The Old Farmer's Almanac 1976 [1976 ed.]

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184th Anniversary (1792-1976) Edition

192 PAGES INCLUDING PLANTING TABLES, ZODIAC SECRETS, RECIPES AND

Weather Forecasts

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Remember the rolls your mother made? The taste of home, the cloth of red? Pepperidge Farm bakes them still 'tis said. Pepperidge Farm still remembers Turkey stuffing and cold Novembers. Savory spices and fragrant herbs, Friendly smiles and gentle words.

Remember the good life long ago? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Summer

Spring

March: Comes

in like a lion, goes out like

a lamb.

Stoke up tummies on a raw noon with Swiss anci Liversvurst sandwiches topped with onion slices and grilled on wtiite.

Heavy rain. Buds poroing. Rainy Saturday Lunch: Deviled Ham on

April:

a hard roll with lettuce, sliced tomatoes and mayonnaise. Af ay; Grass will need mowing by the 20th. The year's first cookout: Devil Burgers. Combine one 4V2 oz. can of Deviled Ham with a pound of hamburg and then make patties. Great with mustard and ketchup.

June: School's out. Summer's here.

Wedding bells. Whip Chicken Sparead with diced celery and mayonnaise, spread on raisin bread.

Com should be knee-hi;|h by the 4th. Cover pumpemickle with Comed Beef.

Jufy:

Cap it with Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing.

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Two on a beach towel: A giant submarine sandwich made with Deviled Ham, pickles, tomatoes, grated cheese, Swiss cheese, onion rings, mayonnaise and sliced hardcooked eggs between a loaf of French bread cut length-wise.

Winter

Fall

September: Back to school by the 15th.

Try something different in the kid's lunch bag. Chicken Spread, peanut butter and apple jelly on white bread. October: (jolden leaves, frosty nights and pumpkins a sure thing by the 30th. Warni up a frosty ni^t with a Comed Beef Spread Reuben. Grill Comed Beef Spread, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut between slices of buttered rye. November: Celebrate abundance.

Mix Chicken Spread, chopped mushrooms, sour cream- spread on dark rye, top with American cheese, and grill in butter.

December: Reindeer will be seen in Northem skies by the 25th. Spread mixture of E>eviled Ham, chive and hard-cooked eggs on rolls, top with sharp cheese and bake in foil. January: Expect a new year on or about thelsL Try toast rounds with Comed Beef Spread topped with cheese and broiled. February: Spring should follow shortly. Spread toast with Deviled Ham. Top with asparagus and Swiss cheese, and broil. For more incredibly great recipes send your name and address to: The Underwood Kitchen, Box F, 1 Red Devil Lane, Westwood, Massachusetts 02090

UNDER^iirOOD 1976

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Agriculture Extension Directors

Anecdotes & Pleasantries Animals, Gestation & Reproduction Aphelion, Earth in Astronomical Glossary

Auto Laws That Never Rings Berries, how to grow Bell

Bicentennial, Special Section Bottles, at

Sea

Bright Stars

Calendars

93

186-190 153 35 32 154 76-79 156-158 65-89 160-164 29 36-59

1975, 1976, 1977

191

Ads

Classified

172 138-140

Coal Fire, Notes on Conjunctions Continental, not Worth a Army Enlistment Cycles, Phenomenon of Dartmouth College

24, 37-59

84-87 73 136 75 37-59

Dates, Historical

Dawn and Dark

35

Days, Length of Declaration of Independence

35 66-71

Degree Days

132 35 28 37-59

Earthquakes, Determination of Eclipses

Farmer's Calendars Father Neptune's Mail Service Fire, Wisconsin

162 146-149

Days muskets

Fishing, Best Flintlock

Forecasts,

91

74

How Made

35

Foreword, To Patrons Frosts, Dates of Frozen Death Full Moon Days to 1980

22 91

133-137 29

Games

44 156-158 1

Gardening, Berries Gasoline from Water Gestation and Reproduction Table Glossary Holidays Holy Days

Household Hints How to Use Almanac

Liberty Bell

Man Who

Halted an Mars, Exploration Measures, Table of

Army

80-82 28

Montreal, Olympics Weather Moon, Phases, Rise, Set

131

36-58 36-58 74

Place and Age Muskets, Flintlock Northern New England

Skiing Forecast

132

Perihelion, Earth in

35 26-27

Planets

Planting Table

92 140 143 144-145

Puzzles

Answers Rainy Day Amusements Revolution, Sidelights of Recipes Seasons Signers of Declaration

72 80-82, 90

24 66-71

Stars, Bright

Facts about

Morning and Evening Sundials

Sun

Fast

Sun, Rise and Set Survivor of Boston Tea Party Tide Corrections Heights at Boston Time Corrections by Key Letter To Patrons Twilight

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Greater N.

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Middle Atlantic Coastal Piedmont & S.F. Coastal

32

5.

Florida

25 26, 37-59

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