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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-08-10, Page 6N e�npmist *e.ree: . Come August brimming over 1, elious fruits of the earth. P.>,'l'y Paeason wanes, plums xijlened and ready to bring refreshing flavour to dog - „ale. Though you may sigh ;ynil think of the holes these ts• Will make in your sugar ration, t_ l dxnember that sugar is not a preserv- anti e ,And use it sparingly in can - Many varieties are sweet enough tq, sinit.;your teeth in as they come 'fresh -Welted from your own trees or from the market. They are always a delight in the lunch box or picnic box s well as a boon to the cook. RECIPES Blueberry Crumb Cake i/4 cup mild -flavored fat 1/4, cug sugar 1 cup pastry flour or e/s cup all- purpose flour 1% teaspoons baking Dash of salt 1/3 .cup milk r/4 . teaspoon vanilla 2 cups blueberries. Crumb Topping i/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour Vi teaspoon cinnamon 1... -tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon mild -flavored fat. First, prepare topping. Sift flour, sugar and cinnamon and rub in fats. Cream fat, add sugar and cream to- gether until light, add beaten egg. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to egg mix- ture alternately with milk. Add van- illa and pour into a greased .eight - inch square cake pan. Spread wash- ed blueberries on top. Sprinkle with crumb topping and bake° in an oven, 350 degrees for 45 minutes,... _Serve hot either plain or with 'top milk or cream. Six • servings. Blueberry Rhubarb Sauce 1% cups rhubarb, cut in one -inch powder pieces lee "cups blueberries ee cup water cup sugar. Pour boiling water over rhubarb, let stand five minutes and drain. Mix rhubarb and blueberries, add water, bring to boiling point and simmer gently until rhubarb is tender, about eight minutes. - Remove from heat and add sugar. Obill and serve with cookies or use as a sauce with blanc mange. May also be served hot with plain cottage pudding. Baked Pears Peel, cut lengthwise and core six' ripe pears. Place in pan with one-half cup water. Sprinkle with one table- spoon lemon juice and two-thirds cup brewn sugar And dot with butter. (Or drizzle with honey and add grated rind of one orange and juice of one orange and one lemon). Bake in ov- en, 350 degrees, until nicely glazed. Baste often. How 'Tlo Can Pears' Peel — leave whole or cut into halves and core. Cook gently in a boiling light syrup four to eight. min- utes, 'according. to size and firmness. Pack hot and cover with boiling sy- rup. Adjust lids and process twenty minutes in boiling -water bath. Open -kettle Method: Boil in syrup till tender. Fill sterlized jars. Seal. Pickled Peaches Remove skins from 18 peaches and stick two or three cloves 'into each one. Boil two cups vinegar, 3 cups sugar, 4 sticks cinnamon and 2' -'"tea- spoons whole cloves for ten minutes. Drop the peaches in a few at a time and cook until just tender. If over- eooked, they will fall apart. Trans- fer peaches to hot, sterilized jars. Fill with boiling hot syrup and seal. If more syrup is needed, make a light sugar syrup of one part sugar to three parts water. Makes three • �1, 1 p 9 ->P.9it Herm :..-4904, peel, halve, aline or ],save. ePboles� NI* raw yin eternized jars and Craver With ;boiling -hot syrup or boiling. water. A.djest lids; process in boiling. water bath' 2.5 minutes if soft -e•.35 Mientes if Orin, Or cover Peaches with beilleg syrup...rand pre- cook three to Ave minutes, Pack hot. Adjust Lids and process 15 minutes. Open Kettle: Boil in syrup till ten- der (until a whisk splints, pierces through easily). Fill sterilized jars. Seal. Compote of Red Plums Cook three-quarter cup sugar and one-half cup water to thin syrup. You can substitute corn syrup or honey for one-half quantity of sugar. Wash and prick two pounds of red plums (shout 6 cups)—this so they won't burst their skins. Cook gently until tender. Don't cook until soft. Serve hot or cold. How To Can Plums Plums are canned whole—better if slightly under -ripe. Prick to prevent skins from bursting. Pack raw in eternized jars. Cover wfth boiling syrup; adjust lids and process twenty minutes in boiling -water bath. The Question 13ox Mrs. J. R. requests a time -table for cooking fruit in a • pressure cooker. Answer: Detailed information has been mailed to you, Mrs. R. May we repeat for the sake of other readers that we, do not recommend the use of pressure canning of fruits since they are too readily overcooked. For large, firm fruits which have been precooked, the pressure should be five pounds for five minutes, or ten minutes for cold pack products. 