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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1901
Page
10
A Christmas menu guide suggests goose as the centerpiece with careful preparation for tenderness. It covers parboiling, washing, stuffing with a potato onion mix, and roasting two hours in a hot oven with frequent basting, plus variations like chicken timbales with mushroom sauce, baked macaroni with roast goose, and creamed walnuts for dessert.
A historic recipe directs to boil walnuts with onion salt bay leaf and mace, cool in ice water, pat dry, then combine with celery to yield a pint. Add orange rind and chopped parsley, marinate with French dressing, and garnish with blanched celery tips.
Select the cutlets from the best part of the neck and trim them in the usual way. Dip in beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs and fry. Prepare a rich brown gravy with strained lemon juice sugar rayenne currant jelly. Boil skim strain and pour around cutlets with heaps of hard boiled eggs as garnish.
A night mixture of bread crumbs sour milk is sieved and mixed with four eggs two teaspoons soda melted butter and cornmeal to form batter. The batter is baked like English and Scotch griddle cakes for a hearty breakfast.
Cut mutton into small pieces, bone removed. Season and stew with fat, cut in pieces, no water. Cook until tender, remove fat, cool meat. Make gravy from bones with onion, season well. Pile into puff paste pattypans and bake until rich brown.
Peel core and slice apples and bake in a buttered dish with stale cake crumbs and melted butter in layers. Top with a thick cake crumb layer, bake until tender, then whisk two eggs two tablespoons sugar and one cup cream pour over and return to a hot oven until rich golden brown before serving with cream.
Wash a fresh beef tongue. Simmer three hours with salt, skin, trim, chop. Return tongue to pot liquor with clove nutmeg onion juice mustard pepper and salt. Simmer until liquid nearly evaporates. Pound with butter, pack in jars, cover with melted butter and store in a cool place.
A recipe instructs mixing one cup sugar and saltpetre with bruised cloves and peppercorns, adding three quarts hot brine, and brining a beef tongue ten days. After brining, wash dry, roll in flour paste, bake two hours, crust removed and skin peeled, then slice thin to serve with salad.
Remove outer leaves from four chicory heads, boil in salted water, rinse, and recook. Chop finely then mix with melted butter salt pepper and nutmeg. Dust with flour, add milk, cook briefly and serve promptly.
The instructions describe a sauce made by heating butter sugar and vinegar, then whisking flour with sour cream and egg, adding hot vinegar, cooking to thicken, and pouring over finely shredded cabbage seasoned with salt and pepper. The method emphasizes careful incorporation of hot liquid into the sour cream mix to prevent curdling.
Cream butter and sugar then beat in egg yolks. Alternate flour and milk with chopped walnuts vanilla and beaten egg whites. Fold in baking powder pour into a greased leaf pan and bake about forty five minutes in a moderate oven.
Scald one quart of cream with tea steeped briefly then strain. Return to heat with five eggs and five tablespoons sugar, cook to custard thickness. Add soaked gelatine dissolved in cold water, strain into a mold, chill until firm and serve with whipped cream.
The pastry uses puff paste rolled thin lined in pie plates baked briefly. A filling combines sugar flour salt lemon rind beaten eggs cream and lemon juice folded together and poured into the crust. Bake at a cooler oven until the center is firm and chill before serving.
Scrape two ounces of seed and rub into a cupful of grated bread crumbs add orange peel milk two eggs sugar ginger and cinnamon. Fold in half a pound of finely chopped figs and a pinch of salt. Butter a pudding mold and steam three and one half hours.
A compact note describes sweet potato cakes prepared by slicing and shaping, then coating in flour and frying in butter. The fragment hints at a simple fried sweet potato dish, naming no people or places.
On Cape Lookout sand dunes a Wilson s plover family guards its nest as two eggs hatch. Men on the beach misread the mother s feigned injury and pursue her, while the father and another pair simulate distress to lure them away. After the chase, the old birds return with their brood, outwitting the intruders.
The Detroit Tribune notes that in 1900 Michigan had 2,418 divorces. Most occur within five and ten years of marriage, with 1,091 cases, about half, involving couples who had no children. Divorces decline after twenty-five years.
A suburban parish near the North river guards a tiny church. A woman suggests a roof slit for offerings, while a little girl on her first visit drops five pennies on the plate and later keeps two, explaining three cents seemed enough for such a small church.
Rev David M. Steele recalls giving $2 to a poor widow during the 1890 blizzard. A six year old boy lay ill beneath bare bedclothes, his first reaction to the money was a moan of relief and a wish to share coal money with Ted Burns' mother downstairs, showing need and communal care.
A London Society of Arts committee reports wood fiber in paper shortens life and higher priced papers age quickly due to chemicals. It notes that future generations may keep only special edition Japanese papers, while ordinary newspapers and magazines may vanish.
