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LEnER FROM JULIANA Dear Friends, This morning's paper gave me the first real clue that spring is on the way. Katharine Lowey, daughter of Juliana and Jed Lowey, enjoys playing her guitar. Several pages were devoted to full-page We hope many of you heard her play it on the Kitchen-Klatter Homemaker Radio advertisements for baseball and softball Program the day before Christmas. equipment. I do feel sorry for the adver­ the February Kitchen-Klatter Magazine. relief from the bustle of Athens. After a tisers because anyone interested in this The next time I see Martin we'll have to leisurely dinner at our hotel we browsed equipment would take one look out the compare notes on this interesting site. through the many little shops selling window and forget the whole thing. It is One thing that struck me was that the souveniers. I'll mention in passing that snowing. The wind is blowing and I know huge columns in the Temple of Apollo many shops in Greece and almost all the that it is cold without even venturing out. were carved out of single pieces of stone. shops on the Peloponnese clost! sqry My daughter, Katharine, is particularly All of the other columns I remember time during the afternoon or durin!ftlfe upset with this turn of events. She was seeing were put together with many dinner hour. As the result most o' · slated to go to Santa Fe tonight to attend cylinders of stone called "drums." shops stay open in the evening w1·h a guitar concert. Santa Fe is about sixty We were traveling in a small vehicle boon to the tourists. . miles from Albuquerque and the road that was a cross between a large van and Bright and early the next mo between the two cities is notorious for a small bus. It just suited our needs. headed for the town of Sparta-ho becoming impassable during bad winter None of us were brave enough to drive the famous Spartan warriors. Tai weather. Santa Fe is over one thousand the Greek roads so we had a young man the hard lifestyle and rigorou~t · feet higher in elevation than at the wheel. Not only was he an excel­ the Spartan men went throug Albuquerque and much of the rise is a lent driver, but he "knew the ropes" and known even today. We did not · stretch called La Bajada Hill. This the shortcuts between points of interest ruins at Sparta. Legend has it tha the morning the radio reported that La and was totally unintimidated by the town of Sparta needed no walls as the Bajada is snow packed and icy. This does huge tour buses that seemed to think men of Sparta were "Jiving walls" to not bode well for travel this evening. they owned the road. I believe there were protect the inhabitants. I found this an Well, if the trip to the guitar concert does more tour buses on the roads than any interesting thought in this day of not happen there will be four very other kind of vehicle. When we stopped mechanized potential atomic warfare. I disappointed high school students. at the archeology site of Mycenae, we wonder if those Jong gone inhabitants Actually, I am not unhappy with the counted more than thirty buses in the slept peacefully at night knowing they bad weather. I have been doing a lot of parking Jot. were protected by their warriors. My cleanup work outside and shall welcome Mycenae was of particular interest to guess is they felt very secure. How many a good excuse to stay indoors and finish me. I had read a great deal about its of us in our "civilized" world can say the organizing some pictures and the famous Lion Gate. It was even more same? remaining slides from our trip to Greece. impressive than I had anticipated. The Just outside Sparta lie the ruins of the Jed and I always seem to come home excavation of this site in 1876 was done medieval town of Mystras. It is the most from trips with partially completed rolls by Heinrich Schliemann who was a very complete example of a town of the late of film in our cameras. There isn't a lot of colorful and controversial figure. He was Byzantine period which encompasses photographic material around home so it most famous for discovering the city of the 13th through the 15th centuries. (It seems to take forever to finish these rolls Troy thus proving that many of the was thriving at the same time that people of film and to get them developed and ancient myths of the Mediterranean area were living in the ruin where I volunteer into some kind of order. were founded in fact. At Mycenae he was my time excavating.) The remaining The slides I am tackling this morning able to find the famous Tomb of structures literally cover a hillside. There were taken on the last leg of our trip Agamemnon by carefully interpreting old are churches, a palace, a castle and a which was to the area called the texts that other archeologists had convent that is still functional. The nuns Peloponnese. This area is the most ignored as unimportant. in the convent do beautiful needlework southerly part of the Greek mainland After a brief stop at Epidauros to see to help support their religious order. I which is linked to the rest of Greece by the Asklepios sanctuary of healing and purchased a lovely needlepoint the Isthmus of Corinth. the Stadium which is famous for its bookmark which I'll treasure. It has a Our first stop was the ancient city of acoustics, we wound our way to the town special place in our family Bible. Corinth. This is the same place that of Nauplia. We all liked Nauplia. It is a Probably the most impressive thing cousin Martin mentioned in his letter in small, quiet seacoast town that was a (Continued on page 22) KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE3

about her collection of purses and DOROTHY beaded bags. WRITES FROM A very popular hobby now is the doll ~ house, and on this page is a picture of the -~ THE FARM house that Peggy is building and furnish­ Dear- Friends, ing. She tells me that "doll house" is not The weather today leaves much to be II the right term for these houses because desired. The temperature is zero, it is •• they are not made to be played with but snowing with the winds blowing 35 miles l to house a person's collection of an hour, a regular blizzard. I hope Frank miniature furnishings or to satisfy a need will soon be through with the chores and to build and furnish a house of a certain inside where it is warm. The cattle don't era. even like to leave the shed long enough Peggy builds most of her houses and to get a drink of water. We have had room boxes in the I-inch equals 1-foot some very cold weather this month, with In her letter Dorothy Johnson de­ scale. She says this is a very easy scale to scribes the miniature house Peggy use because you can take full-size plans, wind chill factors as low as 70 below zero. Dyer is building. The other day Frank was saying not so substitute inch for foot and have just the many years ago, before we had heard wanted to study more music under the right size house and furniture for your anything about the wind chill factor, it professor he had last year. collection. There are many excellent kits didn't seem nearly as cold. I am glad they Aaron is busy with basketball. One available for those who can not build a tell us how cold it is so we, especially the week Kristin went to four games and felt house from scratch. Peggy likes to start little children who walk to school, can be she had had enough for awhile. But they with a good kit then change, add to and careful to dress for the extreme outdoor go to all the home games to watch Aaron adjust it until she has the house she temperatures. play and to support the team. Aaron is wants. So far this year I have been very six-foot six-inches tall and still growing so The house in the picture measures 20- fortunate and haven't missed a single trip basketball is a natural sport for him. inches wide by 35-inches long by 30- to Shenandoah because of the weather Elizabeth is growing like a weed and inches tall and has nine rooms. All the and roads. I drive the 125 miles from my talking all the time now. I bought two floors are hard wood and highly home to Shenandoah every other week cute corduroy jumpers with blouses on varnished. The house is wired for lights. to participate in the Kitchen-Klatter sale, to mail to her, and wondered if they She uses a very thin copper strip for Homemaker Radio Program. There have might be too long. Kristin said the wiring. This can be papered or painted been winters when the roads were so bad jumpers were so short they would make over and is much easier to use than wire. I didn't dare travel by car and missed cute little tops for Elizabeth to wear with She uses 12-volt transformers and 12- several broadcasts. Years ago, we didn't slacks this winter. Kristin sent me a volt light bulbs that are about the size of a worry about it because I could always picture to prove it. It was hard to believe grain of wheat. All the doors open, but take the train, but that is no longer possi­ Elizabeth had grown so much. I'm going none of the windows in this house work. ble. I can't even take a bus, so it is drive to get busy making some new dresses for The house is three stories tall and has · or stay home. her. two stairways and on the second floor in On my last trip to Shenandoah, I was Frank had a bad fall on the ice a couple the back there is a dropped balcony. sq happy to visit with my nephew Martin of weeks ago. We were afraid he had Peggy makes all of the furniture and Sfrom and his wife, Eugenie. They were broken his arm because it was so painful, most of the light fixtures for her house. visiting Margery and Oliver for a few days but three X-rays didn't show any broken When she was at our house she saw and were going back to their home in bones. We were very grateful that it was some empty rifle shells in a dish and Minnesota the next day. It had been two just a very bad bruise but it did cause him asked if she could have them and if we or three years since I had seen them last. a great deal of discomfort for a long time. would save some more for her. They are Eugenie was saying she had never met We are seeing so many cardinals in the something she uses to make some of her Kristin, and Martin said he hadn't seen barnlot now. I guess they have been out furniture and lamps. Since the house is of Kristin since Aaron was a baby and he there all winter but now with snow on the the Victorian era, so is the furniture. had gone with me to Omaha to meet the ground they make a spectacular sight. Peggy has a small lathe for turning train when Kristin came for a visit with We see at least fifty at a time. We are also legs, etc., and about every other type of Andy and Aaron. He reminded me how seeing a lot of turkeys now, and deer. tool a furniture maker has only hers are she was almost hysterical when she got The other morning while eating all on a smaller scale. All the furniture she off the train because it had been such a breakfast I looked out the window and makes really works. All doors and terrible trip-no air conditioning, no saw seven deer run across the pasture. drawers open; all table leaves go up and water, no food and Aaron cried all the We now have three possums that come down or come out like the real ones do. way. I asked Kristin later if she to clean up the cat pans. The cats Beds have complete bedding with extra remembered that trip and she said, "I became accustomed to seeing the two in the linen closet; all pans, dishes, jars certainly do." That was fifteen years ago that have been showing up every day for and silver open, close, slide or whatever and it was hard to believe she hadn't seen a long time, but when the third one came they were designed to do or be used for Martin since then. and was quite a bit smaller than the in real life. The news I have from Kristin's family is others, I saw one of the cats try to chase Right now Peggy is busy making that Julian had to have an emergency it away but it came right back. drapes and curtains for this house. When appendectomy the night of January 18. My good friend, Peggy Dyer, has more she finishes them she will start on the He got along fine and didn't have to miss hobbies than anyone I have ever known. bedding, linens, then the rugs. She says it very much school. She has never been bored in her life; in is as much work as getting things Andy has returned to school at Casper fact, there aren't enough hours in a day together for a full-size house because for the second semester. This will be his for her to get everything done that she you need all of the same items. When last year there, since it is a junior college. wants to get accomplished. She does Peggy gets all of it finished she will take a Actually he has already had two years of every kind of handwork and is a picture of the other side of her house so college, but he could take several collector of many different things. Some we can see all of the rooms. subjects there that will transfer and he time ago, in one of my letters, I wrote (Continued on page 22) PAGE4 KITCHEN-KLAITER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 TWO BOOKS TO KNOW

Uncle's blue eyes sparkled as he turned the pages of our new seed Shure And It catalogues. "My boy," he said, "all for free I get Is A these books. They are printed in all the colors of nature. Look! Asters, petunias, Potato Frolic green beans, ruby red beets, orange marigolds-aren't they beautiful?" He gave me a sly glance to see if I was by paying attention to what he was saying, Mabel Nair Brown then he continued. " You know, boy, they say the Number One book is the Bible and that is rightly so. In it man can find comfort, words of wisdom to Shure and March is the time to have a paper from a hat and perform the stunt strengthen him, solace when heartsick. spud-elegant party with an Irish flavor. described on it. The game continues until Yet some doubt its teaching. 'There is no Gather lots of potatoes, scrub them and almost everyone has performed. God,' they will say. Yet these same men let the fun start. Potato March: Select several couples will plant the tiny seed and have faith the to compete. Give each couple a potato. seed will bring forth flowers, fruit and DECORATIONS The woman places the potato on her vegetables. Any man who plants a seed Use potatoes, along with shamrocks, forehead and the man holds it in place believes." shillelaghs, pipes and leprechauns for with his forehead. They must march to "The same man may scoff at the decorations. Bowls filled with potatoes the beat of the music; the pianist changes miracle of the loaves and the fishes," can be used to decorate. Hang a mobile the music often-waltz to march, to Uncle went on to say. "Yet, he will place made from coat hangers and potatoes of dirge, etc. If potato falls, the couple is out his seeds in the earth, warmed by God's various sizes. A collection of potato of the race. sun that is millions of miles away. animals can be made using stick legs, Barrel O' Fun: Fill a child's wheel­ Miracles! Though man boasts he's button or raisin eyes, a chenille trunk for barrow with inflated balloons. Make Godless, he gives himself away when he an elephant, curly yam tails, etc. Why large paper shamrocks and place them plants seeds." not make a collection of "people" with about ten or twelve inches apart to make "One cannot thumb through a seed potatoes for heads? Use various felt hats, a course around the room. Contestants catalogue without believing," Uncle said. earrings, necklaces, kerchiefs, etc. to must push the wheelbarrow in and out "Never be without these two great make each one different. Carve faces in between the shamrocks to a designated books, my boy: the Bible that tells of the the potatoes if you wish. Label your goal and back. The winner can be the miracles, and the seed catalogue that creations for laughs-Mr. lri Tator, Miss one who manipulated the course in the proves them." -author unknown Hezzy Tator, Dr. Medi Tator, Mrs. Agi shortest time or the contestant with the Tator, etc. least penalty points which are given Place Cards: Cut shamrocks from when a contestant loses a balloon, green construction paper; write names touches a shamrock or goes off course. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS on them with a white pen. Glue each Word Story: Give each player a pencil Counting our blessings is good practice. shamrock to a toothpick then stick it into and a paper. On the paper is a list of Irish It makes us get along with people a small potato for a base so the place words such as leprechaun, shillelagh, better. card will stand. blarney, shamrock, pipe, colleen, It makes us look around us instead of Centerpiece: A clever centerpiece is hooligan, shenanigan and mavoumeen within us. made by making several leprechauns (my darling). Allow ten minutes for It makes us more considerate, using peanuts in the shell with pipe player to write a story containing all of sympathetic. cleaner legs and arms. Glue on green the words. Each sentence in the story It causes us to live for others, not .paper hats. Find a very large potato or must contain one of these words. Have ourselves. use more than one; perch the stories read aloud and vote for the best. It makes us a blessing instead of a leprechauns around and on the potato or Irish Quiz: Hand everyone a list of burden. potatoes-some leprechauns standing, cities, places and people. Players are to It corrects our perspective of life. some sitting, some lying and some write a phrase or song title containing the It strengthens our inner resources of crawling. By bending arms and legs you name of each. faith and hope. can put the leprechaun into a variety of I. Blarney The Blarney stone It increases our confidence for living. postures, even standing on its head or 2. Tipperary "It's a Long Way to It increases our awareness of God. lying with hands. behind head. Arrange Tipperary" -church paper the centerpiece on a large green foil 3. Tara The halls of Tara shamrock. 4. Galway "On Galway Bay" 5. Tralee "Rose of Tralee" ENTERTAINMENT 6. Shannon 'Where the River MANUSCRIPTS: Potato Pass: The group is seated in a Shannon Flows" Unsolicited manuscripts for large circle. Irish music is played on the 7. McNamarra McNamarra's Band the Kitchen-Klatter Magazine piano. (Or set an alarm clock to go off at 8. Dublin The rocky road to Dublin (Shenandoah, Iowa 51601) are short intervals.) Start a potato around 9. Kilkenny The cats of Kilkenny welcome, with or without the circle, passing it to the right. Each 10. Erin "Come Back to Erin" photos, but the publisher and person must hold the potato out to the 11. Killamey The lakes of Killamey editors will not be responsible front and say "blarney" then pass it on. 12. Londonderry "Londonderry Air" for loss or injury. Therefore, Whoever is holding the potato when the retain a copy in your files. music (or clock) stops must draw a slip of KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARa-1, 1985 PAGES

