The Seaforth News, 1943-02-11, Page 3THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 11, 1943
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THE MIXINNGGfBOWL
ay ANI/ ALLAN
iir*y Some Mucha
"ONE STEP" MEALS
SAVE TIME AND ENERGY
Hello Homemakers! Tackling a job.
cileel'fully mattes it easier, doesn't
it ? Now thin; you want to reduce
kitchen tulle to a minimum, your
,meal -getting will be simpler it you
make good tae of your well -cooker. or
Dutch oven. A friend tells ns when
site has put her whole meal into her
well -cooker, she feels so good she
does a one-step all around the kit-
chen. She is free for war work or
anything else.
Yes, it's easy and its economical.
Just snake sure your meals are
"nutrition -checked" and the family
Is sure to feel right because the food
will be cooked right, Here's the cor-
rect use of the switches for the well -
cooker; (1) "high" for browning
meats, bringing foods to the steaming
point and baking, (2) "Medium" for
• sterilizing, and (3) "Low" for main -
tailing the steaming point after
steam appears at vent, for soup cook-
ery, for cooking dried vegetables and
fruits.
NUTRI-THRIFT MEALS
Savoury Baked Beans (Moulded
Beet Salad), Steamed Apple Pudding.
Vegetable Soup, (Grated Carrot
Salad), Bread Pudding,
London Style Limb, Steamed Pota-
toes, (Grated Cabbage and Horse-
radish, Carrot Pudding.
Meat Balls and Brown Potatoes,
(Grated Turnip Salad), Prune Pud-
ding,
Spaghetti with Tomatoes, (Celery
and Apple Salad), Roly Poly Pud-
ding.
Puddings are steamed above the
"one step" meal.
Bracket foods are prepared and
chilled in electric refrigerator.
All menus may include whole
wheat rolls or biscuits or "Canada.
approved" bread, and milk for the
beverage.
RECIPES
Spaghetti and Tomatoes
3 cups spaghetti (uncooked),
5 cups canned tomatoes, 141,
cups grated cheese, 1/s tsp. cay-
enne, 41,, tsp. salt. '
Combine ingredients and place in
the well -cooker of electric range.
Cook on High until steam comes
actively from the vent, about 30 min-
utes. Allow to continue cooking for 1
hour on Low. Total cooking time 1%
hours. (.Amount — about 6 to 3 serv-
ings.)
Meat Balls
1 lb. hamburger, 1/y cup cooked
rice, 1 medium sized onion
(chopped fine), 1 medium green
pepper (chopped fine), 1 egg, 1/4
cup milk, salt.
Combine ingredients and shape into
balls. Place in the well -cooker of
electric range. Brown well, Add 2
cups of stewed tomatoes. Cover. Cook
on High for approximately 20 min-
utes or until steam comes from vent.
Continue cooking on. Low for approx-
imately 1 hour.
Prune Pudding
2 cups dry bread crumbs, 1 cup
milk, % cup sugar, 1 cup chopped
prunes (or dried apples), 14 cup
melted butter. 2 eggs beaten,
salt.
• Add bread crumbs to hot milk and
set aside to cool. When cool add all
other ingredients and pour into
greased baking dish. Bake approxi-
mately 1 hour in 350 degree oven or
steam about 1 hour in well -cooker of
electric range.
1. Heat rolls or muffins in the top
of your double -boiler and save
time and electricity.
This method freshens the product.
2. When we make a chocolate cake
or cookies, we stir a little of the
sugar (one-fourth cup) in the pan
in which we 'have melted the
chocolate. The sugar gathers up
all the rest of the chocolate and
saves just that much.,
3. You can make twice as much
meringue if you add a teaspoon of
water for each white, 'while you
are beating it, Lemon jtlice instead
of water gives an unusual flavor.
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs, D. B. asks: "Do you grind
liver before or after parboiling for
liver loaf? Please send recipe."
Answer:
Liver Loaf
1% lbs. pork liver (ground
after parboiling), 4 1b, ground
beef (rather fat), 3 eup hot
water, a/. cop bread or cracker
crumbs, 1 egg beaten, lisp, salt,
1/I tsp. sage, 1 onion minced.
Melt 1 tb, fat in frying pan and
add onion, liver ani1. beef. Brown
thoroughly, Pour hot water over
crumbs and mix all ingredients to-
getl}oh'. Shape into loaf and bake in
a greased pa11 for 35 minutes in
electric oven at 3550 degrees, 1-Ialves
of onions of potatoes may he baked
111 the saltie pan.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her 'c/o The Seafortlt News. Send in
your questions on homemaking prob-
lems and watch. this column for
replies.
