The Huron Expositor, 1943-07-16, Page 6ay ANN[ ALLAN
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1943 PRESERVIN.G SEASON
'0 .10 Homemakers! The harvest
Sea. in ise here again — and in. the
OW between -Canadians have realiz-
ed o:none #ally the implications of
'''waft effort." Women have' learned
at ''their part in the kitchen is as
Important as "kitchen fatigue" in the
(armed forces. With the preserving
Session, we are utilizing to the las
'degree our fruits and vegetables—
leaving nothing to waste. This is
one duty Prom. which the housewife
reaps a rich reward—the food is oe
her own shelf.' ,
When you have to make sugar go a
Song way, it calls for you to guard
every movement in your tactics—a.
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RECIPES
Raspberry Jam
2 quarts raspberries
3 cups sugar.
Crush fruit and simmer 1+0 min-
utes. Then add sugar and cook until
thick—about 25 minutes. Pour into
hot, sterilized jars and when cool,
seal with paraffin. Yield: Approxi-
r„ately :.i% pints.
A delicious jelly-like jam may be
made by adding two teaspoons eider
vinegar with the sugar in the above
recipe.
Raspberry and Red Currant Jam
2 quarts raspberries
1 -cup red currant juice
3% cups sugar... ,.
To make currant juice, crush 1%
cups currants slightly and cover them
with three-quarter cup water. Cook
until currants are soft and mushy—
about 10' to 15 minutes. Drain
through a moist jelly bag.
Cover raspberries with one cup red
currant juice and let stand 2(1 entre
utes. Simmer raspberries and juice
:0 minutes, then add sugar. Cook
about 20 minutes. Pour into hot ster-
il:zed jars and when cool seal with
pZ'rafEn. Yield: Approximately 2i4.
pints.
Gooseberry Jam
2 quarts gooseberries
1 1/3 cups water
414 cups sugar.
Top and .tail the gooseberries. Sim:
r er the fruit and water for 10 min-
utes, Add sugar and cook for about
one-half hour. Pour into' hot steriliz-
gorrovE FOR .44044 71:45
ed jars and when cool, seal -with para-
ffin. Yield: Aleut 3% pints, This
jam is quite thin when hot bait it
thickens considerably when it cools.
If desired, one-half cup honey or
corn syrup may be 'add'ed to the
ieeipe if it is too tart for your taste
Jewel Jam
1 quart pitted cherries (6 cups un -
pitted)
1 quart gooseberries
1 quart red currants,
1 quart raspberries
S cups sugar.
Wash and pit cherries and put in
kettle with 2 cups of sugar. Bring
to the boil and boil for five minutes.
Then add quart of cleaned goose-
berries and two more cups sugar.'
Bring to boil and boil five minutes.
Then add quart of cleaned red cur-
rants and quart of cleaned raspber
ries and four cups sugar. Bring to
boil and boil five minutes. Pour in-
to hot sterilited jars and when, cool,
seal with paraffin. Yield: approxi-
mately 4 points.
TAKE A TIP:
1. Use ripe but not overripe fruit for
jam.
2. Wash and cut up or mash fruit for
jam. adding 'about one-half inch of
water in 'bottom of saucepan.
3. To extract juices, heat fruit.. slow-
ly, stirring frequently.
4. Pre-cook solid fruit or wild fruit
first—then add sugar.
5. A longer boiling period is required
when less sugar is used.. Teat for
eegtiired time. by lifting a spoon-
ful. If it remains heaped up or
when poured off the spoon drips -to
two or three drops which run to-
gether, it is ready.
6. Pour while hot into sterilized jars.
choose the services of any of these
ten Chartered -Banks...
Bank of Montreal
The Bank of` Toronto
The Canadian Bank of Commerce
The Dominion Bank
Imperial Bank of Canada
The Bank of Nova_ Scotia
The Provincial Bank of Canada
The Royal Bank of Canada
Banque Canadienne Nationale
Barclays Bank (Canada)
These banks are constituted under the Bank Act-
an act of the Parliament of Canada.
— They compete with each other for your business.
— This makes for fair and eb cient operation and
for quality of service. Enterprises and individuals
may go to any or all of them to deposit money,
obtain loans and transact any other banking business.
