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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1953)
The Frontier Woman Pancakes Delight Early Risers ®7 BLANCHE SPANN PEASE aucdses are never out of sea son. O’Neill’s recent pancake dav •proves that! Ihese steaming hot breakfast treats delight early risers Sur prise your family with the next ■batch of griddlecakes. Make your favorite batter, core apples and slice. Pour V\ cup batter on hot griddle. Place an apple slice on top and cover with i/4 cup more batter. Turn the griddlecake when it’s bubbly on top and only once. Remember, if you want iiuff$ pancakes, don’t “spank” thje dikes. i lie tart cranberry season is here. Put tradition aside and use .some ingenuity in using cranber ries for cooking. One new way is using them in hot breads. Perk up muffins with both flavor and color by the addition of cran berries. Sweeten ground raw cranberries to be added to the muffins with the liquid ingredi ents. Serve this delicious hot bread with butter or margarine for any fall meal. You can remodel once cooked meats by transforming them into a flavorful casserole. The meat can be disguised by using a ten der biscuit topping and you’ve got a meal in one. Vary the biscuit topping to fit the under-cover filling-. Shredded cheese, finely chopped parsley, pimento or on ion add their own flavor to bis cuits. Caraway seeds added to the biscuit dough give a very dis tinctive flavor. All of these bis cuit variations travel nicely atop the main dish. Remember to bake the extras to be served piping hot with butter or margarihe. Cranberries mixed with apples, to make a cranberry-apple pie is different. Try it out on the fam ily and if they like it, the recipe can go into your regular cook book. CRANBERRY APPLE PIE Use your favorite pastry re cipe. Two and one-fourth cups sugar, l,2 cup water, two cups apple slices, four cups cranberries, two tablespoons cornstarch, two ta blespoons water. Roll out half the pastry and fit it into a nine-inch pan. Com bine sugar, water, apple slices and cranberries in sauce pan. Cook until cranberries pop, about 10 minutes. Make a paste of cornstarch and remaining water, stir into fruit and continue cook ing until thick and clear, about five minutes. Cool and pour into pie shell. Roll out remaining pas try and cut in strips. Arrange criss-cross fashion over top. Bake in 425 F. oven 25 minutes. D:d you know that cranberries are one of three native American fruits? They were being used by the Indians long before the first colonists arrived in this country. Cranberries were served at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. — tfw — buent spencer Header Wins Subscription— Dear Blanche: Have been a silent reader of your column for many years. I also planned on writing to you, but it is one of those things that can be put off when the busy seasons roll along. We have been ,rery busy this past summer. There are just my husband and myself to do all the odd jobs as well as the regular work in the field. I helped put up hay, cut cock leburrs and now tomato season is just past and I had lots of them. My tomatoes were hybrids, very nice, large and smooth. I have a tomato juice recipe which I’ll pass along and even though it is too late for this sea son, your readers can save it for next. TOMATO JUICE Four large green or red pep pers (not the hot peppers), eight or 10 large stalks celery, one large onion. Cut these up and cook until soft, then run through juicer or food mill. This makes the right quantity to go with 20 quarts of tomato juice. Season with salt to suit your taste, be sure it is well mixed with the tomato juice. Use smaller quantities when you can less juice. “SILENT SPENCER READER” C Bar M Fixes Spring Hereford Sale Date Clair McVay has announced ' that the date for the annual j spring registered sale at the C I Bar M Hereford ranch, located I five miles south of O’Neill, will He March 8, 1954. | Number of lots to be sold has I not yet been definitely determin i ed, Mr. McVay said. SAYS SANDHILL SAL You can have a bad accident from hugging the wrong kind of curves while driving. If you must find out how fast your car will go—make sure you are the only passenger. Youi rel atives will want to come to your funeral. M rs. Sageser Tells of New York Trip