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By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
Hi there, all you nice people:
February has gained a reputa
tion as "President’s Month,”
with the birthdays of George
Washington and Abraham Lin
coln the occasion for patriotic
dinners and special programs
The cherry tree story told by
the Guffey reader has made the
cherry a Washington day tra
dition, while the Lincoln theme
relies on molasses breads and
cookies.
Molasses was such a common
cooking ingredient all through
Sandhill Sal
I wonder if folks still talk
about the “good old days af
ter the winter we’ve had. Per
sonally, they can have their
good old days and I’ll take a
daily mail service. How could
anyone claim now that the
winters were nothing like we
had “when I was a boy.”
You can put these blizzards
down in history as being a ser
ies of ‘‘dear dead days ’ I for
one will do nothing whatever
to recall. After a winter like
this spring is bound to come
and I hope it comes bounding
along pretty soon!
With your wife’s cold feet in
the middle of your back, there
is nothing like an electric
blanket.
Wonder if my purse will
shriek with pain if I ordered
some of those fringed daisies?
Yep, its seed catalogu time!
like an upside-down cake, and
the canned pineapple slices give
it that tropical flavor.
TROPICAL GINGERBREAD
Two tablespoons butter or
margarine, V* cup brown sugar,
three slices canned pineapple,
1 Vi cups sifted enriched flour,
one teaspoon soda, Vfc teaspoon
soda, Mi teaspoon ginger, Mi tea
spoon cinnamon, 1/3 cup sugar,
V4 cup shortening, Mi cup mo
lasses, y< cup buttermilk or sour
milk, one teaspoon vanilla ex
tract, one egg.
the early His
tory of our
country that
no self - re
specting gen
eial store was
wit h o u t a
barrel of it.
From colon
ial times un
til the Span
ish-American
war, the
house wife
Blanche Spann Prlzed n e r
Pease many recipes
for molasses
cookies, puddings, gingerbreads.
Among them was a hard ging
erbread “that would keep fresh
and crisp in a dry closet for a
month.” There were ginger
crackers and round gingerbread
cakes for sailors to take on long
sea voyages. Spiced gingerbread,
caraway gingerbread, and gin
ger pound cake frequently ap
peared on the menu.
While no longer a national
custom, gingerbread is still a
favorite. Modern recipes have
made it easiere to make, and
ready mixes on the market make
gingerbread in a hurry. Mod
ern gingerberead has all the
virtues of Grandma’s plus an
extra special modern one—en
riched flour, which is better
than any Grandma ever knew.
It is not only tops in bak
ing quality, but it is extra
nutritious. Enriched flour is
the most regular, thriftiest
source of iron, and provides
iron in all other kinds of bak
ed foods, as well as in gin
gerbread.
Here is a tropical gingerbread
you will want to try. It's made
Melt butter or margarine in
eight-inch square pan. Sprinkle
brown sugar evenly over bot
tom of pan. Cut pineapple slices j
in halves and arrange on brown
sugar so there will be one-half
slice for each serving of cake. I
Sift together flour, soda, salt, |
ginger, cinnamon and one-third
cup sugar. Add shortening, mo
lasses and buttermilk. Beat un
til smooth (2 minutes). Add
vanilla extract and egg. Beat
until smooth (2 minutes). Pour
batter over pineapple slices.
Bake in moderate oven (350 de
grees F.) 45 minutes. Turn out
of pan at once. Serve warm.
Make one eight-inch square
cake, six servings.
Martha Washington pie is
really a cake, two layers, with a
bright fruit filling in between,
and a sifting of confectioners’
sugar over the top instead of
frosting. This dessert is one
that has become an everyday fa
vorite, but it is appropriate for
your February party theme.
MARTHA WASHINGTON PIE
Two cups sifted enriched
flour, 2 Vi teaspoons baking
powder, V* teaspoon salt, % cup
shortening, one cup sugar, one
teaspoon vanilla extract, one
egg, one cup milk, 44 cup cherry
jam, Vi cup confectioners’ sug
ar.
Sift together flour, baking
powder and salt. Cream togeth
er shortening and sugar until
light and fluffy. Add vanilla
extract Beat egg and add. Add
dry ingredients to creamed mix
ture alternately with milk. Pour
nto two greased eight-inch cake
pans. Bake in modererate oven
(375 degrees F.) 25 minutes.
When cool, spread cherry jam
between layers and sift con
fectioners’ sugar over top. Makes
one eight-inch “pie”.
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Dear Mrs. Pease:
We don’t take The Frontier
but the people I board with do,
and as long as it comes on
Thursday I get to read the news
before I go home on Friday.
I have been collecting a
few recipes for a pastime, as I
was pasting a few in my reci
pe book, I ran across some us
ing fresh meat, and, no doubt,
a lot of the readers will be
butchering in the near future.
