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Show o r h ' ncvutv Lakeside Review Novombor 25, 1fK7 Tuos&ty, 9 SENIOR CALENDAR Heritage Senior Citizen Center, SC2 S. 1000 Cast, 5 Clearfield, The center will h? chne) I n4iy. Thursday of Cliit lKy 773-70G- Ion entertain eavh Monday from II to ;3t) am, on the pwmv. Volunteer driven anJ Meal on Home Vwtor heel program are needed, one day a week from 10 45 am. until I pm. I he volunteer deliver in the North Davit Area. The Old Timm will prevent a muvieal program every Tuedjy from 10. JO am. to 12.30 pm. They play the old fr tune. Autumn Clow Senior Citizens Center, 8t E. Center Street, Kaysvtile, familiar 541-123- cunu COUICTJOK: Charmafee Eakoteyof Oearfx.'kJhas beonconocimg cookbooks for yca, and has several hundred. A few of them date back to the turn of the century. PMSCMOOM AunaMLMnvwr Cookbook collection very tasteful By RUTH MALAN Standard Damner correspondent CLEARFICLD - COOKS CORNER This one I just Blakeley, as the well-use- d pages of her An American Family Cookbook. published in 1865. Blakeley, a Clearfield resident, has one wall of her home offlee dedicated to her cookbook collection. But she also keeps many of them in her kitchen. She loves to cook and still has her first cookbook, from 1949, although she didnt seriously start collecting them until about 10 years ago. Reading the books can be quite entertaining. The Queens Cake recipe in one book takes three hours just to mix. Beating the batter with the right hand for an hour would tire anyone, she said. The old recipes make Blakeley laugh as she thumbs through the book. There is even a price list for the ingredients and a list of rules with such guides as Dont ever ask for seconds, and never eat fish with a tin fork. "Cooks are told in another cookbook that beef rump roast should cost from 10 to 12 cents a pound and the butcher will give you the heels if you buy the head. Mutton costs from 4 to 10 cents a pound while veal is 6 to 10 cents. Poultry varies by demand and is cheapest in September. - One of the books is written in old English. ; . Its difficult to read but its so fun, Blakeley said. ; - Blakeley has learned a lot of history from her cookbook collection, but one she cant seem to find anything about is pearl ash. I cant find out what it is, she said. Her collection of nearly 200 cookbooks includes an original 1910 edition of The , Whitehouse Cookbook. This treasure lists menus for each month of the year, including menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Mrs. Clevelands Wedding Lunch is also in the book. ..The cooks must have worked endlessly when preparing for Thanksgiving Day. Breakfast includes Porterhouse steak, grapes and wheat bread, while dinner has oysters, turkey, potatoes, squash, boiled onions, parsnip fritters, olives, chicken salad, venison, pumpkin pie, mince pic, Charlotte Russe, almond ice cream, lemon jelly, hickory nut cake, fruit and coffee. And after eating a meal like that for dinner the evening meal is nearly as large. Supper includes cold turkey, scalloped oysters, potato salad, cream shortcake, eclairs, preserved egg plums and tea. Christmas dinner also had oysters on the half shell, rolled white fish, sauce mai-tr- e, roast goose, applesauce, boiled potatoes, creamed parsnips, mashed turnips, boiled rice, lobster salad, canvas back duck, Christmas plum pudding, delicate cake, salted almonds, orange jelly, mince pie and fruits. Most of the collection is a little more practical for the 1990s but Blakeley finds she uses more of her older recipes more than the new ones. She has collected recipes and books from flea markets from the Oregon Coast to the east. Once I was told that cooks dont measure, bakers measure, she said. The Household Encyclopedia has not only recipes for cooking, but even gives directions for laying out a corpse. This book was printed in England in the early 1800s. It tells when to plant various crops and also gives the symptoms for lockjaw. A box on top of the bookshelf holds numerous pamphlets and small books of recipes she has collected over the years. She has even kept many of the restaurant recipes published by James Beard in the Oregonian newspaper. Im a James! Beard fan all the way, she said. Blakeley picked up a ragged portion of a book. This is a piece of the cookbook Mother bought me when I was a little girl, she explained. Among the collection is a cookbook