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Newspaper
Burlington Free Press
Location
Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
6
A colonial era guide explains salads using meats, cheeses, beets, and vegetables. It details assembling potato, lettuce, tomato, and cheese salads with mayonnaise dressing, beets prepared in vinegar, and garnishes for an appealing plate.
A recipe guide describes making a rich meat stock from bones and broth, then turning it into a hearty soup. It instructs simmering bones with onion carrot celery and water, skimming grease, and seasoning with salt pepper and herbs. Variations include bread, peas, tomatoes, potatoes, or other vegetables, all thickened with milk and roux.
A fragmented recipe collection describes making a rich syrup with Waldui and orange peel, stewing rhubarb, and using orange skin. It covers codfish mashed potato mixture with cream eggs and bitter, baking steps, bread puddings, frying brawn, peeled potato rings, fried apples, rhubarb bake, and turnip dishes with sugar and cream.
The article notes foreign and American dining rudeness at soup courses and urges quiet eating as a key habit. It asserts soup consumption as a vital, economical part of a child’s meals and cautions that noisy beginnings spoil meals and temperance.
Sour cherries are good for preserving. Seed carefully and use equal sugar to fruit. Layer sugar and fruit, let stand, boil briefly, then add remaining sugar and boil again. Pour syrup over cherries, drain next day, boil, skim, and seal in jars.
Cut in two hard boiled eggs remove yolks chop and mix with cold chicken or veal onion parsley bread crumbs salt pepper and the yolk of an uncooked egg to bind. Fill cavities rejoin halves roll in bread crumbs and fry brown serve with tomato sauce.
Instructions describe boiling potatoes in water with rice for forty five minutes then adding bitter and four in a tablespoon, simmering fifteen minutes more, and finishing with a cupful of sweet cream before serving.
The clubbing list offers combining the Weekly Free Press with major papers and magazines at reduced rates. Subscriptions start from one address for one year, with a note that changes of address or receipt of other periodicals should not be sent to the office. Many titles are listed, including Boston Journal and Harper's, with a request to include stamps for replies and that the clubbing work is done at no profit.
In Hub Markets Boston May 30 a firm butter market with strong demand and varied prices for creamery to eastern and western lots. Old cheese firm while new cheese dull. prices for meats, poultry, and produce show steady or higher trends with careful notes on beans, corn, and livestock. Receipts for apples and strawberries high and quality improving.
Local Burlington market notes list dairy prices including butter at 4 cents per pound and eggs at 7 cents a dozen. Other items shown include cream cheese 24 cents per pound, plain cheese 16 to 18 cents, Roquefort 0 cents, Neuchatel 6 cents, and various cheeses with per unit or per hundred pricing.
Quotations list dairy and egg prices with Provisione butter at 18 cents per pound and creamery butter, cheese, Comte, eggs at 14 to 19 cents a dozen, bens at 2.05 dollars per bushel.
A garbled excerpt lists prices for meat and poultry such as beef and pork in Vermont markets, with scattered references to dressed and live weights. The text also mentions fowls, turkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens with inconsistent cents per pound or per bushel figures.
The weekly crop bulletins report wet conditions hindering farm work with crops showing below average growth. About half of cultivated corn in New England states planted. Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts report slow progress. Apples bloom in Vermont. Massachusetts orchards largely bloomed. raspberries and grapes in bloom. potatoes largely planted but frost damaged some Massachusetts crops. asparagus poor in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. early peas cultivated in Maine.
A week in Congress covers debates on beer resolutions, the St Louis fair funding, Alaska Civil Government, Sundry Civil and Naval Appropriations, Boer sympathy, and pension bills. The House and Senate held sessions, with speeches by Mr Bacon Mr Spooner and Mr Moreau, and a conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill.
Vicki Legg signs as witness in Castori Iowa noting a signature tied to a boat titled The Kind You Have Always. Local record lists the vessel and signer in an ambiguous civic notice.
May coverage reports Spooner Hale senate clash over Cuban affairs and Platt defense. Rob erts moves at Rhenoster 38 miles north of Kroonstad as Boers retreat. Kidnapped freshmen captured rescue scenes. Other items include Turk ultimatum, Neely extradition clash, Cuban stamp fraud allegations, New York judge complaints, Welland dynamiters, various riots, fires, strikes and political maneuvers across multiple states and nations.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder issues. It claims relief from urinary troubles headaches and fatigue and offers sample bottles and a free book by mail from Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
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