The Frontier Woman
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
Hi there, all you nice peo
ple! Got your baby chicks yet?
Hope you get your houseclean
ing all done before the baby
chicks arrive, because some how
they do steal an awful lot of
one’s time, don’t they? They
do take a lot of looking after,
and when dark begins to come
on and they are real young,
seems as though one needs to
be out at the brooder house to
keep them from piling up and
see that they aren’t so dumb
they smother one another.
I stoutly maintain there are
few living creatures with less
sense than a chicken—unless
it’s a turkey!
—tfw—
Guess what? In a seed cata
logue. I saw an advertise
ment for dandelion seed to
plant for greens! Imagine!
Just goes to show most of us
don't appreciate what's grow
ing in our lawns, but per
sonally I think it would be
going just a little too far to
grow dandelions from pur
chased seeds.
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“Please have a dish of dan
delions,’” Pappy would say po
litely to the company. “I rais
ed them myself in my own gar
den." Whooof!
“Eat your dandelions," mam
ma would say to Junior, in
stead of “Eat your > spinach."
Sure I know lots of people dig
i dandelions and eat them for |
: Spring greens but they don’t
raise them for that. Still if one
were powerfully fond of dan
delions I suppose it would be
all right.
“Everybody to their own
tastes." said the cow as she ate
the old lady’s hat!
—tfw—
Our prize winning letter this
issue has some advice on sea
soning greens and maybe I’d
better pass it along to you be
fore I use up all the space with
my pointless prattle. The let
ter comes from Middlebranch:
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Dear Mrs. Pease:
I’ve hesitated about writing
again, but you keep asking for
letters so here’s my try again.
We live on a farm and have
4 boys ranging rather evenly in
age from 2 years to 8 Ms years.
I think I’m rather busy most of
the time.
Now about those heavy
sacks. The heavy white ones
that seed corn comes in make
very good heavy overalls for
my 2 little boys.
I dye the ones I make, but
my aunt has some white ones
for her little boy and she
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thought they washed nicely.
They are cute with multicolor
iron on transfers that need no
embroidery. I also make every
day shirts out of the larger
print sacks when I have suit
able figures. One boy has a
heavier feed sack shirt that he
wears when it is cool. Sacks
that are too coarse for dress
might be all right for clothes
pin bags, garden aprons, etc.
Added 2 new garden items
this year, brocolli and okra or
gumbo. I want to can some
chicken gumbo next fall. I us
ually add something new to the
order. Have tried Swiss chard
kale, peppers and endive. Ex
pect to plant more of each ex
cept endive this year. We like
other greens better than spin
peh. PerhaDs we haven’t found
the right kind.
I have 2 or 3 simple ways of
preparing greens for the tab'e.
The old way of seasoning with
salt, vinegar, butter and a dash
of pepper. Then we like a rich,
medium cream sauce (use more
cream than milk) and garnish
with 2 or 3 sliced boiled eggs.
Another quick way that saves
dishes is to drain the water
from the leafy greens, then put
in cream and a little milk or
butter and milk and let come to
boil. Break an egg or 2 (de
pending on amount of greens)
and break yolk quickly with a
spoon. Scramble thoroughly,
but don’t stir more than neces
sary. Salt and pepper each style
to taste. We go easy on pep
per.
We use pickle vinegar in vari
ous ways, seasoning greens, sal
ad dressing, seasoning boiled
beets that have been thicken
ed with flour, and water thick
ening. You may want more
sugar for beets.
Yesterday the children and I
were alone at noon so we had
a simple nourishing lunch. It
was toast and egg (poached in
tomato juice and water and
salted to taste). I used 5 eggs
and poached them in 1 cup each
of thick tomato juice and wa
ter. I used a quart and half
saucepan.
Place one side of toast on a
plate, dip out 4 or 5 spoons of
liquid on each slice of toast,
then you can see the eggs bet
ter and place 1 egg on each
slice of toast. For dessert we
used one of your tricks, alter
nate layers of graham crackers
and apple sauce with cream.
Also, yesterday, the boys
and I covered a batt with
cheese-cloth and stitched
rows about 5 or G inches
apart across the batt and
whipped edges together. Now
it is ready for the pieced top
and the tieing.
We need this comforter as
we have to wash the one that
the boys had on their bed dur
ing our recent seige with meas
les. The 3 oldest are recover
ing nicely, but the baby may
have them anyway.
REPEATER.
We are certainly glad to
have your letter “Repeater”
and think our readers found it
mighty interesting. Most of us
are interested in what other
people are doing and that goes
for households as well as other
types of news.
—tfw—
Speaking of greens I have a
little gadget that comes in
handy very often. It’s an alum
inum egg sheer and it slices a
boiled egg into even slices’ that
are fine for garnishing greens.
I also like to use the egg slices
for garnishing other things,
potato salads for one. It’s fine
for slicing up eggs for other
uses, too, and for slicing boiled
potatoes evenly and quickly. If
you make a cake which calls
for only egg whites, drop the
yolks into water and cook
them. Then you can rice them
and use them sprinkled over
greens and in casserole dishes
and salads. Of you can use
them in a scramble dish, add
ing a full egg or two more. Or
as a binder in a meat loaf or
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in salmon patties or hambur
gers to add extra nourishment.
They make very good egg
noodles, too.
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Send Us a Letter —
Sit down and write me a let
ter for we do need letters for
The Frontier Woman. Every
week you read it but are you
doing your share by sending us
a letter for it? We’d like so
much to hear from you and you
may write about anything you
wish.
Enclose your favorite reci
pies, hints and helps if you
like, but be sure to check the
recipes over to make certain
they are copied correctly.
Tell us about the garden or
your flowers, or the new cur- j
tains, or how you've made
scmething "do" or may be re
painted some furniture or
d d over the kitchen.
Send your letter to Mrs.
Blanche Pease, care of The
Frontier Woman, Atkinson. Be
sure you put The Frontier Wo- |
man notation on the letter.
That’s all for this week, but
I’ll be seeing you next week.
I’ll meet you right here!
Sincerely,
BLANCHE SPANN PEASE,
The Frontier Woman.
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more than 20,000 varieties in
his collection.
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