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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1931
Page
3
The Wednesday Study Club of Crawfordsville gathered at Mrs. Walter Graves home in Washington to exchange recipe copies. Members shared methods for meats pickles rolls salads and desserts. Recipes include Ham Loaf mixed vegetable pickle and a cucumber pineapple salad with lemon jello and mayonnaise dressing.
The fragment lists Black Cherry Salad with drained cherries, almonds, olives and lemon jello, plus a whipped cream dressing. It outlines a mustard vinegar sauce, a eggs pimento chili sauce mix, Butterscotch Sauce for ice cream, and an Apricot Tea recipe with orange juice and lemon pulp, attributed to Mabel Monson.
Water en moved to two parts apricots through sieve sugar dissolved in hot water. Cool and freeze. When nearly done add beaten egg white. Makes 2 quarts. Cream sugar and fat, add egg, melt chocolate, then milk and sifted dry ingredients with flour and nuts folded in. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in greased tins. May be frosted.
A compact collection of old kitchen notes detailing egg white meringue with prune filling baked in crust served with whipped cream, a butter brown sugar milk mixture for a frost, lemon jello pineapple rice salad with whipped cream and optional marshmallows. Recipes credited to Hazel Moorhead, Rose Moorhead, and M. J. Sprague.
A simple bake mixing 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt, then rub in 2 tablespoons butter as for pie crust. Moisten with 2 2 cup milk and divide into pans, baked golden brown.
Miss Winifred Niggemeyer of Ft. Madison is appointed district chairman for the Legion Auxiliary. The appointment was announced by Mrs. Winifred Crone of Washington as district committee member and leader in the auxiliary’s statewide structure.
The Washington Lodge A F and A M holds a 7:45 p.m. meeting tonight then adjourns to Keota for an address by Dr. John W. Gannaway grand master from Grinnell. The event includes a brief session followed by the formal address in Keota.
Mrs. Walter BR Brown presents a history paper for the Fortnightly club tracing Iowa’s beginnings from Marquette and Joliet’s explorations to French and Spanish claims. It notes Louisiana and Mississippi history, Des Moines capital moves, early territorial life, and figures like Robert Lucas, Basil Giard, and Julian Dubuque, with notes on origin legends and state symbols.
An old note traces George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to the same medieval forebears through Isabelle de Vermandois and the Warrens, linking Lincoln back to Magna Carta era nobles. It claims Lincoln’s line includes cadwalder van Who, Quakers in Pennsylvania, and Nancy Hanks, ending with Abraham Lincoln born February 12, 1809.
Damascus Shrine of the White Shrine of Jerusalem installed officers for the new year with Mrs. A A Spies as worthy high priestess. Retiring worthy high priestess Mrs Clark Pulver received a gift. New officers include Harri son Dodder and Mrs AO Winam as noble prophetess and Mrs Carleton Haven as worthy scribe.
Wallace PT A will hold a bake sale at iamseyer's Saturday at 9 a m. Funds raised will provide dental work for Wallace School children whose parents cannot afford it. Contributions of food are welcome as reported by Mrs Loyd Morrison for the OVA ACHION Ooty.
Standard Fruit and Steam Ship Company reports from New Orleans that revolution in the Laceesha play duras area has been definitively broken. Company officials say lives and property of American citizens in the revolutionary zone are no longer endangered for the present time.
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