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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1918
Page
9
A wartime Christmas editorial urges simple meals to honor fallen soldiers and conserve resources. It promotes a modest menu using home grown produce and storage staples, with roast rabbit as a centerpiece and two menu options, stressing joy in sacrifice and duty.
Fragmentary kitchen notes list mangoes 6 and cups 14 of nice, 2 cups broth, 1 cup tomato puree, 2 in Mespuoons butter, 1 emien. Readable items suggest a recipe outline but missing key terms and steps.
Parsley and mushroom filling prepared with ham and rice, served in hollowed mango cups with tomato sauce. Pineapple Salad with apples celery and lettuce in lemon juice and mayonnaise. Cottage Cheese Salad layered with pimento and cheese, garnished with celery and olive for a cold serving option.
The passage outlines making a light angel cake by combining 1 to 4 cups flour with 3 level spoons baking powder sifted with flour and sugar three times, then adding 1 cup boiling milk and beaten stiff egg whites. Flavor with vanilla, fold in whites, bake in ungreased tins for about 40 minutes in a slow oven and ice with honey icing.
The recipe describes making Finnan Haddie balls by cooking potatoes in water, adding Fin nan Haddie, mashing and mixing with pepper salt egg then forming balls and frying in hot fat. It also lists quantities for six quails with butter currant jelly lemon and preserved cherries for accompaniments.
A wartime kitchen note shows quails browned in butter then simmered with meat stock and orange rind, finished with jelly and lemon juice. Escalloped carrots with onions layered in white sauce, bread crumbs, and suet. bake until top. Then a variety of sugarless sweets recipes from Parisian sweets to nougatines and candied fruits.
Influenza caused a flower shortage and price surge in St Louis and nationwide. American beauty roses rose from 15 to 24 dollars per dozen. medium roses from 0.75 to 1.50. carnations from 0.75 per dozen to five dollars. Orders diverted to St Paul Chicago and Canada as funeral demand grows. The shortage stems from a short crop due to fuel supply curtailment. new crop not ready before February.
A narrator recalls bribing children to hang up coats and wonders if adults also use bribes to perform duties. She reflects on discipline, self promises, and the moral question of rewarding duty with personal incentives. The piece links daily chores, writing a dreaded letter, and the beds dishwashers face to the idea of motivating behavior.
Maximilian Paetzold, once Austro-Hungarian consul general in Havana, was liberated from the Cabanas fortress on Saturday after internment since Cuba declared war on the dual monarchy. He is reported to be in poor health.
Inclement weather delays two army airplanes traveling from Houston to Detroit. The flight plans to depart Scott Field Belleville Illinois for Indianapolis Indiana this morning after remaining at the field since last Tuesday.
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