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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
2
Christmas dinner menu and recipe notes detail Cranberry and Orange Appetizer, Chicken en casserole with vegetables, Cranberry Sauce, Sweet Potatoes Maryland style, and Pear shaped Neufchatel Cheese bites. Steps cover boiling cranberry sauce, preparing chicken, making gravies, baking, and shaping cheese pears for serving.
A traveler in Russia suggests an all white Christmas tree using asbestos snow white glass icicles powdered mica snow silver tinsel and a large white silver star. The trunk is wrapped for a snowy look with mica sprinkled on cotton to enhance the effect and candles are placed on prominent tips with icicles hung from each holder. Silver chains and small ornaments fill the tree while silver thread rain pours from the star to create a twinkling snowy glow.
A historical recipe collection outlines a pineapple appetizer served in cocktail glasses with shaved ice and maraschino garnishes, followed by a roast duck filled with a potato crumb stuffing. Instructions detail onion preparation, a cream sauce, and tomato stars on lettuce with French dressing.
A collection of homey hints and recipes for festive dishes. Includes orange marmalade instructions with notes on home preparation, Devonshire sandwiches, Scotch Five O Clock Teas, Sultana Sticks, Russian Tea, hot chocolate, and whipped cream. Contains step by step measures and kitchen tips.
A wartime moral exhortation urges children to set an example for adults, stay calm and steadfast, and express faith in democracy. It cites Lincoln, Civil War vigilance, and the need to support soldiers, oppose peace-at-any-price views, and insist on victory to end the conflict.
The guide describes preparing a young pig with eyes and toes removed, rind scored, heart and fiver removed, and the inside wiped with damp cheesecloth. It instructs stuffing the mouth with corncob, seasoning inside with pepper and salt, roasting in a hot oven, basting with water, and finishing with cranberries in the eyes and a red apple in the mouth served on watercress or kale.
Four cupfuls of cider one table conful of mixed whole apices one cupful of brown sugar one and one alf cupfuls of water. Boil spices in one and one half cupfuls of water ten minutes then add the sugar. Boil five minutes strain when cold add to the cider and breeze same as ice cream not frozen hard but like a punch. Very attractive with gerv ied in red apples hollowed out and pieces cut from bottoms to sit flat on plate with dofly under it.
To the drippings add a tablespoonful flour mix well then two cupfuls of cold water or enough to make two cupfuls of gravy a tablespoonful caramel and seasoning to taste serve with a goose or a duckling.
Recipe outline for apricot ice cream mixing mashed apricots with water and sugar, adding lemon, then freezing in a can with ice and salt. Instructions cover mashing, adding liquids, packing, and five minute waiting before churning to stiffness.
A frugal Southern fruit cake recipe uses no eggs and relies on brown sugar molasses and butter. It combines molasses, spices, lemon, soda, dried fruit, citron and almonds with water and flour to create a stiff batter baked one hour in a moderate oven.
A historical recipe lists ingredients including raisins currants candied peel breadcrumbs suet flour sugar eggs and brandy. Mix well fill greased basins two thirds full steam at least six hours then steam again pour brandy light and serve with holly garnish.
A fragment outlines an oyster cocktail serving method: seven small oysters per person with lemon juice ketchup shallots tabasco and salt. Chil and chill the mixture then serve in a cocktail glass and garnish with chopped celery.
Madge complains while he kisses her constantly and Marjorie jokes he is a slacker with that limited excuse. Town photo captions hint at romantic tension and social gossip.
A large automobile stopped at a northern state farm to drink water. The farmer, an old acquaintance, welcomed the eight visitors for an unplanned meal. Afterward the children explored freely and the farmer’s eldest son felt his father’s premonition in the day’s events.
The Kansas City Star quotes J Puller Gloom joking that his locomotion improves because he has taken so many pills for his pains that he has ball bearings. The light exchange ends with a humorous line about his rheumatism and peculiar gait.
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