The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-22

on to some of you younger ones. A
man comes home tired, depressed,
cross and starving, and either
chilled to the bone or suffering from
the humidity. This is the unfailing
law of the Masters return. To greet
him with bad news, to have some
caller he dislikes very chatty and
friendly in his particular chair, to
permit the children to be yelling
and quarreling all over the place, or
thoughtless little daughter to be
monopolizing the evening paper, or
the bathtub, or the radio or the tele-
phone at that moment simply marks
you as bad manager. Look out for
all these things and be ready for
them.
Of course he wants a big steak, or
two double chops or a roast But
he doesn't need them, and il you
can keep him quiet until any good
plain filing food is inside him, he'll
realize that wartime meals aren't
such an infection, after all. Don't
greet him with shril denunciation
of the butcher, don't let him feel that
his coffee supply is scant; just keep
serene and cheerful, and ask him
not to pronounce upon the dinners
scarcities or deficiencies until he's
eaten it.
Write the boys that all this talk
of rationing isn't serious; and give
them a list of your new culinary
achievements; the egg and Goldfish
dish that Daddy likes so much, the
big buildings stuffed with fruit that
have come back into fashion. For
remember, desserts can be full Of
vitamins and calories, too. I've re-
vived old-faShioned suet buildings
for special occasions; crumbs and
suet, and as much again of chopped
fruits, spices, little corn syrup to
sweeten it, little prepared flour,
one beaten egg to bind it, and there
you are! You can make combina-
ticnS of ginger root and raisins,
dates and figs, cranberries and
jams, apricots and corn meal,
prunes and orange peel and candied
pineapple. They scent the house as
they bump away in boiler for
three long hours, and at dinner
leave the family gasping for less
good foodl
Mothers Cornmeal Dish.
My mother had famous one of
apples, cornmeal, ginger and suet;
she cooked the cornmeal stiff first
and then put the other things in; and
there's an Indian meal pudding for
which I never did have the recipe,
but it's as American as Donald Duck
and full of nutriment, too. Canned
milk whipped like cream, for sauce;
or sauce can be hot water, butter
and sugar, with favoring added.
To send a message of strong hope
and comfort to our boys, to bring
them home one moment sooner, you
and I would live on oatmeal por-
ridge and skim milk for the dura-
ton, wouldn't We? Generations of
Scots have grown strong on that
fare. Get the word through to the
fighting fronts that we are getting
along magnifcently, that the sacri-
fees we have to make aren't half
enough, that we know what they are
doing for us, and that every last one
Of us is doing what she can for
them.
Everyone IN our town is planting
a table garden. A favorite garden
walk Of mine is to be fringed with
corn stalks this year, instead Of
delphiniums and stocks. Take bas-
kets of this stuff to your city
friends when you go to dinner, and
rivet their souls to you for life. Big
vegetable salads only need a few
shrimp or prawns, little crab
meat or the shredded meat of a
boiled hen to be complete meals;
now that peaches and tomatoes are
on their way to US we can have
the foods that still are the most de-
| icious IN the world.