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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-09-18, Page 6''AHNT ALLAN M*I�s IseaewolloF104111F1041114, FOODS e)10...Ioanetnakers 1 As a ,the home Tine of defence, worker isn't it ;spur job to plan Nutri: -thrift menus? t11 course. malting. plans is only half ltd; battle—if you abuse :cooking •prin- epieh, you lose the fight.. "Fightin' Food" is baked to con Serve vitamins . and minerals without changing flavour or appearance. Giv- en. good recipes, make sure your bak- L* g action is- right. Here are sone tips to ensure success: 1. Make accuracy your password. People who consistently turn out food foods are not lucky, they are accurate. . '24 Good judgment is the next es- sential. It's nice to have available everything you want, but one seldom has, . and good judgment,. will make the beet possible use of what you have. 3: Certainty that a dish is good be- fore it is -served is a line point. Tastes differ and we are saving on sugar, so et nibble would satisfy you that every- one mill be happy. Appearance le aniportant—"eye-appeal" food .really helps keep an morale at the table. NUTRI-THRIFT MENU 'Cereal with Raisins, Bran Muffins, 3doney, Coffee or Milk. Mock Drumsticks, Green Beans— Browned Potatoes•, Radishes a n d Shredded Lettuce, Berry Padding. Vegetable Omelette, Shredded Omens with Russian Dressing, Cup FLIES. CAUSE . INFANTILE PARALYSIS • Investigations by medical scientists indicate that ay -infected foods are one of the principal causes of Infantile Paralysis (Poliomyelitis). Every fly allowed to live is.a potential menace to human health. KILL THEM ALL WITH. WI LSON'S FLY PADS QUICKLY, CLEANLY HUMANELYY 1OC PER PACKAGE OP `3 PADS At All Grocery. Drug, Hardware & Gentore General Ss Cakes with, Fresh Fruit. Bran Muffins 1 cup dour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups bran 1 cup milk 1 egg, well beaten (if desired) % cup molasses .Mix and sift flour., soda and salt. Add other ingredients. Bake in but- tered muffin tins 30 to 40 minutes in oven at 345 degrees. Makes 18 muf- fins. Mock Drumsticks 14 pounds meat (beef or veal) 2 daps cornflakes 2 eggs 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup water. Cut meat into six or seven oblong- shaped pieces. Roll. and fasten with skewers. Roll in cornflabe crumbs, then into beaten eggs and again in crumbs. Brown in melted fat in hot frying pan. Add one-quarter cup wa- ter, cover and. bake in even...a,t. 350 degrees for 55 minutes. NOTE—Bake complete meal in the oven, cutting 'potatoes and beans in small pieces. Place potatoes around meat; use hot water for beans and pudding so that each dish will be cooked in the given time: Plum aand Apple Jam (Requested) 3 quarts plums 6 tart green apples • Water Granulated sugar. • Wash 'and cut plums; wash, quar- ter and peel apples. Combine plums and apples together and barely cover with water. Cook until fruit is soft. Measure fruit and add sugar in the proportion of 1 cup of fruit to three- quarter cup sugar. Bring to a boil with element turned tq 'High' and cook for about 18 minutes or until jam is•jelly-like in consistency. Pour into sterile- jars and seal, If plum stones are stubborn to re- move, leave them in until fruit is cooked. They will -come to the top and may easily be removed before sugar is added.. * * TAKE ATIP 1. Remind everyone in your house- hold to use drugs sparingly; screw tops on tightly; use each bottle to the last drop: store in a cool place; place seeds or herbs in' bottles and seal tightly. 2. Heart only as much water as you are likely to require—to prevent excessive heat in your kitchen and to save electricity. 3. Do not wasb fresh fruit if it is to be stored in the refrigerator for a few days; just. pick it over and store an a dish without a cover. * * e: THE QUESTION BOX Mrs'. B. B. asks: "How can a paste glue spot be removed from' a green dress and a rust stain caused by an ornament on a beige felt hat?" Answer: If the green dress is washable, soak in warm water; let dry; sponge with weak vinegar and launder. (Test on a piece of seam to see if colour is fast). If dress is non -washable, sponge with carbon tetrachloride. The beige hat should be taken to an expert cleaner if' the spot is large. Iron rust soap must' be pur- chased and used according to direc- tions. irect tions. A fresh stain may be sprinkled with salt and rubbed