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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1936
Page
9
A cooking feature presents frozen desserts and a Black Bottom Pie with detailed ingredients and steps. Includes Raspberry Ice and Melon Sherbet using gelatin for easier freezing, plus a Black Bottom Pie with crust, two fillings, meringue topping, and serving suggestions.
Advertising copy promotes Kellogg All-Bran to ease dull headaches and low appetite by adding bulk to meals. It claims safety and effectiveness with scientific support, offers a money back guarantee, and suggests two tablespoonfuls daily, with optional cooking uses. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek.
Mrs Madge FE Hunter of Route Two Athens submits a Boston Cream Pie recipe. The cake uses flour baking powder salt egg yolks sugar lemon juice rind and boiling water with a cream filling of sugar flour milk. Bake in two layers and finish with icing or powdered sugar.
A recipe card by Mrs Elwood Daugherty from Athens describes Italian Spaghetti with long spaghetti hamburger tomato paste soup and water sauce seasoned with Kitchen Bouquet pepper and chili. The sauce simmers to thickness then poured over cooked spaghetti and served with grated cheese.
A young baker shares a family Cocoanut cake recipe from an Oklahoma aunt. The directions outline butter and sugar creamed, milk added gradually, flour sifted thrice, baking powder, stiff egg whites, and flavoring. Fill between three cooled layers with sweet cream boiled until firm, then mix in coconut and ice with boiled icing. Sprinkle coconut on top.
Ginger snaps recipe from The Plains resident Mrs Lola Yates. Yields about seven dozen cookies. Instructions include mixing shortening sugar molasses soda egg and ginger with salt and flour, shaping into balls, baking ten minutes, and cooling on pan.
Mrs FER Glazier of 15 Elliott St. shares Dutch Peach Pudding instructions. Read like a home kitchen notice detailing ingredients such as flour butter milk peaches and nutmeg and steps to bake in a modern oven until hot and served with cream.
A cookbook style note presents a Graham wafer pie recipe by Mrs Frank Cook of 89 Grosvenor St The directions call for rolling Graham crackers into crumbs mixing with sugar and butter to form a crust reserving some for topping lining a tin then a custard of egg yolks sugar cornstarch and milk bakes 20 minutes and a meringue crumb topping is added before serving
Mrs Pearl Beal at 17 First St shares icing directions for her chocolate loaf cake recipe. The article lists ingredients and steps for making the loaf and a boiled icing, noting bake times and a long pan method. Also included are brief local items about a robber and a shoe salesman missing left shoes.
A family favorite recipe from Mrs William Mansfield 62 Stewart Street uses pork celery and onions. Brown pork in fat then add celery and onions and cook slowly. Add water salt and pepper. Cook rice separately then mix into the dish.
Mrs. L. G. Connett of 75 S Court St offers an open-face apple or peach pie variation. She omits cinnamon and nutmeg with peaches and has used this recipe for 17 years. Apples or peaches are layered with a sugar flour mix and tapioca, then baked at a hot oven for about 50 minutes.
Mrs Cross of W Union St received a chocolate cake recipe from a Cleveland woman about four years ago. The note includes icing and baking steps for a two layer cake with sugar butter eggs milk flour soda vanilla and bitter chocolate.
Haydenville notes record visits among locals including the Yakes Wolfe and Ohlingers with Marion and Nelsonville trips. The W F M S annual picnic is planned for Wednesday Aug 25 at Kachelmacher Park Logan with church group carpools.
The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Bureau of Plant Industry at Morristown New Jersey advance a campaign to eradicate Dutch elm disease from areas in eastern states.
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