The Kington Times - January 1918
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Kington Times 12th January 1918 - Page 1
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| Date | 12/01/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 12th January 1918 |
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S manoeuvre had the people who es . ths was imposed day , on Edward ling shin of beef s . 3d . foreman Ernest for selling shin re also fined £ g two fortnights bund . elds baker , was £ 20 and £ 2 25 . nantity of flour , whose bedroom a d , was fined £ 5 e Benjamin was or selling half a stead of 4d . EDALS . ve letters next e which Lieut . ormerly of the known shot , left . se , St. Andrew's shot a year ago . found that the ticles , including d his shooting Windsor Police who lives two se , was charged es and stealing d at £ 50 . A in the house mmitted to the ENDER TO IGHTING AT d from a reli- commander who demanded the ops and issued on December 24 , e limit for the 7 futility of re- home , but the se demand , re- hour's fighting . arms and sur- or at once noti- der of the Rus- ther danger to ber of Russians YED . ITY AT er earthquake yed Guatemala report to the everything is in s are homeless . ordered to ren- gram from San ons were killed la . Guatemala estroyed . The as crowded at umerous casual- gations and the churches were ospitals , asylums any of the in- STE . VERS ' JEST . they had been aged couple of y an invitation 1 bridegroom to leethorpes . To ed bride , upon f as a married miselves into an people rushed arranged to be the police had woman was a her on Tuesday on registration . d registrar of nd , telling the ow taken place , the young peo- er for their in- were sympa- ons . luable book to o do anything . " t tell one how lar ? " Pedlar Buy some Proprietor , by es , 27 , Drapers MOTO THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . XI . NO.590 . bodyan fou not anotdat a Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom T SATURDAY , JANUARY 12 , 1918. Free by post per quarter , 1s . 8d . , payable in advance . } PRICE ONE PENNY . TEN DAYS ONLY . Commencing on Loot sted MONDAY NEXT . January 14 , 1918 JUA YE * SALE OF Millinery Remnants & Oddments Bon Marche Drapery Co. - KINGTON . THE NEW RATIONS . All About The Potato . Cheer Oh ! Gardeners ! restrictions a tubozobleyt everything you are doing your bit towards onion finely . Melt the fat in a stew , pan . Fry the chopped onion till a light golden brown . winning the war . Stir in a tablespoonful of flour , and stir for a few minutes , Then put in the chopped Season with salt , pepper , cabbage and ham . and grated nutmeg . Grease a pudding basin and fill with the mixture . Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes . Turn on to a hot CHEER OH ! GARDENERS ! Evory man with a garden , if he is a patriot , will resolve in the New Year to make it pro- duce more for his own table than in 1917. If sell his surplus and buy groceries , or gravy , Vegetable fritters will be new to most chil- dren and can be made of artichokes , parsnips , and cauliflower in the same way as the follow- ling method for Brussels sprouts . " " BRUSSELS SPROUTS FRITTERS . of celery , and one small onion , then mix with FOOD AND FITNESS . 2 oz . of sago , rice , or tapioca , seasoning to taste , and 1 oz . of dripping . Never before has the health of the people Put in a pie of this country been so good . During July , dish , adding water or stock . Cover with August and September there were fewer deaths potato paste ( made by mashing 3 oz . of flour than in any three months during the last 50 into 1 lb. of boiled potatoes while hot ) , or And this in spite of the rations ! Or ordinary pastry if desired . Bake in a moder- years . ate oven for 1 hour . Food value of dish , with perhaps it is largely on account of them . For there is no doubt that , as a nation , we have he can potato paste , 1,610 food units or calories , with always over - eaten , and very often drank too bread , or meat , he will do so ; but whatever dish and pour over a little hot , brown sauce 1 oz . of body - building material . much , too . The on food and happens , he must stock his larder from his INCREASE THE PIG POPULATION . drink have brought many of us to the simple garden - not a day , or an hour , must be wasted We must increase the pig population in three - meal day , which is far better for health throughout the whole year to produce the de- Britain . The question of pig power in this than the half - dozen meals in which many sired result . The hours spent in digging every country must be made a military as well as people indulged . Now that we have to pay Saturday afternoon are worth far more