explaining how to use a gas stove. This came out when the gas ranges first came on the market. One of her favorite books is Cooks Illustrated. As Blakeley has traveled she buys cookbooks, so many of her books are regional. When in San Antonio, Texas, she cookbook. From Floribought a Tcx-Mc- x da comes seafood recipes, from the Midwest roasts and desserts and the West Coast is eclectic, she said. She uses her Junior League cookbook most of the time. Im really into Italian fHd, eating and cooking, Northern Italian, she said, my own taste buds run more with French and Italian. Im not into Blakeley has plenty of favorite recipes and even some tips on making better shortbread. When making shortbread she substitutes rice flour for some of the regular flour. It is more crumbly, it has a wonderful short feel and it melts in your mouth. She also uses rice flour for thickening Oriental food. It is easier to work with than wheat flour, Blakeley said. One of her favorite recipes is raised waffles from an early Fanny Farmer cookbook. It is mixed the night before. And although shes not a fruitcake fan, she has a special recipe for golden fruit cake that she loves. The recipe calls for orange juice, but she also adds some of the zest of the orange and a splash of white rum. I tend to like to cook with white wine. Wine tenderizes meat, she said. She adds a half cup of wine to her pot roast and 2 to 3 tablespoons of white wine to her chicken. The alcohol cooks off. Blakeley has cooked professionally while living on the Oregon coast and at Deer Valley. She loves cooking soups and stews the way they were done on the coast. Puffed pastry is another favorite. Any batter for cream puff shells with do. Take d of the batter and at cup unseasoned mashed potatoes to it. Drop by tablespoon into hot oil. They have a crisp crust and are creamy inside. They are nice to have if you arent having gravy, she said. Because she doesnt want them to sit too long, she makes them when she has up to eight people. She likes to serve tenderloin roast with these potatoes and a steamed vegetable. It makes a really nice meal, she said. She uses her old Betty Crocker cookbook more than her new one. The old one Tex-Me- x. two-thir- one-thir- gives the complete instructions for making cakes the way by creaming the sugar and butter or the new way. Blakeley shares some of her recipes from her books. Snicker Doodles Mix thoroughly: 1 cup soil shortening (part butter) 1 12 cups sugar ... . 2 eggs Sift together and stir in: 2 34 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 teaspoon soda 14 teaspoon salt Roll into balls the size of small walnuts. Roll in mixture of 2 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake until lightly browned, but still soft. These cookies puff up at first, then flatten out. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Betty Crockers Picture Cook Book, 1956. - Raised Waffles Mix the night before. They are crisp on the outside and delicate on the inside. 12 cup warm water package dry yeast 2 cups milk, wanned 12 cup butter, melted 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar flour 2 cups 2 eggs 14 teaspoon baking soda Use a large bowl, big enough to let batter rise to double its original volume. Put water into mixing bowl and sprinkle yeast into it. Let stand five minutes. Add milk, butter, salt, sugar and flour to yeast, beat until smooth and blended. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let stand overnight at room temperature. Just before cooking waffles, beat in eggs, add the baking powder and stir. The batter will be thin. Pour 1 2 to 34 cup batter into a very hot waffle iron. Bake until golden and crisp. Batter keeps well for several days in the refrigerator. - Fanny Farmer Cookbook 1 5 IIIC i changing the blood pressure clime to the fourth 1 hurvday of the month instead of the first Thursday. There will be a Thankvgiv-in- g party Wedncvday. with the traditional lhankvgiving dinner and treat at 1:30 a m. Ihe Social Security number drawing is at noon. And the Quilt Spinners meet at S p.m. The center will be closed Thursday and Friday. The Social Security number contest begins Dec. I. Also the Head Start kids hatmtl-te- n is the same f tree day. And the Alhcimcr's group meets at 3. The 55 Alive Driving das is Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 1 kick-of- 2-- p.m. A Christmas shopping trip to Target in luyton will