First, you separate the volk from the white of the egg. Then into the bowl containing the whites, you add a tablespoon of granulated sugar for each white. This you beat and beat and beat — until it stands, until, as the saying goes, you can cut it with a knife. Thereafter...
Weekend on the ski country (1950) ALSO SEE 20 snowy street scenes from Washington DC's huge blizzard in 1922 Dad rehearses his speech (1956) In a situation like this — What makes a glass of beer taste so good? When we’re asked to make a speech — or act in a communi...
The recent development of techniques to sequence ancient DNA has provided valuable insights into the civilisations that came before us. However, the full potential of these methods has yet to be realised. We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he probably didn’t imagine how far it would come over the next century and a half. In 1919, the American Bell Telephone Companylaunched national servicefor rotary dial phones, the first mass-produced phone controlled by the user. When...
In the cereals aisle I walk through two sides of shelves lined with every sort of breakfast cereal from the Corn Flakes, Shredded Wheat and Weetabix of my childhood through a plethora of types too many to list. There was often a free toy in cereal packets. ...
Old cereal If only we had known back then that our breakfast companions would one day become coveted treasures worth a small fortune! Today, it's almost hard to believe that those seemingly ordinary cereal boxes from yesteryears can fetch such exorbitant prices, reaching into the thousands, and...
TheMcCall’s Cookbookis one of the more popular collectible cookbooks from the 60s. It is a thick, over 700-page cookbook in the same vein as Betty Crocker Cookbook. In general, it is loaded with recipes and how-tos. Most of the recipes are short and easy-to-follow. A Betty Crocker ...
In the end, the Rochester YMCA building will have lasted nearly 60 years before it meets its ultimate fate. It's not the only once-popular business and building to have gone away, of course. Keep scrolling to check out some things from the year you were born that DON'T exist anymore!
The face parts were initially included as bonus toys in boxes of cereal. In 1952, the concept was purchased by the Hassenfield brothers, who formed Hasbro Toys. Mr. Potato Head was thus born, soon followed by Mrs. Potato Head and a range of other characters. 1953: Model Car Pixabay ...
1971: Buc Wheats cereal General Mills // Wikimedia Commons 1971: Buc Wheats cereal Buc Wheats was a cereal released by General Mills described as “corn flakes mixed with dark buckwheat” and glazed with maple. However, controversy erupted when General Mills replaced that maple glaze with hone...