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Newspaper

Seattle Star

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 1910

Page

7

Unmarried letters seek wives in Star readers pool

In a 1900s Star feature several anonymous women write to "Unmarried" and "Living In Hope" seeking husbands. Letters reveal desires for homes and salaries, with a critic arguing love matters most. One writer rejects suffrage and mocks the male ideal.

Tim's Lily Brings Easter Hope To Hospital Bed

Tim sells papers to help his large family and buys a bulb for his sister Maggie in hospital. Nurse plants it, and a white lily blooms by Easter, lifting Maggie's spirits and aiding her recovery alongside medicine.

Tim Maggie Magsie Lily

How to Care for Silverware in Historical Guide

A historical guide explains washing silverware immediately after use, separating pieces, and drying with a soft linen towel. It warns against mercurial polishes and recommends a home polish recipe using whiting and spirits, plus boiling potato water for engraved pieces, then drying and polishing with chamois.

Bread and Breadmaking by Miss Helen W Atwater

The bulletin explains bread as a staple food, its composition and nutritive value. It outlines raw materials, dough changes, and baking effects on quality, stressing bread’s role as fuel and its low waste with proper protein from other foods.

Department of Agriculture Helen W. Atwater United States Misa Atwater Miss Atwater

Breadmaking guidance from Helen Atwater’s Official Book

The excerpt discusses flour quality for breadmaking, noting cream-colored wheat flour with loose texture, gluten content, and elasticity. It compares cornmeal and graham flour, explains whole wheat blends, and mentions moisture and liquid effects on bread. It warns against overly hot ovens to prevent crust hardening before interior cooks.

Bread Making Advice From An Old Manual

Practical kitchen guidance warns against dark damp storage flour high dough temperatures and excessive yeast. It cautions avoiding canlt during mixing and wrapping hot bread in cloths to prevent dampness and says overworking bread weakens its structure.

Bread Making Tips From Atwater on Yeast and Fermentation

The text notes yeast develops best at 77 to 96 degrees F and advises warming dough in a draft-free place. It covers bread machines, washing methods, ingredients flexibility, and fermentation timing to avoid soggy heavy loaves, with historical reference to Munich studies by Meyer and Volt on bread digestibility and loaf lightness.

Meyer and Volt Munich

Baking Yeast Bread from Mixed Flour Mixture

A home recipe directs mixing one quart of four with one tablespoon sugar and butter, pour over one pint hot water and scalded milk, add yeast cakes when lukewarm, beat ten minutes, rise overnight in warm place, then knead with two quarts salted flour, mold into loaves, rise again, and bake with minimal handling.

Yeast Leavened Rye Leaves Recipe

A historic loaf method combines milk water lard butter sugar salt and yeast with flour and rye meal. Dissolve yeast in warm water, mix with dry ingredients, knead, shape into leaf forms, rise twice and bake.

Bread Making From a Simple Fermented Batter

A method describes mixing warm milk with corn meal to form a stiff batter and letting it ferment. A sponge of wheat flour hot water and salt is prepared, kneaded with the batter, and left to rise in a warm place. Loaves are molded baked yielding bread with low acidity.

How Biscuits Rise Through Folding and Pounding

A stiff dough of flour and water or milk with shortening and salt is kneaded and beaten or pounded. The dough is turned and folded until light and puffy. It is shaped and baked. Folding and pounding trap air in tiny blisters that expand in baking, yielding a light porous biscuit.

Cynthia Grey's Letters Love and Trust in a Marriage

A wife asks if her husband loves her amid jealousy and suspicions. Miss Grey replies that his patience and fidelity prove his love and urges the wife to trust him, curb doubts, and show affection to preserve happiness. advice emphasizes tenderness and self-restraint.

Doris Miss Grey Inet Mise Grey Élae Bke

Dinner Menu From A Historic Recipe Card

The entry lists Dinner Celery Boup Chicken Loaf Mashed Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Spinach Balad Prealant Pudding Coffee Prune and Mut Cook the prunes until tender remove the fruit into agall pieces lettuce with a mound of dressing in the center chopped pecan meats over Dressing for prune and not one cupful of double cream or three allespoonfuls of is juice one-fourth eall and a few brains of paping Vhip all solid and serve.

Steamed apples as a simple dessert or breakfast

Wash apples and cook in a covered dish with minimal water until tender. Add a cup of sugar and simmer until a syrup forms. Serve the dish cold.

Old Style Chicken Mold With Gelatine Steps

A method to prepare a tender chicken dish by boiling until the meat falls from the bones, straining the liquor, reducing to one and a half pints, then adding soaked gelatine. Layer hard boiled egg slices with alternating white and dark chicken meat in a mold, season the liquor, pour over, and chill until firm.

Preplant Pudding Instructions

Recipe segments describe layering preplant with bread crumbs and sugar in a baking dish. Include butter, nutmeg, and a 20 minute bake. Instructions specify amounts like one pound preplant one cup crumbs one cup sugar and butter.

Spinach Moulds and Liver Stew From Era Cookbook

Chop cold spinach with salt pepper and nutmeg until moulded. Serve on lettuce with hard boiled eggs and optional red pepper garnish. Prepare beef liver by simmering with onion salt and pepper in water until tender, then thicken with flour and butter and add stew liquid.

Odd Victorian Coat Sketch Described in Vellum Edging

A description notes a coat with vellum edging and brown braid, highlighting the cut. The skirt rises to the knee and is stiffened by a high girdle of the coat, with details on the garment’s construction and styling.

Ida Lewis Elected Newport Yacht Club Member

Ida Lewis keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse at Rh. L is elected a member of the Newport Yacht Club. She has saved more people from drowning than any other woman. A marabout incident is noted with a kettle and water, and restoration is planned after a fire.

Mies Ida Lewis Lime Rock Rh. L Newport Noel i New Life Sa London

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