Holiday Baking #15 Chico California 1900 through the 1940’s Cheap Fruit Cake 1 cup brown sug, ½ cup butter, 1 cup each raisins, nuts, currants and citron; orange & lemon peel if liked, 1 table spn. Mixed spices, ½ tea spn. Salt. Stir all together and let boil one min. Set off to cool and […]
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Holiday Treats #12 Casper Wyoming 1900 through 1920’s Mince Meat 4# lean meat chopped fine 3# suet, 8# apples chopped fine 2# currants, 2# raisins, 1# citron 6# brown sugar, 1pt. Molasses 1 lemon chopped fine 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon allspice ½ tablespoon cloves 2 tablespoons salt Wet with qt. cider or vinegar Cook […]
Holiday Baking #7 Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s From the Olson Family Cookbook 11-8-1928 A Good Economical Layer Cake 1 ½ cups flour 1 cup sugar 3 tsp. baking powder 2 eggs Milk 5 tbsp. melted butter Flavor to taste. Put flour in mixing bowl, with sugar and baking powder. Take measuring cup and […]
Well, the holidays are just around the corner and we all need to think about gifts, cookies giveaway circles, parties, and just general having something on hand for those drop in guests; I will be posting Christmas Cookie Recipes in the weeks leading up to December. Mostly because when I started saving recipes for a […]
Ellen Packard Nov 3rd 1864, Creeping Hall Miss Packard was waxing lyrical about a pudding, I enjoy these very interesting commentaries from the ladies of this time. The creativity is amazing and this is a very nice poem. Paradise Pudding If you’d have a good pudding Pray mind what you’re taught Take 2 pennyworth of […]
#2 Belper Fair Puddings 1 lb. of carrots, 1 lb. potatoes 1 lb. of flour, 1 lb. of raisins 1 lb. of currants, ¾ lb. suet ¾ of sugar, 1 oz candied peel Vegetables to be boiled & mashed fine adding other ingredients. Boil six hours. Burrell I don’t know what to make of this […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Our Wedding Cake. Sept 24, 1913 Fruit Cake 1 lb. sugar (add about 1 cup more of sugar) 1 lb. butter 1 lb. flour 12 eggs 2 lbs. currants 2 lbs. raisins 1 large spoon cinnamon 4 whole nutmeg – grated 3 glass sherry wine 2 […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 September 16th 1875 Salad Dressing Tested This will keep. One heaping tablespoonful butter, 1 rounded tablespoon of flour; put in a small frying pan on the stove and stir until hot and smooth, then add 1 cupful of milk. Have mixed in a bowl 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 September 3rd 1875 “Way Down East Pudding” Mix together one cupful of oatmeal, one-half cupful of flour and a cupful of sugar and a cupful of currants, a teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar. Pour into a two-quart basin and steam three hours. Serve with vanilla sauce or with […]
Oxford Mich. 1908 to 1960’s Saffron Cake Aunt Kate 3 comp. yeasts dissolved in 1 ½ c warm water, 2 tsp sug & 3 tbsp melted shortening. (I think that comp. yeast is going to equal a cake of yeast, which today would be a package of the yeast you get in the store) Add […]