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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1944-07-14, Page 6• cenemaJters!, Here this gone next. -week! Thane nee of many of our perishable !Ss we can do something 0 AYing some ter future :'-„cenribag now means better 9arPand. better health next winter. 'C'Ontining in airtight jars or cans is 'tike 4;090 widely used method for pre - vg fruits and vegetebles. Sue - Cess in canning is the result ef abid- igg by up-to-date instructions. Good Camillus principles aref Can only fresh food, in perfect condition. 2- Have •food, par—J—J—SHRDLTJC 2. Have food, jars, everything used for canning, thoroughly clean. WOMEN MUST WORK BUT NOT SO HARD! with GILLETT'S • Save your knees and your back! Enlist Gillett's in your war on dirt awl banish hard rubbing and scrubbing. Gil- lett's cuts right through grease and dirt. Leaves floors `Clean enough to eat ofr—in record • time! Clears the drains. Deo- dorizes the garbage pail. A • grand all-around cleaner. Get Gillett's; today! * Never dissolve lye in hot water. The action of the lye itself heats the water. DADE IN CANADA 3. Work quickly, so nese, 4. Follow up-to-date time tables. 5. Make sure jars are airtight to keep out air which causes growth of moalds. 6. For water -bath canning have the water hot in the processor when you put the jars in. Count the time from the minute the water begins to boil. The water should be two inches above the top; add hot water if it boils away. Keep a cover on the wash boiler or as to can `fresh - instructions and processor. 7. Heat food hot enough and long enough to kill harmful bacteria which often causes spoilage. 8. Complete the seal of a .screw top jar by pressing on the glass top while you tighten the metal ring. 9. Cool jars right end up, but do, not place in a draught. 10. Label and store in a cool, dark place, • e The Sugar Solution • • We have co-ordinated our results with those from the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture. One inter- esting table shows the pproximate number of quarts of canned fruits from 10 pounds of sugar: Very thin syrup (1 cup sugar to cups water) yields approximately 3% cups. Using one cup of syrup for each quart jar of small or sliced fruit will can about 65 quarts. Ikhin' syrup (1 cup sugar to 2 cups water) yields approximately 2% cups. Using one cup syrup for each smart jar of small or sliced fruit will can about 45 quart jars. Moderately thin syrup (1 sug sugar to one and one-half cups water) yields approximately two cups liquid. One c.up of syrup fills 40 quarts. small or sliced fruit or 27 quarts oflarge or whole fruit such as 'strawberries and peaches. Medium syrup (one cup. sugar to one cup of water) yields approximate ly 1% cups, One cu.p medium syrup fills 30 quarts small fruit or 20 quarts large fruit. This •is suggested for canning sour cherries and plume. Berries and currants (raspberries., blueberries, gooseberries, blackber- ries, loganberries, thimbleberries, saskatoons, red and black currants): Pick over and clean (wash ieneces- sary). Cover with bailing syrup. Process pint jars 15 minutes, quart jars 20 minutes in water bath. Pro- cess tin cans (20 oz.) in water -bath. • Only pre-war pint jars may be pro- cessed in preheated oven at 275 de- grees for 25 minutes. Cherriee.—Wash, atein, pit if de- sired. Pack. in sterilized jars. Cover with boiling water. Processpint jars 20 minutes and irt jars 25 minutes in water-lath.Pr cess tin cans (20 ozs.) in water -bath only 20 minutes. Canning Without Sugar • Sugar does not affect •the keeping quality of canned fruit. However, colour and shape of;, some fruits are retained better when some is added. Aeirifik ,Oli,eriga, l'ini44.1) lin4 J.giilii 1 . loin .lutty.i. be.; gentled.' *4404' ' 4 f9Dow0,g19,03n4t Washwah.,p4ift o eamfrote in bow* Oreeensli0n1Settln, Anitt little water:00014, oup ter 4 Qatls), to preventscerching': 4.0 re- maining prepared Wilt, (lonlr 1-1001 jnices begin to drain out (about" two minutes boil). Paehntinte jars and gently press trait to Mahe laiesi conte to the top of a jar. Process in water bath 30 minutes: • Take a Tip Cooling home -canned food is impor- tant. 1. Coed sealers in an upright posi- tion. 2. Leave space between sealers while cooling. 3. Place sealers on folded news- paper out of draught and do not cover. 