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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1936
Page
9
The Recipe Editor presents Savarin a light sponge cake with butter and a hot creamy Sabayon sauce. Includes detailed steps for making the cake and sauce, notes on egg whites storage, and serving tips for 12 to 16 portions with variations for smaller groups.
Children enjoy doughnuts and milk as a popular between meal snack. The article shares Mrs. Lowell Patterson's doughnut recipe with yeast cake, warm water, milk, shortening, brown sugar, eggs, and bread flour, plus steps for mixing, rising, shaping, and frying at 350 Fahrenheit.
A tested baked beans method from Mrs. F. L. Walburn of Athens Route Four outlines soaking navy beans, a soda wash, then boiling and cooking in fresh water. The recipe uses dry mustard molasses brown sugar salt and fat for flavor.
Mrs. C. C. Nichols of Dexter bakes a Yellow Angel Food cake following a long held recipe. Separate eggs beat whites with a sugar syrup to create a stiff meringue then fold in yolks, flour, water and lemon extract. Bake in a 9 inch tube pan at 325 degrees for one hour and invert to cool completely.
A reader shares a straightforward Corned Beef Hash method. Use 10 or 15 Irish potatoes, 12 oz can corned beef, 1 onion, salt and fat. Dice potatoes, cook in hot greased skillet, mix in meat, add onion, cook slowly until done. Serves four.
Bake brown bread using a recipe from Mrs. R. B. Sellers of Syracuse. Mix dry ingredients then add molasses and buttermilk, pour into greased mold, steam two and a half hours and bake fifteen minutes for a tender loaf.
Devil's Food Cake by Mrs. R. E. Keenan at 9 Park Place uses a brown sugar frosting. The recipe notes beating frosting too long may thin it and suggests cream to adjust. The recipe lists sugar butter sour cream flour bitter chocolate dissolved in milk soda vanilla eggs salt brown sugar canned milk cream of tartar and guidance to cook to a soft ball in ice water.
Mrs Henry Evans of The Plains recommends Steamed Apple Dumplings. The recipe uses flour baking powder salt shortening and sweet milk to prepare dough then fills dumplings with apples and steams until tender.
A collection of vintage kitchen notes describes half inch apple dumplings with dough folds and a savory meat bake, followed by Pineapple Cottage Pudding with its sauce. Butter Scotch Pie and a recipe for a light custard appear, along with hospital air conditioning mentions and a brief legal notice about a partition suit in Ohio one bout. The clippings also note San Quentin sports gossip, a calcium chloride contract by Toledo, and seal fur dyeing trivia.
Recipes from Sharpsburg and Amesville include a Silver Cake with a marshmallow boiled frosting and a Beef Upside Down Pie. The frosting uses marshmallows cut in pieces added just before spreading. The cake batter blends sugar eggs milk flour and baking powder into three nine inch layers.
Cool weather prompt for warm lunch ideas features Spanish Rice recipe by Mrs J K Vickers of 175 N Congress St. Ingredients include rice, water, hamburger, onions, green mango, tomatoes or juice, with cooking steps in a double boiler then baking. Also notes an odd Montrose pension list listing a 96 year old mother and her 66 year old son.
Healthful advertisement promoting Kellogg’s All-Bran as a bulk filler to relieve constipation. Highlights daily two tablespoon servings, versatility in meals, and the product’s vitamin B and iron content. Claims safety, effectiveness, and money-back guarantee by Kellogg Company. Made in Battle Creek.
Gladys Lera filed a petition against Leo Lera of 912 36th St Galveston Texas in the Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio seeking an absolute divorce on the ground of gross neglect of duty and restoration of her maiden name with a hearing after October 2 1936. Attorney John P Kelso represents Gladys Lera.
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