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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 19, 1940
Page
2
A fashion feature outlines autumn and winter hat styles from postillion to turbans, with colors like red, turquoise, blue, green, taupe, and browns. It gives fit tips for height, face shape, and age, and urges maintaining youthfulness through grooming, diet, exercise, and daily routines.
The text provides knitting directions for a door stop in garish color blocks and sizing notes. It includes row patterns with knit stitches, color changes, and shaping tips, plus assembly steps to attach a skirt and finish with bows. A final care note covers pressing and positioning before use.
A period piece guide on home laundering describes using a bran bath made from bran tied in cloth and boiled to replace soap and starch, then used to steep garments and rinse. It covers delicate gloves with fuller's earth and alum paste, whitening with cream of tartar, removing tea and ink stains, and cautions about blue water and grease marks.
The article offers practical kitchen tips such as adding lemon essence to tea for brightness, using two tablespoons of cold water to improve a mixture, and the benefit of salt in poaching water to keep eggs firm. It also suggests finishing a broken pudding with a meringue made from egg whites and sugar and returning it to a cool oven to set.
A recipe compilation with devilled steak serving notes and a dessert plan. Includes devilled steak instructions with spices, soaking, grilling times, and a creamed meat filling. Adds a pineapple topping option and a custard suggestion. Also describes Apple and Passionfruit Pudding with honeyed apples, pastry crust, and butterscotch sauce. Serves four.
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