The Huron Expositor, 1943-11-19, Page 6t.:
ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Homo Economist
SAVOURY STOCK POTS
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t Iatla homemakers! Thralty grand -
p others., whose wonderful soups we
ve heard so much aboa,t, had an
seer -burning kitchen Are to Work
alk??h. Thhy could keep their stock
ltd' en top of the stove because the
aaristant heat was too high for the
;p;;owth of dangerous bacteria.
Now, it is necessary to conserve
every kind of fuel, but we need not
Worry about the soup pot—use low
heat to draw out the flavour without
'boiling the- liquor away, and then
.'place it in the refrigerator to prevent.
spoilage and taste.
Meat flavor is the soul of a stock
pot, so begin by collecting leftover
banes from roasts, steaks, chops or
poultry. (Buy 'a raw soup bone oc-
casionally, but always have the but-
eber crack it for you). Cover the
bones with cold water, add drippings
from roasts, steaks, sliced raw onion,
raw • carrots, celery and celery tops,
parsley, a bay leaf, salt and pepper.
Cover; bring to boiling point, simmer
1 to 1% hours. Strain; cool. Skim
off fat that rises to top and use it for
other cooking. Pour stock into a
fruit jar, seal and store in the refrig-
erator.
RECIPES
Basic Supper Chowder
2 large potatoes, chopped on grated
2 large onions, chopped or sliced
1 pound hamburger
1 quart 'milk
Salt and pepper.
Quick to make, delicious and inex-
pensive.
Cover the potatoes, onions' and ham-
burger with hot water, and simmer
slowly until the potatoes are well
cooked, about 20 minutes. Salt and
pepper to tastes, add milk, and heat
YOUR BRM
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ALWAYS DEPENDABLE
ArR6IGHT1 WRAPPER
ENSURES STRENGTH
thoroughly. (Add a little flour and
water thickening if desired).
Quick Split Pea Soup
2 cups green dried peas
2 quarts water
2 small onions, chopped
1 grated carrot
Salt and pepper to taste
1 bay leaf
3/¢ teaspoen thyme .
2 stalks chopped celery or la cup
chopped celery tops.
Mix the ingredients and boil for
20-25 minutes. Strain through si>rlre
or colander; reheat, and serve.
Thrifty Changes
Use leftover ham or chicken stock
in place of water. Chopped bacon
will give a delicious flavor for a
change: A dash of cayenne pepper
or pepper sauce if you like it. Garlic
minced' fine and added while cooking
will be a good change, served with
thinly sliced wieners on top. After
straining, 1 cup- thick tomato .juice
may be added. Hot milk or cream
(about 1 cup) may be added.
Creamed Vegetable Soups
Delicious cream soups may be made
from leftover or freshly cooked vege-
table's, such as peas, cabbage,, spin-
ach, beet tops, onions, or cauliflower.
Press the vegetables through a sieve
and to each cupful of vegetable pulp
add 2 cups milk. Heat to the boiling
point, season with salt and pepper to
taste, and thicken with a little flour
—about 1 tablespoon flour and milk
mixed to' a smooth paste. Simmer for
two minutes, stirring constantly, Add
1 tablespoon butter just before serv-
ing. • This makes two large servings
or three small servings.
Corn, cooked or fresh, may be us-
ed in the sane way without pressing
through a sieve.
TAKE A TIP
1. Meat broth is the perfect med-
ium for the growth of bacteria, and
once bacteria starts, spoilage can
quickly result.
2. To keep Tour refrigerator stock
pot safe, make sure that the broth is
brought to the boiling point acid put
back in the refrigerator after cook-
ing, about every two days, unless of
course it is to be served.
THE QUESTION 'BOX
Mrs. L. B. asks: "Why do scallop-
ed potatoes curdle?"
Answer: When the oven tempera-
ture is above 325 degrees the fat and
flour do,not cook slowly enough to
make a aste and 'will separate from
the 'milk if it boils. -
Mrs. J. M. asks: "How to mould
cranberries without using muc!i ,s'ug-
ar."
Answer:'
Cranberry Salad
as cup sugar
1 tablespoon gelatine
2 cups cranberries
Ila cups water
1 cup diced celery.
Cook cranberries in one cup of wa-
ter tuhtil theysare 'soft. Press through
a sieve, add sugar, cook five minutes.
Add gelatine softened in ia. cup of
water:
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in your suggestions on homemaking
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y Editor
ttawa
Capital Items: A through air ser-
vice from Ottawa to Nassau, Bahama
Islands, via New York and Miami, is
heralded to commence very soon by
Colonial Ai ares, Inc.,, with trip total
flying time bf 10 hours. . . . Bureau-
laughs—the woman who wroteto the
Regional Offices of Prices Board ask-
ing what articles, were going to be
rationed next 'so I can lay in a sup-
ply'! ... and the em(iloyee who phon-
ed Selective Service asking if he
could be "frozen" so tom lama ..couldn't
fire him. - . . According to the W.P.
