Buriens Washington 1920 – 1950 Sept. 25 ‘46 Mrs. Gimbill’s Christmas Pudding 2 cups suet 2 cups bread crumbs 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 lb. raisins 1 lb. currants 2 oz peel (optional) A few almonds 1 grated apple 1 t. nutmeg 1 t. cinnamon ½ t. mace Rind & juice of […]
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.
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Stapleton Family Cookbook Lemon Chiffon Pie Amer. Cooking (?) sept 16, 1935 Beat yolks of 4 eggs until thick and lemon colored. Add ½ cup sugar, 1 ts. Flour and the juice 7 rind of 1 lemon. Cook in double boiler until consistently of (?milk?) while […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado I think this is called Out of Time Bread but it is very faint so I am not certain; however, it does look like a bread. Laura S. (?A t King) Sept 8 – 192? 2 cups sugar 2 cups white flour 4 cups graham flour […]
Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s Nut Wafer Cookies 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 1 ½ cups melted Crisco (butter or lard) 1 teaspoon salt 5 cups pastry flour, sifted 2 X. (X means 2 times) 3 eggs, well beaten 2 tsps. Soda 1 tsp. cinnamon or other spices 1 cup […]
August 28th, 1923 Bethel Maine 1917 – 1980’s Gingerbread Big ¾ cup sugar ½ cup molasses Put this into 2 teas. Soda 1 egg About ¾ cup sour milk Little ginger, cinnamon Flour. Beat well. Last put in ½ cup melted butter. Oven temperatures are seldom given in the old books and recipes; most times […]
Gertsen/Dunn Family Morrison Illinois 1910 – 1930 Aug 23 – 1921 Cherry Pudding 4427 1 cup sweet milk ½ cup sugar 1 egg 2 teasp. Butter 2 cups flour Little salt 1 Tablesp. Of B.P. 1 cup cherries, drain juice off Steam 1 hr. Take the juice of cherries, thicken with cornstarch & add sugar, […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Bran Buns Maud Stapleton Rauce Aug 1916 1 egg, (slightly beaten) 1 ½ cups sour milk little salt 1 t. soda 1 cup whole wheat (1 ½ cups each of whole wheat & bran) 1 Ts. Melted butter ¾ cups molasses Oven temperatures are seldom given […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Brown Bread Mrs. Covey – Diehl – Flo Aug 1918 2 cups graham flour 1 cup white ½ cup sugar ½ cup molasses 2 cups milk (sour) Salt to taste 1 t soda 1 cup raisins Steam 3 hrs. – uncover and put in oven ½ […]
Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s 8-6-1936 Recipe For Yeast 2 cups buttermilk 2 cups white cornmeal 1 ½ cakes yeast soaked in a little water Bring the buttermilk to the boiling point, stirring to keep the curd fine. Stir in the cornmeal, take off the stove and let cool to lukewarm, then add the […]
Le Habra California 1930’s through 1960’s Aug 5 – 1951 Blueberry Cup Cakes 1 c sugar ½ c milk pinch salt ½ c shortening 2 c flour ¼ t. nutmeg 2 eggs 3 t. Bkpd. 1 c blue berries 1 t. vanilla Cream sugar & shortening – add the beaten eggs – mix dry ingredients […]