Security and privacy are two
fundamentals which the Cana-
dian people have • always de-
manded of their banks. -They
maintain more 'than 4,350,000
deposit accounts, knowing that
their money is available` when
they want it. In thousands of
daily „,contacts with' bank man-
agers and staffs, they know that
their private affairs will be held
strictly confidential.
In every sense of the word, the
banks are servants of the people.
Lord Macmillan wrote in the
Royal Commission report of
1933: "The mechanism of finance
is a delicate one; the confidence
upon which it is based is a slow
growth, but it may be destroyed
over -night, and those to whom is
entrusted responsibility for thewel-
fare of the people must proceed with
caution in the adoption of changes.'
In any of -more than 3,000 branches and sub.agencies of the Chartered
Banks across Canada you can entrust your savings and discuss your
financial affairs with assurance that privacy will be maintained."'
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....illsaria
n Cperis
($y Margaret Butcher)
How comforting it is that nothing
can interfere with the seasons! The
whole world` of Man may be rocking;
but the pea's have begun to sprout up
through the' stony ground of the Al-
lotment ----and the beasties (whatever
they may be) are eating. the tops off
. . just' as usual.
The' Gardening Partner, his trusty
,old , gardening suit reinforced with
handsome leather patches, is season.
ably gloomy and predicts the worst,
as always. But there is life—real life
--in the air; the birds are chirping
and tvyeedling away in the trees and
on housetops, sled today the whole
place has a lush green look after the
rain.
Even the potatoes in their little
sack behind my curtain are sprouting
like mad. ,The most dreadful things
which man can do cannot take away
nue's queer and secret ioy in all this
u aaing up, all this bursting out of
hope ., . . Yes, it's got me to -day.
Some day the world will be sane
egain and people will be happy — if
they have eu.vugh sense. •
I guess we'll have to use our sense,
all the same. -But I.'m not one of
those pessimists, for the war has'
shown us one thing: that human be-
ings can, under pressure, show extra-
ordinary courage, determination and
gumption. ' Most curious of all, they
can show Unselfishness. That is go-
ing to b® the snag, for it always is
I've been talking to a man and his
wire about it all: a couple who are
just too old to be roped into anything
and who are pretty cosy in their cir-
cumstances. ' He said sitting back on
Cover withthin layer of melted
paraffin, then: when cold with thick
layer.
7, Jelly may fail to set if juice was
not belied long enough after add-
ing sugar or if 'fruit was overripe.
8. Jelly may be tough if juice and
sugar are boiled together too long
or if -loci little sugar was used ac-
eording to amount of acid and ripe-
ness o€ fruit. For example, not -
too -ripe currants contain a lot of
acid and -require some water.
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs. M,� Mc. suggests: "TO make
.whipped trniatn: pour a can evap-
orated milk, into freezing tray; chill
until 'fine crystals form around the
edges. Meanwhile chill bowl and
beater. Add % teaspoon lemon juice
to the milhepoured in bowl and.Jieat.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send
in your questions on homemaking
problems and: watch this column for
1.
replies. "
Bridge C ollapses
Jake 'Burstyn is suffering from back
injuries received when his truck
plunged 20 feet to the river bed when
a' county bridge, known as Cunning-
ham bridgeron the 9th concession of
Grey, collapsed -under the truck.
Travelling east with their empty
truck, Mr: Burstyn and his son' were
half 'way across the bridge when they
realized that it was collapsing. ,They
speeded up the truck but the west
end of the structure gave way and
the vehicle plunged backwards down
the planking into the three-foot deep
river. A portion of the metal girders
collapsed onto the top of the rack,
but themen were able to crawl out
and climb the broken bridge to the
road. This is ,the second bridge in
that vicinity, that' has collapsed in
several months. The other was the
one at Ethel that gave way under C.
R. Davidson's truck.—Brussels Post.
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If•iio one ever buys more than
they really need chances are
wetatiavoidrationinginmany
lines .FC`tic: thatsr9; a great help
to the war efairt since, each..
new commodity iat tined
theans, more potpie taken out
of Productive lartirk to lobk
after the job 8 'rationing it:
]tet a not buy atiYthing we can
do without '
NN LABA CN IIITED
Loililoii o,'jdit(n}jtY..
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his shoulderblades: "You can't Ext
,it self interest. It's human nate*e."
She says: "I think it's silly—all this.
worrying ' about future getierations.
What's it got to do •with us?"
