.Fresh Pears In Festive Relish'
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Winter marks the arrival of many festive seasons. Mother
nature takes this into account when she brings fresh winter
pears as her contribution to the festivities. These royal delicacies
-come in three delicious varieties: D’Anjou, Bose, and Comice.
All three varieties may be found in the markets in good supply
by November. The Bose and Cornice varieties arrive first in Sep
tember and October. D’Anjous are available now, through the
month of May. >
Combined in this festive relish are flavorful fresh winter pears, (
tangy cranberries, and a hint of onion and green pepper. A dash
of ginger adds a personal touch to the traditional cranberry
xelish enjoyed so much during the winter holiday seasons.
You’ll usually find fresh Western pears ripe and ready to eat
at your favorite market. Ripe pears yield to gentle pressure
regardless of color. You can always buy firm pears with con
fidence. They’ll ripen at home in a few days at room tempera
ture, becoming sweet and juicy the way you like them. v
Fresh Pear Cranberry Relish
3 fresh D’Anjou, Bose or . ' 1 cup brown sugar, packed
Comice pears y2 teaspoon ginger
1 lemon, seeded 2 tablespoons grated onion'
2 cups fresh cranberries' cup chopped green peppers
Core and chop pears. Squeeze lemon juice over pears. Grind
lemon peel and cranberries using medium plate of food chopper.
Combine with pears and remaining ingredients. Mix well. Cover
and store in refrigerator. Relish will keep foi two weeks. Makes
about 3 pints.
I
Doctor
in the Kitchen®
by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D.
Consultant, National Dairy Council
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NUTRITION AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
One need only to have children
to be totally interested when the
discussion turns to the relation
ship beween infant nutrition and
mental development.
We all want our children to
1iave as great a mental capacity
as possible. And it goes without
saying that peace in -the future
v -world will depend in no small
part upon . the intelligence of
people everywhere.
If a man is mentally retarded,
ns well as starving, in a foreign
country, he will not be able to
choose what form of government
he wants or needs. He will be sole
ly concerned with filling his
belly. If his children are mal
nourished, hence subject to ar
rested mental development, the
people of that country will not,
as we would hope, be able to
' -demonstrate for themselves the
virtues of a democratic society.
300 Million Undernourished
It’s estimated that approxi
mately two-thirds of the world’s
children — 300 million young
sters — are undernourished , and
have some degree of retardation
of growth as a result of low nu
trition. Thus it is that nutri
tion research is now investigat
ing one of the most important
problems facing mankind.
.What Is the evidence that has
excited nutrition researchers?
Most of the evidence of a rela
tionship between nutrition and
mental development comes from
- 'overseas nutrition studies and
from brain chemistry and animal
, pwavior studies. It has. not been
United States children and family
- situations that have produced the
• evidence, though malnutrition is
>1s serious problem in our nation.
But the so-called developing na
have served as a sort of
laboratory, unfortunately
human subjects whose
could be directly stud
attempts made to improve
The proof of brain damage be
ing caused by malnutrition is
not iron-clad. Genetic and other
environmental factors are difficult
to separate out But overseas
where this has been done, the
evidence is so strong that scien
tists generally now believe that
lack of proper diet, especially if
coupled with infection, retards or
reverses mental development
Brain Growth Early
More than 80% of total brain
growth of the human takes place
during the first three years of
life; If the mother, while preg
nant, br during lactation, also
suffers from malnutrition, the la
ter mental development of the
baby may be retarded as much
as 10 to 25% below normal.
According to UNICEF News,
studies show that undernutrition
definitely affects mental develop
ment and eventual mental per
formance of children. Infants
who show superior mental abili
ties (from early neurological ex
amination) can within a year,
because of poor nutrition, de
crease to lower than normal. Such
changes are cellular and irrever
sible._
' United Mates’ Needs
What does all this mean, to the
United States in terms of our
own people? In my opinion, it
suggests that it is of paramount
importance that we set our own
houses in order, making sure that
no avoidable mental defects con
tribute to the admittedly giant
problems that already beset us
in terms of American individuals
who are unemployable or nearly
SO. Part of the preventive pro
gram must include nutrition. And
within the concept of nutrition,
milk is the paramount food for
the infant and vital in the diet
of . youngsters and pregnant and
laetatiflg woman, whether it be
for healthy physical or mental
abilities. cr
. .. *' •
Disease Tnreat Constant for Livestock Producers
The threat of a disease epl->
domic hovers over the livestock
farmer like a dark cloud. It
never goes away.
Cattlemen remember the black
days of cattle fever that ravag
ed the southeast 40 years ago.
And just 20 or 30 years ago
there were sections of the coun
try where hogs couldn’t be
grown because of cholera.