T.B., Santa's reindeersi will float light
as a feather this Christmas because
wood and plastic toys will be avail-
able in fair supply. . . Metal and
rubber tops will be non compos men
tis—or is that the word? ... the ac-
cent will be, owing to shortage of
labour by toymakers, on pieces of this
and that, so ingenious Johnny can
do the assembling.
* * *
Under direction of the Consumers
Branch, W.P.T.B., I am told, • ward-
robes of •children's madeover cloth-
ing are being sent to a total .of 108
centres in Canada. They offer a va-
riety of new ideas, even to makeover
experts like Canadian, mothers, par-
ticularly in re-claiming apparently
useless material and turning it into
something wearable. Emphasis is
placed on combinations of pretty col-
ors, tailored smartness and on unus-
ual ways of turning the total losses
in the wardrobe into active garments.
Included in the kits are several styles
of children's underwear cut down
from daddy's union suits. It's the
first time in our country's dressmak-
ing history that patterns .have been
avaable for children's underwear.
* :* :k•
More than 14,0:00 Canadians in the
Armed Forces serving in England
have married English girls, believe it
or not, according to a recent an-
nounce_ment. A lot of new moms will
have to Learn. to bake apple pies.
* :k *
Agaip. Agriculture Minister J. G.
Gardiner makes a special appeal that
all farmers, especially those in the
three prairie provinces (including
other livestock shippers) co-operate
in withholding from market, sows, un-
finishe cattle and cows, and. by
spreading deliveries of bacon hogs
and other classes of livestock as ev-
enly as possible. Reason: peak in
deliveries in next two months, con-
gestion in stock yards and packing
plants. Sows, 10 per cent. of all
western hog marketings, take more
`time to slaughter and process than
regular hogs.
*+ *.
The machinery rationing officials
meeting in Regina, Sask., recently
were concerned about many farmers
selling still usable tractors in the
hopes of getting new ones. While
quotas have been increased there is
just 'enough to meet needs of essen-
tiality. The nearest' rationing officer
should be written „to for a permit be-
fore any sale or deal or new purchase
is' made. The sale of second-hand
machines at enhanced prices to se-
cure permits for new equipment is
considered "an unfair practice," the
Board holds.
.NEW LIFE IN OLD SOCKS
What do you do with those good'
woollen sock tops . that are left after
your husband has poked his big toe
through the feet and worn the heels
ragged? .Handy needlewomen have
found that doubled, and sewn toge-
ther in squares, they make aarac tive,
afghans. Another idea,uses the sock
tops .in dressing gowns for the chil-
dren. Sewn together, the same as,
they were for the afghan, the tops
have then been fashioned(rinto. cozy
gowns, the seams outlined with gay
feather -stitching.
(By Jim Greenblat)
lion -pou,,nds fiver . a two-year period,
as conapared,to current .agreement of
675 million pounds in one year. The
new price will be $22.50 a hundred-.
weight, up 75_,cents.
1***
Odds and Ends of interest; Gross
operating revenues of our Canailian
railways increased to $69,727,02.2 in
July, a new high monthly record.
R.C.A.. •aircrew serving in other
war zones will now be granted spe-
cial leave to Canada for completing
Ours of operations the same as if
in the United Kingdom.... The first
"Canadian Bible" is now rolling off
presses in Toronto; since 1604 print-
ing rights have been strictly con-
trolled, only four other firms in the
British Empire having -the . authority
to print Bibles.... The National Film
Board has a hundred 'travelling the-
atres' which go from village to vil-
lage -and factory to factory at regular
intervals. The rural audience for
them is mow 350,000 .a month, in the,
factories a quarter of a million. . : .
Since 1940 Canada has launched isiere
than 200 steel cargo ships, aside from
warships and other war craft. In a
siagle convey these 200 ships could
carry the fdilowing mixed cargo: en-
ough food to feed the entire popula-
tion of Britain for one week, enough
lumber to build 18100 four -room cot-
tages, 400 'bombers, and enough alum-
inum to build more than f2,500 fight-
er planes, steel for seven battleships,
enough bombs to drop 10 potind:s on
every German subject and motorized
equipment to supply 200 infantry bat-
talions.
