Spanish Style Dishes and Serving Guide for Guests
A Spanish style guide describes serving oranges with peels removed and a fork inserted, plus recipes for puchera a meat stock dish, frijolee beans, a Spanish salad, and Spanish puffes. It covers ingredients, cooking steps, and serving notes emphasizing vegetables, garlic, and seasonings.
Apple sauce dessert idea from Brooklyn housewife
A Brooklyn housewife created a dessert using apple sauce cooked to a mallogainy red color in sherbet glasses. A nest was filled with whipped cream and sprinkled with finely minted nuts. The sauce can be canned for long storage and serves with meat or dessert.
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Lid storage system for pantry shelves described
A woman improves pantry organization by nailing a narrow wood strip under a high pot shelf to create slots for lids. The lids slip into the space, with handles preventing slips. Lids are stored by size, enabling quick retrieval without wasted time.
Cabbage Stew From Boiling Water and Milk
A simple cabbage dish is prepared by simmering shredded cabbage in boiling water for ten minutes. Drain the water, pour warm milk over the cabbage, bring milk to a boil with flour moistened in milk, season with salt and pepper, add butter, and serve hot.
Bed Apron Used By Housewife For Bed Making
A neat housewife keeps a large white apron called the bed apron hanging in the back upper hall. When the maid goes upstairs to make the beds she is asked to put on this apron to cover the front of her dress and protect the bedding from soiling.
Mince Meat Preparation Instructions
One cup chopped meat one cup sugar one half cup molasses three cups chopped apples one or two cups meat liquor or water one one half and tet stand 24 hours before baking to season.
Savory Drippings From Fat Meat Guide
A concise traditional note explains rendering fat with six small onions uncut and two sprigs of summer savory for flavor. It reads as a practical kitchen instruction, preserving old style wording and a muted emphasis on preparation steps.
Economic Use of Meats in the Home manual released
The U S Department of Agriculture offers a free manual titled Economic Use of Meats in the Home. It provides general meat preparation methods, using cheaper cuts, fat clarification, and flavor extension. It contains 50 savory recipes drawn from approved sources, requiring no specialized knowledge to prepare.
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Washington
Practical Household Tips From an Old Diary
The note offers quick fixes for kitchen and laundry tasks. It suggests cooling hot dishes in cold salted water, removing stains from black cloth with raw potato, and making griddle cakes by heating milk and eggs together. It also covers chicken salad with pepper and mayo, pressing meat into pepper cases, preventing potato discoloration with lemon, and storing woolen blankets in newspaper lined boxes with turpentine to deter moths. Vaseline stains are hard to remove, but warm water and soap followed by chlorinated soda can lift them.
Spinach Bohemian Style Palate Cleanser Dish
Wash and boil one half peck spinach then press dry and chop. Make a roux with butter flour, add beef stock and boil five minutes. Season, serve on platter with fried eggs or omit. Described as a palatable dish and tonic for the complexion, to be eaten freely this season.
Salmon canned for emergency kitchen use
A can of salmon is a reliable emergency aid for households. It can be used in bisque or a thin white sauce, served as a salad with mayonnaise and olives, or added to loaf or scallop dishes.
Tomato Fish Chowder Recipe Technique
A vintage kitchen directions describe frying pork slices, then simmering with half a can of tomatoes for an hour. Layer in fish and potatoes with pepper and flour, then as potatoes near done add a quart of milk and split crackers. If pork lacks flavor, add salt. Uses four pounds fish and a quart bowl potatoes.
Simple Graham Flour Dough Shapes Bake Quickly
Mix graham flour with a pinch of salt and a dab of cold water to form a stiff ball. Roll out, cut into shapes, bake in a large pan until puffed and tasty. Enjoy with butter or peanut butter, or plain. Experiment to get them just right.
Rice a la Reine Recipe from a Historical Page
Recipe directs cooking three ounces of rice in one quart of milk for two or three hours. Sweeten and flavor to taste, cool, then add half an ounce of gelatine dissolved in milk and a gill of cream. Strain, stir, and pour into a wetted mold.
Kelly's Men First Confederate Company from Missouri
In response to a reader query, Nick McGrath details Kelly's men as the first Missouri Confederate company. The unit fought across Missouri with Parson's brigade until Wilson's Creek, where it was broken up and suffered heavy casualties, with several members killed at Corinth and Franklin. Remaining members transferred to Parson's brigade infantry and a few joined batteries. few survived from the original company.
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St. Louis
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J. S. Marmaduke
West Point
Claiborne F. Jackson
Joseph Kelly
Jefferson City
Government by stealth taints Taft era reporting
Washington June 6 Clyde H Tavenner reports on press censorship in the Taft administration as officials urge control of interviews and manuscript submissions citing Rule 2 from the US Geological Survey directed by George Otis Smith. The piece surveys escalating government spending and calls out Cannonism in tax policy and rail legislation.
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Taft
Pinchot
Glavis
Kerby
Interior Department
George Otis Smith
Regular Tom Boy’s Adventures and Safety Remedies
A fragmentary note describes a girl referred to as a regular tom boy who climbs trees and fences, jumps ditches, and whittles. It mentions injuries such as sprains burns and cuts and cites Arnica Salve as a remedy, with a motherly tone suggesting home care. The text is incomplete but implies everyday childhood risk and traditional cures.
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Susie
Len
Arnica Salling
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