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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
11
Wartime kitchen tips promote resourceful cooking with dry bread. The feature outlines Angrel Bread Pudding using day old bread, milk, butter, eggs and vanilla, baked in a water bath, served with cream or fruit sauce, plus variations with chocolate, raisins, nuts, and marshmallows. It also suggests tart shells from fresh bread and chocolate coated toast sticks as children's treats.
A wartime cookbook sample by Lola Wyman features a Nut Crust for Ham recipe. It suggests 4 servings using ham, peanut butter, brown sugar, bread crumbs, margarine, and milk baked 45 minutes to 1 hour at 350 degrees F, yielding a crusty golden top and milk gravy for potatoes.
This brief recipe notes a delicate green garnish for spring celebrations. It provides two economical green vegetable salad mold ideas using plain gelatin, water, vinegar, lemon juice, salt and sugar, folded with diced green vegetables and set in molds.
A nostalgic home remedy claims to ease coughs from colds using a sugar or honey syrup mixed with Pinex. The recipe yields a pint of cough syrup, promises long shelf life, pleasant taste for children, and a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Instructional quiz on wartime social behavior for service wives. It asks if a wife should guard loyalty, limit dating with the same man, invite escorts home, host with couples, and resemble goblins in seed pod garb, followed by a morale prompt and multiple choice guidance on handling rumors and reputation.
Madge Graham schemes to help Major Hugh Grantland escape danger with sanctuary at the Spencer farmhouse on Long Island. She persuades Jim to move a truck to the kitchen door and gains aid from Mrs. Ticer as the trio prepares to flee by field paths while Shumway the taxi driver remains unaware. The scene highlights household allies and tense covert action amid wartime intrigue.
Alicia Hart advises winter skin care to restore freshness after cold weather. Use water softener before washing, choose creams for oily or dry skin, and apply multiple times daily with upward strokes to keep skin supple and avoid a greasy look.
A narrator asks Mrs. Ticer to help hide Major Hugh Grantland and Lee Chow at a farm. They plan to keep the men secret until the narrator can contact her father while dealing with a suspicious taxi driver and Shumway. The scene ends with a request to call Charlie Kent for assistance.
Mrs. Georgia Kilpatrick of Columbus visited the Brooks home with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brooks hosting. Larry and Lorna Pugh underwent tonsil and adenoid removal at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Vernon West and family and Bessie Goodin of near Fisher joined a six oclock dinner hosted by Arthur and Bessie Goodin. John Preston of Athens called on Howard Brooks, while Arthur Goodin and family visited George Green. Joyce Tyler stayed Monday night with Mrs. Bea Bolin of Albany.
Julia Kiene of the Westinghouse Home Economics Institute offers practical lunch packing guidance for workers. She emphasizes three core needs nourishment taste and portability with energy-rich options for active laborers, plus variety to sustain appetite across shifts.
Two pounds spareribs and two pounds sauerkraut are cooked with a tart apple in a browned pork dish and baked to tender in a moderate oven. Liberty measures include 111% feet from head to heel, hand 16% feet, fingernail 15x10 inches, nose 4'4 feet, and each eye 2% feet wide.
Quick top of stove method to cook green cabbage in its own juices with fat for flavor. Use meat drippings or bacon fat, season with salt and pepper, and finish with milk or onion for variety.
Quick cabbage dish called five minute cabbage uses milk cabbage and flour mixture cooked briefly then seasoned. The liver patties recipe outlines parboiling grinding mixing with onion crumbs parsley and sauces, wrapping in bacon, and broiling until done.
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