Asparagus Preparations and Classic Canapes Featured
A vintage guide extols asparagus as a cherished delicacy with Roman roots and broad French English appeal. It details hot and cold preparations, buttered toast serving, milk or cream sauces, and canape caning with milk egg batter, plus steps to fry light rounds to a pale golden brown.
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Britain
France
England
Quail or Squab on Toast Recipe
Take as many birds as needed wash and dry them. Boil giblets. Brown quail or squab with salt and pepper in butter. Add wine giblets onion garlic mushrooms mace. Cover and slow cook until tender. Serve on toast with sherry water sauce.
Sauted Green Tomatoes with Hollandale Sauce
Recipe note describes selecting smooth tomatoes not fully ripe, slicing half inch thick, drying and seasoning with salt and pepper, coating in egg and crumbs, frying in oil and butter, browning both sides, then serving on a dish with Hollandale sauce.
Spinach Salad Prep Steps For Light Diet
Instructions describe washing the spinach, steaming ten minutes, draining, chopping, and seasoning with salt pepper and melted butter. The mixture is pressed into small molds then served on lettuce with a spoonful of salad dressing per serving.
Cup Custards From Simple Kitchen Hands
A pint of milk makes six small custard cups and three eggs suffice. Beat eggs with three tablespoonfuls sugar until light. Slowly stir in milk, fill cups three quarters full, grate nutmeg on top, flavor with vanilla or almond or lemon or rose to taste.
Cleaning rust with lemon juice and salt method
The remedy instructs spreading a lemon juice and salt paste on rust spots and placing the item in the sun. Repeat if needed. as an alternative starch can replace salt. When dry, wash with clear water.
Tenderizing steak by Inventec machine from Oregon man
An Oregon inventor develops a device with corrugated metal ridges to crush and soften tough steak. The base and roller mechanism tightens to pass the meat through, removing spunk and leaving it ready to cook. The squeezed blood is claimed to make gravy.
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Inventec
Oregon
Uses for Old Newspapers in Suburban Life
A Suburban Life contributor lists many practical uses for old newspapers. They include wiping cookware, lining shelves and barrels, creating fire kindling, cushioning relaid carpets, and polishing stoves and lamp chimneys. The writer urges saving newspapers for future utility.
Fruit Omelet with Pineapple and Sherry
Separate six eggs and beat lightly with salt and milk. Cook in butter until set then finish in the oven. Add shredded pineapple dusted with sugar and a teaspoon of sherry before folding and serving hot.
Young Boy a Puzzle at San Jose Juvenile Court
Eleven year old Robert Nicholls baffles officials with lies and strange claims of hypnotic influence. Court testimony details alleged poison schemes, alleged visits to a traveling hypnotist, and fascination with Mme de Brinvilliers as investigators weigh his true influence.
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San Jose
Cal
Robert Nicholls
Belle Cunningham
Mme. de Brinvilliers
Official killing of cat linked to diphtheria outbreak in Buffalo
Health and police teams killed an eight pound tomcat at the city pound after tests showed diphtheria in its throat. Two Front avenue children first fell ill, and more contacts showed throat trouble. A canary in another area is suspected of spreading diphtheria.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Front Avenue
Health Department
Tommy
Bisse
Chicken Kentucky Style Method
A historic kitchen note describes preparing a chicken by simmering until tender then steaming in a pan with water. It is baked with cracker crumbs butter salt and pepper until rich brown. Finish by pouring cream and garnishing with parsley. The bird is opened down the back with wings spread to lie flat.
Teapot secret for better pouring revealed
The tip emphasizes choosing a teapot with a high spout to prevent tea from dribbling as you fill. It cautions against low spout designs that sit close to the pot’s base, whether in silver crown derby or a humble mug.
Ambergris Keelhaul of $60,000 Sailor Treasure
A 100 pound keg of ambergris worth over $60,000 awaits appraisal at a Boston wholesale drug firm vault. Proceeds will be shared by about twenty sailors who found the treasure while whaling off Africa in December. The crew harpooned an 80 foot whale that yielded 15 barrels of oil and a large lump of ambergris saved from the beast.
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Boston
Africa
Scrambled Eggs with Sardines Method
Instructions describe removing sardine bones, mixing with lemon juice pepper salt and olive oil to form a paste. Six eggs are prepared with one yolk removed then beaten whites folded in. The paste is added to hot pan and scrambled with the eggs in the standard manner.
Care of Woodenware in the Home
Wooden utensils should be washed immediately after use to prevent dirt and grease from soaking into the wood making removal impossible.
To Set Colors For Salt Water Washing
Instructions advise washing articles likely to fade in strong salt water with a pre rinse using two coffee cups of salt to ten quarts of water. After this initial wash the items may be washed normally without the precaution.
Eagles Carry Off Sheep at Tyringham Farm
Two large American eagles swooped over Robbie P. Titus’s Tyringham stock farm and carried away two Egyptian sheep valued at $100 each. The sheep, shipped from Egypt during Titus’s excavation of Rameses II’s palace, were said to descend from a line tied to an ancient Egyptian king.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Robbie P. Titus
Tyringham
Egypt
Titus
Rameses II
Dahlonega and Lumpkin County Directory Chronicle
A detailed 1900s style directory listing county and town offices, court schedules, and local businesses in Dahlonega and Lumpkin County. Names include J Th Jones, Robert McMillan, Carl Shultz, W D Haney, J F Pruett, Homer Head, C H Jones, J M Sargent, M D Cunningham, and many merchants, professionals, and public offices.
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Lumpkin
J. F. Pruett
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