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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1913
Page
6
The narrator arrives in Naples to faces peering from dark porters and lively Via Vardones. They rent a tiny, vaultlike fourth floor room amid buzzing vendors, bargaining lingo, and a midnight porter demand. The scene contrasts glamorous harbor imagery with cramped lodging and raw street life.
Instructions describe cleaning a cod or haddock, lacing the fish into an eight shaped seam, stuffing with bread crumbs parsley onions salt and pepper, resting on its belly while baking, and inserting salt pork strips along the back. Finish with flour butter sauce and a chopped hard boiled egg garnish.
Recipe for pickled oysters instructs to boil freshly shucked oysters in their own liquor, skim, strain, and reheat. Then simmer clove, mace, pepper in a portion of liquor, add vinegar, mix with cooled oysters, and bottle after cooling.
Instructions describe washing swans down by sewing strips to muslin and immersing in warm soap suds. Squeeze through hands rinse in clear water hang to dry partially then remove from muslin and finish drying by gentle rubbing and shaking to restore fluffiness.
A trimmed banana skin is cut to form a canoe and the fruit is carefully filled with equal parts of banana and orange, topped with three or four berries of contrasting color such as raspberries, blackberries, or blueberries, or candied cherries, as described in Good Housekeeping.
Steam one fourth cup hominy in one half cup boiling water until absorbed. Add half teaspoon salt, three fourths cup milk, then cook. Stir in one slightly beaten egg two tablespoons butter and a few grains pepper. Cool shape nests coat with crumbs and fry until brown.
A simple guide to making a marmalade sandwich with orange marmalade on buttered bread layered into four slices. Press under weight, trim crusts, slice thinly to resemble jelly cake. Tea or chocolate and a cordial complement the chic table setting. Success hinges on backbone and cheek.
Wash and dry one pound dates and one pound figs. Add one pound raisins, one cup English walnuts and put all through a meat grinder twice. Shape into balls and roll in granulated sugar, press flat on top of each. Prunes are good in place of dates.
A simple scalloped potato method describes slicing raw potatoes into rounds, layering with salt pepper and milk nearly to cover, then baking for about an hour.
Summer reports recounts a high number of Alpine fatalities and a Europe wide controversy over promoting mountaineering as a sport. Tourists from Austria and Germany, often solo climbers, brave crevasses and edelweiss hunts, with Tyrolese guides noting reckless ascent by foreigners.
A historical account highlights how proper rope use and a minimum of three climbers prevent fatal falls on Alpine crevasses. It recalls rescues by guides and mountaineers, including a German climber spared by two companions and cases where bravery and presence of mind saved lives amid avalanches and crevasses.
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