FREDERICK'S

LETTER

Dear Friends, I am writing this letter to you on a bitter, cold day! Every wave that hits the beach seems to explode into tiny, sharp daggers of ice. The fishing boats will not go out today, that means the price of fish will go up tomorrow. I do feel sorry for the fishermen in the winter months. Their work is so dangerous, so uncom­ fortable, and their harvest of fish is so slight. One of my neighbors said yester­ day: "If I could make a living doing anything else, I certainly would give up my fishing! Why, oh why did I not get an education?" As you know, Betty and I get up very early in the morning. We love to watch the sunrise. This morning, when I looked out of our dining room window, I could Frederick sits at the window and watches his wild swans and ducks. see how the ice on the water had been blown into all kinds of grotesque shapes I am sure that you have watched wild attacked her. I literally had to kick them last night by the strong, cold winds. As ducks fighting among themselves. Atthis off! They left her more dead than alive, the tide rolled in underneath the ice, time of the year, the males are trying to and I haven't seen her since. And all the there was loud cracking and hissing all show the females how bigand tough they time her own mate, a mallard duck along the shore, and the little dog I take are. They know that the little ladies named Robert, stood out in the driveway out for exercise each morning was always try to find a mate who is bigger and watched without lifting a foot to help. frightened. I think he believed the end of and.strongef"than all of his peers. Most of If you live near a pond or a lake where the world was about to arrive. the fights between the drakes (males) are you can watch flocks of wild ducks, When the usual three hundred wild little more than pushing matches. The notice what happens from March until ducks flew into the yard for their break­ drakes put their heads together and push the end of May. Time after time, you will fast, they were all covered with ice. My until one can push the other one out of see three ducks flying single file, the lead heart went out to them. It is bad enough the territory. Just as in humans, the duck letting out loud cries. Invariably, for the birds to have the bitter cold, but females very often mature physically the duck leading the flight will be a female to have this strong wind in addition is just before the males, and in the spring the being chased by an unwanted and too much for them. I could not resist female ducks become amorous before uninvited lover, and the third duck in the giving them some extra grain, because the males are ready. You can almost line will be the mate of the female. He has their little bodies must need more fuel to hear the males making excuses: "I have no intention of helping his wife and flies keep them warm. Yes, they thanked me! to have a bite of lunch," or "I am going to along so he can find her when darkness Oh, indeed they did! Those ducks stayed visit some friends this afternoon," or "I closes in. The female will try her very out in front and quacked their pleasure have a date to do some fighting with an best to escape the unwanted attention of for a good hour after eating all of the interloper," etc. The poor drakes are so the stranger-she will fly faster and food. embarrassed! faster, dive up and down, and finally drop Believe it or not, the ducks already are By the month of March, all of this down into some rushes in the hopes of pairing off, getting ready for the mating changes, and it is the males who become hiding but usually to no avail. season. Actually, ducks frequently the aggressors. Once a male duck is A few days ago, we had a cold, wet fog .. become engaged in the fall of the year, ready to mate, all the little duck ladies that left everything dripping wet. When it stay together through the winter and had better watch out. The drakes are comes to understanding information have a good duck wedding in the spring. lechers of the worst sort! Their own mate about fog, I find it a bit difficult to accept People watching the many, wild ducks in never satisfies them, and they seek to some that recently was sent out by the front of our house always ask me about attack and copulate with every female Bureau of Standards in Washington, what appears to be mated ducks when it duck in sight. D.C. The Bureau tellsusthatadensefog still is weeks from the regular mating Every spring, many female ducks are one hundred feet deep covering seven season. Although the sex glands of the killed by the harsh treatment they have city blocks is composed of less than one ducks are still undeveloped in the fall of to take from the males. Their own mates glass of water!!!! To make fog, that the year, both the males and the females do almost nothing to protect them, and amount of water is divided into some love to court. As in most wild species, the the females do little to show their dislike sixty thousand million tiny drops. Not females are the more aggressive when it of the wild conduct of their chosen much there! Yet, when those minute comes to choosing a mate. I have to inates. Once the drake sets his eyes on particles settle down over the city or laugh at the antics of the female ducks as the wife of another duck in the flock, he is countryside they can blot out practically they do little courting dances around the off to the races, and his own poor mate all vision. males. A lone female on the water will call sometimes has to wait hours for his Come to think of it, a cup full of worry out to males passing by overhead, return. I got so angry last winter when does just about the same thing. We inviting them to stop and have lunch with several males chased one of my "pet" forget to trust God. The tiny drops of her!! mallard females into my garage and (Continued on page 20) PAGE6 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

four cities, London, New York, Los MARYBETH Angeles, and Chicago and they are all experiencing months of sold-out seats. I REPORTS won't have to worry about a snowstorm making the trip to Chicago a possible Dear Friends, risk. Isn't that a funny turn of events? This morning while I was massaging Until these months have rolled by, 1have the rugs with my progressive resistance several good books to choose from but machine, more commonly recognized as won't start reading until I have done a vacuum cleaner, the thought hummed something worthwhile for the family. l questioningly through my head about have knitted three quarters of the skirt of what you good readers are doing to a knit dress! I've never undertaken a maintain your equilibrium during these knitting piece of quite these proportions. long "dog day" hours of deepest winter? The wonderfully picturesque Clifton At this stage of the garment it is very slow It surely taxes one's creativity to keep Baptist Church, Clifton, Virginia, is going and uninteresting but better things where Katharine Driftmier and Don busy without undertaking projects which Miller were married. lie in wait because the top is criss are either fattening, immoral, illegal, or crossed with beautiful cable work. costly! After running around the whole Even though the walk is a solitary one, it Somewhere alonq the span of years, I house and working up a very respectable is very pleasant. The ground is ·snow stopped making oxtail vegetable soup. sweat, I could tell that the plus side of covered now and the flash of the The family has been fond of it since we how I saw myself for the day was going to cardinals and the sound of their calls are used to be met at the front door of my be good. When I hopped out of bed this just two of the many rewards of such a mother's house with its wonderful morning, I got on my rowing machine trek. The primary result is the perspira­ fragrance. She always cooked the meat and worked for the correct time tion which I work up has a major impact in her pressure cooker for about an hour according to the directions which came on my metabolism. My oncologist is then added a variety of vegetables to the with the machine. Starting remains the delighted with my exercise program and broth and cooked these not more than toughest part of the battle of exercise. the weight reduction. I don't have to visit three or four minutes. Adrienne had The exercise itself is easy if not boring. I him again until mid-May which is asked for oxtail soup the last time she have set up the rowing machine so I reassuring. was home but I knew I would need a about have to stumble over it to escape Speaking of mid-May reminds me that practice session to refresh my skills through the door and as a result that part I spent many, many hours on the phone a before making it for presentation. Well, of the battle is solved. The boredom is week ago trying to get through on an I've made it. Although it wasn't as good solved by turning on the television and eight hundred number to New York. My as I had remembered, I was ready for a mesmerizing myself with the chitchat. As birthday present from Don was the gift of repeat session. I have the oxtails now a result of this exercise and the tickets to a performance ·of the stage and am going to make two batches. vacuuming before noon, I have added to production of Cats. The tickets went on These I shall deliver to Paul's apartment my "brownie" points for the day. If winter sale at midnight of the thirteenth of the on Wisconsin Avenue and to Adrienne's lasts beyond its allotted span of time, I month. Thinking I knew how to secure house over on the northeast side of the am going to run out of things to do which the tickets with the least effort and most city. This ought to please their palates fit the criteria of nonfattening, moral, success, I undertook the task myself. I and hit the spot after their long days. legal, and inexpensive. All of the closets dialed the number and was connected Paul's classes don't leave him much time are cleaned out, save one; the main quickly to a young man far away. I could for grocery shopping and his interests in bathroom closet and drawers have been have had the pick of the tickets at that cooking are just minimal. Adrienne cleaned; the kitchen drawers are all hour but was puzzled by the fact that the comes home from her day late enough orderly and have fresh liners in them; and computer assigning tickets would not that I know a pot of ready-made soup the major effort left is the basement, reveal immediately where the seats would be just right. So, I've two which will require two weeks of bitter, would be. As a result, I opted to ask the guaranteed grateful recipients of m1,; shut-in type weather to complete. advice of more knowledgeable people efforts on the next occasion I have to go As the result of counting the calories of before giving forth my plastic money's into Milwaukee. every bite of food which has crossed my secret numbers. My advisors reported I I'm going to head for the kitchen now, lips, I have managed to whittle fifteen would have to take the blind toss of the have my skim milk, great big apple and pounds off of myself. Before the dice or drive to Chicago if I insisted on vitamins. Then it is off to the post office temperature turned so extreme, I had knowing exactly where my future seats and home for a few hours of well­ even taken to making myself walk to would be. A trip to Chicago was not a deserved self-time. Don will be home by town to do my banking or whatever did chore I intended to pursue, so I began 5:30 p.m. ready for big eating, and I'll get not require carrying burdensome dialing the eight hundred number again boiled turkey, completing another moral, packages. The man across the street, by noon of the following day. Guess legal, and non-fattening day. who is about fifteen years older, has been what! Every single time I dialed the num­ Until next month, taking a daily walk and making me feel ber, I was treated to a busy signal and cowardly. I determined if he could do it, was certain these were all prospective indeed so could I. The route I chose was theatre goers who were beating me to /Jl7/la off the main streets so when I had to stop the better seats which I had declined the and catch my breath, there would be no night before. Well, I was right. Close to audience to wonder why I was standing midnight the second day, I finally still along the busy roadways. The completed my phone call and my first campus of St. John's Military Academy chance to see Cats on a Saturday with affords me such a route to within a block seats somewhere in the section I wanted of the sidewalks of downtown, which is was not mid-May but MID-JUNE. It was only• a glad "Good Morning" little more than one mile away. But this is Many, many people are anxious to As she passed along the way, a round trip of two more miles than I have spend their money on upbeat, happy But it spread the morning glory walked since I cannot remember when. stage shows. This show is now playing in Over the livelong day. 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of our loving family and friends. Every­ KATHARINE'S LETTER one reported having a very nice time at the wedding and at the reception. I've Dear Friends, never had such a good time. After many Tonight I'rri staying late at work where weeks of planning the details of the day, my thoughts can remain relatively single we seemed to sweep through it with sur - track to quietly compose a nice letter to prising ease. The group of quests was you all. Once I go home I won't get a relatively small and we med to spend our moment to write to you till after I've time with each person and also enjoy indulged in a few of my new distractions. being just the two of us together. Don As you all know, there's a man at home had as much fun as I did, and I'm very now, a wonderful, caring man who is glad he did since the picture taking and bringing me lots of new things to think public attention must have made my low about and many new projects to share. key, unassuming husband feel ill at ease. We have purchased a parcel of land in During one part of the wedding as we rural northern Virginia and we're in the stood with Reverend Caviness facing the process of finalizing our contract to congregation from the front of the begin construction of a beautiful cedar Don and Katharine Miller's beautiful church and listened to the message of home. We're planning our agricultural zucchini wedding cake was decorat­ the Scriptures, we could look out over use of the land: reforestation of the ed with pine cones, flowers, berries, the loving faces of our parents, cousins, nuts and ferns. meadow next to the creek, the pond we aunts, uncles and friends and see them will dig off the creek, and our big, BIG advantage of the fullness of my life as it smiling back at us. Our wedding bound garden that will be planted in the next few was, full of opportunity. Last March I Don and me together forever, and it months. Guess who is going to be could not realize how important that bound us even more closely to our family contracting the finishing of the house decision was and how the months to and friends too. I remember saying over once it is "stick erected," the cedar follow would be the happiest I'd known. and over to myself that day, 'Tm so very exterior is completed and the shingles Last November 17, I married my dear glad to be here!" And I remember smiling are on the roof? I'm taking a subcontract­ friend Don Miller in a beautiful little at Don a lot! ing course at the community college of chapel in rural Virginia. It was not until I I want to collect the recipe for the northern Virginia just so I'll be prepared ceased my maniacal questing that I had delicious zucchini cake we served as a for the big job we have ahead of us. So, the time to encourage this blossoming wedding cake, so perhaps I can send it along with being a nine-to-five biochemist romance and give the friendship the out to you sometime soon. We served a at the lab in Maryland, I'm quite suddenly attention that it deserved. How happy I savory vegetable soup at the reception, finding that I have become a contractor am! My mother Mary Beth Driftmier has but you know how vegetable soups are and ... A WIFE! One year ago if you had given you a lovely account of Don and assembled by home cooks! There is no tried to assure me that I would be baking my wedding, but there's no way anyone recipe for the soup, it was made in one Buttery Biscuits (you'll find the delicious can accurately describe the amount of big pot, seat-of-the-pants style. But one recipe to follow) for my husband's happiness that I feel. Sometimes words of the most popular munchies was a big supper I would never, EVER have are just not enough. It's probably fortu­ basket full of Sweet Spicy Nuts which I believed you. nate these feelings aren't easy to made up in advance from big bulks of One year ago I was Katharine describe. Had anyone accurately wholesale cashews, walnuts, pecans and Driftmier, young woman scientist on a communicated to me how wonderful this almonds. Everybody loved them. (You quest. I was in the very midst of a major was to be, I would have been very, very can find this recipe following my letter.) decision. Should I give up my happy job lonely during the years of waiting alone. Suddenly my life is blessed with more at the lab with a secure salary and time to As it was, I was quite happy filling my life new thoughts and activities than I ever enjoy, as single girls should, to forrage to the fullest in naivety of the great joy to could have anticipated. I go through my out into full-time graduate studies? My come. days somewhat dazed and yet very ambitions told me "YES," for I had lots Single people spend so much time exhilarated by their new dimensions. of energy and an avid interest in Molecu­ "looking" for their marriage partner. I With a husband to feed regularly I lar Biology. Being single, I could concen­ know I did. But just like many people suddenly make serious use of my dog­ trate my attentions for a few years on the had predicted it would be, that special eared copy of the Kitchen-Klatter pursuit of a Ph.D. degree and then pick relationship developed when I least Cookbook and its wonderful, appetite­ up with my other interests. I envisioned expected it. Don is a biochemical pleasing recipes. I never would have myself free to study and focus, free to engineer who's office is just down the hall believed that this energized career­ spend midnights at the lab with no dis­ from my lab. Though our projects don't minded girl could be so equally happy tractions from home and I was confident bring us together we met in the halls last pulling socks right-side-out and emptying that nothing could keep me from my March and soon discovered that we had pants pockets for a Saturday morning goal. much in common. Building on those laundry. The tub stays much cleaner Deep in my heart I knew, even then, commonalities, a friendship developed now that I have someone other than something in my logic was not right. It over the months, a sweet and trusting myself to think about. I feel like I've was probably just the timing, for I still friendship that firmly established itself expanded. Weddings had always been think it's a fine idea for women to go back before our romance began. People at the something I'd planned and helped with to school to further their careers. Not lab didn't even know that we were dating for some other lucky girl. I hadn't really knowing exactly what lay ahead, my until we announced our engagement dared to wish myself into fantasies of intuitive heart just had a feeling this was early in the Fall. We surprised a lot of our what my own married life might be like. I not the time. My life needed more of a friends. It was fun. never even dared think this really might balance with time to learn but also time The wedding was wonderful. We plan­ someday happen to me. It HAS to give to others and time to be open, as ned and orchestrated it ourselves in a happened. I'm in love with a wonderful my new husband says, for others to give quiet, simple, rural way that's very much man who is in love with me. Life does to me too. So, I denied my ambitions for in character for the two of us. It was set in smile sometimes. I wish you all great the time being and decided to take the Virginia countryside, in the presence (Continued on page 19) PAGES KITCHEN-KLAITER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

