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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1939
Page
8
Kathryn G Wynn food editor of The Jene Shelf urges readers to submit their recipes before the contest closes with this issue. Thousands have entered but many still may send in a top choice for a chance at a $15 prize. Winners and recipes will be announced in the paper.
Montana State College extension nutritionist Miss Bessie E. McClelland offers guidance on safely canning corn by two methods. For whole kernel, harvest early, cut deeply, add salt and boiling water, pack hot, seal, and process pint jars 60 minutes and quarts 70 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. For cream style, cut tops, scrape from cob, salt per quart, add boiling water, pack and seal, but cream style jars require shorter processing and 15 minutes is not recommended.
The article traces molasses as a staple flavoring from colonial America to modern kitchens. It notes historic imports, sugar cane varieties such as the 1750 ribbon cane and the 1820 P. O. J. strain, and highlights Louisiana as a premier sugar cane producer. It also briefly mentions David Livingstone's voyage ambitions and disappointment.
A recipe for a moist Apple Sauce Cake using unsweetened apple sauce and spices. Directions include making a tart apple sauce, preparing a batter with shortening sugar egg and spices, folding in flour and nuts, baking in a loaf pan, plus a optional mocha icing and aging note for improved flavor.
Pick over popped corn discarding hard kernels. Boil molasses sugar water vinegar and salt to 270 degrees F. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Pour syrup over corn and mix. Form into balls and wrap in wax paper when cool. Makes 36.
A chilled custard style ice cream recipe yields 1 pint. Irradiated evaporated milk and egg with sugar and vanilla are whipped, folded with shaved chocolate, and frozen in an automatic freezer tray for a smooth firm dessert. Preparation takes about 15 minutes and freezing 1 hour to 1.5 hours.
A vintage recipe blends 6 cups cooked rice or cracked wheat with dried prunes peaches apricots or raisins onion sage salt pepper and shortening. Add juice from cooked fruit, bake covered at 300 degrees for 1 hour, serving with meat. Serves 8 to 10.
Two refreshing Hawaiian desserts highlighted with tropical flavors and easy, light preparations suitable for warm weather.
Red star desserts for quick summer prep. Use well chilled canned Hawaiian pineapple gems about five per serving in sherbet glasses. Top with strawberry or raspberry sherbet, serve with thin sugar cookies. Fill glasses with melon balls and seasonal berries, pour unsweetened Hawaiian pineapple juice, chill thoroughly, garnish with mint sprig dusted with powdered sugar.
Cheese, a versatile food, pairs well with olives for many summer dishes. Ripe olives add flavor and a decorative touch to cheese dishes. sliced olives garnish open-face sandwiches with cream cheese. Chopped olives mix with cottage cheese as a sandwich filling in four to one. Grated yellow cheese blends with chopped olives in the same ratio.
A playful food column suggests adding finely chopped ripe olives and a few drops of Tabasco to traditional deviled eggs. Proportions recommended include one fourth cup olives for every four eggs as a small flavor shift. The piece also notes cooperative burial associations forming in the Middle West.
Madison County postmaster Harry B. Daems recalls Bill Fairweather's pick and gold pan from Alder Gulch in 1863. Daems found the grave site, helped choose it years later, and keeps the tools as a treasured link to Montana's mining era with a wish to donate them to the Virginia City historic museum.
Montana farmers must apply and pay the premium for Federal Crop Insurance before seeding this fall. The Sept 30 deadline applies statewide. no applications after that date will be accepted. C L Waring AAA state committee man urged insurers to file early to ensure uniform coverage. County AAA committees can calculate premiums.
Senator James E. Murray announces competitive civil service exams for one Naval Academy and one Military Academy vacancy for July 1940 entrants. Tests start 9 a.m. October 7 in cities across Montana with age limits 16-20 for Navy and 17-21 for Army. Deadline October 11.
Helena man Lieberg named United States marshal for the district of Montana by Judges Baldwin and Pray. Lieberg, longtime chief deputy marshal, fills a vacancy since the senate failed to confirm President Roosevelt’s nomination of William W. Crawford of Great Falls, who had been acting marshal since Sept 1, 1938. The record notes a two cycle gas engine invention by B D Clerk in 1888.
The article profiles Mrs. Julia W. Tillman of Hamilton and Missoula as Montana’s eldest living pioneer woman by residence. Born in Central City Colorado, she arrived in Montana May 15, 1863, traveling with the Whaley party to Bannack and Alder Gulch, later witnessing Bannack, Diamond City, and the Bitter Root era.
Funeral services were held at St. Pauls mission near Sandusky for Joe Contway a 78 year old Snake Indian cowboy Burial followed at Chinook Contway arrived in Montana as a youth worked as a cowhand in Deer Lodge valley and Judith Basin in 1885 He was part of Horace Brewsters roundup crew and witnessed a murdered family case in the Judith Basin where the killer hanged himself in Great Falls jail.
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