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The Huron Expositor, 1941-11-28, Page 6ly ANNE ALLAN .o-."�.....a Hydro Hemp iooneisalst CAN DV Hello Homemakers! Now the fes- tive season is approaching, candy is "in the news". In boxes for overseas —for a friend recovering from an ill- ness—as a Christmas gifts—everyone, big and little—young and old, loves to reoeive candy. Incidentally, candy has .staying power and supplies a bit of quick energy. * * * Candy is inexpensive and easy to make, and lately there has been a great d'emarld for. the use of crisp. crackling cereals as the bulky :part ]n a lot of the new candies. Cornflakes. shreds of whole wheat, puffed wheat and rice—and crisped tic,' --all add honest -to -goodness food value and they're easy to Ilse. Combined with other simple ingredients—these tasty cereals replace costlier nutmeats— and are they good! • * * * It's great fun to make candy --but to make good candy — fudge that is creamily luscious and melts in your mouth—brittle candy—that is crackly and crunchy—there are certain rules that must be followed: * * * 1. Use a standard recipe and then measure the ingredients accurately. 2. Use the constant even heat turn- ed "low." Stir until sugar is dissolr- ed. S. The side of the saucepan should be free of sugar and crystals. 4. Test the candy carefully. The candy thermometer gives the most ac- curate record of cooking. 5. Where candy is cooled before bsating, cool until you oar touch the top of the candy with your finger, (5. Use adequate equipment—a Large straight -sided.. saucepan, a wooden spoon, a shallow square or rectangu- lar pan for "poured" candy. * * Cold Water Test Very soft stage: Syrup can be formed into a ball under water but Cannot be lifted up. Soft ball., stage: Syrup can be roll- ed into a ball, removed from the wa- ter and hold shape when laid in the palm of the hand for about one-half IIl 1 du te. h i rrn ball stage: Syrup hold's shape cell as it goes into water and does not come to top. Hard ball stage: Syrup holds shape e ell, yet is plastic. light crack stage: Syrup separ- ates into threads that are hard, not brittle in water. Hard crack stage: Syrup drops in thread: in air, dropped from spoon at heighth of 6-12 inches. Threads should not bend. Caramel stage: Syrup discolours from white to cream in water. * * * Cherry -Mallow Squares lb. fresh marshmallows 5 1/3 tablespoons butter 1 package of rice cereal teaspoon vanilla Drained sliced maraschind cherries. Place marshmallows and butter in saucepan and heat turned "low" un- til melted. Turn the contents of 'the 5 -ounce package of cereal into a large buttered bowl and add vanilla. Beat marshmallow thoroughly and pour ov- er cereal, stirring quickly. Add cher- ries and pour into a 10 -inch square pan, Press down firmly, using but- tered fingertips. English Toffee cups sugar 1'/ cups light corn syrup 1 i^_ cups cream 3 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon vanilla . Dash of salt. Put sugar, corn syrup, cream and salt into a saucepan. Stir and beat slowly until the sugar is dissolved and boiling point is reached. Then, stir back and forth across the pan to pre - yen sticking or scorching. Cook to 244 degrees .or until a firm ball is formed'. Add butter and cook to the MADE IN CANADA hard ball stage (252 degrees).. Stir in vanilla and nuts, if desired, and pour into weil,greased pan, When warm mark with a knife into squares. Cream Fondant. 2 cups sugar 1 cup heavy cream 1/a teaspoon cream of tartar Dash of salt. Put sugar and cream into a sauce- pan, stir over a low heat until sugar is dissolved and boiling point is reached. Add cream of tartar and continue boiling, stirring slowly back and forth, in oven, slow motion, to prevent sticking. Cook to the soft hall stage, 238 degrees (not quite so much, you see, as the other fondants). Set ,,aside at once to cool, sprinkle a dash of salt over the surface and when lukewarm beat and knead until creamy. • Store in a covered jar to ripen. Chocolate Popped Corn Balls 3 quarts popped corn 11/2 clips sugar % cup light corn syrup 1 cup water 3 oz. hitter chocolate t3 tablespoons butter or margarine 14i/4 . teaspoon salt teaspoon vanilla. Prepare popped corn. Measure su- gar, corn syrup and water putting them into one saucepan. Mix well. flit chocolate and fat in a pan over hot water to melt. Heat sugar, corn syrup and water slowly to boiling, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Af- ter that, boil briskly to. the firm ball stage, 242 degrees. Remove from beat, stir ,slowly, ,into chocolate and butter mixture, add salt and. vanilla. Mix with corn lightly. "Shape into balls when cool enough to ,handle. This will make twelve to fifteen bads, Christmas Joys 1 cup, figs _ 1 cup pitted dates 1 cup candied orange -peel 1 cup oandied cherries 1 cup nuts or cereal 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Force fruits through the food chop- per. Add lemon juice and knead un- til thoroughly mixed. Put on a board which has been lightly dusted with powdered sugar. Roll out to one- fourth -inch thickness. Cut in fancy shapes with small cutter. Cover and let stand in refrigerator overnight. Ice with orange icing and decorate with bits of candide cherries, or dust with powdered' sugar. Take a Tip: 1. Oandy should be stirred until sugar is dissolved. Candy should not -boil until sugar is dissolved. It de- pends on the kind of candy whether syrup should, be stirred after boiling point is reached. 