Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, February 08, 1922, Page SIX, Image 7
RY VEGETABLES
FOR WINTER USE
May 3e Used in Cooking in About
Sa:ne Manner as Fresh
Varieties Are Employed.
6G0D MIXTURES FDR SOUPS
Housekeeper Should Remember That
Only Vegetables That Absorb
Water and Ccok at Equal
Rates Can Be Combined.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Various dried or evaporated vege
tables may be used iu cookery iu most
of the ways in which fresh materials
are employed. They may find their
widest usefulness, however, ia soup
mixtures or in the preparation of the
ever popular old-fashioned vegetable
bolled dinuer. Drying permits the
serving- of . any fuvorite vegetable
combination at any and all seasons'of
the year.
For those who wish to make a vege
table mixture that will have the max
imum food value and at the same time
be as nearly as possible a complete or
balanced ration, the formulas used in
making evaporated soup mixtures for
the liritish armies may serve ns
guides. One of these mixtures con
tains 20 per cent each of potatoes,
turuipc and peas, 17 per cent each
of carrots, and beans, and 6.per cent
of onions. In another, the combina
tion is 37 per cent of Rotatoes, 19 per
cent euch of carrots and turnips, 10
per cent euch of onions aud cabbage,
and 2% per cent each of beans and
peas.
Differ From Prepared Product
The dried vegetable soup mixtures
on sale differ principally from these
Co.okstove Drier Will Dry Vegetables
Quickly and Successfully.
formulas in having in most instances
a larger percentage of potato, In the
absence of beans and peas, and in
having various minor additions, such
as beets, celery, radishes aud toma
toes.
In making up combinations of dried
vegetables, the housekeeper should re
member that the mixture must subse
quently be soaked and cooked as a
unit, and only vegetables that absorb
water and cook at approximately
equal rates can be successfully com
bined in a dry condition. Such mate
rials as the root vegetables, cabbage,
celery, tomatoes aud onions behave
alike both in their absorption of water
and in cooking, according to special
ists of rlie United States Department
of Agriculture. Any desired com
bination can be made from them.
Dried corn and mature peas and
beans absorb water very much more
slowly and must be cooked from two
to three times as long as materials in
the Hst Just given. For this reason
they cannot be mixed with other
vegetables before soaking. Instead,
they should be separated, soaked, and
partly cooked. Then the other vege
.taboos desired in the mixture, after
previous soaking, may be added and
the whole cooked until done.
How to Dry Vegetables.
Practically all vegetables, after'be
ing sliced or otherwise made *endy
for the drier, should he blanched from
one to three minutes In boiling water
or steam before drying. They should
then be drained and spread in a very
thin layer on the shelves of the drier.
,From time to time the trays should
be withdrawn and the contents care
fully stirred so the product will dry
evenly.
When thoroughly dry the product
should be removed from the drier and
placed In a dark airy room free from
insects. Stir occasionally during the
severn! days lt Is left there to erre.
Then heat carefully again for a few
minutes and store In tin cans, heavy
pasteboard boxes, or paraffined bags.
Cover tightly to exclude Insects and
store In a room which ls warm and
dry.
MEASURING CUP AND SPOONS
Devices Enable Housekeeper to Weigh
Out Correct Amounts in Follow
ing New Recipe.
Cake makiug Is not "pure luck." A
half-pint measuring cup (^lass ' or
metal) for measuring the Hour and
sugar and a standard set of measur
ing spoons for measuring the butter
and baking powder will help in fol
lowing P few recipe, say specialists In
the exp?rimentai kitcktft of the Uni
ted States Department of Agriculture.
POINTS' OUT HUSBAND'S DUTY
Writer Insists No Man May Stand in
the Lightvof His Wife's Domes
tic Ambitions.
