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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
10
The article describes simple handmade gifts for infants focusing on rattles embroidered hoops and ribbon stars. It suggests practical ideas like a spoon shaped clothes hanger, a wall rack, a nest of safety pin boxes, and small decorative rosettes. It emphasizes easy home production and low cost.
A detailed description outlines a bureau set including a cream scrim scarf with hem or hemstitch options, a matching pincushion, a three-diamond hair receiver, and a five-bag work and laundry set. The pieces feature ribbons, rosettes, and lining in coordinating colors with lateen, percaline, silkoline, and silk fabrics suitable for sewing.
A compact description of a shawl and hood stitched in nile green yarn with white silk squares. The piece features an old fashioned afghan like stitch, a deep back point, and a graceful front neckline. The hood is green and lined with white cobweb pattern, fringe in off white silk.
Practical Household notes describe cleaning osprey and ostrich feathers with soap and tepid water, rinsing, airing, and shaking dry. Feather tips cover steaming before curling, using a curling knife or blunt tool, and avoiding corkscrew curls. Also included are guidelines for baking hot cakes served with syrup and proper steam venting.
An old recipe recounts the best method for yeast raised buckwheat cakes. It stresses fresh batter, nightly mixing, a touch of cornmeal, and a long rise of at least twelve hours before cooking.
A vintage craft note describes Dainty Trifles a side reticule using two ribbon widths fifteen eighths yard foundation fringe pieces and sixteen narrow ribbon tabs finished with beads. It also outlines a Ribbon Pocket Needlecase Clover Leaf design with pink embroidered blossoms and tied ribbons.
Beat two eggs with two cups milk and two cups pastry flour until smooth. Stir in two teaspoons melted butter then beat five minutes. Add half a level teaspoon salt and two level teaspoons baking powder and mix just enough for activation. Bake spoonfuls on a greased hot griddle.
A basic waffle batter combines two cups pastry flour with two level teaspoons baking powder and a saltspoon of salt. Add beaten yolks from three eggs, one and a quarter cups milk, one teaspoon melted butter, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. Cook in a hot greased waffle iron and serve with butter and syrup.
Grate stale bread to fill a cup and soak in one cup milk for half an hour. Beat smooth with one egg and a saltspoon of salt. Stir in a cup of flour and one and a half level teaspoons baking powder. Bake on a griddle and serve with syrup.
Recipe notes mix four cups whole wheat or graham flour one cup flour and half cup cornmeal with half a yeast cake dissolved in water. Use half and half to make a stiff drop batter rise twelve hours. In morning add soda in milk to thin for frying on a griddle. Serve with syrup.
Beat one cup cooked rice with two cups cold milk and let stand half an hour. Stir in baking powder and a beaten egg. Add a little more flour if needed until the batter is very soft and will not break when cooked on the griddle.
Recipe outlines a rice batter made from half cup cooked rice four cups milk four egg yolks and flour to a stiff mix. Whip four egg whites fold in four level teaspoons baking powder bake on a griddle roll with jelly dust with powdered sugar and serve hot.
Use sour milk mixed with pastry flour to make stiff drop batter. Let stand overnight then stir in one beaten egg a pinch of salt and two thirds teaspoon soda dissolved in cold water. Beat well and cook on a hot griddle immediately.
Veterinarian Dr. Hall can be reached by telephone 2183 or at 102 South Selah Avenue for animal care inquiries.
A reader argues state fairs in Oregon and Washington draw fewer attendees this year. He says fairs educate farmers and should showcase their best products. He blames hop harvest timing in Yakima valley and questions why fairs shift to inconvenient dates possibly to suit a racing circuit.
F L Walden argues against state support for a race driven fair in Washington. He urges moving the fair to North Yakima and funding it only if it serves farmers, opposing gambling and a racing circuit. He cites Sunnyside Puyallup and Washer fairs as agriculturally valuable, while warning against corrupt fairs.
Coffin Bros. offers plows and harrows at low prices as they close out farm implements. The notice signals clearance of inventory with bargains for local farmers.
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