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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1910
Page
11
A homemaking piece offers cleaning tips for dining tables using gasoline and lukewarm water, plus a bean cutlets with tomato puree recipe. It also describes a high powered vacuum system with a 10 000 blows per minute agitator and a dirt sack that empties into an ash barrel, plus a felt pad for wood floors.
The article touts a compact electric cleaner weighing eight pounds that is highly portable yet powerful in use. Shown with practical demonstrations, it attaches to an electric light fixture and operates for cleaning tasks.
A recipe describes heating milk with light brown sugar until a soft ball forms in cold water. Then remove from heat, add butter and vanilla, beat in pecan pieces, and drop spoonfuls onto waxed paper to cool.
Pare and slice six to eight large potatoes. Fry four slices of salt pork on both sides. Add three or four small onions and a small piece of lean pork. Fry a few minutes then add the potatoes and one cupful of hot water. Cover and cook about half an hour, stirring occasionally.
A vintage recipe fragment describes cooking one pound of fresh pork until it falls from the bones, shredding the cat, straining the liquor to one pint, boiling with meat, thickening with Indian meat until firm, then slicing after drying. It calls for pepper and salt to season the liquor.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients including molasses raisins hot water pork and spices. It instructs to steam the mixture four hours producing a thick batter texture suitable for black pudding preparation.
Cover a saucepan two inches deep with tart stewed fruit such as apples. Bring to a boil and pour over a butter batter made from one tablespoon butter, one half cup sugar, one beaten egg, one half cup milk, one cup flour sifted with one teaspoon baking powder and vanilla. Bake quickly and serve with a tart lemon sauce enhanced with grated lemon peel and a pinch of nutmeg.
A minister's wife in a cold rectory hid a hot water bottle in a doll like costume to calm her babies at night. The idea, meant to please her children, caught on with other mothers who now craft warm playmates to soften bedtimes.
The conversation hints at Terrible Bill the Avenger who has killed ten men. A bystander named Cholly questions the make of an automobile involved, suggesting a key clue in a vigilante tale from the era.
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