Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

April 2nd 1912

Grape-Nut Pudding

Pour 1 cup of boiling water over ½ cup grape-nuts, let cool.

½ cup raisins or dates

½ cup sugar

½ tbls. Butter

½ cup nuts

2 eggs separated

1 tsp. cinnamon

 Mix all, fold in egg whites last.  Bake ¾ hr.  Serve with whipped-cream.

Nut Brittle Cream

2 cups whipped cream

1 cup crushed peanut brittle

Add crushed peanut brittle to whipped cream.  Pour in moulds and freeze 3 hrs.

Hrs. = hours; tbls. = tablespoons; tsp. = teaspoons; hr. = hour.

April 2^nd 1926 

Tuesday 8:45 p.m. Emilie N. Olson

Fruit Cake 

2 pounds butter                                         20 eggs

2 pounds sugar                                           1 tsp. soda

3 pounds flour                                            2 tsp. cream tartar

2 pounds currants                                     1 tbsp. mace

2 pounds raisins                                         1 tbsp. cinnamon

1 ½ pound citron                                        2 tsp. cloves

3 cups molasses                                         2 grated nutmegs

Bake 3 hours. 

From Saris North Dakota a cookbook from Mrs. R. Olson, dates found are 1920’s through 1930’s.   This has several recipes in Swedish.  This book has a bunch of dates in it to Experiment with. 

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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