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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
9
Kathryn G. Wynn announces December Recipe of the Month contest focused on casseroles. Readers can submit dishes with rice noodles meats and more for prizes of 5 2 and three 1 prizes. winners may appear in an all Montana cookbook and November desserts will be announced next issue.
A recipe for American Chop Suey uses lean pork onion celery green pepper uncooked rice meat stock sugar salt pepper and chop suey sauce. Cut fat from pork and brown in a pan then simmer with vegetables and rice in stock for about 40 minutes to yield six servings.
Beat 1 egg and 14 cups buttermilk or sour milk with 4 teaspoons soda. Sift 4 cups flour 14 cups cornmeal 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar. Add to egg mixture. Blend in 4 cups shortening melted. Bake in hot pans at 450F 10 to 15 minutes. Brush tops with butter and broil 3 to 4 minutes until golden. Makes 12 corn sticks or muffins.
Hot mashed potatoes beaten light with shortening and sugar, then folded with melted chocolate, lemon and orange rind, milk, eggs, and nuts. Sifted flour and baking powder with spices are added alternately, batter split between two pans and baked at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.
Place cooked cauliflower on a platter with the floweret side up and pour browned buttered crumbs over it. To make browned crumbs, brown butter over low heat then add fine dry bread crumbs and stir until browned.
A cabbage au gratin recipe layers tender cabbage with a medium white sauce and grated cheese. Top with bread crumbs mixed with melted butter and bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes yields 10 servings.
Cook tomato paste with water vinegar sugar salt and chili powder until ketchup like. Spread sauce and onion on a rolled rump roast, season, tie, and sear in a hot oven. Roast at 350 degrees for about 2 hours 40 minutes until tender.
Rinse raisins and cherries then drain. Cream sugar and fat, beat in eggs. Add dry ingredients, then raisins cherries nuts hot apple sauce and orange rind. Pour into greased pans and bake slowly at 325 degrees F for about 24 hours. Yields one loaf or 12 portions.
The piece recalls a Kansas farm childhood where a mother used nightly stargazing to lift family spirits. Ellen Norris reflects on how stars like Orion Arcturus and Cassiopeia offered calm amid chores and worries, guiding her through care for an invalid husband and two daughters. Her mother’s celestial refuge becomes a lasting legacy.
The Pattern 866 shirtwaister outfit combines a two piece look with single sewing, featuring a gathered top, circular two piece skirt with wide waistband, and optional collar and frills. Sizes 12 through 42, fabric needs listed, order from Pattern Dept. M. N. New York. The text also notes New York Catholic church membership at 1,733,000.
Grocer summaries show Christmas baskets and Legion party plans in Geraldine and Fort Benton. Bozeman hosts first state ski meet Feb 17-18. Great Falls residential building hits peak with 62 units. Laurel beet growers expect 247000 dollars first 1939 crop payment. Martinsdale calf born with two heads seven legs at Lennep ranch. Glasgow Kiwanis district convention slated Sept 1921 in Helena. Harlowton Shrine club to sponsor community Christmas tree. Corvallis mink pelting begins with 65 at Bitter Root Fur. 80 silver fox to be peltered in December. Missoula Grizzly band to tour Montana next spring. Helena report notes war correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot to return to U S from European front.
A guide favors broiling hamburger patties to avoid smoke and fat splatter. Suggests preheating oven, five minute broil, then preparing green pepper, corn, pimiento, bananas with lemon butter, and tomatoes or squash as seasonally appropriate. Mentions malachite as a copper ore.
A compilation of Montanans news items from Great Falls to Butte covers city ordinances banning loaded air rifles after a boy was shot, Brantley’s publishing move in New York, Foster Creek road near Anaconda, Missoula obituary of Mrs Will Cave, Cut Bank to host 1940 district basketball tourney, state building 1941 license plates, Holly Sugar payments to Sidney beet growers, Montana Press association leadership, a fire rescue credited to a passing motorist near Victor, and a football referee alert at Phoenix game involving Mountain States Telephone executives.
One hundred seventy one nurses who completed training were given final examinations by the state board of examiners for nurses. Edith L. Brown, secretary, reports forty nurses who...
Individuals who trained in other states received reciprocity certificates enabling them to practice in Montana. Read the classified advertisements for more details.
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