Iced and Lemon Punches From a School for Housewives
An 1890s home expert outlines refreshing nonalcoholic punches for hot days. It covers iced tea methods, lemonade bases, orange sherbet, pineapple lemonades, and coffee variations. Includes step by step ratios, fruit additions, mint, and serving tips for punch bowls.
Family Meals for a Week Breakfast and Dinner Menu
A sprawling daily menu lists breakfasts, luncheons, and dinners with items like melons, cracked wheat, cream, deviled kidneys, pot roast, Swiss chard, beets, peaches, cakes, and various leftovers. It includes soups, salads, crackers, cheese, tea, and coffee across multiple courses and days.
Cookhouse Menu Fragments Include Melons and Chowder
A jumble of kitchen fare lists melons cereal and cream bacon and eggs quick biscuits toast tea and coffee. Chowder from leftovers browned potatoes egg and nasturtium salad toasted crackers cheese melons ginger ale punch okra and tam ed and baked tart coffee beefs heart stuffed squash onions and green apple.
Housemothers Exchange on living well on modest income
A letter from Mrs. O J E describes thrifty family meals on eleven dollars a week for two, detailing menus, cheap cuts, bread varieties, desserts, and storage tips. Mrs W B H adds praise, while readers discuss homemaking as a profession, home study options, and an inquiry about flour bag terminology drawback.
Linen marking method with embroidery frame aid
A reader notes a simple solution to ink on linen: stretch the fabric in an embroidery frame to hold it tight, making it nearly as easy to write as on a tablet. The discovery prompts the question why such a straightforward fix was not found sooner.
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