Daily Calendar Recipes admin 5 years agoDecember 10, 2021

August 3rd, 1912 Ham and Cheese Rarebit & 1980’s August Cooler

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

August 3rd 1912

Ham and Cheese Rarebit (serves eight)

¾ lb. American cheese

1 can tomato soup

Slices of bread toasted

1 green pepper diced

1 cup diced leftover ham

1/8 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. pepper

½ cup water

¾ cup evaporated milk

2 tsp. butter

(Method) Put evaporated milk, water, tomato, salt and pepper in the top of double boiler. Add the pepper dices. Cut cheese into small pieces and add to this mixture. Thicken with a paste made of the flour and water. Serve on toasted rounds of bread. A garnish of strips of pimento adds to the attractiveness of the dish.

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/

Winfield Kansas between the 1950’s through 2011

August Cooler

Boil 4 c water & 2 c sug tog. 5 min. Add 2 c fruit juice: (pineapple, orange, grape, grapefruit, cranberry) add 4 T lemon juice, unless you used unsweetened grapefruit. Freeze. When partly frozen, remove & whip till smooth. Refreeze. Serve in tall glasses w gingerale poured over. Serves 4 to 6.

Sug = sugar; tog. = together; c = cup; w = with