—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 31. 1973
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Make Native American Pie
With Luscious Yams
:ps . jgina. »ic,
mellow, with the crunch of pecans for contrast. A native
treasure among American desserts, this pie is easy to make,
even for a beginner—it’s as simple as mashing yams. Now is
the time to try your hand with this great dessert. Luscious,
sugary-moist, golden yams from North Carolina are in peak
supply at market. Make it once, and you’ll make it again.
It's irresistible.
To choose good quality yams, look for those that are clean,
smooth, well-shaped, firm, with copper-colored skin. Do not
refrigerate except after cooking as cold is harmful to this
potato
I cup mashed cooked
fresh yams (3 yams)
Y 4 cuj) butter or margarine,
softened
7 $ cup packed dark brown
sugar
To piepare yams, bake in 350*F. oven 40 minutes or cook
in boiling water to cover for 20 minutes, until soft. Cook,
peel, and mash until smooth. Set aside. Cream butter with
brown sugar Beat in eggs one at a time; blend in com syrup,
vanilla and mashed yams Stir in pecans and turn into un
baked pastry shell Bake in 400* F. oven for 10 minutes. Re
duce heat to 350° F and bake 30 minutes longer, until filling
is set and pastry browned. Cool. Garnish with additional pe
cans and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
Makes - 8 servings.
ERTH-RITE
SEA-BORN
ALGIT
ZOOK &
RANCH, INC.
R.D. 1 Gap, Pa. 17527
Phone 717-442-4171
Yam Pecan Pie
4 eggs
% cup dark com syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup pecans
1 unbaked 9-inch pastry shell
Wish I’d Said
That
“Never leave well enough
alone. It generally isn’t good
enough.” Clarin D. Ashby,
The Unitah Basin (Utah)
Standard.
“Some minds are like con
crete—all mixed up and per
manently set.”-Duane C.
Griggs, New London (Iowa)
Journal.
Sunflowers
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cents a pound, correspondingly
lower yields would make it
competitive.
(Again, 2,000 pound yields have
already been obtained in
southern States.)
The development of new
sunflower varieties with higher
oil content, higher yield, and
increased disease resistance will
improve sunflowers’ competitive
position vis-a-vis the major crops
in not only the Red River Valley
and Cotton Belt but also in other
U.S. farming areas.
ERS research.suggests there
would be ready markets for
oilseed sunflowers were thejLto
catch on with U.S. farmers.
The U.S. market for edible oils
has been growing at nearly 3
percent a year over the past
decade to a total of 11.3 billion
pounds in 1971. Right now
soybeans dominate that market
.with a share of 53 percent. But pit
sunflower oil against the leader
and the late bloomer would seem
to have at least two big ad
vantages;
- As a cooking medium, sun
flower oil gives excellent per
formance and doesn’t develop
off-flavors after repeated use.
Cooking oils are the fastest
growing segment of the Nation’s
edible oil industry-mainly
because of the rapid rise in fast
food outlets specializing in fried
foods and the growth of fried
snack foods.
- Sunflower oil has a much
higher ration of polyunsaturated
fatty acids to saturated fatty
acids than soybean oil-which may
give it an edge with health
conscious Americans in the salad
oil and margarine makret.
Will the 1970’s someday be
recalled as the decade when the
sunflower industry flowered?
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Quite obviously it’s too soon to
tell. However, the commercial
release this year of'several
hybrid seed varieties may be the
star t of something big.
Plant breeders have been
experimenting. with hybrid
varieties for quite a while, but
these hybrids have not been
grown commercially intheUnited
States because of high labor costs
involved in producing the seed
and the difficulty in getting seed
that would be 100 percent hybrid.
However, with the recent
discovery of cytoplasmic male
sterility by a French researcher
and fertility restoration by a
USDA plant breeder, it’s now
possible to produce hybrid
sunßowerseed in much the same
way that hybrid corn and
sorghum are produced.
During 1972 some 300 to 500
acres in the United States were
planted to the parents of several
hybrid varieties in order to
produce seed for commercial
distribution this year. At least
five seed companies are offering
high oil sunflower hybrids to
farmers this spring.
- Hybrid sunflower varieties
have at least three big pluses for
farmers: higher yields, improved
disease resistance, and more
uniform development.
Yields of hybrids on test plots
in Farge, N. Dak., topped those
for open pollinated varieties by
an average of 18 percent during
1969,1970, and 1971. And the best
yielding hybrid topped the best
yielding open pollinated type by
more than 400 pounds per acre-or
24 percent.
Also in 1971 hybrids accounted
for 20 out of 21 entries where
yields exceeded 2,000 pounds an
acre. Larger head size appears to
account tor at least part of the
yield advantage.
Resistance to rust is another
point in favor of the hybrids. As a
rule the hybrids withstand this
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troublesome plant disease much
better than open pollinated
varieties.
And' lastly there’s the matter of
uniform maturity. Unlike open
pollinated types, every plant in a
hybrid field has the same genetic
background. Consequently all the
plants tend to have fairly similar
flowering times, height, head
diameter, seed oil content, and
rust resistance.
This uniformity of development
means farmers can time their
insecticide applications more
effectively and also can achieve a
more efficient harvest. With open
pollinated sunflowers it’s not
unusual to see many green heads
in-fields where the majority of the
plants are dry enough to com
bine.
New Cooperators
The Lancaster County Con
servation District announces the
following new cooperators:
Norman Brackbjll, Providence
Township, 29 acres; Clayton E.
Heisey, Pequea Township, 20
acres; Carl G. and John G. Myer,
Penn Township, 195 acres, and
Jonathan S. Fisher, Little Britain
Township, 96 acres.
WED.
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BROS.
Phone 215 445-6272
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