The Huron Expositor, 1943-09-10, Page 6i?t
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By ANNE ALLAN
',Hydro Homee facmarnlat
HOMEMADE PIE
Ziellal Horxtemilkeral • alil;brown
*ad handsome- iuicy—+bUbbling and
spice-whiffY-•cOxneS the sweetheart
dessert from the oven, Mom's pie
fairly whoops-!
Big, brown and han'deome—tired,
but happy—comes the man -in -uniform
On furlough, for a piece of homemade
Ode. He really whoops if they're
good.
You can, too, make a grand pie -
crust. If you're worrying about it,
Hollow the rules and don't fuss. And
fillings are as legion as they're
luscious, so try tour suggestions.
Dabble Crust Pastry'
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
5 or 6 tablespoons water.
Sift flour and salt. Cut in shorten-
ing, Add cold water by spoonfuls,
tossing .flour mixture together. Turn
onto a piece of wax paper. Gather up
and •pressing from the outside form a
compact mass. Chill in refrigerator.
Roll out . lightly.
Plum Pie
Cook plums in a little water until F
soft. Remove Stones, mix with sugar
to sweeten (about 1 cup) and a table-
spoon of cornstarch. Drain off ex-
cess juice. Slice in one apple. Fill
lined pie plate, cover and bake,
Pumpkin Pie
11//4 cups cooked strained pumpkin
r, cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons•mollasses
1 teaspoon' ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon•
as teaspoon salt
2- eggs
1% cups scalded milk.
Mix first five ingredients together.
Add beaten egg yolks and a mix in
milk. Fold in stiffly beaten whites.
Bake in one crust.
Peach Pie
2 cups cut up fresh peaches
4a teaspoon allspice
34 cup sugar
1 teaspoon butter
1 teaspoon cornstarch.
Mix the ingredients together. `ase
as filling for two -crust pie.
Note.—If the hay or girl in uniform
is expected, cut narrow bias strips of
pastry and outline the name or rank
Pa toe of the ple tbefate .it' does �iilta
tie oven.
TAKE A TIP
1. To make a flaky pie -crust more
care must be taken than in making
a crumbly crust. Veryoft fats do
not make as nice a flaky crust as
the firmer fats (lard or shorten-
ing) .
2. Sift flour and measure. Add salt.
3. In mixing the ingredients for cold
water pastry be sure the shorten-
ing• and water are cold. Cut two-
thirds of the fat in, using two
knives -one in each haul "pencil
style," or pick and drop pieces of
fat with some flour until mixture
is like coarse oatmeal. Sprinkle a
little water -on at a time using a
fork to- toss the mixture together.
4. When the mixture can be coulded
together place on a slightly floured
board and roll out with a floured
rolling pin. 'Dot on pieces of the
remaining ',Tat. Fold and roll up
in wax paper. Place in • upper part
of refrigerator 'for at least 15 min-
utes.
5. Divide into portions for the num-
ber of sheets and roll out, raising
at the end of each stroke.
6. Shift the sheet of pastry around a
couple of ' times while rolling into
a circular shape., Then •flip'in 'half
shape which makes it easier to lift
to pie plate;, unfold and press into
shape of plate. • Prick several plac-
es to prevent "bubbles." Put in
7. Roll out top crust quickly. Make
slashes or cut-outs for steam to es-
cape. Lightly dampen the edge of
-tile 'Wei. 4iiiafi Plage top' Ou, tfiln'
with Sharp ^knife ysing dowuv •a,rd
stroke, or tllli'e . With Ol(gai'.s t i with•
in 3 inch of plate au& fold under,
8. Crimp the edge, pressing tine edge
between the forefinger and thumb
of one hand and forefinger of the
other.
9. We cut three-inch strips of butter
wlrapping and wet it, then stick
to the edge of pie, plate and let it
fall over the doaagb. This prevents
juices front tolling out,
le. Place in hot" oven (450 deg.) for
ten reinutes, •,then reset the automa-
tic electric dial to 350 for the re-
maining thirty minutes for fruit
pies.
THE QUESTION .BOX
With the announcement of the ra-
tioning of jams and jellies, etc., we
are answering problems on jelly mak-
ing by sending our Wartime Jams
and Jellies leaflet to signed address-
es—yours for the asking.
Mrs, J. M. asks: "Is bread :flour
'satisfactory for making pastry?"
Answer: Yes, but use two table-
spoons per cup more shortening and
do not roll more than absolutely nec-
essary.
