Is Your Herman Alive? Bread, Cake & so much More! In these difficult days of higher prices, supply shortages, and people going back to their Parents and Grandparents ways of surviving and living through tough times; I am going to be posting recipes from the early 1900’s that may give you some knowledge of how […]
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2 1800’s cook books New Year’s Cookies. Saleratus – From the Latin sal aerates, meaning “aerated salt”. A precursor to baking soda, it hit the market in 1840 and was a chalky powder used for the chemical leavening needed to produce carbon dioxide gas that gives the rise in your baked goods. It was made […]
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 […]
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 […]
December 17th Pasadena California in the early 1900’s Chocolate Walnut Wafers ¼ cup butter ¼ cup milk ½ cup powdered sugar 1 cup sifted flour 2 sq. Choc. 1/8 teasp. Salt ¼ teasp. Cinnamon ¾ cup walnuts Cream together the shortening, salt & sugar. Add the grated Choc. & cinnamon & blend thoroughly. Add the […]
December 15th Oro Valley Arizona 1800’s through 1900’s Mincemeat Grand 3 cups chopped beef (2 lbs.) 4 cups chopped apples 1 rounding cup chopped suet 2 2/3 cups sugar 2 cups cider 1 cup syrup from sweet pickle jar 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons mace ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ½ teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 […]
December 6th Holiday Baking #36 Maple Lane Minnesota 1931 Honey Pie Mock Apple Strudel (Austrian) Marcellus New York 1880 Baking Powder Cookbook Eggless Fruit Cake Wedding or Christmas Cake Marion Arkansas 1858 Wedding Cake Almond Icing Applesauce Fruit Cake Sugar Cookies Sugar Cookies Nut Cookies Mince Meat Visit my ebay store to find some great […]
Holiday Baking #22 Fairbury Nebraska 1930’s through 1955 X-mas Cooking Genoa Cake 1 lb. butter, butter soft 1 lb. sugar Creamed together 8 eggs, beaten 1 at a time 1 ½ lbs. flour 2 small teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon cream of tartar 2 lbs. sultana raisins ½ lb. mix peal, (lemon, orange& citron) […]
Holiday Cooking #19 Austin Texas 1970’s through 2000 Herb Roasted Turkey with Citrus Glaze Holiday Baking #19 This is a nice handwritten cookbook from Sheffield England and is dated between 1903 through 1928. Mince Pies One pound of suet, one pound of currants, one pound of sugar, three quarter’s of a pound of raisins, one […]
Holiday Cookies #14 Coos Bay Oregon 1925 through the 1940’s Here are a couple of recipes to use the mincemeat recipes from yesterday’s holiday recipes. Mincemeat Fruit Cake 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 pkg. mincemeat, 1 cup nuts, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Cream butter & sugar, adding the eggs […]