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Hello Homemakers! 1•lnough .time
to prepare . for the 'Waylay table is
the quandry of many homemakers: ,to
day. Every year there seem to4,,, be
more functions to 'attend; especially'
at this season, not• only the women's
organizations, herr, :the e)rildren's con
eerts, father's *Rice parties and the
unmerous Christmas endeavors.
It therefore behooves us to prepare
something simple yet festivefor our
home gatherings. We believe that
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
GOING EAST
(Morning)
loderich (leave)
fseatforth
Strattord (arrive)
(Afternoon)
Godetich (leave)
Seaforth
Stratford (arrive)
GOING WEST
- (Morning)
Stratford ('leave)
Seaforth
dloderieh (arrive),
,
(Ater tleele)
Stratford (leave)
Seaforth
a.m.
5.40
6.20
7.16
p.m.
3.00
3.46
4.40
a.m,
10.45
11.26
12.20
9.15
10.21
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i our basic recipes; with variations- may
be the answer to your number oee
•pfro1em thio • week. • p
Buttermilk 'Cookies
I. cupbrown Sugar
3c cup shortening
1 -egg, well beaten
la cup buttermilk or sour milk
21/s, cups sifted cake flour
la, teaspoon salt
`r/ teaspoon soda
teaspoon cinnamon. -
Cream brown sugar and shorten
ing, add"beaten egg. Sift dry ingredi-
ents and add alternately with butter-
milk to creamed mixture: Drop from
teaspoon on greased' cookie sheet.
Bake in oven of $75 degrees about 12
minutes.
COCOANUT •COOKIES: Add le
cup shredded.co.ceahut and one tea
spoon grated orange rind' and one
teaspoon lemon rind.
DECORATED COOKIES: Use bas
is recipe and after cookies are in pan,
decorate in one of the following
ways: Flatten with spatula and
place on centre of each, blanched al-
mond, raisin, pieces of peel or sesame
seeds.
Basic Baking Powder Biscuits
2 cups (all-purpose) flour
1 teaspoon salt
% cup milk
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons shortening.
Sift'dry ingredients twice. Cut in
the shortening with pastry blender.
Sprinkle in the milk and toss into a
dough mixture with wooden spoon.
(Use more milk if necessary).
Place the dough on floured board,
pat or roll lightly to about one inch
thickness. Cut it with a biscuit cut-
ter, dipping the cutter into flour to
keep it from sticking. Bake on a
lightly floured pan in a hot oven at
45e degrees for 12 minutes.
CHHESE BISCUITS:. Cut % cup
grated cheese into dough.
CRANBERRY BISCUITS: Add two
tablespoons sugar to dry ingredients.
Cut % cup chopped raw cranberries
into the dough.
RAISIN BISCUJITS: Fold % cup
raisins into mixture after shortening
is cut in.
NUT BISCUITS: Add 14 cup chop-
ped nuts to mixture after shortening
is cut in.
Basic Pastry Recipe
1% cups flour (pastry)
1/2 teaspoon' salt
% cup shortening -
4 tablespoons cold water.
Sift the flour with salt and work
the shortening into it was pastry mix-
er. (When shortening is mixed even-
ly, the mix looks like coarse oatmeal).
Sprinkle in the cold water, tossing
flour into dough. Pat lightly into a
ball, wrap in wax paper, and chill, in
refrigerator for one-half hour. Roll
out lightly on a floured board to one-
third inch thickness in a circular
fashion. Fold in half and lift to pie
plate. Press gently onto pie plate,
Cut down around the edge. This
makes one nine -inch double crust.
ORANGE PASTRY: 'Use orange
juice in place of water, adding a lit-
tle grated orange rind.
NUT PA$TRY: Add one-quarter
cup finely grated cheese to flour mix-
ture.
Take a Tip
1. If you use gumdrops far varia-
tion in cookies, cut and mix in the
dough because these gelatine candies
will harden in a nhderate tempera-
,ture, oven. •
2. If your cookie sheet has be-
come black, place the pan of cookies
on top of the jelly roll pan to deflect
the heat and prevent the cookies
burning on the bottom.
3. If you use pastry flour for mak-
ing powder biscuits, you may require.
one cup of milk to make a soft dough.
4. The basic pastry dough recipe
may be used for making tart shells.
The Question Box
Mrs. J. T. asks':' Is it advisable to
chill cookie dough in the refrigerator
before before rolling it out? How
long will it keep in a cold place?
Answer: The flavor and texture is
much better if you chill cookie dough.
You can store cookie dough in a cov-
ered container in the refrigerator for
two or three weeks if necessary.
Mrs. S. W. asks: How to keep ice-
box cookies crisp and hermits soft.
Answer: Keep crisp cookies in a
tin box or crock with a lid -do not
store anything else in the container
but the cookies after they have been
allowed,;,tto cool.
Herinits and other soft mixtures
may be stored in a e,overed glass jar
with a piece of apple. Replace the
apple every -few weeks.
