Dec 26th Walton New York 1905 – 1943 Christmas Cookies Butter Cookies Christmas Cookies Fruitsoppa (Swedish Fruit Soup) This is very good! I first had Fruit Soup where I went to college, in a small Swedish Heritage town in Kansas called Lindsborg. They had a diner there that served Swedish foods as well as the […]
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Holiday Baking #55 Fleetwood PA 1917 through 1940’s Brandy sauce and Eggnog Eggnog Christmas Here is an easily made eggnog, said to have come from the files of old Delmonico’s. Have a punch bowl large enough to hold three quarts. Crack eight fresh eggs, separate yolks from whites. Whip whites to a light froth. Add […]
Holiday Baking #54 Wabash Indiana 1918 – 1920’s Christmas Dessert of Cranberry Delight Mincemeat apples Late Christmas Gift Easily Made 1930 Christmas Fruit-Cake Christmas Cream Cake Ammonia Cookies (Sugar Cookies) Hot Apple Sauce Cake or Christmas Pudding Peanut Butter Pie Colorful Christmas Cakes and Gift Making Ideas Fruit Cake Visit my ebay store to find […]
Holiday Treats #53 Greenwood Indiana 1937 Christmas Candies Peanut Brittle Penouchi Chocolate Fudge Taffy Fondant Pecan Rolls Caramel A great set of instructions and guides for measurements, times and temperatures. From a book that has dates in it from the 1950’s through 2011; in Winfield Kansas. Egg yolk Cookies Sugarless Brownies Holiday Cookies Lemon Crackers […]
Berwin Illinois 1950’s through the 1980’s Christmas Cake Baked 12/23/77 3 c. dark raisins (1 box) 3 c. dark brown sugar (1 box) 3 c. water (or black coffee) 1 ½ c. Crisco (can) Place in a sauce pan – simmer 20 min. – cool – Then add dry ingredients: Sifted 3 times 5 ¼ […]
December 22nd Holiday Baking #52 Dubuque Iowa dated 1900 through 1957 Fruit Cake X-mas Doughnuts Sugar Cookies X-mas Cookies Buriens Washington 1920’s through the 50’s Norwegian Julekake Delicious and Easy to Make, It says here By Jane Eads Washington, Dec. 22. – Mme. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, wife of the Norwegian ambassador here has a […]
December 21st Holiday Baking #51 Sheffield UK 1903 – 1928 Mince Pies One pound of Suet, one pound of currants, one pound of sugar, three quarters of a pound of raisins, one ounce of candied peel, one ounce of citron and a little Brandy. Spokane Valley Washington late 1800’s through the early 1900’s White Cookies […]
Holiday Baking #50 Fairfield IL 1916 – 1960 (pics in 2020 june) December 20th 1932 Bula Richardson Caramel recipe ½ cake chocolate 1 pound granulated sugar ¼ pound butter 1 cup table syrup 1 cup cream or milk 1 tablespoon vanilla Pinch soda Boil 20 minutes, let cool, put in buttered pan and cut in […]
Holiday Baking #49 San Francisco California 1910 through 1950’s Philly Candy Standard Divinity Candy 2 cups sugar ½ cup light corn syrup Pinch salt ½ cup hot water 2 egg whites 1 t. vanilla Dissolve sugar, syrup and salt in hot water, boil with-out stirring. Pour to slow in beaten egg whites. Choc Philly Fudge […]
Holiday Baking #48 Pittsburg Pennsylvania 1900’s through the 30’s Down East Pumpkin Pie I learned from watching a television show (Murder, She Wrote) that Down East is a local way of describing the state of Maine. Pumpkin 1 ½ cups Brown sugar 2/3 cup (or 3 tbsps. Molasses) To give dark color or […]