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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
3
The writer discusses homemade beverages and a cautious stance on alcohol. Recipes for orange syrup drinks, ginger punch, blackberry shrub, milk shake, and ginger mead are shared, with steps, ingredients, and aging notes.
A reader outlines two days of economical, two person meals with menus and notes. Breakfast includes steamed rhubarb and baked omelet. dinners feature veal pot roast and beef heart dishes with varied vegetables. The writer hints at price-saving ideas but does not provide prices or full explanations.
Readers discuss methods to preserve pineapple juice in jars or bowties, noting that boiling and sealing hot may keep it indefinitely. They explore canning pineapple, dyeing fabrics with household products, and share recipes for Lady Baltimore cake, Summer Salad, and Italian Macaroni while seeking the green kern cooking method.
A California housemother signatory as Interested argues eight children prove frugal, healthy meals can be affordable. She details March 1910 costs totaling 39 dollars, with milk bread groceries and meat, and rejects cheap cuts, urging readers to request menus and write for guidance.
The menu lists Breakfast items crisps radishes souffe muffins honey coffee and Luncheon items tomato bouillon almond bread butter custard jelly cottage cheese cocoa broiled shad macaroni and rice with desserts. A recipe block describes making Souffle sauce with butter flour milk eggs and breadcrumbs and notes using leftovers for soups salads and dressings. Oak Park notes conclude the weekly menu continuation.
The menu lists baked rhubarb and dates cereal and cream and bacon and eel with toast tea and lunch. It notes yesterday's stew with baked potatoes quick biscuits berry cake and tea. A barley soup, rolled beefsteak, carrots and greens are mentioned with summer cash Tyroly poly and hard sauce and coffee.
Oranges, cereal and cream, fried butter fish, cornbread and tea mark breakfast. Long clam chowder, breaded codfish steaks with piquant sauce, mashed potatoes, green peas, rice pudding and black coffee accompany lunch.
A list of prepared items includes currants and red raspberries with cereal and cream, hashed beef and muffin loaf, baked eggs with potato cakes, green peas and endive salad, cottage cheese with heater crackers, cream pots, tea and coffee. Also yesterday's chowder, scalloped codfish, broiled tomatoes, Parisienne potatoes, home made ice cream and cake.
The passage asks for detailed methods to feed ten people eight of them growing children on a weekly budget under one dollar. It emphasizes frugality and the challenge of sustaining a family on very limited funds.
A reader from Anaheim California offers two recipes. One for sled dressing using eggs cream salt pepper sugar mustard paprika and vinegar kept in a glass jar. The other for cornmeal gems uses eggs milk cornmeal sugar salt shortening flour and baking powder yields twelve gems.
Mrs D B of Los Angeles California advises gathering rose leaves when dew is off in the forenoon. Dry in shade with good air flow, turning often. When dry sprinkle with a few drops of attar of rose. Lightly dust with powdered orm s root among petals and fill a linen case, then wrap in silk.
A fragment discusses Miss Betty's house with plastering issues. It notes the plaster is applied over brick walls with furring strips creating an air gap, and alleges saltpeter in lime caused disquiet. Possible remedies include shellac or oil finishes to address the discrepancy.
A letter from Florence ER Odoupt of Vernon New York shares practical kitchen guidance. It praises a former clipping about Wolfe and the Burial of Sir John Moore and discusses rhubarb pie plant preparation for breakfast. The writer offers baking methods, dates and prunes as flavoring, plus notes on interior discoloration and a new contributor line.
A reader notes peppercene cited with boiling pork chops but druggists don’t know it. The term refers to whole black or white peppers, similar to whole allspice, used by pickle makers. If whole pepper was asked for you’d find no supply.
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