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ae ae Erk oe Myr h tre Be hae Sat ae 'HE STRATF ORD MIRROR NOW to Join the erih Regt, cin R, F. and secure preliminary training to fit you for any branch you wish to join for Active Service, RECRUITS WANTED is the time THE ARMORIES -- STRATFORD Apply Why Not Have the Best Radio Reception ? For Expert Service Call Dale's Radio Service All Makes--AlIl Work Guaranteed 208 Nile St. Stratford THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED Remember that a man can rise ne higher than his highest thought, and can sink no lower than his meanest thought. Remember that by keeping your thoughts high you continually draw your life to a nobler purpose. Remember that we must give in order to receive--a full vessel cannot hold more. The man who is self-satis- fied will learn nothing new, because BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS he will not give up his old ideas to make room in his mind for the new ones. Remember to give freely but wisely. A man may give away millions of dollars, and yet really give nothing so far as he is concerned, because he gives from his surplus and not from his heart. "The gift without the giver is bare." TESTED Sent direct to The Stratford Department of Agriculture. RECIPES Mirror from the Dominion Recipes for pickles are numerous and most of them make excellent pro- ducts. There are many chopped relishes and sauces which are com- paratively easy to prepare but pickles where the vegetables are left whole or in large pieces require more care and patience. To make good crisp pickles the pro- portions are important, but there are other details worth watching. The best way to be sure of good pickles is to find out what has caused failures --your own and your neighbors'--and learn how to avoid them. Pickles may be hollow, wrinkled, too soft, too hard, or too tough. They may be of poor color, either cloudy or dull instead of bright, clear green or white. Any one of these faults may com- pletely spoil the pickle. Hollowness in pickles is caused by allowing too long a time to elapse be- tween picking and pickling. Wrinkled pickles are common. In pickling the natural juice is drawn out and replaced by a pickle mixture. This change should be made gradual- ly. Too strong brine or too sweet syrup will make wrinkled gherkins. A strong brine for two days will not have the same result as a weaker brine for nine days. Strong vinegar, weak brine, or Over- heating will cause pickles to be soft or flabby. Pickles should be merely heated through--never really cooked. Ripe cucumbers, pearl onions, or cauliflower often lose color on account of inferior vinegar. Good grade cider vinegar is of clear, pale amber color and excellent flavor. A white cider vinegar is now obtainable if preferred. Water containing too much mineral, particularly iron, will darken pickles. If 4%: cup vinegar is added to 1 gallon of brine made with very hard water, One-half cup medium coarse salt to 1 quart water is the standard brine. Boiling water is used to dissolve the salt but brine must always be cooled before adding vegetables. Pay Down What Buy Up-To-The-Minute Clothes In This Modern Store With STRATFORD HOUSE. _ FURNISHING CO." REDI You Like and the Bal ance As THE PICKLING SEASON White sediment sometimes forms in pickled beets from the combination of hard water, vinegar, and salt. If very hard water is boiled thoroughly and allowed to cool before using for pickle mixture there should be no sediment. Care--even to fussiness -- is neces- sary in making crisp, tender, clear pickles, but the result is worth the ef- fort. In making certain sauces and relish- es none of these difficulties arise, but to have perfect results any recipe must be followed exactly. The following recipes are suggested by the Consumer Section, Marketing Service, Dominion Department of Ag- riculture. Horseradish Pickles cups shredded cabbage cups chopped celery cup chopped onion cups chopped cucumber cups cider vinegar cups sugar tablespoons grated horseradish teaspoons mixed pickle spice Mix all vegetables. Add 1 cup salt. Let stand over night. Drain. Add horseradish. Boil vinegar, sugar and pickle spice 5 minutes. Strain. Add vegetable mixture. Cook slowly 15 minutes. Pour into sterilized contain- ers. Seal while hot. tO ee < NNwWwWNNHY Mustard Pickle quart small onions quart chopped onions quart gherkins quart large cucumbers, chopped eauliflower broken in small pieces quart chopped celery quarts vinegar cups brown sugar % cup flour SUE Oe el the difficulty will be overcome. } % cup mustard % oz. turmeric % oz. celery seed 1%: oz. mustard seed 3 cups vinegar % teaspoon white pepper Mix vegetables with 1 cup salt and 3 cups boiling water. Let stand over night. Drain well. Add vinegar, pep- per, celery seed, and mustard seed. Cook 10 