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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
2
A long, instructional letter explains how to make Sunday ice cream with self freezing methods. It details equipment setup, brine preparation, custard making from milk eggs and vanilla, and careful freezing steps. Variations include fruit frozen in, coffee flavor, mousse variants, and finishing touches for a rich dessert.
A taken editorial note requests contributors confine letters to about 100 words, except for formulas or recipes. It aims to feature more letters in the Corner and notes Marion Harland cannot release money for patterns due to no department connection.
A letter urges support for a Comfort Mission Club aiding shut-ins with weekly dues and donations. The piece also shares household tips including homemade baking powder recipes, hamburger steak methods, and discussions on ammonia safety in baking powders.
A long list of daily meals and leftovers detailing Sunday breakfast and weekly lunches and dinners. Reads like a colonial era kitchen plan with items such as beef loaf, pot roast, succotash soup, lambs’ ears, mutton broth, salmon steaks, and various vegetables, breads, desserts, and beverages. The text mixes repeated leftovers and new dishes, noting soups, stews, pies, and desserts alongside tea and coffee.
Yesterday's menu lists cereal and cream, pick-up codfish, fried mush, roast coffee and tea. The spread includes beer loaf with beets, macaroni and tomato sauce, roasted pears with cream, cake, tea, a soup, veal segllop, canoes cepes, succotash, peaches and pears, berries, bacon and fried green tomatoes, rolls, toast and beverages.
A faded clipping presents a Hausprat cake recipe attributed to a German household cook in Atlanta. It lists butter sugar milk and flour, almond flavoring, baking powder, and almond meal as core ingredients with step by step mixing and baking directions.
A commentary on the role of housemothers as a domestic arm of service. It argues the German family life has influenced the nation to front rank governmental power and views this as an instructive object lesson for the world.
A South Carolina housemother seeks guidance on baking bread for sale weighing 11 pound loaves from 2 to 30 pound batches, accounting for 1 to 2 ounces loss in rising, and weighing flour costs against revenue. A neighbor in Mahanoy Pa suggests adjusting ounces per loaf as flour prices vary, noting grocers sell flour wholesale by the carload and bakers skim loaves to raise prices.
A reader correspondence excerpt discusses infestations of insects in old Virginia furniture. Advice criticized previous remedies and endorses harsh sprays while noting odor and safety concerns. An implied warning about ineffective solutions is given, referencing Mrs Newlywed and various unverified methods.
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