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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
3
Kathryn G Wynn food editor of The Pantry Shelf urges readers to submit final recipe entries before the contest closes with this issue. Prizes include fifteen dollars and readers are advised to watch for winners and their chosen recipes in upcoming issues.
At Flushing Meadows the World of Tomorrow exhibit showcases a varied approach to ripe olives in cookery. California ideas introduce olives in entrees and stuffings, meat loaves, salads, and regional dishes, highlighting affordable flavor and authenticity for home cooks.
A recipe for Peach-Nectarine Banana-Crush describes a cold whole-fruit nectar drink. The mix uses peaches and nectarines with bananas, sugar, lemon juice, creme soda water, clove extract and salt, yielding about 14 quarts and suggesting variations with other whole-fruit nectars.
A simple method for flavoring veal or lamb chops involves soaking a garlic clove for hours, soaking in a shallow dish with half a cup of French dressing, then dipping the chops and broiling or baking without additional seasonings.
A historic recipe for gingerbread dolls uses flour, baking powder, spices, molasses, brown sugar, egg, and shortening. After mixing and chilling, roll and cut with cutters or shape by hand, bake 12 minutes at a moderate heat, and decorate eyes with raisins. Makes 18 dolls about 4 inches tall.
Orange Ginger Ale Cocktail and Sunkist Cocktail share steps for serving juice based drinks. Both use orange juice as a base with ginger ale or carbonated water, served over cracked ice with optional mint or cherries. Recipes suggest serving to guests at formal dinners or buffet suppers.
Boil seedless raisins five minutes then drain. Sift flour with salt baking powder and spices and sugar. Cut in shortening until crumbly. Mix milk with beaten egg add to dry ingredients and blend. Add raisins and finish mixing into dough.
A recipe describes mixing raisins with dough, rolling thin and cutting into rounds, baking at 450 degrees for about 10 minutes. Tops are spread with blended whipped cream and sugar then blistered under high broiler heat while watching closely. Makes two dozen biscuits.
A quick salmon dish uses 2 lbs canned salmon and bread crumbs with egg onion parsley and seasonings. Wrap each patty in bacon, secure with a toothpick, bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes until crisp, serve with persillade potatoes for six to eight servings.
To deplete bluing wash in hot water and soap. If still blue, soak in three quarts hot water with three tablespoons vinegar added.
Lay link sausages in a cold pan and cover. Heat slowly for ten minutes, turning several times with a fork without piercing. This method aims to prevent sausages from bursting during cooking.
Betty Crocker presents Maids of Honor tarts and cottage cheese pies with cinnamon nutmeg fillings. Directions cover filling with raisins currants lemon rind and almonds baked in tart shells or lattice pie with flaky pastry crusts and step by step dough preparation.
The article argues that soaking is unnecessary with new methods and shows prunes cooked without soaking taste better. It guides rinsing, covering with water, and boiling durations from 30 to 60 minutes by fruit type, with sugar added near the end and optional spices or lemon for flavor. High altitudes require longer cooking.
A note on turnip appeal and two quick recipes to enhance the humble vegetable. Pare and boil 8 turnips until tender, make a white sauce from flour fat milk and seasonings, pour over the turnips and serve with salt and pepper.
Large cucumbers halved hollowed and salted then filled with salmon mixture. Mix canned salmon cucumber pulp green pepper onion and French dressing. Serve on lettuce with radish roses and sweet pickles. yields six portions.
Chopped ripe olives bring decorative charm and flavor in the final minutes. Sprinkle chopped or sliced olives over cream soups or bisques before serving. Add generously to dressed salads atop citrus fruits and pair with cheese in sandwich fillings.
To make juice from three ands ripe grapes squeeze and boil with water then strain. For best color use Concord grapes and add lemon juice if using Malagas. Mix sugar and juice, bring to rapid boil, add pectin, boil hard four minutes, skim and seal in jars.
Remove skins from eight pounds of grapes and boil pulp ten minutes. Strain seeds. Chop two oranges with rind and pulp, add fourteen cups raisins one teaspoon salt three tablespoons lemon juice and three cups granulated sugar. After thirty nine minutes mix in cooked grape pulp. Boil until thick then add grape skins and one cup English walnuts. Boil ten minutes and seal in sterilized jars.
The Fort Peck Indian Reservation entry holders face cancellation if the purchase price is not paid by Oct 2 1939. Thomas Corbally at the Great Falls land office says 213 notices were mailed as instructed by the general land office. The land opened about 20 years ago at prices from 1 to 5 dollars per acre with no payments in the last four to five years despite extensions from Montana senators and congressmen.
The act provides compensation for widows and children of veterans with service connected disabilities who die from nonservice related causes. It lifts eligibility from 10 percent to all service connected cases and boosts monthly payments up to 30 dollars for widows with one child and 38 dollars with more, plus add ons for additional children. It adds dependent mothers and fathers and raises total family benefits from 56 to 64 dollars. For service connected deaths it sets widows under 50 at 3750 dollars per month, widows over 50 at 45 dollars per month, and extends to 82.50 dollars per month for all widows and children. It guarantees not less than 100 dollars monthly for loss of one hand, foot, or eye.
High federal and state officials attended the dedication of the Glacier park west entrance bridge built in 1938 as America’s most beautiful in its class. Awards were presented to contractor W. P. Roscoe and design engineer B. J. Ornburn by Harry Penn of the American Institute of Steel Construction.
A dream about shopping is interpreted as a sign of surprising profit or windfall coming from an unforeseen source. The reading suggests optimism and new opportunities may arrive soon.
James F. Beckett aged 55 a traveling passenger agent for the Great Northern died suddenly in his sleep at the Glacier Park hotel. A veteran of the railroad he began in 1904 at Fort Browning and later served at Kalispell Butte and Great Falls. He had headed Glacier park tours as a special representative for five seasons and arranged Indian events during the tourist season. Burial was in Kalispell.
Leonard Cobb about 50 fell from the third floor of the Doyle block in Butte. Two WPA watchmen witnessed the plunge as Cobb seemed to leap head first onto the alley pavement from a fire escape landing about 36 feet above ground.
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