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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1914
Page
8
Sanctioned by chefs offers trial ideas for everyday menus. Recipes include celery eggs boll alz and parsnip bells, with steps to mix, coat, fry, and bake. Also noted are Cream Cheese Soup from Mothers Magazine and Lemon Queens cake, plus Potato Apples using potatoes cheese butter and nutmeg. Janesville Gazette recipe fragment.
Fruit Rolle. Two cups flour two teaspoons baking powder one half teaspoon salt two tablespoons butter two thirds cup milk one third cup stoned raisins chopped fine two tablespoons currants chopped fine two tablespoons sugar one third teaspoon cinnamon. Mix flour baking powder and salt. Lift twice. Work butter with fingertips. Add gradually liquid mixing with a knife to soft dough. Roll to quarter inch thick. Brush with melted butter sprinkle with fruit sugar and cinnamon and roll like jelly roll. Slice three fourth inch thick and bake in quick even 15 minutes.
Ammonia removes blood stains even old dark ones as strong ammonia water dissolves them quickly. It cools and soothes burns and can prevent blistering if used promptly. It alleviates insect bites and restores color to cloth including cotton linen and wool.
Chop cold ham or chicken finely with savory fat or butter to shape. Make a short dough from one pint flour two tablespoons lard one teaspoon baking powder and milk. Roll thin cut into strips fold with meat, bake quickly until delicately brown and serve hot.
A Home Department note from National Magazine advises new pressing technique for garments. Pressing a suit with a dustless cloth removes lint and dust, while preserving shine on serge fabrics.
A rough recipe fragment lists two pounds beef cut into pieces, three peeled potatoes, one can of corn, one can of tomatoes, a pint of water, and seasonings including salt and pepper, with cooking noted for two hours. The text appears garbled with spelling errors and incomplete measurements.
A dated note advises using gasoline for cleaning stove jets copper and aluminum cookware woodwork and drains with caution to keep away from fire. It suggests soaking stove jets rubbing utensils cleaning grease marks and unclogging drains by pouring gasoline after removing sink water, and warns to avoid fire exposure during use.
Instructions for making apple butter from fresh juice or boiled cider with brown sugar and cinnamon, plus an alternative method using half boiled cider and a mix of sweet and sour apples with molasses. Keeps well for long storage.
Four tablespoonful gelatine, one lemon, one large orange and one pound sugar are combined with two thirds cup cold water to soak gelatine. After mixing, heat until boiling, add citrus juices and rind, pour into a mold, chill, then unmold and roll cubes in sugar mixed with cornstarch.
Finely chop two pounds round steak and mix with grated lemon rind one egg two tablespoons malted butter one level teaspoon salt pepper chopped parsley and flour. Shape into four rolls place on buttered paper bake and baste with hot water and melted butter. Serve with brown gravy or tomato sauce.
A period cooking note suggests rubbing salt and pepper with ginger into the fowl flesh to improve flavor. It also recommends adding a spoonful of vine gar in the water used for boiling to make the meat tender.
A description notes dishcloths woven from common strings on bone needles. The cloths are praised for strength and rough texture, making them ideal for cleaning pots and pans.
Simple cooking note describes making light dumplings from two cups flour and baking powder with salt and milk to form a soft dough. Cut shapes, steam in a greased colander over boiling water for 20 to 45 minutes, using a knife for mixing and handling with little effort.
A fragment describes cleaning plaster statuary by dipping it in liquid to loosen dirt. When dry, the starch is removed and dirt comes away with it. The text is incomplete but indicates a cleaning process for plaster carvings.
Thousands of young men in the United States find city life appealing but improve by returning to farming. Western Canada and provinces like Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta draw new farmers with better tools plains railways and grazing. R H Crossman of Kindersley Saskatchewan proves quick success in his first year farming after a prior career as an engineer. The article notes 160 acre grants from the Canadian government as a pathway.
In a village, a doctor is roused to treat a badly sprained wrist. The blacksmith reacts with indignation as the surgeon calls for a phial, insisting on a blade if amputation is needed, revealing tension and fear in a tense moment.
A Texas high school purchased statues. A colored janitor opened cases to find a Victory replica and a Shakespeare bust. He examined parts and asked the principal about the missing halved statue, mispronouncing a coarse query in Palitzer's Magazine style.
An orchestra leader rehearsing a new musical play with Charlies Frohman, the theatrical manager, argues over dynamics. Frohman orders a softer level, then suggests a compromise of 85. A brief note remarks on changing speech in marriage and praises the telephone.
A fragmentary note riffs on Mudd philosophy and flies with humor about swatters and foolproof solutions. It mentions constipation and a physician’s laxative as a quip, then reflects on a man’s status tied to his grandfather’s deeds.
Senator James H. Martine recalls Alexander on a Jersey farm boeing and hilling potatoes. The humorous exchange ends with Alexander declaring a chicken the most accommodatinist creature, since you eat them when alive and after they die.
The ancient Court tree on Kingsborough hill in the Isle of Sheppey has been felled. Whit Monday courts were held beneath it for centuries, until 1856 when the King's ferry was replaced by a bridge. the tree witnessed elections for ferrymen and ferry warden and matters of island governance.
An old advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for babies skin and hair, praising purity, fragrance, and soothing properties. A brief suffrage convention note follows, describing Miss Anna Maxwell Jones recounting hats at a Budapest event, including a Paris hat with tassels.
An old advertisement touts Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children with a long standing signature claim. It also notes telegraph photographic transmission of events, mentioning noon Paris happenings shown in Berlin cinemas the next morning and cites speed of transmission as a major issue.
A fragmentary humorous quip set contrasts Sunday cinema with a spouse’s demand. The ad copy touts Fadeless Dye products as bright and fast. A stray line notes a married man who failed to meet his wife’s expectations and the notion that a man is judged by his lawyer while a woman is judged by her doctor.
The economist cites John D. Rockefeller Sr saying success comes from more than petty economies at a New York dinner in his skyscraper residence. The tale shifts to Blanco whose dog Towser grows sick and is told he will be shot to stop his suffering, a grim aside reflecting stark moral seriousness.
Hull Corporation builds a fishing training school with a North Sea trawler style roof, wheelhouse, compass, two masts, semaphore signaling, and shipboard nights to teach navigation. It includes net repairing and net making rooms and fully equipped planes for navigation and seamanship instruction.
Fragmentary OCR shows a joke exchange about audience reaction followed by an advertisement promising an astonishing tobacco remedy with money back guarantee. The text includes garbled place and address lines suggesting a sale or notice by Deak B in Nevance Units.
A fragment notes a haunting spirit in a song and the lingering effect it has on the listener, suggesting an emotional or spectral theme without broader context. The lines imply the song’s enduring presence and the speaker’s unsettled reaction to its memories.
A provocative remark contrasts talk and governance with the claim that citizens pay Congress for talking. The quote frames political accountability as a price of public discourse and legislative activity.
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