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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1924
Page
5
This article lists home baked goods and sweets including whole wheat date muffins, beaten biscuits, smoked sausage bites, coconut cake, pineapple desserts, and a lemon sauce. It provides ingredient amounts for each item using Mazola oil, eggs, milk, and standard pantry staples, with stepwise mixing and baking directions.
A historical recipe describes making crystallized mint leaves by washing and drying fresh mint, beating egg white with water, coating mint leaves in sugar, and drying in a barely warm oven. The process yields sugared mint leaves stored in a cookie tin.
A vintage recipe detailing a layered orange shortcake. Beat 6 eggs separately with sugar and folding in flour and baking powder, then bake. Prepare orange layers by macerating with sugar for an hour, assemble with lemon extract and coconut topping.
A vintage recipe from Mrs. A. K. Cunningham describes soaking apricots overnight, cooking until tender, and layering with rice and marshmallows in a greased dish. Bake until brown, repeat layers, then cool and serve with whipped or coffee cream.
A dated recipe outlines mixing jello with fruits and nuts to form a moldable loaf. It lists Miss Althea Montgomery as a contributor and specifies ingredients including one package jello one dozen macarons dates walnuts orange banana and whipped cream to shape and chill.
A midwestern recipe item details ginger drink for threshers with ginger sugar water and vinegar plus a biscuit mix with flour baking powder sugar milk salt and nut meats. It notes generous quantities and that the drink is popular with threshing men and the oiled pan note.
A simple kitchen note describes combining one cup sorghum molasses with one cup butter and lard. The mix is placed on the stove and heated until just boiling, then cooled.
Beat an egg with salt and sugar then stir in corn and milk. Fold in flour sugar and baking powder. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat and fry until golden. Serve with honey or syrup. Bits of ham or cold meat may replace the corn. Yields twelve fritters.
Instructions for waffles using sour milk or buttermilk, flour, corn meal, lard, butter, baking powder and soda. The recipe yields about sixteen waffles and includes heating, greasing, and serving with butter and syrup. A note explains waffles as artistically shaped pancakes and their etymology from Old French and German roots.
A brief home style recipe notes sift flour soda and salt, cut in shortening until mealy, add buttermilk to form soft dough, roll and cut biscuits, bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven, yield about twenty five biscuits.
Mix flour baking powder and salt then gradually add water and heat well. Pour onto a hot greased griddle or frying pan in camp and cook until bubbles form and brown. Serve hot with butter and maple syrup or sugar. Yields fifteen biscuits and requires no eggs or shortening.
Lift flour salt and baking powder, cut in shortening, add milk to form dough. Roll thin, sprinkle walnuts on half, fold, cut into twelve biscuits. Bake in a hot oven until done. Sufficient for twelve biscuits.
A vintage recipe yields hominy fritters made with cooked hominy milk salt baking powder flour and chopped ham. Mix with beaten eggs, fold in flour, and fry large spoonfuls in hot fat until brown. Yields about fifteen fritters served hot.
A special voluntary bond of stockholders in the Washington National Bank of Washington Iowa has surpassed 200000 and is projected to reach at least 260000 with numerous signers. The bond guarantees all deposits beyond existing assets to reassure the community amid circulating rumors about solvency.
Berlin reports Anton Fletther, inventor of the sailless wind propelled rotor ship Buckau, is flooded with invitations to visit neighboring countries. Scandinavians urge him to take the vessel to Copenhagen, Stockholm and Christiana. President Ebert recently received Dr. Flettner and thanked him officially for Germany.
Atlanta on December 6 report shows American churches aiming to keep 1926 free from lynchings. The commission on church and race relations notes thirteen lynchings occurred up to November 1, a drop of fifty percent from the same period in 1923.
A long list of individuals and entities including Wells of Winfield Smouse Marsh Bailey Elder Cunningham Cook Young Wickham Marbourg McCleery Link G M Stewart Wilson Lytle Brothers Townsley Stewart Harvey Walfer Brown Harwood Estate Cook Shannon Thomas Dempsey Breitenbach Stewart Combs Jackson Bell Anderson Sutherland Darbyshire McCauley Cunningham Jr Conger appears, indicating a period of time for an estate or legal matter within three years after the date.
Attorneys examine attached instrument dated December 6 1924 and state it is a valid binding enforceable obligation to the specified amounts in favor of depositors of the Washington National Bank acting in reliance thereon Livingston Wicher W M Keeley signatories.
Washington Dec 6 The army world flyers would be promoted and each given 10000 reward and a congressional medal of honor under legislation introduced by Representative Rathbone republican Illinois Lieutenants Wade Nelson and Smith would become majors and civilian mechanic Harding and Sergeant Ogden first lieutenants
Joshua L. Lock 82 of Farmington Iowa died after a fall at the Iowa soldier's home in Marshaltown He suffered a dizzy spell arose from a chair and struck his head on the cement floor breaking a hip and sustaining brain concussion He served in Company E fifteenth Iowa Infantry.
William McClintock, holder of a 6 million fortune, dies at 21 after seven months as guardian to a millionairess orphan. Distant relatives may inherit. fiance Isabelle Pope of Wilmette discussed as a potential beneficiary. Attorney Rechmann and Shepherd oversee guardianship and will. In a separate note, Hoover withdraws support for full federal radio regulation and urges amending current wireless statutes.
Bearded humorist Abe Martin recalls Abner and Mrs. Hulsizer celebrating seventy-five years of marriage with their first auto ride to cemetery and back. They traveled from Marietta Ohio by horseback, camped near current Indiana site, and raised a large family amid frontier perils.
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