Hope they will help out, in
fixing a new dish.
BAKED LIVER AND ONIONS,
Two teaspoons salt. Vi tea- j
spoon peppers, Va cup flour, two
pounds beef liver in one piece, |
1/3 cup fat, two cups sliced on- ^
ions, one cup sour cream, V4 cup
water. Mix together seasonings
and flour. Cover liver with flour
mixture. Brown liver in hot fat.
Place liver and onions in a two
quart baking dish. Add sour .
cream and water. Cover tightly
and bake in modereate oven 45
minutes, uncover and continue ,
cokng 15 5to 20 minutes or un
til the liver is tendere. Makes
six to eight servings.
i BEEF HEART AND NOODLES
One beef heart, Va eup fat,
; two medium onions sliced, W
cup water, one teaspoon salt, Vi
teaspoon pepper, Vi teaspoon
vinegar. Vi cup sour cream, 1-9
ounce package noodles, cooked.
Cut heart in small pieces about
three inches long and one-half
inch thick. Brown heart in hot
fat in a heavy skillet. Add on
ions, water, salt, pepper and
vinegar. Cover tightly and sim
mer over low heat about three
hours. Add sour cream to heart
and bring to a boil. Serve im
mediately over hot cooked nood
les. Makes six servings.
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tablespoons fat, one small on
! ion. sliced, 4 cup chili sauce,
1 4 cups water, 4 teaspoon pre
pared mustard, one teaspoon
salt, 4 teaspoon pepper, one
tablespoon Worcestershire sauce,
4 cup brown sugar. Have spare
ribs cut into serving portions.
Place in shallow baking pan.
Melt fat, add onion and cook
until golden biown. Add remain
ing ingredients and simmer for
five minutes. Pour over spare
ribs and bake in a moderate 350
F. oven about 1 4 hours, basting
several times during baking per
iod. Makes £ix servings.
LEONA FERNE BECKWITH
Emmet, Nebr.
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Mrs. S. E. Timmermans
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Dear Friend:
I thought I’d sit down and
write a few lines to The Fron
tier Woman since I enjoy the
column and want to help keep
it going.
We are having quite an argu
ment here as to the relative
merits of last winter and this
one. For me, I’ll take the open
winter even if it is cold. At
least, you can get around and go
somewhere. This winter I’m so
tired already of wet mittens,
overalls and. clothes hanging up
to dry every time the kids go
out to play. But, then, since we
don’t have much to say about it,
I guess we’ll take it as it comes.
Here's a hint that should
come in handy this time of
year "Rub the snow shovel
with paraffin and the snow
won't cake and slick when
cleaning walks." Here's a cake
recipe we like and is good
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3—
WJAG (Norfolk), 4:15 p. m.
Good afternoon, everyone.
This is Bill Beha speaking to
you from O’Neill—a city that to
day is enjoying a bright sun and
a clear sky. The temperature
reading right now is six degrees.
This broadcast is sponsored by
the Holt county chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Well, the bulldozer army is
moving into high gear out here '
in the Second district
area, which - comprises
Holt, Boyd, Rock, Brown and
Key a Paha counties.
I've just come from the sub
area headquarters in the Holt
county courthouse building
and, believe me, there's a hum
of activity up there. In the
few, short days the Fifth army
has been in town there is a
well-oiled, smoothly running
efficiency in the headquar
ters, and I'll miss my bet if
these Army people don't get
the job done—in a hurry!
Six giant Army ’dozers reach
ed Atkinson today and six oth
ers have reached Ainsworth.
Three more have reached O’
Neill and eight are going to
Stuart.
Somewhere between Norfolk
and O’Neill is a North Western
special train on which there
are 20 ’dozers to be unloaded in
O’Neill.
Most of these ’dozers coming
in are brand new—right out of
the factory—and they’ll have to
be serviced before they start
bucking the ice and snow in this
portion of the disaster area.
Slow transportation has ha
rassed the Fifth army in getting
Operation Snowbound under
way.
But the ’dozers and rotary
plows that are at work are mov
ing a tremendous amount of
snowr! Three of the Army En
gineers’ largest ’dozers have !
been slashing through drifts up
to 12 feet in depth in the Stuart
vicinity.
Progress of these ’dozers is
kept up-to-date on a large map
on the wall in Fifth army sub
area headquarters at the Holt
courthouse. Red lines are drawn
on roads that have been clear
ed.
Army personnel. Army en
gineers and private contrac
tors are working 'round the
clock in this big peacetime
operation—which has called
upon all the resources . . .
military and civilian . . . that
can be mustered.
. Although a state of emergency
has existed in Holt and adjoin
ing counties for nine days now,
the region still is virtually par
alyzed. There is a three-foot
blanket of snow, ice and residue
. . and the average farmer or
rancher, who has been watch
ing his supplies of fuel and food
dwindle, and his livestock suffer
from lack of feed from a near
by haystack, can rightly assume
that the job has only just be
gun.
