European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 20 the stars and stripes Tiila by Leah Larkin staff writer preparing mexican food in a boy Kitchen in Ger Many requires improvisation and plus some garlic and for Lilia making a Batch of Eho Lupari or is just not As easy As it was Back at Kelly fab in Texas where she was four years but the Safe Secretary will overcome any obstacle for the pleas ure of cooking the dishes of her native i love to Cook for she they invite me to their Homes to for its a i get a whole even in the boy she can put together impressive mexican recently she took a Day off to make Indian retried Beans and Spanish Rice for a Gold away Ortillo is the Basic ingredient in mexican she says As she shapes some com flour dough into a then she proceeds to demonstrate How easy it is la you just add water to com when you can shape it into a Ball that Doest stick to your you have the right then you Are ready to shape toe Tor Garcia has her own invention or that she want satisfied using a Tortilla press became the shape of the Tortilla want always the Way she liked it so she thought about the perfect Tortilla and what it would take to make it then she set off to the Hobby she told a Young Man there what she he agreed to make it for her if she would teach his wife How to make Lilia Garcias Tortilla maker is a strip of aluminium mounted on a circular piece of a piece of plastic is placed on the Circle and the Ball of dough on top of the its not some kind of Tambourine its Llella Garcias to Tiffa the dough is covered with another piece of slightly moist then rolled the plastic is As is the dough extending Over the Edge of the what remains is the Tortilla ready to be the mexican Cook is so pleased with her invention that she went through Legal Chan Nels to protect she also even wrote to the company that produces the Corn flour she suggesting they manufacture her Handy Tortilla they were not she was but not enough to quit turning out batches of the mexican Pancake that is used in so Many living Over you have to learn to invent and she her Indian pie recipe Calls for fresh since its not readily Avail Able in she substitutes canned usually she decorates the pie with but the Day she was making pies Lor the she bad forgotten to buy to add the decorative she made Poinsettia blossoms out of Liny pieces of Pimento and bits of Green Garcia believes if food is it tastes she makes a special Effort to make it look who cares if its ill make poinsettias anyway i like to be Origi Nal and do things no matter How she makes her mexican people seem to like in an ambassador of Good will for my people taste the they like and then they say  go to thais exactly what i whether or not you want to go to you May want to try some of her Indian a Rich is a speciality from the state of Oaxaca and e of her one Indian pie you have to learn to invent and says Lilia t com tortillas Fried in Oil if you dont want to make your canned or Frozen tortillas Are available in the 4 cup of Corn several Tablespoons Tomato sauce Garcia makes the sauce Orinc fresh Tomato chopped Salt and cup onion slices cub chopped Green Pepper 3 Chicken boiled in water with garlic and then shredded i Cap shredded Moi Arella cheese Heap sour Cream 8 stuffed sliced Combine onions and Green Pepper and lightly in a pie or cake place four cover with some Tomato add then vegetal sour Cream and cover with tour More put several spoons full of Tomato sauce on the Garnish with More shredded cheese and sliced bake at 300 degrees for 30 serve serves 4 to Spanish Rice and retried Beans Are Stan Dard mexican to make Cook Pinto Beans very usually about three until chopped garlic and Salt May be added to cooking when the Beans Are Mash As you would to then Fry in let them Cool and Fry the Beans Are often served with torts chips and shredded Spanish Rice is prepared by frying Rice in Oil until Golden add chopped Tomato and water or Chicken season with garlic Salt and cumin to Cook for one half covering the pot for the last five a tasty favorite combining a Ortillo and Chalupa i i tort Ilku Fried Taou util Crisp 14 cops retried 1h cups shredded cheese i sliced 4 leaves of lettuce spread each Tortilla with retried add shredded then lettuce and Tomato May be garnished with Avo Cado slices or olives if a group of women at luncheon recently were in hysterics Over a letter that was being passed As it turned it was a letter from a daughter inlaw addressed to a new grand Mother inlaw regarding her forthcoming baby sitting the letter was six pages the first two paragraphs were Given Over to social amenities and the time of from then it wits a steady Lut of please add More lights for changing crib and bumper the last it was four boxes of daytime diapers for a 19 Pound by Erma Bombick at wits end 1 gallon skim make sure the Date is recent for plenty of moisturized towels and Plas tic bags for dirty bottles May be washed in the dish nipples and Caps must be done by push water through Hole in nipple to make sure it Phi Soderm Vanilla ice two plastic pails and Large Basket for commercial Washer and dryer May be no pets in room being occupied by the phone must be off the Hook while baby is rectal thermometer should be shaken Down after each using and stored in Alco do not place crib under keep toys in plastic bag when not being Sprinkle baby powder on hands and not directly on area to be and so it we All laughed and finally i Shes putting Yon int she she Shook her when the baby was born she be sure to put your hand behind his head to support when there first born they cant support them 1 told that when my son was born he weighed 157 pounds and could dribble a what Are you going to do asked one of the what every grandmother in going out and buy four boxes of daytime diapers for a 19pound Phi Soderm two plastic a nipple and it pounds of Cotton swab Sticks to clean out two ears and two she folded the letter carefully and it seems like a lot of fiddling around for a baby staying cd 1117 Fum