with lemon juice. • Miss J. H. asks: "How do you sug- gest that we take care of zippers— can they be fixed?" Answer: Slide them carefully and evenly. After taking off a garment, hang it on a hanger and close the zipper. When pressing a garment, close the slide fastener. They can rarely be fixed, but always take . to the store and ask anyway. " (Condensed from Ersquire in Reader's 1�7t Digest) One nigh i.last- spring a telephone call was i nitriedly put through to •London. • Lt, Was •the air warden of an English coat town speaking: "Nazi raid. Ar \nexploded land mine la ly- ing on -the Door of the X factory. If it goes off the whole building will be wrecked." Withi[1' fiveaneinutes a car, with brit - red fenders was careening along the road, its headlights blazing in de- fiance of black -out regulations. Policer men, seeing -the triangular white -and - black insignia on its side, gave it priority even bver military traffc. For its driver, a young naval lieutenant, was ..rushing to one of the most haz- ardous jobs this war had created. He was one of England's "Death and Glory Boys," an incredibly cour- ageous group of youngsters who de- vitalize mines and bombs by remov- ing the mechanism which sets off the explosive. They belong to the R.M.S. —the navy's Rendering Mines Safe Section. So great are th'e risks they face that of the first 500 R.M.S. re- cruits only; 38 are alive today. The R.M.S. was formed originally to cope with a Nazi innovation in sea warfare—the Magnetic mine. Late in 1939 one of these "secret" weapons, dropped from an airplane over the Thames Estuary, landed on shore by accident. Lieutenant -Commander J. G. D. Quvry was •detailed to solve its mystery. Ouvry first removed every- thing metallic from his person—keys, money, cigarette case, even shoes whieh might have. nail* in them—thus eliminating the risk of setting up ti magnetic field. Next, using a set of non-magnetic tools, he carefully un- bolted a rear section of the casing and removed the detonator; an explo- sive -filled cylinder about the size of a water tumbler. Then for six and a half hours he dismantled the mine, removing nuts, screws, bolts, a sec- onddetonator, magnetic relays and ingenious clockwork, to reveal 700 pound of ultra -highs, explosive. The knowledge thus acquired enab- led scientists to provide two protec- tive devices: the "degaussing girdle" —wire wound around ships to'create an artificial magnetic" field — and a still secret method of locating and ex- ploding the . mines at sea. To . provide craftsmen for the .dan- gerous job of dealing with unexplod- ed mines, Captain G. N. E. Currey, R.N., set up an R.M,S. Section at Portsmouth, organizing naval officers and civilian volunteers who had elec- trical engineering, knowledge. There were 150 of these experts on hand when the great Nazi blitz• started in August, 1940, Now sea mines became a secondary problem. Duds and delayed -action bombs paralyzed activity in England's cities. Still worse was Hitler's new- est weapon—the land mine. Hanging from 27 -foot parachutes,, these .alumi- num cylinders, nine feet, by three, floated down silently from Nazi air•-. eraft. Designed to explode 22 sec- onds after coming to rest, they could cause heavy, destruction for a quar- ter of a mile around. Many failed to go off on schedule, perhaps because their intricate mechanisms were jolt- ed by the shock of landing. From headquarters in• London,. Cur- rey's men sped by .Plane, car or• train to combat these menaces. . Frequent- Iy they were away from London five -days at a stretch,' operating two and three times a day. After each jet they telephoned headquarters for fur- ther orders; but as the raids intensi- fied, more and more men failed to call in. At the end •of the 37 claire' hell, only 12 of the original 150 men had survived. The land •.'nine is wholly unpredict- able. If one fails to explode in the usual 22 seconds, •it is impossible to guess when its mechanism mayesud- denly start. -.Lieutenant Stanley E. Jenner, for example, once rushed off to deal with a.min•e which had crash- ed through twd upper stories of a 'Birmingham flour warehouse an(r, was lying on the sixth floor. "I didn't like the, situation at all," he told me. "Moving it was out; of the question and working on it there meant that_ I had no chance of escape if it should show signs of going off. "Well, ;I started to work and in 'about