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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1943-08-27, Page 6EGG MONEY rs ANN' ASIAN, fro Nome; MALL AMOUNTS INTO GEN'EROUS SERVINGS , 11,ogomemakersl Strenuous work 14ot summer weather often impairs f]lte appetite. Mother will prepare the ,seal • •portions but leftovers will be qd in the serving dishes. How - ,ever, as a member of the Kitchen -444-Pay, she must use all her ingenuity a'Ad •turn every bit of left -over food into as appetizing dish of some kind there must be no waste pi edible 'Gelatine (the °plain, unflavored ]hind) often helps to make left -overs into good -to -eat salads, main dishes and desserts. It also extends small amounts into generous servings, that are more attractive than reheated foods. Keep a covere1 dish in the re- frigerator and in it put vegetables and meats, etc. Dont .keep them too long—even a cupful may be combin- ed into a tasty dish. Use the 'following basic recipes and you'll save many a penny: Basic Jellied Meat Salad 1 tablespoon plain gelatine 1 cup cold water 1 cup hot water 5 tablespoons mild vinegar :yt teaspoon' salt 1 tablespoon sugar (optional) Dash of pepper 1 tablespoon minced onion ,Jh cup left -over vegetable 1 cup diced meat. - Soften gelatine yip cold water and dissolve in hot water. Add vinegar, salt, sugar and pepper. Cool. When mixture begins to thizken, fold in vegetables., Turn into lightly greas- ed mold arfd chill in refrigerator. When firm, unmould on salad greens and serve with dressing or whipped sour cream. Basic Jellied Vegetables In place of the one cup of diced meat, use 11/2 cups diced vegettables. Other suggestions: '1A cup each coolted peas, diced celery and carrots; 1/2 cup each shredded raw carrots, chopped celery and cabbage; cup each diced cooket beets, green pep- per. Basic Jellied Fruits 1 envelope gelatine cup cold water 1 cup hot water or fruit juice 1/4 _cup sugar 11/2 cups diced mixed fruits. Follow directions for jellied meats TAKE A TIP: 1. Open the refrigerator door only when necessary, and close as quick- ly as possible. - 2. Defrost the electric refrigerator regularly—when one-quarter inch of frost has accumulated on the evaporator. 3. Operate the electric refrigerator at temperature adequate for pres- ervation of food; do not operate too cold. 4. If leaving home for two or three days, turn control on refrigerator to lowest operating point, but not necessarily to defrosting. 5. Do not place hot foods in refri- gerator; wait until they are cool. 6. Do not load refrigerator with pack- ages, bottles or cans that may be stored on pantry shelves. 7. Clean condenser regularly. THE QUESTION BOX Mrs. R. J. asks: "Recipe for eco- nomical chocolate ice cream." , Answer: Melt 2./ squares of un- sweetened chocolate; add one-third cup of sugar and one-third cup of boiling water and stir -until smooth and thick. Mix three cups of 18 per cent. cream, 1/2 cup evaporated milk and two-thirds cup of sugar, 'stirring until sugar is dissolved. Soften one level •tablespoon of granulated gela- tine in 1/2 cup •cold milk. Place over hot water and stir until dissolved. Stir into cream mixture. Beat the cream mixture into chocolate mixture quickly. Strain if necessary. When' cool, add 3 teaspoons vanilla extract andeltour into freezing tray of refrig- eratpr, Beat two or three times dur- ing freezing. Mrs. S. W. asks: "How can mildew be removed from a white cotton dress?" Answer: Surface mildew may be removed by soaking in Javelle water, rinsed in warm water and spread out in sun on green grass for several hours. Deeply grown mildew is dif- ficultto remove. Miss C. B. says: "Save the good parts of old table cloth. Cut into table mats or bibs and bind with bias tape)' Anne Allan invites you to write to IS• o �v ,�. •%f Egg money, the odd bushel or two of surplue: need grain, and part of the proceeds from the sale of a calf•from the farm of Mrs. James Entwistle, of Parkman, Sask., are helping to win the war. Mrs. "Jim" earmarks such sums for her regula-r purchases of Victory, Bonds, which back up the various members of the family who are serving Canada in uniform. Her son and daughter joined the R.C.A.F. last year, and she has three nephews in the air force as; well. Meanwhile, Mrs. Entwistle and her husband, who is a veteran of the, last war, are producing food needed for the war effort on the farm settled by his father, who was a sergeant in the Lancashire Fusiliers. Ration Stretching Ideas The already overburdened farm' wo- man is further taxed by having extra hungry mouths to feed during harvest time. Of course additional supplies, of ra- tioned foods may be obtained for these temporary, additions to the farm family through application to the lo- cal ration board, but