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Thursday. April 11. 1937 MEDFORD (OREGdN) MAIL TRIBTTNE THREE t 4. VEGETABLES PRETTY SIGHT Fresh spring vegetables piled high on produce counters made a pretty sight these days. Raw or cooked quickly, they're jam-packed with good nutrition. Today's food columns make a plea for preservation of their fine food values. Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor - It's a Crime What Some Women Do To Those Fine Fresh Vegetables If you iove a vegetable, don't cook it to death. It's murder. That's what it is when some women get hold of a fresh or ' frozen vegetable. Many a cook's idea of veget able cookery is to first drown the vegetable in a few quarts of water, boil is vigorously until it is as lirr.p as a rag doll, pour all the vitamin and mineral pacK ed liquid down the drain, then serve the remains to the family " dressed up in butter and season ings to give the poor thing a little flavor. You don't believe it? Within ' the week, we've seen the mother of a movie starlet toss a package of frozen peas into two quarts of briskly boiling water, cook them for 20 minutes and pour the water down the drain. We've seen the housekeeper for a con cert pianist shred cabbage, cook it in a soup kettle until it turn ed grey and listless. We ve seen a grandmother old enough to know better, snap green beans and suffocate them with a ham hock for two hours. One sees Brussels sprouts tak ing a beating bouncing around in a kettlo of water to which a pinch of soda has been added. We' know that some cooks ass assinate asparagus, b I a c k j ack broccoli, commit hari kari on carrots and cauliflower, kale and kohlrabi, massacre mushroom, smother spinach and put an end to broccoli flavor and color. ' Those are a few of the things I that a great many (perhaps) otherwise good cooks do to vit amain and mineral packed vegetables. Vitamins are still be ing discovered and clues indicate that there are many nutrients lurking unknown and unnamed in foods. So no one really knows what is being cooked to death sides vitamins A and C and many ' members of the B complex fam ily, list of which keeps growing s Not only vitamins are render ed useless but such fine min erals as calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper, magnesium, man- ! canese, potassium, sodium chlor- ! ide (table salt) and seven athers : which we probably can t spell I and which you'd perhaps have difficulty pronouncing. For 14 years . now nutrition' ; ists, home economists and foods t editors have urged cooks to re- I tain natural food values of veg' ' etables in ways like these: Vegetable Vitamin Savers Vegetables, given an oppor- : tunity in the raw state and in ; the saucepan contribute much I toward keoping the family heal thy, full of energy and pep. They brighten the eye, put pearl on ;.) the teeth, natural rouge on the ; cheeks, silken the hair, quicken ; the step and otherwise make life I worth living. '. m Store perishables at low temp i erature in closed containers. Use as soon as possible. ; . Use vegetables in the raw as ; often as possible. t Scrub rather than pare when- i ever possible.. If you pare, keep . parings as thin a possible. . I Cook vegetables quickly in small amounts of water, being ; sure not to overcook. 1 Save the cooking water which I actually Is a vitamin-mineral t packed "pot liquor" and use in I gravy or soup. Do not 3dd soda to vegetables under any circumstances. ; Do not strain foods while hot. I Keep tha more hardy staples ' such as potatoes and onions m . a cool, dry place. J Serve foods as soon as possible ' after cooking. Don't soak vegetables in wat- ; er. Rinse quickly in cold water ; Don't crush or bruise. Bruises '. spoil texture and appearance and speeds spoilage. ' ' Pot Liquor Popular Nowadays most of the cooking liquors are consumed along with the vegetables. For liquor not so consumed, many nutrition wise mothers have a "stock" jar for use in rf.aking gravies, sauces and soups Many combinations make a fine vegetable cocktail when well-seasoned and chilled; perhaps blended with tomato' or lemon juice. Use for flavor interest and moisture in meat loaves and cas seroles, stews, meat pies. Let liquid simmer down for use, seasoned and thickened as nat ural sauce for vegetable. Spices Give Fillip to Everday Vegetables Appetizing, delicious and im portant nutritionally, a variety of vegetables should appear daily on our menus. Serve them buttered, creamed, au gratin, scalloped or in souffles. Depend on spices and herbs for flavor excitement in ways like these: Beets. Season with bay leaf or cloves. Green Beans. Season with bay leaf, whole cloves for Spanish style. Dill is different, too. Lima Beans. Add dash of cay enne, celery salt or onion salt. Cabbage. Season white cab bage with' onion salt,, celery seed, caraway seed or curry in sauce. To red cabbage, add all spice which is particularly good when cabbage is cooked with apples. Cole slaw, by the way, takes on new interest with car away