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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1960
Page
6
Unusual banana sauce recipe to serve with baked ham. Mash ripe bananas and mix with mayonnaise salt mustard horseradish and chopped parsley. Also notes on defrosting meat and safe cooking temperatures plus a quirky tip about bringing thumb tacks to a picnic.
Fresh blueberries, about two weeks late this year, are now ready to supply delicious pies. The bumper harvest supports local bakers and markets eager to feature ripe berries in seasonal treats.
The Agriculture Department predicts a drop in egg production in 1960 as abundant supplies reduce incentives to raise chicks. Fewer chicks mean fewer hens to lay eggs this summer and fall, lifting prices though no shortage is expected.
The fragment blends culinary guidance with nutrition notes. It discusses blueberry turnovers with crust ingredients and fillings, mentions milk consumption in the United States, and offers tips on using a meat thermometer, broiling peaches, and repurposing plastic bottles for picnic condiments. It reads like a wandering home economics piece with historical food guidance and casual asides.
Dr. Margaret Mead warns that frontier habits linger in modern eating, stressing overnutrition as a major health issue. She notes past focus on quantity and a narrow staple base, rooted in a hundred years ago, still shape today’s diet despite shifts toward different foods. Organized by Melamine Council, the symposium on the revolution in American diet highlighted these tensions and the need to adapt eating patterns.
A frayed recipe fragment discusses Curried Fillets Amandine with haddock and other fish, almonds, chutney, and butter. It cites a 1960 meat consumption estimate of 159 pounds per American and notes the meat industry preparing to meet rising demand.
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