Prodigal Seffy Returns in a Kansas Farm Tale
In a Kansas village a strained marriage plot ends in reconciliation as Seffy Baumgartner, long absent, returns with Sally to claim love and a shared future. The old guardian Baumgartner, Sally, and Seffy reconcile, plan work, marriage, and a new life together, while recognizing changes time has wrought.
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Sarah
Sarah Pressel
Seffy
Bavumeartzer
Baumer
Sally
Sam Fritz
Sey
Leffy
Sem
Sam
Baumgartner
Fritz
Old
Old Baumgartmer
Old Baumgartner
Sally Rees
Ding
Farm Journal
S. P Baumgartner, Jr
Kansas State Farmers’ League
Pappy
Ameni
Greuze
Earth
Heaven
Presto
Kansas State League of Farmers’ Clubs
Ole Baumgartner
Kellerman
Yaller
Happy Valley
Lefty
Delicacies for hot weather from Emma Paddock Telford
A Cook’s guide lists summer friendly dishes including Swatza breakfast, figs with rhubarb, black currant fool and ice cream. Instructions detail preparation, cooling, and serving ideas with currant sauces, spiced currants, currant catsup, and a baked cherry brown betty. Also notes quick summer toast with Swatza and a fruit syrup jelly-like rhubarb dish.
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Emma Paddock Telford
Savory Tongue Creams Recipe Card
Six ounces of cooked tongue, three ounces of cooked chicken, half a tablespoonful of gelatine, half a cupful of white sauce, three small tomatoes, one tablespoonful of chutney, red coloring, salt and paprika. Coat wet molds with egg gel, set. Mix gelatine with tomato jelly, strain. Chop tongue and chicken, mix with tomato, pound smooth, add white sauce and chutney and salt and paprika, sieve, add gelatine and colouring. Divide into molds and turn out when firm, garnish with parsley lettuce and chopped aspic.
Raspberry Cream Method With Gelatine and Raspberry Juice
Soak half a box of gelatine in half a cup cold water until soft. Add half cup boiling water with one cup sugar dissolved. Strain and stir in one pint raspberry juice. Chill until thickened. Beat briefly, fold in one pint whipped cream, mold and refrigerate until firm.
Health Bread Recipe Measures and Baking Method
A simple bread formula uses two cups rye meal one cup flour salt sour milk one egg lard and soda one half teaspoon. Mix bake slowly in loaf or flat tins. Serve with maple sirup for flavor.
Macaroon Whip Dessert Preparations
Whip one pint of cream and roll out one half pound of macaroons with one half cup of maple syrup and one cup of walnuts. Mix thoroughly and serve ice cold in frappe glasses with candied cherries.
Lemon Sherbet Recipe Freeze Method
Four cups water and two cups sugar dissolved with one tablespoon gelatin. Mix thoroughly after dissolving gelatin with part of the water, then combine with the sugar solution and freeze.
Rusty Cans Ruin Flavor and Quality of the Milk
Milk contacting iron from rusty cans or poorly trimmed utensils degrades flavor and quality. Poor tinning, dents, and lead patches in old cans allow iron, water, and acid to taint milk, while unsanitary factory utensils worsen outcomes. Emphasizes rejecting tainted milk and adopting merit-based buying, with proposed scorecard and sorting methods.
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Manns
Farrington
Wisconsin
Growing calves on skim milk and flax feed plan
The article details calf feeding with skim milk and flax meal, starting with restricted early feeding, progressing to mixed milk types, and adding flax gradually to reach ten pints of milk with a flax portion by month four. It stresses strict timing, temperature, and gradual growth in a small-scale start.
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Growieg
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Pennsylvania
John Luther Song
Don Wilson
Bonnier
New York Society
Miles
Col Broryn
Sunday Magazine
Lord Longford
Life Guards
Ireland
Tommy
Emma Prddock Telford
George A. Olson
Wisconsin University
Prof. Haecker
Minnesota
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