Paris Fashion Letter on New Gowns and Fads
The Paris fashion letter surveys recent stage gowns and street styles, noting gowns worn by Mile Tegiler and other actresses, lace and satin bodices, blue velvet robes, bow trims, and spring bodice plaits. It reports Monte Carlo dinners, Loubet hat satire, and the push toward Louis Seize inspired lines, panne silks, and refined lace blouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawdon
Monte Carlo
Faubourg
Auteuil
Christan Tn
Loubet
Christiani
Lesson in Omelet Making Taught by Culinary Professor
A lively instructional piece presents a charming culinary professor guiding Lent dining students through omelet techniques. She extols pan care and precise heat, then details multiple omelet varieties including cheese, fruit, tongue or ham, lemon, and cream styles, finishing with a playful student response and a concluding note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parr
Lesiien Elias
Reddy
Carrot Soup Method From a Historic Kitchen Note
Butter and bacon start a rich base with onions celery and sliced carrots. Simmer ten minutes then add cold stock mace salt and pepper. Boil, simmer until tender, strain, rub carrots, rejoin soup, thicken with flour and milk, boil briefly, stir parsley, serve with fried bread sippets.
Layered suet crust pudding with jam layers
A recipe describes making a light suet crust rolled thin and cut into rounds to line a cake tin. It layers paste, raspberry jam, and grem wage jam in alternating rounds, building a layered pudding to be boiled, then served after two hours of resting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balmon
Melmon
Essen
Baked Herrings with Parsley Breadcrumbs
Instructions outline baking fillets with lemon juice drippings and a parsley breadcrumb crust. Herrings are brushed, seasoned, and cooked in a hot oven for about twenty minutes, then served in the same dish.
BEET PRITTERS AND OTHERS REMNANTS RECIPE CARD
A garbled recipe page lists Beet Pritters with eggs and ceram, Oyster Plant Croquettes, Molded Pudding, Cake, Tea, and Chocolst. Also includes Aerring Roe Canapes with butter anchovy peppers and spice, plus Salmon and Lanterns style filets and preparation notes for serving hot.
Clever hinged Kitchen Table for tight rooms
A housewife devised a portable kitchen table that tucks with a hinged top. A carpenter added a second top to an ordinary table, fitted at the back with hinges so the top shuts down over the table for daily use.
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Paris
Pana
Odeon
Wirliah
Dreex
Maison Foreton
Bonawell
Ube
Ed Lea
Jong
Mary Kirby Beard
Dod
Lary
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