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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1929
Page
7
An article urges American housewives to diversify menus with French style cooking. It lists dishes like Spinach a La Touraine and Carottes a La Bonnaienonne, offering step by step preparation, seasonings, and serving suggestions to expand summer meal choices beyond routine fare.
The piece contrasts aristocratic medieval English meals with common laborers three meals a day and notes modern American preference for English laborers meal pattern. It advises resting between meals, suggests fresh fruit or milk drinks between meals, and highlights benefits for children underweight invalids and the elderly.
Water boiled vegetables form the base for a tasty creamed sauce. Asparagus water mixed with milk or cream creates a white sauce that enhances vegetables and tastes delicious.
A festival menu lists items like Victoria croquettes buttered potatoes beet wheel saled rolls and currant jelly. It describes flag shaped cakes with red sugar frosting and dinosaur candies, served on paper dollies with red candy poles, plus chicken croque or croque monsieur style items and creamed peas.
Milady announces new lingerie colors and styles reflecting a shift toward feminine, tailored yet delicate pieces. Lace fabrics like georgette and chiffon appear in slips gowns and negligees with varied hemlines, waist treatments, and new colorways including yellow with black lace and pale pink chiffon with cream lace.
A reader offers a method to reuse leftover Not-roast by boiling again, then cooling in the cooking juice before storing in the ice box. This step is claimed to double the flavor and yield for future cold cuts.
Instructions advise marking the meat spots with two basting threads before cleaning or washing an especially walled garment. The threads can be removed prior to pressing, enabling special treatment.
A fragment notes porch meals as a family habit and mentions loading a tea wagon and a bat dish at table 16. It also states windshield wipers are being fitted to the captain's bridge of some of England's battleships, indicating ongoing modernization aboard naval vessels.
A kitchen note extols sponge cake for hot weather due to its lightness and lack of butter. It explains true sponge leavening from egg whites, details mixing folding methods, temperature around 330 degrees, and a slow oven to let air rise. Detailed steps cover eggs, sugar, flour, cream of tartar, and folding technique.
A new washable silk named spud suk 15 is proposed to simplify year round silk production. Tested by a silk association research committee it reportedly resists washing damage, preserves color and shape, and requires minimal special care. Demonstrations with Ray piloted systems show woven fabrics remain soft and pliable with a modest surface roughness and subdued luster.
A vintage guide to avoid soggy camp sandwiches with separate jars for butter and fillings. It lists easy make ahead fillings like salmon and egg, piquant ham, baked bean, peanut butter and onion, banana pineapple, and fig cream cheese on whole wheat or brown bread.
A historical snippet describes velvet tuxedo like attire and a flowered chiffon evening dress for southern wear. It advises careful cleaning of white woodwork to keep it immaculate and suggests removing stains weekly. It warns against mashing berries and recommends using sharp knives to avoid damaging the color and texture.
Home storage tips outline quick methods to stock a small emergency shelf with canned soups, vegetables, fruits, and fish. It lists menu ideas using canned ingredients such as Celery Soup, Peach Shortcake, Scalloped Salmon, and Clam Chowder, with simple prep steps and simple sauces.
The article describes new unbodied play clothes for children emphasizing freedom of movement, with sleeveless, strapless, and barefoot-friendly designs. Fabrics include washable linen, cotton broadcloth, gingham, and percale, in light colors and prints. One-piece beach outfits for small children, and bare sandals are noted. The piece also notes adults’ influence on fashion and a reference to diet and disease transmission via dust particles.
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