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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Mar 26, 195S Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Feed Editor Do-It-Yourslf Fad Invades Outdoor Cookery Realm Whether you and your family and friends take to the back yard, the tall timber, the fishing stream or wherever you holiday, food is bound to come first. The cry "When do we eat?" is heard throughout the land whether you picnic on a granite rock, a sandy beach or on a stack of foam rubber cushions. No longer does mother stir and stew over a hot oven fixing picnic foods. She figures the capacity of the total number to be fed, takes along a variety of food in the raw state, piles it at tractively on a table on alum inum foil. She then puts an ade quate piece of aluminum foil as a sort of place mat on table or tables and tells each guest to help himself to his favorite foods, to make a neat parcel of same and -put in on the coals or grate. Salt, pepper, butter and may be some Worcestershire and soy sauce for seasoning. Eating tools stacks of paper napkins. Plenty of good coffee (cream and sugar) and a pitcher of lemonade or other iced beverage. Who could help but have fun! And all the work's done! . Chicken in Foil Dinners Chickens, both broilers and fryers, being plentiful, they're a fine choice for the picnic Many combinations of chicken with vegetables and other in gredients may be cooked in foil. Pattern for preparing these easy dinners is as follows: Have chicken cut in half, quartered or in pieces depending on size. bufiicient chicken lor one serving is placed skin side down in center of a double thickness of standard aluminum foil meas uring about 12 inches by 14 inches. Or one thickness of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Veg etables, butter, seasonings and a little liquid are added. Bring the foil up over the food and seal the edges together with a double fold. Seal ends the same way. Place the packets on the grate over an outdoor fire and cook, chicken side down for about 40 minutes. Turn and cook 20 minutes more. Have the fire at a good brisk heat when the package starts cooking so that the chicken will brown through the foil. As the fire cools down somewnat, the packets are turned. Eat right from the foil. Delicious gravy is formed from the juices of the chicken mingled with the butter and other good ingreaients. Chicken. Limas, Sauce Prepare chicken as indicated above. Place each piece, skin side down on piece of foil. Sea son with salt, pepper, a little fresh or dry tarragon and chives minced fine or a prepared ground herb mixture (poultry seasoning will do). Have ready defrosted lima beans, dividing a package among four chicken servings and spooning limas into the hollow part of the chicken. Season with salt and pepper, then add one tablespoon canned tomato sauce to each serving and top with generous piece of but ter. Seal packages and cook as described above. Chickens, Sweets, Apple Prepare chicken pieces, plac ing each portion in center of a piece of aluminum foil. Here's a little preliminary kitchen work. In a frying pan, fry two strips bacon until crisp. Drain bacon and lightly brown the chicken liver in fat. Dice liver and bacon. Pour off all but one tablespoon bacon fat from pan and add one cup of quickcook in grice (uncooked) to pan. Add one cup canned tomatoes, half juice and half pulp, cut up so that tomato is equally mixed through. Stir in bacon and liver, one teaspoon finely minced onion, one-half teaspoon salt, a dash of pepper and some garlic salt. Spoon mixture over each chicken piece. Seal packages and cook on grill as indicated above. Eat right from foil. " Foiled Shisk-Kabobs In or out of foil, these are wonderful. Depends on how much watching and degree of brownness desired. Have beef or veal cut into z inch cubes, then slice several vegetables into pieces size calculated to cook in approximately the same time; thinly sliced onions, tomatoes, large whole mushrooms. Lay cubed meat and vegetables out on a table. Give your guests skewers and let them skewer their own selection. Brush each skewerful with barbecue sauce. wrap in aluminum foil and lay it on grate for about 15 minutes to a half hour, depending on size of pieces and heat of fire. No skewers Handy? Just as semble the food as indicated above in packets and place on grate for same length of time. Corn on the Coals High in price right now but increasing in supply right along, corn-on-the-cob is incomparable when fixed like this. Husk ears of corn and lay on double-thick squares of aluminum foil. Spread with melted butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Wrap foil around corn, sealing edges with fold. Place on hot coals or grate and cook about 10 minutes, turn ing occasionally. Camofire Vegetables For accompanying outdoor I broiled steaks, chops, chicken, iish or whatever, you may wanx to offer a packet of hot and flavorful vegetables. Do it your self or let the others do it for themselves; wrap sliced potatoes, frozen peas or other frozen veg etables to which you have added butter and seasonings; wrap in aluminum foil, bringing edges together and, sealing with a dou ble fold to form neat package. Place packets on top of grill or right on the hot coals for 10 minutes. If you think vegetables are done before meat is ready, push packets to one side of fire where they'll keep hot and flavorful until all is ready. Foiled Fish Fine Fere A whole fish of any size may be successfully roasted by wrap ping in a double thickness of oiled aluminum foil and cooking right on the coals. Small fish take only 15 or 20 minutes; may be combined with sliced onions, mushrooms, sliced green pep pers, tomatoes. Many like thin lemon slices in this. Young Turkey Broiled Indoors or Outdoors Many a weekend all summer will find west coasters broiling the smaller size turkeys that weigh from six to 10 pounds. For cheers, have poultry man split the turkey and remove the back bone. Save backbone for stock. Marinate turkey halves over night in one cup each of white wine and cooking or olive oil, seasoned with one-fourth cup of fresh tarragon or two-tablespoons of dried tarragon, salt and freshly ground pepper. Outdoor Broil. Broil turkey halves in a hinged rack over hot coals from one to IV2 hours de pending on size of bird and in tensity of heat. Brush frequently with marinade. A prod of a fork will keep you posted on progress but don't overcook or you'll lose juiciness. Indoor Broil. Or proceed as above but broil in a broiler pan in the oven; not on