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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1936
Page
9
The Food Page editor urges planning morning meals to beat heat. Prepare and refrigerate gelatines, junkets, and macaroni dishes early, then finish with hot meat pies and vegetables for digestion. Local women share tried recipes including creams, peanut brittle, and vanilla desserts.
A handwritten peanut brittle Marlo recipe credited to Mrs Raymond Bardin lists ingredients including marshmallows water whipping cream crushed peanut brittle vanilla and peanuts. Instructions describe cutting marshmallows and melting them with water then heating the mixture until smooth before adding other ingredients.
An advertisement discusses constipation caused by insufficient bulk in the diet and promotes Kellogg's All-Bran as an effective laxative food. It explains how bran absorbs moisture to form a soft mass that cleanses the intestinal tract and suggests two tablespoons daily, with more for stubborn cases, and advises consulting a doctor if relief is not achieved.
Mrs Cox of Garfield Ave offers a simple delicious winter dish by combining cold cooked chicken with spaghetti. Her recipe, adaptable for leftover pork, uses a milk based white sauce and yields a creamy baked dish after simmering and baking.
Helen Saylor of Athens Route One shares a candy style recipe titled Egg Almonds as a meat substitute and easy to prepare. Beat 4 eggs light with 1 to 2 cups milk, place in a skillet, sprinkle chopped dried beef on top, brown, cut into fourths, and serve hot.
Mrs J W Kelley of 160 Mill St shares a macaroni salad recipe. It uses elbow macaroni celery hard boiled eggs pimentoes peas with mayonnaise cheese and cream cheese to bind and flavor the dish.
Mrs Corda Whetstone from The Plains shares a family tuna fish salad recipe. Ingredients include shredded lettuce, tuna or cold boiled fish, French dressing, onion juice, mayonnaise, celery, and parsley. Line dish with lettuce, place fish center, dress with onion-enhanced French dressing, cover with celery.
A local recipe from Nealie Hawk Osborne offers coldslaw as a summer salad. Ingredients include cabbage pineapple marshmallows mayonnaise walnuts oranges red pepper apples celery lemon salt and cucumber boats for serving with lettuce radish roses and olives plus cream salad dressing and paprika.
A reader submitted fruit and vegetable salad recipe from Mrs John E Nibert of Athens State Hospital. The dish pairs with goose turkey and rich meats and uses cucumbers pineapple and carrots with grape fruit in a boat shaped cucumber shell.
Glouster resident Mrs. W. S. Warden makes a Graham Cracker Pie for a summer day. The recipe uses 16 crackers for crust, a flour sugar and cinnamon filling, and a meringue topping. Instructions note roll crackers, bake crust, boil filling, and finish with meringue.
Swindell and Mrs Swindell share a crumb cake recipe using sour milk and spices, baked until browned, with a ham layered finish. A Perfection Salad recipe blends greens with gelatin and assorted vegetables served on lettuce with pimento garnish. Also notes a Pasadena report on education urging stronger emphasis on reading writing and arithmetic.
A summer dish combines boiled or baked ham with boiled wide noodles. Cook noodles in salted water for ten minutes. Layer cooked noodles in a baking dish with chopped ham and buttered crumbs, then finish with melted butter.
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