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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1944-07-21, Page 6"•••""a., ,7111.1-.174.411•17•774,4,r, 4"1•7•4 144 ;Ito Homik*.conoloust ';i*Te11-9L'RPO:**fgit Ttimiod wwfie • ay.. help sweeten "sou" pan. but dou't,have any effect in jam so Ase Useaeg ainolints o,!sugar so that none Use fruits that cook to am consietency. readily—these are 4rrantsA " gooseberries, -Crabapples, picots: an deranberries. When you snialler amounts of sugar longer OOOking is required. During this pre- carious tage the • cooking mixture sow be, kept boiling constantly and stirred frequently so that the jam Will not be tough or scorched. A few more points to keep in mind When making jam are: L Use fresh, clean fruit. 2. •Lise a, mixture of one cup ripe fruit to two cups under -ripe to in- crease- the pectin necessary for 3. Cook no more than three or four ' quarts of fruit at a time. 4. Warm the sugar in a pre -heated, oven to speed up the cooking of , jam, 5. Boil constantly and test for pally- ing" point. The experienced meth- od cot:rest observations. Lift a spoOnful of the cooking liquid and allow it to drip slowly from the edge of the spoon. As the mixture nears the jellying stage it will form two distinct straight -edge drops. Test repeat- • edly. When the two drops tend to pull together the jam is done. Reniove from the element at once. 6. Have containers sterilized and hot when filling. Cool aV1 seal with paraffin—pour- ing around the edge of the jam jar first. Cover with metal cov- er, if possible. * * * Gooseberry Jam 2 quarts gooseberries 4 .113 cups -sugar 1 1/3 cups water. Wash gooseberries, then top and tail. Simmer fruit and water 10 min- utes'. Add warthed sugar and cook for about one-thalf hour. Test for jellying stage. Pour into clean, hot jars. Makes 3% pints. 'This jam is quite thin. when hot but it thickens when it cob's. Raspberry_ Jam 4 quarts raspberries 6 cups sugar 3/4 cup cider vinegar. • Crush fruit and simmer 15 minutes. Add sugar and vinegar. Cook for about ,30 minutes. Pour into clean, hot jars, cool and seal; Makes about seven jam jars. Black Currant Jam 4 quarts black currants 2 2/4 cups water 8% cups sugar 1% cups honey. Wash, top andtail currants. Sim- mer fruit and Water ,10 minutes. Add sugar and honey. Cook, skimming frequently, about 15 minutes. Test for jellying stage. Pour into clean, hot Jars. Yield 14 small jam Jars. -- Take a Tip 1. Unsweetened fruits are processed the.same length of time as fruits with Eiug a r. 2. Although sugar is the cheapest ' form of sweetening, honey mai be used' to replace one-half as much of the required sugar, or , Born syrup may be used to replaCe as much as one-third of the required sugar. Do not use brown sugar or unrefined sorghum. 3. It is unwise to, use a board or towel in the bottom of a water bath, as it prevents even circula- tion of hot water around the jars. It is wise to use a wire rack or strips of wood, e.g., shingles. Question Box Mrs. J. C. Mc. says:. 1. Boiling water should not be used for washing refrigerator trays. (A warm tray will cause the re- frigerator to operate lon-ger than necessary). 2. Fruit slioulch,be spread on a plat- ter and kept in the upper part of a refrigerator. 3. If you can't buy a pot scraper, do as I do—place a 5 -inch piece of clean cotton in the bottom of the. teakettle where lime will -form on it in about a week. This will make a good- scouring pad. ' Cheese Strata (Suggested) 12 slices of stale bread aa Ib. Canadian cheese 2 2/3 cups milk 4 eggs teaspoon salt Pepper and paprika. Trim crusts from bread and ar- range- slices in the bottom of a,greas- ed baking dish. Slice the cheele and place on bread; cover with the re- maining. slices of bread. Beat eggs slightly, add milk and seasonings. Pour milk mixture over the bread, cover and keep in refrigerator until ready to bake. Place the casserole in a shallow • pan, - surrounding it with water and bake in oven 350 de- grees for 45 minutes. This is like a souffle and should be served at once. • Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron E'xpositor, Send in your suggestions on homemaking problems and Watch this column for replies. • • imietter. , OTTAWA, --The Oederal Gc'eVeriar, meat will net release the 7490 draftees, In the ,Oanadian ArinY demanded iu the•Progressive 'COneei'v- ative budget amendment. 