demands a great deal of concentration DAVID WRITES but is rewarding. Dear Friends, Just as Sophie and I finished reading As I thought about what to write to you that book, another set of books were this afternoon, I went on a long walk. passed our way by a friend. Both were Many other Calgarians were doing the written by Adele Faber and Elain same thing. Right now we are having one Mazlish. These ladies attended work· of our chinooks and are all grateful that shops given by the child psychologist this appears to be a long one. I have Haim Ginott. Their books provide a written to you about this phenomenon specific methodology for improving before, but the happy tale bears communication in the home. The title of repeating. This part of southern Alberta one of their books is How To Talk So is blessed with a warm wind current that Kids Will Listen & How To Listen So blows down from the mountains four or Kids Will Talk. That title says it all, five times a winter. When this happens doesn't it? Sophie tells me it is a great John Frederick Driftmier sits down the thermometer rises quickly, the snow to Christmas Eve dinner with his book, and I shall start reading it later this melts and Calgary becomes one of the grandfather, John Lange afternoon. Last summer, I read their "hot spots" of Canada. "There's a other book, Liberated Parents/Liber­ chinook a-blowin" is one of the happiest that time of year had something to do ated Children. Reading the book has things that a Southern Albertan can hear with it. But, Sophie and I are sure that for certainly helped me in my teaching this in the winter. It certainly is a welcome all little ones important stages of growth year when I have students in after school change! coincide with their newly acquired ability for a detention (believe me, that is some· Speaking of welcome changes, I to communicate. It must be very frustrat­ thing all teachers do from time to time). always like to keep you abreast of our ing for any little one to want things and My sessions are less a harangue from me son's development. As some of you will not know the words to say so his parents and more a conversation that helps remember, he had his second birthday in will understand. Johnny began to talk to everyone concerned get down to the late November. Each child has his or her us and, at the same time, understand fundamentals of the problem. Faber and own timetable that dictates when he or what we were saying to him. We think all Mazlish have taught me how to express she will be ready for important or of his other skills have been based on his myself more clearly in conversation and dramatic spurts of growth and compre­ newly found ability to communicate. how to open my ears and listen better to hension. For our boy John Frederick, it Language and conceptualization, lin­ the people around me. However, it is still seemed many of the changes that guists say, are mutually interdependent. something that I must keep working on. parents of a toddler look for happened Many of you who read my letters faith­ At the start of this letter I said how the over the Christmas holidays. In fact, fully know I like to look at my child and fresh chinook winds signaled such a changes really began on Christmas Eve make observations then apply them to welcome change here in Calgary. On the while we were having the traditional broader topics. I like to go from the news, we have all heard of another family feast that Sophie's mother, Susan specific to the general. Forgive me as I refreshing change. I would like to end my Lang, so beautifully prepares every set out to do it one more time. If letter to you by touching on the area of Christmas Eve. communication-that is, good commu­ international relations. I know this is not What happened went like this. Until nication-is so important to my son at a usual topic for Kitchen-Klatter, but, if that evening, Johnny always ate at a the age of two, it must carry as much or you will excuse me again, I would like to small table in the kitchen. (We all know more weight in other areas of life. Take jump from the specific to something even about the spills young, little persons can family life, for example. Much has been more general. As you know, the United make and the mess that can ensue!) said lately about the problems.of families. States and the Soviet Union have agreed After eating he could play on the floor of So many homes are torn asunder by to sit down at the negotiating table in the Lang's dining room while the rest of divorce; many more find it increasingly Geneva and talk about nuclear arms us ate. Christmas Eve, however, the little difficult to deal with their adolescents. reduction. Surely, what is good for the boy must have sensed the specialness of Bookshelves full of self-help books have individual family must also be positive for the occasion, and the special magic that appeared in the bookstores, most of the family of nations. If true communica­ goes along with Christmas. Johnny them zeroing in on the problems and the tion goes on at those talks, we will all be wanted so much to be with us that we sat pain. One book came through our better for it. him down at the big table, and he ate like household recently that takes a refresh­ As we hear the news of these talks, I a perfect gentleman! He has ever since! ingly positive approach to the anatomy of would like to share with you an insight a Furthermore, he immediately began to family life. In Traits of a Healthy Family, friend of mine recently shared with me. It toilet train himself, be helpful around the Dolores Curran shares the results of a is commonplace to say our world is house (he loves to help us set the table) survey she made of happy homes, in growing very small. My friend graphically and I could go on and on with the list of which the relationships between all described the situation we find ourselves his new competencies. Of course, I am members. of the family were mutually in like this. "You could almost call the partly telling you this because I am a benefiting. She asked members of 551 relationship between our two countries a proud parent! That's not saying that such families what traits are most valu­ marriage, although, of course, it is a very every other parent doesn't have the able to a family. A vast majority of her bad one. Let us have some good will same opportunities to be proud. That's survey respondents chose "communica­ towards each other, communicate, and the great joy of parenting-having ting and listening" as their number one say a prayer for those people who run the opportunities to be proud! What I want trait, while very many of them also added technology on both sides. Give them the to share with you is some of our thoughts "the healthy family values table time and ability to not make tragic mistakes." as to why our own son's growth happen­ conversation." Mrs. Curran mentions in Let all of us hope for the best ed just when it did. her book that workshops are now being communication that can happen in all of As I have said, Johnny'~ latest phase of given around the country teaching how our lives! growth happened at Christmas. Our to "listen from the heart" and how to - ~incerely'. J holiday season was a very happy one, "learn to listen with [one's] whole being," and it's nice to think the love shared at a skill that workshop participants say ~--~u.d\ KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE9 SALUTE TO CAMP FIRE'S letters from the three words which are what CAMP FIRE is all about-WORK, SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY HEAL TH, and LOVE. I've asked three by members to tell you what "Wohelo" Virginia Thomas means to them. (Assign one of the three words to each March 17, 1985, marks the seventy­ speaker and let them present the fifth anniversary of Camp Fire, so many meaning in their own words.) festivities will be planned to celebrate For the closing ceremony, light a that event. It offers a fine opportunity to candle for each of the three key words of plan various ways to acquaint the public Nut Cups: Fallow through on campfire the word WOHELO to remind everyone with what Camp Fire is and what it does theme, by making the nut cup to to pass along the Camp Fire spirit that for our young people. Here are some resemble a pot hung over a campfire. others might "catch" it. Then all of the suggestions for ways to make this Cover the cup in red or blue paper, and members join in singing some of their anniversary a memorable one for your attach a short length of pipe cleaner for Camp Fire songs. local Camp Fire members and for the the handle. Twist a length of black community. chenille covered wire to make the crane A HELPING PURSE Make arrangements for one of your which holds the kettle over the fire.Twist local groups such as the Blue Birds to one end in a circle so it will stand and the Do you have a "helping purse?" You visit a city council meeting. At that top into a hook to hold kettle. Place small have, if it contains: meeting they will present the mayor with crossed twigs to conceal the base of the Cough drops: to share with anyone a Camp Fire anniversary cake and ask crane. Glue small numeral "75" on each who starts coughing at church, a him to sign a proclamation declaring the kettle. If preferred, the kettle could be meeting, or a party. week of March 17th as Camp Fire Week placed directly upon the fire (crossed Extra pens or pencils: to loan friends, in your town. sticks) eliminating the crane. club or church members who need to Get permission to put up posters and write on envelopes, cards, or memo PROGRAM to arrange displays in store windows pads, but can't find a writing tool in their which tell about Camp Fire; the learning Make small banners on standards for purses. and fun experiences it involves. Ask to each of the Camp Fire's five program Extra paper hankies: for those who put a display in the local library. levels: SPARKS, for kindergarteners; need to wipe or blow their noses. Of course, members will wear their BLUE BIRDS, grades 1 through 3; A small calendar: when future dates official uniforms to church on Camp Fire ADVENTURE, 5 through 6; DISCOV­ must be checked. Sunday, but do arrange for a special ERY, 7 and 8; and HORIZON, 9 through Your name, address, and telephone announcement in the church bulletin and 12. At the beginning of the program let number: so you can be quickly identified if possible set up a Camp Fire display. these banners be carried in by a repre­ if you're in an accident. One of the local church women has done sentative of the age group and placed in a Your social security number or your so many things to promote the local semicircle on stage, along with a larger driver's license: for cashing checks. Camp Fire, so the group plans to banner on which the word "WOHELO" Three pieces of large white paper: in surprise her with a special presentation is placed. This banner is placed at the case you must write down some of flowers and recognition at the Camp center stage, so it does not obscure important information. Fire Sunday service. other banners. Some string, twine, safety pins, and a How about locating the oldest former Open the program with the singing of small pair of scissors: in case something Camp Fire member in your community "America," the reciting of the Pledge of breaks or must be tied, pinned, or cut. and have them as honored guest at the Allegiance, and the invocation. Some peanuts: for any squirrel you Founder's Day Anniversary banquet? Toastmaster: We welcome each of meet, especially in the winter when his That is also a fine time to recognize the you here tonight to share with us this nut supply may be frozen in the ground. adult leaders, past and present of your special time of celebration for the great Your favorite poem or Biblical verse: organization. Camp Fire organization's seventy-fifth for you to read to keep cool, calm, anniversary. DECORATIONS hopeful, and cheerful, for even a helping The Camp Fire was founded March purse needs all the help it can get. If you are planning an anniversary 17, 1910, by Dr. and Mrs. Luther Gulick -Annette Lingelbach banquet, plan it around the Camp Fire's at their camp for girls in Maine. Since theme, "Catch the Camp Fire Spirit." 1975 boys have also been included as Using the Camp Fire colors print this in Camp Fire members. huge letters on a giant banner to hang in The programs are divided into five age ~ S;ECIA~ OFFE~ ~ the banquet room. levels. I have asked some of our Camp only $4.00 per copy Program Booklets: Make a white Fire Leaders and members to speak construction paper cover. Make a about each group describing their unit Bl This is a beautifully written book by ~Bl· sketch of a campfire on the front and and especially some of their activities and ~ Lucile Driftmier Verness. Share the below it in red lettering print the Camp projects. lives of the Field and Driftmier families. Fire watchword "Wohelo." Tie booklet (The leader of each local group should B The Story of An American Family ~B starts with the year 1868 and con- I with blue ribbon. be introduced. If you do not have five ~I eludes with a 1976 family tree. A good Table Centerpieces: Build miniature groups organized in your community, book to read by a warm fire on a cold campfires, using twigs and a tiny describe the ones you have, although Christmas tree light or a twist of orange someone might tell about the ones not m1· winter day m1· and yellow crepe paper for the flame. active in your community, so the public Enhance the campfire setting by making gets an overall picture of the organiza­ w Offer ends March 29, 1985. A limited rn B number on hand. Send your order to: 8 tiny paper tents, a mirror lake, twig trees, tion.\ etc. Various emblems, medals and Leader: The watchword "WOHELO" Kitchen-Klatter ~ awards of the organization might be is very special to all who participate in w~ Shenandoah, Iowa 51601 rn displayed on the tables. Camp Fire. The word is made using two 8 Q 8 8 8 PAGE 10 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