Proposed To Build
A Wooden Railway
(From the Canadian Pacific Staff
Bulletin) '
Highlighted by the details of a
proposal, made in 1847, to oporate a
train on wooden rails, many unusual
features of early railway history in
New Brunswick have been unearth-
ed in research by L. A. Atebeson,
chief' clerk to the company's general
superintendent at Saint John,
A train stop which bore the fasc-
inating name of "Toby Guzzle" was
another Atcheson find, this one con-
ing from an eighty -year old time-
table and be also discovered old
newspapers announcing 'a month-
long break in the service to corn-
'plete the ballasting and stoppage of
the works because of lack of funds.
The wooden rails were proposed
by the St. Andrews and Quebec
Railroad Company, incorporated in
1836. This was the line which sent a
delegation to London with a petition
for King William IV and received a
grant of £10,000 towards the sur-
veying of the route. Ten years after
its "wooden railroad" plan was ad-
vanced the St. Andrews and Quebec
was absorbed by the New Brunswick
and Canada Railway and Land Com-
pany in 1857 and later became part
of the Canadian Pacific as a link in
Canada's first transcontinental rail-
way.
The House of Assembly at Fred-
ericton heard the proposition about
running' a railway on wood in a re-
port "relating to the project of con-
structing a railway and a line of
'electro -magnetic telegraph through
the Province of New Brunswick
from Halifax to Quebec." The re-
port asserted that there Was a back-
ground of experiment to the claims
for the value of wood as rails. Tests
had been made near Vauxhall Bridge
and on Wimbledon Common in Eng-
land, it was stated, and rails made of
larch "exhibited no appearance of
• wear after a six-ton engine had run
over them 8,000 times.
,Payne's Patent Process had been
used to treat the rails for prevention
of dry rot, it was stated, and there
was yet another patented device in
connection with this dream railroad,
for Prosser's Patent Railway Guide
Wheels were to be standard equip-
ment.
The House of Assembly was told
"the four principal wheels which
support the carriages are without
flanges and present a perfectly flat
surface to the "rail." The guide
wheels came in, it was explained, as
"anti -friction wheels, two in front
and two behind the carriages,upon
axles at an angle of 45 degrees to
'the main axles. A deep groove, form-
ed by two flanges is made in their
circumference, exactly correspond-
ing to the inner and upper angle of
the rail, and thus they serve as the
guiding wheels of the whole mach-
ine."
Going around a curve it was
claimed "the outside bevel wheel of
the front pair',and the inside one of
the back pair, come into play, and
counteract the disposition there is in.
the,carriage to fly off at a tanget to
the curve."
Cheaper operation was, of course,
the reason for this idea of a wooden
railroad. It was asserted that "an
engine weighing 10 tons, running on
wood, is alleged to have more trac-
tive power than one weighing 18
tons running on iron; and as the
concussion and abrasion are compar-
atively trifling, carriage's built to
weigh one and a half tons wlil be as
strong as those having to run on
iron weighing three tons."
War Conditions restore
Oldtime Pudding Cloth
The old-fashioned pudding cloth
has conte into its own again. Chefs
of the Canadian National Railways
Have begun the preparation of 4,500
pounds of War Time Christmas Plum
Pudding; The puddings are being
made in a. dining car kitchen meas
tering 18 feet by 6 feet, 10 inches.
The recipe for the plaim pudding,
which will be served on the dining
cars of the Canadian National System
dining the holiday. season, has been
varied to conform to present-day con-
ditions.- While ingredients will be
fewer, the amount of pudding to be
prepared will be twenty -flue per cent
greater 11100 last year to provide for
an anticipated increase be the mina
MAGAZINES FOR TROOPS
Among the maty voluntary activities undertaken by the women of
Canada to further the war effort is the Collection of magazines for members
of the Armed 'forces and the Mercantile Marine. In the picture above a
volunteer worker is shown sorting magazines in a clearing house which
handles one hundred thousand a week, Women's Voluntary Centres which
are being established in many Canadian cities can supply information con-;
cerning this work, and direct contributions to the organization handling it in
the community.
ben of patrons. Last year, Canadian
National chefs prepared two tons of
Christmas pudding for twenty -fon'
patrons. This year, two and a quarter'
tons will be made for approximately
thirty thousand patrons, many of
whom will be members of the forces.
Muscat raisins, nuts, figs and dates
are not available this year for Motu-
sion in the recipe and it will also be
necessary to substitute rum for
brandy and to add porter to balance
the taste and color of the pudding.
The old-fashioned pudding cloth is
being used because it will not be pos-
sible to obtain tins such as hitherto
used and even these cloths afterwards
will be salvaged for other" uses, Plum
puddings will be prepared weighing
two and one half pounds as against
one a quarter pounds when tins were
used.
