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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1928
Page
17
A scrambled, OCR style menu shows daily meals from Sunday to Friday including breakfast luncheon and dinner items. Entries mention spinach soup roast chicken eggplant peppers tomatoes cabbage melon cucumber and various desserts with tea coffee and bread.
A vintage guide stresses easy ahead preparations for parties. It suggests sandwiches, a simple salad, cold drinks, and homemade ice cream as crowd pleasers. Recipes include a luncheon coffee cooler and a banana milk dessert, with notes on health and serving tips.
Recipes describe a fruit sweetmeat made from prunes toes and figs with honey and citrus rind, formed into cakes or rolled, then coated in melted chocolate. Also instructions for hollyest sandwiches using crustless bread, butter, parsley, and rolled slices, plus a pineapple salad combining pineapple, apples, celery, and dressing in a concise prep style.
The text discusses how active children burn energy and need small, careful meals between main dishes. It suggests light options like milk, cookies, or toast with cream, and occasional sweets, noting heavy meals can hinder a child’s rest and energy.
A garbled recipe fragment outlines a cooked salad dressing with mustard cayenne and evaporated milk. It mentions beating egg yolks, diluting vinegar, and combining ingredients over heat for about ten minutes, yielding a light dressing. The text is partially illegible and contains numerous transcription errors.
Fragmentary OCR text outlines steps for a croquet recipe with melted fat and milk added gradually, then cooking until mixture thickens. It mentions ingredients like bread crumbs and a platter, with references to croquettes and sauces but the wording is severely garbled and many terms are unreadable. The result is a disjointed set of culinary instructions lacking clear measurements or outcomes.
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