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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934. Corn Meal Provides Base For Substantial Dishes By the Bureau of Home Economics, V. 8. Department of Agriculture. Corn, to the Englishman, U not our corn, but wheat. To the Scot It means oata. And to at least one Aus tralian, traveling In America, our spoon corn bread proved to be "a farinaceous food" she had never heard of before. In fact, In other countries than America "corn" la the name ap plied to the principal gain crop whatever that may be. Indian corn' our. corn, la native to the Americas. In the United States today, we have more corn than we can use, although, as the Bureau of Home Economics ox the U. 8. Department of Agriculture points out, we still consume tons and tons of corn meal, as we always have. Some of It Is "old process," or "water ground" meal, still so called because originally ground In mills run by water power. But "waterground" meal is ground between millstones and In many places today there are mills which turn out stone-ground meal by steam or electric power. Es pecially in the country and In the south, It Is still possible to get the "waterground" meal, which Is, In fnct, softer and richer In food value than the "new process" or bolted meal. The "new process" grinds the meal between steel rollers or steel disks, j and the product is more granular I than the stone-ground meal. Its food value Is less than the stone-ground meal because the "new process" takes out nearly all of the skin and the germ' of the grain, which Is left In the meal In the old process. Those are the parts of the grain which have - most mineral and vitamin value, but the germ spoils rather quickly. The advantage of the "new process" meal is that It will keep longer , than the old-fashioned product because the germ la "bolted" out. When life was simpler, people used fewer and simpler foods. The corn or maize eating peoples added to the grain something to supply other kinds of nutriment In the same dish Thus the mush-and-mllk or "hasty pudding" of early New England era constituted actually the best kind of combination of food values we know bow to obtain In any two foods. Bo also the hoecake and buttermilk of the south. Natives of Jamaica mix corn meal, aalt fish, and lard to make their "etamp-and-go," 1 Mexicans add meat and peppers and onion to make tamales. Italians added cheese or to mato or gravy, or perhaps all three, to their "polenta" made of mush and milk. Our grandmothers taught the meat packers and the butcher shops of today how to add ground meat to eorn meal mush to make what we en- Joy as scrapple. In all these combi nations, protein, minerals, fats, and some vitamins are added to a food which Itself Is chiefly starch. The Italians, adding tomatoes and cheese and meat, make actually a full rounded meal In their "polenta." As would be expected In a land u big and as varied as the United States, corn, which grows everywhere, finds favorite uses more or less pe culiar to different sections of the country. If you come from the south, you want your corn pone or your boe cake, made with sour milk or butter milk. If you are a northerner, you like your mush-and-mllk. or your In dian pudding, and you make this lat ter with yellow meal, milk, and mo lasses. But there are dozens of other ways to use corn meal. The Bureau of Home Economics furnishes some three dozen corn meal recipes and they range all the way from plain mush to Indian meal dou ghnuts, corn meal fig pudding and gingerbread. Some of the cheapest are crackling bread, raised corn meal muffins, corn meal mush with meat, polenta, and Indian pudding. The Mexican tamale la also cheap made of scalded meal or mush, with chopped meat (usually chicken) and red peppers, with onion or garlic. This mixture Is folded and tied Into corn husks which have been softened In hot water, and the, tamale Is then boiled. A variation of this Is tamale pie. LOW-COST MENU FOR ONE DAY. Breakfast. Oatmeal Toast Tomato Juice for Youngest Child Coffee (aduls) Milk (children) Dinner. Tamale Pie Bread and Butter Hot Tea (adults) Milk (children) Stewed Prunes. Supper. Hashed Brown Potatoes Hot Biscuits, Jelly, Jam or Sirup Milk for all. RECIPES Scrap pie. Select 3 pounds of bony pieces of pork. Simmer In 3 quarts of water until the meat drops from the bone. Strain off the broth, remove the bone, taking care to get out all the tiny pieces, and chop the meat fine. There should be about a quarts of broth, and If necessary add water to make this quantity. Bring the broth to the boiling