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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1932
Page
16
A historic discussion on balancing a reducing diet with calories and meat. It emphasizes energy needs, avoiding starvation, and the value of lean meat for high quality protein. Cites Dr James McLester of Alabama on lean roast beef and veal as 100 calories per serving.
Business girls juggle work and home duties with planning. They can save money by buying economical cuts and preparing them in advance. Parboil meats like chuck, roast shoulder pork, or lamb breast for quick future dinners.
Wedding planning guidance from Josephine Gibson outlines suitable menus for early morning weddings and wedding suppers. Suggests items such as grapefruit with white grapes, creamed chicken on griddle cakes, pure apple butter, hot rolls, coffee, bride’s cake, soups like cream of pea, olives, crackers, chicken with mushroom sauce, peas, spiced pineapple, ice cream molds, and buffets with assorted sandwiches.
A recipe from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Home Economics details a Dutch apple cake using early green cooking apples. The method covers making a biscuit dough, slicing apples, layering, cinnamon sugar, butter, and baking until tender, with a final crust crown for serving warm.
Cool salads top summer menus with chilled greens and crisp textures. A Sweetbread and Cucumber Salad recipe uses parboiled sweetbreads, cucumber, celery, salt, pepper, and cream dressing, chilled and served on lettuce or cucumber cups with paprika for garnish.
Suggestions for serving a porch meal with cold dishes and ready setup. Menus emphasize ease of serving, nutritious value, and attractiveness, including cold baked cottage ham bean salad, lettuce tomato salad, buttered rolls, frozen peanut cream, iced tea, and Mexican spaghetti with fruit, desserts, and sauces.
A fragmented feature offers early kitchen advice praising baked whole ham as a time saver for entertaining. It suggests planning meals in advance, baking the ham the day before, and refrigerating or reheating it in the morning to ensure a quick, stress free service. The text reflects home economist guidance on efficient hosting.
New York City displayed a fascinating array of kitchen devices that promise labor saving benefits for homemakers. Highlights included waxed paper holders, cake breakers for soft angel food, a miniature grinder priced at 10 cents for nuts and cheese, and can openers that cut cleanly without jagged edges. The August issue of The Light's Rental Directory will be available next Tuesday. call Crockett 2400 to reserve.
Beat the contents of one 1b-ounce can of salon cutlets by immersing the can in boiling water for 15 to 20 minutes. Open the can and remove the fish in one large piece if possible onto a hot platter. Garnish with lemon slices and parsley. Serve with eye sauce made by chopping three hard boiled eggs finely and mixing with three tablespoons melted butter, salt, pepper, and lemon juice to taste. Serves six.
An OCR damaged advertorial fragment touts Fly-Tox as a room mist to kill insects and mosquitoes, claiming decades of research, low per-room cost, and Japan-based origins. It mentions “Makers of Meth-Tox” and vague safety assurances with unclear efficacy.
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