S—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 9, 1964 or Farm Wife and Family Kitchen Chatter By Mrs. Richard C. Spence You can rarely call a fallen cake or over cooked meat just bad luck. For luck in cook ing is really just accuracy. If you choose a reliable recipe, the right ingredients and then are accurate in measuring them, you have a start toward success. Be sure to pick the proper size of pan, use the right oven tem peratures and cooking times and you’re less apt to have cooking failures. Accuracy begins with choosing a reliable recipe one that has the right proportions and is made with ingredients available today. Recipes that are even a few years old may not work if you switch to new type ingre dients. Others may stay unable for many years. Often a recipe on the package is as reliable as any you choose from If a recipe calls for a certain a cookbook. Companies spend size pan you can’t expect the a large amount of money and same results when you use a staff time to develop recipes, different size. A soft tender The cook who never measures cake may 'be undersized and a thing may have good luck hard if baked in too large a «ne time but you may never pan. hear of her failures. Sets of It’s well to check your oven standard measuring spoons and temperature with a thermome cups are essential. Keep a set ter so you will know if it’s the in your mixing center and at same as your control calls for. the cooking center, too. Then when you use a glass bak ing dish you can set the con trol 25 degrees lower. Learn to make other adjustments so that you have the accurate baking temperatures you need. * # > SPENCE CHORES MASTER HI'PERFORMANCE Av TEMPO W 500 Jj||. with Exclusly Ttmpo Dasign Tines vi^ton fOU - . . Performance design directs every ounce of power te deeper better faster till* «*C Nee* Tempo Design Tines change from "pick" action for ground break ing to "slicer" action for cultivating; eapand to 30" tilling width See a dem onstration of alt Ike hber saving ie** twee today l M 1 TMr Wmrmnff fmj m jrw Of#wl USED TILLERS and MOWERS L. H. Brubaker 350 Strasburg Pike, Lane. R. D. 3, Lititz Phone Lancaster 397-5179 Strasburg 687-6992 Lititz 626-7766 a COLOR IS THE KEY TO APPETIZING FOOD Food not only has to taste Introducing to this area The world’s finest in HEARING AIDS Tiny Powerful Good Looking AUD I U M 30% Off <2O doy offer) Hear again with the best . . . (Free home demonstration) Write to NASU Hearing Aid Center 1364 Perkiomen Ave. Reading, Penna. ENJOY THE LUXURY AND ECONOMY OF PURE SOFT WATER AND SAVE No job to small or to large. 24 hr. service 7 days a week. 11 We will not be under sold" Engineering & Mfg. Co., Inc. 507 Poplar St, Phone 592-53*0Xi*ht calls 592-COl7 good, it has to look good. Blues, blacks and purples are usually not too tempting food colors. For example, orange juice served in a blue glass has much less appeal than in a clear glass. Black is associated with burnt flavors. Too, unusual colors arouse suspicion. Green bread suggests mold; red chicken loaf is alarm ing. So go easy on artificial food coloring. When'you do use it, keep within a reasonable color range. Avoid serving foods of clash ing colors. Purple-red beets, red cabbage, pink-red radishes, and orange-red tomatoes and- pi mientos are not attractive to gether, - ' 'Neither are foods of the same color. A menu of mashed po tatoes, creamed onions, fried liver, celery, white bread, and rice pudding lacks character. It needs perking up—With-but tered peas substituted for the onions, pickled beets instead of celery, and some brown-crusted rolls in place of the white bread. A spoonful of red jelly will give some life to the rice pudding. Gay dishes, flowers, and table linen will also bring color to a meal. Just see that the colors are compatible. SIX WORDS ARE THE KEY TO KEEPING YOUR FAMILY WELL FED For the inexperienced, serv ing three meals a day seven days a week may seem like a never-ending difficult task. It probably is that, if you don’t know if you’re serving the right foods for good health and if you don’t plan meals by some pattern Six words are the key on plumbing and. heating bills. Also soap and clothes. with a Lemco Water Conditioner made. sold and serviced in Lancaster, Pa. Lynn to keeping your family well fed. items, economy packages and “Nutrition” is the first guide, seasonal items. But don’t let im- That just means eating the pulse buying wreck your bud right food so your family has get plan, the good looks, pep and health "Management” is another key they need. But you build in nu- word to follow. Learn to use trition each day by planning what equipment you have to meals around a milk group, save your time and energy, meat group, bread and cereal Manage your meals so that you group, and fruit and vegetable can serve well-prepared food on group. This is a pattern that a schedule. This takes some you need to follow just as you backward planning from meal would follow a pattern for mak- time to your first preparation, ing a blouse. “Preparation” of the food it “ Buying” is another guide, self is another key to a well- And this means being smart fed family. Don’t depend only enough to plan a budget for on fried hamburgers but try to your family. As you shop keep learn other simple skills in from getting into a rut. Shift 'handling foods. Try to cook, your buying habits to take ad- broil, roast,. braise, or stew vantage of special items, new (Continued on. 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