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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1912
Page
4
Instructions outline preparing asparagus on toast with two layers of asparagus and a cream sauce of meat juice and egg yolks. Serve border with parsley and potatoes or bacon slices, plus peas and butter, with rice or spaghetti as a grain substitute.
Instructions for breads and cakes from a historical collection. Includes bread using oats with yeast and flour, shaping tips for biscuits, and a Fig Cake with dark and white layers. Also mentions a Sand Cake and icing directions, listing ingredients and methods. Contains multiple recipe fragments and prep steps.
The fragment describes making a cake batter with eggs lemon juice butter milk and corn flour then baking in a moderate oven for about an hour. It continues with New Green Peas boiled and seasoned with butter salt and pepper and a cream soup possibility from the water. Endive and Potato Salad uses diced potatoes dressed with oil vinegar anchovy essence cayenne and herbs presented with endive and beet root layers.
Instructions for preparing tender beets with shredded cabbage and hot salad dressing or butter and lemon juice. Also notes that baked beets are preferred by many, with uniform size beets baked until tender and served hot with butter, salt, and pepper.
Step by step, the article suggests using two sheets of good nonconductor of heat for an iron holder and placing several thicknesses on the inner side to protect hands. It also proposes using old stockings folded to provide insulating padding as an effective heat barrier.
To detect chicory in coffee add a tablespoonful of ground coffee to a glass of cold water. Do not stir. place it on top. The coffee floats while chicory sinks to the bottom leaving brown streaks.
A practical guide to corning and preparing corned beef including brine methods for fresh meat, slicing and pressing for cold served beef, the old fashioned boil method with a boiled broth, and making carved beef hash with potatoes and spice notes. Includes steps for soaking very salty meat and pressing to shape.
Reviaas Sheffer describes mending worn oriental rugs at home using burlap for support and matched worsted threads. Also offered are tips to absorb tobacco odors with a bowl of fresh water, and advice on tempering mustard with warm water and olive vinegar to avoid flatness.
A captain recalls commanding the Mary Blake from Tokyo to Boston with a mutinous crew. After storms, shipboard deaths, and mutiny, the captain confronts the men amid ice fields near the Atlantic. He seizes control with revolvers, spares the mutineers, and steers toward Boston, while a helper ship sinks after aiding his escape.
An old article offers a mop wringer attachment for ordinary pails, and various cleaning methods for wallpaper using starch, Fuller's earth, and dough scraps. It also includes recipes for stuffed tomatoes with corn filling, a French meat roll, beef stew with vegetables, and a rust removal tip using rice water.
SARTORIAL NOTES discuss a popular punch work and medieval stitch embroidery on summer gowns featuring daisy shapes with relief petals. A blue white striped blazer style sweater priced at 4.95 appears alongside bloomers designed for smooth hips and full knee, with JUDIC CHOLLET patterns for misses aged 14 to 18. Goethe joke story closes with a party trick where a door was removed and sealed from the hinges by Goethe and the duke.
A fragment from the West Cym Mail notes that Scoutsmen are the heaviest men in the United Kingdom on average, followed by Welshmen and then English men. The text garbles some words but indicates a regional comparison of body weight among national groups in the UK.
Express Co New York advertises righty young work horses and mares from 1000 to 1800 pounds, with 20 matched pairs 2200 to 8000 pounds. Prices 125 to 450 per pair. singles 10 to 200. Thirty days trial, satisfaction guaranteed, free 800 mile delivery with blanket and halter, and return passage. Visit Cable Express Co at 164 East 27th Street, New York City, two blocks east of Madison Square Garden.
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