2. Wipe down any sugar or crystal- lization, before the 'balling starts. For brittle candies—use a piece of wet cheesecloth tied around the tines of a fork. For fudge, etc,, cover the pan for the first three or four minutes of boiling. - 3. Use a shallow bowl of chilled wa- ter for cold water test. Dip the spoon into the centre of the boiling syrup and drop about one-half teaspoonful into cold water. ' 4. Beating Dandy while hot tends to make for coarseness of grain. 5. Pour caramel immediately' after test. Overcooking produces- brown color. QUESTION BOX Miss`'P. B. asks: "What can I do to new furniture which has turned dull this summer, to restore the lustre?" Answer: Rub in raw linseed oil every week for a month or so. Mrs. G. H. T.:sugges'ts.t—,Variations for the "Fish Fondue" published some time ago—add 1 tablespoon of finely minced onion or en cup chopped tom- atoes. It's really good. Note—If you did not clip. this recipe, do write for it. Mr. R. B. asks: "How can peach stains be taken out of a white shirt?" Answer: Do not send to the laun- dry before you try a method of re- moval—{soaps sets stains in. Place the spot over a basin arid put an elastic band below'the rim of the dish to hold it firm. Then stand back add pour boiling water from a height of about three feet. Soak overnight in sweet milk. Miss N. B. asks: "Tests for short- bread recipe." • Answer: Detailed instructions have been mailed to you, Miss B. Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Just send in your question's on homemak- ing problems anti watch this little corner of the oolumn for replies., ONTARIO 1942 MOTOR VEHICLE PERMITS AND DRIVERS' LICENSES will be available DECEMBER isi, 1941 THE TERM of 1941 permits and licenses has been extended to January 31st, 1942, after which date they will be invalid and those operating with their' subject to the penalties pro- vided. There will be no further extension of their term. Secure yours early and avoid the usual rush of the last few weeks. For your convenience, permits and licenses are issued through the offices of 191 agents located throughout the Province. Preserve your 1941 plates. Do not destroy or throw them away. During the first two weeks of February they will be collected through Gasoline Service Stations by The Canadian Red Cross Society. T. 8. McQUESTEIT Mi,nisfer oi Highways November Mho 1941 Cir driving along our highways give our Soldier boys a aide. Blackout Birthday PartylringsFriends Together Despite War's Terrors (By Margaret Butcher) Here is a -tale you should read. A tale of a simple little birthday party enjoyed by ordinary every day folks during an English black- out. It indicates how the brave people of the island fortress are carrying on life's amenities in the midst of war. It' was written specially for the Midland Free Press Herald. and The Huron Ex- positor. READING, ENG. --i have been to a party. A jolly little affair for four of us. Our 'barrister's mother-in-law had a birthday. She is seventy-one, and it called for a trifle of celebration. No; not a dinner.- It doesn't run to dinners now. There may be enough —and there generally is—but nobody Bally feels like sitting up and wolf- ing somebody's else's rations. So we have a meal at home, usually, and meet afterwai'•ds, «11 the 'household is a small one. Rations, of course, go much further in large families, and if one person happens* to be absent there will be ample. ,„But, this Was a snail affair and we were mutually tactful. At nine I set off up the road, hop- ing to goodness that I should not spend. the next twenty minutes bat- tering at wrong front doors, since my torch -battery was feeling far from well that night. Stepping out is am adventure nowadays, I assure you, if one has to make the journey a.loae. I pawed my way with a walking -stick, however, and located the right house. The door was opened and I slid_into the hall. You 'folk who trot brightly into a blaze of light' don't know .a tiring about this Alla•d•in's Clive' busi- ness! Halls are not what they were. There is usually a dim, 'blue light eamewhere up in .tile ceiling, heavily shaded; and one's host, peering about Under it,, ..looks like somebody at death's door.. Only his chuckle and hand -clasp are able to convince one that he is not on the point of disso- lution. You , just hate to think of what you look like; and not so long ago, getting into that party frock, you fancied that you might cut rather a dash. So'much for human vanity. Real Stegll Of Home He piloted me round the furniture to the lounge—end how different that was! Warm, rosy, with the real smell of "home"; an open baby -grand; it's keys shining; dowers in sparkling bowls; books and deep armchairs. 