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Zurich Herald, 1951-09-20, Page 3Now fora few more recipes al. ante the pickliItg• line—all thorough- ly tested aura sure to phase. PRIZE PICKLED ONIONS 1 basket silversklns or small yellow onions Vinegar Whole mixed pickling !spices Brine Remove skins of onions; place overnight in a very strong brine. 1n the morning drain; pack loosely in steretIII,ked one -pint sealers. Adore 1 tablespoon whole pickl- ing spice to each pint jar of onions. Scald % gallon cider vinegar with the spice for 10 minutes. Cool and pour over onions, distributing the spices evenly among the jars. If onions are not entirely covered, add a little more hot spiced vinegar. Seal and store for 3 months before using. :If brine is too weak, the onions become mottled or spotted, * * PICKLED RED CABBAGE Remote all dark, outer leaves from 4 fine beads of red cabbage, slice % inch thick, or put through the food chopper. place in a crock, sprinkle •over 2 cups of salt; cover with cold water and let stand over- night. In the m or n i n g drain thoroughly: pack the cabbage loosely in 1 -quart sterilized scalers; pour over vinegar which has been scalded with 2 tablespoons of mixed whole pickling spice (tied, its a bag) for each quart of vinegar. Seal im- mediately. If the vinegar is very strong, dilute with a little !hater. tt e: PRIZE MUSTARD PPIC KLES 1 sweet green pepper 1 sweet red pepper 3 pints silverskin onions 2 quarts small, firm gherkins 2 small heads cauliflower Ve cup mustard 94 cup Five Roses Moue 1 cup cold vinegar 7 cups cider vinegar 234 cups brown sugar 2% teaspoons turmeric 1 tablespoon mustard seed Remove the seeds from peppers and cut in strips; peel onions; wash gherkins; break cauliflower into small flowerets. Sprinkle with 1% cups of salt, cover with cold water and let stand overnight. In the morning, drain thoroughly and place an a scalded crock or other large earthenware receptacle. Blend flour, mustard and 1 cup of cold vinegar to stake a paste. Heat the remaining 6 cups of vine- gar, add tete brown- sugar and tur- meric. Add the blended mustard and flour and stir and cook its' a double boiler until thick and. smooth about 20 minutes, Add the mustard seed, and pour the sauce over the pickles. Mix thoroughly; pact: in sterilized jars and seal. Al- low the pickles to stand for 3 months before using. * • * INDIA RELISH 1 peck green tomatoes 1 small cabbage 6 onions, chopped 3 red peppers, chopped 2 green peppers, chopped 8 cups granulated sugar 2 tablespoons celery seed 2 tablespoons mustard seed 2 tablespoons coriander seeds 1 tablespoon .stick cinnamon 1 tablespoon whole cloves 114 cups salt 3 quarts cider vinegar Chop tomatoes, add salt and let stand overnight. Next morning, drain, add cabbage, chopped fine, and boil it 3 quarts of vinegar. Add onions, peppers, sugar, celery, mustard and coriander seeds. 'Tie TIN PAN ALLEY By RICHARD KLEINER Pull up a guitar and listen to the plaintive lament entitled "The City Slicker \What. Was Done Wrong By the Hill -Billy; or Those Tin - Pan Alley Blues." This ballad tells the story of the sophisticated. songwriters who used to turn out bit tunes about Love and Moon and Love and Kisses. Nowadays they are either (a) starving to death or (b) writing about little gals in calico and little boys in Levis 'and the wind whistl- ing across the plains and such -like. The last five years or so have found the hillbilly songs (now dig- nified with the name "country songs") growing increasingly pop- ular. Even along the- dusty trails of New York, you'll :find the buck- aroos singing. "On Top of Old Smoky" and "Tennessee \Waltz"„as they herd their taxicabs thro" glt the macadam meadows. Actually, there are three types of country music. There is authen- tic folk music, Like "Old Sntoky," which are ballads that have been sung its the mountains for genera- tions. Then there are the songs turned out by country composers, like "Tennessee Waltz," written by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart. Most of these are popularized over the gratin-pappy of country - music shows, .Nashville "Grand 01' • Opry." f' Last and newest entrant in the country music field are the tunes written by Tin -Pan Alley compo- sers who have gone back to the soil for warm