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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1902
Page
4
A fragmented historic menu listing daily meals with items for breakfast lunch and dinner. Entries include breakfast fruits cereals smoked salmon stewed potatoes griddle cakes maple syrup and coffee. lunch features soups toad in the hole mashed potatoes fruit salad and cheese. dinner lists oyster pie mock turtle soup sweet potato caramel stewed celery lettuce puddings and drinks.
A nineteenth century style essay urges celebrating Thanksgiving with a family focused house party. It highlights the harvest table bolstered by turkey pies cranberry jelly oysters and pumpkin pie, plus practical prep tips and a calm, generous atmosphere for hosts and guests alike.
Roast the turkey without stuffing in a hot oven, baste with butter for browning, then simmer on a bed of veal slices with bacon and stock until tender. Strain and reduce the stock to a brown glaze to drizzle over the meat. A chestnut stuffing substitute uses mashed sweet potatoes breadcrumbs bread butter and eggs with seasoning. Serve with celery tips and sausage cakes.
Shell fifty French chestnuts and boil them to make a paste with butter salt and cream. Beat eggs and fold in, then cook briefly in a double boiler until thick. Shape into balls or cones, coat with egg and crumbs, and fry until brown for a delicate Thanksgiving accompaniment.
M S PB expresses great interest in the woman’s column and asks for recipes not found in cook books. She outlines a baked bean rarebit style dish with steps including sieving baked beans, paprika, butter, milk, and cheese with Worcestershire sauce served on thin toast.
Bake seasoned tomatoes on flat dishes until boiling hot then pour hot cream sauce around. Prepare crisp cabbage with a slightly beaten egg butter sugar mustard salt milk and vinegar dressing, cook until thick, serve hot or cold.
Lebanon Pa Nov 2 Deputy Coroner Charles D Welvick investigated the death of John Bishop a Civil War veteran aged about 75 after evidence suggested Paris Green had been mixed with whiskey The case will be thoroughly investigated further by authorities.
Lackawanna railroad schedules a special passenger train from Lackawanna avenue station at 7 30 a m Friday November 28 to New York City arriving about 11 a m The round trip ticket is sold at the station office and valid for return on any regular train through December 6 Information available from David Pritchard chairman transportation committee or A C Meinck ticket agent Scranton Pa
Lehigh Valley Railroad offers 4.85 dollars to New York City and return for Thanksgiving Day travel on November 26 with return accepted through November 30. Tickets valid on most trains except the Black Diamond Express. consult Delaware and Hudson agents or George Heller, LV city passenger agent, Wilkes Barre.
The notice promotes a Fall Excursion by the New Jersey Central to New York on November 26. Tickets are valid on any train that day and for return through November 30. Rates are reduced. consult a local ticket agent for details.
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans to issue clerical orders for 1908 to ordained clergymen in regular charge of churches near its lines. Applications on blanks from company agents must reach the general office by December 21 so orders can be mailed to eligible clergymen on that date.
Fully described and illustrated in an artistically arranged and beautifully printed book just issued by the Chicago and Northwestern railway. It describes its commercial industrial and transportation advantages and the delights of outdoor life in the climate of the coast. Send four cents in postage to W. B. Kniskern passenger traffic manager 22 Fifth avenue Chicago. a
In the Tendon Globe science column a stonecrop flower nicknamed the thunder flower is examined. Two pharmacists hear a farmer’s tale that lightning saved a farmhouse by the plant’s intervention. Scientists note stonecrop’s water content may make it a natural lightning conductor.
A compact meditation on time uses anecdotes of D Aguesseau's wife delaying dinner, Madame de Genlis copying poetry during waits, a German critic recalling the Iliad in fragments, and Dr Mason Good translating Lucretius during long London walks between patients.
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