In addition to today's holidays, Ohio is also celebrating "Sweet Corn Festival"
SWEET CORN MUFFINS
1 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. yellow cornmeal
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter, melted
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1/2 c. milk
1/2 tsp. corn syrup
Mix first 6 ingredients. Combine eggs, milk, and syrup separately. Mix the flour mixture and the milk mixture together. Grease muffin tins and fill each cup 1/2 full of batter.
Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until brown at 450 degrees.
Dumb Ohio Laws:
In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $25.00.
Women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public.
It is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday.
It is illegal to get a fish drunk.
The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car.
Participating or conducting a duel is prohibited.
It is illegal for more than five women to live in a house.
It is illegal to mistreat anything of great importance.
Owners of tigers must notify authorities within one hour if the tiger escapes.
No one may be arrested on Sunday or on the Fourth of July.
In Columbus,
It is illegal for stores to sell corn flakes on Sunday.