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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1935
Page
16
A travel writer extols the English tea ritual as central to daily life, noting tea time from four to six, the social importance of tea, and the precise brewing method. It describes serving practices, equipment, and the preference for strong black tea with milk, shaping a vivid portrait of tea’s prominence in England.
A reader signs as Jeanette Beyer asking for letters to be addressed via The Cedar Rapids Gazette while abroad in England. She requests English stamps for a postcard reply and asks for no American cookbook questions.
An article describes English tea culture with varied accompaniments from crumpets and scones to sardine sandwiches and ginger cake. It recalls teahouse set menus, a New Zealand visitor’s host experiences, and a vivid scene of a village tea outdoors. It ends with a reader recipe for filled cookies.
A recipe from Margaret C. Dickey Cedar Rapids details chopping fruit mix of raisins dates figs cooking in water then thickening with sugar. Add nuts vanilla, sugar, sour cream butter eggs and leaveners to form dough. Roll thin cut two pieces fill with fruit pinch edges bake at 400 10 minutes.
Cecil D. Harrington of Janesville Wisconsin, grandson of A L Davis, was awarded a $250 Milton College outstanding graduate scholarship by the University of Wisconsin. Harrington, formerly of Cedar Rapids, moved to Janesville after McKinley Junior High, excelled in high school, entered Milton in 1932, and will pursue graduate work in biology.
The author notes a shift from bold reds and yellows to white and pale yellows after the Century of Progress show. White beds and night gardens rely on white tulips lilies and other white flowering plants, with emphasis on fragrance and night visibility. White petunias four o clocks and nicotiana provide scent that strengthens after dusk.
Health guidance favors green celery as more nutritious than white. The root, often discarded at home, is considered nourishing and valued in Europe where it is treated as a delicacy.
The article lists flowering plants such as angel's trumpet Fraxinella lilacs hydrangeas day lilies irises and phlox as suitable for garden effects by day or night. It also reports Lowden high school baccalaureate services at Zion Evangelical church 7:30 p m with Rev F J Abele speaker The Governing Principle of Life is the chosen topic and music will be provided by Mrs Charles Strackbein and a girls' glee club and sextet.
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