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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1914
Page
6
A collection of claims about carpet cleaning methods highlights old fashioned habits. One woman swears by dampening her broom with a win dows open breeze, another sprinkles rugs with coarse wet gasoline before sweeping. Others rinse wring out cloths before use, still preferring a broom over cleaners at times.
Describes a method to finish plain circular edges attractively using picot buttonholed holes. Outline both sides with a running stitch to raise the edge, then create loops and buttonhole stitches to form picots along the ledge. Continue in sequence until the whole edge is completed.
Instructions describe broiling large mushroom caps on toast with butter salt and pepper, then serving. Also provides a carrot pudding recipe with grated carrots breadcrumbs flour butter dates raisins orange peel ginger eggs salt molasses and milk baked or steamed in a buttered mold for three hours.
Scalloped Sweet Potatoes slice cold boiled potatoes layer with butter and crumbs bake about 45 minutes. Braised Cucumbers fill cucumber shells with seasoned meat and stock then bake until tender. Brandied Peaches peel and sugar syrup with water, cook to barely tender, cool and jar with brandy syrup.
Selected recipes describe Tomato and Corn Pudding using corn, tomatoes, butter, breadcrumbs, sugar and seasoning baked in a dish. Parsnip Rolls explain boiling parsnips, adding milk, butter, sugar, yeast, and flour, shaping, rising, and baking in a hot oven.
Instructions for making crabapple jelly from washed apples and sugar, plus a codfish balls recipe using boiled codfish, mashed potatoes, egg or milk, pepper, and butter. Steps include pulping apples, draining, sweetening pulp for luncheon use, and frying small portions in hot dripping or lard.
A recipe instructs to boil five pounds of grapes, press through a colander, then add two and a half pounds of sugar one pint of vinegar and two tablespoons plus one teaspoon of salt. Boil until thickened and flavors meld.
Currant muffins mix 1 cup milk 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons fat 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1/3 cup currants. Mix dry then add milk beaten egg melted fat. fold currants. Beans with cheese bake with onion, finish with sliced American cheese until melted and browned. Custard Charlotte Russe uses sliced cake layered with boiled custard and optional frosting from egg whites and sugar.
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