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Show ommunity lews A2 • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009 Ube Sentinel 42 East 300 North Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Edicor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Sentinel is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. E-mail stories to editor@sfsentinel.com E-mail ads to ads@sfsentinel.com Call us at 801-794-4964 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 The Sentinel. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SENTINEL (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $37.50 per year by J-Marr Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Sentinel, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. Display advertisements, classified ads, Business Index Friday, 12 p.m. Guardian of Your Community News Living on the farm in winter don't have any animals to take care of. They must be dry land grain farmers. Shirlene Ottesen These cold temperatures present a lot of problems, Remember all those hot but when the wind blows days last summer? They're creating wind chill temps just a pleasant memory now then problems seem to mulas we try to keep warm dur- tiply. Over the years we have ing this "cold snap." Hope- learned where the problem fully it's not going to last areas are, but there is altoo long, but for right now ways something unexpected that happens. We have it's a challenge. I get a farm catalog in the several heat lamps in places mail from a company that to keep motors thawed and sells country-style home running. The tractors are furnishings and accesso- plugged in so they will start ries i.e. wallpaper borders, and we have a supply of curtains, knick-knacks etc. ice melt to minimize falls In this catalog they always on the ice. Water and cold have about four or five beau- temperatures are a big probtiful framed pictures that lem especially when a cow depict serene farmsteads falls in the return alley in in the winter. I smile when the barn. Everything comes I see them, because they to a standstill until the cow don't look like our farm on is removed. It's just somea cold winter's day. In these thing you don't want to pictures I don't see anyone have happen on these bitter, on a tractor scraping the cold days. snow out of the yard so the On our dairy farm we feed truck can get around to have calves coming 24/7 feed the cows; I don't see so our son, Paul and daughanyone hurrying around try- ter, Elizabeth are constanting to find where last year's ly watching our pregnant unused heat lamps are; I cows. As soon as a calf is don't see anyone tacking up born, they are brought into plastic over the windows of the calf barn where there is the calf barn or the chicken dry straw and a heat lamp coop; or anyone hurrying to if needed. Bottles of warm, heip a heifer with her first- nutritious milk soon fill born. The people who paint them up and then they're these pictures evidently ei- off to a good start. ther do not live on a farm or Speaking about baby There and Back Again calves - how many of you reading this remember your father coming to the house on a cold, miserable day carrying a newborn calf and putting it in the wood box behind the wood burning stove in your kitchen? It wasn't uncommon at all. It doesn't take much to freeze a newborn calf. They are wet from birth and they just can't stand much cold. They can be in a shed with their mother and still die. In years past, a newborn calf was a real asset to a farm family - more so if it was a heifer. That meant a future milk cow, more milk to sell and more money in the check from the local creamery. So everything possible was done to make sure they lived. Like most farmers, my father only milked about five or six cows and so we didn't have that many calves. If one was bom in the winter and needed a little extra TLC and a place to get warm quick, the house was the best place to have them. I can still remember the smell from a new calf as it was warmed. Now, we seldom go a day without having one born and sometimes can have five or six a day. And, of course, they also come in the wee bours of the night. warm for my feet. I was thinking the other night how my mother used to fill a hot water bottle and put it in my bed when I was a kid. My childhood home was small, but still hard to heat in the dead of winter. I don't know if it didn't have a lot of insulation like nowadays, but I remember my room was cold. There were times when I could make designs in the frost on the wallpaper. When the cold weather arrived, my mother would take the sheets off and put a double It's late and I'm tired so 1*11 bring this column to a close. I have a hot pad in my bed getting a place Courtesy graphic CALVES ON A FARM: The unexpected birth of a calf keeps most farmers awake during the cold winter nights to ensure a safe delivery for mother and baby. blanket on my bed. It was twice the length of the bed and so I had the blanket under me and over me. Like a sleeping bag with no side seams. The hot water bottle would work for a while but eventually got cold during the night. It was always a surprise when I would stretch my legs and accidently touch it. It wouldn't take me long to find the warm spot in my bed again. Stay warm and comfy. At least we're not sleeping under handcarts! Marilyn Atwood/ The Sentinel TRUE FRIENDSHIPS visit or simple act of kindness can bring happiness to the elderly or people living alone. Giving the great gift of friendship Happiness is Homemade Marilyn Atwood A year ago I got a memorable Christmas gift. A friend of mine gave me what appeared to be a zip lock bag with pancake batter in it. It was a cup of Amish bread starter and it came with instructions on how to keep it "alive". Years ago I had tried to establish the Amish baking tradition and it was too hard. It took eight days of stirring and two days of "feeding" so that on the tenth day I could bake "Friendship Bread". The instructions said to share 2 or 3 starts with friends so they can bake bread every ten days too. That was the hard part for me, finding someone who really wanted to bake that often, I accepted the gift with a smile and a thank you. My mother use to tell me, "If at first you don't succeed try, try again." I decided to give Amish bread another try but this time make the recipe healthier. I cut out half of the fat and used whole wheat flour. Adding grated apples made the bread moist and delicious. Baking it in mini loaves made for smaller portions. After all the changes, my bread was more like a muffin than a dessert. Those watching their sugar intake could eat it without feeling guilty, and my family loved the new recipe. My friends are the reason I keep making Amish 1 1/2 teaspoons baking I have a freezer full of Amish starter that I never gave away soda and a list of friends I like to 3/4 teaspoon salt remember at Christmas time. 3 teaspoons cinnamon If any of them like the bread 1 1/2 cups sugar and want to try baking it, I 3/4 cup oil will gladly give them a starter, 4 large eggs, beaten recipes and the instructions. I 3/4 cup milk * will also give them a warn3/4 cup applesauce ing that they might become 1 1/2 cups grated apples addicted to it and feel like a 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla slave spending so much time 1 1/2 cups Amish Friendbaking and washing dishes. ship Bread starter They can weigh the pros and 1 large box instant vacons and then decide if giv- nilla pudding (3/4 cup) * ing a gift of friendship is really worth it. Grease three 9x5 inch loaf pans or 7 mini loaf pans. Amish Apple Friendship Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Dust the Bread greased pans with half of the Marilyn Atwood 3 cups flour (half whole mixture. Set aside the rest to be used later. In a bowl, wheat) * This month I will be bak2 teaspoons baking pow- whisk together flour, baking powder, soda, salt and cining more than every ten days. der bread. Gerrie is a neighbor who lost her husband this past year and now lives alone. She likes my bread and even asked me for a starter. Giving her bread saves her the hassle of making her own. My friend, Phoebe, had a stroke several years ago and relies on her husband to cook their meals. Friendship bread is a treat that she and her husband really appreciate. Then there is sweet Cleo, 90 years old and restricted on what she can eat. When I deliver a loaf of bread to her she seems overjoyed to get it. It makes me happy seeing her eyes light up and her bright smile as she says "thank you" several times. namon. Set aside. In a large non metal mixing bowl combine sugar, oil and eggs. Use a large wooden spoon to stir. Add milk, applesauce, grated apples and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients. Add Amish starter and vanilla pudding. Stir just until blended. Pour into prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle the top with the remaining cinnamon and sugar mixture. Bake at 350 degrees: large loafs for about 50 minutes and mini loaves about 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from the pan. Cool completely on a wire rack then wrap in plastic wrap.* I use food storage items so I can rotate my wheat, powdered milk and large cans of pudding. * i |