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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1941
Page
6
Entertaining on a porch or garden with family back from vacation features garden party cupcakes and frosted desserts from the National Dairy Council. Recipes include buttercream and chocolate frostings, cookie ideas, and iced coffee drinks for hot weather gatherings.
A recipe note describes coffee drinks with whipped cream and chocolate syrup, plus a variety of sandwiches and snacks. It includes a Liederkranz cheese spread with butter, seasonings, green pepper, and onions, served on crackers or bread for porch party bites.
A housewife recipe for a whipped cream topped cake suitable for an afternoon bridge session is shared. Instructions cover flour, soda, salt, butter, brown sugar, eggs or yolks, melted chocolate, milk, and vanilla, with two pan size options and baking times. The column notes early eggplant, onions, and tomatoes are in good supply, and invites reader contributions under The Back Fence banner.
Slice firm tomatoes thick, season with salt and pepper, dredge in flour and fry in pork fat until browned. Remove and keep hot. Pour off excess fat, stir in flour then milk to thicken, season, and serve over the tomatoes.
Apples good for cooking but not yet for eating. Lemons high quality but pricey. Oranges good fruit yet expensive. Grapefruit Californias in market high quality. Limes very nice now mid price. Italian prune plums fine for eating. Peaches from Michigan good quality reasonable price. Grapes diverse in market getting sweeter and reasonably priced. Pears cheap good quality. Celery limited home grown in. Lettuce fair and pricey. Green peppers plentiful home grown cheap. Peas Colorado crop fine quality. Potatoes all varieties from many regions reasonably priced. Sweet potatoes Muscatine sweets good quality. Carrots local crop fine plentiful inexpensive. Cucumbers rain renewed local supply plenty new ones. Beets home grown plentiful cheap. Cauliflower inexpensive home Browns good supply nice. Summer squash just coming in.
Select meaty spare ribs and prepare them with onions and a spiced barbecue sauce baked in a moderate oven. Include a note on turning and basting, with final uncovering for browning. Also describe a blackberry cake with butter sugar mix, jam, and optional icing, baked as a loaf and served with whipped cream.
A home canning note describes placing four quarts of peppers in a crock with water to cover to a Jevel, weighting with a stone, and letting ferment in a sunlit window for about two days before basement storage. If packed in jars, do not seal until fermentation begins. Mrs. Ladies Siegel.
A nostalgic guide offers several iced beverage ideas for hot days. Recipes include mixes of carbonated raspberry beverage with cranberry juice, maraschino cherries, lemon juice, and mint, plus an egg white honey preparation served over crushed ice in tall glasses.
A recipe snippet explains that the mixture can be whipped in advance and stored in the refrigerator until ready to mix. It implies prep flexibility for timing and efficiency in meal preparation.
Three prize winning at home soda fountain recipes from Chocolate Bracer are described with steps for Nut Parfait and Black eyed Susan style treats. A final note claims a human body cannot exceed 118 miles an hour in a fall per army statistics.
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