end of the rainbow. This was no trivial decide, one little guy looked up and saw goal. It required strength, stamina and him. As he jumped from his petal stool manliness. Danny knew he must train in the tiny leprechaun started to howl a order to accomplish such a feat. For warning to his companion. Danny was weeks he practiced running at his highest quicker, however, he reached out and speed, darting back and forth, and snatched the remaining leprechaun from scurrying over rocks and brambles. his resting spot. Quickness was one of a leprechaun's "Faith and begorra! What's a young greatest defenses against capture. With lad like yourself doing up so early on a proper training Danny was sure he could holiday? Are ye to be fetching the cows?" become as fleet of foot as any lepre­ asked the tiny captive. chaun. He ate all the foods that his Danny knew the tricks of leprechauns. mother had ever told him would help him They always try to distract you so they grow big and strong. can ef:lcape. Danny wasn't about to be Danny told no one of his plan. He taken in by such wily ways. didn't want to be laughed at or told he "I'm catching a leprechaun. That's was only 7 years old, too little to ever what I'm doing!" Danny retorted, "and I catch a leprechaun. want you to take me to the end of the IRELAND'S TREASURE As the 17th of March drew near, rainbow right now!" Danny sat by Granddad and asked "Faith and begorra! Do you think it's Children's Story for March where leprechauns were most often as simple as that, me boy? Now how can I by found and where they lived. take you to the end of the rainbow when Rita Mailander Granddad said leprechauns didn't there's not a rainbow in the sky. Magic I have homes as we think of them. Lepre­ am indeed, but create a rainbow-even I St. Patrick's Day was fast approach­ chauns are tricky fellows and actually can not do that!" ing. The excitement that accompanies rather lazy. They don't waste their "But there will be a rainbow. Wait a the great holiday was building in the energy building homes. Instead the wee bit," Danny spoke with assurance. "Just small, County Cork village. Stories of the folk much prefer to take refuge in as soon as the sun strikes the morning grand saint himself were being rekindled deserted nests of other animals or dew drops a rainbow will appear." around the family hearth each evening, among bushes with a shelter of As Danny spoke, the first fragments of and plans were being made for the finest blossoms. Leprechauns love beauty. the color spectrum began to appear. parade ever to march the streets, with They find the most beautiful spot in the "See, see!" Danny shouted excitedly. bands playing and local dancers perform­ country, a place where the green is brilli­ "What did I tell you? Now let's go Lepre­ ing their steps and kicking their heels. ant emerald and the blossoms seem chaun, to the end of the rainbow." For Danny, this was going to be the ablaze with color. In such a magnificent "Sure an' we will, Lad. Just hold on most spectacular of all St. Patrick's spot you can find a leprechaun's home. tight. One end of the rainbow coming Days. He was determined to make it Danny searched the fields for just such up." - so-and you know what happens when a spot. One morning on the way to With that, Danny felt himself being an Irishman becomes determined! For school he discovered the spot. Oh! The magically lifted then soaring through the years he'd sat at his grandfather's knee wild roses were so beautiful, blooming air. What a marvelous feeling of freedom and listened to the stories of Ireland. with all their power and the morning dew and wonder! Almost as suddenly as it Grandfather told the stories of druids, on the grass seemed to sparkle like had all begun, Danny was being placed branchees and St. Patrick himself. Most jewels. Surely this would be the home for gently on the edges of a brilliant colorful of all, Danny loved the stories of the leprechauns, lovers of the glories of bridge. Danny reached out to touch the leprechauns. Grandfather told of the creation. · colors. They could not be grasped. Only clever little folk who scampered through St. Patrick's Day was the next day and a warmth could be felt from them. the shamrocks, of their tricks and antics Danny was going to be sure to be right Danny looked around and he spied the and of the magic they possessed. here. golden pot glistening in the sun. "That's Ah, rainbows and leprechauns worked As dawn crept slowly over the it, isn't it?" Danny shouted, "the pot of together to hold a secret, such a won­ horizon, Danny crawled out of his bed. gold!" drous secret, too. Grandfather would He dressed quickly and rushed to the "Ah, my boy, 'tis indeed a golden pot lower his voice at this point and say, ''Ya spot. How spectacular it looked in the and it holds a treasure, but its contents see, my boy, at the end of every rainbow morning light! Danny was breathless. are far more valuable than gold." there's a fine pot of pure, glisten' gold. Then he heard something! The giggles, 'What?" Danny shrieked. "There's no That tidbit of knowledge is known only to then peals of laughter and delightful gold at the end of the rainbow?" the wee folks, no human has ever been squeals of joy were contagious. Danny "Go see for yourself," the leprechaun known to find the end of the rainbow. It is almost forgot himself and burst out gestured toward the pot. "Go see what is said that if you can capture one of the laughing, but he clasped his hand over the greatest treasure of all Ireland." wee folk on St. Patrick's Day, and they're his mouth and stifled his laughter. Ever Danny cautiously walked toward the always abounding on that day, then so quietly he crept closer to the patch of pot, leaned over and peered into its indeed he must reveal the secret and lead the most brilliant blossoms. He saw two depths-there was nothing there but you to the pot of gold." tiny men sitting on the petals smiling and sounds-the joyful, delightful, gay The awesomeness of the story always chatting happily. They were in arm's sounds of laughter. Danny couldn't help captured Danny. Just think of it, to see a length. but smile and feel a lightness of heart. leprechaun and then to find his pot of Danny was so excited, his heart beat 'What is this?" he asked, "A potful of gold. To Danny that seemed the dream so loudly that he thought the laughter? Is this some kind of joke? of a lifetime. Nothing could surpass such leprechauns would hear it. He tried to Everybody knows there's a pot of gold at an event. sort his wildly running thoughts, should the end of the rainbow." - This year Danny was determined to be he try for both or just one? Maybe he'd "Ah! my little friend, everyone knows a man among men. He was going to need both hands just to hang on to these there is a treasure at the end of the catch the leprechaun and would see the wild fellows. While Danny was trying to (Continued on page 20) KITCHEN-KLAITER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE 11

GOOD NEWS & BAD NEWS by Evelyn Birkby I First, some good news. When Jeff was home at Christmas time, he brought with him a number of slides which he had made of pictures of old hot springs and spas which once flourished around the state of Montana. Some of these he copied from old photo­ graphs loaned to him by the state histori­ cal society, some from other sources. Jeff has worked for the Natural Resources Department for the state of Montana for over five years, ever since he earned his master's degree at Montana State University at Bozeman. His primary responsibility much of that time has been with geothermal energy. As he traveled around the state checking on hot water sources and their uses­ Jeff, Bob and Craig Birkby spent much time with their Alaskan husky, Attu. actual and potential-he became ans said and they prescribed medicine. such a pet can give. interested in stories of the early vacation Attu also had surgery twice to remove No, we do not plan at this time to get spots built around some of them. Huge tumors from his feet-another aggrava­ another dog. luxury hotels, great covered pools tion of old age. Now, back to some happier news. The (known as "plunges") and the assorted We have loving animal doctors in mail today brought letters and recreational activities, places developed Sidney. In an area where farm livestock magazines which brightened my spirits during the late 1800's, piqued his should take priority, these veterinarians even on this cold, gloomy day. interest. still help with pets in any way they can. First, a note from Craig. He and Bob The more old pictures he discovered, Attu, as some of you may remember, are going to spend the coming weekend the more the idea developed in his mind came to us from Mrs. Kenneth Pierson of in Denver together visiting friends and that they should be preserved and used Neligh, Nebraska. In 1970, when she skiing in the nearby mountains. Bob has in some manner. He learned how to do heard we were dogless (our previous dog a meeting in Denver of his Student Con· copy work so he could make prints and had been killed by a car) she wrote to me servation Association, and he'll be very slides. One evening during the holidays, suggesting an Alaskan husky as the pleased to have his brother fly out from Jeff got out the slides he had brought perfect dog for the boys in our family. So, Iowa City to give an added bonus to his with him from this venture and presented we purchased a male puppy from the trip. us with a show. It was fascinating, inform­ Pierson's kennel as a November birthday Second came a letter from Jeff. He has ative and the quality of the pictures was gift for Robert. Attu always felt that he given some slide shows with his hot amazingly fine. was one of the boys (I'm not at all certain springs pictures and they have been well After the "showing" we discussed the he ever knew he was just a dog) but he received. He also reported that he is uses of such a project for groups such as adored Robert and became his constant working closely with writers and editors our local Fremont County Historical companion whenever it was possible. in the Natural Resources Department to Society. This organization has a good Over the holidays, all three boys had a get energy publications ready for start on a collection of old photographs chance to enjoy Attu one more time. He upcoming fairs and workshops which will which could be the basis for interesting couldn't romp and play with them as in be held this spring and summer. slide shows and for enlargements to be times past, but they sat and talked to He sent a copy of the Montana placed on display. him, petted him and were glad he was Magazine for Jan.-Feb. 1985, with an To make a long story short, before Jeff able to stay around (with all the medicine article on hot springs of the area which left he had contacted the proper place to to help) until they got home. Then we all quoted Jeff as a "geothermal specialist." order the photographic stand and knew it was time to say goodbye. The last packet I opened from today's lighting equipment needed. I had Attu is buried out by the doghouse mail came from the editors of Boy's Life acquired permission to proceed with the where he spent so many happy hours magazine. It contained two copies of the plan, the items were ordered and arrived jumping up on the roof, romping in February issue which included an article while Jeff was still in Sidney. This meant winter snow drifts and "helping" Robert written by Bob (he uses the name Robert that he had time to train his family in the with his gardening when the weather was Birkby) on using a tarp for an all-purpose procedures and we, in turn, can now warm. wilderness shelter. But even more teach some of the historical society As I look out the kitchen window, now exciting than having another of Bob's members who want to learn and help the yard looks empty and lonely. It is articles in Boy's Life is the article on with this project. It is proving to be an going to be some time before I stop classic books of Scouting. In that write­ exciting winter hobby. expecting to see a big, white, fluffy head up the author talks about the new Boy Now for the bad news: while the boys with perky ears and clear blue eyes Scout Fie/dbook which just came off the were home for the holidays, we said fare­ looking at me around the corner of the presses. This is the book for which Bob well to Attu, the Alaskan husky who had porch. Come summer, it will take time did the editing and rewrite work. I can been our pet for fourteen years. for Robert to adjust to not having his hardly wait to get a copy! After all, This past year Attu had been gradually trusty friend as his working companion. Scouting has been so much a part of the growing more feeble. Large dogs have a But we were fortunate: Attu was a great life of this family it will be fascinating to propensity for hip problems and his dog, we had him while our sons were see some of that philosophy in print. proved to be increasingly severe. He had young enough to really appreciate him arthritis just like people, the veterinari- and he provided us with the love only ~ PAGE12 KITCHEN-KLA TIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

LAMB STEW WITH POTATO DUMPLINGS (pressure cooker recipe) Stew 3 Tbls. flour 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 1/2 tsp. fine herbs 2 lbs. lamb, cubed 2 Tbls. shortening 4 carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces 2 onions, quartered 2 ribs of celery, cut into 2-inch pieces 1 3/4 cups water 1 Tbls. Worcestershire sauce 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter flavoring GLAZED CORNED BEEF CITRUS SALAD Combine flour, salt, pepper and herbs in a plastic bag. Add the lamb cubes and 3 lbs. corned beef 1 6-oz. pkg. lemon gelatin shake to coat them with the flour 1 cup dark orange marmalade 1 1/2 cups boiling water mixture. 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter orange 2 cups orange juice Heat the shortening in a pressure flavoring 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter orange cooker and brown the lamb cubes. Stir in 4 Tbls. prepared Dijon-style mustard flavoring the vegetables, water, Worcestershire 4 Tbls. brown sugar 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter cinnamon sauce and flavoring. Cook under pres­ Place beef in a large pot; cover with flavoring sure for 8 minutes, according to manu­ boiling water. Bring back to boiling, then 1 medium apple, chopped facturer's directions for your cooker. lower heat. Cover pot partially with lid 1 medium orange, peeled and chopped Cool pressure cooker immediately. and simmer slowly for about 3 hours or In large bowl dissolve the gelatin in the until fork tender. boiling water; stir in the orange juice and Dumplings Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Com­ flavorings. Refrigerate until thickened 1 egg bine remaining ingredients. Remove but not set; stir in the apple and orange. 1 cup water meat from water and drain. Place meat in Pour into a 6-cup mold and refrigerate 1/2 cup potato pancake mix oven-proof dish. Pour the glaze over until firm. Serves 8 to 10. -Verlene 1/3 cup dry bread crumbs meat and coat well. Bake for about 30 Combine egg, water and potato pan­ minutes. cake mix; let stand 10 minutes. Stir in the Serve hot or at room temperature. ALICE'S CREAM CAKE bread crumbs. Remove rubber ring from -Robin 1 tsp. soda pressure cooker. Drop dumpling 1 cup buttermilk mixture by spoonfuls into boiling stew; 2 cups sugar cover and steam for 10 minutes. 1/2 cup margarine -Juliana OATMEAL BUTIERSCOTCH 1/2 cup shortening COOKIES 5 eggs, separated 2 cups sifted flour CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP 1 cup margarine 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring 1/4 cup white sugar 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter coconut 4- to 5-lb. chicken, cut up 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed flavoring 2 qts. water 2 eggs 1 cup chopped pecans 1 cup chopped onion 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 1 small can coconut 1 cup chopped celery flavoring Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease 1 cup celery leaves 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butterscotch and flour three 9-inch round cake pans, 1 bay leaf flavoring or one 9- by 12-inch pan. 1 to 2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring Combine soda and buttermilk and let 1/2 tsp. pepper 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter black walnut stand a few minutes. Cream the sugar, 2 cups sliced carrots flavoring margarine and shortening. Add egg 1 cup wide noodles, uncooked 1 3%-oz. pkg. butterscotch instant yolks, one at a time, beating well after 1 12-oz. can whole kernel corn, pudding mix each is added. Add buttermilk mixture undrained 1 1/2 cups flour, unsifted and flour alternately to creamed mixture. In 4-quart Dutch oven combine the 1 tsp. soda Stir in flavorings. Beat egg whites until chicken, water, onion, celery, celery 3 1/2 cups quick rolled oats stiff, but not dry. Fold into batter. Gently leaves, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Heat to 1 cup butterscotch chips fold in pecans and coconut. Pour batter boiling. Cover and simmer about 1 hour 1 cup raisins, plumped into prepared pans or pan. Bake until or until chicken is tender. Cream the margarine and sugars cake tests done. Cool cake and ice with Remove chicken from the bone; skim together. Beat in the eggs and the flavor­ the following: off the fat and return chicken to pan. Add ings. Add the pudding mix and beat well. 1/2 cup margarine the carrots and bring to a boil. Simmer 10 Sift the flour and soda together and add 1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese to 15 minutes or until carrots are almost to the batter; mix well. Fold in the oats, 1 lb. powdered sugar tender. Add noodles and corn; simmer butterscotch chips and raisins. 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring 15 minutes or until noodles are tender. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a greased Combine icing ingredients and beat Before serving remove the celery leaves cooky sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes at until smooth. Spread between layers and and bay leaf. Makes 8 servings. 375 degrees. -Dorothy over top of cooled cake. -Hallie -Verlene KITCHEN-KLA TIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE13

