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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1915
Page
7
Hot weather meals are advised with four hot savory dishes and a cold salad for summer lunches. Recipes include Tomato Toast, Rainies Ham Toast, Sardine Savories, Oyster Savories, and Cheese Savories, each using toasted bread, butter, and simple fillings with pepper, paprika, and parsley.
Pineapple juice from canned fruit can flavor other foods during canning season and in cooking pears. A pint added to pear cooking water enhances flavor. Pineapple is often grated or chopped for canning and can be served in various forms. A light sugar sprinkle helps the fruit if pre chilled, and pineapples are usually picked green and rarely fully ripe.
A simple banana cake recipe from the Boston Globe suggests making a one egg sponge, baked in round tins as two layers. Layer with sliced banana and whipped cream, then top with another cake layer and more bananas and cream. Whipped cream beats with one cupful sweet cream one egg white salt and a dash of vanilla for body and flavor.
A simple pineapple cake recipe combines one egg butter sugar and milk with baking powder and flour baked in two layers. After cooling spread grated pineapple on each layer and top with whipped cream sweetened to taste.
A simple dumpling method uses two cups flour two level teaspoons baking powder half teaspoon salt and one cup sweet milk. Drop spoonfuls into boiling meat water boil fifteen minutes uncovered then ten minutes more with the lid on. Great with beef or chicken.
A simple method stews about 1.5 pounds rhubarb with 1 cup sugar in a double boiler without water. Prepare a soft custard from 1 pint milk 2 eggs 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon cornstarch, cook in a double boiler, cool, then pour over the rhubarb. Rhubarb tastes better stewed in a double boiler with no water.
One half pint sour cream with lemon juice sugar salt pepper and mustard. Beat until light and thick then add the other ingredients. Sweet cream may substitute if desired.
The article recalls thrifty domestic wine making from rural Potomac area past. It lists elderberry, dandelion, blackberry, raspberry and cherry wines, raspberry vinegar, cherry bounce, gooseberry wine, fruit brandy, persimmon beer, parsnip wine, peppermint wine and liqueur brought by British settlers.
Lettuce from market should be cleaned in cold water and checked for dirt and insects. Wrap in damp cheesecloth and refrigerate on ice for a week. Cutting the stalk end removes milky lactucin juice and may aid sleep. a lettuce relish with olives and red tomatoes serves as a luncheon or dinner dish.
For cold dining rooms the hot-water platter helps. Boiling water in a tank heats the platter, a top screws on, and a nickel cover keeps food hot for at least thirty minutes. The medium outfit costs about nine dollars, but careful use pays in comfort. There is also a round hot-water plate for trays or invalids.
Instructions for making pie shells without baking powder. Use an upside down deep pie plate as the mold, press crust over the bottom surface, shape edges, and bake. The technique aims to reduce bottom heat by elevating the crust from the oven floor for a better bake.
Recipe steps for tomato squares include mixing tomato onion peppercorns and spices, cooking and sieving, making a tomato sauce with butter and cornstarch, cooling adding an egg and setting in a pan, chilling and cutting into squares, then breading and frying to serve. Key quantities include two cups tomato four cloves garlic onions not specified in this text improves clarity.
Simple recipe for puree of baked beans. Simmer two cups beans with a small pork piece or butter, add two quarts hot water, season with pepper and salt and one-half onion, boil until very soft, then press through a sieve and serve.
Three pints cantaloupe pulp and two cups sugar with juice of two lemons or half a cup lemon juice. Pass through a fine sieve and freeze as usual. Serve in glass cups or from the melon rind basket.
Fragmentary text quotes from Bleak House and Martin Chuzzlewit discuss fortune and personal rights. The readable portion references success, Fortune, and the right to regulate proceedings by likings and distinctions. The lines resemble literary excerpts rather than a cohesive news item.
A nineteenth century style cookery snippet offers quick breakfast ideas with fruit cereal egg toast and bacon. It describes Corn Toast with onion butter flour cream corn salt paprika and egg, plus Creamed Salt Codfish with butter flour milk and egg, and includes Southern Eggs baked with rice and ham and Sautéed Tripe with honeycomb tripe prepared in milk and butter.
Readable recipe notes cover ice cream with grape juice and lemon, a sponge pudding with eggs and butter, braised beef using pork fat and vegetables, and a garnish tip for gelatin salads. The tone mirrors home kitchen guidance with practical steps and short flavors.
A Children’s Bureau prepared piece stresses cleanliness as the key to safe milk for infants. It details selecting clean or certified milk, proper handling from cows to bottle, cooling to 50 degrees, and a do it yourself ice box method to keep milk cold for 24 hours.
