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Peach Meringue Pudding .9 -A VTA -v IK-- ,X i jag! xW-A!& Pach Meringue Padding is dessert innorttioo sore to become a family favorite. The sky's the limit to the variety of foods homemakers ean serve these days. Enjoy the thrill of "discovery" by introducing your family to new food horizons. Peach Meringue Pudding is a, fine dish to start your adventure. It combines fine noodles with creamy, custard sauce: Serve it soon and bring sunshine to winter meals. Arrange sweet, sliced peaches in the bottom of a baking dish. Pour the noodle-custard mixture over the fruit and top with fluffy meringue and a light sprinkling of coconut. Then bake to golden brown beauty. Once you discover how truly good noodle desserts can be, youll want to try Peach Meringue Pudding using other fruits, too. Look ing to spring, how about a Strawberry Meringue Pudding? Peach Meringue Pudding is a time-saving, oven-to-table food. YouTl welcome the economy of Peach Meringue Pudding, too. And when you serve this tempting dessert, you're contributing to family nutrition as well as providing a taste-treat. PEACH MERINGUE PUDDING 1 can (1 pound 13 ounces) sliced M teaspoon salt peaches (2 cups) 2 ounces fine noodles VA cups milk 2 egg yolks 14 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Drain peaches and arrange in bottom of greased 8-inch baking dish. Scald milk in saucepan. Add sugar, salt and noodles. Cook over very low heat until noodles are tender, stirring frequently, about 4 to 5 minutes. Beat egg yolks. Stir quickly into noodle mix ture and cook about 2 minutes longer, stirring -constantly. Add vanilla extract. Spread mixture over peaches. Cool. Top with mer ingue and sprinkle with cocoflut. Bake in moderate oven (350F.) 15 minutes. Meringue 2 egg whites Dash salt teaspoon vanilla extract Beat egg whites with salt and vanilla until foamy. Gradually ' add sugar and continue beating until stiff but not dry. Spread over pudding, sprinkle with coconut and bake. Makes 6 to 8 servings. cup sugar cup shredded coconut Eagle Point Eagle Point Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bubb, former residents of Eagle Point, and former own ers of the Brownsboro store, visited two days this week with friends and relatives in the Eagle Point area. Mrs. J. E. Olsen, Eagle Point, Is visiting her daughters, Mrs. Dick Gerts and Mrs. Bill Lacy, at Colfax and Ellensburg, Wash. She expects to return to her horn Sunday. Mrs. Chuck Sturgill, Ashland, and her three sons, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chamberlain. Mrs. Sturgill plans to be in Eagle Point for several days. Mr. and Mrs. John Mock, Gro More Village, have sold their home north of Eagle Point and will move to Medford tempo rarily. Sale of their home was handled by Darling Real Estate. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gray and their two daughters have moved Into their new home, which they purchased recently. Gold Hill Gold Hill Gold Hill Hobby club has postponed the meeting planned for March 25 and will have it instead on April 8 at the home of Meta Lotz on east Evans creek. The well baby clinic- sched uled to be held in Gold Hill, March 22 has been postponed indefinitely. Mr. and Mrs. John Cogswell of Cogswell's Market, Gold Hill, have returned from a business and pleasure trip to California where they visited their daugh ter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abbott at Chula Vista where they are making their new home. They also visited relatives at Downey, Long Beach and Los Angeles. Returning by way of Oakland they visited brothers of both Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell. Keep America Beautiful, anti litter organization, reports that after each major holiday it costs the . nation about $5,000,000 to tidy up the mess left by litter-bugs. Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Potatoes Long Have Been Pets on Menus Potatoes have been pets on menus since long before the Irish came to our shores. But patience can be tried by too many potatoes served too many times in the same old way. So bow out the boiled and mashed and try this Irish trick called Potato O'Brien. 3 cups diced cooked potatoes 2 tablespoons minced pimientos 2 tablespoons minced green pep per 2 tablespoons minced onion 3 tablespoons melted fat Salt and pepper Select four or five medium size, uniform potatoes; scrub, wash, rinse, and pare before or after cooking. Cover whole po tatoes with boiling salted water and cook, covered 25 to 40 min utes or until just tender. Drain. Peel if boiled with jackets and place uncovered in warm place to dry out. Cut in half inch cubes. Combine all ingredients and add to fat in heavy frying pan; sprinkle with salt and pep per and saute until delicately browned, stirring occasionally. Avocadoes Make Fine Salads for Week End There's a lot of green, pear shaped fruit on the market now avocados are a fine seasonal fruit just asking to be used in week end salads. Slices of avocado make a good showing of green color when ar ranged in overlapping rows; or alternate avocado slices and grapefruit halves on a bed of shredded lettuce. Avocado half-shells filled with green pickle relish go well with macaroni dishes and most cas seroles. Or serve the peeled halved fruit upside down to show off its green color and perhaps slip a bit of mixed fruit or chicken or tuna salad under the seed cup. Or simply offer avocado halves in the shell with salt and lemon or pass a tart French dressing. Green Fruit Punch Here's a fine refreshing, sat isfying economical drink to put punch in the party. Combine one cup sugar and one cup water and boil five minutes. Cool and add juice of six oranges, juice of six lemons; chill. Just before serving add green vegetable coloring to desired tone. Add one quart chilled ginger ale. Makes about two quarts; 12 or so servings. Spring Tonic Rarebit For Family or Company Here is an excellent luncheon or supper dish packed with vita mins and minerals; tasty and at tractive. An extra special fam ily meal or a party specialty cer tain to prove popular. Six serv ings. 1 tablespoon