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Zurich Herald, 1953-07-30, Page 2TABLE TALKS eianize A,ndrews A few words about canning, and especially the canning of vegetables, might not be out of place at this time, Perhaps you'd like to know how many quarts of home -can- ned vegetables you can expect from a bushel of fresh produce. Here are a few average yields to be anticipated. Asparagus, 11 quarts; snap beans, 6-8 quarts; beets (without tops). 17-20 quarts; carrots, 16-20 quarts; sweet corn, 8-9 quarts; peas (measuredin pods), 12-15 quarts; spinach, 6-8 quarts, and sweet potatoes, 18-22 quarts, E 4 „ Vegetables and fruits are best for canning when they are at the peak of ripeness, sound and fresh. Before using jars, exam- ine them carefully and be sure they are free of nicks, rough spots, and sharp edges, :x * a. Check lids and discard any that are rusty or warped. Wash your jars in soapy water, rinse, and cover with hot water; keep them hot until ready to fill. When using dome lids, pour boiling water over them and leave them an water while filling jars. Wash all your vegetables or fruits clean, rinse and drain before cut- ting, peeling, pitting, etc. 4 * When filling jars, leave 1/2 inch head space for fruits and most vegetables, but leave 1 inch for corn, peas, shelled beans and meats. Cover food with hot liquid and run a knife down in- side jar to remove air. Wipe top of jar, put lid on Jar and screw band tight (band must screw down evenly all the 'way around). Process immedi- ately. .4 + :4 After processing, take cans out of canner and stand them out of a draft and several inches apart until they cool, Cool jars about 12 hours before removing bands, 4 .k :k Always follow carefully the manufacturer's instructions for using your cooker. Allow steam to flow from cooker 10 minutes before closing vent and start counting processing time when the pressure reaches the point needed to give 240° F. At sea level to 2,000 feet above, process at 10 pounds and increase pres- sure for higher altitudes. 4 4 4 Sweet pickled beets add bright color and piquant taste to lun- cheons or dinner the year round. Garnish with them either whole or sliced or cut into interesting shapes; use them instead of sal- ad for a hurry -up meal; ring them around a meat platter for a decorative frame; top cottage cheese with them or serve them on the side. You'll find dozens of uses for them -and this is the way you make them. PICKLED BEEF 4 quarts small cooked beets 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 long stick cinnamon 1 tablespoon allspice 31/ cups vinegar 11/2 cups water Leave roots and 3 inches of stem on beets. Wash, rinse, cook and skin beets. Add sugar, salt and spices (tied in bag) to vine- gar and water. Simmer 15 mi- nutes. Add beets, Boil 5 minutes. Pack hot beets into hot jars. Cover with the hoist pickling si- rup. If not enough sirup to cover, add more vinegar. Put dome lid on jar and screw band tight. Process pints and quarts 30 mi- nutes in boiling water bath, * .4 . While the summer sun is ripening vegetables, think of next winter's cold blasts and storms when a big bowl of steaming vegetable soup will be the best dinner your family can imagine. You can gather into jars the makin's for this soup right now and add a jar to your meat stock next winter. * e VEGETABLE SOUP MIXTURE 5 quarts -.chopped tomatoes 2 tablespoon salt 2 quarts sliced okra 2 tablespoon sugar 2 quarts corn, freshly cut from cob. Cook tomatoes until soft, then press . through sieve to remove skins. Add other vegetables, salt and sugar to tomato pulp. Boil until slightly thick. Put into hot jars. Fasten lids. Process pints and quarts 60 minutes at 10 pounds. $ .. Whole -Kernel! Corn Choose- tender, juicy corn at just the right stage for eating if you want your next winter's Canned corn to have that fresh taste. For easy husking, cut both ends from ears; remove silk with a vegetable brush. For whole - kernel corn, cut with a smooth downard stroke at about two- thirds the depth of the kernels. Measure into pan and add 1/2 as much boiling water as corn.. Heat to boiling. Pack hot corn to 1 inch of top of glass jars and Pocket Radio is the Latest -The world's smallest portable radio,. measuring six inches wide and Ph inches in thickness, was recently shown. The palm -sized receiver is small enough to be carried in a woman's purse or the breast pocket of a man's suit. The entire battery -powered set weighs less than one pound, ar CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Copied 4. East Indian weight 8. Not hard 12. Body of inland water 13. Anger 14. Medley 15. Means 17. Cozy home 18. Give up 19. Richly decorated 21. Ruins 23. Attempted 26. Dined 27, Faucet. 30, Purposes 31. Goddess of the harvest 32. Foot (comb. form) 33, Shrill bark 24, American general 35 Mistake 36, Regard too highly 39. 