Michael Popek's Blog, page 151

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Cabbages And Kings

Strange postcard, no writing on reverse.

Found in "The Life and Letters of John Burroughs" by Clara Barrus. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1925.



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Tomato Pudding

Recipe for Tomato Pudding:

2 cans (#3) of tomatoes
5 cups cubed white bread (or bread crumbs)
1 tsp. salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup melted butter
3/4 cup boiling water

Strain tomatoes - no juice. Add sugar and salt. Add boiling water. Boil for 5 minutes. Put bread cubes in casserole. Pour butter over bread. Add boiling tomato mixture. Bake for 50 minutes at 375 degrees.

see: p. 185 of Joy of Cooking

(sorry to have taken so long with this! HG)

Found in "A Family Affair" by Roger Eddy. Published by Crowell, 1958.


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Your Presence Is Requested

Wedding invitation:

Carrie Belle Alliton

George H. Ackerson

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Alliton request your presence at the marriage of their daughter

Carrie Belle
to
George H. Ackerson

Thursday evening, October twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninty-nine, at half past six o-clock.

New Haven, Michican

Found in "A Study of Ethical Principles" by James Seth. Published by Scribners, 1905.

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Season's Greetings

Here are some of my favorite bits of Christmas ephemera I've shared over the years.











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Snow Balls

Recipe for "Snowballs" -

Cream:
 1/3 cup butter
 1/3 cup sugar

Add:
 2/3 cup milk

Batter: Sift together 1/2 cup cornstarch, 1 cup flour, 2 tsp baking powder, add a pinch of salt, lastly fold in 2 beaten egg whites. Place small amount of dessert fruit in custard cup. Cover with batter. Steam in small amount of water 30 min. Remove from heat. Invert pudding in serving dish. Pour custard sauce over pudding and add more fruit if desired. Server warm with whipped cream.

Mrs. Patrick Whelan

Custard Sauce

 2 cup milk
 1 heaping tbs flour
 Yolk of 1 or 2 eggs
 1 cup sugar

Cook in double boiler and add vanilla when cool. About 1/2 tsp

Mrs. Patrick Whelan

Found in "The Horse and Buggy Doctor" by Arthur E. Hertzler. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1938.


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Just Us Kids

Photograph. No writing or dates on reverse.

Found in "Florida Bird Life" by H. Howell. Published by Florida Dept. of Game and Fresh Water Fish, 1932.

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Hey Ma

Letter, no date or envelope:

Ma,

Did I leave my spiral notebook on the card table? Just put it aside until I coome home - there is nothing I need for a while in it.

Would you look in the Penfield book to see if there is an Issac Penfield (b ? 1820) married to Mary Ann Allyn? Look up Allyn in the index and the number is the number of the Penfield (not page number). If no Allyn - try Allen. Are there any children? And who are parents?

Another page on Hotchkiss.
In Boughton Index
Nathaniel Van Buren m. Alice Ella Bouton
(dau. of Geo. Bouton and Eliz Hughes m. 1863)
ch. Percival b. 1884

Cornelia Van Buren m. Julius Boughton, son of Jesse Boughton and Abigail Van Valkenburgh

-Dottie

Found in "In Old Oneonta: Volume One" by Ed Moore. Published by The Upper Susquehanna Historical Society, 1962.



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Good Luck, Jake

Photo; looks like a cake with a 48 star American flag and the words "Good luck Jake."

Found in "The Long Christmas" by Ruth Sawyer. Published by Viking, 1941.


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