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

August 11th, 1912 Vegetable Chop Suey & 1917 Midsummer Cakes

Avondale Pennsylvania 1912

August 11th 1912

Vegetable Chop Suey

2 tbsp. shortening or drippings

1 cup tomatoes

4 cups cabbage shredded

½ cup green pepper (cut fine)

1/3 cup onion (cut fine)

1 cup fresh corn

1/3 cup water

¾ tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. pepper

Cover and boil 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally, sprinkle over veg. then stir and boil 1 min. 1 ½ tbsp. flour. Stir in 2/3 hot pet milk, do not boil after adding milk.

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/

Hadley PA 1874 through 1917

Aug 1917

Midsummer Cakes & Genoese Cake

Whites of 5 eggs beat to a foam, add ½ teaspoon cr. Tar., beat till stiff & dry. Add gradually ¾ cup gran. Sugar, ¼ teasp. almond flavoring. And fold in ½ cup flour sifted 3 times.

Meringue filling

Beat whites of one egg slightly, add ½ cup crushed fruit. 1 cup con. Sugar, beat 15 min.

Genoese Cake

3 very large eggs, add ½ cup sugar stand in pan of boiling water & beat 15 min. Add 1/3 cup melted butter & ¾ cup flour & ½ teasp. B.P. Flavor as desired.

Good housekeeping

Aug 1917 p.80

Teasp. = teaspoon; cr. Tar. = cream tarter; gran = granulated; con = confectioner’s sugar.