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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1905
Page
3
Community tips from Boston area readers cover stove coal use, shoe care, baking, and home hacks. Advice includes switching to pea coal for savings, maintaining fires, shoe maintenance to cut costs, knife and silver cleaning, and simple vented drainer hacks for busy cooking days.
A humorous domestic guide by Mrs A R Kenney suggests tender handling of husbands through misdirected cooking metaphors. The piece warns against harsh treatments and advocates gentle care with subtle sweetening to keep husbands digestible and agreeable.
An 8 ounce alcohol and sea salt bath recipe with ammonia camphor and hot water for soothing nerves. Instructions include dissolving salt, cooling, mixing in spirits, and application with a sponge to stimulate skin. Followed by a list of local names and services such as cooking timetables, utensil care, saving labor, and talks on cookies from Marblehead to Charlestown.
Melt butter in the chafing dish add lobster in small pieces with salt a wineglass Madeira or sherry beat two egg yolks add cream stir over the lobster until smooth remove from heat and add another wineglass of wine serve on hot toast Mrs Sara Livermore 160 Pleasant Street Cambridgeport
A recipe for fried tomatoes with a butter gravy accompanies a list of prize entries and contributors including A. E. Chase of Somerville and Edith Kelso of Jamaica Plain. The page lists dishes such as cranberry pudding sardine canapes eggs scrambled beef a la mode and more, with contributor names and towns across Massachusetts.
Women contributors are invited to submit one sided communications with names and addresses. Two prizes per department will be awarded each month four dollars total in prizes. Ten dollars for best cooking recipe and ten dollars for best housekeeping suggestion with five dollar second prizes. Send entries to Editor Household Contests Boston Sunday Post.
A collection of practical tips for kitchen, cleaning, and domestic care from readers in Arlington Heights to Spencer Massachusetts. Tips cover pie and dumpling making, preserving jellies, removing stains, and simple home cures with kerosene, alcohol, and vinegar. Includes names and addresses of contributors such as MRS MAY JOHNSON and MRS ARTHUR T LOCKE.
A collage of home recipes from Boston area contributors. Haddock chowder with pork and crackers. fish stews and croquettes. croissantlike doughs. salmon and cod dishes. liver and mutton stews. lamb chops with cream gravy. corn canning and macaroni dishes. bread, cakes, and pies from multiple households in Chelsea Dorchester Jamaica Plain and beyond. Recipes include step by step methods, ingredients, and serving suggestions.
Ingredients list includes five pounds fruit three pounds brown sugar two tablespoons cloves one tablespoon cinnamon M4 tablespoon allspice and one pint vinegar. Cook slowly for hours. Address G R Bridgham 26 Washington Park Newtonville.
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