Show NOW WEVE WE'VE SEEN everything everything everything every every- thing I Including n l u din g especially chicken necks in iii the meat display display dis dis- pla play case of our our favorite food store Nine Nin cents yet It is not quite true that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was 11 II years old before I discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered there was any part to a chicken except neck We were poor but I I grew up on chicken wings For seconds yes necks But not a steady diet Some people actually prefer necks Ill I'll bet all those unlovely offerings in the meat case went like hot cakes Ill I'll take shrimp salad myself myself and that reminds me that I haven't had shrimp salad in years THE PARK CIT CITY committee in charge of the city park is trying to locate time old-time re recipes recipes recipes re- re cipes to be used in a pioneer cook cook-bo cook k If U you have one or orsome orsome orsome some send them to Box Park City Wonder who Vho has M Mothers Mother's ther's old please advise It mu must t be priceless priceless price price- price price- less by now Mother other was a a wonderful cook and she never never measured any any- thing A pinch or a dash or a smidgeon did much better Butt Bub you know something She ap apparently apparently apparently ap- ap never learned how to fry steak It was always sliced thin fried hard as nails and required time and strong china chinato to masticate Weve We've talked to other timers old-timers who report the same methods years ago We learned how to appreciate fine steaks in Omaha where there are dozens of wonderful nationally-famous nationally steak houses all nIl with Italian names and all serving spaghetti on the side instead of potatoes It was quite a surprise when we got to Utah to learn that the stake house was not Giovannis BUT Bur THAT in memory is the only thing Mother Mather hadn't been tau taught t- t tto to cook She was splendid on game In June July and August the jackrabbits were from h half aU to three fourths grown and succulently deli deli- cious By the time I was 10 I Iwas Iwas Iwas was Shot Dead-Shot Dick with a aStevens aStevens aStevens Stevens 22 from Monkey Ward and shorts cost 15 cents a box Remember I kept the family in meat until the jacks outgrew outgrew outgrew out out- grew their tenderness Mothers Mother's Mothers Mother's Mothers Mother's Moth Moth- ers er's fried rabbit melted in the mouth-and mouth she never heard of saga safa or leaves bay-leaves or garlic There was no closed season on prairie chickens But Dad knew when they should or should not be hunted and he was a strict warden Mothers Mother's prairie chicken pardon chicken pardon me I drool easily Wish I had Mothers Mother's recipe for turtle soup Somo Some of those Nebraska pond turtles got as big bigas bigas bigas as w wash sh tubs no fooling but the small 0 ones n e s about dish dishpan pan pan size were better eating DORA MCCONAUGHY had a featured place in every cook cookbook book original or copied with the recipe for something I bet you never heard of because I never have since and nd which I I wish we could the Park City ladies Salmon Soup It was a gourmets gourmet's d delight Dont Don't think you'd like it How could it differ much from oyster stew And you'd have loved Mothers Mother's salmon soup Once in a while we have neck- neck bones wh which i c h come from big steers and have a wonderful flavor M My Lady Fair is a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- cook too which accounts for my slowly but su surely ely in increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing rot rotundity u n d i fy But we haven't agreed next Sunday to have chicken necks Even at nine cents a pound Mac |