The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-04-20
JOYCE WILLIAMS,
Home Demonstration AGENT

Whether family fare if frugal or
fancy, the onion is most inn
portant vegetable in giving zest
TO a wide variety of dishes, spe-
cialists of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture remind home
cooks. For seasoning no other
vegetable is used in so many
ways. Think Of the many sauces,
gravies, stuffings for meat, poul-
try or fish, salads and salad dress
ings, relishes, main dishes and
vegetables dishes which need
onions for their favor.
Heating chopped or sliced onion
in a little fat helps draw out
and distribute the onion flavor in
stews and stuffings. Many good
cooks let sliced onion stand in
French dressing awhile before mix
ing the salad, as means of
stretching flavor.
Raw slices of the big mild,
sweet onions have always been
favorites for sandwiches, both hot
and cold. The big pale rings are
attractive, tender in texture, and
not too pungent to combine with
salad greens, vegetables or even
citrus fruits. Grapefruit sections
onion rings and crisp lettuce
make handsome salad bowl mix.
ture.
AS a cooked vegetable onions
are popular creamed, au gratin
or stewed with tomatoes. Wher
making creamed medley Of
leftover cooked vegetables, try
cabbage, carrots. celery and onion
together.
Baked Onions are an easy add
ton to an over diner. Peel me
dunn size sweet onions. Cut ir
half crosswiSe. Place in bak
ing dish, Sprinkle with salt ane
pepper and dot with table fat
Add enough water to cover tn.
bottom of the dish. Cover ane
bake in moderate oven (375 F..
about 80 minutes. Top will
crumbs. Then bake uncovered /!
or 20 minutes longer until crumb.
are brown and onions tender.
A PLANT america" movement
is on in the United States. Eacl
state will work toward creating
more interest in the use Of plants
You fit into this overall plan
because each community in Mis-
sissippi must be planted to con
tribute toward Planting America
The basic purpose Of the pro
gram is to use more plants-ir
the fields, for checking erosion
for home and community beau
LITIGATION and Improvement. It i.
designed to cause citizens in every
state to take pride in restoring
the mantel Of gree which once
covered our land.
We are all well with the heavy
loss of soil by water erosion each
year. We have seen good soil lef,
barren after the nutrients have
been leached out. We all know
Of the tremendous loss involved
in dust storms in the west. ANY
program which helps prevent such
is good program.
Our rural areas can be made
more liveable by improving the
farm homes. Orchards and vege-
table gardens, located on a well
Handicapped farmstead make for a
well balanced, happy farm home.
The planting Of rural schools and
The first step in planting Mis-
Church is greatly needed.
is for each community to
adopt a project. Everybody can
get in on it. Costs can be kept
low. Parents and youngsters can
do most of the work. Likely the
boys and girls will be the most
enthusiastic hackers of the pro-
ject.
Community projects could be
planting schrubs, trees and flow
ers around community buildings,
improving a picnic area, replant-
ing a cemetery or cleaning up
weeds along roads and fence
rows. Once start is made, plen-
ty of ways will be discovered to
continue the Identification pro-
gram in your community from
year to year.
C0n1Nc EANYYO