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E A S T E R N O R E G O N R E V IE W
If You C an Use Ham m er,
Unexpected
You Can M a k e a Chest
A young couple naked the pnr-
son to niurry them Im m ediately
following the Sunday morning
service. When the tim e cam e, the
m inister rose and announced:
"Will those who wish to be united
In the holy bonds of m atrim ony
please com e forward?"
There w as a great stir—and 13
women nnd one mun walked up
to the altar.
BEGGAR clutched at the coat
of a benevdcnt-looking pas
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B rtC K IO S A C K
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Bruising Causes
Great Meat Waste
Preserves, Relishes
Add A ppetite Appeal
To Ordinary Menus
ON’T FEEL LIKE making a
special dinner? Then serve an
attractive relish tray of jellies or
preserves and an assortment of
pickles 1
Many families wouldn’t think of
sitting down to a meal, even a
simple
break- J r
fast or lunch, ’ p'
without having | ,..
hom e
som e
canned relishes
or preserves on
Equipment for jelly making
the table. Their
includes items pictured above:
c o l o r , flavors
large saucepan or kettle, large
and textures add
wooden spoon, watch or clock
so much interest to a meal that
with a second hand, pot hold
many homemakers feel they’re
ers, ladle, small dish and metal
well worth the effort of canning.
spoon, glasses, tray, tea pot,
• • •
tablespoon, and jars with cov
ers.
JUST AS IN canning, equipment
should be assembled and prepared
for working efficiency. If you do
Lynn Chambers’ Menu
canning of these foods in large
Meat Stuffed Peppers
quantity, you'll certainly want to
Tomato Sauce
enlist aid in preparing berries,
Molded Pear-Cherry Salad
fruit and vegetables. Speed is not
so essential as in canning or freez
Biscuits
•Currant-Raspberry Jam
ing, but the sooner foods are
Brownies a la Mode
cooked and put in their sterile
jars, the more enjoyable will be
Beverage
•Recipe Given
the job.
Grape Conserve
4 cops prepared fruit
cool slightly, to prevent floating
1 tablespoon grated lemon
fruit. Ladel quickly into glasses.
rind
Paraffin at once.
H cup lemon juice
• • •
7 cups sugar
Rose-Petal
Jam
$4 pound seeded raisins
(Makes 3 6-ounce glasses)
1 cup finely chopped nut
2 cups red rose petals
meats
2 cups hot water
H bottle fruit pectin
2 T4 cups sugar
TO PREPARE THE FRUIT:
2 tablespoons strained honey
Slip skins from about 3 pounds
1 tablespoon lemon juice
fully ripe grapes. Bring pulp to a
To measure washed petals, pack
boil and simmer, covered, 5 min-
tightly without bruising. Cut with
________ utes. Sieve to
remove
seeds. scissors into W strips; discard
C h o p or grind
to u g h
base.
skins and a d d
A dd w a ter;
to pulp. Meas
cover, and boil
ure 4 cups into
10 m i n u t e s .
a very l a r g e
Drain (reserve
saucepan.
(1 f
petals); com
w ild
grapes,
bine liquid with
Malagas, or other tight-skinned
su g a r
and
grapes are used, stem, crush, and honey. Simmer, uncovered, 5 min
simmer with % cup water 30 min utes; add petals; simmer, covered,
utes. Sieve and measure). Grate over very low heat 40 minutes;
the rind from 2 medium-sized lem stir occasionally. Add lemon juice;
ons. Measure 1 tablespoon into simmer, covered, 30 minutes; stir
saucepan with grapes. Squeeze the occasionally. Cool 5 minutes. Pour
juice from 2 lemons and add V« cup into scalded jelly glasses to with
to fruit.
in *4 inch of top. Cover at once
TO MAKE THE CONSERVE: with 1/6 inch hot paraffin.
Add sugar, raisins, and nut meats
• • •
to fruit in saucepan and mix well.
