The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 March 1909 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. r - -3 Tne people with the most cheek don’t do the most blushing. Many men make the mistake of letting their reputation influence their character. ' In seeking the ballot via airships the suffragettes may be said to have taken the Wright way. The Russian Government refers to Maxim Gorky as "a house painter.” He is a rough house painter. Noted clergyman says “the stage is worse than in the days of paganism.” Must be thinking of Salome. “War is knocking at our doors,” says Hobson. Gertrude, please go to the door and tell War that we are not at home. A Cleveland man was arrested in Toronto, charged with using a hatchet on his wife. He claims it was axedentaj. ’ How many members of the Nevada Legislature would be ready to fight in the event Uncle Sam should have a War with Japan? The United States now owns the largest war vessel afloat, and yet it is not quite as large as the State of Rhode Island. • ? Wilbur Wright gets s6bo a lesson for instructions in’ aeronautics. He doesn't, however, undertake to teach pupils to Ely by correspondence. ■ In demonstrating that agriculture is all the better for having a good secretary and keeping him steadily at the job, Mr. Wilson has scored a great success. One of the churches is to have a “silence room.” It should be immediately sought by people who just remembered»that they left their umbrellas in th&’cars. A- " ■ No. matter. whether he continues to be first in peace and first in war or not, Washington will be first in the heart of every schoolboy as long as the anniversary of his birth' is a- legal holiday. In excitement even sane persons do curious things. It is related that a bald-headed man was accosted on the deck of the sinking Republic by a woman with streaming hair, who, in distress, wanted a comb. /‘I looked at her sadly,” the man reports, “then I took off my hat.” Give the farmer good roads, good mail' service, speedy communications with the outside world, find he will du the rest. The Government can help him, has already helped him. in many ways, but the farmer has a large voice in the,Government, too. He will take care of that part of the problem himself. Despite all the well-meant talk about It, actual church unity is probably impossible, and. if possible, would be of doubtful desirability. There are now amqng the principal denominations few. if any, essential differences of faith There ‘are minor differences of creed and of practice., organization and dis cipline. But these are inevitable and not alogether undesirable accompaniments of those differences of temperament and taste which are inseparable .from’human nature itself, * Viewed in the aggregate, the lynching phenomena are an appalling feature of American social life, and justify in some. measure the strictures passed upon us by foreign critics and observers. Whether the recurrence of this form of violence is to be attributed to the faults in the administration of, criminal law in this country, or whether it is a result of the peculiar nature of the -race problem presented by the presence of the negroes in the midst of a white population occupying a different plane of civilization, it remains a stain upon the fair name of the United States which every patriotic citizen would see eliminated.. Elizabethan drama seems to show that three hundred years ago the publie laughed at insanity and madness. Since then we have come to such a sympathetic understanding of the insane mind that we cannot laugh at its Incongruities. It may be that by similar growth we sl4.aU cease to laugh at the temporary insanity of drunken men. Mr. Rider Haggard, who has made a scientific study of inebriety in England, suggests that’one way to encourage temperance, is to cease regarding drunkenness as a joke. The two things will be parallel manifestations of a general improvement; a rightminded attitude toward., all aspects of drunkenness and a finer sense of h u-. mor will be characteristic of the same stage of civilization. Old age does not seem to incapacitate the English clergyman. The Rev. W. W.. Wingfield, vicar of the established church in Gulval, Penzance, recently celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday and the seventy-fifth anniversary of his appointment to his present living; He s is still able 1 to preach and write with much vigor. There are half a dozen other clergymen who have been in charge of their churches for more than

