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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 11MU MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Feeding the Family ZOLITA VINCENT Food Editor Women Use Noodles for Money-Making Meal The versatile macaroni trio consisting of macaroni, spa chetti and noodles in all their various shapes and sizes have lone been favorites for leeding Ihe multitudes particularly at jnonev-raisinK events for church, club or other commun ity organization. Since economy is the key- note, women with experience jn meal-service for money have learned to use their noodles, soaehetti and macaroni to turn out inexpensive flavor some main dishes, and they avidly collect new quantity feeding recipes featuring these products. Ordinarily menu suggestions as such are not given in this column, but this week an ex ception is made since Lasagne Americana, Green Bean Tossed Salad and Fruited Floating Pudding served with coffee, lea andor milk are such na tural go-togethers. The menu happily combines the factors of foods everyone likes, that are easy to prepare and serve in attractive, satisfying portions for very little money. Costs have been figured at approxi mately 33 cents per serving . . . allowing, 01 course, ior seasonal and local price dif ferentiations. Recipes are for 24 servings. Lasagne Americana This American version of the original Italian Lasagne uses wide egg noodles as a base for ground beef and cneese Drougni together taste-wise witn a wen seasoned tomato sauce. l'A cups chopped onions 4 pounds lean ground beef 2'A tablespoons salad oil . 3 cans (1 pound, 12 ounces each) tomatoes 2 cans (10'4 oz. each) tomato puree ' 2 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon crushed basil 'A teaspoon pepper Vj cup salt 12 quartes (3 gallons) boiling water 3 pounds wide egg noodles 2 pounds (1 quart) creamed cottage cheese 'A pound cheddar cheese, slic ed. Saute onion and beef in heated oil Drain off excess fat. Add tomatoes, puree, salt, basil and pepper. Simmer, un covered, for one hour, stirring occasionally. Add the one-third cup salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add noodles so that water continues to boil. Cook, uncovered, stirring occa sionally, until tender. Drain in colander. If desired, cook noodles in smaller portions using two tablespoons salt and four to six quarts water for each pound of noodles. Arrange half of the cooked noodles in each of two VAxlW x 2'Ai-ineh or equivalent-size baking pans. Layer each with sauce and callage cheese. Re peat with remaining noodles, sauce and co.l"o cheese. Top with cheddar cheese cut into triangles. Bake in moderate, 375 degree, oven 15 tu 20 min utes or until bubbling and cheese is melted. Cut each pan of Lasagne into 12 servings, Green Bean Tossed Salad Recipe is for 24 servings averaging one cup each. Veg etable may be prepared ahead of time, kept chilled and tossed lightly with dressing jtisl be fore serving. Drain two cans (1 pound each) cut green beans. Coin bine with one cup diced cel ery, one cup finely sliced or diced carrots, one half cup chopped onion. Chill. Tear or cut one half large head of chic ory and one large head lettuce into bite-size pieces. Just be fore serving combine lettuce with other vegetables. Pour on one half to one cup bottled Italian dressing; sprinkle with one half teaspoon crushed ore gano and one quarter to one half teaspoon garlic salt. Toss lightly as suggested above. Fruited Filiating Pudding This is really so easy to make that It seems almost impossible that it can be so creamy and good. Drain two cans (one pound, 14 ounces each) fruit cocktail; reserve two cups of the syrup. Combine syrup with two quarts milk and gently stir into four packages (3Vz ounces each) in stant pudding mix. Pour into 24 individual custard cups or five-ounce paper cups. Top each with chilled drained fruit cocktail. Chill thoroughly. If It's Chicken You're Having Chicken continues to top the best meat buys protein-wise. Here is a new recipe featuring roasting chicken and dairy sour cream which is sure to be a repeater. Recipe makes six servings. 4 to 5 pound roasting chicken 2 cups soft bread crumbs 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 2 tablespoons chopped celery leaves 2 tablespoons chopped onion 'A cup hot water 1 tablespoon flour 2 teaspoons paprika 1 cup 0,2 pint) dairy sour cream 'A cup Sauterne or other white wine, optional 1 can (4-ounces) mushrooms, stems and pieces, sliced or button Wipe chicken inside and out with dampened cloth. Sprinkle inside with salt. Combine bread crumbs, parsley, celery, onion and hot water. Stuff chicken loosely. Insert toothpicks or skewers across opening and lace with cord or strong. Fold skin of neck over back and fasten with toothpick or skew ers. Fold wings across back, tips touching; place breast up on rack in roaster. Hub with butter. Roast, uncovered in moderately slow, 325 degree, oven about two hours basting occasionally. Stir flour and paprika into sour cream; spoon