Lisbon. with seven other Canadians, and as the days passed slowly, our plight became ao desperate that we returned at last on a refugee ship, "part of a cargo "of cork," as Bishop Renison puts it. As I . have said, Lisbon is .beautiful from the air. So is the rest of Portu- gal that I had seen from the plane. From the ground, parts, of the capital city are beautiful a•Ve everything is interesting. But undter its picturesque exterior, there lurkdangers, even in peace tithe. Noiv the whole city .i full of danger and intrigue. For the first time the question of money .began to bother us, when we learned we might .be in Lisbon in- definitely. We could bring only $40 each in Ameriean money out of Eng- land. • under the strict wartime rules. Out of that we had to pay our fares home from Nepv York. Other expens- es began to come up. We held a con- ference 'end pooled aur resources' at last, finding that' we had just enough to stay one week at our hotel in Lis- bon. We knew nothing of• the late guage. For two days, we lived like paupers, hoarding every escudo, till the British Embassy came to our aid and guaranteed. our hotel bill. Headquarters of the Gestapo We stayed at the Hotel Victoria in leisbond, pet at the expensive Palacio. It had been 'recommended to me,, by an�A}nerican foreign correspondent in London. "It's new and clean," he said, "se long as you don't mind stay- ing in the same hotel as' the head of the German Gestapo in Portugal." I laughed that off. In England that sounded like an added adventure. So on my recommendation, we stayed at the Victoria. It was new, and clean, and cheap, and the meals were good., And *e save the heace of the Gestapo, not just once, but too often. His men kept a close watch on the eight Can- adians. It gets on your nerves in a few days. The Avenida _ de Liberd•ale is the main street, of Lisbon. The name, as you may guess, means "Avenue o Liberty," It stretches north and south up a broad valley between Lisbon's ten hills. The avenue is reputed to be. one of the most beautiful in -all the world. 'I don't doubt it. It is wide. Down each :side as a broad roadway. In the . centre is a four - lane highway, ln, betweee the outer strips and the centre are gardens with palm treesand edible chestnuts end benches to sit on under the palms and on the grass. Here and there, pre sidewalk cafes, where everything can be had tto drink from ice cream sodas, and strong coffee , to ,much stronger, things. The ,roadway circles around many monuments or fountains with gold -fish •swimming in the waters. And all the sidewalks are of mosaic—lit- tle pieces of colored marble labor- iously laid by hand into patterns. Not only are there scrolls and flowers, but the history of Portugal is written, there to those who can; read the language. Up and down the Avendia, ttere,,,jN a steady stream of traffic. On the oadways at the side, old"fashioned street cars with open sides •pass ev- ery few seconds.•I never saw so many street cars on one street anywhere. The automobiles are mostly tiny cars and one could' ride 'half a mile in •a taxi for six American cents. Most of the people are on foot, many of,thenx •with bare feet. There is poverty everywhere in Portugal and it intrudes even on to the beautiful Avendia: Hundredsof women pass in an hour, with baskets on their heads containing silvery fish orr g apes.or flowers. Men carry cases of wine or heavier loads. Many of them ,have little, fancy wicker baskets With a lid and handle. I was serious about theme, One day I followed an old lady. She stopped occasionally to pick things off the •street. At last she sat on a bench and .I sat down be- side .her. She opened her hamper: Inside were little bits of metal. On the lid of the basket she had a horse- shoe magnet. With the magnet she tested all the metal --scraps. The iron ones she put in one pile, the non- ferrous in another. There's no need for salvage campaigns in- Lisbon - Nothing goes to waste. '" Ascuin: "I: see there's some talk of having the people vote at the next election,pgon. the .quea.tion_ .qf abolioh-' rig capital punishment: eeroeld you vote to abolish it?" • Fogie: "No, sir; capital ,punish- ment was good enough far my, ances- tors, and it's good enough for me." You Roil Them Better With OGDEN!. C.OrAPETTE TOBACCO TORONTO Hotel Waverley S'annaa AVE. AT COLEMAN .ST. . RATES SINGLE.... - . 11.60 to i5-00 DOUBLE - 12.50 to 16.0 Apodal Weakly Monthly Raton A MODERN .. . QUIET .. . WILL CONDUCTED.: CONVINIINTLY LOCATID • HOTEL . . • Close to Parliament Buildings University of Toronto, Maple •rte.• Gardens„. -$aa6' ble Sho Dun Distract.. Whorls/doHou..*, Thea r� Churches of Every �D,,enom"ination. Po A. M. wrcot,'President AP• THE RAILWAY AND THE WAR . 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