sbrty years, and a tenure of forty years is quite edmmon. The longest service on record is that of a vicar of Rickmansworth.who held the living for eighty-one years, from 1589 to 1670. Perhaps if the churches chose their vicars as the American churches choose their pastors there would be more frequent changes. Wordsworth, in one of his finest poems, laments that the days of plain living and high thinking are no more. This poem was written many years ago, when according to modern standards, plain living was the rule, even among the wealthy classes. It has one notable example in Count Tolstoy, the wealthy and famous Russian, who has adopted the peasant’s dress and food, and shares his labors. This, he fancies, is to live as Christ lived. The only educated American who has lived this life, to its utmost limit, when not driven to do so by steam necessity, was Henry D. Thoreau. He built himself a hxit on the edge of Walden Pond, and lived there for two and a half years gt an expenditure of 27 cents a week. This small sum paid for food, clothing and all other necessaries. . Emerson says of Thoreau: “He was . bred to no profession, he never married, be lived, alone, he never went to church. he never voted, he refused to pay a tax to the state, he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the- use of tobacco; and though a naturalist, he used neither trap nor gun.” Thoreau was once in prison for disobedience to a law which he considered infamous. On visiting him in Concord jail, Emerson said: “Henry, I am sorry to see you here.” “Waldo. I am sorry not to see you here,’’ was Thoreau's reply. The village of Concord was renowned for its plain living and high thinking, as the abode of Eiiierson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts the pciet Channing, Thoreau and others of local, but not national, fame. It was a rioted seat of literary culture. Emerson, the -greatest of its intellectual lights, was no epicure. His one luxury was pie for breakfast. This was a reminiscence of that New England pie habit, which had come down from the Puritans and which Kipling satirizes as prevalent in that part of Vermont which for a time was his home. "My family doin'! care, for bread any more, and so I give them pie instead,” remarked an old-fash-ioned New England wife and mother. So far as the siinple life is concerned, it has no fixed standards. What some regard as luxurious living is beggarly economy' for others. ’ Dr. Holmes in one qf his humorous poems, says, that his wants are very small. He only wishes a bi-qwn stone hut. This “hut” must front on a sunny and select street, and everything else must be in keeping. That is the average American idea of the simple life. ijfe,,Science cgltnvention A chemical element, believed to be previously unknown, has been found by Mr. Ogawa, a Japanese chemist, in thorianite, reinite and molybdenite. The name nipponium, with the symbol Np„ has been proposed for it. It is a metal apparently allied to aluminum. It has. an equivalent weight of about 50, and Mr. Ogawa thinks that in the periodic system it probably lies between molybdenum and ruthenium. On July 26 a storm,j passing across , the valleys near the mountain called the Luberon, in France, developed hail along a line conveying electric energy * by a triphase current of 45,000 volts. Monsieur Violle, in a note addressed to the,. French Academy of Sciences, states reasons for believing that the electric line served as a conductor for the storm. The hail was developed only near the line; elsewhere nothing but rain fell. That wonderful star, Nova Persei, which suddenly blazed out in the heavens in February, 1901, attracting all eyes by its brilliancy, and then, in a few months, faded to invisibility, except with telescopes, has recently bad a critical date in its history fixed by Prof. E. E. Barnard. When it faded it changed first into a nebula—at least, its light was the light of a nebula. Afterward, as shown by its spectrum, it changed back into a star of a peculiar class, called the Wolf-Rayet> stars, which seem to be a sort of cross between a true star and a nebula. Professor Barnard shows that . this .last change began in November. 1902, and seems to have been completed in February, 1903. Among the earliest ■ suggestions for making balloons was that of a floating vacuum. It was thought of in the seventeenth century but nobody has been able to construct a successful balloon on this principle; because the walls surrounding the vacuum must be so strong that the air pressure Will not them, and the requisite Strength is inconsistent with the equally requisite lightness. Lately the idea has been taken up again in Ger? many, and submitted to calculation. Herr De-b estimates that six spherical vacuum balloons, each ten meters in radius, formed of aluminum one iln in radius, each ten meters in radius, formed of aluminum one millimeter thick, and harnessed in a row, would possess a buoyancy of .about 35,00(1 pounds. But the difficulty is that balloons would have to be so stronglv stayed within that the carrying capao, ity might be practically nothing.

- A Wide Range. Aunt Anne, an old family darky, was fitting with knees crossed in the kitch tn, when the young daughter of the iouse entered, and, impressed with the hugeness of the old woman’s feet, isked what size shoe she wore. “Well, honey.” replied Aunt Anne, “I tin wear eights; I generally wear nines; but dese yere I’se got on am twelves, an’ de good Lawd knows dey tufts me!”- —Everybody’s Magazine. Ought to Take. 'LL * Advance Agent—The company will ippear in repertoire. Local Manager—l don’t think that play has ever been given here. Didn’t Need Help* Four-year-old Helen wished to get into the playroom, but the gate (w’hich had been put at the door to keep her )aby brother in) was locked. She tried again and again to climb over it, tvhen at last her mother heard her say, ‘Dear God, please help me get over this gate.” Just then she tumbled over, ind said. “Never mind’: I got over myielf.”—Harper’s Magazine.

