4-H (Contained)
(Continued from page 16)
Let’s Sew
(May choose any 3) B R W
Head kerchief or neck
scarf .35 .25 .10
Shoulder cover .35 .25 .10
Dust cloth .35 .25 .10
Pot holder . .35 .25 .10
Pincushion .35 .25 .10
Mittens .35 .25 .10
Learning to Sew
(May choose any 3) B R W
Kitchen hand towel .. .35 .25 .10
Kitchen apron .35 .25 .10
Holder .35 .25 .10
Shoulder cover .35 .25 .10
Laundry bag .35 .25 .10
Let’s Make a Skirt and Blouse
(May exhibit 1 outfit
only) B R W
Skirt .1.00 .75 .50
Blouse .75 .50 .35
Peasant apron.75 .50 .35
Lounging and Sleeping Clothes
(May exhibit 1 outfit
only) B R W
Lounging clothes and
accessories .1.50 $1 .75
Sleeping clothes and
accessories .1.50 $1 .75
Work and Play Clothes
(Exhibit only 1 outfit) B R W
Work clothes and ac
cessories .1.50 $1 .75
Play clothes and ac
cessories .1.50 $1 .75
School Clothes
(May exhibit only 1
outfit) B R W
School outfit and ac
cessories .1.50 $1 .75
Advanced Unit
(one in each project) B R W
Dress up clothes and
accessories .1.50 $1 .75
Simple tailored clothes
and accessories ....1.50 $1 .75
New clothes from old
and accessories .... 1.50 $1 .75
Let’s Help Mom and Dad
(Choose any 2) B R W
Decorated tray.35 .25 .10
Bulletin board .35 .25 .10
Collection of pictures
of pets .35 .25 .10
Dust cloth holder ... .35 .25 .10
learning to Be a Homemaker
(Choose any 3) B R W
Lunch cloth and 4
napkins or place
mats . 1.00 .75 .50
Tea towel .. *..65 .50 .35
Comfort protector.65 .50 .35
Divided box ..50 .35 .25
Laundry basket liner. .50 .35 .25
Girl’s Room and Room
Improvement
(Choose any 3) B R W
Portfolio ..75 .50 .35
Pillow .. „.75 .50 .35
Framed picture.75 .50 .35
Waste basket.75 .50 .35
Dresser scarf.75 .50 .35
Pillow cases .75 .50 .35
Storage Projects
1st year (any 3) B R W
Set (3) of step
shelves .1.00 .75 .35
Garment bag.1.00 .75 .35
Shoe rack or bag ... .1.00 .75 .35
Drawer dividers or
boxes .1.00 .75 .35
“Before” and “after”
storage pictures .... 1.00 .75 .35
FOODS
All baked products must be baked
the day before.
Let’s Cook
B R W
Drop cookies, unfrost
ed, plate of 4 .65 .50 .35
Beginning Baking
any o) i-i
Muffins, plain, plate of
4 .65 .50 .35
Biscuits, plate of 4 .. .65 .50 .35
Cornbread, 4 pieces on
plate ..65 .50 .35
Snickerdoodle, 4 pieces
on plate .65 .50 .35
Rolled cookies, no
icing or sugar on top,
4 on plate.65 *50 .35
Butterscotch refriger
a tor cookies (no top
ping of any kind),
4 on plate ..65 .50 .35
Beginning Meal Planning
(Choose any 3) B R W
4 plain muffins.65 .50 .35
4 rolled sugar cookies,
no icing or sugar .. .65 .50 .35
4 butterscotch refriger
ator cookies (no top
ping of any kind).. .65 .50 .35
Yellow sponge cake,
without icing.65 .50 .35
How and Whys for Young Cooks
(May choose any 3) B R W
Gingerbread, % pan .. .65 .50 .35
Baking powder bis
cuits, plate of 4 ... .65 .50 .35
Plain rolls, plate of 4.. .65 .50 .35
White bread, 1-lb.
loaf .1.00 .75 .50
Whole wheat bread,
1-lb. loaf .1.00 ,.75 .50
The Frontier Woman . . .
Canning Season Tips Offered
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE, Homemaking Editor
Now canning is in full swing.
I hope you have a stiff vegetable
brush at your house. They cost
only 10 or 15 cents and they’re
so handy the year around, not just
at canning time. But how could
one get along without them when
it’s time to wash cucumbers to
make into pickles, or to brush the
silks from sweet corn before cut
ting it from the cob for canning
or freezing?
A large measuring cup of quart
size is so handy at canning time.
Some recipes call for cup meas
urements and some by weight,
but in either case you’ll find the
large measuring cups are so handy
for quick measuring.
If you want to give the pickles
a green color, you can use wild
grape or cherry leaves when
curing them in salt brine. Put
them in the brine with the cu
cumbers.
If you’re making pickles by a
non-brine method, a bit of green
food coloring will do the trick.
But remember that olive green is
the natural shade for most pickles.
Sweet gherkins, or sliced crisp
pickles are nice when a darker
green.
Canned pears are rather flat in
flavor. You can add more flavor
to them by using the juice and
rind of half an orange to each
quart of syrup. Or you can use
stick cinnamon and a few drops
of red coloring. For cinnamon
pears, use two or three table
spoons of red hots (candy) to
each quart of syrup, for some
thing a bit different.
For ginger pears, use ginger tea
(water in which ginger root is
boiled) instead of plain water.
