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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 21, 1936
Page
3
A printed collection of household recipes describes Rhubarb Apple Preserve with lemon, apples, and water, including steps to juice, strain, sugar, and bottle. It also outlines an Apple Roast with ham, apples, breadcrumbs, sage, onion, cheese, and egg, baked until set, plus a Buttermilk Loaf using flour water and cream.
An advertised item offers wedding cake benes complete with card and tin, made for transmission under Commonwealth postal regulations. Sold for a dozen post free through the paper office or United Press Led., Hay Street, Perth.
A fragment from a vintage recipe page describes Shortbread and Sultana Cake with measurements in cups and ounces. It lists ingredients such as walnuts, sultanas, mixed peel, candied fruits, and vanilla essence, plus method steps like mixing, kneading, and baking in tins. The text shows misspellings and inconsistent quantities typical of scanned archival cookbooks.
An Australian advisory stresses tetanus risks in farming areas and urges cautious wound care. It notes contaminated punctures from farmyard dirt require medical help, anti tetanus serum can prevent or reduce illness, and emphasizes arterial pressure methods and tourniquet use for bleeding when transport to care is distant.
Practical tips on frying pancake batter to prevent sticking and stain removal with blotting paper and methylated spirit. It covers wound cleaning with warm water and antiseptics, iodine application, dressing, and bandaging. Also includes brass cleaning with old silk stockings, handling faintness or concussion, airway management, and controlling bleeding with elevation and pressure.
The passage discusses mindset over physical traits for women, urging cultivation of inner charm. It warns against a negative pout and suggests self-control, noting fragile conditions and the need for careful handling of wounds with persistent bleeding.
An article outlines infant welfare practices at the Infant Health Centre emphasizing the value of a mother's milk. It describes feeding methods, weighing babies before and after feeds, and the aim to measure the milk intake to ensure adequate nutrition for each infant.
A fragment discusses homemade cough remedies and money saving tips for mothers. It emphasizes supplementing breast milk with safe feeding, weighing the baby after feeds, recording feed amounts, and carefully balancing liquids. It mentions Heenzo as a product and advises consulting a store for purchase.
A flawed tale describes an original Lat Sapper painting by Leonardo in Milan near the Cathedral. It recounts an odd story of birds freed by the artist and a scene of astonishment, with references to prisoner's rescuing birds and a noble act amid a crowd, though the prose is garbled and hard to follow.
The CWA Cookery Book and Household Hints promises useful and tested dishes for housewives. At 404 pages, every page contains helpful information with assurance of reliable results. Perth publisher E. Wig and Sem lists a price of 2/6, available from booksellers and newsagents.
A worn recipe card describes Sago Raisin Pudding with sago soaked overnight in milk, bread crumbs sugar raisins mixed peel essence and soda, then butter melted and added to the mixture with eggs and milk. The batter is poured into a greased basin, covered, steamed for three hours and served with custard powder.
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