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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1935
Page
9
The Athens Messenger reports a Recipe Contest honoring district home cooks from Albany Cookville and Rutland. Mrs Gibbs of Michigan contributed Peach Snowballs while other entries include Cracker Jack and Silver Cake with step by step methods and guidance for mixing batter and baking. The feature invites readers to submit more recipes for future collections.
A collage of recipe fragments includes cabbage rolls with cornflake filling and fritters, plus references to beef, sausage, onions, and corn. Scattered lines mention Mrs. Musgrave, the Gas Company, and a Christmas candy king, then shift to early Virginia laws penalizing colonists for missing church services without excuse.
CHICAGO. Four farm girls won national 4 H Club Style Review awards for handmade dresses. Clarabeth Zehring, 17, of Germantown Ohio, won the grand championship in the Wool School Dress Class with a outfit costing 34.12. Irene Krackt of Aurelia Iowa took the Wash Dress Class national title, Mary G. Yeager of Terre Haute Indiana won Best Dress Class, and Carol V. Clark of Cohoes New York won the Party Dress Class with a flowered taffeta gown.
A dessert note shares a recipe for Silver Cake from Mrs Annie Harris of Buchtel. It lists ingredients including sugar, shortening, buttermilk, Swanedown flour, and egg whites, with steps to cream, fold in whites, bake in layers, and frost with chocolate or vanilla. A peach dessert method is summarized with peach puree, starch paste, whipped whites, and cream prior to chilling.
An article by Mary E. Dague traces plum pudding from meat broth in Norman times to a solid boiled pudding in the seventeenth century. It provides a detailed Christmas recipe with fruit, suet, spices, alcohol, and a method for steaming, flaming, and serving with golden sauce.
Mrs Lon Gillogly of Albany shares a grand Hickory Nut Pie recipe. The recipe lists sugar flour eggs milk chopped hickory nuts and vanilla with steps to thicken the custard then bake with a meringue topping until browned.
A simple toasted sandwich combines peanut butter with two pieces of bacon on split buns. Mrs. Gertrude Wolfe of Athens praises it as a family favorite enjoyed in the South and Ohio, served with fruit or salad for lunch or supper.
Mrs Alice Bradfield of Rutland praises prune sweet pickle as a delicious relish based on a recipe she has used for years. The method includes soaking prunes, making a vinegar sugar syrup with spices, then cooking the prunes briefly in the syrup.
A hearty cold weather meat dish from Mrs William A Hartley of Millfield Rural Route One blends ground beef or pork with onions celery tomato juice and elbow macaroni. Fry onions until soft then cook meat add tomato juice celery and macaroni simmer until tender finish with chop suey sauce and serve.
Mrs Elizabeth W Green of Athens presents Aunt Eddas Devils Food Cake and Date Dessert recipes to The Messenger Cooking Club readers. The instructions list ingredients such as sugar butter eggs chocolate water milk flour baking powder soda and finishing icing for the cake while the date dessert features egg whites dates crackers sugar nuts and salt.
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