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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
2
Practical advice on oven temperature and baking techniques for different cakes. Emphasizes steady heat, gradual baking stages, and proper mixing steps for butter, sponge, and fruit cakes. Provides signs of proper rise and browning to avoid heavy or underbaked outcomes.
Instructions for cleaning and polishing metal utensils. Copper should be scrubbed with soap and damp cloth, then borax sprinkled on. If no copper polish, use kerosene paste of chalk and lemon juice, then chamois. Tin should be polished in strong soda water and rust spots treated with lard before washing.
Practical instructions cover removing tar with turpentine and rust with cream of tartar. Cleaning linoleum with skim milk, refreshing bottles with coal and water, and painting shelves white. Sweep carpets, dampen the broom, clean old textiles, wash walls, and dust soot with cheesecloth.
The article notes fashion in table service shifting with pepper varieties. It highlights small cruel frames for guests and blends like Cayenne Nepaul Aji Hungarian paprika and Chile powder as personal flavor choices. It claims the modern guest pretends to be a pepper expert.
A vacuum system is arranged with a pipe across a room and multiple funnels to lure flies. Flies are sucked into the pipe, then drawn upward when near the second funnel where bread and molasses attract them. Valves seal when the motor stops and traps are removable for killing.
The guide recommends using sweeping sheets made from coarse unbleached cotton bound with Turm y red and wearing a cotton frock shoes a sweeping cap and old gloves. Clean by removing small objects dusting then covering furniture with dusting sheets and using damp tea leaves to prevent dust from spreading. Sweep from corners toward the room center.
Boil lentils until tender, cool them, and drain well. Mix with about a quarter of their weight in chopped onions or celery or both. Shape into a mound on a dish, surround with chopped beetroot, drizzle salad dressing, and serve.
A dated recipe lists two and a half cups sugar two cups molasses one tablespoon ginger one tablespoon cloves one tablespoon cinnamon. Boil mixture when cooled stir in four eggs one tablespoon soda and enough flour to roll out the next day. Bake in a moderate oven.
Instructions state coarse salt sprinkled on varnished floors helps cleaning. Let stand a few minutes then brush off with a soft broom.
Two eggs beaten and placed in a cup with sweet cream. Rich milk may be used. Combine in mixing bowl with one cup of sugar one hundred forty four cups of flour one teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt. Beat well and bake in a moderate oven.
A historical recipe lists ingredients for Harrison Cake: two eggs and sugar, molasses, milk, butter, soda, spices, and flour. It reflects a traditional measurement style with specific quantities for a baked dessert.
A metal pan with a grated insert sits above a warm cleaning solution. The device promises silver cleaning in a fraction of prior time without powders or pastes, addressing tarnish even when stored.
A simple home method uses water with a tablespoon each of common salt and baking soda. Soak the tarnished tableware in a noncorroding pan on a grate for one to two minutes with warm water or five to ten minutes with cold water. Remove, dry, and the silverware shines like new.
Pare core and quarter one dozen cooking apples then simmer with boiling water for five minutes. Add molasses and cook fifteen minutes. Prepare soft biscuit dough with flour sugar baking powder butter and milk. Cover apples and cook thirty minutes without lifting lid. Serve with a hot sauce of butter sugar milk and nutmeg.
A historical note describes making cucumber soap by combining cucumber juice potash borax and various fats. It details melting grease chilling liquids mixing into the fat and letting the mixture thicken and set in a pan before cutting into squares.
Line buttered gem pans with pastry rounds and bake. Fill with rice, drain, then ladle a milk sugar flour salt mixture. Cook 20 minutes, stir. Add beaten egg yolks, fold in stiff whites, and flavor with strawberry extract.
To shape a house fern, turn each new sprout toward the light so it grows upright and curves correctly. The result is a beautifully rounded plant.
Wet two cloths with peroxide and place one beneath and one on top of the scorched article. Let the space sit for fifteen to twenty minutes without disturbance. Check the area and wipe away residue to restore clarity.
A historical overview of sheep scab from discovery of the mite in 1835 through its life cycle and symptoms. It details mite size, incubation, reproduction, itching behavior, lesion development, wool loss, and the importance of dipping for treatment, noting federal efforts to eradicate the disease.
The best liked currant variety is President Wilder s for its bush retention. Cher ry Fay s Prolific and Perfection are also good. Prepare soil well with deep plowing and plant 6 by 4 feet. Use shallow cultivation and mulch. Plant buckwheat as cover crop on July 1 to boost humus. One and two year old wood yields best crops. prune out wood over two years old after berries are harvested.
The 260 acre Woodson orchard near Agency produced 60 car loads of marketable apples last year, netting about $20,000. Government experts from Washington sprayed the trees several times to conduct experiments.
The author notes cherries pay well on gravelly soils and hilly lands. They plant on land manured for corn two or three years, then cultivate crops in the orchard for two or three years before letting the trees use the land.
Turkey breeders advised by the London Agricultural Gazette to fit bells on a few leaders, preferably old hens, to curb straying among turkeys and keep the flock in line.
An Antwerp correspondent describes two Belgian draft horses that work on the Flemish port’s docks. The pair can pull about two and a half tons, are gentle, and the driver controls them with a light cord. Lunch is shared on the trucks with the horses fed bread in addition to grain and hay, a contrast to animal cruelty concerns.
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