seed or celery seed. Carrots. This golden vegetable takes naturally to finely' chop ped mint, marjoram or a dash of chili powder. . Cauliflower. Poppy seed or celery seed, white pepper in white sau-ie Dill, too, is good. Eggplant. New flavor is found by adding allspice, bay leaves, or oregano. Onions. Add celery seed or, if in cream sauce, flavor with dash of cloves. Peas. Add rosemary, savory, thyme, or finely' chopped mint leaves to cooking water. Baked Potatoes. Plenty of freshly ground pepper and fine ly chopped green onions folded into sour cream is first choice of most men. Second choice probably would be a topping of cheese sauoe with generous sprinkling of dry mustard. Spinach. This leafy green cooked with with only water clinging to the leaves takes well to nutmeg. Tarragon vinegar is a favorite of many. Tomatoes. Try a goodly dash of all spice or celery salt. A dash of chili powder will give added zest. Basil is a natural with tomatoes, as are oregano and sage. Artichokes. For something de liriously different add a sprink ling of pickling spice during cooking. Asparagus. Thyme added to a butter sauce is especially good. Sweet Potatoes. Mashed sweet potatoes become real flavor treats whn cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger or allspice are introduced. Use sparingly. You can always add more. Fresh Spinach And Lamb Stew There's no doubt about it. The Armenians have many wonder ful ways with lamb... .and this is one' of them. 'Tis a main dish and vegetable dish in one. Makes six servings. 1 pound lean shoulder of lamb 1 cup sliced onion 1 cup boiling water 2 pounds fresh spinach 2 cups diced fresh tomatoes IVi teaspoons salt ',4 teaspoon black pepper 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons cold water Trim excess fat from lamb and cut into one-inch cubes. Brown on all sides in fat fried out of trimmings. Add onions and cook slowly 15 minutes. Do not brown onions. Add boiling water. Cover and simmer until meat is tender, about one hour. In the mean time, rinse spinach and cut into large pieces. Add to the lamb along with tomatoes, salt and pepper 15 minutes before end of cooking time. Mix flour to a paste with the two tablespoons cold water: stir into stew. Cook only until slightly thickened, Champion Counted 0 BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The champion of a high dam at Pleasant Valley is down for the long count. Whet her Sec retary of the I n t erior Fred A. Sea ton can get up off the canvas once more will determine the future river d e velopment ia the canyon Mine bnaKe . a. Robt. smith below Hells Canyon. Seaton is literally, as well as figuratively, flat on his back these days, having suffered a painful recurrence of a boyhood back injury. He's been in Walt er Reed Army Hospital here since March 8. A successful operation last week is expected to put him on his feet very soon. Figuratively, Seaton has been flattened by a haymaker blow from within the Eisenhower ad ministration. The whole serves to clear up confusion which has existed since the election on whether or not the administra tion was planning to change its controversial "partner ship" power policy. As Secretary Seaton, the man who set out to make some changes, has now learned, this policy of encouraging local utili ties to build dams stands as firm as ever like a monument to the faith the administration has in the private electric utility in dustry. Since taking office last sum mer, Seaton had never publicly expressed any desire to change the power policy he inherited when he succeeded Douglas Mc- of High Dam at Pleasant Valley ut by Government Developments about one minute. Serve at once. Spicy Meat Balls For Party Eating If you've wondered how one of your favorite hostess makes those small meat balls served as appetizers, chances are she used this recipe. Combine and blend one-half pound ground beef, one egg, one fourth cup dry bread crumbs, VA teaspoons minced on, ion one-half teaspoon salt, one fourth teaspoon black pepper, one-half teaspoon prepared horseradish, one-eighth teaspoon nutmeg, dash of tabasco. Shape into tiny balls. Saute in hot fat until all sides are lightly brown ed, about four minutes. Roll each ball in grated American or Italian style cheese. Insert tooth pick and serve hot. r Nutmeg Flavored Coconut, Ever try a combination of nut meg and coconut as a topping for puddings, cakes and or pies? Well if you haven't here's what to do. Just sprinkle one-fourth teaspoon ground nutmeg over one cup shredded moist coconut and toss a minute or so until nutmeg is well distributed. We think ydu'll become a willing addict. REMOVES from BATHTUBS SINKS bottoms of COPPER POTS TILE FLOORS METALS AUTO BUMPERS ALUMINUM STORM WINDOWS ZUD IS SOLD enwm. T 6R0CERS, RUSTAIN PRODUCTS HARDWARE. DEPT. IAIR1AWN. NEW JERSEY 10CEHTXOJES Russia Warns Mid-East Of Retaliatory Power London (ll.R) Moscow. Ra dio warned Mid-East nations that United States bases on their territory would be destroyed if war came. The warning to the already troubled area followed similar threats against European coun tries. The threats emphasized the retaliatory power of the So viet Union in an atomic war. Eugene (U.R) Lloyd Mill hollen, who has been director of secondary education for the Eugen school district, has been named as assistant superinten dent of schools for the district. 