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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
7
The article offers quick sandwich pastes such as minced chicken ham or tongue with butter and cream, plus tea biscuits for a simple tea. It warns against overwork for the hostess and suggests delegating serving tasks to trusted helpers to keep the gathering homelike and informal.
The text outlines a weekly family meals plan with breakfast and luncheon entries. Items include grapefruit, hominy, cream, panfish, toast, tea, coffee, corned beef, brown bread, fruit salad, crackers and cheese, lemon jelly, sponge cake, custard pie, spinach soup, roast ducks, green peas, mashed potatoes, oranges, cereal, bacon, hash, sweet potatoes, stewed rhubarb, gingerbread.
The article argues for simple afternoon tea as an affordable social alternative for women with limited funds. It suggests modest menus, careful planning, and practical serving ideas, including tea preparation methods, light sandwiches, and minimal desserts, to maintain hospitality without overburdening households.
A reader asks for sponge clarification and odor removal once from sponge fisheries. Other letters request Florida style fried sweet potatoes and a timbale recipe. Amy from Fairbank Iowa discusses timbales and the nut bread query ends the chat.
A Rhinelander Wisconsin reader shares an eggless gingerbread method. It mixes sifted flour with syrup and lard, adds salt ginger and cinnamon, then water dissolved baking soda, and finally folds in nuts or raisins. Bake slowly forty five minutes to an hour until batter reaches cake consistency.
A reader from Gracey Kentucky shares techniques to salvage rancid lard by heating in a large kettle with raw potatoes to remove taint, then straining. Other letters discuss oatmeal varieties and proper potato preparation to achieve dry mealy results, emphasizing drying and peeling practices.
A compact reading presents a long list of foods and drinks: oranges, cereal and cream, codfish cakes, cornbread, toast, tea and coffee, scalloped oysters, olive and cream cheese sandwiches, toasted crackers and cheese, bread and butter, celery salad with French dressing, cake and preserves, Cream of celery soup, toast mutton, mashed turnips, rice croquettes, rhubarb tart, and black coffee.
A reader from Avoca Kentucky praises a pound cake recipe that skips creaming butter and sugar. The method mixes egg whites and yolks with butter and milk, adds flour and baking powder, and aims for a batter that drops from a spoon. The writer endorses the result as rich and true pound cake.
A list of dishes appears to describe a meal including fruit cereal and cream, bacon and apples, griddle cakes with syrup, toast tea and coffee. Omelet with cheese, sandwiches fried potatoes lettuce salad with French dressing hot shortcake and maple cream or honey tea. Inner beef gravy soup curried mutton bananas ice cold boiled rice curry browned sweet potatoes chocolate pudding with whipped cream black coffee.
Simple routine guide explains preserving a mahogany dining table. After meals wash with cold water and a sponge, then dry and rub briskly to keep the top bright and free from grease. For white spots rub with a cloth moistened with alcohol without harming the finish.
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