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Wimbledon UK 1860 – 1928, Honeycomb Gingerbread, Gingerbreads & Rusks

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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December 31st, Holiday Baking #61, New Years Eve Cake, Gingerbread, New Years Cake, 1958 New Years Dips & Soups

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 […]

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Holiday Baking #41, 1900 through 1950’s Sugar Cookies, Springerle, Gingerbread, Cathedral Cookies, Christmas Nuts

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 […]

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November 27th, Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes; Squash Pie, Soft Gingerbread, Fruit Cake & Kris Kringle Stollen

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 […]

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Holiday Baking #22, Genoa Cake, Fruit Cake, Cracker Pie & Sugarless Cake & Gingerbread, Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie

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) […]

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Holiday Cookies #13 Eggless Cookies, Nut Bars and all kinds of Christmas Cookies!

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, […]

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October 17th, 1922 Fall Preserving & Pickling; 1967 Applesauce Oatmeal Cookies, Gingerbread & Date Delight

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 […]