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THE ECHO
March, 1946
The Echo
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AT PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA
Copyrighted, 1945, By Ecusta Paper Corporation
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TESTED REGIPIES
Here another month has elaps
ed, and we’re still interested in
food. It seems to be an endless
cycle,—so we offer these recipes
for your enjoyment.
CHEESECAKE
(Quick to mix, because you don’t
have to sieve tlie cheese.)
2 tablespoons butter or forti*'
fied margarine
% cup zweiback crumbs
V4 cup confectioner’s sugar
Vi cup enriched flour
1 cup granulated sugar
V4 teaspoon salt
2 cups well-drained cottage
cheese
1 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
^ teaspoon vanilla
4 well-beaten eggs
Spread 8-inches round pan with
softened butter. Sprinkle with
mixed zweiback crumbs and con
fectioner’s sugar; reserve 2 table
spoons for top. Combine remain
ing ingredients; beat well. Pour
into zweiback crust. Top with re
maining crumbs. Bake in slow
oven (325) 1 hour. Cool in pan.
Serves 6—8. Drizzle with maple
syrup. Sprinkle with shredded al
monds.
Square Dance Team
Gives An Exhibition
FRUIT-SALAD DRESSING
(You’ll like it especially because
it’s quick and easy.)
2-3 cup salad oil
1-3 cup fruit juice (lemon,
orange, pineapple or grapefruit)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1-3 cup confectioner’s sugar
Combine ingredients. Beat with
rotary beater, or shake in bottle.
Chill thoroughly. Makes 1 cup.
During the recent Recreation
Area workshop, which was con
ducted in Asheville March 11
through 15th., our Ecusta Square
Dance team gave an exhibition of
square dancing and helped to teach
different dance figures to those
attending the Workshop.
The Institution was sponsored
jointly by the North Carolina Rec
reation Commission, the Univer
sity of North Carolina and the City
of Asheville. Many professional
and volunteer recreational work
ers of Western North Carolina at
tended.
The entire evening of Wednes
day, March 13th., was devoted to
folk dancing and our dance team,
after giving their exhibition,
each chose a partner from among
the members of the institute and
helped to teach them the different
figures. Our Ecusta String Band
furnished the music for the exhi
bition and later for the dancing.
They also played several numbers.
The Month Of March
Up from the sea, the wild north
wind is blowing
Under the sky’s gray arch;
Smiling, I watch the shaken
elm bough, knowing
It is the wind of March.
—Whittier.
TUNA CROQUETTES
1 cup thick white sauce
2 well-beaten eggs
1 7-oz. can flaked tuna fish
1 tablespoon lemon juice
14 teaspoon salt
Pepper
2 cups seasoned mashed pota
toes
1 teaspoon Worchestershire
sauce
1 beaten egg
1 tablespoon water
Combine ingredients; mix
The “windy month” of March
was named for the Roman war
god. Mars, and justly so, for its
blustery, unpredictable days are
often full of war-like fury. The
vernal equinox, which marks the
beginning of spring, falls about
the twenty-first, and the month is
thus partly winter, and partly
spring. Besides the “lamb and
lion” legend concerning March,
another story holds that the first
three days are unlucky, and it is not
so long ago that farmers held so
firmly to this belief, that they
would not plant seed on those days.
Although no notable holidays
occur during March, Texas cele
brates the second day of the
month as the anniversary of its
Beneath The Pisgah
Poet s
Comer
Betrothal
thoroughly. Chill. Mold in fish-
steak or cone-shaped croquettes;
dip in egg diluted witl;. water,
then in breadcrumbs or crushed
cornflakes. Brush with melted fat.
Bake in moderately hot oven
(375) until brown, about 20 min
utes, Turn once during baking.
I shall not say I have not loved be
fore
Because today I pledge my troth to
you.
I have loved much as other wom
en do,
Nor have I suffered any less or
more.
Whatever hurt I gave, whatever
bore.
Today I know the boon of think
ing through—
The older loves are mentors to
the new.
There stands a closed gate—here
an open door.
My love has learned the strength
of little things;
If one small link is broken in a
chain,
I shall remember how to mend the
rings.
That is may bear its happiness
again.
My love has woven with a lasting
prayer
A pattern worthy of your heart to
wear.
—Catherine Haydon Jacobs.
The Subtle Year
Now the subtle year
Blushes green, and the earth
Moves to glory as the clear
Rains kiss it into birth.
The dogwood mist is swooning
white;
The grass springs brilliant to
the lawn;
And sweeter glows the star-hung
night
Between the hands of dusk and
dawn.
And in my heart there stirs anew
A faint, pipe-silver bud of song
That, blossoming, shall break for
you
In trumpetings, shrill-sweet and
long.
—Nathaniel Burt.
Questioner
Little girls shouldn’t ask ques
tions—
Not a hundred times an hour!
“Why is a weed a thistle?
Why is a rose a flower?”
Little girls are all eyes
And “why’s”?
Why are bugs
With crawley legs?
Why do frogs
Lay pollywog eggs?
Why is a rainbow?
Why can’t I fly?
Who am I?
“Why?”
Little girls shouldn’t ask ques
tions—
It isn’t the thing to do!
At least, not questions that moth
ers
Don’t know the answers to.
—Ethel Jacobson.
independence from Mexico. The
17th. is celebrated as the feast day
of St. Patrick. Days of historical
significance are March 4, 1789,
when the Constitution went into
effect and Washington became
president; March 14, 1794, when
Whitney patented the cotton gin;
and March 23, 1775, when Patrick
Henry delivered his famous ora
tion.
“Long chances often shorten
live?-
BooKsCopnep
The Library has so many new
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PALMER’S HONEY. In this glow
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The story takes shape around
“Honey,” daughter of a negro fam
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For ages, the story of David, the
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SYMPATHY EXTENDED
The many friends of Dick Per
ron extend sympathy to him
account of the death of his motlief>
who died at her home in IJaver*
hill, Mass., recently.