4. Plunge tin cans into cold water 'and change the, water once or twice so that they will cool rap- idly. The Question Box Mrs. D. M. suggests: "Raspberries stored raw have kept successfully by the following method: Selects firm, clean berries. Pack into sterilized jars gently. CoVer with boiling sy- rup. Put on a hot rubber ring and adjust the tops. Seal tightly. Place in a tub in which a towel has been folded in 'the bottom. Pour boiling water down, theinside, enough to cover three duche's oyer the tap. Put a lid on the utensil and cover with several heavy towels. Leave in wa- ter bath overnight." Anewer: We have found this meth- od successful for raspberries and rhu- barb. A cool, dark storge place ie. es- serltial, however. Anne Allan' invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send in your suggestions on homemaking problems and watch this column for replies. You Will Be Glad When the evening shadow -s length- en, and memory runs back over the path you .have trod, yeti will be glad if you stopped to speak to every friend you met and by your cheery word left them all with a warmer and more hopeful feeling in their heart because you did so. You will be glad that you were hap - :;Py and content when faithfully doing the everyday tasks of life. ' You will be glen when those who have known you best all along the path you have walked. have said, "I know I can trust him, and I am thankful he came into my life." You will be glad that you stopped every day, long enough to read thoughtfully and with a prayer in ydur heart, some portion of God's messages of mercy and hone no sin- ful needy men. • You will be glad that you stopped your ears tight against the evil things people said about one another, and tried your best to stay the poisoned words in their flight. You will be glad that you never'be- trayed the trusted confidence, of a friend. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practite to de- ceive," You will be glad as the evening of life draws to a close, to find that a store of happy' memories is a solid, Peace -giving possession. • —Anon We Can Buy Our Way Into a Breadline! \, ttistary is a meek little word that -covers a multitude of Suffering \ .And • only through profiting by past mistakes..:will we suffer less! Remember how in the Iasi warfolks'blew their money. Needless spending caused prices to rise-..; so that by 1918,the gyou buy today for 89c cost41.85 then; while baby's coat was compared to a similar coat at At today. This was inflation and all too soon it was folloired by the:inevitable depression! That's why our government is determined to,prevent inflation flour, -.T. why there are price ceilings and other anti-inflationdr4 measures mecsuves10 hold the cost of living clown and keep our dollar value high. And YOU help prevent a future depression and keep gour dollars high in value ...revery time .yoir pass up a needless luxury invest your money wisely and avoid black market spending. ri 0 0 1, I promise to give'tny support to keeping the cost 'of living down. I will buy only what 1 need. I. will observe the ceiling whether buying or sell- • ing goods or strvices. I will pay off old debts, save ,for she future, invest in Victory B9nds and War Savings Certificates. And I will support taxes which help lower the cost of living. ll* Po ita Pa Air Ervio (ft/ neik Marreee . . idWE BREW�4 INtitISTRY (ONTARIO) • at .04i' :Am ett tiereieeti ter ell the vie* the efenen, • • .,several factors contribute to the outburst of anger in Quebec followed the delivery of a Speeels 'hy Sweater T„ D. Bouchard in which he largely blamed Quebec education for the misunderstandings which separ- ate, French-speaking and Englisb- speaking Canadians. He also charg- ed the existence of a secret society, the Order of Jacques Cartier, dedicat- ed. to setting up in Canada a, separ- ate French-speaking, Roman •Catholic state. Some of these factors • relate to as- pects of the fundamental racial prob- lem of Canada. Others 'relate to the present 'confused and complicated political situation in Quebec where a general election is pending. Que- bec politics tend to develop .around non -co-operating groups and individ- uals, and their inter -play is difficult, and often not 'Very important,' for the .ret .of Canada to understand, or eses, en for the people of Quebec itself. But the fupdamental problem is there, arid it...wenn:I be well to re- member the comment of Mine. Cen- stance Garneau, president of the Que- bec