'As long as there is a chance .that they may be needed for overseas reififorcements, they will be kept in the serviee, Hon. 3, la Ralston, Minister of National Defence, told the House of Commons. In the past sixth months, GoURal- ston said, the army has discharged about 30,000 men medically unfit or overseas service, for work On farms and in factories. Of these,, 7,000 were draftees. Most of the draftees are perform- ing necessary military service on the Pacific and •Atlantic coasts and in 'Newfoundland, Labrador, Bermuda and Jamaica, Col. Ralston revealed. They are thus performing duties which would otherwise keep the same number of voluntees from- going ov- erseas. Will Be Sent Overseas If Needed. More -than 25,000 volunteers have been accepted in•to the army in the past six months, 1,000 more than,, the needed quota for reinforcements, the Defence Minister stated. With a big pool of reserves in Britain and 80,600 in Canada, besides g(),000 draftees available if necessary, Canada has sufficient reinforcements -for all ex- pected demands until next year, Col. Ralston said. If casualties are unexpectdly high, or' fighting demands on the army in - expectedly inereased, drafteets will be sent overseas if they are needed, he asserted. The overseas reinforce- ment system is working splendidly and field commanders both in France and Italy have expressed their satis- faction with quick renewals of treops, the Minister said, ' Commons Starts Morning Sessions Starting this week the House of Commons is sitting morning, noon and night. It is- expected Parliament will be able to finish its work early in August. Biggest items of legisla- tion are .the act to provide a floor under faritt prices and the family al- lowances" measure. ' The Government is determined that both these bills will be passed before Parliament ad- journs. They are designed to main- tain purchasing power and at least the present standard of living for familia in rural and urban areas throughout the Dominion. • Budget Lauded By Woman Member Members gave attentive hearing to Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Unity -Progres- sive member for North Battleford, when she described the budget as a ,great human document designed for the betterment of the people of Can- ada. Mrs, Nielsen, known as a chara- Rine. of 'improved conditions for farm- ers, "ordinary people" in all walks of life and of the lot of Canadian women, criticized the C.C.F. for harp- ing on former depression days in- stead .of looking ahead to measures which are being and will be taken to maintain national prosperity. There is no truth, she declared, in the C.C.F, claim that Canada faces either socialism . or depression. On this point financial -experts agree that, THE UBIQUITOUS WEED And when you've done a day's work there's always weeding to do. Isn't it the truth Well . . . don't turf 'em all out into the garbage can. Watch forthatdelicious stand-in for spinach . . : lamb's quarters by name. Keep the tender young plants in the crisper for tomorrow's dinner. ' .'1A -Whin .00 rei‘ Pi'080)- W(lIT: ' One of thewterdest migrations ha, history is corning to end, It will probably never be re - wiled as impertant, 'since neither numbers noretnisequences are signiii- cant, -but the individtiala ..aciacerned Will never bei. indifferent .to the . ex- perience. - ------ " The movement of 'some thousands. of women and children across the Atlantic in the summer of '1940 can- not, now, le' thought of as a - success. But it was prompted by, what was then, a perfectly justifiable fear for the safety Of children. And there were some who, perfectly naturally, were diainelined to admit their per- sonalfears and felt, genuinely, that they_ were assisting in .the preserva- tion of 'Britain by transplanting their children in other lands. This may well cause some amusement to those trans-Atlantics who believe the Brit- ish have a -transcendental faith in their own worth. But if these people have never experienced anything like panic for their own safety, or that of their Country, they should pause be- fore they smile. ., Now a great .boat -load of these war guests has returned home. There were something like two thotasand of them, and it was a fantastic sbipful. Most of them, the mother is at least, had been clamoring to return for years. ' They had been returning in the tiniest dribbles for the simple reason that there was not 'the space for them in