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Show Page Nephi, Utah 8 5. Drain blanched vegetables, pat dry with paper toweling, and spread on drying rack. Pack in' freezer containers and freeze. MteiMiMStiw Message Prom Aargie MICROWAVE BLANCHING CHART These times will hold for most 600 and 700 watt microwave ovens with even cooking patterns which were manufactured after 1978. For optimum results, Happy harvest FOOD PRESERVATION HOTLINE sponsored by Ball is e number can This be accessed Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern time zone) except holidays. Consumers may call with home canning, freezing, dehydrating or related food preservation questions. TO BLANCH OR NOT TO toll-fre- Many a home canner has often asked is blanching really neces- - sary? Traditional blanching, whether done by steam or hot water (scalding), has often become known as a time-consu- ing, laborious procedure. Q. Why do all the freezing and dehydrat- ing books recommend this pre- cooking treatment for vegetables small batches of vegetables, microwave blanching may be the answer. Microwave blanching may not be as effective as water blanching, but avoiding a hot pot of boiling water may be more important to you. Place the pre pared vegetables in a covered casserole or zipable plastic bag, add water if needed, and heat at 0 watts for the times vided (as shown on table) or un- til inner part of product is hot but still firm. After blanching, the pieces should be hot throughout. How to blanch vegetables in a microwave oven: 1. Choose good quality fresh veg- etables before blanching. Wish them thoroughly in cold water Trim and cut. 2. If using plastic bags, line up enough microwave bags on the counter to accommodate amount of vegetables to be microwave-blancheWith the bags standing upright, fold back necks to form a cuff for easy filling. 3. Fill quart bags with about 2 to 4 cups of vegetables and a small amount of water Fill bags only to the bottom of the neck. cenSeal bags, leaving a ter vent for steam. Or put 4 cups of vegetables in a casserole, add water and cover 4. Microwave bags or casserole one at a time at HIGH according to times specified on chart. Wth an oven mitt, remove bag or casserole from oven. Stop the cooking action by dumping the produce or bag immediately into ice water. After cooling pat bag dry press out excess aii; and place 600-70- ch water-solubl- test temperature of vegetables with atom- perature probe. Effective blanching occurs when internal temperature reaches 190 deOmit wagrees F. ter if corn is very fresh. H. and some fruits? Blanching has often been referred to as the beauty treatment for frozen vegetables. It reduces the number of spoilage microorganisms on the product, preserves or sets the color, checks ripening processes, and helps to retain vitamin content. Q. Is there an easy method of blanching? A. You may blanch with steam, hot water (scalding), or in a microwave oven. Steaming is preferable to scalding because some of the nutrients that are can be lost in the blanching water. Steaming retains these nutrients to a greater degree. Microwave blanching will save time when small batches need to be blanched. MICROWAVE BLANCHING If you are looking for a fast, bags in freezer. (Casserole convenient method of blanching blanching - follow 5) A. Area Forecast National Weather Service ; Salt Lake City, Utah From the Internet Wednesday.... Partly cloudy. Highs in the 85 - 90. a , d. Mostly sunny days and clear nights. Unseasonably warm. Highs in the mid to upper 90s. Lows 55 - 65. Levan weather Alfred Godek, reporter Nephi weather Norma Sherwood, reporter Will I Get More Out Of Fruits And Vegetables If I Eat The Skins? Answer by: Georgia Lauritzen, the size of a deck of cards) with Utah State University Extension the skin contains 109 calories, nutrition specialist compared to 93 without the skin. The debate over skins or no Fiber with skin is 0.66 grams skins will likely continue since compared to 0.38 without it. It most people have strong feelings also contains 1.36 grams of iron about which they prefer Howev- - with skin compared to 0.35 er, research finds that vegetable grams without, e A and fruit skins dont make a sig- apple serving nificant difference as far as nu-- contains 59 calories compared to 57 without. The fiber is equal to trient values are concerned. Skins increase calories, fibei; 0.77 grams with the skin comcalcium, iron, copper; magne- pared to 0.54 without. It also consium, manganese, Vitamin C, tains 1.36 grams of iron with the Folacin and Vitamin A. When skin and 0.35 grams without. The most significant differ compared with the governments recommended daily amount, ence in nutrients involves the (RDA) however; the increase is iron content in a potato and the e fiber content in a peat In a relatively minor: A three-ounc-e potato (about serving of a potato with skin, 11 percent of the RDA for iron is obtained whereas the potato without skin provides only about 3 percent of the RDA for iron. The fiber content in a pear with skin increases about gram. If youre after more fiber and iron, stick with skins. But keep in mind, if fruits or vegetables are not properly scrubbed, eatthem with skins also means ing "It is an irreversible process. In 1990, she got her first spin- youre exposing yourself to pesticide residues. ning wheel. She spent several and hours spinning happy doing it, she said. Christmas dinner three-ounc- three-ounc- Spinner of yam , not tales Old skills we si alive in BfepM home one-ha- lf prepared for carding. Ym can buy it already washed, clean and s Correspondent carded, she said. However she enjoys the whole process. It can also be tedious to pre Kathy Webb, Nephi, is a spinner, not of tales but of yam ofthe pare the loom. It takes a great deal finest quality The yam is fine enough to get of time to get the her into the sort of trouble the loom threaded young maiden encounters in the and ready for a fairy story of Rumpelstiltskin