t&—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. November 23.197 3< Thanksgiving This week we celebrate Thanksgiving officially for the 111th time. President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, issued the first national proclamation designating a specific date for Thanksgiving. He chose the last day of November. Nowadays we celebrate the fourth Thursday of every November. Setting aside a day to offer thanks to a deity reaches back to antiquity. It seems man has always been aware of the fragility of his situation, of how dependent he is upon many cir cumstances beyond his control for his food supply. Early mankind knew famine and starvation. For this reason, it isn’t sur prising that the struggling early colonists of America ★ GAS RANGES ★ COAL HEATERS' ★ COAL-GAS COMBINATIONS MMIW ass COAL - GAS RANGE 36” Featuring . . . Monarch Cast Iron Glass Coated Center- Simmers Burners Infra-Red Broiling Sta-Klean Oven - It Cleans itself Thermostatically controlled. 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Certainly, America cannot afford to let any one of its citizens go hungry. My prayer is that today more families are sitting down to eat together. The trend has been away from the family table in favor of eating at separate times or eating out, kind of “on the fly.” Something “gets lost” when members of the family don’t sit down together for at least certain meals. Measure Ingredients Properly Correct measuring of ingredients for baking and cooking is important. With accurate measurements, you can usually count on getting top-quality baked and cooked foods. Mrs. Ruth Buck, Extension foods and nutrition specialist at The Pennsylvania State University, offers some tips for more accurate measuring. Unless you’re using presifted flour, you may use up to two tablespoons more if you don’t sift the flour first. Except for the granulated variety, always pack brown sugar into the measuring cup. When you overturn the cup, the brown sugar should hold the cup’s shape. 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The sun shone, the sky was heavenly blue, the chipmunks were everywhere and the little witch hazel trees were covered with feathery yellow flowers. We didn’t see any turkeys but we saw a deer and had time to notice other things too. In the forest one often sees a young growing tree sup porting an old fallen one. Its or other shortening into a measuring cup to eliminate any air pockets. Remove from the cup with a rubber scraper to get the full measure. Measuring liquid ingredients is simple and accurate when you look at the cup measurements at eye level. You may get too much or too little if you view the cup from any other level. Glass cups with pouring spouts and handles are ideal for measuring liquids. Nests of measuring cups in dif ferent sizes are good for dry ingredients because they permit leveling off with a knife or spatula. Use stan dard measuring spoons instead of tableware for accurate measurements. CARPET IN STOCK TO CHOOSE FROM CASH A CARRY 48 HR. 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Tuesday, November 26 Homemaker’s Christmas Meeting at St. Gregory’s Church, 720 State Drive in Lebanon 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. sponsored by the Lebanon County Ex tension. Saturday, November 30 Farm Women Society 5 meeting at 1:30 p.m. at the Brownstown Re staurant. • • at