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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1907
Page
6
A lyrical monologue depicts a housekeeper named Jones rocking her youngest child to sleep. She laments endless cleaning and chores including sweeping dusting and keeping the dolls house. A mouse breaches the door injuring Jemima and staining the floor with sawdust.
A humorous verse fragment describes domestic chaos as a kitten aloft on a chair and a puppy gnaws a slipper. The wobbling chimney and a torn clothes line threaten daily duties while Eliza the cook loses her temper and plans to quit. The speaker jokes about moving to apartments if life does not improve.
The piece describes a yeast starter method from Marion Harland with steps to dissolve yeast in warm water, mix with boiled potato water and sugar, and let rise until light. It notes saving starter for future use, refreshing with more sugar and potato water, and explains morning bread results. The letter from Mrs F B West Falls, N. Y. prompts further guidance.
Wash and skin lamb kidneys then dice and cook with minced onion carrot green pepper and tomato. Add tart apple curry powder paprika salt stock and browned flour then simmer with kidney pieces for five minutes before serving per Mrs Rundle Alexandria Virginia.
The exchange edited by Marion Harland promotes kitchen wisdom and neighborly aid. Members share chemical cautions about galvanized iron, butter making, home repairs, and recipes while inviting questions on stewing, painting fabrics, and household harmony.
A fragment notes Mrs P of Benton Harbor will thoroughly clean a boiler with coal oil before use. The soiled utensil is described as an offensive scum remover. The passage hints at a remedy less heroic than discarding the utensil and warns of drying scum.
A reader reports a rear ruined black and white polka dot linen gown after washing. The washerwoman allegedly boiled it with tidies bearing red stripes, fading the dress colors. The writer seeks help to remove red dye from Crees and notes failed prior attempts.
A letter from Cocoanut Grove Florida gives practical ant control tips. Place gum camphor in sugar barrels to deter ants and lay camphor on shelf edges. dissolve corrosive sublimate in alcohol for furniture legs. The note also mentions a Confederate veteran’s booklet and home remedies for corns using baking soda.
A culinary guide describes preparing halved peppers stuffed with seasoned cold meat or fish and baked with gravy. It covers chicken or lamb forcemeat with rice or breadcrumbs, peppered fish with butter lemon and Parmesan crust, and finishing with browned crumbs and a citrus butter gravy.
A Victorian kitchen note explains slicing quinces and simmering skins cores and seeds in a little water. The strained liquid is simmered with the fruit to a smooth paste, flavored with orange juice, and sweetened with sugar before jarning with waxed papers.
Recipe for making marshmallows from powdered gum Arabica with water sugar and vanilla. Instructions include soaking grinding dissolving straining double boiler heating to scalding point cooling cutting into squares rolling in cornstarch and sugar then drying in a tin box.
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