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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1898
Page
6
Readers are invited to send household recipes and homemaking hints. The column shares a weary domestic poem, plus practical notes on dessert making including rennet setups, a Cherry Souffle recipe with cornstarch and lemon, and a Cherry Roly Poly with butter sugar cream and cherry sauce.
The article surveys domestic concerns such as cherry trees, dressmaking, and the burden of stylish housekeeping. It critiques balloon sleeves, long skirts, and the fashion press, while noting the persistence of new woman ideals and the impact of servant quality on household service.
Three pounds round steak trimmed of fat and sinew is minced and mixed with butter egg crackers and eggs. Form a loaf with flour and bake slowly for about three hours, basted and kept moist. It is best cold and thinly sliced for luncheon. Junket is a traditional dish using a quart of sweet milk warmed for serving.
Practical tips on removing hot grease with cold water to prevent sticking, making starch with soapy water for gloss, using ice on muslin over a bowl for long lasting cooling, Whiting for windows and mirrors with dry chamois for polish, Canton flannel bag over a broom to wipe walls ceilings and dust, and iced chocolate as a hot weather drink.
The excerpt argues skim milk is a rich, underutilized resource. It claims substantial economic value, citing potential fertility gains and human nutrition, including Atwater’s findings that skim milk equals beefsteak in flesh-forming nutrients and surpasses oysters in nutritive value, with oysters costing 50 cents versus skim milk at 4 cents. The tone favors increased recognition and use of skim milk.
The Louisville Courier-Journal argues against flour hardship by praising corn bread as nourishing and digestible for workers and sedentary people alike. It urges increasing corn bread consumption and selling wheat abroad to benefit the nation, noting no workingman need suffer from high flour prices.
A collection of humorous quips from a 19th or early 20th century periodical. The jokes revolve around thrifty households, social pretenses, vegetarian miscommunications, and culinary wordplay. Names and exact attributions are presented as quoted lines to evoke a clipped newspaper taste.
A compact prescription style notice touting Hood's Pills as cures for liver ills, melancholy, indigestion, and headache. The ad claims easy consumption and operation with a price of 25 cents.
Boston reports that Philadelphia firm Wanamaker lands 227000 pairs worth 600000 out of 976000 total army shoe orders, while New England makers receive only small lots. Critics urge a Boston purchasing depot to cut middlemen profits and keep contracts local, citing stark regional disparity and lost credit.
Boston police report Alonzo J. Whitman former mayor of Duluth Minn defeated Congressional candidate and bank president was arrested in Detroit at the request of Boston Chief Inspector Watts. He faces charges of obtaining money under false pretences and deriding hotels among others warrants will be issued upon requisition papers. Chamberlain's Pain Balm touted by P Ketcham of Pike City Cal for sciatic rheumatism relief with local sales by Ellingwood & Co.
A man writes from the West recalling a moonlit night at Newport and a dinner dance with a woman of high society. He confesses love, laments distance, and fears social barriers as a cowboy shoots him by mistake while fearing Indians. He hopes to meet again in another life.
In Massachusetts a classroom asked Wolcott's youngest son to name the governor. When he said he did not know the teacher sent him to ask his father that night. The next morning he reported, "Well, papa says he is, but he feels so much I don't know."
A 23 year old Margaret Brockton accepts a suitor for his money then falls for his cousin Louis Radcliffe. After a moral struggle and a breakup, she pursues a modern skeptical stance but three years later recalls Radcliffe, realizing true sentiment. The tale ends with her restored view of romance.
Prepare equal amounts of boiled sliced veal and smoked tongue. Pound separately with butter, layer in a jar in alternating tongue and veal to create a variegated effect. Press firmly, cover with melted butter, and store in a dry place. A handy lunch or sandwich filling.
Cut the squash into pieces or thin slices, salt, and rest a few minutes. Beat two eggs, dip the squash in the egg, then fry in butter until brown. Do not make slices too thin or they will dry out and become hard. Crooked-neck squashes are not preferable for frying.
Soak half a box of Swampscott Sparkling Gelatine in cold water until soft. Drain water and dissolve gelatine in boiling water. Add crushed strawberries, berries, and lemon juice. Chill on ice and serve with sweetened cream.
A simple method for making crystallized fruit treats is given. Use one quarter pint water, whites of two eggs, currants and sugar. Beat egg whites, mix with water, then dip currants in batches and dry on paper until sugar crystallizes. Any fruit prepared this way yields a pleasant summer dessert.
For the picnic the article promotes preparing a nourishing lunch for all ages. It highlights elegant Shredded Wheat Sandwiches as satisfactory and easy, suggesting mothers consider lighter options over hot sandwiches like sour‑dough ham.
A vintage recipe describes blending sardines with hard boiled egg yolks butter lemon juice and parsley into a paste then spreading on crisp Shredded Wheat biscuits. It also covers frying Jordan almonds in lucca oil until brown and salted for a savory finish.
Shredded Wheat Biscuit Brown Bread slices spread with thin cheese then joined to form triangles. The figure sandwich uses figs simmered with sugar and lemon, wrapped in biscuit layers, heated, and cooled for serving. Notes promote The Vital Question and Our Navy supplement from Good Cookery.
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