About the House Column and Household Recipes From Lowell Journal
A miscellany from the About the House column invites readers to submit household recipes and tips. It features a humorous verse about Miss Seraphina Newell and includes practical instructions for making a custard like dish with berry pulp, whipped cream, and stoned raisins, plus a recipe for fruit punch using strawberries cherries lemons sugar water and cooling steps.
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Lowell
Lowell Weef
Simpler table settings and belts captivate readers
A guide to tasteful hosting favors simple room decor with restrained ribbons and modest centerpieces. It notes the popularity of a figure conforming belt, urges careful berry selection to avoid spoiled fruit, praises proactive workers who act without constant instruction, and sketches olive oil’s growing roles in health and cuisine alongside a tale of a bold linen collar buyer.
Odd Kitchen Advice From a Quirky Prose Text
The fragment offers peculiar food and cooking cautions. It warns against uncovering sandwiches early, stresses hot gem pans for dough, and notes lukewarm pans spoil the process. It also muses on air for pianos and advocates thoroughly roasting lamb.
Strawberry Float Recipe in Early Season Use
A delicate strawberry float uses milk scalded in a double boiler and mashed berries pressed through a sieve. Egg whites beaten stiff with berry pulp folded in, then the surface is prepared for serving.
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Herries
Fresh cuts and deep immersion for long journey flowers
The piece advises cutting stalks anew just before water, and for long journeys from France or far distances to use a long slanting cut or slit stalks to expose surface, plunge deep into water overnight, even with warm water. Milky juice flowers need special care, and oriental poppies require fresh ends and slits before immersion.
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France
Hotel Waitress Redefined as Lady by Courtesy
The Spectator altered his view that hod carrying is manly and waited at a hotel table is unmanly noting a hotel waitress can be a lady through dignified service. The hotel doctor compares his role to a ship's doctor as guests feel at home, with many waitresses studying medicine or teaching, including a California traveler.
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California
Carr’s Paris mission to feed Europe with cornmeal bread
Clark E Carr plans a Paris exposition mission of beneficence to teach Europeans to cook cornmeal bread using a western chef and a southern cook. He argues corn, hominy and pork can feed laborers at half current costs, noting US output and potential rises and comparing corn to wheat in price and daily ration.
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Clark E. Carr
Europe
America
Spying Up Housekeeping For New Homes
An old house keeper offers budgeting tips for new households. Start with a defined amount and keep a cushion to correct mistakes. If 500 is budgeted but only 350 is available, stop at that point, then allocate 200 from a 1000 reserve, and continue similarly to learn from purchases. This budgeted approach aims to educate on prudent outlay and avoid overreaching.
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New York Post
Domestic talk at Mothers' Congress prompts imported joke
The exchange shows Mrs Bingham asking about domestic help and Mrs Gingham replying that none are domestic but imported as reporters note a light moment. The Chronicle- Telegraph highlights the humor in the delegates’ credentials and travel frugality.
Love and Deception at a Moonlit Balcony Masquerade
A tale of Judith Ellington and Lilian Morrison centers on romance and jealousy at a house party. Ellington declares love to Lilian on a balcony as Judith confronts him, revealing true loyalties and a final, quiet reunion that resolves the love triangle.
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Judith
Lilian
Ellington
Egypt
Goodby
Lewis
Chicago News
Feather Farms Ostrich Farming Gains And Losses In South Africa
The ostrich remains a South African treasure though northern Barbary birds outshine Cape varieties. Incubators once rare and hatching risky. prices have collapsed from five hundred pounds per pair to about fifteen, while a plucking now fetches around one hundred eight pounds. Ostrich farming still brings both risk and enduring challenge.
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South Africa
Cape
Elopement Hurdles in France Highlight Complex Marriage Rules
A Cleveland Plain Dealer correspondent recalls Suzanne B and Henri XI, orphans blocked by French law requiring parental consent and a conseil de famille for minors. Fourteen certificates and months of effort followed before final consent allowed the marriage to proceed in Paris.
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France
Suzanne B
Henri XI
Suzanne
Mairie
Conseil de Famille
Paris
Henri
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Winter’s copy clashes with modern editor the old school critic
William Winter, famed New York dramatic critic and Tribune essayist, visits The Tribune editorial room. A young editor misreads Winter’s handwritten copy, attempting to translate and edit it. The night editor intervenes, saying Winter’s words will be passed to the managing editor in plain English and published tomorrow. Advertisers urged to notice Hood’s Pills for liver ills.
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William Winter
Dramatic Critics of
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Tribune
Greeley
George Ripley
Bronson Howard
Cogden
Winter
Shtwerwth Tw va Good Cookery Summer Diet Advice
The article discusses adjusting a child's summer diet to prevent overfeeding and aid digestion in hot weather. It emphasizes lighter, nutritious foods, maintaining adequate milk for infants, and proper handling of milk in city summers. It also includes a boiled flounders recipe with butter parsley sauce.