Mrs° J. T.' asks: Recipe for Short
Bread.
Answer:
• Short Bread
1 cup butter
1/3 cup fruit sugar
2 cups ,flour (or more).
Cream butter well, add sugar grad-
ually and cream well together. Add
flour slowly. When dough is stiff,
turn out on floured board, knead In
flour until dough begins to crack. Roll
out one-quarter inch thick, cut with
cookie cutter. Place on baking sheet
and bake until lightly browned at 300
degrees.
Holiday Parties
Best wishes for a Happy New Year!
We trust you have made some good
resolutions and trope you will be able
to abide by them. Our resolution is
to give you practical, economical
ideas and to write a newsy Mixing
•Bowl colurtin every week. We, ap-
preciate your 'helpful letters at all
times. Thank you kindly for your
festive •messages, •and for enquiries
throughout the past year.
Resolutions'
Resolve to allocate your food. al-
lowahee; •Oneethird for ynilk and
=eat; once-tliire for fxuite and v'ege.,
tables and otic' -third Of cereals, anger
and r,
a errobutter(. food nutritiously -only un•
- status
((lpntlnued fro& 71,,age
• Winter --Brooding Proves Practleel
The present demand °ter, early .rail
and winter .eggs has (Increased the
need for early hatched chinks, Many.
operators, some of whom are not. ,ac-
customed, to handling early hatched
chicks, are meeting {MOCHA*. using
brooder • houses which are net suf4IeI'
efttly, weld: eeeetraoted or .insulated to
withstand the loww temperaturesand
bigh winds so common in moat pil;rts
of, �.,Caz da in the only months.. of the
year.
To obtain information on brooding
under .such conditions a test was car-
ried ot_e at the Central Experimental
Farm, Ottawa. Two 3.0 feet by 12
bet arch -roofed brooder houses of
light, though •tight construction, were
used. One was completely uninsulat-
er, the walls being of threesixteenth-
very little insulating value, Floors
were single boarded, covered with
masonite' without paper between. The
second house was lined with one-half
inch insulation board (ten -test) cov-
ered on the roof with medium heavy
roofing paper. There were no hollow
or insulation -filled- 'walls in either
house, but both houses were banked
with straw at ground level.
Early in February, 250 White Leg-
horn chicks were placed in each
house and were brooded for four
weeks, under 56-inchcanopies of
brooder stoves capable of holding 60
pounds of coal. During the period,
outside temperatures ranged from 14
degrees below zero, to 1l degrees
above, and wind velocity varied from
calm •to 25 miles an hour. Lowest
tezeperatures at the edge of the hover
at chick level for each week were
92, 60 and 7f degrees for the unin-
sulated house, and 90, 82, 76 and 78
degrees for .the pen of warmer con-
struction. To anoints*. these tem-
peratures the stoves were fired at 10
o'clock each night.
Mortality was almost negligible
and was among weak chicks which
died during the first few days. The
chicks in the uninsulated house were
one-third and one-half an ounce heav-
ier on the average at three and four
weeks of age than those in the un -
insulated house. Feed consumption
was .the same for both lots of chicks,
but 40 per cent more fuel was re-
quired • to maintain the temperature
in the uninsulated house.
It is apparent from this test, says
Mr. Novikoff of the Poultry Division
at the Farm, .that with a brooder
house of reasonably tight construc-
tion, even though it is not .insulated,
and a stove of sufficient capacity
which is carefully tended, brooding
February chicks can be entirely suc-
cessful under rigorous winter condi-
tions.
til tender and in wise proportions.
Consider ,health and fuel.
To store perishables and leftovers
carefully.
To operate the home wisely.
Resolve to be happy and content
with the comforts in the home.
Resolve to take care of your health
and your family's health.
Resolve to consider the little things
you can do for others.
Resolve to be a good citizen of your
community and of your country.
• Take a Tip
1. If you cook in dishes that you
can bring right to the table, food will
stay hot longer and you will save
dishwashing.
-.2. Sift flour onto a sheet of wax-
ee. paper or paper towelling. You
will not have to wash a bowl. Do n.;t
throw the waxed paper away alter
using Fold it and store in sifter
3. Grease new pans lightly add
then put in a warn- oven and they
will be much less likely' to rust.
4. Use ammonia (except where
glass is trimmed with gold) to wash
dishes, glass and silver.
5. Be careful not to start pre -heat-
ing the oven too far in advance. The
ringing telephone or doorbell is also
the signal to turn off the oven if you
are not prepared to use it.
6. You don't have to baste meats
if the oven heat is constant. The
fewer times you open the door, the
more heat and electricity you save.
7. A greatdeal of cooking can be
done with heat stored in the oyen
after the current has been turned off.
8. In surcae cookery, when foods
come to a full steam, °switch to one
of the lower positions. It will help
conserve vitamins, too.
9. Do not use a higher heat than
neressary. The temperature of boil-
ing water is the same, whether boil-
ing easily or madly.
10. If you soak dried fruit before
cooking, do not toss away the water.
