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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1932
Page
4
A compact daily menu from the U S Department of Agriculture home economics bureau outlines breakfast lunch and supper for five adults and children. Recipes include Bean Stew smothered steak chopped cabbage sandwiches and creamy rice with apricots with step by step preparation tips and serving ideas.
A medical column discusses constipation in young children. It says most cases are not dangerous if growth is normal, emphasizes regular eating and toilet habits, exercise, abdominal massage, and a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. It notes careful use of mineral oil, with dosing guidance, and cautions against laxative overuse.
Ida Bailey Allen writes How to Entertain Told in New Book sponsored by Coca Cola offered for 10c to cover mailing. 128 pages with photos, covering dinners luncheons breakfasts receptions teas and informal entertainments. Coca Cola’s R J Williamson notes bottl ed Coca Cola grows in homes and with foods. Atlanta requests only.
Garry C Myers argues teachers from kindergarten to university should observe and train pupil speech. Fear hinders voice, breathing, and clarity. a secure classroom atmosphere boosts confidence. More individual instruction, small groups, and creative work can improve articulation and expression.
The Chronicle-Telegram announces winners for best menu and best recipe this week. Mrs. John H. Wehrhoff of 319 Harvard Ave wins the menu prize and Dorothy Prentice of 563 Broad Street wins the recipe prize, each receiving one dollar. The paper will publish recipes weekly and offer two monthly recipe prizes, with the menu award ending. Readers are urged to submit more recipes and menus for future issues.
The passage lists a Sunday dinner including tomato juice cocktail wafers stuffed flank steak browned potatoes buttered carrots and peas peach salad with cheese dressing and lemon chiffon pie costing about 1.25 for four people. It adds prep tips from cleaning pipestem cleaners to tobacco cleavers and sponge cleaning and mentions a rise in known poison gases from 39 in 1918 to about a thousand today.
A reader shares a grape cream pie recipe using grape pulp milk sugar cornstarch egg yolk and a baked shell. The mixture thickens on the stove, then folds in yolk returns to heat, cools, and fills the shell topped with meringue and browns in the oven. The author notes the recipe as original and based on experimenting with canned grapes.
Tips explain how to care for wooden kitchen tools like salad forks rolling pins and spoons to prevent musty discoloration. Advice includes scrubbing with hot soapy water and applying extra effort beyond casual cleaning to keep utensils in good condition.
A vintage washday note advises adding washing soda and rinsing in clear water to finish pie crusts, improving results with a spotless rolling pin. It suggests rubbing soap around window glass edges to ease paint cleanup, cleaning vases with wrapping paper bits in warm soapy water, and using ammonia in rinse water to brighten glass. It also recommends a borax soap solution for polished plated silver, followed by a cold rinse and soft-dry cloth.
A Kellogg advertising feature urges healthy living by avoiding constipation. It promotes All-Bran cereal as bulk fiber with Vitamin B and iron to tone the intestines and improve complexion, claiming two tablespoonfuls daily corrects most constipation and is not habit forming.
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