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"TAKE A LION To School" pro-
motion by National Coney Island
has students given the chance to
bring a Detroit Lions football player
to their classroom ... Ballots and
rules will be at all National Coney
Island locales beginning Thursday,
Aug. 24 ... with drawing dates
Thursday, Aug. 31, and Wednesdays,
Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27.
RECIPE REQUEST DEPT. ...
From Bernice Tender ...for that deli-
cious Cream of Morel soup at the
Golden Mushroom ... Here 'tis,
thanks to the fine-dining restaurant
... Serves four ... 1/2 cup butter, 1/3
cup chopped onions, 1/2 cup flour,
1 bay leaf, 4 cups good and hot
chicken broth, pinch of salt, pinch
of nutmeg, 2 teaspoons butter, 1/2
pound fresh morel mushrooms
chopped finely (domestic mush-
rooms may be substituted), 1 egg
yolk, 1/2 cup whipping cream ...
Melt 112 cup butter in a one-quart,
heavy-bottomed sauce pan (prefer-
ably enameled or stainless steel),
add onions and cook slowly until
onions are transparent. Add the
flour, stir over low heat for three
minutes, and add the chicken broth
and seasoning. Whip until all lumps
are dissolved. Bring to boil, simmer
slowly for 20 minutes, strain ...
Heat a large skillet and add the but-
ter and morels. Cook over medium
heat until morels turn gray, but do
not brown. Add to soup and simmer
10 minutes more. Just before serv-
ing, heat soup up to the boiling
point. In a separate, large bowl, mix
yolk with cream. Start adding hot
soup, whipping steadily with a wire
whisk. When half of soup is added,
pour it all back into the remaining
soup in the saucepan. DO NOT
BOIL (it will curdle). Serve imme-
diately.
PLANNING A TRIP to France?
... Take heed of the one about an
American wine importer consulting
the wine list at an inn in the chateau
district of France, and being sur-
prised to note that the wines of poor
years were priced very much higher
than those .of good years ... "It is for
your compatriots, who usually know
nothing about wines," the proprietor
explained readily. "Always they order
the most expensive. So we sell them
our poor wine — and save the best
for our regular clients." ... (Happens
here, too.)
TYPO, ERRATA, ETC. Dept.....
Recent hole-in-oner at Knollwood
Country Club, Aaron Berg, is 86 years
old, not 89. ❑

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4189 Orchard Lake Road
Orchard Lake

248-865-0000
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