Home preserving tips from a new pure food law era
The article argues that strict food labeling reveals adulterants in jams and jellies and encourages home canning. It lists recipes for preserving strawberries raspberries rhubarb cherries blackberries and other fruits with sugar and heat, detailing steps and sealing methods for jars and jelly.
Housemothers' Exchange tackles living on pennies a week
Readers debate affordable menus and hidden costs for a week of meals. Ontario Liver dish and butter making tips highlight practical cooking, budgeting, and homemaking advice. Letters from Mrs. W. P. B. and Joliet contributors share experiments in frugal living and home economies.
Weekly Menus and Reader Questions From Alfred to Minnie
A collage of family meal plans lists breakfasts lunches and dinners with items like fruit cereal cracked wheat stews and tea. The page also includes readers asking about travel lodging guides and recipe requests with brief culinary answers and home cooking tips.
Preserving Eggs with Water Glass and Sand Plaster
This reader asks for the egg preserving formula from The Exchange. The method dissolves silicate of soda in water, leaves eggs packed in a stone crack end down, and uses a close cover in a cool dry cellar. Water glass refers to silicate of soda. sand plaster is ground rock gypsum.
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Miss A dear Steckeemleman and Manitoba dish name
Fragmentary note describes a young woman in Manitoba who would recognize a name instantly. The district reportedly gave the dish its current name, tying it to Miss Steckeemleman and a winter spent there.
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