be on Dec. 3 at 12:30 p.m. The cost is $2. Make reservations by Dec. 1. Christmas on a Shoe Siring is Dec. 5, with a shopping trip to Deseret Industries and Savers Thrift shop. The cost is S4 with lunch on your own at J.J. North. Make reservations by Dec. 3. A Christmas Lights Tour to Thanksgiving Point in Lchi is on Dec. 9. The tour will leave at 4 p.m. and the cost is SI 5. Dinner is on your own at Chuck O Rama. Golden Years Senior Center, 736 South 100 9 East, Bountiful, 295-347- Thanksgiving dinner will be served Wednesday. There will g be a program and a with Linda Orcutt, beginning at 11:45 a.m. Aerobics are on Monday, ' 8:30 a.m. And tap aerobics are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bingo is played each Monday and Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. Yoga is at 4 p.m. on Mondays. ; meets each Wednesday at 1 1 a.m. Steve Yancy entertains on ' sing-a-lon- Wednesday and Fridays at The grief support group the piano Wednesdays ; at 11:30 a.m. Senior Association, Davis Hospital Chapter, 1600 W. Antelope Drive, Layton, 7747080 On craft day Dec. 2 at 10:30 a.m., seniors will be making Santa Stop Here signs for outdoors. The cost is ; $11. The Breakfast Club will meet Dec. 5 at 9 a.m. at Sho- - neys. The senior support group meets Dec. 8 at 10:30 a.m. The AARP driving class will be Dec. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $8. Make checks payable to AARP. Class will be held in class- room 2. I , , 8-- Weighing floor plans fun mental exercise Ive stumbled on a new form reading entertainment that kept me from my stack of unread novels for nearly a month: books filled with architectural floor plans for new homes. Every night, I turn to a new page, and consider the home plan illustrated. its better than fiction, since I control the plot, and the story is over the moment it be- gins to bore me. ? I populate each home plan with my family. Where would we put the piano? Are there enough bathrooms? Does the traffic pattern prevent the kids from dumping their school gear in the living Home light Sheri Poe Bernard Columnist room? Can my husband yawn without scraping his knuckles on the ceiling? When I find plans that suit our family, I share them with Michael. He jokes that my parents must have taken away my doll house before I was ready to give it up, and maybe hes right. It probably isnt normal to be so absorbed by these books when were not even in the market to build a home. Weve lived in the same brick rambler for 13 years, but: I can look at a floor plan in one of my books and immediately know where the dogs will find their patch of sun and where Id sit to open the mail. I can see where Flora Lee would sit to do her homework. These architectural plans also spark my imagination for changes I could make in our existing house. A couple of years ago, we remodeled the kitchen, dining room and living room, but . I can see room for more changes to our 1960s home. But not everything I admire has to cost money, either. Many floor plans offer glamorous names to otherwise normal rooms: observatories, libraries, lounges, media rooms. Updating the names of the rooms in our house would be an inexpensive way to improve its value. For instance, we have a small room - little more than a hall, really - in our basement. It houses a couple of large bookcases, a rocking chair and cedar chest. It leads to a bedroom, the laundry room, and the family POOlTCOPY room. Ive always called it (a mouthful) the room at the bottom of the stairs. I am now calling it the library. At Christmas, when we add a billiard table to our large family room, I will mentally divide that room into two entities: The Media Room and the Recreation Room. Next year, as I campaign to get the new basement bathroom built, my argument to Michael will be this: How can a modem home, equipped with a library, media room, recreation room, master suite and great room, not have a mud room? Menus Wednesday, J . - ; Nov. 26: tur- - key, stuffing and yams, green ; beans, cranberry orange gela- tin, pumpkin pie, potato roll and milk. Thursday, Nov. 27: The centers will be closed for ' X' Thanksgiving. ; Friday, Nov. 28: Closed. Monday, Dec. 1: spaghetti and meat sauce, cauliflower and peas, mixed fruit salad, y, carrot cake, garlic bread and X ; milk. Tuesday, Dec. 2: pineapple chicken, rice pilaf, broccoli, coleslaw, cinnamon apple- sauce, raisin nut roll and milk. -- ' v ' |