Salmon Croquette Recipe Steps for Leftover Dinner
Carefully remove skin and bones from boiled salmon and flake it. Mix a tea cupful of flaked fish with juice of half a lemon. In a saucepan heat one pint of milk with two tablespoons butter and four heaping tablespoons flour seasoned with salt pepper and celery salt until smooth. Add the salmon, cook a few minutes, then cool. Shape into croquettes, roll in bread crumbs and beaten egg, and fry.
Chocolate drink with whipped vanilla cream served over sponge cake
Break into bits one square of chocolate and stir into two tablespoons of hot water and two tablespoons sugar. Cook slowly until smooth. Heat one quart milk, add chocolate mixture and cook ten minutes. Serve in cups with a dollop of vanilla whipped cream. Pairs well with sponge cake or lady fingers.
White Bean Soup Recipe
Two cups of white beans soaked overnight then boiled in fresh water. Add three large potatoes and four onions chopped, season with salt and pepper. When nearly cooked stir in a cup of tomatoes and serve hot.
A Glazed Macaroni Veal Ragout Dish
A buttered pan is lined with boiled macaroni and topped with a mixture of finely cut veal chicken or tongue. Add one ounce Parmesan, a cup of cream, two eggs, lemon rind, nutmeg pepper and salt with a touch of cayenne. Boil half an hour, glaze, and serve with rich brown gravy.
Oven baked oat cakes from simple dough mixing method
Mix four teaspoonfuls of fresh or clarified butter with one pound of coarse oatmeal one teaspoonful of salt and enough warm water to form a stiff dough. Knead until smooth roll out on a board sprinkled with dry oatmeal cut into rounds and bake.
Sweetbread Fritters Delicious Tip from Home Kitchen
Cut the remains of cooked sweetbreads into olive pieces. Add a dash of lemon juice and paprika. Dip in a thin frying batter and fry until rich brown. Garnish with finely chopped parsley for a bright finish.
Pickling Leftover Salmon For Lasting Freshness
To preserve boiled salmon, place it in a deep dish and pour over a hot pickle made from a pint of vinegar with mace, cloves, allspice and pepper. Simmer five minutes, boil, then cover the fish with pickle and refrigerate until needed. Oysters can be pickled likewise.
Baked Lobster in Shell From a Two-Pound Lobster
Remove meat from a two pound lobster without breaking the shell. Dice the meat small and season with salt cayenne mustard and lemon juice. Make a sauce with butter flour and hot milk then add lobster. Refill shells cover with bread crumbs and bake until browned. Garnish with parsley and small claws.
Lemon Peel Milk Bread Pudding Method
Boil lemon peel in milk to flavor it then mix with bread crumbs soaked in milk. Beat in an egg butter and sugar, layer with jam in a buttered mold, repeat to the top, cover with a floured cloth and boil for one and a half hours. Serve with a good sauce.
Corn Oysters Recipe Method and Frying Steps
Grate young corn and mix with two eggs per pint of pulp, three tablespoonfuls flour, salt and pepper. Beat yolks and whites separately, fold into corn, reseason, and fry spoonfuls in butter until browned on both sides.
Gingerbread Batter Directions From Old Time Recipe
Beat two tablespoonfuls of butter to a cream dissolve half a teaspoonful of baking soda in a little boiling water add it to one cupful of molasses mix with the butter and add one and one-half cup ful of flour and the same amount of boiling water stirring until smooth last add a teaspoonful of ginger cloves and cinnamon and bake in shallow pans.
Southern Potato Cake Recipe Method
Lift with two cups of flour one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder and a little galt add one tablespoonful of shortening two cupfuls of cold mashed potato and milk enough to make a stiff paste when well mixed form into generous sized cakes and bake on a griddle turning so as to brown both sides.
Pork Stew From Leftover Roast In Buttered Fry Pan
Cut cold roast pork into slices and season with salt and pepper. Fry two chopped onions in butter until brown, add two cloves mace and a tablespoon vinegar. Stir in gravy and pork slices, simmer half an hour. Thicken gravy if needed and serve with fried bread squares.
Simple Cream of Chicken Soup Card
Simple directions for making a chicken soup with rice and milk. It lists ingredients: one quart broth two heaping tablespoons rice one tablespoon butter three tablespoons flour and one pint scalded sweet milk. Cook slowly for thirty minutes then stir in a smooth flour butter mixture and season to taste.
Publication of Marriage Proclamations to Stop Elopements
Edward Bok argues in The Ladies Home Journal for reestablishing thirty days public notice of marriage. He cites pulpit and public hall proclamations as a wisdom rooted safeguard against runaway marriages and moonlight elopements, noting European practice with civil and religious rites reduces divorce. He adds a wry closing remark about school and a hot afternoon.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Edward Bok
Nut Snack Ad Promotes Healthy Eating and Deals
An old style advertisement touts salted peanuts at 19 cents a pound and mixed nuts including pecans almonds and shells. It promises quick prescriptions for weight and health and lists peanut paste jars priced at 20 to 34 cents per half to full pound.
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Brazil
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