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     The following recipe is a contribution made by Helen Millham of Fullerton, Pennsylvania, to an anonymous newspaper. As it turns out, Millham was a somewhat prolific writer who contributed not only recipes, but advice and anecdotes to periodicals across America. (full Passed Time article) Enjoy the recipe. Pat Earnest Dover, Delaware 17 August 2015

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  Some of my fondest memories are of camping out on Lake Mead with my grandfather (inarguably the best grandfather in the world) and grandmother (ditto), as well as my parents and sometimes a uncle or two. My younger brother was there too, but as the oldest child it was my duty to consider him a hindrance, as such, I don't remember his involvement much. Of course, he was very young and probably not allowed to do the activities in which I was involved. 

  Even now, more than a third of a century later, I can remember hearing coyotes yipping in the background at night, the pleasure of sitting around the campfire while the adults chatted, fishing with grandpa and dad, and walking around looking for rattlers and scorpions, just to look. But the best of all? Grandpa took us to a little store and bought us packs of Wrigley's chewing gum. Nothing can make a kid feel as special as a grandparent treating you to something not allowed in the family home.*

   Although the thought of a ghost town being revealed is exciting, having such remarkable memories attached to Lake Mead makes the event bittersweet at best. 

*If there are kids reading this, you parents are right and sugar will rot your teeth. 

Link to Ghost Town Emerges from Lake Mead as reported on CNN by unknown author. 

From Conan O'Brien to Peter Dinklage, celebrities just seem to have a thing for time travel. Here are some photos from my collection of even more famous time travelers. 

Matthew Lillard 

I had a hard time finding a good comparison photo. It seems Mr. Lillard does not like keeping a straight face.

Shia LaBeouf 

Actual time traveler Shia LaBeouf.

Pocket Book Rolls

The following recipe for "Pocket Book Rolls" fell out of a book at me, literally. I figured since it is vying for attention, I'd better share. Hope you enjoy! --Pat 9 August 2015, Dover, Delaware**

***Photos Courtesy of Passed Time. If you choose to share, please cite www.passedtime.com as your source. The attention and credit is much appreciated. 

A Plain, Cheap Soup

   Take a cold roast beef bone, pieces of beef-steak, the rack of a cold turkey or chicken. Put them into a pot with three or four quarts of water, two carrots, three turnips, one onion, a few chives, pepper, and salt. Boil the whole gently four hours; then strain it through a colander, mashing the vegetables so that they will all pass through. Skim off the fat, and return the soup to the pot. Mix one table-spoonful of flour with two of water, stir it into the soup and boil the whole ten minutes. Serve this soup with sippets of tast. Sippets are bits of dry toast cut in a triangular form. page 14. Pat Earnest, 05 August 2015, Dover, DE. 

Taken from The Practical Cook Book; Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts: Consisting of Directions for Selecting, Preparing and Cooking all Kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry, and Game, Soups, Breads, Vegetables and Salads. Also for the Making of all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Breads, Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, Creams, Ices, Jellies, Preserves, Marmalades, etc. etc. etc. Together with Various Miscellaneous Receipts, and Numerous Preparations for Invalids. By Mrs. Bliss, Philadephia, E. Claxton and Company, 920 Market Street, 1882. 

Summer Soup

  Take a neck of mutton, joint it, break the bones, and put it into your soup-pot, adding four quarts of water to every five pounds of mutton. Put the pot on the fire, and let it boil slowly four or five hours; then strain off the liquid and return it to the soup-pot, after carefully removing all the fat from the surface; then add to it three turnips pared and sliced thin, two young onions sliced, a half tea-spoonful of powdered sweet marjoram, a half tea-spoonful of Tarragon, a table-spoonful of nasturtian seeds, and a sufficient quantity of salt and pepper to season it well. Let the whole boil until the vegetables are pulp; then you may add, if you like, dumplings, made of flour and butter. the soup is very good without the dumplings, page 12. 

Taken verbatim from Taken verbatim from The Practical Cook Book; Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts: Consisting of Directions for Selecting, Preparing and Cooking all Kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry, and Game, Soups, Breads, Vegetables and Salads. Also for the Making of all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Breads, Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, Creams, Ices, Jellies, Preserves, Marmalades, etc. etc. etc. Together with Various Miscellaneious Receipts, and Numerous Preparations for Invalids. By Mrs. Bliss, Philadephia, E. Claxton and Company, 920 Market Street, 1882. 