'Sometimes. I wonder if I shall ever have such things, for ley very own again? Ah, well! it can't be 'helped, can it?) And there were two people waiting: a lovely young girl and the elegant, white-haired Gran. We had music, and we talked. How we talk- ed! Not about the war, Ii•; is odd, but we seldom talk about the war at these times. ]t, colors our thoughts and opinions, of 'course, but I 'nk we feel, somehow, as if we ant to' get down to bedrock when w a,ve a real talk: down to ideas and, ideate. Down to things which ahold our roots, and which cannot be shaken by all this rocking and reeling that is going on around us. We talked about the value of personal experience, the psy- chology of cruelty; about musts, about books. And then, at the end, the war crept 'in ---+indirectly. It was when Gran stood up by the fireplace and said: "Well, this may be a borrib]e time to live through, 'but when I hear people say—as they do now and then —that they wish they could have liv- ed and died years ago . . . well, I cotild shake them, I don't begrudge all this elle moment of my life. I Want to go an living as long as I eialliu+ n, eau. if only to see how hi all wbrke out." Here her .chin went up, 'clad to be part of it! she added. Surprising Folk One meets such surprising folk at these little gatherings; and the whole point is that you don't know, at the time, that there is anything unnsual about them. You takk to somebody about the allotment, or even about the weather, and tie whole , thing seems just like parties might have been in the old days. there is nothing at all spectacular about this stranger you have just meet, and the stranger cer- tainly doesn't say anything remark- able. But, perhaps the following day, you learn that this quiet, smiling, dear person has been through ,unimagin— able 'horrors—maybe in London, or Plymouth or in some much -battered town, and you feel almost as if you have been chatting with a ghost --+or a hero out of one of the great sagas. It's an uncanny sensation. There is that nice woman who took -me out one evening in the car, one of those very, very rare joyrides that sometimes happen after weelts of gasoline•eaving. Her two children and her husband were there, and we prowled around picking blackberries —aa if we hadn't a care in the world. Later 'she told she the story: why they are living in an ,all -too -email furnished bungalow. • These people were right in the thick of the Battle of Britain. For hours one night they crouched in a closet under the stairs, not having had time to get out to the shelter. They could not lie down; there was scarcely room to breathe. And out- side hell roared and raged, andi_every now and then the walks shook with the crashes.' London was pandemon. ium. ,Once she crawled out on her hands and knees to fetch food, feel- ing her way to tate tardier and grab- bing anything she oould reach; claw- ing at the shelves in the darkness, deafened by the dreadful noise. Took Them All In After a long while -there was a sin ence; a knock was heard on the door. She crept out, and there was a war- den. Her house, he told her, was practically the only one left on that side for half a block. Outside she could see the glare of fires, and she beard the crying of children. There was a great hole. in the road. The thing was like a nightmare. "Oh, bring the poor dears% in here, dot" she begged him; and in they trooped. The house was soon filled with mothers and frightened kiddies, all honieless. "Our electric light had gone, of course,” she said to me, 'but, by some fluke, my gas -stave shill worked. So I set to and made tea. All night long I was making tea for them. They were so grateful, poor things." .Yet she•looks trim and dainty, that brave woman. Somehow She has got together some pretty things for 'her- self and the little girl, • She works in the gur-denrand in the bungalow, look- ing sane and wholesome, and nobody would ever imagine that such things had happened to her. She grew very angry—and then laughed a lot—when a cow got into the garden, last month, and devoured the lettuces. "Anel af- ter all the trouble we'd taken," she said, "to keep =even the dog out!" . Reckoning is Coming That is; what_ I like about her and her kind- They ipsisit upon being sane and wholesome; they still ap- preciate the nonsense of erdinary things. Nobody is allowed to guess „what they think at times—for think they must, astsuredly. The