inspiration and cold cash. Typical is "My Truly, Truly Fair," written by Bob Merrill. But, '.lin-Pan Alley is having its troubles. The folksy music requires a knack, like anything else. And many of the successful city song- writers just don't have it. Their big flaw, apparently, is that they're too smart for themselves. Their creations are all slick, the phrases '''neatly turned, tete music fits the snood and everything sticks together like flies to a anile: But, to a real country music fan, it lacks the simiplicity and story -telling qualities that make a homespun it. And a coun't'ry music hit is a big thing these days. Just the thought of what such songs as "Good Night Irene' and "Tennessee Waltz" Itave 'done fi- nancially sets any New York pub- lisher to drooling into his hominy grits and yogurt. "Tennesseee Waltz," for example, is rolling along faster than "White Christ - pion, \Vhat accounts for the sudden nation-wide love of country mu- sic? Nobody knows for sure, but there are plenty of theories. Most. authorities feel that the war had a lot to• do with it. During the war years, small towners caste to big towns for work in defense industries.• They craved some of their favorite mu- sic on the radio, and big town disc jockeys obliged. This spread the craze into the cities, by a pro- cess of nasal osmosis. Others say the city music lov- ers were getting fed up with the endless variations on the Love theme dished out by Tin -Pan Alley. They welcomed country music as a long -needed relief. Another group, more practical, feels that it carte about because of the decline of dance bands in popularity, Since the war, the big recording names have all been vocalists, They needed many songs to sing, and searched around for ballads and novelty tunes with catchy lyrics. Their search lcd them into the country songs. l\'ltatever the reason, country music's popularity gives evidence of being permanent—at least for a while. From Grand 01' Opry's stars like Red Foley and Ernest Tubb to New York night-clttb fa- vorites like the Weavers and josh White, it's country music, 2 to 0. And cven.Ezio Pinza. has just re- corded a ditty entitled ".L'il 01' State of Texas," Next year. the Met Wray present "'Tristan Und Daisy Juste." Ring of the Country is the country -style musician, like this guiterist- vocalist. The songs he sings are the songs that everybody is singing These days. Prince Charlie Stars At Royal Outing—Young Prince Charles, who'll be three in November, was the center of attraction, sitting astride a sculpture of a deer in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scot- land, summer residence of the British Royal family. Left to right are: King George, wearing kilts; Princess Elizabeth; her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh; Prince Charles; Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth. Just out of the picture (in a baby carriage held by the king) was Princess Anne, youngest member of the royal household. the cinnamon and cloves in a mus- lin bag. Boil together until onions are tender. Remove spice bag and bottle while .tot. NINE DAY SWEET PICKLES 4 quarts gherkins 21,4 pounds white sugar 7% cups vinegar 2 ounces mixed pickling spices Place cucumbers i n a crock; ,'over with brine strong enough to float an egg; let stand 3 days. •Drain, cover with clear cold water; let soak for 3 days, changing the water each day, Drain, cover with a cold weak solution of vinegar and water to which has been added a • piece of alum the size of a small walnut. Gradually bring to boiling point and simmer for 1 hours. Drain and discard the` vinegar. Place the pickles in a crock; cover with the following syrup; Mix the sugar and vinegar together and add the spices; tied in a bag. Boil for 15 minutes. Pour over the pickles. Pour the mixture off the pickles and heat to scalding point, • day for 3 days. These pickles will then pour over them again, each keep well in a crock or in jar:.. * * * QUICK DILL PICKLES Pack .fresh, crisp cucumbers about 4 inches long, in quart jars. Prick each cucumber once or twice, using.a silver fork. Place 1 medium- sized bunch of dill. in the top of each jar and cover with a solution made by heating 1 -pint of vinegar, 1 cup of salt and 2% quarts of water, without allowing,the