August 6, 1975
Four generations: Mrs. Roy
This week’s
problem
Dear editor:
After 1 read your new
column, "How Would You
Solve This Problem?’ 1
wanted to write you about a
P problem I have, but I was
* % afraid to.
L. Packer, Mrs. Elmer Brown holding grandson Kenneth
LeFever, Jr., and Mrs. Caroline Packer LeFever
Mrs. Brown is Queen of Kitchen
Mrs. Elmer (Edna) Brown
is this week’s Queen of the
Kitchen, but she has been a
queen in the kitchen of her
own home for many years.
Mrs. Brown was nomi-
nated by her daughter, Mrs.
Roy L. Packer of Mount Joy.
Mrs. Packer, who is
employed by Wolgemuth
Brothers, Inc., feed com-
pany in Mount Joy, says
that her mother does all the
cooking in her home. Mrs.
Brown, who is eighty-six
years old, gets up ever)
morning at 6:30 and makes
breakfast for everyone.
‘She can make a meal out
of anything,”” says Mrs.
Packer. She can stretch a
piece of meat into several
meals.’’
Mrs. Brown says she
learned to cook from her
mother-in-law, the late Mrs.
Walter Brown of Mount Joy
and also from her mother,
the late Mrs. Kauffman of
Lancaster, where Mrs.
Brown grew up.
As a young bride she and
her husband lived with his
parents early in their marri-
age, and Mrs. Brown had
the opportunity to learn all
her husbands favorite
dishes from his mother.
Mrs. Brown has cooked
for four children as well as
her late husband, not to
mention in-laws, grandchil-
dren, and great grandchil-
dren. Her children are
Robert, Edward, and lzella
(Mrs. Packer) all of Mount
Joy, and Ruth (Mrs. Clair
Sharp) of Searcy, Ark.
She has eight grandchil-
dren and nine great grand-
children, the latest of whom
is Kenneth LeFever, Jr.,
four months, son of Caroline
Packer.
Mrs. Brown not only
cooks at home. Every year
when St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church in Mount Joy held
its strawberry Festival, Mrs.
Brown peeled and prepared
20 pounds of potatoes for
her delicious potato salad.
She can’t remember the
exact recipe for her potato
salad; it comes to her as she
makes it.
In addition to her exten-
sive cooking, Mrs. Brown
also takes care of the altar
linens at St. Luke’s.
Recently Mrs. Brown said
to Mrs. Packer, ‘‘Let’s go
pick strawberries.”” They
picked 15 boxes, of which
Mrs. Brown picked most,
according to Mrs. Packer.
Readers: send us your
nomination for Queen of the
Kitchen, also the name of
the best dish she cooks.
Send to Susquehanna Bulle-
tin, Box 75A, r.d. 1,
Marietta, Pa. 17547.
QUEEN OF THE KITCHEN RECIPE
Strawberry Salad
1 30 oz. pkg. Cream Cheese
2 cup dream whip or heavy cream-whipped
Y4 cup mayonnaise
1 cup salad marshmallows
1 pkg. drained strawberries
1% cup drained crushed pineapple
4 cup chopped pecans
Stir cream cheese to soften, adding a little whipped cream.
Fold cheese into remaining whipped cream. ‘Fold in other
ingredients. Pour into mold or freezing tray. Chill, or freeze
if to be used next day. Serve on crisp greens, garnish with
whole strawberries.
Molasses Cup Cakes
Blend % cup butter & 1 cup light brown sugar. Add 1
beaten egg, 3 cups Gold Medal Flour sifted. Add i tsp. soda,
4 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cinnamon, %2 tsp ginger. Sift 3 times.
Mix 1 cup molasses with 1 cup water. Add alternately with
flour and spiges to first mixture.
Bake 15 min. Oven 375°
Letters to the editor
Dear editor:
I think your new feature,
““Queen of the Kitchen,” is
a sexist activity, designed to
keep women in the kitchen,
as if that were the only kind
of work they could do.
Adolph Hitler used to say
that women should stick to
the three K's: Kuche,
Kirche, und Kinder (cook-
ing, church, and children).
Your kind of thinking
about women is reactionary,
chauvinistic.
Further proof that you
believe the place for women
is at home, is your column,
‘“Adam
marriage were
career for women.
You have some very
antiquated notions about
the only
and Eve,” as ff
But then 1 decided, oh,
§ what the heck, why don’t 1
write it and send it in.
's Maybe somebody will have
k some good advice for me.
At least People can tell me
Et whether I'm crazy or not.
Sometimes I think I am.
Here is my problem.
I have a husband.
I also have a best friend,
# female.
My problem is that my
x thusband and my best friend
‘are too friendly, with each
other, that is.
I have nothing against
their being fiiendly, but
they are too friendly, I think.
They kiss and hug right in
front of me, and sometimes
the kisses and the hugs last
too long.
It’s all in good fun, they
think. They laugh and treat
it as a big joke.
But it’s no fun for me. I
hurt inside, but keep smi-
ling outside, as if I din’t
mind.
But I do mind!
I wonder, if they do all
this in front of me, what are
they doing behind my back?
What should I do? I'm
embarrassed to let them
know my feelings. I'd be
ashamed to tell either one of
them about my jealousy.
What should I do? I'm
feeling worse about the
situation. all the time.
Signed,
Jealous
Readers: send in your
advice on this problem.
Or, if you have a problem,
send it in. You don’t have to
sign your name.
Send your advice or
pr. blem to Susquehanna
Bulletin, Box 75A, R. D. 1,
Marietta, Pa., 17547.
LETTER TO EDITOR:
Dear Editor:
I tried Mrs. Brubaker’'s
recipe for cherry pie, and
my family went crazy over
it! Thanks!
Signed
A happy cook
women.
I think you are helping to
keep women in the slavery
of their homes, tied to their
husbands and their cook-
stoves.
Signed
A liberated woman
SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN-Page 17
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Don Griest, John Long, and Dale Fantom painting fence
Rotary paints
Dear Editor: ~
How do you like the
appearance of the fence at
the Maytown Tennis
Courts?
The job was done by the
Bainbridge—Maytown Ro-
tary. On a weekend like that
we enjoyed a couple of
weeks ago, it was a great
temptation to be on the
golph course, or on an
outing with the family, or a
hundred other things. In-
stead, the Bainbridge—
Maytown Rotary was help-
ing the community be just a
little better place to live, by
tennis fence
painting the fence at the
Tennis Courts. The painting
was badly needed; the fence
was an eyesore. It took two
weekends, and was com-
pleted July 26.
We of Rotary wish to
thank the Jaycees for their
part in this project in
supplying some of the paint
used.
Shown in the above
photograph are, left to right:
Don Griest, John Long and
Dale Fantom.
Thank you
John R. Long
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