Burlington Vermont 1875

March 15th 1875

Pudding Crumbed Bread

One pint

3 pints milk boiled poured onto bread when cool put in 8 eggs ½ lb. raisins little salt sauce for it – butter sugar & nutmeg rubbed together.

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

March 15th 1912

Ginger Bread                                                      Mrs. A.S. Moyer

1 cup gran sugar

2 tablespoons lard

½ cup N.O. Molasses

1 beaten egg

2 ½ cups flour

3 teaspoons baking soda in the flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

¼ teaspoon cloves

1 cup boiling water, (goes in last)

1 teaspoon of ginger

Mix dry ingredients.  Put lard in bowl, soften, add sugar then dry ingredients, egg, molasses and last the boiling water.  The mixture is very thick before adding the water. 

Gran = granulated; N.O. Molasses = New Orleans, which is a brand of molasses. 

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

The list of names for the people who contributed recipes for these books are listed here;

https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/2021/03/04/daily-recipes-by-calendar-family-names/

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