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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
9
The piece suggests simple handmade baby gifts fitting small wardrobes and limited needs for Aries. It highlights ring rattles, ribbon decorations, clothes hangers, a spoon-shaped wall hanger, a safety pin box from cardboard or medical packaging, and small ribbon rosettes as inexpensive, dainty presents for babies.
A detailed guide to crafting a dainty bureau set including a cream scrim scarf, a pln cushion, a hair receiver, and work and laundry bags. Instructions cover hem options, ribbon widths, rosettes, and construction of scrim and lining with materials like lateen percaline silkoline and silk.
A knitted shawl and hood pair in nile green yarn features white silk squares and an old fashioned afghan like stitch. The back forms a deep point while shoulders and front rise to the neck, with a cobweb lined hood and white fringe. White silk cord tassels finish, with variations using silk overknit and pale blue or nile green silks.
A new side reticule version uses two ribbon widths to form the foundation and fringe tabs. Cut sixteen narrow ribbon pieces into points with beads for decoration and add a fold top. Also described is a clover leaf needlecase covered in embroidered linen with pink ribbon tied at the stems.
The article offers household tips for cleaning osprey feathers and white ostrich plumes using soap and tepid water, rinsing, and drying with flannel. It covers feather curling with a curling knife, steam finishing, and careful handling to avoid damage. A separate note describes baking cakes served hot with syrup and proper steam vents.
A nostalgic guide to baking buckwheat cakes with yeast, recounting past methods and flaws in modern powdered mix cakes. It outlines a recipe using buckwheat flour, cornmeal, salt, lukewarm water, and a yeast cake, plus steps for mixing, rising, and cooking the batter.
Beat two eggs with two cups milk and two cups pastry flour until smooth. Stir in two teaspoons melted butter and beat five minutes. Add half a level teaspoon salt and two level teaspoons baking powder, mix lightly just to activate powder. Bake spoonfuls on a greased hot griddle.
Two cups pastry flour with two level teaspoons baking powder and a saltspoon salt are mixed. Add three beaten egg yolks, 1 1/4 cups milk, a teaspoon melted butter, then the stiffly beaten egg whites. Cook in a greased waffle iron and serve with butter and syrup.
A historical recipe instructs grating stale bread to fill a cup, soaking with one cup of milk for half an hour, then beating until smooth. It adds salt, one beaten egg, flour, baking powder, and griddled baking. serve warm with syrup.
Mix four cups of whole wheat or graham flour one cup of flour and half cup of cornmeal with half a yeast cake in water using half and half to make a stiff drop batter. Let rise twelve hours then add soda dissolved in milk. Fry on a griddle in spoonfuls and serve with syrup.
Beat one cup of cold cooked rice into two cups of cold milk and let stand half an hour. Add half a level teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one well beaten egg. A very little more flour may be needed, but the batter must be soft as possible and not break when cooked on the griddle.
A simple method cooks half cup rice in salted water then mixes with four cups milk and four egg yolk, adds flour for stiffness, beats four egg whites to foam, folds in four teaspoons baking powder, grills flat, fills with jelly, rolls, dusts with sugar and serves hot.
The passage explains making stiff or drop batter from two cups sour milk and enough pastry flour. Let batter stand overnight, then add one beaten egg a pinch of salt and two thirds teaspoon soda dissolved in water. Beat and cook on a hot griddle.
Veterinarian Dr Hall can be reached by telephone at 2183 or by calling at 102 South Selah Avenue for appointments or inquiries.
Mr Walden argues state fairs lose attendance and should be timed for farmers. He cites Washington hop harvests in Yakima valley as conflicting with fairs and questions a $15 000 biennial backing and possible racing circuit influence.
Letter criticizes Washington state money for a racing circuit at the state fair grounds and urges keeping fairs at North Yakima to aid farmers. The writer favors a speed track but condemns gambling and calls racing a disgrace, citing Sunnyside and Puyallup fairs as worthwhile.
Local dealer Coffin Bros offers plows harrows and other farm equipment at cut rate prices as they close out their inventory. Bidder urgency noted with final clearance.
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