"Puzzled husband" writes us that
he is sorely tried by his wife's ambi
tion to bake the family bread, and
other things. Kls domestic affection
and spirit of chivalry will uor permit
bim to' tel! his wife the truth-that
the bread is almost as heavy as a pav
ing stone and quite as Indigestible. So
he goes to work every morning with
a heavy heart and an even heavier
stomach, and is bedeviled with gripes1
and abdominal pains, all day. Greene
M. Farley writes in the Seattle Post
[ntelligencer.
Not only 'that, but his wife ls a con
stant reader of domestic science de
partments and she uses him as an ex
periment station. Tlr* hist week, he
Rays, lie had biscuits that would do for
sinkers on a fish line and an angel
cake that could not be, differentiated
from old putty. The heartrending fea
ture is that she asks him with a
bright smile how he likes lt all, and he
cannot find it in his breast to tell th?
jruth about it; so he lies frankly and
tyholehpartediy. .
All this is getting on his nerves ana
on his stpmach and on his conscience
in the course of a little time he
feels his life insurance ia going to bs
due.
Should he tell her the trutlj, or
Bhould he suffer in silence and let her
go ahead and collect the life insur
ance? .
If life Is worth anything to Mm he
might conclude to tell her the truth
end let her go ahead and procure hei
divorce. She might find a second hus
band with a cast-iron digestive appa
ratus and the present husband ought
not to stand in the way of his wUWto
career as a domestic scientist
SHRINES BEYOND ALL PRICE
United States Has Many That Are Itv
expressibly Dear to the Hearts
of the People.
This old Plymouth church belongs
to the noble dead, to the living only
as trustees, but by way of pre-emi
nence lt belongs to the generations
that are as yet unborn. Civilization
Journeys forward partly on books,
partly upon the memorial days of great
men, who are builders of the state,
apon organized laws and finally upon
?lstorie buildings.
No one can fully value thf Influence
of the Temple In Jerusalem upon ta?
'Hebrew state. In like manner the|
Parthenon was Ilise an invisible teach
er, whose strong hands shaped the
plastic soul of the Gre?k race. There
are half a dozeti buildings In Great
Britain, including Westminster abbey
and St. Paul's, and to take those
buildings out oC England's life would
be like taking "he Intellect out of
man's body.
The people of the United States have
but a brief history, only three cen
turies, but they have Independence
hall. Mount Vernen, that shaft at Get
tysburg, Faneuil hall, Old South
church, Lincoln's house and shrine at
Springfield, and cid Plymouth church,
priceless shrines for the American peo
ple.-Newell Dwight Hillls.
Mexicans Are Great Walkers.
There is a faying lu Europe that
?be Spaniards are the champion walk
ers of the world, and certainly their
defendants in America, th? Mexicans,
art the champions of the new world.
Three nights every week there is a
concierto in the main downtown plazu
In Monterey ano nearly all the Amer
icans in town, including niaay big,
husky transients on the way to or
from Tampico, sit on the park benches
and watch iu wonder while the Mexi
cans walk.
All the young people In town, It ap
pears, walk around and around and
around that plaza, the boys in ons
direction and the girls in the opposite
direction, while their parents and
chaperons und a few aged people
share the benches with the buskj^
Americans.
Ttiis Monster Was Battler.
The curators of the Launceston and
Tascanian museums huve presented to
the Royal Society of Tasmania the pre
liminary account of a nearly complete
skeleton of a giganticfextlnct monster,
recently discovered in the pleistocene
beds of Tasmania.
The animal was os targe as the
largest existing rhinostferos. The new
discovery shows cleaiiy that It was a
rhinoceros-like animal, with a skull
built for aggressive warfare, and at
ieast one rowerful horn on the snout
Evidence of the gigantic battles ic
which this animal engaged is to be
found in the complete smashing and
partial mending of the collar-bone,
and In the crushing and subsequent
repair of the bones of the nose and
snout.