ships laden with infinite- ly 'more important personnel and cargo. , .1 . Suddenly a boat was allotted to them. They swarmed by the hun- dreds from all corners of the North American continent, and the reason for this indulgence at ,such a time can only be surmised as compassion on the part of a government poised on tip -toe to execute the greatest un- dertaking in the history of man. What a boat -load! Four years had wrought quite a change. The fifteen - year -olds Were' completely American- ized: Their clothes, their accents and their behavior were totally dif- ferent. The smaller children, as yet largely determined by their mothers, were still miraculously in grey flan - .4 nels. Many mothers exp essed anx- iety about their older c "ldren who werenot particularly keen to return to a life they only dimly remember- ed. .. ,Some, on the other hand, who had never previously tended their own children, and had 'also to, earn their own livings, had ' visibly allowed the experience to pentrate and influence them: They will never be the same again, •and will act as a tiny leaven in the cause of Anglo-American Un- derstanding. The boat -load wag terized by -hundreds of elderly wo- men. It was puzzling to know where they had all :keme from, since many of them were barely fit to travel alone. Some had been sent abroad in 1940 by their families, but for the most part they had been travelling for years. Some had been caught in the Far East where they bad been RESU .4 To Buy or Sell • Notices of Meetings • Articles Wanted • Articles For Sale Al Position Wanted • Help" Wanted . • Rouse to Rent • Coming Events • Farm For Sale • Live Stock For Sale • Grain For Sale • Personal Telephone 41 0 GET WITH Huron Expositor Classified Ads. • A Classified Ad. in Tfie Huron" Expositor 'will get you what you want or have, to buy or sell ``out from under the bushel basket." Us- ing The Huron Expositoes classified columns is the most direct and inex- pensive method., of making wants known. Our rates are only one cent a word (lest for more than one in- sertion). All you need to do is pick up your phone and call 41. ;,•• ,•.;'•"••••••-•-.: • erS , Established 1860 • FfflU . • Visiting Sena and nephews in the out- poSts oZgalPire, 5orge, Were aries. One , had be lit ,America since 1906 and Waft returning at the age of ,7:3' 'to marry her childhood sweetheart: . .". The etirrentaelderly Englishwoman is like no one en earth. To gee her Battle for her tea in a teeming and exhausted crowd is something to be- hold. She always wins, and she helps to explain the. British Elneire. Ou closer acquaintance. there is ' nobody better. Under Conditions of the most trying propinquity she prove a to •he considerate, good fun, and possessed of an elasticity of mind that exposes her rigid maintenance of respectabil- ity as unimportant. And what a boat -load for a crew accustomed te. seven time as many troops! There was service that hint- ed of peacetime as a result of un- ceasing work on the part of, those brave men. / There was no fear IA those hundreds, of young fOlk. They don't yet know what it is. They: ran wild about the ship. The captain patiently and constantly broadcast in- structions to mothers that this was not a pleasure cruise- and that im- portant and even deadly work made web freedom dmposisible.. There was never an impatient word. Those comparatively few heats who are relieved . to be free from English responsibilities might have been interested to see the joy that shuddered through that great and beautiful- ship as the faint blue line of Donegal' was sighted. This was hoine. The fear of was quick- ly replaced by fear of the customs officer, and that, in turn, by a dis- tinct indifference to all possessious. "Letthem have all my lipsticks and stockings --this is home and Nothing matters now!" Feeling perhaps, a little foolish, fearing some resentment on the part of those left behind to tough it out, a little fearful of the effect of the ravages of time on a husband whose companionship had been so agoniz- -ingly. 