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Show THE SENTINEL, MIDVALE, UTAH FRIDAY, MAY 15th, 1942 your garden such as chopped raw asparagus and shredded carrots with a sprinkle of peanuts. Lettuce also is a natural salad by Bureau of Home Economi , in itself-a sizeable piece of it, or U. S. Dept. of Agriculture mo~e easily managed shredded lettuce, with your favorite dressEat The Lettuce in g. When lettuce is low in price Twenty-five years ago lettuce ·t · T d . 0 . ay 1 IS a and abundant you might like to was a mm~r crop. for a change. Here's crop . of maJor proportions-ra nk- try it cooked . mg m some years second only to the way to make tasty, old-fashpotatoes and sweetpotatoes among ioned wilted lettuce. This recipe grown commer- makes about six servings. the . 11 vegetables Into a heavy skillet put about c1a Y· 1A. cup fat. If you have bacon In fact, lettuce has become such a familiar item to many per- on hand, cook several slices brown sons that they hesitate to eat the and crisp and use bacon fat. Add lettuce leaf under a salad. Appar- to the hot fat a small onion, chopently to them it has become as ped. Cook the onion until it turns much of a table fixture as the yellow. Then add 1h cup vinegar. When this is heated, add two china and the silverware. But both etiquette and nutrition quarts of garden lettuce or shredauthorities advise "eat the let- ded head• lettuce. Cover and tuce." It's never wrong to eat cook until the lettuce is just good food placed before you on/ wilted. Season with salt and the table. And lettuce certainly pepper and serve hot-with bits Order Coal Now, Says Slate Defense Council Director SAVING TIME CAN BE AID TO WAR EFFORT Market Basket Smooth Functioning of Home ReleuH HoUHwife For Patdolic DutiH If you are going to use coal next winter-buy it now! That is the warning of Lawrence A. Johnson, Most of us are finding our- state director of the Consumers' · · o f the Utah Sta t e c ounc1.1 selves busier than ever before o·lVISlon · 't a sa1es cam-, and wishing the days had more of De f ense. It 1sn 't . ·t . addiIn hours. than twenty-four pa1gn, 1 ISn a b a 11y h oo f or th e . a so1emn warn· t eres t s, 1·t 1s tion to all of the usual activities coa1 m of business and homelife, there's ing by the government that coal extra work to be done because users must buy coal during the ~e. are engaged in "':ar. Every' spring, summer and fall--or they c1t1zen must make h1S greatsst may have to do without it. There is no shortage of coal. possible contribution_ if we are to There isn't going to be. There is reach the goal of ~1ctory. . The homemaker IS. one of the enough coal underground in Utah fast persons to reahze the need to supply the entire nation as for more time. The _smoothness long as the war can last. But, with which the home IS managed getting it from the mine to the) has a direct influence upon other consumer is a different problem members of the family a~d their according to Mr. Jotufton. Raii ability to accomplish thmgs. A facilities are being taxed by the successful ho~e routine means, shipment of war supplies, and the is good food. First of all, it belongs to the first, coope~atlon among _m~ers peak will be. reached next fall and of green, leafy vegetables. family first go must of the family--and a ~illingness winter. Railroads to do one's part, plus a httl~ more, to the army-and then to the! Nutritionists think so highly of the leafy greens that they recomand second, careful plannmg by public. "It is absolutely necessary, how-, mend one serving of them a day, the homemaker. To do the first of these the re-I' ever, for citizens to buy and store . more if possible. 1 Green lettuce is a good source quirement is a patriotic desire to. coal now," Mr. Johnson declared; do all we can in the fight for'' "otherwise it may not be avan-1 of carotene, which the body can able. Buy it from whom you want change into vitamin A. It confreedom. The second calls :for a survey or where you want, but be sure tains some vitamin B•, riboflavin, by the homemaker to see first how to get it so you will not suffer and vitamin C. And it is a good she can use time to a better ad- next fall and winter." This is the source of iron and calcium. In vantage. Three meals must be only commodity the government general, the thinner and greener prepared every day. The import- has urged the public to hoard. t:ke leaf, the better a source o:f ance o:f food must not be under- Buy only what you will need, but iron and carotene is the lettuce. Bleached lettuce contributes most • estimated, but often better or- buy it now. of these food values, but it rates ganization results in spending less considerably lower than does time in menu planning and meal PATRIOTIC HAIRCUT Margalou Jeanne Vogel of Leb- green lettuce as a source of thel preparation. It's wise to begin saving time anon, Ind., heard that the govern- vitamins and minerals mentioned. long before the meal is actually in ment needed human hair in the Plenty of