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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
32
The article discusses sugar conservation through honey based cakes and natural sweeteners. It notes honey keeps cakes moist and fresh, suits spice and fruit desserts, and suggests using Fresno fruits and dried fruits to reduce refined sugar while still providing sweetness.
Readable fragments describe making sugar puddings with raisins and a honey cake with two 8 inch pans. Includes margarine honey sugar eggs milk flour and spices, baking at 350 degrees for about half an hour, with directions on creaming, sifting, and folding in egg whites.
Festive cookie recipe notes molasses ginger and brown sugar flavors. Includes Molasses Drops and Chocolate Molasses Cookies with ingredients like shortening, brown sugar, sour milk, and enriched flour. Provides steps for creaming, mixing, and baking at 350 degrees for 10 to 13 minutes yielding about six dozen small cookies.
United Press editors select the Allied invasion of France as the year's best news story for bold concept and execution. Roosevelt’s fourth-term election is second, with other top items including the Philippine campaign, Tokyo raids, and the German rocket program.
Under a five column headline Beobachter cites Churchill's December 15 Poland and Russia speech and asserts Britain plans mass murder and expulsions. Berlin's Morgenpost adds that Germany must pay with its existence for Britain's treason to defend Poland.
Corp Rudy Hole of Wheeler Montana sent a Christmas Vmail to his draft board from somewhere in India. He said he is near the Ledo road in Burma and signed off with Wish you were here.
Instructions describe mixing batter with substitutions, spooning onto greased sheets, flattening with a dampened glass, and baking at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes. The batter yields fourteen dozen cookies and can be baked immediately or kept refrigerated for later use.
Make biscuit dough roll lightly spread with half cup grated cheese fold and roll half inch thick Spread with seasoned mashed potatoes containing one beaten egg one tablespoon grated onion and one tablespoon chopped parsley Roll into a jelly and slice into one inch pieces Place on a greased sheet bake at 450 F for 25 minutes.
Air mail letter cards addressed to American and Allied prisoners of war and to people in neutral countries may be mailed postage free. The War Department provides these cards to speed clearance by censors. Cards are distributed free through post offices. Air mail letters to prisoners of war still require six cents postage per half ounce.
An interviewing officer asks a recruit about vacation plans at a reception center. The selectee responds with sarcasm, indicating a desire to be rejected rather than be selected, highlighting tension in the screening process.
The Ostler family of Chelsea Massachusetts tops service lists with eight sons on the flag at Buckley Field Colorado. Among them T Sgt Howard L Ostler recently earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. Six brothers remain on active duty while one was killed in action.
Oscar Bukstein owner of the Chaffee Mfg Co announces the firm has signed a government contract to produce 30 000 pairs of Army trousers The project starts January 1 and ends by April 1 The trousers are the 18 ounce wool serge field type.
Quick to make cranberry rolls roll biscuit dough with sweetened cranberry filling jelly-roll fashion. Cut into one inch slices and bake in greased muffin pans at 450 degrees for about 10 minutes. Sparkling rolls bring pep to holiday dinners.
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