mixture to Boit. Use while hot, and seal the jars immediately• when cool. Store in a cool dark place for 4 to 6 weeks before using. PEPPER HASH Remove the seeds and white in- side part from 12 red sweet peppers and 12 green sweet peppers. Peel 12 medium-sized onions. Put onions and peppers through the food chop- per; cover with boiling water, let stand for 15 minutes; drain well. Put in saucepan with cold water to cover add ' cup salt, bring quick- ly to boiling point for 5 minutes. Drain off the water; add to the mix- ture 1 pint of cider vinegar and 1 pouttd of granulated sugar. Put again over the fire and let boil for 12 minutes, counting from the time .tire mixture begins to boil. Can in sterilized jars, t: a+ t PRIZE FRUIT SAUCE 30 large ripe tomatoes 6 onions 6 pears 6 peaches 3 green peppers 3 red sweet peppers 4 cups granulated sugar 1 large bunch of celery - 2 tablespoons salt 1 quart cider vinegar cup mixed pickling spices Chop the vegetables, mix toget- her remaining ingredients and sim- mer slowly until thick, about 2 hours, Store in sterilized air -tight jars. Tie the pickling spices in a ;muslin bag and discard before bottling the sauce. RUN ON 1933 DOLLARS Boston, Mass.—Banles across the L.S. are reporting depositor de- mands for 1933 silver dollars, ac- cording to figures tabulated by the :central agency here. This demand is believed to be n result of a leaf- let issued by a mutual fluid, which pointed Out that the 1933 dollar would buy twice as much as those currently being issued. Every once in a while I have at sort of guilty feeling that I don't write enough about the problem of conserving our natural resources. One has only to go to the spot where any of our rivers empty into Lake Eric or Lake Ontario in order to -realize the vast amount of val- . stable soil that is steadily being swept away and lost forever, c• a: Of course something is being done about it—int not nearly enough. In this connection I would like to pass along to you a portion of an article written by F. 1-I. Kortright, President of the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association. The part where he quotes a prediction made almost 125 years ago is especially interesting in view of what has hap- pened since. So here you are--- . * * Oise hundred years ago this On- tario of ours was a land. of forests, unlimited game, clear rivers and streams teaming with fish. • There were countless numbers of moose, deer, beaver, otter, mink, ducks, geese and -grouse, and even the mag- nificent wild turkey was found in southern areas. Yes, there were also wolves, fox- es, bears, hawks, owls and -outer so-called predators in abundance. But the worst predator of all—man —had not yet got to tvurk. 4' • The mightly Atlantic Salmon liv- ed in. Lake Onta-io and tributary. streams, being so numerous that often a• thousand or more were kill.. ' ed in the course of a single night, M any reached over 40 lbs.. in weight. .in 1829 one John MeTaggart. a civil engineer in the service of the British Governmcrt, wrote, con- cerning Ontario:— "Trees of ,•arious kinds are to he found thickly- growing together for thousands of miles. That they sera c to allay the severity of the climate, is surely one of the uses for which they are intended; it neither being so ltot amongst the trees itt sum- mer, nor yet so cold in wiutca, as it is in the cleared country. In the former season, the rays of the sun are chiefly withheld from the .soil by the leaves and branches: and in the latter, the cold which is generated in the atmosphere, is also prevented by tham from dart- ing down and freezing tip the pores of the earth; they may, therefore, be said to act both as a shade and a covering. When the rain falls they imbibe and retain more cooling moisture than the land would do without then!; hence tete !Banc springs we find in the wood,. Per- haps the rivers and lakes will be- come affected diffc.ently if once these immense territories are shorn of their trews; some of them may dry up alt together in summer . The laws of nature when dis- turbed by the,hand of man are apt to retaliate to his injury." * These words, spoken 122 years ago, were prophetic words! A large part of our natural resources of for- est, field and stream are now gone forever. Nature