Louisiana Fruit Cake Recipe from 1930s Farmers Notice
The article presents Miss Hazel Bratley’s fruit cake recipe aimed at Louisiana farmers, using cupboard staples for a 9 pound cake. It lists ingredients including flour, spices, butter, sugars, yolks, honey, preserves, and egg whites, with detailed steps for mixing and baking in a slow oven or steam cooker. It also recalls U S Army vehicle numbers from 1917 to 1918.
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Miss Hazel
Louisiana
Miss Bratley
Doughnuts Do's and Do Not's for Tender Fried Treats
A Pillsbury style guide details how to make tender fried doughnuts. It covers egg beating, thorough mixing, chilling dough, minimal flour, proper frying fat temperature, frying three to four at a time, turning once, draining on paper, and cooling before storing. It promotes dunking and snacks for family and guests.
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Mary Ames
Sour Cream Doughnuts Recipe Card
A vintage recipe for sour cream doughnuts yields about 30 doughnuts with 375 degrees frying heat for roughly 3 minutes. It lists ingredients including Pillsbury flour baking powder soda salt nutmeg eggs sour cream and sugar and gives step by step directions from mixing to frying and draining.
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Pillsbury
Ai Worbent Paper Shown For Dessert Preparation
A light dusting of powdered sugar is sprinkled over a dessert served with aiworbent paper as a decorative and edible element. The instruction notes a gentle approach to finishing the dish.
Avalanches Claim Two in Swiss Alpine Areas
Avalanches driven by warm sun and heavy snowfall killed two people in Switzerland and caused widespread damage. Dozens of chalets were swept away near Diablerets, a chapel and farm buildings were ruined near Washed, a school and cemetery damaged. Two woodchoppers were buried in the Tiniere valley as snow cuts power.
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Bern
Switzerland
Diablerets
Washed
Tiniere
Snowbound Rails Cut Alpine Village Links
Heavy snows and avalanches sever rail communications between several villages in the French Alps. The report from Vichy notes disrupted lines and isolated communities as winter worsens travel and freight routes.
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Vichy
France
French Alps
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Somery Jones
Nemes
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Libby’s
Were Fen
Tuate HY
Carey Holmes
Cypress St
West Monroe
United Produce Stores
Louisville Avenue
Second St
Jackson St
Consumers
Food Market
Washington
Stokely
Trepvey
Bakery Department
Stubbs
Santa Claus
Texas
Luzianne Coffee
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