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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-11-09, Page 6ii f;. } by ANNE ALLAN dr. Homo Economist glo, Homemakers! The need to serve butter and vegetable fats in ooing has resulted in the more ex- teri0iVe use of fat which has been xeuddred and clarified at home. There are puany sources of suitable animal et bef, pork, poultry and soup *Ones. The dripping from lamb, mut- teD, and sausage is not generally re- Cepamended because of its character- istic flavor. Salvaged fat can be used success- fully for frying liver, fish, potatoes, onions or green tomatoes; and for greasing baking pans. It cannot be used indiscriminately in baking, but there are many recipes in which it can be substituted for butter- or shortening — ginget'bread, applesauce Bake, spiced fruit cake, spiced drop cookies, pancakes and bran muffins. Rendered chicken fat may be used in cream sauces, biscuit toppings, cas- seroles and meat pies. Fatty pieces of raw meat should be rendered in a double boiler. To clarify fat: (1) A surprising amount of the meat flavor can 'be re- moved by slicing a potato into the fat and heating until the potato is browned. Then strain fat and store M. a covered container. (2) Fat may be more thoroughly clarified by the following nnethod: Measure it into a preserving kettle and add 2 cups of wated for each cup of fat; Boil the mixture for one hour, remove from element, strain and cool. When cold, lift the cake of fat from the top. Serape off any sediment that may have -collected on the bottom of the fat, then reheat either in a double boiler or a low oven until any excess water has evaporated. Store in a cool, dry place. In , straining fat, we substitute a paper napkin in a sieve for the usual cheesecloth—no greasy cloth to wash. Dripping from apiced .meats such as flavored sausages should be separat- ed from dripping yielded by mild -flav- ored , meats. This may be used in stuffings and dumplings for variety. When fat becomes dark and strong- ly flavored, after it has been used many times for frying, it is no longer good to cook with; neither is it suit- able for soap-makiag. Economical Gingerbread }t cup baking fat 1 egg 2% cups _sifted flour % teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup black molasses " 1 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon ginger 1 cup boiling water. Cream shortening, add sugar and cream well. Blend in beaten eggs and molasses. Sift flour, soda, salt and spices together—and add to creamed mixture alternately with boiling water. Pour into a well -greas- ed and floured nine -inch ring mould. Bake about 45 minutes in moderate oven (325 degrees). Fill gingerbread ring with applesauce and serve hot. Potato Cakes 8 potatoes (cooked) 2 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons grated cheese 1 tablespoon milk 2'tablespoons melted fat 3 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon baki b powder. Mash potatoes,- add milk, cheese an dsifted dry invbgkqj xzfifl 7890$ and sifted dry ingredients. Roll ,one- half inch thick on floured board, cut or pat into small cakes and bake in hot oven for 15 minutes. Pumpkin Custard 3 tablespoons brown sugar 3 tablespoon corn starch 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 2 eggs (slightly beaten) 11/2 cups scalded milk / cup cooked pumpkins. Mix all ingredients together and put in greased mould. Bake in pan of hot water in oven (325 degrees) 50 minutes. When your BACK ACNES... Backache is often caused by lazy kidney adion. When kidneys get out of order excess acids and poisons remain in the system. Then backache headache, rheumatic pain, dis- Inched red or that `tired out' feeling may soon follow. To help keep. your kidneys winking propedy—use Dodd's Kid iey.'PilIs. Time -teed, popular, safes, mirs4mbit-form- ing.DernindaoddlitadrieYPills,intheblue box with the red band: Sold everywhere. t35 e pauud law 130131: Ql;. �!a I 00.t4, •c}teecl pu pky..7!teldsthree mashed CQgke t pWa►tyh3 ;. a. fou 01.stitute 1> tea 61 oQns mixed pastry spice or Iya, toaspeons allspice for 34 teaspoon finger, , teaspoon nutmeg and i, teaspoon cinnamon. 