Went a Shade Sulky
I think I just went quiet and a
shade sulky—which was cowardly of
me, and I know it now. But that sort
of talk staggers one . . . and when
one is sitting there'eating somebody
else's food—well, it's a spot to be in,
believe me. What I ought to have
done is 'plain enough; I ought to have
said: Yes, and it's just folk like you
who're the bother, and whd' alwa; s
will be. Yu i're the kind to beware;
of, and if the rest of us really know
what to do in the future we shall
ft eoze you out. You won't be met at
anybody's party; you won't have any
n'ce snug billets on comrn'itees or.
councils. You'll be so darned uncom-
fortable 'soci illy that you'll realize
ya . don't fit in anywhere." .
Some day, without a doubt, I shall
say something of the sort. So if you
hear that I am an outcast, only able
to move around under police escort,
you'll know that the war is over and
things have slipped back into the
same dear .old groove. But, all fo,+]•'
ing apart, what can be done about
people like that?
Personally, I think there should be
a truce to politeness for awhile; the.
rest of us—nearly all of us, happily
should be free to tell those people
rrecisely what our, opinion of them
really is. You can imagine what we
murmur among ourselves, can't 'you?
People with sons who are fighting,
husbands who are tiring their almost
aged bones in the Civil Guard,
mothers, and daughters who are rush-
ing about in -canteens or nursing. Yes,
it's very odd, but I've noticed that the
, folk with the strongest self-interest
and instinct of •self-preservation are
invariably the least worth' keeping
alive. Well, ' when things begin to
take shape again it might ,pay us to
watch those folk. They will be up to
their old tricks, given half a chance.
Put Out Of My Quarters
i Today I am with my good friends
•
who have a half -a -dozen evacuees in
their house; yet, they have found a
corner for me to work in, bless them.
At my own lodgings there is now a
seeping war -worker: a girl who, this
week, is on night shift, so'I have crept
out to rattle nay typewriter" elsewhere.
War -workers are being billeted all ov-
er the place,and it's no good for
your smug householders to"object.
A vacant room means Shelter for
somebody, and the louder the object
tion 'the larger the Wan-worker--
which
ar-workerwhich is as it should be. But most
folk are very decent about it all; one
woman teIis me that her new billette
is "a real 'blessing" and looked after
her, as much as possible, when she
was ill. All this, as you can imagine,
is making a tremendous difference to
the average home which, in the old
days, was likened to "an Englishman's
castle."
The stranger is now well within the
gates. All. over England there are
new steps on the stairs,, strange coats
hanging on, the family pegs, alien.
sponges in the bath -tray. My private
opinion is that it is an excellent no-
tion and something that will do a
power of good all. 'round. We aren't
an 'island people any more; there are
no real islands nowadays; so we're
learning to be good mixers instead.
My friends here • are kindness itself
tt; their London evacuees,, taking no
end of trouble overthe'two children.
One feels quite sure that -those kid-
dies, ,no matter what the future holds
for them, will never outgrow the in-
fluence of these kindly, well-bred host
of theirs.' Anything but the best will
always seem a trifle shoddyl to them
after this environment in their most
impressionable years.
Real Unselfishness
The whole atmosphere of this house
is one of real unselfishness, of the
wish to help the other fellow in every
possible way. -It's wonderful. One
may come around and wash clothes
in their hot-water sinks; a young sol-
dier turns up one night a week and
practices on their piano; the home-
less are gladly welcome to any little
privilege a home can offer; and they
themselves 'spent most of their time
in one room, loyally saving light and
fuel.
The striking thing about it all is
that they are_much, muc happier
than those other two- people Who are
so wrapped up in making as little dif,
ference as possible in their lives. Na-
turally, they don't like having their,
existence disrupted—who would?—
but I know they have the satisfaction
of feeling that they're making •'a- job
of it as best they can. ,
Last week, by means of working
like made in my spare time for a
month, and by borrowing ,sketehes
from everybody' who has one, I got
together enough for an Art Section in
a country `show.' It was held in a
little village neat -here, where nobody
has much spare cash, and Wasin aid
of the country hospital. We had a
truly hectic, Satt'iirdoy a'tternooain;4he
achoalreomd, and many' of 'the wetaen,
.worked like alird.party froro two till
brewttig rilrers• of tea, orgatzing
raffles ,ad eot>i.petition;s, running the
eotlebett 4th'C Seillnk tve* eerie ria,
the atal a --,,the tgh softie of die- what
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SIMpence-, A0/110000
sat I11 tb,e Art'$eetion, egnaewhat
aloof, taking sixtience a time for ad,
mission, and finite, a lot of people wan-
dered In (Thew isalw'aya• something
a trifle `wandering' p,bout an • Art Fx-
hibitiO1r le'n't tiere? It is so hard
to look as of (Me had came, in on pur-
pose.) And believe it or not, that
little fete ne'tited over five 'hundred,
dollars. We/should have considered'
ourselves lucky to get two hundred.
