Home Cookery. Coffee – One Lewiston lady buys her coffee in half-pound lots. As soon as she receives it, she breaks an egg into it, shell and all, and stirs thoroughly. She then puts it away in a glass preserve jar and uses a tablespoon to a person when making. The egg dries over the coffee and does not get musty as one might suppose.
Veal loaf – Miss Jessie A. West, Center Street, Auburn: Two pounds veal, two crackers, ¼ pound fat pork, two eggs, salt, cloves, pepper. Boil meat slowly till tender, chop fine and add raw pork chopped, beaten eggs, salt and spices. Add the water from cooking the meat, boiled down to just enough moisten the mixture thoroughly. Bake in deep tin slowly one hour. Serve cold.
50 years ago, 1957
Many a buyer doesn’t get all he pays for, a weight expert said today, and the shortages are in everything from packaged candy to fuel oil.
One reason we consumers are hornswoggled: Our own “amazing ignorance.”
Dr. Leland J. Gordon gave the 42nd Conference on Weights and Measures the results of a national survey he made.
One official found 30 percent of packaged candy was short weight. At the Christmas season, too. And, perhaps the most embarrassing of all, one state director said a check on a fuel oil delivery showed a shortage of 3 gallons out of every 100. It was embarrassing because the oil had been bought to heat the state Capitol.
25 years ago, 1982
• Maine leads northern New England in the percentage of its young men who have registered for the draft. Maine has the highest compliance rate in northern New England, according to the Selective Service System, with 96.13 percent of the men born here from 1960 through the first three months of 1964 signed up.
• A “hellish” storm likened to a hurricane crashed through the Midwest with 90-mph winds Monday, while hundreds more people fled a New England flood which has left 15 dead and seven missing. All of southern New England, except Cape Cod, remained under a flood warning.
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