A small album of "Golden Memories" published in 1956 by the eighth grade of Washington Township Consolidated School, Washington, New Jersey, shows the charm of a small school experiencing growth. Students included a poem thanking their teachers, including Mrs. Kinnaman who was "stern but nice" and the "kind and sweet" Mrs. Smits. Pictures of the bright young faces in the class of '56 add to the charm, for they are accompanied by tantalizing quotes such as "equipped with a ready smile," "class screamer," "always good for a laugh," "poker face," "card shark and saxaphone player," "never fails to get caught," and "after school hustler." 

To their credit, the eighth grade expressed "appreciation for the help and unlimited co-operation extended to us by the teachers and others who have helped us to better understand the problems of life we will face in the future." By now, these eighth graders are in their early seventies. They have gone through Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, and computer-age "learning curves," geek-speak, and data-overload that add considerable frustration to the hardest job of all -- raising children.

The "Class History" portion of the album ends with, "As we come to an end, we find it has been fun for some and just life for others, but we are sure they will all be very happy in the future." Enough time in the old "time will tell" theory might show that "fun for some and just life for others" is as good as it gets.

Agnes Shoemaker

Chicken Broth

     "Wash clean the half of a young and tender chicken, break the bones, cut it into pieces, put the pieces in a stew-pan with one quart of water, cover the stew-pan closely, set it upon a moderate fire, let it come very gradually to a boil; then skim it well, add a salt-spoonful of salt, cover it closely, let it boil twenty minutes, strain it through a colander, and serve.

     If you wish the broth more nourishing, add a tablespoonful of washed rice when you put the broth over the fire; the rice will make it quite thick." p. 283

Taken verbatim from The Practical Cook Book; Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts: Consisting of Directions for Selecting, Preparing and Cooking all Kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry, and Game, Soups, Breads, Vegetables and Salads. Also for the Making of all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Breads, Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, Creams, Ices, Jellies, Preserves, Marmalades, etc. etc. etc. Together with Various Miscellaneious Receipts, and Numerous Preparations for Invalids. By Mrs. Bliss, Philadephia, E. Claxton and Company, 920 Market Street, 1882. 

     I was trying to get back to my "Dear Alice" series here on Passed Time. For those who are new to the site, "Dear Alice" is the name of a series of blogs related to a child's autograph book from Nanuet, New York, written in 1936. The entries have led to a series of blogs about the book and its anonymous owner. 

     The latest entry signed by Dorothy Fahnestock is proving a bit....well, there is more information than I anticipated, and I want to do it right. I thought that this brief look into the support efforts of Nanuet's citizens in World War Two might serve as a placeholder until I can return to "Dear Alice."

     Although I would love to take the credit for the title I used, I cannot, it came from the following article. This is a portion of an article from the January 22, 1943 edition of the Orangetown Telegram and Pearl River Searchlight.* If anyone were ever curious as to the questions asked of "Rosie the Riveter," before she got the job, here you go.  

Drive for Pupils

"....In reply, the ladies incharge fired back questions at theapplicants. "Do you sew? " "Didyou ever play a piano?" "Can youcrochet? ' "Run a lawn'-mower?""Have you stood over a kitchenstove for hours at a time? " For,according to experts who testifythat trainees from the U. S. DefenseSchools have shown a farbetter record than haphazardlytrained workers in the factories, ifa woman can do these things shehas more than the necessary aptiture

to shape, drill and rivet thealuminum parts that go to make upa modern fighting piane. Apparentlythe hand that rocks the cradlecan rock Hitler to his foundations..."

I tried to manipulate the web page to find the author of the cited article so I could give due credit. I was unable to do so, but know the work is not mine. 

Author HistoryKeeper, currently lives in Dover, Delaware, with family, both two- and four-footed. I am a history enthusiast, who has great regard for the past and is especially proud of the Pennsylvania German culture. In addition to my work here at Passed Time, I am currently working on a project for the German Historical Institute's Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies (http://www.ghi-dc.org). I also contribute to various newsletters and am working on another book...or two. Feel free to email me at pcsuter@hotmail.com for questions, comments, information, a shared love of history, an idea, etc. Be aware, Files with Attachments will not be opened, but immediately deleted.