Burlington Vermont 1875

March 3rd 1875

Sweet Pickle

7 lb. fruit

3 lb. sugar

1 ½ pints vinegar

Cook until done

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

March 3rd 1912

Small Cakes                                                          Mother’s Ginger Snaps

1 qt. of Orleans Syrup

1 lb. of sugar

1 lb. of butter and lard

1 oz. cinnamon

Cloves to taste

2 nutmegs

Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top.  Roll thin.

Orleans syrup is molasses; lb. – pound; qt. = quart.

From Morrison Illinois 1920’s to 1930’s

March 3 1917

B.P. Biscuit.

2 level cups flour

4 level teasp. B.P.

1 teasp. Salt

2 level tablesp. Butter

Sift the flour, salt & B.P. several times.  Then work in the butter with a spoon and milk slowing till it forms a soft dough.  Put on a board & roll out & cut.  Bake 12 minutes in a hot oven

Friday Club

DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR

As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books. 

I have three right off the bat that are calendars, one from 1875, one from the early 1900’s and one from the 1930’s to 40’s. 

A small leather covered calendar book from Burlington Vermont dated 1875.  It has all kinds of lovely handwritten dessert recipes; the front of the book has an overview of each month and a predictive weather chart, the difference of tie between Boston and New York, the value of gold and silver at the time and other interesting things like rates of postage. 

The next book is a red date book that is dated 1912 from Avondale Pennsylvania.  There are several hands involved in the recipes and they are dated up to 1944.  It starts out with a list of recipes on January 1^st and then on the second we get a cake recipe from Mother. 

The third is a cook book I got from Morrison Illinois and written in the 1920’s and 30’s.  I think the person who wrote this book was from Iowa; there are a lot of notations in the book with that state as a focus.  The two cities listed next to the names of a couple of ladies who contributed recipes, Comanchie and Norway Iowa are very small towns along the Mississippi River and about 3 counties apart from each other.  I believe there is a lot of relatives credited in the cook book, by the names of Dunn, Gertsen, Broderson and Hanson; and one recipe is credited to Grandma Cook.