an hour the mechanism sudden- ly began ticking — the Nazi rattle- snake's usual a2 -second -warning. I fell downstairs in `a• hurry, expecting ev- ery next step would find me on my way to I(iiigdoi a Come in a cloud of flour. But nothing happened, so af- ter a bit I went back upstairs and ,.found the ticking had stopped. Thirty minutes later the mechanism went in- to action once more. Again I moved out in: a hurry. "This time, when nothing happened, 1 sat down and smoked a cigarette, I couldn't leve . the mine there, - of course—flour is too valuable in, Eng- land. So back I went for a third try. When 'the ticking started again fifteen minutes later, I stuck on the job as though nothing was wrong. It stop- ped again and in two hours the mine was as innocent as a• baby," As though the hazards of chance were not enough, the Germans have added many snares designed to decoy the unwary to their death. Lieutenant Ronson, R.N.V,R., uncovered one of the most ingenious, traps. He was dis- mantling a mine ails, through a mic- rophone, telling a stenographer a mile away what .steps be was taking. This is done •to preserve inforinatien which Might prevent another deactiv- ator from repeatingua., fatal move. R Uson had already removed one ' detoiiator arta- Was fishing for thA second, wihieli l ebal& comes out eat - This tip rt :stliek, . fatretehing Anne Allah. invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send in your .„questions on homemaking problems 'and watch this column for replies. Joy For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend; but he joyeth the more;. and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but 'he gr•ieveth the less.—Baeon. It makes a lot of difference when everyone answers the telephone promptly in speeding wartime contrnunieati®ns "A few seconds delay in answering my telephone—what difference does that make to telephone service ? ” The answer is—plenty. For instance, if everybody had been just two seconds faster in answering the more than two billion calls carried over this Company's • lines in 1941, it would have meant a time -saving of 75 years! And even. that doesn't tell the whole story. *Your calls travel over wires and cables through ccentral switch - 'W a Buy War Sov,ngs gramis lett died" Service xrr Certjfkatas at' any , Bell Terepitrl'Ne fluYsineaB OefiNr ing apparatus designed to serve many users. This interlocking system is carrying more calls, and more important calls than ever before. The time. you save on your office or home , telephone speeds other messages—may help some hard- pressed production man, army officer or government official to get ""'mss his hurry -up call through. without delay. So– please help keep ctsrninn- nieation lines Blear—anszey your telephone promptly, - avoid making unnecessary- calls, nnecessary-calls, and be brief, Citing' Wings -to Words P. D. WILSON: lltanager. out ere his stomach, Ronson thrust in- gltiritive fingers inside the mine. Tentatively he began to pull the de- tonator with his right hand anis push from behind 'with two fingers of his Left. Suddenly the detonator came out and a clamp closed on his two fingers. He realized; instantly that two cop- per spring flanges had been so plac- ed that when the detonator was re- moved they would clamp together, es- tablish an electrical circuit, and ex- plode the mine. Only a finger separ- ated him from disintegration.. With his 'free hand Rouson began to search his pockets for matches. The stenographer , jotted down his muttered curses as he learned that the matches were in the pocket on which he was lying. Slowly and care- fully be twisted around, eased the matchbox out and inserted it between the jaws of the clamp, uncertain that this would do the job. It did. Ron- son retired briefly for a breathing spell, then returned to emasculate the Before ling the Germans were test- ing British wits and courage with an- other deadly device. They inserted powerful springs under the detonators so that when the "keep ring"..was ren moved the detonators would pop out and .set, off the explosive mechanism. This took a =heavy toll in casualties before the cause was determined. One rule in handling, mines is, "treat them gently." Yet this is not always possible, for they have a per- verse habit of landing in dangerously awkward positions, Many R.M.S. men have been blown to bits because they had to move a mine in