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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, March 29. 1937 Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Scalloped Oyitr Succulent oysters have been scalloped in many ways for many years. This is a simple, satisfying way of preparing this traditional dish. Buy them fresh, canned or frozen. Hi pints oytri and liquor (about 4 dozen oysters) '. 4 teaspoon salt Dasb of pepper 2 tablespoons chopped parsley Vi cup softened butter of mar garine . 2 cups finely rolled cracker crumbs cup milk 1 teaspoon Wore stershir sauce Check oysters to be sure all . , bits of shell have been removed. Strain off oyster liquor and save ' cupful. Stir salt, pepper and ' parsley into oysters. Blend to gether butter and cracker crumbs. Alternate layers of oys ters and errfeker mixture in greased baking dish. Combine milk, Worcestershire sauce and oyster liquor. Pour into baking dish. Bake in moderate oven, 350 degrees, 30 minuatcs. 11 desired garnish with addi tional oysters in the last 15 min utes of cooking. Makes six serv ings. Zippy Salad Dressing A smooth, smooth garlic dress ing that you will use often on green salads and with vegetable -- combinations. Crush 1 clove garlic, add 1 teaspoon each of salt, paprika, ; ' dry mustard; M teaspoon pep per, 2 teaspoons sugar, 3 table spoons lemon juice, and 2 table- " ' spoons tarragon vinegar. Add 1 egg and beat with beater for 2 minutes. Gradually add 1 cup olive or salad oil and Ki cup catsup, beating continually . Makes 1 pint dressing. Horseradish Sauce A dream of a sauce to serve with boiled beef, corned beef, ham, steamed fish or even poach ed eggs on toast Makes about 2 cups sauce. Pass in sauce boat. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in saucepan. Stir in 3 tablespoons flour, teaspoon salt, 1 tea spoon dry mustard, and gradu ally add l34 cups milk and V teaspoon kitchen bouquet. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce thickens and boils. Add 2 tablepsoons grated horseradish and serve. Drop Cookies - Drop cookies are a snap to do. This recipe makes 6 dozen cookies, but you," have a hard time keeping them on hand once the children know they're about. They have such excellent food value; are tops for a between ' meal snack. 1 cup shortening I cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 2 eggs 2 teaspoons grated lemon pl V4 cup lemon juice IVi cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 '-'2 to 3 cups rolled oats Cream shortening and white sugar until light; add brown sugar gradually, creaming well. Add whole eggs and beat until light. Blend in lemon peel and - juice. Sift together the flour, soda and salt; add gradually to creamed mixture. Stir in rolled oats until proper thickness to drop from end of spoon. Drop onto a greased cookie sheet and bake in moderate, 375. degree, - oven for 10 to 12 minutes. - Glased Carrots Fixed like this, carrots will J be a top ranking vegetable fa vorite with the entire family. Scrape and cut in half length wise 12 medium carrots. Cook in boiling salted water until tender; drain. Combine li cup ketchup. 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons bacon drip t, pings and teaspoon allspice; pour over carrots. Simmer 15 minutes, turning and basting occasionally, until they are well glazed and sauce is thick. Gar- nish lightly with minced parsley. v Makes 6 servings. Whip this up anytime for a real dessert-delight. Combine canned apple sauce with crushed peppermint candy. Mix thoroughly and let stand a few minutes while you whip Vi pint whipping cream. Sweet i. en cream slightly and fold into ' apple sauce mixture. Chill and serve. Chicken or the egg? Both come first in Lenten season meal planning. Eggs are in the head- . lines, but no strikers here; hens are working overtime turning out the year's best buys. In fact eggs are the lowest priced we've seen at this season in 10 years. Refrigerated egg storage, both in store and at home, is best. Grade A eggs become grade B in a few days at room tempera ture. When you buy. select grade A s for serving as eggs. Save by using grade B for ingredient purposes. Chickens, broilers and fryers continue to flood markets at very low prices for frequent ; menu use. Turkeys are budget stretchers for large families, party-giving, week-end enjoy ment for all. Fish and Shellfish. West coast caught fish and shellfish for fine spring eating include cod. floun der, sole, halibut, rockfishes, salmon, clams, crabs, oysters, shrimp. How about fish sticks, which are so quickly cooked, for breakfast for a change? Cheese and Dairy Products. Mild, nippy or aged cheddar cheese goes into many a fine main dish. A Welsh rabbit with bits of crisp bacon, with chopped pimiento or green pepper, or with chopped pimiento olives added. Macaroni and