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Wednesday, January 5,2022
dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 3A
FOOO/BY ANNE BYRN PHILLIPS
Lost and found
Library trip yields vintage recipes
By Julia Fechter
jfechter@dawsonnews.com
Dawson-area resident
Denise Ray only had to search
as far as the local library to
find culinary curios. During a
trip to the Dawson County
Library’s main campus several
months ago, she found two
weathered recipe binders that
would lead her on a quaint
culinary adventure.
For Ray, she had developed
a natural curiosity for these
kinds of collections.
“Being a reporter [for
Smoke Signals], I have this
innate curiosity, and I had to
act on this,” she said.
The two bound photo albums
had film pages under which
there were adhesive parts to
stick on pictures of food. That
told her the assemblages
weren’t recent, that they had
come from someone older.
And her curiosity kept com
pelling her to periodically take
another look and then another
at the various contents.
She found scrumptious-look
ing recipes, such as a tomato-
based casserole or jelly omelet.
Some of the old printed and
handwritten recipes bore dates
from the 1950s or 1960s.
Based on the amount of
handwritten instructions, Ray
estimated that friends, church
members, relatives and others
could have contributed recipes
to the binders’ prior owner.
Many of the printed pages
appeared to come ripped out of
magazines and even newspa
pers, like ones from Atlanta. It
wasn’t unusual for those recipe
pages to have vintage ads for
cigars, furniture or cheap
dresses.
She said her family members
were “guinea pigs” for her
culinary experiments, some
which went better than others.
The tomato-based casserole
sounded delectable, with its
title ingredients as well as
spinach, mushrooms and
cheese. After that attempt, Ray
said the recipe would likely
'Back in the
1960s, they cer
tainly used a lot
more sugar and
flour/
Denise Ray
Dawson-area resident
turn out better with fresh
tomatoes in the summer.
She’s also enjoyed looking
at ingredients and “seeing how
far we’ve come with being
health-conscious.”
“Back in the 1960s, they cer
tainly used a lot more sugar
and flour,” she said.
Photos submitted to Dawson County News
Denise Ray found scrumptious-looking recipes, such as this tomato-based casserole or jelly
omelet, during her trip to the Dawson County Library. She said her family members were
"guinea pigs" for her culinary experiments.
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Summer's Treat
T omatoes are their absolute best
sliced, dabbed with good olive
oil and topped with freshly
ground black pepper and minced
fresh basil. Or served atop crisp fried
bacon and lettuce, also from the gar
den, on bread spread with homemade
mayonnaise. Or stuffed with creamed
spinach, topped with Parmesan
cheese and run under the broiler. Or
simply sliced, topped with herb-garlic
cheese, heated through and served
alongside grilled chicken.
The tomato is a native of tropical
America. It is a fruit, although most
people prepare it as a vegetable. It
was introduced into Europe as the
“love apple” in the 16th century, but
folks in the United States didn’t eat it
until 1835 because they thought it
was poisonous. It is an excellent
source of vitamins A and C.
Tomato Pie
Serves 6
Pastry for a 9-inch pie shell
2 medium ripe tomatoes
1 pound lean ground beef
Vi cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon oregano leaves,
crumbled
1 teaspoon salt
V4 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper
4 eggs, lightly beaten
lYt cups milk, scalded
2 tablespoons plain dry bread
crumbs
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Place pastry in a 9-inch pie pan.
Turn under edge and flute. Prick bot
tom and sides with a fork. Partially
bake for 10 minutes; remove from
oven and set aside.
Core tomatoes and cut into Yi-
inch-thick slices; cut each slice in half
and set aside. In a large skillet brown
meat and onion 5 minutes. Drain off
fat and add oregano, salt and black
pepper. Cook and stir 2 minutes. Re
move from heat.
In a medium bowl, beat eggs
with milk. Stir in meat mixture and
mix well. Sprinkle bread crumbs
evenly over crust. Arrange half of the
tomato slices over crumbs. Pour egg-
meat mixture into shell. Bake for 20
minutes. Arrange remaining tomato
slices over top in an overlapping pat
tern. Bake until custard sets, about 10
minutes longer.
