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} Homemakens.i Restaurants
It l 1>t must now observe meat
' ueaday and many (hom'e'makers•
as Ing questions about the dish -
the chefs are serving so • they can
logy Mite, It's a •ap1endid idea be-
Cayuse itwil_1 back the Government in
the ' effento to reduce treat consump-
tion,; tffelp you to stretch your
meatra on over the week—especial-
ly if use Soup as a starter for
your meals.
One most •important dish for Tues-
days is soybeans. Unlike the more
familiar navy beans, soybeans are.
rich in protein, low in starch (take
heed! pudgy folk) and contain 10 to
12' times as much 'fat as other kinds
of dry beans. For success in cook-
ing, soak soybeans overnight and
cook them on "Low" heat in "soak-
ing" water. We like them sprinkled
with salt and served plain, or with
molasses (if molasses is available)
like Boston Baked Beans.
Parsnips are the inexpensive vege-
table this. week. If your family think
they do not like them, just mash your
parsnips along with the potatoes, or
cook theta with carrots to offer a
nice, flavoursome dish with omelette
or fish, for your meatless Tuesdays.
RECIPES
Soybean Casserole
2 cups soybeans
r/, cupdiced salt pork
2 cups chopped celery
2 tablespoons chopped onions
6 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
1 tablespoon salt
1 cup buttered bread crumbs.
Soak sbybeans overnight. Let sim-
mer for 11/2 hours. Brown salt pork
in a frying pan. Add the celery. and
. onionand saute for about five min -
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buttered bread crumbs- Bake in a
moderate oven (350 deg.) for 30 Min-
utes
inutes or until the crumbs are brown.
Parsnips and Carrots
6-8 medium parsnips sliced
3 medium carrots sliced
% cup water
Salt and pepper
3 tablespoons meat dripping.
Put parsnips and carrots in sauce-
pan with a" tight -fitting lid and turn
switch of element to "High," When
steam flows from the
"Low" for 10 minutes
for 10 minutes. Drain.
TAKE A TIP:
The Wartime Prices and Trade
Board has recently allowed four
styles and sizes of food choppers
for household use — an .asset to
stretching meats and using left-
overs.
2. Enamel -coated food choppers need
special care. They're weighty, so
do not drop them and chip the en-
amel; be careful to remove -gristle
and hard pieces to prevent "cheek -
3. Meat extenders should aid in man-
aging the food budget.'
4. Meat 'extenders should be chosen
to increase the nutritive value of
the dish and the flavour. We sug-
gest cheese, spaghetti, noodles,
dried beans, milk sauces, cereals
and bread crumbs.
THE QUESTION BOX.
Mrs. B. A. asks: "How much cer-
eal is added to minced meat?"'
Answer:
eat?"-
Answer: Add 2/3 cup quick -cook-
ing oatmeal, cup water and.....sea-
soning to 1 pound of ground meat.
No egg is necessary. This amount
will make 12 small meat balls. .
Mrs. G. S. asks: "Why is cottage
cheese more difficult to make with
pasteurized milk?"
Answer: ' Due to low bacteria con-
tent. Purchase buttermilk to use as
a starter; use 1 cup buttermilk for
2 cups milk.
1.
vent, turn to
and then off
Season.
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(By "P. C" In Bl 'fain) ..
You 'see them leaving their bsrbor
Moorings just before dusk, small, un-
lovely .craft, threading between the
warships. They pass through the
boom and out of mind. A cruiser
leaves the port, or .a destroyer, or a
submarine, and you, picture battles at
sea, landings on enemy shores. War-
ships return, impressively reach their
.moorings. The trawlers, drifters,
wba1ers, or whatever they may be
that slip out each dusk, return unher-
alded by anything except the scream
of their siren and a flagged ship's
number run up the. rigging, The skip-
per finds an empty berth by the quay-
side or alongside another of his ship's
small .breed. A pot of tea is served
in• the officers' ward room, the crew
start on their deck duties. A mine-
sweeper has done another job of
work.
