Burlington Vermont 1875

May 19th 1875

Soft Gingerbread

1 ½ cups molasses

1 cup sour milk

2 cups lard

3 soda – ginger – salt

Mand Rowell

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

May 19th 1912

Corn Bread

1 cup corn meal

1 cup flour

4 teaspoons B.P.

3 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 ½ cups milk

2 tablespoons melted shortening

1 egg

Mix dry ingredients and sift.  Add milk, shortening and beaten egg; beat well and pour into greased shallow pan.  Bake in hot oven about 25 min. 

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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.