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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday january 20, 1963 17 Oman tic a Cape restyle an old fireplace. It s easy to transform an ungainly old Brick fireplace info a smart looking con temporary one. In this room the old mantelpiece was left in place mantel and Brick Are simply enclosed from floor to Selling with Wallboard. The area Between the Wallboard and the Wall on each Side hides stereo speakers behind perforated hardboard. The Hearth is of coloured Concrete. Pull up a trim pair of Matching chairs and tables and the new fireplace decor is Complete. Copyright 1965, better Homes and gardens wanted experienced Florist designer for downtown Flower shop must have Complete knowledge and experience to arrange wedding Flowers Floral tributes Hospital and Home arrange ments. Good working conditions. Good salary. All applications treated confidentially. Apply Box 1111, free press Funo Wabun j egg of Mabun Bacon Lima Bun with chapter ten everybody who reads cherishes his own form of escape literature. Our family reads cookbooks. It in t that we Are perennially hungry or even particularly greedy. We simply find the excitement and adventure in those pages that other people do in Hemingway or John Buchan. We read recipes at dinner in an attempt to find out Why our Coq Auvin does not taste the same when the fowl is boned As when left stolidly vertebrate. We Scurry through one culinary Tome after another to track Down the various versions of Boeuf Bourguignon. We even collect recipes for the haughtiness of their tone. My favorite among those is one set of lordly directions for assembling crepes Suzette. Take a Silver it begins As if Silver skillets were everyday accoutrements of any Kitchen. There if you like is Romance. Fallible authors but there is one thing i have come to realize and it is that cookbooks in their own Way Are romances. They Are not to be taken As the whole gospel. As a practising housewife i have found that those volumes i prize so highly Are written by fallible human beings who leave out at tones truly vital information. You can Trust them to list the proper ingredients. But there Are All sorts of hints clues informational nuggets not contained in the manuals. It used to be my ambition to write a Cookbook myself one compiled for the not impossible her who knew absolutely Noth ing about a stove a dutch oven or a double boiler. I would Start her from scratch. An egg is an i would Tell her which in its natural state comes enclosed in a very Brittle Shell. When you wish to open one crack it smartly in the Middle across the Sharp Edge of some stable device such As a thin sided bowl. Place a f Saucer underneath it to catch the gentle teacher i would Lead her gently along from poached eggs Cook them very slowly in a pan which contains water to which a Little Millr hag been added and break them the eggs into a Saucer before you slide them into the through boiled potatoes never put them into a pressure cooker which turns them out Mushy on in outside and like stones to less difficult things such As lobster thermidor and Creme Brulee. For i remember my own dilemmas when i Saras a begin Ner with Only a printed Page to Tell me How to go about this Art i had neglected to acquire at my Mother s knee. It took me much trial and error to find that the Only possible Way of telling whether or not a Steak is done is to Cut into it to see barbarous As that procedure May sound. I had to Faff Lenotre _. Clearance Sale continues thursday Friday saturday too More dresses sorry no try on Winter Coats i 12.88 Only 20 More left further reductions on better dresses and Winter Coats Beautiful double knit and wonted Woof suits f Clearing below Cost fashion Centre Kennedy at Graham across medical arts bloc. Our family prefers cookbooks to other escapist Reading profession housewife by Phyllis Mcginley Experiment to learn that carrots must a Stew at least fifteen minutes before the Pota toes and that the latter delectable vegetable can never be warmed Over As it stands. Bone to pick As. A matter of fact i have a Bone to pick with most modern Cookbook compilers when it comes to their attitude on potatoes in general. They snub them. The fad for slimming has nudged our native american Staple out of the High place it deserves to occupy on menus. A is As necessary to the diet As. Milk contains no More calories than an Orange. And for pure lasting Day by Day Satis faction nothing else invented in the Way of food outlasts its charms. The books