WAX BEAN CASSEROLE YOGURT SALAD ENCHILADA TORTE (microwave recipe) 1 20-oz. can pineapple chunks Sauce 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 11-oz. can mandarin oranges 1 onion, chopped 2 Tbls. butter or margarine, melted 2 Tbls. cornstarch 1/2 cup sliced celery 1 16-oz. can wax beans, drained 1 8-oz. carton plain yogurt 1 Tbls. butter (or margarine and 1 8-oz. can tomatoes 1 Tbls. sugar 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 1 tsp. instant onion 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter almond flavoring) 1/2 tsp. salt flavoring 1 small bell pepper, chopped 1/8 tsp. pepper 1 cup seedless grapes, cut in half 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese 1 banana, sliced 1 8-oz. can tomato sauce In a 2-quart casserole toss bread 1 apple, cored and sliced 1 can sliced tomatoes crumbs and butter; add beans, Drain pineapple and oranges; reserve 1 8-oz. can enchilada sauce tomatoes, onion and seasonings. Stir to liquid. In small saucepan over medium 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce blend. heat, cook pineapple and orange liquid 1/4 tsp. salt Microwave on medium (slow cook) for with the cornstarch, stirring until 2 cups chili sauce 3 to 4 minutes. Stir. Add the cheese and thickened. Cool slightly. 2 cups sliced mushrooms microwave 3 to 4 minutes longer, or until In a large bowl combine the yogurt, Saute onion and celery in the butter or cheese is melted. sugar, and almond flavoring; mix in margarine and flavoring. Add all the May be baked in conventional oven for cooled juice mixture. Stir in pineapple, remaining sauce ingredients and simmer 45 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees. oranges, grapes, banana and apple 10 minutes. Keep sauce warm while pre­ -Hallie slices. Cover and refrigerate about 4 paring the following. hours or until completely chilled. Serves Spicy Ground Beef 10 to 12. -Verlene 1 1/2 lbs. ground round steak TRIPLE CHOCOLATE SNACK 1 cup chopped onion CAKE HOT SHRIMP DIP 13-oz. can chopped jalapeno peppers, 2 1/4 cups snack cake mix (recipe in drained; or 1 3-oz. can chopped February issue) 2 8-oz. pkgs. cream cheese green chili peppers, drained (if 2 Tbls. unsweetened cocoa 1 medium onion, chopped you do not want a hot sauce) 3/4 cup water 3 jalapeno peppers, chopped 1 large garlic clove, chopped 1 egg 1 tsp. garlic juice 1 tsp. oregano 1/3 cup vegetable oil 12 ozs. of shrimp, cooked, cleaned, 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla and shelled (or use canned) 1/2 tsp. pepper flavoring Blend together all ingredients, except 3 fresh tomatoes, diced 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar shrimp. Heat over low temperature for 2 Brown the beef; add the onion and flavoring hours, so flavors blend. Add shrimp and cook until onion is soft. Add remaining 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter chocolate heat thoroughly before serving. spicy ground beef ingredients. Set aside. flavoring -Juliana 1 pkg. corn tortillas 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces Butter, melted Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In an 1 1/2 cups grated Cheddar cheese ungreased 8- or 9-inch square baking APRICOT SURPRISE BARS 1 1/2 cups grated Monterey Jack pan, combine snack cake mix and cocoa. 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed cheese In a medium bowl, combine water, egg, 1/2 cup margarine, softened Dip the corn tortillas in butter and cut oil and flavorings; beat with a fork to 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter into 1-inch strips. Mix the Cheddar blend. Stir into cocoa mixture until flavoring cheese and the Monterey Jack cheese smooth and blended. Sprinkle chocolate 1 cup apricot preserves together; set aside. pieces evenly over top of batter. Bake 30 2 eggs Butter a large casserole and layer the to 40 minutes until surface springs back 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring ingredients in it in this order: one half of when touched. -Mary Lea 2 cups flour the tortilla strips, one half of the spicy 1 tsp. baking powder ground beef, and one half of the grated 1/2 tsp. soda cheese mixture. Pour half of the sauce 1/4 tsp. salt over all. Layer the remaining tortilla SPINACH TUNA CASSEROLE 3/4 cup mashed bananas strips over the top, next add the 1 10-oz. pkg. spinach noodles 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter banana remaining beef, then:oour the remaining 1/2 cup butter or margarine flavoring sauce over all, and top with the cheese. 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup chopped pecans Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. This 1 cup grated American cheese Cream the brown sugar, margarine casserole freezes beautifully. -Robin 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese and butter flavoring. Stir the apricot 1/2 cup (or more) diced celery preserves, eggs and vanilla flavoring into 1/4 cup diced onion the brown sugar mixture. Add the 1/2 cup sliced stuffed green olives remaining ingredients and mix well. 110-oz. can cream of mushroom soup Spread in a greased and floured jelly roll 2 6- or 7-oz. cans tuna pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes Water or until golden brown. Top with Apricot Cook noodles according to package Glaze. Makes 50 bars. directions; drain. Combine all the ingre­ Apricot Glaze dients. Stir well. Add enough water to 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar make a soft mixture. Pour into well­ 2 Tbls. apricot preserves SPECIAL DAYS IN MARCH greased 2-quart casserole. 1 Tbls. water March 17-St. Patrick's Day Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 Combine all ingredients and beat until March .20-First Day of Spring hour. -Hallie smooth. ·-Verlene March 31-Palm Sunda!; PAGE 14 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

CABBAGE-LEEK SOUP PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE LAMB CASSEROLE 8 small leeks or 16 green onions 1 can (I lb., 4 ozs.) sliced pineapple in 2 Tbls. margarine 6 Tbls. margarine syrup 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 1/4 cup margarine flavoring flavoring 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 3 stalks celery, cut diagonally in 2 cups coarsely chopped cabbage flavoring 1/2-inch pieces 6 garlic cloves, chopped 2/3 cup firmly packed light brown 3 carrots, pared and cut diagonally in 2 parsnips, peeled and chopped sugar 1/4-inch pieces 4 cups chicken stock Maraschino cherries 1/2 of medium onion, chopped 1 cup finely shredded red cabbage 1 cup unsifted all-purpose flour 6 large mushrooms, halved Salt and pepper to taste 3/4 cup sugar 1 Tbls. margarine Julienne 3 of the leeks or 6 of the green 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 2 Tbls. flour onions (include some of the tops if using 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. herb pepper seasoning green onions). Set aside. 1/2 cup milk 1/8 tsp. dry dill weed Coarsely chop the rest of the leeks or 1/4 cup vegetable shortening 1 Tbls. chopped fresh parsley green onions. Melt 4 tablespoons of mar­ 1 egg 3/4 cup beef broth garine in a large pot. Add the flavoring, 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter lemon 1 cup milk coarsely chopped leeks or green onions, flavoring 2 cups cubed cooked lamb cabbage, garlic, parsnips and chicken 1 tsp. lemon juice 1 (4 serving size) pkg. instant mashed stock. Bring to boiling; reduce to simmer 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring potatoes and cook for about 35 minutes or until Drain the pineapple slices, reserving 1/4 cup grated Cheddar cheese vegetables are tender. Put into food 2 This. of the syrup. Melt the 2 tablespoons margarine in processor and make a puree. Melt margarine in a heavy IO-inch skillet and add butter flavoring. Brown Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of ovenproof skillet. Stir in the butter the celery, carrots, onion and mush­ margarine and saute the 1 cup finely flavoring, brown sugar and reserved 2 rooms until limp. Place in a greased shredded cabbage and reserved julienne Tbls. pineapple syrup; blend thoroughly. casserole. leeks or onions. Add to the puree along Remove from heat. Arrange pineapple In the same skillet in which the vege­ with salt and pepper to taste. Reheat slices in sugar mixture. Place a mara­ tables were cooked, melt the 1 table­ soup. -Robin schino cherry in center of each slice. spoon margarine. Stir in flour and cook Combine flour, sugar, baking powder for a minute. Do not brown. Add the and salt in a large bowl. Add milk and pepper seasoning, dill weed, parsley, shortening and beat at high speed with broth and milk. Cook until thickened. electric mixer for 2 minutes. Add egg, Pour over the vegetables in casserole. lemon flavoring, lemon juice and vanilla Top with the cubed lamb. flavoring; beat another 2 minutes. Pour Prepare the potatoes according to over pineapple in skillet, spread evenly. package directions; stir the cheese into DEVILED CORN AND CRAB Bake in 350-degree oven for potatoes. Spread over top of casserole. 1/4 cup butter or margarine approximately 40 minutes. Cool on wire Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. 2 Tbls. flour rack for 5 minutes. Invert onto serving -Juliana 1 Tbls. lemon juice plate. Serve warm. -Hallie 1 tsp. prepared mustard 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 1/2 tsp. pepper 1/2 cup milk 1 7Yz-oz. can crab meat, drained, EASY CHEESECAKES flaked and cartilage removed 24 vanilla wafers 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped 3 8-oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened 1 17-oz. can whole kernel corn, 1 cup sugar drained 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 117-oz. can cream-style corn 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 3 eggs 1/2 cup cracker crumbs, finely 1l 1/2 cup strawberry preserves crushed ·(fi.,I...,,, __~ ... 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter strawberry 1 Tbls. butter, melted '• ...... ".·· flavoring Hard-cooked egg .. ~ .. :~.-- Heat oven to 325 degrees. Line 24 Pimento-stuffed green olives muffin cups with paper liners. Place 1 EASY MINT SALAD In saucepan melt the butter, stir in vanilla wafer in bottom of each cup. flour, lemon juice, mustard, salt, 2 1/2 cups pineapple chunks In large bowl combine the cream Worcestershire sauce and pepper. Add 1 3-oz. pkg. lime gelatin cheese, sugar, nutmeg, vanilla flavoring milk and cook until mixture is thick. 4 Tbls. sour cream and eggs; beat well at medium speed. Remove from heat and carefully add crab 2 This. sugar Pour mixture into the muffin cups, filling meat, chopped hard-cooked eggs, and 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter mint flavoring 2/3 full. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until corn. Drain pineapple and measure juice. set. Spoon mixture into a lYz-quart Prepare gelatin according to package In a saucepan over low heat melt the greased casserole. Sprinkle cheese, directions using the pineapple juice as strawberry preserves with the straw­ cracker crumbs and butter over top. part of the liquid. Add sour cream, sugar, berry flavoring. Remove from heat and Bake at 350 degrees about 45 minutes. and flavoring. Refrigerate until partially place 1 teaspoon on top of each muffin Garnish with wedges of hard-cooked egg set. Add the pineapple. Place in an 8- by cup. Cover and refrigerate overnight. and olive slices. Serves 6 to 10 people. 8-inch glass dish and return to refrig­ Before serving remove the paper liner. -Hallie erator. -Verlene Makes 24 cheesecakes. -Verlene KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE15

