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Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food tiitor Blasting Some Milk Fallacies Certain popular fallacies about milk have no scientific basis. One of them is that fish and milk should not be eaten to gether; nor fish and Ice cream Good evidence of this fallacy is the fact that fish chowders and oyster stew made with milk are very good. Nor is there any reason why acid fruits and milk cannot be eaten together. Actually the curd produced in the stomach by a mixture of fruit acids and milk is finer and easier to digest than the milk curd produced by the stomach acid alone. Another fallacy is that milk is a constipating food. Far from it. Milk is quickly and thoroughly digested because it contains no roughage, contributes no resi due. Also, if Junior wants to gulp his milk or to drink it straight down without seeming to stop for breath, let him do it. There's no special advantage to sipping or drinking slowly be- , yond observing the social ameni- .ties. Spanish Snap Beans Use up some of your extra share of the abundance of canned green beans in this good way. Four servings. Heat one tablespoon fat and brown one tablespoon chopped onion and one-third cup chopped green pepper in it. Add one cup cooked or canned tomatoes and cook slowly about 15 minutes. Add can of green beans; sail and pepper to taste. Heat thorough ly and serve topped with tiny bread cubes that have been sauted in cooking oil. Smothered Steak Steak in any form is a favorite with the children. Popular round steak is best when braised which means longer, slow cook ing. Coat one-half inch thick sprinkle with salt and pepper. Brown well in a little hot fat; add one-half cup water or tomato juice. Cover and cook over low heat for about one hour. Completely cover with sliced onions and sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika. Add a little more liquids, if neces sary. Cover and continue cook ing another half hour or until rnea and onions are tender. Sweet Potatoes and Apples Make Good Eating There's an abundance of im proved red sweet potatoes; those with the lighter skin. Since you're going to boil these any way, why not pick out the smaller, long slender ones or the chunkier instead of the uniform baking size? Nature hasn't heard about this consumer preference; keeps on producing an assortment of sizes, all of which have to be marketed thereby presenting a problem to sweet potato grow ers. Let's help them. The same fine flavor and good nutrition is in all sizes. For a fine dish, wash and boil seven or eight long slender sweet potatoes or four of the chunkies1; drain, peel and cut into half inch slices. Pare and slice three medium aDoles; place alternate layers of sweet potato slices and aDDles in greased casserole, sprinkling each layer of apple with sugar usinz half a cud of sugar al together and topping each layer of sweet Dotato with butter, using perhaps one-fourth cup of butter. Add one cup water, cover and bake in moderate oven. 350 decrees. 30 minutes. Remove cover and bake 15 min utes longer to brown top. Six servings. Fried Canned Corn Another taste delight using some of the overly plentiful canned corn that is offered at such reasonable cost. For four servines. melt two tablespoons fat in pan; add one-half cup chopped" onion, one-halx cup chopped green pepper, can of whole-kernel corn (drained), salt and pepper to taste. Cook until vegetables are lightly browned; add one-fourth cup top milk, half and half, cream or sour rrpam. and heat. Chili Beef Stew. If your fam ily likes beef stew, give them extra taste treat by flavoring with chili powder for a change. Four two pounds of beef, start with one teaspoon chili powder; add more if the family really likes it. Especially good when canned tomato juice or sauce is used in stew-making. Turnips and Peas. For a change, combine seasoned diced turnips and seasoned green peas. Prunes, Rice, Canned Corn Among Many Plentiful One hundred and eighty lour thousand tons of dried prunes' That was last years "crop" and nature ran far heavier on the smaller sizes which means that the smaller sizes are lower prices. Prunes