TOOK THE HINT. a JuL#-—, _Ms /j ’< “What did old Farmer Jones say ; ’ien you called?” . “Said nothin’. Just kicked me out” “Did you tell ’im yon wanted to marry ’is daughter?” “Not me. I reckon I can take a ’int.’f—(London Opinion.

Iu Long Meter. “Speaking of poetry, does the modern school make us think?” “Well, It makes us hustle for the dictionary, that is, those of us who have any curiosity at all.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. ’ Amenities. Jones —Well, you and. I won’t be neighbors much longer. I'm going to live in a better locality. . Smith—So am I. Jones —What —are you going to move, too? Smith—No, I’m going to stay here.— Cleveland Leader. New Danger. “When you get to Washington, son, don’t be afraid to work for the public service.’’ _ '“No, dad. It’s the secret service I’m ifraid of.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Heirlooms. “My grandfather was a captain of Industry.” . “Well?” “He left no sword, but we still treasnre the stubs of his checkbooks.”— Houston Chronicle. The Time .Limit. Cleverton (who has hired a taximeter cab to propose in)—Say “yes,” darling! Miss Waitabit—Give me time to think. Cleverton—Heavens! But not In lere! Consider the expense! No Hope. “Wot’s hydrophobia?” asked Weary Watkins, as he spelled out the article in the piece of newspaper which he had picked up. “It means hatred of water,”.replied Us pard, “and It is a fatal disease.” “Then run for a doctor,” cried Weary, as he fell back with a groan. “I’m a dead man.”—Tit-Bits. Skeptical. > “They say that Shakespeare was a bad actor,” remarked the student. “Yes,” answered Mr. k Stormington Barnes, ‘-‘but I don’t accept the theory. Critics may have been as unreliable then as'they are uow.”—Washington Star. ’

Boosting Bnalneaa. Drummer — You boosted for the school committee to get a pretty school teacher from the town? Why, you haven’t any children? Storekeeper Jason —No, but, strang-. er, I had an eye on business. As soon as the pretty teacher arrived all the big boys began sneaking down here and buying hair oil, clean collars and sweet soap by the wholesale. » Suapicioua. , Mrs. A.—l believe Henry fooled me. When we were married he vowed he w’as an old bachelor, but I believe he was a widower. Mrs. Z.—And why are you suspicious, dear? ■ Mrs. A.—Because he can actually understand what I say when my mouth is full of hairpins. It takes, long experience to do that. A Suitable TeatT “Now the officers of the navy are up for a test.” “What do they have to do?” “Dance ten miles, flirt ten miles and talk small talk for four hours con-tinuously.”-—Washington Herald. w A Thankless Task. “I think I shall marry him to reform him,” said the romantic girl. “I have seen that experiment tried,’' rejoined Miss Cayenne. “Successfully?” “Well, I won’t say the men were re formed. But they always seemed more or less repentant and disssatisfled.’ — Washington Star. Lettiujc Him Down Easy. Gunner —Why in the world do the fellows around this club allude to old Foggman as “Mr. Automobile?” He's not swift, is he? Guyer—Just the opposite. It’s apo lite way of calling him old “stick ir the mud.” , ‘

