Paper Bag Cake Recipes From Martha McCulloch Williams
A historical excerpt presents paper bag cooking for plum cake and multiple recipes for President's Fruit Cake, silver cake, and gold cake. It describes ingredients including butter, sugar, eggs, flour, raisins, citron, almonds, pecans, spices, and flavorings like rosewater and brandy, with bake and steam methods and paper bag molds.
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Martha McCulloch Williams
White House
W. H. Wilson
Nashville
Tenn
Els
Pie making by bag baking and rich custards from 1911
The article extols baking pies in paper bags to improve crusts and flavor. It describes making bag liners, M. Soyer style pastry, and a lard based dough, plus dumplings and tartlets. It covers mince pumpkin applet custards and sweet potato custards with step by step instructions and quantities.
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M. Soyer
Associated Literary Press
A Woman of Her Word at Last Finds Love on Farm
Elisha Ridgeway, a lifelong bachelor, contemplates marriage to Nancy Baker after years of waiting. She tests his resolve with a series of delays, only to be saved by her own misfortune and a thunderstorm that compel her to drop the plan to wait and wed at last.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
U. S
Elisha Ridgeway
Baker
Elisha
Nancy
Lisha
Noop
Whippoorwills
Sarah Jones
Nancy Baker
Jim
Lish
Agin
Widow Baker
Tisha Ridgeway
Tisha
Caer Pudding a la Munich and Genoise Paste Recipe
A 1911 culinary instruction by Nicolas Soyer describes Caer Pudding a la Munich layering stale bread with butter golden syrup currants sultanas lemon peel and nutmeg then baked with a custard and optional meringue. Genoise paste instructions cover flour sugar butter eggs and baking in a mold with parchment and sugar dusting.
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Nicolas Soyer
Caer
Munich
Sturgis & Walton Company
Armor in Colonial America and Latin Spanish Armies
A Metropolitan Museum bulletin notes armor in early colonial settings, highlighting Spanish use in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses armor’s role in conquest, armored horses, and stirrups with wide flanges that persisted decoratively into the nineteenth century.
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America
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bulletin of the
Pizarro
Cortez
Woman Registrar Mamie Morrison Sets Voter Record in Indiana
Miss Mamie Morrison, a popular active politician and expert horsewoman in Rough and Ready Cal, is named registrar for voters. She reportedly spends ten hours daily in the saddle hunting up every voter in her bailiwick, taking her book to county dances so no man or woman escapes registration.
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Cal
Mamie Morrison
Indianapolis News
When winds rise and cares oppress the heart
The speaker voices despondence as adverse winds and waves surge. Yet a grateful, steady refrain declares that every day brings renewed strength from a kind decree. The lines affirm faith that God’s grace meets present weakness with daily strength.
Cherry Based Desserts and Preserves From Simple Pantry Dishes
A vintage style guide describes using fresh cherries in soups sauces pickles and condiments plus pies and kirsch. It details cherry pudding dumplings and cherries steamed in batter served with cream, and cherry olives prepared with vinegar sugar and shrub for meat courses.
Practical hints from a past era for home crafts and cooking
The article offers household tips on renewing pine pillows and baskets by steaming, removing paint with hot vinegar or turpentine, sewing weights into table runners, and safe cake transport with toothpicks. It suggests delicate dishes like cottage cheese on crisp crackers, baskets from old straw hats, refreshing faded flowers with watercolor, canning peach scraps for desserts, and simple garbage disposal guidance. It also includes a recipe for Filbert Butter by grinding hazelnuts, then mixing with butter and paprika for fillings.
Thoughtful of Him Bridegroom Seeks Missing Check
A witty exchange follows a wedding as the bride explains why a $5,000 check from her father was not given. The bridegroom, two days after the wedding, notes he has not seen any check yet, while the bride reveals her father heard of another gift and avoided duplicates.
Forlorn Hope Query in Mayfair Punch Column
A reader asks for the correct number to request to obtain a specific item: a 2 double 092 Mayfairt Punch. The note reads like a flirtatious puzzle or prank within the Mayfairt Punch column, seeking guidance on dialing the right number.
Women Should Be Protected by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound
A Sikeston Missouri reader reports seven years of monthly illness with weakness backache and nervous strain. After using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she recovered vitality to perform housework garden chores and milking. A Murrayville Illinois woman also credits the remedy with avoiding surgery and regaining health after doctors advised operation.
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Sikeston
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dema Bethune
Murrayville
Lydia ER. Pinkham
Charles Moore
Murrayville, Fil
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Owder
Chicago
ET. Holmes
Jackson St
St. Paul
Mia
J. Mi. Maclachlan
Watertown
S. C
Charles E. Hires CO
N. Broad St
Philadelphia
Western
UNION
W. Adams St
Teorge Evans & CO
Dept. X
Philadelphua
Associated Literary
Lishen
Brooks’ Club
London
Ver
Mrs. Bethune
Mrrs. Moore
Harold Somers
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
Furnam Street
Omaha
Neb
Meade Co
Geo. L. Krier
Farmer
W. Nlul
Sioux City
Sioux City Directory
Humphreys Steam Dye Works
OUR
Pierce Street
Owa
G. E. Martian Co
Tchr Lensi
Chesterman Co
Dept. F
Lytle Construction Company
Cla Rox
Ouxcity Crockery CO
Neb St
Electric Supply Co
Richard Webber
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