Burlington Vermont 1875 October 23rd 1875 Nut Cakes 2 eggs beaten slightly with spoon 1 cup brown sugar ½ cup pastry flour ½ teaspoon baking powder Salt 1 cup pecan nuts chopped coarse (one on top) Bake 15 minutes in moderate oven. There are no baking temperatures listed in these recipes; during this time, it […]
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Burlington Vermont 1875 October 22nd 1875 Pineapple Dessert Juice from can Pineapple – add enough hot water for 1 pint Add gelatine – pour over any kind of fruit or all kinds. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 October 21st 1875 Corn Meal Pudding 3 cups milk 2 Tb. Corn meal 3 Tb. Tapioca Salt 1/3 cup mollasses ¼ cup sugar Butter size walnut 1 egg Bake slowly 1 hour. Put 2 ½ cups milk in double boiler – heat – stir in meal & tapioca dissolved in half cup […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 October 20th 1875 Ham Cut 1 slice of ham, lay in tin – rub in or pour over 2 Tb. Vinegar 2 Tb. Sugar 1 Tb. Mustard – bake 20 minutes. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 October 19th 1875 These are Mrs. Steins Tomato Sauce 2 Tb. Butter or fat 2 Tb. Flour Slt – pepper 1 cup steamed & strained tomatoes – melt fat in sauce pan – stir in flour until smooth – add tomato stir constantly until it boil vigorously. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 October 18th 1875 Salt Cod-Fish Hash Cod-fish – 1 cup Potato cubes – 2 cups Egg – 1 Butter 1 Tb. Salt & pepper Cook fish & potatoes together until potatoes are tender, drain & mash – add butter, salt and egg – beat well with fork – three minutes. Heat frying […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Amer Cookery Book Oct. 16 ‘35 Lemon Chiffon Pie Beat yolks of 4 eggs until thick and lemon colored. Add ½ cup sugar, 1 ts. Flour and the juice & rind of 1 lemon. Cook in double boiler until consistency of (milk?) while (?), Beat whites […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 October 7th 1875 Edna’s White Cake 1 egg in ½ cup sour cream – and fill cup with sour milk 1 cup sugar Small teaspoon soda Same of cream tartar 2 cups flour – salt – & flavor Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 October 7th 1912 Chow-Chow Middletown Mrs. Gerard 3 qts. Green […]
These have a long tradition of being simple but delicious cakes named for the so-called weary willie hobo’s that wandered the country after the Civil War, and then those who were homeless drifters during the 1920’s depression years. Apparently, the Willie’s were not the drifters that were willing to work for pay or food, but […]
German Delinears Soften 2 pkgs. Yeast 1 t. sugar ½ c warm water. Mix 3 c. milk & 1 ½ c short. Beat 3 eggs & add 1 ½ c sugar & 1 t. salt. Add milk & lard & mix – add yeast mixture. Add 5 c. sifted flour & beat well – add […]