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UPS 14 Herrville Rd., Willow Street, PA 17584 Anywhere 5 Miles So. of Lancaster on Rt. 272 Phone 717 464-3321 or Toll Free; 800-732 0053 (Continued from Pago B 12) -«j- r lot going for them. He said, “We had our first hired man for 11 years. We raised tobacco and steers. The first year they pur chased one cow for their own use of milk. Rather than pay a dollar to have it hauled, Dan walked it three miles home. The following year, he purchased 12 cows. He compares today with then and said, “Now you can’t start small in dairying. Milk companies won’t bother to pick up milk.” Martin has a partnership with son Dave in their 168-acre dairy operation plus 50,000 broilers. “All in all,” Martin said, ‘The Lord’s been good to us. 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By simply drilling a pencil-sized hole length wise through the center of an ear of com, processors can keep the quality of frozen com-on-the-cob much closer to fresh, a Cornell University food scientist has found. The hole allows com-on the-cob to be cooked more qtlfckly before freezing. Rapid cooking preserves texture and flavor and more effectively deactivates en zymes in the cob that damage the kernels’ flavor over time. A major processor of frozen foods is engineering a large-scale version of the technique in hopes of making com-on-the-cob a more popular, year-round addition to menus. C.Y. Lee, a professor of food science and technology at Cor nell’s Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N.Y., was studying the chemistry of natural enzymes blamed for bad taste in com, when he discovered the QITICQ CEjmnED /y (ifirmss^ Ls «r Reg. 329.00 $219.99 # SOTAC CQ»ortoiS m treatment, which preserves qual ities of fresh sweet corn for months while reducing blanching times. Cornell University is seeking a patent on the technique, which was reported July 11 at the Inter national Conference on Technical Innovations in Freezing and Re frigeration of Fruits and Vege tables, in Davis, Calif. “It takes only 3 to 4 minutes of cooking to maintain fresh corn’s sweetness and tender texture if you eat it right away,” said Lee. “However, frozen corn-on-the cob develops a cardboard-like, earthy smell after about six months, principally because it is blanched for less titan 4 or 5 min utes before freezing. This blanch ing is enough to cook the com, but not enough to deactivate natural enzymes that reactivate over time and cause a stale, rancid flavor.” Lee discovered that these en zymes are peroxidase and lipoxy genase and that they are found mostly on the outside portion of the cob and in the bottom sections of the com kernels. In normal frozen-food processing, com-on the-cob cooks from the outside in. By the time enough heat activates the flavor-robbing enzymes in the outer cob and lower kernels, most of the com is on its way to becom ing mush. “The cardboard flavor can be eliminated by cooking frozen com for 13 to 14 minutes in boiling water, but then you get a soggy, watery product,” the food scientist noted. Theorizing that heating com on-the-cob in “stereo” would cook the com faster, Lee improved on nature by drilling the holes. While Cornell’s food science laboratory has almost every kind of food pro cessing equiment, it didn’t have a Vision And Driving UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre) As we age there are some nor mal changes in our eyes. It is com mon for people who experience these changes to become concern ed about their independence and mobility, particularly their contin ued ability to drive a car. According to Dr. Barbara Da vis, Aging Specialist at Penn State University, it is unlikely that most older adults will need to give up their cars. But she stresses it is es sential to have a thorough eye ex am at least yearly by a qualified optometrist or ophthalmologist, as vision porblems do increase with age. As you grow older, one or more of the following vision changes could occur and affect your driv ing: * difficulty in changing focus for near and far objects; * need for additional light to see clearly; * greater susceptibility to glare from sun and headlights; * slower reaction time; * less ability to see to the side when looking ahead; Driving tips: * Wear proper glasses for day and night driving. Use good quali ty sunglasses in sunlight; do not wear tinted lenses or sunglasses at night. * Avoid glasses with wide iem ple pieces (they impair side vi sion). * Keep your glasses clean. * Watch ahead, beside, and be hind you as you drive. Use the rear view minor frequently. * Drive at the approximate Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 29,1989*813 corn-cob driller, so Lee used a ma chine shop drill press. He bored pencil-sized holes through the length of com ears, blanched the ears in scalding water for a range of times and froze them. Every few months the food sci entist assembled taste-testing pan els to try the reheated frozen com. Comparing com from drilled ears (with shorter initial cooking times) to com (cooked longer) from ears without holes, the taste testers said the texture of drilled ear com was closest to that of fresh com-on-the-cob. They rated the overall taste of drilled-ear com as slightly better than com from ear's without holes. “Our sense of a food’s quality involves taste, smell and the so called mouth feeling and that includes texture,” Lee noted. “Ex cept for better texture, there is not much difference in quality from drilling holes in the ears. Where we have succeeded is in improv ing processing techniques for frozen sweet com-on-the-cob by cutting the blanching time by half.” Drilling holes in millions of com cobs should be no problem for commercial frozen food pro cessors, where machines cut ears to standard lengths, Lee said:' One Rochester, N.Y., food processor, Comstock Foods Inc., is jointly working with Lee. Olher research support came from New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. There’s just one problem, ac cording to Lee. His test panels liked com when it was sliced from ears with holes before serving. But the same com, when served on hollow ears, was rated lower. “I think there’s some sort of psychological factor at work,” he said. speed of,the traffic around you, * Drive a car with a clear wind shield. Tinted windshields can re duce the amount of light entering the eye. A clear windshield and use of good sunglasses in sunlight is preferable. 41 Keep headlights adjusted and keep headlights, taillights, and windshield (inside and outside) clean. * Always fasten safety belts and shoulder straps. Drugs and driving. Know the side effects of any drug you take before getting be hind the wheel. The following drugs can affect your vision when driving; non-prescription cold and sinus remedies, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, sedatives, pain kill ers, some prescription dnigs, and even extensive use of aspirin. Information for this article is adapted from “Driving Tips For Older Americans” - American Op tometric Association. If you would like additional information please contact Debra Bryant, Penn State Extension Agent at 717-253-5970 x 239. THII Putl NK AHEAD... 'urM Markati on tag* 3.
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