cheese, too, may be dressed up in these and other imaginative ways. Cook cheese slowly. Spring Vegetables. . F.air to good quality is evident in all vegetable bin offerings with plenty of lettuce for salad mak ing . . . celery for relish and cooking delights . . . cauliflower for steaming whole and serving hot topped with cheese, tomato or pimiento sauce . . . Mush rooms of good quality make su perb luncheon or supper dish over hot toast points. Tart-sweet rhubarb is available in increas ing quantity. Asparagus beckons for serving hot with lemon but ter, cold with vinagrette sauce. Potatoes, onions and cabbage are budget buys. Bunched vegetables buys are beets, chard, collards, green onions, radishes, turnips Roy Baker Punches Charging Moose Fairbanks, Alaska (U.R) 'One-punch" Roy Baker of Mil waukee claimed the heavyweight title of Alaska today after a unanimous decision over an Alaskan moose that charged his helpless wife. 1 The 25-year-old Army bands man, outweighed but not out gamed, bopped the moose square on the shoulder Thursday as it charged his expectant wife who had slipped and fallen on a patch of ice as she tried to get into their home. Baker, stationed at Ladd Air Force Base, said he and his wife and two-year-old son, Scott, were returning home when the inci dent occurred. He said they were stepping out of their car in the and spinach. Italian squash is vegetable change, steamed or french fried. Fruit Buys. Fruit situation is about the same. Good quality apples still around, i thanks to proper modern refrigeration and handling. Same thing is true of pears. Grapefruit galore from California and Arizona orchards. Cove Junction Council Names Police Officer Cave Junction Ross Turpin of Grants Pass was given a 90 day probationary appointment as Cave Junction police officer by the city council this week. He replaces Ralph Duncan who took over as chief of police last week. Both men must serve three months before permanent ap pointments are made. Discussion by council mem bers on proposed Main st. im provement work, resulted in a general, though unofficial, ag reement to accept the 80-foot curb to curb plan submitted by state highway department en gineeers last week. This would mean a 100-foot right of way, 10 feet on either side to be used for sidewalks, and would conform in width with the new four mile strip of Redwood highway being built south of Cave Junction. driveway when the moose charged them. Baker grabbed Scott and told his wife to get into the car but she started for the house instead. She fell as the moose neared her and Baker, holding Scott in one arm, belted the moose with a roundhouse right. The moose turned and trotted back into the wilds without ne gotiating for a return match. Anaconda Earnings May Drop in 1957 New York (U.R) The Anacon da Co. warned Thursday that if present price levels for copper prevail through 1957, its earn ings this year will "be appre ciably lower" than last year's record $111,502,358. "To date, the 1957 average price is substantially below the 1956 average," Chairman Corn elius F. Kelley and President Roy H. Glover told stockholders in the annual report. In a letter perfacing the re p o r t, Kelley and Glover ex plained that a tight supply-de mand situation sent copper prices ! to a high of 46 cents in the first j half of 1956. An easing in domes-; tic demand in the second half j resumed in an improved copper j supply and lower prices.- The current price of copper is around , 32 cents a pound. j As previously reported An-: aconda's sales last year jumped ! to $749,421,234 from S630.703,-j 042. Last year's earnings came i to $12.85 a share, against S7.52 a share in 1955. Veterans Should File For Exemption Soon All veterans with at least 40 per cent disability and widows of veterans must file a property tax exemption certificate with the assessor's office before April 1 to be eligible for the exemp tion, Ray Schumacher, county assessor, said today. The war veteran's exemption affadavits are available-in the county assessor's office. Failure to file by March 31 will mean the loss of the exemption, Schu macher said. TOO MANY COOKS Knoxville, Tenn. (U.R) Three state engineers decided Thursday that if they want to complete a study of Knoxville's downtown expressway project, they will have to do it in secret When Sam Vesser, John Quaid and Elmer Reed started over the proposed route they were Joined by a party of city engineers, three members of the Knoxville Housing Authority and two re porters. They decided things were getting too crowded and returned to their office. They said they would make the study at an unannounced time. ' Liberia and its neighboring state. Sierra Leone, have the heaviest average rainfall annu ally along the west African : coastal bulge territory. 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