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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
3
Combine flour with baking powder and salt then rub in butter. Add milk to form a dough and cut rounds. Place an apple in each, seal with dough, bake until done. Serve with a hot butter sauce thickened with flour and water, flavored with vanilla and sugar.
From the shoulder of lamb, two and a half pounds cut in chops Brown in butter, add two quarts of boiling water, rice, flour, onion, parsley, salt and pepper. Simmer one hour. Dumplings made with flour baking powder salt sugar milk drop into the kettle and cook twenty minutes.
Dress, clean and truss a four pound fowl and tie it in a piece of cheese cloth to prevent scum from settling and skin discolor. Place on a trivet, surround with boiling water, cover and cook slowly until tender, turning occasionally. Add salt and pepper and serve with celery sauce. Reserve the stock for soup later.
Cream butter and sugar then whisk in strong coffee and sifted flour with baking powder. Fold in beaten egg whites and chopped walnuts. Bake in a shallow pan at moderate oven for about 45 minutes. Cool and top with frosting.
A fragment recipe instructs to cream one cup sugar with three teaspoons butter then add one cup sweet milk and two cups flour sifted with two teaspoons cream of. The text appears as a partial historical cooking note.
A Cannifton Ontario reader writes that Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured years of illness including supposed ulceration and a fibroid scare, avoiding surgery. She credits the remedy with relief during the Change of Life and overall health improvement.
An old advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a thirty year trusted female remedy. It claims it cures numerous ailments including irregularities, painful periods, backache, and nervous prostration and invites women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
A recipe fragment instructs adding one teaspoon soda and one and a half cups cranberries, then baking for thirty minutes in a moderate oven. It suggests serving with any sauce.
Select large uniform apples and shape hollow shells. Fill with chopped apple almonds raisins and sugar plus cinnamon. Bake with lids on in a buttered dish set in hot water. Then bake a light cake batter over the apples until done.
The article advises against straining buttermilk for health and skin benefits. It explains leaving butter flecks, mixing a pint buttermilk with half-pint clabbered milk, stirring in flour to stiff batter, beating until smooth, adding salt and soda, then mixing in enough buttermilk to reach buckwheat cake consistency.
A recipe praises Spanish chestnuts added to stewed prunes as a delicious foreign confection. Soak prunes overnight, boil chestnuts twenty minutes, peel shells and inner skin, then simmer with prunes. Serve cold or cool with plain cake as a breakfast or dessert option.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients: sugar butter sour milk eggs soda and flour. Instructions describe creaming butter and sugar then adding yolks and sour milk then flour and dissolved soda and beaten whites. Bake into a cake to split and fill with fresh fruit and sugar, like strawberry shortcake.
A Boston Herald writer relates a small village anecdote in which Mr. S, elderly and loved by locals, rents spare rooms to visitors. A summer exchange includes a quip about “two quarts of buts” as he surveys potato bags, highlighting rural humor and everyday life.
A husband voices mixed support for his wife’s suffrage stance. He says it could discourage other suffragists and drive them away, reflecting tensions in the movement reported by the Washington Star.
The article explains war limits under international law and emphasizes the protection given to neutrals and combatants. It outlines restrictions on arming, asylum, killing or wounding, spying, and treatment of prisoners, with cautions about bombardment and civilian safety.
Justice of the Peace C E K Sanford of Weston King’s Co N B testifies Zam-Buk cured a twenty year eczema patch on his ankle and skin diseases. he also reports relief from itching piles and recommends Zam-Buk for burns cuts ulcers and other skin injuries. Available from Zam-Ret Co Toronto 50c per box or 3 for $1.25 by post.
A court martial discussion notes that evidence is admissible and no technical duties are required if found guilty the verdict is sent to the highest commanding officer in camp for approval. The action hinges on military procedures and authority.
The article explains how counterfeiters embed threads by gluing two papers together and notes a recent $10 note with bluish green color. It discusses penalties, coin production outfits, and the split roles in gangs. It cites rising Native American participation and odd sounds reported to the Secret Service in apartment houses.
A string of playful reminiscences features children recalling travel in Europe Niagara Falls and the zoo alongside wild west shows and a train engine ride with a parent. Lively chatter includes dreams of far places and simple adventures sharing a childlike chorus of travel and discovery.
MeJones recalls trouble with trespassers and damaged items. He describes a clever idea to halt theft, guiding the visitor to the rear to reveal a sign over the gate reading Please do not irritate the rattle wakes. The San Francisco Call reports the tale.
A proverb-like chestnut hints that persistence or provocation can provoke a change in behavior, implying consequences for those who push too far in a given dispute or situation.
Pleasant Point Ontario reports Mrs Merrill Clarke a Salvation Army member credits Dodd's Kidney Pills for relief after twenty years of illness starting at menopause. She describes faint spells swollen limbs and painful transfers to feet and head and says seven boxes cured her and all women should use them. A comic aside follows about a hypnotist and marriage memory.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat advice quips about washing gloves. A salesman explains a soap secret to keep gloves soft after rinsing, suggesting a final bath and light drying to avoid stiffness. The technique makes gloves easy to care for and cheaper than kid gloves.
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