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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1907
Page
20
Savory reminiscences contrast European and American ice cream habits while detailing economical home production. Recipes cover plain Philadelphia and Delmonico styles, sherbets, ices, fruit freezes, and mousses, with instructions on sugar syrups, freezing, and flavor variations for assorted fruits and creams.
A long list of daily meals covers breakfast lunch and dinner with items like cereal eggs tea coffee bread salads fruit and desserts. Dishes include Spanish omelet fried bread roast beef lamb breakfast fruit cereals and various vegetables with occasional beverages.
Household tips urge thrift and neatness. A reader from La Fayette Indiana shares advice on cleaning pots, scouring, and apron use while detailing a red ant problem in Cairo Ohio and requesting magazine backups and a poem. The exchange praises practical housewifery details and laments the nuisance of red ants while offering kerosene remedies.
A reader letter from Philadelphia discusses ivy poisoning known as three-fin ger or mercury and poison oak. It advises immediate salt water washing of hands face neck and other exposed areas, then letting brine dry to prevent rash. It also recommends sour buttermilk or loppered milk with plenty of salt as a domestic remedy, used three or four times daily.
A letter from A R Sparta Ga and a follow up from R E M Little Rock Ark describe making mock olives from plums. Steps include brining, washing, boiling hot brine jars, and storing in mild brine for two months. Damson plums and black olives are praised for flavor.
A letter discusses preserving wool blankets with a washing formula promising softness and gentleness. The writer notes a four decade old blanket remains soft after washing and urges others to avoid harsh wringing to prevent stiffness. Mrs A J C of Chicago endorses the method.
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