Baked Spinach and Tomatoes
Serves 4 to 6
2 packages (10 ounces each)
frozen leaf spinach, cooked
according to directions
1 tablespoon lemon juice
V4 cup sour cream
V4 pound fresh mushrooms
2 tablespoons butter
2 large ripe tomatoes
5 to 6 tablespoons grated
Cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper to
taste
Thin slices of mozzarella
cheese
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Sprinkle cooked spinach with lemon
juice and stir in sour cream. Set aside.
If mushrooms are small, leave them
whole. If large, remove stems and
quarter heads. Melt butter in a skillet
and saute mushrooms for 5 minutes,
just enough to soften. Fold into spin
ach. Slice tomatoes about Y* inch
thick. Put half spinach-mushroom
mixture into a 114-quart casserole.
Sprinkle lightly with grated’CEeddarT'
Cover with a layer of tomato slices,
half of the salt, a few gratings of pep
per and more cheese. Repeat layers,
using all the tomatoes and all cheese.
Top with enough mozzarella to seal.
Bake for about 30 minutes or until
vegetables bubble and mozzarella is
golden. From American Food, by
Evan Jones. ■
Ray enjoyed looking at ingredients and "seeing how far
we've come with being health-conscious."
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Numerous ads, like this one for former department store
Davison's, were included with the collection of decades-old
recipes.
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Man booked after drugs
found in car compartment
By Julia Fechter
jfechter@dawsonnews.com
While ingenuity in other
areas is generally
praised, one man
now faces the exact
opposite after his
alleged attempt to
hide and sell drugs
went awry.
Matthew David
Kelley, 47, of
Winder, was arrest
ed by the Dawson County
Sheriff’s Office last
Thursday, Dec. 23, and
charged with six criminal
offenses related to his vehi
cle and supposed drug traf
ficking.
Kelley got one felony
count each for possession
of a controlled substance;
trafficking in methamphet-
amine/amphet-
amines; having a
vehicle containing
a false or secret
compartment and
possession of a
firearm during
commission of a
crime.
He received mis
demeanors for drug related
objects and failure to main
tain lane. He was stopped
by a DCSO deputy near the
intersection of Ga. 9 and
Dawson Forest Road just
after noontime on Dec. 23.
According to one war
rant, Kelley allegedly hid
six ounces of methamphet-
amine in his rear driver-
side drink holder, which
had been converted into a
concealed compartment.
Kelley also had on his
person an alleged 11 pills
that were suspected to be
amphetamine, a generic
prescription for Adderall,
stated a second warrant.
Kelley likewise supposedly
had a black scale to mea
sure drugs, according to a
third warrant.
Kelley is currently being
held at the Dawson County
Detention Center with no
bond.
Kelley
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Mother caught with large
amount of weed in car
By Julia Fechter
jfechter@dawsonnews.com
Authorities recently put one
woman behind bars after appre
hending her with a notable amount
of one drug.
Jessica Melody Williams, 26, of
Dawsonville, was arrested by the
Dawson County Sheriff’s Office
on Dec. 21 and charged with possessing 21
grams of marijuana with intent to distrib
ute, a felony. She also received charges for
having drug-related objects and DUIs spe
cific to drugs and endangering a child
under 14 years of age.
She also got DCSO citations for
no insurance, speeding and her
child not being restrained in a safe
ty seat.
A deputy stopped Williams
around 8:30 p.m. near the area of
Ga. 400 southbound and
Marketplace Way. The marijuana
was found in several sealed plastic
bags apparently ready for distribu
tion, alleged one warrant.
Another warrant stated Williams had a
glass pipe containing burnt marijuana in
her car, as well as a metal grinder with raw
marijuana in it.
Her bond was set at $1,300.
Williams
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Animals
disorderly house.
Dawson County
Sheriff’s Office deputies
noted pet urine, fecal mat
ter and blood on the
home’s indoor surfaces,
according to two warrants.
The ducks and chickens
were being housed in a
substandard outdoor struc
ture lacking running
water, with sewage runoff
flowing from the home
toward the poultry birds.
For context,
Hutcherson added that
this is the first animal
recovery of its kind in his
several years with the
nonprofit.
“I talked to some of the
long-timers [with the
nonprofit], and nobody
can remember anything
of this magnitude,”
Hutcherson said.
Brown has been
released. Ellen Elizabeth
Latka, 57; Billy Ray
Mills, 60, and Brian
Keith John Petty, 52, have
not been released on bond
for their drug-specific
offenses.
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