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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
10
Lamb chops broiled to a deep golden bronze with tomato halves and mushrooms, served as an informal meal. The piece explains broiling best, panbroiling as alternative, thickness guidance, and timing about 12 minutes for one inch chops, plus tips on turning, basting, and avoiding juice loss.
The piece notes summer picnic season and how cookies serve as a quick dessert solution. It emphasizes cookies as a reliable option for outdoor meals and quick gatherings.
A vintage recipe lists 1 cup butter, 1% cups brown sugar, 244 cups flour, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1% cups raisins, % teaspoon nutmeg, 1 cup walnuts. Drop teaspoonfuls in pan and bake in a moderate oven.
Melt chocolate in a pan over hot water then mix with fat and sugar. Add milk vanilla baking powder and salt. Stir in flour gradually and fold in melted chocolate. Shape into rolls chill, then slice thin and bake. Include eggs unbeaten, then bake as directed.
A study titled facts not fanciers concludes beer is the strongest competitor to milk. It notes preprohibition rural households spent beer money for children's milk and that dairy farmers benefited during prohibition when alcohol use declined. After repeal milk demand rose little.
Miss Ella Fikuart, home demonstration agent for Scott County, advises mothers to plan school clothing by inventorying what is on hand, repairing or lengthening garments as children grow, and considering color and quality. She notes pass-down wear requires freshness, labels, laundering, and color fastness to extend usefulness into October and beyond.
A mother weighs buying versus making school garments and weighs the total cost including fabric quality depreciation and decoration. Also notes scientists using cockroaches in certain research and estimates eight cubic feet could hold all the world’s diamonds.
Louis A Benoist a St Louis private banker weathered the 1837 1857 panics and kept his bank open during crises like the 1852 Page Bacon failure and 1857 downturn. He helped found a New Orleans branch 1838 and supported local projects including a Catholic church and Union families during the Civil War. His fortune neared 3 million dollars but after his death in 1869 the bank closed amid $120 000 liabilities.
Members of the Vacation Reading Club at Sikeston Library report on books read this week. The Password to Larkspur Lane features Nancy Drew escaping a cistern and triumphing with a police capture. Little Jeanne of France follows Jeanne’s thoughts during invasion and reunion with Paul. Joshua Humphreys is noted as America’s first warship builder.
A fossil tortoise shell unearthed in India measures more than seven feet in length and the creature is estimated to have weighed about a ton, suggesting an enormous ancient reptile.
Mrs. Calvin Greer reports on a six week cruise aboard the Mariposa visiting Honolulu Tahiti Australia and New Zealand. The ship was held for hours after leaving Los Angeles due to a temporary strike. Scheduled calls include Honolulu and San Francisco with Tahiti listed among South Seas landings.
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