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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1897
Page
16
A writer in The Housewife describes fad parties where guests bring a representative item of their current passion. Attendees exhibit the object and discuss how they acquired it and its story. The piece notes varied obsessions from scarfpins and weapons to photographs, stamps, china, pewter, and lace.
Mediums used in china painting vary. If one is unpleasant, choose another equally good. Lavender oil and alcohol mix well, as do rectified spirits of tar fat oil and turpentine. Turpentine is preferred by workers and common in workshops. Amateurs should limit to a quart to avoid spoilage. Best quality from paint areas is cheaper than druggists. Buy a quart for 10 to 14 cents with your own bottle.
Beat yolks from five eggs until light. Add lemon rind sugar and lemon juice. Beat whites until dry. Fold half whites into yolks, then half the flour. Repeat with remaining whites and flour. Bake in a tube pan about 50 minutes in a moderate oven. Cool inverted.
A recipe for almond wafers instructs creaming half a dish of wafers with butter and powdered sugar, then adding milk and vanilla. Spread thin in a buttered pan, bake about five minutes, then roll into tubular shapes while warm and finish with blanched chopped almonds.
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