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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
3
Home canning peaches described with preparation tips for ripe fruit, skinning, pit removal, and hot water processing times. Includes sugar syrups for desserts and preserves, pickled peaches, and variations for cling and free stone varieties. Also covers plum canning methods, syrups, skin handling, sterilization steps, damson preserves, jelly, and plum butter.
A. M. A. offers practical guidelines to portion foods to minimize waste. He suggests cupful measures for biscuits corn bread macaroni beans and pie crusts tailored to family size and notes tea and coffee water should be measured with a quart cup to reduce waste.
An old guide promotes fireless cookers to save meat, using corn meal mush as a main alternative. It details a recipe with milk corn meal flour butter sugar eggs and spices, plus steps for cooking drying cutting and frying. It notes hominy varieties common in the South and rice and hominy as staples in place of potatoes.
A basic batter combines corn meal molasses sugar butter salt sour milk and flour with soda and an egg. Cook the first six ingredients in a double boiler then cool add flour and soda with the beaten egg and bake in a shallow tin until done.
To the above recipe add half a teaspoonful of ginger one teaspoonful of cinnamon and half a teaspoonful of cloves, sitting them with the four.
A recipe note adds grated orange rind or orange marmalade to gingerbread mix. If marmalade is used, reduce milk and sugar slightly.
A home economy style piece describes a muffin batter using corn meal with raisins currants and cream. It notes corn meal has more heat units than wheat flour and gives substitution tips mixing corn meal with flour for bread. Prices and nutrition comparisons for corn meal and wheat flour are included.
This garden note advises sowing the last beets with an early maturing variety and suggests a late celery crop. It describes blanching celery, planting evergreens in August, sowing New Zealand spinach, and starting Early Valentine bean seed. It also recommends buying potted strawberry plants for faster yields and using cold frames to protect young tomatoes and seedlings.
Mrs F F Scott of Scottsville New York recounts a severe summer complaint relief after one dose of Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy usage over five years. The product is sold by the Odon Drug Co.
We will host cider making on Thursdays each week. Pricing starts at 2 cents per gallon for 25 gallon or more with a 50 cent minimum. Bring ample barrels as we will not boil any cider.
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