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. Long ago, when the Bishop of Tex- as was in London, he was taken to a swanky ball at which the ladies' dresses were cut very low and he was asked if he had ever beheld such a sight. "Not," said the Bishop, -"since I was weaned." / -. Before' you order dinner at "a restaurant, you consult the bill -of -fare. Before you take a long trip by motor car, you pore over road maps. Before you start out on a 'shopping trip, you should consult the advertisements in this paper. For the same reason! The advertising columns are a buying guide fbr you in the purchase of everything you need', includ- ing amusements! A guide that saves your time and conserves your energy; that saves useless steps and guards against false ones; that puts the s -t -r -e -t -c -h in the family budgets. The advertisements in this paper are so inter- esting it is difficult to see how anyone could over- look them, or fail to profit by them. Many a time, you could save the whole year's subscription price in a week by watching for bargains. Just check with yourself and be sure that you. are reading the advertisements regularly—the big ones and the lit- tle ones. It is time well spent ... always! Your Local Paper Is Your Buying Guide • Avoid time -wasting, money -wasting detours on the road 'to merchandise value. Read the ad- vertising "road maps." e uron Expositor AN ° i OS., Publishers lil 2 Su oa 4,i, p , 4k,x,4 �e ed•,!rnv Established 1860 • Slee°forth, Ontario, cft4,M, .c cions (lly.dohu ()Wens in Raltinupne 3w): • Movements ,ih major policy are oc- casionally ret)'eled under.• minor head, lines. As the cruiser Augustra drew near the shares .ef Europe, the As- sociated Press sent from the ship a simple' message, that President TM - man would. not consult with Prime Minister Chitrphill before the ses- sions Qf the Big Three in Potsdam. The desbatche^ ; lained that "the idea apparently is to assure Premier Sta- lin that the American President •has no thought. of making any independ- ent agreements, even of a tentative nature." Nothing could 'have been less sensational. But that message, which Obviously was authorized, showed that Is r. Truman and his ad- visers have moved ahead of much im- portant American opinion in dealing with Russian -American relations. The necessity of firm co-operation between the two vast nations, which now are in position to dominate most of the earth, has become an axiom. Plainly enough, the condition of firm co-operation is the removal or mater- ial reduction of suspicion. But a large body of important opinion in this country still lags in understand- ing of the fact that removal or re- duction of suspicion is not a one-way movement.. Russian suspicion of the United "States (and of Britain) must be considered no less than American (and British) suspicion of Russia: The Russians understand quite well that influential group here (and in Bri- tain) despise and fear communism. They understand quite well that in the middle thirties the possibility of Hitler's turning eastward in conquest was regarded by these groups with complacency, if not hope. They, un- derstand quite well that; 'even while they were crushing 'Hitler's armies, in each of their diplomatic contro- versies these grows gave support automatically to Russia's opponent. Naturally, the Russians are on guard, but these influential groups here (and in Britain) seem unable to believe that any suspicion can exist save their own. Mr. Truman has better balance. He sees that onesided, unimaginative suspicion of Russia can 'only stimu- late. old Russian suspicion. He ac- cepts the fact that Russia, too, can legitimately have suspicion. And, as the message from the Augusta shows, he takes the positive step that is pos- sible at this time to demonstrate to the Russians that the government of the United States is not following the course which would be normal if anti - Russian suspicion ruled—it is not sit- ting in the conference at Potsdam as part of an Anglo-American bloc, with Russia on the other side of the table. Far from concentrating on suspicion of Russia, Mr. Truman seeks to re- duce Russian suspicion of the Unit- ed States (and Britain) as a means of laying foundations for broad accords. He has all to gain and nothing to lose by following this course. The Russian's have shown ,in war and- in peace that mare progress can be made in 'dealing with them as poten- tial friends • than as potential foes. Mr. Roosevelt's decision to aid them in 1941, regarded with fear by some of the same elements which now are ruled by anti -Russian suspicion, prov- ed its va,iue, Probably it shortened the war. ossibly it assured victory. Mr. Hull's direct approach at Moscow proved its value and, it may be not- ed, he was as careful in that Confer- ence to avoid the appearance of an Anglo-American bloc as Mr. Truman was in the message from the Augus- ta. Mr. Roosevelt, at Teheran and at Yalta, had success with Mr. Stalin in approaching from the basis of friend- ship. He succeeded, see ltt'iris. tri timacy with Mr. Ch .,'ll, perhaps because his own record fp aid to Russia, outweighed in Russeyes his record • of intimacy wit. Mr. Churchill. Mr. Truman has equal rea- son to count upon profit Prom a pol- icy which includes understanding of Russia's viewpoint as well as our own. There is no reason whatever to ex- pect gains from the opposite course. Russia will be able to counter any policy which seeks to drive her. The .United Staten and Britain combined are not in ,position to drive her. ;In fact, one of the troublesome features of current international politics is. the loose talk' that 