Cook the fruit in it. It is far more
healthful.
The Question Box
Mrs. H. C. asks: If there are any
precautions to be observed in the ase
of •a heating pad?
Answer: Do not fold the pad. Car-
ry the pad by the pad itself -not by
the cord.
Never allow warming pad to get
wet.
Never use pins or other metallic
means to fasten the pad in place,
Adjust the switch • to the desired
setting for comfort. Be sure to turn
to 'Off' when the pad is not in use.
Mrs. W. H. asks: How to remove
candlewax from linen?
Answer: Serape off excess with
dull knife. Place stained portion ov-
er several thicknesses of plain blot-
ting paper. Touch gently with a luke
warns iron.
Mrs. S. M. asks: Should I use a
pressing• cloth with my new steam
ron?
Answer: It is not necessary, es -
;pee -Jelly with an automatic controlled
steam iron --although it is -Mee to do
•so when ironing wool, gabardine and
serge.
Ann Allan Invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Ii 3tpositor. Send
in your snggesttbi s on hhmeinaking
problems aild watch this Whiten for
aeunlao
Ira hard xa say last When. Alan came
•til this earth. x'h e we .dg know;
the early atagea,0.1<'•his existence, he
was a stupid ,fellpw,, +e dI4g t din.,ount
to much,
In time lie developed a braln,•:then
he made :better woai?ons----that may or
may not' rove .his inteWgenGol In'
time new impienleate made work.eas-
ier, a etael: piogv.,> wan better than a
bent stick. Nearly,. all agrieuitural
progress took place in the last hun-
dreg years,
Men now living remember those
simple eared iniplerents, the cradle
and. the 'scythe, In fact a few years
ago there was a' cradle on almost ev-
ery farm in the Province of Ontario.
Now cradles aremuseum pieces; they
serve as relics of a past when men,
especially farmers, earned their bread
by the sweat of their backs.,
The reaper started it all. Its first
existence le recorded at Staunton,
Virginia, U.S.A., in July, 1831. This
was the first ,break from the primi-
tive farm: implements. Progress was
slow. It was nine year after its
first demonstration that young Cyrus
Hall McCormick made his first sale.
It cpnsisted of two reapers for .which
he received $100' each. In 1847 he
built his first factory in Chicago. He
employed 33 men the first year and
turned out 500 reapers. From then
on progress was rapid. Production in
1870., was up to 10;000 machines.
This was the beginning of new life
for the ,farmer -Progress came from
industry. Industry made progress
possible. Agriculture became a part
of the machine age.
Agriculture ceased to be a heavy
back -breaking task. Although the
farmer still finds it difficult toetake
two weeks' holiday with pay his lot
is, in many ways more' comfortable
than that of the',,average 'industrial
worker.
While this process has been going
on, the farmer's home has been trans-
formed. Eleetir power is available on
many farms. We are blessed in Can-
ada with abundance of water power.
The cost lies in distribution. As time
goes on the farm is modernized-tso
too is the farm home.
"Why was the progress of agricul-
ture so long delayed? • The task may
have been more difficult. It may have
been easier to invent a steam engine
than a milking machine. Other indus-
tries had more capital. This gave
them greater opportunities. to. search
for better ways of doing things. The
rate of progress now is swifter with
the passing of years. As soon as the
human race begins to recover from
14ir aid, Mrs, • art gore.
J'o n spent :NOW' Weare with
Ws, ecmgo Moortt, stars,
:Mfr, .attd ;Mrs 14l.:hertalrey n l
anti ' Mra, •Charles 'Regear and Qar±l
agent New Year',a and
Mrs, Oeorge, Ahrens and: 1apnii ..
Mr. and Mrs, 3'. W pritton, X41(,' .and
'ups Hdrb,*Mon oil iranpily^" and
Mr. Carman and Vern Britton opentr
New Years With Mr. and' Mrs. 'gob
Keyes, Mlteheli:
Mr. John Perrin, Brantford visited
d
Mr, and Mrs. urge• 'Robinson over
the 'week end.
Miss Lorraine Puller; ,Sebringille,
visited with Mr. and 1Vige. Dalton Mal
coin for the Chriatmae .holidays.
Mr'. and Mrs. James .Malcolm and
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Malcolm and Keith
spent Thursday with Mrs, Geo. Ora -
ham, Mitchell,
Mr. and Mrs, R. S. Aikens, Ina and
Lorne visited with Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Brooks recently.
• Miss Velma Moore, Stratford Gen-
eral Hospital,visited with her par-
ents, lier, ando Mrs. Leslie Moore.
Mr. and .Mrs. Elmer Kleinfeldt vis-
ited with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bruce
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson and
Gladys spent New Years with Mr. and
Mrs. J. Moore and family, Mitchell.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Britton, Carman
and Vern Britton spent Friday even-
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Roney
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roney.
Mrs. George Graham and Miss
Mary E. Graham visited on Friday
with Mr. and Mrs. Morley Lannin.