Mrs. S. 'G. asks': "Will placing a
prepared pie in a warm place for a
few minutes prevent boiling aver?"
Answer: No, place cold pie in hot
oven. Lower the temperature if it
begins to boil over.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her. c/o The Huron Expositor, Send
in your qiiestions on homezt king
problems and watch this column for
re�'plies.
Canning Corner
ew
The pear is •a .fruit with a long his-
tory and with its trees spanning the
globe. Centuries of cultivation have
resulted in a great many varieties of
pears. Among the better known in
Carrada are the Bartlett, Anjou, Flem=
ish Beauty, Crapes' Favourite, Keiffer
and Winter Nelis.
As for plums, there 'is also a wide
range of Canadian varieties, differing
in, sweetness and including nearly all
the colors 'of the rainbow—blue, pur-
ple, red, yellow and green.•,
For home canning pears and plums
the Consumer Section of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture •recommends these
methods: •.
Canned Pears
Peel, halve and remove cores from
the pears. Prepare a one to two or
a one to three syrup (1 cup sugar to
two or three cups water), Pack fruit
in hot sterilized sealers; t' Cover with
bot syrup. parpaily seal • and process.
If pears are- very firm steam fruit for
15 minutes before packing. In cam-
ping pears- by the oven method sim-
mer the fruit 'in the syrup for 10 min-
utes before packing in tire sealers.
Processing Time: Boiling" Water
Bath—Pints, 20 .minutes; quarts, 25
minutes..
Oven 275 Deg. F.—Pints, 25 min-
utes; quarts, 35 minutes.
Steam, Cooker—Pints, 30 minutes;
quarts, 35 minutes.
Canned Plums
Wash and -prick the skins of the
plums. Prepare a one to two syrup
(1 cup sugar to 2 cups water) for
sweet plums or a one to one syrup
(1 cup sugar to -1 cup water) for sour
plums. Paok plums in hot :sterilized
sealers. Cover with boiling syrup,
partially seal and .process,
Boiling Water Bath—Pints, 20 min-
utes; quarts, 25 minutes. •
Oven 275 Degrees F.—Pints, 45 min-
utes; quarts," 55 minutes.
Steam Cooker -Pints, 30 minutes;
quarts, 85--miirutes,._._
Remove and complete seal as soon
as processing time is up..
MUD WAS BIGGER HAZARD THAN DAPS TO CANUCKS 'AT KISKA'
Mud, the overall mud of Kiska, the Aleutians and adjacent territory, gave Canadians a bigger bat-
tle than Japanese soldiers when a combined, American -Canadian task force re -occupied the Island out-
post and found their landing unopposed. Two weary Canadians, Bombardier W. H. Meyers, of Airdare,
Alta., and Bombardier R. S. Ells (right), of Rowley, Alta., are content to flop down back to back
under full ,.pack after a march towards their embarkation port. Some of the Canadian troops On their„
way to embark are shown below marching down a muddy road, carrying their full kit. The officer on
the left is Capt. Harry Spring, of Vancouver,. B.C.
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orality
(&y R. J. 'Deachman)
We have reached the stage in Can-
ada where a nt arbor of distinguished
people specialize in exaggitirating the
earnings of inaestors and n}ls9nter-
preting facts in regard 'to ,profits of
industry.
Not long ago 1 read, in a promin-
ent church paper, this statement:
"In 1938, the total net- income
of 484 Canadian companies was.
51,2, million dollars and in: 1941 it
• was 930 million dollars. -The
1942 figures are not available,
though it is a fair assumption
that they would be well over the
billion mark."
The facts are that this conclusion
—if it can be called such—was reach-
ed by counting the credits and ignor-
ing, the debits. One, can reach, any
desired conclusion that way — just
leave out the statements of the things
you do not want to count. Among
the debit items left out in •this case,
were the following: Depreciation,
bond interest, income an'd excess •pro-
fit taxes, the latter item was a56 -mil-
lion in 1938—$295 million in 1941.
The actual amount paid in dividends
was less :in• 1941 than in 1938. You
would never reach that• conclusion by
reading the extract I have quoted.,
Yet this story has been broadcast
from one end of bhe country to the
other. Many very ,fine sermons have
been built upon the assumption that
greedy men have taken profits as re-
flected by these figures. A lie travels
on seven -league boots—truth never
catches it. It alight- have gone fur-
ther had not the editor of the Whig -
Standard of Kingston, 'Ont., noticed
the item, took the story apart and
presented -the real facts.
