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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
4
A vintage collection of holiday recipes includes Oyster Omelet with cream sauce and oysters, Honey Nut Bread, Sweet Potato and Almond Rosettes, Fruit Cake En Casserole, and Butterscotch Nut Sticks. Also features yellow vegetable rosettes and spiced cookies with nuts, all designed for a Christmas feast.
A fragment of a vintage newspaper page includes dessert instructions for a chocolate mousse style bake with butter flour sugar cream eggs and melted chocolate, plus a marshmallow sauce recipe with vanilla. It also lists salt pork with parsley onion bread crumbs celery apples and cinnamon candy jelly as a festive cooking cluster.
A dated sounding baking note lists flour suet sour milk molasses currants orange peel raisins citron and spices. It describes sifting dry ingredients with soda and baking powder, rubbing in suet, whisking eggs into milk, and mixing then baking at 100 degrees for 132 hours with optional nuts added back.
A recipe lists 114 cups sifted cake flour 1% teaspoons double acting baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs well beaten 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 cup finely cut dates 1 cup shredded cocoanut 1 tablespoon hot water. Sift flour once measure add baking powder and salt sift again. Add sugar gradually to eggs beating thoroughly. Add butter then dates and cocoanut mixing thoroughly. Add flour alternately with water beating well. Turn mixture into two greased pans 8x8x2 inches spreading batter thin. Bake in slow oven 325 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.
The Miner Merry Homemakers plan a Christmas party Tuesday afternoon December 20 at 2 o'clock at Mrs Ben O. Matthews home in Miner. Mrs P H Buchholz, club reporter, urges all members to attend for an afternoon of fun. Herald advertisers are urged to patronize.
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