Embroidery Ardent Art
The art of embroidery has been
practiced from time immemorial-it is
said to be as old as the art of dress
ing. The mummy clothes of ancient
Egypt show the earliest extant em
broidery and the "pome-granates of
blue and purple and .scarlet" of the
book of Exodus were of embroidery.
The art reached i? height In the
early middle ages. In Greece and
Rome laws were made to moderate Its
use, but without success. The most
distinguished artists did not count lt
condescension to wake the designs
frohi which the highest ladies in the
hind executed their embroideries. No
workers were more eklMed ia tte vet
\bsn the 'English.
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\ COURT SETS VALUE ON TREES
I -
j Decision That Will Be of Interest to
Many Communities Throughout
the Country.
In Salem, Mass., a resident sued the
town gas light company for damages
caused by the killing of five shade
trees through the escape of gus from a
' leaky main. A verdict for $1,000
against the-company was rendered
$200 u tree. The decision is said to
have been awaited with a good deal
of interest by surrounding towns, for
tree killing from this euuse is a com
mon thing. It has happened many
times in Indianapolis, according to re
port; though complaints have not been
heard lately with the frequency that
characterized them l ack in the days
when natural gas was piped through
the- streets, hastily and no doubt often
carelessly.
The killing of a thrifty, well-grown
shade tree is usually a distinct loss to
any property, commonly lowering Its
value. In view of the time required
for the growth of such trees $200 ls
a moderate sum in the way of damages,
and no amount of money, when it
conies to that, can really recompense
the owner of the trees. They have to
him, especially if he planted and cared
for them, a sentimental value that dol
lars cannot measure. They have added
beauty to his home and he has counted
them among his treasures. To a real
tree lover, a beautiful tree, whether
his own or not, seems almost to pos
sess a personality of Its own and to
see lt struggle for life and gradually
die, brings real sorrow. It is to view
a calamity.-Indianapolis Star.
SIMPLE FOUNTAIN FOR LAWN
Easily Constructed of Cheap Materials,
and Adds Greatly to Attractive.?
ness of Grounds.
This fountain has a double bowl or
basin formed by placing a high-voltage
Insulator about IS Inches In diameter
over a %-inch pipe that is connected
with the water-line.
On the end of the pipe ls a coupling
having a smal nipple and over this ls j
Although Made of Simple Material,
This Fountain Is Attractive.
attached au automobile-tire dust-cap,
which Is pierced with many holes
about as small as the point of a pin.
This cap fits down to the shoulder of
the coupling.-Popular Science Month
ly.
Advancement Everywhere.
The national agencies engaged in
rural social work are reported as be
ginning to co-operate in their pro
grams. The rural church' Is grappling
with its peculiar problem in a dynamic
manner. The rural home is being re
constructed in a new and encouraging
way as a center of all social ^organ
isation. Rural government and legis
lation are undergoing a far-reaching
change. Country communities are
thinking about country planning and
"art as integral parts of commuity life.
Hoad building in country districts is
proceeding with unprecedented rapid-"
?ty, and the country life movement ls
on the verge of an international un
derstanding.-Exchange.
Untactful.
Brown was the possessor of very
large feet and a very bad cough. He
entered, a boot shop and the young as
sistant turned the shop upside down
to find something to fit him. Brown
had just tried on the fortieth pair
when he started coughing.
"jXasty cough" said the assistant.
"Yes." gasped Brown. "Doctor snys
I've got one foot in the grave."
"I shouldn't worry," said the assist
ant. "You'll never get the other in;
it's too big!"
Solved.
Uncle III had just passed his flrsl
night in a hotel and was still curious.
"Son," he inquired* of a bellhop,
"what's that funny contraption out
the window?"
"That's the fire escape." replied the
youth.
"By hickory! I wondered what made
lt so dad-blamed cold in here last
night."-American Legion Weekly.
Too Much to Expect.
Jud Tunkins says he doesn't hope
for a general drop in prices to equal
tlie < a tiuit takes place when you
come to sell a brand-new tlivver that
you have run a couple of days.
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