'longed for—and for so long— this strange boat -load buried the gal- lant captain with their thanks and separated in a thousand different di- rections into -this little island home of theirs. - chiefly charac- with savings in victory bonds, War savings certificates and bank ac - Counts, together with thegaYernMent post-war economic program, Canada can expect a long period of high pros- perity after the war. Rejects Suggested Tax Revision Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Finance Minister. shed new light On income tax revi- sions when he said that to raise the exemption to $1,0'00 .would„save peo- ple of moderate earnings about $38,- 500,000, but would relieve those with big incomes of payment of $96,500,000 in taxes. That is why, he explained; the suggestion had not been adopted. The main benefit of such an amend- ment would have gone to the rich and moderately well-to-do. The 'Commons rejected the Progres- sive Conservative budget amendment by- a vote of 112 to 40, six C.C.F. and six Social Credit members ,vOting with the Progressive Conservative group. The budget was then adopt- ed in prificiple without a recorded vote. During the debate it was shown that controllable expenditures for non -war purposes have been reduced by $6,500,000 since' the tatart of the .war. Premien Confers With French Leader - Prime Minister King and , Gen. Charles de Gaulle - had a t.wo-hoirr conference in the ;,Prime Minister's .House of Cammons office during the latter's one -day visit to Ottawa, "The French Government is -a fact," Gen. de Gaulle told a press eonferenee'an hour or two after President Roose- Veit announced that the United States accepts the' French .Confreittee for National Lib4ation ai the ad -minis- tration for liberated France,,until the French people themselves have an opportunity to choose their own gov- ernment. Gen. de daulle, tallest of all United Nations leaders, Made a fine impression .in Ottawa. -Women of the National Capital declared him much. handsomer than his pictures. show. Mr. King, iti a colorful gath- ering on the Parliament Buildings grounds, welcomed- the General as re- presenting "the UneCiacluerable spirit of Prance." Gen. de Gaulle Is the third World celebrity to visit -Ottawa tvithiti a feat weeks, the other two being Pre- anier Sohn Curtin Of Australia and Pretaier Peter Fraser of New .Zer; this -is OW a -tall itnileation Of . the bigger partOattactit Istilostfoi in world affairs and of.' theqidii txtettationa bithieliee!f�tb6ie •o4d !*Otid Prosperity. - ,•;1,1•,'" Minsk Falls fighting in Normandy where Allied pressure appears to -be Increasing. Alternatively it may be, 'that Mar- shal Stalin, well satisfied at the pro- gress he has made In the north, will now unleash his legions fn the Cen- tre or south of hie front. At the former point he could drive west across the Polish plains, -but here his -left flank would soon be up against the mountain 'wall of the Carpith- iaps. At the latter he could attempt to force the Galati Gap between. the Carpathian foothills ,and the Black •Sea, and drive up the Danube Valley into the heart of Europe. Minsk is a big city, but its military. importance in itself should not be over-estimated. Once the fortresses of Vitebsk and Mogilev had fallen— as they did some days ago—Minsk could not be defended. Its abandon- ment by the Nazis is the consequence of previous victories, and -the Nazi flight had been precipitate. The trouble is that the Germans now have no „soiled defence line -bet hind th'em, certainly not until they reach the famous marshes of East Prussia where Hindenburg and Luden- dorff wdn the battle of Tannenburg in 1914. The Germans confidently hoped to hold the Dvinsk-Vitehsk- Mogilev line, but the onslaught of the Red Army was so heavy and so fast that Mogilev and Vitebsk were breached and surrounded before the Germans had time to organize coun- ter -thrusts. Only Dvinsk now re- mains in Germanhands—the northern anchor of the defence line, but the rapid movement of the Red Army westwards is likely now to take Dvinsk in the rear. Minsk, it is trtie, is a great junc- tion on the main Warsaw -Moscow railway. It stands on the invasion route which would-be conquerers have used going troth east and west. Napo- leon moved through Minsk and Smolensk on his way to Moscow in 1812; and Hitler's headquarters were at one time in Smolensk in ,1941. Minsk is also on one of the big north - south lines, but that railWay line was long since cut at Gomel; southeast of Minsk, and that lateral line. has been since then Unless for the rapid -move, ment of troops and Material from one part of the Russian front, to the other. This north -south line proceeds north- west from Minsk to Vilna, .and itis toward Vilna that, in all probability, the