How to Fry Potato Chips the USDA Way
The USDA explains best practices for crispy chips. Choose mature mealy potatoes like Irish Gobbler or Green Mountain, use a mechanical slicer, soak and rinse to remove starch, and fry in high grade cottonseed oil at about 410 F for 3 to 5 minutes. One half pound oil per pound chips, keep fat hot, reuse oil, and avoid lard or low smoke point fats.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Green Mountain
Three variations of biscuit dough for desserts and snacks
The article outlines three USDA recommended uses for plain biscuit dough Pin Wheels with fruit or cinnamon sugars Coffee Cake with sugar egg and cinnamon and Dutch Apple Cake with tart apples and butter Also suggests other fruits like peaches plums raspberries and cherries as substitutes.
Airy White Frocks Highlight Summer Fashion Trends
The feature surveys white gowns and sheer fabrics for summer wear, from georgette and crepe de chine blouses to embroidered nets and voile frocks. It notes designers favor low waists, over-the-skirt styles, and versatile white outfits for social and outdoor occasions.
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Georgette
Grid leak resistance in three electrode vacuum tube circuit
The article explains how a grid leak resistance affects grid charging and plate current in a three electrode vacuum tube. It compares grid leak values, discusses internal plate impedance, and notes how grid potential and tube design influence detector performance in radio sets.
Household Hints From A Century Ago
A collection of practical tips for daily tasks including preserving pineapple with a lemon, making double strength coffee after dinner, adding baking powder in fudge for creaminess, using a cabbage leaf to clean greasy tinware, camphorated chalk for wallpaper grease, avoiding fast stews to prevent tough meat, stretching a clothesline, keeping potatoes white by soaking in cold water, raw starch for cuts, and adding vinegar to rinse water for extra glass shine.
New Radio Filter Lets Telephone and Telegraph Messages Coexist
Dr Frank B Jewett of Western Electric demonstrated a novel electrical filter at an American Institute of Electrical Engineers meeting. The device separates bands of frequencies to distinguish telephone messages from telegraph signals in radio receivers and can also separate multiple telephone messages.
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Scientific American
Frank B. Jewett
Western Electric Company
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
G. A. Campbell
Ground Antennae for Better Radio Reception
The article explains using a ground antenna with a long insulated wire laid in a trench or on the ground. Position the wire toward the station with the strongest signals and extend it for several hundred feet to reduce summertime radio stray interference.
Regulating Wave Lengths with Variable Condenser
A variable condenser in the antenna circuit can lengthen or shorten the wave length range. Regulation is finer with this device, as even a loading coil tuned by a tuning coil type limits adjustment to within a single turn.
Wireless Telephony Sparks Pop Proliferation in Early Radio Era
Reports from Pittsburgh Chicago Newark and Springfield Mass warn 84 000 trespass injuries on railroads last year while broadcasts reach distant ships 4000 miles from Newark. A device records incoming signals on paper enabling non coders to hear transmissions and learn the code. Curious listeners seek phonograph records to learn the telegraph code.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Newark
Springfield
Mass
Iquique
Chile
South America
Santa Luisa
WJZ
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