The Huron Expositor, 1943-08-13, Page 6i
THIS YEAR'S PICKLES
Fletlo Toraemakers ! A search war -
ie being Wade for sugarless reci-
pds, for relishes. This year, pickles
canes, be 'made without sugar or with
the little you are able' to save from
your ration. Just like everything • else
that ie not easy to obtain, is one rea-
son why we hope to have a supply
on our own shelf.
We've just opened beets canned by
the saccharine method last year and
they are real good. Because we eat
r.++ a small 'amount of relish or pickles
at any one time, we are recommend;
the following recipes:
Saccharine Pickles
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i (Winnfpeg Free rx 4:1114111$ PigeeQ11 The .416.
\, >. 'oil The statement that adoption of the Mg to bfiJt}s ed' a'rotlnd, 'people are
(By 3. C. Trewdn in "tiribairt") '.
C.O, F. program would mean a prolrf gokng to ,be' t r"•ced to do corn thing>?
oration of the bureaucratic controls againat thfaaaaritl, and they will be No wamem in •the prim stucco tea•
people find so oneroua in wartime, forged to '' o t by 'servants of the races and demure villas of Plymouth
and that these would be continued by bureaucrats. there is a .
gavelnmeu;t�� hundred years ago could have fore -
races
indefinitely •after the war 3s over, has no other w , and the C.C.F. knows seen what their descet}dants• would be
hit the C.C.F.-ers where it hints. it very w ac l.• doing in this war -shattered city a
cup ehappend onions They are explaining to the electors What het C.C.F.. is telling.the peo- century later.
1 'cup horseradish, grated that under the C.C.F. •they will get ple is this;. We will abolish the pres- Even the emancipated women- of
la cull. sugar tile exact opposite •of bureaucratic ent systenp of responsible govern-
1 1/3 tablespoons salt the. last. war might have been start -
4 cups vinegar. Pushing around; that under the G.C. ment and inaugurate a system of gov- led by the 'sight of Plymouth's demo -
F. socialist system the people will get ernment by pressure groups. Instead' Mien and -salvage squadp; 'Wemen
Gook beets until tender. Remove together and decide for -themselves of the people electing a government
skins and chop. Add onions and pep- � poised on roof -ridges or shovelling in
what they want. The trade unions and giving &t broad and general pow•• the debris," women scrambling like,
pers. Combine all ingredients and will aet Tabor policies, the farmers ers to run the country, they will elect foretopmen over the fabric of batter -
cook until mixture is clear. Pour the will set farm policies, while consum-
hot mixture into sterilized jars and parliament parliaent of chore boys who a ed houses, women handling heavy
ers will get togetlriir and decide what function • will •be to take direction slates and far heavier beams, women.
sear they want, and on what terms. All from special groups. But if govern- beneath rickety walls and overhang-
• Sour Mustard Pickle Sauce this will be done in democratic style, meat is to function, if the will of the
Use half•cup vegetable combinations and 'once the decisions are made it majorit in the various punters is to, ing cornices;.
to make 1 quart, such as onions, slit y They are not all young. •Many'are
will be up to the servants of the prevail, the government must be more, mothers, a few even grandmothers.
ed or tiny; cora; yellow beans, cut; state to see that the will of the peo- much more than this. It must func-
cauliflower flowerets, cucumbers, slit They' held all manner of civilian jobs
ed; green peppers, chopped. ple is obeyed. In other words, the tion first "as an arbitrator between before becoming silhouettes on the
Cover withbrine people will tell the bureaucrats what the various ,interests. It must decide city's skyline, or helping to receive
stand ovwith weak -t. Drain and anddk let to do instead of the bureaucrats 'tell- where to draw the line between the and classify sire material salvaged
ing the people what to dq. demands for high prices from one from -thousands of damaged homes.
group clear water for one hour. •Add one Ia some ideal community on the
g up and low prices from- another, One quality th$y share —common
where to draw the. line between de- sense. This is no work: for the trif-
inands for higher wages from one ler. Demolition and salvage are
group • and from another a demand tasks for the steady, responsible,
that wages remain unchanged. - methodical, Here .these women have
There is, in the early history of risen to the occasion without strain
the Soviet Union, a striking, illustra- or fuss.
