The Rural Voice, 1980-06, Page 36DRIED APPLES
Dried apples are an excellent nutritious
snack food. Put peeled. cut-up apples in
the oven on window screens. Dry at low
heat 4 to 6 hours.
HOMEMADE POPSICLES
1 pkg. of freshic. 1 3oz. pkg of jello, 1 cup
sugar. 2 cups boilinii water. 2 cups cold
water.
Use the same flavour of jello as freshic.
Pour into popsicle moulds or plastic
glasses. Freeze until firm.
FUDGE POPSICLES
Combine in saucepan: ' cup sugar or
honey. 2 tbsp. cornstarch, 3 tbsp. cocoa.
21/2 cups milk.
Cook over low heat until thickened.
stirring constantly. Add: 1 tbsp. vanilla
and 1 tbsp. margarine (optional) Cool,
freeze in popsicle moulds. Yield --10
popsicles. Option: Use one box chocolate
pudding mix (not instant) prepared with 3
cups of milk.
Here comes
the bride
BY GI`-Fi E IRELAND
June is the ••• :ial month for brides..
Why I don't r. t'w, since the average
farmer is in the middle of haying. It must
originally have had something to do with
the natural abundance of flowers in this
month. Very few brides pick their bouquet
from the garden nowadays. Somebody has
to pay an arm and a leg for it.
What really fascinates me is the cute
formal write- ups that are done in the
papers following the wedding. They often
make me yonder if I was at the same
wedding I'm reading about because they
left out all the goodies that made it a really
memorable ocassion.
For instance. they always have the bride
attired in sheer something or other
appliqued with do -dads. Actually the bride
drr \ , mother nuts finding a dress suitable
ano ucr feet will never recover and they put
500 miles on the family car doing it. Sonic
brides resemble billowing tents on the
horizon and I feel respLct for the column
writer that has her looking "charming"
She usually has had an outbreak of pimples
the day before the wedding too due to
nerves and that is written off as a becoming
blush.
GIVEN IN MARRIAGE
The bride is usually given in marriage by
her father. A lot of fathers do this
unwillingly because they deplore her
choice. Nothing is too good for his little girl
and he doesn't like the turnip she picked
one bit. The groom's mother often has
misgivings too and feels the filly her son
picked is bad news but she's wearing a
smile and clutching her kleenex.
The wedding in itself is usually carefully
rehearsed, though you'd never know it at
the actual ceremony. Especially if there are
tiny tots involved. The little flower girl just
bit the ring bearer before going into the
church and they have to shove him up the
aisle. He gets even and kicks his lacy little
heart all the way up instead of carrying it.
They finally all make it to the front.
The maid of honour looks lovely in her
puce green outfit. mainly because she's a
redhead, but the rest of the girls look like
they have jaundice in that colour. One of
the ushers is squirming uncomfortably in
his rented tuxedo because he's the one that
got delivered the wrong size. The cumber -
bund is under his armpits and he's crotch
bound. You ask any of those guys to wear a
frilly shirt at any other time and they'd
likely deck you one.
BORED
By now the tiny ones are bored and have
forgotten where they were supposed to
stand. W?th a lot of squirming one of them
manage to knock the elaborate candle
and fl...ver arrangement over with 10
flaming candles. Some quick -thinking
spectator in the front row does a quick
stomp and twirl on them before the church
carpet ignites, and retires to his seat. In
the meantime, the bride is flustered to the
point that she forgot where she was and
everyone is holding their breath for her to
repreat "I Do". They get that done, and
the matron of honour is still flummoxed
because it was her kid that knocked the
decorations over and she forgets to lift the
bridal veil. • The groom in the meantime
tries to kiss her through the veil and
succeeds in knocking her headpiece awry
and spoiling her $25 hairdo.
At the reception, the bride is mauled and
mooched by anyone who cares to have a go
at her. Some klutz stepped on her dress and
the only thing holding it together at the
waist is an assortment of safety pins. She is
also itchy in every nook and cranny due to
overzealous applications of confetti.
HONEYMOON
The bride and groom are now ready to
depart on their honeymoon. Amid much
good natured teasings and suggestions you
can gauge their reactions by their blushes.
If the couple have been living together
prior to the wedding you carry on the same
regardless because parents still find this
aspect of Hying hard to accept.
Those that have suggestions as to what it
will be like when the honeymoon is over,
keep their mouth shut, mostly due to
compassion. Some of us sigh with envy and
remember our own weddings. Some cry,
for reasons of their own. Whatever emotion
weddings evoke, they are often the source
of unrehearsed entertainment and
unplanned surprises. I'd like to read a few
written up with the actual ''ctails. I have a
feeling no one will ask me to do it.
Things kids hate to hear
BY GISELE IRELAND
1. WHY CAN'T YOU BE MORE LIKE
YOUR BROTHER?. . .if you had
wanted identicals you should have had
twins. Kids hate to have siblings held
up for examples. They are all special for
different reasons.
2. I'M GOING TO .. .. .. .. making
threats and not following through only
makes you sound like a stuttering motor
running out of gas. Don't threaten them
with something unless you plan to
follow through or you'll be regarded
with the same degree of authority as
wind billowing the sails.
3. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE. . . kids
have very little conception of time other
than now, yesterday and tomorrow.
They think you came in with "Little
House on the Prairie." It is easy to
forget what you were really like as a kid
and if you remembered with any degree
of honesty you wouldn't want to tell
them about it anyway.
4. EAT YOUR FOOD, DON'T YOU
KNOW OTHER KIDS ARE
STARVING?...a child in this country
has no idea what actual starvation is
like. Don't pile the guilt of the world on
them with this number. Whether they
eat their spinach or not is not going to
make any difference to a starving child.
Teach them compassion for those
unfortunate enough to be starving and
perhaps in their lifetime there will be a
solution.
5. CAN'T YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT?
•: how would anyone answer a
question like that. You have attacked
his whole idea of self importance. There
must be some things he can do right;
praise him for those qualities and help
him develop those that he lacks.
THE RURAL VOICE/JUNE 1980 PG 37