Easter Time For Families To
Meet For Traditional Dinner
Easter Sunday is a time for families to be
together, a time for a festive and traditional
Sunday dinner at its best followed by an
afternoon of old-fashioned egg hunting.
For Easter, 1976, make sure your dinner
treat doesn't end with the traditional ham
or turkey. Accent the entire event with one
of the most delightful desserts we've found
in a long time, a bit of heaven itself, call
"Lemon Filled Angel Food Cake."
After dinner, it's time to involve the
entire family in an afternoon that's sure to
take everyone back to their childhood, the
Easter Egg Hunt. In recent years, the
convenience of candy eggs has made many
of us forget the real fun and value that's
found in using honest-to-goodness,
family-decorated eggs.
i Parents find many ways to discourage
children from gorging with candy eggs on
Easter. But perhaps the best way is with
i the positive reinforcement of providing this
sxcellent alternative.
Decorating real eggs is traditionally
exciting and enjoyable, especially when the
process '.s simple and easy. In addition, the
high food value makes eggs ever more
attractive when they can be used in
delicious recipes after the egg hunt is over.
Double value makes real eggs the real
i prize this Easter, and year-round.
Hard-Cooking Eggs
ij Clean eggs in cold water. Place in enamel,
stainless steel or glass pan with an inch of
water over eggs. Cover and bring rapidly to
a boil. Remove from heat and let eggs stay
I in hot water 15 minutes.
Decorating Tips
Place vinegar into old pan and drop in dye
tablet. When fizzing stops, add cold water.
Skim off foam with a paper towel. Place
eggs into dye and turn with plastic spoon. If
first egg has uneven color, add a tablespoon
of vinegar to dye bath. Try alternating end
of eggs in different colors. Use magazine
cutouts and crayons for extra flair.
Spring Egg Salad Fling
Vi Lime Ring:
3 packages (3 oz. each) lime flavor gelatin
3 cups boiling water
2'/i cups cold water
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water; stir in
cold water. Pour approx. 1/2-inch layer into
9-inch ring mold (672 cups). Chill until
partially set. Stand center egg slices on side
of mold partially in gelatin; chill until
almost firm. Add remaining gelatin; chill
, until firm.
1 Egg Salad;
'A cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
2 tablespoons chopped onion
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
8 hard-cooked eggs, coarsely chopped
1 cup diced cooked chicken, or 1 can (6'/t
oz.) tuna, drained and flaked, or 1 can
(7>A oz.) salmon, drained and flaked.
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup diced avocado or halved seedless
grapes, optional
Salad Greens . .
Combine mayonnaise, onion, lemon juice
and salt; blend well. Stir in eggs, chicken,
celery and avocado, if desired; chill to blend
flavors. Makes approx. 5 cups. To serve:
Unmold line ring; surround with salad
greens. Fill center of ring with egg salad.
Makes 10 to 12 servings.
Lemon Filled Angel Food Cake
1 cup sifted cake flour
% cup sugar
Vh cups (12) egg whites
3/« teaspoon cream of tartar
'/« teaspoon salt
V/i teaspoon vanilla
'/* cup sugar
Sift flour with s/« cup sugar 4 times. Beat
whites, cream of tartar, salt, vanilla until
stiff enough to hold up in soft peaks but still
moist, glossy. Add remaining '/* cup sugar
to whites, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating
after each addition. Sift about '/« of flour
over whites; fold in. Fold in remaining flour
by fourths. Bake in ungreased 10-inch round
tube pan in moderate oven (325 degrees) for
one hour. Remove cake from oven and
invert pan for 1 hour or until cake is cold.
Lemon Filling:
1 (10-inch) angel cake
1 cup sugar
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
xk teaspoon salt
6 egg yolks
Vz cup water
Vz cup orange juice
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
xk cup lemon juice
'/? cup chopped maraschino cherries
Vz cup chopped walnuts or pecans
2 cups whipping cream
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
With serrated edge or electric knife, cut a
slice about 1-inch thick off the top of cake
and set aside. Cut a ring 2 inches wide and 2
inches deep from cake. With fork, lift out
cake pieces and reserve for snacking or
other use. Chill cake while preparing filling.
In heavy medium-size saucepan, blend 1
cup sugar, gelatin and salt. Combine egg
yolks, water and orange juice and stir into
sugar mixture ill saucepan. Cook and stir
over medium-low heat until mixture
thickens slightly and coats a metal spoon.
Stir in lemon peel and juice, cherries and
nuts. Chill until mixture mounds when
spooned. Whip cream and fold half the
whipped cream into lemon mixture. Spoon
lemon cream mixture into prepared ring in
cake. Put top on.
Stir 3 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon
vanilla into remaining whipped cream and
spread on top and sides of cake. Chill
thoroughly several hours. Slice with
serrated edge knife or electric knife.
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Camellia Brings Color
During Colorless Time
It isn't easy to find much
color on the Tar Heel landscape
in mid winter, but one dependable
source of colorful blooms
throughout most of the season
is the camellia.
Until the dogwood and azalea
blooms pop o ut in early spring,
the camellias will be depended
upon to provide the color. Most
blooms seems to be in evidence
in late winter.
Henry J. Smith, extension,
landscape horticulturist at
North Carolina State Univer
sity, explains that camellias are
native to wooded areas in which
they grow un der or among the
trees. In these areas—conditions
of light shade, friable
organic soil with a slight acid
reaction and sufficient air and
moisture — camellias are found
growing most vigorously.
If homeowners would attempt
to plant camellias under
similar conditions, they would
be more successful in growing
healthy, prolific plants, Smith
suggests.
Smith said homeowners who
don't have the camellia's
favorite soils should consider
preparing beds one or two
months prior to setting the
plants.
In locating the camellia in the
home landscape, consider first
the natural d rainage. If it isn't
good, modify «t to suit the needs
of the camellia. If the soil is
heavy clay, change it to a more
friable organic loam by
incorporating sharp sand and
organic matter into the hole.
Practically any well decomposed'organic
matter can be
used. If the soil is light and
sandy, work large amounts of
finely divided organic matter
into the soil to produce a
condition that will hold
moisture better.
After about three weeks, test
the pH of the soil. If the
analysis suggests a need to
modify the p H, a fine sulphur
can be used to lower the pH and
lime can be used to raise it.
For best results, wait until
spring growth appears before
fertilizing. B ut if the soil is
infertile, you may add a pound
or two of an acid-forming
complete fertilizer and incorporate
this with each 100
square feet of soil area. Do this
about two weeks prior to
planting.
The first Federal Office
devoted to forestry opened 100
years ago on August 15, 1876
with an appropriation of $2,000.
From the start, the Forest
Service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture
emerged in 1905 with Gifford
Pinchot as the first "Chief
Forester."
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