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"s. OOOD ADVICE Wert Haven. Conn. (11.(9 Desk Sgt. Lesiie Howard re ceived a call from a woman who couldn't get her son out of bed to fo to school. She wanted a policeman "to come over and acare him." The cruisers were busy, so Howard told her, "Try the old-fashioned method of paddling, and I think you'll get the tame results." and Easy 1 to Prepare! Choivdsrs m mutton i Feeding the Family By TOLA VINCENT Fm4 Editor Asparagus, Potatoes, Peas Strawberries Have Meal Appeal Fresh, tender, succulent California-grown asparagus .is a joy beynod compare. Quality is gen erally excellent though there is enough variation in size and quality for price variation also. Prices are not likely to be ap preciably lower because com mercial freezers are buying much of it. Choose fresh, tender firm spears with close compact tips. Tender stalks will be brit tle when broken within an inch or so of the base. Ways to fix it elsewhere in columns. New potatoes are increasing in supply and so are fresh green peas. Neither are budget items but they'll never taste better than right now. Highly perish able, plan to use them very' soon after buying. Avocados are having a big growing year; continue high in quality, reasonable in price. Strawberries are increasingly plentiful " putting a touch of Spring into menus, morning, noon and night. Fragrant, color ful and flavorful, they're won derful cooked or uncooked, fresh, frozen or canned ' in jams and jellies, in ice cream, sauces' and syrups. They make superb short cakes, tarts and pie; are good in custards, creams and com potes. When buying strawber ries, choose large ones for des sert show-off; smaller, more eco nomical ones for other purposes. Size is no indication of flavor. Look for berries with fresh, clean, bright . appearance, free o! moisture and dirt. Cap must be attached to insure freshness. Asparagus-Salmon ' Skillet Tempting California asparagus and poached new . season salmon steaks with fresh or frozen mush rooms and lemon butter make a meal to ; delight the epicure. Westerners increasingly bring the smartly styled new skillets right to the table . where they are placed on trivet or tile and food is served piping hot at its flavorful best. For each four servings: 2 cups water i4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vinegar : -, 1 bay leaf . 4 small salmon steaks 1 4-ounee can or 6 ounces ' fresh mushrooms sliced . 1V4 pounds fresh asparagus,". cooked and drained x Salt and pepper V4 cup butter or margarine melted ',-4 cup lemon juice Combine water, one-half tea spoon salt, vinegar and bay leaf; heat to boiling point over me dium heat. Add salmon ' steaks; cover and eook over low heat 15 minutes. Add mushrooms and cooked asparagus. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Combine butter and lemon juice; pour over skil let contents. Cover and continue cooking over low heat to min utes. Garnish with lemon wedges. Asparagus Italienne Another Skillet Specialty Another recipe that provides an opportunity for bringing, the skillet right to the table and offering tempting California asparagus in an exciting new way. Four servings. ' - Vicup butter or margarine ' ' 1 pound fresh green asparagus cooked and drained Salt and pepper . 4 eggs, well beaten V4 cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 canned pimientos, cut in strips 1 small onion, thinly sliced Melt butter in large skillet; add asparagus and sprinkle with salt and pepperf Combine eggs and cheese; beat well. Pour over asparagus and cook over low heat until set. Top with pimiento and onion. Broil three or four inches from source of heat for three minutes or so until golden brown. Serve immediately. . Pickle Purveyors A recent super market survey revealed that these stores carried TEMPTING COMBINATION Here we have a tempting combi nation of fresh California asparagus,' poached salmon steaks, mush rooms and lemon butter' to delight the family.. If s worthy of a special occasion, too.' The recipe It included In today's food fea ture.. V. . ... . . 'V ' ' . '.. . , ' ah Average of : 17 different" "va rieties of pickles in stock; some carried as many as 35 kinds. New Folate Deliahis . - 'r.1 New potatoes should have a one-third inch strip pared around the center and be served in their jackets. When potatoes, are ten der, drain: water,' lay . a folded towel over, let stand in a warm place five minutes; shake hard. Take off towel. If they are to be peeled, peel as quickly as . pos sible, drop in hot serving dish. A little more salt may be sprink led on: If only part of the pota toes cooked are to be eaten hot. leave the ';. rest unpeeled V until ready to use. Dress the hot po tatoes with parsley butter or one of the other fancy butters.-Each potato may be rolled( while hot, in melted butter, then, in finely chopped parsley . . . or in butter and then in finely grated cheese that has been salted and pep pered". These are better if set in a hot oven, 450 degrees,until brown (about. 15 minutes). -.New potatoes often, are served, with a rich cheese sauce, , poured over.- . ' Vi .' ... . ' . t .;; . Favorite Treat ffor YP sunn all S $ EXTRA-RICH MM o o o Dye Packed Full of VOTAMDMS Once you let YOUR children teste th luscious CHOCOLATE MILK . one of Hopalong . Cassids favorite drinks . "V . you'll have to keep LOTS of it on hand. 