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Newspaper
Portland Daily Press
Location
Portland, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
1
In hot weather the article advises lighter, nutritious foods for children, keeping strong milk for infants, and avoiding caloric overload. It emphasizes cooling milk, careful preparation, and gradual diet changes, with a recipe for bottled flounders including butter sauce and lemon juice.
Instructions describe making salmon croquettes from boiled leftovers with lemon juice, milk, butter, and seasoned salmon then breaded and fried. Also includes Parisian chocolate: melt square in hot water with sugar, mix into warm milk, and serve with whipped cream and vanilla, pairing with sponge cake or lady fingers.
A collection of kitchen directions detailing white bean soup with overnight soaking, pot boil, and tomato addition, followed by Italian ponto with pasta and veal or tongue, cheese, cream, eggs, and spices, then oatmeal dough cakes rolled and baked.
Cut the remains of cooked sweetbreads into dice with lemon juice and paprika. Dip in a thin frying batter and fry a rich brown. Garnish with finely chopped parsley for a bright finish.
Pickled salmon left over from dinner can be preserved by covering with a warm pickle made from vinegar mace cloves allspice and pepper simmered five minutes then poured over the fish and chilled in the refrigerator. Also describes baked lobster with seasoned meat, butter, flour milk, bread crumbs, parsley, and claws as garnish.
Roil lemon peel in a pint of milk then pour over half a pound of bread crumbs. Soak, beat in one egg one ounce butter and two ounces sugar. Layer in a buttered mold with stiff jam, cover with a floured cloth and boil one and a half hours. Serve with sauce.
Grate fresh corn and combine with two eyes of corn pulp per pint, three heapoonfuls of flour, salt and pepper. Beat eggs separate, add yolks then whites to the corn, mix well with seasoning and flour. Fry spoonfuls in butter until brown on both sides.
Beat two tablespoonfuls of butter with tea cream. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of baking soda in a little boiling water and add to one cupful of molasses. Mix with the butter and add one and one-half cups of flour and the same amount of boiling water. Stir until smooth. Then add a teaspoonful of ginger, cloves, and cinnamon and bake in shallow pans.
Lift with two cups of four one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder and a little salt, add one tablespoonful of shortening, two cupfuls of cold mashed potato and milk enough to make a stiff paste when well mixed, form into generous sized cakes and bake on a griddle, turning so as to brown both sides.
Simple kitchen guidance shows pork stew using cold roast pork onions butter vinegar gravy and spices simmered half an hour served with fried bread. Cream of chicken combines rice butter flour with chicken broth, simmered then thinned with milk and seasoned to taste.
A recipe describes pick off stems and tops, stew berries with minimal water, sweeten, and bake in a shallow pie crust with a thin fruit layer, covered by a top crust until brown. Also details Easy Vegetable Soup with onions potatoes carrot turnip parsley celery fried in butter, then stock and tomatoes boiled and seasoned to taste.
Loosen skin on one side of each banana and place in a pan with the loosened side up. Cover and bake until skins darken and fruit is soft. Remove to a hot dish, sprinkle with sugar, and serve immediately.
Wash one cup dates in warm water and stone them. Cut into small pieces. Add one cup stewed and sweetened apples. Bake between two crusts as you would plain apple pie. This makes a warm fruit crust, simple and flavorful.
Professor G Frederick Wright reports successful free lectures in Japan on American glacial theory, given through interpreters and hosted by educational societies. He notes large audiences in Maebashi Sendai and Osaka Kyoto Kobe Yokohama, with strong interest in Christianity and science, and calls for renewed gospel dissemination as Japan's intellectual awakening grows.
A New York Central Buffalo strike by car repairers who had recently received wage increases led to talks with a union committee. The motive power superintendent visited Buffalo to confer, yielding a settlement that boosted wages modestly and recognized unions, showing peaceful, productive labor relations.
A New York Herald item recounts an ant foray illustrating nearly perfect foraging strategy. An estimated 15 000 ants advanced from a mud nest toward a fresh earth mound, halted, waited for the full column, then returned with loads of food, showing planned division of labor and collective efficiency.
A witty dialogue exchange from the Chicago Tribune style column features banter about love and a new shirt waist. The Host is Pond's Extract noted for purity and uniformity, with a brief aside on bottle labeling and seating observations in a crowded car.
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