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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1936
Page
9
THE RECIPE EDITOR presents October menus featuring Pumpkin Pie, Date Pudding and Muffins. The article shares tested steps for jelly balls cookies, a jelly roll dessert, and a White Mountain Cake with detailed ingredient lists and oven times.
A longtime Logan resident Mrs J W Coleman swears by her Chocolate Mocha Cake recipe. The card includes cake and mocha frosting instructions with steps to cream butter and sugar, dissolve cocoa, mix in sour milk, and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
A reader, Winifred Jones of 93 Second St, shares a Graham Cracker Cake recipe she has used for about two years. Ingredients include graham crackers, baking powder, milk, butter, sugar and nuts with a vanilla flavor, and the method involves beating eggs with butter and sugar then folding in crackers and nuts before boiling and cooling.
Mrs Ira C Murray of 85 Sunnyside Dr offers an old fashioned caramel icing recipe. The method uses a water boil to hard ball stage, then folds into three stiffly beaten egg whites until ready to spread on cakes.
A vintage recipe titled Cinnamon Crumb Cake. It lists ingredients for the cake batter and the crumb topping, including flour sugar butter cinnamon and milk. The method describes mixing dry ingredients, cutting in butter, adding egg and milk, baking in a layer cake pan, and finishing with a cinnamon crumb topping baked until done.
A reader shares a pumpkin pie recipe from Mrs. Elsie Brown of 67 1 2 West Washington Street. The directions include eggs, pumpkin, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, milk, and a two-crust pastry. Bake first at a hot temperature then reduce heat until firm.
Nut bread variation from a home recipe by Mrs. J. W. Kelley of 160 Mill Street. Ingredients include flour chopped nuts baking powder salt milk and eggs mixed and folded into batter then baked at 350 degrees for about an hour.
Date muffins proved favorites at potluck dinners and anytime. Mildred Giesecke of 7 Stimson Ave shares a recipe with butter sugar egg sifted flour baking powder salt milk and dates cut in pieces. Bake in buttered muffin cups at 375 F for about twenty five minutes.
A recipe by Mrs. C. L. Hoisington lists ingredients for date bread including diced dates soda on dates hot water sugar and pecans. Bake moderate 325 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour yielding two small loaves.
A three pie caramel filling recipe from Mrs C V Hester of Mineral. The batter uses egg yolks flour sweet milk water and vanilla then thickens before filling baked shells. Whites are reserved for meringue and the mixture can be kept a few days for single pies.
A home cook from Haydenville favors spaghetti with frankfurters. Slice frankfurters and brown with onion in butter, heat spaghetti in tomato sauce separately, then combine on a platter and garnish with parsley or pickles. A second note reports Kauai armory plans by three National Guard units approved by the War Department.
Kate and Caroline crash into a mystery roadster in Louisville bound ham delivery. A stranger offers to fix the crash for fifty dollars then insists they move the meat to his car. One ham suffers damage, and the man demands a cut as they travel toward town.
Martha Sundby of Rio began collecting pitchers seven years ago while a St. Olaf College senior. Now she owns more than 250 pieces ranging from early Wisconsin pottery to delicate glass items.
A marine biology note explains that a starfish has five arms and each arm bears one eye. This arrangement gives the starfish multiple visual inputs around its body.
An Association of American Railroads report says railroads, especially in the South, lead in mosquito control to curb malaria and other diseases. In Monmouth Oregon, Ewing Sacre, 24, fell three stories from scaffolding onto lumber but escaped serious injury after a cross support broke his fall.
A column highlights quirky English village names such as Egg Jump Butter Bump Great Fryup and High Ham, noting their charm and local character.
In Monroe Wisconsin a tiny replica of the Swiss Alps was built in a rock garden at Mr and Mrs Adolph Abplanalp home to recall the land they left decades ago. In Bonn a bombproof and fireproof cellar is under construction at Beeth oven birthplace to protect the composer relics in emergencies. A quirky note suggests giraffes can forego water as long as camels when food is juicy.
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