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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
5
Suggestions for a festive menu center on turkey with chestnut stuffing and alternatives like giblet or oyster dressings. Instructions cover washing, roasting times, gravy, and how to prepare a roast pig with a seasoned breadcrumb stuffing. Also includes a verse excerpt reflecting on Christmas memories.
A daily fashion note describes simple wraps suitable for evening wear. Remarks highlight materials such as brocade and satin, with options like burnous style cloaks and straight-cut pieces finished with a hood. Various fabrics including broadcloth chiffon and Persian band trimming are suggested for varied looks.
The piece describes a dressy black broadtail coat with a white ermine collar and revers and a matching muff. Ermine is used this season only for formal wear, signaling luxury and elegance akin to royal ermine. The muff edge shows black ermine tails as a border, highlighting the white fur.
A fragment from The December Delineator recounts Frank Keenan the stage star from The Girl of the Golden West and The Warrena of Virginia recalling a Christmas in 1887 when his Fort Scott troupe faced hardship. Jennie Lee’s loneliness at a train side dinner sparks a humorous cranberry sauce quip. Also included are dated recipes for candy and sugared treats and a sewing machine cleaning tip using a bicycle pump and atomizer.
A historic recipe describes Sea-Foam Fudge with chocolate flavor. It instructs to place in a clean saucepan a cup of light brown sugar a half cup of water and a third cup of fudge base over heat. The text reflects early 20th century kitchen instructions and measurements.
A brief instructional glimpse shows a woman describing how to truss a turkey. She details neck removal near the breastbone, folding skin back, tucking wings over the breastbone, stitching them, drawing legs in, and sewing through the body to set the bird. The method emphasizes preserving shape with three stitches.
Answer to correspondent gives a tried and true pudding recipe serving eight to ten. Ingredients include molasses brown sugar beef suet milk raisins currants citron lemon rind flour salt cinnamon cloves baking soda and egg. Method details rinsing and chopping fruit dredging with flour mixing with molasses and hot water boiling the mold hours then serving hot with sauce.
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