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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1940
Page
6
A compact collection of vintage baking instructions for popovers and biscuits. Includes mixed dough steps, oven temperatures, and shaping tips for popovers, baking powder biscuits, and a sweetened quick bread fry recipe with notes on fat substitutions.
Recipes for Date Squares and Walnut Oatmeal Cookies share kitchen wisdom. Detailed steps list date filling, crumb crust, and oven temperatures, followed by walnut studded cookies baked until golden.
A recipe for Apple Sauce Cake with honey and raisins. It uses shortening, honey, apple sauce, flour, spices, salt, raisins, walnuts, and a soda fizz in hot water. Mix, bake about one hour in a moderate oven. Flavor improves with age. good for children.
Recipe describes searing six pork chops in shortening, then baking in a moderate oven with flour, water, sage, and seasonings for 90 minutes. Serve over noodles or boiled rice, with optional browned onion.
Leafy vegetables like Brussels sprouts broccoli cauliflower and cabbage should soak in salted water for at least 30 minutes before cooking. Wrapping strong flavored vegetables in cooking paper while boiling prevents odors from permeating the house.
East Hampton's Ladies Improvement Society published a cookbook with recipes for baked beans casseroles and a Texas bean pie. The casseroled dish layers peppers onions beans tomatoes and brown sugar then bakes. The Texas bean pie uses dried kidney beans ground beef onion garlic and olives with cheese baked until browned.
An image segment shows a coupon redemption form labeled Coupon here issued by F M Kerby of the Department B 187 Esongse Service Bureau in Washington D C. The text references a 1013 Thirteenth Street address and the district bureau.
A quick after school snack idea uses graham crackers spread with cream cheese and chopped nuts with optional dates or raisins. The tip suggests making tasty, easy bites to curb afternoon hunger.
The text argues lamb must be served hot or cold and well done. It recommends baked pear or apple with boiled rice served cold with maple syrup or cream as a delicious nourishing dessert.
A simple nourishment tip advises mixing one egg yolk with the juice of two oranges one teaspoon honey or sugar to taste and a pinch of salt. Beat well and drink immediately to boost breakfast energy.
A guidance piece on sensible dieting advises fixed lifelong weight targets, strict limits on daily excess, and gradual loss through balanced meals. It urges medical supervision for safe weight reduction after illness or childbirth and warns obesity harms health and looks, condemning starvation diets.
A blustery night favorite oyster stew recipe. Heat oysters through, combine with liquor butter seasonings and scalded milk or cream, then simmer and serve hot with butter and paprika. Pick through oysters for shells before cooking.
Ingredients include one No 2 can tomatoes three cups soft breadcrumbs two cups grated cheese salt pepper and sugar. Season tomatoes then layer alternately with breadcrumbs and cheese in a buttered dish. Dot top with butter bits and bake in a moderate oven for 1 to 2 hours.
The article advises a traditional safety test for mushrooms. Stir while cooking with a silver spoon. if the spoon does not discolor the mushrooms are considered edible.
Baked stuffed fish is proposed as a tasty main dish for Friday. Use thick fish, clean and salt inside and out, prepare bread stuffing, fill the cavity, sew closed, and bake in a hot oven then reduce heat after ten minutes until cooked.
A dinner party starter may feature banana chips. They resemble potato chips and are available now. To prepare at home, fry thin banana slices in hot shortening until crisp and brown, then drain and salt generously.
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