even so, it takes considerable planning and ingenuity to satisfy these healthy he-man appe- tites within, the ration. Sugar, meat end butter" have to be stretched to the limit. Every busy- woman knows that planning ahead mikes any job ea'er, and is more necessary than e”: er now, when both time and sup- plies are at a premium. Menus °can and should be simple, but the food must tastegood and there must be plenty of it. Plan to serve some dishes that can be prepar- ed ahead of -time. • If you haven't her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send in your suggestions on homemaking problems and watch this column for replies. Adamaged telephone may be hard or impossible to replace — repair parts are scarce and material for dew equipment has gone to war. So please guard your present telephone with extra care. Here, for in- stance, are six common causes of damage: 6, 'WILSON, Manager. A V0/0 fan re" Place r�ri" 1. a careful shelf. 1( ell telephone� �� 6 o �+ phone handleor the cord does it on a wive flea] the !iv all box ��e7 . n hate. penin es not able o °r on the ne over; eP our r; el 'ng it /nay ch and m op over p desk. a 4. and one pinch ys,a the tither en a and ',painting, protect cord Alae Levan w,v$m r�jjcl�e�drawer •e $ COrf/ doe washing ct yonrtelephone tint sting Cord the coos Place, tire get soaked ti' Ttiitli y nJure Alw placed co a the delicate ereceiver 'v.' o y. / a:ra b a cloth g If re itywisn msec. stun et he on Its clic te,rnechan rsin inside. a sur° that other have �lol support, oointo $ng It cl �e dial and often when service, please t° use avoid 3encil or ten ca violin du no ng a se ��.i0,oi7 rs.causes . w wrong 8 nun ber eg well, to yea IDN e � yri'y^N f ?o`y's' • • been serving salads; it's time to turn over a new leaf. No fussy feminine salads of course, but a big bowl of salol greens with sliced tomatoes, -cu- cumbers, .radishes, green onions and other vegetables, raw or cooked will disappear in the wink of an eye. The Consumer Section of the Do- minion Department of A iculture has some practical ration -stitching ideas that are worth trying. I: Meat will- go further in a stew or "baked in a pie"'than served as a roast. Use plenty of vegetables in stews, and don't forget dumplings. ' ?. A meat loaf will go twice' as far if a good bread dressing is made to go with it, • Pack alternate layers of me t loaf mixture and, dressing int;). the loaf tin and bake as ordinary meat loaf: S. Sausages are favourites. You tnight try them' as a "strudel." Roll bcuit dough one-half inch thick. Press sausages, boiled for five min• Utes, into the dough with thin.wedg- es of apple dipped in brown sugar be- tween the. sausages. Bake in a hot oven 400 deg, F. about 25 minutes and serve wfh scalloped tomatoes.. 4. A meat pie that goes over well with the men, is made from well sea- soned, ground, cooked meat moisten- ed with gravy. Line pie plates with pastry, fill with the meat mixture, put on the top'criast and bake in a hot oven '400 deg. F, about 30 minutes. 5. Baked beans, . casseroles, maca- roni, noodle and spaghetti dishes are always 'popular favorites. 6. Biscuits and muffins are well lik- ed and take less sugar and shorten- ing•than cakes and cookies. 7. Apple pie and cheese is probably the best-lieloved of all' desserts. But plain ,cottage pudding with fruit sauce, fruit or jam roly-poly, brea9 puddings and cobblers are filling, good, and not too •bird on the sugar. This blueberry ice -box pudding can be prepared ahead oftime, and makes an excellent ,supper dessert. Saska- toons can be used instead of blueber- ries. Blueberry Ice -Box Pudding 3 cups blueberries .1/4 cup water ,1/3 cup_sugar • 2 tablespoons butter or mild-fiavor- ed fat 2 tablespoons lemon or rhubara juice 8 one-quarten inch slices of day-old bread.,.. Simmer blueberries, water and sug- ar for 10 minutes. Butter the bread from which the crusts have been re- moved. Fill a deep mold with alter- nate layers of bread and berries, pack- ing each layer down solidly so that the bread will absorb the berry syrup. Chill for several hours. Serves ,six Blueberry and rhubarb sauce is good with cookies as dessert or may be served .hot with plain cottage pud- ding or cold with blanc mange.. This sauce, too, can be made using saska- tcons instead of blueberries. Blueberry Rhubarb Sauce 11/2 cups rhubarb, cut in 1 -inch piec- es 11/2 cups blueberries 1/2 cup water 1/z cup sugar. Pour boiling water over rhubarb, let stand five minutes, drain. Mix rhubarb, and blueberries, and water, bring to boiling point and simmer gently until rhubarb is tender, about eight minutes: Remove froth heat and add sugar. These' family recipes serving six can be doubled for ten hungry har- vesters. Wrecks Store Front A store front was wrecked in