Balkan War Aftermath and Territorial Shifts Map
The article argues that Bulgaria paid the highest price for Balkan victories while others gained more, detailing troop numbers and land exchanges before and after the Bucharest treaty. It maps territorial changes, notes gains for Greece and Serbia, and warns Bulgaria will resist its new borders. It highlights tobacco and mineral resources and describes notable landmarks and scenery in the region.
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Bulgaria
Turkey
Thrace
Servis Iad
Greece
Montenegro
Crete
Servia
Bucharest
Balkans
Aegean
Samos
Enver Bey
Xanthi
Gumuldjina
Dedevgatlih
Macedonia
Strumnitza
Neurocope
Petrich
Djumaya
Bansko
Bulgara
Baylogue
Perrin Mountains
Jerusalem
Mecca
Four Rich Puddings Served a la Pompadour Delicacy
Medieval dessert guide by Lida Ames Willis lists four puddings with steps and sauces. Pudding a la Pompadour uses bread crumbs cream suet flour and fruits with brandy. Italian Vermicelli Pudding combines vermicelli milk eggs sugar and vanilla with a chestnut sauce. Dutch Pudding or Souster bakes from butter milk flour eggs and currants with yeast or baking powder. German Boiled Pudding blends molluscs flour suet molasses and candied peel boiled in a bowl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lida Ames Willis
Woman in Jail At Center Of Notorious Crime Story
A local paper recalls a prominent society woman tied to a gruesome case. The piece notes public curiosity and media attention as residents debate motives and truth.
To Remove Mud Stains From Silk
Mud stains on silk can be removed by rubbing with a rough cloth or flannel. If a stain remains, rub it with clean linen dipped in benzine or alcohol.
Food Tips From A Vintage Household Notebook
A quirky collection of kitchen hints including dessert pairing with meals, cleaning with soda in scouring bricks, beet and cucumber salad with mayonnaise, borax to aid children's dental care, and winter desserts like frozen rice pudding. It also notes a hot water platter for late diners, baked apples with marmalade or nuts, and a claim about mince pie's value versus beef bread and potatoes. It ends with a rule about charcoal odors and heating effects.
Steak Hash Recipe Field Notes
Remnants of steak finely chopped with a small onion and potatoes, two thirds potatoes to one third meat. Heat steak or water in a frying pan, add hash and simmer ten to fifteen minutes, watching to avoid burning. The author mentions using the tough end of porterhouse steak and batter to the hash for breakfast serving.
Salted nuts made at home
Home salted nuts provide a tasty economical alternative to store bought varieties. The article explains selecting unroasted peanuts, blanching and skinning, then browning with oil in a hot oven or in a chafing dish, followed by salting and cooling. It also notes almonds and pecans can be salted similarly for easy entertaining snacks.
Spice Box Shelf Fits Inside Cupboard Door
A brief design note from Popular Mechanics describes a spice-box shelf mounted inside a cupboard door. It swings out with the door and uses two bracket ends, a bottom board, and a front crosspiece. Size and capacity depend on available door space.
Norwegian Prune Pudding Recipe Steps
Pick over prunes wash and soak in cold water then boil until soft. Remove stones and mash prune meat. Add sugar cinnamon boiling water and simmer ten minutes. Dilute cornstarch with cold water pour into prune mix and cook five minutes. Remove cinnamon mold chill and serve with cream.
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Jules
Cream Puffs Recipe Instructions
A vintage recipe describes making cream puffs by boiling water and melted butter, adding flour, cooling, then stirring in four well beaten eggs. Bake in greased gem pans about forty minutes. For filling, heat one and a half pints of milk, add one cup sugar, two tablespoons cornstarch and two beaten eggs, cook until thick, with optional vanilla or lemon flavor.
Words of thanks for Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
A national appeal praises the remedy for health issues specific to women. It claims women from all regions benefited and urges every sick woman to try the famous treatment. The message implies universal efficacy based on prior recoveries.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wonderful Case of Mrs Stephenson on the Pacific Coast
In Independence Oregon Mrs W Stemenson describes years of nervous illness with heart palpitations and prostration. After trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash she reports immediate relief and ongoing use. A Hodgdon Maine reader Hayward Lowers credits the remedy with restoring health after severe suffering and planned surgery. The ad promotes the 30 year standard remedy for female ills from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co with confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Orxcon
Lydia E. Pinkham
W. Stemenson
Independence
Oregon
Hopapon
Ayia HK. Paul ’S
Lydia E.pinkham
Belated Privilege and Women’s Rights Debate
The remarks oppose women’s rights, arguing they gain privileges. A critic recalls a man who lets a woman stand in transit then pretends not to notice her, demanding she accept his seat. The piece asserts it takes cleverness to marry a husband, not merely to catch one.
Roomer Wanted in Common House to Bridge Nice
A dialogue notes a plan to take a roomer in a shared house. The speaker dislikes an uncongenial outsider and proposes advertising for a bridge player to suit the group. The exchange hints at social dynamics and domestic harmony in a domestic setting.
Balking at That and a Call on Miss Olé
A playful exchange hints at social etiquette and flirtation as characters discuss meeting Miss Olé and the idea of toeing the mark. The dialogue contrasts formality with personal preference and hints at fashion appeal and gender dynamics in social settings.
Stale Bread Leftovers as Kitchen Economies
A 19th century culinary note extols using stale bread to cut costs. It suggests drying bread to crumb for croquettes or veal cutlets, soaking in milk for pudding, and claims such economies make kitchen management more profitable.
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France
Italy
Holland
Germany
Stephenson
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Coast
DR. Pierce
Moneyite
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Bina SuLa i
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Indiana
Ind
Bais Ha Ie Nak
Pierce
Buffalo, N.Y
Ni Ac
Steece
Canada
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