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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 21, 195S Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Tuna, Avocado and Citrus Fruits Make Hearty Salads High on the list of plentifuls at reasonable cost are canned tuna, avocados, grapefruit and oranges. High in popularity are salads that contain this combina tion of good things for the mak ing of a flavorful, nutritious main course for company . . . and for the family. Equally pop ular at lunch time and at sup per time. To accompany this salad, per haps you'd like cupfuls of one of the sturdy cream soups found in great variety in both canned and frozen food departments. Fruits in the salad take care of the dessert or you might like a simple dessert of cupcakes or cookies along with plenty of steaming coffee for the grown ups, milk for the children. A meal to be remembered and re peated. Tuna-Avocado Salad Six servings. Cut three medium-size avocados in half and remove seed. Scoop out avocados with melon ball cutter if you happen to have one or with a teaspoon measure. Sprinkle avo cado shells with lemon juice and set to one side. Combine avo cado balls with sections cut from two grapefruit ... or combine avocado balls with one 14-ounce can pineapple chunks and two oranges that have been peeled sectioned and cut up. Many like a touch of chopped fresh or crumbled dried mint leaves. Marinade in French dressing for 30 minutes. Break contents of one 7-ounce can solid-pack tuna (drained) with a fork. Add to avocado mixture and toss lightly. Fill avocado shells and serve on crisp salad greens. Pass French dressing in case some one wants "more." Tuna-Avocado Ring Mold This is so easily done; so satis fying. Can be made ahead of time which makes it very popu lar for luncheon parties as well as for home folks. Dissolve one three-ounce pack age lemon flavored gelatin in two cups hot water. Add three tablespoons lemon juice and Vz teaspoon salt. Chill until mix ture begins to thicken. Combine lemon juice and z teaspoon salt. Chill until mixture begins to thicken. Combine one cup mash ed avocado, Vz cup sour cream, Vz cup mayonnaise, one teaspoon grated onion and Vz cup finely chopped celery; mix well. Fold avocado , mixture into slightly thickened gelatin mixture. Turn into oiled five-cup ring mold and chill until firm. Unmold and sur round with crisp salad greens. Quite handsome! Strawberry Topped Cheese Pie Sensation First - of - the - season straw berries will go a long way when they top this divine cheese pie in a crumb crust. You can stake your reputation as a dessert mak er on this any time. Crumb Crust 2 cups cottage cheese 2 eggs Vz cup sugar V cup whipping cream 2 tablespoons flour Va teaspoon grated lemon rind 1 tablespoon lemon juice Strawberry Topping Crumb Crust: Roll one six ounce package zwiebach into fine crumbs , with rolling pin. Combine crumbs, Va cup sugar and Va cup melted butter or margarine; mix thoroughly. Pack all but one-third cup of mixture on the bottom and sides of a well-greased nine-inch spring form pan. For filling, press cottage cheese through a fine sieve or beat with electric mixed until smooth. Add two eggs, one at a time, beating well after each ad dition. Add sugar, cream, flour, lemon rind and juice. Beat until smooth and thoroughly blend ed. Pour into crumb-lined nine inch pie pan. Bake in slow oven, 350 degrees an hour or until set. Cool. 'Strawberry Topping. Mix Va cup sugar and four teaspoons cornstarch in heavy saucepan Add Vz cup water gradually, stir ring until smooth. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and becomes clear. Cool slightly. Add IV2 cups halved strawberries; mix gently but well. Spread straw berry mixture over top of cooled pie. Made a Buttermilk Pie Lately? Here's How Planning a convention lunch eon menu recently, a famous chef suggested "buttermilk pie," in vited us to sample it. We did and came straight home and found a home-size buttermilk pie recipe and made it just like this. We think it as good as the con ventioneers will get. Vz pie pastry recipe 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour Vz teaspoon salt 3 egg yolks 2 cups buttermilk 4 tablespoons butter 3 egg whites Combine the sugar, flour and salt, blending thoroughly. Beat egg yolks slightly; add the but termilk and butter which has been melted, then cooled. Add gradually to dry ingredients and blend thoroughly. