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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1958-12-04, Page 8•-• g„,EIGHT THE GODERICH SIGNAL,STAR OXAge46-46-MkreiMariallie about four pies and two Cakes, • 90elete and 'ION -MUM was too .t4fbalilog to cook on .Saturday, so w.19,d have to be satisfied with something like plpybas a big •-..---oflasststaaad4-9,40,4410,--tiv!ith fresh bun* and Preserves. • 4, a • It almost makes Me cry when I think of the future my kids face, unless there is a reversal of the trend in modern cooking. The -other night, I was helping Hugh study his science. The book de- scribed how fruits are preserved and put in jars. "That's a kind of crazy thing to do with 'fruit," he says. "Why don't they just buy it in cans at the store, like we dor * * * My heart smote me when I real- ized that the boyhad no know- ledge of the great pleaWre of going down to the cellari looking along the serried rows of preserves, and picking out a quart of delectable raspberries, delicrous yello peaches, or pale*golden pears. * ..Tonideilght,however, degener- ated as their tastes are, the kids retain an instinct for honest food. When they're -served the latest in canned Italian ravioli -or Polish eabbage rolls, the last word In frozen chop suey or pre -prepared chile, they merely muck it about on their plates. But give them an honest home -cooked meal, however simple, something like sausages, potatoes and mashed turnips, and, they gollop it up and want more. 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With 1 he work In the land of the Pagan and 'Turk; 'And .St al e and State in fierce -strife ' Will seekeach other's life. But \Olen the North .shall divide the South , And Eagle shall build in the Lion's -*• Month.: ' , Shall ride, Shall •sleep, ,t hall talk; Car=riages without horses ,shall And accidents fill the WOrld with, woe.. 'Primrose Hill in London shall be, And in itscentre a 'Bishop's See; Around the world thoughts shall fly ]n• the twinkling of an eye. • .Water shall yet wOnder do, Now strange, shall yet be true; The world upside down shall be, And ,gold found at the root of a .tree, Through hills man-Khall j And no horse or ass be by his side; Uvier the water' shall men walk, In the air shall be een, In white, in black, in green; Iron in the water shall float ' As easy as a wooden boat, Gold shall be found, and found In a land that's not yet known, Firc and water shall. more wonders do, • „ 'England shall at least,admit a Jew; The Jew that was held iri scorn Shall of a Christian be . born. , Three times three will lovely France "rife led to dance ,a bloody dance :Before her 'people shall be free; Three tyrant rulers shall she see; OUT ON A LIMB • WITH BILL SMILEY Something sinister is developing in , the kitchens acrois this fair land of ours. There is confusion in the cuisine. Culinary dry rot has made its appearance in the cookhouse. * * The signs are everywhere. Gar- bage Cans, which once sat in solid • dignity, 'heavy with tea -leaves, potato peelings, egg shells and •grapefruit skins, now teeter giddily in the slightest breeze, their cargo composed of frozen food wrappers, waxed orange juice containers, eomxpets.y, tins and vacant ready -mix b *:"* * Children, who once came in from play, bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, pip- ing "what's for supper, Mom?" now sit before a lighted box in a darkened room, shoving unknown, untasted food into their: slack little .mouth.s. * * *• Brawny laborers, home after a hard day on -the job, looking for- ward to a heaping hot plate of viands, quail as they are confronted with yet another triumph 'of the canning kings, the frozen food tics. * There is a close similarity be- tween the development .of new cars and new. stoves. As gadget after gadget,frill after frill is added to the n. ew models, their owners become worse and worse drivers. As °stoves sprntirmore and more buttons, louder' and louderbells and buzzers, women grow less and less able to cook a decent meal. * • As a matter of fact, the very word "cook" is growing into dis- repute, Women no longer admit shyly that they are "a pretty good cook." They brag instead that they can "turn out" or "whip up" a pretty good meal. -The very phrases telra let abut modern "cooking." .The women turfl out the tOntenti of a box, whip tip •the_trusk...41.• it, ond baked a cake. , • * * Even at that, it's an ordeal. Only time we see a cake around our house is when some organiz- ation is having A bake Sale, and the Old Girl -gets hooked for making one. By'the time she gets through making one lousy cake, we're lucky if we get a can of soup, or some frozen fish and chips, for dinner. Mother is not only exhausted, but every dish in the kitchen is dirty-, ,•, * * * * I remember what my mother -baked every Saturday: eight loaves of bread; including a couple to give -away; three or •foO'r dozen buns; a couple of pans of cinnamon rolls, Three times the people rule alone; Three times the people's hope is gone; Three rulers in succesSion,see, Each springing, from. 4 ,dilferent • dyrfaSty; England and France shall be as I one. • Then shall the worser fight be dpne." coming_ a lost art. But unless the girls stop cooking from the recipes on the °odds of those peck•ii0c1 food boxes, end start cooking wlth some integrity and itnaginatIOn hi* ,dar.its-,coming.--And• powdered arsenic in with the pre- pared pie fill, and eliminate a hope- less future for my little brood. * • I don't' knew what 'brought all this up. 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