Color in the Kitchen Colors Are As Clean As White
The piece argues white surfaces show dust but color can be equally clean with proper care. It favors bright wall tones yellow green or blue over white, recommends checked curtains to match walls, and suggests linoleum floors for a durable modern kitchen. It also notes painting furniture blue green or black with a contrasting stripe and using enamel tops or oilcloth on tables.
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Edward IV
Estate of Lords
Henry VII
Saleawomen
Rocks and Grass in the American Garden
The piece contrasts American and European gardening, noting the rise of rock gardens in suburbs and the idea of grouping rocks with soil and rock plants. It mentions using a mound of rocks to hide unsightly objects and sometimes adding grass in crevices for verdure.
Time To Recover Cushions For Summer Market Readiness
The article advises readying garden and veranda cushions for the season. It notes glazed chintz cushions resist light rain and describes saddle back cushions and various cushion designs. It suggests buying ready made cushions or making them at home with soft fillings and proper fullness.
Dressing Cucumbers as a Frugal, Digestive Staple
An article extols cucumbers as affordable and digestible, offering many uses from salads to baked and stewed forms. It compares modern store rules to historic sumptuary laws, and provides multiple recipes including tomato cucumber salads, dressed celery dips, baked stuffed cucumbers, stews, fried slices, and plain chilled slices with French dressing.
The Staff Of Life Bread Through A Century Of Eating
The article recalls bread as a constant in diets despite changing habits. It notes how bread was once used as a sop with gravy and vegetables and that many peasants still do so in Europe. It also mentions bread rarely served at dinners and health cautions about bread increasing weight, yet bread remains a main dietary staple.
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Coconut Pudding With cocoanut Meringue Bake
Heat milk with salt and sugar until steaming. Thicken with cornstarch mix. Stir in egg yolks cocoanut and vanilla. Pour into buttered dish top with meringue and coconut, bake until puffed and brown.
Rice Meringue Dessert From Simple Kitchen Notes
A recipe dictates cooking one cup washed rice in a quart of water until tender then draining. Add milk butter and a batter of four eggs with sugar lemon juice rind and bake in a quick oven. Whip egg whites with sugar to peaks and brown topping in oven.
Daily Menus Show Twenty One Meals Across A Day
A historical menu lists breakfast lunch and dinner items for a day including oranges cereal poached eggs toast coffee bacon and roast turkey with sides such as mashed potatoes spinach creamed onions and crabapple jelly. The evening includes salmon salad fried fish croquettes scalloped tomatoes and buttered carrots with desserts like prune whip and nut cake.
Breakfast items listed for Marmala Farina de Bacon
A breakfast menu item set includes buttered toast coffee tomato jelly salad brown bread and cream cheese sandwiches canned fruit Friday brewed apricots oatmeal cream. The text reads as a fragmented menu listing multiple dishes and beverages.
Dinner Menu for a Formal Supper
A historical menu lists baked apples with cream and coffee for supper. It includes broiled bacon, creamed potatoes, roast leg of lamb with canned peas and Delmonico potatoes, hot rolls, grapefruit cup, and shortcake with fresh strawberries or strawberry jam. Dessert is iced chocolate with whipped cream and veal salad with cream cheese wafers and strawberry jam.
Chiffon Tunics and Linen Fashions for Summer
Small fashions note chiffon tunics paired with matching chiffon lined coats for a chic look. Jabot linings keep blouses simple while linen remains key for summer frocks and updated handkerchief linen shades. Blouses in linen coordinate with tailored suits and new plaid and striped handkerchief linens promise fresh styling options.
Forks and spoons through the ages at table
The article notes spoons are ancient while forks are a two century old novelty in England and America. It explains that knives were commonly carried and forks became widespread only in modern times, making forks a newer table implement than spoons and knives.
Tomatoes Stuffed with Mushrooms and Breadcrumbs
Medium firm tomatoes hollowed and salted. Button mushrooms cleaned and chopped stems mixed with breadcrumbs, pork fat, onion juice, salt and pepper. Fill tomatoes with the mixture, cap with tops, dot with butter or pork fat, and bake until the filling is cooked through. Serve hot.
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Sally Lunn
Lancheon
Boston
Marmala Farina
Dioner
Wriday
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