League of Women's Rights, who said: I would, very much like to see an Anglo -Canadian denounce hiie own group, in the same way that Mrs Bouchard has had the courage to do with his. For if we are not de-, ceined; the sante thing exists among our English-speaking compatriots. . . . I would be glad to hear an Anglo -Canadian denouncing those who are anti -French. • Mme: Garneau was referring here not to the existence of any secret society devoted to maintaining," for instance, Eieglisn-speaking supremacy in Canada, for no such society exists. What she had in mind was that wrong attitudes are being taught not ,only in Quebec but elsewhere in Can- ada, and that this needcorrection. If the Bouchard incident has this et - Strawberry Recipes feet, the senator can be well satis- fied virith the result. Senator Bouch- ard, for many years mayor of Ste. 1-1Yacinthe, Ilas been a persistent' ad" vocate of racial understandinnn and he has conceived it as his duty to point out to his French-sPeaking cams patriots the errors of extreme and narrow nationalism. It Will be noted, however, that he has incurred the wrath or Cardinal Villeneuve, for it is impossible to critircize education in Quebec without eriticizing the church in whose hands most ef it lies. But the wrath May be followed, 'even 'in clerical circles, by a re -assessment of education pro- grammes, and this would be Cartier, As to the Order of Jadques Cartier, this, according to Press Information Burean, was founded in Ottawa in 1928 with the object of increasing the proportion of French Canadians in the government service., It is diffi- cult, latEl 'states, to say when the or- der became an instrument of political wasfare, and it is doubtful too if three -quarters -of its alleged 18,000' members know the objettives of the managers of the Order. It has no links with Adrien Arcand's fascist Blue Shirts. It campaigned in 1935-36 for the Duplessis Union Netionale, and its two periodicals, La Bousspie and L'Emerillon, today support the Bloc Populaire: Senator Bouchard, for his part, believes the real leader to be the Abbe Lionel Groulx, an ex- treme nationalist Who publicly de- clared inn1934, "We Shall have it—a French state," and took as his motto -nstill widely used—"Our Master: the' Past." It will be recalled that at one 'time Cardinal • Villeneuve, himself spoke favorably of the creation of a French state of Laurentia. It's along about now •T that straw- berriea "melt :on the 'vine"—straw- berry desserts melt in the, mouth— and children look with longing eyes at the newly -canned strawberries cool- ing on. the table' and strawberry jam that mother is making. For canning, select the strawber- ries carefully. See that they are firm, ripe rather than soft -ripe. See that •they' are of fairly uniform size so that they will be 'cooked evenly. Be sure they are of goad. quality. You can judge this by their stolid red col- or, their bright, clear appearanee, and their fresh green caps and stems. There should be no decay' or mould on .the 'berries; no white spots that 'indicate "inaineturitY; and ' no red stains 'on the berry container. Straw- berries2that don't measure up to the "canning" standard may be set aside for jam,. either as straight strawber- ryjana or in combination with rhu- barb. • Whee. canning strawberries, first prepare a moderately thin syrup, made in the proportion of one cup sugar to 1% cups water. This will give approximately twia cups of syrup. • For each quart of canned strawber- ries allow about one quart box or two pint -baskets of berries, and 1% cups of syrup. • Next, wash the berries before hull- ing. This prevents loss of Spice. The Consumer 'Section, Dominion Department of Agriculture, recom- mends both "cold pack" and "hot pack" far strawberries. For cold pack, fill sealers Witli raw. berries and cover with boiling syrup. Process 'in boiling' water bath, allow- ing 15 minutes for pints and 20 min- utes for quarts. For hot pack, simmer berries three minutes in syru and let stand at least three hours or overnight. Bring quickly to toiling point and pack hot. Process in boiling- water bath, allow- ing 10 'minutes, for pints and 15 min- utes for quarts. Rhubarb' and Strawberry Jam 4 eerie rhubarb " '4 cups strawberries 3 cups sugar. Wash and cat rhubarb in half-inch pieces. Add washed, hulled berries. Cook 20 minutes. Add sugar. Cook 15 minutes or:until thick and clear. Pour into hot