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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1935
Page
9
The article outlines a fall and winter cooking focus with hot vitality building foods. It describes stock making for soups, waffles and fritters, pork dishes like pig in blankets, and simple meals using a single pan, emphasizing warmth and family nourishment for cooler nights.
A winter flavor guide offers Ginger Nut Cookies Ginger Snaps Molasses Cookies Pear Ginger Mallobets and Gingerbread Banana Shortcake. Recipes include mixing dry ingredients with molasses egg and shortening rolling shaping baking and chilling steps for a mod erate oven. A note mentions California orange production in a narrow coastal strip.
An article extols oysters as nutritious and easy to digest for invalids and children. It details a Sunday night supper built around sautéed oysters with bacon, grapefruit salad, sweet potato rolls, lemon cheese cake, and a dinner featuring shepherd’s pie and crostini.
Four cups sifted flour four teaspoons baking powder one and one half teaspoons salt one and one fourth cups sugar three eggs well beaten three squares unsweetened chocolate melted one teaspoon vanilla one cup milk. Sift flour once measure add baking powder and salt and sift together three times. Add sugar gradually to eggs heating thoroughly then chocolate and vanilla and blend. Add flour alternately with milk a small amount at a time mix thoroughly after each addition. Knead lightly on a well floured board. Roll to one third inch thickness cut with floured medium doughnut cutter fry in deep fat at 385 degrees F three to four minutes turning frequently drain on paper towels sprinkle with powdered sugar. Makes four dozen medium doughnuts.
Mrs J K Vickers of 175 North Congress Street contributes a green tomato butter recipe. She notes she prefers it to ripe tomato butter. Wash stem grind drain measure, cook 10 to 15 minutes, add sugar, then boil hard 20 to 30 minutes.
An easy kitchen trick suggests peeling bananas and scoring them lengthwise with a fork before slicing. The scored banana becomes a decorative garnish with a fluted edge, enhancing presentation.
Parsnips and pineapple layered with brown sugar and cinnamon, baked until tender. Slices of parsnip and pineapple alternate with butter and flour, seasoned with salt, simmered in bouillon water, then baked about 45 minutes and served from the dish.
At New York Citys annual exposition of arts and industries women civic leaders from across the nation competed as cooks and economists. Representatives from each state showcased regional pies breads and cakes while a monster cake contest ended the event.
A reader note suggests sprinking the bottom of the oven to avoid paper liners when baking a rich cake. The United States Bureau of Plant Industry is cited to claim smoking does not dull taste.
A period advertisement touts Ovaltine as a Swiss pure food concentrate approved by physicians. It cites two parent letters showing improved appetite and weight in children, urging mothers to try it, noting a low cost and availability at drugstores and groceries.
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