The organizer—a woman I hadnow
known before—saw me ,'sketching one
Saturday and we got into conversa-
tion. Sh.e asked me if I would help
the little show, and thus I have made
more friends. They have a really
beautiful house in the village; two or
three sixteenth -century cottages turn-
ed into one, and I was their guest for,
the night. AU day long they are
working at something: running sav-
ingsgroups,
b collecting for the Red
Cross, holding the village effort to-
gether. All day folk are leaning their
bicycles against the wall and knock-
ing on the front door. No 'house in
London was ever 'busier.
During our manouvres they were
always on the lookout for 'bone-dry
soldiers who could do with a cup of,
tea: and I guess plenty were bone-
dry in that strenuotes time. They
were everywhere, dusty, dirty and
workmanlike, and one heard 'Canadian
voices all over the place. They'll be
coming 'home with the English tea
habit firmly ingrained after this; and
one of them said to me having spent
the winteil here: "It'll take me some
time to get used to the warmth
again, I guess, when I get back home.
So don't take it too hard if, for the
first fortnight, they show a disposi-
tion to loosen collars and open win-
dows! It will 'pass.
Lodgers Face North
Inciden•talIy, I have just loosened
my own collar. The sun ispouring
in through the open window — oh,
lovely warmth! In my Lodgings I
never see a gleam, .for I face north,
and it makes the winter a long, bleak,
stretch. Some day, when all' `this' is
over, I'll have a sunny room again,
maybe; but it is, I think, an axiom
that The Lodger... Always 'Faces North.
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"Our Family
Regulator is
DR. CHASE'S
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LIVER
d over here, • one meets people ev-
ery day who have been torn up by
the roots; in fact it is the exception
to come across somebody who has a
settled home—or who is .not working
away from home.
Nothing 'less like the ordinary Eng-
lish habit of life can be imagined, yet
folk have, shaken dawn to it, and one
hears very little complaint, consider-
ing the inconvenience that it its
bound to be' at times. It is a big
thing to have food and shelter—ands
we -know, it; and a north- roam' Is
better than the lee side of a hedge,
even though there are days when
there doesn't seem to 'be much to
choose between them!
"Pop, what'd a grudge?"
"It'swhat yid keep an automobiles '
She still talked to her long suffer-
ing friends about her pre-war tour of
Europe. "Parte," she gushed remini-
scently, "is simply wonderful. The
people are so well educated. Why,
even -the street %cleaners slpeale
French."
SOLIJIEII of the SOIL
HIS year the Canadian Farmer urgently need's
help. He needs your help to produce the food so
necessary for victory. Many thousands of farm
workers are serving in the Forces, so that the farmer
—the Soldier of the Soil—is shorthanded, but
shorthanded as he is, he is'calle upon to produce
more food. than ever before. Foods one of the most
powerful weapons of war. Grains, bacon, dairy pro-
ducts, eggs,' beef fruit, vegetables—FOOD to feed
our armies, our allies and our people we must have.
*FEAT CAN YOU DO., .....-.
You may be a school teacher, strident, business or
professional man, an office or store clerk—no matter`
what you are, iff you have a few haters, days, weeks,
or months of free time this summer, you can do
your country and the farmer a great and patriotic
service by helping out on the farm[. You may be
inexperienced, but you still can help. You will find
work :on the farm healthy and congenial. It will give
you the satisfaction of feeling that you have brought
Victory nearer.
What you should do NOW t
Consult any special local committee or office v
established to deal with. farm. labour .place•
ments in your city or town; or ,•
Write the Director of the Dominion -Provin-
cial Farm Labour Program at the Capital of
your provinee; or -
Get in touch with your nearest Employment
• and Selective Service Office.
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