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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1923
Page
5
Fortnightly Recipes feature contributions from club members for May. The items include Strawberry Short Cake by Mrs Dickins with flour butter milk and mashed berries, a nut and date cake by Mrs Ed Grayson, and a pear tapioca pudding with meringue guidance.
In a nationwide drive June 4 to 10, women leaders urge recognition and support for home makers. They push training, labor-saving methods, and partnerships with merchants and universities to create permanent better homes demonstrations and local model houses.
Describes a adhesive gum composition for stamps using gum deatrin two parts water five parts acetic acid one part, dissolved with heat and followed by adding one part 90 percent alcohol.
A North Oetrolina obituary notes the passing of a woman described as the mother of eleven children and numerous grandchildren. The report emphasizes her large family as a central part of her legacy and community ties.
A recipe from Mrs. Claire Dewey describes combining one can corn with butter salt pepper sugar and sweet milk. The dish is baked in a covered dish for two hours and uncovered in the last half hour to brown.
Edith Hemmong prepares rich biscuit dough for cinnamon rolls. She dices rhubarb over the surface, adds sugar and butter, rolls and slices, bakes twenty minutes in a hot oven. A rhubarb sauce may be poured over the top as a glaze.
A short ingredient list outlines a cake and frosting. Ingredients include butter sugar sour milk flour cocoa soda dissolved in milk baking powder and a cocoa paste with boiling water for the cake, plus confectioners sugar butter cocoa and a splash of hot water for the frosting.
Boil 2 cups rice and 1% cup sweet milk. Add % cup sugar and grated lemon rind. Sprinkle 2 teaspoons gelatine and boil five minutes. Let gelatine thicken then whip % pint cream and fold in rice a spoonful at a time. Beat well and serve in sherbet glasses with candied cherries or a topping of jelly.
A brief kitchen note outlines macaroni salad with chopped pickles celery onion and mayonnaise. It suggests to top with lettuce leaves and mentions tuna or shrimp as optional mix ins for variety.
Instructions describe a two day yeast bun method. Prepare yeast with flour and lukewarm water at noon. At about 3 p.m. mix into a soft dough, let rise, shape into small buns, refrigerate overnight, then bake about 20 minutes for breakfast.
Tapioca soaked in hot water with grated pineapple and butter. Cook until clear, then add pineapple juice and beaten egg whites, folding gently before serving. Serves 12.
A recipe fragment list features Spanish Rice with hamburg steak onion tomatoes and chili and an Orange Short Cake with beaten egg whites sugar and lemon extract. Included are notes on assembling fruit and nut toppings and a gelatin dessert variation using Knox gelatine and coconut.
Instructions describe soaking cake yeast in lukewarm water at noon then mixing at 4 pm with water, lard and salt. The dough is stiffened with flour, kneaded hourly with a spoon, kept warm until bed time, and in the morning formed into biscuits for baking.
Soak tapioca overnight then cook with water until clear. Stir in sugar and ripe peaches sliced thin and serve with whipped cream. Lemon sauce uses corn starch butter and boiling water poured hot over. Also a biscuit style batter with corn meal flour sugar baking powder milk and butter baked in gem pans.
A recipe fragment instructs combining 1 full cup egg whites and 1 cup flour with cream tartar and water. Alternate water and flour as you add until 4 tablespoons more are included for a total of 4T. Cover 30 minutes and spoon batter into an ungreased pan without pouring.
Quick vintage confection method describes boiling sugar and water until a thread forms, then pouring over beaten egg whites and beating until stiff. Fold in nuts while the mixture remains hot to create a glossy candy with a crisp texture.
Miss Eva Smeltzer receives fruit from Mrs Hemming to make syrup from 3 cups sugar and 2 cups water. Jars filled with fresh fruit and hot syrup, sealed and processed in boiling water. Allow to cool under carpet where the preserve remains delicious.
For two quarts add 1 teaspoon salt and 2 tablespoons sugar to water. Boil and pour over packed tomatoes in the jar. Cook fruit slowly when getting juice for jelly and quickly for jelly juice. Keep sugar hot to add to jelly. Overcooking causes fopy jelly. quick cooking preserves color.
Instruction fragment lists Mrs. R. G. Cherry in a preserved cherries recipe. Steps mention using 2 cans trust percent cup karo with no water and to cook and stir well at first to prevent burning.
Cook onions whole until tender then place in a baking dish. Add butter, cream, salt and pepper and bake.
Instructions describe packing fruit in warm sterilized jars with thick syrup or hot water for tomatoes. Jars sealed and processed in boiling water then cooled under carpet coverings. The text specifies for strawberries and tomatoes to use different syrups and relies on improvised methods.
Instructions outline a method using Heinz distilled wine vinegar for mayonnaise. It covers diluting with water, heating sugar and vinegar, mixing paprika salt and French mustard with eggs, beating eggs, pouring hot vinegar to cook, then returning to a double boiler for cooking.
Readable hints suggest using green grapes before seeds harden to bake pies. They pair with elderberries and blueberries, with lemon juice and corn starch added to berries to improve texture for pie filling.
A recipe for Creole Sauce combines flour butter salt pepper paprika tomato juice and seasonings heated into a sauce served hot over macaroni supreme with poached eggs on buttered toast. Crisp bacon and chopped parsley garnish the dish.
Automobile tractors similar to those used in the Sulara desert tour were operated in the Pyrenees in France reaching an altitude of 1725 meters. The small machines climbed a mountain pass despite deep snow.
We all err, and the other fellow’s fault seems larger than our own, a common observation on human failings echoed in this reflective note.
A terse, quotable line echoes a warning on honesty and deception echoed from a personal voice. The phrase suggests tension between truthfulness and scheming behavior as a timeless social observation.
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