Housewife Cookery Notes Peas and Barbecued Rabbit
A housewife guide describes heating peas in their liquor with sugar and a butter flour sauce, then serving on toast. It also covers preparing plump rabbits with olive oil and butter, frying over high heat, basting with vinegar mustard, and serving with currant jelly and greens.
How to remove grease from wallpaper
A home remedy article advises making a paste of fuller's earth and ammonia to cover grease marks on wallpaper and brushing away dry residue. For delicate paper, use powdered French chalk inside gauze, press with a hot iron to flatten the chalk and lift the grease, leaving no mark.
New Table Fixture Lemon Slices Replace Vinegar As Condiment
Lemon has nearly supplanted vinegar as a common table condiment with thin slices now on most tables for oysters fish and salads. A clip aids handling and juice extraction without finger soiling.
Lemon Slice Anticipates Juicy Release Mechanism
A lemon slice is wedged between spreading ends of a crafted table ad junct designed to trap and release juice when slight pressure is applied. The mechanism ensures controlled squeezing and juice extraction.
Clove Apples Preserved in Sugar Sirup
Three quarters of a pound of sugar is dissolved in two cupfuls of water and boiled to a sirup. Add pared apple quarters and cook until done. Lift out carefully, add skins with about six cloves to the sirup, cook twenty minutes, then pour sirup with cloves over the apples in a jar and seal.
Mayonnaise Dressing Recipe Steps
A historical recipe describes mixing one cup sugar two tablespoons flour one teaspoon mustard salt and pepper four beaten eggs add yolks then whites. Whisk half cup vinegar diluted to two thirds into eggs, cook until thick in a double boiler, then stir in two tablespoons olive oil or butter.
Easy Ways to Roast Beef or Veal with Salt Pork
A simple method to roast beef or veal: place the roast as usual, cover with thin slices of salt pork, slip under string or fasten with toothpicks, brown thoroughly, then add water. Turn once or twice to finish. This saves basting and prevents a hard outside.
Mennonite Toast Recipe Instructions
Beat eggs with milk and salt then dip bread slices. Fry until brown in lard or drippings and dust with powdered sugar. Serve hot.
Cleaning Brass With Rottenstone Paste
A historical note describes making a polishing paste from rottenstone and soft soap for brass. Rub brass with a flannel dipped in the paste, then wipe with a dry cloth and finish by burnishing with leather dipped in finely powdered batti.
Guineas and Pounds The Gentleman's Money Distinction
A New York Sun piece explains how British money operates as guineas versus pounds. It notes editors paying in guineas as art, professionals charging in guineas, and many social rules around when pounds or guineas are used, with Whistler and Bank of England examples.
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London
England
John Smith
The
Periodica
Pry
Britain
James MacNeill Whistler
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Bank of England
Monte Carlo
Bridge
New York Sun
Dr Bell's Antireptic Salve Promises Clear Skin
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Bell's Antireptic Salve as a remedy for blackheads chaps pimples sores and unhealthy skin. The text urges buying a box and applying as directed with claims of clearer skin.
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Dr. Bell
Agibaby's
Do Men Read Beauty Columns in The Record Herald
The piece teases men who read Mme Qui Vive's beauty column in The Record Herald at breakfast. It suggests suspicion of husbands reading feminine beauty notes and hints that readers are being watched, though no names are given.
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Chicago Record Herald
Mme, Qui Vive
Mme. Qui Vive
Record Herald
James S Redifer Dies After Long Illness at 76
James S Redifer born December 1833 in Terre Haute died March 17 1910 aged 76 with 16 years 2 months and 17 days. He married Cerdilla Ann Sppert November 13 1856 and had six children Thomas James M Charles Mary Umbarger Laura Jow Alma Bussard. He bore his illness with patience and passed away in faith, blessing his children and friends.
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Cerdilla Ann Sppert
Thomas
James M
Terre Haute
Charles
Mary Umbarger
Round Grove
Laura Jow
Alma Bussard
Redifer
Prompt Relief From Pine Tar Honey Says Wm H Douglas Jr
Washington DC man Wm H Douglas Jr reports using Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey and achieving quick relief. The ad notes the product is for sale by all druggists and ends with a quip about wheat, blame, and evolving social roles.
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Wm H Douglas, Jr
Washington, DC
Dr Bell
Colds That Hang On Cured by Pr Hell's Pine Tar Honey
The Colds That Hang On are cured by Pr Hell's Pine Tar Honey. It relieves the cold and stops the cough. There is only one genuine product available at all dealers.
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Hell
Genuin
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Mrs Husted of Marshall Ill
A rural advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as effective for back pains headaches and kidney troubles. Mrs Elizabeth Husted of Marshall Illinois endorses the remedy and urges others to buy at Harlan's Drug Store with Foster Milburn Co. as US agents.
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Elizabeth Husted
Chestnut Street
Marshall, Ill
Dean
Doan
Harlan’s
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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