MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, MB3
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Hardtop Models Grow in Popularity In Automobile Sales
Detroit -UPn -Back in 1S49 ,' Thev called it a hardtop
General Motors' Buick di-i convertible because the body
vision introduced a new model construction was similar to a
called the Riviera which had I convertible but instead of a
an unusual feature: there were I cloth top it had a steel roof,
no side pillars to support the i The style caught on fast
roof. ! and soon most manufacturers
offered at least one hardtop
model. Now, about 30 per
cent of all cars made have
pillarless tops.
All standard Cadillacs are
built this way. So are the
Lincoln-Continentals and Inv
HOLIDAY LEFTOVERS We rejoice in holiday leftovers,
the good fruits, nuts, mincemeat maybe, cream mints and
other items lurking in bowls, dishes and in the refrigerator.
Plan to use some of them in these Banana Mincemeat Tarts
and other dramatic ways suggested in today's food column.
Feeding the Family
By ZOLA VINCENT
Food Editor
Resolve Now to Be
Better Buyer in 1963
Budget-minded cooks re
covering from holiday food
bills and other buying binges
will find economy-wise sug
gestions here today. First we
figure out ways of using up
some of those gift and decora
tive perishables and items to
be found lurking in refrigera
tor and freezer. Clear them
out and straighten shelves
and you'll be surprised, prob
ably amazed.
Watch Ads. Now we're
ready to make the most of
the "specials" and "best
buys" the stores. Watch this
newspaper's advertisements
and look for specials scat
tered throughout the stores in
mass displays. It is inventory
time in many markets for
they must have good house
keeping habits too as well as
highly competitive store
keeping policies and methods.
Quantity Buying: Quantity
buying of non-pcrishablcs ali
en means savings of both time
and money. Nothing however
is a bargain unless you plan
to use it all within a reason
able length of time. Check
storage space.
Quality Buying: This is im
portant to watch. Choose the
best foods for the use you
have in mind. Buy fancy
foods if you're showing them
off; other grades for ingredi
ent purposes.
Label Reading: The label
reader will find important
information on packages and
cans. Manufacturers and pro
cessors of food are doing an
increasingly good job of pro
viding pertinent information
making it easy to compare
prices and servings, as well as
suggesting ways of prepara
tion andor suggestions for
tise.
Weight Watching. Be a
weight walcher and a scale
scanner. Note the price per
pound when buying fresh
foodstuffs and buy desired
amount to best serve your
purpose. You cannot always
judge the contents of a can
or package by the size so
look for a statement of net
contents which is required by
law. Those "super" women at
the check-out counter will
compute it to the penny.
Turkey Finalists
If you're lucky enough to
have some turkey left, but
not much, here are ways for
making the most of it.
Turkey Chow Mtin. Add
pieces of cooked turkey to
canned chow mein and serve
with Chinese noodles and soy
sauce.
Curried Turkey: Comb'ne
pieces of cooked turkey with
one can of undiluted cream of
celery coup; add one-half tea
spoon curry powder. Serve
with fluffy rice.
Tomato Surprise. Hollow
out firm tomatoes and stuff
with rhopped cooked turkey,
minced onion and celery
moistened generously with
mavonnaise or with mayon
naise and dairy sour cream,
half and half Serve on shred
ded lettuce.
Winter Pears
rientiful, wonderful win
ter pears the Cornice and
Winter Nelis for stewing,
baking, frying, pickling or
glaze'-ing. They re perfect in
fresh fruit salads along with
other seasonal (holiday bo
nuses) fruits. Halve, core and
top pears with snowy cottage
cheese, with mint or cran
berry sherbet
Bananas and Mincemeat
Combine in Full" Tart.
Here is an excellent and
eay-to-do recine for minre
mrat tarts which enjoy trr
mendous popularity We give
them a new inspired much by
ucgestine a way of u.ing any
minremeat you may have at
hawt along with tho5 ripe
bananas which have en
hanced the fruit bowl. Bana
nas arc a bargain In good eat
ing anytime; but especially
now. Plan to bake tart shells
as indicated below or pick
them up from the bake shop.
8 baked 3-inch tarts hells
4 medium bananas, all
yellow
1 cup prepared mincemeat
(glassed or from pack
age) I
'.4 cup sugar j
1 tablespoon cornstarch
' teaspoon salt !
hi cup water
2 tablespoons lemon juice !
Patty Shells. Pick up patty
shells at bake shop or make
pastry for two-crust pie using
favorite recipe or following
directions on package of pie ;
crust mix. In advance, roll i
two-crust pie crust to thick
ness of usual pie crust. Cut j
eight five-inch rounds (use !
any surplus for pastry sticks).
Prick with fork. Stack, using
waxed paper between rounds.
