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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1915
Page
2
A quirky instruction sets out a method to prepare steak with minced onion and bread, then fry batter, grill the steak, and serve with a vinegar and horseradish sauce. The text mentions trimming edges, mixing minced steak with bread, cooking in a stewpan, beating an egg, and pouring a sauce over the dish.
Catalog style ad lists numerous white blouses and frocks for women and girls with detailed fabrics, collars, trims and finishes. Items include Japanese silk pieces, crepe dresses, muslin blouses, lace inserts, and wool en creme options with prices ranging from a few pence to several shillings. Multiple sizes and styles emphasize quality and fashion as sale highlights.
Garbled OCR style cooking instructions mix sugar salt and flour with milk and eggs, then add chopped cherries and minced peel. The text describes beating and folding, lining with paper, and baking a cake for several hours with unclear measurements and terms.
A garbled recipe fragment lists ingredients like treacle flour butter eggs and milk with fragmented steps. It mentions beating eggs, mixing with treacle, heating milk, and baking in a shallow tin for about an hour, with unclear quantities and several corrupted words.
The text describes jelly and meat mould techniques including loosening moulds with hot water, inverting onto plates, and using care to release the shape intact. It also lists macaroni and meat mould ingredients and steps for making a layered dish with stock and meat. It ends with a winter soup recipe and batter puddings with rice.
A fragment from a narrative notes Maude as a character not like other girls. Dialogue hints at social expectations, with a mother urging chores in the kitchen while Maude reads in a fringe room. The piece circles themes of conformity and self definition.
Entries for the Colae Turf Club Boxing Day meeting are listed with horse names, jockeys, and race classifications for the forthcoming day. The card outlines several events and expected contenders across a busy schedule.
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