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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1932
Page
23
A 1930s home economics guide outlines informal buffet service to ease labor and suit large groups. It details chicken salad rolls, vegetable salad molds, tuna croquettes, garnishes, and a plated display with lettuce nests, olives, pickles, and iced tea, emphasizing simple, attractive serve-yourself dishes.
Housewives can ease hot kitchen strain with cracker based recipes. Crumbled crackers soaked in hot milk replace white sauce in cremes and croquettes while mixed with beef or tomatoes yields timbales and cheese fondue. A booklet titled Summer Book of Menu Mygto is offered by mail to readers.
A home recipe outlines a lemon flavored gold cake using Swans Down cake flour baking powder butter sugar egg yolks milk and vanilla or orange extension. Instructions cover sifting, creaming, alternating dry and wet ingredients, adding flavor, and baking in two pans at moderate heat for about 28 to 30 minutes.
Four-pound fowl with salt and fat brown pieces in fat then simmer with onion and water until tender. Thicken broth with flour blended in chicken fat, add curry powder and carrots, heat through, serve with boiled rice. Grated coconut may garnish the dish.
An ad-like guide promotes Lux toilet soap facial cleansing. It urges a two-step ritual with hot water and a coarse cloth to open pores, then gentle washing with Lux lather, finishing with cold-water rinse to leave skin firm and fresh. It claims Lux bubbles penetrate skin crevices to reveal younger-looking skin and remove dead cells.
A compact guide to turning yesterday’s fish or vegetables into appealing luncheons. Use cucumber cups, peas or beans as garnish and pair each salad with a purpose built dressing such as Tavern dressing for seafood. Include fresh dressings tailored to fruit or vegetable salads.
Handy Andy Community Stores Inc paid its twenty first quarterly dividend to stockholders on record August 31, 1932. A. L. Hecker secretary treasurer announced from San Antonio. Hecker praised three months of activity and noted no salary reductions since the first Handy Andy store opened in the city. The firm plans to expand sales to serve more San Antonians.
Morning menu highlights fresh fruit topped cereal eggs with cheese and hot blueberry muffins. Recipe for fresh blueberry muffins uses butter sugar egg evaporated milk flour baking powder salt and blueberries baked in muffin pans at 400 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
A fragment recipe describes making mock plum cake using three fourths cup butter, 2 1 8 cups sugar, milk, eggs, nutmeg, salt, baking powder, white raisins, and method steps. Cream butter and sugar, mix dry ingredients, alternate adding dry and milk, beat lightly, and bake in muffin pans for about ten minutes at 350 degrees.
A vintage recipe describes dissolving lemon gelatin in boiling water with vinegar and seasonings, then folding in canned fish, chopped hard boiled egg, pimiento, olives, celery and mayonnaise. The mixture is poured into a fish mold, chilled, served on lettuce with paprika, shrimp, olives, and mayonnaise.
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