Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser June is the month for roses. Ours are doing fine as my hus band ordered six new bushes. He planted two in the old bed to re place some that died and ex tended another bed for the other four. There are flowers and more flowers around here just now. Many are inside on tables. The three colors of peonies are mixed with baby breath in one vase. A potted Gerbera daisy sits on a windowsill and a florist’s bou quet of pink and white carna tions is on the coffee table. This last item was the center- - piece at my birthday party. Rel atives and friends got together on a rainy day to wish me well. To top off the flower theme, I was given a gift by my children of a special potted plant to be delivered each month for a year. My husband had to cancel a »*■>/'{ ca AGCO. AlltS The streamlined 95 PTO hp AGCO Allis 8775 is built on a long tradition of performance and innova tion. 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Waynesboro, Pa. 717-762-3193 If Neufchatel cheese was in vented today, we’d probably know it simply as “low-fat cream cheese.” But it was devel oped before the low-fat craze and before regulators changed the rules for how manufacturers could name certain foods. (Re member when low-fat ice cream was called “ice milk*?) Since this cream-cheese sub stitute contained less than 33 percent milkfat and more than 55 percent moisture two of the markers for the “standard of identity” for cream cheese manufacturers couldn’t put “cream cheese” on its label. The product was, however, similar to a French product developed in the town of Neufchatel (the “f ’ is silent and the “ch” is soft, pronounced “sh‘), in northern Normandy. The French version varies widely in fat content, but still, American companies adopted that name for their lower-fat rendition of the prod- some brush with my line and twice I ask Allen to get the net as I caught two nice-sized fish. He was not lucky enough to get any this time. But, there is always next time. •U'UMNO ON rntOITION • A choice of 2 WD or AWD with a front wheel steering angle as tight as 55° on AWD models • Independent PTO with 540/1000 rpm and economy operating mode • Electronic 3-point hitch with Automatic Transport Control GRUMELLI HOLTRY’S FARM SERVICE EQUIPMENT Quarryville, Pa. 717-786-7318 WERTZ FARM & POWER EQUIPMENT, INC. PARt. 516, Glen Rock, Pa. 717-235-0111 What Is Neufchatel Cheese? Roxbury, Pa. 717-532-7261 C.J. WONSIDLER BROS. Quakertown, Pa. 215-536-7523 New Tripoli, Pa. 215-767-7611 Oley, Pa. 215-987-6257 uct. Neufchatel cheese contains about 23 percent milk fat and 62 percent moisture. Thanks to the lower fat content, one ounce about two tablespoons con tains about 75 calories, com pared with nearly 100 calories in regular cream cheese. Today, you can find fat-free varieties of cream cheese, too, made from skim milk. Although Neufchatel substitutes easily for regular cream cheese in most recipes, manufacturers don’t recommend the fat-free cream cheese for baking. Whipped cream cheese also is West Snyder FFA Derek Fetterolf, son of Ken and Joan Fetterolf of Beaver town was recently awarded a $5OO scholarship to the Penn State Conservation Leadership School by the Snyder County Conservation District. Derek, a West Snyder FFA member, was the only FFA member in Snyder County to receive this scholar ship this year. The Penn State Conservation Leadership School is held at the University’s Stone Valley Recre ation Area near State College. Students between the ages of 15 ■and 18 learn about the environ ment and conservation during a two-week program that em phasizes field-based, hands-on learning, group problem solving, and leadership. The Stone Valley Recreation _jhpiune^ Dairy monW Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 10, 2000-B9 available. Teaspoon for tea spoon, it contains fewer calories, because air has been whipped into the cheese to make it spread more easily. Because of that, it doesn’t work as a good recipe substitute for regular brick cream cheese, either. Still another kind of cream cheese, “soft” cream cheese, is made by replacing some of the cream cheese curd with regular cream. Again, because its con sistency is markedly different than regular cream cheese and Neufchatel cream cheese, it doesn’t make a good substitute for those products in recipes. Area is more than 7,000 acres of forest, fields, wetlands, and streams where learning about the environment goes hand-in hand with having fun and meet ing new friends. The summer curriculum is packed with lessons in ecology, watershed and forest manage ment, soil analysis, the study of caves, citizen action, land-use planning, alternative energy supplies, environmental risk as sessment, and much more. During their stay at Stone Valley, students will work in teams of ten with a resident in structor. Derek has selected to attend the second session of the Con servation Leadership School, which will be held from July 9 to July 22,2000.
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