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The Huron Expositor, 1941-11-14, Page 6• THE 1 tiN VRON EXPQMOR • Sy ANNE ALLAN Hydro noon* Economist SAUCE FOR DESSERTS Hello Homemakers! Can you im- agine eating porridge without milk or cream? Well—it's' almost as import- ant to serve pudding accompanied by a sauce. Every - kitchen executive should.learn to make a variety of de- sert sauces. If she wants to serve inexpensive, good meals. It's such a good way of stretching the food dol- lar and conserving waste. That bit of slightlyry cake can be re -condi- tioned and served as pudding—sim- ply steam over a pot of potatoes and drench with plenty of hot chocolate or flavoured sauce. * * * Now a hard sauce should be a soft fluffy sauce; a custard"sauce should be smooth—not curdled and a fudge sauce should be heavy, not crystalline. ICOBAC :POe Tobacco] FOR A MILO, COOL, SMOKE For variation, if its a plain apple pud- ding, dust a little nutmeg into the syrup—and for a rich steamed pud- ding try a burnt sugar sauce. Once in a while for a little different flavour note make a brown sugar hard sauce or a fruit hard sauce. Fold in pieces of left -over fruit. * * * One of the most useful of all sauc- es is the soft or boiled custard. You can serve it in a dozen different ways ,hot or cold on plain or rich des- serts. Perhaps the most economical of all dessert toppings is the plain, sugar sauce. A sprinkling of lemon rind or a dash of cinnamon for fruit l-.uddings, or apple cider for the plain cottage pudding makes this sauce varied and delectable. - * * .,* Cereal puddings are best topped with sieved aprieots or prunes, folded into stiffly -beaten egg whites or whip- ped cream,, * * * RECIPES Raisin Sauce 1 cup seeded raisins, chopped fine 11/ cups cold water 1/2 cup sugar 11/2 tablespoons iemoU juice. Add raisins to water; Simmer un- til soft. Add sugar and cook 15 min- utes- .Add lemon juice, Marshmallow Sauce Iia !b. marshmallows 1 cup confectioner's sugar 14 cup boiling water. Cut marshmallows into pieces. Melt in saucepan on small element turned to low or simmer. Dissolve in boil- ing water, add to marshmallows. Stir until blended. Coffee Cream Sauce 2 eggs, slightly beau 4 tablespoons sugar 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup cold coffee 1/3 cep cream, beaten stiff., Add sugar and salt to eggs. Add coffee. Cook until thickened, stirring as necessary. Cool, fold in cream, Ginger Sauce 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 3 tablespoons chopped crystallized giner. Boil 10 minutes on element turned "medium." Hard Sauce 1/3. cup butter 1 cup confectioner's sugar Flavouring. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, creaming it in well. The mixture should have the consistency of thick whipped cream. Chill in refrigerator. Add flavouring just before serving. The flavouring may be: One teaspoon vanilla and a grating of nutmeg; liq- uid spice, etc. One teaspoon to one tablespoon of coloured flavourings, added slowly. STABILIZATION OF PRICES AND WAGES Your -Country asks your loyal support of this Wartime Measure TWO NEW CONTROLS have now become essential in €-anada's wartime design for living. These are: (1) Control of Prices Commencing November 17, 1941, there may be no increase in the prices of goods and services generally unless absolutely' necessary and authorized by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. (2) Control of Wages - No employer, with certain limited excep- tions, may increase the basic wage rates paid to his employees unless authorized by a Board on which the Government, employers and employees are repre- sented. But after February 15, 1942, every employer with the same exceptions, will be obliged to pay'a cost of living bonus and to adjust this bonus every three months. Action Necessary to Stop Inflation This Government action has been taken to prevent the inflation we knew in the last war, and its subsequent depression, unemployment and suffering. Every housewife knows that prices are rising, and rising prices, unless controlled, will make it more costly and difficult to finance the war. Rising prices, unchecked, will spread confusion in industry and •trade; will hinder production and proper distribution of sup- plies; will make the cost of living rise more rapidly _than wages and salaries; will lessen the value of savings; will result in hardship for almost everyone, and especially those with small incomes- And the result of uncontrolled inflation, after the war, when prices drop, will again be depression and unemployment. Prices cannot be controlled without control of wages..-„ Excess profits are, and will con- tinue to be, under rigid control. Coverage of Wages Stabilization Order The Order • is applicable to the following employers: 1—Every employer normally subject to the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. 2—Every employer engaged in the manufac- ture of munitions of war, or war supplies, or the construction of defence projects. —Every building trades employer with ten or more employees. 