April 14 1923

From Morrison Illinois 1920’s to 1930’s

Freda’s Pie Crust

1 cup flour. Sift

4 level tablespoon lard

½ teasp. Salt

Mix with a fork.

4 tablespoon of cold water

Enough for 1 pie; double crust

Burlington Vermont 1875

April 14th 1875

Cake

3 cups sugar

5 eggs

1 cup butter

1 cup sour milk

1 small teaspoon soda

4 cups flour

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

April 14th 1912

Montgomery Pie                                                Mrs. Laney

1 cup table syrup

1 cup cold water

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 lemon

3 tablespoons flour mixed like gravy and stirred in last.

Top Part

2 cups sugar, ½ cup butter, 1 cup milk, 2 ½ cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg.

(3 pies)

Also pie pastry

Pastry                                      (good)

2 cups of pastry flour

1 teaspoon salt (scant)

1 teaspoon baking powder

2/3 cup shortening.

Cold water to make a stiff dough, about ½ cup. 

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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