Wartime Pie and Cake Recipes Promote Homey Comfort
Wartime guidance extols pie and cake for family morale. It highlights Cherry-Rhubarb Pie, Chiffon Pie, Pecan Pie, Cottage Cheese Pie, and Honey Nut Cake with simple, lower sugar options. Instructions include crust tips, merengue topping, and storage notes to keep desserts appealing amid shortages.
Tailor Your Victory Garden To Family Needs And Space
Advice on planning a 1945 home garden stresses tailoring to family appetites and available space. It recommends sun, drainage, and soil quality, close proximity to home, daily attention, staggered planting, crop rotation, and positioning perennials to avoid shading and soil variation.
Sugar-Easy Sweets and Cake Icing Tips
Sugar easy icing methods include melting chocolate bits on warm cake under a broiler, then letting the glaze run over the sides. Beat stiff egg whites and fold in jelly for a colorful icing. garnish angel food with powdered sugar via a cut-out doily. For honey meringue use one half cup honey per egg white. Cream butter with brown sugar and chopped nuts to top warm yellow cake, then broil briefly.
Sewing Circle Needlecraft South of Border Tea Towels
Brighten kitchens with cross stitch towels pattern 7159 showing seven motifs averaging 6 by 14 inches. High demand and war conditions cause delays for some popular pattern numbers. Send orders to name and address.
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Domestic Fixes and Care Tips From Everyday Tasks
Simple home advice covers sewing pajama drawstrings for safety, using a nutcracker to steady nuts, flour or waxed paper to prevent pastry sticking, drying washed feathers with salt, rotating clothing to extend wear, and reinforcing bath towels with tape for durability. These guides reflect practical, hands on approaches for common chores.
Fish With Bifocal Eyes Sees Up and Down
A Central American fish Anableps dowei has eyes divided in halves two eyes look upward when near the surface and two eyes view downward underwater. The six inch to one foot long fish swims eel like and uses upper eyes for distant vision while lower eyes are short sighted.
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