Verhovayak Lapja, 1943. január-június (26. évfolyam, 1-25. szám)

1943-05-13 / 19. szám

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Verhovayák Lapja.

May 13, 1943

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Uncle Sam Calls Gardeners

The Nation is Now Feeding More People Than Ever Before, And Millions of Back-Yard Vegetable Plots Must Help

By ERNEST G. MOORE

(U. S. Department of Agriculture)

Every citizen of this country has an obligation to Uncle Sam •— to grow all the food possible this year. Those who^ have postponed making plans for a Victory garden because they feel their help will not be enough to Count, because they are already forking extra hours, or because Other conditions are not ideal, may be passing up the best Chance they will have to do a real war job.

( Every day brings new demands for food. Never before has one nation undertaken the job of feeding so many millions of people all over the world.

The Department of Agriculture has set a goal of 12,000,000 town and city gardens this year. It is calling on these gardeners to do a real job of growing food. This is no year to play at gardening. If good soil is not available at home or on a vacant lot near by, get busy and help to start a community garden on a site where the soil is suitable.

Few of us realize how much food can be grown by 12,000,000 (determined gardeners. If these gardens average 30 by 50 feet, it i is possible for this army of I fighters on the home front to produce more than 6,000,000 tons pf food.

r If you are concerned with your Own share of that 6,000,000 tons jpf food, here is what can be grown in a 30 by 50 garden located on good soil and well tended: 4 to 5 bushels snap beans fnot all at one time); 12 to 15 quarts lima beans; 100 bunches beets (some for storage); 50 heads cabbage; 45 pounds carrots, #5 pounds Swiss chard (green all Summer); 20 heads lettuce; 30 bunches onions; 50 bunches radishes (several plantings ten days apart; 40 pounds spinach; 3

bushels tomatoes (some for canning); 5 bushels turnips or rutabagas (some for storage).

If you will get out your list of point values for canned vegetables you will be surprised to see how many points you can find in the list above. The tomatoes alone have a value of nearly 900 points, about eighteen months worth of rationed points for one person!

When we consider that every ton of food produced by home gardeners releases a ton for the fighting front, we begin to realize that an hour a day spent in the garden is war work. How effective this work will be depends upon how well we plan and care for our gardens.

Experienced gardeners know that it requires more than good intentions to grow vegetables. Reasonably fertile soil, sunshine and water are absolute requirements. If these are available the gardener can do the rest.

The ideal place for a garden is on your own property. The desire to have the garden close by often leads city residents to plant on land that has been filled in with brickbats, coal cinders, or red clay. It is a waste of time to try to garden on such soil. It is equally hopeless to try to garden near large trees, or where the top soil has been washed away. In such cases a vacant lot may provide the answer, or a plot in a community or al lotment garden located on good soil. Wide-awake city and county officials are eager to help provide land for community gardens, and in many cases will have it plowed free. Some cities will provide free water.

. (New York Times

Annual Garden Section)

UNCLE SAM HAS BIG EARS!

The better to hear the enemy!

The better to blatt him out of the sky!

He needs more ears! He needs them now/ Let's give them to him.

Let's invest 10 percent of ovr pay in War Bonds!

10 percent of o»r pay—every pay day—in U. S. War Bondsl

Victory Menus

Spring Fancy - In Tune With The Season

FRESH RHUBARB PIE

and old-time spring-time delight

Select early pink rhubarb. If tender and pink, do not peel. Cut into 1” pieces. (1 lb. makes 2 cups.) Use more or less sugar depending on tartness of rhubarb. Early rhubarb requires less sugar than later. Shallow rhubarb pies are desirable.

For 9-inch Pie

4 cups cut-up rhubarb 6 tbsp. Gold Medal Flour IV3 to 2 cups sugar 1 tbsp. butter

For 8-inch Pie

3 cups cut-up rhubarb 4% tbsp. Gold Medal Flour

1 to 1% cups sugar % tbsp. butter

For 6-inch Pie

IV3 cups rhubarb

2 tbsp. Gold Medal Flour % to % cup sugar 1 tsp. butter.

Mix flour and sugar, and sprinkle 14 of it over chilled pastry in pan. Heap up rhubarb in pan, sprinkling remaining sugar and flour over it. Dot with butter. Cover with top crust. Sprinkle top with sugar. Bake until crust is nicely browned and rhubarb is well cooked. Serve slightly warm, not hot.

