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Arts & Culture
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Funky
fondue
for frugal
foodies
EAT, PRINT,
LOVE
AnnaAxelson
^Co-Editor-in-Ghief
Black light posters, beaded
curidiib ut den» furnjiuie and
sitar music isn’t the only way .
to enjoy a retro classic meal o f .
molten cheese, dippable delights
and diners armed with long, tiny,
pronged forks. Nor is it required
to trek out to Gustav’s or the
Melting Pot, unless you. truly
feel like spending your hard
earned financial aid dollars on
a gourmet take and ambiance.
Believe it or not, there’s an
easy and affordable way to have..
your friends clamor-around a
warmed carafe o f oozing good
ness for an interactive entree;
luckily Eat, Print, Love is to the
rescue with an amazingly easy
recipe for you to give a taste.
X u n k x i V o rv d u e
2-3 cans Cheddar cheese soup
1-2 small blocks of cheese*
3-5 cloves of garlic
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1/4 tsp mustard powder •
salt and pepper (to taste)
milk (as needed)
* •
* While any o f the usual suspects
will do swimmingly with this recipe <
(cheddar, Swiss, Monterey jack,
mozzarella, pepper jack), i t ’s algo a
chance to pay a visit to somewhere
like Grocer)' ■Outlet that occasion
allyfeatures several less traditional
cheeses at a cost considerably less
than most local super markets such
as havarti and feta.
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Luke Frank
Associate Arts & Culture
VunJajj Vorcciui6'PippabLe&i *; /
French, rye and wheat bread, j§
pretzels, soft pretzels,
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crackfer$, chips, croutons,, ; -
LiV Smokies. kietbasa, salami,
- black olives,
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apples
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much anything and everything you
could possibly want to dmwn.wttfi~
in your creamy, cheesy concoction, •
In a midsize sauce pan o r;
even a small slow cooker, free
the cheddar cheese soup bom
its tin confines and slowly stir in j
roughly half a urn o f milk gar
lic and mustard powder. Warm
over medium heat - do not let it
boil and stir frequently. Once the
soup has warmed through,'add
roughly half the cheese (shred-
ded or small cubes m ake 'the/
melting process easier) and con
tinue stirring until cheese has
reached creamy goodness.
Using the additional shred
ded or cubed cheese and bal-
ancing it with a tablespoon at a
time o f milk, stir until reaching
a slight elasticity, adding more
milk if it begins to resemble
something more suiting to a
pizza topping, and adding more
cheese if it’s too thin to coat a
spoon when dipped.
Using a small chunk o f
bread (best if left open for a
few hours to get a little’ crispy
and better able to withstand tire
drenching power o f the dip),
sample your brew, adding salt
and pepper to taste.
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At this point, it’s alt about
keeping ifw arm while people
are chowing down, it’s time to
transfer your molten mix into a
classic fondue pot, traditionally
either electric or perched above
a candle or Stemo can. If using
a slow cooker, the crock pot can
easily just be transferred to the
dining room table as a center
piece and you’re good to go.
Break out the fondue folks
and pile all your dippables into
bowls, platters or straight from
the package and let your friends i
loose.
Part o f the frm o f fondue
is the convention,' i he rules
First, don’t double dip. Next,
be mindful o f dripping. Last
and most important, don’t drop
your dippable into the cheese
(consequences may vary based
on your social circle),
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when it Was built in the mid
For now, the Francis Ermatinger house sits empty, but there are plans to
1800s. The house has been moved a few different times and i f Oregon has
currently closed because o f thé bad shape and is not structurally sound.
“The Clearing” is what they
called it/ though we all know
it now as the city of Portland.
Oregon’s biggest city could have
between the U.S. and England
had forced the company to move
to British Columbia, thus ending
its influence in the Oregon City
area. Ermatinger’s wife Catherine
and their daughter Francis Marie
followed him to Canada in 1848
reuniting their family.
Kutfi ’Pow'ersf weirknow n" for
easily been called Boston, but for her passion of saving historic
buildings in Oregon, was instru
a flip of a simple penny.
That toss might have happened mental in the effort to find, save,
in the Francis Ermatinger House. and move the Ermatinger house.
