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feage Eighteen '.V-: S2ill",wsw:'s"^ fr >-*?;* - ' s i'*^f VV?' 4 > THE McHENRYPLAINDEAliR it) tirsday, Ociober 25, 1958 Election Day Cake - A Traditional IVeat - - ®H:SSBK?S« liiiili _ 4? S 'Election Day cakes originated in Hartford in the 1830's. They were served at the taverns and in private homes around election time. Why irbt revive this excellent custom when you entertain guests while waiting for the returns this November. ELECTION DAY CAKE 1%. cups warm, not hot, water • (lukewarm for compressed yeast) 2 teaspoons sug-ar. 2 packages or cakes yeast, active wry tor cbmpressed 4%4 cups sifted enriched flour % cup margarine or butter l'^4 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon salt . 1 % teaspoons cinnamon teaspoon nutmeg Vi teaspoon allspice 1 ^4 cups dried currants 34 cup chopped nuts Vi cup chopped citron Measure water into a mixing bow) (warm, not hot, for active dry yeast; lukewarm tor compressed)..Add and stir in 2 teaspoons sugar. Sprinkle or crumble in yeast; stir until dissolved. Add 1 Ms cups of the flour and beat well. Cover with a cloth and let rise in a warm place, free from draft, until very bubbly, SO minutes.,Cream margarine or butter with brown sugar. Add and beat in eggs. Combine with bubbly yeast mixture. Sift together salt, spices and remaining 3 mps flour, and idid to yeast mixture. Beat until smooth. Use mixer or beat by hand. Add and stir in fruits and nuts. Turn into a greased, lightly floured 10-inch tube pan. Cover with a cloth. Let rise in a warm place, free from draft, uptil doubled in bulk, about hours. Bake at 375°F. (moderate oven) for I hour. Coo) cake in pans & minutes. Turn out on cake rake. Cool. votes. In 1840 these political meetings were at their height in the log cabin and hard cider campaign of William Henry Harrison --at; Albany the Whigs raised a log cabin and -feasted on corn bread, cheese and hard cider; at Columbus, Ohio, there was ginger cake, hoe cake and bacon to accompany the cider. The Harrisonites of Wheeling, Va., were reputed to have entertained 30,000 visitors at their rally. To feed this horde, hospitable Wheelingites provided a public table with 360 hams, 26 sheep, 20 calves, 1,500 pounds of beef, 8,000 potinds of (bread, over 1,000 pounds of cheese and 4,500 pies! An interesting description of a Democratic barbecue in Walntrt Lick, Ky., in 1844- is found in "Rafting on the Alleghany and Ohio," the- dairy of Henry Baxter: "From (Mr. O'Hara) we had the whole history of Whiggery and Democracy . . . We then adjourned to dinner which is the first of the kind I ever was at. Here five or six ditches dug two and a half feet deep, and about as wide, in which had been' bliflt fires, which when burned down to coals, they had put over their quarters of veal and mutton upon CAMPAIGN FOOD SPECIALS WARS AGO RECALLED Treating, Popular In Colonial Days, Helped At Polls The fun and excitement of an election in early America, and the prospect of plentiful refresh^ ments helped to bring many voters to the polls. "Treating" was traditional in colonial days, particularly in the South, and candidates were expected to supply food and drink for all. In 1758, when &eorge Washington was running for a seal 'iff the House pf Burgess, his .agent distributed rum punch, beer, wine, cider and cakes. . But when the victorious candidate arranged for payment of the bill, he Wote: "I hope that no exceptions were ' taken to any that voted against - me but all were alike treated and all had enough; it is what I much desired." When the practice of electioneering "on - a large scale began to take shape in the early 19th century parades, barbeciSe^-g6?e raisings and dinners became indispensable features of every campaign. One observer in 1811 described electioneering as a certain suavity of manners employed by candidates for popular favor: "It consists in a certain peculiar shake of the hand called by our farmer^ the electioneering shake, (and) in purchasing brandy and drinking with the people . . . " Lamuel Sawyer, successful Congressional candidate from North Carolina in 1825 admitted that he had won the election with the aid of "white ruin, melons and gingerbread." As party organization came to play a large part in political campaigns, public barbecues grew in popularity as a means of getting WORWICK'S Camera Center Cameras Photographic Equipment Amateur and Professional Bought, Sold and Exchanged PHOTO SUPPLIES View Masters and Reels ' Color Films Processed ..Family Albums See Us Before Yon Buy Worwick's Studio 117 N. Stverside ©rive PHONE McHENRY 275 ' ALEXANDER LUMBIi CO. spits of wood. Pork was also over the (ire in the same way. Further on was a table about two hundred feet long of rough boards, strewed from end to end with the roasted meat and bread . . . " Also writing of Kentucky,' Alvin ;Harlow in "Weep No More My Lady" tells abdut that state's favorite campaign specialty--burgoo: "You couldn't call it a Grade A political rally in Kentucky in other days unless there was a barbecue or a mess of burgoo . . . originated is lost in mystery (but) there are almost as many ways of making it as there are Kentuckians. The idea of most burgoo makers is to put in everything but the kitchen stove." Remembering one of Kentucky's famous > burgoo makers, Harlow continues: "Into a little 1,200gallon mess of burgoo for an,ordinary political rally Jim puts 600 pounds, of beef, 200 pounds of chickens, a ton, no less, of potatoes, 840 pounds of canned tomatoes, and smaller but still colossal quantities of onions, cabbage, carrots and corn. " 'In season' he adds twelve dozen squirrels. Red pepper, salt, and a dash of a mysterious condiment which he himself prepares complete the heavenly brew, and it is cooked fifteen or twenty hours/' In the North, election calces and clambakes proved popular with voters in old time political contests. As one newspaper wrote before , Whig candidate Henry Clay arrived for a visit in 1844: Money is scarce up this way, but if full cribs, fat smokehouses and flowing cellars will aid, just tell the feeding committee to serve up such a bill of fare as they want." 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Stratton in a special ceremony in the. state office building here accepted for the public schools the award of excellence, a bronze plaque emblematic of the top - ranking award in the national program. Oh behalf of the private and parochial schools, Gov. Stratton accepted a special citation recognizing superior progress in the driver education field. Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. F. Cunningham, superi n t e n d e n t , archdiocesan school board; represented these schools. Presentation was made by John A. " Naghten'of Chicago, executive vice-president of Illinois Association Of Insurance Agents. Gov. 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