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INVITING IDEAS |—
Surprise Mom with Shaker breakfast
style, but oh that morning meal!
Mother's Day week- The Shaker breakfast buffet includes
end seemed the perfect an assortment of fruit juices, fresh
time of year to go to . fruits, warmed fruit compotes, cold
Shaker Village' in
Pleasant Hill. Ky., at
least in the years when
mothering became a
part of my own experience.
If you know much
about the Shakers, you
RUTH know that they were a
HOSSOK JOHNSTON religious group, a
branching off of the
Quakers, followers that
found solace, contentment, productivity,
and a fervor for god in their cloistered
communal settings. Here in these
enclaves, where all men and women
lived like brothers and sisters, not husbands
and wives - seems a funny set-
- ting for the perfect Mother's Day, but
it's not.
Kentucky is beautiful this time of
year - a few weeks ahead of us in
greenery - it's warmth, blue grass, dogwoods,
redbuds, and stone fences seem
to go on forever. Besides the beauty, the
historic component, and the fabulous
Shaker antique collection, guests experience
actual lodging in this museum.
Three meals a day are served in the
19th century Trustees' house - family
f
the menu. Shaker Town always serves
scrambled eggs, you could do poached
eggs with a hollandaise sauce or an
"omelet filled with spring veggies. Add to
cereals, grits, scrambled eggs, sausage your tray a fruit compote or freshly
patties, bacon, hot biscuits and squash sliced fruit.
muffins right out of the oven. All of the Start your preparation early in the
recipes are traditional. If going to Shak- morning, the wonderful kitchen smells
er Town in Pleasant Hills sounds like a will surely permeate the house. Break-
great weekend getaway, call (606) 734- fast in bed is a perfect way to start
5"411 to make your reservations. If Mother's Day.
going for a seven hour drive each way Here are a few simple Shaker recipes
in the car with your kids i$ not your to try. They come from the official publi-
idea of the ideal Mother's Day, how cation at Pleasant Hill - "We Make You
about a gourmet Shaker breakfast in Kindly Welcome," by Elizabeth C. Kre-
bed. It can be prepared by dad or the mer. (copyright 1970).
kids - it can even be done for a special SHAKER SQUASH MUFFINS
aunt or beloved grandma.
1 cup cooked mashed squash
Prepare a tray or lap board by cover- (canned pumpkin is acceptable)
ing it with a simple white plifce mat or 3/4 cup brown sugar
make a place mat and decorate it with
the Shaker Tree of Live. You could use
1/4 cup molasses
markers, paints or construction paper. 1/2 cup soft butter
Add to your bed tray a clean, crisp, 1 beaten egg
white linen napkin. As the Shakers 1 3/4 cup flour
used simplicity as their foundation, 1 teaspoon baking soda
keep the decorating down to a mini- 1 teaspoon salt
mum, put your efforts into the food.
1/4 cup chopped pecans
Traditional Shaker fare is reminiscent
of those old English roots, heavy Cook, drain and mash squash to the
on the dough products - lots of muffins, consistency of mashed potatoes.
breads and sweet buns. Pick some of
mom's favorites for breakfast to add to
Cream sugar, molasses and butter; add
egg and squ£feh and blend well. Mix flour
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with baking soda and salt; beat this mixture
into the squash batter. Fold in
pecans.
Fill well-greased muffin pans about
half full with batter; bake at 375 degrees
F. for 20 minutes. Makes 1 1/4 dozen
muffins.
BISCUITS _i
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
9 tablespoons sweet milk
3 tablespoons shortening
Sift dry ingredients. Cut shortening
into flour. Make a well in the center of the
flour and put milk into the well. Stir until
the dough cleans the bowl - not over 1/2
minute. Knead dough 1/2 minute. Pat it
out on a floured surface to about 1/2-inch
thick or to desired thickness.
Cut with 2-inch biscuit cutter. Bake at
425 degrees F. for 10 minutes or until
golden brown. The cooked biscuits (cooled)
can be stored in a tin or frozen and used
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Ruth Mossok Johnston of Franklin is
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