Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 6 October 2016 — Page 4

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• Advance News • Thursday, October 6, 2016

Cooking: Better Homes and Gardens Cooking Better Homes and Gardens We've got books in every nook and cranny of this house: shelves, coffee tables, desks, bedstands, everywhere.

But there's one honored book that rests in a hallowed position on a kitchen shelf. It's been used so often the pages are crumbling in tat-

ters and shreds. It's aging and fading, stained, a sign of just how beloved it is. It's our Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. The old kind. In a three ring binder. With a red and white crosshatched checkerboard cover I think my wife Jennie brought her mother's copy with her when we set up our first apartment after our marriage, but my mom had one just like it and it was a good part of the way I learned how to cook. Early on I learned that cooking is the door to eating. The thing is, we're not bom knowing this stuff. We have to learn it. I learned a lot from watching my mother cook her specialities, like green chili with pork and potatoes, which I've never seen in a cookbook, or chicken wings in a mole sauce that includes red chilis, unsweetened chocolate, and pine nuts. (Just so you know, when I was a kid the butcher gave away chicken wings because no one had yet discovered they were a luxury item). But as often as not mom pulled down the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook to remind herself how to make something like meat loaf or spaghetti. Over the years we've accumulated a lot cookbooks. Some aren't good for much. There's only once recipe, for instance, we use from the old vegetarian cookbook, a special macaroni and cheese that would drive Vegans crazy. The Mexican cookbook by thp blind Mexican lady has a great menudo recipe. But the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook is great for everything else. It has color pictures, clear directions, and enough details so you know if you're doing thing right. That's why I pulled it off the shelf when Jennie and I suddenly got the hankering for beef stroganoff, something 1 probably hadn't made in twenty years. Once I got started I remembered right away that the cookbook didn't mean what it says about certain things. Like that thing about chopping one clove of garlic. It really means two or three. Or four. Anyway, it took me around half an hour to make the stroganoff. Ah. It looked and smelled and tasted like it was supposed to. I served it on brown rice instead of noodles, sliced one of our last garden cucumbers as a side dish and it worked out to two portions each, first and seconds for me and Jennie. Once we were through we both wondered why I hadn't cooked the dish in over 20 years. More important, we wondered how long could we reasonably wait before I made beef stroganoff again. Later than evening, after I'd done the dishes I put the cookbook back on the shelf. I've thought about giving that old battered cookbook to our granddaughter Natalia, who is a wonderful cook herself, but I realized she doesn't need it. Natalia has two cooking grandmothers, two parents in the restaurant industry, and every cooking show imaginable on TV. I smiled. Just as well. It means I get to keep the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. I Frank 'Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.

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H County Road By Frank Ramirez

Opinion

Another year older...

The clock hanging from my basement wall has been permanently stilled at 3:46 since the day we moved in, though not altogether suspended in time, as it were. The second hand twitches to its own staccato rhythm, yet never moving forward, merely flinching like the whiskers of a sleep-

ing kitten. At any rate, I can be assured that twice in a day, that clock keeps perfect time. Sometimes, when I am routinely executing the mundane task of pulling clothes from the dryer, I'll find my eyes drawn to that dock. And I’ll stare at it for a while, letting my thoughts run free, just as I have always done like the dreamer that I am. By the time this column goes to press, I will have celebrated another birthday. In all ways, I'm amazed, crazed, and dazed over the fact that I am now 47 years old. So how does life look at age 47, and does it measure up to how I thought I would become? And if I could halt the hands of time, make every second remain gilded and golden, what would 1...c0u1d I...renew and relive, time and again if given that chance, for just one day? Well, the first selection is the easiest. I would bring my father back to us. And then I would throw a huge gathering, with all of the people I cherish most, family and friends alike. My home would not hold everyone, of course, and so we would spill out into the streets, one giant, joyous block party. We could eat all that we wanted, and calories would not count. I would crank up a playlist of '6os and '7os music, with a few rad 'Bos tunes thrown in for good measure. Karaoke is optional, though I would probably bow out for the sake of not embarrassing my children. Dad could spend another evening with the grandchildren, just as he did less than two days before he passed away, when we were gathered around my sister's family table

100 YEARS AGO October 6,1916 Lottie Pickford will be seen Friday night as Mary Denbigh in "The House of Bondage" at the Auditorium. The picture is made from Reginald Wright Kauffman's startling book. The story is told in six parts and is the greatest warning to parents and girls ever produced. Lillian D. Wald, head worker of the Henry street settlement, New York, says of the book: "I wish more people would read it though the condition it describes would doubtless be considered impossible in a civilized land by that great majority of people who do not know. It was painful to read because the author describes the conditions that are." Children under 16 years of age will not be admitted to see this picture. The Camp Fire girls held one hike and "weiner" roast at the Philip's grove east of town, followed by a business meeting to elect the follofving officers: President, Lola Rosbrugh; Vice-President, Vera Sloat; Secretary, Mary Alice Parks; and Treasurer, Helen Mutschler. The first regular meeting of the year was held at the home of their guardian, when a good many of the girls selected their Indian names and symbols. They also decided to borrow sufficient funds from their parents to purchase their ceremonial gowns, paying them back by giving an Indian play of entertainment later on in the fall. 75 YEARS AGO October 9,1941 Modem ways to serve meats and to do your baking with Swift's New Silverleaf Bland lard will be demonstrated for local housewives at the Nappanee Trading Post Friday and Saturday, by Miss Winifred Cannon of the Martha Logan staff of Swift & Co., Chicago, who is considered one of the best food consultants in this part of the country. Homemakers questions on all cooking and baking problems will be answered and recipe folders distributed. Her present work as a member of Swift & Co., Martha Logan staff includes suggestions of new products and better ways of using fine foods. She also serves as an emissary in taking the housewife's viewpoint into the meat packing industry. 50 YEARS AGO October 6,1966 In colorful halftime ceremonies during Friday night's

