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Monday, October 1, 195B MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Care, Preparing Fresh Venison Are Discussed by Zola Vincent By ZOLA VINCENT Foods Editor With the Oregon deer season under way, many southern Ore gon hunters will fill freezers with venison. We've hunted up authorita tive information on the care and cooking of fresh venison. Al! hunters know these things, of course, so it is wise for hunters' wives also to know them. Venison must be hung for three or four days. Under no cir cumstances must a freshly killed deer be thrown across the car and rushed back to town. The meat (Must be thoroughly cool first arid this takes four or five hours, depending on the weather. Lacking a locker or a coopera tive meat man, the deer must be hung at night and be taken down before sun-up in the morning and wrapped heavily and thor oughly. The meat will retain the cold and keep very well for a week or 10 days if hung every night and wrapped well every morning. Having no deer-hunting hus band handy, your foods editor turned to the Game section of Helen Evans Brown's "West Coast Cook Book" published by Little, Brown, for these venison conking suggestions and recipes which are certain to be very superior. This is venison at its best. Have steaks cut l'i inches thick, rub with garlic if you wish, and brush with butter. Broil over hot coals for about 10 minutes, for a rare juicy steak that will rival any meat ir. the world. Note: Thinner steaks are bet ter pan-broiled if you like them rare, that is. Sear them quickly on each side. Venison steak is preferred marinated by many persons. An equal amount of red wine and olive or cooking oil is good. Too long a marinat ed period will allow marinade to permeate the meat so that veni son flavor will be completely ob scured, Napa Venison Hash Cook I i cup of minced onions in U cup of butter. Add 2 cups of minced cooked venison, a ta blespoon of flour, a cup of red wine; salt, pepper and marjoram to taste. Heat gently and serve on fried corn meal mush or on toast. Four servings. Braised Venison Here's a good way with tough er cuts or with any cut from an animal of advanced age. Lard a 8-pound piece of venison with bacon or salt pork, then brown it very thoroughly in bacon fat. Put it in a casserole with 2 cups of peeled tiny onions, a bunch of baby carrots that have been scraped but left whole, 2 cups of The Family Council Editor'! note- The Family Counnl consists of Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers taeh article ts a summary of an actual report The Family Council does nol five advice; It merely reports on problems that hava been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors O.B. My wife wants my kids to pay my debts. MRS. O. B. He'd rather have me pay. O. B. My wife died seven years ago after a happy mar riage of 30 years. Our two chil dren were married and had fai i Hies of their own, so I was pretty much on my own for a long time and was very lone some. I didn't know what to do with my spare time and spent a lot of time at the race track and playing cards. I accumulated a lot of gambling debts and finally found myself up to the ears in debt, so I quit. Since then I've bein paying off slow ly, but I've still got a long way to go. Two years ago I got to know a widow through a correspond ence club. She lived in a city a few hundred miles away, but we arranged to meet. We liked each other and got married. I told her my salary, but I was embarrassed to tell her about the debts. She pretty soon found' out, however, and now is after me night and day saying I married her for her money and that I'm a liar and a cheat. She even went and told my children and they want to pay up for me, but I won't let them. Now my wife keeps hounding me to let the kids pay, but I just couldn't face them if I did that. I'm sorry I ever remarried. MRS. O.B. My husband doesn't mention that, before I told his children, he suggested I pay his debts. He's too pround to let his own children do it, but doesn't mind my paying. I left my lifetime home to come and marry this man and now I find I married a gambler and a liar. I don't have much money of my own. but it looks as though he married me fore the little I have. I was better off before. ... THE COUNCIL: O. B.'s state ment that his gambling debts "embarrassed" him has the ring of truth in the light of his whole story. His conduct does not ap pear to be that of a confirmed gambler but of a man who got into trouble during a period of desperation. Mrs. O. B. should give due consideration to these facts. But O.B. made a big mistake by not telling his wife the truth about the debts before they were married. If he had braved out his embarrassment at that time, he would probably have found her sympathetic and under standing. It is reasonable for her to develop the suspicion that he was after her money if he did not tell the full truth about his financial status. He doubled the mistake and con firmed her suspicions by sug gesting that she pay the debts after the situation was exposed. On the other hand, Mrs. O.B. made a big mistake by rushing off in her anger to tell his chil dren and by immediately accus ing him of being a gambler and a cheat without giving some consideration to his story. She has- hurt him as deeply as she has been hurt. One reason correspondence club introductions are not con sidered a particularly good start for marriage is that neither in dividual can know much about I the background of other his status in the community, his reputation among family and friends. Knowledge of these fac tors establishes trust. There are likely to be .unexpected quirks and corners in any person's life. but when these things are known from the start, they don't give rise to suspicions and recrim inations. In this case, sincere apologies and forgiveness are called for on both sides and O.B. should pay his own debts, though it may take some time. These people were lonely enough to seek one another out through a desperate channel and should now be will ing to make allowances, forgive and forget. (COPYRIGHT 1956, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) Crews Return to Work At Portland Plant Portland U.R) Crews started returning to their jobs at the big North Portland plant of Swift and Co., today after the union and the big meat packing con cern reached agreement Satur day. The nationwide strike against the company had idled about 450 workmen at the local plant since September 20. . red table win, an herb bouquet of parsley, bay and rosemary, 2 or 3 juniper berries, if avail able, and 2 cups of water. Cover and cook in a 350 de gree oven for an hour, or until the meat is tender. Pour off the sauces, reduce to 2 cups by boil ing rapidly, thicken with a roux of 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 of flour, cook smooth and fold in 2 cups of sour cream. Correct seasoning, pour back on the meat and serve in the casserole with wild grape jelly and corn bread as accompaniment. Serves 8 to 12. Hunters' Post Roast Poke holes in the meat and stuff in slivers of garlic and salt pork. Brown in fat, put in a Dutch oven and add any desired vegetable and either red wine, stock or tomato juice with an herb bouquet. Cover and cook until tender. Rectify seasonings. bind sauce slightly and serve with potato pancakes. Turnips are usually one of the "desired vegetables" as are onions. Saddle of Venison Perhaps the choicest of all the cuts. Lard it well and bake it in a hot oven for 20 minutes. Re duce heat and finish cooking to 140 degrees (if you've a meat thermometer) for rare, higher for better done. If no meat ther- 1 mometer, put in 450 degree oven for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 degrees until desired doneness, comparable to beef. Venison Loaf Here's another pioneer favor ite. As venison was the beef of many of the early families, it was obviously used in exactly the same ways. Make this like a meat loaf then, using marjo ram, thyme or basil as the sea sonings and adding more than the usual amount of fat. Funeral Services Set For Drowning Victim Klamath Falls U.PJ Funeral services for five-year-old Timo thy Wegner of Keno are sched uled for tomorrow. The boy's body was found Fri day afternoon in the Klamath river near Keno, after searchers had combed a large area after the boy's disappearance. Officers said the boy apparently had fall en from a dock and drowned in about 10 feet of water. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED li your picture tube dud and weak? 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