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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-11-01, Page 3"AU You Can Eat For One Dollar"! It was reckless in me lo accept such a ehallenge. But the mea- dow was pink with csinnarnon roses; high tide glittered in the cove. And the mountains were harp amethyst, as I looked out sef my kitchen window. A disarm- ing combination. Baked beans, brown -bread and a lemon meringue pie. My assign- ment for the Amon Club's Sta- urday night supper. I, the city gal, had, in an unguarded mom- ent, agreed ta compete with Down East women who had pr. b. ably been accomplished cooks from childhood. I had baked beans and even put tm preserves M an apartment kitchenette, It had been relaxing after a clay of newspaper deadlines, The re- sults had been rather gratifying. But cooking for the Apron Club in my Maine village! The summer folk from Bay Side and the Corners would crowd into the Grange Hall, practically drooling in anticipa- tion of that good old Down -East food. "All you can eat for a dol- lar" the notice read in the Weekly Bulletin, Everybody would be there, natives and summer folk. Lem Young, the plumber with a tie on — crimson splattered with yellow fleurs-de-lys, against a brown and green check shirt — would collect the dollar bills at the door. Friday found me pecking dully at my typewriter, "750 ASAP" (as soon as possible) read the edi- tor's instructions on the jacket of the book I was reviewing, In three hours all I had managed to get down was, "Another interval- ist adds his verse to the experi- mental crop ." Baked beans geed brown -bread and lemon mer- ingue pie! Mentally I could see the Apron Club, coldly viewing may offerings as I placed them U. the dining table beside theirs • just as I was putting the yel- low -eye beans to soak, that even hg, Jim Cotton appeared at the woodshed door. "They want you !Mould make a meat loaf," he laid, thrusting a paper bag into any hand and abruptly departing. "You comin' to the drawin'?" About an hour later. It was Ellie Zones, the supper chairman, on the telephone. "I'm making a meat loaf," I answered coldly, "and don't add anything more to my assignment. Where on earth did the club buy that fatty hamburg?" "Center Stores." "Wretched stuff! No flavor, and half of it drained off in fat. Whv did they go to Center Stores?" "Double stamps." Of course! Our village doesn't shop for quality. It shops for trad- ing stamps. The hideous vase in Ellie's parlor came from stamps, three bookfuls. Ellie's life is one exciting round of stamp -collect- ing, stamp -sticking and stamp -re- deeming — Gold Stamps, Top Value, S&H, Plaid, and so on No. I would not be going to the drawing this Friday night, when the manager of the Center Stores read the winning number, and those who had picked up their coupons during the week hud- dled like a subway mob around the cash register. Nor would I take my usual stance at the Dime -and -Up, a moist half -ticket disintegrating in my hand, won- dering how much longer I could endure the atmosphere — com- bined odors of roasting peanuts, grilled hot dogs, parakeets in cages, hair oil and rubber boots from the sheep pens, as the pop- ulation from half a dozen farm- ing villages pressed round me. That sea of faces — lean and wary, round and Rabelaisian, flat and innocuous, sharp and amus- ed. I should not be there this time to overhear the disappoint- ed comments of the losers: "There goes my Oil bill. That fifty 'melts would sure of come in handy!" "That kid don't need it no morel) my houndog." , It was 10 o'clock on Satui;day morning when Ellie telephoned again. I was measuring out the brown -bread ingredients, the corn meal, rye and white flour, writes Pearl Strachan lturd in the Christian Science Monitor. "C'mon down to City Hall. They is havin' a contest. Target shootin' an' pancake makin'." "Ellie, you know 1 have to make brown -bread. 1 suppose yours is all steamed." "&, no, Well — see yer 'bout five, huh?" And she hung up. At five promptly Ellie and Tom her husband helped me to carry the pot, of beans, the brown - bred in lis Atadiler, 1110 soggy meat loaf, and the lemon merin- gue pie to their car. I held the pie on my lap, in the back seat, and hoped Tont would go easy on the crick road. The filling was a trifle runny, but it was made from scratch. No gelatine, no ready -mix — with all those ex- Perts in the Apron Club! "Isn't this a treat?. Good old Down -East cooking!" Mrs. Rob- ins from Massachusetts, who owns the painted brick house at the Point, was ushering five guests into the hall as we arrived. As I assembled my ,contribu- tion on the kitchen counter I glanced timidly at the heap of food already there, expecting to see. , , Not the cans of beans I did see, the large economy size cans from the Center Store, or the huge tins of brown -bread marked "Warm and serve," Or the cellophane sealed pies, Or the package rolls! Piled. high on every counter space and flowing over onto several small tables. "Ellie!" I turned to her as she and Tom followed me, with their offering. I could say nothing else as they deposited more cans of beans, more "Warm and serve" brown -bread on the tables. 