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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1937
Page
8
An old style essay recalls Sunday Welsh rarebit and the rise of salads by 1937. It highlights the young man as salad preparer, the colorful salad bowl, and invites all ages to learn kitchen basics through a Sour Cream Salad Dressing recipe using sour cream dairy made from fresh cream, vinegar, eggs, sugar, flour, mustard, and salt.
A columnist defends frying eggs as an art and mocks the notion that a wife is inferior for failing at it. It offers a step by step method: cook bacon slowly, flip, then fry eggs in the bacon fat, with brown specks showing proper technique and no foreign fat.
A nostalgic kitchen note extols grapefruit versatility from breakfast to salads and desserts. It details a Grapefruit Chiffon Pie recipe with gelatin, grapefruit juice and yolks, folded into whipped whites, baked in an 8 inch shell, and served with whipped cream and grapefruit sections.
A weekly menu listing daily breakfast lunch and dinner items with beverages and desserts. Highlights include lamb, broiled tripe, roast duckling and various side dishes and desserts. Sidney Snow offers to supply recipes on request.
A domestic tip sheet explains why coffee often disappoints breakfast hour readers. It cites issues from stale beans and improper proportions to coffee pot cleanliness and fresh roasting. The text urges experimentation with brand choice and brew strength to suit family tastes.
Watermelon pickles use abundant rinds to reduce waste. Salt soak overnight then boil rind until tender. Cook sugar, vinegar, water, lemon slices and spices in a bag, heat, then combine with rind and seal in hot jars for preservation. Newspaper ads highlight market results.
A rustic home economist shares an oven frying method for chicken with giblets included, detailing dry prep, frying fat, and a two-stage cook in the oven. The gravy is made from reserved fat, flour, and milk, with notes on giblet preparation and a pudding-like bread crumb dessert garnish. The voice closes with a handwritten signature from Lilly White.
Coffee pots require weekly scrubbing and sterilizing to ensure clear, well flavored coffee. A dirty pot can cause off flavors and weak brews, so routine cleaning helps maintain taste and aroma.
A mid century recipe details a method to broil 66 medium tomatoes with olive oil sugar onion mustard vinegar and cracker crumb butter. Tomatoes are hollowed filled with a spiced mixture then broiled about 10 minutes, basted with French dressing for moisture and flavor.
A homemaking item notes that keeping a husband at home hinges on good meals and rolls. The recipe for Quick Butterscotch Rolls includes flour, baking powder, salt, butter, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and brown sugar, plus steps to roll bake and serve.
A home dessert idea for two uses peach pulp cream and lemon to make freezer ice cream. Also notes brown rice requires longer cooking and soaking overnight can help soften it before simmering.
An article offers old world cookie recipes from the Dutch and German traditions. Anise Cookies use eggs powdered sugar flour and anise seed with a night chill before baking at 300F for 12 minutes. German Sand Tarts combine sugar butter eggs flour pecan meats with cinnamon, rolled thin, brushed with egg white, sugared, and baked at 350F for about 10 minutes.
A housewife with limited ingredients can stretch meals with Shrimp A La King. The recipe uses green pepper, mushrooms, onion, butter, flour, salt, milk, pimento, tabasco, parsley and shrimp, cooked together and served on buttered toast.
A vintage recipe vignette describes prune jelly with softened gelatine prune juice orange or lemon juice and optional sherry plus almonds or walnuts. It also shares a note on pecan fondant candy made of pecan meats sugar water butter vanilla and salt with instructions to heat and cool before cutting into squares. A tip suggests rubbing yellow soap on mosquito bites to relieve itching.
A brief note states that cod liver oil stains can be removed using soap dissolved in amyl acetate.
Practical kitchen tip advises baking escalloped mixtures in a shallow wide dish to reduce cooking time and save fuel. The guidance emphasizes efficient heat exposure and even browning for faster results.
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