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...coffee drinkers got a welcome treat last week. After Brazil cut the minimum export price to 53.8? a lb. (v. 87? last June), prices tumbled to the lowest levels in more than a year. General Foods Corp., biggest U.S. roaster, clipped 5? off the price of Maxwell House, pushed the wholesale price down to 97?. A. & P. Co. slashed its Eight O'Clock coffee from 89? to 79? a lb. Standard Brands cut 10? a lb. off Chase & Sanborn...
Continuing his researches in Britain, he modernized the smoky English fireplace, improved English kitchens with the Rumford Roaster and the Rumford Stove. He was rich enough by then to donate ?1,000 to the Royal Society for Rumford medals, to be given to those persons who made the most important studies of heat or light (the first medal went to Count Rumford). Hoping one day to return to America, he gave another ?1,000 to the American Academy for the same purpose...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
...Despite roaster-hot weather, occasional showers, and a Dudley team which not only showed up but played good ball, Eliot's softball Mastodons lumbered to their fifth consecutive win, a 5 to 0 decision over the Commuters yesterday...
...Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once when...