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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1944
Page
10
A 1944 recipe explains preparing a chicken casserole with a whole roasting chicken potatoes onions carrots string beans and mushrooms. It covers searing the chicken simmering with vegetables in a garlic seasoned dish then finishing with a three-part hollandaise sauce using margarine lemon juice egg yolks and cayenne.
A furniture transformation guide shows how to turn budget unpainted chairs into luxury pieces with freehand flowers. Artist Peter Hunt outlines simple steps for hearts and flowers, tulips, swags, stems, and leaves in red green and yellow, finishing with a motto on the bottom slat.
A wartime column encourages variety in meals through homemade sauces. It presents two tomato and chili-based sauces, a vegetable-plate vinaigrette, and the value of real mayonnaise and egg yolk hollandaise style sauces to brighten everyday dishes despite shortages.
With bacon 60 percent more available than last year menus can feature it freely. Bake bacon on a rack 400 degrees for 10 minutes, prepare almond bacon sauce with lemon juice, and serve alongside almond asparagus salad and whole wheat bread. Also offers pan fry and broil methods plus bacon sandwich ideas.
Recipe notes a Spanish Rice dish using 1 cup uncooked rice and marjoram. It describes browning garlic in oil, adding rice, cooking with two cups salted water until fluffy, then stirring in condensed tomato soup marjoram and green pepper before resting 15 minutes.
A Cleveland woman supervisor keeps her job with a nursery built in the electric plant. The piece suggests working wives juggle home duties and child care and warns against letting babies become a distraction at work. The tone questions if the arrangement should spread.
Wartimes create exceptions to chic rules but practical dressing endures. A black crepe dress suits morning street wear if no tea date follows, while after-work wear benefits from an all purpose suit. Short glamour gowns replace long skirts for travel on wheels, reducing wear and cleaning concerns.
The report notes about seventy million tons of soot fall on U S cities while sunlight is reduced by over thirty percent. A cautionary kitchen guide then detours into a recipe aside about egg sizes and sauce texture, joking on future egg pricing and cooking accuracy.
Recipe outlines wash and halve four medium tomatoes place cut side up in a shallow dish cover with water to reach bottom sprinkle with salt and dried basil. Finely chop onion and green pepper and spread around tomato sides. Top with bread crumbs dot with butter and bake at 400 for about 45 minutes until browned and tomatoes are soft.
A nine inch pie uses 4 eggs 3 cups scalded milk salt pepper nutmeg and crisp bacon. Bake 450 for 15 minutes then 350 for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool and serve topped with bacon slices.
A lemon gelatin mold combines raw carrots and cabbage with basil and vinegar. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water, add cold water and remaining ingredients, pour into a ring mold, chill in the refrigerator, unmold onto lettuce, and serve with mayonnaise in the center.
Scald milk with chocolate while bread slices brown in butter. Layer bread in a buttered dish, mix sugar salt vanilla and egg yolks into the chocolate milk, pour over bread, bake 45 minutes at 350. Beat egg white with sugar, spread as meringue and bake until brown.
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