For the Farm Wife and Family (Continued from page 8) 1-3 cup sugar 2% teaspoons salt % teaspoon saccharine 1 teaspoon mixed pickling spices Mix above ingredients in sauce pan and bring to boiling point. Add small pickles, bring to boil ing again. Pack in jars, cover With syrup and seal. BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES 6 onions 2 cups vinegar 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons mustard seed 2 teaspoons celery seed 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon cornstarch % teaspoon pepper % teaspoon turmeric Wash cucumbers thoroughly. Slice cucumbers and onions in thin slices. Let stand two hours in a salt solution, made from two quarts water and onehalf cup salt. Bring rest of ingred ients to a boil and let boil one minute. Add cucumbers and onions and allow mixture to be- come thoroughly -heated Pour in- to sterilised jars, and seal while hot * * Chow-Chow is a favorite of everyone. Here is a recipe we can recommend. CHOW-CHOW Vz peck green tomatoes ♦♦ ZZ 8 it i 20 GAL. WATER HEATER GLASSLINED :: 8 Usually $BB Open Mon.—Sat. 7—5. Town Store, 25 S. State St., Ephrata, Office, 1 mile N. of Ephrata on lit. 222. Fri. Night until 9 P. M. Other evenings by appointment. njllilllliliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliil)iiiiilllllli)iiiiliiiiiliiiiiillllliililiiiiiiiii)iiiiiiiiiiii)iiiiiii)iii)liiiiiiiiiiiiili)ill)iiiiiniil I FARM FEEDS Highest Quality, Highly Palatable and Nutritional. SEEDS Triple Cleaned, KEM FEE Treated fofr more complete germination. FERTILIZERS High Analysis, Free flowing, and reasonable prices. PETROLEUM High Octane Gasoline, Clean burning Fuel Oils, Premium Oils and Grease. Order Fall FERTILIZER "NOW" and SAVE EXTRA DOLLARS We have "Ortho MH-30" for prevention LANC. CO. FARM BUREAU CO-OP ASS'N Lancaster-Manheim-New Holland-Quarryville Select firm cantaloupes and remove rind. Cook off in salt water. Mix above ingredients SPECIAL FOR JULY LAST WEEK 10 Year Guarantee WARD BOTTLE GAS Call or Visit Your For All Your Needs Inquire About Early Fall Discount Period of Tobacco Suckers @(8)1 2 quarts small onions 15 sweet peppers (red-yellow green) 2 bunches celery 2 quarts lima beans 1 head cabbage, medium 2 tablespoons mustard seed 2 quants vinegar 3 pounds white sugar 1 bunch carrots Green beans Boil onions and lima beans separately until tender. I Chop tomatoes, celery, cab bage and peppers fine or put through food chopper. Put ingredients together and salt well with several hands of salt. Mix well and drain in colander for three hours. Heat vinegar, sugar, and mus tard seed. Put all but onions and lima beans in heated .vinegar and boil one-half hour. Then add lima beans and onions and stir well together. Put in jars and seal. * < Cantalope season is here. Try spicing some for a change. SPICED CANTALOUPES Mrs. Harold L. Groff, RD Quarryville 2 cups vinegar 3 cups water 3 pounds light brown sugar M teaspoon oil of cinnamon M teaspoon oil of cloves Dash of salt July Only $65 Hot vegetable dinneis can be really delicious if you featuie a flavor ful sauce on a well-filled plattei. The sauce also gives additional sub stance and Interest to any vegetable plate. Today we are featuiing a cheese sauce that is made with new instant cieara. This sauce has become a great favoiite with good cooks eveiywhere because tiuly it never, never lumps. Place a head of cauliflower on a plattei’. Suiround the cauliflower with stung beans and carrot stups. You’ll find this combination is mighty pietty and mighty good. We aie giving the lecipes for the three basic white sauces. To make the cheese sauce use the thin white sauce and add 1 cup grated cheese and V* teaspoon Woicestershne sauce. Heat until cheese is melted. Fer 1 cup Thin* 4 tbsp. margarine. Medium 4 