Lettuce Now Normally, every year around the process of cooking, says Inez manufacture of precision instruthis time the crop of commercially 1 s. Willson, home economist. Meals • ments. She went to Indianapolis, had grown lett~ce is larger than ~t I should be planned before rath~r than at the time when food lS 1 her long blonde tresses cut, and any other bme of the year. Th1s purchased. If it's. possible to p~a.n I then visited the Office of Emer-! y~ar, the spring cro~ probably a week's meals m advance, 1t s gency Management. But the OEM' Will add up to half agam as much just that much better. This often couldn't help; they didn't know as in average years, according to I the crop reporters. Tho~gh le.t-j results in economy because p~n- what to do with the hair. tuce is grown commercially m 1 . ~ rues can be saved by purchasmg quantities of foods which are used On~-dish meals afford enough only a few states, the abundant regularly. Decide the foods that var1ety, too, that there's no rea- 1 supply of lettuce is spread over will be needed before the trip is son Ior meals becoming monoton- ' the whole nation, thanks to modmade to the market, make a list cus. Stews made from beef, veal ern transportation and storage of what and how much is to be or lamb afford an opportunity facilities. I purchased, and check the list of to introduce many co~bination~ of Buying Tips I lettuce, buying are you When foods carefully before leaving the vegetables. And With braised market. This will avoid having meats such as beef pot-roasts, watch for fresh, crisp, tender I to make unnecessary trips in the pork chops, and veal chops there leaves. The crisp head varieties I future-saving time and energy. can be a meal-in-one also. Dif- of lettuce should be fairly firm And now for the preparation of ferent vegetables, noodles or to hand pressure. Watch out for signs of tip burn meals. Here are some ideAs for dumplings are often cooked with can make parts of the head which vea1 conserving both time and energy., the pot-roast. Pork and 1 Begin with one-dish meals. Meats 1 chops_ can be cooked with a bread. of lettuce unfit to eat. This may and vegetables can be cooke~ to-, dressmg, escalloped potatoes, cor_n! be scattered through the head but gether. Less fuel is required; or other :regetables. Sausage 1s you can spot it sometimes by fewer cooking utensils and fewer cooked Wlth beans or potatoes, signs of brown edging around the leaves. serving dishes have to be washed. souash, hominy, apples, etc. Watch out for dead or discolored leaves on the outside--leaves , that you will have to discard Not only j several layers down. are these wasteful, but if you have to discard them you are throwing away some of the best,. of the lettuce head as far as food ~ value is concerned. I Leaf lettuce should be fresh, Avoid dirty, 1 young, and tender. , dry, yellow leaves, or those that have big midribs up the center of the leaf. In The Kitchen Like all leafy greens, lettuce 1 I keeps best in a cool, moist place. After you buy lettuce or bring it in from the garden, wash it, then drain it, and store it in a covered vegetable pan. It usually is best not to cut up • lettuce any sooner than you have ~rritory ID to. The exposed portions make a convenient exit for vitamin C. Also, after exposure to air, letHundreds of our customers have asked if it is tuce sometimes becomes tinged with a reddish brown over the cut necessary to conserve electricity. surface. This brownish coloring does not make the. lettuce unfit The answer is: No. There is no shortage of to eat, but it does detract from its appearance. electricity rww in the territory we serve. You Here's a way to prepare lettuce may make full use and get the greatest measure when you want it in whole, separate leaves for use under a salad of enjoyment from . the Electric Servants you or to put in a sandwich for crispCut out the core of the letness. own. In fact, prudent use of Electric Servants tuce with a sharp, pointed knife. gives you more time for patriotic duties. Then put the head under running water so that the water runs in where you've taken out the core. J. A. Krug, Chief of the Power Branch of the You'll find that you can then slip War Production Board, says: "Electricity -~ too leaves off easily-each leaf separate, whole, and unbroken. important a public service to encourage or invite ' On The Table ' But naturally a lettuce leaf curtailment when it is unnecessary, but I am under a salad or in a sandwich confident that when such measures become does not contribute a whole lot to the food value of either. If you urgent, the American public will respond wholewant to get the good from lettuce, you have to eat it in laFger por-~ heartedly and the results will be surprising." tions. Lettuce, of course, is a perfect!I vegetable for a salad. In everyl season of the year there's some: other vegetable that will go with I it. Right now's the time for the RMth Kilow1111 PfJ111er - th• world .