The Shanghai Mercury calls a Chinese lottery proposal a gigantic bubble. It details selling one hundred million tickets at ten taels each to raise a billion taels for indemnities. Expenses consume 100,000,000, prizes total 450,000,000 and 450,000 go to foreign government indemnities.
A New York Tribune report discusses a planned joint study by local and national bodies to forecast fogs in London and understand their causes. It notes the role of dew point cooling, varying atmospheric layers, and soot from coal smoke, and suggests reducing smoke to moderate fog impacts while exploring upper air conditions.
The debate shifts from denying the devil’s existence to defending his beauty. Rev. Dr. J. B. Mack argues the devil, once chief among angels, possessed angelic loveliness per Ezekiel and Paul. Some artists portray the fallen archangel as a strong, indignant figure in Milton’s likeness.
A French banquet in Rodez honored Mme Calve. An elderly peasant father, proud of his famous daughter, points to rose trees and says most bloom but one tree bore a single rose. He calls his daughter the supreme flower of a hundred forgotten generations.
An overseas writer portrays William J. Bryan as M le Colonel Silver Bill and Dead Shot, a taciturn Western cowboy turned bonanza farmer after 1896. The piece links his fame to frontier exploits, notes his book The First Battle, and mentions Roosevelt as his running mate in a bid to neutralize Bryan’s Cowboy image.
In a Science contribution William E Ritter reports cobbles dredged near Santa Catalina at 270 feet depth, suggesting an ancient ocean beach now far inland. This supports A C Lawson's theory that Catalina may have sunk while San Pedro hill and San Clemente rose from the sea, aligning with observed terraces along San Pedro coast.
A Brooklyn reporter asks bold questions as a stern bishop in clerical garb greets the journalist. The exchange turns tense when the bishop implies the interview questions may be none of his business. The reporter leaves wondering about the man.
Governor Odell touring state institutions recalls Clinton prison visit where a wardens brass band played Hail to the Chief for his reception. He found the moment humorous and memorable as he met the tough looking convicts who formed the ensemble.
The About the House column in the Lowell Weekly Journal invites ady readers to submit household recipes, hints, and suggestions for the department. Readers can write to the About the House department with practical domestic ideas for publication.
A Christmas poem contrasts the holy manger and Calvary with critique of church excess. The speaker praises Christ's sacrifice and declares Calvary a feast of rejoicing, urging goodwill, charity, and Christian renewal for all people. Presented as Good Housekeeping December tribute by Ella Morris Kretschmar.
The piece muses on the return of the short skirt amid muddy streets and defends personal style. It counsels keeping rubber plants large for halls, praises simple plant pots, notes dining table linen and ironing matter, and jokes about germ fears and blissful ignorance of science.
Cautionary tips warn to guard candles on Christmas trees to prevent fires. A health claim suggests campnor on a toothbrush freshens mouth and aids gums and may prevent cold sores. For insomnia, try lying on the face with the right arm under the head, no pillow. A salt mouth rinse soothes tickling throat.
Scald three cups of milk in a double boiler. Wet corn starch with cold milk, add to boiling milk and thicken. Cook ten minutes, then stir in butter salt. Remove from heat, cool five minutes, beat eggs with sugar and fold in. Layer orange slices with custard in a baking dish and bake twenty minutes.
A historic dessert recipe describes whipping egg whites to a soft froth with sugar and orange rind, browning in the oven, then serving with whipped cream. It also notes turning white moulded puddings into Christmas desserts by decorating with red candies to resemble holly berries and tinting custard with colored paste.
A Good Housekeeping tip recommends making simple long cotton bags to hold one pair of boots or shoes for travel. Use draw strings, leave a small top opening, and keep bags in piazza fashion to protect contents from dust. Six well-made colorful bags also serve as a thoughtful gift.
A health-advocacy note argues pepper is not a food but a stimulant and venom to the body. It warns pepper disrupts digestion, inflames mucous surfaces, and weakens digestive organs and taste nerves, potentially contributing to chronic dyspepsia.
In letters from the Lawrence Eagle and Brockton Times, the state board of health is criticized for condemning Lowell's driven wells while withholding medical evidence. The dispute alarms Brockton readers who favor artesian wells, noting the prior approval a year earlier and urging officials to serve the people.
A witty anecdote from a Scotsman column recalls Mr. Gallot traveling with Ma'mselle D Jeck praising Britain. He cites a Rutland punch bowl large enough for a boat with a boy ladling liquor at a christening, joking about a bowl deep enough to stir sugar from a diving bell.
A well known writer Miss Wilkins is engaged and has the courage to present a novel featuring an old maid as heroine in a charming light.
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