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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1900
Page
7
The house department invites Lowell readers to submit recipes and household tips. A cooking lecturer advises fine sugar for cake, and Miss Farmer notes dark eggs appear better for display but are not superior for baking.
In a playful Baltimore American piece, a wife brags of a brilliant scheme to breed eggs from an egg plant. She vows endless breakfasts and devilled eggs, claiming the plant will grow ripe eggs daily while her husband smiles at the absurd idea.
The column surveys high society weddings in Washington and London, professional beauties, and a Massachusetts vegetarian dinner. It notes a New York teacher luncheon business, then forecasts next season’s wash goods trends with cotton fabrics imitating silk. The piece blends social satire with shopping and style updates.
The text argues against two minute cereal cooking, claiming thirty minutes is better and an hour of slow cooking will not harm cereals, asserting the best authorities do not endorse ultra-fast preparation. It stresses patience in cooking cereals and warns against misleading quick-cook claims.
The piece explains the word supawn meaning hasty-pudding or corn-meal mush and notes one hundred fifty thousand bakers' pies sold weekly in Hewton with many thousands of home-made pies. It mentions a line through Heston for baking and that cake should rise in the first quarter and begin to bake in the second quarter.
Reads like a vintage household cookbook with two dishes. Tomato soup uses brown stock from beef bones, fresh tomatoes, corn starch thickener, and optional color paste. Maryland steaks mix tender beef with milk, form cakes, fry, and finish with a light gravy and watercress garnish.
The dialogue sketches social quirks in a kitchen sit with Mrs. Bronxborough and Mrs. Richmond over a cook, a dress suit, and a cookery school. A milliner from London jokes about feathers and the aud bon society. A gift of a pet monkey lightens a farewell moment.
A period etiquette note outlines wifely strategies for avoiding disruption to her husband. It advises not to disturb him while reading, not to trouble a tired man before meals, and to observe his habits after breakfast. It warns against discussing servants at table, and playfully assigns blame to a man’s snores and habits, urging tact and deferential behavior.
A Poston area butcher notes many affluent clients would not take meat home until it aged for a month. Each customer has a separate box in the refrigerator to keep their chosen cuts until they are ripe, with the butcher approving when ready to send home.
A fragmentary 19th or early 20th century voice recalls Dorothy’s first trip to the countryside. The grandmother responds with a stubborn line about never eating pie without a roof, attributed to a judge style remark. The text is garbled but preserves a quirky anecdote.
A four year old daughter of a pop war clergyman in New Hampshire disrupts a service as she calls for her father and for her mother to let her see her sister. The mother refuses and the child persists with endearing yet humorous cries.
In New York News style, a narrator recounts Aunt Kate resisting a coercive suitor while nursing her sister's children and bearing secrets. The tale follows her toil in school, a brother’s plan to quit, and a fragile reconnection with Mr. Aytown who finally releases troubling documents and returns to a wedding home.
Pemintios Sepertorttr quotes Leonidas asking Mrs Meckton who is the greatest general. He replies without delay that Joan of Arc is the greatest. Washington Star notes the bold assertion.
A partial OCR excerpt references two ladies Amelia and an unclear journal line. The legible phrases hint at memory and writing but lack full context or events.
A two tenement house on Broadward offers six rooms in repair with rent of one shilling per month and yard space. Price around sixty dollars. Nearby Cor Hee area notes, notations unclear, but single home listing remains.
Louis Rose urges proper American salad making stressing freshness cold handling and minimal stirring. He favors simple French dressings with oil and vinegar and offers egg, cooked, and cream dressings for cabbage and vegetable salads plus a bean and green bean variation. He emphasizes fresh ingredients, careful shredding, and avoid overprocessing.
Diet for child illness emphasizes light nourishing foods and bowel care. Avoid rich meats and fried foods, give soups and delicate dishes, milk or blends, and small frequent feeds. For feverish colds and throat irri tation, fasting in moderation and Irish moss lemonade aid recovery.
For your scrapbook recipes from various sources cod sounds and egg sauce are described. Soak fresh cods in equal parts milk and water for six hours, boil gently, then cut into pieces and toss in the pan with butter and garnish. The sauce uses chopped hard boiled eggs stirred into melted butter with pepper and salt, then poured over the cods.
A recipe instructs to mix ten pounds of beef with two cups of salt two cups of pepper two tablespoons of saltpeter one tablespoon of cloves and apply rub daily, turning the meat and reapplying the mixture. It notes readiness for use in ten days.
Historical kitchen note describes toasting cold broiled teak pan frying with water and cream for thickened sauce. Instructions suggest seasoning with salt and pepper and pouring over hot slices, but text is fragmentary and unclear on full method or ingredients.
A. J. De Piuent editor of the Journal Deyleetowh Obie suffers for years from rheumatism in his shoulder. He says nothing helped fully and he hoped for relief after trying various remedies.
A historic breakfast batter recipe calls for three eggs sugar milk potato yeast flour and a pinch of salt. Mix yolks with sugar then stir in milk water and yeast, add flour to form a stiff batter and set to rise overnight for lightened batter cakes baked and served hot.
A simple recipe line describes lining a plate with paste, layering about two dozen fresh oysters with pepper salt and optional nutmeg, adding butter pieces, covering with rich paste and baking twenty minutes until hot and served.
Instructions describe chopping ham with minimal fat, adding an egg per person, a touch of flour, mixing thoroughly, forming into balls and frying in hot butter or dripping until brown for a simple served dish.
Bourke Cochran argues in the March issue of Success that merit is the sole path to a career. He asserts that capable people are valuable and that opportunity follows ability, urging quick development of natural aptitude into usable skill for any vocation.
Louise Blakely ferries a napkin wrapped supper to a sleeping car after being told to vacate. A kind white bearded old gentleman volunteers to fetch her missing pocketbook. He returns, but Louise discovers the rescue coincides with meeting her fiancé Jack’s father, who appears as her unexpected benefactor.
In a Khirgizia encampment a sick man writhes outside a kibitka while a repulsive figure called the doctor chants and a parasite doctor administers a ritual cure. Two Khirebie prepare a brutal bloodletting, stabbing the patient as doulful singing ends, in R J Jefferson’s A New Ride to Khive.
An irregular fragment notes a planned Pennsylvania Railroad tourist trip leaving Heston for Washington on March 16. Details are garbled but indicate a scheduled journey under the railway's tourist system with an agent in Washington.
The New York New Haven and Hartford R R announces revised weekday departures from Lowell Depot on October 22 1899 serving Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham and way stations with connections to Boston and Albany at South Framingham and Fitchburg at Concord Junction. The 525 pm train links to the Stonington line for New York City and southern and western destinations. Sunday runs list 715 am for South Framingham Mansfield Pawtucket Providence and way stations.
Corrected timetable updates list train departures from Merrimack Street depot Lowell and Middlesex Street Station Lowell for Boston Lawrence Salem Newburyport Exeter Dover and other destinations. It includes numerous departure times on weekdays and Sundays with notes on connections and regional routes under Boston and Maine R R supervision by D. Flanders and the Lowell agency.
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