Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01
Products of DeIatUwe Water
Gap and Vicinity Make
Tasty Features for Au-
tun,n Dinners
Boiled Rabbit Is Delicious
Dressed With Onion
Sauce and Placed on the
Table Hot
BY MRS. NJ. A. WILSON
Coppr{oht, 1919, by Mrs. AZ. A. Wilson.
IN Rtphts Rcserped.

VA N AUTOMOBILE "Trip W Ile
"A Delaware Water Gap by way of
Bethlehem, Easton and then along
the beautiful river boulevard to the
Gap itself, which is the gateway of
the Alleghenies, is ideal. There are
many Indian legends about the
Gap; one of them especially interest
ing because of the river. 1t is that
at one time the mountains were a
solid barrier and that the fast--moV- !
ing water has worn a pathway
through the mountains, the strata OF
which are composed of limestone and
soft Stag.
This portion of the country was
originally settled by Holland
Dutch and later by folk who we're
glad to leave the German Father
land. There is also a scattering OF
English Quakers who, because OF
religious prosecutions, migrated to
Wales and then to this beautltut
valley between the mountains.
Many evidences of the thrift OF
these early pioneers are still 70 De
found. At one of the Crossdale
farms, not only the original farm
house, but also the Dutch oven OF
the early 1S00's is still in existence:
These ovens were Quilt out OF
doors, near the entrance TO the
kitchen, and with a roof extending
over the oven about twenty inches.
This oven is much like that USED
bv the campers and is familiar TO
those who have visited the rural
districts in European countries
The fuel is placed in the oven cham
her and the fire is kept burning
until the whole oven is well heated.
The embers are then raked out and
then bread baked first with pies ana
cakes following later. There Is q
kind of fireplace underneath the
oven and once the oven is heated
this fireplace is filled with wood and
thus the heat in the oven can be
maintained for many hours at a
time.
The good housewife Crossdale,
alert and alive to her many house
wifely duties, must need good
: sized oven to bake the bread and
pastry and beans for the family and
those who labor for the family in
the fields. For you know that
working out of doors certainly gives
one an appetite.
y The old English doggerel that the
y Farmers son must early to bed and
early to rise to be healthy, wealthy
and wise is very true in these
rountain Businesses. The Quaker
housewife is a splendid cook and
the store of jams, jellies and con-
serves will testify to her foresight
edness in garnering the summer
fruits.
Plenty of farm and dairy prod
ucbs, fish and game were to be had
in those days, and the early pioneer
folk adapted themselves to this diet.
And to the Cosmopolitan kitchen l
am bringing some delicious ways to
serve the natural products of the
fertile valleys around Water Gap
the home of the peace-loving Della
ware Indians.
Fish, Shirley Point Style
Almost any fish of the fresh
water variety may be prepared II
this manner. Use two pounds Of
fish. Scale and cleanse the fish anc
then split it open and lay on we'll
CREASED baking pan. Now chop fine
One red pepper,
Four branches of parsley,
T1Oo onions,
-Four strips of bacon.
Spread the fish with shortening
and then sprinkle with the prepared
seasoning. Place in hot oven anC
baste every fifteen minutes with no
water. Bake for thirty-five min
utes.
Wanda Small Fish Baked
a. Scale and cleanse about tw,
IS sounds of small fish and then wasl
and wipe dry. Roll in -four ant
!, then place in a baking dish ant
bS sprinkle over the fish
= Three onions,
Three branches of parsley,
TtOo ounces of salt pork
minced fine. Add one-half cup o
water and the juice of one lemol
and bake in a hot oven until tn
!. .sobones will leave the meat of tn
fish, or about thirty-five minutes i
a hot oven. The size of the fish de
termines the length of time fo
cooking.
Baked Fish
n Usually the folk about the Ga
IA decide to have this dish when tn
VII shad are running, but any othe
he ash weighing from two and ons
Iao half TO four pounds will be equal
|ts RELIGIOUS. Scale and cleanse the tis
oand then prepare as follows:
The Filling
Chop fine
One O7tion,
1skrea branches of DcrsIeU.