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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
2
Apple and cheese pie and other old favorites are shared for wartime meals. Directions for Apple Cheese Pie and One-Egg Chocolate Cake appear with baking tips and serving ideas. The piece encourages using ready made pastry and saving fats.
A pasted recipe page offers yeast bread and coffee cake notes plus apple muffins. It lists ingredients and steps for peach juice sweetened dough, spice dough, coffee cake, and small loaves, then provides muffin directions and a salad note. It ends with a reader contact line for Lynn Chambers at Western Newspaper Union in Chicago.
Lynn advises berries and fruits stay fresh for days in the refrigerator when spread on parchment covered platters. Strong flavored foods must be wrapped to avoid cross tasting and she suggests ginger with chocolate icing for flavor. Pimientos should be stored in a glass jar covered with paraffin if unused.
A San Diego widow recounts the Wolfe household turmoil as Miriam Wolfe, 54, toils unpaid caring for her son Clyde, his wife Marie, Ada, and two brothers while they work. She laments inconsistent payments, overwork, and lack of appreciation, asking whether to leave the wife and grandchildren to seek independence.
In a Kathleen Norris piece a 54-year-old housekeeper is spotlighted as essential to wartime labor. She keeps workers calm and healthy, countering the neglect of others who overload her with tasks.
War Food administration warns that farm buildings are essential like tools and must be maintained. Poor roofs and damp walls waste grain and livestock, with 30 to 40 percent losses from inadequate shelter. advises non-critical, fire-resistant asphalt roofing as a practical solution.
The South Pacific’s only hamburger stand operates at the United States armed forces officers mess in Hotel du Pacifique. Sergeants Albertson and Reddeck Jr. sold 627 burgers on day one and 825 on day two at 10 cents each, serving 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily alongside other sandwiches and coffee.
Government reallocates all down and geese feathers to the armed services leaving chicken and turkey feathers for civilian uses. Domestic supply growth rises from 20 to over 100 million pounds annually with 95 percent chicken feathers, improved sanitation, and new medical plastics from feather protein.
A Chinese saying quotes that the man who strikes first is the weaker man, and that words have failed him.
Quote attributed to Orison S. Marden about enduring hardship to gain sanctification, urging resilience under trial.
Batter is layered with marmalade before baking or a well is made in each muffin or cupcake to fill with marmalade. After baking, spread the tops with marmalade and return to the oven briefly to set the topping.
The passage advises budgeting seed use for garden rows. It estimates 0.5 ounce of carrot seed yields about 12 000 seeds, with 90 percent germination producing roughly 11 000 plants along a 100 foot row. That equals about 100 to 110 carrot plants per foot, with a practical target near 25 seeds per foot.
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