order to get at its vitals. Another rule is that only one man may work on any mine. When the field expert finally consid- ers a mine safe, he sends it to Ports- mouth for furthel• study at the Mitr- ing and Torpedo School. .Sometimes a deactivating job can be completed in 30 to 45 minutes. Other mines require four or five hour's of nerve-racking ,.effort. In one mine that fell on Coventry, • Lieu- tenant Jenner told me, gadgets'were not where he expected 'to find them; the color of the wires had been altered. — and there be was all alone with:it in a vast area of gutted buildings. Three Hours of patient, study and careful removal passed. Suddenly the clock `started ticking and Jenner raced toward an under- ground shelter which he had se- lected in advance. When the explo- sion came he was completely buried but they dug him out unharmed. The R.M.S. experts say that bombs are "not half as tricky as mines?' They.. are rather uniform in Make-up and have only one detonator—gener- ally • .in the nose—which can be re- moved in 15 'minutes. Most of ,the men confess, however, that they don't like bombs. — partly because two or three days' hard labor often is required to dig the big ones put of the' ground. They still recall the exploit of • Lieutenant J. M. Patton, of the Royal Canadian En- gineers. Clearing" debris after a raid, Patton ran across an unexplod- ed "Satan," a 13 -foot giant weighing two • tons. In• blissful ignorance he fastened a cable to the missile, .tied it to a truck, dragged it to a •f eld and manouyred it• into an old-, shell crater. Patton has Since been taught the facts of bombs. 'Dhe recent "lullabiitz" over Bri- tain has given the "Death and Glory Bot frity t nt Recipe SALADS FOR VITAMINS Salads offer the most appetizing means of • assimilating the minerals and vitamins essential to health contained in fresh raw' vegetables. Lettuce, of course, IS the most com- mon of all salad Plants, and green leafy lettuce has more flavor and food value than the bleached varieties. However, the variations of salads are innumerable. There are sliced radish- es, scallions, endive, -strips . of celery and carrot, cubed potatoes, hard boil- ed eggs, crumbled cheese, and bits of cooked meat or flaked fish may, be,. blended with any green saladbut the amount . of added ingredients should, be in small proportion to the greens, in grder that the salad may be crisp rather than heavy. • A green `salad should be lightly tossed with a fork, not stirred, and the greens should be dry, crisp, and cool. The dressing should be thor- oughly chilled and added just before serving. - Recipes of over sixty varie- ties of salads, including about a doz- en different salad dressings, will be found in the publication, "Salads that are Different," which may be obtain- ed free from Publicity and Extension Division, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. ys an oppor u o au their forces, 'which:- are now., prepared for all eventualities... New 'recruits, undaunted by the appalling casualty rate of their.predecessdrs, are eager to match wits with the Germans. Lieutenant Jenner has been in the United, States helping, to train , our naval officers for deactivating duty. or 11040'; 000 juice alternately' until: all is steed„ stirring or .beating ooBstantly. It le well to have the bowl sitting in a dish of cracked ice or ice 'water.. Quick Cabbage Salad 1 quart cabbage, finely shredded • % cup green pepper, minced 1/4, cup sweet pickles, diced 1 tablespoon sugtr 2 tablespoons prepared mustard 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons vinegar 1/4 cup cream (sour or sweet). Black pepper. Mix the cabbage with green pepper and pickles. Combine the sugar; salt, vinegar, • cream, mustard and pepper, and pour over the 'cabbage. Blend well and serve at once. (erves 6). Tomato and Cottage Cheese 6 medium sized tomatoes 11/2 Cups cottage cheese Salt and pepper. Moisten 'the, cottage cheese with a little cream, and season -with salt and pepper. `Cut the tomatoes into quar- ters or eighths' to within half an inch from the stem. Spread the sections and sprinkle with salt. Place 1/4 cup of, cottage cheese in each tomato. Garnish with sprigs of parsley or slices of green pepper. Serve with salad .dressing. (Serves 6). Boiled Salad Dressing r/2 cup vinegar 2 tablespoons flour. 