project. The fun straw wag turned to part ia the design wh(jn gold at the spinning wheel. Of and working with course, Webb will never need to the design, she worry about appeasing some said, dreadful dwarf she does her Webb grew up in own work and eliminates the Vero Beach, Flori-nee- d da. I joined the for a middle man. Webb takes the yam of sheep LDS Church and and goats and makes the finest went on a mission silky textured yam. In fact, her to Sweden. She yam is so fine, that she won a then attended sweepstakes ribbon at the Juab BYU in Provo. County Fair for the lace shawl she made from her own hand i spun fiber. Webb is proficient at the loom,' the spinning wheel and also at for a year. I the spindle (a hand held device learned to knit which turns carded wool, and while I lived in other fibers, into yam. "When England, said Columbus sailed for the American continent he did it with sails made from hand spun fibei; said Webb. Each thread in the sail was made using a hand-hel- d spindle because the spinning knit, she said, she Kathy Webb wheel hadnt been invented yet." began to knit thread was then woven, was not very high on my list of with the many others it took to make the cloth, into a sail. things to do that day The loom she owns was a famWebb builds the hand held ily heirloom for another family The loom had been made for the grandmother of the family by her husband. "The family decided to sell it. I made two trips to Salt Lake City in one day to get it - because I was afraid they would litMillard on a about learned can and spinning fromSanpete join those of Juab in the group) tie hand spindle. She joined the change their minds. One other thing which Vfebb of fellow artisans called the Her Utah Valley Yarn Spinners Guild does is dye her wool using natu-Motwo met with the and Mountain Fiber Artisans. group itage For example, mom- - times a month. ral themthink of products. spinners more Itk lot. to read a I had selves as artisans. Itk not always ing glory weed, abundant in most domestic but is an art she said, than just an interest with me, itk of Utah, makes a lovely shade of Some think of the hand spun something I have always want- - green when it is made into dye. hand knit socks she makes as ed to do, she said. She also Alum and iron can make the domestic, however those socks joined a Salt Lake guild and same plant pigment turn into a are more works of art. It is not opened a shop in Provo, Pioneer different color, Different chemicals mixed a necessity to spin in todayb Handcraft Company I sold, the shop and moved to with the dye from plants makes Nephi five months late; she the dye turn into different colors and shades. Sage brush makes said. On their first trip to Nephi, she a yellow dye. I take my dye pot said, she thought she had come when I go camping and do the home. Here, in her home yard, dying projects outside. grandmother Butler owned a to have some ani- - Webb is looking forward to an allowed is to lot she wheel. meant a It pinning me to know she was a spinnei; mals. She has a little black goat international conference on spin-sai- d Webb. Of course, she said, which produces cashmere, ning to be held at Snowbird this no way of knowing Cashmere is not' produced by year. It doesnt often come so had she whether her ancestor enjoyed any certain breed, but by any near and of the 265 places, she pinning or did it only from ne- - goat that produces an undercoat was lucky to getI a spot that is fine enough for the fiber Sometime, would like to cessity. Somewhere hidden inside her Webb said she saves herself have commissioned felt projects has always been the interest in quite a bit by producing the fi- - to do, she said. She is a mother working with fibers, she said r ber she uses. Cashmere costs $40 and homemaker and is busy But, She hadnt known, particularly a pound. She does not sheer the now that she has found the thing what she was looking for but she goat but combs him to get the she loves to do she is looking for did know when she found it. Itfc fine fiber needed. A Merino sheep ward to doing more and more, I thought it was such an a good feeling to know you have she owns, is sheered by a profes- - aional Australian shearer from complishment to have my lace nevera niche. Itk your Payson. This animal is my pet judged as a sweepstakes winner ending opportunity she said. Anyone who works with fiber and I do not want him cut. This said Webb. It meant a lot to me. never runs out of projects, said shearer is very careful and does The yarn, two ounces of fine ' not nick her. fibei; took two weeks to spin. The Webb. such as other Webb said fibers, project took approximately six There is another level of spinto create. I work mostly weeks fur and from as hair to her dogs Samoyed ning which appeals - in the evenings. I usually have fascialso is from relaxsaid. is "It hwp she Angora very well, ' one difficult project and another nating to work with. ing, very satisfying. I one that I am working on makes have also easier felt Webb which moments There were could be tdimia and unpleasant been invited to show a piece at a at the same time. I cant make about starting with the raw prod-- show in Salt Lake City she said, lace and watch TV But I can knit uct, she said. For example, wool She will soon begin creation of socks," she said, Those she entered in the fair can have a pretty potent odor the felt and of the piece. When becomes blue ribbon-qualit- y were is wool it felt agitated, when it is being washed to be By Myrna Trmuntveln Tunes-New- non-Ea- Extended forecast... Thursday thru Saturday... Wednesday, August 28, 1996 ch st 'Pizutten , 632-023- 8 Call for all your real estate needs Buying Selling Market Analysis BEAUTIFUL Brick rambler on 12 acre. 2 baths, family room, dining room, large deck. New gas furnace. Curb & Gutter. $129,500. ONLY FASHIONED CHARM. Large porch and big 1 bath on 13 acre. Sprinkler syswindows tem. Only $79,000. 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