Pioneer Missouri Farmers Made Social Affairs of Trading Days
The article recalls Missouri farm families turning Saturdays into social trading days since the nineteenth century. It highlights store visits, gossip, and family gatherings at parks, courthouses, and chains, with farmers trading eggs and butter for sugar, coffee, and other staples. It notes early roads, town markets, and the shift from parlor economies to open stores, plus quotes from Mary Margaret Sarefeedback and Homer Croy about going to town and the farmers’ sense of inferiority to city folks.
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State Historical Society of Missouri At
Columbia
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Missouri
Baldwin
Platte County
Parkville
Mary Margaret sareBride
Homer Croy
Miss McBride
Peter Thompson
Uncle Cicero
St. Louis
Gottfried Duden
Storing Foods Aids In Reducing Home Waste
Guidance on proper storage to prevent spoilage covers vegetables fruits and meats. Advises refrigeration for onions potatoes flour greens berries and salad. cook leftovers cooled before covering. provides a spinach and chipped beef on toast luncheon dish with a white sauce. Serves 6.
What It Means The Biscuit Origin and Process
The term biscuit is a French word meaning twice cooked. The bread was baked a second time to expel moisture, increasing its keeping quality.
Corn Fritters And Related Corn Dishes From A Vintage Recipe Page
A collection of corn based dishes including corn fritters, a corn souffle, fried corn with bacon and onions, and a rustic serving note. Instructions cover cutting kernels from cob, mixing with salt and pepper, egg and milk, then frying or baking with spices and pimento. Includes a garbled closing line about laundry.
Jellied Tongue New Tasty Dish
A whole tongue in gelatin makes an impressive meat dish easier to prepare. Wash tongue, simmer tender, peel, then mold with gelatin poured over. A four pound tongue serves about 12.
Cheese Krispies and Festive Hat Styles Highlight Deli and Dress
A column notes quick party bites using oven popped rice cereal with cheese and seasoning and discusses a fall fashion trend featuring smaller, shiny crowning hats with velvety trims and bold beads. Also offers a tip to ease sticky cinnamon rolls by warming the pan briefly.
Party Desserts and Pineapple Coconut Layered Dish
Instructions for baked stuffed pears with raisin sugar and orange rind, plus a layered dessert using oranges pineapple and coconut with powdered sugar. Yields six portions for each dish. Notes mention orange juice baking and vitamin A in yellow corn.
Blueberry Nut Bread and Miscellany
A mixed fragment notes a blueberry nut bread recipe with flour sugar and blueberries, plus a Mount Vernon rug detail and a Bible quote. It then lists 1944 political candidates for various offices and a note on wood species not floating in water, tied to Japanese naval use.
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Lyon
Vege Dd
Sikeston
Gray Ridge
Matthews, MO
Sikeston, Missouri
Peeve Erate
Cressmer
Martha Washington
Mount Vernon
Isaiah li
Congress
Ralph Hutchison
Bula
Bowman Shanks
C. D. Clayton
Roger A. Bailey
WM (Boll) Hawkins
Barly Malcolm
M. E. Montgomery
Lynn A. Anchla
Lyman Harrison
America
International
Harold Pitman
Pitman
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