We can reassure the people in
the Chambers and Amelia com
munities that they haven’t been
forgotten—even though ... to
them . . . this isolation and
hardship seems capable of going
on forever!
At the Fifth Army sub-area
headquarters here a few mom
ents ago, we were told that
Chambers and Amelia definite
ly will have more equipment
down there soon—equipment off
this train that is somewhere be
tween Norfolk and O’Neill. At
least two giant ’dozers have been
earmarked for both communit- j
I this time of year when eggs
are high since it doesn't call
for any.
raisin cake
Boil for three minutes, one
cup sugar, one cup raisins, Vz
cup shortening. 1 Vi cups boiling
! water. When cold add one tea
spoon cinnamon, one teaspoon
1 nutmeg one teaspoon salt, one
teaspoon soda, Vi teaspoon salt,
one teaspoon each all spice and
1 cloves, and nuts. Use flour to
thicken Mix a little stiffer than
an ordinary cake. We like it
with nuts added.
MRS. S. E TIMMERMANS,
Box 158, Atkinson, Nebr.
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RADIO DIARY
LAST WEEK'S issue of The Frontier featured the Radio Diary
—a chronological text of a series of radio broadcasts origin
ating in the "Voice of The Frontier" studios and heard over five
Midwestern and Rocky Mountain stations. Excerpts were even
broadcast by other stations and networks. The week was a his
toric one and hundreds of persons have written for extra copies
of last week's issue which included the Radio Diary.
BECAUSE THE intervening week has been a continuation of
the blizsard story. The Frontier herewith presents another
edition of the Radio Diary.
>ies . . . others for Ewing. More
equipment is coming into the
county area hourly. But the
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I are over 2,400 square miles in
Holt county alone . . . and the
job ahead staggers the imagin
ation.
Many outsiders coming in
have no concept of the job at
all. The other evening we
watched a handful of men and
two 'dozers set out to open a
two and one-half mile stretch
out of O'Neill. These men, ac
customed to their heavy ma
chinery and the rigors of mid
western weather, were su
premely confident that to open
this particular road would be
little more than a routine
matter. The men returned to
O'Neill . . . many hours later.
The job had not been rou
tine.
, bfen Pretty well taken up at the
i O’Neill airport.
A big problem arising there,
I now, however, is maintenance of
: aircraft. The personnel at
the airport hase been going a
full tilt for many weeks now'
. . . and maintenance is a man
sized job.
Several planes that have been
brought in here from other
towns have been forced to re
turn to their home base for re
pairs.
Here is the highway informa
tion: Highway 281 is open North
of O’Neill to the state line, and
plows are working South tow
ards Bartlett. Highway 281 is
expected to be open to Grand
Island by sometime tonight.
Highway 20 is open West of O’
Neill and East as far as Plain
view. No. 275 is open to Nor
folk. Highway 107 is closed from
O’Neill to Page, but is open
from Page to the junction on
highway 2Q. closed South of
highway 20 to Ewing, but is
open from Ewing South. High
way 12 in Boyd county is open,
and highway 11 is open South of
Atkinson, but just how far South
the plowing has progressed is
not known. Highway Depart
ment officials here report that
plowing conditions are nr&ch
better than after the last wind.
The Army has requested us to
ask residents to help guile ’doz
ers where they can. If you see a
dozer working—offer them your
services in your neighborhood.
(Continued on page 7.)
Drs. Brown &
French
Office Phone: 77
Complete X-Ray
From the Chambers commun
ity today comes another urgent
plea for help. County Supervis
or H. W. Hubbard explained to
us a few moments ago that his
supervisory district is comprised
of 13 townships. Up until now
there are only three bulldozers
and one caterpillar with a plow
in that big territory.
He explained that residents in
that community have suppressed
their desire for help—but farm
ers and ranchers cannot hold
out much longer.
As we mentioned earlier,
there is a high priority on get
ting equipment to the Ewing,
Chambers and Amelia commun
ities as soon as this equipment
arrives. Aid will also be dis
patched to localities north, east
and south of O’Neill as quickly
as possible.
Certainly by some time to- j
morrow the Army’s offensive in
Operation Snowbound will be in
high gear. Officers in charge
say that, barring any further
disruption in communications,
30 ’dozers will be at work in
Holt county alone.
We’ve told you about a
smooth-running efficiency that
has been developed by the Army
in a few, short days.
The distress headquarters
in the Holt county courthouse
basement—as well as other
similar headquarters through- ,
out the county—have had the
mercy mission business on a
routine basis for many days
now. The only thing that dis
rupts the miniature airlift is
that old bogey—the weather.
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