HUNGARIAN GOULASH RED CHILI SAUCE SAUERKRAUT CASSEROLE 1 large onion, sliced 12 dried red chili pods 1 I-lb. 11-oz. can sauerkraut, 1 1/2 lbs. lean chuck roast, cut into 2 cloves of garlic well drained (rinse if desired) 1/2-inch cubes 1 tsp. cumin I I-lb. can tomatoes, juice and all 2 Tbls. salad oil 1 tsp. salt (chop tomatoes if in large pieces) 1 1/2 tsp. to 1 Tbls. Hungarian paprika 1 tsp. oregano I cup brown sugar, firmly packed (to taste) 1 cup hot water 5 strips bacon, fried crisp and 1/2 tsp. salt Open and seed chili pods; wash each crumbled 1 tsp. marjoram and remove the stems. Soak pods in I/2 cup chopped onion 2 pinches caraway seeds (optional) some hot water about 30 minutes until 2 Tbls. chopped green pepper 2 garlic cloves, minced soft. 2 Tbls. chopped celery 2 Tbls. tomato paste Place all the ingredients in a blender 1/2 cup catsup 1 1/2 cups beef broth and blend 3 minutes. Strain the blended Combine all ingredients. Place in large 1/ 4 cup sour cream mixture; discard the skins. Can be used casserole and bake uncovered for 3 Cook onion and meat in oil until onion as a marinade or in a casserole. This is hours at 350 degrees. -Dorothy is limp and beef is browned. Add the especially good with pork. -Robin remaining above ingredients except for the sour cream. Simmer 2 to 3 hours on BUTTERFLY CAKE top of the stove until the meat is tender. If TACO SALAD the mixture becomes too dry, add more Bake a 9- by I3-inch cake. When cool broth. Just before serving, add sour 1 lb. ground beef place the cake with the short ends of the cream. Serve over noodles or home­ 1/2 envelope dry onion soup mix rectangle to your left and right. Cut a made Hungarian Spaetzles (recipe (1/4 cup) narrow (I-inch) strip from top to bottom follows). Serves 4 to 5. 3/4 cup water from one of the short ends. Cut the 1 medium head of lettuce, torn in bite­ remaining 8- by I3-inch rectangle from Hungarian Spaetzles size pieces (4 cups) the top right corner to the bottom left 1 cup flour 1 large tomato, cut in wedges corner then from the top left corner to 1 egg 1 small onion, thinly sliced and the bottom right corner. There should be 1 egg yolk separated in rings 5 pieces of cake: 4 triangles and a I-inch 5 1/2 Tbls. milk 1/4 cup chopped green pepper strip. 3/4 tsp. salt (optional) Place the I-inch strip with the narrow Dash of nutmeg 1/2 cup sliced ripe olives end toward you in the center of a I6- by 1 Tbls. minced fresh parsley 4 ozs. sharp Cheddar cheese, 20-inch pan or cardboard. This strip is 2 Tbls. butter shredded (1 cup) the body of the butterfly. The triangles of 1/4 cup soft bread crumbs 1 6-oz. pkg. corn chips cake are the wings. Two triangles are Mix the flour, egg, egg yolk, milk, salt, In a heavy skillet brown ground beef placed on each side of the body with just nutmeg, and parsley and place in a and drain. Sprinkle onion soup mix over I point of each triangle touching the coarse colander over a large kettle of meat, stir in the water. Simmer, uncover­ middle of the body. Frost completely. rapidly boiling, salted water. Press ed, for 10 minutes. Decorate with candies to represent the through the colander with a wooden In a salad bowl combine lettuce, coloring of a butterfly. Pieces of narrow spoon or glass. Cook for about 5 minutes tomato, onion, green pepper, olives and licorice laces can be used as antennae. after all the mixture has been pressed cheese. Toss well. Spoon meat mixture -Mary Lea through the colander. Rinse under cold over salad, top with corn chips. Makes 4 water; drain. Melt butter. Add soft bread to 6 servings. -Hallie crumbs and brown lightly. Stir in the spaetzles and brown lightly over low heat for about 10 minutes. -Mary Lea POTATO BAKE 3 cups water PECAN-SOUR CREAM PIE 3/4 cup margarine Pastry for one-crust pie 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. flour 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon flavoring 1/4 tsp. ground cloves 1 1/2 cups milk 1 cup commercial sour cream 3 cups mashed potato flakes 2 eggs, well beaten 3 1/4 cups seasoned croutons 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup finely chopped celery 1/8 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter lemon 1/3 cup finely chopped onion flavoring 2 slices American cheese 1 cup broken pecans In a large saucepan heat the water, Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Line pie margarine, salt and flavoring; bring to pan with pastry dough. Combine the boiling. Remove from heat. Add the milk flour, spices and a little of the sour and potato flakes; stir until well blended. cream. Blend in the rest of the sour Add 3 cups of croutons, celery and cream. Add the well-beaten eggs, sugar onion. Spoon into a well-greased 2-quart and flavoring; fold in nuts. Pour into the casserole. Crush the remaining 1/4 cup prepared pie shell. of croutons and place on top of the Place in preheated oven and potato mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for immediately turn temperature down to 35 to 40 minutes. The last 5 minutes 325. Bake about 40 minutes. Serve with place the cheese on top. Serves 10 to 12. whipped topping. -Dorothy -Verlene \ PAGE 16 KITCHEN-KLAITER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

