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THE WOOD Demonia Eagle IN THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959 5 Tips Given For Freezing Foods Homemakers can have frozen foods that are attractive, flavor ful and high in nutritive value, if carefully prepared with strict at tention to basic principles of freezing. Of utmost importance is to choose high quality foods, says County Extension Agent Marga ret Allyn. The frozen product will be no better than the food in its original state. Freezing does not improve the flavor or quality of any food. Freshness is impor tant with vegetables. Once pick ed, most vegetables lose sugar, vitamins and flavor rapidly. With fruita, ripeness is what counts. Most vegetables can be frozen satisfactorily, but results won’t justify giving much space to to matoes and cucumbers' since they might be called novelty items. ' Pealed sliced cucumbers can be frozen but must be used as they thaw otherwise they become mu shy. The same rule holds for tomatoes. Whole tomatoes can be wrapped and frozen but should be used while they are thawing or used for cooking. Fast freeze tomatoes in less than 3-minutes. They will keep about 3 months. Stewed tomatoes can be frozen successfully if bread or crackers are omitted. Process foods properly choosing only freezer packaging material which will protect food from air. Where air reaches food during storage, the result is loss of mois ture accompanied by a change in flavor. This condition is known as “freezer burn”. Foods should always be frozen as rapidly as possible and stored at 0 degree F. Foods stored at temperatures above zero lose fla vor and nutritive value rapidly. Ice or snow inside the package usually indicates fluctuations of temperatures above zero. Additional information about freezing various foods can be ob tained by contacting the County Extension Office in St. Helens. YOU RM LIFE Sometimes the big one gets away, sometimes he doesn't — it's all a matter of the fisherman's luck, or skill. That there are fish to catch isn't luck. Managed Tree Farms protect watersheds for America's favorite fishing streams and lakes. Wood is a silent partner on every fishing trip. PREVENT FOREST FIRES 88 KEEP \ OUR STAI GREEN / s. 1 The David Morgans To Spend A Month Here BIRKENFELD Mr. and Mrs. David Morgan and baby from California arrived here for a months stay. He has a months furlough. They visited a day with her folks, the Vick Bergs and are now staying at Elder berry Inn and he is working in the restaurant. Alton Berg took a load of cattle to the stock yard for Harry Ham merberg last week. The Larson families had their reunion at the Hillsboro park on Sunday. Several from here attended the Columbia County Pioneer picnic at Hudson Sunday. Mrs. Ethel Manley of Rainier is spending a few days here visit ing with relatives She is an aunt of Helen Nordstrom. Annie John ston and Francis Larson. hi ¥ Change Due on September 1 Conversion of the post office at Bradwood to a rural station trib utary to the Clatskanie post of fice is scheduled for September 1 it was announced this week by post office department officials. In a letter to Rep Walter Nor- blad, it was announced that the fourth class post office at Brad- wood would become a rural sta tion with discontinuing of the Bradwood post office effective at the close of business on August 31, 1959 and establishment of the rural station of Clatskanie effect ive September 1. MORE JOBS ■ lower Presented as a Public Service by PRICES works for youl Oernonia Eagle
