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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
3
Cauliflower head boiled in salted water then cooled and seasoned with pepper salt and lemon juice. Topped with browned fine dry crumbs browned in butter. Apples washed cored and filled with dates raisins and a topping then baked and served with whipped cream.
A recipe describes cooking ducks with turnips in a saucepan with butter pork fat and boiling water. Add parsley celery and a bouquet garni, plus white turnips and onions, simmer covered for about one hour. Serve diced around the ducks with gravy from the stewed giblets.
A partial cooking note describes filling cabbage leaves with a mix of cold cooked meat and rice seasoned with pepper and salt. The rolls are formed, browned briefly, then simmered with a sauce and served over toasted bread.
A recipe fragment describes lining a deep plate with crust and r, beating yolks of 2 eggs, adding corn or thickened mixture with water, stirring until smooth, pouring into crust, cooling, and topping with a meringue made from the two whites and two tablespoons of powdered brown sugar.
A list describes a spice cake batter using butter sugar egg milk flour raisins and spices. Measurements include one cupful butter milk and two cupfuls flour with one teaspoon powder and one tablespoon cin ite cloves and nutmeg. White frosting is mentioned as an accompaniment.
An anonymous New York artist sketch at 424 et Broadway shows the 1909 10 women's wear for 10 with extreme hats and hair piled high. The piece notes the impracticality of walking and hat alignment but predicts women will endure fashion to stay in style.
A humorously chaotic reminiscence recounts sea Edgar resisting vaccination with a wary claim of long lasting health. Maggie and youngsters spar over teeth soaking and pet jokes. Children mock school terms while Gertrude riffs on eggs, revealing the era’s gentle domestic ironies.
Readers send ideas for a 12 year old’s afternoon Christmas party, costume hints, and invitations. Also answers on wart removal, hair styling, crystallizing a Christmas tree, removing machine embroidery marks, raised doughnuts, marshmallow candy, and gift suggestions for paper boys.
The article argues couples should share similar tastes but complementary dispositions. It contends harmony arises when one partner is decisive and amiable while the other adapts, noting differences in temperament can curb discord and support shared life. It advises studying married friends to observe how tastes align and dispositions differ.
In the old German city of Nuremburg toy factories bustle as Santa’s orders pour in. Fairies at the North Pole guide Christmastide preparations while German girls stitch outfits for Mistress Dolly and workers forge trains and carriages for the December voyage to America and beyond.
A collection of Christmas candy recipes includes Fruit Cheese, Cream Chocolate Caramels, Penochl, Marshmallow Candy, and Sugared Popcorn. It provides step by step instructions with ratios, cooking times, and cooling methods, aiming to yield wholesome treats for both children and adults.
The passage urges deciding early and sending gifts promptly. It favors despatching times ahead of schedule, noting better a week early than a day late, to ensure appreciation and avoid the season’s rush. It warns tardiness dulls holiday sentiment and delays acknowledgments.
A garbled fragment discusses furs and broadcloth items with silk accents and trim details. It mentions furs, muffs, running lengths, and decorative trimming, but the text is incoherent and contains numerous errors making a clear event or person identification impossible.
Oxalic acid and water in proportion one to twenty can remove perspiration stains. Do not rub fabrics between hands. rub cleaning fluid on gently with a fresh cloth.
The excerpt details making fudge by boiling sugar cocoa milk and butter then beating and molding in tins. It also explains marzipan by grinding almonds with powdered sugar and rosewater shaping the mixture on a sugared slab. The procedure covers heating, cooling, and rolling to form molds.
Two cups molasses and one cup white sugar with three quarters cup water and scant half teaspoon cream of tartar are cooked covered until a ball forms in cold water. Cool, beat until light, pull until glossy, then roll with French ton ant into a long ticka. Slice and let cups be brittle but melt in the mouth.
Break a pound of maple sugar into pieces and place on the fire with one cup of milk. Add a table spoon butter and cook until a drop in water is brittle. Remove from heat and stir until granulating around the sides, then pour into greased pan and mark into squares. Optional add chopped raisins and nuts before stirring.
Roil a mixture of molasses sugar butter and lemon juice until glossy. Stir constantly to prevent crystallization. When brittle from heat, remove from stove and pour into a prepared tiered tin.
Medium dark navy blue and green plaid cape lined to bottom with red silk. Turnover collar made of black satin finished with soutache. Special price in effect at nine dollars forty five cents.
The article describes making candy a quarter inch thick, marking it into squares or sticks while warm so it breaks easily when cold. It suggests a chocolate bonbon method with melted chocolate, a splash of water and butter, and dipping plum raisins. It also gives a chocolate cake recipe using two tablespoons of boiling water and two level tablespoons of butter per half pound of chocolate.
Two cups water two cups sugar three tablespoons molasses three tablespoons vinegar butter the size of an egg boil until it will harden in cold water butter a pan and cover bottom with nuts pour over the boiled mixture and put away to harden when cooled a little cut in squares an old tried and true recipe
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