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
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Chow-Chow is a favorite of
everyone. Here is a recipe we
can recommend.
CHOW-CHOW
Vz peck green tomatoes
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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PltlAM WHITE SAUCE
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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
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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-
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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.
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