AMELIA — Wednesday after noon, November 18, members of the Amelia Woman’s Society of Christian Service gathered at the home of Mrs. Bernard Blackmore. Fourteen members and one vis itor attended. Marjorie Sammons led the de votionals on the theme “The Rural Mission of the Church” af ter which the business meeting was held. It was decided to have the study meeting the first Sunday of the month. The next meeting will be held at the church De cember 6. at 7:30 p m. It will end the current study, “The Task of the Church Around the World.” The next regular meeting wil' be held December 23, 7:30 p.m., at the church together with the children’s Christmas program. Everyone is welcome. Members are asked to bring their mission ary stockings to this meeting. Mrs. Vern Sageser presented an interesting account of her trip to New York when she attended a United Nations meeting. Grab Bag Planned By Golden Rule— PAGE—The Golden Rule club met Wednesday afternoon, No vembre 18, with Mrs. Ray Snell with 13 members present and one guest, Mrs. Fred Kastens of Lodgepole. The last part of the lesson on “Easier Housekeeping” was given by Mrs. Ivan Heiss and Mrs. Rich ard Trowbridge. Roll call was answered by “What We Are Thankful For.” The Christmas meeting will be held December 15 at the home of Mrs. Bill Sor ensen. There will be a grab bag for members and children. Fetes Daughier— Mrs. Ralph McElvain entertain ed several friends at a suoDer in honor of her daughter, Mrs. Jack Everitt, on Saturday eve ning, November 21. The occasion was Mrs. Everitt’s birthday anni versray. 108 REGISTERED HEREFORD AND POLLED Hereford Bulls and Females Sell at the NORFOLK LIVESTOCK SALES PAVILION Norfolk. Nebr. Wednesday, Dec. 9 Sale to begin at 12 o'clock 44 BULLS — 44 FEMALES 20 BULL & HEIFER CALVES From the Herd of CORKLE BROS., TILDEN, NEBR. Featuring get of M.W. LARRY DOMINO 135, ECLIPSE DOMINO 155, BATTLE B. ASTER 10, BEAUMONT DOMINO and LESKAN A 5 WHR A real opportunity to buy BREEDING CATTLE OF PRACTICAL QUALITY I . For catalog address: I Charles Corkle, Norfolk, Nebr. I ...................... DRS. BROWN & FRENCH Eyes Tested—Glasses Fitted Broken Lens Replaced in 24 Hours Other Repairs While You Wait Complete X-Ray A 1 ! “The coffee’s terrible but it’s the only restaurant in town” » * I Muddy coffee. Soggy toast. Indigestible food. Bad luck for rhe hungry salesman who stops in that town for a bite to eat. The missing ingredient is “competition.” Funny how that word has a way of stirring up activity. People who manufacture things, for example, prickle all over when they think about competition. They sit up evenings fretting about it, and spend millions to improve their products. The result, of course, is high quality at lowest possible cost. And the winner of a contest like that has to be the public. People are tempted sometimes to wonder what life would be like without competition. For a clue, they might note the shabby fall in living standards in countries where clumsy fingers of state monopoly have strangled competition. Over 3,000 manufacturing firms in America share in the electrical business. We can name offhand 20 sizable firms that compete at giving the public better refrigerators. There are more than 200 rivals in the making of electric motors. At least 37 in electric irons; 53 in home freezers; 25 turn out vacuum cleaners. And so on down the list. . • • 1 1 1 • _ _ Some companies competing wmi vjcncrai raceme iuuay ac tually sprang up from the seeds of General Electric research. New products have invited new companies. In certain cases, whole new industries. And more will come. The competitive race just never ends. That sounds tiring for the contestants, but in fact it is healthy exercise. Healthy for the country, too. At General Electric we wouldn’t have it any other t way. GENERAL ELECTRIC « • * • V r ^ Long after the last light on the Christmas tree has winked out til next year, the joy of a gift of jew elry lives on . . . its beauty a lasting source of pride and pleasure . . a constant and dearly cherished reminder of your thoughtfulness and love. For everyone on your list . . . and for whatever you wish to pay . . . you’ll find here something to cre ate happy memories that will linger through the years! 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