1, the city gal, had produced the only home baked beans, the only home steamed brown -bread, and, I sus- pected, one of perhaps three home baked pies, Surely the cakes were home- made! Six elaborate mounds of confectionery, unwrapped, on the shelf above the sink, While wait- ing on table I managed to hide one slice of chocolate layer. It looked "made from scratch." The first bite dispelled any illusion. "Mix," I murmured, as Ellie and T, along with the rest of the waitresses, sat down to the leav- ings. "Sure," she replied, "Mary Beal brought it. She ain't goin' to stay home all day makin' cakes. She': workin' for Jerry"., "Doing what?" "Pickin' out lobster meat for restaurants. .And her husband's got steady work now." "That's good news," "Try one o' them doughnuts," Ellie suggested, "they're real good. We bought 'em off the bak- ery truck." SIMPLE SOLUTION An Associated Press dispatch from Moscow reported, "The gov- ernment newspaper Izvestia said Soviet citizens must be courteous to each other because rudeness is bad for the health. And it de- manded an end to tha practice of denouncing people with anony- mous letters." How much better the Soviet leaders might have put the mat- ter if they could have said, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," and if they could have clinched the matter with the de- ceptively simple "Love thy neighbor." But that would be asking them to look where they have chosen not to see. — Denver Post. ISSUE 41 — 196e OPERATION SHOEHORN — Mobile classroom unit squeezes onto bridge in Rochester, N.Y., with only one and a half inches of clearance. It was the first time that a set of the mobile classrooms had been moved from one area of the city to another. 7 ,2Jam vew5, When the Pillsbury "Bake - Off" comes to New York, the swank Waldorf-Astoria becomes, for a few days, a homey, aroma- tic small-townish sort of place, with 100 contestants from 40 states "back -yard" visiting over their General Electric ranges as they turn out scrumptious -look- ing butterscotch spice cakes, fruit muffins, blueberry bread, and frosted pecan cookies along with dozens of other delectables. Last month, the 100 finalists selected from the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and teen-agers who entered the con - teat converged on the Waldorf to impress the 11 judges with their baking skills and to com- pete for the $25,000 first grand prize, $5,000 second prize, and thousands of dollars M supple- mentary prizes. Regardless of the outcome, however, each finalist won the expense -paid trip to New York, as well as a G. E. electric range and mixer, the honor of a few days of being fussed over, meet- ing Mamie Eisenhower, and of having what most of them de- scribe as a "glorious time"; also $100. For this 14th annual Pillsbury Bake -Off, the thousands of re- cipes submitted were initially narrowed tto 1,300. These were then baked by Pillsbury's staff of professional home economists and judged again, to determine the 100 finalists invited to com- pete in the Bake -Off. • "Fourteen years ago," says Philip Pillsbury, "when we stag- ed the first 13ake-Off, our idea was to take from the kitchens of America a group of favorite recipes which we could share with the rest of America.- * * • What officials have learned from the gigantic inflow of re- cipes each year is that the Amer- ican woman bakes creatively, and freque.ntly, contrary to most people's notions on the subject. They have discovered that she useseher ingenuity to give appeal to familiar ingredients, cleverly adapts old family recipes, and is intrigued with exploring the use of rare or unusual ingredients. Cakes have made up the larg- est category of Bake -Off entries over the years, though they've declined lately, and cookies, long in second place, have increased, with many unusual flavors and clever ehapes. Although breads are third le number of entries, an increasing number is beingsubmetted each year, and breads have accumulated more prize e" - '4" 41t MOON CAPSULE DWAR,rs MERCURY -- "Boilerplate" 8,500 -pound test model of the Apollo Command Module, which hos been planned to take men to the moan, is shown at spacecraft center where it will undergo