The statement arose from a misun-
derstanding of the man who wrote it.
He failed to comprehend the ordinary
language used in an income • account
of a corporation.
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Let us see if we can make this
clear by means of 'a simple statement
4lealing with one corporation, the
C.N.R. I have before me a copy of
the annual report.' It gives railway
operating revenues—meaning as it
says—the amount received by operat-
ing the railway.Beneath this is rail-
way operating expenses. Subtracting
expenses from revenues, we have:
"Net -revenues .from railway opera
tions." The. total in 1942 was $86,-
665,868e From this is deducted rail-
way tax .accruels, $60,202,140, leaving
railway operating income after taxes:
$80,635,727. '
There are many other items, some
debits, some credits . in the, complex
of a great railWay. When these are
dealt with, there remains $78,952,433.
This is the sum available for fixed
charges. Fixed charges amour to
$51,669,935, leaving a net income bal-
ance of $27,282,498. It will be noted
that the final figure is a long way
from the first one—the net income
balance is the .fi portant itenn from
the standpoint of the public. '
Now, if 'a man spoke in ignorance
of the facts orwith deliberate intent
to deceive, he would ,leave out all the
debit items and include all the credit
items and is precisely what the edi-
tor sof this particular church ,paper
did. People seem to like things like
that. It' gives :them a chance to read
what they want to read -but it's a
contemptible trick; whether it comes
from the pulpit, from the press or
from the platform. It murders truth
—there can be no greater crime. The
net income paid gut to shareholders
in the 484 corporations was $246 mil -
]ions in -1938„ $1;35_mi1lions in 1941—
not $930. million as given by the
church publication quoted above.
and th'e feelin Of realjlty,
:The Man l'zi the car i0 isolated u. t-
terly from, eceilery Wt. legleed, ig. iso-
Wed xrou) lite altogether, being a
separate fragwent of: matter burled
thrfiugh space, like a lonely comet,
at thigll,jpeed.. The Man on foot Is
�?ayrt of the scenery "aild the immense,-
ereathieg substaliee of the earth. He
sufldenly discovede new rotors that
he had never seen before, the shape
of; shadows, the fold of hills aid the
texture of (fielde, Most extraordinary
of all, he discovers the smell of the.
earth which never penetrates an auto-
mobile.
For the first time be discovers his
own nose and its purpose. The ex-
perience is one of deep excitement,
like your first drink of champagne or
like falling in love. For the smells
of nature are innumerable, baffling
and maddening.
To the motorist there is the smell
of the forest, a'faint and distant sense
of odor. To the walker there is the
dry smell of maples, the brave, clean
Smell of alders, the fierce, moist smell
of ferns, and the sharp, medicinal
smell of cedars—all 'combined, for
the walking.; man, in a great sym-
phony of odor, in which each separate
theme and melody is clear to the ex-
perienced nose, as a musician picks
out each separate instrument in an
orchestra. 'Whereas the motorist
merely smells a smell like 'the unedu-
cated ear listening to a symphony
orchestra and hearing only sound.
The man who masters the difficult
ant of walking makes discoveries out-
side the vegetable- kingdom, concern-
ing his • own species. He discovers
the mighty, obscure,, labor of human
beings in the remote places — the
stout, jolly shape of old and leaning
barns that unknown men have built
with their own toil, the little houses
of settlers deep in the wilderness, and
all the brave, pitiful efforts of human
beings to master their environment
and contend with their frail hands
against the powers of nature—a gal-
lant and • immemorial struggle un-
known to the city man in his move-
able machine.
Sometimes the walker discovers the
queer and sudden moods of justice
and pity which nature. feels. Beside a
tumbledown shack nature has nour-
ished, without human care or a drop
of water, a finer climbing rose than
any to be found in the well -tended
city garden, or over., a. broken gate by
the county road a ' honeysuckle
blooms with a profusion that' the
city never knew, „ and spreads its
heavy perfume prodigally across the
evening air far the sole entertain-
ment of some poor farmer and his
wife, as they rest on theporch after
a day 'of labor.