38 I 1 i 1 in westerners .1 i are sweet on i Spreckels Light i Brown Sugar LSPRECKEISJ sr y SUGAR i ...'cause it s good 'n g golden . . . light 'n bright for a dash of delicious- g ness in everything from 1 cereals to baking! Kay. Privately, he had. So what has transpired in the meantime in the private sanctuaries of the administration has not become a cause of public embarrassment to the able youngest member of the cabinet. The account of these recent months reveals what has been happening. A few days after the Novem ber election, in which Republi cans suffered severe losses in the western states, a rash of stories appeared in print about a review of the "partnership" power pol icy, looking to subs tantial changes. These stories stemmed from unattributed comment by Seaton's closest associates at In terior. Vice President Nixon, who had carried the burden of the GOP campaign in the West, was said to be in agreement with Seaton that the power policy had cost the party heavily. This reporter then learned that Seaton was considering advocat ing a high dam in Pleasant Val ley, where a combine of four power companies was planning a smaller dam in conjunction with its Mountain Sheep project just downstream in the Snake river. Shortly thereafter, Seaton made his first post-election speech to the National Reclama tion Association in words that were generally interpreted as an effort to quell any impression that drastic changes were in the works. When a syndicated col umnist took the secretary's words at face value and commented that it looked as though Seaton were going to ignore the elec tion returns and take up just where McKay left off Seaton was so troubled he telephoned the columnist to insist this was not so. He then (in early Dec ember) told the columnist of his plan for a high dam at Pleasant Valley, which would conflict with two separate private utility schemes. Publicly Announced Support On a network television pro gram Jan. 20, Seaton publicly announced his support of the high dam. He said he would ask the Federal Power Commis sion to defer any decision on the private power application for a 50-year license for the site until Reclamation Bureau e n g ineers could present all the data in sup port of a high dam. He reported his intentions to this reporter privately after the program, estimating the delay might be for a year. A month ensued before Sea ton acted by sending a letter to the FPC but the letter surpris ingly made no requests for a de lay or for any other action in behalf of the high dam. The rea son for the long delay between Seaton's decision in December and his action, and the weak ness of the action itself, tell the heart of the story. Seaton, according to informed sources, originally drafted a strong letter to FPC Chairman Jerome Kuykendall. When Kuy endall got advance word of this letter, he protested to the White House. The White House sided with Kuyendall and the power companies who wanted the sec retary of the Interior to keep "hands off." But having an nounced his intent to communic ate with the FPC, Seaton had to be permitted to go through with this action. Hence, the original letter was emasculated of its or iginal request, and wound up saying, in effect, only: "Dear Jerry: Here at Interior we are studying a high dam at Plea sant Valley. Hope all is well with you. Regards, Fred." Meaninglessness Demonstrated The practically meaningless ness of the letter was demon strated by Kuykendall when he told reporters he did not con sider it a request for a -delay. And then applying the final crusher, the Commission formal ly voted against including the Seaton letter in the record of the Pleasant Vally case. This is sign ificant because the FPC, in rend ering a decision, is supposed to be limited to the facts presented in the record. START NOW jP Save fH joK' j The Bureau of Reclamation estimates it won't have all its high dam data compiled until next Jan. 1. And at Walter Reed Hospital, Seaton wistfully said he had no reason to think the FPC wouldn't consider the mer its of the high dam. But at the FPC, it is clear that the skids are greased for a decision by this summer, very probably in favor of the power companies. Unless the champion of the high dam can find an untapped source of political strength, he and high Pleasant Valley must now almost certainly be counted out. Jiffy Oyster Dishes Taste just right with BLUE PLATE COVE OYSTERS Enjoy delicious oyster dishes every month of the year. Blue Plate Canned Oysters are always in season. Fat and fine with that fresh sea tang you'll love. Packed in season when oysters are at their best. 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