* * a* -
Crops of main staples in Canada
are quite lower than 1942. Total
wheat production estimated at 296,-
259,a00 bushels, 50 per cent. lower
than the 1942 yield, though larger
than any crop harvested from 193alo
1937, and produced on smallest acre-
age seeded, to wheat since 1918. Feed
grain lower, poorest in respect to
oats in 'Ontario and Quebec. Hay
and clover estimated 1,144,000 tons
greater than 1942, though in some
districts affected by moisture. Potato
crop estimated at 43,041,000 - cwt.,
ravages in some districts offset by
increased yield in New Brunswick.
Sharp reduction in sugar beets.
Due to feed shortages in Canada
and expected lower production in
hogs for 1944; our'new ham and bac-
on agreement with the U.K. provides
for delivery of not less than 900 mil -
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* * *
Aircraft workers in Canada have
saved the nation over $200,000 cash
in direct production costs by sugges-
tions made since the first of the year
and perhaps millions indirectly, ac-
cording to the Aircraft Industry Re-
lations Committee. One Canadian
worker made a simple technical' sug-
gestion which saves 5,625 man hours
on every one ,hundred aircraft.
* * *
The 1943 honey crop—one of the
best on record—gets a 1preliminary
estimate of 32,520,000 pounds, exr
ceeding the previous year by 35 „per
cent. One-third of the total was pro-
duced in Ontario. The prairies pro-
duced 14 million pounds; five,million
was extracted in Quebec; 1,300,000 in
British • oliiidtbia and the Maritimes
were somewhat less than in 1942.
* * *
Restrictions on the sale of protec-
tive rubber garments have been re-
voked by the Prices Board and ..re-
claimed rubber now can be used for
these garments in place of crude rub-
ber. This includes, of course, fire-
men's coats, mining suits, sou'wes-
ters, fishing suits and acid resisting
suits.
* * *
Our Post Office has become big
business—and how. A big increase is
shown since the war started with
gross revenues for 1942-43 being $59,-
175,137.• Take airgraphs overseas,
more than 76,000 of them are flown
weekly from Cahada; 'an ordinary
mail bag holds 2,400 ordinary letters
but 408,000 airgraphs which ordinar-
ily would require 213 mail bags and
occupy 639 cubic feet of cargo space.
Just imagine, our P.0: department in
1942 sent 20,116,360 letters overseas
as against 5,618,640 in ,1640.
Thrilling Nights As
Bombers Leave.
For Germany
(By Margaret Butcher)
READING, ENG.—last night I had
a new experience. At seven o'clock
I got back to my lodgings feeling very
sleepy and terribly hungry and less
my half-pint as a 'bibod donor.' (In-
cidentally, I feel fine, except for a
bruised aria.' The pruise, I believe, is
unusual, so 1 guess we'll have to ov-
erlook that.) So, one of these days,
maybe, some fine, husky lad will be
going around—in your own town, for
all one can tell—with my English
blood in. his veins. Queer, isn't it?
The business took pla,cejn a school
house near here; my friend the doc-
tor having told me how I could be
useful in this particular way. A small
but very motley, collection of people
had .,arrived already, and we -sat
round on chairs: rather gloomily it
must be admitted. Occasionally a
door opened and a Y.A.D. called out
three or four names. Through the
door one caught glimpses of beds and
gadgets.
Like a Rabbit'
"Doesn't it all look dreadfully sin-
ister?" I observed to the woman seat-
ed beside me; and at that we liven-
ed up. My turn came and I stepped
blithely in. There was only one man
so far, and he ;looked surprisingly
like a rabbit :in an aquarium.'
Soon the affair was completed. An-
other V.A.D. led us into a curtained
off space lined with stretchers, and
on these we lay down and were giv-
en cups of tea. I was rather intrig-
ued to realize that the last time • I
had been on this spot it was for an
amateur performance of that amusing.
play 'Housemaster.' After a time, one
by one, we were promoted to chairs,
our arms strapped with plaster and
tender inquiries made as• to how we
felt. Nobody had -fainted thus far.
Nobody did. The man didn't look too
happy, and one of this worries teas
dist Aat. +hadWt . w;•glt^ a?air .lahAa k
take collar to altatolr,'
" lla:re. you really got a shirt with
a collar to; match?" 1 lnquired. "We»,
don't talk about it too loudly; you'll
be burgle&"
G.opd At Shouting
He was a..,nice man, and I offered
to see barn to the top of the hill. In
view of our contrasting sizes this was
rather amusing. "I shan't be much
except moral support," I told him,
"but I'm very good, at shouting for
help." So we ,set off.
Don't you feel a bit odd yourself?"
he asked.