point, slowly add 3 cups of corn meal, cook the mixture until It Is thick, mush, and stir almost con stantly. Add the chopped meat, salt, and any other seasoning desired, such as onion Juice, sage and thyme. Pour the hot scrapple Into oblong enamel- ware pans which have been rinsed wltb cold water. Let. stand until cbid and firm, slice, and brown in a hot skillet. If the scrapple Is rich with fat, no more fat Is needed for frying. Polenta. This dish, which Is common In Italy, differs little, except In name, from corn-meal mush, though It i served In very different ways. Some times cheese is added during the cooking. Polenta la often reheated either with tomato sauce or a meat gravy left over from a meal, or with meat gravy made from a small. amount of meat bought for the pur pose, or with half tomato sauce and half meat gravy. In any case, the dish Is Improved by sprinkling the. cooked polenta with cheese. When the polenta Is to be reheated In gravy, It la well to cut It Into small pieces In order that the gravy may be well., distributed through the dish. Tamale Pie. 3 cups corn meal 3 teaspoons salt 3 cups cold water 4 cups boiling water 1 ounce suet 1 onion, ohopped 1 pound ground beef . 1 cup canned tomatoes teaspoon salt tenspoon pepper. Mix the corn meal, salt and cold water until smooth, add the boiling water, stirring constantly, then cook over hot water for 1 hour. Render the suet and cook the onion In the fnt for a few minutes, add the beef and the tomato and simmer until the red color disappears from the meat. Season wltb salt and pepper. Place a layer of the mush In a greased baking dish, add the meat mixture and cover with the rest of the mush. Bake In a moderately hot oven (375 degrees F.) about 30 minutes or until the mush ts lightly browned. Serve from the dish. Halt Pork Spoon Bread. Chop or grind pound salt pork. Then try out the fat until the crack lings are slightly brown. Cook 1 cup of corn meal' with 3 cups of water, stirring constantly. Add to this 1 cup of milk (fresh milk, or evapo rated or dried milk made up with water), then the fried salt pork, fat and all. If possible, add 1 or 3 beaten eggs. Pour Into a well -greased hot pan or baking dish and bake for 40 to 60 minutes In a hot oven. Or bake In a skillet on top of the stove in a thinner layer. Bnker Indian Pudding. 1 quart milk 1-3 cup yellow corn meal 1 teaspoon salt cup molasses H to 1 teaspoon ginger. Cook the milk, corn meal, and salt In a double boiler for 20 minutes. Add the molasses and ginger, pour Into a greased baking dish, and bake In a very moderate oven (about 300 degrees P.) for a hours. Serve hot 1 with vanilla Ice cream, or chill and1 serve with cream. T COMMITTEE FOR McCracken . Elected Chair man of Group to' Aid Farmers and Creditors Statement of Aims Issued CENTRAL PL CHRISTIAN CHURCH ANNUAL MEET SURVEYS GREAT YEAR Over 100 members and friends of the Central Point Christian church of which D. E. Millard is pastor, gath ered around the banquet table Thurs day evening and enjoyed the fellow ship dinner and program which fol lowed. Reports all showed a wonder ful growth and sustained service un der the leadership of their pastor who Is beginning the sixth year with the church. Some of the accomplishments dur ing these years was the building of two large additions to the church. more than doubling the membership. Installing all new opera choirs in the auditorium and purchase of new hymn books, .All Improvements being paid for as completed. The church has had no debt for many years and the treasurer's report showed a bal ance after all bills were paid. Reverend Howell of Medford Pres byterian church, was the guest speak er of the evening, who brought a fine. Inspiring message. Musical numbers were furnished by the church orches tra, and vocal numbers by Miss Ruth Haley, Mrs. Dorrls Kealon and D. E. Millard. Reverend Millard also read one of his own poems entitled "My Dear Old Violin." j The church considered the year Just i closed a very successful one and looks forward to a greater year for 1834, 1 which vill Include a summer confer-. ence for young people and remodeling and beautifying of the church audi torium. ' The County Farm Debt Adjustment committee, recently appointed by uovernor Meier for Jackson county, held an organisation meeting in the office of County Agent R. G. Fowler Wednesday afternoon. The following officers were elected: Chairman, J. R. McCracken; vice chairman, Geo. B. Dean; secretary, R. O. Fowler, and Dick Straus of Sams Valley, John Anderson of Central Point and J. A. Perry of Medford com plete the personnel of the