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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1945
Page
9
The article offers a hearty breakfast and a simple dinner idea. It provides a pancake recipe with flour baking powder salt sugar eggs milk bran flakes and shortening and a cooking method. It also suggests serving pancakes with syrup honey or jelly. An alternative dish uses spaghetti with tomato sauce and chopped bologna for a quick meal.
Two new school lunch ideas emphasize citrus for vitamin C. Creamy orange cookies use ground orange and juice with shortening and sugar, while crunchy bean sandwiches mix canned beans with celery and lemon juice. A cucumber dish offers chilled cubes with a dill sour cream dressing.
Oysters return to season with advice to use them in stews scalloped fried or plain with lemon or sauce. Scalloped oysters recipe uses Bluepoint oysters cracker crumbs butter salt pepper Worcestershire milk and is baked at 450 degrees for 30 minutes until browned.
Sugar remains scarce after the war while the Sun day dinner reunion calls for dessert. The article gives two pie recipes, Peanut Graham Pie and Orange Chiffon Pie, with crusts, fillings, mixing, baking, and chilling steps for a festive dessert.
A canned tuna filling combines milk onion parsley celery crackers and spices to stuff six green peppers. Parboiled peppers are filled and baked in custard cups at 375 degrees for 30 minutes, served with bran bread.
A recipe combines leftover lamb with lima beans and condensed soup into a bakeable casserole. Sauté onions in fat, brown lamb, mix with beans and soup, add Worcestershire, top with crackers, and bake about 35 minutes at 375 degrees.
Carol Bruce of radio fame shares tips to scent accessories. She suggests dunking a mesh hair net in cologne, tucking perfume pellets into hatbands, and scenting gloves for a fragrant aura. She warns against applying perfume to most outerwear and advises sparing use on tweeds and furs.
Patti Clayton CBS vocalist shares a method to sustain blush using a hydronized blush oil. She applies a blood-toned rouge from an automatic applice that sifts powder through surgical sponge rubber for a subtle, lasting effect.
Servicemen wives ask about eligibility for Emergency Maternity and Infant Care. Answers cover eligibility by rank, timing of application, Navy and Marine Corps grade limits, single application plans, and access if illness occurs during pregnancy.
Ruth Millet critiques beauty experts who prescribe a return to frilly feminine ideals for American women after the war. She contrasts wartime roles of servicewomen and workers with the new standard, arguing men should take over jobs while women embrace a delicate, dependent image. The tone mockingly questions the motives and social pressure behind the fashion shift.
Doris Muller of Staten Island won first prize in a Girl Scout lunchbox contest with a nourishing assortment. Her box included three sandwiches a peach gingerbread square oatmeal cookies a cabbage and carrot slaw and a lemonade drink. One sandwich featured liver spread with bacon and onions while another used chopped cheese with green pepper and tomatoes and a third combined peanut butter honey and lettuce.
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