Mustard Pickles
Place over high heat, bring to a
20 medium cucumbers, sliced
full rolling boil, and boil hard 1
1 quart tiny onions
minute, stirring constantly. Re
2 small beads cauliflower, cut
move from heat and at onca stir
In pieces
in bottled fruit pectin. Then stir
2 quarts green tomatoes, cut
and skim by turns for 5 minutes to
in pieces
cool slightly, to prevent floating
6 green peppers, diced
fruit. Ladle quickly into glasses.
1 cup salt
Paraffin at once.
8 cups sugar
• • •
*4 pound (114 cups) dry mus
•Currant and Raspberry Jam
tard
(Makes 11 6-«unce glasses)
1
cup
flour
4)4 cups prepared fruit
)4 ounce turmerlo
7 cups sugar
1 quart vinegar
)4 bottle fruit pectin
1 quart water
TO PREPARE THE FRUIT:
Place vegetables in separate
Stem and crush thoroughly about
1 quart fully ripe red currants. containers and sprinkle the salt
Crush thoroughly about 1 quart over them. Let stand overnight.
Mix sugar, mustard, flour and
fully ripe red raspberries. Com
bine fruits. (If desired, sieve half turmeric, add vinegar and water,
of pulp to remove some of seeds.) and heat to boiling. Add vegeta
To make the jam: Add sugar to bles and cook until they are tender
fruit in saucepan and mix well. and sauce has thickened. Seal in
Place over high heat, bring to a clean, hot jars.• • •
full rolling boil, and boil hard 1
Mixed Pickles
,
minute, stirring constantly. Re
2 cups pickling onions
move from heat and at once stir
1 quart small cucumbers
in bottled fruit pectin. Then stir
14 cup white mustard seed
and skim by turns for 5 minutes to
1>4 cups sugar
2 tablespoons celery seed
5 cups cider vinegar
5 tablespoons salt
2 cups broken cauliflower
2 cups small carrots
2 red peppers, cut in strips
2 cups celery, cut in 2-incb
lengths
Soak onions and cucumbers sep
arately for 24 hours in brine, made
in the proportion of 1 cup salt per
gallon of water. Remove from the
brine, soak in clear, cold water for
2 hours, and drain. Add solution of
spices, salt, and sugar and vine
gar and let stand overnight, in a
covered container. Drain off vine
gar, heat it and add remaining
Preserves, jellies and con
vegetables (carrots may be sliced
serves add much to the delight
in two lengthwise if they are not
of meals. They have the addi
tiny). Simmer for 15 minutes, or
tional advantage of being easy
until the vegetables are tender.
to prepare and offer little
Remove from the heat, add cucum
chance of spoilage because of
bers and onions, and fill clean, hot
their high sugar content.
jars. Seal at once.
D
,YNN 8AY8:
Ise these Kitchen Tips
o Make Cooking Easier
To remove pecan meats whole
•om their shells, soak the nuts for
everal hours in one quart of water
•ith one tablespoon salt. Nuts will
•equently crack in the hands and
ieats come out whole.
Use a potato peeler to shave a
ar of bitter chocolate to make
hocolate curls for garnishing
akes or pies. Chocolate should be
•esh and somewhat soft or you
ill get grated chocolate.
“Fiva cents, sir, for a cup of cof
fee.” he whined.
The other turned to him.
’’Why should I give you five
cents?” he asked. ’’What brought
you to this terrible plight?”
"A terrible catastrophe, sir,” the
beggar replied. "Two years ago,
like you. I enjoyed business pros
perity I worked hard. On the wall
above my desk was the motto:
Packing Industry Loss
"Think Constructively 1 Act Deci
$25,000,000 Last Year
sively 1‘ Wealth poured my way. And
then. . . one night. .
America’s livestock Industry lost |
"Yes, yes?”
