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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
6
The recipe instructs simmering tender pork, shredding the meat, making a cornmeal mush, and flavoring with peppers and onion. It describes preparing corn husks, filling them with meat and mush, folding, and steaming in bundles for an hour.
A home bread recipe using four pounds of flour and one cup of yeast. Mix yeast into the flour with salt, add about three and a half cups of lukewarm water to form a stiff dough. Knead, rise, divide, mold, and bake until light and moist bread results.
Beat to a cream two eggs one and a half cups sugar three quarters cup butter or lard with a pinch of salt. Chop finely English walnuts and blend into the creamed mix. Add flour to roll about two heaping cups and a scant teaspoon baking powder. Roll thin bake in a moderate oven. Made cheaply with lard makes about two dozen cookies.
A simple maple cream recipe uses two cups dark brown sugar one cup rich milk or cream and butter. Boil five minutes add vanilla and chopped walnuts then beat until thick and creamy. Pour into buttered tins cool and cut into squares.
A historical recipe lists ingredients: three cups flour four sugar two thirds cup sugar one half pound butter five eggs yeast cake half teaspoon salt quarter lemon peel grated. Yeast rises with half cup milk teaspoon sugar and warm hour. Cream butter with sugar add eggs salt milk and flour. Stir half an hour then add yeast and mix. Bake in buttered form in warm place until risen then a moderate oven for an hour.
Cook turnips sliced quarter inch thick in salted water until tender about twenty minutes. Drain and place in a pudding dish. Make a pint of white sauce with butter flour and milk. Stir into turnips, top with cracker crumbs, bake until just browned.
Butter and sugar beaten with eggs and milk. Fold in flour baking powder salt and huckleberries dredged in flour. Bake in a biscuit pan and serve warm with butter.
A handwritten kitchen tip describes cutting onions and browning them, then adding small beef pieces and simmering in own juices until dry. Add water, season with paprika and salt, boil until tender, then thicken with browned flour. Also notes it is good with veal.
Warm weather tips suggest placing eggs in cold water to improve frothing. Keep pastry from burning by placing a pan of water in the oven during baking. Do not open a cake hot and let flavor cakes cool before assembly. Use lard to grease pans to prevent sticking from butter salt. Charcoal absorbs dampness so store with silverware to ward rust. Velvet rubbed stoves give a high polish after cleaning. Close oven doors gently to avoid mice and bread damage. Naphtha can remove old paint with repeated applications.
A collection of assorted notes covers decapitation and regrowth of a snail, a Western Australia message stick as a flag of truce, cleaning stained silk with flannel or linen and alcohol, giving plain boiled water to aid infant digestion, and cautions about turning poultry with a fork to prevent juice loss. It also notes a Greenland birch as the smallest tree, under three inches tall but spreading wide.
A collection of quirky, scattered notes from a past era includes coffee odor removal, a thousand-year-oldFrance game, Italian pawn control, oil-filled shells for storms, a kind Morrisburg mayor, a California judge on dog bequests, open refrigerator doors, plague fatality rates, hair ropes of St. Kilda, and a hair rope sale refused at $100.
Mrs Enos Shearer of Centralia Washington recalls a four month bed stay with weakness swelling and pain after which three physicians declared no cure Yet Dean's Kidney Pills brought relief and a rapid return to health Soon she was able to be about the house Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York promotes the remedy at 50 cents a box A note adds a onion folklore remedy for chilblains and Winslow's soothing syrup for teething A bottle carried by currents across the Gulf Stream would take about 180 days to reach the Atlantic coast.
A collection of anecdotes and endorsements about Peruna by Dr R Sylvester E Smith and A W Perrin with other brief items including rent laws, King Edward’s cigars, refrigerator care, a Cleveland cloak story, a Japanese beetle curiosities, and cooking tips about adding water to roasting meat.
Katharine Craig Stoltz notes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has long been touted as a standard remedy for female illnesses. The ad claims it cures displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and other symptoms and invites women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
In a Pinch. Use Allen's Foot-Base. A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Cores, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Jigt, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
A German mechanic wears the tiny electric motor as a scarfpin powered by a pocket battery and kept running while worn. February 1866 had no full moon, and astronomers say this won’t recur until the year 2,499,962. New York uses about 3 million tons of ice yearly, manufacturable supply about 700,000 tons. The British Empire is sixteen times France and forty times Germany.
A collage of domestic advice and oddities covers jar opening, fridge cleaning, daily cellar checks, and food preservation. It notes the deepest earth hole in Upper Silesia at 6,570 feet, Pope Innocent IV granting red hats to cardinals, the Vatican cleaning drive with 5,700 workers, and daily bread usage during wallpaper repainting.
A Washington physician describes years of headaches, sleeplessness, and irritability linked to coffee. After switching to Postum, boiled properly with cream and sugar, he reports no headaches, better sleep, steadier hands, and a 20 pound weight gain. He credits Postum as nourishing and invigorating, urging others to try it.
A fragment combines a battle poem about the Continentals with a devotional poem by Thomas Gisborne. It alternates martial imagery of cannon fire and marching troops with a cruciform nocturnal meditation on faith and eternal life. The layout joins two distinct verse pieces on the same page.
Two sisters Leila and Julie discover hepaticas in the woods and bring a bouquet to a shabbily dressed elderly couple blocked by a new fence. They insist the couple keep the flowers, sharing a moment of springtime joy and a memory for their sorority luncheon.
Leila bids the girls heed the old man and his dearies as he remarks on a springtime clasp. He smiles from the log, noting the ministering warmth and gentle eyes turned toward a small woman, as distant figures fade into a memory of youth.
The Mexican Herald notes early marriages are common in Mexico with girls as young as 12 and boys 14 wed in church or civil ceremonies. It cites age patterns: most women marry 18 to 24, higher classes delaying past 20, lower and middle classes pairing before 20, and a larger share of men marrying 21 to 30.
The Bushby Clarion editor praises reporter Gid Tobart for a two column article about a fire. He jokes Tobart’s talent may keep him in town only briefly. The tale centers on a deserted hen-house rather than a farmhouse with a proud twist.
Colonel Brownson eighty four on day mare kit rides home when a man from the next township boasts of lying for thirty seven years to prove up a title. The colonel replies he never owned land and ends with emphatic pride in the Mexican War.
The fragment presents a dialogue about two billing mistakes in a bill and a proverb about a woman’s trust before and after marriage. It includes a quoted line with a misattributed name and a reflection on marital influence. The text pairs a customer remark with a proverb on love and marriage.
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