Burlington Vermont 1875

July 30th 1875

Pies                                                 (Rena’s)

5 tablespoons grated chocolate

Yolks of 2 eggs

Pinch of salt

½ cup sugar

2 teaspoons flour

Mix thoroughly, pour on 1 cup boiling water, cook, stirring constantly.  Flavor with one teaspoon vanilla.  Line a pie plate with crust and bake.  When done fill with the mixture.  Beat the whites of the eggs, add 2 teaspoons of pulverized sugar, spread on top & brown. 

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/

San Francisco CA 1910’s through the 1950’s. 

7-30-1950

Cherry Pudding

2 cups cherries & juice

2 tsp. tapioca

½ cup sugar

Pour into greased backing dish, sprinkle with

¾ cups flour

½ cup sugar

¼ cup butter

Work flour, sugar, butter until mixture is evenly crumbled.  Sprinkle thickly over cherries & bake for 45 min, 300degrees.  Serve warm & whipped cream.

This is written on the back of a receipt for a hospital bill; for a Glendoris Cullen, by Dyke Cullen on 7-30-50 in Bethesda Maryland.  There is a newspaper cutout of a wedding for them on November 22^nd, but no date for the year.  A great deal of these recipes uses a vegetable substitute such as spry or oleo as the fat for them; this was a common ingredient during the war years as things like butter, lard and more common fats were being rationed because of WWII.    That makes these recipes likely to be dated in the late 30’s to the late 40’s; dates found in the book are from 1910’s through the 1950’s. 

Other names from this cookbook are;

Glory; Spice Cake, Betty Crocker Pineapple Festival Cake, Sour Cream Pie, Oatmeal Cookies, Frosting Fluff, Tuna Fish,

         Or Gloria; Red Devils Food,

Mrs. Runde; Cocoa Divinity Cake, New Magic Spice Cake,

        Also – Kay Runde; Chocolate Butter Scotch Pie with Sugar Meringue, Strawberry Pie, Hollywreath Cookie, Buns, Rich Biscuit Dough, Kay Runde’s Syrup,

Janice Runde, Brownies, Choc Chip Oatmeal Cookies, Sugar cookies, Chocolate Drops,

Gertie; Maraschino Cherry Cake,

Grandma; Choc Cake,

Eliz. – Sunshine Cake, Rich Fudge Sauce, Sugar Cookies, Catsup,

       Also – Liz; Apple Dumpling,

Barts; Miracle Whip Cake,

Ina Mae; Canned Strawberries,

Mabel Simon; Popcorn Balls, Frosting,

Delores Steigman; Light Fruit Cake,

There are a few locations mentioned in the newspaper articles that I can find, mostly on the East coast; Washington D.C. Maryland, Dubuque Iowa and Illinois.  So even though I got this book from San Francisco California, I think it was mostly from the other side of the country.  Although, they were a military couple, as it shows in the wedding article, and could have been a well-traveled cookbook. 

Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage and antique recipes.

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