Favorite Recipes Out of the Past in Montana
Mrs. Sanders is praised as a top early Montana cook whose era faced egg shortages and scarce fruit. Thanks to Mrs. T. Busha of Great Falls, we learn from her grandmother Mrs. Wilbur F. Sanders how residents baked and cooked during 1863 to 1865 flour shortages and apple scarcity in Helena. A cookbook compiled in Mrs. Sanders’s hand survives via Mrs. Busha and the Montana Newspaper association.
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Colorful gourds as decorative table accents
Collect a few varicolored gourds of unusual shapes. Coat them with a thin layer of colorless silicone. When dry, place in a shallow tray or bowl and use as table accents.
Biscuits Prepared With Eggs And Cheese Topping
A fragment describes placing eggs on biscuits or muffins and baking until the centers set, about ten minutes. A dusting of grated cheese may be added as a topping.
Loaf Cake Without Yeast or Eggs by Mrs Sanders
Recipe notes a simple loaf cake using 6 cups flour 3 cups milk 2 cups sugar 1 cup butter 1 cup raisins 2 teaspoons soda 2 teaspoons cream of tartar with cinnamon and nutmeg. Creates two large loaves and recalls eggs were unavailable in 1864 and 1865.
Royal Paste Pee Recipe Instructions
Step by step directions describe boiling water stirring until thick then cooling. Add six beaten eggs with salt, drop into hot lard and serve with wine sauce. The fragment suggests a historic cooking note or recipe snippet.
Gingerbread and gingersnaps in Mrs Sanders cookbook
A fragment describes gingered recipes from Mrs Sanders day including gingersnaps with ingredients such as sugar molasses butter sour milk eggs soda flour and notes on batter preparation and boiling juice with rind. The text shows a nostalgic baking guide with handwritten style measurements.
Pattern 847 Button Style Dress with Scalloped Collar
Pattern 847 offers a three-piece dress with a front button opening and no waist seam for slim lines. The scalloped collar, petal-like scarf edges, and bright buttons enhance the look, suitable for winter wear under a coat. Sizes 16 to 46 available, fabric needs listed. send 15 cents and size details to Pattern Dept. M. N., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York.
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Claire Tilden
Mince Meat Cookies and Whirls Usher Holiday Treats
Readers learn two dessert ideas using mincemeat beyond pies. Mincemeat Cookies yield seven to eight dozen with brown sugar nuts and coffee juice. Mincemeat Whirls roll mincemeat in biscuit dough baked in hot syrup. Includes full ingredient lists and baking directions for both.
Prune Pudding And Spiced Currants Recipe
A vintage recipe describes making prunes and currants pudding with stewed prunes suet flour raisins and bread crumbs. Spiced currants use cinnamon cloves nutmeg and sugar with a foam or hard sauce served after a three hour steam.
Veal Loaf Recipe with Salt Pork and Sage
A traditional veal loaf combines 24 pounds raw veal with 4 pounds salt pork. Mix 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons milk 1 cup cracker crumbs 2 teaspoons oper 1 teaspoon allspice 11 tea spoons sage 3 apes. Press in bread pan bake 2 hours basting every 10 minutes with hot water. Garnish with lemon and parsley when served.
Tomato Sauce and Vintage Recipe Fragments From 1883 Menu
Fragmented kitchen notes list tomato sauce for meats with mace parsley onion and bay leaf, plus a butter flour roux and sieved tomato base. The text shifts to bake-ahead dough, yeast rises, and crock fermentation with raisins, sugar, and butter. Dish lists include croquettes, roast duck with Saratoga potatoes, cream jelly, cake, and a 1883 lunch menu of turtle soup and boiled fish.
Pies and Tarts Now in Season
Miss Bessie E Mc Clelland Montana State college extension nutrition specialist offers guidance on cool weather pies and tarts. She favors a medium rich crust for most pie lovers and provides a recipe outline for double crust pies with precise flour fat salt and cold butter measures.
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Bessie E. McClelland
Montana State College
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The Beautiful Dark and Its Hidden Night Time Wonders
Louise C Hastings argues early exposure helps children overcome fear of darkness. She shares anecdotes of discovering the night’s beauty through moonlit walks and listening to prairie grasses, frogs, and distant dogs.
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Louise C. Hastings
Pie Crust Guide and Techniques From Miss McClelland
An old pastry guide explains flour blends for flaky pastry and fat choices like lard or hydrogenated fats. It details two-stage mixing, careful water addition, rolling on a floured board, and baking times for prebaked and unbaked crusts with temperature ranges from 375 to 425 degrees F.
Geologist Decodes Cause of Land Sinking Near Terry
A geologist explains that heavy taxes were not the main reason for a large rangeland collapse near Terry. He cites a mix of a simple landslide and subterranean clay and shale flowage as the primary factors after visiting the ranch. New Zealand reports a labor shortage.
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