4—Every other private employer with fifty or more employees. The Order does not apply to employers in agriculture or fishing, or to hospitals, religi- ous, charitable or educational associations operated on a non-profit basis. , Wage Provisions Except on written permission of the National War Labour Board, no employer may increase his basic wage rates. This permission can only be given in cases where the Board has found the wage rates to be low. Wage rates which are unduly high will nbthave to be decreased, but in such cases the Board may order the employer to defer the cost of living bo nus. Cost of Living Bonus Every employer covered by the Order must pay to all his employees except those above the rank of foreman a wartime cost of living bonu"s. Effective November 15, each employer already paying a bonus under PC 7440 of December 16, 1940, shall add to such bonus an amount based on the rise in the cost of living index for October 1941, above the index ,pumber used to determine thecurrent amount of the bonus. Effective February 15, .1942, each employer who has not been paying a cost of living bonus must begin to pay a bonus based on the rise in the index between October, 1941, and January, 1942,unless ordered by the Board to base the bonus on the rise in the cost of living over a longer period. The bonus is calculated on the following basis: For each rise of one point in the cost of living the amount of the bonus shall be 25 cents per week, except for male workers under 21 years of age ,and female workers, who, if employed at basic rates of less than $25.00 per week, shall receive a bonus of 1 percent of their bask wage rates. These bonuses • will be adjusted regularly - every three months. Administration The Order will be administered by five regional Boards under the direction of a National War Labour Board. Labour and employers will be represented on each of these Boards. Watch for the announcement of these Boards to which inquiries concerning the application of the Order should be directed. Whole -Hearted Support Required Your Government knows that this policy, as it affects labour, industry, commerce, and agriculture, demands a degree of restriction to which Canadians are not accustomed, and is directly a wartime measure. It will demand self-discipline ind self-control. It will need the whole -hearted support of everyone who has the well-being of his fellow ttizens at hea4.t. But by loyal co-operation,, Canadians can have much more assurance at the fears; sense of insecurity, the S'iifferingand profiteering which inflation always rings, will neither interfere now in the winning of this war; nor in the recovery and reconstruction of Canada and the Canadian -way of living after the war is over. Issued under the authority of Hon, N. A. McLARTY, Minister of Labour NATIONAL DEFENCE MINISTER R1 I URNS FROM ENGLAND .__..,, ..,._......— � � .,• � m ., taw,.. .. ... 1911 Colonel, the Hon. J. L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence, when he reached Ottawa airport fol - towing a bomber flight from England on the day Parliament opened, inspected two uniformed members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps on duty. , . Pictures show, left: Recruit E. M. Jones, of Ottawa, at the door of a staff car dressed in the smart uniform of the Corps; at right, Col. Ralston shakes .hands with Recruit M. E. Brown, of Pembroke, Ont.; in the background are Maj. -Gen. B. W. Browne, Adjutant -General and Recduit Jones. Hot Chocolate Sauce 11/2 squares unsweetened chocolate th cup milk 1/2 cup water 134 clips sugar Dash of salt 3 tablespoons corn syrup 1 tablespoon butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Add chocolate to milk and water, Bring to a ^boil over element turned to "low." Stir frequently. ' Add sug- ar, salt and syrup and stir until mix- ture boils with element turned to "high." Then turn to "off" and let „boiling continue five minutes.- _Add butter and vanilla. Serve hot or cold. :Makes 11j2 cups sauce. Custard Sauce 3 egg yolks,' slightly beaten 3 tablespoons sugars 11,2 cups mill:, scalded 1/ teaspoon vanilla Dash of salt. Combine egg yolks, sugar and salt. Mix with milk. Cook on element turn- ed "Low" until mixture forms a coat- ing on a silver spoon. Stir constant- ly. Remove immediately from the saucepan. Add vanilla and cool. Makes 11/2 cups sauce. Mock Maple Syrup 1 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup water 1/s teaspoon salt - 1/4 • teaspoon vanilla. Dissolve sugar., iu water, add salt, boil tone minsate on element. Alii vanilla. English Mincemeat Sauce i2 cup sugar , 1A cup water 1 cup mincemeat SA teaspoon Love's brandy flavoring. Boil sugar and water five minutes. Add mincemeat and flavouring. * * * Take' A Tip - 1 For two servings of apricot sauce, allow one-quarter of a cup of strained apricots for one-quarter cup whipped cream or o-ne beateds egg vrhite: 2. If cocoa is to be substituted for one ounce of chocolate in ,,a sauce recipe, use one-quarter Cup cocoa and mix with cornstarch and sugar. 3. Use sweet cider for --gelatine moulds for variatio pecially this "cid'er/month.! 