Crocheted Hats Rise In Summer Street Style
Summers bring airy crocheted hats and tub frocks as streets show a shift to comfortable, colorful fabrics. Crepe de chine and printed silks mingle with white, black, and beige, while hats blend wool yarns chenille and silk with delicate crocheted decorations for a distinctly American aristocratic flair.
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Fruit Punch Recipe from USDA Guides 60 Servings
The United States Department of Agriculture presents a fruit punch recipe adaptable to available berries. Use red raspberry as the dominant flavor with strawberry or blackberry juice when needed, and mix with lemon juice sugar ginger ale and Apollinaris water. The method involves extracting juice from strawberries, preparing a syrup, and combining with carbonated waters for serving. Salt enhances flavor and the yield serves about 60 people.
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Labels for Canned Goods Favored in Home Canning Tips
A USDA home economy note urges labeling every jar with data from canning. After busy hours, it helps to print or write data on 1 by 2 inch labels and paste them uniformly on jars to identify contents and date, avoiding mix ups in winter.
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Properly Storing Canned Fruits And Jellies
Guidance on preserving canned goods like fruit and grape jelly, emphasizing cool dark storage, labeled containers, closed cupboards, and shelves arranged for easy access and inspection of spoilage. It also notes protecting glass jars from light to prevent fading decay.
Biscuit Cutter: A Handy Tool For Pie Crust And More
The biscuit cutter is praised for mixing fat and flour to create a flaky crust with less handling. It can also blend water into the fat and flour, offering a hygienic alternative to finger blending. Beyond pies, it suggests uses for baking powder biscuits and chopping fruit or potatoes for various dishes.
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Office of Home Economies
Buttermilk Lemonade and Whey Punch Variations
Buttermilk lemonade is made with two tablespoons of sugar per glass. Whey from cheese making can be used for a beverage as well as buttermilk. Whey lemonade uses one quart whey, lemon juice, grated rind, and nutmeg or cinnamon. Variations double lemon juice and sugar, add fruit juices, chill and serve with ice. Whey punch can include rhubarb pineapple grape currant or cherry juices and a mint leaf, and may be frozen.
Household Tips and Tricks from Everyday Life
A column offers practical advice such as using a broad arm chair for comfortable calls, moths disliking newspaper bags, adding grated cheese to crusts, drying steel wool on the stove, pouring coffee back and forth to improve flavor, dipping a hot knife in water to slice cake, and making peach dumplings like apple dumplings.
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