And Then There Are Kitchen-Klatter Flavorings!

rx1 ~)·< y c_, )._ VOLUME 24 JANUARY, 1960 NUMBER 1 0 a::: -D '-11 ~ 0:: u -i: J.1 Z' ro -u.i :z z ..,,. < ~ -'- '~ '<'. a_ ':t 0 ::< > ;'"I 0 ,.Jj 0 c':!\ Z ..,, ti' :::> IJ - 0 • PAGE 2 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1960 pool-paved areas around it for chairs and tables. Mae took some good pic tures of it when she was there and I Kitchen·Klatte1~ couldn't help but think how unbe (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) lievably things had changed since I first saw·that part of California many MAGAZINE years ago. "More ThGn Just Paper Ana Ink" Mart and I don't expect to go to LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER, Editcn-. California or Florida this winter as LUCILE DRIFTMIER VERNESS, Associate Editor. we used to do. Even though one of Subscription Price $1.~0 per· year (12 issues) in the U.S. A. the children could drive us out and Foreign Countries $2.00 per year. back, we don't think we'd be as com Advertising rates made known on application. fortable anyplace. as we are right here Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937, at the at home. I can always keep busy with Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia., under the Act of March something ~and Mart reads a lot, so 3, 1879. Published Monthly by the winter days aren't too Jong. ·THE .QRIFTMIER COMPANY Jessie and .Martha are pretty much LETTER FROM LEANNA Shenandoah, Iowa shut-in, but they are cheerful and Copyright 1960 by The Driftmier Company. don't complain. When the roads are free of snow and ice we try to get Dear Friends: We want to thank all of you friends over and visit with them, and of It's cold tonight, the wind is blow who have taken: such an Interest In course we expect to have them here ing hard, and even though we have his sickness and taken time to tell us over Christmas unless they are able only an electric range in the kitchen about children In your family or your to go to Des Moines. Winter in our and not an old-time wood burning neighborhood who had symptoms that part of the country is so undependable range like Mart has always wanted, sounded so similar to his symptoms. that it really doesn't pay to make big it's more snug in this kitchen tonight We appreciate those letters and have plans-it can lead to much disappoint than anyplace else in the house. That's sent them on to Betty and Frederick. ment. why I decided to sit out here at the I hardly need add that we are grate Lucile and Russell are practically table to write to you. ful for your prayers and your con all through with their big remodeling If Kitchen-Klatter were a daily cern. They mean a great deal. job and they both say it was worth newspaper instead of a monthly maga In a way our Christmas will be it, but that they'd never want to go zine I could tell you exactly how our taking second place to New Year's through anything like it again. Lucile Christmas went, but instead of this I this year. We will have a tree on said she really appreciated the whole can only tell you what we are think Christmas Eve here at our house and houseplan when it snowed, everything ing about in the days not too far open our gifts. Afterwards we'll have was icy, and she could go right out away. coffee and fruitcake. There are no into the garage without getting any While I'm thinking about all the longer little children to make Christ where near the snow and ice. Russell problems connected with getting any mas seem exciting and thrilling-Juli has a lot of work to do in the garden kind of a monthly magazine printed, ana and Kristin are poised young girls next spring since piles of dirt have to addressed and mailed right on sched of sixteen and Martin is in seventh be smoothed out, old bricks made into ule, I must tell you two experiences grade and no longer interested in toys. a retaining wall along one side to keep in our own family that have made us But on the morning of December the new back walk from being covered decide we don't do too badly taking 30th someone in our family will be with mud everytime it rains, and many care of Kitchen-Klatter subscriptions. driving to Red Oak to meet the early other things too-he says he just can't Each year we have a family draw, train from Denver, and then the house seem to get real headway made out since our family is so big, and last will be like old times. Abigail and there in the few minutes he has to year Frederick and Betty got Russell's Wayne decided that it would be too garden. and Lucile's name. They made in uncertain to depend upon driving Howard and Mae have their living quiries first-this was back in Octo across the plains at that date, so they room (a big room) all finished now, ber-and found that they didn't take are taking the train. Wayne is sched the dining room finished, and are be a certain magazine published every uled to speak at a convention in ginning on the bedrooms. Margery and week but would like to have it, so they Kansas City and such appointments Oliver have cleaned up after their subscribed to this magazine for them. must be kept if it is humanly possible carpenters and don't plan any more About the second week in December to do so. major work until the house is painted a nice gift card arrived telling Rus Emily and Alison are both past the on the outside. Mart and I are the sell and Lucile that they would re age too where toys have appeal, but only ones who haven't done anything ceive the magazine every week for a Clark is still little enough to furnish to the house this last year. We need year as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. all of us with Christmas excitement. to redecorate the downstairs bedroom Frederick Driftmier. This is a weekly We expect to have a big family gath and paint all of the woodwork at the publication, as I mentioned, and they ering while they are here, and so you back of the house, but I'm going to received their very first issue around can see why our thoughts turn more wait until the windows can be open the end of February. towards New Year's this year. Of before I start this. Then Howard gave Mae a year's course we will get family pictures It makes us so happy to have subscription to a monthly magazine as taken and I hope they turn out as Dorothy able to come down and see one of her gifts and she also received good as the ones taken on Tll.anks us through these winter months when a nice gift card telling her all about giving in 1958. We felt that ccitisider we're tied pretty much to the house. it. That gift card arrived around the ing the number of people to gather She always brings a big sack of pea second week in December also, but together, that big group picture turn nuts with her and I sit at the dining Mae didn't get her first copy of the ed out very well. room table with her and help her magazine until May. So you see, with The only major change since that make the cute little Pixies. things like this happening, I don't 1958 picture was taken was Donna's Now it is time to wind the clock and think we do too badly with Kitchen marriage. She and Tom have had their listen to the late news and weather Klatter. And when mistakes do hap airplane reservations for weeks and forecast. Just about the time you read pen, we surely try to get them plan to be here during the holidays. this we'll have our house full of chil straightened out as fast as possible. They have made many nice friends dren and grandchildren if all goes Our poor little David has had such among the teachers who work in the well. a long, long siege. I couldn't begin to same school system and can find their list all the various opinions and tests way anyplace in all that heavy traffic. Affectionately yours, that Frederick and Betty have told The apartment house they live in us · about. There still is no positive sounds very different from what we and final diagnosis as to what is are used to back here. The entire wrong. thing is built around a big swimming KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, JANU ARY, 1 9 6 0 PAGE 3 h~"~t: •l' o~ant ~1.v" ' Drir o .. c.n o•• ,, /Jyy D tr" 1N'11u61.r C46/1tat EJ -0 ('o ':.. ~?~..... f !. ~,... 0 Rd :~.-.., 1- Fr~eirr J'111.lve r ~ f ... If you will pretend you are standing near Coo fr&ooifs those Storage Shelves inarked on the drawing ro __,OJf. and looking toward your left, it will help to get this straight. (The white surface in the lo 11. II right foreground is the end of the Cooking Island.) There are additional pictures of this section of the kitchen on page 18.

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