Minesweeping routine differs with
the ports. For a long time sweping
in Tobruk had to be done by night.
The ships were easy targets by day
for the deadly guns of the Axis, One
of the routines is to set out near. sun-
set. The minesweepers plug through
the harbor and out to sea, where they
anchor for the night at positions
marked on the chart in the port mine-
sweeping control office. Here they
keep their night -long watch :over the
harbor, listening for the distant drone
of enemy bombers, watching for the
dim, swiftly -moving silhouettes of
E -boats, but looking above all for par-
achute mines dropping over the har-
bor. The captain and lieutenant take
turns on the bridge, pacing back-
' wards and forwards. The quiet on a
calm night is only broken by bursts
of harsh, staccato code words coming
from the wireless—"apple, hairpin,
junket, toadstool, spanner." In some
ports the invasion lights blazing from
the boom turn night into a sickly
bluish -green day, silhouetting the
sweepers as they rock or toss at an-
chor.
When an air raid warning comes
through, followed by the loudening
drone'of planes, the fallen stars flash-
ing from the boom disappear sudden-
ly, as though they har sunk into the
sea. Instead, searchlights send their
beams groping over the harbor. The
crews of the sweepers have tumbled'
up on deck; all eyes are strained
shorewards. As the barrage starts,
the harbor becomes bright with' burst-
ing ack-ack shells, bombs and tracer.
Down come the mines, dangling on
their parachutes. Each one as it falls
is, noted by the., skipper on the bridge
of his sweeper. He takes the bear-
ing, signals it back to the control' of-
fice, The officer in charge there
marks the different bearings on his
map, circles off the danger areas at
the points where they. converge. Some
of the bearings will have been sig-
nalled by the "amateur spotters," the
civilian yachtsmen who lurk about
the harbor at night in their small
privately -owned craft. The mines,
thus located, will be dealt with by.,
day.
At first light the
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o „The Huron Expositor. Send
in your questions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
Arrived InEngland
Word has reached here of the safe
arrival in England of Pilot Officer
Reg Porterfield, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Porterfield, Mitchell, who were
advised by cable on Friday.—Mitchell
Advocate.
MRS. A. J. SCHWA$IZ what the
real trouble was. Continual backaches, getting
up nights anti ,eonstipation came from as
inactive liver, F► tit-s-tives quickly made her
feel fine—no pun, sleeps well, always regular.
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weighs anchor, Tuns up the red flag,
and heads out to sea at a steady
seven to nine knots along the narrow
channels, the arteries of the Middle
East. The ships sweep as far as the
thirty -fathom line, for beyond this,
mines on -the seafloor• are mostly in-
effective. In .quiet spells, their work
may be done by mid-morning, and
they pass in through the boom to
their moorings. If in the course of
the sweep they have sent off a mine,
there is jubilation aboard. For, to
the crew of a minesweeper, the mine,
magnetic, acoustic, or whatever it
may be, is as the Stuka to the ack-
ack battery, the merchantman to the
submarine men, the tank to the crew
of the Six -pounder. They reckon that
just one mine destroyed justifies the
cost of a 'minesweeper. Some sweep-
ers in Mediterranean waters have
forty and more• mines to their credit.
Besides the Patrol Service, there
are "smoky Joes" that are part of
the navy proper, Some have, been
specially constructed as minesweep-
ers. Then there+ are the Greek
caiqu 's, most graceful of all sweep-
ers—and the slowest. They sweep at
some two knots. The crews are
Greeks, ' vbo alone know the intrica-
cies of sailing these craft. The skip-
per is handsomely paid for the loan
of bis ship, but 'then his job is a haz-
ardous one.
The Grimsby trawler is the most
homely of these minesweepers and
the Greek calque the most pictur-
esque. Those with the most colorful
pasts, though, are the whalers.. They
cost some $100.000 to build, are
equipped with high-powered Diesel
engines that will take them at eight
knots, 3,500 miles without refueling.
