Daily Calendar Recipes Humor Specialty Foods admin 5 years agoDecember 10, 2021

August 2nd, 1912 Crab Cakes & 1950’s Cole’s Do-Do (Salad Dressing)

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

August 2nd 1912

Crab Cakes very good

1 lb. crab meat

1 raw egg

2 hardboiled eggs

Salt & pepper

1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, about 8 slices of bread soaked in water and squeezed out. Pick over crab meat very carefully, then mix and make into cakes. Let stand awhile to dry out, roll in crumbs and egg and fry in deep fat.

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/

Bethel Maine 1930’s through the 1960’s.

Cole’s Do-Do

This is just too funny of a name to pass it up! I think it is a salad dressing, but what’s up with that name?

6 oz. Tomato Soup

2 oz. oil

1 oz. vinegar

½ oz. water

8 oz. sugar