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.

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September 16, 1935; Lemon Chiffon Pie, the Stapleton Family Cookbook.

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 […]

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September 2, 1925; Nut Wafer Cookies & Three Egg Angel Cake, The Olson Family Cookbook

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 […]

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August 28, 1923; Gingerbread

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 […]

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August 23 1921; Cherry Pudding from the Gertsen/Dunn Family Cookbook

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, […]

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August 10, 1916; Bran Buns from the Stapleton Family Cookbook

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 […]

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August 5, 1951, Blueberry Cup Cakes

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 […]