Honeycomb Gingerbread Mrs. Overman 1 lb. treacle 12 oz. butter Put in oven to melt 1 lb. flour a little grated ginger Juice of ½ lemon ½ lb. sugar Mix all well together. Spread it thin on a tin & bake it. Roll it in when warm, light side outwards. This sounds like a rolled […]
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Holiday Baking #61 The Finale! New Year’s Eve Webster New York 1903 – 1918 New Year’s Cake Gingerbread Nuts Decatur Georgia 1920’s New Year’s Eve Cake Hartshorn – Ammonium carbonate is made by dry distillation of oil of hartshorn, which is made by the destructive distillation of male red deer horns. (Can be used as […]
December 11th Veedersburg In 1930’s through the 50’s Sugar Cookies Mincemeat Mount Dora Florida 1930’s – 60’s Christmas Nuts Springerle Cut-Out Cookies (For Christmas Cookies Etc.) Cathedral Cookies Mullica Hills New Jersey 1912 – 1917 Sugar Cookies Mamie’s Ginger Bread Brown Sugar Cookies Xmas Pudding May 16 1917 Visit my ebay store to find […]
Newington NH 1940’s through the 1960’s November 1957 Squash Pie Soft Gingerbread Oct 1923 newspaper 1880s Franklinville NY Thanksgiving mincemeat pie and crust (newspaper articles). This article says it could have come from the Custis family which is the same family name that Mrs. Martha Washington, wife of General George Washington, got several of her […]
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 Cookies #13 A handwritten cookbook from Chico California 1900 through the 1940’s Eggless Cookies 2 cups sugar, 1 of butter, 1 sweet milk, 1 tea sp. soda, 1 tea sp. nutmeg, flour to roll. Bake quickly. Mapleine Nut Bars ¾ cup flour, ½ cup chopped nuts, 1 cup sliced dates, 1 tea sp. mapleine, […]
From Fleetwood PA; with dates of 1917 through 1940’s Holiday Cookies #11 Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage and antique recipes. https://www.ebay.com/str/ozziesattic720?_trksid=p2047675.l2563
A large lot of notebooks filled with handwritten recipes from 1940’s through 1950’s. Several are in shorthand and it includes a lot of life lessons and advice. These are from Columbus, Wisconsin, written by a Mrs. Corinne Christians. From a large book on Christmas traditions and customs; my guess is from the 1960’s to the […]
Wilmington NC 1880’s through the 1930’s. Handwritten Book with lots of cutout recipes from other cookbooks. October 1922 Fall Preserving and Pickling Apple Butter Watermelon Preserves Peach Jam Spiced Grapes Pepper Hash Green Tomato Pickles Raisin Compote Mixed Pickles Mixed Pickle dressing Chili Sauce Jelly -Making Points Loveland Colorado 1960’s through 1980’s October 17th Applesauce […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 October 16th 1875 Mrs. Stevens Gingerbread 1/3 cup butter ½ cup sugar ½ cup molasses 2 cups flour – ginger 2 eggs ½ cup (scant) sour milk Teaspoon soda in cold water DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of […]