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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
2
An observer reflects on marriage debating its failures and successes. She contrasts freedom with control, highlights doubts about questions over trust, and notes how homes depend on a woman’s dedication to the family and restraint from outside work.
Recipes describe croquettes including bean cheese lobster and chicken variants. Bean croquettes mash boiled white beans with vinegar molasses butter and seasoning then fry. Cheese croquettes make a thick cheese sauce with milk and yolks, spread cool, cut, breaded and fried. Lobster croquettes mix lobster meat with mustard cayenne lemon, coat, fry. Chicken croquettes combine roast fowl tongue and truffles with stock, herbs, eggs, and margined by breadcrumbs and frying.
A historic home cooking note outlines two sausage methods. The first uses five pounds lean pork with two pounds fat, minced and seasoned with powdered sage salt and pepper, then packed in jars and covered with melted lard. The Oxford sausage combines beef suet pork and yeal with bread crumbs lemon peel nutmeg savory thyme marjoram and sage stuffed and fried.
A historic remedy advises mixing alum chloride of zinc and salt with water to make a moth killer. After overnight settling, pour off the liquid, dilute again, and sprinkle along carpet edges within a foot of walls. The solution is claimed to repel and drive away buffalo moths without harming carpet texture or color.
Directions for pickling cucumbers and onions with vinegar oil mustard seed celery seed and alum. plus a DIY watch pocket sewn into a skirt belt with a flat pocket edge for easy access. Pocket design notes include hidden slits in thin summer dresses for inconspicuous storage.
Recipe note from Harper's Bazar describes baking powder biscuits formed into cups by cutting a circle through the top crust, removing the crumb, buttering the inside, and adding scrambled eggs before heating. Parsley is scattered over the top for garnish.
A kitchen tip suggests adding a pinch of baking soda to the water when boiling a tough fowl to render it tender.
An editorial note extols a reputable health product as essential for happy homes. It emphasizes genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical, physician approved laxative manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and available through all reading druggists.
Matthias Campbell a Civil War and two Indian wars veteran and Colorado and Nebraska pioneer lies at 218 East Nebraska Blair Nebraska. He suffered back pain and urinary issues later cured by Dean's Kidney Pills sold 60 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A testimonial claims Grape-Nuts with milk and cream nourishes brain and nerves for infants to seniors. It says the author, over sixty and 156 pounds, notes improved memory and energy. family members also adopt the cereal. The ad cites Postum Co. and suggests reading The Road to Wellville.
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