3. Substitute 1/a, cue orange juice for 1 cu+p milk in the ingredients for pumpkin pie. 4. Sprinkle pumpkin pie, with chopped peanuts to increase the pro- tein value of a meal. 5. Spread. plain squash pie with a of warm jam. * aEjaF small amount The Suggestion Box Miss G. G. suggests: Recipe for home-made soap: 1 cup fat ,4 cup water 21/2 tablespoons concentrated lye 1 tablespoon household ammonia 1 teaspoon borax.' To'remove salt: Melt the dripping, partially cool and then add one quart of water. Let melted fat and water stand until the fat becomes firm and the salt settles. Then separate the hardened fat from the water. Melt fat again, and stir into a bowl con- taining the lye which has been dis- solved in one-half cup water. To this mixture add the ammonia and borax. When the soap becomes thick as cream, pour it into a cardboard box lined with greased paper. Let the soap ripen for at least a month be- fore using. To give the soap a pleas- ant fragrance, add •a little oil of cedar or oil of lavender to the melt- ed elted fat. Answer: We' appreciate your re cipe using only one cup fat. We would like to add a few notes of warning for those inexperienced in handling fat and lye: 1. Melt fat in double boiler. 2. Use a long -handled dipper to pour water into partially cooked fat. It will spatter—so please "be careful 3. Put lye into an old enamel pan and use an old kitchen spoon to measure. Remember, lye may burn.. Two gtjits in the past week have served to turn the Tight back on to the mining promotion racket in On- tario. The first was the announce- ment that Canada and the United States have agreed on the terms of an extradition treaty which will en- able the United States to extradite racketeers from Canada. The second was the appointment of Mr. C. P. McTague -tp the long .vacant post of Ontario Securities Commissioner. The first announcement' is bad news for the high pressure gentry in Toronto who have been getting ,rich on the sale of dubious mining stock to gullible Americans. While the treaty may contain clauses which are less than perfect as far as Canada is concerned, it will put an end to prac- tices which have caused Canadian se- curities to be put in very bad light in the United States, This treaty, however, will not have any effect up- on the racketeers who confine their activities to Canada, who batten on gullible Canadians. In announcing the appointment of Mr. McTague, Premier Drew said that the government would do every- thing within its power to prevent fraud and obtain proper marketing practice in the sale of securities. It will proclaim its new securities act as soon as the details have been worked out. Mr. McTague is being given a thankless and extremely difficult task. There was nothing seriously the matter with the old securities apt of Ontario which could not have been cured by a resolute government de- termined to enforce the law. The new act, while containing some im- provements, is far less severe in its application to' slick, within -the -law stock pushers than the old. The pow- ers of the securities commissioner are less sweeping. The new act will undoubtedly be received by the racketeers with more enthusiasm than theta old. For more than a decade, the Free Press has made it a practice of in- forming its readers of the activities of the get -rich -quick gentry in On- tario. With butt a single exception during the years from 1935 until 1938, Ontario has been the sore spot in security frauds in Canada. Other provinces have generally kept their houses in order. Ontario has not. Throughout these years the Free Press has joined such papers -as the Financial Post and Saturday Night in urging Ontario to clean out its rack- eteers. But in view of the difficulties which seem almost insuperable, is there any point in continuing a cam- paign for rigid policing of security sales? Our doubts are raised by the history of the last ten years. With the exception of 'the years noted, no Ontario ,;government, Liberal or Con- servative, has shown an apparent de- sire to enforce its security laws with the vigor .required. Long before Pre- mier Drewcame to power the stock pushers were milking the public of its hard-earned savings through'min- ing stock promotions. Even during the period when Mr. J. M. Godfrey was commissioner, the pressure on the government to ease up on the act was very great. This pressure came from all directions— from the Bay Street brokers, from the mining tycoons who are such a 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. Kindly Photographer: "Now my little man, just keep looking at the birdie in the cage." Modern Tot: "Rubbish! Pay at- tention to your exposure, focal length and lighting, or you'll ruin your plate." A .Vllg Guide 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 for 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." uron Expositor AN 3 ,OS., Publishers • Establaghed 1860,, Seaforth, Ontario - ee `i'Ireed$,) ,power in Ontario, from varioW}a Pr tt peetors' associations and other pr s., sure groups. When 4r. eocfrey waS elevated to the bench the pressuxe. became too much for the Iepburn government. The securities cornmis- • si'on atrophied and the high pressure - gang came into its- own. -• Is it not then foolish for other Can- adians to put much faith in Ontario's ability to clean out the racketeers? Is there nothing which we in ,the