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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Feb. 26. 1977
Salads liven up Hired’ Winter menus
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - “K home economist, last week,
you’re like me, you get the Mrs. Thomas was speaking
doldrums around this time of as a guest lecturer when
year, and get tired of Lancaster County Farm
planning the same menus,” Women Socieyy 18 en
said Doris Thomas, Lan- tertained Lancaster County
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Heidi Murphy, the daughter of Rose Ann Murphy,
Donegal Springs Road, found the salads Mrs.
Thomas prepared to be so good that she couldn’t
resist eating them straight from the bowl.
caster County Extension
Farm Women Society 6 at
the Farm and Home Center
last Saturday.
To remedy her problem of
“tired” menus, Mrs.
Thomas says she starts
searching through cook
books to come up with new
ideas. And, one way to
brighten up and change a
Winter meal is to serve new
salad ideas.
“Salads are an excellent
way to get our required
servings of fruits and
vegetables,” she said. They
are also a good medium in
which to comouflage dairy
products for those milk
haters in the family.
During the afternoon’s
program, Mrs. Thomas
explained that salads can be
prepared in four different
forms-as appetisers, or those
that stimulate the appetite;
as “main dish” salads, or
those which contain protein
Doris Thomas tosses a salad she prepared while
speaking to two Farm Women groups on the
subject of salads. The ladies later enjoyed the
prepared dishes as refreshments.
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foods; “accompaniment
salads,” or those that ac
company a main meal; and
“dessert salads.”
“Salads-are not difficult to
make,” she asserted, “but,
they are time consuming and
take tender loving care when
you are working with them.”
According to her, nothing
can look so tired so fast as a
fresh green salad.
To help the women combat
the problem of wilting green
salads, Mrs. Thomas gave
some pointers. A very im
portant step in preparing
this dish, she explained, is to
buy high quality produce.
And, onece the produce
reaches you kitchen, it
should be washed off im
mediately.
“Usually, we are in too
much of a hurry to wash
them off, but it’s very im
portant,”, she remarked.
She also pointed out to the
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never be cut - instead, they possible,
should be broken into pieces “Spinach is better than
to avoid bruising them. And, lettuce because it con
salad dressing should never tributes Vitamin A to our
be put on a green or tosssed diets. We need to have
salad until just before Vitamin A every other day
eating. Also, when tossing a because it can be stored for a
salad, it is necessary to take short time,” she said,
special care not to bruise the Vitamin A is gotten from
greens. dark green leafy vegetables
There are also a few tricks and those deep yellow in
in getting added nutritive color,
value out of a green salad.
One is using raw spinach in [Continued on Page 54]
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