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Newspaper
Lloyds Weekly News
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 06, 1903
Page
9
A fashion column previews velvet velveteen and corduroy as the favored fabrics for evening and daywear. Descriptions cover mole-tinted corduroy gowns with motifs and pleated basques, beaver-like hats, Neapolitan blue cloth looks, velvet trims, and the evolving hemline.
A collection of simple kitchen guidance including chicken or veal broth With rice for quick nourishing soup beans with bacon a kipnuys style kidneys and mushrooms stew quaking fruit puppine layered fruit and bread pudding method. The tone is instructional and homey with practical steps and ingredients.
A scrambled OCR style text describes mixing flour with warm milk and yeast, letting rise, then adding treacle brown sugar and raising agents, candied peel, and chopped beef, followed by beating and baking in a moderate oven. The passage is garbled but indicates a dough base with sweet and savory components and a final bake.
The article discusses diet variety for health, noting frying harms digestion and monotony harms appetite. It lists easily digested foods like sweetbreads and white fish, identifies sole, whiting, and smelt as delicate and digestible, describes plaice as nutritious, and cautions against oily fish like herring and eel. It also states game and boiled chicken are more digestible than other meats.
A medical author promotes vegetables as healthful, detailing celery for rheumatic and nervous disorders, lettuce for insomnia, watercress against scurvy, onions as a nervine, spinach for gravel, asparagus to induce perspiration, and tomatoes as tonic and anti septic. Also included are instructions for a cold roast beef dish called Berry Cage with bacon and savory herbs.
The article discusses ferrets as useful farm animals for rabbit control and pest reduction, noting housing, diet, and care. It covers breeding, handling, and risks if neglected, plus a Kent anecdote of a ferret attacking a cat, then shifts to winter dormancy in animals, especially dormice, describing torpor, respiration, and dangers from sudden heat.
The Faverolles, introduced in 1685 and named after Faverolles village in France, are hardy calm fowls with light brown eggs and quick growth. They differ in type due to mixed ancestry but have improved since a standards club formed. They thrive in confinement, lay early, and are popular at Crystal Palace and Dairy shows, with good table quality and egg production.
Practical guidance on broom care and maintenance, marble stain removal, window cleaning, and protective finishing. Instructions cover proper broom storage, hot water treatment to prevent wear, ammonia and chalk spaste for stains, and paraffin oil in wash water to deter flies and aid polish.
A vintage recipe describes melting chocolate over simmering water then whisking in boiling milk and sugar. It adds floury starch, smooths with cold milk, stirs in butter and vanilla, bakes in a water bath, and serves hot with whipped cream sauce.
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