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FOOD SECTION
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MARKETING
Published Thursday lack Waak
Edited by Marian Uwry Fiichtr
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 30, 1953
Child Health Day Featu in Menu Suggestions, Food Ideas
G apital AJoiirnal
Corny as Springtime
But Mighty Good Eating
Peppy Corn ... To perk up a spring .meal.
Canned corn is plentiful this
pring so give this popular
vegetable the glamor treat
ment for family meals. Here
are three ways to dress It up;
any one of them will taste de
licious with hamburgers, bak
ed, potatoes and a salad on a
night when you want a quick
supper. Note, too, that you
can use either whole kernel
or cream style corn in these
recipes.
Peppery Cora
Ingredients: 2 - tablespoons
butter or margarine, 1 medium
green pepper (sliced in rings),,
one 1-pound can yellow or
white whole kernel corn, Vi
cup catsup or chili sauce,.
teaspoon tabasco sauce.
Method: Melt butter; add
pepper rings and cook until
partly tender. Drain corn;
add liquid to pepper and boil
rapidly until reduced to V
cup... Add corn, catchup or
chill sauce and tabasco; heat
to serving temperature, Makes
3 to 4 servings. ' ' '
- Note; If ' yeHoWTJT" "White
cream stvle corn In used, add
corn and remaining IngrediI
ents to cooked green pepper;
heat. ; .
' Nutmeg Buttered Corn
. Ingredients: One 1-pound
can yellow or white whole
kernel , corn, 2 tablespoons
butter or margarine, Y tea
spoon nutmeg.
Method: Drain corn; boil
liquid rapidly until reduced to
V cup. Add corn, butter and
nutmeg; heat to serving tern'
perature. Makes 3 to 4 serv
ings.,', ..... '.
. Note: If yellow or white
cream slyle corn is used, mix
all ingredients; heat.
Chill Com -
Ingredients: - 4 slices bacon,
one l-pound can yellow or
white whole kernel corn, Vt
cup chopped onion, 2 table
spoons butter or margarine, Vt
teaspoon chili powder.
'Method: Fry bacon until
crisp; crumble and reserve.
Pour off drippings. " Drain
corn; add liquid with onion
to skillet. Boil rapidly until
liquid is reduced to Yt cup.
Add corn, butter, chili powder
and reserve bacon; heat io
serving' temperature. Makes
3 to 4 servings. '
fNofe:' If yellow or-white
cream style corn is used, cook
onion in 2 tablespoons of the
bacon drippings until tender
but not brown. Add crumbled
bacon and remaining ingredi
ents; heat.
Many Variations
For Banana Shakes '
' Child Health Day further re
minds us that banana milk
shakes are delicious and signi
ficantly nourishing since they
contain milk and the well
rounded supply of vitamins,
essential minerals and quick
food energy found in banana.
Banana Milk Shake
, 1 fully ripe banana
1 cup (8 ounces) cold milk
Use fully ripe banana that
Is flecked with brown. Peel ba
nana. Slice into a bowl and
beat with rotary egg beater or
electric mixer until smooth and
creamy. Add chilled milk; mix
well. Serve immediately. Makes
1 large or 2 medium sized
drinks.
Banana Chocolate Milk
Shake. Add 1 tablespoon choco
late syrup before mixing
"shake."
- Banana Orange Milk Shake.
Use Vi cup orange juice for
half the milk. Add Vi teaspoon
sugar before mixing milk
shake.
Banana Spiced Milk Shake.
Sprinkle ground nutmeg or
cinnamon on top of milk shake
just before serving.
Foods for
Children
Featured
Berry Time Soon; Try This Dessert .
National Child Health Day
and National Baby Week are
being celebrated -. throughout
14 the country. It seems approprl
ate that we pause a moment to
pay tribute to those manufac-
turers and processors of baby
foods who have packaged, can.
ned and glassed so many fine
products of mother's conveni
ence and baby's pleasure and
nourishment -Grocery
stores have hand'
some displays of baby foods
worthy of your special atten
tion; ideas and suggestions ga
lore. Citrus fruits and all dairy
products are also Important it
ems when it comes to feeding
the youngest generation.
Beef continues in heavy sup
ply with prices reasonable on
fancy cuts and positively low
on the cuts for pot roasting,
stewing and grinding into ham
burger. Lean cuts are highest
in protein while cuts with con
siderable fat are highest in
food energy.
