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Macaroni with Cream Sauce Recipe from 1924

MACARONI WITH CREAM SAUCE
Possibly the simplest way in which to prepare macaroni is with cream sauce, as is explained in the accompanying recipe. Such a sauce not only increases the food value of any Italian paste, but improves its flavor. Macaroni prepared in this way may be used as the principal dish of a light [...]

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Free Bread Recipes from 1924

BREAD RECIPES
In order that the beginner may bring into use the bread-making principles and directions that have been set forth, and at the same time become familiar with the quantities of ingredients that must be used, there are here given a number of recipes for the making of bread. These recipes include not only white [...]

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Free Waffle Recipes from 1924

PROCEDURE IN BAKING WAFFLES
The procedure in making waffles is very similar to that in making griddle cakes. While the waffle mixture is being prepared, heat the waffle iron. Then grease it thoroughly on both sides with a rind of salt pork or a cloth pad dipped in fat, being careful that there is no excess [...]

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1920’s Fashion Colors

COLOR CHARACTERISTICS AND COMBINATION
To become familiar with the colors used in dress, look into their characteristics.
Blue may be regarded as a standard color for woman’s dress. It not only gives the impression of coolness, but is restful and unobtrusive. The lighter tints are very closely related to white, and when it is the purpose to [...]

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Free Muffin Recipes from 1924

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS. – Muffins containing blueberries can be made successfully only in blueberry season, but other fruit, as, for example, dates, may be used in place of the blueberries. Cranberries are often used in muffins, but to many persons they are not agreeable because of the excessive amount of acid they contain.
BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
(Sufficient to Serve [...]

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Hyperinflation Conditions in Germany 1923

The effects of Hyperinflation on the People and Economy
The general impression received from three months in South Germany was of a people on short ration, mentally distressed, and living from hand to mouth; a people terribly shattered, terribly demoralized. They were industrious without hope; their moral nature was weakened, their courage undermined, or worn to [...]

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Backyard Beekeeping

Beekeeping in the City 
THE joys of backyard beekeeping are yearly being experienced by more and more city dwellers. What can add more prestige to the informal private area than a neat row of white hives with their industrious inhabitants arriving heavy laden with nectar and pollen to be converted into “bee-bread” for the pearly larvae? [...]

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Bread Making

IMPORTANCE OF BREAD AS FOOD
1. BREAD is sometimes defined as any form of baked flour, but as the word is commonly understood it means only those forms of baked flour which contain some leavening substance that produces fermentation. The making of bread has come down through the ages from the simplest methods practiced by the [...]

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