Mr. and Mrs. George Pepper and
Ross visited with :Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Moore on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gibb and Phyl-
lis spent Sunday with Mr.' and Mrs.
Dalton Malcolm.
Miss Frances A,nnis, R.N., of St.
the affects of war, progress will be
more rapid than ever before. Still
we are not as sure of ourselves --.-nor
are others so sure of us.
Think back to the days of the
sickle, the scythe and the cradle -to
the days of small industries, when
demand was limited and prices low.
Compare these conditions with the
life of today and ask yourself if, in
the things which matter, we are not
better, happier, richer than. we were.
I think we are -do you? If we are
not, the reasons rests with us and
not with the conditions which sur-
round- us.
It took real genius to invent the
knotter of a binder. A man named
Appleby did the trick. All honor to
him -it made the binder possible.
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Vit,�►i.s•,u4. • ,
Mr Carman Britton, fr' Oran view,
Manitoba. • .
'Mr, Gordon Reed $pent MQnda'.•in
Torpnto.
Visitors, at. tjle hoxn:e of Mr'. and
Mrs. J. W. Britton Qn•::Sunday -•were
Rev, Rather Feeney, 'Londen;, .M
Bert
Martin TubbF,eeneyLogan, and Mr. and Ill's.
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On
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GODERICH
Death of Frank;:Trick;,
The death. of Frank Trick, of Gode
rich Township, • occurred in Clinton;
Public Hospital on Friday, Jan. 2;
following an illness of only threei'
weeks. He was born in Woodstock,
the son of the late Thomas Trick and
Catherine Clarke, and was in his 80th'
year. He attended school in Exeter,
and termed • all his life. Deceased
was a member of Ontario St. United
Church, Clinton. A pioneer resident
of Goderich Township, he lived with
his brother, the late Robert Trick, at
Trick's Mills Farm for years, and
when Mr. Elmer Trick took over the
farm he continued to live on the
homestead with him until a week ago.
He. was a very quiet,• unassuming
man, but knew all the rudiments of
farm life. He was predeceased by
three brothers; Levi, Robert and
James, and a •sister, Janey, who died
in infancy. The funeral was held on
Monday from Beattie's funeral home,
Clinton, at 2 p.m., with Rev. W. J.
Woolfrey officiating. The pallbearers
were John Woon, Fred Middleton, Ad-
am Stewart, Ken McGee, Wm. Per-
due and David Elliott. Flower bear-
ers were George Wise, Fred and Jack
Gibson and Bob Glenn.
In the Bag
It's in the bag! Yes, your very
health may depend upon the bag or
lunch box in which you carry your
mid-day meal. If you take home -
prepared food to work, •health authori-
ties suggest that you make sure you
have a "parcel of health."
'1I;
Keep Ontario's f'.Qctories
and farms producing ;at
peak levels ... keep pay,
envelopes full. -
Hydro is building new;,
power plants at top speed,
but it takes years to com-
plete new generating plants.
In the meantime, do your
'part, avoid waste of elec-
tricity ... please save .all •
you can.
EVERYBODY SHOULD
SAVE ALL THE
ELECTRICITY THEY CAN
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THE HYDRO -ELECTRIC POWER
COMMISSION OF ON'TARIO'
ANIMIEVEMBEINOW
FOR THE MONTH OFJANUARY WE ARE OFFERING
5% Discount On All Lumber and Building Materials
WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF NEW AND USED MATERIAL'
Nes
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LUMBER
Maple, White Ash, Rock Elm, Hemlock, Cedar, Fir,
Sitka Spruce, Eastern Pine, in Tongue and Groove,
Dressed four sides, and in Timbers.
From ;$45,00 Up
SHINGLES
Reclaimed and New No. 1 5X• Cedar Shingles ;
New Asphalt and New Johns -Manville Cedar Grain
Shingles.
New - PLYWOOD and MASONITE Reclaimed
INSULATION'
Reclaimed in 4" batts A large stock
and new in batts and
DOORS '
of Reclaimed Doors, in various
-Interior, Exterior, double, combination
loose. garage-
s
All the hard -to -get Building Items -
GS
HARDWOOD FLOORIN
NEW THREE -EIGHTH INCH OAK
and
RECLAIMED 13/16 -INCH MAPLE
sizes
and
WINDOWS
Various sizes, com-
plete with frame and
Storm Sash and
Screens.
- - AT BIG SAVINGS
OTHER ITEMS,
CEDAR POSTS BEAVER BOARD
FLEXBOARD
LIME PLASTER CEMENT
ASSORTM ENT OF
Reclaimed Electrical . and Plumbing Equipment
INCLUDING WASH BASINS WITH TAPS, VALVES, LARGE AUTOMATIC SPACE HEATERS
EQUIPPED WITH STOKERS, VENTILATORS, SWITCHES, SERVICE BOXES AND 'WIRE.
SALE TERMS -.CASH ONLY
Seaforth Supply 1.. Fue
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i- Me lie.Y•iir H.eln• iso
Billet
i 11 I; atterirg
LOCATED -on' Wee SPADMA AVL
II At Coffee* Street
. . . RATES ...
