Comforting baked beans for wartime entertaining on a budget
Budget wartime guide advises planning social evenings to ease ration strain. It recommends hearty dishes like baked beans with pork, brown sugar, mustard, and tomato sauce, served with Boston brown bread. Instructions cover soaking navy beans, layering pork, simmering, and baking 6 to 8 hours, plus decaffeinated coffee and simple service ideas.
Lynn Chambers Point Saving Menu and Meat Stretchers
Feature on practical home meals with meat saving ideas. Includes Hamburger Pie recipe for six, Walnut Waffles, and Baked Eggs on Spaghetti. Offers tips for waffles as entertainment, and notes meat shortages rising. Concludes with address to write Miss Lynn Chambers at Western Newspaper Union in Chicago.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Point Savers for Leftover Meals and Pie Pastry
Lynn Says shares tips to turn leftovers into meals using meats and vegetables under a flaky pie crust. She notes pie crust energy from shortening, recommends high quality shortening not requiring refrigeration, and advises rolling dough on a muslin-covered board with a sock-wrapped rolling pin.
Wyoming Ranch Boy Chooses Yearling Mare Rocket
Ten year old Ken McLaughlin chooses a yearling from his Wyoming ranch, surprising his father. The father, a retired officer, disapproves of Ken's pick and his schooling but praises the colt’s impact on Ken. Flicka, the Boy is injured jumping the corral, prompting Ken to care for her and grow closer. The family conflicts rise as Nell seeks escape in town.
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Wycoming
Rocket
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Flicka
Nell
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Mr. Gibson
Howard
Rob
Tim
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Night Ride and Wildcat Fear at the Ranch
Nell in Cheyenne with neon lights and a Ginger Rogers film, returns to the ranch haunted by a mountain lion sighting and a tense night. Rob consoles her as the couple share a midnight chocolate, then Ken faces Flicka’s rapid decline while hope fades for the wounded filly on the ranch.
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Lincoln Highway
Nell
Cheyenne
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astairé
Goose Bar Ranch
Rob
Crafting a Practical Yet Bland Rocker Facelift
A newspaper item explains selecting a plain rocker from a junk shop or thrift store and transforming it into a usable but unattractive piece. It details removing the rockers, adding casters, fitting a seat cushion, covering the cushion with chintz remnants, and painting to match a soft blue backdrop for cohesion.
Russ Government Early Sponsored Rifle Practice
Russia has millions of civilian sharpshooters today as Collier's notes, with ranges, supplied guns, and patriotic training. In 1938 over 6,000,000 people earned marksmanship badges. The term admiral derives from an Arabic word meaning commander of. Camel cigarettes are top ranking in service stores and can be mailed to soldiers domestically and abroad with postal restrictions.
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