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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1939
Page
6
A compact recipe excerpt presents Demetria Taylor and Gertrude Lynn’s bread method with yeast and milk, plus a shortening rich cake recipe. It includes a two loaf bake, warm-rising steps, and oven timings, followed by a short note that the cooks’ new cookbook will be published. The menu for tomorrow lists breakfast lunch and dinner items.
Plum conserve describes stewing plums with water until soft, straining, mashing, and mixing with sugar. It adds chopped oranges or lemon, raisins, walnuts, and sun dried figs, using rind and pulp, then cooks briefly and jars. It suggests serving with sandwiches or with fowl.
If your refrigerator lacks a special egg basket you can buy inexpensive metal ones in any housewares department. Eggs keep best when stored in an uncovered basket or open dish.
Home canning guidance explains tomatoes are acidic and safe without pressure canning. Use firm ripe fruit, skin, peel, and pack hot or cold with salt, then process in water bath or seal and process minutes as directed. Emphasizes utensils, juice making, and upcoming federal standards for tomato products.
Household hints offer salad advice on keeping ingredients cold and crisp and pairing dressings with food. Linoleum flooring guidance covers prep surfaces, cold weather placement, waxing and maintenance. A local story notes Tabby the cat mothering five baby mice found in a nest on the Glenn Deckard farm near Fostoria, Ohio.
Zaleski School building dedication set for Labor Day September 4 with a chicken dinner 11 30 a m to 1 p m and a 2 p m address by E N Dietrich from the State Department of Education. Afternoon games and a dance by Charlie Freshwater and his WHKC orchestra 8 p m to 12 p m in the auditorium.
Miss Julia Bothwell of Cincinnati and McArthur returns from a western trip and visits her brother Henry Bothwell as Walter Bothwell of San Diego joins the visit. Ray Cox and son Max stay with Herbert Cox in Asheville. Claude Herrold and daughter Joan return from Washington DC. Clifford Wills visits parents while attending Springfield Business College. Charles Hook and Union City Indiana guests visit Dr. and Mrs. B F Wills. John Wareheim and Hazel visit Columbus for the State Fair.
Heavy desserts fall from favor as midsummer brings peak fruit. Arrange red and purple plums nectarines golden pears black cherries white grapes in a shallow fruit dish. Chill before serving for a leisurely, social dessert.
Chop one half peck ripe tomatoes three celery bunches two red peppers remove seeds. Add brown sugar salt pepper mace cloves cinnamon mustard horseradish and vinegar. Mix well seal jars and allow one month before use.
Seasonal fruit desserts highlighted with baked apple stuffed with banana and a pear poached in syrup. The recipe for four to six serves uses apples bananas sugar butter citrus juice and water baked slowly then served hot or cold. Pears simmer in sugar water with citrus rind then finish with port wine or grape juice and chill before serving.
Sunday visitors included Mrs. Ammy Miller and Joshua of Chillicothe and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hooper with son. E G Van Gunten and children from Akron visited granddaughter Marjorie Bolen. Mattie Lou Allen visits Nelsonville grandparents. Nettie Smalley and Pearl Koon with son Otho from The Plains visited Elsie Helwig. E Allen and Raymond of Nelsonville visited Don Bolen family. Will Young stayed with his daughter in Guysville. Tom Collins and children visited Cecil Gwyn family. Junior Bean returned home after Chillicothe visit. Lois Morrison visiting sister Delbert Williams.
A 1939 Pabst Sales Company advertisement touts Pabst Blue Ribbon as the preferred choice in US hotels restaurants clubs and lounges from coast to coast highlighting its lighter style and widespread appeal.
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