commit tee. The function of such commit tees already appointed in several counties of the state is aet forth In the governor's letter of appointment, part of which Is as follows: Assist Debtor, Creditor. "It is our though that such com mittee will serve as a material asalar ance to both debtor and creditor. In an effort to arrive at a friendly, sen sible and fair solution of the debt problems, and that such efforts will tend to conciliate many problems of the type which have heretofore re sulted In unnecessary foreclosures, it la likewise hoped and expected that these voluntary committees will serve In the future as a basis of developing harmony between controverting in terests in various localities of the state." Alms Announced. j The local committee,' In order' to avoid any misunderstandings as to Its duties, wishes to make public the following statement concerning Its work; (a) Any debtor or creditor seeking a readjustment in the debt relation ship, ona with the other, may ask this committee to Investigate and make recommendations to either or both parties for the purpose of ef fecting a satisfactory solution of any cits ting difficulties , (b) Application blanks will be fur nished to either the debtor or creditor seeking adjustment. These blanks supplied by members of the commit tee may be used to request the aid of the committee. In commenting on the proposed work of the committee, Mr. Fowle: stated that obviously. If the local committee is to accomplish Its pur pose, debtors and creditors who desire to submit their problems to the 'conv mJttee should recognize that concilia tion is the keynote and that the rec ommendation of the committee Is for the guidance of both parties in their efforts to reach a friendly and mutu ally satisfactory settlement of their problems. - IS SCENE OF BRAWL cnanes (Biackle) wnlte. 43, was scheduled for a hearing In city court this afternoon, and L. F. Slavens, 00, was given a ten days' suspended sen tence in city court this morning as tne result of an alleged battle In a beer parlor on South Riverside at 11:10 ociock last nignt. White and Slavens, who police said, had resorted to throwing chairs and bottles after Slavens had assertedly Insulted White's step-daughter, were arrested by city officers. Slavens was released last night when he furnished (30 ball, and charged with violent and disorderly conduct, was given a suspended sentence In court, pending his good behavior. White, who had not paid a 110 fine Imposed on him August. 10 of last year, for disorderly conduct, was held in jail. ONE HALL WON'T HOLD THRONG AT ROOSEVELT BALL Ther, will b let of room for danc ing next Tuesday night, when Med ford Join, the rest of the world In feetlvlty at the Birthday Ball for the President. If was announced today. iwo nans will D opened to the dance crowds, and maybe three. Ticket sales today Justified the need for two loca tions, arid If they keep coming in, a third place will be designated. A definite announcement of "where you may dance win De ginn Sunday. In the meantime all people are urged to buy their tickets, with the assurance that there will be "lots of room." O. O. Alenderfer, chairman of the hall committee, has arranged for a radio hookup for all local dances. In order that Medfordltes may be danc ing to the Marine band music right aiong with tne rest of the nation, when the concert come on the air. The meeting of the ticket commit tee was an enthusiastic gathering last nignc, LAlTy schade. treasurer for the ball, announced today. Wom en, representing all organizations of the city, started out this morning to cover the business section and will continue through tomorrow and Mon day. All citizens are urged to aid a worthy cause by buying thelf tickets early. . It will be Impossible for the solic itors to visit the residential district, so those persons not contacted down town are- asked to obtain tickets at the Chamber of Commerce, the Hotel Medford, Hotel Jackson or Hotel Hol land. The earlier the tickets are purchased the sooner the general committee will I be able to announce locations for all dances JOSEPHINE POE, PASSES AT Josephine Poe, beloved pioneer res ident of Medford, where she had re sided for over 60 years, passed away at her residence, 903 North -Central avenue, Thursday morning at 11:15. after a long Illness. For her advanced age of 88 she waa In good health until a week ago, when she fell and broke her hip. Mrs. Poe was born In Dallas Center, Iowa, May 34, 1849. She attended pub lic schools there and on March 17, 1870, was united in marriage to Fran cis M. Poe (now