Giving Advice. Professor—What is the matter with Mr. ? Learned Student—He is seriously as flicted with a paroxysmal inflammation of the vermiform api>endix. Voice from the Rear Seat—Aw, cui it out!—Cornell Widow. Once a Year. “Why did pape stay home yesterday mother?” “Jt was ladies’ day at his club.”— Kansas City Journal. Grown Up. Pater —Our daughter appears to bi very chummy with a Miss Gwendolii Montmorency Smythe. Who is she? Mater—That’s the little Smith gir who lived next door, and whom we usee to call “Reddy.”—Cleveland Leader. Room at the Top. is plenty of room at the top.’ quoted the moralizer. “Yes,” rejoined the demoralizer “and ther always will be unless facilities for getting there are improved.’ —Philadelphia Bulletin.. What the Evening Wore. Bones (telling a story)—Well; th< evening wore on , Jones—lt did, eh? What did -is wear? Bones—Well, if you must know, 1 believe it was the close of a summei day.—Life. Seamanship. “I see that the Lusitania can stea it twenty-six knots an hour,” said Smith ers from his paper. His wife looked up from her knit ting with a bright smile. “I suppose they steam the knots s* that the poor sailors can untie then: more easily,” she observed tranquilly - —New York Herald. Dodging Observation. “Do you mean to say you are goifif back to the bicycle?” "" “Yes,” answered the speed map lac “The police are so busy watching au tomobiles that a man on a blcych ought to be able to scotch as much ai he chooses these days.”—Washington Star. Just Shoot Twice. “I thought ybu said this gun woule shoot a thousand yards?” “It will.” • “It Won’t. It only shoots 500 yards.’ “Well, It’s..a double-barrel gun, isn* it Leader. Another Point of View. Giles —Only four letters of the alpha bet have ever been in jail. . Smiles—True; but look how many o them are in the penitentiary.

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A Farmer’s Enterprise. An lowa farmer has succeeded in j opening up a big field for his enterprise by applying an old method to a 1 new service. ’ He has gone into the Tbusiness of furnishing fresh eggs daily to a regular list of customers, after the fashion of the milkmen and bakers. This farmer is a man who raises many chickens and markets a large number of eggs. These he had been selling to dealers, who in turn sent them to coldstorage warehouses or to wholesalers. Finally they got to the consumers, usually pretty stale and much the worse for handling, through the retail grocer or huckster. When eggs were plentiful and the wholesalers were well stocked up, the farmer got little for them. When eggs were few and prices to consumers were very, very high, the farmer found that his eggs in the warehouses were still in competition with the producer. This man's egg route isn't an egg route exclusively. He sells dressed chickens and other farm produce, too, and when his egg wagon is going about Jhe driver tikes orders for other things which are raise ! on the farm.—Springfield Journal. Starting; Early Celery. Celery growing on a commercial scale has received. most attention, in the “muck-bed" areas of Michigan and New York, where thousands of acres are devoted to this ‘crop. California and Florida have taken up .the industry and during the winter and spring months provide Northern- cities with large amounts of celery. To secure an early crop the best plan for the amateur grower is to fill a wooden tray 16 inches by 24 inches in size with fine soil three inches deep. This soil should be pressed down and the seeds scattered either in rows or broadcast. Cover the 'seeds by sprinkling through a fine sieve a small quantity of leaf mold or sand. The* window of a moderately warm room with frequent sprinkling will provide the q'EBMINATIXG BOX FOR CELERY. . conditions necessary for germination. When the seedlings appear after two or three weeks £urn the boxes daily to keep the grovvth even. The illustration shows the form of box used for starting the plants. How to Grow Potatoes. Director Woods of the Maine agricultural experiment, station summarizes his suggestions as to succesfiil potato growing as follows. What he says about thorough preparation of the soil is applicable to that to be used for any crop. Select' highly fertile land, so situated that it will suffer as little as possiblefrom either excessive rain or from droughts. > Thoroughly prepare the soil and feritlize liberally. Spray for insects and blight, early and often. Keep the crop free from weeds and the isurface of the soil loose during' the whole season. Do not let anything prevent the potato field from- receiving constant care. Vastly more failures iu potato growing can be traced to neglect of crop than to lack of knowledge. Cost of Raising a Calf. In an experiment to ascertain the cost ,of raising a calf Prof. Shaw of Michigan station took a dairy calf and kept an accurate account of the expense of feeding for one year from its birth. The amounts of feeds used in that time were 381 pounds of whole milk,. 2,568 'pounds of §kim milk. 1.262 pounds of silage. 219 pounds of beet pulp. 1.254 pounds of hay. 1,247 pounds of grain. 147 pounds of roots, 14 pounds of alfalfa meal and 50 pounds of green corn. The grain ration Consisted of three parts each of corn and oats and -one part of bran and oilmeal. At the end of the year the calf weighed 800 pounds at a cost of $28.55 for feed, lhe calf was a Holstein. ■Whesi and How to Prune. It is very important that the healing process should start soon after the wound is made, otherwise the cambium will be. killed back quite a distance from the exposed surface, and healing will be greatly retarded. For this reason winter pruning should be avoided, particularly in frosty weather. In the early fall or late spring the cambium is active and wounds made at this time start to heal at once, and there is lit- ■[ tie or no dying back of the cambium. FeeU for Poultry.’ The effect of meat rations was tested It the West Virginia Experiment Sta-

