Show I Fried Calla Lilies If 11 th the present high huigh pric J s o po potatoes II continues do not b be surprised on goIng gong go- go lug Ing ng Into a t restaurant one one of ot these hes days and hearing a customer ier order a sirloin sirloin sirloin sir loin steak st k medi medium m with t fried red calla alla 1 lilies We are accustomed to think of calla lilies as g garden ornaments to to be carefully carefully care care- fully tUlly planted In the spring ana ane taken up again In the fall fail for tor storage in inthe the cellar during the cold months Wo We never have Ilave thought of the calla calls Illy lily as asan asan asan an article of food but then neither did lour our ancestors dream of e eating t ng the to tomato tomato to- to I mato which persons now living still remember was In their childhood days known as the Jerusalem apple and I I regarded as extremely poisonous So Soi I there Is no reason why we should smile over the proposal of a a number of I Florida swamp land owners to grow L L and sell calla calls lily bulbs on a L large scale for tor food purposes The calla lily h h was cultivated on a a. large scale In Ig and probably probably ably bly In Palestine thousands of years ago ago was and is groT grown n aa as s a food plant It develops underground fleshy tubers that somewhat resemble potatoes though more elongated in ln shape With preliminary boiling they ma may be cooked for the t table ble by baking frying or in any other way that potatoes are cooked Large areas are nowadays devoted in Florida to the of ot the calla for tor its Hs tubers It grows grows grows' admirably in swamp lands that are useless for tor other purposes the the yield of pt a single m moist aero acre being enormous enormous In rn olden times In Egypt calla tubers calla tubers were one ne of th the m most st important food crops oi s. s They were irown grown Q over er extensive areas In each a annual annual an an- nual season of the th Niles Nile's overflow So heres here's to the calla call Illy lily and arid may It give the proud spud ample cause to bow its its' haughty head in submission to tot t the demands demands' of ot a a hungry but purse purse purse- poor people Give us us an an order of fried calla ny ily bulbs please and let them come o Harrisburg brown brown Telegraph aph Republican Republican lican |