The Seaforth News, 1953-07-30, Page 6.4 frozen -food loeker is un-
doubtedly a wonderful thing --
one of the greatest additions to
the comfort of countless families
mite' made.
Bur, like lots of other novel-
ties!, these lockers can be abused,
;tis well as used. Recentl; the
Editors of The Farm Journal
(Philadelphia) had a survey
,nude—a survey which produced
emu, interesting results.
So. instead of recipes this
week, here is some food for
thought for all present—or in-
tending — users of frneen-food
toekers.
.Every once in a while we hear
a woman say; "I'll never waste
locker space on green beans
again!' Or "That chicken we
froze has a peculiar taste." And
yen wonder why — for frozen
foods usually are pretty wonder-
ful.
We asked a couple of locket
plant operators: "How come—
why do locker users get unsatis-
factory results in their frozen
:Mods?" Each ratan came up with
n list of reasons—four of them
e ectJy the same, although the
operators are 1,000 miles apart.
\1J told, there were seven "sins"
of :locker users—things that may'
help you get better frozen food
fren? your locker or freezer.
J:t<pruper packaging heads the
itouble lists of Simon Olson, who
was 11 years in the locker busi-
ness. and Bob Madeira. (Mr.
Madeira is executive secretary
of the National Frozen Food
:teeeker Institute.)
"Too many old, Leake cartons
ars. pressed into service long al-
ter the wax has, worn off. Some
customers used wax paper, old
bread wrappers, cereal boxes,
1,4ser bags -and yes, even news-
pt.pers—to wrap foods. None of
these will keep the package air -
tart to protect the food from dry -
out during storage; so the re-
r•nit is ,iii' - flavor rand poor
is E:pruper processing of food's
lot teeeeing was next on both
les Olsen says: "Vegetables
meet be blanched, or - they'll
bee leer color and a strawlike
Siete. When people aren't -happy
keen frozen green beans, those
knee- probably weren't t blanched
wee adequately chilled before
t:,eSeging. Or. maybe the beans
se's!' over -hunched."
Ste: circ observes: "Too many
pi seek have vegetables standing
around a day or two before they
process them. Then they're disap-
irinted that the beans, already
tough by freezing time, don't
tone out beatifully tender.
Freezing doesn't improve food
euelity."
Choosing wrong a arieties of
'fruits and vegetables for freez-
W:V't SALLIES
•
".Look. Nick, at the screen! Just.
Jvnaline she's in your arms!"
ing was the third sin listed, Some
freeze better than others. Locker
managers have lists of reeom-
xnended varieties, and are eager
to help customers select right
seed.
Overloading the locker, which
keeps foods from freezing fast,
was sin number four. Mr. Olson
explains the importance of fast
freezing this way: "When ice
crystals form quickly, there's
less breaking up of the food tis -
sures, so less color, flavor, and
food value are •trawn out of the
food and into the crystals. Fast
freezing gives better textured,
better flavored food,"
M
And don't overload your
freezer when you freeze foods at
home to be transferred to the
locker. Put in only one-tenth of
the freezer's total capacity. For
instance, a freezer that holds 350
pounds will fast -freeze 35 pounds •
of food in a 24-hour period,
6 Y t
Remember, tai, that the ice -
cube section of a refrigerator is
not a fast -freeze section. It's de-
signed for storing foods. Only a
few of the new, two temperature
refrigerators 'maintain the zero
temperature necessary for freez-
ing.
Tossing packages holler sk.el-
ter into the locker is poor house-
keeping, says Madeira. Put the
unfrozen foods against sides of
the locker — the coldest spot.
Thawing them in among the al-
ready frozen foods warms up
these stored foods, keeps the new
packages from freezing quickly
--impairs quality.
Madeira continues: "We real-
ize that it's cold in locker rooms,
so people want to get out fast.
But they don't save any time by
throwing things in. When they
want a certain food later, they
have to root through to find it,"
r . ,
Poor handling of meat by the
customer was on Mr. Olson's list.
When a locker user complains of
poor -quality meat, the reason is
likely to be unsanitary butcher-
ing, such as a punctured intestine
which taints the meat; or freez-
ing before the animal has been
chilled long enough, which Ieaves
an "animal" taste in the meat;
or wrapping chickens too soon
after killing, ,so that they sour.
k
Expecting too much from the
meat they ask the locker man to
cut up, is Madeira's patron-prob-
km, "They don't understand that
50 pounds of beef won't give 50
pounds of edible meat. For in-
stance, one fourth of a hind-quar-
ier of beef is bone and fat" (The
old locker -plant joke about the
woman who asked to have a
quarter of beef cut into T-bone
steaks isn't funny to locker men!)