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites gently but thoroughly. Line a deep nine inch pie pan with the Vz recipe) pastry, crimping the edge. Pour the buttermilk mixture into pie shell and bake in moderate oven, 375 degrees, 45 minutes or untjl a silver Knue inserted in me center comes out clean. Six serv ings. Corn Pudding Good Use plentiful .canned corn, either whole kernel or cream- style as indicated here for a family-satisfying vegetable dish. Mix V3 cups drained whole kernel corn, two beaten eggs, one tablespoon melted butter and IV3 cups milk. If using cream style corn, use lVz cups corn and one cup milk. Season with salt and pepper. Pour into a greased baking dish and set in a pan of hot water. Bake at 350 degrees until set, 50 to 60 min utes. Meringue Spice Bart Another quickly made, easy-to- do dessert delight. Mix a spice cake batter according to pack age directions and pour into 7x11 inch pan. Make brown sugar meringue by mixing to gether Vz cup brown sugar and one egg white until light and fluffy. Spread merinue on cake batter. Sprinkle Va cup chopped nuts over meringue and bake in moderate over, 375 degrees, 25 to 30 minutes. Cut in small bars, Fillet of Sole Spanish v onderfully good eating! Fresh or frozen, fillets of sole No Other Jl Gives You So Much em ffNHUIV TEDOEB BEEF THERE'S NO FILLER of any kind to spoil Hit rich, meaty flavor of Dennison's Chili Con Carnti i m ; Here's good eating for the whole family! Just tender, juicy beef and plump young red beans, slow-simmered in a savory, zesty sauce that's a Dennison secret. Perfectly seasoned perfectly deli cious ! Get Dennison's Chili Con Carne today. POPULAR SALAD Plentiful canned tuna, plentiful avacado, plentiful grapefruit go into this tremendously popular salad. For a change, use cut-up orange segments and pineapple chunks along with the tuna and avocado. Pass a tart French dressing. are a good buy; have distinctive flavor, no waste. 4 tablespoons butter 1 large onion, sliced thin 3 medium size tomatoes, peeled 3 or 4 drops tabasco 1 teaspoon salt Va teaspoon pepper lVz pounds fillet of sole 2 cups commercial sour cream Melt butter and brown onion slices. Remove and place in a flat baking dish. Cut tomato in small pieces and place over top of onion. Sprinkle with Va tea spoon salt and tabasco sauce'. Flour and season fillets and place on top of onion and tomato. Pour balance of melted butter over the fish and put the whole dish under medium hot broiler until brown. Remove from broiler and cover with sour cream. Place in slow oven, 300 degrees, about 30 minutes longer. Four generous servings. Barbecued Pot Roast Western Favorite Beef supplies continue plentl ful with pot roasts very reason able in cost. Any of this left ever will be delicious the next day. Any barbecue influence is popular with western family. 3 pounds beef pot roast Salt, pepper, fat Vz cup water 1 8-ounce can tomato sauce 3 medium onions 2 cloves garlic 2 tablespoons brown sugar Vz teaspoon dry mustard Vz cup lemon juice Va cup catsup 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sprinkle meat well with salt and pepper. Brown in a Dutch oven or other large heavy pan. in several tablespoons hot fat. Add water, tomato sauce, thinly sliced onions and chopped garlic. Cover and cook over , low heat, lVz hours. Combine remaining ingred ients and pour over meat. Cover and continue cooking for one j hour or until meat is very ten der. Remove roast to hot platter. Skim most of fat from gravy, dilute with water to suit taste; then thicken with usual flour and water mixture. Six servings. Morse Operators Slate Get-Together Portland Morse code teleg raphers of Oregon, and south western Washington will gather here Saturday, April 30, for the 14th annual banquet of the Morse Telegraph Club of Amer ica, held on the 164th anniver sary of the birth of Samuel F. B. Morse. Other chapters of the club will meet simultaneously in other cities of the country, and all will be linked by a telegraphic hook up, and will "converse" with each other in code. The Portland chapter dinner will be in the Pythian building, where a floor has been reserved for the group. The banquet will be at 6:30 p.m. A release about the meeting says, "the Morse telegrapher, like the Indians and Pioneers, are rapidly fading, being'driven out by technological changes and by death." 