A colonial era kitchen column advises serving just enough to avoid waste and using small portions. It notes a cooperative method with a cook saves money and improves meals. Two ox tails simmer with mixed vegetables then brown gravy. Hamburg steak wrapped in cabbage with tomato sauce accompanies this economical fare.
This piece extols dates as inexpensive energy rich food easy to store and digest. It suggests stuffing dates with nuts cheese or fondant for sandwiches and details recipes including date paste peanut butter lemon juice and salt mix for fillings. It also covers dates cooked with cereals baked custard tapioca cookies pies cakes salads and a date rice pudding with milk baked slowly.
A Georgia lady owns a St Bernard who helps with cows in the pasture and brings home the pail during milking. He guards the calf, fetches wood, runs errands, and even powers a tread mill for butter making. Each summer he is sheared and his wool spun into yarn. He does all this without pay and never asks for a holiday.
Describes various bats with unusual facial features including the American false vampire with wolflike head and teeth, tube nosed bat with large eyes and protruding nostrils, Malayan masked bat with miniature hippo like head, Indian false vampire with huge ears and laughing countenance, hammerhead with protruding jaws, and a flower nose that looks pretty.
Corks may be made airtight by keeping them immersed in oil for five minutes.
The passage notes large tropical bats with wingspans up to five feet and compares them to gray rats in size. It cites the order Chiroptera, mentioning more than 400 species and that extensive volumes have been written about their structure and habits.
The column reflects a cautious tone about a shared “special” or outcome. It notes that most people anticipate a favorable result, but only a few expect to actually attain it.
A detailed method to remove grease spots from clothing using warm water soap and ox gall. The process covers applying the solution, scrubbing with a stiff brush, rinsing, and air drying to complete stain removal.
Cook grated pineapple with sugar ten minutes then strain and press juice. Add ice water sugar and lemon juice, freeze until mushy. Serve in glasses with whipped cream stars on top. Makes about six servings.
A correspondent shares a simple poverty stew made by cutting and peeling potatoes and onions, boiling until soft, then adding butter salt and pepper. The dish is described as tasty when one is hungry and prepared in a kettle.
A recounting of how luncheon evolved from a small between-meal bite to a defined meal. The piece notes tea and early breakfasts, the mid day meal customs, and the term luncheon origins from a simple hunk of bread and butter. It cites 19th century habits and literary references.
The Bystander notes a flood of letters during wartime, many absurd and moralizing. It laments hysterical colonels, retired clergy, sentimental women, and dangerous ideas like white feathers, contrasting with neglect of the navy and calls for rapidly mustering a million-man army.
The piece notes Winneck s comet is a telescopic sky object unfamiliar to the public while the London Chronicle suggests people do not assign war to unseen comets. It observes ancient myths of giants in comet lore and argues the public only learns of comets from brief newspaper lines.
The Carnet d Epicure notes some English ciders can replace German and other wines for cooking. They caution not all ciders have the qualities for high quality dishes but report several important culinary discoveries from ongoing research.
Restraint breaks when Henry Barnes, a mild man, confronts John Ragland after being cheated out of 900 dollars. He tells his wife he spoke his mind and called Ragland an unreasonable man in a heated moment.
The Miquelon archipelago off Newfoundland’s coast, including St. Pierre and Langlade, faces annexation to Newfoundland as France funnels conscripts to the war. Diminished fishing, aging population, and drifting industry threaten the colony, prompting speculation Paris may trade the islands for fishing access.
University researchers Cook and O Shea studied 200000 words from private letters. They report women use words on meals clothing body care and home life while men favor aggression contest and institutional terms.
The eighteenth century critic warned of world hunger as population grew faster than subsistence. The article notes scientific farming and acre yields doubling or tripling capacity, electric farm tools cutting costs, phosphates boosting output, and fivefold growth in farm crops since 1879. It cites millions of idle acres with only about 20 percent cultivated, suggesting vast unused potential.
The obituary notes Tom Rittenhouse a cat who lived 28 years in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. His grave becomes a bright, well tended spot with pink and white hyacinths and rose bushes, cared for by wealthy friends who watch over the site. Granitic stones mark his resting place.
A tale recounts Poincare presenting batons to marshals after France's first advances in Alsace. Joffre declines any baton for Castelnau, praising him as a rising royalist but noting no marshal's baton is suitable for him.
A tenderfoot asks if the outlaw Bill Busher still haunts Bitter Creek. A native answers no, but recalls last week when he held the rope, implying Busher was present then. The exchange preserves a frontier tone and a sly hint of danger without graphic detail.
A clipped dialogue frames longing and loss as two speakers debate whether love can rekindle after years of disengagement and time's erosion. The tension centers on trust, obsession, and the improbable return of affection.
A quip from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph defines a pessimist as one who is seasick throughout life’s voyage, framing a humorously bleak view on outlooks and attitude.
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