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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-07-03, Page 20TRY IT ... You'II like it By Marg Burkhart 'This week concludes our series 1 recipes using fresh straw- rries. 11 hope you have tried some of these recipes over the past few weeks, and that you have enjoyed them. We round out the strawberry season with strawberry soda, strawberry croutes, and a strawberry short- cake. Try them . . . you'll like them. STRAWBERRY SODA 1 pint fresh strawberries . 1/4 cup sugar 2 12 -ounce bottles of soda water 21 cups vanilla i cream Wash and hull erries. Crush the berries and pr ss through a sieve. Add the sugar and mix thoroughly. Set out four or five glasses, and divide the straw- berry mixture among each. Add a scoop of ice cream and a little soda water to each glass. Stir well. Add remainfg soda water. ti Add a scoop of ice cream to each glass. Garnish with a strawberry. STRAWBERRY CROUTES 1 sponge cake 1 to 1'4 cups fresh strawberries little sugar red currant jelly whipped cream Cut sponge cake through centre. Add sugar to berries. Spread currant jelly over cake halves. Top with whipped cream and sweetened strawberries. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE 2 cups pastry flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons shortening 2-3 cup milk 1 quart fresh strawberries (sliced) sweetened whipped cream Sift dry ingredients together. Cut shortening in finely with pastry blender. Add milk and stir to form a soft dough. Shape into a ball. Knead slightly on a floured board. Roll 1-3 inch thick into a large oval or circle. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle a little sugar on the strawberries. Place the cooked cake on a plate and spread with butter. Cover with the fruit and top with whipped cream. (Ice cream can also be used) TRAVEL TIPS: When you are travelling, a shoe bag hung over the back of the front seat makes a fine container for all sorts of equipment. Keep small paper plates handy in the car. Slip them onto sticks holding ice cream bars, pop- sicles, etc. They'll catch the drips and help to keep the children's clothing and the car clean. CHILD'S PLAY Try creating fantasy animals By BUROKER & HUNTSINGER Fantasy animals require paper, paste, a sense of humor and Lots of imagina- tion. With the addition of scis- sors and 'a little patience, you'll • be surprised by the number and variety of fun critters you can create. Ordinary 9 -by -12 -inch con- struction paper in several colors is best to use. Cut strips of varying lengths and widths. Almost all animal bodies will start with a circle that is pasted together. From this beginning, add. additional circles as desired, pasting one inside the other as you g�. 1n the accompany- ing illustration, the large creature (is it a cat, tiger, or maybe one that hasn't even been discovered or named?) has four circles for its body and two for the head. Feet, tail, eyes, ears and whiskers as well as other parts have been quickly made from straight strips that are simply pasted on in strategic places. Remember, too, you can alter the original circles to make ovals or egg shapes, and can change the paper any way desired. For that matter, a critter with two tails might be interesting, or a leopard with elephant tusks worth trying to make. The smaller fantasy fellow, who may be a distant — very distant — relative �f a mouse, rabbit, squirrel or other small thing, has two large circles for a body, two smaller ones for a head, and two tiny ones that make a tail. The tail not only helps it keep balance, an important feature to remember if you want a standup character, but also provides character. In the same way; ears, bows, buttons and other additions create personality. No doubt your imaginative powers can supply a zoo full of animals or lots of strange people. But in the event ideas seem scarce, take a look at some of the Dr. Seuss books and you won't have any prob- lem at all. NOW CA111 ?? By ieNe Asiley Q. How can 1 prevent lumpy flour when mixing a batter? A. By adding the salt to the flour before wetting. And by pouring the flour into the liquid, instead of the liquid into the flour, and by beating it with a fork. Q. What can 1 do when the adhe- `§ive on an envelope flap or a postage stamp doesn't stick? A. Use clear fingernail polish. It dries quickly and really sticks. Q. Please suggest a simple repair for a chipped refrigerator A. Try laying a small piece of appropriately colored crayon on the spot, covering this with cellophane, then pressing gently with an iron set at rayon heat. When cool, remove the cellophane, and the mar should be neatly filled. NOVA SCOTIA'S ONLY qualified woman blacksmith, Christine Smith of Chester, shoes her own horse, Flash. (N.S. CIC Photo) Chrissy, the village smithy By Guy Masland Women are not exempt from the trade. Blacksmiths are not a dead breed; neither do they have to be big and brawny. Slender, blue-eyed, five -foot - five Christine Smith is proving this daily in her father's wrought iron shop located in the heart of Chester, a picturesque Nova Scotia village. "I was finding it impossible to find anyone to shoe my horse Flash," says Chrissy, as she is called by her friends. So she qualified as an advanced farrier in two six-week courses at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College operated" by the Provincial Government -at Truro. How she is the only qualified female blacksmith in the prov- ince. "My father is in the wrought iron business," she adds. Conse- quently the tools of the trade are readily available. Chris, who graduated from the Chester Municipal High School in 1970, says that her love for horses goes back .as far as she can remember. "It is a great convenience to be able to do my own shoeing," the 23 -year-old briinette boasts with becoming modesty. The blacksmith trade has re- mained virtually unchanged by time or technology. Christine's tools are similar to those imple- mented . by her great -great- grandfather, Robert Smith, who built the first blacksmith shop in the village in 1856 when