Raisins. Raisin production
was heavier than usual last
year because fewer grapes
were crushed for wine pur
poses, results is a fine supply
for eating out of hand and for
using in salads and many bak
ery products. '
Onions Supplies are excep
tionally neavy, the current crop
Being me imra largest on rec
ord. Casserole layers of plenti
ful potatoes and onions with a
bit of milk and seasonings;
maybe top with crated cheese.
Dairy Products May is one
of the peak production months
for dairy products. Cheddar
cheese, cottage cheese and non
fat dry milk are bargains in
good nutrition.
Other PlentUuls
Turkeys .are '.substantially
lower for the large sizes and it
is newsworthy that youna fry
er turkeys are about due to- aff--
rive in retail markets. .-.
- Fish supplies, especially froz
en nallbut and. fillets of had
dock and cod are readily avail
able at reasonable to bargain
prices. . '
Citrus Fruits Valencia or
anges will soon be coming in
and the crop is tremendous.
Both fresh and processed
grapefruit will remain good
Buys throughout May.
Tomato juice, canned toma
toes, edible fats and oils, dried
beans and peas, peanut butter
and many seasonal vegetables
are on the list of really good
buys.
For Gingergread ,
New trick for gingerbread!
Blend cup of sour cream
sauce and freeze in your refrlg
erator. Cut into squares and
serve atop gingerbread hot
from the oven. My! it's good!
about
'mother's
'coffee ?
treat him to Hills Bros
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Strawberry season soon is
here. Tuck this recipe away
for a special dessert.
Ice Cream Pie
18 marshmallows -2
tablespoons strawberry
juice
Few drops pink food col
- oring
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
cup sugar.
Yi teaspoon salt
quart vanilla ice cream ,
(firm)
Raisin Bread
A homemade raisin quick
bread made with biscuit mix
Is perfect for sandwiches to
serve with salads. Cut the
slices thin and spread with
a cream cheese and walnut
filling.
1 Cup fresh strawberries,
sliced
9-lnch paked pastry shell
Melt marshmallows and
strawberry juice over low
Tossed Salad
Toised salads are becoming
very popular on western
menus because they personify
casual living which is so typi
cally western. Then, too,
there's an economy about
tossed salads which allows the
hostess to use left overs with
dlscreation. At a - neighbon
hood supper the other even
ing, the tossed salad had the
usual variety of greens, juli
enne strips of bologna and
cooked lima bean which had
been marinated in rich French
dressing were added.
heat, folding until mixture is
smooth. Add coloring and
cool. - Beat sugar gradually
into atffly beaten egg whites
until they hold a peak. Add
salt. Then gently whip in the
cooled, marshmallow mixture.
Fill pastry shell with very
firm ice cream. Cover with
layer -of strawberries. . Top
with .. the meringue, swirled
gaily. Rush to broiler and
brown quickly. Tuck un
safe mm ed. strawberries in
swirls, and serve immediately.
5 to 6 servings.
When you are ironing, re
member that an iron heats
more quickly than it cools. So
first iron the clothing and
other pieces that need low tem
peratures; iron cottons and
linens that need high tempera
tures later.
Banana Pancakes
For Sunday Breakfast
'An efficient shortcut to
Banana Pancakes is to make
them with prepared com
mercial pancake mix,
Banana Pancake Short-Cot '
Follow the package direc
tions for mixing. Heat the
griddle slowly over low heat
while mixing batter. For every
2 cups of dry mix used, lightly
fold into the batter one cup
(1 or 2 bananas) of finely
diced, fully ripe bananas, be
sure skins are flecked with
brown. Bake on hot brlddle.
allowing Mi cup batter for each
pancake. When bubbles form
on surface of pancake and
edges are firm, turn and bake
until browned. Serve hot with
butter or margarine and syrup.
honey or preserves.
Salads for All
On of pur neighbor serve
salad tray wheal the'- enter
taining. It contain an as
sortment of salads and every
one may choose hi favorite..
It's novel idea and colorful
The last party we attended
had - individual servings of
cold slaw with : rlpe olives,
avocado : ring and fresh
asparagus, fruit cocktail and
cottage . cheese. With . that
variety no one was dlia point
ed. -
It you wrap ground meat in
molsture-vaporproof material,
you can store it safely in th
freezer compartment of - your
refrigerator : for": about ' two
weeks. - Luncheon meats, liver,
kidney and fish may also be
stored this way for about thl
length of time. - i .
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