4, When pies or biscuits look too Pale after being taken from the°+oven, sprinkle a little sugar over the top and put back in oven for two or three minutes. 5. To prevent your food chopper from slipping around when fastened on - , enamelled table, place several .hicknesses of heavy paper or a' pot holder on the table before screwing the chopper in place. * * * QUESTION BOX • Mrs. .M. P. asks: "Is it true that beets can be haked?" -Answer: Yes. Wash and trirp beets. Brush with a little cooking fat. Salt, , Bake in a moderate oven until soft" when tested with -a fork. "P'eel, slice, season and serve. Miss J. B. T. asks: "How can fruit - stains be taken off a zinc table top?" Answer: Wipe off the spots with vinegar as soon as noticed. Then wash with hot soapy water, .Mrs. T. E. suggests: "When iron- ing keep a damp sponge in a saucer close by, for spring collars or giving extra dampness, etc. !Mrs. E. B. asks: "Recipe for Chick- en Loaf." - Chicken Loaf 1 cup soft bread crumbs 2 cups milk 2 eggs slightly beaten 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce ' 3 cups cooked chicken 1/y cup chopped celery 1/a teaspoon:Eaprdka ' 1,green pepper, chopped. Mix well; back into greagetl baking pan; bake in oven. at 3255 degrees for 35 minutes. Let stand for 10 min- utes before unmouldi,'ng. Serves '6. Anne Allan invites you .to write to 'her c/o The Miran ERpositor, Just send in your questions on bometnak- 1 ink Problems and watch this little i corner of tlje column for replies, ' Canada's War Effort • A„ Weekly Review .Of Developments On the Home Front. 1, Parlia ent reassembled Nov. 3rd, to conclude business of session, -Sali- ent points from statements by Minis- ters on Canada at War: Navy—Five enemy merchant ships captured since war began. Canadian ships frequently attacked by enemy srubmarines. More than one German submarine sunk: Total Canadian nav- al strength, 27,000 officers and men, against 1,774 on active service when war declared. Munitions and Supply: Shipping— Corvettes, 77 launched, 50 delivered; minesweepers, 59 launched, 40 deliv- ered; patrol boats, 11 delivered; mo- or torpedo and crash boats, 19 de- livered; cargo boats, 2 launched, 100 expected in service by late 1942. Shipbuilding program embraces or- ders' for ships in excess of $500,000,- 000• Aircraft ---Manufactured or assemb- led in Canada to date, 3,749 planes. Present weekly average rate of pro- i:uccinn. •10 planes. Transport—Motor vehicles delivered 150,000. Tank production, 200 med- ii.tm tanks each month by early 1942 with infantry tanks, cruiser tanks, un iversai carriers and armored, scout andreconnaissance cars already 'un- der production at expanding rate. Un- iversal Carriers, 1,500 delivered at pro- duction rate of 400 a month. Guns—Producing 10 types of heavy guns with 1942 monthly production estimated; anti-aircraft, 400; field, 1 500; naval, 150; extra barrelse 1,000. Bren guns -12,000 produced with 14,- 000 extra barrels. '1 ee-Enfield rifles: producer] in thousands per 'month with production estimated at 200,000 a year. Trench mortars: deliveries l - in the hundreds with 1942 rate esti-11 mated at 400 a month, Ammunition—Over 9,000,000 units of 20 sizes of shells delivered, capac- ity exceeds 1,200,000 per month; cart- ridge cases: 10,000,000 delivered, ca- pacity 2,000,00.0 a month. Primers: 8;000,000 delivered, capacity 1,300,000 per month, Fuses, „7000,000 produc- ed, capacity 1,000,000 per month. Mis- c-ellaneous shell parts, capacity 1,000,- 000 a month. Small arms ammuni- tion: present capacity 50,000,000 rounds per month to be trebled us 1942. Bombs: 500;000 units delivered. Chemicalsand explosives: 150,000,000 pounds delivered, Capacity 70,000,009 Pounds 'er month in 1042. i, Services—Total of 123,457 men' e e p for military training under i ization Act of whom 113,524 ac- tutt 1'y reported. From! total of 217,- 588 medically examined, 56 per ceat. placed in Category A (category ac- cepted for training). Army—Program for 1942 to be con- sidered by War Committee of Cabinet in light of preliminary survey of man- power. More than 110,000 Canadian soldiers now overseas. Total enlist- ments in last six months, 105,773 made up as follows: Army, 59,502; air force, 35,108;- navy, 11,163. 2, Orders in Council establishing Government's price ceiling program make it an offence on . and after No- vember 17th to buy or sell goods or services at prices higher than lawful maximum. This maximum d,efirfed as highest price at which a person or firm sold or supplied goods of same kind and quality between September 15 and October 11, 1941, both days in- clusi ve. 3. Canada -United States Joint De- fene Production Committee formed. G. K. Sheila, Deputy Minister of Mun- itions and Supply heads Canadian sec- tion; Milo Perkin, Executive Direc- tor, Ariierican Economic Defence Board, the United States section. 