raging torrent of the Russian ad- vance will now , sweep. Once Vilna is in Russian hands, practically all of an important lateral north -south railway line will be avail- able for the rapid movement of the -Red Army. But Vilna is more im- portant even than that. The cities of both Dvinsk and Vilna are main junctions DEI the vital main railway from Warsaw to Leningrad. Both are now main centres for -the Gerlitan gar- riaons in Esthonia, Latvia and Lithu- aula.i' If the Russians, leaving the big fortress of Dvinsk alone, concentrate upon Vilna, they willout-off-And iso- late Dvinsk and the major part of the garrison 8 of Ethonia and Latvia. Vilna is (only 100- miles or so away from Minsk, and it should, not take the Red Army long to reach its gates. The evidence suggests that the bat- tle on the eastern front is reaching a decisive stage and, as a result of the Stubbdrn refusal of the dermas to shorten their •front, they- are now having it ahertetted for them the hard way. It seejns hardly possible that their 'hold on the Baltic States. Can be prolonged, and a retreat to 'a line in the Vicinity of Koenigsberg In bast Prussia, making inn USei of the, Mae- nrian•Marishie would ObVioutfly to vide- them With a large milxiber tif flaking for Ude eletelVbere, either 41 'boldter Up their efifteibling iS•tiateiik bone, Of to 400,,t *Ote Men if) Soup Bones According to the United Nations Information Sources' the Nazis have some ,far-fetched ideas about- food conservation for •the people in the countries whieh they have occupied. After' taking most of the food for themselves they make some sugges- tions about how the populace can manage to live on what is left to them—if they try hard. One such hint to housewives ap- peared recently in a Dutch -Nazi par- ty paper. The little article evidently " "'"'- was inspired, lir the tear that 00010 housewives might not ',be' gettiug, the maximum nqurialineent'Art, of their soup hones . . those nreOlouf,* hones that constitute abent 'hOf q a, fam- ily's weekly meat ration. • Warning against snob improvidence the paper _printed the following recipe: ,-. 'Use the marrow, softened tissue And anemia of ;meat clinging to the bone, together with 4 spoonful of 'oatmeal; 2 slices of bread, 4 boiled "Potatoe's, bouillon, flavorings, salt and pepper: Chop uP the -bone tissue and the pieces of meat. *IX with the marrow, Knead the potatoes and the bread and mix with the oatmeal. , Add 'ersatz' flavoring, 'ersatz' pepper and • salt, Add substitute bouillon until mixture becomes solid. Make patties and fry over quick fire until brown crust forms." THAT MENACE—MILDEW Keep a warm weather eye out for. mildew. Once the dampened. ironing you were going to do . . . but didn't . . . has had mildew, it has really "had it" -to borrow a phrase from the services. Sprinkle clothes with warn ,rater for even penetration . . . but not too long before ironing time. •1 DE GAULLE SPEAKS FROM PEACE TOWER General Charles de Gaulle speaking to some 10,000 Canadians gathered beneath the might Peace Tower on Ottawa's Parliament . Hill, declared that Canada's assistance had done much to help France ' "stand upright and united. again." France ,had found comfort and support in Canada, General de Gaulle said, for -she had trained Fight. ing French aviators, armed French soldiers, fed and clothed French prisoners: The French leader spoke in English and French, after , being introduced by Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King and Hon. L. S. St. -Laurent. Mail for the Forces Overseas NoimAmyr, in Italy, wherever • they may be, Canadian forces overseas get mail from home quicker tie service. And froxia the en four *craft service, three f the big Lancaster trans- ioAbfibrreetoactsonuidtis.:Ekafe.,:tri...ioano. Wih ate perts„operated briTrans-Panada Air Lines in the Canadian aovermnent's comes quiekc to th folk 4t111hrreE4thAtt- 50,000,000 letters have . 44,.44:404..4!•4` between Montreal and the United Kingdom. Flights. are made direct, without interniediate stops, and the distance, 3,100 Statute ithles, hiS been covered in little more than -eleven heurs. In the big. noses of the Lancasters, as much as 8;000 pounds of mail may be carried. Parts and equipment of irtipartance to the war effort are car- ried as freight. Xe fare -Paying pas - its are transported, but official kannerigers oxi urgent,waa business ase „keteetireee cooled. • , ,