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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1939
Page
2
The article advises giving bath salts as gifts with air tight jars. It suggests decorating jars with lacquer frost paint or ribbon and covering lids with cellophane to keep contents fresh. It notes many foods are sold in attractively shaped jars suitable for reuse.
The Associated Opticians Co. run by G. W. Fist offers optical service from 23-25 Central Arcade, Pert. Established 1908 with telephone 83333 and a longstanding reputation for reliable sight testing.
A pasted recipe notes making bath salts using carbonate of soda crystals and tea for color, then sandalwood and verbena oils added after thorough stirring. It also includes a poetic aside about friendship gifts and a vintage salad dressing method with egg, salt, flour, vinegar, pepper, milk, sugar, and mustard.
An old time Christmas guide extols festive feasting and offers concise guidance for making Christmas cake and pudding. It stresses drying fruit, preparing tins with brown paper, chopping almonds, washing cherries, and testing doneness with a skewer to ensure a moist celebratory bake.
A poetic Christmas verse recalls a 1604 memory of the Nativity message. The speaker hears voices praising the birth of a prince on hay, angels singing, and a gwild goodwill to mankind as birds, winds, and hills join in the holiday anthem.
A compact, period style list of pudding components including flour, breadcrumbs, butter, sugar, currants, raisins, peel, eggs, brandy, nutmeg, almonds, mixed spice, and soda. The text reads as an old recipe fragment with measurements using archaic units and garbled spellings.
A compact old recipe lists almond icing with 10 ingredients including castor sugar, ground almonds, one egg yolk, and a beverage such as sherry or orange juice. Instructions say to mix almonds with sugar to form a very thick paste and incorporate the yolk and liquid.
A dress pattern No. 6578 for a frock sized for a 10 to 14 year old, featuring shirring at shoulders and waist. Instructions suggest a sheer printed fabric with three yards of material required for 36 inch wide fabric.
The Freezair refrigerator targets country households lacking electric refrigeration. It uses a kerosene lamp to cool, requires no moving parts, fits upright cabinets, and aims to keep freshly killed meat and other foods safe for longer in a healthful, attractive steel cabinet.
The extracted text provides a recipe with odd ingredient abbreviations and measurements. It lists sultans or sultanas, feupranis, saline, citron, almonds, datey, brandy, butter, sugar, frowt, caramel, and eggs. It describes creaming butter and sugar, adding caramel and beaten eggs, then folding in brandy before baking.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as effective against headaches back aches and nervous low spirits. It claims rapid improvement of mood energy and vigor by enriching the blood and energizing body organs, urging readers to buy at chemists.
Method to prepare a fruit cake with citron peel almonds and spices. Steps include boiling water, creaming butter and sugar, mixing fruit breadcrumbs flour and brandy, steaming in a basin for three hours, resting, then final three hours before serving with custard or wine sauce. Stewart Dawson's offers Christmas gifts at Perth stores.
Mincemeat and pies are Christmas favourites valued for keeping well over the season. The fried recipe lists suet sugar currants raisins candied peel apples and spice with brandy and lemon juice. Mix through a mincing machine pack tightly in jars and age a few weeks before using.
A plain cake recipe describes a Christmas staple with flour eggs baking powder melted butter and sugar. It emphasizes thorough preparation with greased paper and a well heated oven and notes steps to beat and fold ingredients for a light result.
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