'occasionally is heard from superficial Britishers in conversation with worridi Americans to the effect that no concern need be felt about Russia if the two English- speaking nations stand together. Rus- sia, if she preserves her internal strength, can follow her own policy in her own orbit whatever the Eng- lish-speaking nations, singly or joint- ly, think about it. And if she became convinced that the loose talk express- ed the intent of the two nations She undoubtedly, would .follow her own•, policy more strongly than ever, with, ,gravely. averse effects iimitnediately on British Interests in Europe and Asia and with terribly adverse effects oft :Attiarican lire if the atnagofiiam ever- threatened :cued to beeolsltx tiostilltY„ Ivor: We wouI t tarry the iilir'deilt,.i ail thir ail side. • The wise •Course is to anderstaptd Russia—even her suspicion. That is the best hope of making the Charter and all other: instruments of internae tion'al law and *reps living -realities:" Mr. Truman serves his age When be moves ahead and provides leadership. in that direction, Target— The Jap Fleet As the United States and British~ navies scour the home waters of Ja- pan in search of the Jap fleet, the war in Asia takes on an old familiar pattern.. The first requisite of a suc- cessful amphibious invasion is the de- struction or neutralization ofthe de- fending navy. The second is the de- struction of the defending air force. When the Germans made their as- sumption that sea power was an an- tiquated and inessential weapon, they laid the foundation for our successful invasion of the continent. Absolute mastery of the sea in the vicinity of invasion beach -heads is imperative. Such mastery can be obtained only through sea -power. How well the Japs understood this is seen from their first blow against Pearl Harbor and their assault on Singapore. They sought, at Pearl Harbor, to destroy the United States fleet, and came much closerthan we were allowed to know at the time. In- deed, if the Japs had' suspected how successful their attack on Pearl Har- borebad been the war might well have taken a far 'different course in the months which followed: However, in- stead of throwing .their entire naval might into the light for Australia, or for the Hawaiian Islands, they -split their fleet into several task forces and frittered away their greatest wea- poen. The assault on Singapore was dif- ferent in form from the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the objective was essentially the same. 'In the first case actual destruction of a fleet was attempted. In the second, the goal was to drive- the British fleet out of the Pacific by taking its bases away. The Japanese correctly calculated that neither' the British -nor the Am- erican navies could threaten its Pacific empire unless there were bas- es relatively close to tyle scene of operations. Such bases are required to keep a navy supplied with fuel and ammunition and, equally important, ,are essential for the quick repairing, of damage suffered in battle. Through a combination of circumstances, the Americans were able to use Pearl Harbor as a base for actions which. first stopped the Jap advance to the south and later drove the Japs back to their homeland. The American and British task forc- es were sent into the home waters of Japan to search .out and destroy the Jap fleet. But their fleet is the cast line of defence of their homeland• and the Japs are unlikely to send it into battle for two reasons. The Jap the- ory of naval use has little in com- mon with British ' er American tradi- tion which is summed up in "the Nel- son touch." Our navies are built to take up the battle for supremacy of the sea against opposing navies. We have been meeting enemy fleet's head on from the Armada to Trafalgar to Jutland. But the Japs regard their navy as having a different function, to operate in conjunction with the movement of land and air forces. Primarily, its purpose is to 'take the Jap army where the• army wants to go. One logical reason wby the at- tack 'on Pearl Harbor was not fol- lowed up as we would have done was perhaps because the •army at the time was moving south instead of east. Thus the idea of sending the Jap fleet out into naval combat does not appeal to the Japs. The second reason for the Jap fleet to avoid a showdown fight is more compelling, To lose such a battle, or even suffer crippling damage, would open -the long and vulnerable Japanese coastline to invasion at will to the Allies. So long as the Jap fleet is in operation, it remains a ser- ious threat to the success of any in- vasion of Japan. A suicide German fleet, even of small dimension, could have struck our Normandy invasion fleet heavy blows. Certainly a Jap suicide fleet would "create far great- er difficulty for our invasion of Ja- pan than the relatively small number of suicide planes which did so much damage at Okinawa. But if the Jap fleet will not fights theft our strategy is obviously to drive it as far away from the east coast of Japan as possible. Bases at Osaka and Kobe have been heavily hit from the air. The dive -bomber attack on the units Of the fleet iii. the .much smaller base at Kure rill be followed by Fortress raids, to Make that lase untenable. The lateal ` attack o> t theJap fleet utidsrlines a fact liar •o'f?texi., , 'menti%>tx ed- In• despatt:'hes treat the rar lust. If the tlre? d o; A ?csv +a ar�,G� Ea 'rtu true to ..