4. Dominion Bureau of Statistics cost -of -living index rose from 114.7 to 115.5 during month ended October 1st. Wartime rise now 14.6 per cent. 5. Trafiniug period' for pilots under British Commonwealth' Air Training Plan extended froth 24 to 28 weekk. Timidity and Timorousness" (Winnipeg Free Press) An American journalist who has been writing in the United States press about -Canada's war effort, in generally favorable terms, includes du his article this sentence which is be- ing reprinted somewhat widely in the Canadian newspapers: "The Mackenzie Ring Govern- ment is still timid and timorous and- habitually postpones unpleas- ant duties and decisions." Perhaps, perhaps! Germany invad- ed Poland on September 1, 1939. On that day the Canadian Government summoned Parliament. On Septem- ber 3rd, the Government of Great Britain, with the consent ,of the Par- liament of Great Britain, entered the war. On that day Mr. Ring 'in' a broadcast declared a "common cause" with Great Britain and said that the manner in which Canada could most effectively co-operate would be decid- ed by Parliament, Parliament having• convened on September 7th, Mr, King on September Sth sought its authoriza- tion for a declaration that Canada '.vas at war with Germany. Consent being given on . September 9th. the declaration of a state of war was n;ade on September 10th. -Our American crit'ip would presum- ably consider this as indicating tim- _ , Idity and timorousness on the part of Mr. King- His much quoted article !reveals. our critic as sound as a bell upon the question of the issues of the war. He , would probably agree that having regard to these issues, this is just as much the war of the Vitamins None Not Enough Three essential minerals also found in Dr. Chase's Nerve Food help to make this a true tome for blood and nerves. Buying the large size saves you money and ensures a supply forall the family, 180 pills $1.50. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food con- tains vitamin B,. United States as it is. Canada's war. Nothing is more certaii than that this will be the unchallengeable judgment of history. This being so, might we respect- fully point out to our American friend (as he most certainly is) and critic (his efforts in 'this direction being un- doubtedly well-intentioned) that the decision made by the timid., timorous and procrastinating Mr. Ring on Sep- tember 3rd, the third day of the war, which threw Canadian lives into the scales of war, has not •yet, this being October 4, 1941, been made by the United States. Our American friend might make a more effective contribution to the" cause he has at 'heart if instead of disparaging Mr. King he would sug- gest to the appropriate parties in his own country that they emulate Mr. King's timidity and timorousness. The British barmaid was a flirt, and when the corporal went out to buy a paper she pursed Herr lips invitingly and leaned over the bar towards the shy young private. Putting her face against his, she whispered: "Now's your chance, dar- ling." The private looked around the emp- ty room. "So it is," he cried, and promptly drank the corporal's beer. MAGIC ALWAYS GIVES LIGHT, TENDER TEXTURE -:.. MAGI BAKING POWDER Costs less than 11 per average baking -MADE 01 6ANAO4 The March of Science r AMR LONG DISTANCE DIALING SPEEDS UP SERVICE Dialing a telephone number in Last year, 90,per cent of all long a distant city directly is the lat- ' distance callettandled by The Bell est method introduced to speed Telephone Company of Canada up long distance service. were completed while the calling In the early days of the tele- subscriber remained at the tele- phone, when it was not possible phone. The average time for mak- to speak to a person more than a ing the connection was &7 see - hundred miles away—except when onds! "atmospheric conditions" were Experiments are still under extraordinarily good—a call from way to cut a few more seconras Montreal to Toronto was a from the connection time. Special lengthy undertaking. On some circuits have been provided to occasions, the message was re- enable a Montreal operator to rayed from operator to operator dial a Toronto number herself, in - in the various towns and cities stead of asking an operator in along the route until it reached Toronto to do so for her. She Toronto, and the reply came back plugs in on a Toronto circuit, by the same method, listens for the dial tone in the The relay system was soon Toronto -exchange, and dials the made advance of the telephonehe art,db t . ,wid ould make a local call! as one there was still the difficulty of Although.forthe present this obtaining the connection. Not system is still on an experimental many yearsuaha, a alleer haad timmee basis, it is expected that it will be golf go asplking to be con- extended as the dial system is in- neeted with betweena subscriber in a lis- atnd cced in more and more towns taut City and actually talkie to and cities. In the not -too -distant Gradually, year byfuture, perhaps, an operator may year, im- be able -to dial direct a number in proved methods and equipment Sydney Australia, for a'caller in MVO reduced that waiting time. 1Vlontra.1! LN'o. 12 o/ a series prepared fry lit, G. Owee, ot the Bell telephone lydnlparty of Comre a. . !