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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 22, 1910
Page
6
A nostalgic essay contrasts candle and lamp illumination with electric light, recounting life in Virginia and a village home. The author recalls an astral lamp, kerosene, camphene, and gas, praising careful wick care, shade placement, and efficient lighting while deeming daylight burning wasteful.
A long mix of household advice includes nitrate of soda plant tips, a detailed Mexican dish recipe with spaghetti and paprika, and a lengthy letter from an ex maid debating references and the ethics of certificates of character for servants. The items show a domestic pressures and exchanges within a community column.
A long list of daily meals outlines breakfasts with fruit cereal cream tea and coffee, lunches featuring galantine sandwiches and bread with crackers, and dinners including cream of tomato soup stuffed lamb and beef tongue dishes. Leftovers and desserts appear throughout with multiple fruit and custard offerings.
A housekeeper recounts a dispute over a reference for a former cook who allegedly drank and endangered lives. The accuser defended a principle of honesty among housewives while criticizing a treacherous practice that harms domestic staff. The piece also shares home tips on canning, baking, and cooking.
A young girl shares a prefatory note about a plum pudding tied to a Queen Victoria prize. The recipe lists flour suet currants raisins citrus peel eggs molasses soda sour milk and optional brandy. Boil eight to nine hours in a floured cloth with a sauce of butter sugar flour nutmeg and boiling water.
A reader from Mineral Point Wisconsin describes a folk recipe to make a lemon cordial. It calls for three pounds of buds to steep in four quarts of boiling water overnight, then the next morning strain and press. Three lemons are sliced and seeds removed, with three and a half cups sugar dissolved over heat. The mixture ferments in a crack for a fortnight, then strained and bottled with light corking.
A Kentucky reader offers a family recipe for green tomato catsup with cabbage, mustard, horseradish, peppers and optional sugar, plus an eggless gingerbread dough using molasses sorghum and sour milk. The writer asks for clarifications on vinegar, fermentation, flour quantity, and invites further letters.
Gather furs free of dust and vermin. Beat and brush until clean, sun for several hours, then wrap each item in sunned newspapers with camphor balls. Seal parcels in cheesecloth and store in a trunk or barrel. Label packages to avoid mixups for the season’s end.
The speaker notes thirty years of storage success with furs and woolens, claiming none have been harmed by moths while in limbo.
A Buffalo, New York, note asks to reprint the previously published anise cookies recipe. The item mentions a housewife who contributed the original recipe and asks whether she will permit a copy to be shared again.
Letter discusses bread making with dry yeast and tempering with warm water and milk. Author shares method, rising times, and oven steps, noting dough texture and adjustments for cold water. Also includes readers asking for addresses and stamps, debating postal reply etiquette and stamp costs.
Reader advice recommends at home cleaning of lace curtains using bathtub soak with gasoline or dry cleaning by pinning sheets, flour and salt paste, brushing, and three day rest. It describes applying salted flour paste, brushing, and steaming with a damp cloth to avoid wrinkles and extend cleanliness.
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