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Make Mine Rare 



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"To pan broil, have the skillet hot on 

 the stove, use not too rapid a fire, turn- 

 ing often. Since fat is hard to digest 

 I eliminate all the fat I can by never 

 frying my steak in grease. To oven 

 broil, preheat the oven. Place steak 

 on the rack about three inches away 

 from the flame. Personally, I don't 

 like the flame too hot. Also always 

 leave the oven door open a wee bit. 

 When about half done, turn. When 

 the steak is removed ■•to a hot platter 



MRS. L E. KNOTTS 

 "With prima roast be«f. I uae the dry 

 method." 



add salt, pepper and butter. 



"Veal is best cooked with a slow 

 moist heat. Because veal is young, the 

 connective tissues are not broken-down 

 enough. Pork a tender meat, must- be 

 cooked thoroughly done to kill^ the 

 trachinae germ. 



"With the moist method, the house- 

 wife may use cheaper cuts of meat, but 

 meat retains more juices when roasted 

 in the pan uncovered. Searing does 

 not improve the flavor nor retain the 

 juices." 



One reason some folk do not like 

 lamb, Mrs. Knotts believes, is because 

 they fail to serve it hot. When lamb 

 fat congeals the meat is not so tasty. 

 Lamb, a tender meat, and easily di- 

 gested might be used in more house- 

 holds if properly cooked. 



A portable electric oven, newly pur- 

 chased, is an important addition to the 

 Knotts household. Food is easily car- 

 ried in it. When she cooked nine tur- 

 keys for a dinner, she used the roaster 

 for some. Some had to be cooked 

 covered and some uncovered. The ones 

 uncovered proved to be especially juicy. 



Mrs. Knotts has two other reasons 



for her interest in Home Bureau. They 

 are Margaret and Elizabeth, two grown 

 daughters. One is a graduate in home 

 economics and the other is enrolled 

 in the same course at James Milliken 

 University. Sometimes it is diflPicult 

 to know whether the girls with thejr 

 home economics work help the nlother 

 with her Home Bureau work, or wheth- 

 er the mother with her Home Bureau 

 work helps the girls with their Home 

 Ec. 



When going through some of the 

 Home Bureau lesson sheets, one of the 

 girls remarked, "Mother do you realize 

 you have here, in a nut shell, practical- 

 ly free, what I am paying money to 

 learn.' You have compiled here in a 

 condensed form what I have to spend 

 hours searching out." 



Several years ago, Mrs. Knotts baked 

 pies for a Home Bureau thrift ex- 

 change. While the mother was away, 

 one daughter, undecided as to what 

 line of work to enter, tried to make a 

 dress. She found she liked to sew. 

 She sewed so well that she won a"^ 

 scTiolarship to the university in Home 

 Economics. The family gives Home 

 Bureau credit for helping to make a 

 happy family. 



When the davenport started "falling 

 out the back," Mrs. Knotts used a 

 Home Bureau lesson to good advan- 

 tage, tore the piece down to the frame, 

 tied the springs and rebuilt it. She used 

 plain blue rep for the covering. The 

 entire job cost less than five dollars. 

 An easy chair and footstool were slip 

 covered in a gay flowered material. 



In planting trees, never allow the roots ,'' 



to dry out. * 



Winnebago Service Company's ninth an- 

 nual meeting held in Rockford, February 

 21. More than six hundred Farm Bureau 

 members and their families were on hand 

 to review the most successful ye»i-Jn the 



"You're Dern 

 Tootin'^ - 



^[ni usin' limestone this year. I 

 know limestone returns Illinois 

 farmers more than 400 per cent on 

 their investment!" 



Consult your County Farm Adviser for soil 

 building information 



Soil Improvement Department 

 Illinois AgricultHral Association 



company's history. Patronage dividends in 

 the amount of $17,450, an all-timr record 

 were distributed. Manager Prey reported 

 that the company serviced 46% of the farm 

 tractors in the county. C. H. Becker repre- 

 sented Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



Feed chicks as soon as they are placed 



the brooder house. 



A HISTORICAL SKIT IN WHICH MEMBgKS APCEABED AS GEORGE AND MARTHA 

 Washington cmd other characters was used at the annual neeting of the Whiteside 

 County Farm Bureau this year to put over iacts about AAA. com loan, soil conserra- 

 tion and other Form Bureau activities. 



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