$31,914,677 in dead, bruised and crip
The beggar’s frame shook convul pled animals in 1949
sively. "The Janitor burned my
Meat waste due solely to bruising,
motto.”
much of which could be prevented
by greater care in handling of live
Modest Boys
stock on the farm and in transit,
Young mother, to neighbor: "My was more than $25,(XX,.000.
These figures were disclosed by
son always has his shirt-tails flap
ping, and your four sons always the National Live Stock Loss Pre
dress so neatly with their. shirts vention Board, an organization
neatly tucked in. How do you man. founded to promote better care and
handling of livestock.
age it?”
In 1949 the animals dead on
Neighbor: ”Oh, it's really very
simple. I just take all their shirts arrival at the nation's stock yards
and sew an edging of lace around would have filled a train 10*4 miles
the bottom."
If you oil the fish instead of the
pan, chances are that the fish will
not stick to the pan so readily. A
bit of flour or cornmeal on the fish
after oiling helps prevent it from
sticking, too.
To make cracker crumbs easily,
place the crackers in a sack arid
push the rolling pin over them.
Pour out of sack into a Jar for
keeping on shelf.
When making croquettes, they
will handle more easily and taste
better if made several hours in ad
vance of frying. Chill thoroughly.
Peace of Mind
Doctor—“This is a sad case, very
sad, indeed. I much regret to tell
you that your wife’s mind is gone
—completely gone.”
Husband—"I’m not a bit sur
prised. She has been giving me
a piece of it every day for the last
15 years.”
WHITE ELEPHANT
Sideline Wisdom
My brother-in-law, a particular
ly successful contractor, credited
his good fortune to the "siilewulk
superintendents” who gathered to
w itness his building projects. He
em ploys one m an to .do nothing
but gather the com m ents of the
crowd, and he claim ed that m any
a m ajor problem w as solved by
piecing together these hits of w is
dom from the sidelines.
6AR6AIM
Sm all Chest lia s Many Uses
TF YOU can use a ham m er, saw
and screw driver, you enn
m ake this chest. The sturdy block-
front draw ers require no difficult
joinings.
• • •
P attern 2S2 give» large working dia
gram « »nil Illu s tra te d alep-b y-ilep direc
tions. P attern Is 25c.
in Qoodnessl
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They’rv fresher! Crianerl So
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in iron, Vitamin B,, niacinl
A bargain in gootineM—
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W O R K S H O P P A T T E R N S E R V IC E
D ra w e r
MOTHER KNOWS
10
BEST!
B e d fe rd llllle . N e w V e rb .
■
Prays for Rain
The pious but cranky old lady
was put out because her neigh
bors had not Invited her to their
picnic.
On the morning of the event,
one of them called to ask her to
go along.
"It's too late," she snapped. "I've
already prayed for rain.”
•TAINT SO
A patient in an insane asylum
was trying to convince an attend
ant that he was Napoleon.
“But who told you that you
were Napoleon?” Inquired the at
tendant.
"God did," replied the inmate.
“I did not!” came a voice from
the next bunk.
L * 1950
Can’t R em em ber
Friend—“Say, there's a bunch
of people outside waiting to see
you. Among them is a bishop who
says he m arried you som e tim e I
ago.”
Film A ctress—“ Gee! I’m prac
tically certain 1 never m arried a
bishop.”
AUTO-LITE
STA-FUL BATTERY
How mild can a cigarette be?
American livestock producers
lost more than $25,000 in 1949 be
cause of waste meat resulting
from bruised animals. Pictured
above is the carcass of a hog
which was condemned because
of bruises.
long. Meat waste from dead animals }
amounted to 14,310,468 pounds, with
a value of $4,472.871. Losses result
ing from bruises and crippled ani-|
mals accounted for the remainder.
In order to combat this loss, edu
cational programs have been in
augurated by the government, agri
cultural colleges and meat packers,
pointing to the bruise and injury
losses which are revealed when ani-
| mals are dressed in the packing
plants.
