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Show CosucJl lQujJz.t i PUT ROMANCE IN YOUR COOKING Anyone who considers cooking an artistic accomplishment should have a culinary herb garden, gar-den, for the using of fresh herbs in cooking is such a joy to the palate as well as adventure for the cook! And it's easy to grow your own. FOR REMEMBRANCE What herbs io grow? Rosemary of course, a sprig lo put in the potato soup; marjoram and basil for sauces; sage for stuffings; savory and thyme io glorify stews and cheaper cuts of meat. Parsley and chives io add eye and appetite appeal io creamed new potatoes and cottage cheese; fresh mini for the Sunday roast of lamb. Do get acquainted with such interesting herbs as borage, rose geranium, lemon verbena, the minis; tarragon, dill, all of the kitchen herb family. And don't forgel the cat mini, or catnip, cat-nip, for the family call But these nine are lhe most cherished and used of the culinary herbs. Not only can they be used fresh, (experiment (ex-periment until your family is familiar with lhe flavors and go easy on the amount), but ihey may be dried for winter plea sure. A KITCHEN BOUQUET . . . Herbs are such friendly, helpful little plants. They don't seem to mind where you put them. They will grow just a cheerfully in a window box or in a flower pot as they will in a big garden. Your herb garden may be a branching stand to hold pots in a sunny window. Or a strawberry straw-berry jar (You know, one of those pottery jars with pockets for five or six plants) sitting in the sun at your back door. If your only chance of a garden is in one sun-drenched window, use flower pots. GARDNER'S URGE ... If you want an herb garden, then pick up some packets of seeds at your garden or seed store and follow directions on the enve-lopes.The enve-lopes.The seeds may be started in flats containing equal parts of loam, sand and leaf mold. Plant in shallow rows, thinly and evenly.Transplant to pots or plant bands, then to permanent location, though this starting may be eliminated. All they need is sun, good drainage, good garden gar-den soil not too rich, rather on the sandy side. They thrive with very little care and a minimum of water. PIP" 1 If WHEN YOU'RE USING ' HERBS, fresh or dried, ' ' treat them as additional seasonings sea-sonings to the usual ones of salt, pepper, mustard. Use less than a fourth teaspoon, at v first. Mince very fine or tie in bundle to be lifted from the 7 stew or soup. Taste as you go. Karl Brandt, economist, home from Germany: "As a modern power they (the Russians) have neither the military mili-tary nor the effective economic potential that would place them in that rank and they know it." |