minutes. Make a_ paste of flour, tumeric, mustard, and sugar with cold water. Stir very slowly into vegetable mixture. Cook 5 minutes. Seal in sterilized bottles. Sweet Cucumber Relish 3 large cucumbers 3 medium onions 1 cup cider vinegar % cup brown sugar % cup salt % teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon mustard 4 44 cup chopped preserved ginger Put cucumbers and onions through a food chopper. Mix with salt. Cover and let stand over night. Drain well. Add other ingredients. Cook 10 min- utes. Bottle while hot. Gooseberry Catsup 4 quarts gooseberries 1 cup cider vinegar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3 cups brown sugar 1 cup water 1% teaspoon cloves 2 teaspoons salt Snub and wash gooseberries. Add water and vinegar. Cook 15 minutes. Press through a fine sieve. Add other ingredients. Boil 45 minutes or until thick. Seal at once in hot ula bottles. ; hes THE STRATFORD MIRROR SIX INCH SERMON REV. ROBERT H. HARPER F John Urges Christian Love. Lessons for August 31: I John 3: 13-18; 4: 7-21. Golden Text: I John 3: 18. . - John urges Christian love because of the great superiority of love over! hate, and because God himself is love and has manifested himself in Christ that we might be saved and: have endless life. Love is life, but "he that loveth, not abideth in death,"' and is in fact: a murderer (verse 15). We are to: love because God is love. His love! was manifested that "we might live through him," abide in him, have, his love perfected in us through his Spirit, and bear witness to the world of the gift of his Son. Indeed we must love God "because he first: loved us.' Love begets love. God's love is manifested in his, Son that we may be reconciled unto! Him, through his Spirit abide in him, while he abides in us, bear) witness that "the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world," and ourselves dwell in per- fect peace. For though we are liv- ing in a world of fears we need not fear. "Perfect love," John writes, "'easteth out fear." Now John is especiaily concerned to make a practical application of. love. "We ought," he writes, '"'to lay down our lives for the breth- ren." The love of God, he asserts, 'cannot abide in one who sees his brother in need and has no compas- sion toward him. If God loves us, he writes, we ought to love one another. Our love toward our breth-: ren should not be merely a matter of profession. "Let us," John urges, 'mot love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth." Have Your Sport Shoes Repaired Now Full Line of GOLF STUDS Rd Scampers Repaired Be sure to see us before you throw your old shoes away. Superior Shoe Repair _ J.J. DaCHARME We Call For and Deliver Phone 941 113 Ontario St. ee ae "There's an unexploded bomb buried here," said the A.R.P. chief, as he posted a warden. "Just keep an eye on things and blow your whistle if anything happens." "OK" replied the warden. "But do $e % ~ Soviet Military Mission in U. ) Soviet Russia's military missk.4 to the U. S. has arrived in Wash- ington for a series of conferences and has been received at the state department. Photo shows L to R: Acting Sec. of State Sumner baron Constantine Oumansky, Soviet Ambassador, Lt. Gen. Filip Golikov, he : of the mission, and Gen, A. Repin. SE mab Se Se Six Men Smoked For Six Months And Found a New Pipe Wood in England Six men sat in London for six months smoking pipes made from strange new woods. They were in search of a successor to the traditional bruyére, popularly known as briar. It grew in Algiers, and, after being conditioned in France, was shipped to England to be made into pipes. When the fortune of war cut off supplies, some new material had to be found, s8 the six smokers of London smoked steadily ahead, seeking the wood which seemed to their expert tongues to be worthy to take the place of briar. After trying out woods from many quarters of the globe they have_ found in England one with all the. qualities of briar yet completely dif- ferent in appearance. It is non-porous, It resists heat. It is tough and taste- less. A new method of curing the wood, known as the cherry cure, has been worked out in practical manufactur- ing detail and already this "cherry cure" pipe is being exported to many parts of the world, and in particular to Canada, South Africa and the Tnited States: in fact the limit of sup- oly is set only by the allocation of es- Doubly Delicious .. . Try our Double Rich Malted Milk, for a real palate-sensa- tion. Try one, for Malted Milk at its most --- most in nourishing food value, most in sheer thirst quenching de- liciousness! You will say this reminder was a real ser- vice. Your only criticism may be -- that we should have stressed our Double Malted Milks, sooner ! IANA RESTAURANT John Tatulis, Prop. 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