deceased). They left Iowa and came to Medford In 2884. She leaves one grandson, Carrol Poe of Medford. , Funeral services will be held from the Perl Funeral Home Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock. Hair Cuts, 35c. Shave, 35c. Allen Hotel Barber Shop. Hubbard IllFerdle Hubbard of the Crater Lake national park service la a patient at the Community bospltal this week for medical care. and save money Everybody Uka the "granu lated" wheat type of ceteal adults ti well 11 children. None finer in quality than Pearls of Wheat. Be sure you lay PEARLS of Wheat. It will save you money. A CAIMATION.ALKMJ40T CtHAl A new timing device which permits one man to operate 10 stop-watches was tried out successfully at regattas last summer by officials of the Amer ican Power Boat association. Alna Oederbloom, a Swedish girl, msde the 180-mlle perilous crossing of the North Sea from Bergen to the Shetland Islands In a 14-foot open outboard powered boat last summer. Mr. Neff Is Home Attorney Porter J. Neff returned yesterday morning from Portland, where he spent the past week on business. FREE DELIVERY. Phone 9. HOME OWNED STORES STOCK UP YOUR PANTRY WITH GOOD THINGS TO EAT AT THESE PRICES. It'i a good investment to keep your shelve, well stocked with the things you need for every occasion, and now is the time to buy. Sunny Monday Soap, lObars - - - - 19c Prince Albert Tobacco Pocket tins 2 for 23c GOLDEN WEST Coffee lb. glass jar 27c 3-Ib. jar 79c GOODY GOODY Peaches Halves Lgcan 19c Josephine Co. ' Tomatoes Solid pack, large can 2 for 29c Durkee's Salad Aid, qt 33c, pt 19c Lux Toilet Soap, 3 bars - - 19c Lux Flakes, large package - 23c Parker s Honey, 5 lb. tin 45c TREE TEA Japan Green, V2 lb. 23c Japan Green, lb. . . 45c Orange Pekoe, blk.y2 lb. 33c Orange Pekoe" blk., lb. 59c Mineral Oil, pure medium weight, bulk. Quart m . Mayonnaise, Brookfield, gallon jar ..... . Lover's Pork & Beans. 2 cans 25c Royal Chef Clams' 2 cans 25c Wind Mill Flour, hard wheat. $1.63 Johnson's Floor Wax Paste, lb. 59c Scott's Tissue, 3 for . . 25c - - 35c - - - 99c Baker's Premium Choc, V2 lb. 22c Baker's Cocoanut, lb. .12c Roiilhern Sljl. Carrots, Beets, Turnips. 3 bunches 10 Spinach, fey. tender spinach, 2 lb. 15 Bananas, fancy Golden Fruit ...... lb. 5 weep no mote Here's a triple-plated recipe for elimi nating those breakfast brambles. Hus bandsyes, even the maddest of the fellows are astonishingly pliable to the rich and mellow soothings of a steam , ing cup of Hills Bros. Coffee. In fact, so are you. Try it and see. No human sys tem yet designed can stand the terrible strain of getting out of a cozy bed with out proper incentive. Ample Hills Bros. Coffee waiting on the breakfast table is incentive enough for anyone. So weep no more, dear lady. Ply that man across from you with freshly brewed Hills Bros. Cof fee. He will leave the table as meek as a lamb and go to the office with the deter mination of twenty lions. 1HJ Hilll ., LIBERTY FOOD STORES MAIN AND GRAPE. EVERYTHING IN GOOD FOODS! Alexander Grocery, Inc. Phone 143. FREE DELIVERY E. F. ALEXANDER, Gen. Mgr. SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY No. 2 Can Peas, sweet and tender, 2 for 25 Large Can Hominy 10 Large Can Armour's Pork and Beans, 2 for 25 No. 2 Can String Beans, stringless .i 10 No, 2 can Yellow Com : 10 Large Can Sweet Potatoes 10 Sunny Monday Soap, 10 bars". 23 Sunbright Cleanser, 2 for 9 Toilet Soap, 3 bars for . ,; 51 Tiny Tots' Breakfast Cereal . . . 23c 1 Pkg Energy Breakfast Cereal Free ' Don't be satisfied with fair ly good fruits and vegetables You can always find the very freshest and finest at the Liberty Food Stores. Come in any time and look over our tempting displays. THE HOME OF GOOD MEATS GOV'T. INSPECTED Don't Hesitate ,This young lady is wondering what kind of meat to serve for dinner, and where to get it. The Liberty Market will solve that problem. Steer Beef, Fresh Poul try, and a wide variety of select outs are featured at all times at right prices ... Best Grade Beef, Pork, - Veal, Lamb FAT TURKEYS Saturday Special, lb. 1 7V2C mi mm MODEL BAKERY Light Walnut Cake A wonderful cake made from a home recipe 2 layers 19c (Reg. 25c) Alligator Jaws A dandy piece of fried square filled with but ter cream. 18c d oz. Parkerhouse Roll Special I .12c doz. I ' ' 11 ll STAR MARKET East Main Free Delivery SATURDAY SPECIALS Tel. 273 liver or 3 lbs oc STEAK Choice, lb. . . . 15- LARD n r Home Rprtdfrtd W 3 lbs LdOz TURKEYS OA Young, fat, lb. . . U( R. I. R. Hens - Fryers, lb. 17c Fresh Side Pork, lb. ... 10c Beef Pot Roast, lb. 9C j Shortening, 4 lbs 25c i
