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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
3
The article argues for substantial hot midday meals to sustain vitality, criticizing reliance on cold foods. It notes husbands’ and children’s preferences, urges more effort and expense, and introduces recipes to support humane midday dining amid weary afternoons. It cites Constance Fennimore Woolson and a western orator to illustrate meal choices.
A recipe fragment describes boiling a dressing, then pouring it over meat about five minutes before serving. It emphasizes stirring during heating and removing from heat once bubbles form to finish the dish.
A collection of old fashioned recipes for economical meals. Calf s brains on toast are prepared as a creamy omelet with eggs and hot butter. A beef based mince dish uses liver with onions and mushrooms. A pork and potato dish with onions simmers in stock, finished with milk and butter. A bread pastry stuffed with mince and baked completes the menu. Remnants from fish are suggested for reuse. Household hints include using canned soup as gravy and avoiding overcooking leftovers.
A guidance piece describes do it yourself methods for cleaning wallpaper using a putty like powder, cornstarch, fuller's earth, stale bread for grease, French chalk with a hot iron, and perpendicularly applied powders. It notes precautions to avoid streaks and suggests extra wallpaper stock for accidents and mildew remedies such as painting walls black before papering.
Letters discuss bartering silk velvet quilts and glass china repairs with an informal panel. Advice includes creating a trusted third party referee, fixing fragile china with an invisible cement, and sharing old time recipes such as chess pie and Virginia beaten biscuits without baking powder.
The fragment details a weekly family menu listing various meals from Sunday through midweek. It includes oranges, cracked wheat, cream, fish balls, soups, roasts, macaroni, stews, pies, breads, and beverages with scattered notes on leftovers and kitchen tips. It also contains a long recipe for a cornmeal bread labeled my bread and signed by Mrs. G. of Chicago.
The piece discusses the toll of dirty walls on modern households and the need for washable wall coverings. It argues against costly wallpapers that stain easily and advocates affordable, cleanable options for kitchens, bathrooms, and nurseries while noting government inaction on chimney soot.
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