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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
5
A recipe describes mixing five ounces flour two spoons sugar and one teaspoon baking powder with well beaten eggs and milk to form a dough. Roll thin and cut with a fluted cutter. Bake on a buttered slide and glaze with milk, placing a cherry center on each biscuit.
An ode to nature and joy describing how sun light, birds, flowers, and sea scenes lift the spirit. It invites gratitude and shared peace as the speaker praises nature’s gifts and a hopeful view that all men are free. The piece closes with a reference to Rose Marie.
A compact recipe note detailing how to tag and roll dough into balls, bake in a quick oven, and glaze with an egg milk mix. Ingredients include four cuffs of butter, sugar, egg, milk, vanilla custard powder, flour, and caster sugar with a moderate oven timing from zero to fifteen minutes.
An old advertisement describes Pattern 1679 for peasant apron tea towel designs. It offers seven motifs with transfer patterns, colour suggestions, stitch illustrations, and material needs. Requests 1 shilling and1d via postal note or stamps to The United Needlecraft Sydney P O Box 4150X for pattern delivery.
Fragmented OCR shows multiple biscuit and cookie recipes. Instructions reference butter sugar vanilla and eggs, with notes on cream filling and bake times. Some lines are garbled but indicate steps for making glazed cherry cookies and various biscuit doughs.
Advertisement for wedding cake boxes with card and tin, suitable for posting under Commonwealth postal regulations. Priced at 3/6 per dozen with post free. Available at the paper office or United Press Ltd, 971-3 Hay Street, Perth.
A Victorian style guide lists simple savories for entertaining. It details cocktail morsels with gherkins onions and cheese, cheese rounds on bread, fish paste sandwiches, spicy prawns with mayonnaise, cucumber canapés with relish and sauce, and cheese balls made from breadcrumbs and grated cheese.
Silver nailheads stud a grey wool dress worn by Metro Goldwyn Mayer actress Virginia Grey. A tiny collar anchors a large hamlike notch while a squared Vedicitch shoulder line provides slight fullness. The high curved waist is studded as a belt illusion, and the skirt forms a circular sweep.
A scrambled OCR fragment lists bite sized canapes and boat savouries with anchovy paste and cheese fillings. Mentions white and biscuit bases, icing sugar vanilla accents, and crisped shells or crackers, describing serving ideas and basic preparation steps.
Fragment ends with garbled lines about potato caskets and meat options. No clear event or persons beyond Chis Week. Summary remains uncertain due to unreadable OCR.
A garbled kitchen note describes cheese and seasoning with casenne neoner and salt. It mentions beating eggs, adding other ingredients, shaping balls, rolling in fine bread crumbs, and frying in hot fat until golden. A rainy blue smoke rises from the scene.
A room resolution urges clearing a kitchen catch-all drawer and stopping its clutter. It notes odds and ends, paring knives and unused items from 1938, urging organization. A competition details honey themed cakes and biscuits with entry via Messrs Beans Ltd by Wednesday. Further copies and recipes available through Willoughby Lance of the Primary Producers’ Association in Perth.
Through the courtesy of leading Perth business houses numerous prizes were donated for a fat cookery competition as judges note readiness to reach boiling point and serve hot dishes. Recipes describe bread and butter savories with decorative faces using colorful pastes and pickled vegetables.
An anecdote from Miss J.D. of Scotsdale Tasmania claims Pink Pills by Dr Williams restore red blood, ease anaemia symptoms, and improve complexion and energy after three bottles. The testimonial touts relief from headaches, fatigue, and indigestion with better skin and vitality.
A club column from Roy Clarke Goomalling features Uncle Hugh’s Young Companions corner with a goat-hitch paddling tale and reader entries from Verna Creston. Also included is a brief Australian Explorers note on Leichhardt and Gregory, outlining Leichhardt’s fate and Gregory’s WA journey.
The Honeybees palace tale continues with Queen Goldwing s court, nurse bees, and ant invaders. The scene shows palace life, guards, laborers, and threats as a large purple ant approaches, prompting a clash with Bee guards. The narrative promises continuation next week.
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