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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1907
Page
3
Women embrace home canning amid distrust of cheap processed substitutes. The piece recalls costs, methods, and health concerns, offering practical directions for fruit preserves, jellies, marmalades, and beef curing, while praising grandma style techniques.
A readable excerpt presents a wine soup recipe credited to Mrs. H. R. S. of Buffalo New York. The method describes browning flour and butter then whisking in hot water milk and sugar, boiling briefly, off heat adding white wine or sherry and egg, cream and cinnamon. The note suggests suitability for invalids and nursing mothers and serving warm or cold.
Inclosed please find a few household suggestions offered for printing. Oil of paraffin makes a fine furniture polish. A teaspoonful of lye in a boiler of clothes will whiten them nicely. Vinegar and salt worked into a paste.
A long list of weekly meals with multiple courses notes breakfast lunches and dinners. Dishes include oranges rice porridge cream mackerel tea and coffee. cold lamb and duck leftovers. tomato soup roast ducks prawns? asparagus and desserts like queen of puddings, cherry pie and berry puddings.
A note from Mrs S S of Charles City Iowa requests books for shut ins and stamping patterns and urges readers to send full addresses with state and house number. She explains mailroom challenges including sorting, misrouted letters, illegible postmarks, and multiple towns sharing names, advising readers to check gazetteers for the correct posta code.
A letter from Mrs A. A. Stockton-Sillers appeals for an donated invalid chair for a wife and child family. The note includes a child cradle cap remedy using olive oil and a caution against using corns. The piece urges readers to reply promptly and share reading matter for the reader and the family.
A Cortland reader asks for farming advice on a cow that will not drink water. Despite ample salt and healthy eating, the animal is thin. A practical dairy farmer is urged to help the perplexed owner and prevent drying up the herd.
The text gives a mayonnaise method using a raw egg and oil with lemon juice vinegar salt pepper and mustard to taste. Stir oil into the egg drop by drop until thickened then add vinegar and seasonings. keep utensils cold and add oil more rapidly as it thickens. Green tea is said to affect nerves more strongly and less beneficially than black tea.
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