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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
6
Ellsworth Ferry, a powerful man, fears asking his wife Eunice whether she loves him for money. After a near-fatal accident, Eunice’s quiet vigil and steadfast devotion prove her love, forcing Ferry to abandon his suspicions and accept her feelings as the lifesaving truth.
The article explains Hamburg steak as inexpensive beef formed into small balls or a large cake and broiled quickly to preserve flavor. It emphasizes using fresh well ground meat and browning for flavor, with advice to mix milk, compare native versus imported beef, and add suet butter or eggs to retain moisture. It suggests one egg per 4 pounds of meat to keep juices from escaping.
This piece outlines general principles for sauces and gravies using water milk stock or tomato juice. It covers thickening ratios flour cornstarch or arrowroot with 14% tablespoon per cup, adjustments for browned flour, fat choices two tablespoons per cup, and two mixing methods heat fat then flour gradually or stir in a flour slurry for brown gravies.
A simple cream toast method uses one pint milk or cream two tablespoons flour two tablespoons butter half teaspoon salt and six slices dry toast. Heat milk melt butter stir in flour then add milk gradually until smooth thickened. Add salt dip toast in hot salted water place on dish and spoon thickened cream over each slice.
A recipe fragment describes washing a heart, stuffing with a mix of broken bread soaked in fat, chopped onion, and salt and pepper. The heart is simmered until tender, then slow cooked in a fireless cooker for six to eight hours, finished by dredging and browning with flour and crumbs.
A recipe describes preparing pumpkin pie by stewing pumpkin and forcing it through a colander. Beat four egg yolks with one cup sugar then mix with two cups pumpkin and a quart of milk. Add cinnamon mace nutmeg and stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in a deep pastry-lined pie plate with slits in the top.
In Illinois news, the Farmers' Institute Conference opens at the Palmer House to plan county institutes with state funding for delegates and speakers. Mount Vernon reports on Johnson's murder conviction. Cairo notes a light school election and a retiring judge. Mendota and Mount Sterling cover church and presbytery activities. Springfield sees shifts in tax and railroad oversight, occupational disease commissions, and a new safety order for street railway crossings. Hillsboro records goose egg hail causing about $1,009 in damage.
L T Cooper's theory that 90 percent of ill health stems from stomach trouble gains attention as his New Discovery medicine is claimed to restore stomach tone in six weeks. A Brookline Boston resident, Mrs. M E Delano, testifies to dramatic health recovery after using the product, now sold by all druggists with a Dayton, Ohio company backing.
Former Governor Pennypacker discussed the divorce evil at a Philadelphia dinner. He joked that there would be fewer divorces if human nature were perfect, citing a Bucks County farmer who would file only if his wife allowed it.
Readers are told that Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh in all stages and that a $100 reward will be paid for any case it fails to cure. The ad explains a constitutional approach, claims to restore strength, and invites testimonials as it lists Toledo, Ohio as the company base and mentions 75-cent pills.
A passage notes that only about twenty percent of salmon spawn before returning from the sea and those that do return after spawning are coarse. It states that when cut up, their flesh is white and they are known as bull trout, clarifying that bull trout are not a separate species but spawning salmon.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Lung Balm for hoarseness and deep cold symptoms, selling by druggists in 25c 50c and 1.00 bottles. The notice also cheekily notes low-cut gowns belong on bargain counters.
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