a rack seven to 10 inches from flame, adjusted to a low even flame, for about one to lJi hours, turning twice during cooking. Brush frequent ly with the marinade. Friendly Franks For quick family meals and for use when your home becomes a filling station for friends, both young and older, there's no finer choice than the frankfurter. This all-meat item, is smart economy and can be served in so many interesting ways. Top franks which have been heated in water, pan-fried or broiled, with a creamy cheese and mustard sauce. Or thinly slice the franks and pan fry until lightly browned; then add to a white sauce seasond with garlic salt. Good served on canned fried noodles. Or heat frankfurters in water and serve with cooked cabbage wedges (seven minutes is long enough). Over all, pour a tangy white sauce seasoned with mus tard and horseradish. Hobo Picnic Certain to delight the children whether they're headed for back yard, nearby playground or wherever. Arrange a hobo-style picnic lunch in a gay kerchief from the ten cent store. Don't count on getting neckerchief back. Let children find their own stick for toting the. pack. Give them sandwich assortment, fresh j ALUMINUM FOIL It's going to be a great summer for foil ing foods. Aluminum foil seems tne biggest thing since out door cokery began a few milleniums ago. Today's food col umns tell about "Do It Yourself" feeds that are fun; corn on the coals, foiled fish and many other good things. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Editor's Note: Aline ,Mosby is on price 0l admission per individual leaders In the fight over pay-XV to present their sides of the argument in a two-part series. Today's guest column is by Paul MacNamara, execu tive of Telemeter, a pay-TV system. By PAUL MacNAMARA Written for United Press Hollywood (U.R) The op ponents of pay-as-you-see TV are oddly enough fighting to pre serve something that really does not exist and never did that s free TV. So far the American people have invested $10,000,000,000 in TV sets and each year spend a whopping amount keeping these millions of sets in repair. In addition, the advertiser has to pick up the check for the pro gramming. Our contention is that the cost of the program is added to the cost of his product, and when the public buys the pro duct the public pays for the show. The question as to who will be most affected by pay-as-you-see TV is an easy one. It's obvious that the motion picture theater operators will be the first ones to feel this new competition. Real Function The motion picture theater's real function is to show motion pictures on a pay-as-you-see basis in the theater. However, the greater conven ience and lower cost of seeing motion pictures on a pay-as-you-see basis at home makes it ob vious that if and when pay-as-you-see TV comes it may offer a kind of competition the theater will be unable to meet. This doesn't mean that all the thea ters will go out of business, but there will be a very definite adjustments. It's interesting to note that the present opponents to pay-as-you-see TV. The theater opera tors with their bfg screen TV hookups have been- selling sports shows via TV on 'a pay-as-you-see basis. However, they have been limited in the number of people who could see the show via this device by the number of seats in their theaters. For instance, the Marciano- Cockell fight was shown in 80-odd thea ters around the country. The averaged around $3. Lower Price If the fight had been present ed on a pay-as-you-see TV basis millions of people could have seen the fight as opposed to a ! few hundred thousand who could see it in the theaters and the price might have been $1 or less. Another argument being thrown in against pay-as-you-see TV is that it will eliminate free TV. If you took all the movies produced in a big production year in Hollywood you would come up with about 400 pictures that's 600 hours. Big league baseball could total about 900 hours. Big collegiate football games total around 800 hours. Championship fights and special events total about 200 hours. This is a possible total of 2,500 hours for the year. New York City and Los An geles use approximately 36,000 hours of programming a year. That would leave more than 30,000 hours of free TV. Cattle Show's Top Winners Listed; 70 Competitors Ken Bitterling, Antelope, and David Huffman, Eagle Point, topped all contestants at the Rogue River Jersey Cattle Club Junior Dairy show Saturday at Gold Hill. Ken was awarded the Jersey Court Sticks To Rule On Illegal Evidence San Francisco (U.R) The Cali fornia Supreme Court has re fused to consider its explosive ruling last month that illegally obtained evidence was inadmis sible in criminal cases. The court denied a rehearing in the case of Charles H. Cahan of Los Angeles whose conviction for bookmaking was reversed by the high court on the grounds that police had illegally "bug ged" his room. The court also denied rehear ing in a companion case con cerning Alfred Berger of Sah Francisco who won a reversal of his conviction of running a fraudulent charity on the grounds that his office records were seized under an improper ly drawn search warrant. Cattle club trophy for being the grand champion showman among some 70 competitors. He used his aged cow to repeat a top job of showmanship as he did at the past county fair. Ken won over Ronnie Anderson, Antelope, the first place intermediate show man, and Marthanne Goodwin, I Applegate, the beginner show-i manship winner, to receive the j trophy. j David Huffman proved him- j self the best dairy judge by scor- ing 285 out of a possible 300 1 points in the livestock judging contest. Tying a close second were David, Mack of Sams Val ley and Mariam Gapen of Apple gate, with 270 points. Other Results Other results were: Tied at 255 points; David Carter, Gold Hill; Jeffrey Anhorn, Central Point; Linda Martin, Grants Pass; Ralph Clark, Grants Pass; David Hughes, Eagle Point; Joyce Johnston, Reese Creek; Melvin Smith, Sams Valley; Jer ry McDonald, Eagle Point; Billy DeMerssamen, Illinois Valley. Tied at 240 points: Celeste Huffman, Antelope; Steve Car roll, Eagle Point; Deanna Key ser, Grants Pass; Roger Johnson. Grants Pass; Danny DeMersse- man, Illinois Valley; Allen Thompson, Grants Pass: Roberta Martin, Illinois Valley; Sharon Johnson, Grants Pass; Carole Martin, Illinois Valley; Marie Appy, Illinois Valley. Salem (U.R) Coos county has presented to the state 28 acres as an addition to Golden and Silver Falls state park near Coos Bay. 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