'Safe-Teen' Plan Founder To Visit Mrs. Frances C00K, justice of the peace in Beaverton, Ore., founder of the "Safe-Teen" or ganization for the promotion of safety among young drivers, will be a southern Oregon visitor Fri day. - Mrs. Cook is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hardy, 107 Granite st., Ashland, and is known to many valley people. She will speak at an 8:35 a.m. assembly at the Medford high school, according to Principal Lester Harris. Her visit here is part of a 1,000-mile tour of the state de signed to spread information about Safe-Teen. It was first or ganized last December at the Beaverton High school, and since has gained ' the sponsorship of the Oregon Association of Insur ance Agents. Membership is limited to drivers aged 16 to 25, and there are no dues. Involved are auto mobile safety checks, and an edu cational driving safety program. Easter Seal Sale Lagging in Oregon The Easter Seal sale of the Oregon Society for Crippled Children and Adults is lagging more than $40,000 behind a year ago, according to A. C. Fries Jr., Jackson county treasurer for the group. Seals were mailed to about 450,000 residents of Oregon, and so far only a small percentage have responded. Returns so far total $72,448 compared to $116, 779 in 1954. Among the projects supported by the society's seal sale are the Children's Hospital school in Eu gene; the only summer camp in Oregon for crippled children, near Reedsport, and .the Craft Shop for the Handicapped, in Portland. Truman Will Speak At Portland Meeting Salem (U.P.) Former Presi- June 11 at a Northwest regional dent Harry Truman will speak fund raising dinner in Portland, according to word received here today from Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. Detroit U.P.) Phil Yazdzik put away 31 orders of fried chicken yesterday to claim the) world's title for chicken-eating. 'With Ready-to-Spread Cake Icing Even a Busy Woman has time to bake!" What every good cook knows: Rogue Flying Service Gets Cessna Dealership The Rogue Flying Service, operated at the Medford airport, has been designated as an au thorized dealer for Cessna Air craft, it , was announced this week by the Cessna firm. The company will soon take delivery of a new four-rjlace. all metal Cessna 170 from the Kansas fac tory. Don and Raich George orjerate the flying service. Their dealer ship is for the Jackson, Josephine Curry county area. i "Now rrm rfbnsy working worn in like myself can find time to bake her own cakes since these amaiing cew Tbwne Pride Batter Creme Cake Icings have done away with the fuss and bother of making cake icing; says Mrs. Susan Van Cleve. busy executive secretary. "Why, it's so easy to have delicious creamy smooth cake icing in just seconds! All you do is open the tin and Spread right on the cake! 1 always keep both flavors on hand...Towne ?ride Butter Creme Chocolate and Towne Pride Butter Creme Vanilla" 1 Delicious Bolter Creme Flavors Chocolate and Vanilla HewWWHEPRM Buffer Creme Cake kings Save lime, Tosfe Beffer! You'll find that your cakes will taste EVEN BETTER when iced with deli cious, easy to use, ready to spread Towne Pride Butter Creme Cake Icings. They're so jjood and so creamy-smooth you'll wonder how you ever got along without them. No cooking ! Nothing to be added ! No muss or fuss just open the tin and they're ready to spread. Try them today and you'll find out why busy women ev erywhere are using Towne Pride Butter Creme Cake Icings for the most tempting cakes they ever made. BUTTER CREME CAKE ICINGS jj? By ffce makers of TOWNE PRIDE Toppings and fruit Ade i&Z&s??---' Just a little difference in ingredient I makes a big difference' in cooking results Snowdrift is just a little lighter than any other shortening and that can make the big difference in giving your family lighter, more digestible foods. J Snowdrift is pre-whipped just a little longer than ordinary ; shortenings. That can make ithe big difference in quicker i and easier cutting-in for flaky I and tender pastry. Snowdrift's ingredients are just " a little costlier than any other solid shortening's (yet you pay no more). That can make the big difference in better tasting foods, whether baked or fried. No other shortening at any price is so creamy, so digestible - and so light! 100 TORE AU.VEGETABIE SHORTENING MADE IT THE WESSON OH, ftOftl jmF THE 12 So GOOD! 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