Single $1.30-$3,50
Double $2.50- $7.00
Write for Folder
We Advise Early Reservation
A WHOLE DAYS SIGHT-SEEING
WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE
A. At roWGW. west et
LEGAL 4.
McCONNELL & HAYS
Barristers, Solicitors, Etc.
Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays
SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
' A. W. SILLERX-
Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
gRA'PORTH - ONTARIO
Phone 173, Seaforth,
MEDICAL
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SEAFORTII CLINIC
DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. •'•
Physician
•DR. P. L. BRADY, M.D.
Surgeon
Office hours daily, except Wednes-
day: 1:30-5 p.m., 7 - 9 p.m.
Appointments for consultation may
be made in advance.
JOHN GORWt•EU; •B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 54
Seaforth
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MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W - Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. F'ORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of,
Toronto. e
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, SEAFORTH.
53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 110 - Hensall
4068x52
DR. J. A. MacLEAN
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 134 - Hensall
VETERINARY
.}i O. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.S.
L. C. HALL, D.V.M., V.S.
Main Street - Seaforth
PHONE 105
Personal attention by either
Veterinarian when requested
(if possillle).
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist in Farm and Household
Sales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction
guaranteed.
For information, etc., write or phone
HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea -
forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth.
EDWARD W. ELLIOTT
Licensed Auction__e,r
Correspondence promptly answered.
Immediate arrangements can be made
for sale dates by phoning 203, Clin-
ton. Charges moderate and sett . ac-
tion guaranteed. 414 x52
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
GOING EAST
(Morning)
loderich (leave)
fseatforth
Strattord (arrive)
(Afternoon)
Godetich (leave)
Seaforth
Stratford (arrive)
GOING WEST
- (Morning)
Stratford ('leave)
Seaforth
dloderieh (arrive),
,
(Ater tleele)
Stratford (leave)
Seaforth
a.m.
5.40
6.20
7.16
p.m.
3.00
3.46
4.40
a.m,
10.45
11.26
12.20
9.15
10.21
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i our basic recipes; with variations- may
be the answer to your number oee
•pfro1em thio • week. • p
Buttermilk 'Cookies
I. cupbrown Sugar
3c cup shortening
1 -egg, well beaten
la cup buttermilk or sour milk
21/s, cups sifted cake flour
la, teaspoon salt
`r/ teaspoon soda
teaspoon cinnamon. -
Cream brown sugar and shorten
ing, add"beaten egg. Sift dry ingredi-
ents and add alternately with butter-
milk to creamed mixture: Drop from
teaspoon on greased' cookie sheet.
Bake in oven of $75 degrees about 12
minutes.
COCOANUT •COOKIES: Add le
cup shredded.co.ceahut and one tea
spoon grated orange rind' and one
teaspoon lemon rind.
DECORATED COOKIES: Use bas
is recipe and after cookies are in pan,
decorate in one of the following
ways: Flatten with spatula and
place on centre of each, blanched al-
mond, raisin, pieces of peel or sesame
seeds.
Basic Baking Powder Biscuits
2 cups (all-purpose) flour
1 teaspoon salt
% cup milk
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons shortening.
Sift'dry ingredients twice. Cut in
the shortening with pastry blender.
Sprinkle in the milk and toss into a
dough mixture with wooden spoon.
(Use more milk if necessary).
Place the dough on floured board,
pat or roll lightly to about one inch
thickness. Cut it with a biscuit cut-
ter, dipping the cutter into flour to
keep it from sticking. Bake on a
lightly floured pan in a hot oven at
45e degrees for 12 minutes.
CHHESE BISCUITS:. Cut % cup
grated cheese into dough.
CRANBERRY BISCUITS: Add two
tablespoons sugar to dry ingredients.
Cut % cup chopped raw cranberries
into the dough.
RAISIN BISCUJITS: Fold % cup
raisins into mixture after shortening
is cut in.
NUT BISCUITS: Add 14 cup chop-
ped nuts to mixture after shortening
is cut in.
Basic Pastry Recipe
1% cups flour (pastry)
1/2 teaspoon' salt
% cup shortening -
4 tablespoons cold water.
Sift the flour with salt and work
the shortening into it was pastry mix-
er. (When shortening is mixed even-
ly, the mix looks like coarse oatmeal).
Sprinkle in the cold water, tossing
flour into dough. Pat lightly into a
ball, wrap in wax paper, and chill, in
refrigerator for one-half hour. Roll
out lightly on a floured board to one-
third inch thickness in a circular
fashion. Fold in half and lift to pie
plate. Press gently onto pie plate,
Cut down around the edge. This
makes one nine -inch double crust.
ORANGE PASTRY: 'Use orange
juice in place of water, adding a lit-
tle grated orange rind.
NUT PA$TRY: Add one-quarter
cup finely grated cheese to flour mix-
ture.
