Homemade Candies
Instructions for white fondant and cherry drops begin with a sugar water fondant base. The excerpt describes shaping vanilla fondant into balls and lightly coating with chocolate using a fingertip.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
3
Making Maple Fondant For Candy Molding At Home
The guide explains testing sugar fondant by cooling, dipping the finger, and forming a soft ball to know when to remove from heat. It describes cooling, creaming, and kneading the fondant until smooth, then flavoring with vanilla and folding in more sugar for molding.
Gifts to the Maid Guide for Holiday Cheer
A quaint advice note suggests giving a maid gifts such as a dozen handkerchiefs a pair of gloves a dress pattern or a collar to express appreciation during the season.
Month of Holly Berries Provides December Table Cheer
Holly berries brighten December tables for festive decor and cheer. A luncheon host, a girl, showcases the seasonal touches with berries adding winter charm to the table setting.
Christmas wedding plans with holly and mistletoe theme
The narrative describes a Christmas wedding setup using holly and mistletoe as central motifs. A red gown hostess, holly garlands, wreaths, and scarlet touches decorate the table and finger bowls, with ideas for a Christmas day dinner featuring a miniature tree and gifts.
Wedding Presents Match Gifts for Bride and Groom
A column notes how wedding gifts can be tailored to the couple. It cites a pair of matching yet subtly different umbrellas given to a popular young couple by mutual friends as an example of thoughtful, coordinated presents.
Stuffing for the Turkey with Chestnuts and Sausage
The guide explains chestnut and sausage stuffing for turkey. It lists ingredients including chestnuts onions breadcrumbs sausages butter and lemon rind and gives step by step prep boiling peeling mixing and binding with egg. It also covers roasting timing for an eight to ten pound bird and serving with gravy.
Two Christmas Recipes Roast Goose or Duck and Chicken
Roast goose or duck prepared by singeing the skin and flattening the breastbone, then stuffing with mashed potatoes seasoned with sage onion salt pepper and butter. Cook eighteen minutes per pound for a young bird and thirty for an older one. Serve with apple sauce. Also instructions for boiled chicken with minimal water to keep meat from sticking to bones description cut off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Tin Wrapped Dish Served Cold In Thin Slices
A fragment instructs wrapping a tin in cloth with a heavy weight for several hours, then serving cold in thin slices. The text resembles a food preparation note.
English Christmas in Constantinople Draws Multilingual Guests
An English hostess in Constantinople hosted a fifty guest Christmas dinner mixing thirteen languages. Notable attendees included Fuad Pasha Hadji Rassim Effendi and the Persian ambassador. The feast featured beef, boiled fish, plum pudding and mince pies while guests watched performances and played games before Hadji Rassim left ill, prompting the newspaper to joke about censorship and a whitening of the hostess’s hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Levant Times
Constantinople
Kafass
Fuad Pasha
Hadji Rassim Effendi
Hebrew Bank
England
Hadji Rassim
Hadji
Bosporus
Cats Receive Christmas Tree Treat From Boston Kindness Club
In Boston the Anima Rescue league inspired a Christmas tradition where a tree loaded with meat and treats entertained cats awaiting homes. Eight to thirteen year old Kindness club boys helped, pledged daily acts of kindness, and protected animals from cruelty after the feline feast and refreshment break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Women
Boston
Anima Rescue League
Kindness Club
Christmas Riddles and Answers From the Nativity
A list of Christmas riddles and solutions about the Nativity. Includes questions about the manger Bethlehem shepherds Mary Herod Joseph and the star with answers guiding readers through the biblical tableau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem Star
Shaving Pad For Father Craft Idea Cardboard Toy
A simple Father’s Day craft suggests cutting a six inch round cardboard disc and decorating it with paper or a design. Attach about twenty five sheets of white tissue paper with a center hole and tie with a ribbon for a decorative shaving pad project.
Reindeer Facts From The Natural History Series
The Euro Asiatic reindeer is the only domesticated member of its family and inhabits boreal regions of the eastern hemisphere. It sheds hair seasonally, shifts color from white to gray in summer, can pull about 800 pounds, and travels up to 100 miles a day. Reindeer use ranges from Lapland sledging to carrying people in rough country, offering value both living and dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapland
Swap Parties and Holiday Games Bring Fun and Mystery
The passage hints at holiday gatherings with a mix of active and quiet games. It mentions a candy pull and a cobweb party as examples of entertaining activities, and asks readers if they have attended a swap party. It ends with a prompt about a thing everyone desires but often discards, followed by mentioning a good appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uae
Modest Hope and Critique Shape Church Dialogues
Moderator Matthews of the Presbyterian Church criticizes widespread neglect of family worship, linking it to declines in personal religion and youth fervor. The Rock River conference pushes to raise pastors’ salaries, while leaders urge support for early ministry study and practical church modernization. Ceylon Buddhists increasingly adopt Christian terms and practices, reforming worship and clergy titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moderator Matthews
Presbyterian Church North
Matthews
New York Christian Intelligencer
Laymen’s Association of the
Rock River
Illinois
H. B. Williams
Evanston
United States
Charles M. Stuart
Garrett Biblical Institute
M 5
Stuart
Maine Dominates U S Christmas Tree Trade
Maine supplies at least three fifths of the over 1.5 million Christmas trees used in America each season. Thousands of young farmers and timbermen profit by cutting and shipping them from eastern and northern Maine where the business began about thirty years ago with a few schooners and now uses a large fleet. Most trees exported from Maine are firs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Maine
Inc
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