one thing which really maddens them is coming across somebody who won't face up to it: the breed of popr fool who re- sents any changes in his or her life, who hasn't been blitzed and has nit imagination about it. We still have a few like that; nice little' pricate Isola- tionists. Thank goodness there are ohdy a few. They still want their tins of pineapple and their afternoon naps; the question of shipping, and the fact that certain folk must work about at all hours of the day (even nt the risk of disturbing them) have not yet per- colated. But you should see the twitoh of• neighbors' eyebrows when they take their celebrated ill -health out for a hit of a walk! Personally, I ,have a happy conviction that, when iii this is over, there will be a subtle reckoning, It is going to be good, I give you my word. There is one thing 1 have heard which interests me—which,. 1 think would interest 'anybody who enjoys a real home: that is the fact that the "real home," in a blitzed area, hardly exists any more, in one sense. As a friend did to me last. week, "It's one of the most infuriayfng things—the muddle. You've no idea. Even if your house hasn't been touched. you have to be ready, and the furniture is all ever the place." Attics of course, have to be cleared; and, in addition, so many folk have shored friends' treasures for them. One seas upend- ed couches in the kitchen, beds in the lounge, trunks and stuff piled along both sides of ,corridors. A woman who used to be house-proud just can't bear to think ,abt it! She goes on mak- ing the best othe pickle, forcing her- self to become accustomed to living as if she were camping out on a rail- way -station. ----- - Count Our Blessings Yet bow fortunate we have 'been, after all, considering what has hap, pened-to others. (No, that isn't nn - timely boasting. It is a blessing for which many' of on are properly thank- ful, It has given us a "breather" and time to' pick up more strength and courage for what may lie ahead of us. I have no patience • ith the "tttucli N:rOVE ? R Ps, ;1941 SLEEP up AWAKE REFRESHED If you don't sleep well —if nights are Inter` rupted by restlessness --look to your kidneys. 11 your kidneys are out of order and failing to cleanse the blood of poisons and, waste )natter—your rest is likely suffering, too. At the fust sign of kidney trouble tura confidently to Dodd's Kidney PiUs—for over half a century the favorite kidney remedy. Easy totake.114 Dodds Kidney Pills wood" school who are afraid to ad- mit when luck comes their way!) The wretched Czechs now under martial law; people being shot and massacred all over the oontinent--and we may still epeak our minds, enjoy our fair share of rations, potter about on our allotments. And with it all we are having a wonderful Indian Summer. After weeks of wretched, dull wea- ther there., have been delicious days and warm evenings with clear, love- ly sunsets. Who would not be thank- ful? But the allotment . , . There is sad news of the potatoes, for we have the finest crop of wireworm, fancy, in the annals. TheGardenin•g Partner, envelopes) in a cloud of gloom, has been heaving out the spuds in the ,manner of a broken man. "And now we've got that lot out," he observes darkly, "I suppose the pests will rush across the path and fasten on the artichojles." Will they? Do they? I 'have no notion: but I am not optimistic. All over the field there are broken -looking residents heaving out spuds, so one draws a spot of selfish comfort from that. "I know now," says the G. P., lean- ing disconsolately on. hfis spade, "why farmers are always pessimists. I've never understood them before." Well, I suppose no experience is wasted if it widens one's sympathies! But I don't think I'll tell him that. It might not be too well received. Good manners are, caught, not taught. What I .am to be I am now be- coming. Moral fibre and spiritual vigor are not developed" by comfort or ease. Those who are wise will discipline themselves so as to live day •by day. Profound joy has more pf severity than gayety in it.—Montaigne. Honest labor _bears a lovely face. —Decker. Haste is needful in a desperate case. —Shakespeare One has no business to take credit for good intentiond. Common sense is the ,favorite daughter of Reason.—H. W. Shaw. Step by step onQrt goes far.—Dutch. • Reckless- haste makes poor speed. —Franklin. The greatest firmness is the great- est" mercy.—Longfellow. The way no gain a friend is to De one.— Michela. GentIen•ess succeeds better than violence.—La Fontaine. To find his place and fill it, is suc- cess for a man.—Phillips Brooks. Fate is unpenetrated causes.— Em- erson. Happiness is always a homemade article. Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts, - All great men find eternity affirm - en the very promise of their facul- ties.—Emerson. 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