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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1873
Page
4
A reflective diary piece highlights Mrs Maybin’s charming hanging muslin basket craft and a plan for artistic enrichment for her lonely days. It also details knitting lessons and ruffles, along with fabric care tips for black and colored silks, plus a Detroit reader’s request for corn beef pickle recipe and guidance on preserving meat.
A dairy farmer shares experience from twelve to fourteen cows noting milk sells at four cents per quart while butter brings six cents per two pounds. After processing, two pounds of butter from thirty pounds of milk yields higher value than thirty quarts of milk plus skim milk for pigs. Emphasizes cow quality and careful milking, plus calm handling of cows for best results.
The text describes early 19th century hog processing methods, detailing curing, grading limits, fat rendering, and lard production. It explains steam rendering, clarification, and the separation of lard from dirt, with mentions of yellow grease, white grease, and byproducts like feet, tongues, and glue stock.
A Country Gentleman writer argues buckwheat pancakes are heavy and hard on the stomach unless lightened with Graham flour. By mixing Graham flour with buckwheat, using sour churn milk, warm batter storage, and hot griddle baking, the result is a light tender cake that digests readily. The method, our own long trial, promises better pancakes two days after mixing.
Scientific American notes butter scarce before the Christian era, first used cosmetically for hair, then centuries later as burning oil in France around 1500. Since then it became mainly a food item. Poor feeding yields poor cows, while a cow delivering unusual milk signals good feeder. Andrew Johnson calls Grant “the little fellow.”
An antique advertisement lists Bach Chopin Mendelssohn and Schumann piano music sets. It touts complete works in multiple volumes with full gilt binding and various paper and octavo formats. Prices range around two to three dollars per item, highlighting deluxe editions and forest series paper covers.
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