It might pay you to check your
own freezing practices against
these 'seven sins": improper
packaging; improper process-
ing; choosing wrong var-
ieties for freezing; overloading
the locker; poor housekeeping in
the locker; poor handling of
meat; and failure to undeitstand
meet shrinkage.
Everyone is very friendly in
the `io-bars" gaol at Fairmont,
West Virginia. One prisoner
amused himself by applying for
everything in the magazines that
was advertised on "money back
if not satisfied" terms. But the
governor finally had to draw
the line. He sent up tor ten day's
free trial of a gun.
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Illieiaim,g With Paint—Blozing trees with paint instead of on axe
is simplifying controlled tree cutting operations In Canadian fore
psis, The point is a highly visible brilliant yellow developed
epecificolly for tree marking. It may be applied with an Ale -
mite gun or a packsack-type pressure sprayer. Trees for felling
toe marked at about eye level endat the base of the trunk.
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S rikers Struck—Raymoid A, Geiger, right, is going to get in on
any picketing that's going on around his place of business. The
owner of a printing and advertising firm, Geiger pickets the
pickets during the first shut -clown due to a strike in the history
of the 75 -year-old Newark firm.
e, lain arse Sense.
by BOB EL AS
At one time Winston Church-
ill was attacked in the House of
Commons as unreliable, because
he had switched from one party
to another and back again. His
answer was: "To change is to
improve; to change often is to
become perfect."
Human nature being what it
is none of us will aver "be-
come perfect," but it is with ris-
ing hopes that we read the daily
morning revelations in our good
old friend, the Globe and MaiL
We remember that not so long
ago the tears were running down
its editorial page, because the
British did not have the dollars
to buy our farm products, At
that time„ of course we could
not dream of accepting payment
in any other form, We had to
have dollars to be able to buy in
the United States, At least, so
thought the Globe.
Change 01' Hearts or Spots?
Whenever Mr. Coldweil o.t•
Percy Wright tried to draw the
attention of the House of the
dangers inherent in the light
hearted manner in which the
British markets for our farm
surpluses were being abandoned,
they were derided, ridiculed, and
the hue and cry was: Dollars,
Dollars, Dollars!
Lately the attitude of the
Globe seems to have changed
and there is talk of regaining the
British markets and even of ac-
cepting sterling payments Time
only will tell whether the leop-
ard is changing his heart or only
his spots.
Probably Spots
Whatever the change, it does
not go so far as to accept the
idea of stabilizing farm prices
by government measures. In a
recent editorial "The Way Back
is the Way Out" the Globe dis-
cusses the "farm price support
program" in the United States
and draws certain analogies for
Canada,
Speaking of "alleged surplus-
es" and "stable farm prices" the
editor comes to the conclusion
that "the only remedy is to
abandon the system that created
them, thereby letting legitimate
production find legitimate mar-
kets at economic prices.'
Double Nelson
Farmers who are in the Double
Nelson of high prices for what
they buy and low prices for what
they sell, realize by now that the
"depression" which the Globe
fears "with vicious consequences
to world trade in manufactured
goods," will be caused by their
reduced purchasing power, if it
comes.
The reduced purchasing power
of the farmer in turn is a con-
sequence of the price and profit
policy of the manufacturers and
processors.
"The only remedy" is all-out
production, planned distribution
in co-operation with all countries
willing to co-operate, based on
stabilized prices.
To achieve this stability it will
be necessary to call a halt to
the exploitation ie, which the
farmer is subjected at present,
This could be done by control-
ling the profits of the corpora-
tions with whom he has to deal,
buying and selling,
We offer this suggestion io
farmers for discussion with their
candidates in the coming fed-
eral election.
If we cannot hope to become
perfect, we ran at least try to
improve.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions, wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question, Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1,
123 - 18th Street, New Toronto,
Ont,
Once A 'Ghost Town'
Now Waking Up
For more than 100 years the
little north Cornish cove of Port
Quin, close by the fishing har-
bour of Port Isaac, has been de-
serted. Every man, woman and
child, it is said, disappeared
within twenty-four hours, be-
cause:
Official reasons: A terrible
storm broke off the coast at a
moment when the entire male po-
pulation of the village were out
fishing. One after the other, eve-
ry ship of that small but proud
fleet was battered to pieces, Not
a man was saved.
Upon hearing the news, the
story runs, the women folk be-
lieved there was a curse on the
place, and took to their heels.
True reason: In fact, there was
no story at all. But trouble was
brewing, Every man in that fleet
was a smuggler on a large scale.
All had gone well for a time,
with many kegs landed and
stored away in secret hide-outs.
