Mrs Sterling's Ways A Tale Of Housekeeping Trials
Mrs Sterling recounts a half year as hostess to her aging Massachusetts relatives, detailing her struggle to please two invalid aunts and a gravely changed kitchen routine. She describes early stern resolve, culinary experiments, and eventual humor found in fattening the supposedly finicky invalids.
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Mrs. Sterling
Mrs. Martin
Coes
Massachusetts
Amestead
Hannah Mary
Mrs. Greene
How to Poach Eggs in Boiling Water
A historic cooking note instructs how to poach six eggs in fast boiling salted water. Eggs are dropped one by one into a rapid whirlpool, cooked until soft and round, then served on buttered toast with a dab of butter and a light dusting of salt and pepper.
Crumbs and Milk Omelet Bake
Soak three tablespoons stale crumbs in one cup milk for two hours. Beat six eggs separately. Fold soaked crumbs into yolks with salt and pepper. Gently fold in stiffened whites. Butter a deep dish, bake in quick oven until light brown, then lift brown crumbs over top and serve immediately.
Missed Meals and Quick Egg Dishes for the Kitchen
Directions describe preparing a baked milk and yolk pudding with soda and pepper plus butter, then a rice and milk porridge with rice and beaten eggs. Also a fried omelet style dish finished in a hot oven, folded and served immediately.
Historic Kidney Preparation With Butter Mustard Crust
Instructions describe slicing kidneys into thick cuts, coating with a butter mustard and lemon mixture, dredging in cracker dust, and chilling briefly. Broil on a small gridiron over moderate heat, turning often to avoid burning, until thoroughly cooked and served hot.
Old World Style Lambs Kidney Mushroom Saute
Skin and slice three pairs of lambs kidneys and fourteen canned mushrooms halved. Heat bouillon with mushroom liquor, then mix with butter and browned flour to form a thick sauce. Add Worcestershire sauce tomato catsup onion juice salt and paprika. Stir in mushrooms and kidneys. Simmer five minutes after boil.
Sweetbreads a la Creme Recipe Note
Recipe steps for sweetbreads a la creme with blanching cutting into dice and cooking in a butter flour cream sauce seasoned with salt pepper and minced parsley. Evan Henlaw
Velvet shade carpet dyed with patent dyes by a housewife
A Tonawanda reader describes dyeing a carpet using green and orange patent dyes. She details preparation with four packs of cove dye, water, and a sponge, plus border work and multiple color layers to achieve a deep terra cotta ground with green highlights. She raises questions about color bleed and colorfastness.
Tea mixture to attract and kill flies
A historical note describes a quassia based tea with one pint of liquid, brown sugar, ground pepper, and two ounces of an ingredient, mixed and placed in small shallow dishes around living rooms. Claimed to be non poisonous to people and other creatures except flies.
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Ison
Providence
R. L
Parrafin Drops Said to Ward Flies and Moths in Homes
In Atlanta Georgia a reader suggests adding a few drops of paraffin to wash water to repel flies moths and all insects and keep homes cleaner.
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Anette Helper
Senda
M. iAtlanta
Household Canning Tips And Reader Inquiries
Readers share method for fruit preservation without sugar using boiling hot berries in jars with rubbers and tight seals. They discuss safety, storage in cool dark places, and thinning or sweetening on demand. A letter asks for chow chow recipe. another questions galvanized iron use and suggests porcelain lined vessels for canning.
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Hewitt
Mina
Ruby
Berlin
N. Y
Wrapping Cold Towel Aids Jar Burn Treatment
A letter describes using cold towels and soda on burns from a heated jelly jar. The writer recounts a severe arm burn, immediate cooling with water, soda bandages, and quick healing with no lasting scar. They also mention a soda lard salve for children's burns and a hay cooker project.
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Cartier
SOE
Anxious to Learn Seeks Red Catsup Recipe Questions
A reader requests guidance on a bright red catsup recipe and whether cloves should be whole or ground. The letter notes a preferred mix including tomatoes salt camel sugar cider vinegar red pepper and cloves and asks if cloves darken the color and when to add them. Mrs K P L Norwood Pa adds a comment about darker catsups.
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K P. L
Norwood, Pa
Dyeing Carpets on the Floor
A reader asks how to dye a carpet laid on the floor. The note mentions attempting two macquettes in large rooms and seeks guidance on coloring techniques and safety.
Old Woman Remedies for Cleaning Stains
A Danish woman shares home cleaning hints for stains on mattresses coats and dresses. Methods include starch paste to lift mattress stains alcohol on coat collars benzine and water on evening waists and butter on tar spots with long soak times and soap washes. The piece touts the usefulness of these tips for members.
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Walton
Potato Flour Recipes Advised For Swedish Use
A reader in Rossiniale Massachusetts sends a small book of potato flour recipes noting its Swedish usage. It suggests substitution in cakes and similar foods and calls it nourishing. The Massachusetts correspondent praises straightforward, concise reporting.
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Deal
H. J
Rossiniale
Mass
Massachusetts
Cornish saffron cake inquiry asks for saffron quantity
A reader from Calumet Michigan asks for the exact saffron amount in the Cornish saffron cake recipe noting the recipe calls for one box of saffron. The writer seeks guidance from the columnist and signs as JC McD asking how much saffron is in a box.
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Calumet, Mich
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