Many terminal markets have de-
I veloped comprehensive livestock
safety programs. These programs
urge greater care in the handling
of livestock from the time they
leave the farm until they are mark
eted.
"I've made a sad discovery, dar
Good Farm Practices
ling,” said the young husband.
"Don’t tell me we can’t have Make 'Good' Soils
three weeks for our vacation.”
“Somehow the notion gets around
cried the little lady of the house.
that originally our farm soils were
“It isn’t that” sighed the man. highly productive. That is, produc-
“But you know we bought that i tive when first plowed. Many of
wonderful trailer, spent all our sav j them were like the black lands in
ings on it, too.”
our middle west and in central
“So we haven’t money enough Eurasia, for example, and in some
left for gas?” asked the wife.
of the great deltas and alluvial val
“That isn’t it either.” The hus leys.” says Dr. Charles E. Kellogg
band groaned. “Our car won’t pull ¡of the U. S. department of agricul-
it”
I ture.
However, he adds:
“But most
Important Consideration
soils are not. It is through liming
Donald and Mary decided to adopt and fertilization, drainage, irriga
a child, and asked at the orphanage tion, the introduction of legumes,
for a little girl. One was produced, and a host of other practices, that
and Mary was about to close the farmers have made their soils pro
bargain when Donald tapped her ductive.”
shoulder.
“Mary,” he whispered, “let’s have
a boy. Hae ye forgotten the lad’s
Kitchen Table Stool
cap we found in the train?”
MORE PEOPLE
SMOKE CAMELS
than any-
other cigarette!
and among the millions who J o ..,
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PORTER
F s r a o u i «on g
writer has this to
n a y : " C a m e l«
»cored a hit with
me years ago. A
g r e a t-ta s tin g
sm o k e ! A nd
70% longer average life *
Sta tuì Battery Saves Time and Money
n>< emo ling new Aute-lits Slo-lul Battory has grsalsr liquid rsservs the«
ordinary ballsris«— nssds wotsr only 1 limo» ■ year. In addition, ’’ita-Vul"
Battorioo havs fibra-gloes m a t t for longer battory life. Monsy cannot buy ■
better battsry. too your neighborhood Auto-lite Battsry Doalor.
A U T O - II T I BATTIR V C O R P O R A T IO N
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AMAZING SPECTACLE
Most O utsw n=
Two tramps sat beneath a wa
ter tank in the damp shade. The
old hobo asked, “Going east son?”
"Yes,” replied the younger.
“Don’t do it,” the old one cau
tioned.
"Why not?”
“Twon’t do any good for me to
tell you why not. Just take the
advice of an older man and don’t
do it. You wouldn’t believe me if
I told you. Even when you see it
you won’t believe it.”
"Won’t believe what?" asked the
mystified young tramp.
"You’ll se« folks running—to
work.”
Many a farm wife would sit while
working at the kitchen table If there
was a stool or chair handy. A stool
hinged to a table leg so It could
easily be pushed under the table
when not in use would meet the re
quirement.
The one shown above is a simple
stool with one leg. A short arm of
wood about eighteen inches long,
an inch thick and three inches wide,
has one end nailed or screwed to the
stool leg and the other end attached
to a table leg by a hinge.
Mule Trouble
Agricultural Stations
Virgil Smith was a famous Okla Gradually Restaffing
homa mule tender. Mule-tending is
Gradual restaffing of the agri
dangerous, but Virgil never got cultural experiment stations with
hurt. One morning, though, he ap scientific personnel which was not
peared on a pair of crutches.
available during the war period is
“Good gracious, Virgil!" his boss noted in the current report on the
said. "I thought you were one of agricultural experiment stations.
New staff members are young
the best mule tenders in the busi
men who have been uble to com
ness.”
“So 1 am, boss,” said Virgil, "but plete their advance training since
we got a mule in last evenin' wot the war. Closer ihtegration of re
search and extension work is also
didn’t know my reputation.”
renorted.
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