The recipe prepared by the C.N.R.
chef, has been in great demand by
housewives throughout the country
for many years and in its war -time
form, the ingredients are given below
for the making of a two and a Hair
pound pudding from which to serve
ten generous individual portions:
1/a ]b. bread combs; 14 lb. beef
suet; 1/4 lb. flour; 14 lb. brown
sugar; ?/4 lb, raisins; 14 lb. curr-
ants; 1/4 Ib. cherries; 1/4 Ib. lemon
peel; 14 lb. citron peel; 1 pt.
porter; 3 oz. rum; 3 only eggs,
1 pt. milk; 1h .tsp. cinnamon; 14
tsp. ginger; 41 tsp. mace; ?!F Isp.
nutmeg; 14 tsp. allspice; 4 tsp,
baking soda; 1. tsp. lemon, 1/4 tsp. '
salt.
Mix the dry ingredients together,
then addthe beaten eggs, milk, rum,
and prix all together thoroughly. If
mixture is too firm, add a little more
milk. Grease inside of pudding bowl
or covered mould to prevent pudding
from sticking. 7f pudding •bowl used,
cover bowl with floured gauze tied
aromd bows to keep moisture away
from pudding. Boil pudding three to
four hours. Heat thoroughly before
serving, then nnmould on dish. Serve
with sprig. of holly on top.
Serve with Hard Sauce, made as
follows:
Ingredients—% lb. butter; 14 Ib,
powdered sugar.
Procedure —Mix butter and sugar
until the mixture becomes snow
white. Roll in wax paper, place in
refrigerator until hard. Cut in slices.
Serve slice on top of Christmas Pud-
ding,
VARNA
Please bring your Russian Relief
contributions to the Red Cross
rooms. We intend. packing a box of
warm clothing.
Miss Jean Cockerline of Pilot
Mound. Manitoba,'is visiting friends
around Varna.
Plane Lands in Field —•
A twin -engined Anson botaber,
1)11010(1 by LAC Powell, et Wates,
nutde 11 forced landing on the farm of
Mr, August ilochler,. half mile north
of Zurich. The plane was (musitler-
ably damaged, but the pilot escaped
with It few scratches, Emgine trouble
caused the landing, as some farmers,
who were eye -witnesses, heard one
engince die 0111 eolnpletely. The 51101
would have made 0 5011001 landing
but •fol' 1wn fence,, 00 th1' farmer's
lana LAC' Powell, after notifying
Lendqu a Ic1�=, 1'eltu'nal to guard the
damaged plane,
Teacher Goes To Ottawa --
Miss
ttiss Frances Aunts, slaughter of
.1i1•, and Mrs. Kemal Annie, Mitchell,
0110 las been' teaching in Eino, tae
Ripen np her sc11001 mud reported 411
Ottawa last week where she has
obtained a position in the evill ser-
vice, It is understood her school is
being taken for the balance of the
terns by Mrs. J. W. West of Nonkion.
Call Endorsed
Perth Presbytery of the 'United
Church has endorsed the call of Rev,
Harold Vernon, minister of Main
Street United Church, Mitchell, to
iVest. tTnited Church, Toronto. The
members also approved the appoint-
ment of Rev, Alex Rapson, Iiirkton,
to a chaplaincy in the Canadian army.
Heifer Near Gorrie
Has Quadruplets —
They call them the dynamite quad-
ruplets and nothing like them has
been seen around these parts in a
century. They arrived two weeks ago
at the height of the worst storm in
history and they've been raising such
"Calif" ever since that their mother's
on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Nothing unusual seemed in the wind
when the black -faced heifer on the
farm of Fred Hill, six miles from
Gorrie, got ready to deliver her first
calf. It was a trifle small and was
black all over. NIL'. Hill was pretty
surprised when a second calf, larger
'and livelier than most calves, ar
rived too. And he thought he was see-'
ing double when two more came a
moment later — bigger than the first
two, and brown and white this time,
What with talk of beef shortage and
things it seemed a pretty big stroke
of luck to have five head of cattle
instead of one, said Mr. Hill. Of,
course we didn't expect they'd all
live. But that's where everybody got
.fooled. They're the friskiest, health-
iest set of calves you'd want to see,
At first the young mother was over-
joyed and licked them repeatedly,.
said Mrs. Hill: But they soon became
too much for her. It takes more than
her to handle them, So we milk her
daily, put the milk in, a pail and let
the calves fight for it there. Mean-
while we have to keep her in her stall
and feed her special ratious, Wild
animals have nothing on these. calves.
'obody has Melded the job of trying
to weigh thein yet. We waiting with
interest to see what happens next
time site calves, said Mr. Hill. She's
glade a pretty good start for one
who's never had any previous expert
once. After all the Dionne quintuplets
didn't arrive the first time, — Wing -
ham Advance -Times.
