I' /\ '"... -. "! ...... ,. PAGE 2 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943 MY PLEDGE ,--- Kitchen - Klatter I will buy wisely. I will take good care of things I Ma4azine have. LEANNA FIELD DRlll'TlllIER, Editor I will waste nothing. LUCILE VERNESS, Associate Editor DOROTHY D . .JOHNSON, Associate Editor Although we try not to waste any­ M. H. DRIFTMIER, Bullnes1 Manager thing we probably do in many small subscription Price $1.00 per year (12 ways. It is these small savings that Issues) In U. S. A. Foreign Countries, $1.110 per year. do not se.em important but taken to­ Advertising rates made known on appli­ gether amount to a great deal. cation. Plan the quantity of food you need Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia., to prepare for a meal, ver'y carefully. under the Act of March 3, 1879. If the family have not enough meat Published Monthly by to satisfy their appetites, have plenty LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER of bread or something else to finish LETTllR FROM LEANNA Sbenandoab, Iowa out on. Improper cooking of food, such as burning it or adding too much salt or My Dear Friends, stationed at Waco, Texas. He is to pepper, making it unappetizing, is Now that some of you are not able go to Grand Rapids, Mich., for a wasteful, expensive and unpatriotic. to hear my daily visits on the radio, course in weather forecasting. On the In the summer time the proper stor­ I am more than ever glad I can write compl.etion of this, he will be ready ing of food is important for much this letter for all of you to read. I be­ for overseas duty, which seems to be food is lost through spoilage. Food lieve May is the busiest month of the what all of our boys are wanting. will win the war. Let none of it be year. Gardening, which comes first Frank Field's youngest son, John, is wasted. this year, chickens, housecleaning, learning to be a dive bomber pilot. Red Cross work, nutrition and first Margery was home for spring vaca­ COURAGE aid classes fill our lives so full, from tion. She has been elected to teach eariy morning until late at night, that in Pella again next year. We had a there is hardly an hour to relax dur-· good time visiting while we sewed or To send a boy to war a mother must ing the day. However, I like to think washed the dishes. Only six more have courage for she knows the real that from 1: 30 until 2: 00 you are rest­ weeks of school and she will be home dangers of war, both physical and ing while I visit with you over KMA. for the summer. Lucile and Dorothy moral. It is hard to send that boy Yes, I am a year older than I was would like to have her visit them in away with a smile. A mother must when you read the April Klatter, at Callifornia, and perhaps she can the have something more than mere cour­ least I have had a birthday. April later part of her vacation. age to uphold her during the months, 3rd, I was 57. The high spot of the By the time you read this, Howard, yes, maybe years, which will pass be­ day was the telephone call from our oldest son who is in the army fore her boy returns home again. Wayne, our soldier son in Hawaii. at Camp Adair, Oregon, will have been My inner assurance that no matter On Friday we received a telephone home on a furlough, I hope. It has where my sons may go, God will be call from San Francisco asking us to been postponed several times but I am near them, gives me the greatest be at home Saturday evening to re­ sure we will see him soon. He is a peace of heart. I can leave my sons' ceive a ca]l from Hawaii and you can Corporal now in the Infantry. He is lives entirely in God's hands and what­ be sure we were at home. My hus­ anxious to see his brother Frederick ever happens, know that God is good. band was at the telephone in the who has returned from Egypt since If one of my boys should lose their Kitchen-Klatter office, Margery (who he went into the army. present life on the battlefield, they was home for spring vacation) and I expect most of you are all through have just gone on to a better life, a Frederick were at the desk phone in housecleaning. We are almost through. continuation of th.at which they have my broadcasting office, and I at the I have a lady help me two forenoons lived here. A life is never really lost. phone in the living room. I was so a week and each time we have clean­ This lesson of eternal life brought to overcome by my emotions that I could ed a little. I don't believe we will do us by the Easter story, should bring scarcely talk when I first heard any painting or papering until fall. peace and courage to every aching Wayne's voice, but soon gained con­ I want to put off the confusion such heart. trol of my feelings and had a nice vis­ work brings, and things don't look it. That was the shortest three min­ too bad. HOME CANNING utes I ever lived through. Wayne Mrs. Edith Hansen, the morning sent me a lovely summer hand-bag home-maker at KMA, has just return­ from Honolulu. It is woven from ed from visiting her parents in South Home canners may use the hot wa­ some kind of a tropical grass and has Dakota. She was accompanied home ter bath method for all of their can­ my initials on it. He has given me by her husband whose business. con­ ning. This is the advice of Miss a purse on each birthday I have had nections. were such that he had not Frances Hettler, extension nutrition­ since he started to earn money. Lu­ been able to come to be with his fam­ ist at Iowa State CoI!ege. The use of cile and Dorothy were going to cal'l ily until now. steam pressure cookers for canning me from Hollywood but couldn't get We have some nice plans for the no-acid fruits and vegetables is -desir­ the line until after 10:30 out there Kitchen-Klatter Magazine the coming able if such equipment is available. which would have been 12:30 here so months. Very soon, either in June or However, if proper precautions are they gave up. I imagine they were July, Lucile will start a series of con­ taken, the hot water bath method is trying to call at the same time tributions of a sort of family story satisfactory. And the scarcity of Wayne's call was coming through. which we think our readers. will enjoy steam pressure cookers increases the We are having a grand s.pring rain because so many of you were not re­ need for using whatever equipment is today. We have had some very dry ceiving the Magazine when I wrote available. While sharing equipment in weather with dusty winds. I had be­ ·my "Life Story". neighborhoods is patriotic, it doesn't solve the problem in every community. gun to wonder if we were in for a Write me a ~etter when you have drought. Yesterday we planted some time. I shall enjoy hearing from Extension specialists or county home new: hybrid tea rose bushes, and per­ every one of you. Any suggestions economists will hold canning demon­ enmals. The rain came at just the you have for improving the content of strations throughout the state during right time for them. We are planting this magazine to make it more help­ May. Both the hot water bath and one hundred choice gladioli bulbs as ful will be gratefully received. Please t>ressure cooker methods will be il­ soon as the ground is dry enough. feel free to send in contributions for lustrated at that time. We had good news from our young­ my consideration. Lovingly, est son, Don, who is in the Air Corps -Leanna, Buy War Bonds and Stamps! KITCHEN-KLATT)ER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943 PAGE 3 Not so beautiful but quite as exciting are the little Early Everlastings or Pussy Toes which come with the Bird­ foot Prairie Violets and the pink Oxalis. Their silvery gray leaves whiten the ground, the small furry blooms resemble a kitten's foot. Star grass grows near by and the Blue­ eyed grass opens tiny eyes to see what is going on around it. Star Grass has · a small bulb as does also the Pink MY PAW PAW PARADISE MAY GAVE A PARTY Oxalis. By Blanche Wainwright By Mary Duncomb Perhaps the most interesting of the spring flowers is the Buffalo Bean or Pawnee Apple as it was sometimes Because someone before my time May had a little party called. Seeds, flowers and unripened dropped a big brown seed into soft And she invited me fruit are found on this small lowgrow­ Iowa soil, I now have at the edge of By way of invitation ing plant all at once. We come up­ my yard a shaded jungle as beautiful From a robin in a tree. on it as it spreads out in patches in as those of the tropics.