Vegetables Made Digestible by Proper Cooking
Tips on reviving wilted vegetables and making root vegetables palatable through correct cooking methods. A concise guide for turning tough produce into tasty, usable ingredients.
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
7
Tips on reviving wilted vegetables and making root vegetables palatable through correct cooking methods. A concise guide for turning tough produce into tasty, usable ingredients.
Article outlines methods to cook vegetables so they stay crisp and tender. It recommends soaking firm heads, boiling in salted water, adding small amounts of baking soda to tenderize older beans or green beans, and blending with butter and minimal water. Blanching is described to remove strong flavors. It emphasizes fresh produce, controlled boiling, and finishing with butter for flavor.
Ready to wear felt hats for early fall appear in white and black with sailor influences and delicate trim. Shawls of pompadour wool blends, Shetland floss, and two-tone color mi xes offer light pastel wraps for cool days and evenings.
A noted children's specialist urges parents to let five to seven year olds choose foods within safety limits. He advises milk and bread as meal bases, seasonal fruit at breakfast, and a principal midday meal for children, while warning against forcing intake and against overeating after holidays.
Fashionable women at mountain and seashore resorts embrace rainbow shawl knitting as a fashionable pastime. They abandon bridge golf and car rides to finish two and a half yard shawls with gold needles, using Shetland threads and elastic wool. Materials cost modestly, while labor spans about a month.
A description of a party game Flop where players circle chairs while one stands. Seated players scramble to occupy a vacant chair as the middle player tries to spot it. The last to sit after a chair is vacated becomes the new person in the center.
An early 20th century style guide extols cucumbers for sedentary workers noting their light digestion and cooling effect. It recommends raw dressing in cold water to aid digestion, advises against salting water, and describes options for raw dressed cucumbers and tomato cucumber salads as well as stuffed cucumber dishes with forcemeat and stock baked to tenderness.
Read describes daily bath routines and skin care, including camphor baths, bran and oatmeal bags, marshmallow milk baths, and refreshing tonics. It explains tepid baths to cool the body, cautions against cold baths, and suggests scented waters and evaporation sprays for post-bath refreshment.
A note suggests saving melon seeds to craft necklaces or bracelets with beads. It warns mice may nibble seeds while describing a Pekin and Tien Tsin Times opinion on cigarette popularity in the east and far east. The piece mentions a Jong-stemmed pipe and Asiatic usage.
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