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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
10
Home made sweets and confections make thoughtful gifts this season. This feature offers recipes for Creamy Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Nut Roll, and Coconut Cherry Divinity with precise steps, temperatures, and yields to create edible treats for friends and neighbors.
A skimmed recipe for hot ham sandwiches uses ½ pound cold boiled ham and mustard on 8 slices stale bread. Mix ham with mustard, dip in an egg milk batter, and fry until golden then cut diagonally to serve two. An alternate method to layer ham on buttered toast with eggs stirred in water and poured over.
A recipe for Potato Fritters uses grated potatoes beaten with egg onion juice parsley and baking powder then bread crumbs for a light batter. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat and fry golden brown. Drain on brown paper and serve with beefsteak if desired.
Practical guidance for home storage of carrots beets parsnips salsify turnips potatoes onions and cabbage with moisture control and proper layering. Advice covers vine tomatoes curing onions and butter yield from cream including basic rules and common questions.
Simple guidance on adding variety to meals by balancing sweet and sour flavors. Includes a beet recipe for SOUR BEETS with cream and lemon, plus a Pickled Beets method using vinegar, salt, pepper, sugar and caraway.
Mrs. Sarah C. Griffith, 92, of Detroit Michigan, is believed to be the oldest person ever to become a naturalized citizen. Born in Ontario she thought she gained citizenship when her husband served in the Union army. New application filed after papers could not be found.
A recipe article suggests using leftover corned beef to make a jelly salad with lemon gelatin, corned beef, onion, mustard, and beef stock. The mixture is set in a mold, sliced, served on lettuce, and garnished with hard boiled eggs and pickled beets. The piece also notes that since 1920 the U S Biological Survey records over 2 193 registered banders have aided banding more than 1000000 birds.
A traditional steamed dessert uses toasted bread crumbs brown sugar raisins and apples. Mix dry ingredients add fruit and fat then steam in a mold for one hour and serve hot with hard sauce.
Modern Baking Day focuses on simple treats like macaroons as home cooks adapt to smaller scale baking. The piece notes a shift from large batches to modest desserts while celebrating the holiday.
A home bakers note shares a simple Chocolate Macaroons recipe. It lists ingredients including egg whites sugar salt vanilla shredded coconut and melted chocolate with baking directions to bake at 275 F for about 20 minutes yielding 19 macaroons.
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