sterilized jars, cool and seal. Yield: about 2 pints. A deli- cious jelly -line jam may be made by adding 2 teaspoons older vinegar with the sugar in the above recipe. In spite of the beauty of color and size of cultivaibd strawberries, sci- ence has not beer, able to improve on the flavor of the wild berry. They are certainly not the easiest fruit to pick, but the pioneer woman consid- ered a cramped muscle or two was well worth the satisfaction of having strawberry jam for'her family during the long winter. If there is a wild strawberry patch nearby, plus a few willing children, the berries are as good as in the kettle. Remind the children to hull and stem as they pick. In making 'jam from wild 'berries It is well to add a little water as the berries are drier than ihp tame ones. They are sweeter too, sothat means less sugar is need, Vold Strawberry Jam' 8 cups wild strawberries 21cupw.:tr %cupgar, • Pick over strawberries 'was* -Add water 'and bog ,gently for ftioe minutes. Add sukaroaird fart y thick—about .10. iOng- 4"Ottir into sterilised 4aill; an facia, itto4t two obit0. •T. , , • n This grotesque ambition is of course one that should play no part in the thinking of any Canadians loy- al to Canada, but the kernel of its thought is one that appeals, to the senses of racialism which is a funda- mental 'difficulty in Canadian politics. At present, after alomst five years of a war, Canadian 'participation in which ba --been merely accepted by a certain proportion of Quebec's popu- lation, racialism tends to become stronger. Hence most of the anger against Senator Bouchard, whose' re- marks were taken as blanket criti- cism Of a Quebec, parts of which are smarting under the sense that it has been forced into acceptance of a war programme which has gone beyond what these sections of Quebec's popu- lation consider fitting. English-speaking Canadians, whose ire is far too quickly roused, should recognize that the great majority of the people of Quebec are lenity ac- cepting the obligations of ;citizenshii in peace and war. They take no part in, and have active dislike for, the crazy solution, of Canada's problems, as advocated by the Abbe Groulx and similar extremists. The very sensis tiveness to critipism evoked by Sena- tor liotichard'e speech may indeed be due, in part at. least, to the reeogni- lion Of the errors of thinking on the part of some French Canadian groups. English-speaking groups would do well, as Mme. Garneau suggests, to rectify their own thinking in like fashion. Garden Weeds „; OPT AW '4'30,01 04 04 ire( tc) 9g1Vfle4P Q0PflnenratiVe Panty the nvprseas •P41440441071 i tured,politleal baPpenillgti• 0 4lie intenseittliim De eufferAek u WOO cittawa- There ,Tfere nation- °44,V for Wide reVertlergtioAS 7119lx Tatio, national party ohairipan, came out ,,fsor immediate overseas dispatch of •Canadian draftees. • This was not only a complete versal of former Progressive Censer- yative policy, but the fact that such an (important change was announced' by Mr. lgoTagne, instead of by the leader, John Bracken, aroused plenty of speculation. Scarcely a week lat- er Mr. McTague, at an Ottawa press conference, reneged on this stand. The retreat of ,Progressive Conser- vative policy went further when Hon. Earl 'Rowe, on the budget debate, Moved that draftees be disbanded and sent to war industry, farms and for, entry operations. Ultra -imperialist Conservative newspapers, which had whooped up" the McTague pronounce- ment, were left holding the bag. Reinforcement Fool Held Sufficient The fact seems to be that draftees can be 'Usefully employedin defence work on Canada's two coasts, New- foundland and the British- West In - ;dies and that there are plenty of vol- unteer reinforcements for Canadian army units engaged in victorious but heavy fighting abroad. Casualties have been leas than expected, both in Normandy and Italy. There is a big pool of highly train- ed reinforcements in Britain and more than 55,000 men in Canada, in- structed by returned efficers from • overseas, 'ready to take the place of ;Canadians put out of actipe in the nring line. • It now seems that the Progressive Conservatives went off half-cock at the Guelph, Ont., nomination meeting of Mr. IVIcTague. When they found out the true situation with regard"'n reinforcements, and discovered that politieally their sensational move wan likely te prove unprofitable, they promptly reverted to their former stand. Backs Mr. King's View • All doubt about, the influence which Prime,Minister King, as Canada's re- presentative, exercised at the Lon- don conference of 'Conamonwealth prime ministers, was dissolved with the visit to Ottawa of the Right Hon. Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand. • Influential anti-government circles in Canada, since the London gathering, have been doing their ut- most to make it appear • that Mr. King's insistence on freedom of do- minions to reach 'their own conclu- sions on world affairs, was. a coin plete failure. Mr. Fraser frankly and • Experienced gardeners say that it is very important to destroy weeds •when they are small to prevent them - from using up the moisture and plant. food that shduld ,be going to the young and growing vegetables. ' Hoeing during a bright summer day may not be very comfortable, but' it's the right kind of weather for establishing a beachhead for further attacks. The enemies of the seed- lings in the garden can ,be held in cheek and ,systematically exterminat- ed with a flick of the wrist if 'they dare show their heeds. Those which are strpng enough to resist hoeing manoeuvres should be destroyed be- fore their seeds have had a chance to turn into reinforcements. unexp.ected4 444140 this ar taetlt• 40',444 that 14 Xing was the most 'consistent enunciator of Em- pire policy, and 'that no- British lead- er had insisted upon the Common, wealth acting a0a big° in internee tional issues. "For the Commonwealth to act net a unit in international affairs would • destroy the Whole efficacy' . of the world organization, only hope of se- curity and prosperity in the post-war world," Mr. Fraser told Ottawa profits correspondents, ' No dominion, he declared, would delegate its rights to Britain or any other Commonwealth nation. He said Canada's position was sound and has been adopted by the conference as the only means of effective action to- ward world- stability and high stand - ands of living after the war. Benefit To Farmers Over $5,500,000 Even under war conditions, with import of agricultural machinery and implements restricted .because of re- quirements for the fighting forces, Canadian farmers will save more than $5,500,000 a year by the removal of tariffs o, nthese items. This Was' dis- eloSed in a •statement to the house that imports from the ijnited States of this class ,of products is now' amounting to about $36,000,000, a year. When the war is over and United States implements can be bought by Canadian farmers, and when agricul- tural machinery and implements made in Canada are reduced to the cempetitive.price, the benefit to Cana- dian farmers will increase many -times. One of the biggest gains will be on parts for repairs of articles that will still give'service if properly fixed, It is believed here that, all told, Canadian farmers will save up- wards of '•$100,000,000 a year for the first six years after the war, because of the lower price on farm imple- ments of all kinds due to the aboli- - tion of customs duty. ON - TWO! No holds barred to vitamin!. May not sound sporting . . . but they go into the ring for us against ill health. With short, sharp jabs they nit bard and fast - . . often knocking out the opponent in the 'first round. Follow the food rules for health and you'll back a champion. The Buffalo Goes to War yipupFAL0 which roamed „ the .1) plains of Western Canada:in the. days of the pioneer Settlers are now a factor .in the war qart of the United Nations. At many points along the lines of the Canadian Na- tional Railways salvage dumps, as "shown above, have been established to which farmers bring the skulls. and bones of buffalo as well as moose • and elk antlers, some of them long since turned up by their ploughshares. Behes are valuable in makitig Scrap iron and steel from dis- carded farm machines are also hauled to the railway sidings by farmers and their families to be delivered ft) the Government scrap ;depots. 'This youngster, •at• -right, is busy it the war salvage job at Borradaile in Albertan!' . • Hereqa haw ittitich, earitiOtin and .Arrierlto i Ie tro011i; leailid deign • IsfItti fall equipment, pious " • in this' case, a, bicycle, stormed thit, beachesilof NOW:Indy it the •early dawn of ThItt photegrapis was, too, duyipa ',the grim 43tithth Army ehir,Olses which pitteded actust'l liwasiOn by el; 61 14 4e, 4, 4 A ' 1,4 4 A 4