tion. where one pen of fowls received a ration largely of corn and other! starchy grains, while another pen was fed partly on meat and fresh bone. The meat fed fowls laid 7.565 eggs, while the grain fed birds laid 3.431, or less than one-half as many as those receiving the nitrogenous rations. The eggs from the meat fed fowls were larger, much firmer, rather ■ better and produced far more vigorous chickens than those of the others. A Gate That Never Sags. , I have used this gate for many years and never spent five minutes repairing it. Countersink two pieces and pin them together. Then set up two 2x4 pieces 2 ft. higher than the gate so it can be raised in winter. Mortice and set in between the crosspieces, which are 12 in. apart, the board, a. and fasten a cap to the top of the frame. The gate is 16 ft. long. 12 ft. being for the gateway and 4 ft. for the weights to balance it. The frame is of 2x4’s. Cover the 4-ft. end with boards and till with enough stones to balance it when rnrr , »! WIRE-COVERED GATE THAT BALANCES. ( hung. Covdr the gate with wire fenc'’ ing and hang„by a chain. Put a bolt through the lower part of the frame into the crosspiece,. —A. J. Fraser, in Farm and Home. . Orchard Suggestions. As a rule apples from orchards that are in sod culture are better and more highly colored than' those from tilled orchards, but this is not necessarily so. The trees that are filled must be pruned more openly and fertilized with inore potash and phosphoric acid and less nitrogen. The peach requires good culture, but this culture should not be continued too late in the season or the wood will not harden by the time winter sets in and the tree will be injured. It is an excellent plan to sow a cover crop at the time the last cultivation, takes place. The fruit grower is apt to make two mistakes in planting trees. One Is planting too many varieties, and the other is planting too many trees. It; is more a matter of quality than off quantity in growing fruit and we should not plant more trees than we can care for. Tremendous Coat of Prairie Doga. In the state of Texas alone prairie dogs eat annually enough grass to support 1.562.500 cows. Utterly useless, the little animal is a pest so -dreaded that tlie forestry service has undertaken his extermination. Poison is killing him. wherever he now flourishes and another resource’ of the farmer is safeguarded. Who would think that the prairie-dog. the shy and amusing little, rodent that we like to watch before the door of his burrow at the Zoo, would ever ‘ become the subject of the government intervention or endanger the success of stock raising? Yet such is the fact, says the Technical World Magazine. Out on the national forests which Uncle Sam is guarding for the use of the public. expert hunters have gone after the prairie dog with zeal, ingenuity and poison and literally exterminated them in great numbers.-because some of their choicest bottom lauds have had the ruined for stock by rhe trious of the “dogs." Rules for~ SHg£e--ful Farming.. To my mind the ideal system of management to maintain our income from pur farms with reduced labor and capital must come about in the folow ing manner: - More economical production in .al ! lines and reducing the amount .of labor by growing much clover and grasses. Keeping live stock to harvest these' crops and selling only finished products. Turning the less profitable land into pasture and grasses and working the best land more intensively.. Growing cash or market crops that give high returns for the labor em_ployed and fertilizer used, such as potatoes. fruit, etc.- B. I>ara. Wisconsin. A Useful Furtu Implement. j A useful tail much neglected farm implement —the shaving horse. To Revalue State Land*. That all the homestead lands in Michigan have been withdrawn from the market is announced by State Land Commisioner Huntley Russell. The lands will be kept out until they have been reappraised, as provided by a resolution recently introduced in the lower house of the state legislature.

,To Broil Meat Dry. € ice more we have an invention des gjied for those who pay more than pas Ing attention to their meals and. ’

acceptable to all who care for food* well cooked. This time it- is a woman in California kho has come to the resbue of gourmets by supplying thelp with a utensil that will broil meat dry. Only those who have partaken ,of steaks dripping with grease can appreciate* the value of this device.

