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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1944
Page
11
Miss Jerry Smith promotes milk as vital for children and adults during wartime. She suggests easing non drinkers into dairy through soups, cereals, desserts, and milk rich dishes, offering a baked rice and milk recipe and stressing daily milk intake, vitamin A and calcium.
Instructions for making farina puddings in molds with scalded milk farina sugar and salt. Mixture is cooked in a double boiler then poured into buttered molds set in a water bath. Topping is a thick molasses lemon rind glaze with margarine flour sugar and boiling water.
Two large potatoes and two large yellow turnips are boiled with salt. After draining, they are mashed. Butter or margarine and flour are cooked with salt and pepper, water added gradually until thick and smooth, then potatoes and turnips are folded in and beaten until light. Serve immediately.
Historical note recalls a 1288 Scottish law allowing a woman to propose to a man on Leap Day. If refused, the man faced a fine according to his estate unless he proved betrothal to another.
A home cough mixture uses two cups sugar and a pint of Pinex to create a soothing syrup that loosens phlegm and eases throat irritation. Marketed as thrifty with strong taste for children, the ad promises a full money back guarantee if not satisfying.
A detailed pie recipe for Valencia Pie features a double crust with a tangy apple orange filling. The crust uses flour baking powder salt lard and ice water, while the filling blends apples orange nutmeg cinnamon salt lemon juice brown sugar and butter. Bake at 450 F for 10 minutes then 350 F until golden brown.
Homely Polish Kluski dough from potatoes flour eggs and seasonings. Boil potatoes dry mash and mix with flour then unbeaten eggs. Shape into dumplings dust with flour and boil seven minutes until they rise then drain and sprinkle with grated rusks.
Adele Garrison builds tension as Madge Graham negotiates a perilous rescue plan in New York. Carolyn Brixton must dress and move with care while Marion Morton remains captive in a disguise involving an espionage ring. The trio prepares to confront danger and arrange a public restaurant meeting.
Brown sugar bars mixture beaten with four eggs and two cups sugar, cooked in a double boiler twenty minutes, then cooled. Sifted flour with baking powder and salt folded in, plus cake flour, chopped nuts, and baking powder, spread in a greased pan and baked until firm, then cut into bars.
A quirky kitchen note touts potatoes as victory food and proposes a stuffed sausage bake idea titled potato piglets. It promises high food value and plenty of yield from brown skins.
A wartime advisory from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics notes civilian fat and oil allowances may be cut in 1944 due to increased military needs. Fat stocks rose slightly in 1943 after a large reduction in 1942, hog numbers will fall, and rationing may curb civilian consumption from 49 to about 44 pounds per person.
Betty Watson expands "Miracle in Hellas" with "Cooking Without Cans" a wartime recipe collection featuring a cauliflower with mustard sauce and hot mayonnaise sauce. The mustard sauce blends mustard, egg yolks oil vinegar and seasonings to thicken over heat, with optional curry and parsley.
A historical recipe for braised liver in Owen casserole uses beef liver diced and dredged in seasoned flour, browned in shortening with carrots onions and potatoes, then simmered in stock and tomatoes to bake one hour at 350 F. Serves a concise meal with optional vegetable substitutions.
Macaroni served western style with beef browned pan simmer. Add water celery onions salt pepper salt pork option reduces salt to 1-4 teaspoon. Cover and cook an hour then add remaining ingredients and simmer gently ten minutes.
Homemakers with scarce help return to the kitchen to bake using grandmothers recipes including oatmeal bread coffee rings and other oven goods. The article lists a detailed recipe for oat bread and notes a 1944 cabbage planting surge with about a third more area under cultivation than the previous year by the Department of Agriculture.
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