For pineapple pears you can use
Five jars canning, 2
fruit and 3 veget
ables, 1 exhibit per
person, marked
“Hows & Whys” ..1.00 .75 .50
Meal Planning
(Choose any 2) B R W
Plain loaf cake (with
out frosting, made
with animal fat and
whole eggs) .1.00 .75 .50
Angel food cake
(without frosting) .1.00 .75 .50
Yellow sponge cake
(without frosting) .1.00 .75 .50
Pie shell (no filling) .1.00 .75 .50
First Year Food Preservation
B R W
2 jars vegetables, 3 dif
ferent kinds .1.00 .75 .50
3 jars fruit, 3 different
kinds .1.00 .75 .50
Second Year Food Preservation
May exhibit any or all
of the following B R W
3 jars meat .1.50 $1 .75
3 jars jelly, relishes or
pickles .1.50 $1 .75
Emergency dinner or
supper (this exhibit
should contain 5 jars
of food products for a
well-balanced dinner
or supper that may
be prepared within
an hour’s time. Send
the year must be in
dicated) .1.50 $1 .75
complete menu for
this meal. Season of
year must be noted) 1.50 $1 .75
(Continued on page 18)
pineapple juice instead of water
for making the syrup.
Use tart red plum juice in
stead of water for making syrup
for pears for something differ
ent.
If you’re planning to have hol
iday or party meals next fall and
winter, put up some pears and
add a few drops of mint flavoring
and a few drops of green food
coloring. Put this in the syrup
and cook the pears in it. Red food
coloring may be used and the red
and green or pink and green com
bined for salads for party fare.
— tfw —
Mrs. Martin Strong
Wins Subscription—
O’Neill, Nebr.
727 East Grant
Dear Friend Blanche:
It’s been quite a long spell
since I’ve written to you and sent
you some of my recipes, so I’ll
scribble two of them down. I bake
these two often, for they are my
favorites.
MY FAVORITE COFFEE CAKE
Two cups flour, 2% teaspoons
baking powder, % teaspoon salt,
% teaspoon mace, two teaspoons
cinnamon, two cups brown sugar,
% cup melted butter or oleo, four
eggs, Vz teaspoon soda, one cup
sour cream.
Sift dry ingredients, except so
da, four times. Add the sugar,
then the butter and blend in un
til crumbs are formed. Beat eggs
slightly, and soda to sour cream,
then add eggs and sour cream to
first mixture and beat thoroughly.
Bake in a buttered 9xl2-inch pan
for 25 minutes in moderately hot
oven of 375 F.
COFFEE CAKE FROSTING
Two egg whites, 1% cups pow
dered sugar, % cup brown sugar,
four tablespoons melted butter, 1%
cupt nut meats.
Combine ingredients. Mix well
and spread evenly over the cake
as soon as it has been removed
from the oven. Return to oven and
bake 10 minutes longer.
MOCK ANGEL FOOD CAKE
Six eggs, two cups flour, % cup
scalded milk, two cups confec
tioners’ sugar, two teaspoons bak
ing powder, one teaspoon salt, %
teaspoon lemon extract, % tea
spoon almond extract.
Beat egg whites until stiff, add
one cup confectioners’ sugar grad
ually. Continue to beat. Beat the
yolks until light and combine with
milk. Sift remaining dry ingredi
ents together and fold into yolk
mixture. Turn into tube pan
which has been rinsed in cold wa
ter. Bake for an hour in moder
ately low oven of 325 F.
MRS. MARTIN STRONG
Agricultural Collections
Up 14 Million—
Nebraska department of agri
culture collections in the last two
years exceeded by $14 million the
amount collected during the pre
vious biennium, Director of Ag
riculture Ed Hoyt said Saturday.
Hoyt said the department re
ceived $73,340,930 in 1953-54 com
pared with $59,279,291 in 1951-’52.
Gasoline and cigarette taxes ac
counted for most of the increase
over the last two years, Hoyt said.
Reorganization Encouraged
in Rural Areas—
The emphasis on promoting
school redistricting is being
changed in the light of a recent
state supreme court opinion.
State Education Commissioner
F. B. Decker said the effort now
will be to encourage county reor
ganization committees to make
eountywide redistricting plans.
The supreme court in a Hitch
cok county case ruled the state re
organization committee has no
veto power over redistricting
plans by the petition method. This
virtually restricts that committee
r~.=
of educators and laymen to con
sideration of county reorganiza
tion committee plans.
Avery Linn, state reorganization
director, will now bend his efforts
toward working with county com
mittees, Decker explained.
The decision also stresses the
importance of the task of a special
redistricting committee establish
ed by the state board of education.
All Roads
Lead to
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FARM-RANCH
At Public Auction
920-Acre Holt County Combination
On premises located approx, equidistant from O’Neill Spencer
and Lyneh, or 4 miles east of Midway store, Vi mile west, on—
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5TH-1 P.M.
Being sold to settle estates of the late D. H. and Hester Han- $
sen. North Holt countyans will tell you this is one of the best
improved and best-producing farm-ranch layouts anywhere.
• UNIT NO. 1 (improved 160 acres); large modern house, t
large barn, double cribs, hog house, Butler bldg., chicken
house, brooder house. 70-A. tilled, 80-A. hay and pasture, *
| completely fenced, good windbreak.
• UNIT NO. 2 (improved 160 acres); 2-year-old modern \
house, mostly farm land. ■
• UNIT NO. 3 (40 acres); pasture and some timber, spring
water.
• UNIT NO. 4 (200 acres); aU pasture, plenty of water.
• UNIT NO. 5 (360 acres); hay and pasture land, windmill.
To be offered as whole or in separate units. Inspection any- t
time. Possession March 1, 1956. See big colored sale bill for t
details. ALSO some personal property.
D. H. & HESTER HANSEN ESTATES
COL. ED THORIN, O’Neill, Auct.-Broker
JOHN C. WATSON, O’Neill, Adm.-Clerk
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