cook fopvrighflf Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1920. By The Public School Auxiliary, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. [all rights reserved] COMMUNITY CHURCH AND FIRST SCHOOL FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS THE FREDERICKSBURG Home Kitchen Published by The Public School Auxiliary of fredericksburg, texas First Edition 1916 Second Edition Revised and Enlarged 1921 i OFFICERS FOR 1920 to 1921 MRS. H. M. HARRINGTON, President MRS. VICTOR KEIDEL, Vice-President MRS. F. J. MAIER, Secretary MISS ZULA MAE HILL, Treasurer MAR I I 1921 §>CtA611078 PREFACE. The second edition of this book has been compiled in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the town of Fredericksburg, and is lovingly dedicated by the Fredericksburg Public School Auxiliary, to those sturdy Pioneers, whose indomitable spirit and energy have transformed a bit of Texas wilderness, into a place of peaceful abode and prosperity. COOKING AND CULTURE ON THE PEDERNALES The rolling prairie dripping with the violent tor- rential rains of Texas or seared and parched a dry and cracking brown by summers' drouth, the sparkling rivers with their sombre cypress borders or shady groves of walnut and pecan — know only woodland sounds of birds and beast that seek their cooling shelter, taste of the purling waters, browse on the succulent herbs and grasses or prey upon the weaker of their kind. The nomad Indian prowls along these peaceful haunts, brings to earth the wild turkey with his bow and arrow, prepares the feast over the open fire and devours it resting on his haunches. After the meal he smokes his soothing "Calumet", its brown leaves, prairie-yielded. He teaches the stripling redskin how to fell the bison — to prepare the deadly arrow with the venom of the viper, — all his lore is slaying — slaying, for food, for shelter, for revenge, or conquest. The first blow of the ax — tocsin of human progress. The pioneer has come to clear the land and build his rough log cabin. In the spacious fire-place swings the iron kettle with his rude trappers' fare; he rears a stalwart race, steeled to hard labor, untaught, un- lettered save for the woodland crafts, the hunt, the stream or skirmishings with Indian neighbors. In homespun cloth, astride on shaggy ponies, the lads and lasses wend their way to the log schoolhouse on the hillock, summoned by the peal of the forefather of all Texas school-bells. The master cloaks his lack of learning under greater sterness, the text-book play- ing second fiddle to the ferrule. Homes on the first thanksgiving can boast of bounteous cupboards; the hardest years are past and there is time for feast and song, for ease and plenty. Thru snowy cotton fields, acres of corn and grain, traverse two tiny lines of steel on a ribbed bed of logs and the day at last has come that the last peg- is to be put into the iron trail — a happy consum- mation !

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cook Copyright Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1920. By The Public School Auxiliary, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. [all rights reserved] COMMUNITY CHURCH AND FIRST SCHOOL FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS THE FREDERICKSBURG Home Kitchen Published by The Public School Auxiliary of fredericksburg, texas First Edition 1916 Second Edition Revised and Enlarged 1921 OFFICERS FOR 1920 to 1921 MRS. H. M. HARRINGTON, President MRS. VICTOR KEIDEL, Vice-President MRS. F. J. MAIER, Secretary MISS ZULA MAE HILL, Treasurer MAR 11 1921 §>CtA611078 PREFACE. The second edition of this book has been compiled in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the town of Fredericksburg, and is lovingly dedicated by the Fredericksburg Public School Auxiliary, to those sturdy Pioneers, whose indomitable spirit and energy have transformed a bit of Texas wilderness, into a place of peaceful abode and prosperity. COOKING AND CULTURE ON THE PEDERNALES The rolling prairie dripping with the violent torrential rains of Texas or seared and parched a dry and cracking brown by summers' drouth, the sparkling rivers with their sombre cypress borders or shady groves of walnut and pecan — know only woodland sounds of birds and beast that seek their cooling shelter, taste of the purling waters, browse on the succulent herbs and grasses or prey upon the weaker of their kind. The nomad Indian prowls along these peaceful haunts, brings to earth the wild turkey with his bow and arrow, prepares the feast over the open fire and devours it resting on his haunches. After the meal he smokes his soothing "Calumet", its brown leaves, prairie-yielded. He teaches the stripling redskin how to fell the bison — to prepare the deadly arrow with the venom of the viper, — all his lore is slaying — slaying, for food, for shelter, for revenge, or conquest. The first blow of the ax — tocsin of human progress. The pioneer has come to clear the land and build his rough log cabin. In the spacious fire-place swings the iron kettle with his rude trappers' fare; he rears a stalwart race, steeled to hard labor, untaught, unlettered save for the woodland crafts, the hunt, the stream or skirmishings with Indian neighbors. In homespun cloth, astride on shaggy ponies, the lads and lasses wend their way to the log schoolhouse on the hillock, summoned by the peal of the forefather of all Texas school-bells. The master cloaks his lack of learning under greater sterness, the text-book playing second fiddle to the ferrule. Homes on the first thanksgiving can boast of bounteous cupboards; the hardest years are past and there is time for feast and song, for ease and plenty. Thru snowy cotton fields, acres of corn and grain, traverse two tiny lines of steel on a ribbed bed of logs and the day at last has come that the last pegis to be put into the iron trail — a happy consummation !

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