COME READ She now lives in Houston, Texas, and PASS IT ON WITH ME writes book reviews for a Houston When your heart is newspaper. She was instrumental in full of love, by doing research to show that Pa Ingalls When you've more than Armada Swanson did indeed build a little house on the you can eat, prairie in Kansas-probably in Rutland When you're tired of township, west of Independence. all your clothes, Any mention of the Little House books A Doctor Fetched by the Family Dog Pass them on. by Laura Ingalls Wilder always generates is written with warmth about a special interest. Now we have a paperback person who helped the Ingalls family. When you hear of relating to Little House on the Prairie. The historical records are most interest­ someone's needs, The book is A Doctor Fetched by the ing and the legal material included is an When you have more than Family Dog-the Story of Dr. George A. education in itself. The book may be you spend, Tann, Pioneer Black Physician, written obtained by writing Eileen Charbo, 2777 Open up your heart by Eileen Charbo. Briargrove Dr. E833, Houston, Texas with love, Let the author speak: ''This is a paper 77057. The price is $5 per single copy of And pass your man. The life of busy, mysterious Dr. the paperback, which includes postage money on. George A. Tann was constructed from and handling, with 15% off on orders for When someone has a lot the brief mention written 65 years after more than five. The book is also on sale to bear, the incident. His life and days and char­ at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum at When someone needs acter were reconstructed, though not Mansfield, Missouri 65704, as well as the a helping hand, one medical record nor personal paper other Little House sites. Then take whatever has been found. Laura Ingalls Wilder in Women's Diaries of the Westward you may have, her book Little House on the Prairie, Journey by Lillian Schlissel (Schocken And pass it on. says the Doctor followed her pleading Books, 200 Madison Ave., New York, For Life is meant for little cur dog Jack, back to the Ingalls N.Y. 10016, $8.95) is available in paper­ giving, cabin which stood near the Indian Trail of back. It was originally published in hard­ And for loving all Oklahoma Territory. Dr. Tann stayed a back in 1982 and reviewed here. From you can, day and a night treating the feverish 1840 to 1870 the pioneers traveled the So always take what family, all suffering from malaria. Old­ trails to California and Oregon. Those God gives you, timers say he administered quinine and pioneers included thousands of women. And pass it on. calomel on the tip of his knife blade. He The book tells the stories from their was needed in nearly every cabin along journals. -Annette Lingelbach the creek in that bad fever 'n ague year, Daughter Ann and I have fun reading so he got a neighbor woman to come in and discussing books on parenting. A and nurse the family back to health." particular book that has held our The time to go on a diet is when you It was 1870 near Independence, attention is Sensitive Parenting From are thick and tired of it. Kansas, when Dr. Tann helped the Infancy to Adulthood by Katharine C. r;:,000G00000000000G0000G0000 Ingalls family. He left a wealth of affec­ Kersey, Ed. D. As a respected early 0 0 0 0 tionate memories in the minds of people, childhood specialist, Dr. Kersey writes a KITCHEN-KLATTER among them, boys sent to "fetch the proven, ten-step program for successful 8 8 doctor." One recollection of his care of child-rearing. What is especially helpful is 0 0 family members was him sitting at death­ that each of the ten steps in the program HOMEMAKER p beds when his simple remedies failed. He is illustrated with case studies of children i § had special skill with babies who were ill, of all ages, questions from parents, and 8 PROGRAM 8 0 0 and mothers giving birth. Also, he sensible solutions. 0 0 opened a "Hospital House" on Coon The first step is "Treat the child with 0 is broadcasted daily over these 0 0 0 Creek in the Cherokee Nation, where respect" and the tenth step is "Enjoy you 0 0 bed patients too ill to go back to cabin or your children." In between are thoughts 8 RADIO STATIONS: 8 dugout were treated. on privileges, discipline, rule-making, 0 0 The 1870 Kansas census lists the Tann individuality, and feelings, to name some 8 KMA Shenandoah, Iowa, 960 on 8 family next to the Ingalls family. Oil of the steps. 8 your dial-10:00 a.m. 8 leases were on Dr. Tann's property. Dr. Kersey writes, "Our goal for 0 KWBG Boone, Iowa, 1590 on your ~) Perhaps Pa Ingalls shouldn't have had children is to help them become 8 dial-9:00 a.m. 8 the roaming fever! confident, competent, independent, fully 8 KWPC Muscda~in1 e, 9I?00wa, 860 on 8 For 30 years Dr. Tann helped those functioning human beings. We have only 0 your 1a- . a.m. 0 who were ill, people of all colors. In 1902, a few years in which to accomplish this 8 KSMN Mason City, Iowa, 1010 on 8 your dial-10:05 a.m. 0 Dr. Tann was in trouble when stringent task. Effective parenting requires a o in Kansas and as 8 KCOB Newton, Iowa, 1280 on your 8 medical laws were passed delicate balance between setting limits o dial-9:35 a.m. o the Indian Territory, requiring proof of long as they are necessary and letting go ~~ ~~ b WJAG Norfolk, Nebr., 780 on your b training which he did not have. He was as soon as possible." 0 dial-10:05 a.m. 0 If there is one book that you want to declared an intruder in his profession 8 KHAS Hastings, Nebr., 1230 on 8 and ordered to quit practicing in the buy for parents, I suggest Sensitive 0 your dial-1:30 p.m. 0 medical profession. But his story is Parenting. (Available at your bookstore 8 (Mon. thru Fri. only) 8 traced through homestead claims, oil or write to Acropolis Books Ltd., 2400 0 KFAL Fulton, Mo., 900 on your 0 rights and railway easements, many of 17th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009, 2 dial-10:30 a.m. 8 which are reprinted in the book, and defi­ $8.95, plus 50¢ per copy for mailing.) 8 KGGF C:offeyville, Ks., 690 on your 2 nitely add to the interest. o dial-11:04 a.m. o Author Eileen Charbo is a former 8 KWOA Worthington, Minn., 730 on 8 0 your dial-1:30 p.m. 0 resident of Topeka, Kansas, and worked 0 0 in the Kansas Historical Society library. ~~000:g~000C0(}')~~~J0C:~VOC~~~:J KITCHEN-KI.AITER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE17 THE JOY OF GARDENING HINTS FROM THE MAIL by Eva M. Schroeder • COVER STORY After bringing home a head of lettuce from the store, wash it and cover the No doubt gardening is well under way ri in the warmer sections of our country, Katharine Driftmier and Don ' lettuce with ice water for 30 minutes. but where I garden in north central Miller were married November 17, Drain for about 15 minutes. Wrap the Minnesota, there are only the slightest 1984, in the Clifton Baptist Church, head of lettuce in several paper towels and place it in a plastic bag and stirrin~ of spring. Some of the Majestic Clifton, Virginia. Katharine is the Giant pansies that bloomed so abun­ daughter of Don and Mary Beth refrigerate. After each use, rewrap the I remaining lettuce in the same towels dantly last spring and intermittently all I Driftmier, Delafield, Wisconsin. season long survived the bitter cold days I Don Miller's family lives in Falls which are damp. Lettuce will be crisp and of winter and are struggling under i Church, Virginia. Katharine is a will keep longer than you ever imagined it would. E. H., Sun City, Az. patches of snow and ice to come forth I scientist and works in a lab at the I' again. Credit can be given to the extreme ! same company where Don is a hybrid vigor of the Majestic Giants that ~biochemical engineer. J. To prevent eggs from cracking when in our yard have proved to be worth the boiling make a little hole in th~ rounded extra cost of the seed compared to that ~ _fii'/I: end of the egg with a needle. of open-pollinated types. Mrs. B. B., Owatonna, Mn. There are many exciting varieties of KNITTED BABY BALL vegetables and flowers for 1985 and by When you do not want to pull out a big several of each are featured in most Helen E. Bates chopping board, use the cover from a 5- catalogs of leading seed and nursery quart ice cream pail. It is handy to slice firms. We tried some in our "Advance This ball is completely washable and bread or other small things on. Since it is Trial" garden last year and they did so easy to make. One ounce skein of yarn plastic, it will not dull your knives and is well, these varieties will become regulars will make one ball. Use size 4 knitting easy to clean. Mrs. L. P., Vedigre, Ne. in future gardens. Better Bush VFN needles and a size 3 crochet hook. hybrid tomato produced big delicious Cast on 28 sts, K across once. *Turn, deep red fruits on compact, space-saving K 20 sts, (leaving 8 sts on left needle), To make homemade cottage cheese plants. Unlike the Patio plants, Better turn, K 12 sts, tum (leaving 8 sts on left taste like commercial, try rinsing the Bush kept on producing right up to frost. needle), K 14 sts, (picking up 2 sts from curds with more water when making it. The best peppers in the plot proved to previous row), tum, K 16 sts. Continue Dry homemade cottage cheese, that is be MA BEILE and PRO BELLE 11. The to K each row, increasing 2 sts each row not mixed with cream and seasonings, plants from both varieties set fruits until you have 28 sts on needle. This can be added to homemade bread and ahead of BIG BERTI-IA and BELL BOY, completes one section. K ten sections in buns for extra nutrition. I usually add 1/4 the fruits were thick-walled, blocky and the same manner, repeating from *, teaspoon of baking soda with the cottage the rich dark green color so desirable in adding color as desired for sections. cheese when using it in bread or buns. I sweet peppers. Then bind off. Sew together, leaving blend the cottage cheese with some of If you are in doubt as to which variety room to stuff with discarded nylon hose. the liquid in the blender. Cottage cheese of tomatoes to grow this spring do send The ball may be made using two colors can be substituted for dry milk solids in for this free catalog. Read the helpful or each section can be a different color. recipes in the amounts called for. information on more than 100 kinds of Crochet a ch of 40 sts and fasten both B. H., Carter, S.D. tomatoes. If you have had trouble with ends of chain to one end of ball. tomato blight or other problems this little booklet gives up-to-date information on new varieties, old favorites, the best KITCHEN·KLATTER kinds to grow for containers, and much FLAVORINGS information on training, mulching, ferti­ lizing, and growing tomatoes success­ Give Kitchen-Klatter Flavorings for a special gift. A touch of Kitchen­ fully. The catalog is free from Tomato Klatter Flavorings will perk up frozen fruits and add great taste to all your Growers Supply Co., P.O. Box 2237, baking. Fort Myers, Florida 33902. Vanilla (clear) Burnt Sugar Butter Strawberry Mary K. writes that she planted a Raspberry Black Walnut Blueberry Pineapple packet of mixed annual flower seeds and Orange Almond Banana Mint an outstanding marigold appeared in the Maple Butterscotch Peach Lemon seedlings. It grew only 14 inches high but Cherry Coconut Cinnamon Chocolate produced huge double blooms of a rich (Vanilla also comes in dark color.) gold color. The blooms completely covered the plant. "I would love to have a Send check or money order for the offers of your choice to: bed of these beauties," she wrote, "if only KITCHEN-KL.AITER, SHENANDOAH, IOWA 51601. I knew the variety name. Can you help me?" Catalogs carry long lists of mari­ Three 3-oz. bottles of flavorings of your choice ______$5.00 ppd. gold varieties-yours could be one of a Number ordere.~---- dozen or more. Perhaps you grew one of the new "INCA MARIGOLD" which fits Twenty-one 3-oz. bottles of flavorings, one of each .. $27 .50 ppd. your description well. You might also try (includes clear vanilla) Number ordere...._ ___ _ the Lady Series or HAPPY FACE NAME------~ HYBRID (yellow in color). Check your ADDRESS seed catalogs and try some of the new hybrids offered. Seed is relatively CITY/STATE/ZIP------inexpensive and marigolds are very easy Total amount enclosed$ --­ (Subject to price change.) to grow from seed. PAGE 18 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 SHE PUSHES PENCILS by Dianne L. Beetler You may think of a pencil pusher as a person who sits at a desk and works with mathematical figures all day. Not so with Dorothy Sims of Galesburg, Illinois. She pushes pencils in a different way-she collects them. "About 20 years ago, I attended a home show, and some dealers were giving out pencils," she explains. "I decided to save them. I saved haphaz­ ardly for years. When I found out there were pencil collector clubs and other people like me, I began saving pencils more seriously." Today Dorothy has over 7 ,000 pencils and pens. "My collection is small," she says. "Some people have 50,000, 60,000 or more." The flat pencils are carpenter's pencils, and those on the left are novelty pencils. No one knows who was the world's These are just a few of the many pencils that Dorothy Sims has in her collection. first pencil collector. Just before the time previous week. pencils. of Christ, the Greeks and Romans used "Once I bought most of a man's collec­ Brand name pencils have a brand lead for writing. Graphite was first used tion-3,000 pencils." One of the name, plus the name and address of the for writing in England in the middle of the problems of pencil collecting is that "you pencil company. sixteenth century. The Germans have to remember what you have. I'm Dorothy classifies some of her pencils enclosed the graphite in wood about trying to catalog my pencils," she says. according to what they advertise. For 1650. The graphite was not mixed with It's a job Dorothy wishes she had started example, she has a group of pencils with clay until a Frenchman did it in 1795. The when she began her collection. the names of golf courses on them. She first American-made pencil was sold in Dorothy has a card for each pencil. On also has a selection of pencils given out 1812, and the first mass-production the card, she types the kind of pencil and by various railroads for advertising pencil factory was built in the U.S. in the information printed on the pencil. purposes. Many of her pencils were 1861 by Eberhard Faber. "I came across lots of duplicates when handed out by stores and firms which are Most wood pencils are made of cedar. I was cataloging," Dorothy confesses. no longer in business. She also collects The pencil lead is a mixture of graphite She will use these duplicates to trade pencils from foreign countries. Some and clay. The more clay in the mixture, with other collectors. collectors specialize in one category the softer and darker the lead. Pumice in It is becoming difficult to find "new" old such as pencils from banks or colleges. the eraser is what erases pencil marks. pencils. One of the best ways to find such With their pencils many collectors Rubber is merely the bonding agent. pencils is to contact older people or find build houses, Ferris wheels, crosses, Dorothy is a member of the American someone preparing to sell the contents stars, log cabins, and bridges. Dorothy Pencil Collectors Society and the of an older home. doesn't construct anything with pencils Society for the Collection of Brand Dorothy's husband made special because "they would take up too much Name Pencils. The American Pencil display boards for some of her pencils. "I room." Collectors Society has a convention have two chests with 33 drawers in each A mechanical pencil is probably the every two years, usually on a college to keep pencils in," she says. "The oldest in Dorothy's collection. She campus. Dorothy and her husband, pencils are placed in the cabinets accord­ doesn't know its age. Forrest, like to attend and trade pencils ing to the state they come from. I also Pencil collecting is not an expensive with other collectors. have some in boxes." hobby. Most pencils can be obtained Each member of the Society has a Did you know there are left-handed free, although you can expect to pay for number and pencils with his or her name, and right-handed pencils? The words on special pencils such as one commemo­ address, and number printed on them. a left-handed pencil are printed so a rating the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Of course the members collect each person can read them while holding the As far as Dorothy Sims is concerned, other's pencils. To be collectable, a pencil in his or her left hand. The words pencil collecting is an "all-write" hobby. pencil should have the name of a person on a right-handed pencil can be read or company and an address stamped on when the pencil is held in the right hand. BRIGHTER DAYS it and should be unsharpened. Dorothy says, 'Wooden pencils are "I try to get pencils to take to trade at going out, and now many pencils are It's cold outside, the convention. You will get at least 500 being made of plastic." Plastic pencils The sky is grey. or more pencils at a convention, can be heated and bent into any shape. It could have been depending on how many you have to A bullet pencil has a metal end resem­ A beautiful day. trade," Dorothy says. "I trade through bling a bullet, so the tip of the pencil is But winter time the mail, too." Although she buys some protected when not in use. With Has clouded the sky. pencils, she obtains most of them free. mechanical pencils, you can increase or I don't know how; Her husband collects pencils from his co­ shorten the length of the lead by twisting Or don't know why. workers. Family members and friends the bottom half of the pencil. Carpenter's But here inside who know of her hobby save pencils for pencils are flat instead of round. Novelty It's nice and clear. her. "It keeps me busy to keep them pencils have an unusual feature such as Because I have sorted," Dorothy says, holding up a being oversized. Bridge pencils are My children near. plastic bag full of pencils collected the smaller in diameter than regular size -Judith K. Riden KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE19 YARN TIPS KATHARINE'S LEITER-Concluded SWEET SPICY NUTS happiness too. 2 egg whites by Thanks for your happy thoughts 1 cup plus 1 This. sugar Erma Reynolds during the past months and for your 1/2 tsp. salt Been having problems with your yam? patience as I gradually write to you all to 1/2 tsp. cinnamon If so, here are some handy tips for you. thank you personally for your cards and 1/2 tsp. nutmeg To wind a skein of yam into a ball when gifts. I have friends here in Washington, tsp. allspice there's no one to hold the skein, put the like Jill Zeugen who works next to me at 1/2 tsp. ginger backs of two straight-backed chairs the lab, whose grandmothers, aunts and 1/2 1/2 tsp. cloves together and slip the skein of yam over mothers read Kitchen-Klatter and send 1 cup almonds them. Move the chairs apart to hold the me their love and congratulations from 1 cup English walnut halves skein firmly as you wind. Another the Midwest. It's fun to hear from you 1 cup pecan halves method is to pull out a cabinet drawer, and I Thank You. It's nice to know that 1 cup cashews slip the skein over it, and proceed to wind you care. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. fhe yarn. Or, loosen the decorative knob I am sure to have much to tell you With a mixer begin beating the two about as Don and I step into the work of on top of a large lampshade. Hang the egg whites. When slightly beaten, add 1 building up our little "farmette" in skein around the shade, and as you wind tablespoon of sugar and beat till stiff. In a Virginia. Spring is coming, we're all glad the yarn the shade will turn. separate bowl, blend the 1 cup of sugar, to remember, and so will a fresh gurgle The yarn wrapper containing the dye teaspoon of salt and all the spices. call to us from our creek as the mountain Yz lot number is necessary to reorder more Put the 4 cups of nuts into the bowl of snows melt to wash winter away. I hope yarn. Keep the information by winding beaten egg whites. Mix thoroughly to your spring comes warmly and SOON. the yarn around skein wrapper when cover the nuts with white fluffy coating. Lovingly, rolling a ball of yarn. This will serve as a Sprinkle the coated nuts with the sugar­ core for the ball and the necessary data Katharine and-spice and stir together to coat will be safe at hand. BUTTERY BISCUITS evenly. It usually requires patience and the Spread the nuts out on brown paper eyesight of an eagle to get yam through a 2 cups sifted, self-rising flour lining a baking sheet and bake at 300 needle's eye. Put a bit of colorless nail 2 tsp. sugar degrees for 20 minutes. Stir once after 10 polish on the end of the yarn strand and 1/2 tsp. soda minutes. Remove from oven and cool 5 pinch to a point. When dry, push the 1/2 tsp. salt minutes before placing nuts onto a hardened point through the needle's eye. 1/3 cup shortening greased flat surface to cool completely. Got a ball of yarn that persists in rolling 2/3 cup buttermilk Delicious! -Katharine Miller away? Cage it in an empty salt box. 2 Tbls. butter, softened Prepare the "cage" by removing box top Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Cut and putting ball of yarn inside. Draw the together the flour, sugar, soda, salt and loose end of yam through the opened shortening. Mix in buttermilk. Continue SUNSET ON THE LAKE pouring spout and replace box top then to mix in small amounts of flour till the fasten in place with tape. The setting sun, an orange ball of fire, dough has the right elasticity to roll out Hovers in the multi-colored sky; When knitting with multiple strands of into a 1 Yz-inch pad. Cut out biscuits; yarn, there can be a problem of snarling. Then hides behind a dark and sullen place on an ungreased sheet. cloud. To prevent this, put the end of each Gently spread softened butter over strand of yarn through a soda straw or the uncooked biscuits. This buttery top Blushing, it slowly reappears, a large bead. As knitting proceeds, the makes them Delicious! Bake in 300- Then slips into a slot straw or bead will slip along, keeping the degree oven till tops are golden brown, Behind a silhouette of trees. yarns from tangling. about 12 minutes. -Gertrude Perlis Kagan It's preferable to join a new ball of yarn • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• at the end of a row, but sometimes this is • • not possible. When this occurs, try these • next-best methods. Thread the new yam • KITCHEN·KLATTER into a needle and weave it along the end • of the "old" yam for about three inches. • COOKBOOKS Leave a short end of the new yam • (A Perfect Gift) protruding on wrong side of the work : Original Cookbook ---····----·-··········-············---·-·-· $7 .50 ea. ppd. and after several rows have been knitted, cut this end off. Another solution is to • (over 1000 tested recipes) Number ordered --- unravel about an inch on the ends of the • Best of Desserts ······-··--··--··---·--·----··-··--·-····-----···· $3.00 ea. ppd. new and "old" yam. From one end pick : Number ordered --- up two strands, and from the other end, one strand. Lay the double strands atop : Best of Main Dishes ···-·····-·-···--··················-······-·$3.50 ea. ppd. the one strand. Moisten yam and roll Number ordered --- together firmly. Recycle yam from a castoff knitted garment. As you unravel the yarn wind it NAME-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- around a glass jar. With the yarn ADDRESS • wrapped around the jar dip it in luke­ CllY/STATE/ZIP ------• warm water. Remove and allow yarn to • dry; result will be yam free of kinks. Or, Send order to: • make the raveled yarn into a skein. Tie KITCHEN·KLATTER, Shenandoah, Iowa 51601 • this in four or five places, place the skein (Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Iowa residents please add Sales Tax.) • in a colander over steam, and allow the : (Subject to price change.) : moisture to remove kinks. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• PAGE20 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