improve As years go by and Cooks become less and less often initiated from childhood into Kitchen mys teries. For one thing they now have pictures sometimes too Beautiful for imitation but frequently valuable. Still there Are All sorts of fundamental information they leave out. Do they Tell you for about the occasional spite of inanimate objects it is a fact that once in a while Kitchen tools run amok. Knives bite the hand that wields them cups stick to saucers plates shatter sinks Stop up stoves Burn the pudding toasters scorch the spoons leap from the fingers corkscrews crumble the Cork in the on such a Day there is no use trying to Deal with such malevolence. The sensible policy is either to warm up yesterday s Macaroni and cheese or else take the family out to dinner until the storm blows Over Mcginley s Law Only one mischief remains constant. I Call it the theory of the unwatched pot or. Mcginley s Law. You Are stirring a mixture which obstinately re fuses to boil even to break its Placid surface with a Bubble. The. Phone rings. And in the instant Between lifting your hand from the spoon and picking up the stuff not Only will begin furiously to Bubble like a Witch s caldron but will boil Over trailing its Sticky spoon Down the freshly cleaned stove onto the floor. Another bit of information concerns Friday night guests. I own a recipe Tor fridays which tastes even More delightful than it looks and is As easy to prepare As a Frozen dinner. Handsome dish to one Pound of sole lying gracefully in an open shallow pan add one can of undiluted Frozen Cream of shrimp soup. Sometimes i also add Embell and flour Tor the Sherry dilutes the soup be thickened Tablespoon for extra shrimps pieces of lobster meat Jaen i Dot it All with it a Light coating of grated Parmesan cheese and thrust it into an oven set at 375 degrees. Half an hour later out comes the handsomest party dish you could ask for. There is Only one flaw. I have Seldom been Able to serve it for company without discovering too late that there is one i who is allergic to shellfish. Nor do., cookbooks warn you about the eating. Habits of husbands. Mcginley s Law Baa Many codicil and one of the most time tested of them consists of the conclusion that whenever i plan something especially tempting for dinner i am being redundant. Shakes Confidence tonight i announce happily when the lord of. The Manor comes in the door. Now in t that a hell say never one at loss for the encouraging word. It s just what i had for l it is experiences like that which unnerve beginners. There Are All of knowl Edge which the texts ought to impart along with the measure ments and the recipes. A whole chapter might Well be devoted to the v appetites and tastes of the Young. For no matter How strictly their palates have been developed however Well indoctrinated they have been by parents they Are bound to run to strange and shocking preferences in food. Ask a child of eleven which he would rather Dine on Hock Cornish game Hen with wild Rice and mushrooms or tuna fish and noodles will invariably Settle for pizza pie. I would write things like that Down in my Cookbook. I would not omit the accidental or the startling or the unorthodox. And i would dwell on something the texts always leave out the sensual Joy of cooking itself. For this the most creative of All the household arts can bring pleasure not Only in the product but in the manufacture. From sixpence in her shoe published 1964, by Macmillan. Copyright c 1962, Phyllis Mcginley. Distributed by King features Syndicate. The modern Kitchen with its disadvantages b the subject of the eleventh instalment of Phyllis Mcginley s Book kiwanis women donate funds to housing the ladies auxiliary to Ali e kiwanis club of East Kildonan announced it donated to the club to assist in furnishing the lounge in a senior citizen. Hous ing project. Mrs. D. was. Elected president of past president mrs. E. H. Vice president mrs. D. J. Aro Deus Garvie and treasurer mrs. Hugh Gunn. United College Tea thursday United College invites parents graduates and friends to its an Nual coed and men s club Tea from to 5 . Thursday at the Riddell Hall cafeteria. There will Sale of Home cooking. Mrs. Wilcox again Heads Irish group mrs. J. A. Wilcox was re elected president by the ladies auxiliary to the Irish protestant association. Vice president is mrs. Samuel Houston Secre tary mrs. H. J. R. Savage and treasurer mrs. R. J. Stewart manageress hair Dresser weekly starting salary guaranteed. 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