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T1 ■ apparatus is a circular frame with a andle and inside the frame is a uetW' rk of metal rings—steel or silver.. Tl ? meat is placed on this utensil amj ’ th n laid in-the skillet close to. be tcm. The butter cooks up tlirfftJP -th rings and the meat is done wifm 01 being immersed in grease. X Good Lemon Pie. Jtie cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon of Sff ted flour. 1 of butter the juice and. g ited rind of 1 lemon, yolks of 3 eggs. 1 .'Up of milk. Bake in one crust until w ien knife inserted in center of pie ,ci. q be drawn out without having milk c ng to it. Frost with the whites of tl -■ eggs, beaten, to a stiff froth, to w rich has been added three teaspoons ,0 granulated sugar. After placing 0 >ie. sprinkle lightly with sugar; p i e in oven and leave, door slightly . a as. Since making frosting by this r .hod I have always had good succ ss. It never grows tough nor draws v.ty from edge of, pie. Apple Custard. ake'half a dozen tart, mellou- apI es, pare and quarter them and take < u: thq cores. Put them in a pan with 1 teacup of water; set them on a slow ; t.re. When they begin to grow soft trn them into a pudding dish, and 4 i irinkle sugar on them. Beat eight ' <gs with rolled brown sugar, mix them .th. three pints of milk, grate jn half nutmeg and turn the whole over ie apples. Bake the custard between wenty and thirty minutes. Rice Pudding Without Eggs, ■ Two quarts of milk, two-thirds of a upful of rice, a cupful-of sugar, ya., ii'ce of butter as large as a walnXH® teaspoonful of cinnamon, a little nut< u-i'g and a pinch of salt. Put into a .deep pudding dish well buttered and er into a moderate oven. Strt it«once a twice until it begins to cook t remain in the oven about two hd3H ntil it is the consistency of cream Sat cold. — -X— • Plain Chowder, A Take one quart of clams and cut off i ads, fry thin slices of nice fat salt rk a little brown in bits while frying), take the water from the* s 1 earned cliims and add more to make ; e quart, put in a kettle, slice in one gpod-siz£d onion, and let boil until tender; thpn put in one quart milk, salt and jiepper to taste, and boil, and serve at once. . A Delicious Salad. Cook large oysters in their own juice till the edges curl; drain .and chill; rut each oyster in two, without cutting :to the soft part; make an jequal quality ->f diced celery and put on ice to risp; mix the two, lay on white luce leaves, and add a large spoonrol i f stiff mayonnaise to each cup-shaped ■as filled with the mixture. Apple Coaeoanut I’ie. 1 Pare, slice, stew and sweeten ripe. Juicy applet; flavor with lemon peel; ash. smooth, fill crust and bake until ist done; strew over the top desic- x rated cocoanut. then spread with a I rick meriiigue. put in oven until meri igue is well set. Meringue can be left out and the cocoanut strewn on top of the apple, slightly browned in bven. ■Kisses, Beat the whites of three,eggs stiff -eff W i. platter, fold in one and one-fourth ■ ■pfuis of granulated sugar, one tables oonful of corn starch, one-fourth uud of cocoanut and flavoring. Drop > unbqttered tins, bake about fifteen i nutes and let cool before removing from tins. • Cleaning Buttles? Bottles may be cleaned by tearing a wspaper into small bits,, half filling I: ? bottles with them, and then pouring i hot. soapy water in which a piece of vashing soda has been dissolved. Let .he bottles stand an hour, then shake velWempty. rinse and drain. Potato Fritters. Six medium-sized potatoes. Boil and irnsh well and beat tip with a half cup ■ if milk. Stir in one beaten egg and mough flour to make a stiff batter. ’jTy as pancakes,,cooking thoroughly on iccount of the flour. " L . Maple Candled Orange Peel. -Boil orange peel, changing the water ★ l eniently, until the extremely bitter ste is removed. Drain from the wa4 I cover with maple sirup and cook ill it candies, stirring constantly. Sunday Salad jdL An appetizing salad may be made bj opping five tomatoes and adding onei. irth to one-half pound grated cheese. tir cooked salad dressing over this d serve cold on lettuce leaves.