tion of how the C.C.F. system would It is,men's work—heavy work. Fre-
work. Soviets, Le. boards, of work- quently the women doit better It'ban
ers and soldiers and peasants were men with whom they share it or
set up. The cry of the revolutionar- 'whom they have replaced. Where a
les was: "All 'power to the Soviets!" man will attack a house like a full
The theory _was that these Soviets, as gale, a woman has instinctively a
part of still larger soviets, would gov- wiser touch and damages nothing ,of
ern the country. But this never hap- potential value. •
pened. Instead, the soviets became I have just seen some of them on r
the instruments through which the duty. In a llalf-ruined street of the
policies decided upon by the govern- city, a bowshot from its razed center,
rent were carried th rough. In other
�- • a house -and -shop' stands with walls
words, the praeticals !trail wagged the fissured and timbers, scorched. On the
theoretical dog. The inherent co- roof three women were stripping the
ercive power of the state must have slates—on top of their job and mak-
an outlet. Under the C.C.F. it will ing a cheerful party of it, though they
be through the various boards which affected one onlooked like the •sight
aye set up -to organize the life of the of a circus trapeze act. •
community. Elsewhere, women ,shifting timber
Ii may be that some of.the policies from a gutted building handled the
put into effect will first be decided by cumbrous planks as if they were bil-
majority vote in the C.C.F. soviets, Bard cues. Dawn among the ware -
just as many of the policies adopted houses November light was gray be=
by - present governments arise. from yond the window sockets of a stele
demands from the people. But -, nce ton. factory. Within, under the sha-
a policy is set, regardless of how the dow of the calcined limestone walls,
setting is done, it must be enforced three or four women were shovelling
by law and by, coercion where neces and sifting the debris. They looked
sary. If there is no ultimate power up briskly. A. messy job, but what of
to coecrce then -there will be only
chaos,' for those who dislike'the pol-
icy will ignore it.
The type of society which the C.C.
F. will produce is one in which there
is a multiplicity of coercive boards
like the Milk Control Board of Mani-
toba. The C.C.F. members voted for
this board, .and, it remains acceptable
to the C:CF. "'The function of. this
board is to get the highest possible
price . for milk from Winnipeg con-
sumers. It has been ,able to do this
because It has police power behind it.
It licenses those wile may ship milk
into , the city. It sets the price they
aet. It sets the price at which milk
is sold in the city. Anyone who choie-.
es to quarrel with it, to violate any
of its arbitrary rulings, faces.prosecu-
tion in tlie courts: If ,the people of
Winnipeg, were 'not compelled by law
to obey the edicts of the board, many
would do everything they 'could to
circumvent it. -
If the C.C.F. is going to .rely on
voluntary co-operation of the people
,in carrying out the orders of all the
boards it proposes to set up, jt will
find all i•ts, grandiose schemes blowing
up in its,fa;G,�e. • And if it ,seeks to en-
force the debision of the boards'with
police power, it will load the people
with a bureaucracy the like of which
they have never imagined. The ex-
planations now being made in an ef-
fort to hide these facts are transpar-
ent and fraudulent' '
1 teaspoon saccharine—exact meas-
urement (if too much is used it pat;.
duces a bitter-sweet flavour in the
product)
1 teaspoon powdered alum
1 cupful salt •
1 gallon white wine .vinegar.
Stir the powdered alum, saccharine
and salt into the vinegar and it is
-ready for use.
Prepare the pickles; wash, cut and
dry. Pack in . sterilized jars. Spices
can be added (preferably dill). Poor
solution over the pickles, and seal
tight. This produces about ten
quarts. This solution •may be made
,and kept in a jug rind poured over
cucumbers when enough to make. a.
�p jar full ,is available, If it is to be
tfsed on. beets, the alum should be
, i fitted. Beets preserved • by this
means may be used within a few
hours. Cucumbers pickled ,with this
solution should be allowed to stand
for two or three weeks.
