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C8 -Sunday News, September 21, 1980

Year round apples near

Okanagan apples could be available year round

Advances in research in
controlled atmosphere
storage may make Okanagan
apples available year round,
according to Tom Edwards,
Research Co-ordinator of
B.C. Tree Fruits Limited.

The company is con-
sidering limited storage tests
based on recent findings at
‘the agricultural research
station at Kentville, Nova
Scotia.

Working with the
McIntosh apple, researchers
there claim that high quality
Macs with a longer shelf-life
will soon be available to the
consumer 12 months a year.
Under the present system of
storage, quality is reduced in
about six months.

By making the large
storage rooms air-tight,
lowering the oxygen level to
1% or less and raising the
temperature to ap-
proximately 2.8° Centigrade,

they believe storage
potential for the apples
doubles.

Edwards comments that
transferring research results
to commercial application
must be done with caution to

food

Edwards agrees that a few
changes will have to be made
in the present system if
results are satisfactory.

More refined measuring
and monitoring equipment
are needed because of close
tolerances in oxygen and

be certain that fruit grown in
the Okanagan valley reacts
the same as in other areas.

“We will make limited
tests initially and if we find
there is an added storage
potential, we would embark
on a limited commercial
application.”

He says that B.C. Tree
Fruits would expand the low
oxygen procedure in line
with marketing strategy from
that point.

Polynesian pork
in barbecue sauce

POLYNESIAN PORK
WITH BARBECUE SAUCE

1 Ib. pork steak (use pork
shoulder steak, boneless

butt
or pork chops)

¥% cup chopped onions

% cup ketchup

'‘% cup pineapple juice
(from 14 oz. can of
pineapple chunks)

‘A tsp. salt

‘4 tsp. Worsestershire sauce

1 tbsp. vinegar

1 tbsp. brown sugar

‘4 tsp dry mustard

| green pepper cutin [inch
squares

1 14-02 can pineapple
chunks

Remove bones from pork
steaks Cut meat in strips
lin x'41n Place pork strips
in fry pan Mix the next &

ingredicnots to make a

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barbecue sauce. Pour
barbecue sauce over pork.
Cover pan (use foil if pan has
no lid) and cook 350 degrees
for 25 minutes. If you are not
using an electric fry pan,
place pan on range element
and cook at high heat until
pork 1s hot. Turn heat to
medium or low so that meat
will not catch and continue
cooking for a total of 25
minutes. Add green pepper
and pineapple chunks after

meat has cooked for [5
minutes Str Continue
cooking for 10° minutes

Serve with rice and a salad to
make a dehcious meal

This
made

dish 1s) also pood
without the green
peppers and the pincapple
If pineapple 13 not used
substitute another fruit yurce

for the pineapple juice in the
recipe

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“The only = difference
between regular C.A.
storage and low oxygen
Storage 1s the oxygen

concentration in the air;
about 1% for CO? and 1%
for low oxygen storage.”

carbon dioxide. Other room
requirements such as

refrigeration would be the
same. .

Notes on Nuts

by TROPIK SUN FRUIT & NUT

The story of nuts and fruit
has been told throughout
history mainly because of
their nutritional value, but
also because of the mystical
attraction these food items
have created. Some are said
to have medicinal qualities,
others to promote beauty
and still others to appease
the wrath of the gods.

From time immemorial
these delicious foods have
been a mainstay of our ex-
istence. The oldest known
civilization, the Chinese, use
it in so many of their dishes
that hardly a day goes by
without eating nuts or fruit of
one kind or another

Let's look at each one indi-
vidually in the next few SUN-
DAY editions, a little history,
a little information as to place
of origin and a little mystique

DID YOU KNOW?
Peanuts are easy to grow
So easy in fact, you can do it
yourself as a house plant
Take a peanut with the skin
intact, Surround it with absor-
bent cotton and place it in a

small plastic vial with a hole
in both the bottom of the vial
and in the top of a tight fitting
lid. A pill vial works perfectly.
Fill the vial with water and
allow it to drop through the
bottom. Each day water in
the same manner, repiacing
the lid each time. In about
four or five days a root will
show, measuring approxi-
mately half an inch in length.
Remove the cotton wad with
the peanut and root intact
and plant it in good sandy
soil. Your peanut will start to
grow rapidly. As it’s flowers
develop, the bud (male part)
will fall to the soil and the
female flowers will grow long
enough to touch and eventu-

ally penetrate the soil, thus
fertilizing the plant The
peanut will begin to take

shape and grow Drop by our
shop and we will be happy to
give you a couple of peanuts
to grow

NEXT SUNDAY
on the ALMOND nut

Notes

Freshness & Quality”
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