tbsp, margarine Thick 4 tbsp. Instant magarine Methed Mix instant cream, fleur and salt in saucepan. Add wafer; ceek and stir unfit mixture bails and is thickened. Add butter and blend. and boil a few minutes. Add cantaloupes (sliced) and bring to boiling. Pack in jars, cover with syrup and seal. Do you have yellow beans that you don’t know what to do with’ Here is a recipe for mak ing SOUR YELLOW BEANS 1 quart vinegar 3 cups sugar Mustard Seed Cook beans until tender but not too soft Make' syrup of vine gar and sugar Add some mus tard seed to taste. Boil a few minutes Add beans and bring to boil Pack in jars, cover with syrup and seal. Don’t throw away that water melon rind' It is quite a delicacy pickled. Mrs Charles Gochnau er. Quarryville submits this le cipe. SPICY WATERMELON PICKLE Mrs. Charles Gochnauer, RD Quarryville IttKilHllliiS' PltlAM WHITE SAUCE instant (raam, I Ikip. Ilsur, y 2 tip, i«[f, 1 cuf> water, 1 tbcp butter ar Inflonl cream, 2 tbip. flaur, y, tip. lalt, 1 cup water, 1 tbip butter ar uaam, 3 Ibtp. flaur, '/, li|e. tail, 1 nip watar, 1 lbi)e butler ar Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 26, 1957 5 pounds water melon (‘2 large) rind 1 tablespoon powdered alum 8 cups sugar 4 cups vinegar 4 cups water 10 sticks cinnamon 2 tablespoons whole allspice 2 tablespoons whole cloves 1 Trim green skin and pink flesh from a firm melon.— cut in bite-size pieces. Measure about 12 cups. 2. Sprinkle alum over rind in large kettle cover with water stir to mix alum with water Let. stand one hour 3. Drain rind and return to kettle Cover with fresh water. 4 Simmer, covered, V/s hours, drain; leave in colander. 5. Blend sugar, vinegar and water in same kettle, tie spices loosely in clean white cloth, add spice bag and rind to sugar mixtures 6. Simmer, uncovered, about VA to 2 hours or until rind is clear and spicy. 7. Remove spice bag put in jars and seal. Farm Women 9 Plan Box Lunch For An of. 17 » “ MARTIC FORGE Farm Women 9 met on July 20, with Mrs. Elmer Huber, Marticville. Co-hostess was Mrs. Paul Stokes, Mt. Nebo. Meeting was opened by Mrs. Huber reading the Scripture Roll call was answered by giving members maiden names. It was announced that all Farm Women interested m sing ing in the County Chorus should meet at the Farm Bureau Coop erative, Dillersvirlle Road, Lan caster, the evening of Aug. 4 Mrs. Walter Warfel, Society president, gave a report on Homemakers Week at Penn State. A contribution of $2O was given toward the County Project. The next meeting will be held Aug. 17 along the creek at Safe Harbor. Each member has been jasked to bring a box lunch for one person only and will give 25 cents for the box. The meeting closed with re freshments being served to the 15 members present. Farm Women 8 Hear Report On Extension MT. JOY—Society of Farm Women 8 met July 20 at the home of Mrs Norman K Garber. Thirty-one members responded to he roll call with “How to Keen Cool ” Mrs Gautier. assistant ct-i+o home economics evfenejnn leader fm- sou f *>em Pennsvl vanio cnoVe +o the group con- CPimnncr Vipr work Nevf mental w’lll vis't J 3Tlf}i? Wa’lptr T'/fijceiini an' 1 erpov a “■nn+'-h T”p=>t ” Po-lmafpQaoc* nrifb mVq Oai-bar >frc; A .-n I'Tnoqo>* HTt-a ru-ao «:iimpman an( j Mrs Robert EcM orr)on Th« rfvfv»»n xrr»yif»r? in in r , onn* T7 Ppv'W' "MVc PTnr»n wqg instal- Jed as a nw member. Cm|tf>«aefarrt Planf MHwbrM Co^n AHbmio-h tb» eorn acreage slanted with hybrid m 1957 declined nearly 3 5 million acres, the percentage of total acreage increased to 92 5 per cent com pared with 91 1 per cent in 1956, according to the Crop Reporting Board. The report shows that the greatest increase in the use of hybud seed from 1956 to 1957 came in the Southeastern states. 9
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