Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-04

AT home, however. a man ought to
De able to eat to please himself, and II
ne can eat to help his system, which is
the prime purpose of eating, after all,
he is much the gamer. We would not
put ourself in the position of saying
that one should eat for benefit only.
The taste of things has a place. The
pleasures of the table include more
than the bare feeding. Even the enjoy
ment OF food with ones nose, as the
gourmands phrase it, has It's place. The
smell OF Savory dishes undoubtedly
tickles the entire digestive tract, caus-
ing the secretion Of necessary fluids.
Greater than these is the desire to
do as one pleases. Because every other
Tom, Dick and Harry has turkey for
| Christmas Is no reason why Johnny
wants WaffieS. You turkey hounds
would be amazed at how good Johnny'S
Waffies tasted to Johnny. And the
maple sirup which went over them was
the genuine thing. fresh from Vermont
trees. 1t was not the sickly, sticky
stuff made mostly from cane sugar.
favored with maple, but was genuine
maple sirup. 1t had bouquet. pleas
ant odor, and taste at once mild,
alluring and beneficial.
The waff1es themselves were part
corn. Those who do not know corn
waffles do not know this greatest of
batter dishes. There will always be a
difference of opinion as to pancakes and
waffieS. Some favor the one, some the
other, but the addition of corn meal
helps both. Our personal taste is for
all-corn, but many like mixture bet
ter. Corn cakes haze q more distinct
taste than simple wheat cakes. Corn
takes one out on the great prairies and
sends up In the most modern dwelling
smell OF clean earth, fresh winds,
bright sun. Yes, these things all have
fragranceS, but it takes more than q
nose to smell them.
waff1eS and enough skill to make them,
or is lucky enough to sit down before
them as made by some one else, he
finds himself in an enviable position.
0 maize, o Indian corn! You
are blessed above all the daughters OF
the field! When one recalls the corn
cakes, the waffleS, the popcorn, the
hominy, the mush, the fried mush, to
name only few. which are built, con-
Structed and devised from thee and
with thy aid, he relegateS wheat to
second place and rice to third.
Corn is the American food which
somehow goes so well with American
tastes. The difnculty of getting corn
meal today in Its Impressed state
should deter no one from trying. There
is a world Of difference In corn meal
all that has water ground" on the
package Is not the real thing, by any
means Nor does a deep yellow color
necessarily mean a fine, deep corn
taste.
Waffies made of good corn meal with
some wheat flour, send up savOry odor
in cooking unlike any other food. 1t
is something like popcorn popping, but
not exactly; something like fried muSh
frying, but not precisely.
Corn meal waffies are the best waffles
which can be made, and II any one
contradicts us we can but reply that
his taste and our taste are different.
Because there are so many varieties
of taste is the reason why one may have
waffies for Christmas dinner while
80, 900, 900 other families have turkey
or chicken.
Picture a steaming waffle, plenty of
good butter. some real maple Sirup, a
glass of cold milk. Who could ask for
more-except another waffle? The
necessity for moderation is even greater
than with turkey. But a good feature
of corn foods is that one may eat q lot
without surfeit. Think of popcorn.
Think most, however. of corn waffles-
Christmas dish umexcelled. With plenty
of good butter and glass OF cold milk