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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1910
Page
7
Rhubarb thrives in city gardens with decorative leaves and red stalks. It grows tall enough to hide fences or dull corners and requires little care once planted. April and May are ideal for setting, sandy loam suits pies, and roots yield better returns than seed for small gardens.
Do not cut rhubarb stalks in the first year. Press stalks downward and pull to the side to free them. Cutting harms the plant as rhubarb bleeds. it is a greedy feeder requiring careful placement and gentle handling.
A 1910 kitchen piece catalogs rhubarb preparations including rhubarb pudding with bread crumb layers and meringue, rhubarb trifle with gelatin and cream, rhubarb fritters fried in fat, and spiced rhubarb with vinegar and ginger. It notes jelly, stews, and desserts, plus ideas to mix rhubarb with dates or dried fruits and even a pie plant short cake novelty, highlighting acid content and culinary versatility.
Advice urges applying nitrate of soda or common salt around plant roots to boost growth, noting the soil can absorb large quantities. The guidance emphasizes soil placement near roots as a key factor in nutrient uptake and vigor.
A short, period note on how rhubarb divides households with men preferring stewed fruit and vegetable use while women worry about acidity and sugar. The piece hints at oxalic acid concerns and a shift toward rhubarb for complexion.
The entry lists dishes such as French stew with dropped dumplings, hot potatoes and spinach, strawberry and rhubarb, cake, butter, macaroni and cheese sauce, strawberry fritters, and butter biscuits. Scattered words hint at a dated meal plan and missing portions.
A recipe for Carolina Eggs describes toasts with bacon, six slices and six eggs, then poached eggs on hot bacon fat toast. It adds a Welsh rarebit made from American cheese milk salt white pepper and egg yolk, poured over the toast and served hot.
Instructions for rice ariddie cakes with rice milk eggs and flour, then baking powder sifted in. Scotch broth recipe uses scrag mutton pearl barley onion and water simmered two hours. serve hot with mutton. Also a beef and vegetable bean pot bake with peas tomatoes carrot onion cloves tapioca and breadcrumbs in a slow oven.
Recipe fragment describes making a dessert by cutting one box of berries and one pound rhubarb, cooking rhubarb first then adding berries, with sugar to taste and sealing while hot. Likely a brief kitchen tip or recipe clipping with steps omitted.
A quick batter combines one cup mashed strawberries strained three beaten eggs one to Ditepoon sugar one up flour one teaspoon baking powder. Add more flour if needed to make thick batter. Drop by spoon into hot fat and fry like doughnuts. Serve with mashed sweetened strawberries.
A fragment describes dropping dumplings into thickened gravy and boiling briefly, noted alongside a Dreamland night dance event. The recipe calls for milk egg yolk and white, salt flour for cake-like dough, baking powder, and rapid cooking. The text contrasts dumplings with biscuit dough.
A kitchen note emphasizes rhubarb should never be cooked in tin and must be prepared in a porcelain lined saucepan to preserve flavor and avoid reaction with metal.
A garden note explains forcing rhubarb in headless barrels to yield an early spring supply. Stalks grown this way have delicate flavor and fine texture, suitable for pies. Roots stored in boxes in a warm cellar in fall produce slender growth for winter use.
Mrs. George A. Smith argues against anti-suffragist Miss Gardiner by citing Colorado as proof that women’s voting led to progressive reforms. She lists laws in Colorado since 1894 including child guardianship, juvenile court, compulsory education, child labor limits, school health exams, workplace protections, and property rights for wives, framing them as outcomes of women’s suffrage and organized actions by Denver’s Woman’s Club and state groups.
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