< litusl 114ctM ever-popular spring salad made up s~Ju"a for yot. by Ammctm bmiM.<.· of chopped lettuce and your parLu th• IU~ 9/ ,oww thlll S6NI.S 90% of lhl ,;o, ticular favorites among the fresh vegetables on the market or in I Page Three Home Repairs Can Still Be Made "To those who have had a little bad luck with the bathtub, kitchen sink, or hot water boiler, Uncle Sam will be lenient when it comes to replacing the wornout or broken item," according to a spokesman for the local plumbing trade. It is stated that replacements up to a $10 value can be secured. Above $10, a written statement covering use to which the requested item is to be put to use, would be necessary and must accompany the request for replacing the worn or broken part of fixture. According to reports, those who of the if you if you served crisp bacon added to it, have used bacon :fat. Or like, try it cooled off and as a salad for a change. =========---------.!....--------------~-------------- I ...... Uta h The ate r in Salt Lake City Wednesd ay, May 20 --10 A.M. Sponsored By Utah Stale Nutrition Council and Utah State Press Association I -- I ENJOYM ENT fROM YOUR ElECTRIC . SERVANTS There's No Shortage of Electricity Now This T Ut11ll Power & l.igllt Co. I In cooperation with Salt Lake City Nutrition Committee for the Salt Lake City Defense Council Newspapers of Salt Lake. Davis, Tooele and Summit Counties I i I GET fUll need their wire screen doors or DEER INVADE FIELDS Warden 0. V. Anderson of MI. windows, had better arrange to this week reported more Pleasant convenience earliest their do so at because present stocks may not trouble than usual this spring with deer which have been invadbe replacable by dealers. FHA remodeling money is now ing grain and alfalfa fields. In the Salt Lake City area, available. Make application thru regular channels. FHA loans for where a problem arose during the remodeling houses up to $500, or winter months when deer ranges to be used on farm buildings up were covered and the animals to $1000, are to be had. Remodel- came down into the populated ing covers alterations, new roofs, areas, the deer have gone back basements, general repairs or ex- into the mountains and the deer tending present living quarters in feeding program has been abanthe home to include a new apart- doned for this year. ment to rent to a defense worker. I With housing conditions acute, AMERICAN CONFIDENCE it may pay several local home Undiscouraged by tire ratfcmlng owners to plan on a remodeling and the curtailment of car manujob and enjoy additional income facture, Henry Desouza, Han:ford, fromrent • Cali:f., garage proprietor, broke ground last week for the construcA BABY'S NAME tion of a $10,000 garage, just Mr. and Mrs. Henry MacArthur when most garage men are curchristened their newborn son the tailing their activities. "I have other day. What did they name faith in America's future," he him? You guess it! said. -·- Kittllen • Sllort Course In NUTRITION Conducted By Julia Lee Wright • ...... one of .America's foremost Hame Economists; Director of Safeway Stores Homemakers Bureau; Home Economics Editor of "The Family Circle" .maguine; author of the widely-acclaim ed "Kitchen Cowse in Nutrition." Her services are being made available by Safeway Stores as part of their contribution to helping every housewife give ber family the health benefits of better nutrition. . r • .. I I your chance to really find out H ERE'S what nutrition is all about. Now, for the first time, a food authority trans· lates technical, scientific terms into prac· tical ideas and information you can usc every day - and actually shows you how to make many of the nutritious dishes she talks about. Today every woman who prepares a meal bas a great responsibility in helping to build a stronger nation. Not only for the war, but for years to come. New discov· eries about foods and cooking show that many of ow: old ideas must be changed or precious food values will be lost: So come to this Victory Cooking School - The Kitchen Short Course in Nutrition. Spend a couple of hours listening to Mrs. Wright and watching her as she dramatizes nutrition for you in clear, easy-to-under· stand terms. Bring along a pencil and paper to make notes on the things you will hear and see. You'll gain a lot of good, everyday, practical information that's extremely valuable now and that you'll profit from through years to come. New ideas • • • such as Cooking Vegetables by Color - New Wartime Desserts- Cooking in Less Time - How Nutrition Really Works Where to Get Those Vitamins -How to Adjust Recipes for Titis Altirude - More Attractive Foods - More Nutrition for Your Money! Plan now to attend this Victory Cooking School. Everything is entirely free - and every woman is cordially invited. We suggest that yo. come early and bring the men folks. A Safeway Stores contribution in the interest of a stronger, healthier America. Better Nutrition Means Better Health---Better Eating---for Your Family---for Your Country --- ...._ |