don't have to be bis to be good. Size doesn't af fect quality.. These big-value, small-size prunes are packaged 70 to 85 to the pound. They're tmrfr and have hieh vitamin and mineral values. They plump up to pleasing size when cooked. Have some! Rice is low in cost, high in enerev giving values. Supplies arp larce and varieties are great. There's regular, white milled rice, brown., rice, enriched rice, Dre-cooked rice, ready-to-eat rice. There's puffed rice, flaked rice, rice krispies, cream of -rice and even rice curls which are a snack food. Add some form of rice to your' next shopping list. Canned sweet corn and canned snap beans are so plentiful that foods writers are asked to en courage their ' increased use. Quality is particularly high be cause of last year's very. good "growing weather." Both items are pantry staple. Put in a tup ply; use them more often. Sea son canned corn with minced green pepper or parsley. Pep up green beans with chopped bacon, salad oil and lemon juice, horse radish, celery seed or dill. Add almond leaves for crispnesr, sliced mushrooms for something very special. Fith and Shellfish. Varieties are many. Try new kinds that you see displayed. Use plenti ful shrimp in cocktails, soup, main dishes, salads. Fish fillets and fish sticks are good values, solid eating. Lots of halibut for baking and for steak-style cook ing. Dairy Products. Milk produc tion continues at high levels. All types of cheese make good Lenten season dishes. Macaroni and cheese once a week is a fine budget item. Fruit Buys. Citrus fruits head buys; of excellent quality, rea sonable to bargain-priced in both fresh and processed form. Other available fruits are ap ples, lemons, ' avocados, winter pears, grapes. Vegetable Buys. Good sup plies of local cabbage, parsnips, topped carrots, onions, potatoes, cauliflower, celery, lettuce, pep pers, rhubarb, spinach, sweet potatoes, winter squash. Garlic Best when Secret Ingredient Strong man of the onion fam ily, second cousin, to the Easter lily, garlic has served nobly and well for centuries though often misunderstood and much maligned. Unlike many season ings, garlic must be used with care and good judgment. A "whiff", a "breath" or faint "bouquet" is all that most dishes need. Many maintain that if you can taste the garlic, you've used too much. California, in the region of Gilroy, produces nearly 80 per cent of all the garlic grown commercially in the United States with about 2000 acres producing two crops a year. Early garlic has slight lavender mottling near the shoulder with cloves of a purplush tinge. Late garlic is pure white with large meaty cloves with long-keeping qualities. Raw Garlic Uses Many One of the simplest ways to iisp raw earlic is to peel off outef wrapping, then spear it on a toothpick for easy removal after it 'has contributed it rninffpnt flavorful "whiff to cooking, baking, sauce or salad dressing. Those who fancy more than a whiff, use raw garlic, chopped very fine or minced, use a garlic press or press it in a simple mortar with pestle . . . anH also keen handily garlic powder and;or garlic salt which is garlic powder blended wiui salt. West coasters like garlic touch in soups, chowders, stews, with fish and cheese as well as the traditional association with roast lamb, hamburgers, steaks, salads and salad dressings. Garlic Butter. Allow one clove of garlic . to stand two hours in one-fourth pound soft tened butter; remove garlic be fore using as spread. Or use finely minced garlic or garlic Master Points Awarded for Camp White Club Camp White Master points were awarded to winners of last week's session of Camp White Duplicate Bridge club. Two sec tions of players took part. Section A winners, north south, were William Isaacs and John Solheim. first, 70b points; Mrs. B. B. Hughes and Mrs. L. S. Johnson, second, 68 points; Mrs. George Dean and Mrs. B. L. Sanderson, third, 67. East west winners in this section were Mike Dillon and John Peterson, first, 77Vi points; Mrs. Clifford Howard and Marion Milne, second, 76li; Mrs. Fred Purdin and Asa Kimball, third, 72 V4 points. Section B winners, - north south, were Mr. and Mrs. Paul McDuffee, first, 