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Diamonds like these will be part of the $15,000,000 "Stars From the Earth" display in Women's World at the C.N.E;, Toronto, which opens August 28th. Baumgold Bros., the world's largest diamond cutters, are arranging the display and will show rough stones in addition to unset and set diamonds. Van Cleef and Arpels and Birks are ' lending their high fashion, fabulously expensive pieces. cover with hot cooking liquid, leaving a 1 -inch space at top. Add 3/i teaspoon salt to pints. Screw on lids. Process at 10 pounds 55 minutes for pints; 85 minutes for quarts. Canned Carrots Wash and rinse carrots; cover with boiling water and cook about 5 minutes to loosen skins. Drain and peel carrots. Rinse and either slice or leave whole, whichever you. like best. Pack into hot jars. Add 1 teaspoon salt to each quart; cover carrots with boiling water. Put lid on and screw band tight. Process pints 20 minutes and quarts 25 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. 4 :► 4 • Green, Snap, or Wax Beans Chose crisp stringless beans and wash and drain. Use several. waters for washing, lifting beans • : out each time. Snip off stem ends and break or cut into even pieces. Cover with boiling water and cook 3-5 minutes. Pack hot beans in glass jars. Add 1 tea - 'spoon salt to each quart; cover beans with boiling water. Put On lid and screw band tight. Pro- cess pints 20 minutes and quarts ..25 minutes at 10 pounds pres- sure. (If beans in pods are near ,`:shell -out stage, add 20 minutes t0 processing time.) Keeping Cool hi the;:. Kitchen - Some Short Cuts For Warm Days Don't let summer housekeep- ing, cooking, and canning get you down. All this is necessary, work that has to be done.: Btit plan to make this summer as' easy on yourself as possible. Without shirking the necessary tasks, you will be surprised how much you can save yourself by careful planning. First keep your cooking to a minimum. You can do this and still feed the family. well. Learn all the short cuts possible and put them into practice. It is sur- prising how much energy and time you can save when you really try. Plan your marketing more carefully, Make out your menus for at least one week ahead; then you can plan more care- fully what groceries you will need, utilizing any leftovers, Get as many things at one store as possible; this saves having to run all over town for just one or two items. And do as much of your cooking as you can in the cool of the day. I start my main dinner dish at breakfastime. Rice, or any of the macaroni or noodles that make the basis of so many main dishes or salads, will cook with- out any special attention while I wash the breakfast dishes. I always cook a little more tkian I will need for that day's eating, for any of these is just as good the second or third day as the first, and can be the foun- dation for a quick pick-up meal Store in the refrigerator and they are ready to use. Quick Morning Tricks Potatoes may also be cooked in the morning. To save work, fuel, and- time, boil enough for several days. With a little in- genuity on your part they can come to the table each time in entirely different form. Serve them creamed one day, home - fried the next, The third day try Lyonnaise potatoes, a favorite dish in our family. Simply dice the cooked potatoes into small pieces, sea- son with salt and pepper, and lightly fry in bacon or ham drip- pings, with plenty of diced green onion in them. Of course, there are many other ways to serve potatoes. Potato salad may be made from the cold diced po- tatoes and is always a favorite, You will find salads can be put together more easily and quickly if you keep several kinds of salad greens on hand. I pre- pare them at one time, wash and tuck them into plastic bags, and store in the refrigerator. They will keep crisp this way and are ,"ready to use at a moment's notice. adishes and cucumbers keep esb and can float in a bowl of s Water. in the'refrigerator, re they are readily available; ,and need only draining and dry- ing. Make a quantity of salad dress- ing, at one time. Keep your fa- worite kind stored in a quart jar •'in the refrigerator. Then it won't be necessary to --make dressing'' each time you make salad. And keep a variety of cheese on hand. 'It is wonderful to blend with your salads to give them variety, and also to use in many kinds of sandwich fillings. Stock ant Emergency Shelf Nokitchen should be without its well -stocked emergency shelf. I find mine one of my greatest cooking time-savers, for it can pinclf hit in many an eiilifergency. On it are packages of prepared pancake, cake biscuit mixes, From them I can quickly stir up most any kind of dessert or hot breads. I also keep cans of tuna fish and crab flakes to be creamed, or to use as stuffing for tomatoes Or peppers. I have on hand, too, all sorts of noodles, pars of ravi- oli, spaghetti sauces,' cans of pork and beans, chili, and luncheon meat. Plan your marketing wisely 1 Plain Horse Sense.. by BOB by BOB ELLIS A few days ago we had the Op- portunity of attending the An- nual Picnic of Wentworth County Federation Of Agriculture which they hold every year in the old. Dundas Driving Park. We noted with interest that at last some parts of the Fede- ration. of Agriculture are get- ting political minded although not to the extent that they would give all parties4'equal op- portunities to present their views. Guest speaker at the picnic was the House Leader of the Li- beral Party in the Ontario Le- gislature, Mr. Farouar Oliver. Mr. Oliver's message