"Why, hiss's you!" I told him. "Wo-
men} can stand anything." s
He' looked all right when we part-
ed, so I hope he got home without in-
cident. As for me, I 'haven't felt any
ill effects, and I shall treasure the
neat little 'Thank'You' bqoklet they
gave me whenal came away. Good
luck to the lad who gets my half-
rint!
I slept so soundly after it that I
never heard our 'Alert' in the night.
I have done my usual amount of work
today, into the bargain, and have just
had another enormous meal off the
Allotment.' For the first time in my
life I'm having enough vegetables: no
more nonsense of. two spoonfulls of
green peas and then away goes the
dish. Now I sit down to a laage dish
all to myself with a dollop of mar-
garine on the top and a spoon to
eat with. That's the, way! I confess
now that this has always been my
private pipedream. The dentist (who
has been having one of his periodic
goes at me) says rimy gums have nev-
er been so healthy and when I told
him that I live 'like a peasant these
days,' he replied: "Well, there you
have the answer." So, I fancy that
rationing hasn't done us any harm.
Nearly Came True
My worst fears nearly came true
the other evening. I was cycling back
from one of those Red Cross sketch-
ing bouts, pack on --'back, complete
with easel, and ma eyeshade on, when
I.heard heavy breathing coming up
behind me. It was our excellent Y.P.
C. Parker, helmet and all:
"Oh—er—good evening!" he said.
"I didn't recognize you. I thought it
must be somebody dropped out of an
airplane."
"Ah!" I replied. "Mr, A. told me
that I should be arrested, sooner or
Later, as a parachutist."
P.C. Parker chuckled. (He is a
jolly, .plump, chuckley man). "You
tell him it nearly happened this eve-
ning."
Happily, I am still at large. '
These are thrilling nights for us.
I lie in bed, reading a bit before go-
ing to, sleep and, .so often there is
that endless droning overhead as the
bombers pass along. Ours th'i� time!
Tbere is a terrific sense of 5'ama in
that sound; if I were a po+t I should
have to do something about it. The
other night I looked out before I
'made the blackout', 'and there they
were: formation after formation, at
such an enormous height that they
looked like tiny birds in the sunset
sky— goiig bff to justify our 'stub-
born h'6 es at the time of Dunkerque,
when we felt so wretched (naturally
enough!) but know, in -our bones, that
we weren't really licked. I expect
many of us'rn this little - country stood
at windows or in the roads, peering
up with our spirits at the salute. Well
I guess you have to be here to re-
alize just how we. feel. We aren't a
bloodthirsty people, but you .can't
bringfolks up on a sense of just4ce
and then not expect it to function at
a time like this, can you?'
More Like Himself
The Gardening Farther, after his
long and tiresome illness, is getting
better. Now he potters out and does
non -strenuous things with a hoe,
while I rack my brains privately, on
the subject 'of the autumn digging. I
dare say I shall find a solution to the..
problem by then; and att. the mean-
time he is getting much, much more
like`himself, bless him. I knew it for
certain yesterday. All this time he
has been showing a grim and un-
wonted cheerfulness,but yesterday' I•
caught him ' standing on the path',
leaningon the hoe and surveying his.
domain with that old distaste. Sud-
denly he let out one sharp, bitter
laugh:" a kind of bark.
"I've never seen it looking worse,a'
he said; and at that I knew he was
well on the mend. To his secret joy
he has found ,a pew kind» of spot on
the tomato leaves, and suspects the
presence of horrid diseases anti hith-
erto unheard, of pest's. The fact that
I have had all those heaped dishes of
peas makes no impression 'fin him.
"Yes, are so glad he's getting better.
He is very tickled by the •reception
of a letter from our local Allotments
Board, asking him, if he would like
to enter for a prize. "They tell you,"
he said, with another horrible laugh,
"that even if you don't get a prize
you'll get some good advice." His
guess is that the pudges would ads
vise us to take 'up Art instead. Af-
ter that I cycled home with my pack
filled with young beans and excellent
potatoes, so there are no complaints,
on my side.