Hogmen, including those in
North Carolina, dread the
thought of cholera even more
than low pork prices. Whole
herds numbering in the hun
dreds have been completely wip
ed out by the disease in the not
too distant past.
What these farmers may not
be aware of, however, is that
there is a disease of hogs even
more dreadful than cholera —
African swine fever. Fortunate
ly, it hasn’t reached the shores
of the United States. And every
effort is being made,*by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and
the livestock industry, to see
that it never arrives.
Dr. F. J. Mulhem, deputy ad
ministrator of USDA’s Agricul
tural Research Service, in a
speech to hog producers in Ral
eigh recently discussed the
threat of African swine fever
and other foreign disease to U.S.
livestock.
“Some may say nothing could
be worse than cholera,” Dr. Mul-1
her said, “but we are told that
African swine fever kills hogs
quicker and spreads more rapid
ly, and there is not an effective,
vaccine for it.”
He explained that the disease
spread from Africa to Portugal
and Spain and then to Italy just
just a few years ago. Until that
time jt appeared to be contain
ed within Africia.
“We are told that the swine
industries in those countries
have not recovered from that
experience,” Dr. Mulhern said.
Another disease that is a con
stant threat throughout the en
tire world is foot-and-mouth dis
ease. The last case in this coun
try was in 1929. Then, it’s en
trance into the country was
traced to feeding ships’ garbage
to hogs.
“Most occurrences of this dis
ease in countries that were free
usually were found first in swine
that had eaten animal meat
scraps or by-products that orig
inated in countries that had the
disease,” the USDA official said.
The threat of these and oth
er diseases to the livestock in
this country rises and falls with
the incidence of the diseases
throughout the world. With the
rapid modes of world travel and
heavy international traffic of
people and goods, only constant
vigilance at entry points keeps
diseases out of the U. Si. And
sometimes they sneak in any
way.
Dr. Mulhern added that once
disease breaks out, it is diffi
cult to isolate due to heavy
movement of livestock within
the country. This is the element
of the disease threat that affects
virtually every producer.
Elaborate control measures
followed by USDA to keep dis
eases out of the country were
outlined for the hog farmers by
Dr. Mulhern. These steps in
clude patrols along the Mexi
can and Canadian borders in
search of animal smugglers and
checking all animals entering
this country including horses,
zoo animals, pets, etc.
Similar precautions are taken
to see that disease organisms
don’t enter by way of animal hv
products brought ashore by ini
dividuals, in ships stores or by
way of ships’ garbage.
Turning to the problem “that
really bugs us,” Dr. Mulhern
called attention to the some 200
y ,
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million people who come
through U. S. ports annually.
These people have difficulty un
derstanding why they are su
spected as possible carriers of
an animal disease.
They bring in meats in their
hand luggage or in their check
ed luggage sometimes disguised
as ears or corn or in cans mark
ed olive oil, as bread, inside um
brellas, inside money belts, as
cigars, etc., the USDA deputy
administrator described.
“They also bring it in their
personal clothing — hanging
within the arms of their coats
or pinned to the insides of their
overcoats,” he said, reporting
that last year 124,385 pounds
were confiscated from passeng
ers.
‘To the jet-age interests, the
larger planes indicate progress;
to us, they enlarge our night
mare,” Dr. Mulhern concluded.
GETS OFF LIGHTLY
Monday in Lenoir County Dis
trict Court Michalee Harris from
Camp Lejeune was permitted to
plead guilty to unauthorized use
of a car, after being charged
with stealing it. He had a six
month jail term suspended on
condition he not violate any
law for two years and pay a
$100 fine and the court costs.
WARM UP WITH HOT CHOCOLATE
A chill in the air is all that is needed. Serve hot interna
tional chocolate to the jet set or Mexican chocolate to the teens.
HOT INTERNATIONAL CHOCOLATE
2 cups freshly made strong
coffee
2 cups milk
% cup Bosco chocolate fla
vored syrup
% cup heavy cream
Cinnamon, if desired
Brandy or rum,
if desired
Prepare double strength coffee. Heat milk in a medium
saucepan. (Do not boil). Slowly stir in chocolate flavored syrup.
Keeping mixture over low heat, add hot coffee and cream; beat
with rotary beater until frothy. Pour into mugs. Add a lacing
of brandy or rum. Sprinkle with cinnamon or use cinnamon
sticks as muddlers. Serves 6.
MEXICAN CHOCOLATE
2 cups milk % cup Bosco fortified choc
% teaspoon cinnamon date flavored syrup
Scald milk with cinnamon in saucepan over low heat. Stir
in Bosco syrup. Beat vigorously with rotary beater until choc
olate foams. Pour into cups. M'’1' 1 -"•'■vings.
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