B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 26, 1965 For the Farm Wife and Family By Mrs. Richard C. Spence, Food Editor Easy Outdoor Cooking For easy fixing and good eating, feature a meal-ma-package the next time you cook outdoors A complete, balanced meal of meat, vegetable and sometimes fruit can be cooked together in an aluminum foil pack age Individual foil packages are a clean, convenient way in which to prepare food at home, carry it, cook it and eat it all in a single container which is easily disposed of. The packages also allow for individual taste preferences. Here is a good idea for those lazy days at the beach when you plan to cook out. The foods can be arranged m their foil packets hours earlier and stored in the refrigerator SPENCE or cooler until cooking time, Appetites are often heartier when you eat to the flavor. Almost any outdoors, so be sure to cook variety of meat or vegetable large enough portions. Plan- may be used, mng a well-balanced picnic meal is just as important as planning any indoor meal. To help ensure a properly bal anced outdoor meal include a vegetable in the meal-in-a package This will also add heating oil money can buy— automatically. Texaco Fuel Chief—the heating oil that burns so cleanly, so com pletely, you get full value from every drop. Give us a call—then relax and enjoy a warm, comfortable home this winter. ffuelChlefl We Give S & H Green Stamps Garber Oil Co. Distributor Texaco Fuel Chief Heating Oil MOUNT JOY, PA. Ph. 633-2021 105 Fairview St. iS)(®)@(®). When foil is wrapped around food in an airtight package, it becomes a small scale waterless cooker. A single thickness of the heavy duty aluminum foil is suffi cient; if you use the regular weight household foil, use a double thickness. For each A foil-baked hamburger serving, tear a sheet of foil dinner has an appetizing large enough to fold over the blend of flavors. Put a ham food with enough left over burger patty, seasoned to around the edges to fold your taste, on the foil; add f'WS) HOW MUCH $ i IQare YOU WORTH AN HOUR TO YOURSELF? Suppose you live on a farm ... To drive into town to deposit or withdraw money from the bank . . . how much does it cost you ... in your time? Have you investigated banking by mail? We supply all the forms and send receipts by return mail. So, if YOU live on a farm—suppose you try banking by mail. You'll be money ahead! BANK HOURS: Main Office and Millersville Branch: Mon. thru Thurs. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Litite Branch: Mon. thru Fri. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Fri. 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. All Drive In Windows and Walk Up Window Open Until 6 P.M. Monday through Friday. FREE PARKING at places listed below. Biing parking ticket to Bank for validation. Grant Street Parking Lot 48 W. Grant St. Suan Parking Lot Vine & Queen Sis. Stoner Parking Lot Corner Vine & Queen Sts. “Serving Lancaster from Center Square since 1889” MILLERSVILLE BRANCH 302 N. George St. LITITZ SPRINGS BRANCH Broad and Main Sts., Lititz Maximum Insurance $lO,OOO per depositor Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Any Buhrman Parking Lot Kendig Packing Lot 36 S. Queen St. Hager’s Watt & Shand Parking Garage over three time*. Bo sure to allow iomc space for cxpnn sion. From 20 to 30 inches of foil will' be needed for each serving, depending -on the particular foods .being wrapped. The packets may be cooked on the coals themselves or on a grill above the coals. The coals should b hot, but nev er blazing. Blazing coals might burn a hole through the foil. If the packets are cooked on the grill, allow 10 to 15 minutes additional cook ing time. Use a shovel, util ity tongs or work gloves to turn the packets. Do not poke holes in the foil. When the food is done, do not make a hole in the wrap, but tear off the crimped edges, zipper fashion. The contents can then be eaten directly from the wrap. A slice of pre-cooked ham makes a delicious combina tion with a slice of pineap ple and slices of sweet po tato. You might top the ham slice with two tablespoons orange marmalade and stick a clove or two into the pine apple slice. The ham slice can also be spread with a mixture of two tablespoons bi own sugar and one teaspoon prepared mustard. Cook on coals for eight minutes per side. sliced raw potatoes, thinly cut carrots and sliced onions. Seal and cook approximately eight minutes on each side. Use tender cubes of beef or veal for an especially tasty meal-in-a-package. If you use a less tender cut of beef for the beef cubes, add a meat tenderizer befo-e cook ing. Combine with a small ripe tomato, several rings of green pepper and onion slices. Season with butter, salt, pep pm- ad a pinch of oregano, mr u ihuck wagon special, combine the meat cubes with pared and quartered potato, onion slices, thinly cut car rot and chopped celery. Use two tablespoons chili sauce and two teaspoons flour in each package as a sauce. Cook for an hour on a grill, turn ing once or twice. Chicken is a barbecue stand by; make it the easy meal in-a-padkage way. Place a chicken piece or two just off center on the foil; add a small pared potato, a small ripe iomato t onion slices, two mushroom caps and two green pepper rings. Sprinkle with two tablespoons packaged precooked rice, one teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper and paprika. Oook until tender, turning the package every half hour. For additional menus you might try pork chops com bined with half an acorn squash or fish fillets com bined with bacon, potato, on ion and seasonings. You can even make Sub marines on the grill. Here’s how: Use a long loaf of Itali an or French bread Cut each loaf in 4 to 6 inch length, (Continued on Page 9)
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