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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1918
Page
2
This spring message urges homemakers to embrace new beginnings with calm planning. It links happiness and national resilience to home renovation, seasonal gardening, and efficient meal prep, emphasizing pantry stocking and standardized foods to ease wartime household duties.
A compact home cook sheet lists shirred eggs with oleomargarine salt and pepper baked in ramekins, bacon curls broiled on skewers, corn and rice muffins using corn meal baking powder salt boiled rice milk egg and melted margarine, mixed and baked in muffin tins.
Start the ham as for boiled ham after cooking four hours remove the ham from the water cut the skin in points about five inches from where it meets the shank bone retain the skin around the bone and remove the sest. Mix a cupful of the cooking liquid with a cupful of cider or half a cupful of cider vinegar and pour over the ham set in a baking pan. Remove from the oven after cooking two hours in a moderate oven basting often with the liquid in the pan. Insert cloves in the fat of the ham from which the skin has been taken press these into the ham in a symmetrical manner. Mix half a cupful of brown sugar with half a teaspoonful of pepper and half a cupful of fine crumbs and sprinkle over the portion containing the cloves return the ham to the oven for one hour.
Women increasingly use evaporated milk in place of fresh milk with caramelized notes from heating. Dilute two and a quarter cups water to one cup evaporated milk to match regular cooking consistency. Recipes include Evaporated Milk Cake and Evaporated Milk Caramels with ingredients like brown sugar cocoa rye flour and butter or oleomargarine.
A wartime appeal highlights careful handling of foods from production to table. Households should avoid letting perishable items stand, wrap meat immediately, and plan meals to cut wheat sugar and meat use. Saving 64 million bushels of wheat a year is possible by reducing bread and sugar by small daily amounts.
A fragment notes children returning for lunch amid springtime appetite and growing craving for food. The author claims youth hunger remains strong while adults tire in the season.
The article suggests edge-taking conservation measures and offers child friendly snack options. It recommends peanut butter and dry sausage sandwiches with fruit or pineapple when fresh fruit is unavailable. It describes thin whole wheat or rye bread with generous peanut butter, optional oleomargarine, wafer thin sausage, and occasional oyster cocktail or chili sauce on the top slice.
The article urges preserving social life through home dinners and conversations while conserving war-era resources. It discusses balanced menus, fruit and grape juice as balance aids, and adapting French culinary ideas to avoid after-dinner discomfort. It highlights Martha Washington bags for French wounded relief, WWI faith, and UDC efforts.
Miss Margaret Craven of Abbottsburg visited Clarkton this week. Mrs. G. L. Clark hosts Miss Bettie Evans of Fayetteville. Miss Robbinson of Wilmington stayed with Mrs. Strange Nance. Miss Amanda Clark returned from Richmond and Camp Les Petersburg. Mrs. B. J. Coz and others spent a weekend with relatives at Camp Jackson. Mrs. R. R. Myers and son returned to Petersburg with Miss Fay Huckabee who will summer there. Mrs. L. F. Ritchie gave a reception for Clarkton High teachers Thursday night.
Fire in the moulding department of the Merrill Stevens Shipbuilding plant two miles south of South Jacksonville destroyed three large sheds. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars. Two Black workers suffered minor scald injuries. Construction of five ships will be delayed a few days pending mould materials arrival.
An enemy air group crossed the lines at night and dropped bombs on Compiegne and nearby towns. Several planes pushed farther south but were repelled by French artillery. Paris issued alarms and the all clear was sounded about a half hour later.
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