'When you get :?me : this week, get PLENTY you'll need a big supply. There's no better Way for them to get ' LOTS of HEALTH-BUILDING VITAMINS! S : ; f Don't Forget. .Boys and Girls Your HOPPY BADGE Is Here Ask About It! See HOPPY 0 on KBES-TV WED., 7 to 7:30 p.m. At Your . Favorite Grocerjor Fountain! Young peas fresh - from the pod will : cook ; in ' 15 minutes. Add- a few of . the young pods. Many like to add a sprig of mint for fine flavor. - A- delicious French method is 'to cook two or -three leaves of lettuce, cut coarse, 'to -each pound, or. so of peas. Or add three or four green Spring onions, finely chopped, to each batch, of garden peas. Season with butter, salt, pepper. Creamed new potatoes and peas are -practically traditional ' in many families. Just fold cooked new potatoes into medium thick, well seasoned white sauce; and then - carefully: fold in ; cooked new peas: After you've had these a few times, enliven dish with some, chopped pimento. . Avocado Salad Treats are-. Many . V - Favorite combination of fresh fruits at -this season' is halved strawberries,, diced, avocado and chunks of . pineapple. Combine and chill ahead of time to en hance flavor combination. : Quick colorful luncheon salad is achieved by filling avocado half shell with drained canned fruit cocktail, iopping with sour cream and offering with selec tion of crisp crackers, toast.; ' Luncheon "salad deluxe offers peeled avocado halves filled with seafood' or chicken salad with tomato slices, '.- dill - pickles and green pepper rings alongside; hard rolls and butter. Strawberry Cream ' Is Dream Dessert -"': 7 . This strawberry cream sponge it a dream- of -a dessert; should be-. served very cold. Uses one pint of strawberries; makes five adequate .servings. , . : ': 1 tablespoon plain gelatin , -: (1 envelope) -,. Vi ip milk : - - 1 .pint strawberries 2 teaspoons enion. juice ,( . , . . 14. .teaspoon. salt " ... . ! ' . . . . H-'eup sugar v . '.-x . 2 egg whites H cup whipping cream " : .: ... Soften gelatin in. milk for five minutes:: Dissolve, over-hot wa ter. ; Pick over, . wash and - hull hemes. Stir Into ihe berries, the dissolved gelatine, - lemon juice, the salt and one-third cup of the sugar. Chill until syrupy. V Beat egg whites until stiff but not. dry. Add : remaining sugar gradually and beat until mixture stands - in i peaks.: Add chilled berry- mixture : and beat well. Whip cream. and fold into the strawberry mixture lightly but thoroughly. Pour into a four-cup mold, cover, V set" in ' refrigerator to become firm; Unmold to serve ;V.J very cold.. ';. :--: - -' Mustard Clueae Puff ':. A- quick ' luncheon ' or supper delight; Butter a two-quart .-cas serole; 101 with alternate layers oC . toast cubes and strips ' of American ' cheese: Prepare mix ture: of three,. eggs, two cups milk,, one ; teaspoon salt," one- fourth: teaspoon ground pepper, one-half teaspoon powdered dry mustard and one teaspoon .Wor cestershire sauce... Pour o v e r toast and cheese;-bake ior 33 minutes .at. 350 degrees. Serve right out-of-the-oven. .. . Cottaf Cheese Spreada - Plentiful; nourishing cottage cheese might well be kept on hand at all times: Fixlike this: Cottage: Cheesse-Coconut.' Es pecially good on thinly sliced brown bread. Mix one. cup shred ded coconut with one. cup cottage cheese; . season to. taste with a little salt. . . '. , ; . - : Cottage Cheese-Date. Mix one cup finely . chopped dates with one cup cottage cheese. Let stand to blend flavors.-- - V ' Cottage Cheese-R e 1 i s h. Mix one-half cup d r a i n e d sweet pickle relish "with one cup cot- tage cheese.--';- -1 .- l- GRANGE Cagte Point .Oraa .' Eagle. .Point Grange held its regular session on. May 3. The literary program, presented be fore the Grange - was well : at tended. . ...-..'.'. y,...' .'.-.. , . Next serving, committee, . for May IT,' will be Lottie Cingcade, Gertrude Stanley, and Mr. and Mrv.: .Howard.: Short..-j' JLX.Alub will meet with Ruby Stowell, with Opal Wadell as co hostess on .May 25. t . Thursday, May 12, 1155 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Cops Bay Plants Resume Operations Coos Bay -aj.R) Two plants of the Coos Bay Lumber Com pany here reopened yesterday but a third plant at Coquille remained idle. Picketing. started a week agd over a protest by the AFL Lum ber and! Sawmill workers local on hiring of a drier operator at the Coqpiille plant. Max Swerk ing, business agent for the local, said pickets were being with drawn from the Bunker Hill and Millinglwn plant here which have CIO employees. .. . rSome: 900 woods employees who had been laid off also were to retuim to work. Ike Favors Split Of Statehood Bills Washington (U.F0 Presi dent Eisenhower said over the corpse of the Hawaii - Alaska statehood, bill yesterday that Congress should deal with the issue one territory at a time. ' The House last night defeated a measure which would have ad mitted Alaska and Hawaii to the Union simultaneously. ' Mr. Eisenhower commented at his news conference Wednesday that he opposed the combination approach, believing it better to split the legislation into separate measures. '. In any event, it appeared that flag manufacturers won't , have to worry for another year or two about cutting new patterns for the Stars and Stripes. 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