Zurich Herald, 1953-07-16, Page 6BLE
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A frozen -food locker is un-
doubtedly e wonderful thing --
One of the greatest additions to
The comfort of countless families
*seer made,
But, like lots of other novel-
ties, these lockets can be abused,
:as well as used. Recently the
Editors of The Farm Journ.ai
(Philadelphia) had a survey
rnade—a survey which produced
some interesting results,
So. instead of recipes this
week, here is some food for
thought for all present—or in-
tending -- users of frozen -food
lockers.
Every once in a while we hear
Al woman say: "I'll never waste
locker space on green beans
again." Or "That chicken we
:froze has a peculiar taste." And
you wonder why — for frozen
foods usually are pretty wonder-
ful.
We asked a couple of looker
pant operators: "How come—
why do locker users get unsatis-
factory results in their frozen
:foods?" Each than came up with
a list of reasons—four of them
exactly the same, although the
operators are 1,000 miles apart.
fall told, there were seven "sins"
of locker users—things that may
:help you get better frozen foods
from your locker or freezer.
Improper packaging heads the
trouble 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
Locker Institute.)
"Too many old, Ieaky cartons
re pressed into service long af-
ter the wax has worn off. Some
customers used wax paper, old
bread wrappers, cereal boxes,
paper bags—and yes, even news-
papers—to wrap foods. None of
these will keep the package air-
tight to protect the food from dry-
ing out during storage; so the re-
volt is off - flavor and poor
quality."
improper processing of foods
for freezing was next on both
lists. Olson says: (Vegetables
roust be blanched, or they'Il
.have poor color and a strawlike
taste-. When people aren't happy
:.,bout frozen green beans, those
beans probably weren't blanched
end adequately chilled before
packaging. Or, maybe the beans
were over -blanched."
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Madeira observes: "Too many
people have vegetables standing
around a day or two before they
process them. Then they're disap-
pointed that the beans, already
tough by freezing time, don't
come out b e a t i f u 11 y tender.
Freezing doesn't improve food
et uality."
Choosing wrong varieties of
fruits and vegetables for freez-
'Look, Nick, at the screen! Just
imagine she's in your arms!"
ing was the third sin listed, Some
freeze better than .others. Locker
managers have lists of recom-
mended varieties, and are eager
to help customers select right
seed,
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Overloading the locker, wields
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-
sues, so less color, flavor, and
food value are drawn out of the
food and into the crystals, Fast
freezing gives better textured,
better flavored food,"
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,
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Remember, too, that the ice -
cube section of a refrigerator is
not a fast -freeze section. Ifs de-
signed for storing foods. Only a
few of the new, two temperature
refrigerators maintain the zero
temperature necessary for freez-
ing.
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Tossing packages helier skel-
ter into the locker is poor house-
keeping, says Madeira. Put the
unfrozen foods against sides . of
the locker — the coldest spot.
Throwing 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."
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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 leaves
an "animal" taste in the meat;
or wrapping chickens too soon
after killing, so that they sour.
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Expecting too much from the
meat they ask the locker elan to
cut up, is Madeira's patron -prob-
lem. "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-
ter 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!)
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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 understand
meat shrinkage.
Everyone is very friendly in
the "no -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" germs. But the
governor finally had to draw
the line. He sent up for, ten day's
free trial of a gun.
VIleizing With Paint-8Iazing trees with paint instead of an oxe
is simplifying controlled tree cutting operations in Canadian for-
ests. The paint is a highly visible brilliant yellow developed
specifically for tree marking. It may be applied with an Ale-
mite gun or a packsack.type pressure sprayer. Trees for felling
are marked at about eye level and at the base of the trunk.
Strikers Struck.—Raymond 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-downdue to a strike in the history
of the 75 -year-old Newark firm.
•.P..ai it Horse SenseG.
by BOB ECUS
At one time Winston Church-
ill was attacked in the Reuse 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. over "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
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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 of ?Iea•ts or Spotsaenz
Whenever Mr. Coldwell or
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 ,upport
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
theni, 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 ani 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 to which the
farmer is subjected at present.
'Phis could be done by control-
ling the profits of the corpora, -
tions with whom he has to deal,
buying and selling.
We offer this suggeation to
farmers for discussion with their
er�rididates in the coming fed-
eral election.
Ii' we cannot hope to become
perfect, we can at least try
improve.
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This column welcomes sug-
estions, wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Sox 1,
123 - 18111 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 th.e fishing har-
bour of Port Isaac, has been de-
serted:' Every •man, woman and
child;'" it is said, disappeared
within twenty-four hours, be-
aUse:
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 sf niggler 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 arid cdttage
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 .Man ':`ho Guarded Churchill
"Constable, if I have done
wrong, you have your remedy,
but you have absolutely 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 car
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,
u li t i l the end of the war in
Europe.
Apparently a policeman on
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 "he 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 Weste:ham. Mr. Thomp-
son heard his distinguished
driver muttering to himself. "He
was right. Yes, he was right. 1
should have been more careful."
Ansi Sir Winston went on to
say: "I deserves) 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 a blitz on Lon-
don, Sir Winston would watch
the bombing and take reckless
chances. Once he remarked:
"When my time is due, it will
-come." 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.I.D. guard heard a
whistling noise and went into
action. He must be the only than
alive who can say that he has
thrown his arms round a "Prime
Minister and "flung hin, with
all my strength behind the door."
The PM was :Curious, "Don't
do that!" he roared. He probably
said more than that, but Mr.
Thompson is very discreet, anti
we are left guessing!
Once, at Palm Beach, Sir Win=
stop 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,
"If they are so much. interes-
ted, it is their own fault what
they see," growled the P.M.
And when he 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
of good stories about the P.M.
You should read it.—"Sixty Min-
utes With Winston Churchill,"
by W. H. Thompson.
Pants' to Match -A full -skirted
summer play suit with matching
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 Santa Barbara"
of 1953,
Sure Hard 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
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Most birds nest in ordinary places. At least they are ordinary for birds. But in every grcup we
are liable to find a few individualists with the urge to try something different. However, w
hen seen from a bird's-eye view, perhaps thesepecvliar places are not so different after all.
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These robins nest'in secure safety A blue joy proudly displays a, -phis lady robin picked, e, ca
as long as no one kicks the union label, Popper is a work•.
bucket, , ing &ban;,. • of \Eire,