to the a peace necessty . We must have bacon made 4s . a lb. for our tea , and wait in a queue . country than cheering on the football crowds . in Britain to supply the requirements of every before we can get it even at that price , we The time for that sort of thing has gone by . family . Our breakfast rashers must be the find that early morning tea is not really the We have all got to buck up and produce food , home - article - our pork chops must all be necessity we thought it , and that we enjoy and the sooner we realise this the better . labelled British . Millions of pounds are sent our cup of afternoon tea far better when it VEGETABLE DISHES FOR THE HOLIDAYS With oranges selling at the price generally paid for pineapples there won't be much fruit Trim , wash and cook the sprouts in a small for children this winter , and mothers must be quantity of water . When cooked but whole sure to make up for the need by providing put them into a colander , cool and drain , and plenty of vegetables . Many children do not spread them on a cloth . care . for vegetables in the ordinary way , but pepper , grated nutmeg and chopped parsley . there ar numbers of attractive vegetable dishes Coat each sprout with frying batter . Plunge that can be made with a little trouble , and into hot fat , fry till a golden brown , and drain the older children will enjoy them as novelties , and serve on a hot dish . scarcely recognising the old familiar friends in Another wholesome and tasty dish is Baked their new guises . Celery with Cheese . cry . Become vessels . 2 lb. Brussels sprouts .. Frying batter . Salt and pepper . A grate of nutmeg . Fine chopped parsley . or breakfast dish . Istock . 1 small onion . 1 oz . fat . Season with salt and TOMATO RICE . more evenly distributed , more can be eaten . 10 ozs . a week is the amount allowed at pres- ent , but the truly patriotic thing to do is to reduce your fat ration to 5 oz . and thus put off the evil day when there will be no fat at all . BROMYARD . Mr. G. MEN'S OWN BROTHERHOOD . Sunday's meeting was an open one . H. T. Foster ( of Malvern ) , presided , and read the lesson , and the Rev. A. F. Robson , vicar of West Malvern , gave the address , in which he spoke of the formation and workings of the Brotherhood . Pte . Slater and Bomb . Slater , from Froome Bank Hospital , were the vocalists , the former singing " A Perfect Day " and the latter " In God's Own Keeping , " Miss Powell being the accompanist . NATIONAL PRAYER . The services on Sunday , as prescribed , were read in all the places of worship and at even- song in the parish church there was a large congregation , all the public bodies attending in state . The hymns were heartily joined in . The Vicar preached on " The New Year's and the National Anthem was sung . motto , " PETTY SESSIONS . The potato is one of our most valuable foods . 1 oz . of yeast in a pint of water before the It is easy to grow , and gives a very large fire till it froths to the top of the water . return of nourishment for each acre cultivated ; Take 2 lb. of cooked and mashed poatoes . it keeps well for many months when properly Potatoes left over may be used , but must be out of the country each year for pork , bacon , is the only one we have in the day . In fact , stored ; it is easy to cook ; and is well digested warmed up . Mix the warm mashed potato and lard . All this money ought to remain in many people are really enjoying their food for by healthy folk . It has the disadvantage into the yeast , then pour it into the hole in British pockets ; our pigs should keep us in the first time in their lives , because it is the that it is not a good food for transport because the flour and work into a dough , adding gradu- pork and in pounds . Why import when we first time in their lives , because it is the of its weight , as four - fifths of it is water . ally 2 quarts of water . Knead thoroughly for can produce ? Don't grunt - leave that to the first time they have come to their meals with The potato contains 15 to 20 per cent . of half an hour . Set . in front of the fire to rise pigs - and declare that the pig industry has an appetite that needed no tempting . starch , and some salts ; it also contains some for an hour . Divide into eight loaves and been ruined by the price of feeding stuffs . It is a splendid chance for us all to share of the substances known as vitamines , small bake for an hour and a half . Pig - keeping can still be made profitable if with the athlete that fine feeling of being quantities of which are needed for proper Yeast will be saved if 2 oz . only is used , you use wisely all household scraps and gar- " fit , " which men in training know . And in- growth . The