They are clean: seaworthy, compact
craft. Whalers are coveted as mine-
sweepers, because, unlike the "Smok-
ey Joes" or coal -burning, trawlers,
they are clean and need minimum
stoking, stokers being chiefly cone;
cerned with regulating boiler adjust-
ments. The captain sleeps in a small
cabin under the bridge, furnished
with bunk, desk and couch. Seamen
sleep. and eat forward.
The Patrol Service collects aboard
small ships strange medleys of
peacetime occupations, One convert -
minesweeper ed whaler included among its crew of
SERVING THE
UNITED NATIONS
WITH WAR ALCOHOL
THE. ARMY MOVES FORWARD
'stiltT ~�
RUBBER
Get there first. Hit hard ... and keep rolling..
That's the basis of the modern attack, the secret
of success in a war of movement.
For greater speed and striking power, our army
moves forward on Rubber. But, Japan controls
90% of the raw rubber regions of the world.
Faced with a shortage of this critical material, the
United Nath" ns are feverishly producing synthetic
..WAR ALCOHOL
IS USED IN
ITS PRODUCTION'
rubbers. One of the basic materials for synthetic
rubber is Butadiene ... and a ready convenient
source of Butadiene is .ALCOHOL.
To provide Alcohol for this and other urgent needs,
our plants are on full war production. In this as
in many other aspects of,, the national effort,
INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL takes • its place with the
fighting tools of war.
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(By E. Travers Hutchin do "BOtil4W1.
"I've the dirtiest job in any army
in the world," said the tank driver.
And 'looking .at.him, I felt he was not
fat from the truth.
From head to foot he was piaster-
ed.owith mud. He was wearing a very
old beret and gum boats, and 3t was
difficult to say which was the mud-
dier.
uddier. His overalls looked dike wet
clay, so that one could almost imag-
ine ` he was a huge pottery figure of
a man just about to be put in the kiln
for_ firing.
The officer in charge of this squad-
ron of tanks was in the same plight.
He was wearing overalls like his men
and was almost -equally dirty.
There is no class distinction in the
vital job of' cleaning tanks. It sis -a
job which has to be undertaken at
the 2nd of each day's work by the
crews of every tank in the Royal.
Armored Corps.
Each' tank squadron is responsible
for its own day-to-day maintenance
work, and the tank crews and officers
have to tackle the job, themselves.
There is no equivalent to the R.A.
F. ground staff for servicing tanks
after a gruelling day in battle or on
exercise. It is only if a mechanical
fault develops that the tank crews
call in the Royal Armored Corps'
squads of fitters.
It has to be a pretty serious fault
if these fitters cannot tackle it, al-
though when such a fault does occur
there are officers and men of the Roy-
al Electrical and Mechanical Engin-
eers—newly-formed ,corps of engin-
eers and ordnance2experts—ready at
hand. c
First task in maintaining a tank in
good working order is to keep it
clean, and it was not until I recently
visited a brigade of the Royal Arm-
ored Corps that I realized exactly
what that meant.
The tracks churn up mud and throw
it all around. It clings inches thick
to the sides of -the tank and to the
tracks .themselves. In the desert the
tanks are naked with dust and sand.
This mud must be cleaned off af-
ter: each. day's run. Dirt is the en-
emy of efficient' running tanks. Dirt
means engine trouble. Dirt gets into
the gasoline tanks if they are opened
for refueling before the tank is clean-
ed.
Above all, if it is allowed to accum-
ulate, dirt causes the pins which join
the sections of track to wear more
quickly, which .is fatal.
A worn pin may be the cause of a
broken track; and a broken track
takes time to repair, and' cannot al-
ways be)repaired- under fire.
That is why Ahowever tired the
crews may bp, however long it is
since they have had a meal, whatev-
er the weather or the strafing from
the air—a tank crew must clean and
refuel their tank as soon s the day's
fighting 'Cr driving is done.
