Rules for Making Pastry and Handling Puff Pastry
The guide emphasizes room coolness, quality ingredients, and precise oven temperature. It describes mixing butter and lard, dividing fat, folding and rolling the dough, resting it, and forming a paste suitable for meat pies and tarts. A lemon juice touch lightens the texture, with a suet and flour method alternative.
Pockets in Boys Clothes Repairing Instructions
Pockets in boys garments require ample size and careful assembly. The long pocket piece is faced with a two inch wide cloth strip at the top and stitched, with the pocket opening adjusted by tucks and basted to the garment. Edges are turned under one quarter inch and stitched, ends finished with a button holder bar, and side pockets formed by basting a nine and a half inch wide piece to the front, then stitched to hold both pieces. Never send stained cloth to be washed.
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Tea Party Sandwiches and Butter Tips
A compact guide notes thin tea sandwiches require butter choices. Melted butter is preferred over hard butter, and a dash of salt enhances flavor for the average palate.
Table Linen Economy And Care For The Home
The Philadelphia Press offers guidance on maintaining two grades of table linen with adequate supplies. It stresses keeping several cloths ready, avoiding wear from repeated creases, careful folding, and handling stains with boiling water or salt to prevent damage and extend lifespan.
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Kitchen Tips for Preserving and Baking Wisdom
This column offers old fashioned kitchen advice on wrapping twine, storing items on waxed paper, and keeping cloth and varnish bright. It mentions warming the oven, then cooling slightly before biscuits come out, claiming the tips help prevent sticking and aid browning.
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Uses of mining waste in Joplin area cement work
In Jasper county Missouri stray lead and zinc ore refuse, crushed to small pieces, has become a versatile material. It serves as ballast for railroads, substitutes for scarce gravel, forms cement foundations, building blocks, steps, window caps, and even fenceposts. It lowers cement costs and is praised by contractors as first rate.
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An awaring the Pessimist and Kaiser's Joke
A fragmented poem and a World War I joke appear in this clipping. The verse speaks of rough roads burdens and lingering gloom before light returns. The second anecdote shows Kaiser Wilhelm humorously addressing a dragoon who lost a wheel, joking about oiling the other wheels.
The Coveted Scarab Offers a Love and Theft Dilemma
Professor Gatton guards a magical scarab while Paul and Lena face a marriage clash over a rare amulet. A theft, guilt, and a possible swap test loyalties as the professor contemplates gifting the scarab to a museum, hoping to secure Lena's match with Paul.
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For Our Boy and Girl Readers A Laughing Gas Game
A game where players sit in a row while a reader behind them mimics antics. Each participant guesses the action. failure costs forfeits until someone guesses. Also described is using a phosphorus lamp in a vial with olive oil to produce visible light by air exchange, explained as a time-telling trick. Chicago News.
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Conundrums and Riddles from a Humorous Exchange
A playful fragment presents a string of quips about memory, madness, cat possessions, and a joke about a man riding a donkey. The riddle asks what a cat has that other animals do not, answered by kittens, and ends with a pun about a rider on a donkey reminding one of a pear.
Endless Gallery Toy Leads View Through Mirrored Box
English children construct a homemade optic device named the endless gallery. A box eighteen by twelve inches with mirrors inside creates a seemingly endless view when a perforated eyehole is looked through. Cut grooves hold colored cardboard figures and mirrors, producing a surprising extended image.
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