TirneT Bake about 1 hr. Temperature: 450 degrees (hot oven) for 15 min., then 350 degrees (Mod. oven) to finish.

FRESH BERRY PIE

with thick fruity juice oozing through the crust.

Select fresh ripe berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, or loganberries, etc.). Wash them, pick over, and remove stems and hulls. Drain, Use the smaller or larger amount of sugar according to the sweetness of the fruit. Vary tart berries may require even more sugar (up to IV2 cups for 1 qt. berries).

For 9-inch Pie

4 cups (1 qt.) fresh berries % to 1 cup sugar 4 tbsp. Gold Medal Flour

2 tsp. quick-cooking tapioca

V2 tsp. cinnamon (Lemon juice is often used in place of cinnamon with blueberries, 1% tbsp. for 9” pie).

1 tbsp. butter

For 8-inch Pie

3 cups fresh berries % to % cup sugar

3 tbsp. Gold Medal Flour 1% tsp. quick-cooking tapioca % cinnamon (or use lemon juice in place of cinnamon with blueberries)

% tbsp. butter

For 6-inch Pie

IY2 cups fresh berries % to % cup sugar % tbsp. Gold Medal Flour % tsp. quick-cooking tapioca % tsp. cinnamon (or lemon juice with blueberries)

1 tsp. butter

Fill pastry-lined pan with berries, sprinkling them with the sugar and flour mixed. Sprinkle tapioca over when half the berries are in pan and again toward top. Sprinkle with cinnamon and dot with butter. If fruit is dry, sprinkle 1 or 2 tbsp. water over it. Cover with top crust. Bake until crust is nicely browned and berries are cooked through. Serve slightly warm, not hot.

Time: Bake about 40 Min. Temperature: 450 degrees (hot oven) for 10 min., then 350 degrees (mod. oven) to finish.

FRESH CHERRY PIE

the theme of the old song

Make same as Fresh Berry Pie except use pitted sour pie cherries in place of berries; use about IY3 cups sugar for 9” pie, 1 cup for 8”, and V2 cup for the 6'’; leave out cinnamon; and add a drop of almond flavoring. Cover with lattice top. Bake until nicely browned. Serve slightly warm, not hot.

FRESH PEACH (OR APRICOT) PIE

juicy with golden fruit

Make same as Fresh Berry Pie except use sliced peaches (or apricots) in place or berries and leave out tapioca; use the lower amount of sugar. Serve warm.

EVERY STEP IN MAKING A TWOCRUST PIE

1. Assemble ingredients and utensils (pie pans do not need to be greased).

2. Sift flour once, then measure vand put into sifter.

3. Measure salt into sifter, then sift flour and salt into bowl.

4. Measure shortening, add half of it to flour, and cut it into flour finely until mixture looks like meal.

5. Add remaining shortening, and cut into flour coarsely (seiza of giant peas).

6. Measure minimum amount of water and sprinkle it over mixture.

7. Blend it in lightly. If

necessary, use more water — just enough to make it possible to gather dough together. Let dough stand a few minutes to make it easy to roll out.

8. Divide dough about in half for the 2 crusts. Round up larger part of dough on lightly floured cloth-covered board; roll it out for lower crust (keeping it circular) to correct size to fit pan

9. Pat and fit pastry for lower crust down into pan. Trim off any ragged edges. Spread with melted butter, and chill.

10. Round up and roll out pastry for upper crust to correct size for pan, fold, cut slits in it, and chill.

11. About 15 min. before time to bake pie, preheat oven to high temperature.

12. Fill pastry-lined pan with filling. Wet edge of pastry.

13. Lay top crust on filling, trim, but leave %” hanging over edge of pan. Fold this under edge of bottom pastry, seal, form fluted edge.

14. Bake according to directions with each pie recipe.

INGREDIENTS FOR PASTRY FOR TWOCRUST PIES

For 9-inch Pie (or 6 indiv. pies, 3%” diam.)

2 cups sifted Gold Medal Flour 1 tsp. salt

% cup shortening 4 to 6 tbsp. ice water.

For 8-inch Pie (or 4 indiv. pies) IV2 cups sifted Gold Medal Flour tsp. salt

% cup shortening

3 to 4 tbsp. ice water

For 6-inch Pie (or 3 indiv. pies)

1 cup sifted Gold Medal Floui % tsp. salt % cup shortening

2 to 3 tbsp. ice water