WHAT BELONGS ATOP A further south than Peary Land at the FAMILY REFRIGERATOR north tip. Do you remember enough of your high by Janet Eckmann school geology to recall that fifteen A vase of flowers, a cute cookie jar thousand years ago all of North America would look nice on my refrigerator. But, as far south as Tennessee was covered at our house with three teenagers, a five­ by an enormous glacier? When that year-old child and a fifteen-month-old glacier melted and moved north to the toddler, everything we don't want ate up arctic regions, it left us most of our or messed up goes on top of the beautiful lakes and rivers, including the refrigerator. Great Lakes, the largest bodies of fresh It's a well known fact that toddlers get water in the world. All that is left of that into everything they aren't suppose to great glacier is now in Baffin Island, about and can do it faster than you can believe. seven hundred miles north of Labrador. Our little girl is into climbing, she can Betty and I went there to see it in 1978. push a chair anywhere and reach That was probably the most dangerous anything, it seems. Yes, our other four Betty Driftmier watches Grand­ trip we ever took, and it certainly was the children learned to climb too, but either daughter Cassandra Palo, daughter most difficult and the most exciting trip of Mary Lea and Vincent Palo, of our life. my memory fails me with age, or they Omaha, Nebraska, put a puzzle weren't nearly this much trouble. YES, together. When you get my next letter, it will she has been spanked; YES, she has already be well into the gardening fallen and hurt herself, but that doesn't FREDERICK'S LEITER-Concluded season. I am excited about some of our stop her. fretfulness close around our thoughts, plans for flower gardens. I hope you have Our teenagers have learned to put and we are submerged without vision. good luck with your gardens, and you term papers and all school-related books Just as a little bit of water can make a big can wish the same for our gardens. God atop the refrigerator. It is also a good idea fog, so can a little bit of worry make a big bless you always. to put cassette tapes up there, especially problem. Sincerely, if they were borrowed from a friend. If Along the New England coastline we our children don't want classmates to become so accustomed to seeing water think they are eating erasers off of that we are inclined to accept water as -1~ pencils, they had better put the pencils just about life's most ordinary substance. up there with the books. Opened cans of Most of us forget that availability of fresh WINTER SUNSET pop are also something to be put up-­ water for drinking and bathing is one of Swiftly sinks the sun way up. A spot should be reserved for God's greatest blessings for all of Behind a bank of snow Dad's calculator so the batteries will mankind. Do you know that seventy Soon, all is darkness work the next time someone needs it. percent of the whole world is covered But first the afterglow. Income tax papers, which are waiting with water that averages two miles deep? A crimson, rosy hue for attention, also need a safe place atop That is a lot of water!! Of all that water, the refrigerator. Our five-year-old child, however, only two and one-half percent Spreads across the West, who doesn't want every Sunday school is fresh water. All the rest is salt water. Of I cannot soon forget paper and every page he colors wrote on the fresh water, all but one-twentieth of The beauty, or ate up, thinks his papers also have top one percent is ice at the North and South Of a winter sunset. -Carrie Wiggans priority. A tray of sandwiches to be taken Poles. Just think of it! We should always to a funeral or a pan of bars for a league remember to thank God for the blessing meeting are safe only on top of the of fresh water. IRELAND'S TREASURE-Concluded refrigerator. We have always placed our Betty and I have a very keen interest in rainbow. Laughter is the greatest of all fly swatters up there so one might be glaciers, and wherever we go in our God's gifts to Ireland. It has done more handy when you need it. Every livestock travels, we make it a point to visit as for our people than gold has ever done. farmer knows a fly swatter is needed many glaciers as possible. Sometimes we Search the world over, me boy, and eleven months out of the h.velve. We photograph them from ships, sometimes you'll not find a finer treasure than have always kept a wooden spoon or from planes, and sometimes we hike up laughter for stories and tales, laughter for other threatening object for fulfilling to them. One day we went in a rented air­ jokes and toasts, laughter for 'wakes and promises of punishment up there too. plane to photograph all of the several weddings and every fine affair,' as the old I looked on top of that twenty-year-old glaciers on Mt. Rainier in the state of song goes." refrigerator and wondered why I had Washington. Of course we have seen "Sure an' you're a wise man, Mr. cupboards built above it just a year ago. glaciers in Alaska, Switzerland, Norway, Leprechaun," said Danny, with a smile Without them, imagine all the safe, out­ Iceland, and in the High Eastern Arctic of and a wink. "It's time we're returning to of-reach area we would have. Canada. enjoy that good Irish charm and laughter Someday we want to travel to the at the St. Patrick's Day festivities." With island of New Guinea in the South Pacific that, he found himself soaring once more CRACKERS AND MILK to photograph the glaciers there. through the air and gently settling down Crackers and milk in a deep blue bowl, Imagine! New Guinea is just three at the tiny village. I can eat all that my tummy can hold. degrees south of the equator! It is The streets of the village were filled They tell me I'm funny, incredible, but true, that Peary Land, the with music and laughter. Granddad and And I guess that its true size of Maine, at the northern tip of Danny's family were in the midst of the That I turn down potatoes Greenland is almost ice free. That part of festivities, sharing in the celebration of And tenderloin, too Greenland is only five hundred miles St. Patrick's Day. Danny looked at And ice cream and cookies from the North Pole, yet it has almost no Granddad, saw the twinkle in his eye and And peaches of gold moisture and is drier than most of the the warm smile on his face, and realized For crackers and milk in a deep blue world's deserts. The largest glacier in the he indeed had found the grandest bowl! -Jo Burford world is in Greenland, and it is much treasure of all Ireland. KITCHEN-KLAITER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE21

bright and cheerful and providing the silver). table with savory, country flavor. * Country-style majolica syrup In modem times, pitchers are used pitcher in the form of an ear of com with largely for iced tea and water in homes, yellow kernels and green leaves of Vic­ institutions and restaurants. At home, torian vintage. my favorite pitcher is a round bowl-type * The tankard in the Brunswick one with a narrow, square-shaped spout pattern won a prize for good design at which keeps the ice cubes from running the 1893 Columbian Exposition. out when I fill iced tea or water glasses. Pitchers are fun to collect and inter­ Pitchers continue to be essential serving esting to display. If they could talk, they utensils. would tell many tales of pouring liquids. Galena Pottery has produced cream Harbor your pitchers; you will find many pitchers about 6¥.( high, 5¥.i" wide, and uses for them. decorated with variations of beautiful green colors. Galena pitchers have deep, high molding for a lid. Many of the GRANDMA'S OLD TRUNK THE LOWLY PITCHER Galena Pottery pitchers are as beautiful as any made anywhere at any time. The It's standing in the attic covered with by cobwebs and dust. Norma Tisher fact that Galena pitchers are popular collectors' items today appears to sub­ It's bent and battered around the corners It is a most fascinating and satisfying stantiate this belief. there's rust. adventure to bring to light some of the Individual potters and geographic It's Grandma's old trunk with all the uses of the old pitcher. Research of the areas have their own styles, shapes, keepsakes it holds. pitcher can be quite interesting. decorations and colors for their pottery. I knew everything inside must have a In the accompanying photo you can Many pitchers are hand-painted, a story to be told. see a ceramic replica of the bowl and fashionable accompaniment to any piece water pitcher of long ago. This photo was of art. Generally, stoneware pitchers I found the old family album packed so taken in an antique, country-style bed­ have a simple, cobalt blue decoration, carefully away. room with a brass bed, chest of drawers, either a series of imaginative swirls or With a picture of Grandma and Grandpa and dresser with a swinging mirror. To­ the representation of a flower. The on their wedding day. day country-style antiques are fashion­ stoneware pitchers for storage and A box with a lock of hair from each baby able and stylish. household use are sturdier than the so­ she had. Pitchers are now rediscovered history. called redware, which is lighter and more Tied with a ribbon were grade cards that Typically, pitchers are made of earthen­ porous. Cobalt blue decoration was belong to my dad. ware, glass, metal or plastic, and have a usually applied in the diluted form of wide mouth, with a broad lip or spout. A zaffre, a powdered blue glaze obtained A pair of baby shoes all scuffed and worn. handle is on one side, or sometimes both by burning a mixture of cobalt ore and And an apron of Grandma's that was sides have ears for holding. Most sand. Local potters supplied the pitcher faded and torn. pitchers carry a festive tone to the room, as a basic utensil important to everyday I found a box filled with gifts her children turning dining into a special occasion. life in early, rural American homes. had made. Pitchers come in all different shapes RESEARCH-I found these pitchers And a record of birthdays and how much and sizes. Most sets of china and stone­ most interesting: each baby had weighed. ware include a cream pitcher and sugar * To my point of view, Bartlett-Collins There was a tattered fur muff and a pair bowl. Gravy pitchers in a boat shape also had the best assortment of pressed-and­ of old spats. accompany the china sets. blown glassware pitchers in a variety of A bright-colored plume from Grandma's In the past, large pitchers held optic patterns. favorite hat. country-fresh milk for cooking and drink­ * A pitcher of mottled red glass with ing. Small pitchers in cellars and cold splashes of blue. Yes in Grandma's old trunk I found caves contained country cream for * An engraved crystal pitcher ("Car­ special things packed away. fruits, salads, and coffee in my day. nation"). As I closed the lid I hoped that someone Refrigerators were unheard of then. * A cut glass pitcher ("Omar"). else would find and enjoy them Today, one-half gallon specially-coated * Pewter ~~~~m pitc;h~!~ (Poor Man's someday. -Beverly Ernst cartons and plastic gallon jugs are used by supermarkets for milk products and assorted fruit juices and drinks, as sub­ stitutes for pitchers of the past. The square-shaped cartons and jugs seem to fit better in modem refrigerators. KITCHEN-KLATTER Miniature pitchers are favored by restaurants and institutions, which use MAGAZINE them individually for meals, or with coffee. They usually contain milk or half­ A year full of helpful ideas. Each issue has recipes, family letters and and-half for cereals and coffee. Pitchers articles to brighten your day. Don't miss out on a single issue . .that are always easily recognizable are those which hold syrup for breakfasts $5.00, 12 months $6.00, foreign countries and fund-raising pancake feeds. (Iowa residents, please add sales tax. Subject to price change.) What has happened to the blue Kitchen-Klatter, Shenandoah, Iowa 51601 pitchers with the shadow or portrait of (Please allow 3 weeks for delivery. Gift cards will be sent if requested.) Shirley Temple on the side? They were "in", along with red-and-white checker­ board tablecloths, making kitchens PAGE22 KITCHEN-KL.A TIER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985

JULIANA'S LE"ITER - Concluded about Mystras is the painted walls of the churches. Most of them are in the original condition which gives one a better feeling for the colors and themes intended by the artist. Mystras is a fascinating place to visit. An added plus is that very few people make the effort to do so. We practically had the place to ourselves. That night was spent in another small seacoast town called Pylos. To get from Mystras to Pylos one crosses mountains higher than any I had ever imagined in Greece. The road ranks right up there with some of the more hair-raising roads I've traveled in Colorado. I was grateful for our small vehicle. I don't think a tour bus could have negotiated some of the comers. Our trip was almost over. We did finish it up in grand style with a quick visit to Olympia-the home of the Greek gods. The cattle on Frank and Dorothy Johnson's farm near Lucas, Iowa. There was such a tranquil feeling at this DOROTHY'S LEITER - Concluded drastically curtailed. It is wonderful she site. This is also the birthplace of the Quite some time ago I mentioned has so many indoor hobbies to occupy Olympic games which we still enjoy Peggy's house and the furniture she her time. In the future I'll write about today. The stadium for the foot races is made for it, and I received several letters some of her other interests. Right now, I still recognizeable and several tourists wanting more information. I hope this must close and get a good hot meal ready were pretending to be Olympic heroes information will help those readers who for Frank. Until next month ... by running on the track. What fun! have the same hobby, or are contemplat­ Sincerely, Delphi was the grand finale. It has a ing starting a house of their own. Peggy magnificent location, fantastic ruins and has had a serious heart condition since an excellent museum. Do schedule lots childhood. Since she had open heart of time there. We had several hours and surgery a few years ago, the outdoor they weren't enough. Back to Athens activities she loves so much have been and home to Albuquerque. For some reason, jet lag didn't seem to bother anyone as much coming back from east OUR OLD MAILBOX surface. Quite appropriate for the to west. Maybe it was because we were in owners! Their surname is Cherry. by familiar surroundings. In thinking back Although our mailbox holds no special Rita Farnham over the trip I remember many little appeal for those who pass by, it is the things that I haven't written about. One At the end of our driveway where a most treasured object stationed on our BIG thing I can say is that I would go back blue-black ribbon highway stretches property. The old mailbox stands to do it all over again in a minute. onto faraway places stands a sturdy bravely in all kinds of weather, depend­ My goodness! Sunshine! The wind is cedar post that has been pounded into able and stalwart, sheltering the mail I so still howling, but the snow has stopped the ground by my strong husband. Its joyfully look forward to receiving each and the clouds are breaking up. A flock sole and sacred purpose is to hold our day-a letter from a dear friend, a refund of crows and ravens just flew over the old mailbox, that battered and rusted check to bolster my shopping power, a house on their way to some food dump receptical for receiving mail. new catalogue of the latest fashions, a up the way. Just writing "crows and Many people have cleverly installed women's magazine, a package of sewing ravens" reminds me of son James as a their mailbox. Some use prize antiques materials, or a reply from one of my small boy. He combined the two words as part of the installation. Old milk cans, aspiring attempts to become a published and called them "cravens." The term wagon wheels, plows, planters and other writer. "cravens" seems very appropriate to me. farm implements are used to mount a Perhaps, someday we'll buy a new Lucile sends her greetings to you box. An old-time wringer washer, a mailbox and have it mounted in an all ... as does Betty Jane. They have wooden tub or barrel, an ancient water interesting eye-catching manner. For the gotten through the winter in good shape pump, a round pot-bellied stove, a chain present I'm far more interested in what and only one broken furnace. The that seems to be suspended in midair are is received with each mail delivery. The furnace was over twenty years old so I a few of the original ideas used in posi­ highlight of my day is collecting the mail. guess it was entitled to act up. They have tioning a mailbox. In the spring I'll sow marigold seed a good new one to see them through this Through the years mailboxes have around the base of the mailbox for color winter and hopefully, many more to taken different shapes such as houses, all summer long. When the holiday come. barns, barrels, and covered bridges. The season arrives I shall once again adorn Sincerely, colors of the mailbox have changed from the cedar post with festive greens the traditional black or aluminum to entwined with a crimson ribbon and a bright orange, red, yellow, and various bow where the box is fastened to the shades of green. Other boxes, although post. Always I'll listen for the clinking they have the usual shape, are decorated sound the door makes when the mailman with birds, flowers, animals, or nature closes the box after filling it with eagerly­ scenes. A box in our neighborhood has a awaited pieces of mail. bough of cherries painted on its flat black \.,,_. * KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1985 PAGE23

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