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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1935
Page
9
The county fair features home canning tips with Mrs Turner's green beans and whole tomatoes methods. Readers are invited to try pressure canning or hot water bath canning, with steps for packing, salting, and processing times. Also notes a popular peanut butter cookie recipe spreading among local families.
Two new hot dishes for lunch or dinner include a Spaghetti Ring baked in a ring mold with grated strong cheese raisins parsley onion and a creamed fish or vegetables center. The Mexican Rice combines fried rice with bacon hamburger onion pepper garlic tomatoes and chili powder, baked with water and bacon strips. Serves six for both, with iced grape juice and pineapple sherbet garnish.
Mrs. M. L. Welch of Columbus shares a gum drop cookie recipe that needs no butter or shortening and she calls it excellent. The ingredients include confectioners sugar, cream, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nuts, salt, and gum drops. Beat eggs, mix sugar and milk, add dry ingredients, fold in gum drops and nuts, bake on a sheet pan, then ice with butter icing after cutting into strips.
Recipe outlines a shrimp and cucumber salad molded in lemon gelatine. Mix warm water with gelatine, chill, then blend vinegar salt and cayenne with shrimp and cucumber. When gelatine thickens, fold in mayonnaise and seafood mix, set in mold, chill, unmold onto watercress, garnish with cucumber. Serves six.
Sedalia Missouri student Reena Rader age fourteen dominates the Missouri State Fair jelly contest securing top honors as a young entrant. She practices at home with her mother's kitchen stove aiming for a third blue ribbon. The feature shares her plum jelly and peach jam recipes with precise ingredients and steps.
A home canning method for peaches uses brown sugar cinnamon vinegar and cloves with steps to blanch peel and simmer. The article also cites a claim that over 400000 Christian hymns exist with about 100000 originating in Germany.
The menu outlines a breakfast of grapes cereal creamed dried beef on toast milk and coffee. Lunch features scalloped corn sliced tomatoes hot buttered rolls fruit punch. Dinner offers melon ball cocktail cheese souffle creamed celery jellied beef salad fresh berry tarts milk and coffee.
A chilled knife cuts merin gue covered pies, cakes, and pastries cleanly without sticking. Dip the knife in cold water before each slice to maintain neat, equal portions.
A reader submits a chocolate prune cake recipe of unknown origin postmarked Logan. The batter blends prunes, shortening, sugar and bitter chocolate with eggs, flour, baking powder, soda and salt, then milk and vanilla. Bake in three layers 25 to 30 minutes at 375 degrees and frost with chocolate.
Recipe for ham mould salad with gelatin aspic uses ham green pepper and pickles. Method includes dissolving gelatin in boiling water then chilling and folding in mayonnaise before molding and serving on lettuce. Recipe serves eight.
Mary F. Dague notes how modern desserts favor quick easy prep. From fruit based cakes to jelly glazed cups and decorative fruit arrangements, the article offers practical, stylish ideas for summer gatherings. It suggests sponge and angel food cakes with fruit circles, jelly coatings, whipped cream, sherbet fillings, and berry tarts with outside crusts for a polished French pastry look. It also mentions stuffed peaches with raspberry sherbet and pistachio ice cream pairings.
The item warns that many wives serve minus meals low in bulk causing constipation and dull days. It recommends Kellogg’s All Bran products Aru-Baan and At-Baan as a safer, fiber rich alternative with added vitamins and iron. Two tablespoons daily usually help. consult a doctor if relief fails.
Tce cubes folded into a dampened soft muslin or cheese cloth make an excellent face pack to stimulate the akin.
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