Take a Tip
1. If you use gumdrops far varia-
tion in cookies, cut and mix in the
dough because these gelatine candies
will harden in a nhderate tempera-
,ture, oven. •
2. If your cookie sheet has be-
come black, place the pan of cookies
on top of the jelly roll pan to deflect
the heat and prevent the cookies
burning on the bottom.
3. If you use pastry flour for mak-
ing powder biscuits, you may require.
one cup of milk to make a soft dough.
4. The basic pastry dough recipe
may be used for making tart shells.
The Question Box
Mrs. J. T. asks':' Is it advisable to
chill cookie dough in the refrigerator
before before rolling it out? How
long will it keep in a cold place?
Answer: The flavor and texture is
much better if you chill cookie dough.
You can store cookie dough in a cov-
ered container in the refrigerator for
two or three weeks if necessary.
Mrs. S. W. asks: How to keep ice-
box cookies crisp and hermits soft.
Answer: Keep crisp cookies in a
tin box or crock with a lid -do not
store anything else in the container
but the cookies after they have been
allowed,;,tto cool.
Herinits and other soft mixtures
may be stored in a e,overed glass jar
with a piece of apple. Replace the
apple every -few weeks.
Mrs° J. T.' asks: Recipe for Short
Bread.
Answer:
• Short Bread
1 cup butter
1/3 cup fruit sugar
2 cups ,flour (or more).
Cream butter well, add sugar grad-
ually and cream well together. Add
flour slowly. When dough is stiff,
turn out on floured board, knead In
flour until dough begins to crack. Roll
out one-quarter inch thick, cut with
cookie cutter. Place on baking sheet
and bake until lightly browned at 300
degrees.
Holiday Parties
Best wishes for a Happy New Year!
We trust you have made some good
resolutions and trope you will be able
to abide by them. Our resolution is
to give you practical, economical
ideas and to write a newsy Mixing
•Bowl colurtin every week. We, ap-
preciate your 'helpful letters at all
times. Thank you kindly for your
festive •messages, •and for enquiries
throughout the past year.
Resolutions'
Resolve to allocate your food. al-
lowahee; •Oneethird for ynilk and
=eat; once-tliire for fxuite and v'ege.,
tables and otic' -third Of cereals, anger
and r,
a errobutter(. food nutritiously -only un•
- status
((lpntlnued fro& 71,,age
• Winter --Brooding Proves Practleel
The present demand °ter, early .rail
and winter .eggs has (Increased the
need for early hatched chinks, Many.
operators, some of whom are not. ,ac-
customed, to handling early hatched
chicks, are meeting {MOCHA*. using
brooder • houses which are net suf4IeI'
efttly, weld: eeeetraoted or .insulated to
withstand the loww temperaturesand
bigh winds so common in moat pil;rts
of, �.,Caz da in the only months.. of the
year.
To obtain information on brooding
under .such conditions a test was car-
ried ot_e at the Central Experimental
Farm, Ottawa. Two 3.0 feet by 12
bet arch -roofed brooder houses of
light, though •tight construction, were
used. One was completely uninsulat-
er, the walls being of threesixteenth-
very little insulating value, Floors
were single boarded, covered with
masonite' without paper between. The
second house was lined with one-half
inch insulation board (ten -test) cov-
ered on the roof with medium heavy
roofing paper. There were no hollow
or insulation -filled- 'walls in either
house, but both houses were banked
with straw at ground level.
Early in February, 250 White Leg-
horn chicks were placed in each
house and were brooded for four
weeks, under 56-inchcanopies of
brooder stoves capable of holding 60
pounds of coal. During the period,
outside temperatures ranged from 14
degrees below zero, to 1l degrees
above, and wind velocity varied from
calm •to 25 miles an hour. Lowest
tezeperatures at the edge of the hover
at chick level for each week were
92, 60 and 7f degrees for the unin-
sulated house, and 90, 82, 76 and 78
degrees for .the pen of warmer con-
struction. To anoints*. these tem-
peratures the stoves were fired at 10
o'clock each night.
Mortality was almost negligible
and was among weak chicks which
died during the first few days. The
chicks in the uninsulated house were
one-third and one-half an ounce heav-
ier on the average at three and four
weeks of age than those in the un -
insulated house. Feed consumption
was .the same for both lots of chicks,
but 40 per cent more fuel was re-
quired • to maintain the temperature
in the uninsulated house.
It is apparent from this test, says
Mr. Novikoff of the Poultry Division
at the Farm, .that with a brooder
house of reasonably tight construc-
tion, even though it is not .insulated,
and a stove of sufficient capacity
which is carefully tended, brooding
February chicks can be entirely suc-
cessful under rigorous winter condi-
tions.
til tender and in wise proportions.
Consider ,health and fuel.
To store perishables and leftovers
carefully.
To operate the home wisely.
Resolve to be happy and content
with the comforts in the home.
Resolve to take care of your health
and your family's health.
Resolve to consider the little things
you can do for others.
Resolve to be a good citizen of your
community and of your country.