Pickled Silver Skin Onions
Soak one cup white onions (peel-
ed) in strong brine for 24 hours. Soak
. in fresh water one hour and drain.
• Mix the following:
1 cup white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon 'ailsptce
1/2 tablespoon white mustard seed •
2 peppercorns.
Boil one minute. Pack onions into
clean sterilized jars. Cover with
boiling 'syrup and seal.
Dill Pickles ...
Wash cucumbers and 'wipe well.
Pack into jars. To 1 -quart jar add:
4 'teaspoons salt
1 small hot red pepper
1 clove garlic •
Dill .an savory.
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• Fill jai with mrxture of Vinegar -and
water in proportion of 1 quart' of
white vinegar to 2 quarts water, Seal
tightly. Ready to use .in 6 weeks.
Beet Relish
8 cups chopped beets ?
• 1 1/3 cups chopped red peppers.
cup water, 1 cup vinegar and let shores •of Shangri-La this might work
stand 15 minutes. Cook 10-15 min- out. It could work out perfectly, pro-
utes. Drain. Add sweet or star mus- aided unanimity of all the people on
tard sauce. Let pickles come to a any question could be got. But in a
boil. Bottle. practical world ouch • unanimity can
Sour Mustard Saucepractical
be achieved. It cannot be
1 tablespoon flour achieved beca{rse in every commun-
s/4 tablespoon mustard ity there is a clash of interests. It
i4 cup brown sugar is the interest of farmers to sell what
1/8 teaspoon tumeric they produce at the best possible
1 cup vinegar • price. Itis the interest of the worker
V2 teaspoon salt, er, as worker to get the highest wage
Chili Sauce possible, and it is the interest of the
1 6 quart basket tomatoes worker as consumer to buy his food
8 onions (chopped) and other necessities at the lowest
4 green peppers • Possible price. ' Now it le clear from
2 .cups cider vinegarthese 'simple statements that the com-
2 tablespoons salt munity of ,interest whteh the ,C.C.F.
2 cups corn syrup sees between all sections of the eom-
4 tablespoons mixed pickling spic- munitg does snot exist' in fact. Their
es (tied in a bag). interests clash wherever they touch,
Peel the tomatoes and cut in pies- and in essence our life in Canada
es; chop - onions and peppers; put in must be a'compromise between the
large preserving .kettle. Cook slow- ideal and the attainable. •
ly, uncovered, for three hours, or un- • It may be all very well for all sec -
til • thick. Pour into sterile jars and tions • of the community to get toge-
seal at once. Yield: APproximate- ther in democratic fashion and decide
ly 7 pints. what each section wants. But be -
TAKE A TIP
1. Grape or horseradish leaves cov-
ering the top will keep more green
. color in the cucumbers.
2. If plum stones are stubborn to re-
move, leave them•.in until after the
fruit is cooked for jam. They will
come to the surface and are easy
to skim off.
3. A sprig of mint cooked with peas
gives a pleasant flavor and keeps
the vegetable green.
4. White cabbage. cauliflower and
white onions keep their caw if
cooked" in wa,. adter• that. has pone-
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half teaspoonful cream - of: tartar
added. This softens tithe water.
`5. There are two ways to prevent
pickle sauces from burning as it
begins to thicken. Rub preserving
kettle with a hard fat before put-
_ ting in the ingredients. Or, slip
cause there is bound to be opposition
to eadh of the programs from oppos-
ing interests. both inside and outside
the group which drafts the program,
some method rnuet be employed to
make the decision of the majority ef-
fective. That method. in short, is the
exercise of power. These decisions
cannot be enforced without power,
and if power is used people are go -
an old tin pan under the preserv-
ing kettle during the last half •hour
of cooking. If you have to leave
the kitchen for any length of time,
put the kettle in a 350 degree ov-
en, leaving the door ajar.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The, Huron Expositor. Send
in your suggestions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
VERTI ENTS
AREA GUIDE TO VALUE
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• Experts can roughly estimate the value of a product
by looking at it: More accurately, by handling and ex-
amining it. Its appearance, its texture, the "feel" and
the balance of it all_ means something to their trained
eyes and fingers.
