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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1914
Page
8
A collection of home cooking directions outlines making a fig and almond conserve with agar lemon juice and orange juice, a hot Aloe Pudding with rice milk sugar and cinnamon, Split Pea Soup using dried peas pork and onions, and French Beans with stock and lemon yolk sauce. It concludes with a Shakespeare quote about courage and action.
Readable fragments describe economical recipes. A fruit salad with soaked pluges, celery, walnuts, and mayonnaise. Polish dish uses sauerkraut with potatoes and bacon. garlic in kraut. Pork roast flavored with garlic and pepper, marinated overnight. Ragout with butter browning steak onions tomatoes green pepper and simmering. Baked oysters and macaroni with alternating layers and white sauce, buttered crumbs, baked until plump.
A housewife shares a practical washing routine using an automatic machine with a wringer. She sorts clothes, washes in warm water with powder, wrings, rewashes spots, hand-cleans delicates, rinses with bluing, and argues wringers are essential for efficient laundry.
A historical recipe describes using twelve large ripe tomatoes. The tops are removed and seeds scooped, then filled with a mixture of Carolina Rica nm and veal broth with green pepper. After simmering ten minutes, fill tomatoes, top with oil or butter, bake thirty minutes, and serve with a light sauce.
A newly described pan cleans silver with less labor and no rubbing, preserving plating indefinitely and leaving silver sanitary. The device reduces cleaning time and yields a better appearance.
Soak a quarter box of gelatine in a pint of milk for thirty minutes. Heat gelatine milk in a double boiler, whisk yolks with sugar, and when milk boils stir into the yolk mixture until it thickens. Beat egg whites stiffly and fold into the custard after removing from heat. Flavour with vanilla and mold, dipping the mold in cold water first.
Instructions describe preparing pickled apples by paring quartering coring or halving and removing cores. Cook in a syrup of one quart vinegar and three and a half pounds sugar with an ounce of cinnamon buds. Sauce yields seven pounds of juicy fruit. simmer until a silver fork easily penetrates the fruit.
A home recipe describes soaking dried Ima beans overnight or using canned beans. Boil in salted water until tender, boil away most liquid, then stir in cream butter and pepper and salt. Simmer a few minutes and serve.
Preparing potatoes after they have passed their first youth is improved by paring and placing in cold water overnight. The method not only sharpens the result but also saves time in morning preparations.
A New York Evening Post quip mocks a baron who bragged about Kant and Schopenhauer, only to reveal those names are actually his two horses. The exchange turns the supposed intellectual discussion into farce.
A living skeleton begs for another museum engagement but the manager resists. The manager offers one more term if the skeleton agrees to perform as a dead one, setting a final challenge.
Reg Bank New Jersey reports that Dr. Perkins in Red Bank is testing an epilepsy treatment described as delivering wonderful results. Old cases show great benefit and many patients claim cures. Readers are advised to write to Dr H W Perkins Branch 49 Red Bank NJ for a gratis supply of the remedy. An anecdote about two school neighbors and their mothers, a famous editor, is included.
Commissioner Howard, chief of staff to General Bramwell Booth, recounts a lodging episode in a country district with his secretary. A peasant hostess, noting their makeshift bed with two boxes, wryly remarks that if they belong to God they will be all right, otherwise the devil.
A Hillsboro woman recalls her child’s severe eczema on the lower limbs, with pimples and itching that kept the child awake. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment for curing the condition in ten days after two months of illness, and notes worldwide sales and a free sample offer via Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.
The pecan has grown in this country since colonial times though its commercial potential was long neglected. Milledgeville Georgia hosts an Indian planted pecan over a century old valued highly enough to insure for 300 dollars. The record pecan stands near Little Falls Oklahoma with an 180 foot height and 119 foot spread. In Louisiana Oklahoma and Arkansas pecan trees rise to about 170 feet tall in forests.
A fragmentary dialogue references an old fashioned girl Muggins and Buggelus, with remarks on pneumonia cough drops and a pun about farewell tours of stars. Miscellaneous lines include advertising slogans and quips about fashion and wit.
Entomology note by H B Ewing of Corvallis Ore describes a strange gamasid parasite attaching beneath the fly’s ventral wall while the insect remains balanced in flight. Also a Mother Gray remedies advertisement offers 25 cents powders for children with sample free, used by mothers for 24 years.
A quip highlights a woman's apparent wealth as onlookers remark on her costly taste. The joke centers on an absurd menu item, the boft-boiled eye, echoing social satire of extravagance. The exchange underscores class humor without naming people or places.
Muggins asks if Buggins ever lie to his wife and Buggins replies only when he admits he is not worthy of her. The brief quip captures a lighthearted domestic exchange.
A concise adage notes that money may secure an initial win yet fails to guarantee a second victory. The saying emphasizes the limits of wealth in sustaining long term advantage and implies persistence or strategy matter beyond the first clash.
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