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Newspaper
Laurel Daily Argus
Location
Laurel, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1912
Page
6
Busy housewives learn to keep salads icy by preparing ingredients early in the day and chilling them in layers with mayonnaise. Wrap and refrigerate ingredients separately, place lettuce on ice, and mix just before serving to prevent warm salad failures.
A collection of old fashioned tips covers soup flavoring with brown sugar and raw potato, mending linen with sewing machine presser feet, cooling boiled meats in their liquor, removing fish and guion odors with ammonia and heat, kerosene for grease on porcelain, bleaching ivory in sun, lemons to scent rooms, and refreshing paint brushes with oil.
A traditional stuffing recipe describes using bread crumbs soaked with poultry broth, brown onions, and giblets, plus mushrooms and celery. Seasonings include sage thyme and black pepper, with optional adjustments for duck or goose and no garlic for turkey or chicken.
A dated home recipe instructs trimming three pounds of mutton and cutting it into small pieces for stewing. It advises salt and pepper, four peeled onions, sliced potatoes, herbs, and a cup and a half of cold water. Cook forty five minutes, with onion optional and substitutes like curry or rice and tomatoes.
A fragmented recipe describes making a hearty chowder or stew by chopping vegetables and meat with beer, spices, and flour, then simmering with tomato and water for hours to create a complete meal, noted as especially good in cold weather.
Sprinkle it spar with salt, then dress with vine bewn modified with water sweetened with granulat ed sugar. lastly, add cream wapped to a stiff froth and toss lightly.
A fragment describes an apple custard pie using six grated apples and three eggs. It mentions adding cream or milk to thin the mixture to a pies filling consistency and sweetening with lemon flavor. The note references an open crust preparation.
Ellisville society items recount visits and family ties among residents. Mrs. Myer and Mrs. Logan of Hattiesburg attend events with Alma Myer. Miss Lona Moody returns to Ohio. families such as the Brookes of Meridian and the Bradleys of Asheville are mentioned. A wedding gift bungalow was given by the elder McAblin, with various relatives visiting or staying in Ellisville. The Confederate marament and local work are noted alongside several social visits and moves.
Moselle notices recount a busy week with a village school awards roundup, a large Moselle Day event drawing 300 attendees, and plans for a March 16 box supper to fund teacher salaries. Reports include local society meetings, church charity, and a town medical caravan. also news of Mrs. West and Moselle staff changes and a truckers league meeting in Lucedale with Northern market shipping plans.
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