land and water tests. National Aeronautics and Space Administration photo shows relative size in comparison with the Mercury croft, which took John Glenn and Scott Carpenter on their orbital flights. money over the 10 years of the Bake -Off than any other cate- gory. Chocolate is the favorite Bake - Off ingredient. Cheese is a Mid- west favorite, and cream cheese has been a growing source of inspiration for new contestants. * *•. * Waldorf-Astoria crew washed 2,000 mixing bowls, pans, spoons, and dishes while the contestants baked, and Glenn Peak "kept store" off the ballroom, keeping contestant:, supplied with proper utensils and grocery items. Mr, Peak placed about a $2,500 grocery order with Gristede's in New York, buying every ingredi- ent which every recipe specified. Gristede's filled the order in 100 boxes marked "perishables" and 100 boxes of non -perishables which were delivered to the Waldorf, writes Marilyn Hoffman in the Christian Science Monitor, * As I wandered around among contestants, I spotted Julius Lili- enthal, the only man- in the Grand National Finals this year. Mr. Lilienthal, an ingoeance clerk who bakes oreured Hume, and comes from s.iss Donna Isereets ed eight new,i.ed the 45th v: con- teat, coq hini t° the -baton Hotel. Zailsand- syn,of Mr. and , iv Exeter and'-nceu test, but th 24th, filling anivr, and Mrs, Omi) a Richari. awin-o<;14.SStrd-6 1118 138 1310Z: bisotys, He learn, ago in his entered th his mother sister. His with cheese-tn.., won him the • ars He ith -old role, h top, York. Richard and the. .00l, col- lected juniors, wielded their sift- ers and spatulas with great au- thority and attacked their :wi- pes like veterans, 1 watched Mrs. J. F, Hasen- kamp from Chattanaega, Tenn., ]acing the lattice crust on her pineapple -peach pie, She's been entering the contest for the past five years, and all this past win- ter she dreamed up and tried out new recipes to submit this spring. She sent in seven recipes, but the fruit pia brought her to the Waldorf. Like many of the con t es•tante. Mte. Hasen k amp bake.; all her own .bread, loves makin g pies, and always has homemade cookies on hand. • Mrs, Richard Wurzburger, "working" - wife from Scottsdale, Ariz., baked a cherry coffee cake, with a delicately spicy dough (cardamom is the secret), which puffs up, gooey and good, and makes three round. cakes. * * * Winners in the Bake -Off were: leiret prize $25,000, Mrs. Erwin Smogor, South Bend, Ind., for her Apple Pie '63. Second prize, $5,000, Mrs. Besse L. Gentry, Al. exandria, Ala., for her Smokey Barbecue Buns -a .a French bun with a light crusty texture top- ped with seenne seeds and brush- ed lightly with barbecue sauce, 325,090 RECIPE "APPLE PIE '03" th. about 28) f ight colored muscly caramels 1.; :trerit r cevaelritted milk or 1 3 reps ;ailed all-purpese Boer 10 cup sugar e teaspoons salt 0 tablespoons bit 'er , cup cooking; all 1 unbeaten egg. ,u) cold water cup walnut:4, chopped Melt ..iaratuels with evaporated milk overboiling water. stirring occasionally; keep over hot water, 'Sift flour with sugar and salt into mixing bowl. Cut- in hotter until particles are fine. Blend oil with egg and writer until slightly thieleined, Add to dry ingtedi. ente; stir until mixtutv heldto. •1 eviller. Form totequere. Roll out on ungreased 17x12 - Inch sheet of heavy duty alumin- um foil within one inch of edges. Smooth edges; flute. Fold foil around pastry to 15x10 -inch rec- tangle. Place on an ungreased cooky sheet. Place filling on pastry. Drizzle caramel sauce, thinning with a few drops of milk, if necessary, in wide strips aver apples. Spread topping between caramel sauce. Sprinkle with walnuts. Bake at 375° F. for 30 to 35 minutes. Serve warm or cold. Apple filling: Combine 1 cup sugar with ¼ cup all-purpose flour and two teaspoons grated lemon rind in a saucepan. Stir in six cups pared and sliced apples and V4 cup lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring con- stantly until thickened, Cream cheese topping: Whip one cup (8 ounce package) cream cheese, one unbeaten egg, and 'A cup sugar until fluffy and smooth. It's A Whopper — Even For New York New York's newest plush hotel, the Americana, opened Monday with a fanfare of waving flags, speeches, and the attendance of national, international, and city officials. The towering luxury palace rises 50 stories into the sky on the east side of Seventh Avenue between 62nd and 53rd streets. It was built by Loew's Hotels, a subsidiary of Loew's Theatres, Ina, at a cost of $50,000,000, The Americana was planned with the convention and ban- quet -meeting business in mind. In all, there are 41 public rooms, seating a grand total of 11,290 diners -- simultaneously if need be. The expasiticn area, Albert Hall, is one of the largest and most completely equipped rooms in the country; Its 30,800 square feet of floor space can accommo- date 3,200 diners or 4,000 persons for a business meeting. The lux- urious imperial ballroom, meas- ing 26,000 square feet in area, will seat 3,000 for dinner or 4,000 for convention meeting. The 2,000 guest rooms in this customed-oriented hotel range from modest -sized accommod,a- thins, tentatively priced at $12 for single occupancy, to suites and more elaborate combinations at a considerably higher tariff. All suites have refrigerators, extra phones in all baths, silent electric switches. wall - to - wall carpeting, TV and radio. ther- mostatically controlled heating, air-conditioning. a n d electric heating units in some baths. Phones are direct dial and are rigged with message lights and one -dial service for valet. roam service, and garage. Built-in parking facilities for 350 cars are provided in the new Anne ieana. with direct access to the lobby and registration deskL The hotel employe more thesai 2,000 people, over halt of thent in the seven kitchens in food preparation and handling. The main lottethen is on the basement level. All told there is nearly an sore 01 kitchen space. Diners have a choice of five modern restaurants. A unglue feature of the new Americana is a private automo.. bile elevator that can transport a visiting dignitary—such as the President—car and all, directly /rom the street to the distill. guihed guests' reception room adjoining the imperial ballroom. This would provide maximum security to the Chief Executive, or to any other visiting chief of state. Getting Ready For Winter In Alaska The home we had chosen for this winter was a squat OMR with one ten -by -twelve room and a six foot wide outer room looslly referred to as a "poreh." . • We had rented it when we had come to Unalakleet the spring before to make arrangements for the present movie project. We had paid $75 far the year and out Eskimo landlord had tried to re- fund $5 of that because he fon the amount in excess of ‘ellee. Our choice of the smallest cabin in the village was beyond the understanding of our native friends. "Dog House" ona of them called it, There was nn doubt Fred "lost face" in bringing his wife to such a place, especially with storey -and -a -half houses. copied after the quarters at the nearby Federal Aviation Agency Station, available. Still, it hap- pened to be exactly what we wanted. It was picturesque and. more important, authentic. It had, in fact, been built and lived- in by Eskimos before its last occu- pancy by a prospector.- It would be easy — much easier — to heat than the -larger houses. With its sod -banked walls, it seemed not only substantial but harmonious with the country. We gave it the name "Mik-nik-rok," meaning "the smallest," and moved in. .. There was a table nailed to the wale under the south window, a bench and two top heavy hand- made stools and a washstand. To this our landlord added an old Yukon stove with a firebox about the size of one shoe box atop an- other. Missing, however. were the firebricks protecting the tiny oven from the firebox. - Our first acquisition had be.en a fifty gallon drum for holding water. We realized the limita- tions of aur new home *hen the drum proved too wide for the door and it had been necessary to remove a window to bring it in. To the drum we added a pletwood cover and a bucket and dipper on top of that. Neet, a bed had been rented for the year for 810. It was a single iron cot with the lines of an occupied hammock. but by supplementing the sag with our sleeping bag we made it passably comfortable. There had been difficulty get. ting this piece of furniture in, too. No wonder — with six small children crowded inside to watch. We had sent them outdoors where they had clustered at the window only to scatter like quail when Fred turned suddenly in their direction. The washstand we had equipped with a basin. the neces- sary "catch bucket" and. a mirror Fred had to crouch to look into because of the line pitch tit the - roof. This was the extent of our fix- ing -up the spring betore and this is what we had come back to. Now our task was to 'make it as comfortable :al possible for the long northern winter. — From "The Howl of the Malamute: The Story of an Alaskan Winter." by Sara Mitchel arcl.. ntc , „. i'•• • ' • i"TY PARTISAN POSitlg ogHtt t o wall plaeteRal with campaign stickers, Judy McGovock clOds o univrisolly up pooling touch to the Republican Nritioncil Committee in Washington, D.0 The stickers Nemo seed to the from local Ropublicrirt groups ell over 1hc country.