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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
6
The Star invites readers to devise menus for four people at fifty cents with prizes of Orpheum theatre tickets. Contest rules urge careful itemized lists and submission by Tuesday noon, with winners announced next Wednesday.
The notice lists prizes for Thursday evening June 23 at the Orpheum Theatre. First prize awards four seats, second prize three seats, and prizes three through ten award two seats each for the same performance.
The guide describes a method to clean white leather belts using a paste of cream of tartar and water, followed by alum and fuller's earth, a brush, and oatmeal. It also explains washing madras curtains with bran in bran water, including boiling, dipping, rinsing, and pressing.
A bride was gifted half a dozen scrub brushes from an older housekeeper. She says if forced to choose, she would keep the brushes over half her cut glass. The brushes prove useful for scrubbing vegetables washing kettles and the sink and she notes the grater would be hard to clean without one.
Ingredients and steps describe a supper and dessert with broths, mutton chops, baked potatoes, fried cucumbers, macaroni, rarebit, lettuce, cherry shortcake, and coffee. Also includes Pigs Feet Saute, Potato Puff, and a note that turn back collars and cuffs will be worn again in summer.
Poached eggs served on broiled tomato or green pepper with brown sauce and optional cheese. French style places eggs on spinach or sorrel. Muffin batter combines flour baking powder salt dates milk and melted butter then bakes in hot muffin pans for about 26 minutes.
A dated food note describes cooking by heating milk and beaten yolks with American cheese butter salt and pepper then folding in boiled macaroni cut into pieces. The hot mixture is served over buttered toast for a simple cheese macaroni dish.
A concise cooking note describes dipping sliced food in beaten eggs, coating with cracker crumbs, and frying until brown, with light seasoning of salt and pepper.
The note outlines adding one tablespoon of sugar per pint of flour to the shortcake mix and instructs to pit and cook fresh cherries, then sweeten to taste. It reads like a fragmented cooking step from a vintage recipe.
The Star replies to letters on fashion cleaning, skin remedies and health. Questions include removing rustle from a black heather bloom skirt and making it presentable, freckles treatment safety, dangers of parnous, advice on improving posture for a young girl, and remedies for a severe cold or hay fever with attention to lifestyle factors.
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