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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1924
Page
6
Recipes from the More Rural Women's Club include Maxie powder and Prooted Creams with steps and frosting. The text also lists gatherings at Beckwith and Haskins, Halloween parties, Evans family reunion, and a Methodist church social hall event with games and refreshment details.
A brief recipe describes shredding cabbage and mixing with a dressing of beaten egg, sugar, vinegar, and cream. It includes salted peanuts and ani as seasonings and directs boiling then cooling before combining with cabbage.
A recipe describes creaming 2 cents sugar with 1 cup shortening until fluffy, then adding dark molasses and spices. It instructs beating in eggs, dissolving soda in hot water, stirring in flour, brushing cookies with water before baking in a quick oven.
A recipe fragment lists Angel Cake ingredients and steps. Whites beat with salt and sugar, flour sifted thrice, cream of tartar added halfway, then beaten to stiff peaks. Includes lemon extract as flavoring.
Directions describe soaking cucumbers in cold water, boiling water treatment, drying, packing, and draining. A mixture of one gallon vinegar with salt alum and saccharine is used with mixed spices, heated to a ball, then poured over cucumbers to seal. Yields ten quarts in half gallon jars and produces crisp pickles that keep several weeks after opening if unused.
A historic bread instruction detailing a cinnamon roll method. It lists ingredients such as milk yeast, flour, sugar, salt, mace and butter. Steps include scalding milk, dissolving yeast, mixing, kneading, rising, rolling with butter sugar and cinnamon, cutting, and baking for about sixty rolls.
A fragment shows a recipe instructing on creaming butter with sugar, sifting flour with baking powder, alternately adding flour and milk, folding in stiffly beaten egg whites, flavoring, and baking in two layers at a moderate oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
Directions for making buns include reserving a quart of dough, mixing with lard or butter sugar egg whites and warm water, adding flour to form a soft dough. Let rise twice then again after shaping and bake for about 25 minutes.
A recipe for Cocoanut Kisses uses cornflakes egg whites sugar and coconut. Beat egg whites with sugar until stiff then fold in cornflakes and coconut and drop spoonfuls onto a buttered pan bake in a moderate oven.
Sift flour before measuring then sift six times and set aside Beat eggs until stiff adding a pinch of salt and when about half done add cream of tartar one teaspoon each vanilla and lemon Bake 45 minutes in a groderate oven
A short fragment lists ingredients and measurements for a Devil's Pood style cake: 1% sugar, 47 butter, 1% cocoa Hershey dissolved. The source presents a home kitchen note attributed to Mrs Gertrude Maxwell.
The Sunshine Community club held a large Halloween event at Ehme and Elizabeth Koehler’s house with decorations, games, ghost stories, fortune telling, songs, and refreshments. About eighty guests attended including Mr and Miss Ransome Des Moines Dick Stevens Ainsworth and Earnest Simpson Washington. The piece also notes the Cave family reunion at the Davis brothers home northeast of Washington with fifty two relatives enjoying a cafeteria style dinner and post meal visiting.
The Margaret Cowden Missionary Society hosts a after school weiner roast at Marie Kallo ws home. Continuous details indicate a small community event with a social gathering for members and attendees.
Various community announcements list meetings and gatherings: Priscila club rescheduled to Wednesday after noon to attend a knight Templar funeral at the Bethlehem commandry, Moose Lodge social Thursday evening with Highland Four music, Rose Rhodes scouts hike Thursday at 4 pm, Century Club meeting at Miss Helen Wilson's home, Harmony club Halloween party October 31, T S EB Club Thursday with Mrs Davis, Ladies Evangelical church all day Oct 31, W. H. C regular meeting Saturday 2:30, Women’s Missionary Society October 31 at Mrs Brown’s home with program by Mrs Kunath, rehearsal for Who Defeated Dugan at high school Thursday 4 pm, Damascus White Shrine No 10 meets Thursday evening at the Commercial club with social time and potluck plates.
A Iowa journey from Wellman to Dayton uncovers the John Brown Trail and historic sites. The writer, with Alma Downing Thomas, recalls Bolding mills, Wassonville commerce, and Brown’s river crossing in 1859, noting camps, fords, and a moved town due to floods.
The log school house where Wesley Bolding taught the three R’s and preached in 1846 48 was the first Wassonville site. Now gone, only trees mark the place. the old store and barn stones remain as relics of the town with John Brown’s mules once sheltered there. Mrs J F Kurtz.
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