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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1985-12-18, Page 43er, pecetgkger 18,. 1905 How fresh re Fres Turkeys? By Sonja Helm= Would you please explain -how for two reasons: `fresh" turkeys are sometimes One, if you didn't rinse them, held for a month in the your muffins would turn out to supermarket? th o be an atrocious blue, through Wt preservatives are used on them and through. hem when they have a date of some Two, not draining ig would three four weeks away? How add too much water weight to safe are they? Wouldn't a the batter, which contains leavening. With too much water frozen turkey be safer? B. weight, the muffins won't rise. Flanagan, Greenwich, Conn. Iff, however, you would like Donald Houston, administrator to surprise your family with flat of the Food Safety and blue muffins, just dump the Inspection Service of the U.S, berries in as is. Department off Agriculture, FOAM ON CHICKEN SOUP states that he is not aware of any Whenever I make chicken soup, turkey processing firms that establish sell -by dates of more an ugly foam accumulates on than 10 to 12 days beyond the the surface'of the liquid. What processing off a fresh turkey. causes this. Should it be The sell -by dates on whole removed? birds takes place at the Part of the protein in the supermarket level. If your store chicken tissue and bone marrow is actually holding unfrozen that can be dissolved by water turkeys for such a long period of causes this foam. Stephen time, you should voice a Pretanik, director of science and complaint to the management. technology at the National leder because NutraSweet Department of Agriculture Broiler Council, tells us that the makes me dizzy. But Sonja, • warm nee (120E -130F). Margarine regulations do not permit. foam is certainly not harmful;does not need to melt. your reply preservatives to be added to nor need it be removed from the help diabetics like myself,doesn'tis reader Gradually add liquids to dry fresh meat and poultry. If there soup. because whenyou sa the ingredients and beat 2 minutes at is a basting solution that comes Most people remove it, marketplace abounds with medium speed of electric mixer, with the turkey, the ingredients however, because this healthful and nutritious scraping bowl occasionally. must be stated on the label. tannish -gray material is unsightly Add 3 eggs and '/2 cup flour, non industrial liquids,' you are h flour to make a thick the unne, as everybody knows. In Harold McGee's book, "On Food and Cooking," the author states that until 1980 it was thought that an odorous substance called methyl mercaptan was excreted after eating asparagus by particular people who inherited the genes for this anomaly. They were called -'stinkers." Now it appears that anyone who eats asparagus excretes this odorous substance, but not everyone can smell it. Doesn't she like broccoli? READER FEEDBACK: SODA AND NUTRASWEET Heartha Whitlow, St. Joseph, Mich.: "Perhaps 1 can In large bowl, thoroughly mix reply to Marion McCracken of 1'h cups flour with sugar, salt McKee City,. N.J., who and undissolved yeast. Combine requested information about soda milk, '/2 cup water and which does not contain margarine in saucepan and heat NutraSweet. 1 agree with your over low heat until liquids are PANETTONE 4'/2 to 51/z cups all-purpose flour '/2 cup sugar / teaspoon salt 2 packages dry yeast '/2 cup milk ' cup margarine '/2 cup water 3 eggs, at room '/2 cup chopped citron '/2 cup seedless raisins 2 tablespoons pine nuts I tablespoon anise seeds / egg I tablespoon water temperature Turkeys in vacuum-packed and unappetizing, causing the bags last a little longer than soup to look dirty. If you leave those wrappings that allow it in, most of the foam will exposure to air. Never choose a ev tually find its way to the turkey whose wrapping is sidef the pot, where it turns ripped. Federally inspected into a sticky, brownish film. turkeys must be frozen within 72 Removing the foam in its active hours and can keep for a year in state reduces scrubbing time a solidly frozen state: later. • As an added precaution, don't select a turkey that is stacked ODOROUS CONSEQUENCES above the refrigeration line in OF EATING ASPARAGUS the case. The only vegetable my 4 -year old daughter will eat is asparagus, so I make them for incidence of cancer among her often even though they are diabetics is no higher than that of the general population, yet as so expensive. This is embarrassing to ask, but could a group, diabetics have probably harine RINSING BLUEBERRIES IN MUFFIN MIX When 1 bake Duncan Hines Blueberry Muffins why is it talking about fruit juices, which or enoug have carbohydrates in them, plus batter. Beat at high speed 2 calories. minutes, scraping bowl "But I have found the answer! There is one delicious drink remaining which is still sweetened with saccharine. It's Canada Dry's Sugar -Free Tonic Water, and it's excellent. "Incidentally, about the fear .of cancer and saccharine: , According to the American Diabetes Association, the necessary to rinse the there be something about this consumed alot more able u vegetable than the gen p lation." el blueberries before 1 add them t® g. that would make her the batter? Edna Stoats, New urine smell so bad? Brunswick, Texas In 1702 a Frenchman, Dr. Suzette Michels, consumer Louis Lemery, wrote, representative with Procter & "Asparagus eaten to excess Gamble, manufacturers'of sharpen the humours and heat a Duncan Hines products, called little; and therefore persons of a . to say that the berries, which are bilious constitution ought to use packed in their own juice, must them moderately. They cause a • absolutely be rinsed and drained filthy and disagreeable smell in • Distributed with The Goderich Signal -Star, Clinton News Record, Mitchell Advocate, Seaforth Huron Ex- positor, Exeter Times -Advocate, St. Marys Journal - Argus, Parkhill Gazette and Strathroy Age -Dispatch, Wednesday, December 18, Published by J.W. 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