Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table vanish into thin air-save for one who stays around long enough to pop the remains of Daddy's capital into his own pocket. By the end of the novel, Sylvia has sunk to a stratum from which death is the only escape, where crackers and condensed milk are deemed a nourishing meal and Good Hair is valued only because it is attractive to "dark" male customers...
...when his flock became restive, a shepherd boy in 10th century France left his bread and goat's-milk cheese behind him in a cave near the village of Roquefort. Weeks later the boy came back to see what had become of his lunch. The bread was a lost cause, but the cheese was covered with green mold that proved highly edible. The result: mankind began eating Roquefort cheese...
Nuworld got its start in 1949 when Dr. Stanley Knight, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin, tried using ultraviolet light to irradiate cheese-starting materials, the bacteria cultures that are curdled in milk to give cheeses their individual flavors. Knight turned his findings over to University of Minnesota scientists, who began the job of making a new cheese. Their base was the shepherd boy's familiar mold, now called Penicillium roquejortii...
...night. I couldn't sleep on account of the aching, just like a toothache. Then, one night I got desperate, so I got up and hunted the doctor book, the 'Family Adviser, Philosophy of Diseases.' The best recipe was:3 cups of sweet milk every day, and from 3 to 5 drops of turpentine in it. I took it for about three months, and all of a sudden there were no pains any more, but the hardness of the joints stayed...
...Recipe: 1 cup finely chopped nuts; 2 ounces sweet or semisweet chocolate; 2½ cups sifted flour; 4½ teaspoons double-acting baking powder; 1teaspoon each of salt and vanilla; 1½ cups sugar; ZA⅔ cup shortening; 1¼cups milk; ⅔ cup unbeaten egg whites. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add shortening, milk and vanilla; beat 1½ minutes, 150 strokes per minute, until well-blended. Add egg whites; beat 1½ minutes. Spoon 1¼ of batter over nuts spaced evenly over two well-greased, lightly floured 9-in. round layer pans. Sprinkle with...