There are .. many other strange•
things to ,be_found only on foot—tiny
wildflowers, visible only when you
crouch down and, peel; into their
laughing faces; the steady hum of fie
sects at dusk like the beat of distant
music; the sound of water lapping on
a beach and chuckling as ft slaps the
sides of a log; the silhouettes of
great trees against the evening sky;
the soft and solemn beauty of - the
night, with ,stars in its' hair;, the
whole vast and •friendly frame of this
earth on which a kindly God has al-'
lowed the feet of men to tread — a
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"Cook," said the mistress of the
house, "I really must complain about
that friend who comes to seb' you.
Last night I coul-ln't get to sleep ta-
cause o fher laughter."
"I'm so sorry, Ma'am," replied tt.e
cook. , "I was telling her about that
time you tried to make a cake."
DONT' TALK TO ' 1E ABOUT Re/CE CE/4/N6S.
WHY, YESTERDAY / PA/l, 20s MO1PE'fOR
CORA/ THAN / 12/0 LA,97- YEAR
AA,YN, //OW /S /T Yoa
A1ig4y ' K/Vc7IV ABOUT
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BUT, MARY, FREW VEGETABLES
101/6 NEVER BEENUNOER
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PUT /T OUT AND / /WUS'T 634Y IT 1,0E5
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CANADIAN, HOUSEWIVES
CAN DEFEAT INFLATION
The difficult and important job
of holding the ceiling can only
be done with the help of the
housewives of Canada And to
give this help it is necessary to
understand what the W.P.T.B.
is doing. That is why the Con-
sumers' Branch is ready at all
times to explain to patriotic
women how they Can do
their part:
INN [ABUT LIMITER
tdkdon , Canada
Back On
Our Feet
eu
She felt miserable
dRAgg9-.-Tory
',lower ha apiuts.. Ship
hadn't thought Oil*
kidneys, until aMend
suggested Dodd'a Kid«
coy Pills. At once she
took Dodd's. The
"stashed out" feeling
wag soon replaced by
clear headed energy an restful" -alis.
Headache, backache, lassitude ,rod N`n'
yips of iaultf kidneys diasppeaµ'e4.,Gll,12
Dodd"iK dnetPiI
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joy and privilege beyond • reckoning,
free to all, almost forgotten by thole
who call themselves civilized, . reveal-
ed to men only, not to machines.
(By' Bruce Hutchison in Winnipeg
Free Press)
The most remarkable scientific dis-
covery of the war is the process of
walking. I have heard•:old folks say
that our forefathers understood 'this
process and mastered it in •a crude
way, but that probably is nothing but
an old fable. Walking, obviously, is
too complicated an art for their gide
ttederstanding. It is only during this
war, with its stimulation of 'all'• the
sciences, that walking has become
understood.
It began, of ,,, course, with gasoline
rationing. This forced men to aban-
don . their automobiles and look
around for a substitute. Some name-
less scientist suddenly discovered
that it was possible to move the hu-
mtn••body with its own energy, a fact
never suspected in the last twenty-
five years.
Now it can. be statJd in• simple,
non-scientific language that walking
consists of projecting one foot in
front ,of the other, in a rhythmical
fashion, and thud propellirvg the body
forward on a horizontal plane. It is
quite simple, really, and already a
good manyapeeple have learned to do
it after ekhausting their AA gas re. -
tions. rNaturally, those with higher
rations do not attempt it and still
doubt that it is .physically impossible.
The person who learns to walk
ekes many other extraordinary,' dis-
coveries. In the first place, he dis-
covers the country. Previously, view-
ed from an automobile, the country-
side was only a blurred !notion pic-
ture streaming ,pkst an ekpanse of
unbreakable windshield glass, Now,
on, foot, it. takes on • a third difinen-
ion, • eoquirds fleiifrin _ 'and 'substance
"That new farm hand is terribly ig-
norant," • a•.
"How's that?"
'file found some milk bottles in they
grass and insisted be had found a
cow's ndst." -
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"MONTY" VISITS CANADIAN TANK UNIT
General Sir Bernard; t.. Montgomery, commander of the British
Eighth Army, paid high tribute to the fighting qualities of the Cana -
Eighth Army, paid ,high tribute to the fighting qualities of the Cana-
dian forces fighting in conjunction with the famous 8th, during one of
his frequent vielts;ie units of the Canadian Army in Sicily,. At top,
"!Monty" talks to a group of offitlers and men of a Canadian armoured
regiment and, Lower, carries his famogys fly switch in his left hand,
while passing down- a line of 'Caanadia'rn' tank officers. The famous'
Etratchit.gerferalahaa vigit d ;With officers and men of almost,'tevery
ganadian fortiiatiof in Sicily.
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