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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 10, 1929
Page
6
A fragment discusses the perfect ensemble of coloured shoes and a matching hat. It references various detailing like Khor, stackines, and glove styling, noting how fashion often misaligns with its intended impact and the challenge of achieving a complete look.
Fragmentary OCR text describes courtly clothing concepts and fabric mentions, including suit details, colors like navy blue and green, drape, and footwear hints. It lacks clear narrative, dates, or identifiable people or places.
A fragmented excerpt describes a lemon filling technique for tartlets. Instructions mention cooking slowly, using lemon rind, reducing liquid, and beating egg whites to stiff peaks before folding. The passage includes unclear phrases and garbled words but centers on preparing a lemon custard for tart shells.
The piece extols summer curtains as essential drapery, detailing why they convey seasonality, balance, delicacy, and sun protection. It stresses fabric weight, color, and texture, noting floral patterns seldom evoke a vivid summer mood outside Madras muslin and similar materials. It ends with advice to avoid overmatching simple white casement curtains.
A compact medieval style recipe describes boiling lemon water for cakes and pastries. It instructs mixing flour and baking powder, adding fruit pieces, stirring, and baking. The passage mentions lemon juice served with fish or salad greens, and a curious set of kitchen actions.
In hot weather housewives want several new milk covers. A quick, inexpensive four to five dainty set can be made from half a yard of white cotton net. Use white millinery wire for a circular base and wrap with white net. Center each cover with colored beads or threads, forming a neat decorative pattern. Hang or join with loops for easy storage.
A fragmentary recipe describes making a cake from wine cake scraps. It instructs soaking, sugar syrup, rum, and jam, then binding pieces to form a moulded dessert. The text mentions almond paste and pink icing for decoration before slicing and serving.
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