Never Missed a Month
Looking thrqugh my diary of work
I find that it is nearly three years
since I started writing these news-
letters to Canada, and I have •never
missed a single month. Some have
never reached you, I know, but they
always started from here. Now and
then there hasn't been any news to
speak of: just the ordinary chatter
of an ordinary" body about ordinary
things; but I neer set out to be .a
politician or a journalist, did I? Not
a lot of news, but a good bit of ,mix-
ed experience: nights in London
blitzes, varied work, varied acquaint-
ances', various abodes --and a general ,
Wok Pt •Calgaati alaal that lariag
wan ailed .te hear sa Witch allout. Bat
who cares ? wotaldn't blare it agar„
different, 'rd' bate to kook h •e? rf whe
J,11 die le War; faal aaa.:436Taialf
one of itho.ee "talon a:e eotux* 'Ribose
one 'a x}lli en,F;waftt that tt a 'War 4,41,4°140not maitre any difference. "'"° '4ilie few
of these odd creatures which remain
are iu, a bit of a mesa already: Meir
old standard of valuea has been whip-
ped away from them and they haven't
formed any new ones. Their minds
have :dried up. •
I. have just seen one go down the
road, with a cross-grained face under
a smart new 'squander -bug' hat. She
is off to be alxogant and patronizing
to the grocer, I suspect, and to ask
him 'when the rations are to be in -
increased.' (A favorite question of
hers, I've noticed). Then she will
come back to wear herself out with
weeding and tinkering among the
flowerbeds. You know the tape: "I
must have flowers and nice things
round me." When I ventured to sug-
gest that a few rows of peas and a
hen -run might be a sensible addition
to that garden it was very coldity re-
ceived. Obviously—so said the chilly
blue eyes—I am no lady.
I do hope you don't mind?
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CLEAR FOR ACTION
Whisk off those radiator covers.
They're gremlins as far as heat is
concerned. At the same time be sure
To move the furniture from in front
of radiators and hot air registers. The
,nim arpin • camca sa ad sassier"
''' v nt C. cium p ur�o�l ttaa to
h •Y1; IYltfo a1ci ullF7t a:71:4d11t : •pX'5o,.
ru ' iru Lo> etas ,onry 3iSa Pnut degghted with
results f at'st psturc o, mckar refun4s low prim.
At all ,:rneulsus. buuru tsic,uu O@trex'r'ekhh'u. CoOw.
heat won't be able' 'to circulate, pre.
perly if they are blocked by a. chair
or chesterfield.
CURLED BRUSH ENDS
Brush ends oaten illaaaanna (Marled.,
This can be rectified.if •fhe, b osh 10
suspended in the containers e. bets
tom of the bristles last (leap IMO
bottom of .the container.
CLEANING. OUT CRUMBS
Try a small brush for cleaning out
crumbs in the family toaster. Clean
the outside with a soapy cloth, but
never place the toaster in water. If
this is .done it's goodbye to a now
almost irreplaceable friend. ti
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WOMEN USE "LITTLE BLUE BOOK"
Now what did she pay the last time? This• Canadian housewife
doesn'tneed to trust her memory, she consults her "little blue -book,"
in which'she has listed maximum prices for eggs, potatoes, apples,
beef, Iamb, chickens and ,ther foods on which there are "definite
•ceiling prices. Like many thousands of other Canadian weanen, she
is meeting the challenge to control prices by keeping track'of'them.
qbeSNAPS1-10T, GUILD
PICT E THE SEASONAL CHANGES 4:
If you want -to. add i c' •tato your snapshot collection, picture your
home and siirrag4ldings through the four seasons. '
LTAVE you ever thought of pictur-
� a ing the four seasons around your
home—the changes made by Mother
Nature in the appearance of the
trees, sh"rubs, gardens, and so forth?
If you haven't, you have passed, up
an opportunity for interesting, story-
telling pictures for your snapshot
collection.
It seems that through force of
habit—or maybe It's a 'tradition--
we think of spring and summer as
the time to take pictures and more
or less forget about fall and winter
unless some special occasion
prompts us to.bring.out our cameras.
If you want to make ftp a series of
interesting pictures for your album
let ma suggest that you start today
and make comparison pictures
around your home. 'Take our illus-
tration, for example. Here are two
pictures of the same house, one
snapped on a sunny day in the fall
- and the other (about ten weeks later
after a winter's snow storm. You Will
agree that there is quite a contrast
in the scenes: That's one example of
comparison pictures. With the arrival
of spring' new fallage and iioweis
will appear, and there is another
general view. • Around almost any
home there are favorite garden
spots: the tulip bed, 'a beautiful
spires bush, a rose trellis, bleak and
bare.in the late fall and winter, but
aflame with color in the late spring
and summer. All of which tend ahem
selves to beautiful knapshots hi
either black -and -white or In -colors
And there is the porch or terrace,
void of all its attractiveness in tall
and winter, but a picture of home
life' and comfort during Spring ,and
summer.
It takes but little- imaginative
power to visualize the possibilitieti
of ..picturing the changes made Ii
the appearance of our homes by the
changing seasons. But choose your
idetvpoint carefully because with
the scarcity of film every click"ot
the shutter should result in a good
picture.
Remember,'too, that pictures taken
around the home whatever the sea-
son, are welcomed by those in the
Service so have extra prints made
for them.
John van Guilder