Show IN PRAISE OF GRAVY Every gravy y has bas its merits and its ita parti partisans n We profess a prejudice in in favor laor of a 11 gravy thickened up with milk and flour although a childhood Jd memo memory of plain unadorned ham gravy rl trickled over the surface of buckwheat cakes alread already swimming in maple syrup Comes buck beck to us tie with almost poignant sweetness Tho rhe best Lest single le dish of gravy ravy wo 0 ever er ato ate had bad dried dricI beef as its basis asis gravy an and was made with pl plenty ntY of milk still warm mum from the co cow it happened on a morning mornin in camp in the alle valley of an nn Ohio Obio creek a after ter a torrential ni nights night's ht's rain which had driven dri tho the party to sock seck higher ground Well made beef gravy poured over bread read or potatoes mashed in cream is also a powerful argument a against ascetic living somehow it makes one ono think of Sun Sunday a dinners anywhere in tho the sphere of Pennsylvania German influence which reaches rench 8 straight ht west lyest from rom L Lancaster clear to the Mississippi r river cr in a belt as broa broad as the smile of oC ofa oCa a Dutch farmer Carmer Tho gravy Iran dish 1 is no rio mere extra tra on tho table o of ot humble plenty It Jt has its philosophy the philosophy of the hors hotS 11 re The French Trench be begins begin the tho meal with a n sardine a strip of ot salt palt fish an n olive olivo or a dab of chow chow because be cause causo it t the tho appetite and the diner proceeds s to fill up on Jn bread when the moro more expensive nat meat s alon along I ho is is unable to tb do mu much h damal damage to it In like manner every oYer housewife who has three or four children should JId learn lenn how to make good col gravy nail gravy and if pos possible I sible i le good apple butter also abo These things s spread on slices of bread nail and on potatoes are aro so appetizing and tillin filling that the youngsters largely cly prefer thorn to meat t with results fortunate to both th the the- p ol Now uise New NewYork York AL i |