June 6th 1875 Steam Pudding & 1912 Pot Pie
Burlington Vermont 1875
June 6th 1875
Steam Pudding
1/3 cup butter
½ cup milk
2/3 cup raisins
1 cup sour milk
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda, spice
Steam 2 hours
J.C.P.
For more puddings see the posting from June 3rd and 5th and the other posting of pudding from all around England in the 1800’s.
https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/?s=Brittan+puddings
Suet – It is the hard, raw fat from beef or mutton found around the kidneys and loins. The high smoke point and fast melting temperature makes it perfect for deep frying and pastry making. After rendering into tallow, it is used in cooking and baking such things as the traditional English Christmas pudding. The long process of rendering it down to tallow, involves melting and simmering several times, cooling it down all to refine the suet to a usable state. Suet requires refrigeration if it to be stored for any length of time.
Do not confuse suet with all fat from the animals it can only be found around the heart and kidneys of cattle and sheep. Nor should it be confused with drippings, which is the melted fats in the pan when cooking the meat.
Pre-packaged suet that can be found today in the markets is mixed with flour and dehydrated to make it stable at room temperature. Some care is needed to use this for the old recipes, the proportions of flour to fat will alter the stated recipe. Fresh suet can be bought in markets and must be coarsely grated to use; then must be refrigerated prior to use and used within a few days of buying it.
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912
June 6th 1912
Pot Pie Mrs. Good
1 ½ cups flour
Salt
1 teaspoon shortening
½ teaspoon B.P.
1 egg & water to mix.
This is just the pastry for the pie, but I think you could take any good stew type of mix to make the filling for this.
There is a recipe from this book in the April 11th posting for a Chicken pie. This would be a good filling for this pastry.
https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/2021/04/11/april-11th/
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 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/
Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage and antique recipes.
https://www.ebay.com/str/ozziesattic720?_trksid=p2047675.l2563