5.
CLASSROOM NUTRITION
The important subject of Nutrition has a place in the school curriculum in Canada today.
are studying Canada's Official Food Rules and learning how to apply them to every -day meals.
Posters and' essays by high School students on nutritional themes are frequently used in
community nutrition programs.
BLAKE
The service in the Blake Chtuoh
was withheld on Sunday. owing to
the snowstorm Mae read conditions,
The 131ake 0011601•elli1(Iren and tea,
eller began their work o11 Monday
morning after a -we011 of no school
on 00100111 of road, and stormy eon.
ditions.
Many friennis.of Mrs. Jobe McBride
1(1'e Horr7 to learn she happened with
a painful teehtent last • week while
going about 11(1' household duties.
She slippl'u anti fraet0t'ed a )lone in
her arnt, Her many friends wish her
a speedy recovery,
Miss Gladys BeachIer, who has
been engaged for the pastmonths
at the home of My. and Mrs. Ross
Love, at Hillsgreen, returned to her
1,ente;
Miss Caret Faber of IIeimail la
spending a few weeks with her grand-
parents, Mr, slid Mrs. R. Desch.
Mr. Rudy Swertentt'nber is still
confined to his room,
1 • Mrs, Lloyd Finnigan and daughter
Bertha of Exeter are spending a few
days with her mother Mrs, Clarke.
Frogs Herald Approach of Spring
They used to say that "you can't
fool an old boss -fly." So Much for the
fly, but we would like to know if the
bull -frog, too, cannot be fooled. I1 he
can't, then spring must be hovering
around mighty close, according 1:o the
experience of Mr. James Boyd, retired
C. P. R. conductor, who lives on No.
4 Highway fou' miles east of town.
One evening about a week ago when
the snow was deep and the weather
cold, Mr. Boyd was out and around
looking after his flock of fowl. As he
was returning to his home, which is
quite close to the river, he was
astonished to hear the croak of sev-
eral bull -frogs, a sure sign of spring,
not due for another six weeks or so.
— Durham Chronicle.
Culross Reeve Walked 17 Miles
If any one of Bruce County'sthirty-
three councillors is worthy of special
mention for devotion to duty it is
Reeve Joseph McInnes of the Town-
ship of Culross, who on finding the
concession near his home west of
Teeswater, impassable for motor or
horse-drawn traffic, set out on foot,
and made the entire journey of seven-
teen miles to the Bruce Capita 1 on
shanks' mare through one of the
worst blizzards that has ever been
experienced in this neck of the
woods. — Walkerton HeraldjTinles.
A witty speaker was proposing a
vote of thanks to the corpulent Pres-
ident of a Club. He said:
"There is a charming fable that
when a baby is born, its guardian
angel implants a kiss. If the kiss is
on the brow, the child will be very
intellectual, if on the eyes, very
beautiful, if on the fingers, • very
artistic and so on.
"Now, I cannot say where the
angel kissed our President, but I do
know he makes a very good Chair-
man."
A famous naval officer told this
story in London recently.
A convoy was on its way to Russia
under enemy observation for 'prac-
tically the whole of ten long Arctic
summer days. Focke-Wulfs circled
round only 100 feet up the whole
time spotting for U-boats. The offi-
cer in charge of the convoy ordered
every effort to shoot the planes
down. No one had any luck. Finally
the officer got fed up with the. Fock-
Wulfs and sent then a signal: "You
are making us dizzy. Please go the
other way round."
The Germans promptly obeyed.
SPEEDING, UP RADIOLOCATION
•
Czech Invention Smuggled Past the
Nazis
By the last train to leave free
Caechoslovakia there came to Britain
the drawings for a new type of
soldering iron which has beaten,
everything else for speed in Britain's
aircraft, radiolocation and tank fact-
ories.
It is the invention of a Czech
manufacturer who, with very little
money and only two cases of per-
sonal luggage, passed the German
Army of Occupation as they were
crossing the frontier. When he ar-
rived in London, he concentrated his
whole attention on his new "quick"
Soldering iron,- realising how vital e.
part so simple a tool plays in war
prodttction and maintenance.
Put to its first speed test at radio
control and transmitting stations[
the tool is now supplied from a South,
Wales factory at the a rate of three to
four thousand a week to radiolocation
centres, aerodromes, shipyards, ord-
nahhce factories, telephone exchanges.,
and in a wide range of general fact-
ories. „
Feature of the new soldering iron
These teen-age girls is that it is egiholly effective when
, used with the new soldering alloys
connections with with lower tin content introduced in
Britain to save ,stocks of tin,