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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1876
Page
14
The article presents a six sign portrait of the model farmer as an ideal worker: loving business, thoughtful farm planning, careful accounting, skilled management, and economic efficiency. It parallels practical farming with humane treatment and efficient labor, and ends with notes on mutton quality and proper butchering to avoid off flavors.
Observations on plowing draft show a fixed daily load wears teams quickly. Suggest steel plows, sharp colters, proper alignment, and balanced traces to reduce draft by about twenty-five pounds. Replace worn shares, adjust bands, and add outside weights to prevent horses from stepping over traces. kindness and proper care matter.
The text promotes purifying glassware and utensils with charcoal powder after initial cleaning with sand and potash. It claims charcoal cleans and deodorizes water and meats, freshening breath with teeth rubbed by charcoal and warns kitchen care affects family health, happiness, and temper.
A Tea Dish describes an excellent veal loaf made by boiling calf s liver and a knuckle of veal with two pounds of salt pork two onions and parsley. The knuckle and pork go over first then the other ingredients are added after two hours of boiling. The mixture is chopped and pressed through a colander seasoned with pepper and salt and packed in bowls. If lard is poured over the top it will keep several weeks.
Authors advise hanging hams in a smokehouse kept perfectly dark or, lacking that, enclosing hams in canvas bags and whitewashing them. Another method involves rubbing wood ashes into the meat or packing them in barrels and covering with ashes to deter taint and insects.
A recipe explains making cracker pudding using one pound butter or oyster crackers ground fine, mixed with milk to soften, then stirred with eggs rasins and sugar. Bake in a moderate oven and serve warm with butter and sugar beaten to a cream, or enjoy cold. The guidance suggests three pints to one half pint of milk and optional flavoring.
A fragment describes Grandma’s Crallers with six eggs six tablespoons powdered sugar six tablespoons melted butter and a wine glass of brandy plus nutmeg flour for doughnut-like pastries. It mentions shaping, a sagging iron, and a method for drawing a stubborn screw using red hot iron. It notes Geeene gloves with fur lined gauntlets suit ladies shopping unencumbered by muffs.
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