Newberry Vermont 1864 through 1877 January 13th 1870 Fifth Avenue Cake Whites of 10 eggs Sugar 1 ½ tumblers Flour 1 tumbler Cr. Tartar 1 teaspoonful Jan. 13th 1870 INGREDIENT REFERENCES and MEASUREMENTS I have found several references that explains the equivalents to our modern measurements. Just a few examples are; Gill – Pronounced Jill; […]
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 […]
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 30th Holiday Baking #60 Worchester Mass. 1894 – 1930 Walnut Buns Wheat gems Mock mince Pie Fruit Cake Mrs. Burr’s Sugar Cookies 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
December 29th West Petersborough 1920’s – the 40’s Mother’s Sugar Cookies 1 cup butter 2 tsp. Bak. Powder 2 cup sugar ¼ tsp. soda 4 eggs ¼ tsp. nutmeg Enough flour to roll When rolled, sprinkle with sugar, press down with roll pin, cut out and bake. Wedding Cake Made in Salem in 1845 5 […]
December 22nd Holiday Baking #52 Dubuque Iowa dated 1900 through 1957 Fruit Cake X-mas Doughnuts Sugar Cookies X-mas Cookies Buriens Washington 1920’s through the 50’s Norwegian Julekake Delicious and Easy to Make, It says here By Jane Eads Washington, Dec. 22. – Mme. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, wife of the Norwegian ambassador here has a […]
December 21st Holiday Baking #51 Sheffield UK 1903 – 1928 Mince Pies One pound of Suet, one pound of currants, one pound of sugar, three quarters of a pound of raisins, one ounce of candied peel, one ounce of citron and a little Brandy. Spokane Valley Washington late 1800’s through the early 1900’s White Cookies […]
Holiday Baking #50 Fairfield IL 1916 – 1960 (pics in 2020 june) December 20th 1932 Bula Richardson Caramel recipe ½ cake chocolate 1 pound granulated sugar ¼ pound butter 1 cup table syrup 1 cup cream or milk 1 tablespoon vanilla Pinch soda Boil 20 minutes, let cool, put in buttered pan and cut in […]
Holiday Baking #49 San Francisco California 1910 through 1950’s Philly Candy Standard Divinity Candy 2 cups sugar ½ cup light corn syrup Pinch salt ½ cup hot water 2 egg whites 1 t. vanilla Dissolve sugar, syrup and salt in hot water, boil with-out stirring. Pour to slow in beaten egg whites. Choc Philly Fudge […]
December 14th Just for fun, lets keep looking at some more 1800’s recipes. Newberry Vermont 1864 through 1877 Cookies 5 cups of flour 1 cup of butter 2 cups of sugar 1 egg & a little rose water 1 teaspoonful of Saleratus Caraway Mrs. Wrights Cookies 8 cups of flour 2 cups of white sugar […]