67 points; Mrs. T. J. Fuson and Ray Wise, second, 56V; Mrs. Frank Baker and George Choate, third, 55 points. Winning east-west were Mrs. Mary Stepnett and Arthur Scarseth, first, 55; Mrs. . Alto Pruitt and Lester Holiday, second, 5VA; Mrs. Josephine Clark and Mrs. Oda Thomason, third, 44J points. The American Legion auxil iary prizes for February went to Walter Grow, first; John Sol heim, second and Marion Milne, third. - A buffet supper followed cards. Asa Kimball and Mrs. Milne were co-chairmen, assist ed by Mr. Grow and Mr. Sol heim. Ben Anderson took charge of coffee making. A centerpiece of green and white wood fiber carnations designed by Mr. Kim ball centered the table. Two Wholesalers Cut Coffee Prices San Francisco U.R) : Two major Bay Area coffee whole salers, Hills Brothers and MJB, cut the wholesale price of coffee 5 cents a pound today. It was expected that retailers would pass the cuts along to their customers in the immedi ate future. The Folger Coffee Company anonunced a similar cut effec tive today or Monday. A spokesman for S & W Fine Foods said his company already had been '5 cents a wholesale pound under the list of other major companies, but that S&W has not decided whether to make a further cut. powder added to butter as spread. Garlie Bread.. Cut Vienna, French or sandwich loaf in one half inch slices slanchewise, leaving bread intact at bottom. Spread slices with Garlic butter. Place in paper bag to hold slices together. Heat in moderate oven, 350 degrees, 15 minutes or until heated through. Place loaf covered, on heated platter and serve in place of rolls. Garlic Vinegar Heat to boil ing point, one" cup vinegar; cut four cloves of garlic Into halves and add to vinegar. When vine gar is cold, place in a closed jar. After two weeks, strain it for use in dressings and sauces. CarolineObenchain Passes at Klamath; Relatives Live Here Klamath Falls Mrs. Frank Obenchain, 77, an early-day res ident of Jacksonville and the sister of three Jackson county people, died here yesterday after an illness of three weeks. Born Caroline Bertha Wendt, she was a native of Clatonia, Neb., but moved to Jacksonville at an early age. In 1902 she went to Bly as the bride of Frank Obenchain, and lived the rest of her life in the same farm home. According to the Klamath Falls Herald and News, she "became noted for her hospitality to friends, travelers and to sports men who visited Bly." Relatives In Medford She leaves her husband and three sons, Matt, Frank and Harry Obenchain- all of Bly; a daughter, Miss Marie Oben chain, Klamath Falls; two brothers, Chester Wendt, Jack son county commissioner, and Harry Wendt, both of Medford; two sisters, Mrs. James Issott, Medford, and Mrs. Arthur Chase, Ephrata, Wash., and two granddaughters and two step grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from Ward's Klamath Funeral home, with final rites and interment to fol low in Klamath Memorial park. Seventh Fire Fatality Claimed in Portland. Portland (U.P.) Arthur Link later, 74, Portland, died in a house fire today to become the seventh fire fatality in three days in the Portland area. Firemen removed the elderly man from the upper story of the home but he was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Five persons died Wednesday in the Lind hotel fire and a dairy farm worker burned to death early yesterday in a bunkhouse fire. DIVIDEND NOTICE The Board of Directors lias declared a distribution from net realized gain on investments of 8.2 per lhare, and a dividend of .8e per share from net in vestment income, payable March 31 to shareholder! of record March II, 1955. Hotcard M. Nimmont SECRETARY Mires 4, 1955 ' 301 Exchange Bldf . Seattle STYLED FOR TOMORROW . . . with the lithe beauty of forward motion. 55 NEW COLOR COMBINATIONS . . . frosty blues, vigorous reds, tailored grays and greens. 39 INTERIOR TRIM COMBINATIONS . . . exquisite fabrics in glamorous hues, silky nylons, smart vinyls, deep patterned matelasse, and genuine leathers. SENSATIONAL NEW 200 H.P. FIREFLITE ... a fabulous new series, the most elegant new car en the American road. 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