butter i 1 pound American cheese 2 teaspoons dry mustard 2 teaspoons Worcestershire Salt 2-3 cup tomato juice 2 egg yolks, well beaten 1 bunch freshly cooked broccoli 6 slices enriched bread Softened butter Melt butter in top of double For You who expect the Finest... between Portland and CHICAGO New Astra-Domo OBSERVATION LOUNGE CARS on the CITY OP PORTLAND For you who enjoy tleganc in travel, Union Pacific's beautifully appointed, new Astra-Dome Observation Lounge cars assure the utmost in travel pleasure and comfort. The Astra-Dome section offers the personal luxury of divan-type seats placed at an angle to provide unlimited view of the thrilling splendor ot the ever changing western scenery. The beautiful new Astra-Dome Observation Lounge cars and Astra-Dome coaches now in service will soon be followed by new Astra-Dome diners exclusive with Union Pacific Railroad in transcontinental service adding a wonderful new experience to the pleasure of train travel. For the ultimate in travel East Go Union PacificI For tickets and reservations, information on Union Pacific's FAMILY TRAVEL PLAN, generous baggage allowances and rent-a-car service, contact General Agent Suite 21, Cascade Bldg., 163 East 12th Avenue Phone 5-8461 Eugene, Oregon For the fksMst, finest train to Chicago, go Domeliner "City of Portland." It. PORTLAND. . . S: p.m. Daffy Ar. CHICAOO. . . . : 1 1:20 m.m. Sacsnd Morning boiler or heavy saucepan. Add cheese and seasonings. Heat slowly until cheese melts, stir ring frequently. Gradually add tomato juice and continue cook ing, stirring until blended. Add beaten egg and cook until mix ture has thickened about three minutes. Toast the enriched bread and spread slices with softened butter. Arrange hot broccoli on slices of toast and dust lightly with pepper. Pour cheese mixture over all. Rhubarb Orange Pie Brown sugar and orange flavor give this pie new flavor delight; calls for lattice top. Use any favored pie crust recipe or one of the popular pie crust mixes. Roll out pastry for nine inch crust, allowing three-fourths inch overlap to make a good seal for edge of pie. Roll out remain ing pastry and cut in one-half strips. Filling. Combine four cups (l34 pounds) rhubarb cut in one inch pieces, one orange peeled and cut in pieces, three-fourths cup brown sugar (packed), three fourth cup granulated sugar, one-fourth teaspon nutmeg and one-third cup flour. Place fruit mixture in unbaked pie shell. Pour one-third cup melted but ter over all. Top with pastry strips woven over top of filled pie. Press ends to bottom crust. Fold over three four inch overlap of bottom crust over the top "crust. Flute with finger tips. Bake in hot oven, 425 degrees, 40 to 45 min utes. Plenty of Pork, Beef. Fish. Make March Meal Planning Easy Pork seems to be big meat new for spring. Prices on many cuts are down including bacon and sausage for the making of extra good breakfasts as well as other mealtime cuts. Best buys are pork shoulder (butt) roasts and steaks, chop suey meat, pork hocks, ham shanks and picnics. Beef continues unusually plenti ful with pot roasts, beef stew meat and ground beef bargains. Fish and Shellfish. Lenten spotlight is on plentiful fish in great variety with quality excel lent and prices quite reasonable. Fresh fillets include true cod, rockfish, Pacific sole, sea bass. Frozen fresh fish offerings in clude cod, haddock and ocean perch. Pan-readies include Eure ka rex sole, sandabs, Columbia River smelts, Idaho brook trout. Steak and baking fish headliner is northern halibut at lowest price in years. Other good choices are Chinook salmon, steelhead salmon ling cod, sea bass, yellow pike, lake whitef ish. Canned tuna is a good buy. Among shellfish, there are both eastern and western oysters, fresh Dungeness crab (peak of season), eastern and western scallops. Plenty of fresh and Friday, March 18, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE frozen shrimp. Dairy Products. Milk produc tion continues at high levels. Cheese is a natural for many Lenten meals. How about some good buttermilk pancakes for breakfast, lunch or supper? Fruit Buys. Grapefruit, small size oranges, Newtown and Pip pin applfes in schoolboy size, avocados are good buys. Lemons, bananas are reasonable. Vegetable Buys. Plenty of local cabbage, onions, potatoes, winter squash, parsnips, topped carrots; good supplies of cauli flower, lettuce, peppers, celery. Other Plentifuls. Stock up on canned green beans and canned sweet corn which continue in big supply. Consumers are urged to eat more rice and are remind ed of the super abundance of small size dried prunes. Pro essed orange juice, canned, grapefruit juice and citrus fruit blends, canned grapefruit seg ments are good buys along with raisins, eggs, lard, vegetable fats and oils. Rape Case Punishment Declared Null and Void Salem (U.R) A 1919 law making life sentence the punish ment for assault with intent to commit rape is null and void, the Oregon Supreme Court says, noting that the punishment for the crime is greater than that for either forcible or statutory rape. Nationalist's Quemoy Positions Shelled Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Com munist artillery on Amoy shell ed Nationalist Chinese positions on Little Quemoy Island yester day, but caused no damage. The Nationalist Military In formation Service reported. the Reds fired 14 rounds from big guns without effect. The shelling was the only in cident to break an otherwise quiet day along the 150-mile is land front in the Formosa Strait. Las Vegas U.R) A minor earth tremor which lasted less than 30 seconds shook the city Wednesday night. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport CORN MUFFIN VARIATION New York (U.R) Corn muf fin tip: Make the batter from a mix according to package direc tions, folding in a can of whole kernel corn. Spread in a greased square pan and dot the top with half spoonfuls of deviled ham. Bake as directed. Cut in squares and serve hot or cold. See Iff 4 OUR Top Value Used Car Adv. in Today's Classified Section Dick Knight Co. DeSoto Plymouth . 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