has, indeed, retal- iated to man's injury. * * st • Civilization has now changed this Province into a land of cities and towns, vast farms, huge industrial plants, trines, and paper and lumber mills. It is now a land mainly de- nuded of its forests; vast areas are eroded and unfit for cultivation; many of its streams are dried. up, or polluted to the extent that they can no longer support fish life. Test For Drivers A driver -testing device that telis motorists .tow well they can see out of the corers of their eyes when they are looking straight ahead has been presented by the Aetna Life affiliated Companies to the Franklin Institute., The "perio- rneter," as the device is named, tests a motorist for "tunnel vision" by scoring his peripheral vision in eighteen separate vision areas. As the "driver" peers through a simu- lated windshield, miniature figures alternately spin on either side of his line of vision, When movement is detected the "driver" must move the steering wheel away from the moving object. lace of Many Nameo When a family has lived in one place for several years, it becomes a place of many names, This of necessity, as the fancily goea about its daily affairs; the names aro*, out of efforts at description for the most part—it is not easy to assign thein. The children think up many names and discard most of them in time.. . The land we live on is a rough. square of twenty acres, based on eight or nine hundred feet of rive.: bank, The river is the 1:•ll., four hundred feet wide at this point, swift and broken, flowing ' front west to east. A dusty gravel road divides the twenty acres, nine acres on the river side of the road, eleven acres on the other side. The house stands just about in the centre of the nine acres on the river side, rather over a hundred feet from the edge of the river. The barn is on the far side of the road and three or four acres of -rough clearing around it make up the Barn Field, Behind that are the Alders, a swampy thicket of alder and maple and salntonberry with a pleasant creek flowing throuth one corner—Kingfisher Brook, as a matter of fact, though 1 have never heard the name used and know it only from an old plan I once saw in a real-estate office. On that side of the road a missing person or thing can only be in one of three places—"over at the barn." which would include a check on the chicken house forty- or fifty feet away; "in the Earn Field" or "back in the Alders," This side of the road is much more complicated, chiefly because it has been fenced into small en- closures which pasture ten or fif- teen black sheep. East of the house there is a one -acre pasture along the road: Richardson's Field to the children. Between that and the ris ver is the Old Orchard, a collet: - tion of plum and cherry and pear trees Then there is the Hedge, a hundred -and -fifty -foot line of Douglas firs, moved in front the woods ten or twelve years ago and Blipped each summer, . , . The children's navies go beyond the narrow limits of the line fences now, but once beyond these they have lesser urgency and even brief er life , , . There is the Salt -water, through Discovery Passage, am- ong the islands, across the breadth of the Gulf of Georgia; and be- yond that, the Mainland Mountains, Towards home again the Tidal Ri' ver, then the Cleared Land—our own and a few other farms on the flat immediately above the tidewa- ter. Beyond that again the Alder thickets and the Stream Bottoms, the Open Logging Works and the First Lakes, then the Deep Woods and more lakes and the High Mountains of the heart of Vancou- ver Island beyond therm all.—From "Measure of the Year," hg Roder.. ick I.. Haig -Brown. GREAT TALKER 'Among the pupils its a citetitistr;y class was a boy who had a tendency to monopolise discussions. His teacher decided that this trouble-. some habit should be brought to the attention of his parents. On the boy's report card he wrote: "Char- les is a good lad but he talks tom much." Afew days later the report was returned, together with a footnote from his father: "You should meet his mother!" 6�1 HAROLD ARNET1' 01:151111'1;OKSDULLED AGAINST ROCKS MAY GE SHARPENED BY RUBBING POINTED ENDS ACROSS SCRATCHING SURFACE OF AL OOl< OF MATCHES. yr A,'tKtir Pointer /It. Fir YOU AS SOON AS X WAIT t� THIS LAM! SIR.