824-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 15,1984
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
Recently I went on a tour of
homes which were expertly
decorated for Christmas. As three
of them were neighbors of mine, I
was especially anxious to see
them. They were all very at
tractive but I know that I’ll never
find the time to fix up my home to
the same degree.
There were a few ideas that I can
adopt to my house such as red
bows on the chandeliers and filling
an old barrel on our front porch
with evergreens and ivy. But the
lacey white fans on the trees and
the other time-consuming
decorations are not for me.
Usually I buy a tree the week
before Christmas and lately I’ve
had to decorate it by myself as I
feel lucky if the children manage to
get home, from all over the
country for Christmas Day. I was
in a store the other day and saw a
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Time is
running out for entering your best
chicken recipe in the competition
for a $lO,OOO prize. Deadline for
entries in the 36th National
Chicken Cooking Contest is Dec.
31.
A finalist from each state and the
District of Columbia will be chosen
to take part in the cook-off on May
16, 1985, at the Grove Park Inn in
Asheville, N.C. In addition to the
$lO,OOO first prize, four runners-up
will share another $lO,OOO in prizes,
ranging from $4,000 second place
to $l,OOO, fifth.
Recipes will be judged on taste,
appearance, simplicity and ap
peal. The only required ingredient
is chicken, whole or any part or
parts. The 51 finalists will be
selected by an independent recipe
judging agency and a panel of
nationally-known food experts will
determine the five cook-off win
ners.
It’s easy to enter. Just write your
name, address and telephone
number on the front page of your
recipe and mail it before the Dec.
31 deadline to: Chicken Contest,
Box 28158, Central Station,
Washington, D.C. 20005.
The Chicken Cooking Contest
was first held in 1949 and was an
annual event until this year when it
began an alternate-year schedule.
During the years of competition,
chicken has been cooked in hun
dreds of different ways and over a
quarter-million dollars in prizes
awarded.
Although only five of the 51
finalists in the National Chicken
Cooking Contest take home on of
the $20,000 in prizes, each con
testant is already a winner, having
been chosen the best entry from
their home state or the District of
Columbia. And each enjoys an
expense-paid trip with many
special events in the cook-off city.
Scoring high with judges in the
35th Contest was the Indiana
contestant’s recipe for “Lemon-
Caper Butter Chicken”. Try it and
then enter your favorite recipe in
the 36th competition before the
December 31 deadline.
tree that was already decorated
and on it was a price tag of some
$5OO. This did include the
decorations. Mine might not be as
hpautiful hut it will satisfy me as
we ve collected quite a few hand-
SEMfe fefSte over theyears.
I spend a lot of time writing some
seventy Christmas cards and
putting notes in them to people that
I seldom see during the year. Also
on my list of necessary things to do
are making twenty different kinds
of cookies and wrapping gifts. It
has become a custom to exchange
gifts with our Amish neighbors and
visit a bit.
One other time consuming job is
cutting up a forty pound block of
cheese, which we buy from our
milk company, and wrapping it to
give as gifts to the twenty-five
families that we have invited here
to our home for covered dish meals
over the Christmas season.
Deadline nears for Chicken
cooking contest entries
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LEMON-CAPER
BUTTER CHICKEN
4 whole broiler-fryer chicken
breasts, halved, boned,
skinned
1 2 cup butter
1 2 pound mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons fresh lemon
juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 2 teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon freshly-ground
pepper
1* 2 tablespoons capers plus 1
tablespoon juice
1 large galic clove, minced
1 cup chopped parsley
In large frypan, place butter and
melt over medium heat. Add
mushrooms and saute 5 minutes;
add lemon juice, salt, paprika,
pepper, capers with juice and
garlic. Heat to boiling. Place
chicken in single layer in frypan
and heat again to boiling. Reduce
heat, cover and simmer about 20
minutes or until fork can be in
serted in chicken with ease. Un
cover and cook, turning once,
about 10 minutes longer, or until
chicken is lightly brown on both
sides. Serve with nee; garnish
with parsley. Makes 4 servings.
Del. 4-H'ers sacrifice
gifts for Ethiopians
NEWARK, Del. - The
Highlanders 4-H Club of
Wilmington, Del., has decided to
forego their traditional exchange
of Christmas gifts this year and
instead donate the $5 they
previously had agreed to spend on
each other to the famine relief
effort in Ethiopia.
The club’s donation will amount
to $l6O and will involve all 30
members plus two leaders who had
earlier in the year drawn names
for the gift exchange.
According to 4-H leader Pat
Shaffer, the idea came from the
kids themselves. She said they
originally wanted to go door-to
door to collect famine relief money
but decided that giving up part of
their own Christmas would be
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