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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
2
A guide to campfire cooking with fish on sticks baked fish in ground pits and ashes baked potatoes in ashes baked eggs toast cheese grilled sausages corn bread baked in ashes and roasty clams. It explains fire setup timing turning fish and methods to keep juices and flavors.
Recipe notes combine 18 ears corn or 12 cups canned corn with three green peppers four onions one cabbage head and four cups sugar. Simmer vegetables until tender then add two quarts vinegar and one half cup salt. Add mustard dissolved in vinegar and water just before removing. Cool before canning.
Roasting pans allow cooking chicken and meats on the gas stove rather than in the oven. Start with high heat to begin, then reduce the burner to finish for economical gas use and a pleasantly cooked meal.
Prepare a quart of prepared flour with a tablespoon of shortening and enough milk to make a dough. Roll to half inch thick, sprinkle with equal parts powdered sugar and cinnamon, fold, and cut into layers. Bake steadily, serve hot, split and butter.
A list detailing a doughnut recipe with half cup sugar and mashed potatoes half cup, plus shortening eggs sour milk soda flour spices and vanilla to form a stiff dough.
A historical recipe fragment details making almond cake filling by grinding blanched almonds to a paste then spreading it between cake layers, finished with pulverised sugar.
The excerpt lists Saturday preparations for Sunday meals including roasted fillet of beef, boned veal, corned beef brisket, pickled tongue boiled and served hot or cold, and veal loaf. It also notes Sunday serving ideas with vegetables, spinach pressed for Sunday, and leftover mashed potatoes made quickly with hot milk and butter, plus simple cold desserts and fruit jellies.
A reader describes a homemade potato baker using two asbestos sheets and a tin lid with nails to impale potatoes. The improvised device heats through and cooks evenly but is noted as very unsafe. Contributed by Joseph H. Noyes from Murfreesboro Tennessee to Popular Mechanics.
Practical advice on keeping dairy from absorbing odors by storing butter milk and cream cheeses separately. Use paraffin paper to protect delicate foods and store dry staples in glass bottles to preserve flavor. Reclose jars for labeling and optimum use. Regularly boil graniteware utensils to remove grease and maintain cleanliness.
A family dinner plan for four to six uses seven pounds of corned beef brisket. Prepare one large cabbage, turnips, carrots, parsnips, and potatoes. Boil the beef five hours then add vegetables an hour before serving. Serve on a large platter with sliced beets in vinegar.
A simple two day old bread toast recipe with quick salt water dip butter rich milk and a brief bake. Finish with two tablespoons of cream per slice and hot serving. Optional crisp bacon around the toast enhances the dish.
Practical tips cover cleaning silver brass and copper with lemon juice chalk paste and kerosene. Use ammonia for glass, rub china lightly then scrub yearly, and clean rugs with olive soap lather. Floors may need gasoline wipe then porce lain beeswax turpentine polish for a durable finish.
A historical recipe explains making sparkling mead by boiling fourteen pounds of honey in six gallons of water for thirty minutes. Add four eggs and a mixture of cinnamon, cloves, mace, bruised ginger, marjoram, balm, and sweeney. Boil a bit longer and cool. Toast bread with yeast, add to liquor, ferment a day, then rack into a cask open to finish. Cork tight when bottled.
Recipe text describes making escalloped cabbage from boiled cabbage pieces. Cut cabbage, butter a dish, season with salt and pepper, mix with white sauce, lift to coat, top with buttered cracker crumbs, and bake until crumbs brown. Includes directions for butter quantity and crumb texture.
Reading the playful suggestion, the author advises cooking asparagus in its own washed moisture with a pinch of salt, as you would prepare oats. The method reportedly takes about two hours and yields a notably nicer result.
Rainmarks describe a method to remove moisture from damp fabric by placing the cloth on the material and pressing with a moderately warm iron.
The writer argues for definite scientific standards to judge hop quality, noting wide opinion differences and reliance on empirical checks. He discusses physical and chemical factors, origin bias, and legal labelling in Germany Britain and England as models, with a cautionary Idaho to Oregon mixup illustrating origin misrepresentation.
The article argues current hop analysis methods are faulty and yields drive pricing. It notes limited reliable methods for total bitter resins, uneven handling of American and European hops, and calls for a permanent, science based standard. A Bailey Hop Prize exhibit committee in Chicago aims to fix standards amid data gaps.
The Chicago Tribune quotes the poet who laments that some slant-eyed politician or wild-eyed reformer will get credit for originating the recall as time and memory drift backward. The remark frames recall as a contested political credit in a literary aside.
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a terse exchange about trading a seat in the stock exchange for a seat in the senate. The dialogue questions value and legitimacy in political finance and employment discourse.
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