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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
6
A nostalgic poem depicts a mother's daily labor on a farm from dawn to night. It highlights her tireless care cooking, cleaning, sewing, mending, and praying after family duties end. The speaker laments mothers aging and reiterates that the mother remains the only essential figure.
The About the House department invites female readers to send hints suggestions and thoughts for this column. Readers may address the department Lowell Weekly Journal to share practical homemaking ideas and household tips.
An editorial piece muses on tea's sociable power, fashion for carrots, and practical servant-girl ethics. It advises improving domestic workers' skills, argues housewives should pay for first class work, and notes ice keeping during cold weather as a misunderstood caution in holiday logistics.
A climate friendly plum pudding substitute is described using breadcrumbs flour spices brown sugar Be dicas rain ins citron shredded suet molasses lemon and rind with baking soda water and an egg The batter is boiled four hours in a greased kettle or mould and served as a festive dessert option referenced in a Courier advertisement.
A household guidance excerpt describes preparing a Christmas pudding that can be made a week ahead and reheated for serving, noting a simple lard kettle can substitute a mould and suggesting hot sauce. It also provides a mince tart recipe using beef, apples, raisins, jelly, fruit, and spices, with puff pastry crust and whipped cream garnish. Recipes credited to Mrs. Rover and Mrs. Lincoln.
Ada C. Sweet argues in Woman's Home Companion that American girls, though admired for beauty and intellect, are reproached for bad manners due to independence and lack of deference. She suggests better training of sensitivity to others is needed.
A 19th century exchange article converts common kitchen measures to weights and volumes. It lists four teaspoonfuls per tablespoon, four tablespoonfuls per gill, a tablespoonful equaling half an ounce, and a pint weighing a pound, with other pairings for flour, cornmeal, butter, chopped meat, eggs, pepper, brown sugar, and powdered sugar.
A Paris exposition reminiscence recounts a traveler who tries French with a Cherbourg officer. He replies in English, warns Paris talk may offend locals, and shares a lighthearted moral about language and American luck. Public notices list various rental vacancies and contact details.
A 1900s era roundup highlights Christmas culinary topics with menus recipes and homemaking tips in The Christmas Culinary Topics issue. It also notes Pets and Animals for December featuring stories and animal pictures and reviews books and fiction from The Bohemian magazine and praise for Helen R. Albee’s Mountain Playmates a nature infused farm story published by Houghton Mifflin and notable critical notes on Stephen Crane’s Wounds in the Rain a war stories collection alongside praise for his language and grit.
A wartime moment unfolds with Nolan dying on damp ground as Grierson and Watkins reflect on the loss. The scene accompanies a favorable review of Wounds in the Rain, praising Crane's vivid character work and the book’s 347 pages from Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York.
A reader asks editors and contributors to share their best cheap meat stew recipes suitable for frugal dinners. She notes her husband loves stews, asks for opinions on taste, and seeks practical, economical ideas to improve meals within moderate means.
Six hard boiled eggs shredded, beef suet, currants, lemon peel and juice, candied citrus, and spices are mixed and jarred for use. A mutton stew is prepared with onion studded with cloves, tarragon vinegar, thyme, parsley, pepper, salt, and bone gravy, simmering three hours with periodic bone gravy additions.
Mix one pound of chopped veal or cooked meat with two eggs a little butter bread crumbs chopped onion and seasonings. Moisten with warm water or meat stock until binding. Shape into small balls and fry brown.—Mrs 8S H.
Ma mie McK provides a kitchen note on preparing a simple dinner. The recipe involves chopping fine leftovers, soaking in hot water, adding flour and butter, salt, pepper, and table sauce. Heat through without extended cooking and serve over toasted bread slices.
Scrape and halve parsnips then boil until tender in salted water. Mash smooth, remove woody bits, beat in egg at four parsnips per batch, season with salt and pepper, and mix in flour to form a thick batter. Fry spoonfuls in hot lard until brown then drain on paper.
