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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1910
Page
6
For Good Gingerbread. For an eggless gingerbread mix one cupful molasses half a cupful sour milk or cream one teaspoonful salt. Dissolve one teaspoonful soda in cold water and stir with two tablespoonful melted butter into the mixture. Then add two cupfuls sifted flour and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Beat yolks of six eggs and pour milk over them. Place bowl over boiling water and stir until thickened. Cool gradually and add one teaspoon vanilla. When cold serve in a dish with whipped egg white and sugar, dusted.
A vintage baking direction describes mixing butter with flour then stirring in hot milk. When cool, add half a yeast cake dissolved in lukewarm water, beat in eggs, and mix vigorously. Let the dough rise overnight, then beat and rise briefly before baking.
A recipe describes using one quart cold milk one half cup rice scant salt half cup sugar and butter the size of an egg. Bake in a nappy slowly for two and a half hours stirring often until thick cream forms and slips from dish when tipped. Do not hurry this pudding.
Recipe fragment instructs scalded milk with flour and eggs then sweeten and bake in deep plates with bottom crust. Mentions two tablespoons flour mixed with cold milk, three eggs, optional salt and flavor. Describes custard like bake and calls the result excellent.
Skin the rhubarb and cut into inch lengths. Line a pie dish with pastry and brush with egg white. Layer rhubarb, sugar each layer, add a top crust, and bake until brown. Serve hot or cold and dust with sugar.
A concise recipe describes cooking peas in a saucepan with parsley, onion, and lettuce. The directions call for a pedantia slice, butter and flour to thicken, with water or milk to adjust consistency, and a fifteen minute simmer.
Instructions suggest removing skins and seeds from white grapes and using an equal amount of English walnuts broken in pieces. Marinate with French dressing and arrange on lettuce leaves. White cherries may substitute for grapes if preferred.
Hints cover cooking flavors and techniques for vegetables roasts and stocks. Practical advice includes browning with drippings, adding ham bone to soups, chilling candles before use, soaking fish with skin side up, softening lemons, soaking celery in lemon water, greasing pans for flaky pie crusts, cleaning copper with bath brick, removing paint with turpentine and chalk, repairing china with plaster, and using day old cream whipped with no added sugar.
The article describes a versatile poultry house design 14 feet wide adaptable in length with double air space via two 2x2 stud sets, light roofing, plaster board, stone or brick foundations, cement or macadam floors, and warm interior ventilated by warm-room vents. It also notes a Pennsylvania inventor’s horseshoe with ridged toe and heel to shed snow and dirt improving traction.
A Massachusetts station test found bran plus alfalfa for dairy cows produced slightly higher milk and butter yields than alfalfa alone. With bran priced at $22 per ton and alfalfa at $30, the bran-alfalfa mix raised costs by about 9 percent, while equalizing prices kept costs nearly the same.
A historical note describes a farm setup with a main room, a basement for incubators, and a separate exercise yard. It outlines chicken sheds with earth floors, wire fencing, and doors, plus movable partitions, winter muslin insulation, and a double flue chimney to regulate temperature and air purity. Access is from the north, with south allocated to yards.
The Joe strawberry has an extensive trail and has produced little so far this season. It is a mid to late berry and under favorable conditions grows to a larger size.
The report notes a large vigorous plant with berries over two ounces each, regular shaped and very beautiful in appearance. It highlights high flavor and suggests rich soil and thorough mulching to raise prize winning berries from the Joe Graves Judd farmer.
The passage notes a comparison of two feeds and their manure value, suggesting the difference may influence overall merit. It emphasizes not overlooking this factor when evaluating the feeds.
Siemens Schuckert of Berlin announces that using wires heated by electric currents to fell trees cannot be practical or economical. The method risks rapid wire rupture from high heat, carbonizes wood, and requires roughening and sawing motion to remove char, increasing damage and failure likelihood.
Prof Chambers credits success to intelligent feeding and trap nesting. Hens receive dry feed entirely with light meals of whole wheat and corn three times daily. A self-feeding hopper offers a dry mash blend including bran alfalfa meal corn meal shorts linseed meal meat bone and blood with salt and cayenne pepper.
Milke advises poultry and dairy farming to work in tandem noting milk fed to poultry improves results. Emphasizes keeping dishes clean and following care guidelines to ensure safe feeding and productive outcomes.
President Taft plans a private 725 mile telephone wire from Cincinnati to Washington to talk daily with his brother Charles P Taft. The line will run via Pittsburg and follow Pan handle and B&O routes. It will operate from 6 pm to 6 am and cost $24 000 yearly with no outside ears or hands on the line.
A crowd of poor women with shawls and babies forms a mob as they rush a table of ten cent embroideries. The scene is described as a powerful display of collective emotion and bargain hunting energy, with a distinct animal timbre in the crowd’s whispering growl.
The London Times argues that modern fear, not virtue, erodes humor in literature. It suggests Elizabethan works were equally bold, and cowardice leads to counterfeit humor that displaces noble themes.
The hair pin editor reports a woman uses as many pins as she has. If she owns two pins she uses two to pin up her hair, and if she finds twenty in the top bureau drawer she uses all twenty. This curious rule appears in the Atchison Globe.
In Reno a stylish widow named Jenkins becomes the talk of town as whispers about her romantic life and social circles surface, framing the city’s latest gossip and social scene.
A quatrain by Judge contrasts fame and misfortune, warning that fortune may rise while misfortune strikes like a hard kick. The poem uses sharp imagery to imply irony in the personage of fame.
A Burr Oak Herald writer notes a mother objecting to her daughter Lulu’s grammar book purchase. She argues schooling should focus on practical skills like speaking writing German drawing and piano music rather than grammar lessons.
Dialogue reflects a modest joke about naming a future newspaper. Plans center on a publication titled The Nebula with a hopeful aim to grow into a world facing influence, perhaps even a star or sun.
A comic panel shows a warden warning a prisoner about a six month term for a crime. The prisoner laments bad luck after a haircut and a small loss described as threepence, in a humorous line from Illustrated Bits.
An unnamed financial magnate declares he would unleash a massive panic in response to imprisonment threats. His confidential friend asks what he would do. the magnate vows to direct agents to trigger the largest panic the country has ever seen.
A short note from a girl at a summer resort writes to her father saying she has gained weight and asks him to write back and send money. The message ends with affectionate regards from mamma and a request for funds.
A courtroom exchange shows counsel objecting to recounting events on the third floor as another story, after the witness already described what occurred on the second floor. The judge sustains the objection.
614 Hanks comforts the widow and warns against distress before moving to foreclose the mortgage, signaling a formal end to the loan. The scene captures a grim moment of financial strain and official action in the aftermath.
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