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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
7
Kathryn G Wynn food editor of The Pantry Shelf urges readers to submit recipes before the contest closes with this issue. Prizes include fifteen dollars and winners will be named in future issues. September details to follow.
Montana State extension specialist Miss Bessie E McClelland outlines two canning methods for corn. She notes use fresh tender corn and two styles: whole kernel and cream style. Times and pressures are given for pint and quart jars, with salt and water proportions and handling tips to preserve flavor.
The article tracks molasses from ancient China and India to America in 1750 and 1820, noting sugar cane varieties from ribbon to P. O. J. and the rise of Louisiana as a premier molasses producer. It highlights molasses as a long favored kitchen staple enriching foods across eras.
David Livingstone, famed African missionary and explorer, long sought to go to China but was assigned to Africa, fueling disappointment and a career defined by African travels and discoveries.
Pick over popped corn and discard kernels. Boil molasses sugar water vinegar and salt to 270 degrees F until brittle in cold water. Remove from heat add butter and vanilla. Pour syrup over corn and mix, form into balls, wrap in wax paper when cool. Makes 36.
A quick custard like chocolate chip ice cream recipe yields 1 pint. Chill milk, whip to stiff peaks, beat egg, fold in sugar vanilla and chocolate, then freeze in an automatic freezer. Ready in about 15 minutes and set in 1 to 1.5 hours.
A vintage style recipe combines 6 cups cooked rice or cracked wheat with 4 cups dried fruit such as prunes peaches apricots or raisins. It includes onion sage salt pepper shortening and fruit juice baked slowly and served with meat yields about 10 servings.
Two Hawaiian desserts are featured as refreshing treats. The article describes ingredient ideas and preparation notes for light, tropical flavors perfect for warm weather.
A vintage style recipe describes Bethy Crocken’s Apple Sauce Cake using unsweetened apple sauce and spices. The method includes making apple sauce from sour apples, preparing a batter with flour raisins and walnuts, baking in a loaf pan, and optional Mocha icing. The cake allegedly stays moist and improves with age.
Well chilled canned Hawaiian pineapple gems about five per serving in sherbet glasses. Top with a scoop of strawberry or raspberry sherbet and serve with thin sugar cookies. Fill glasses with melon balls and seasonal fresh berries. Pour unsweetened canned pineapple juice over fruit and chill thoroughly. Finish with a mint sprig dipped in powdered sugar.
Cheese is a versatile food used in many combos with olives. Ripe olives add flavor and garnish to summer cheese dishes. Slices of olives top open-face sandwiches with cream cheese. Chopped olives mix with cottage cheese as a sandwich filling. Grated yellow cheese blends with olives in similar proportions.
A playful kitchen note suggests spicing deviled eggs with olives and Tabasco. Proposes four eggs per one-fourth cup chopped ripe olives for added zest beyond traditional mayo mustard salt and pepper.
Several cooperative burial associations have been formed across the central Midwest region. The new groups aim to provide affordable funeral services and member benefits through pooled contributions and shared resources. Local leaders anticipate broader community coverage and improved financial stability for participating families.
Varney postmaster Harry B Daems recalls Bill Fairweather's 1863 Alder Gulch strike and the pick and gold pan he kept after Fairweather's death. Daems plans to donate the relics to Virginia City's historical museum and notes his family ties to Pete Daly's in the Madison valley.
C L Waring Montana AAA state committeeman announces Sept 30 deadline for 1940 winter wheat crop insurance applications. Farmers must apply and pay premium before seeding this fall. no applications accepted after deadline. Deadline applies statewide to standardize coverage and simplify process. County committees provide premium calculations.
Senator James E. Murray will hold competitive examinations on October 7 for one vacancy each at the United States Naval and Military Academies for the classes entering July 1940. Exams run 9 a.m. in post office buildings across Montana cities. open to bona fide Montana residents within specified ages. Applications assessed on merit with no political endorsements required. deadline noted as September.
Englehart Lieberg of Helena was named United States marshal for the district of Montana by Judge James H. Baldwin and N Pray. Lieberg was chief deputy marshal for years and fills a vacancy since the Senate adjourned without confirming Roosevelt nominee William W. Crawford of Great Falls who had acted as marshal since Sept 1, 1938.
Julia Tillman of Hamilton and Missoula is credited as Montana’s oldest living pioneer woman by residence. She arrived in Montana on May 15, 1863, with her family, witnessed Alder Gulch gold rush era, taught Lone Rock school, married Newton Tillman in 1883, and raised nine children.
Funeral services were held at St. Pauls mission near Sandusky for Joe Contway 78 year old Snake Indian cowboy Burial was in Chinook Contway was a colorful old time rider who came to Montana as a youth He worked as a cowhand in Deer Lodge valley and in the Judith basin in 1885 He later joined Horace Brewsters roundup in the Judith basin where he found five murdered bodies of a family The killer was caught and hanged himself in the Great Falls jail.
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