Then one day news was re-
ceived that the Preventive. Men
were on their trail, Whereupon
the Port Quin folk decided to
leave without more ado, scat-
tering in little family groups all
over Cornwall
So Port Quin became a ghost.
With every house and cottage
empty, roofs fell in and walls col-
lapsed, and weeds grew through
the floors.
Now, 100 years later, the cot-
tages which were not beyond re-
pair have been restored. With
its homes freshly painted and
gardens created out of the wild-
erness of weeds, the "ghost" of
Port Quin is gradually coming
to life again,
The Von Who Guarded Churchill
"Constable, if I have done
wrong, you have your tetnedy,
but you have obsolutely no right
to talk to me like that. Please
take his number, Thompson."
Those words were spoken by
Sir Winston Churchill in the
days when he was Chancellor of
the Exchequer,
He was driving his own cal
from London to his house in
Kent in company with ex -De-
tective -Inspector W. H Thomp-
son, who was detailed to guard
Sir Winston from 1921 until 1929.
during his visit to the U.S.A. in
1931-32, and from August, 1939,
until the end of the war in
Europe.
Apparently a policeman un
duty that day, when Sir Winston
was driving his car, signalled
him to stop, but instead of pull-
ing up Sir Winston pulled over
to his near side and partly
mounted the kerb in order to
let a bus pass him,
But "lie had reckoned without
the constable, who darted be-
hind the bus and stopped us, as
he was perfectly entitled to do,"
And then the fireworks began.
The policeman gave Sir Winston
a piece of his mind. More than
that, according to Mr, Thompson,
for he tells us that "as a police
officer myself I was more than
startled by the violence of the
expressions of this policeman,
"He abused Mr, Churchill
roundly and employed some very
objectionable language."
But the Prime Minister listen-
ed until the policeman ran out of
breath, and then "he stuck out
his jaw and replied savagely" —
I have quoted,
One can't help feeling sorry
for that arm of th elaw. Of
course, he'd been rude, and had
probably lost his temper, but
when he realised who he'd been
"ticking off" he appeared hor-
ror-struck.
When they reached the out-
skirts of Westerham• Mr. Thomp-
son heard his distinguished
driver muttering to himself. "He
was' right. Yes, he was right, I
should have been more careful,"
And Sir Winston . went on to
say: "I deserved all he said,
you know, although there was
no need for him to be SO violent
about it."
And the policeman was not re-
ported for saying rude things to
Sir Winston Churchill,
Mr. Thompson tells us that
sometimes during ti blitz on Lon-
don, Sir Winston would watch
the bombing and take reckless
chances. Once he remarked;
"When my time is due, it will
came." And he once refused to
get into an armoured•car, "I must
take my chances with the rest,"
he remarked firmly.
On another occasion he was
standing with Sir John Ander-
son watching the searchlights
when his C.LD, guard heard a
whistling noise and went into
action. He must be the only man
alive who can say that he has
thrown his arms round a Prime
Minister and "flung him with
all my strength behind tate door."
The PM was furious. "Don't
do that!" he roared. Re probably
said more than that, but Mr.
Thompson is very discreet, and
we are left guessing!
Once, at Palm Beach, Sir Win-
ston wanted to go bathing with-
out a costume, thinking the beach
he was using was private. Thomp-
son suggested that he could be
seen through glasses.
"lf they are so much interes-
ted, it is their .own fault what
they see," growled the P.M.
And when lie heard that sharks
had been seen within a few yards
of the shore, he wisecracked:
"My bulk must have .frightened
them away!"
This book is a treasure house
01 good stories about the P.M.
You should read 11,—"Sixty Min-
utes With Winston Churchill,"
by W. H. Thompson.
Pants to Match—A full -skirled
summer play suit with marching
pants are modelled by Elean-
ore Cruze. The outfit hos a bil-
lowing petticoat and o clever,
strapless bodice. Miss Cruze has
the title of "Miss Santo Barbara"
of 1953.
Sure bard to Swallow—It's not often that Dad and son both
experience the misery of a tonsillectomy on the same day, as
did Cecil Riggs and his son, Dennis, 5, The "team," feeling mis-
erable, shared the same bed after the ordeal. Double ice-cream
and aspirin was the order of the day.
These Homes Are for the Birds a
Most birds nest in ordinary places. At least they are ordinary for birds. But in every group we
are liable to find a few individualists with the urge to try something different. Howevsr, w
hen seen from a bird's-eye view, perhaps thesepeculiar places are not so,different after all.
These- robins nest In secure safety A blue jay proudly displays a This lady robin pick ed e salt
see long as no one kicks the union label. Poppa is e work.
bucket,sal mot, '' wire.
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