• f4ktfl, 4W,1ut' uP .in poUq- MYtiltla or tafaltx>tile paralysis can bet expected durin8e thea` latter half o3 the summer. It- 0'14 disease.•allr,mothere- dread: for ea yet no vaccine or toxoid has been :.;dl4e9Yered thatwill in ?lu,an• ize bhildre i, t'rOM iltfeptiO , .lie Uepa'tn?e4'G, (Pg $41004'10. ? and Welfare says;.;that all' parents,.es do when polfoinyelitis occurs intheir. community is to reduce contacts with strangers. This mean$ the avoidaanee' of unnecessary, travel and visiting., The virus which) causes the die ease is present in the discharge from the nose and throat and from the bowels of the patient. Healthy peo- ple may also carry the virus and are just as liable to spread, the disease As anyone who is ill. There , i no evidence that biting insects transmit the disease but it is known that flies may become contaminated with ma- terial containing the virus and thus act as carriers of the infection; therefore the home, and especially the kitchen, should, be well screened and kept as free from flies as possible. It is recommended that nose and throat operations on children 'be post- poned during the prevalence of the disease. All children with fever or other definite signs of illness should be kept in bed until a diagnosis can lie made by a doctor. Recipes For Meatless- Days Malnutrition and starvation stalk the liberated countries - famine threatens Europe this coming winter. These tragic facts affect Canada. She is sending food, especially,meat, to her stricken allies and Canadians are tightening their belts. The spirit of conservation is sweeping the -country. Waste is the cardinal sin, and the ear- mark of the true citizen is thrift. Tuesdays and Fridays have been set apart as the special days of con- servation—meat conservation. Every cook is on the watch for new meat- Iess main -dish recipes, and from the Consumer Section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture come test- ed recipes for meat alternatives. They suggest serving a crisp salad with them to make an excellent contrast to texture. Marconi Mould I% cups milk 1 cup soft bread crumbs 2 eggs 2 cups of cooked macaroni 1 cup of cheese, diced 1 tablespoon minced parsley or chopped green pepper 1 teaspoon minced onion 2 tablespoons melted fat There we have an extra job to do which we -..did not have in Europe. In addition to destroying the Jap air force, smashing Jap railway commun- ications and blasting her war plants., we have got to sink the Jap navy, or drive it so fan away. from the Jap= anese home island that it cannot in- terfere with our invasion—if, as and when that occurs. • Salt and pepper. • Heat milk, add bread crumbs and :combine with well beatdb. eggs, Mix with other ingredients. Pour mix- ture into greased mould, set in a .pan, of hot water and oven -poach in a. moderate oven, 350 deg. P. until set. about 50 minutes. Serve with' fresh- ly cooked vegetables or mixed green salad. Six' servings. Chinese Omelet 4 'tablespoons mild -flavored fat 1 cup i/2 -inch bread cubes 6 eggs - 6 tablespoons milk teaspoon salt 1 cup finely grated -carrots 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon Mild -flavored fat (extra)- ' Melt the 4 tablespoons fb,t in a fry - ng pan. When hot add bread cubes and fry, stirring constantly until crisp: and and brown. Remove cubes from: pan. Beat eggs slightly, add milk, salt, grated carrots, parsley and browned bread cubes. Melt the ex- tra xtra fat in the same frying pan and pour in the mixture. Cook very slowly, keeping the pan covered, un • - til firm. and browned on the under side. Serve flat or fold one. hot plat- ter. Six_ servings. Cheese Roast 2 cups cooked white beans i/4 cup finely diced celery 1 teaspoon minced parsley 2 cups grated cheese 1 egg - 2 tablespoons mild -flavored fat 2 cups soft stale bread crumbs Salt and pepper. Mash cooked, drained beans with fork and add beans, celery and pars- ley to cheese. Add slightly beaten egg and mix thoroughly. Melt fat., add crumbs . and seasoning, mixing well and cooking until slightly brown. ed. Add to cheese mixture until stiff enough to shape into a loaf. Roll loaf in remaining crumbs. Bake in a moderate oven, 350 deg. F., until nice- ly browned, about 30 minutes. Serve hot with tomato sauce. If desired, a small onion, finely chopped, may be added to the roast. Six servings. • Auntie: "Do you ever play with bad little begs, Willie?" Willie: "Yes, Auntie." Auntie: "Why don't you play with good little boys?", Wit>1e: "Their mothers won't let me." POST-WAR ACTION CHIEF CONFERENCE API any • Oh)ef nim df the ivatttlhal Rec` 4.1struititibr Coriferehee at Otter is to aehiSSS Damtpitln+41rd lolls: ;tOo'peraition n>. moa• ',rtfrldtf „ . , ••, pta)rmsti� r►f Nt#tsrllliiit (trig, :and hl4ti�it 'tbrlct: �', ta�►alll 'iiiud *iib; ills foeti fatritee `bataolti)t 5 a 4 4 4 A V 4 4 ixS7i ,. . •• )e