other provinces can do to protect our people from •the ministrations of this Toronto gang? There- are not many alternatives, but there is one. That is an intensified and continuous program of education. Warnings to the public to investi- gate, before investing are all very well. But something more is requir- ed if the public is to understand the warning. In the United States, var_ ious state securities commissioners have made it a practice to make a •weekly broadcast over the radio on new wrinkles in security frauds. Of- ficials have gone out into rural areas and spoken to groups of farmers and townspeople and told them how to protect themselves against the sharp- shooters. They have made informa- tion regularly .available to newspa- pers. All this costs money, but the government of Manitoba. should con- sider it money well spent if it results in educating the people in the man- agement of their savings. .;,..adv Meat Matters Are you trying to budget your meat coupons to allow a roast for a spe- cial occasion? Have guests upset your meat calculations for the week? Don't worry, say the home economists of the Dominion Department of Agri- culture, serve undationed meats such as kidney, ox tails, tongue or heart. Here are some excellent ways to use them: Braised Oxtails 2 lbs. oxtails, cut in pieces 14• cup flour 14 cup fat 11/2 cups hot water 11/2 cups canned, tomatoes 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon celery salt 4 whole cloves Piece of bay leaf 4 medium carrots, diced 2 small onions, chopped. Wipe meat, trim off fat and roll pieces of oxtail in flour. Saute in the hot fat until well browned. Add water, tomatoes and seasonings. Cook five minutes, stirring welL Pour in- to nto a casserole, cover and bake in a slow oven, 325 degrees F., for 1% hours. Add vegetables and continue baking, covered, for one-half hour longer. Uncover and cook" an addi- tional one-half hour or until meat and'. vegetables are tender. Six serv- ings. Kidney Creole 1 beef kidney 2 tablespoons flour 1s teaspoon sail' Pepper 1/4 cup fat 1 large onion, minced 1 medium carrot, diced 1 medium potato, diced 1,1/2 cups tomatoes 2 cups boiling water 1/5 teaspoon Worcestershire or Why 40 by hand, work that can be done 'quicker, easier and cheaper by machine? Why put 'up with the drudgery and the time- and money -wasting disadvan- tages of hand milking, when you can enjoy the.con- venience and profit-making - advantages of doing this wearisome daily task by simply instaRing the Massey - Harris Rite -Way Milker in your barn? Ask your local dealer for particulars. SWITCH NOW to the Easy Way with the MASSEY-HARRIS RITE -WAY MILKER MASS EY= HARRI S COMPANY LIMITED THE SERVILE ARM OF THE CANADIAN FARM _other spicy sauce 6 slices toast. Remove fat, tubes and membrane from kidney. Slice and dredge with seasoned flour. Brown in hot fat. Add tomatoes and' water and allow to cook slowly for about one-half hour. Add diced vegetables and more water if necessary, and continue cooking till vegetables are tender. Serve on toast. Six servings. Boiled Heart Heart (see note below) Water to cover 114 teaspoons salt to each of water used 1 carrot 1 large sprig of parsley 1 bay leaf -3 black peppercorns 3 cloves. quart Remove vein;: and arteries from heart, using scissors, and wash out thoroughly. Cover with water and simmer with seasonings ler two to 11 meat is tender. Raisin Sauce. three hours, or Serve hot wit Note. -Allow one' lamb or small pork heart per person; one average calf's or large pork heart to serve two; one average beef heart to serve six. Raisin Sauce 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 teaspoon onioa juice or a little onion salt 1% cups seasoned stock from ' boiled heart 3 tablespoons flour 1/4 cup brown sugar 1,4 cup raisins: Add vinegar and' onion juice to 11)4 cups stock and heat. Mix flour and sugar and blend in remaining one- quarter cup stock. Add gradually to heated stock and cook, stirring con- stantly until thickened. Add raisins and simmer five minutes. Makes ap- proximately 11/4 Cups sauce. The little woman had worried the grocer over trifles at the busiest time of the day, and at last he had managed too satisfy her. "Do you know, Mr. Peck," said the woman, "when, I came into your shop I had a dreadful headache. I've quite lost it now." "It isn'tlost," said the distracted grocer, "I've got it." beach,anadian soldiers Will never forUet those seeneg on the Not"rnandy es in early June, 1944i; Whet thouaande, of fightlnn men aihhil masses of equipment poured ashore to 8trefpthen and : enlarge. \th'e beachhead. Sequences of the "film "The True .Glory,, pay •tributeto the Work of thuase mewl who,.heiped 4make, the initial : attacks sue - Cee fuf. 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