That mud does not come off easily.
There are no high pressure hoses or
revolving wire brushes available. A
stirrup pump is the usual way of ob-
taining a jet of water aid a stirrup
pump takes a long time to clean down
a Churchill tank. In the process
most of the dirt gets transferred from
the tank to the Grew.
When at last the task is concluded,
the crews must fill the gasoline and
water tanks, load fresh supplies of
ammunition, test periscopes and gun
traverses, check the engines, and, do
any minor adjustments or repairs. .
Then, and only then, can the crews
set about the task of cleaning the,=•
selves and havingm
a meal and some
sleep.
In battle conditions sleep is usual-
ly limited to two or three hours. Whe-
ther in battle or on manouvres, it
must be snatched alongside the tank,
so that the brigade can move off at
a moment's notice.
Even when they are on the move
life is no 'bed of roses for the men
‘1ho serve in the Royal Armored
twenty-five: a tailor's cutter from Is-
lington, ,the manager .of a grocer's
store in 'Not'tingha.m, a Glasgow car-
pet factory foreman, a Liverpool lor-
ry driver; a Sheffield butcher; a Swan-
sea baker, a sugar beet factory work-
• er from Essex, a Liverpool schoolmas-
ter. The captain had been in the
Merchant Service, but the first lieu-
tenant, ,a Scotchtnan, was one of
those people whohave always want-
ed and never been 'able to make the
sea their profession. From the time
he was eleven, he had stolen,away to
sea in trawlers, spent his holidays'
afloat. But it had taken a war to get
hitt wholetime into his element.
The original nucleus of this crew,
including the coxswain arid the three
Norwegian. engineers, were profes-
Monal seamen in peacetime. The oth-
ers had had a month or two's train-
ing on land, with a taste of the bar-
rack square thrown in. It was on
land that they learned some of the
ways of the sea. Learned to talk
about the "deck" and not the "floor."
Then ;they went off on a short trip
—perhaps their first experience of
the. 'sea --and were forthwith drafted
on to ' a minesweeper — eastwards
round the Cape in a ship no larger
than, their Essex cottage or Liverpool
lodgings. A ship it was their new
strange job to sail round by Gibral-
tar, Freetown, Lagos, Capetown,
Sombasa, Aden, Massawa and Suez to
Alexandria, • But • the butcher, the
balker, 'acid the candlestick-mailer—or
at •lea§t, candle -seller --•ion the "Calm"
made It all right. There were adven-
tures by the way, of course, but
those would make a story in them-
selves.
cow.
fir*r>
coal
teen $t dri thtlir .:4eaaly vehicl
dire its gltna, and Maintain perpetual
Tadio communication vpltth ?•heir
squadron cemlinanl1e1>
The inside of a tank looks rieercely
as big as that of an average ten
horsepower oar.: It 44' crammed with
equipment: guns, radio seta, shells,
perisegpes, 00MP ssee.
The noise Isso great that each
member of the crew wears head-
phones all the time, .41 orders and
conversation are carried oitt on an
intercommunicating telephone linking
these headph,n,es up.'
Oddly enough, one popular idea
about the +inside of a tank is com-
pletely wrong. 'It is not hot. In ac-
tual fact it is often bitterly cold. The
reason for this is that great suction
fansare used to cool the radiators
of the engines, and the air for these
fans is drawn through the crew's
quarters. There is a continual
draught.
Many officers wear heavy, wool -
lined flying boots to combat the cold.
Unless there is very heavy ,artillery
fire, they keep the top hatch open
and ride with heads in the open air.
Only occasionally, when danger is at
hand do they close the hatch and use
their periscopes.
Cramped conditions produce dan-
gers of their own. That is why the
men are now issued crash helmets,'
for serious injury and even deaths
have resulted from tanks lurching
Many Ramie west OP, e-.
knight's rest, Theyi anises-leawake
sand co4nt.4eep. Oltn. ; b1.
