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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1916
Page
11
A domestic feature offering guidance for housewives with tips on kitchen economy menus recipes and entertaining tricks. The page promotes practical household management through concise lessons and ideas aimed at improving efficiency and daily routines.
A 1920s style feature urges housewives to manage homes as a skilled business with leisure and planning. It promotes a dedicated convenience shelf, practical menu ideas, and time saving habits to improve efficiency, health, and family life while enabling personal growth and broader opportunities.
A compact menu lists breakfast items including cereal with milk sausage meat balls baked potatoes toast coffee luncheon tuna fish salad bread and butter sticks fruit wafers grape juice or tea. Dinner offers consomme mock sweetbreads mashed potatoes corn beet salad grapes pudding and cakes with coffee or grape juice.
The article advises buying canned goods by the dozen or case to save money and gain independence. It emphasizes choosing brands backed by reputable houses, ensuring purity and refunds for defects, and properly storing and heating canned items. It warns to empty contents promptly and discard air exposed inedible substance, and to rely on U S inspected and passed labels for canned meats.
The piece emphasizes advertisements as the paper’s key source for real time progress in food production and distribution. It notes manufacturers share new methods and protections through ads, with later articles explaining their impact, urging readers to use well documented, well advertised products.
Morning meals set the tone for the day and should include protein from meat for energy. The piece describes balanced breakfasts versus no-breakfast diets and offers a tuna au gratin recipe with cheese layers and a cream sauce, baked until bubbly and browned.
Select large uniform potatoes and scrub clean. Make two lengthwise holes, insert farm style link sausage or sausage meat, then bake. Serve hot as soon as baked.
Instructions describe frying thin bacon rinds until curling, shaping into curls with forks, cooking until crisp, then draining. Serve around a mound of scrambled eggs with creamed potatoes for a warm plated dish.
Cut cold boiled or fried ham into medium cubes and layer in a baking dish with bread crumbs and cooked rice or macaroni. Add pepper and mustard, dots of butter or bacon drippings, repeat, top with fat, moisten with milk, finish with bread crumbs and bake until brown. A balanced breakfast dish with fruit toast and coffee.
Instructions describe preparing potato vette bites with soaking, mashing, cream, spices, egg yolk and breading then frying. Also includes a simple baking powder biscuit recipe with bread flour lard and salt. Encourages clipping and organizing household advice for future reference.
A recipe outlines pumpkin pie filling with namon egg sugar flour milk lard and salt and explains a crust made from chili flour lard and cold water. Instructions cover cold mixing rolling on a marble slab pinching edges and baking until golden brown for a classic pumpkin pie.
The piece extolls informal afternoon tea as a bright daily ritual. It highlights inviting friends to four o clock, the role of grandmothers pouring, and simple refreshments like dainty sandwiches and homemade cakes. Tips include friendly notices and the cozy, social value of such gatherings.
This recipe instructs creaming half cup pure leaf lard with one cup sugar then adding two and a quarter cups flour two teaspoons baking powder and half teaspoon salt. Blend in one fourth cup cold milk and form a thin pie crust. Roll and cut shapes with a floured cutter. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
A humorous note about Mrs Brown, a stout but thoughtful woman, visiting a hotel. A clerk directs her to the lift and a polite boy asks if she is going up. She jokes that a small boy cannot pull her up, smiling kindly at the exchange.
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