1800's foods Daily Calendar Recipes admin 5 years agoDecember 10, 2021

July 29th, 1875 Drop Molasses Cookies & 1934 Molasses Doughnuts

Burlington Vermont 1875

July 29th 1875

Drop Molasses Cookies

1/3 cup butter melted in 1/3 cup boiling water

1 cup molasses

2 ¾ cups flour

Teaspoon soda

½ teaspoon ginger, cinnamon

1 cup nut meats, drop on a buttered sheet, rounding teaspoon in each cake.

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

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/

Fairfield IL 1916 – 1960’s

July 1934

Molasses Doughnuts

1 cup sour milk, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 egg well beaten, two teaspoon melted butter, one cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger.

Combine molasses, butter, milk and egg; sift flour, measure and sift with baking powder, soda, ginger and salt. Add flour mixture to other ingredients and fry in hot fat; roll doughnuts in sugar.

Mrs. Mary Hargrove

Golden Pond

R.I. box 66. Ky.

Comfort Sisters July 1934