Recipe for success on the home front
HERE in this new weekly feature,we take a look back at the Rochdale Observer from 100 years ago...
ABOUT BREAD AND COOKER
To the editor of the Rochdale Observer.
Sir,-To make the bread palatable and digestible it ought to be toasted. It makes a nice meal sliced and fried in fat with cold potatoes or vegetables and chopped onion. It makes nice pudding when softened and mashed and mixed with a little flour and shortening and milk and water, then boiled in a pan of vegetable hash - cut up vegetables and potatoes boiled in their skins after a thorough cleaning. Any or all of these vegetables are tasty - turnips (which Wesley said cured any ●●There was bad news from the front line about (from the left) Private W Foulds, Private E Holt and Private J Smith disease), carrots, cauliflower, parsnips, onions, leeks, beets, celery, apples etc, seasoned with sweet herbs. Chopped apples and dates are a substitute for currants in cakes and puddings and need no sugar. Beans, peas, lentils, etc., make substitute for meat. Yours A.L.T.
●●A SPOTLAND CARNIVAL
IT is hoped to make a sum of approximately £50 by a carnival to be continued at the Spotland United Methodist Church this afternoon.
On Thursday evening, Mr A J Law, J.P. presided, and Coun J. H. Lord declared the proceedings open. Seconding a vote of thanks to those gentlemen, Mr F. E. Leach explained that the object of the effort was to raise sufficient money to send a bumper Xmas parcel to each of the 60 men on the roll of honour of the church, and now fighting on the many fronts.
The parcels are to contain eatables, beverages, and many useful and warm articles of clothing. They cost nearly a sovereign each, and there was only £13 in hand.
●●WAR CASUALTY PHOTOS
Private W Foulds of the Rochdale Territorials, whose home address is 36 Hamer Lane, Rochdale, has been missing since an engagement in France on September 6.
Private E Holt of the 75th Labour Corps, son of Mr James Holt of 6 Holt Street, Whitworth, died from wounds on September 22.
Private Jack Smith of Lancashire Fusiliers, late of 46 Shawclough Road, Rochdale, is reported to have been killed in action in France on September 6.
●●MILITARY MEDALLISTS
Writing to a relative, Gunner Edward Evans of the Royal Garrison Artillery, formerly of 24 Ogden Street, Castleton, states that he has been awarded the Military Medal or assisting in extinguishing a fire under heavy German shelling.
Private W Walmsley of the Royal Army Medical Corps has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery when bringing in a wounded comrade under heavy shell fire. His home is at 8 Corporation Road, Rochdale.
●●NEW BEER ORDER
The police in the Rochdale district have received from the Ministry of Food and order which states that licenses of public houses must not sell beer over the bar at a greater price than 4d or 5d a pint, and that all beer is to be sold in stamped Imperial measures.