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Newspaper
San Mateo Item
Location
San Mateo, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1908
Page
3
Household Notes describe a Floating Island dessert using milk, beaten yolks with sugar and cornstarch, then thickened and flavored. Beat egg whites to a froth and drop into boiling water to poach, arranging on a dish with a speck of bright jelly on top for a decorative finish.
A New York Tribune note presents bran muffins as a non fattening appetizing addition to tea. The recipe uses two cups bran one cup flour sour milk three tablespoons molasses butter and soda baked in small rings until hot and served with butter.
A compact cookie recipe describes sand tarts that keep well and suit various shapes. It uses butter sugar water saleratus flour and optional blanched almond centers with a glaze of white of egg and a cinnamon sugar finish.
A New York Tribune recipe describes a crisp gingerbread baked in a hot oven and wound around broomsticks to harden. Ingredients include butter molasses flour brown sugar and ginger with eighteen inch broomstick lengths for shaping.
Delicate crisp wafers flavored with nuts and milk. The batter can be poured into pastry cutters or dropped in small rounds on a buttered pan. Bake quickly, remove while hot, then cool on a platter. Ingredients include butter milk nuts and flour.
A note from the New York Tribune describes a baked treat where milk is dropped by a flour mix and a sprinkle of pecan walnut or almond is added. The batter is baked in a hot oven until light brown and then removed from the pan.
Practical tips for cleaning mopping easier with linoleum and cloth bound brooms. Ammonia and baking soda ease bites and stings. Apron mending methods improve neatness and speed. Ammonia in boil suds whitens clothes. Boiled potatoes with bacon drippings or cream offer a tasty variation. Tea strength improves with warm tea before pouring. Old whitewash brush helps keep oven soot down.
A Washington Star excerpt quotes Uncle Eben lamenting that people dwell on faded roses rather than sowing for the next season, noting a widespread tendency to talk of loss instead of planting and planning forward.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes South Carolina hat sellers were fined and will likely pass the fine to customers as it is added to the regular price.
The Oil City Derrick notes a man reading six monthly magazines implies his wife bears twelve continued stories in her head while managing cooking and evaluating neighbors' fashion costs. The remark blends humor with domestic life and magazine culture.
The Pacific will be spanned by wireless telegraphy stations bringing the ocean under human control. News will travel quickly as a system bridges the sea at expense and effort. The piece imagines distant rulers like the Sultan of Sulu calling the White House by wireless phone in a short time.
The Buffalo Express notes Europe fears the expected influx of American wealth is dwindling. It explains the very rich save to cover tire costs, the middle class scrimps to pay the first instalment on purchases, and the poor face growing hardship as a result.
The Chicago Record Herald notes the flying machine holds a practical promise beyond the old automobile documenting its rapid progress and public enthusiasm. Commentary from Dr W J Thomas and the New York Mail reflects on human appetite for ornament and its link to youth culture. Farmers near Lawrenceburg Indiana report a herd of forty goats clears underbrush efficiently for five years, changing owners ten times as new farms benefit from the grazing.
The New York World notes a decline in horse racing interest as it becomes viewed more as gambling than sport. People compare racing outcomes to Monte Carlo roulette, affecting attendance and public discourse on speed and records.
Dr. Louis Bell reviews European street lighting in Electrical World. He notes European streets are better lit not due to cheaper electricity but because cities focus on prominent streets, while American lighting aims to illuminate all streets fairly. London costs over $100 per acre annually, Paris $166, Berlin about $120.
In a Royal Magazine note, the secretary of a benevolent society marked a begging letter as evidently exaggerated. The letter claimed a young man was the sole support of a widow and infant brothers while supporting an aged father, a statement the secretary questioned as implausible.
A tale from the Far West tells of a woman home alone who is startled when a gang rides up and informs her they have lynched her husband. They admit they hanged the wrong man, leaving her with the ironic laugh at the misdeed.
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