Cookies and Cakes From A Wartime Sugar Rationing Era
A wartime guidance piece encourages baking sweets while conserving sugar for canning. It lists Molasses Cookies with a 75 yield, a chocolate fudge cake and frosting, and mentions cupcakes using a sugar substitute. The tone urges practical use of limited sugar to please family and guests.
Pleasing Variety In Everyday Foods Dessert Tips
The grocery guide highlights fruit pairings for pies and simple desserts using lemon juice to enhance fruit flavors. It offers recipes for mixed fruit pies with corn syrup and vanilla, a sugarless chocolate icing for cupcakes, and a strawberry pie with whipped cream. Also includes a French Pear pie with a crumble or lattice topping and notes on enjoying fresh berries.
Vegetable Platter and Dessert Menu Highlights
A kitchen lineup features an asparagus cauliflower and tomato vegetable platter with corn toasted English muffins and deviled eggs. A molded grapefruit salad beverage and strawberry pie recipe complete the menu, offering varied cold and hot options.
Edison’s Talking Doll That Was Destroyed In 1888
Edison developed a talking doll circa 1888 with a phonograph mechanism that could recite about a dozen nursery rhymes. He stopped production after a short run and destroyed most dolls while saving a fews.
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