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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1916
Page
5
A humorous essay advises men to abandon costly habits and seek steady love and prudent living. It urges cutting cigars and dinners, saving money, mending family bonds, and choosing a wife to share responsibility. If kept, these resolutions promise business success and lasting happiness.
A reflective piece urging readers to make realistic resolutions at the year’s start. It argues false hopes harm character, valorizes daily happiness, and urges living fully each day with a bright outlook to end the year with a clear conscience and fulfilled duties.
The poem warns that delaying a vow to change until New Year rarely works and excuses to quit in the future undermine real resolve. It suggests effort should begin now rather than waiting for a calendar moment.
New Years Day in Japan features firemen using bamboo ladders for life saving and elevation. The Tokyo brigade performs acrobatic climbs and high seats, illustrating a mix of old methods with the newer fire engine coming to the island kingdom. Women and children watch the display.
A list of old customs for New Year’s. Do not go out first. leave money on the doorstep. open doors at midnight to let good spirits in and evil out. throw out peacocks feathers before New Year’s Day. bundle money bread salt wood and coal on the doorstep for a visiting person with initials forming straight lines to gain luck.
A farmhouse water system fed by a force pump fills a barrel mounted outside the wall. Water moves through a pipe into the kitchen sink with a waste pipe below the faucet. A daily pump fills the barrel, supplying ordinary household needs at an estimated total cost under ten dollars.
A consumer exchange item lists twelve culinary questions for a cook. It asks about making coffee, white sauce, and meat gravy. mastering a basic cake mix. oven familiarity for baking. five meat tenderizing methods. cooking bacon evenly. baking uniform bread. precise pie crust. appetizing vegetables. and six potato preparations.
Sweetbreads soaked in lukewarm water then boiled, cooled, and diced. Cook slowly in a bit of water with butter and salt, then cover with cream. Thicken with flour blended with butter, stir in two egg yolks, and serve atop toast rounds with crisp broiled bacon slices around.
Ten cents worth each of cream cheese and roquefort, one tablespoon butter, green peppers, Bermuda onion, and celery stalk. Mash cheeses with butter to paste, add chopped onion pepper and celery, season with paprika, chill to harden, and serve on hot toasted crackers.
A recipe describes mixing mustard and vinegar with salt and pepper, then whisking in egg yolks and olive oil to form a thick emulsion. Finally fold in grated horseradish to finish.
A rough cake recipe outlines one cup sugar one half cup butter or fat one cup sour milk one teaspoon soda two pinches pastry sour with salt cinnamon and cloves one cup raisins and currants ground with a touch of eluron. The note calls it an excellent cheap cake.
A quirky note suggests placing a bag of mum mum on top of a pickle jar to prevent mold and keep pickles from becoming wordy. The tip blends playful language with a practical hint for longer storage.
A collage of old fashioned recipes for serving cold fowl wings and drumsticks in a heated sauce with pepper and parsley, fried apple rings with brandy and lemon, roasted nuts with chutney, lobster stuffing in shells, apple cider punch with mint, and marshmallow ginger snaps.
Break four fresh eggs into a basin and add four ounces sugar a teaspoonful vanilla essence and two ounces finely chopped peeled almonds. Beat twenty minutes then fold in four ounces sifted flour and three ounces clarified butter baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven twenty five minutes cut into six pieces dust with sugar and decorate with flowers.
A historic recipe describes a sponge cake with sugar milk soda and flour, split batter filled with molasses raisins cinnamon and other spices, baked in two layers and spread with jelly while hot.
Core and slice quinces and weigh them. Use the same weight of sugar. Scald the quince, then boil eight minutes. Combine with sugar and a little water in a kettle, bake until deep red, drain, then dry cover with sugar and leave to stand overnight. Pack in dry sugar in Jura.
A recipe describes winter succotash using soaked lima yellow eyed or pea ha, simmered all morning in ample water with salt and a two inch square of salt pork. Half an hour before serving add canned corn and sufficient water, then hot milk, bring to a boil and serve with rolls or gingerbread.
The passage advises preparing sandwiches early and storing them in an earthen vessel. Placing the vessel in cold water helps the sandwiches stay good for hours. The method relies on covering the earthen offale and submerging in cold water to preserve freshness as they dry.
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