Blyth shortly after midnight on Saturday last. A driver of the Hanover Trane - port. -is alleged to have left his- truck with, the engine• cunning in front :of Edwin Cartwright's barber .shop: He 'Was only a few :stella away When' the t ruck binged forviard over the slake Vltlk into the barber slifit,, fleliitij1sh� Dig Its front; .. Ciintott New'saltebCii't�• ur On Federation (Continued from Page 3) URGENTLY NEEDED ALL ALSIKE SEEP VJ'hile there is an urgent need for the largest supply of all forage crop seeds, that it is possible to get th's year, the most concern is aver alsike clover 'seed, says 'Nelson Young, Seeds Admifiistrator. • Alsike seed or the seed of 'alfalfa, red clover or alsike and white clover mixtures, should Abd' sold through licensed seed dealers and the grower should be sure to ask for a profit participation certificate, as any profit made in. the resale of the seed will be shared pro rata among the grow- ers. Seed .dealers must obtain 'auth- orization to issue profit participation certificates to growers from the Seed Extort Office, Lindsay, Ont„ which, has been established there by -the Special ,Products Board .in charge of Fred Perrin. WILL -:PAY CHILDREN TO'COLLECT 1VIILKWEED FOR MAKING 'RUBBER Large :scale experiments are under way to determine the va11Ye to the rubber industry of a gum obtained from common milkweed. Laboratory experiments , indicate that this gum will be extremely useful for blending with certain types of synethetic rub- ber. The National Research Council as erecting a pilot plant at Ottawa to obtain a considerable quantity of gum for large scale semi -commercial tests: The Dominion Department' of Agra culture ha's undertaken to secure in 1943 from wild plants a minimum of 100,000 pounds of- dried milkweed leaves for processing — many extra tires for the •armed forces may result from the milkweed leaves collected. - 'A campaign is being organized to secure the co-operation of farmers and rural school children in obtaining this material. The Ontario Department of Agriculture has agreed to have its Agricultural Representatives act in advisory capacity in connection with the collection of the milkweed, Many farms have pastures with ap- preciable stands of milkweed. The -Dominion Department will purchase either dried leaves or whole planta directly from the farmers. If the farmer wishes to strip the leaves from the plant, dry them on the' ground or barn floor, pack them in bags and ship them to Ottawa, he will receive 3 cents per pound for dried leaves plus a small bonus for well dried ma- terial entirely free of other weeds. The Dominion Department will pro- vide bags•, and pay freight charges. If the farmer has a dense stand of milkweed he may cut the plants with a 'binder, leaving a long stubble of at least eight inches azd making small sheaves. He should then make stooks of not more than -four sheaves. The material dries slowly and prob- ably two weeks will be required for complete drying. The dried sheaves should then be transported to -the rail- road, packed as tightly as possible in a box, car and''shipped freight collect to Ottawa. The Department will pay $30 a ton for this material plus a small bonus for shipments that are especially free from other weeds and perfectly dry. Farmers who wish 'to sell either dried leaves or whole plants should firstwrite directly to Dr. Harold A. Senn, Division of Botany, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, and collecting and rhipping instructions will be sent t°v,�them. Through the'c�-operation of the On= tario -Department of •Education pupils inrural schools are being urged to strip milkweed leaves, dry them at home, and take themto school after school opens in September. The col- lection of the leaves should start as early as possible in August. Bags will be provided to each school co operating. The teacher will be re- sponsible for assembling the material at the school, weighing it, getting it transilbrted to a central point or'. points 'At the tpuwtry. •Tie teacher` will till out an Invoice ,for all the material collected at the aohool, for- ward this: to the Disinet Sehooi In- spector who will forward all the in- voices for his inapeotorate to Ottawa. Payment will be trade at a rate, of 3 cents per pound plus a Small bonus for especially dry, high quality ma- terial. 