C10 - Sunday, June 24, 1984 - North Shore News Ge food BRIGHTENED EVERY MORNING Milkman brought more than milk STORY in the newspaper chronicles the woes of a milkman (a milkman?) robbed of his day’s receipts. Three times in a row. Three times is probably remarkable, but so is the fact of the milkman. I thought they’d gone with the He used to be quite a figure in the housewife’s daily routine, along with the bread man and the vegetable man and the itinerant knife- grinder and the man who brought his wagon around for ‘‘Old clothes, old bones, old bottles’’ there was always a rising tenor trill at the end of ‘‘bottles’’. This was before the super- markets got so super that there was one in every block; some folks actually took the trolley downtown to Spencer’s or Woodward's and home again with the pork chops and the thirty- three-cent butter. But for Cool, refreshing iced tea WHETHER your picnic is in the woods near a brook, the beach, or your own back- yard, iced tea is the perfect beverage to take along. PARTY PLEASER PUNCH 4 cups (IL) hot tea “% cup (125 mL) sugar 1% cups (375 mL) } unsweetened white grape juice 1 cup (250 ml ) orange juice “% cup (125 mL) lemon juice 2 10 oz (284 m1) cans ginger alc, chilled Orange or lemon slices Combine hot tea and sugar. Stir ounul sugar is dissolved. In a pitcher or small punch bow! combine tea, grape, orange and lemon juices Chall until serving To Golden Crown Restaurant Open daily 10am. 10pm Dim Sum 10am-3pm Dinner 5am.10pm We specialize in Biethday Anniversary & Wedding Banquets For reservations call wh ci a7 / i iui 980-1544 1667 Maree By. A Vaan and cream distinctly occupy- ing separate spaces, with a lit- tle waxed cardboard lid on the top. In very cold weather the cream would freeze and poke out the neck, wearing the little cap like a jaunty the kitchen ranger by Eleanor Godley those housebound with children and chores, the men (I mever heard of a milk woman) who came to the door were a break in the day, a small event, a chance for a chat with the outside world. The milkman who called at our door was typical of his tribe in that he came very ear- ly indeed, well before the neighborhood was awake, but that was all right because we had a ticket system that allowed us to leave money out only rarely — and that would be in answer to a ‘*Bottles Owing-Tickets Ow- ing’’ slip he would leave. Yes, bottles, Junior, milk serve, add ginger ale and stir. Pour over ice in tall glasses. Garnish with orange or lemon slices. Makes 10 cups (2.5 L.) TEA LEMONADE 22 cups (625 mL) strong hot tea ’ cup (125 mL) sugar 2'4 cups (625 mL) lemonade “% cup (50 mL) lime juice 1 lemon, thinly sliced Combine hot tea and sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved. In a pitcher com- bine (ea, lemonade, lime juice and lemon slices. Chall tam. But my milkman, who signed himself ‘‘Bill-~ (sometimes ‘‘Gorny Bill’’, the reason for which follows) was not so typical because his messages to me were almost invaniably in rhyme. How this began | cannot recall, but I have still a fistfull of his verses, and it always added cheer to the morning when bringing in the milk included bringing in a ‘‘pome’’. We never met, my milkman and I, and | never knew whether the verses he left were mass-produced and delivered to every householder on his route, or until serving. Pour over ice in tall glasses. Garnish with lemon slices. Makes 5 cups (1.25 mL) MINT SYRUP 20-30 fresh mint leaves 1} cup (250 mL) sugar 1 cup (250 mL) water Combine mint leaves, sugar and water in a saucepan. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer $ minutes, stirring often. Let cool, then strain out the mint leaves. Keep in a covered jar and use to flavor iced tea Makes | cup (250 ml ) Pacific Rim Coatings Lotroduce “SUN COAT PLUS” A PROVEN AEROSPACE INDUSTRIAL MARINE DECK COATING SUNDECKS PATIOS WALKWAYS BOAT DECKS DEALER APPLICATORS REQUIRED PLEASE PH. BUS. 985-6191 HOME 988-0307 whether they were composed on the doorstep. I used to im- agine him standing in the dark before the dawn, licking his pencil (no, Junior, they didn’t have bal-point pens, yet) seeking rhymes. And to make the following even more incredible, it must be written that ‘‘standard” milk, of lesser butterfat content, was fourteen cents a quart, whereas ‘‘special’’ milk, richer, was all of sixteen! For example: ‘“‘Do not chide me, / | had no note to guide me. / | didn’t leave that Standard stuff, / | left you Special, sure enough.’’ or this: **Received no instructions, / Tried to use my brain — / Hope there is no ructions / If I’m wrong again.’’ He was no dummy, as this one proves: ‘“‘That Standard stuff is quite alright / When 14 cents is out, / But seeing as how you left sixteen / It’s Special you need, no doubt.’’ I didn’t realize until this reading that I had so often failed to communicate, thus: ‘*Nothing today’”’ 1s not the way. / You used to say ‘‘No milk’’, / But then you’d write a pome / And ‘so I'd know'm. ({!f!) 6 Varieties Granola supermarket price 43*/100g California Whole Natural Almonds a supermarket price $1 19/100g | Pure i Strawberry Jam supermarket price 4 100g ) 19° or: *"No little notes are out these days, / No little note on which you say / What you need and what you don’t. / Can’t you can’t? or won't you won’t?”’ Somehow he learned that we were leaving West 20th Avenue for the North Shore, and this wistful note came in with the 16-cent Special: ‘“‘A little bird told me yesterday / That you were moving on the first of May. / I hope this information is not true, / ’Cause if it is, will 1 feel blue!”’ Topping them all, the one that made me laugh out loud one dreadful dark wet winter morning: *“Game called on account of rain.”’ HARM NORTH SHORE CONTINUING EDUCATION SCHOOL OF COMMERCE NORTH & WEST VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICTS BUSINESS COURSES FULL day or PART day starting July 3. 1984 Word Processing Typing-ail leveis Office Procedures Business English-grammar review Business English-letter writing Shorthand-beginners Bookkeeping-beginners Accounting-advanced Business Math and Machines Payroll Dictaphone Shorthand-speed development KEY BOARDING for ages 10 and up is also oftered in 2 week sessions starting July 9 to August 24 LOCATION Balmoral Sec. 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