Instructions describe using small button mushrooms for canning. Rinse and rub heads with flannel and salt, then stew briefly with additional salt. Add pepper and mace, cook until moisture reduces, then cover with vinegar, heat, and can the contents in bottles.
Grate six large raw potatoes and mix with Benson salt and pepper three eggs flour a splash of milk and a pinch baking powder. Combine well and fry in deep fat like ordinary pancakes. From Lexington.
Clean and wash the grouse then lard the breast and legs. Skewer through the legs and tail, tie with twine. Salt, rub with butter, dredge with flour, and bake quickly. For rare to well done times vary. Serve on bread sauce with fried crumbs and parsley garnish.
A historical recipe instructs to boil six eggs until very hard then slice them. Fry slices of stale bread in butter until browned. Make a stock gravy with melted butter, pepper, salt and onion, boil, dip egg and bread crumb slices in raw eggs, and fry gently. Stew five minutes then serve atop fried bread with gravy.
A traditional batter method for crumpets instructs mixing three cupfuls warm milk with half a cupful yeast a saltspoon salt and flour to form a batter. Allow to rise until light then beat in two tablespoonful melted butter with a touch of flour. Stir in a saltspoon soda dissolved in hot water and bake in muffin rings for about fifteen minutes.
This recipe stews pieces of cold roast duck with butter ham onions parsley and cloves in thin gravy then adds green peas and finishes with cayenne salt and sugar. The duck is arranged around the dish with peas in the center for serving.
A historic cake instructions describe mixing two thirds cup butter one cup milk two cups sugar three cups flour four eggs soda and cream of tartar. Divide, add raisins citron and currants to one portion, bake in three pans, and ice between and on the cake with lemon flavored icing.
One of the nearest modern residences in the Highlands with a stable in a very desirable location. Built for present owner's use at a cost of 7500 dollars. Price 36000. On Belmont street we have a fine modern residence at a very low price on easy terms. 1100 acre Wood lot from 35 to 100 years growth. Will exchange for renting property in or near Lowell or Boston. Near the North Common we have several places that we want an offer on. SAL-T-O.
This fragment describes a tomato cream dish: pare and slice one pound fresh tomatoes or use a quart can, stew until smooth with salt pepper and butter, then mix in cream with flour, heat close to boiling and serve over toast.
Slice three Bermuda onions and fry to a delicate brown in olive oil. Stir in curry powder, add half a pound of cold boiled tripe, cover the dish, and shake to prevent burning. When the onions are cooked, serve. LFVIL.
A recipe instructs to dice two medium potatoes and sauté in olive oil or butter, then add paprika and hot water. Stir, cover, and simmer until potatoes finish. Add half a pound of cold roast chicken cut into dice and salt, then serve. Margret B.
A compact culinary instruction describing beating eight eggs with two ounces of butter seasonings, then cooking in a hot pan over a moderate fire. Stir to prevent sticking, draw from the pan edges, and fold when lightly browned before serving.
A recipe instructs boiling milk then mixing flour with cold milk to cook, beating twelve egg yolks with sugar and butter, combining with the hot mixture, folding in beaten egg whites, baking in a buttered dish set in hot water for one hour, and serving with sauce.
Two pints white stock simmer with parsley cloves bay leaf savory herbs and mushrooms. Salt only no pepper to avoid dusky tint. Sauce pairs with bread rice custard or light puddings. Miss Anna G.
Cream together one pound brown sugar and half a pound butter. Beat yolks of three eggs until light then mix with butter and sugar. Fold in one pound flour with two teaspoons baking powder to form a rollable paste. Roll thin cut squares, top with stiffly beaten egg whites and granulated sugar with blanched almonds, bake quickly.
A compact recipe lists ingredients for mock mince pie including vinegar molasses suet sugar raisins spices butter and egg. Mix boil add crushed soda crackers and use two crusts to bake, credited to Mrs. W.T. 8.
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