amount of nitrogenous matter , in which case the bread takes longer to rise . den stuff to augment the pails of authorised stead of " grousing " at having to give up which we need for building and repairing our It may be made last thing at night and left pig meal . Bacon , under present conditions , is superfluities we ought to be glad that we are flesh , is very low - about 2 per cent . - and there on the rack of the range after the fire is low . fast disappearing from the provision shops ; making ourselves fit . is no flat , or only traces , so that we must look In the morning the dough should be ready to there will shortly come a time when pork and When a sportsman wants to win a There is a good variety of vegetables , to be race he to other foods for these materials . BAKED CELERY WITH CHEESE . The food - put into the oven . bacon will be unprocurable , unless farmers , thinks nothing of giving up the necessary had now , so there is no reason why there stuff we need most of , however , to give us These loaves have a good taste . It is bet- smallholders , and cottagers with the necessary foods which add to his weight and hamper should be any monotony in the family meals , 2 heads of cooked celery . warmth and power , is starch , and this the ter to make a small quantity at a time , space breed more pigs . This is a patriotic un- him in the game . Surely now that we are en- even when little meat is used . It is very im- pint well - seasoned white sauce , Monday . Before Mr. H. J. Bailey , Capt . potato supplies abundantly . It is , therefore , enough for two or three days only , as potato dertaking , and it can be made profitable as gaged in the biggest game of all time we can portant that a variety should be given , for 1 oz . grated cheese . Heygate Messrs . Guest and Enderby . The ad- able to form a very large part of the human bread does not keep so well as ordinary bread . well . different vegetables possess different food also go into training , and as a nation fit our- Grease a pie dish or fireproof pot . case Pour journed against Mr. J. Leighton , of diet . Men have , indeed , lived on potatoes Small loaves are better than large ones be- Difficulties in regard to pig - keeping must selves for the contest . Over - eating makes us values . Green vegetables are specially valu- in a layer of sauce . Cut the celery into short Grendon Bishop , for selling butter to Bertha alone , eating 6lb . or more a day , and have cause they give more of the pleasant tasting not keep you from a national duty . Success slow of mind and body . The ration which we able , because they purify the blood and help lengths , lay them in the dish , cover with Williams over the fixed retail price , was heard . kept well . This shows how wonderfully the crust . Although potato contains much less attends the man who courageously tackles ob- are asked to keep has been prepared with care digestion , while root vegetables , such as pota- sauce , sprinkle the cheese over all , and bake Defendant pleaded guilty , and was fined 2s . 6d . body can fit itself to circumstances when starch and protein than flour , when the bread stacles instead of shriiking from them . There ful consideration of our actual needs , and by toes , artichokes , carrots and turnips , give heat for about half an hour . -For paying more than the controlled price , driven by need , but must not be used as a is made with these proportions and baked in is more pleasure in pig - rearing even with the keeping strictly to it we will be able to en- and energy , two very essential things for And Tomato Rice makes a very good supper Mary Ann Perkins , Harriet Hicks , and Bertha reason for feeding on potatoes alone ; for small loaves , rather more water is driven off , present difficulties than in holding a front joy the pleasure of a healthy mind in a healthy children . Williams , of Bromyard , were let off with a proper health other foods such as fish , meat , so that the loaf contains about the same nour line trench or in an icy vigil in the North body . Many cooks waste most , of the goodness of caution . A summons against Mrs. Aiken , of margarine , and milk must be eaten with them . ishment , 1,170 calories to the pound , as ordin- Sea . Don't be downhearted - Don't shirk your EGGS HOW TO GET THEM . vegetables by cooking them in a quantity of The Hill , Bishop's Froome , for keeping a dog If potatoes are peeled raw some of the food ary bread , and as much body building protein . bit - the soldiers and sailors are not , and do 1 pint tomato pulp and pint vegetable without a license , was adjourned . S. B. Miles , is cut off with the peel ; if they are The great concern of the poultry keeper water and then pouring away the water . When then A good loaf can also be made with more not . Let PIGS V. PRUSSIANS be your battle just now is - or should be how to increase the boiled , vegetables should be cooked in as little farmer and shepherd , of Marston Firs , Pen- soaked and boiled a good part of the nitrogen- potato , one part to two parts of flocr , or even a bacon benefactor . The as possible , and in closed comge , for a similar offence , was fined 5s.