Burlington Vermont 1875 March 9th 1875 Cup Cake 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 3 cups flour 5 eggs ½ teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cream tarter ½ cup milk & flour alternately spice & put if you like. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 9th 1912 Oat Meal Cakes 1 1/3 cups sugar 2/3 cup shortening 2 […]
Category: Daily Calendar Recipes
Recipes from several books that are almanacs, yearly calendars, daily ledgers, and note books with dates in them. Also holiday recipes and commentaries for those special days of the year.
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 8th 1875 Mrs. Smith Lemon Jelly 1 large sour apple grated 1 lemon juice & rind 1 egg 1 cup sugar well beaten boil up nice put between cakes while hot. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 8th 1912 Chocolate Cakes Delia 1 can eagle brand milk. 1 cup chopped English walnuts. 1 […]
Havertown PA 1879 through 1948 A small handwritten cookbook and lots of additional clippings and loose pages. The name on the front of the red leatherbound book is Jonathan Holland and a few of the recipes have references to a Mrs. Holland and the Victoria Cake is dated 1885 for her. There is a Nut […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 7th 1912 Ginger Drop Cakes Mrs. Rumbold 3 lb. of flour ¾ lb. of sugar ¾ lb. of lard 8 eggs 1 pt. of thick milk 1 qt. of N. Orleans molasses 1 tablespoon cream tarter 2 tablespoon B. Powder 1 tablespoon ginger 1 tablespoon mace 1 tablespoon cinnamon ½ of […]
Wooster Ohio 1886 to 1929 a small leather cookbook with all kinds of newspaper clippings and loose pages. Friday March 6th 1914 Newspaper the Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer This paper has a nice article for some fun on St. Patrick’s Day; I thought it might be nice to show you these. They are intertwined […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 6th 1912 Walnut Cakes Mother 1 pt. of sugar 1 large cup of kernels 2 eggs Make pretty stiff with flour. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 5th 1912 Oat Meal Cookies Mary Lohan 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup butter & lard 2 eggs Pinch of salt 2 ½ cups of oat meal Or 1 cup of coconut. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of […]
As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books. Over the years, I have collected a lot of recipe boxes, old cook books and handwritten books. In reading them, using the recipes to recreate flavors from the […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 4th 1875 Jenny Lind Cake 1 large spoon melted butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 1 spoon soda 2 cream tarter 1 ½ cups flour – Jenny Lind was a real person; an opera singer from Sweden, known as the Swedish Nightingale. P.T. Barnum brought her to America […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 3rd 1875 Sweet Pickle 7 lb. fruit 3 lb. sugar 1 ½ pints vinegar Cook until done Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 3rd 1912 Small Cakes Mother’s Ginger Snaps 1 qt. of Orleans Syrup 1 lb. of sugar 1 lb. of butter and lard 1 oz. cinnamon Cloves to taste 2 nutmegs […]