6—Lancaster Fanning. Saturday, .August 15. 1959 For the Farm Wife and Fresh and Frozen Foods By Mrs. Richard R. Spence., This is the time of year when every homemaker is busy trying to provide meals with attraction, despite the heat reduced appetites of her family. And at the same time, she is faced with storing food for the cold months from ample summer supplies. Here are some helpful hints that have come my way and proven useful for my family meat planning and food storing. I hope they’ll do as well for you, and maybe even stir new ideas of yourown. Some Facts On Fresh Vegetables You may feel that filling your family with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables this summer is giving them more nutritious meajs than they have in winter months. This may be true if they are eating larger amounts of fruits and vegetables than they usually do. But fresh fruits and vegetables don’t necessarily give better food values than canned and froz en ones. If you can gather garden vegetables fust before cook ing you’re off to a good start to serving vitamin-rich foods. How fruits and vegetables are stored and how you cook them will determine what food value your family real ly gets. Keeping vegetables in a cool place is important. Then when you prepare them cut them in large pieces so min erals and vitamins won’s soak out in the cooking wa ter. That’s also why you cook most vegetables in a small amount of water. Cook them only until they are tender. Over-cooking and holding food hot to serve later are two big cheaters of food val ue. Unless you take this care fresh vegetables may not be giving the food nutrients you expect. If you can or freeze foods, you will want to follow the same rules fresh products, large pieces, proper blanch ing or heating time, quick freezing or correct proces sing. The fresher the fruit and vegetables the more food Value you will keep. That’s yvhy commercial canners and freezers often have an ad vantage over those who have to buy foods to preserve. Broccoli You can cook broccoli to keep tips firm and have the italk tender yet keep most pf the 'food value, f Three cooking methods were tested that will keep *host of the vitamin C in-the proccoli One is to boil for 10 to 12 minutes in a cup and a fourth water for each DEAD ANIMALS REMOVED PROMPTLY Will Pay Full Value For Dead Animals Dealers In Bones, Tallow and Hides FRY'S RENDERING WORKS Prop,, John Fry 2114 Hollinger RD. Lancaster Ph. EX 2-4815 If No Answer Phone EX 7-0472 "Prompt Bail Bond Service" BUHRMAN'S CONVENIENT PARKING LOTS Opposite Brunswick Hotel Opposite Post Office Next to Western Auto Store 115 East King Street Norman A. Buhrman, 228 N. Duke St "Prompt *Bafl -Bond Service" Family pound of vegetoble, Both steaming for 10. min utes and cooking in a pres sure sauce pan for two min utes at 15 pounds p seem to hold the vita The broccoli has goot and texture too. Whi mins are lost go in cooking water and ai destroyed by heat. Cooking the thick until they are tendei Gas Stoves Water Heaters Room Heaters Gas Clothes Dryers MANY OTHER GAS APPLIANCES Priced Low t< UGITE GAS, Inc. Succe: 25 SOUTH STAT I means the tips will be mushy and overcooked. If you pare the stalks to take off the tough outer lay er and split them so they’re no larger than a half inch you can shorten the cooking time. It’s in the first five min uutes of overcooking that broccoli loses much vitamin C and it also loses color and flavor. Both frozen and fresh broccoli seem to keep - about the same original vitamin C when cooked by boiling or steaming. Freezing Blueberries To add variety to your frozen food supply try freez ing some fresh blueberries. Recent tests by U. S. De partment of Agriculture home economists show that whole berries frozen in a sugar syrup have a better flavor and are more tender than if they are frozen with out sugar. >ressure imin. C. i flavor at to the re not One good way to make use of fresh berries is to make a fruit spread to keep in the freezer. For each pint of spread you’ll need one cup blueber ries that have been run thru a food mill or sieve. Do this stalks often Sell Our service the best »r to Ward Bottle Gas STREET .... EPHHATA, PA. •pen ’til 9 Friday Lancaster Families Live Alcoa Wrap is a good will ambassador fo: all products of Alcoa Aluminum. Alcoa Wrap goes into homes throughout the country, mating lasting friends for the Alcoa label, wherever it appears. Growing confidence in Alcoa Wrap’s sign of the double-triangle has helped to build greater sales for all Alcoa products. As Alcoa Wrap’s success grows, the sue* ♦ ♦ ♦ " I with the raw berries. 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