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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
2
Emily Riesenberg explains basic bread making and home baking rules. The article covers using compressed yeast, preparing it overnight, waking it with sugar, and steps for proper dough rising with lukewarm ingredients and level flour measurements.
This article provides a sponge bread method with four and a half cupfuls bread flour salt lard and butter milk and water yeast sugar and a two stage rising process. It describes soaking yeast overnight forming a light sponge then mixing in flour and liquid then letting the dough rise twice before shaping into loaves and baking until golden and hollow sounding when tapped.
Instructions describe shaping a loaf by dividing dough into half egg portions, rolling into finger lengths, and placing close in a greased pan. Bake until light and serve by breaking apart at seams for lighter texture than a single loaf, especially when serving fresh warm bread.
The recipe lists graham flour salt lard warm water sugar and yeast preparation. Mix rub salt and lard into flour, soak yeast in cold water add sugar to warm water then beat into flour. Let rise to double, beat down, fill greased pan, rise again and bake until a toothpick comes out clean.
An old article urges housekeepers to bake Serman Coffee Cake at home, noting homemade goods are better and cheaper. It advises baking once or twice weekly and explains using compressed yeast by soaking it in cold water overnight or for several hours.
The text explains soaking yeast to remove odors while dormant, draining, and warming the liquid to awaken fermentation. It advises using luke warm ingredients, a warm dough environment, level measurements, and a graded half pint cup with flour sifted before measuring.
Take dough portions and form small balls lay them side by side in a greased flat pan. When light bake until done and lightly brown. Rub tops with butter before breaking apart. Best eaten fresh.
A historical recipe lists ingredients and steps for almond loaf cake. It covers yeast preparation with warm liquids, two mixing stages, beating to incorporate air, folding in almonds and lemon, and baking until golden with a sugar dusting after cooling.
Instructions for a German cinnamon cake using flour milk yeast lard and butter sugar and cinnamon. Mix sugar shortening and eggs with sponge then fold in flour beat well rise to double, shape in greased tins bake as a coffee cake with melted butter sugar and cinnamon topping.
When dough is prepared place a thin flat layer in a greased pan. Slice tart apples finely and arrange overlapping rows to cover the dough. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon, then bake until the apples are tender and the crust is done.
A Sunday School Visitor tale describes Jack discovering a snail in his pocket and sharing lessons on snail life. It covers snail shelters in rain and shade, mouthfuls of teeth, garden damage, eye-tipped horns, and ancient Roman feeding, plus the snail's famed self healing.
A puzzle asks how few moves place each animal into its correct pen matching the numbers. The sequence of moves to rearrange is 4, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 2, 1, 4 and 6.
A simple egg and milk custard to pour over sugared apples. Beat one whole egg with one cup rich milk then mix into remaining ingredients, omit cinnamon, and pour over apples after they are sugared.
Skin and stone roasted peaches pressed into dough with sugar. Bake plain or with custard for a simple fruit cake.
A compact note describes preparing a blue plum cake by placing unskinned blue plums skin down on dough and piling sugar heavily. It references a method “Baka as directed for peach cake” and cites a 191% copyright line attributed to Joseph B. Dortes.
In Paris on June 6 1783 a balloon carrying a sheep a cock and a duck lifted from the ground and reached about a half mile before descending. Later that year De Rozier and Marquis d Arlandes flew for about thirty minutes. Rozier died attempting to cross the English Channel two years later.
A short anecdote notes Elmer, the eldest of a large family, visiting to see a newborn. When his mother asked for his view, he replied that the baby was real nice but questioned whether the family needed it.
A brief cabinet trick describes arranging fifteen matches into four figures then having a friend remove three matches and provide an explicit explanation of what constitutes matches. The piece emphasizes readiness and simplicity of performance in a casual party setting.
A historical puzzle describes placing twenty four matches into a 3x3 grid cube then removing eight to leave two squares. Seven matches are later positioned on a table and moved across squares by counting four steps per move, with the middle square excluded. The solution requires precise sequence to place all seven without using the middle square as start or finish.
The article tours Southampton as a historic port rich with ruins and legends. It notes Clausentum’s Saxon past, King John’s Palace ruin, and the medieval defenses along West Gate. It highlights Holy Rood and St Michael churches, a 12th century font, the Tudor house museum, and the Wool House on the Quay once used as a prison for prisoners of war.
Harper's Weekly notes gray squirrels hide each nut separately rather than storing in masses. They bury chestnuts hickories and walnuts across wide ground areas and often germinate in spring, creating diverse young trees far from the parent source.
Myrtle boasts on geography while Jimmie jokes that germination yields nothing to say, but notes the German nation consumes much sauerkraut and wienerwurst. The quip appears in the Youngstown Telegraph.
A man replies he cannot read such sensational fiction as blood and thunder novels, stating he struggles to keep up with the current crimes reported in the news.
Taxpayers in Oxford Pennsylvania paid overdue taxes in pennies after the collector refused checks. On the first day twelve thousand pennies poured in as their response to the dispute.
New Orleans reports describe the matapalo a strangler tree that relies on a host palm to grow upward and eventually envelops and suffocates it. The camera image from near Barro Obispo in the canal zone during the dry season shows the palm alive and protruding through the trunk. The name likely comes from mata arbol meaning kill tree, as the plant can reach a diameter from sight to ten feet.
After a street car hit a circus wagon at midnight in Leipsic during a centennial Battle of Nations celebration a tiger and eight lions escaped. Police killed six lions and two were raped in a shocking misprint. authorities battled the remaining beasts as crowds fled and hotel guests barricaded rooms.
London reports India and the India Office discuss Crewe's plan to prohibit watering cotton in India. Officials note pumps and hoses saturate ginned cotton with water to cheat buyers, with adulteration also taking the form of mixing damaged bolls with sound ones under middlemen pressures.
Dr William H Howell of Johns Hopkins Hospital and colleagues describe Huntington West Virginia boy Russell Baker as showing a camera vision. He reads writes and performs tasks upside down and backward, according to the study.
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