- Almost any old thing in feathers water ous matter goes into the water . We have half and half ; but the bread tastes of the threatened pig famine can be avoided if you egg supply . Florence Williams , of the Old Mill , was fined seen that tthere is little enough body - building potato and is not so nice as when it is made will stock your sty . will lay in spring and summer ! But a hen of Casseroles , or fireproof earthenware pots , are Pigs and plenty will the best laying strain will not lay profitably the best things to use , for then the vegetables 10s . each on two summonses for failing to send stuff to begin with , and it is clear that it with one part of potato to three of flour . bring peace sooner and pigs will mean profit unless it is kept in a healthy condition by a can be served in them , and none of the food her children regularly to school . should not be wasted . Potatoes must for POTATO SCONES . - Take lb. of cooked and with a big P when the days of strife are over . these reasons always be boiled , steamed , or mashed potatoes , add a little salt , and knead Carry on , pig keepers ! Your bacon will proper ' system of feeding , housing , and exer- value is lost . cise . The two following recipes for cabbage are Houses must be warm and dry , with baked in their skins , for if cooked in any of in as much flour as it will take ( about 13 oz . ) , help to save you and your country . without draughts . easy , and should result in very appetising and plenty of ventilation , but these ways none of the food is lost . Boiled using two or three teaspoonfuls of milk to Feeding during the cold weather must be more nourishing dishes : - potatoes are much more floury if after they make a stiff dough . Roll out thin on a Poultry keepers who lament the CABBAGE IN - THE - POT . are done the water is drained away and the floured board . Beauty experts declare that a great improve- generous . Cut into rounds and prick is scarcity of eggs generally have themselves to eaucepan put by the fire with the lid partly with a fork . Bake on a hot girdle for about ment in women's skin and complexion This is due principally to the blame for the empty nests . off to let the steam escape , shaking the pan five minutes , turning when half cooked . When noticeable . occasionally to prevent the potatoes from baked , butter the scones with butter , mar- fact that less meat and more vegetables are member that : - sticking to it . There should also be a small garine , or dripping , roll up , and serve very eaten , and the improvement in health result- hole in the cover of the serving dish . For fry - hot . The batch gives over 600 calories . ing from a reduced diet . Women's health , and Trim and wash the cabbage and shred it Put it into a pet with about half ing potatoes fat is needed ; if it can be had Potatoes may also be used for a great num- complexion are better just now than ever , on this is a good way to use it , for chip potatoes ber of dishes , of which the following are a account of their being obliged to drink less than in spring and summer , and supplied with pint of boiling water ( slightly salted ) . LESS BUTTER AND MARGARINE . Doctors confirm this assertion , declaring plenty of green stuff when available , and when slowly for about 1 hour , adding a little more are a concentrated foods a good deal of the few : -Fish cakes , rissoles , kedgerec , Irish tea . excellent beverage in it is not , with substitutes for it in the way water or stock if found necessary . We are faced by the prospect of Sprinkle water has been driven off in the drying and stew , hot pot , shepherd's pie , sea pie , veget - that while tea is an people , and of clover meal . Fowls must not be allowed to over the flour , stir well , and add a little gravy greater shortage of both butter and margarine . the added fat has a high value . able pie , souffles , salads , soups , potato Sanders , moderation , undoubtedly many or stock , season with salt and pepper , and add Our present allowance of fats ( including butter , pound of raw potato , if waste is kept low potato rolls , potato cheese , potato fritters , and women especially , have been in the past guilty hang about in the snow and rain for want of of taking more than is good for them , To a proper shelter , for nothing makes them so most of the grated cheese . Either serve on a margarine , lard , oils and fats ) is 10 ozs . per cooking in the skins , yields nearly 400 food potato pie . units or calories , the same roughly as a pint POTATO CHEESE . - Mash 1 lb. of boiled pota- drink tea as often as three times a day is to miserable as cold and damp - and a miserable hot dish or in the pot in which it is cooked week , but many people eat 10 ozs . of butter Women who value hen will never lay ! Fowls must be kept with the rest of the cheese sprinkled on top . of milk , 1 lb. of herrings , or 5 oz . of bread toes while hot , adding 2 tablespoonfuls of milk , impair the digestion . and meat . The floury cooked potato has a 3 oz . of grated chtese , pepper and salt , and their appearance - and what woman does not ? under sanitary conditions , for dirt results in food value of about 450 calories a pound on oz . of butter , margarine , or dripping . Butter should realise this , for indigestion and good many ailments and an ailing bird will If we fill the egg basket . a pie dish with oz . more margarine or drip- complexions do not go hand in hand . Apart from their use at table as a vegetable , ping , and strew it thickly with breadcrumbs ; continue to drink more sparingly of tea the potatoes can be made into bread or scones and fill with the potato and cheese , and bake for shortage will have been a blessing in disguise . you must take personal and human interest for a large variety of dishes . One part of an hour in a good oven . Turn out and serve The strain of war is telling on some people , in your birds , keep your hens healthy and potato with three parts of flour makes nice very hot . An excellent dish . Food value but the moderation in food , the more regular happy , and your egg supply will multiply . bread . about 1,050 calories , with over an ounce of hours , and the work women are doing , contri- The more independent you make yourself of bute to the restoration of health in many outside food supplies , the more you are doing . POTATO BREAD . - Put 6 lb. of flour into a protein . Sli to solve the economy situation ; also - and above bowl and make a hole in the middle . Stand POTATO PIE . - Slice 1 lb. of potatoes , 2 sticks cases , and the preservation of it in others . an average . TEA AND THE COMPLEXION . Let them re- . 1 large cabbage . oz . flour . 1 oz . grated cheese . Salt and pepper . Fowls must be supplied with scratching lit- ter to give them exercise and keep them fit . Fowls must be fed more generously in winter finely . never In short , to obtain a plentiful supply of eggs | CABBAGE SHAPE . 1 medium - sized cabbage . 1 oz . fat . 1 small onion . 1 tablespoonful of flour . Cook 3 oz . chopped ham , bacon or gammon . Salt and pepper and grated nutmeg . Prepare and cook the cabbage as previously described and chop finely . Peel and chop the 2 oz . rice . Salt and pepper . Skim and Peel and chop the onion finely and fry it Add in the melted fat till a golden brown . the tomato pulp and stock . Season with salt and pepper , and bring to the boil . add the rice ( previously soaked for twelve hours ) and cook until the liquor is almost absorbed and the rice soft . Melt the fat in URBAN COUNCIL . Monday ; Mr. Guess presided . The Chair- man welcomed Mr. C. I. Ware as a co - opted member of the Council in the place of the Rev. F. E. Powell , and was made a Governor of the Grammar School . The Market bailiff a stew pan . When hot add the rice and stir reported an increase in the market tolls as over the fire for a few minutes . dook on the stove for 15 minutes . Cover and compared with last year . A long discussion Dish up took place on the merits of the public soup kitchen , and Mr. Roberts said if they had to carry it on without voluntary help the cost would fall on the community at large . and serve hot . a still . or margarine alone , without considering the other fats . People who do this are doing others out of their share , for the amount avail- able is limited , and is likely to be much re- duced as the winter goes on . Many people have given up butter and margarine alto- gether because of the difficulty of buying them , and rather than stand in a queue for hours they have eaten dry bread . But it must not be imagined that because the queues are being broken up and the butter and margarine KINGSLAND . NURSING ASSOCIATION . A raffle for a . bagatelle board in aid of won by Kingsland Nursing Association was Mr. Harper , of Manchester . A cheque for £ 3 2s . has been sent to the Secretary , Mrs. Speer , Mother : " I've just washed a jacket for New my little boy and now it's too short . " Maid " Well , wash the boy . " |