over chick en. Add wine to undrained mushrooms; pour over chicken. Cover and roast 20 to 30 min utes longer. Canned Vegetables, Fruits Of Endless Service to Cooks Fall is a good time for wom en to come to the aid of their pantry with a wide selection of canned vegetables and fruits. During the cool-weather months we need varied fruits and vegetables to keep good flavor and good nourishment in our menus, and by stocking pantry shelves with canned fruits and vegetables dozens of them are always in season they are always at our fingertips, ready to provide endless serv ice to cooks. Stock up on canned foods by the dozen buy the case. Canned vegetables may be heated and served just as they arc, they are ready to bo dress ed up for occasions that call for elegance, and they partici pate happily in all sorts of cas seroles, stews, soups and sal ads. The tomato family, of course, goes even further by providing the basis for many sauces. When you have a choice of canned vegetables readily available, it not only avoids menu monotony but inspires original combinations. You might decide, for example, to add a can of green beans to a casserole you've always made with corn and emerge with something new and different. Canned fruits, too, possess a vast repertory of menu tricks. Take a can of cherries or apri cots or peaches or apples you name it and turn it into a pie or a cobbler, or garnish a pudding or cake or ice cream with it. You can also heat canned fruits with a barbecue sauce to serve as a meat ac companiment. The cook who has a good supply of these fruits need never give herself a headache wondering what to have for dessert. ( house Proper Slie Choose the size of can most economical for your use. The informative label tells you the weight or other "measure" as required by law. The canner often tells you how many serv ings are in the can or ihe ap proximate number of pieces. Buy the kind "pack" that best suits your purpose. For in stance, you do not need fancy fruit to cut up in salad or des sert. On the other hand you may want looks as well as nutrition. MAD ARSONIST? This is a composite drawing made by the Santa Monica, Calif., police department of a man who may be the "mad arsonist" who has been setting fires in Monmouth, 111. Information for the composite was furnished by Ted Allen, Santa Monica businessman, who said a man told him last June 9 that Monmouth "would be in all the papers because something was going to happen." (UPI) Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ALTADENA, Calif. Mrs. Mary Otero, after a 750 pound boul der loosened by a rainstorm rolled through the wall of her kitchen: "Just one of those days." BONN, Germany Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's new chan cellor, in a 1948 speech announcing the end of rationing: "Turn the people and the money loose and they will make the country strong." WASHINGTON Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, an nouncing that he will block any movement to draft him as a 1964 Republican presidential candidate: "We're no longer in the Harding era where your friends sur prise you with a draft. It can't be made without one's knowledge." TOKYO A spokesman from the Japan International Goodwill Pigeon Race, when none of the 200 birds in the race showed up at the finish line: "We expected some of them to lie intercepted by hawks, but this was the first time the whole flight got lost. jrg i '!"; "fy.un ' GETS LAST It AUK Sir Waller, a duck with pluck, will have no truck with Schnapps the pup. The pup wanted to be friends, top photo, but something ran amuck and he had to turn tail and run to keep from being a snack for the quack, center. But in the end Schnapps had the last bark as Sir Walter paddled oft into Ihe sunset leaving Schnapps alone with only injured feelings. (UPI) Plastic Industry Effects on World Yet Undetermined FINANCIAL GOSSIP By JESSE BOGUE UPI Financial Editor NEW YORK (UPI) -One thought seems common to those in the plastics industry today: The limits of its applications and effects upon the world of materials have not yet been determined, and may not be for years to come. How far these have pro gressed since one of the first of the plastics to come upon the popular scene made its appear ance in the years following the war between the states the "celluloid collar" days may be seen by the ordinary household er examining surfaces and fix tures around his home; by the electrician applying an insulat ed wire; by the motorist exam ining the shiny new 1964 models in his dealer's showroom; or in the columns of production poundage figures offered by the Society of the Plastics Industry. The extent to which this is a forward looking industry is shown by the theme of the tenth National Plastics Exposi tion, scheduled for Chicago Nov. 18-22: New directions in plast ics. A meeting of the same sort was held in 1961 in New York City, on the schedule of each 2 1-2 years; it drew a registered attendance of 27,126 persons, and the 1963 meeting is expected to surpass this