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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1911
Page
2
Practical instructions on slicing beef pork veal and mutton thinly with bone aided cuts. It covers loosening slices from bone, carving order from upper portions to undercuts, slicing roast toward the ribs, scoring pork skins, and carving chicken with leg wing and breast portions divided across the grain.
A Victorian pudding recipe describes creaming butter and sugar then mixing with flour milk and eggs. The batter is cooked and steamed in a mould then served with a brandy flavored hard sauce.
Ironed white stockings stay snowy white the longest. Avoid linen skirts with many buttons to prevent small holes and torn buttons. Wring by hand and hang by the belt band. A cupful of thin strained starch in blue water adds finish when ironing. Dry very fine shirtwaists in bright sun inside a pillow slip to prevent tears.
A split recipe describes a custard cake with a custard mix and a cake batter. The custard part uses grated chocolate brown sugar milk an egg yolk and the mix cooks then cools. The cake part lists sugar butter flour milk eggs soda vanilla and layering and baking. Filling combines powdered sugar butter coffee chocolate and vanilla.
Boil the roe in salted water for twenty minutes then cool and skin. Slice thin and arrange over a bed of lettuce in a bowl. Overlap the slices and drizzle with mayonnaise dressing before serving.
Two dozen large ripe tomatoes two onions six peppers four cups cider vinegar four tablespoons sugar two teaspoons salt. Peel tomatoes chop onions and peppers very fine and boil slowly for two or three hours.
A vintage recipe lists butter sugar flour eggs milk cream of tartar and soda. It notes currants as a key mix in the batter with measured quantities for a half cup butter and one and a half cups flour.
Slice six lemons and boil in three pints of water until tender. Remove lemons with a skimmer, add ten pounds of sugar and boil until dissolved. Peel and slice ten pounds of partly ripe tomatoes, add to syrup, return lemons and boil fifteen minutes.
A recipe note details stuffing dried figs with marshmallows after steaming for an hour. Each fig is opened, stems clipped, pressed with a marshmallow, then rolled in powdered sugar for coating.
An old report sketches projected Korean modernization under Japanese rule detailing coastal defenses, rail and road expansion, a new credit system, and a transformed Korea as a Japanese province and naval base. It also notes cultural practices such as the changot and cites a personal incident with a rickshaw boy in Seoul.
A. von Reiger of Dresden, visiting Washington, notes Germany’s cigar boom. He says his factory outputs 250000 cigars daily and explains people turn from pipes to cigars for portability and outdoor use. He contrasts German wealth, 1 000 000 marks roughly $200000, with American prices and duty on foodstuffs.
Moscow's pawnshop operates as a public service with more than half a million artels pawned last year worth over three million dollars. In March and April the poor populace heavily use the facility, often pawning overclothes to survive wartime strain.
A short quotation cites Locke on education starting the gentleman and reading, good company, and reflection finishing him. The line frames education as a process from formation to thoughtful self improvement.
A narrator compares Korean practices with those of other lands, noting snakes near homes, donkeys as mounts for fashion, timid street signage absence, and shopping norms. It describes women’s roles, saloon-keeping by noblewomen, and preservation ideals tied to Korea’s Hermit Kingdom past before Japanese transformation.
A mother describes a plan to manage a three year old who visits neighbors without permission. She pins a small card labeled permission on the child so adults grant him visits and playtime. The badge is reusable and gently enforces boundaries without friction.
The 81 year old Mme Louise Favre, widow near Bex Valais, remains active and climbed Chamoissaire at 6,940 feet with a grandson to light a summit bonfire for a local festival. Meanwhile seven year old Armando Meyer, with his father and a guide, reached Grand Muveran at 10,040 feet in eight hours, his father a famed climber.
A short literary quotation contrasts clever and wise minds with humor and gravitas. It presents Goethe’s idea that clever people find much laughable while wise people find almost nothing funny.
A step by step home recipe for cream of mixed vegetables. Diced onion carrot and celery with turnip are cooked in butter then heated with milk and bay leaf parsley and mace. Thickened with flour and eggs then served with croutons.
Harper's Bazar suggests transforming a bathroom with white enamel paint. Prepare the tub by removing grease and apply two to three coats as a foundation. A full bathroom outfit costs 65 to 100 dollars, including a porcelain enamel tub, with cheaper painted iron options available.
Green corn chowder calls for a quarter pound chopped fat ham or salt pork. Slowly cook two onions then add one quart scraped corn one pint diced raw potatoes salt pepper and a half pint boiling water. Simmer 20 minutes then stir in one pint hot milk and a tablespoon flour with butter to thicken. Add broken crackers at serving.
A note on preserving food states that uncovered items absorb impurities and may taint dairy and eggs. It also describes a sandwich paste from shredded lettuce chopped pickles and parmesan cheese mixed with mayonnaise to spread on brown bread.
Recipe fragment lists ingredients including sugar butter eggs milk potatoes cinnamon cloves chocolate almonds and baking powder. Step notes: Blanche and chop almonds beat eggs separately adding whites last. Bake in shallow pans in a moderate oven and cover with frosting.
A historic recipe lists maple sugar sage cream butter raisins soda salt and flour to make stiff dough. The instructions suggest forming shapes and baking to finish the hermit cookies without eggs.
Instructions suggest scrubbing grease from kitchen woodwork with hot water and a teaspoonful of whiting. For tables or dressers covered with white oilcloth, use thick cardboard or asbestos mats under hot plates to prevent heat damage.
A reader urges a charitable view of public figures, arguing maps of a man should be judged by his best efforts and overall life. Dwelling on flaws is unnecessary if he otherwise acts with virtue.
A simple sauce recipe describes creaming one cup of brown sugar with one third cup of butter. It instructs mixing two tablespoons of flour with two cups of water and then beating this into the butter sugar mixture.
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