to the farmers of Wentworth did not contain much hope for the fu- ture. He maintained that the matter of the lost British mar- kets was a problem not of one party but of all parties. He is of . the opinion anyway that Ca- nada's "natural markets" are South of the 49th parallel. Not Desirous Mr. Oliver said that there were two main reasons why Ca- nadian foodstuffs do not go to Britain anymore. Firstly Britain could buy cheaper in other countries. Secondly she did net have enough dollars. We could, of course, buy more from Britain and by this method supply her with the necessary dollars. "But most of the things we could bring over," the Li beral Leader continued, "are be- ing manufactured in Canada and our manufacturers are nOt de- sirous to see them imported." No explanation, however, was offered why Canada could im- port farm implements from the United States to the tune of 60 million dollars per yearand why it should not be feasible to switch at least part of these importations to Britain. Somewhere in the back of a farmer's mind the lingering, thought remains that the same manufacturers who are "not de- sirous" to see imports from Bri- tain come into Canada want those goods to come from their parent companies in the United States. Such practice, of course, would be detrimental not only to agri- culture, but to Canadian eco- nomy as a whole, of which agri- culture still is the most import- ant part. Politics . ? Mr, Oliver congratulated the and: you will save yourself hours 'of running 'around. Any •good' re- frigerator will hord supplies for a week. By shopping on the week end you can take advantage of week -end specials when grocer- ies are cheaper. Shop carefully from a thoughtful list and your food dollars will go farther. To make patty shells on the spur of the moment, fit bread slices into a muffin tin and brown in a moderately hot oven. When unexpected guests drop in and there is no dessert in sight you can turn plain bread into cake by this quickie method. Cut slices of white bread into strips, dip into sweetened milk, roll in shredded coconut and bake, Bake your next meat loaf in a tube cake pan. This cuts baking time considerably and you can fill the center with vegetables to make an attractive plate. Eggplant does not need to be peeled. If the skin is left on, the eggplant will keep its shape bet- ter when broiled or fried, and the skin is quite edible. Ten minutes before serving pan-fried chicken, smother it with sour cream. This really gives it an extra delicious flavor and at the same time tenderizes the meat. - From The Christian Science Monitor. Federation of Agriculture on the wonderful job it was doing for the farmers from coast to coast by representing their interests in dealing with federaland pro- vincial governments. He also expressed his satis- faction that the Federation is keeping out of politics as he knows from his own experience that farmers as a group are not successful in political action. By not being affiliated with any one party the Federation could, accaording to Mr. Oliver put "the full pressure of its weight" on any government. He did not say what the Federation should do if the "pressure of its weight" did not impress the government to which it was be- ing applietd, ... or no Politics? "Maybe labour would be bet- ter off," Mr. Oliver wondered, "if it would follow the same course and keep out of politics." He finished his address by say- ing aying that he understood a poli- tical battle was , presently going on and that he did not want to give the impression that he wat making a political speech. After listening with due res- pect the ladies resumed their neighbourly conversation and the kids, their races on land and in the water. 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. Come On, Bomb! Millionaire bachelor Hal Hayes, a Hollywood building contractor, has built what is claimed to be the world's first atom bomb -proof mansion. This amazing home has a main entrance which is a tun- nel leading to a grotto where a waterfall controlled by a push- button flows over 200 orchids and other exotic blooms. The mansion has a 57 ft. by 23 ft. swimming pool which is half indoors. In the outside half are floating gardenias and rare . trees costing $2000 each. You can dive under an artificial hill, and. there is a 'bridge made from a $5000 curved palm tree. Swimming under a glass wall, you find yourself inside the house at the foot of a bar. Next to that is a bomb shelter, comp- lete with lead walls, bath, kit- chen. Taps in the kitchen are marked champagne, Bourbon, Scotch and beer. The taps work! When you push a button in the mansion's living -room, a green carpet creeps slowly up the glass wall. It's a black -out . curtain. The mansion's roof is built so that it can't cave in, and the whole building is anchored into the ground on three concrete pillars. The millionaire const- ructed it to demonstrate his ideas to other building contractors. Ousidedown to Prevent Peeking 90 N3 `;„'' <:Q ki 3z::? 99233 S301 VW •.= 3 N 90 3 1 9 V N 3 W V' '',il 1 A3 1Q3 10©': 3 1 1r 5012 31VQ213A0`*y1 b O bQ3 ',' 3 3 1 s.d 3a 3d ©d0 ;9W 1V dy.L 31V 03 1231 9 A O b J. 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