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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1937
Page
8
The article advises making gifts at home for a warmer, personal touch. It suggests crafts like embroidered napkins, aprons, finger towels, pillowcases, and scarves, plus simple home baking gifts such as jams, fruit cakes, cookies, and candies. It includes fabric and color ideas, finishing touches, and affordable DIY options.
A scrambled cross word list features clues for across and down entries including Norse goddess of love and beauty, Persian fairy, and terms like fortitude, speed, and various objects. The fragment blends definitions, foreign phrases, and partial entries from a vintage puzzle page.
A practical guide for church and community suppers outlines efficient planning to reduce waste and debt. It advises assigning definite duties, precooking in shallow pans, using uniform turkey sizes, preparing extra stuffing, making ample gravy, and serving varied menus with simple desserts and coffee.
Home economist Esther Leigh outlines candy making techniques from crystal control to cooking stages. She details utensil choices, sugar crystal management, stirring methods, and temperature tests for fudge fondant divinity caramels to ensure proper texture and doneness.
The article describes a Christmas tree at the high school decorated in a nineteenth century religious motif. A cradle with the Christ child sits atop, flanked by Mary and guardian angels, with wooden dolls, Madonnas, church figures, animals, and miniature furniture following period designs. C. E. Friend and Mrs. David McCreath led the decorating effort.
The December luncheon will cover legal status of women questions such as alimony, bills, duties, divorce grounds and more. The event will be at the Episcopal parish house at 12:45 on December 9, with Mrs. John Virtue leading the government and legal status study group and several assistants.
Steaming preserves shape and flavor for Brussels sprouts broccoli celery asparagus onions carrots cauliflower and turnips. Use a steamer or colander over boiling water. Garnish ideas include prunes with pears orange slices cranberry jelly candied grapefruit and mint jelly with spiced peaches and pecans.
The item lists lime jemon pineapple or mint ice as a festive fruit juice or diced ice topper for holidays. It also suggests using cooled fruit beverages to fill pigs in a bowl and replacing dairy in cookies with fruit juice. Then it describes removing white water stains from hardwood floors with camphor spirits and cold water, followed by polishing, and finally using green peppers pimientos or beets to decorate meat fowl and salads for the holiday season.
Recipe for a dense fruit cake using apple sauce molasses brown sugar and spices. Includes steps to sieve apple sauce dredge raisins in flour then layer batter with citron and nuts bake slowly two hours at 300 to 325 F. Route 4 reader credit.
Fifty four junior high foods classes participate in a kitchen planning contest by the SAS Electric Power Company. The best planned kitchen wins a prize for correct equipment placement color harmony and design quality judged by Rosemary Kepartment Goshen design professor Venent and F Smith.
Recipe fragments describe making a fruit mincemeat batter with brown sugar orange juice grated rind orange juice and flour plus soda baking powder nuts candied cherries citron and minced meat. Steam the mixture in a double boiler for about 80 minutes and cream butter with sugar as part of the method.
A garbled OCR fragment describes baking steps with wax paper at 300 degrees for two hours, mentioning orange, flourages, peace peep minced men, and unclear phrases.
Instructions describe simmering orange slices in syrup with lemon juice and cinnamon, then glazing the fruit. The recipe suggests adding currant jelly and dotting with mint jelly before serving, yielding tender oranges ready to serve.
A compact guide to wrapping gifts using shiny black paper and white gummed tape with silk ribbon. Include cedar mistletoe or holly berries and top with cutout pictures and verses from last year’s Christmas cards for a period touch.
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