Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-09-20
CORN COOKING SHOW
Kitchen at National Exposition to
Arouse Housewives Wonder.
EXPERT COOK TO PRESIDE.

Mrs. Elizabeth o. Hitler Has Scores Of
Recipes to Surprise and Delight Chi
eaeo Visitors-"Pannhause to Be a
Star Dish.
Do you know S0l ways Of preparing
corn for human beings to eat? II you
do, you won't be hopelessly Uutclassed
at the National Corn exposition to be
held AT the Coliseum In Chicago from
Oct. ; to ~. But although you will
be looked upoI as a promising pupil
by Mrs. Elizabeth o. Hitler. who is
to have charge OF the corn kitchen.
there will be much that you may learn
says the Chicago Post. Mrs. Hitler. il
seems, knows between 800 and 100
ways" of preparing corn products
The kitchen is to he one of the fea.
lures OF the exposition. That all may
see and hear what is being done in the
kitchen. and that all may realize its
true Importance, IL is TO be hung in the
air-that is to say, ii is TO be elevated
above the floor about four feet 1t
Will have but one wall. and that to the
back On the other sides brass rail,
ing will bound it.
Mrs. Hitler, formerly principal of the
Chicago Domestic Scienco Training
school is to be the queen OF the kitch-
en-" and she will have one maid two
nj a i,h I,,,. f.. yfst
her.
There will be three sessions each day.
and they will be none too much for
Mrs. Hitler to tell all she knows about
the cooking of corn. Morning. after
noon and night she will explain to
those who crowd around the rail
bounded kitchen the reasons why
"corn is king" as they say out in Iowa.
All but forgotten dishes. of which
there is a-plenty of traditions, but
paucity of recipes, will be explained In
terms Of cups and spoons and pounds
and pints until any woman who isn't
culinary degenerate will be able to
serve the dishes which the housewives
Of Puritan and Cavalier days served.
but which have gone down that broad
way whereon have vanished so many
Of the lost arts.
Pannhause Is to be one Of the star
dishes in the kitchen. 1t sounds bad,
but the badness of its sound is equaled
by the goodness of its taste. so Mrs
Hitler says. The Pennsylvania Dutch
are the ones who are to thank for it.
Even those frugal. stoid people change
their habits. however. and rs twen-
tieth century progress came eighteenth
century paunhause. which had surviv-
ed into the nineteenth century, passed
away.
Down in deserted inn in the Blue
Ridge mountains lives an old woman
whose father was famous as Il host in
the days when Il stage trip was the ap-
proved because 1t was the only means
Of journeying. Her father served
pannhause to his guests. Remember
how 1t was made? OF course she did.
One art is not lost, after all. And
what is pannhause? You must eat to
hhoN IL, say bbt IL 10
made of cornmeal cooked for many
hours with the tender bits of meat
from the head Of n pig and with pork
liver After this cooking it is nodded.
Then it is sliced and fried.
Philadelphia scrapple, which assist
ed the Declaration of Independence in
making famous the city for which it Is
named, will be prepared in the kitchen.
Some of the methods Of preparing
corn are those which the Indians
taught to the pilgrim mothers when
they weren't engaged in massacring
the pilgrim fathers. They knew how
to parch corn to save it from the bac
teria of which they never heard, and
they knew many ways of grinding 1t
and mixing it with the juices of meats.
All parts of the country, with the
tronical exception Of these great west
arn tracts where most of the corn of
the world Is grown, contribute their
Tecipes to the lectures which Mrs. Hill
.er is preparing. The corn land has
been too busy raising corn to discover
new ways Of preparing it. Corn pone,
such as only southern nanny can
make, will be served. From New
Hampshire there will be a baked pud-