B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 2, 1964 For t Farm Wife and Family Vegetables Add Glamor To A Mdal By Mrs. Richard 0. Spence gd FARM WIFE Vegetables can add much to a meal both m taste appeal and eye appeal Nutritionists eveiywhere recommend a serving of green and yellow vgetables every other day for all family members They provide us with needed amounts of vitamins A and C Our best sources of vitamin A are the dark-green and deep-yellow vegetables such as broccoli, car rots, chard, collaids, cress, kale, pumpkin, spinach, sweet-potatoes, winter squash, tur nip greens and other dark-green leaves Other foods rich in vitamin A are apricots, cantaloupe, mango, persimmon, egg yolk, but ter and margarine and tops on the list is liver It is not hard to see that any of the above mentioned foods would also add much > + / SPENCE color to your meal To keep colors bright when cooking, cook green vegetables in as little salted water as you can. Cook them as quickly as •possible, keeping the lid off for the first minutes to let mild ac ids escape with the steam Too much heat and acids cause dis coloration. Cook yellow vegetables in salted water, using just enough to prevent scorching, about one half inch of water in the bot tom of the pan. Cook them with the lid on. Do not overcook them, for this causes colors to lose their bright appeal. 'Frozen green vegetables can be oven baked for vauety Broccoli, spinach, peas, or asparagus should be allowed to thaw enough so that pieces can be separated and arranged in a casserole. 'Sprinkle with salt, cover and bake in a 350 degree oven until tender, approximate- PATZ Sales & Service Barn Cleaners - Silo Unloaders - Cattle Feeders Robert K. Rohrer Quarryville, R. D. 1 Hensel K 1 8-2559 SUPER Self Service SHOES 220 W. 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A white sauce goes well with many of these root-vegetables, and you can pep up the sauce with left over bits of meat or fish, hard-cooked eggs, or grat- '^S^£Sckt l Featuring: • Chrome-Edged Knives • Easy-Swing Drawbar Here’s the Hay Pick-Up attachment that breezes through all windrowed ciops The positive feeding auger is 5 feet long, 22 inch es in diameter to pull in the heaviest windrows Make us Prove ft with a Demonstration! N. G. HERSHEY CHAS. J. McCOMSEY & SON & SONS Manheim Hickory Hill, Pa. FARMERSVILLE EQUIPMENT CO. R. D. 2, Ephrafa, Pa. ed cheese. Carrots and radishes from heat and stir through For a real down-SouH make .tasty sandwiches when heated, drained corn or peas, companiment to roast shredded or sliced and mixed. Serve at once. Makes 4 servings, ham or chicken tiy with nuts or raisins and salad * * * sweet potatoes with oiang e dressing. Or combine several CASSEROLE CARROTS SWEET POTATOES root vegetables in this delicious iy 4 pounds fresh carrots WITH ORANGE GLvZfj soup: yz teaspoon salt 6 medium-sized sweet p a ( VEGETABLE SOUP 1 soup bone, simmered in water To each 3 cups of this meat broth add -1 small onion 2 small carrots 1 small tufnip 1 small potato 1 small green pepper 1 stalk celery and leaves 1 cup tomato juice and pulp Cut all the vegetables about the same size. Cook until ten der in the salted meat broth. Season well and serve hot. This will make four servings, 1 cup each. CREAMED CORN OR PEAS 2 tablespoons butter or mar- garine 2 tablespoons flour Vz teaspoon salt Vs teaspoon pepper cup milk teaspoon grated lemon peel tablespoons fresh lemon juice tablespoon chopped chives or onion teaspoon prepared mustard tablespoon chopped parsley il2-ounce can whole kernel corn or 1 1-pound can peas Melt butter over low heat; add flour, salt and pepper, stir ring until well blended. Remove from heat Gradually stir in milk and return to heat. Cook, stirring constantly until thick ened, 5 to 6 minutes; add chiv es, mustard and parsley. Cook 1 minute longer; add lemon peel and lemon juice. Remove • Select-A-Cut Transmission • Tripod (optional) Chrome-edged knives stay sharp . . . chop more tons of fine-cut forage. Select-A- Cut transmission gives shoi t, medium or long cut forage with the push of a lever. Other new features include; Easy-Swing diawbai —• change positions as needed, right from the ti actor seat; Tripod (optional) —holds forage deflector more firmly in place. See the Gehl today! 1 teaspoon sugar toes, cooked 1 tablespoon water 2 oranges, peeled and j,ii C( 2 tablespoons butter % CU P orange juice 'Peel carrots; slice diagonal- 1 tablespoon grated oiaj, ly and then cut in slices; place rind in casserole. Sprinkle top with V* teaspoon salt salt and sugar; add water and Va cup sugar dot with butter Cover and 2 teaspoons cornstaich bake 30-40 minutes in a 350- 2 tablespoons melted taK degree oven or until carrots are fat tender. 4-6 servings. (Continued on Page 9) Into Tender, Loving Hands.#. Over the years we have furnished the money that has enabled hundreds of families to own a home of their own. As time rolls by and et house becomes too small or too large, we have helped again with the changeover. No matter what your needs in a home may be, it will pay you to check with us first on the financing. Prompt service and reasonable rates. ACCOUNTS INSURED TO $lO,OOO lymsT fede^all W~QjavinPS and Qjan * ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER 25 North Duke St. Phone 393-0601 % #
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