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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
3
A homemaker guide details fruit pies and pastries with step by step electric oven temperatures and times. Recipes include apple pie with syrup filling, deep plum pie, peach tarts, glazed peach tartlets, elderberry criss cross pie, and a bran pastry crust option.
In a farm column the author notes spring tractors, summer mowers, and threshing noise mark seasons while labor shortages strain threshing. He laments self reliance, hopes for farmer cooperation, and recalls old bees. Roosters and chickens provide comic relief before buyers shrink the flock.
Mrs Violet Lillico of Vancouver is Canada's only woman tea taster and importer who blends and distributes teas across British Columbia and Alberta. She learned the craft after her husband died two years ago and describes judging tea by dry leaf, aroma, and the color and strength of the brew amid wartime rationing.
German forces in Denmark face sabotage actions disrupting railways signals towers and bridges between Aarhus and Wanders. Danish resistance targets German patrol stations and supply ships while the occupation army struggles with food lines and damaged infrastructure amid ongoing aerial and naval sabotage.
A fragment describes whipping into richness for dishes and hints at adding nastardum leaves for flavor in cheese sandwiches, with a note about aliced cucumbers. The text appears as a partial vintage recipe excerpt.
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