'cheques will be .sent to tl}e Inspectors to be distributed to each teacher. The money may be used for school purposes, Red Cross, or ,paid to individual pupils at the discretion of the teacher. Inspectors will be responsible tor the assembling of material at central. Points for shipment by freight collect to Ottawa. Inspectors will also be responsible for general supervision of the collection within their inspector- ates. If necessary the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture will pay charges for the transport of material to central point's within the county.. Officers of the Dominion - Depart- ment are now making surveys of na- tive milkweed and all available infor- mation on each county will be sent to the Agricrltural Representative and the School- Inspector. This- may be of value in indicating localities in Which collecting should be concen- trated. Collection by both farmers and school children should begin at once before leaf fall begins, IRR CUT Fine FU ci((iii lr This is defin4tely ' a war project which may ultimately make a verr important contribution to our supply of rubber. The appeal to the public should be on this basis. The quantity of milkweed needed is large, the iidure of 100,000 pounds be- ing minimum. A great ,effort m re- quired and your co-operation will be greatly appreciated. An Englishman, a Scot and an Irish- man rishman appeared at a police court Hol- lowing a night out. _Addressing the Englishman the magistrate said: "How do you feel?" "Awful, sir." "Well, take seven days' rest." And then to the Scot: a "How do you feel?" "Grrand, sir." "Seven days to cool your ardor?" And then to the Irishman, "How do you feel?" "Sure, yer anner, just like a piece of elashtic" "What do you: mean by that?" . "Well, sor, I know I'm in for a stretch, but I don't know the linglih yet." • CANADIANS BEAT JUNGLE, SNAKES, TO. , BUILD WAR -VITAL RAILROAD Canada's Plane Programme forces opening of new Bauxite' Manes in British Guiana—Roadbed Kept `Disappearing into Swamp, Manager says -40 -mile Road took Year to Complete Montreal, Aug. 24.—Canadian- born 4:Canadian- born engineers have just com- pleted constructing a railroad through forty miles of steaming jungle in British Guiana, and "they had first to kick the snakes out of the way and then lay the roadbed over and over again be- cause the gravel kept disappear- ing into the swamp," says F. L. Parsons, general manager of the Demarara Bauxite' Company, Ltd., who oversaw the job. Aluminum plants in Canada, turning out the metal which keeps the United Nations flying, forced construction of the new railroad, says Mr. Parsons, now visiting this city. .9t takes four tans of bauxite to make one ton of aluminum and your Canadian plants have been eating up the mineral at such a pace that down in South America we have. bad to open new bauxite mines. We now have to strip frwri the bauxite an overburden of earth up to 100 feet thick. "It took a year to build those forty miles of road. It runs from Mackenzie, where we crush, wash and drys the bauxite, to a spot in the jungle called Ituni. We had unskilled labor. And we had to dealwith the mud, the snakes, and sometimes an ocelot, which is a South American tiger. "This job has added to the reputation of Canadians, which is already high in South America. They like us down there because we treat the people well. For in- stance, stance, our colored boys like ter travel by train so we give them free rides on the railroad in our Pullmans—old freight cars with the sides out and benches in. And. we take good care of our white people, of course. Recently we found it necessary to build a 'swimming pool for them as they cannot bathe in the river with safety because of a freshwater shark called the piria, a vicious little brute about eighteen inches long, nearly all mouth and three rows of teeth. •It bites off fingers) and toes. In gangs this fish eves brings down cows drinking in the river. It's a curse. "Noir we're ready to operate our new road, which the people of British Guiana foresee will ultimately lead to opening up back country full of riches. I hope Canada will follow , up the good impression her engineers and other technicians have been mak–. irig --down" there. 'Recently,; the Daily Chronicle of . Georgetown,. said: `Taking a - retrospective glance, one is -bound to say that the history of .industrial, economic and social development in this 11, country in the past decade cannot be written without allotting prior- ity of place to the Canadians, our greatest Empire cousins in the Western Hemisphere'. "The job Canadians are doing to the south can, I believe, be bunt . into a lot of good post-war busi- ness." PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL AND DAUGHTER GREETED ON RETURN FROM. U. S. {ff to N rN'trith 11 mister, I(/ll's a huNCliiil.t1.escende t�f'e 'ikte a' of 't Ahead of �ritaln'a it .he Ohio' that brought her. ' w and daa'ghter Mary, tdiking pi' ?polio ° Min ster, M'ackenzi'e g'on'g, btabit from the:.thilltedl •St'atea . itu Banti a , Churchill e�tepped frrom1 011-e i sin to :a '4 iiii:01 v'ithout a Boa ,des ite a 1t,h . tilt, 1. 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