Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 19th 1912 Scotch Cakes 1 pt. Duffs molasses (small can) 1 lb. gran. Sugar 1 lb. flour 6 oz. butter ½ tsp. baking soda 25cents grated coconut Bring molasses to boil, add soda then take from stove and pour over sugar and butter which has been creamed, add coconut and flour. […]
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Burlington Vermont 1875 March 16th 1875 Berry pudding 1 pint berries 1 pint sour milk 1 pint flour Salt & soda – steam two hours. Beat 1 pint sweet cream to froth. Add whites of four eggs beat all together flavor to taste. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 16th 1912 Taylor Cakes Elizabeth Moffet 3 eggs […]
This March 14th is National pie day and I thought this would be a good time to write all about this lovely dessert. With further research, it seems that every August 15th is Lemon Meringue Pie Day, I did not know this until studying for this posting. I may repeat it in August and just […]
I really like unusual sounding recipes, especially those that have a sense of humor with them. These stuck out to me in this book from Highbridge, Somerset in the UK during 1898 through 1911. It is the first recipe in this book, “Old Lady Biscuits”, that just sets the whole thing as a fun read, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
These have a long tradition of being simple but delicious cakes named for the so-called weary willie hobo’s that wandered the country after the Civil War, and then those who were homeless drifters during the 1920’s depression years. Apparently, the Willie’s were not the drifters that were willing to work for pay or food, but […]
There is a very interesting history to the Shrove Tuesday pancake; one that goes back to the 1400’s, (about 1448), when a Housewife from Olney Buckinghamshire forgot that she needed to be at the church for the beginning of lent on what was called Half-holiday in Britain; which started at 11:00 with the ringing of […]