Serves wheel st tuay he'mor
Healthy • kidneys billerpawfrom
blood. 1f they are faulty and full, p.
May in the system Eat
ache, backache
sleep well, try Do&
hall a century the'tfawnte
D.odd"sKidneyPills,
over rough ground.
"We like email, tough BIM: , fpxl
3pb," at officer told me. "B¢lgp,
are Ideal, because they are used to(
working in confined conditi'one where,
a false move may be fatal
`1But they must be more than tough
—they must have a high degree of
mechanical ability and a keen brain.
Every member of the crew mutt be
able to do his comradee' jobs in an
emergency."
That is no simple. thing when yoo
consider eaph , Drew includes a gun-
ner, a driver, a wireless operator, a,
gun leader, and a tank commander,
"who is an officer or non. -commission-
ed officer.
All copper, articles are easily an&
instantly affected by contact with ac-'
ids, medicipes with alcohol in their,
nicotine, and by plain ordinary mois-
ture: If these get into copper vessels+.
traces of the substances should be re-
moved as soon as possible.
MR. CHURCHILL THANKS THE. VICTORIOUS
EIGHTH ARMY IN TRIPOLI
Mr. Churchill flew. from Cairo to Tripoli on 3.2.43 to take his
personal thanks and congratulations to the 8th Army and all who took
part in the victorious Allied West Desert campaign. He entered the
town and drove through cheering crowds to the main square where a
march past of 8th Army -units took place. General Alexander, Com-
mander -in -Chief, Middle East; General Sir Alah Brooke, Chief of the
Imperial General Staff, and General Montgomery, G.O-C., 8th Army,
accompanied the British Prime Minister who was wearing the uniform
of an Air.Commodore of the R.A.F.
Picture shows: 'Mr. Churchill's car driving -along a street in Trip
oli. The• Premier is standing to acknowledge cheers,
•
CjSNAPjOT GUILD
INFORMAL PORTRAITS
A reflec*or was, used to" brighten the shadow portion$• of this, fine'
informal .portrait.
SNAPPING informal portraits is
one oil the most interesting and
satisfying phases of photography.
It is within range of the humblest
camera. And for outdoor picture
taking of this type, spring and sum-
mer are ideal seasons.
• There 'are two requirements for an
informal portrait. First, the person
or persons pictured must be reason-
` ably large in the picture. Second,
such subjects should not appear
stiffly posed.
Many amateurs' pictures violate
both these rules. This is especially
noticeable when the picture shoWs
two or more persons.
Stiffness is quite unnecessary, be.
cause it can be promptly eliminated
if you cooperate with your subjects
and give them something to do. Take
our illustration as an example. It
is posed, and yet not stiff at all. The
photographer simply picked a 'suit-
able spot, had his -Subject stand:
where he indicated, then asked the
man to look this way—and snapped
his picture as soon as the subject
turned his head.
Tlie lictureOs noteworthy also on
two other • points—viewpoint and
lighting.
By choosing a low angle view-
point the photographer was able
with little or no tilting of the camera
to obtain a sky background, the
simplest and best of all outdoor
backgrounds. And, by- using a me-
dium yellow filter when he snapped
the -picture, he rendered this back-
ground in a pleasing middle -gray
tone.
The lighting, is noteworthy be-
cause it illustrates the advantage of
using a reflector. A sheet of white
cardboard was held just outside the
camera range, so that light was re-
flected up under. -the hat brim and
into the shadows on the subject's
face. If that had not been dobe, the
shadows would undoubtedly have
been much darker, and the general
effect far less pleasing.
' To summarize --if you want to
make good informal - Outdoor ,p0 -
traits, work close to your stiblect,
avoid stiff poses, choose a silnple
background, and 'use' a reflector Ye
brighten the shadow areas. I '
John van Guilder
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