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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1935
Page
9
Recipe editor presents a Home Page of tested favorites from Athens County readers. Read about sponge cake bars rolled in icing and nuts, shrimp with a rich sauce, devils cake, and a chewy caramel candy recipe, with tips from Mrs. Cooley and Miss Banks.
A historical lunch feature details corned beef rolls with Chinese cabbage salad as a centerpiece and a cheese glazed breakfast. It outlines bread prep, beef filling, rolling, slicing, and baking instructions plus a dessert of apple candy and a September luncheon built around stuffed eggplant with shrimp or tuna filling.
Apple based dessert notes show three recipes including Brown Betty Cobbler and Blanc Mange. Instructions cover crusts, apples, sugar, and baking steps with details on times and temperatures.Suggestions include whipped cream or vanilla ice cream as accompaniments.
Cook the first four items sugar butter Karo and milk until the mixture forms a firm ball when tested in cold water. Add vanilla and nuts and pour onto a platter. When it sets, cut into squares and refrigerate to harden. Wrap in oiled paper after cutting into squares.
Doris Eloise Finsterwald aged 13 won first prize for a pound cake at the Athens County Fair. Her mother Mrs Elmer Finsterwald also earned second with a cocoanut layer cake and seven minute frosting. The article prints their recipes and method.
Two corn dishes named Squaw Corn and Corn Fritters appear from a home on Elmwood Place. Squaw Corn uses bacon and green pepper with fresh corn cut from ears for a waxy spicy side. Corn Fritters mix sour milk brown sugar and soda with leftover or fresh corn to form a batter.
A recipe fragment describes mixing soda milk salt sugar and beaten eggs then adding corn and flour to form batter for frying on a pancake griddle. The instruction emphasizes combining ingredients and cooking batter to create pancakes.
A newspaper fragment outlines a Southern casserole recipe layering apples and sweet potatoes with pork chops. Instructions include prep steps, seasoning with mustard and brown sugar, and baking guidance. The text also notes a Grand Army of the Republic meeting in Grand Rapids in 1938 to accept a Gettysburg battlefield joint reunion invitation.
A quick sandwich filling uses 1 to 4 cups real mayonnaise 2 finely chopped dill pickles 6 crisp bacon slices finely chopped Mix mayo with the other ingredients and spread between bread slices Then butter or margarine the bread Makes 3 to 4 cups of filling.
A customer letter praises ALL-BRAN for transforming digestion and mood after a week of three meals daily. The ad touts bulk to aid elimination, vitamin B and iron, and claims superiority to leafy vegetables, urging two tablespoonfuls daily and doctor if unresolved.
A series of letters from mothers claim Ovaltine helped nervous, underweight children gain weight and improve energy. Dorothy allegedly gained weight from eight pounds underweight to normal in 12 weeks, with other testimonies of grown color and calmer nerves. The notices urge trial and note availability at drug, grocery, and department stores.
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