• But no one person can be an expert on • steel, brass,
wood, leather, foodstuffs, -fabrics, and all of the materials
that make up a list of personal purchases. And even ex-
perts are fooled, sometimes, by concealed flaws and im-
perfections. .
• - 'There is a surer index of value than the senses of
sig -ht and touch , knowledge of the maker's name and
for what it stands. Here is the most certain method, ex-
cept that of actual use, for judging the value of any manu-
factured goods. Here is the only guarantee against care-
lessorkmanship, or the use of shoddy materials.
is1
is one important reason why it pays to read ad-
vertisements and to buy advertised goods. The product
that is advertised is worthy of your confidence.
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MERCHANDISE MUST BE GOOD OR -IT COULD NOT
BE CONSISTENTLY ADVERTISED; BUY
ADVERTISE)? GOODS
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goA4 A4 or evening dress you beGpilhe vel,, t. tia1% ember-
e g • . amdr prrltatious nit the shoulder and back as well
. do somety0g about it—•ar at,hiag worth .white-
7G� xi a 13Oacli ']NEhiy is.�a medicinal product on Ntlaa*yoa tau, rely for
;clearing 110p,041- F. troubles of t is nature as Y••y,..,..S.i•r' F..{r ;?1:£+... :'s
well on 'Oohing cad eeze ►a,
others .vv o are- accyistomed to use Dr.
nee'sp T10,brgipr?aabyPeskin troubles
ax►ci era had at sq delrghtlfn ly healing and
soa g that they poen, acquire the habit of
using it for their own skin as eetions.
60 cts. a box. Economy Jar, five tonnes as
much $2.00
1'Dethe hat
ea tie aee,
Dr. Chase's
Ointment
ority secured- an unused china -clay —planned to the last cat. There are
drying depot on the fringe of Dart- eleven cats on the force of the shoes►
moor, and an old brickworks, over the department; those at the furniture
Cornish._ border. Drying sheds and depot deal effectively with any son
kilns were mare weatherproof; •there ties by the local mice,
the furniture is -OW -solely housed and This salvage scheme is an expert
treated:- - combined operation. Much credit
To reach the first of these stores goes to the stores committee. We -
one climbs away from the city to- men salvagers are organized by the
wards the 'windy roof of Dartmoor. Municipal and General Workers' 'On -
Below this eyrie are tree -'filled val- ion, whichas helped from the, start
leys where on an autumn morning in arranging conditions and wage
mists still undispersed shimmer like scales.
a water -mirage. Thus :the woraen of Plymouth now
On this height, much of the -furni- meet tlie men, as it were, on therr
ture of bombed Plymouth is stacking own roofs. Salvage and demolition
in bays, marked with code numbers, workers are proud • of their prowess,.
,snugly tarpaulined, and ready for re- One cannot help 'wondering.. what
moval at an owner's need: in these those rose -leaf shades of 1843 wain
days about five loads, go out weekly. have said to •the pick -and -shovel we -
It is a detailed piece of orga}►ization men who have succeeded them.
it? No complaints. •
These women, more efficient than
decorative with their dusty -blue over-
alls and masterful caps, have climb-
ed high ladders; -helped to demolish
walls, worked on roofs with a forty -
foot drop beneath them.
The work is, not all steeple -jacking
or hunting lir' the ruins: Salvage from
damaged" buildings in Plymouth goes
to 'special reservations, one for gen=
eral salvage, another for metals- Wo-
men are responsible for the entire
general salvage area on a suburban
tip.
Here Betty, • the forewoman, super-
vises' the work and shares it. Thou-
sands of doors stand •'upright, like
books on library shelves. There are
regiments of baths, rows of fireplaces,
mounds of timber (stacked by women
and protected by bricks and 'rubble).•
Women also control the metal sal-
vage reservation on the site 'of a van-
ished park. The mass of metal wreck-
age, which• once covered it to a height
oatwenty feet,, has been largely classi-
fied and cleared.. Women here have
handled hundreds of tons of lead, map-
per, aluminium, brass.
