Home Hodgepodge Ideas and Household Tips Requested
Readers are invited to submit ideas for household tasks and better ways to do them. Names may be used if desired. The note ends with a poem by Edgar Guest about perseverance and success.
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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1937
Page
2
Apple Fritters Made From Simple Batter
A compact recipe outlines mixing dry ingredients with 1 percent cups of flour and a pinch of salt and baking powder. Combine with milk and a well beaten egg, fold in sliced apples, and adjust batter thickness with milk or flour. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat at 360 degrees and fry until tender, turning often. Peach fritters can be made by using the same batter with halved peaches dipped and fried the same way.
Pear ginger lemon preserve recipe from old instruction
A preserved fruit method uses 8 pounds pears 4 lemons 8 pounds sugar and ginger. Pears are pared seeded and simmered with sugar for an hour. Lemons boiled seeded removed and juiced. zest with ginger added and simmered another hour until transparent. Jar sterilized and topped with paraffin when set. Delicious with meat.
Peach Pudding with Pitted Reserve and Biscuit Crust
Recipe describes halving and stoning 24 peaches reserving 2 pits. Pit water boiled with sugar and flour, poured over fruit layered with butter. Top with rich biscuit dough, bake until done, then slice crust and serve with cream or whipped cream.
Food preservation and cleaning tips from home economy guide
The article provides step by step instructions on pickling boiled eggs with a spice syrup, peach canning methods, and sterilization practices. It also covers polishing and preserving metal items, cleaning windows, and using kerosene for stains, with tips on moth control and sunlight bleaching for outdoor articles.
Life in Saline Narrated by Grandfather Memoir
Mrs. T. M. Clay shares an 1830s life sketch from Theodore Edgar Fotter born in Saline. It recounts Potter family journeys from Detroit to Saline and Plymouth, early frame homes, a tailor shop, and a dramatic wagon tongue incident, plus Saline as a stage route hub and local surveying feats. The piece also notes Fitch Savage, son of George Savage, drowned at Devils Lake with the obituary context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. M. Clay
Theodore Edgar Fotter
Saline
Detroit
Plymouth
Hach
Buffalo
Cayuga County
New York
Watkins Glen
America
Potter
Michigan
Mr. Potter
Clay
Huntington
Penn
Cleveland
Ohio
St. Louis
Indiana
Illinois
Quincy
Mississippi River
Great West
New York State
Theodore
Potter's
Théodore
Chicago
Fitch Savage
Ashtabula
George Savage
Cedar Point
Devils Lake
Charles E. Brown & Son
Hudson
Addison Courier
Curtains and Paisley Shawls at the Newlywed Living Room
The article follows Adelaide as she wrestles with thirteen windows of buckram curtains and planning quick, practical top treatments. It praises blue Wedgewood vases, a Ming vase, a Chinese rug, and a Paisley shawl tradition used in home decor, plus tips for a simple fixing fold cabinet to organize tools and spare keys for smoother household maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide
Margaret
Betty Wells
WNN Service
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edgar Guest
Napoleon
Queen Victoria
Paris
India
Paisley
Europe
WIN Service
Kroger
Latonia
Gingerale
Rocky River Beverages
MAY Garden
Theirs
Embassy
Country Club
Okas
Armour's
Seie Corton
Krogers
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