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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1939
Page
4
For better jelly texture wash fruit, remove damaged parts, cut larger fruit, and do not core. Extract juice with minimal water, crush fruit to start juice flow, cook currants grapes five to eighteen minutes and apples twenty to twenty five. Strain juice, measure sugar, heat to boiling, boil to jelly stage, then skim pour into sterile glasses and seal with paraffin before storing in a cool dark place.
Orange Crisps are easy refrigerator cookies with a delicate fruit flavor. Mix shortening sugar egg lemon and orange rind and juice. Stir in flour baking powder and soda fold, shape, chill, then bake 12 to 15 minutes at 375 degrees to yield about 60 cookies.
McMullin Health Workers Club members J D Troxell Leveda Altom and Ernest Alsup will represent Scott county in the state 4-H team demonstration contest demonstrating Making a Fly Trap. Age limits apply and scoring covers subject matter teamwork skill and practicality for home life. New Madrid and Chaffee counties are also represented at the state round up with participants and supervisors listed.
P T A kitchen in the south grade school area, aided by the Works Progress Administration garden on Mrs. Jennie Sikes land, works toward more than 2000 jars of vegetables and fruits for next winter. Canning focuses on tomatoes, green beans, lima beans, kraut, corn, spinach and mustard greens, with potatoes and apples also canned. Final jar collections depend on donations of jars or money, led by Mrs. A. W Swacher and Mrs. W. H. Sikes. Eleven Busy Bees Miner Four H Club members plus residents traveled 365 miles across the Ozarks to Big Spring, Round Spring caverns, Deer Run State Park, Sam Baker State Park, and other sites, funded by an ice cream social.
Sikeston resident Mrs W C Edwards, staying at the Modern Woodman Sanitorium in Woodman Colorado, writes of her enjoyment of The Herald, daily rest routines, improvement and weight gain, and describes the Colorado night scene from her hospital window. She also includes a poem about a moonless Colorado night with mountain scenery and native flora.
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