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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 18, 1936
Page
3
Advice on expanding a baby's diet after a year emphasizes three meals daily with a fruit juice morning drink and water between meals. One pint of milk daily is enough, boiled and measured, with gradual introduction of unstrained porridge into cereals. Suggests steamed fish, light meats, vegetables, and fruit. promotes steaming as best cooking method and stresses gradual changes to avoid diarrhoea.
Practical guidance for baby garment sewing using No 10 needles and fine cotton. Includes methods to create invisible stitches, facing edges, slot cutting, and neat hems with shell edging. Describes tack paper guides, stitching sequences, and lace trimming for delicate baby clothes.
A fragmented note describes a simple clothing gift idea for a newcomer. It mentions preparing a second size outfit with a drawstring, neck decorations, buttons, and a special seam. The text references a Fayette location and a dog, with instructions to disinfect and scent the clothes.
A holiday baking note presents lemon biscuits and chocolate layered cakes with simple ingredients. It outlines mixing flour sugar margarine and eggs with lemon rind for lemon biscuits and a chocolate layer cake with ground rice vanilla and peppermint icing, offering festive gift ideas and decorative boxes.
A lively note offers party tricks and parlour games approved by the Party Spirit. Games include counting pins in a peanut spider, a King and soldiers role play with salutes, and a dressmaker craft using old newspapers and crepe paper for a doll making exhibition.
The text blends holiday reflections and party ideas. It mentions giving, kindness, and remembrance tied to Christmas, plus practical party games and a fudge recipe. The fragment references a person named Lilian and suggests arranging a play to entertain guests.
Recipe style text describes making tiny cakes with flour sugar and icing then shifts to a word game party idea. Players bake small shapes coat with icing and cut letters from headlines to form seven or eight word phrases while teams compete, with rounds and a prize.
A fragment describes a dessert method using lump sugar desiccated coconut and cold water. The instructions mention dissolving sugar in a saucepan with water then adding desiccated coconut and another ingredient, with a partial step cut off. The text is incomplete and lacks full preparation details.
Fragmented paste describes cutting init rounds with a plain cutter to shape a dish and chill. Mentions milk and cocoa paste, butter, almond essence, chopped nuts, sugar, and rough method for smooth paste.
Fragmentary tips discuss mailing flowers or small plants in damp blotting paper to stay fresh during travel and restoring over whipped cream by adding milk and briefly mixing. The text is garbled with misspellings and unclear instructions.
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