2 tablespoons sugar 2 -tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon mustard 1. teaspoon salt, dash of pepper. Mix well. Cook the mixture in a double boiler until it thickens, stirring constantly 'to 'keep it :smooth.' Cool and then add 1 cup of cream grad- ually, or fold in whipped cream just before using. Mayonnaise Dressing 1 teaspoon' mustard 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon powdered sugar 2 egg yolks, well beaten • % teaspoon vinegar 1 cup salad, oil A few grains cayenne pepper. Mix together mustard, salt, pow- dered sugar, cayenne, egg yolks; and when well blended, add vinegar:. Add olive oil gradually, drop by°1dro.p; beating constantly.' , As the mixture thickens-, thin with vinegar -or lepaon juice. Add oil and vinegar Or lemon U.S. Dept to R.A.F. (Winnipeg Free Press) The unusual,thing done in the cur- rent issue' of the American monthly, Flying, • is receiving much comment. And it is unusual for an Americas aviation magazine to devote its entire issue of 280 pages to the Royal Air Force. The editor of Flying, Mr. William' B. Ziff, himself author of a book. on military aviation at present' being much discussed, gives his reason for so completely filling this issue of his magazine with the R.A.F. He believes that the American people should have an accurate account of the British Royal Air Force. Because: "When the annals of our times are finally written and recorded in the history books, it will be discovered that during the early period of this bloodiest of all wars it was the R.A. F. which was the front line of defence not only for Britain but for civilizer tion itself. "The Battle of Britain which was fought by the brave men of the R.A. F. and which stayed' the advancing legions of the Nazi, will prove to have been one of the true turning points of history. "Without these daring and 'gallant modern knights of the skies, long night would have settled over the world." It is, therefore, important to all Americans—or so 'Mr. Ziff thinks— to know and understand the R.A.F. Its history .is officially and clearly outlined. its character traces itself in, the types . which administer and man it: •Its constitution is the loose- ly contained' body the British set up as though to let it bend all its wants without ever breaking. These mat- ters • are treated of in the voluminous tentidn paid the R.A.F. by Flying. s exploits make up its history, but they are soft• pedalled in the irritat- ing understatement of the English. Because all these factors have come together, and been generated into' a new force, these are the things, says Mr. Ziff, "by which the world of to- morrow may live." That's why he nas• unusually devoted the entire is- eue of his national magazine to the R.A.F. "Why do you want ,to do this sort of thing?" I asked him recently. "You can't just leave those tithes lyi.ng'faround, you know," he replied. "Somebody has to do the jd'b — and, well, you might say it's 'a stimulating sort of job to do" I Our Niche Find your niche, and fill it. If it be ever so little, if it is only to be a hewer pf wood and drawer of wai- ter arter do something in this great battle for God and truth.—Spurgeon. TORONTO Hotel Waverley bracers AVE. Ar Crortios 8r. RATES magma - $1.5o to 1&J0 DOUBLE - 12.50 to 16.110 Spacial .wieldy and Mondaky Eats. A MODERN ... QUIP .. . WELL .CONDUCIRD .. . CONVINIINILY'LOCATOR HOTEL .... Clore to Partiamset Bunclingi; Universitiµ of Tenanto, .Maple Leaf Gardena, Fashionable Shopping District; Wholesale Houses. Thestrea, Churches of Every Deneminatioa. A. M. Powsu.,Paeirdmt 1 , While the flames they had helped to ignite were still consuniing,vast areas of the Germate city of Saarbrucken; a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber Grew landed at,• Ottawa recently, little less than 22 hours after they -had dropped their bomb load on hat nerve ciritre of Nazi industry. "It was flaming like a ruddy circus" was one of the lads report on his last glimpse of Saarbii'ueken. . These young- sters have completed ,more than a score of 'operations over ealeniy territory, dgopping thousands of pounds of ib©nihi! They have participated, In tlie 1,0006boniber attack on Cologne and every important raid befare Saarbrtioken. Oranges, Iscearee Overseas, .• Were a c.eleome dight to the Iads. Pictured above is T"'riniti Minister Kitig presenting a bo-v'i of oranges to Sofgeant Don • Morii'son, of Sherbrooke, 20. Sear`,-til`d wire1ess.air-guirtter: a- . • Pt A