Volume 12 , Issue 38

Duchess Mountain Domain

We know we are a day late and a dollar short, as everyone else out there! It is Tuesday morning as I set my paws to the computer keyboard to write this column.

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Home Comfort Cookbook - 1934 Advice To Young Cooks

Do you remember any stories that your grandmother or mother told you of learning to cook on a woodburning Wrought Iron Range, as depicted in the photo image on the left, in the 1930's?

This week we are including advice to young cooks, secrets of good cooking and talk of basic recipes in cooking. Did your mother, grandmother tell you that you should master, become proficient the basic recipes before undertaking the recipes dreivations?

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NW Okie's Ramblings

Okay! I guess Duchess told on me, huh? I am a day later than usual, but can you blame me for wanting to be outside in the Fall, cool rocky mountains, instead of in front of my laptop?

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Bread & Bread Making (1930)

Our Home Comfort cookbook of 1934 states the following about baking breads on/in your Wrought Iron Range:

"Bread is divided into two general classifications; Yeast bread, and quick Bread. In their plain form, these constitute basic recipes, from which many plain and fancy variations are made by the interchanging of materials, or by the form of the finished product.

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Perry, OK County Fair

Roy of Perry says, " For the first time in several years, it did not 'rain on our parade'!!! Nor did we have any bad weather for the entire week of our county fair here in Perry, Oklahoma. We have just completed our 117th continuous annual running of the CHEROKEE STRIP LAND RUN celebration. It is the longest running continuous annual celebration in the state of Oklahoma, having begun 13 years before we became the 46th state in the nation.

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3D Murals by John Pugh

Have you ever seen any of Artist John Pugh's 3D murals painted on the sides of buildings? John is considered as a Trompe-l'��il, (French for deceive the eye) artist that delves, uses the an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

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This Day In History - Oklahoma

Taking a trip down the roads of Oklahoma history takes us to September 21, 2010 Distinctly Oklahoma Moments, concerning Robert Samuel Kerr, born in the Chickasaw Indian Territory, Oklahoma, near the present town of Ada, September 11, 1896.

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Virginia Cured Hams

In looking through our 1934 Home Comfort cookbook, we found the following paragraph relating to Virginia Cured Hams [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Washing Clothes In 1930s

On page 156 of the 1934 Home Comfort cookbook, it suggests and gives us a hint of how our ancestors used to wash clothes. Did your grandmother, mother use the following means to washing her clothes?

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Lard Making (1934)

On page 155 of our Home Comfort Cookbook it has the following information regarding Lard Making back in the 1930s.

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Government Whitewash (1934)

Did you ever wonder how they keep the Whitehouse in DC looking so white back in the 1930's during the depression. Read below what they used to keep the United States Government lighthouses and other weather and wave beaten properties, including the White House, painted to stand the test of many years.

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Barnsdall, Oklahoma - WWII

Photo on the left is a photograph of 2nd Lt. Charles R. Schleifer as shared by Clint Daniel.

Clint Daniel of Southern California wrote, "Hello, I came across your terrific website while doing some WWII research. I thought you might find the following link on my WWII website Navigation: Individual Service Stories - Mystery Solved 1945 to 2006 interesting, relating to WWII and Barnsdall, Oklahoma, my family's home town.

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