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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1957
Page
15
A New Year feature presents The Happy Farmers' Wife a poem from Bl Kinzer's Mrs. E L Rice. It extols the farm wife's daily rounds from dawn chores and milking to housework, canaries, and care for children, celebrating simple farm life with devotion and order.
A lyrical portrait of a rural woman who tends chores from morning washing to evening meals. She bakes and boils by ten, calls harvesters to dinner at eleven thirty, reads or sews in the afternoon, and hums as she tidies up at night. She soothingly performs nightly duties and ends with a piano rendition of Home Sweet Home.
A homey kitchen note offers a Sticky Rolls recipe with potatoes yeast flour sugar butter eggs and fruit ideas. It includes steps for overnight rising shaping rolling and baking with brown sugar. Also suggests a fruit salad plate for a luncheon or Saturday night gathering.
A reader column outlines making a Charlotte russe with lady fingers and whipped cream, plus a festive lettuce cup salad with fruit and cheese. It notes Christmas cookie recipes arriving late and a tomato soup tip using butter soda and milk, with a continuation hinted on page 9.
Dr James M Gwin received the 1956 4 H Alumni Recognition Award from Pennsylvania State University Extension Service. The Blair County leader helped sponsor 4 H locally and later directed Haten gton Maryland projects while serving as general manager of the Poultry and Egg National Board and an army officer in World War I.
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