the area was known as "Shoreham". It had been settled by families from New England. Christine's father, Stuart`Smith worked the same forage from 1945 until last year when the quaint, almost fairy-tale like structure, so much a part of Chester's heritage, was demo- . lished by a runaway truck. Undaunted by the loss, Stuart built another forge beside their tidy, wooden frame house, which is adjacent to the old Chester railway station. Chris uses tools similar to those her great -great grandfather used when he made horseshoes and wagon wheels over a century ago. The term `blacksmith' comes SATISFYING— A menagerie of make-believe animals makes a simple yet satisfying cut- and-paste project. from England, and is thought to signify the "grime" resulting from his occupation; or the black metal which he works with, which was compared to the polished metals of the silver- smith and goldsmith. The village smithy once was one of— the most important members of the community. For his work included making' and repairing all sorts of necessary tools, equipment and hardware, from nails to sled runners, and almost any item w,hich could be fashioned from iron by forging. Many specialized industries such as shipyards, mining comp- anies, lumbering firms, painting trades, gunmaking shops and railway lines still require Op. services of blacksmiths. Th it products are often works of art, functional but beautiful. About 100 years ago the black- smith took over the job of horse - shoeing frond the farrier, who also acted as a `veterinarian'. The farrier later served soley as a veterinary, and both the black- smith's and the farrier's. work WOMEN ASK What's effect of IUD? By ELEANOR B. RODGERSON, M.D. Q. I'm disenchanted with the birth -control pills. Would' the copper intrauterine device (IUD) be the next safest thing for me to use? A. Each woman is an in- dividual and what is good for one may, or may not, be good for you. You have to try it. Statistically, the rate of pre* nancy is quite low because of the copper effect, perhaps .on the lining of the uterus, per- haps on the sperm cells, etc. Whether, or not, your parti- cular uterus will tolerate a foreign object in It is another thing. There are a certain percent of women who have cramps and bleeding. If your uterus objects too much, you will expel it. A reason for not getting an intrauterine device, with or without copper, is a past history of pelvic infection that involved your Fallopian tubes and uterus. Then, the intro- duction of a foreign body could produce a flareup. Q. When you use pills for birth control, does it mean you will get a venereal disease,a;�rlike gonorrhea, easier? A. If, now being unafraid of pregnancy, you have sexual intercourse promiscuously, with casual partners, you may expose yourself oftener to venereal diseases. In- directly, then, the birth -con- trol pills might be responsi- ble. However, if you are think- ing the pills will change the vaginal secretions so that venereal diseases are caught more easily, recent research says this effect probably does not occur. was done by the blacksmith In the 1850s there were more than 1,500 blacksmith shops in Nova Scotia: The Industrial Revolution proved unkind to the trade and today few smiths remain and they are scattered in mostly rural areas. Christine Smith is helping keep the blacksmith trade alive and well. She feelsthat a "second coming" of the trade is immi- nent. "More and more people own horses today and, like auto- mobiles, they need constant attention," she states. Since 1971, a total of 83 students hate successfully lly completed 13 farrier courses at the 14,S. Ami, cultural College and received certificates befitting their achievement. "The first thing we did was learn to make, our own tools," Christine said. "And basic training taught us to shape and fit various standard design horse- shoes. The advanced training course instructed us in baking shoes to fit horses with ab- normally shaped hoofs. "We also learned to work with many different types of iron and steel in the forge." The course instructor, Ed Ogilvie, of Truro, noted that there is a high demand for qualified blacksmiths in Nova Scotia at the _ present time. "After all, horses till have to be shod," he said. Mr. Ogilvie's father operated a forage in Truro for 55 years. Realizing that the art of black- smithing would be lost if new people were not trained in this field, he became a farrier course instructor at the Agricultural College. "The school has six forges and we are hoping to expand to meet the growing demand for this type of vocational training," he said. The students come from far and wide to attend the courses. "In our present course we have a student from Richmond, Vir- ginia, whose father is a native Nova Scotian," he added. Stu- dents have come from almost every province in Canada, the majority of them being sponsored by the Federal Department of Manpower and Immigration." They make items such as book ends, door latches, weather vanes, chandeliers, candle hold- ers, andirons,wood baskets, signs, bootracks and railings. All are popularly decorative and use- ful items in many homes today. As the first female in Nova Scotia to take the blacksmith's course, Chris' presence naturally fostered 'a degree of initial dis- belief. "The men at the Agricultural College in Truro were a little suspect when they first heard that &woman was coming to take the farrier{s course," Chris mused. "I later found out that they had placed bets as to how big and stocky I would be." Actually, dripping wet, she tips the scales at only 100 pounds. "She fitted in well at the school and tiktle 494:10 !e'/ 400 woman'Mr. Qgifvie 'said, "I hope to attend.the " coarse la wrought Iron work when it is held in Truro later this ycar," Christine said. `AI Initially want a job, shoeing •horsed qz t*are +'a toed When I d pix are .expertise w1 artlstie vino ht l>� wok .he • event,, ally to' tote over R aY 4itherps. twines*, When be re- tires) -tiresA son.eone' $ run the fq e.» LOWER INTEREST RATES,. 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