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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1943
Page
8
A wartime guidance piece encourages simple jelly making to lift spirits and stretch rations. It highlights cherries plums and blackberries, outlines cherry and plum jelly recipes with steps from fruit prep to sealing, and stresses ease and bright color in home preserves.
Recipes for blackberry and sour cherry jam cucumber raisin pickles and cucumber sweet pickles with steps to boil, skim, paraffin jam and seal. Peach nectar method uses fruit pulp sugar and water bath processing. Contact Miss Lynn Chambers at Western Newspaper Union for canning help.
A private narrator describes summer training at Fort Bragg, detailing induction prep, cooking duties, morale rituals, and camp humor. He recalls Joe Gantt’s farewell, the grind of 24 hour kitchen shifts, and colorful incidents with coal hauling, cavalry borders, and a joking feud over homemade ice cream. The piece closes with a tease of further adventures.
Lynn Says explains pectin as the key to jam and jelly, noting natural sources in fruit and berries and the option to add powdered pectin. It covers shelf life up to a year, paraffin use for jelly, avoiding strong odors, making jelly from fruit juice, and hot jar processing for 20 minutes.
Due to high demand and wartime conditions, processing of a few popular pattern numbers requires extra time. Send 15 cents and 1 cent postage for each pattern, include the pattern number, your name and address, and mail to Home Needlework 53 Wells Street.
A colorful note on Flemish language shows a famously long word sneaking into English for car. It splits into rapid Daardeloos horseless zoon deerspoorweg without rails petrolirifting reflecting a petrol driven conveyance, contrasted with the simple English term car.
A railroad bridge in Australia cost $160,000 to build and has been unused since its first run over 65 years ago. Authorities later chose an alternate route, avoiding the bridge despite its high expense.
The mockingbird state bird of Florida is noted for rapid song changes, reportedly attempting 87 distinct tunes within a seven minute span in a quirky observation. The claim highlights the bird’s vocal versatility and Florida’s bird lore.
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