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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
3
Louis Rose urges readers to adjust diets with the season favoring early vegetables and salads. He details tomato and cucumber preparations and provides recipes for tomato stuffed with macaroni, lettuce sandwiches, and mushroom topped tomatoes, emphasizing fresh ingredients and simple dressings.
Braise four to five pounds of beef with sliced onions in a pot. Add hot water, cook one and a half hours, baste with melted butter in a hot oven ten minutes. Strain gravy, add lemon juice, catsup, pepper, and a little flour. Serve with mashed potatoes.
A recipe outlines making waffles with two cups flour two and a half cups boiled rice two eggs butter salt and milk. Yolks beaten light then rice and butter added followed by flour and milk whites whisked to stiff froth then folded in and baked in buttered waffle irons.
A historic recipe instructs to cream 1 cup sugar with 1/2 cup butter and two eggs, add milk soda dissolved in milk and cream of tartar with flour. Half batter gets raisins molasses cinnamon clove nutmeg. bake in a deep cake tin, first part then the light batter, 20 minutes, finish baking.
Six eggs simmered and boiled then shelled. Two whites chopped fine with a silver knife. The remaining yolks rubbed through a sieve to form a yellow garnish over lettuce. Quarters of the other eggs arranged, beets diced, parsley chopped as a final garnish.
Cut six hard boiled eggs in halves remove yolks and mash with grated cheese salt pepper mustard cayenne add vinegar and melted butter to moisten. Shape yolk mix into balls the size of the yolks and place in whites. Arrange on dish and pour around white sauce or serve without it. Eggs boil 40 minutes just below boiling point.
A simple sponge dough method is described using one pint milk one cup sugar and half a cake of yeast. After rising overnight add butter sugar cinnamon nutmeg yeast and flour mold and rise again. Roll to about one inch thick cut bake in a moderate oven and finish by brushing tops with molasses.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs and vanilla, work into one pound sifted flour. Shape dough into squares or rounds, decorate with candied lemon peel or sugar caraway, bake on greased trays in a moderate oven.
The text describes smoking haddock then baking until dry. It instructs removing the fish to a platter and drizzling with butter. The butter is to melt in the hot oven before serving.
A historic cooking note lists ingredients for brown bread using Indian meal rye meal flour molasses sour milk raisins and soda. The method instructs steam for three hours then bake half an hour at the end.
A survey notes that ninety percent of weighted silks contain foreign substances from tannin extracts tin salts and iron compounds. Such fabrics burn without flame and can spontaneously combust especially black silks stored warm and dry. Duchess of Veek described as amiable and charitable with large-scale relief efforts. A tale recounts letters mis mailed at White Lodge and a royal anecdote about Empress Augusta Queen Louise and Princesses in Denmark.
Riis recounts a daring 19th century rescue at the Hotel Royal in New York. Sergeant Vaughan braved smoke and a deadly fall to save a trapped man, swinging on the roof edge to reach the window and drag the survivor to safety before both men recover in hospital.
A guide to decorating tea cloths with embroidery drawn from Crown Derby and Worcester china patterns. It notes color matching on white grounds or linen, washing silk and linen, and novel teacloths using gold thread on pale silk, with considerations for washing and reapplication.
The Boston Transcript reports a new bureau of courtesy at the Omaha exposition. Nearly all city residents will join, each wearing a badge. Visitors may address badge wearers for information and will be answered or directed to help.
Prices quoted for coke used in making a ton of bessemer pig iron vary by country: United States $1.44, Great Britain $3.18, France $8.24, Germany $3.56, Belgium $5.48, and Spain $5.08. Figures shown reflect coke quantity in pig iron manufacture.
The proportion of deaf mutes fell from one in 1 738 in 1851 to one in 2 048 of the population. Physicians attribute the decrease largely to increased knowledge and improved treatment of scarlet fever in children.
Pierson's Weekly recounts how a Baden Baden gambling tragedy observed by Prince Bismarck led him to become a staunch foe of gambling. A baron and his wife lose fortunes at a table until a pistol ends the scene, after which Germany bans public gambling houses.
In a postwar North visit, Bishop Wilmer tells a conundrum about Southerners being like Lazarus because “we’ve been licked by dogs.” Union guests laugh at the joke, except a stern man who protests asking why he came to beg for dog’s money. The bishop quips that “the hair of the dog is good for the bite,” explaining his return.
A Perthshire farmer recalls Jock Macpherson as meanish and harsh in a humorous anecdote from a night visit. The tale centers on hospitality and a polite refusal, with the host unexpectedly stopping to pour a drink after the guest objects.
An editor laments ruin after advertising sheet music as a premium to subscribers while a rival newspaper offers free pianos to play it on, highlighting competitive marketing tactics in the press.
A phrenologist at an open air performance praises a gentleman as a very close observer. He quips that the man might not have attended if an admission fee had been charged, eliciting amusement from the New York Journal.
Quotations from Ally Sloper appear in a humorous panel about choosing a vocation. A boy asks why someone would want to be a parson and answers simply that he dislikes hard work. The exchange reflects lighthearted career talk in a vintage comic strip frame.
In a quirky note from Ally Sloper era humor, Gran'ma laments that shirt buttons repeatedly split and fly apart as she threads them. She declares the buttons are really peppermint lozenges, addressed to Gladys Irene Boo-o-o-00 in a playful voice.
A distinguished tragedian bargains for a appreciative audience promising ten percent of receipts. The exchange, captured in dialogue, shows a performer seeking favorable reception before concluding payment terms.
Earrings move beyond wealth as Americans adopt turquoise and malachite studs to match varied gowns. The trend mirrors literary notes on jewel enchantment and features bold relief designs of birds fruit and fish, with some pieces containing tiny embedded flies.
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