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—Lancaster Farming.- Saturday,- March 31. 1973
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Beans for Bargains
Looking for bargains when
shopping for food may well be
anyone’s pasttime these days,
but a better bargain than dry
beans would be hard to come by.
• Budgetwise and nutrition-wise,
dry beans, peas and lentils rate
selection for the shopping list
when economy is the target.
This inexpensive high protein
food is now in plentiful supply,
according to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Agricultural
Marketing Service. The current
crop is expected to total 1.8 billion
pounds, about 13 percent more
than a year ago, so take your
choice from the wide variety
available. Black beans, blackeye
beans, cranberry, pinto, Great
Northern, kidney, lima and pea
beans (also known as navy
beans,) as well as lentils and dry
peas are all items that belong on
your pantry shelf.
Vegetable protein in dry beans
can be supplemented with small
amounts of the animal proteins of
meat, poultry, fish, cheese, milk
or eggs to provide a strong
protein team. And for a bonus you
will get B vitamins, too,
especially thiamine, and also
calcium and iron. The iron
content of beans is high, a cupful
of cooked beans contains about
half of the recommended day’s
needs.
Here is a helpful tip on cooking
beans; You can keep down foam
when cooking such high-foaming
beans as Great Northerns, red
kidneys, pintos, or pea beans by
adding one tablespoon of fat to
the cooking water for each cup of
beans. It is especially helpful in
pressure cooking. However, if
you are cooking large limas, fat
will not be much help in keeping
them from foaming. To prevent
bean skins from breaking, boil
the beans gently and stir very
little.
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Which Bug is
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The top one, the bottom bug
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narrow waist. The termite
has a broad waist. They’re
quite different, actually. If
you have termites or
suspect them in your home,
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Have
You
Heard?
Looking for a different recipe
for bean soup? If so, try the
following recipe.
Grecian Bean Soup
1 pound dry beans
x k cup pure olive oil
1 large onion, cut fine
lor 2 garlic cloves ,
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
Vfe teaspoon rosemary
1 or 2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons vinegar
Salt, pepper to taste
Soakjoeans overnight. Be sure
liquid covers generously, bring to
boil and simmer IVfe hours. Add
olive oil, onion, garlic caraway
seeds, rosemary and bay leaves.
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Simmer until beans are done,
about 2 hours more. (Add hot
water if needed). Add tomato
paste, vinegar, salt and pepper;
simmer 45 minutes more. Serves
six.
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Will Meat Boycotts Work?
Rising food prices, particularly
'meat and poultry, have led to the'
formation of a number of con
sumer groups boycotting meat
and poultry products or
eliminating meat from meals one
or two days a week. There are
many consumers who wonder if
the tactic will work. It could, but
such actions in the past have
proved that this method of
lowering prices will not be long
lasting. Consumers are just not
organized for such a plan to be
effective over an extended period
of time. If meat is eliminated
from enough meals, it will surely
cut back on the demand for meat.
In the final analysis, the price of
a particular food depends upon
the consumers’ choice at the time
of purchase.
“If you think you have in
fluence, try ordering someone
else’s dog around.”— Lois W.
Matson, The Kiester (Minn.)
Courier.
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Save those odds and ends
of material that you are go
ing to throw away. The gar
den hose' that is no longer
worth mending may be used •
to bind yopng trees to stakes
drivei) into the ground. Hun
a wire through the hose and
bend the hose around the
tree trunk to protect it.
<Nail a length of hose to the
bottom of an overhead ga
rage door to absorb the
shock when the door hits the
cement and to weatherstrip
the door.
Old bedspreads can double
as tarpaulins for piling on
leaves to be gathered and
hauled away. You can use
bedspreads when you are
digging a hole and you want
to pile the dirt on something
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