Place in plastic bag or alumi
num foil and refrigerate or
freeze. When ready to use,
heat oven to 475 degrees,
(very hot). Place chilled cir
cles on inverted custard cups
and baking sheet or on backs
of muffin cups. Bake 8 to 1!)
minutes.
Filling and Lemon Glaze.
Mash two of the bananas in a
saucepan. Add mincemeat
and bring to a simmer, stir
ring constantly. Spoor, into
tart shells. For lemon glaze
combine in saucepan the su
gar, cornstarch, salt and wat
er. Bring to a simmer, stir
ring constantly; simmer one
minute.. Add lemon juice;
cool. Slice remaining two ba
nanas and arrange slices
around tops of tarts as indi
cated in picture. Brush lemon
glaze over banana slices.
Chill until ready to serve.
Spiced Cream
For a flavor topping for
pudding, pies or cakes, whip
up some whipping cream or
dairy sour cream using the
proportion of one-half tea
spoon ginger to one cup of
regular whipping cream or
dairy sour cream.
Dessert Deluxe
We think of no more fla
vorsome post-holiday dessert
than this. Simply crumble
any remaining fruit cake into
whipped cream; chill. Pile
into prettiest glasses.
Herbed Salad
Toss this savory herb dress
ing over mixed vegetable
salad or salad greens. Enough
dressing for six generous
salads.
Combine one small minced
onion, one tablespoon minced
fresh parsley, a dash of curry
powder, one-half to three
fourths teaspoon salt, one-half
cup olive oil, and one table
spoon lemon juice. Let stand
an hour, then strain, add
more lemon juice to the
strained oil to laste.
Mincemeat Muffins
Perhaps you happen to
have some holiday mincemeat
left over In package or jar.
Here's a genuine treat for
family and fortunate guests.
Mix and sift two cups sift
ed flour, three teaspoons bak-
; ing powder, one-half teaspoon
salt and one tablespoon sugar.
Combine one egg. three
1 fourths cup milk, three table-
spoons melted shortening and
one-half cup mincemeat and
add to the flour mixture, atir
inng only until mixed, not
: smooth.
i Fill greased muffin tins
two-thirds full. Bake in hot
1 oven, 425 degrees. 25 min
utes Sixteen or so small
muffins.
SHE DOES SWIMMINGLY
Carhnndale, III. ilW- Carol
Swim teaches swimming at
Southern Illinois university
here.
Blankets Serve for Variety of Purposes
Chicago - IVPD - Electric , used to raise bread dough.
blanket manufacturers are
convinced that electric blan
kets are the most mis-used ap
pliance. A blanket recently returned
to a Chicago repair station
had been used as an electric
rug! It has even been reported
that an electric blanket was
One report in the files of the
repair center, operated by
Northern Electric company,
showed a blanket was used
to de-ice a doorway in winter.
Switzerland is often called
the most highly industrialized
country in Europe.
HORSE COMEBACK?
New York -il'PH- As farm
tractors and trucks increased,
the number of horses in the
nation have declined from 25 moriPl run when 37 per cent
of all cars made had pillarless
pcrials. Most of the "sporty
models today also have hard
top styling. These include the
Thunderbird and its chief
competitor, the new Riviera
introduced a few months ago.
Greatest Popularity
The s t a I i s t Ic a 1 agency
Ward's Automotive Reports
found that two and four door
hardtops attained their great
est popularity in the 1957
million in 1920 to around 3
million today. But breeders
say the rise in the popularity
of riding currently is offset
ting the decline of horses on
the farm.
tops. Ward's said hardtop
models are currently experi
encing their greatest popu
larity since 1957.
Of 1,917,200 cars made in
the 'B.I model year through
Nov. 30. 29. 8 per cent of them
were either two or four-door
j hardtops. This was a rise
, from 25.4 per cent in the en
! tire 19H2 model run and from
I 22 1 per cent in 1961.
Ward's credits GM with
touching off the current re
surgence in hardtop styling.
It used two-door hardtop styl
ing on some of its sporty com
pact cars such as the special
Skylark and F-85 Jetfire.
In 1962. GM built 75.1 per
cent or three out of every
four hardtops made by the in
dustry. But GM's total has
been cut on the '63 models be
cause other automakers are
bringing out more hardtop
models.
Ford't Share Up
GM's share of hardtop pro
duction has been trimmed to
65. 4 per cent largely because
Ford's share is up to 20.B per
cent from 14.6 last year and
Chrysler's to 12.1 from 9.3
in the 1962 model run.
American Motors broke its
straight sedan tradition for
1963 by bringing out a two
door Rambler American hard
top. It still doesn't make a
four-door hardtop. The four
door versions were first in
troduced in 1955, again by
Buick.
For a few years, Ford tried
a different approach, offering
a retractable hardtop. The
one-piece steel roof fitted into
the trunk of the car. Ford
built 48,500 from 1857 to 195S
but dropped the model be
cause of insufficient demand.
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