figure. It is also the SPI which re ported that a recently complet ed study showed the construc tion industry in 1962 consumed 1.7 billion pounds of plastics, valued at $393 million, and up 11 per cent from the previous ycaK While these figures illustrate past growth, the industry as a whole keeps working constantly to insure future growth by im proving the quality and the standards for plastics in build ing materials, electrical and el ectronic equipment, industry, and consumer products. Thomas Zawadzki, executive secretary of the Plastics In stitute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., said that this was the main purpose behind a two-day conference to be held on the Stevens campus in December. It will attempt to give engin eers and scientists a picture of what aging under various con ditions has upon polymeric mat erials, and what are the caus es which bring about these ef fects. At least one industrialist finds it difficult to place a limit on the progress that may be made in the field of plastics in the future. Salem Salem, named i n April to the presidency of the fast growing Chemical - Plastic Division of the General Tire & Rubber Co., says that "when you are talking about 'plastics' you are talking about an end less, infinite number of prod ucts. As you change formulas, experiment with molecular con structions, you change the whole product, or its applications. "We don't know how far it will extend. Surely, five years from now there are going to be more plastics used in industry. Ten years from now there will be much more but," and he hesitated, then said, "the ex pansion will be not merely ar ithmetical, but expotential." "What can be done," he con tinued, "is based on imagina tion, rather than on the limit ations of the raw materials alone. ..in dealing with materials on the one hand one is limited by what nature can give you, and on the other only by know ledge and by imagination." Traffic Survey Shows Motorists Are Helpful DETROIT (UPD-The Ameri can motorist is basically a good Samaritan. That was one of the facts learned in a two-year experi ment conducted to determine the feasibility of freeway traffic control by television. The project measured traffic flow on 3.2 miles of busy De troit freeway by remote control television cameras. The cameras flashed pictures of traffic conditions to 14 moni toring sets and trained observ ers made command decisions concerning speed and flow of traffic. , Traffic signs were posted over the lanes of the John Lodge expressway that indicat ed the best speed, which lanes were blocked and which were open. We have proven through overhead control that we can increase freeway capacity and move more traffic at a steady rate," State Highway Commis sioner John C. Mackie said. Mackie said the television control system has been a tre mendous research tool in such areas as driver behavior and shoulder usage. Contrary to common belief," he said, "the American driver is a good Samaritan. When cars stall or pull to the shoulder it doesn't take too long until an other motorist stops to offer help." 1 he project is financed through September and nego tiations are in progress with the bureau of public roads to extend the period of the ex periment. The government paid about 80 per cent of the original $400,000 outlay. The Michigan Highway department and the Detroit Street and Traffic de partment contributed money and personnel. Operation of the system was simple. The 14 cameras were fixed at strategic points, along the expressway. The traffic ex pert at the monitor was able to determine conditions the length of the route and he con trolled the overhead signs. The signs consisted of arrows lighted green for "go," X's lighted red for "stop" and num bers that indicated the best speed for the lanes. If an accident were to occur, the director could close one lane and slow down traffic in others to allow the orderly shift from lane-to-lane by drivers. He also could notify police, am bulances and wreckers so that the trouble could be remedied quickly. Traffic engineer George Bas- madjian of the Detroit Street and Traffic department did much work on the project. The key to the television con trol, he said, is how well the motorists obey the signals. "In general, when we do have blockage and put up a red light it is observed quite well," he said. "The speed signs are not always fully satisfied and this is an area in which we want to do more extensive re search. "We've had some objections when we closed the ramps but this was to be expected to some extent. It hasn't been too great as long as there is good reason for closing the ramps and there always is." During the week-long ramp control portion of the experi ment, a spokesman for the De troit Traffic association said, the accident rate on the ex pressway fell sharply, more than 60 per cent. Police Inspector Arthur Son nenberg head of the traffic de partment, said he thought the system was doing the job it is supposed to. 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