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New Shortcuts
In Bean Cookery;
Rainbow Cakes
By Violet Faulkner

Time was when you planned to
bake a pot Of beans you started
the night before and then allowed
long hours of cooking the follow
ing day. The Bureau of Human
Nutrition and Home Economics of
the United States Department of
Agriculture has just issued a new
booklet telling how those hours
can be shortened. The booklet.
Dry Beans. Peas, Lentils
Modern Cookery" includes varied
recipes for using the popular bean
and ali its cousins, and points out
that these foods are two way bar
gains. budgetwise, and nutrition
wise.
Instead Of the overnight soak
ing. one short cut suggests boiling
the beans for 2 minutes, then re-
move from the heat, soak for /
hour and they're ready to cook.
How many servings from a pound? :?
The book says you can figure that
Ia pound Of one of these dry foods
will provide z to 9 servings.
Single copies Of the booklet
Leaf1et No. 326. may be obtained
from the Office Of Information,
United States Department of Agri-
culture, Washington Is, D. c.
New ldeo in Coke Mixes
A whole new world of cake mix
glamour has been developed by a
company who pioneered in the
|ready-mix field. Each package of
their silver and devils food cake
mix viii contain a flavor-color
packet. You simply add the con-
tents Of the packet to the mix and
presto! you can have a cake as
colorful as a rainbow. For a spe-
cial birthday cake, there's a.
heavenly pink peppermint; for
grandmother who dotes on spice ;,
there's an old time spice packet.
You can make a golden lemon
cake. wintergreen or two flavors to1
use with the devils food mix, al
mond mocha and chocolate pep
permint.
If you don't care to tamper with
the cake mix, the color packet
can be used to change the color
and flavor Of the frosting by SIM
ply adding it to a butter cream
icing or q cooked fluffy frosting :.
Or here's still another idea, make
a two-tone cake. Divide the pack
ct in half, mix with half the
cake batter and use the remainder
in the frosting.
On the Morket
Ducks and pork are listed as
the outstanding meat buys for the
week. Duck supplies are reported
as the heaviest in recent years. If
you're not familiar with the prep
aration Of duck, roast them much
like any other bird. Remember
to keep oven temperatures low
(325 degree F., and roast in an
open shallow pan without water.
Allow about 80 minutes per pound
cooking time. Like other poultry
you can stuff the bird or not as
you choose. Because the meat Is
rich. many people favor a fruit or
vegetable stufing.
Overall pork supplies for this
winter are going to be slightly less
than year ago because the spring
pig crop was smaller than in 1851.
Right now. though the porkers
are reaching market age and the
number Of live animals moving to
market will increase in the next
few weeks.
Grapes .. emperorS and tokays
-. are still out in front in the
fruit offerings. Speaking of grapes.
another season may see them put
up in l to 2 pound cellophane
bags. The idea was tried out in a
number of stores in Kansas City
this year to test consumer reac-
ton. The retailers feel this may
be. one way to reduce the high
Spoilage losses that result from
shattering in merchandising
grapes. There would be less
handling on the part of the con-
sumer which in turn would also
help maintain the quality of the
fruit. II the idea proves CONNER
cially feasible we may see a num-
ber Of perishables treated in this
fashion.
Cabbage and turnips are among
the best vegetable buys along with