The Washington times., 1935-12-11
NOW
PinchOtS Are
Coming Back
NEW DISH
By HELEN ESSARY

about to reopen their big house
on Rhode Island Avenue.
Things are always happening
to the Pinchots. Soon now the
stories about the former Governor
of Pennsylvania and his auburn
haired wife will 60 galloping about
Washington. Here's a Pinchot
anecdote that came to me-by air
mail.
After the last Army and Navy
football game, recently elected
governor of nearby State was
feeling for the moment happy
and free from care. Looking
around the lounge of Philadel.
phia hotel, he noticed a dashing
stranger sitting alone. Saunter-
ing jauntily over to her, he said:
well. sister. how about my
buying you drink"
Thank you, mol" answered the
lady. distinctly.
We'll, suppose I were to tell
you," said the blithe gentleman,
"that I was the governor of a
great big State. Would that make
YOU break down."
TT would not" replied the
lady. THE governor of a great
big State has been trying to buy
me a drink for 20 years."
The lady was Mrs. Clifford
Pinchot!
With December Is practically
upon you, and hungry family
waiting about the place. you be-
gin to wonder if something can't
be done to vary that orthodox
Christmas menu.
Turkey, heaven knows, is food
for the gods. But the mashed
potatoes that sit down beside the
white meat on the Christmas
plate look a little glum after 10
or Is ChriStmaSeS.
I don't run a cooking column.
Nor am cook. But did get
from a brilliant character who
runs hundreds of women's clubs
(thereS a woman and cook be-
sides) a snappy new suggestion
for the Yuletide dinner.
The brilliant character is Mrs.
Roberta Campbell Lawson, presl-
dent of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs and grand
daughter of Chief Johnnycake'
last tribal head of the Delawares.
Sounds like her cooking gift is
an inherited tendencyO
Anyhow, the Snappy suggestion
is "Conahana." Don't be en-
harrassed. It's a Cherokee In
dian dish and refreshing to civil
lied palates.
To make "Conahana" for your
own dear little family double the
order if you are having relatives
for dinner, take three plntS OF
cooked hominy. Add to this one
pint of English walnut kernels
(black walnut if you are a rich
eater which have been cooked IN
water and hominy juice until they
can be crushed with masher:
one quart of canned grain corn:
more butter than you think you
can afford. and more than a dash
of salt. Stew together and brown
in the oven. Serve very hot.
I asked Mrs. Lawson how she,
a Delaware descendant, happens
to know about a Cherokee dish.
She said that in 1869, her grand
father, Chief Johnnycake, made
q tribal treaty with the Chero'
KEGS and bought land in Okla
homa or Indian Territory from
the Cherokees. Moved his tribe
down from Kansas. And so made
1t the Observation-Disclosures.
Speaking of the Federation of
Women's Clubs, if you are inter
ested in rare old glass you'll go
quite mad over that collection of
IL sandwich glass sauCers hanging
on the dining room wall OF the
clubhouse at 1874 N st.
A glass saucer (they had to tell
me) is, or was, a sort OF COM
panion piece to a muStaChe cup.
The more elegant of our Colonial
ancestors, when they had poured
their coffee into their saucers and
blown cautiously on the hot liquid,
placed their cups in glass saucerS
while the coffee cooled.
This particular set is of an un-
usual elegance among such praC-
tical utensils. It has extraordinary
patterns in log cabins, butterflies
and such things in its delicate
tracery Mrs. May Dickinson Kim.
ball, of Boston, who wrote sort
of Bible on glassware, loaned the
club the saucers.
Sitting in abject admiration of
the Supreme Court yesterday, ]
kept wondering how the Nine ON
nipotent Gentlemen behave when
they are at home.
Do they sit and ponder in high
back chairs, against background
of red velvet and Corinthian col
umnS (see chamber in new Su.
preme Court room)? Or do they
read the sports pages in the old
Morris chairs their wives can't per
suade them to give to the Saliva
ton Army?