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.
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