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B Wisdom and Whimsy By Amy Lant-Wenger

All those years ago

sharing a Thanksgiving meal. Another opportunity to hear that unforgettable laughter, from the kids who created it and from the adults who basked in it. I do know that such a scenario cannot happen in this world, in what remains of my lifetime. But I can surely visualize it when my memory and my imagination

have the will to wander. And it's beautiful. So in that regard, yes, life at 47 looks a whole lot like I had envisioned it. From a physical standpoint, meanwhile, particularly at 6 am. on any given morning, resembling every bit of my age becomes starkly evident in the sluggish reflection wincing back at me. I do have to chuckle a bit when I think back to my younger years, when the notion of the new millenium struck a surreal chord with me, as I ruminated over the knowledge that 1 would be (gasp!) in my thirties. My friends and I would flop around each other in an assemblage of neon colors, shoulder pads, and Aqua Net lacquered hair and make wishes aloud about the magical oasis of adulthood. What were my aspirations back then? Well, 1 had hopes of being a writer and a mother, a poet and a singer, an author and a scholar. I would like to believe that I've accomplished my wishes. But the dreams are far from over. Not a one of us knows what measure of time remains of our lives. Yet what we can realize is that God has given us true magnificence of heart and spirit to go after that which lights our souls, whether it is attainable today or it inches its way toward us like that wide horizon we can always see but seemingly can't quite reach. We are all given the gift of time. I hope to use mine wisely, for the rest of my very charmed and blessed life. I pray that everyone around me, for me, and within me will dare to follow the call of adventure.

homecoming football game against Auburn, Pamela Titus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Titus, was crowned as the 1966 Homecoming Queen. Last year's Queen, Susie Pontious, crowned the new queen. Other candidates for Queen out of the senior class were Chris Wise and Wendy Truex. Shirley Johnston was a freshman attendant. Sue Rowland represented the sophomores, and Peg Dean the junior attendant. Miss Titus in a member of the Nappanee High School Band and also the Chorus. She majors in history and English. She plans to attend Ball State College next year and eventually hopes to become a private secretary. The Board of School Trustees, with its attorney, Joseph Kindig, Superintendent of Schools Haskell B. Osborn, Superintedent-Elect James O. Weddle, and Wakarusa Schools Principal Howard Locke met informally with ten members of the Wa-Nee Citizens Committee and its attorney, Nelson Grills, on Monday evening. Harold Boone, Director of School House Planning for the Department of Public Instruction was also present. Since the meeting was informal and in no way official, it was held in the north dining room of the B & B Restaurant in Nappanee. The meeting was opened by Dr. Forest Kendall, President of the Board, who stated that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Grills reports and other questions that might be raised concerning actions taken by the Board to meet the educational needs of the school corporation. Attorney Grills in turn spoke briefly on the intent and purpose of the report and explained the wishes and desires of his clients in respect to the questions under consideration. The meeting continued with a free and open exchange of ideas with all present expressing a sincere desire to move in a direction that would provide the best educational opportunities for the children of the district at a reasonable cost. 25 YEARS AGO October 9,1991 The Nappanee High School Class of 1941 gathered to celebrate its golden anniversary of graduation. Among those in attendance were Phyllis Stump Leming, Esther Hoover Metzler (teacher), Howard Kurtz, Lowell McCuen, LaMar Metzler, Amos Sheets, Phyllis Metzler Replogle, Carolyn Gentzhom Rensberger, Reatha Dumph Lambert, Isabelle Pletcher Rogers, Maxine Moyer Cleveland, Olive Lou Huff Renwick, Ethel Mae Gould Anglin, Annie Stuckman McDowell, Wilma Hamman Dunnick, Darlene Haney Conrad, Betty Miller Searfoss, Jean Alice Mishler Hockert, Arlene Bigler Hepler, Dorothy Malcolm Rink, Eloise Stahly Osborne, Elmer Krou, Madonna Messner Monroe, Everett Rummel, Barney Stouder, Bob Stump, Rollen Sponseller, Bill Strauss, Max Weaver, Mervin Miller, Harold Copsey, James Osborne, Gerald Thomas, Bill Muntz, and Tom Housour. North Wood's varsity tennis team captured its first-ever sectional tournament on Saturday on the Panther courts, topping Goshen 3-2 for the crown. Team members are Bo Intnivong, Jered Sheets, Justin Evers, Jason Evers, Michael Clouse, Ralph Lantz, David Tompos, Coach Angie Swain and Coach Chas Arch.

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