Another vital duty: after the great
raids on Plymouth in the spring of
1941, furniture 'from bombed premis-
es Abad to • be stored . and preserved.
This involved at least ten thousand
emergency removals. The locaLaut1-
from the brine, .wash thoroughly • in
- several waters, then soak for two
Canning Corner hours in fresh, warm, water. Cook in
boiling water without salt until ten -
Sugarless Blueberries For Pies der;' 25-35 minutes. Overnight soak-
ing will toughen the beans: '
Blueberry pie is a favorite summer
dessert and it is so easy to haye de-
licious blueberry pies all the year
round if the berries are canned now,
She sugarless way.
Wash the bluelrries; allowing
about six cups of berries for each
quart sealer. Crush part of the•ber-
ries In the preserving kettle, add a
very little water` and the rest of the
berries. Heat slowly --to extract the
juice. Pack into 'hot, sterilized seal-
ers, crushing fruit down if necessary
until juice fills. the ,sealers. Adjust
sterilized 'rubber rings and tops. Par-
tially seal •and process
Boiling' Water Bath—Pints, 20 min-
utes; quarts, '25 minutes.
Oven, 275 deg. F.. -Pints, 35 min-
utes; quarts, 45 minutes".•'
Steam Cooker -Pints, 30 minutes;
quarts, 35 minutes.
Pressure Cooker, 5 lbs._preesure
Pints or quarts•, •10,minute8. ..
Remove and complete seal as soon
as processing time is up.
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Bd fls in Brine
A simple ,and satisfactory way of.-
prgserving beans is by bringing them,
allowing 1 pound coarse salt to 4 lbs.
beans. Wash :and - string beans, cut
or lehve whole,, ere desired., ' Plan, a
layer of beans• iiia creek, sprinkle
genlerousiy with salt,. Repeat Until
all the beans 9; +a used. Place a piste
sir board, cut. til .gt :the . ton of, the
crock, over the , llei iris • 4ttfFl • • intf a
; 'eight an top,' :tile Salt.: Will 4tirc
enough vnater` ' from the' benke to f prod
tute a br%e.
u e the Ibeihoi . tettimi the'tln
PICTURING "SUNBEAM.
A medium yellow filter, chrome,.,,im, and an exposure of 1/50 second at
f/16 produced this striking picture of sunbeams. -
'VUR camera is quite •capable of
Y picturing sunbeams-- and some.
of the most striking pictures ever
,taken have included them.
Wherever the "rays of sunshine
slant through clouds, a tree, .• or
otter 'openings', -3tou may find the
setting for a .sunbeam, picture. If
there is dust or smoke in the air,
• so much the better—the shafts of
sunlight will glow even more bril-
liant4`y.
Any snapshot, of course, may cap-
' tune some feeling of the sunbeams,
but if you really want to emphasize
them—and build them into an in-
tegral part of your picture—the trick
is to increase the general contrast
of your snapshots. Let the darks go
darker, and the lights shine more
brilliantly. And then the shafts of
sunlight will be sharp and clear.
To produce that effect, I'd suggest
that yoti.. do, two things: First, slip
a medium yellow filter over your
camera lens; and; second, expose for
the highlights and let the shadows
shift for themselves.
For instance, if you run across a
cloud -filled sunset scene with .2. bytI
liant mass of sunbeams breaking
through scattered clouds, as in our
illustration, try an exposure of 1/66
second at f/16. With a. filter and
ordinary snapshot film, that should
give you approximately the same
effect our photographer achieved`
although some slight variation, such
as 1/50 second at f/11, may produce
slightly better results. '
However, when it comes to taking
sunbeam pictures in the woods, you'll
undoubtedly need to give somewhat
longer exposures because the gen-
eral surroundings are so dark • in.
tone. Enact exposure data, of course,
will depend on' the particular con-
ditions, but usually 1/25 second at
f/5.6 or f/6.3 will be about right.
So the next time you see a mass
of sunbeams, don't just pass them
by.'Photogr .rh them, and you'll find.
that thee' -novel .pictures will fill a
definite spot in your allum.
•
John van GufIder
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