• Take a Tip
1. If you cook in dishes that you
can bring right to the table, food will
stay hot longer and you will save
dishwashing.
-.2. Sift flour onto a sheet of wax-
ee. paper or paper towelling. You
will not have to wash a bowl. Do n.;t
throw the waxed paper away alter
using Fold it and store in sifter
3. Grease new pans lightly add
then put in a warn- oven and they
will be much less likely' to rust.
4. Use ammonia (except where
glass is trimmed with gold) to wash
dishes, glass and silver.
5. Be careful not to start pre -heat-
ing the oven too far in advance. The
ringing telephone or doorbell is also
the signal to turn off the oven if you
are not prepared to use it.
6. You don't have to baste meats
if the oven heat is constant. The
fewer times you open the door, the
more heat and electricity you save.
7. A greatdeal of cooking can be
done with heat stored in the oyen
after the current has been turned off.
8. In surcae cookery, when foods
come to a full steam, °switch to one
of the lower positions. It will help
conserve vitamins, too.
9. Do not use a higher heat than
neressary. The temperature of boil-
ing water is the same, whether boil-
ing easily or madly.
10. If you soak dried fruit before
cooking, do not toss away the water.
Cook the fruit in it. It is far more
healthful.
The Question Box
Mrs. H. C. asks: If there are any
precautions to be observed in the ase
of •a heating pad?
Answer: Do not fold the pad. Car-
ry the pad by the pad itself -not by
the cord.
Never allow warming pad to get
wet.
Never use pins or other metallic
means to fasten the pad in place,
Adjust the switch • to the desired
setting for comfort. Be sure to turn
to 'Off' when the pad is not in use.
Mrs. W. H. asks: How to remove
candlewax from linen?
Answer: Serape off excess with
dull knife. Place stained portion ov-
er several thicknesses of plain blot-
ting paper. Touch gently with a luke
warns iron.
Mrs. S. M. asks: Should I use a
pressing• cloth with my new steam
ron?
Answer: It is not necessary, es -
;pee -Jelly with an automatic controlled
steam iron --although it is -Mee to do
•so when ironing wool, gabardine and
serge.
Ann Allan Invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Ii 3tpositor. Send
in your snggesttbi s on hhmeinaking
problems aild watch this Whiten for
aeunlao
Ira hard xa say last When. Alan came
•til this earth. x'h e we .dg know;
the early atagea,0.1<'•his existence, he
was a stupid ,fellpw,, +e dI4g t din.,ount
to much,
In time lie developed a braln,•:then
he made :better woai?ons----that may or
may not' rove .his inteWgenGol In'
time new impienleate made work.eas-
ier, a etael: piogv.,> wan better than a
bent stick. Nearly,. all agrieuitural
progress took place in the last hun-
dreg years,
Men now living remember those
simple eared iniplerents, the cradle
and. the 'scythe, In fact a few years
ago there was a' cradle on almost ev-
ery farm in the Province of Ontario.
Now cradles aremuseum pieces; they
serve as relics of a past when men,
especially farmers, earned their bread
by the sweat of their backs.,
The reaper started it all. Its first
existence le recorded at Staunton,
Virginia, U.S.A., in July, 1831. This
was the first ,break from the primi-
tive farm: implements. Progress was
slow. It was nine year after its
first demonstration that young Cyrus
Hall McCormick made his first sale.
It cpnsisted of two reapers for .which
he received $100' each. In 1847 he
built his first factory in Chicago. He
employed 33 men the first year and
turned out 500 reapers. From then
on progress was rapid. Production in
1870., was up to 10;000 machines.
This was the beginning of new life
for the ,farmer -Progress came from
industry. Industry made progress
possible. Agriculture became a part
of the machine age.
Agriculture ceased to be a heavy
back -breaking task. Although the
farmer still finds it difficult toetake
two weeks' holiday with pay his lot
is, in many ways more' comfortable
than that of the',,average 'industrial
worker.
While this process has been going
on, the farmer's home has been trans-
formed. Eleetir power is available on
many farms. We are blessed in Can-
ada with abundance of water power.
The cost lies in distribution. As time
goes on the farm is modernized-tso
too is the farm home.
"Why was the progress of agricul-
ture so long delayed? • The task may
have been more difficult. It may have
been easier to invent a steam engine
than a milking machine. Other indus-
tries had more capital. This gave
them greater opportunities. to. search
for better ways of doing things. The
rate of progress now is swifter with
the passing of years. As soon as the
human race begins to recover from
14ir aid, Mrs, • art gore.
J'o n spent :NOW' Weare with
Ws, ecmgo Moortt, stars,
:Mfr, .attd ;Mrs 14l.:hertalrey n l
anti ' Mra, •Charles 'Regear and Qar±l
agent New Year',a and
Mrs, Oeorge, Ahrens and: 1apnii ..
Mr. and Mrs, 3'. W pritton, X41(,' .and
'ups Hdrb,*Mon oil iranpily^" and
Mr. Carman and Vern Britton opentr
New Years With Mr. and' Mrs. 'gob
Keyes, Mlteheli:
Mr. John Perrin, Brantford visited
d
Mr, and Mrs. urge• 'Robinson over
the 'week end.