It is rumored to have occurred in Powers bought the house and
the parlor of the home during a property in 1977 and for various
discussion of who had the privi reasons, the house could not be
lege of naming the then prospec moved until 1986.
“She was on a senior adult mis
tive town. Best two out of three
wins resulted in “The Clearing” sion to preserve as many historic
being named Portland, after homes in Oregon as she could,”
Francis Pettygrove’s hometown said Harding. “Her objective was
Portland, Maine, rather than Asa to establish it [the Ermatinger
Lovejoy’s hometown of Boston, House] as a museum.”
Originally built near the Arch
Mass.
The now famous penny resides Bridge, it was moved in 1910
in the Oregon Historical Society when the downtown area was tran
Museum. It was minted in 1835 sitioning from a mostly residential
as a copper one cent piece. Now presence to a more commercial
known as the Portland Penny, the ized and industrialized area. The
coin is as important historically building was moved again in 1986
as the Ermatinger house is, to from 1018 Center Street, to its
Portland, and Oregon City as well. current home near the comer of
The main portion of die house 6th and John Adams.
Rocky Smith, Jr., Oregon City
was built between late 1843 or
early 1844 and maybe even in Commissioner, has an obvious
1845 - depending on who you interest in the historic landmark.
“It was on a hillside right next
talk to - by Dr. John McLoughlin,
then the Chief Factor of the to a cliff, [and the house] had
Columbia District of the Hudson’s a wraparound porch that wasn’t
Bay Company, for Ermatinger consistent with the look and feel
and McLoughlin’s granddaughter of the building,” said Smith. “Two
years ago we thought the house
Catherine Sinclair.
Marge Harding, of the Oregon would fall apart and would never
City Heritage Coordinating be fixed.”
“It’s a lot of work, but it’s also
Committee explains the discrep
very exciting because we know
ancies.
“There is no documented date we’re going to save the house,”
on when the house was built,” said Smith continued.
When the house was moved
Harding. “What is known is that
the house was built for Ermatinger to the site in 1910 it was put on a
as the head of the HBC store here foundation that wasn’t consistent
with the way it was originally
in Oregon City.”
The house has been added to built. That was one of several
many times over the years, mostly reasons the home was moved in
for historically unknown reasons, 1986. Compound that with the
but each addition was saved along home being placed by a cliff and
with the original building when it in a poor location, you have the
was moved first in 1910. It was reasons why the building was
moved to its present location.
moved again in 1986.
The Ermatinger house is
Ermatinger, an employee of
the HBC, lived in this house for Clackamas County’s oldest house,
about a year until he was trans and is one of Oregon’s oldest
ferred to Canada when the com surviving buildings according to
pany shut down the community Brandon Hartle of the Historic
store in 1846. Territorial disputes Preservation League of Oregon.
old paint chips, surviving wallpa
per, and historic pictures in order
to restore the houses interior to
the condition that it was in from
1845 to 1854, as the home has
been extensively modified in the
167 years the house has been in
existence.
The aim of the’ restoration of
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saved for the history of the state.” the Ermatinger house is to recre
Suggestions for the monetary ate its appearance from- when it
upkeep for the home range from was built until Ermatinger’s death
a small coffee shop, to renovating in 1858 when the home was sold.
According to Smith, the total
a few of the rooms to accommo
date office space while keeping its cost for the rejuvenation of the
Ermatinger house could cost as
integrity as a historical structure.
“We haven’t done any market much as $600,000 with approxi
studies and we haven’t figured mately $420,000 of those funds
out what it should be, but it’s got being raised so far.
As of now, there is no real way
to be pertinent if there’s going to
be public money poured into it,” the community in general can con
tribute to the funds that are needed
said Hartle.
Christina Robertson-Gardiner, to restore the Ermatinger House.
Oregon
City’s Community The city of Portland has contrib
Development planner, states that uted a considerable amount of
the plans for the renovation of the funds towards the project, as has
Ermatinger House are extensive. the city of Oregon City and other
There have been studies on the agencies.
This most important building is on
the Historic Preservation League
of Oregon’s list of Oregon’s Most
Endangered Places for 2011.
“Since 1986 almost no money
has been put into the building,”
said Hartle. “We see this around
the state. We call this /demolition
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