Miss Lorraine Puller; ,Sebringille,
visited with Mr. and 1Vige. Dalton Mal
coin for the Chriatmae .holidays.
Mr'. and Mrs. James .Malcolm and
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Malcolm and Keith
spent Thursday with Mrs, Geo. Ora -
ham, Mitchell,
Mr. and Mrs, R. S. Aikens, Ina and
Lorne visited with Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Brooks recently.
• Miss Velma Moore, Stratford Gen-
eral Hospital,visited with her par-
ents, lier, ando Mrs. Leslie Moore.
Mr. and .Mrs. Elmer Kleinfeldt vis-
ited with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bruce
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson and
Gladys spent New Years with Mr. and
Mrs. J. Moore and family, Mitchell.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Britton, Carman
and Vern Britton spent Friday even-
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Roney
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roney.
Mrs. George Graham and Miss
Mary E. Graham visited on Friday
with Mr. and Mrs. Morley Lannin.
Mr. and Mrs. George Pepper and
Ross visited with :Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Moore on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gibb and Phyl-
lis spent Sunday with Mr.' and Mrs.
Dalton Malcolm.
Miss Frances A,nnis, R.N., of St.
the affects of war, progress will be
more rapid than ever before. Still
we are not as sure of ourselves --.-nor
are others so sure of us.
Think back to the days of the
sickle, the scythe and the cradle -to
the days of small industries, when
demand was limited and prices low.
Compare these conditions with the
life of today and ask yourself if, in
the things which matter, we are not
better, happier, richer than. we were.
I think we are -do you? If we are
not, the reasons rests with us and
not with the conditions which sur-
round- us.
It took real genius to invent the
knotter of a binder. A man named
Appleby did the trick. All honor to
him -it made the binder possible.
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Vit,�►i.s•,u4. • ,
Mr Carman Britton, fr' Oran view,
Manitoba. • .
'Mr, Gordon Reed $pent MQnda'.•in
Torpnto.
Visitors, at. tjle hoxn:e of Mr'. and
Mrs. J. W. Britton Qn•::Sunday -•were
Rev, Rather Feeney, 'Londen;, .M
Bert
Martin TubbF,eeneyLogan, and Mr. and Ill's.
e,;p)
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02: lo
GODERICH
Death of Frank;:Trick;,
The death. of Frank Trick, of Gode
rich Township, • occurred in Clinton;
Public Hospital on Friday, Jan. 2;
following an illness of only threei'
weeks. He was born in Woodstock,
the son of the late Thomas Trick and
Catherine Clarke, and was in his 80th'
year. He attended school in Exeter,
and termed • all his life. Deceased
was a member of Ontario St. United
Church, Clinton. A pioneer resident
of Goderich Township, he lived with
his brother, the late Robert Trick, at
Trick's Mills Farm for years, and
when Mr. Elmer Trick took over the
farm he continued to live on the
homestead with him until a week ago.
He. was a very quiet,• unassuming
man, but knew all the rudiments of
farm life. He was predeceased by
three brothers; Levi, Robert and
James, and a •sister, Janey, who died
in infancy. The funeral was held on
Monday from Beattie's funeral home,
Clinton, at 2 p.m., with Rev. W. J.
Woolfrey officiating. The pallbearers
were John Woon, Fred Middleton, Ad-
am Stewart, Ken McGee, Wm. Per-
due and David Elliott. Flower bear-
ers were George Wise, Fred and Jack
Gibson and Bob Glenn.
In the Bag
It's in the bag! Yes, your very
health may depend upon the bag or
lunch box in which you carry your
mid-day meal. If you take home -
prepared food to work, •health authori-
ties suggest that you make sure you
have a "parcel of health."
'1I;
Keep Ontario's f'.Qctories
and farms producing ;at
peak levels ... keep pay,
envelopes full. -
Hydro is building new;,
power plants at top speed,
but it takes years to com-
plete new generating plants.
In the meantime, do your
'part, avoid waste of elec-
tricity ... please save .all •
you can.
EVERYBODY SHOULD
SAVE ALL THE
ELECTRICITY THEY CAN
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COMMISSION OF ON'TARIO'
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FOR THE MONTH OFJANUARY WE ARE OFFERING
5% Discount On All Lumber and Building Materials
WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF NEW AND USED MATERIAL'
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Maple, White Ash, Rock Elm, Hemlock, Cedar, Fir,
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From ;$45,00 Up
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Reclaimed and New No. 1 5X• Cedar Shingles ;
New Asphalt and New Johns -Manville Cedar Grain
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New - PLYWOOD and MASONITE Reclaimed
INSULATION'
Reclaimed in 4" batts A large stock
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All the hard -to -get Building Items -
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NEW THREE -EIGHTH INCH OAK
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sizes
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Various sizes, com-
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ASSORTM ENT OF
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