1800's foods Daily Calendar Recipes admin 6 years agoNovember 22, 2021

January 8th, 1912 Nut Cakes & 1875 Tomato Stew

Avondale Pennsylvania

January 8^th 1912

NUT CAKES Minnie (good)

2 cups of sugar

1 cup of butter or lard

1 cup of sweet milk

3 eggs well beaten

4 cups of flour, sift into flour 3 heaping teaspoons of B. powder.

6 oz shell-barks finely chopped.

Shell-barks are a hickory nut from the middle of the country mostly in the Ohio river and Mississippi region. From the east of Kansas to western New York and Lower Michigan through upper Tennessee. It is the largest of the hickory nuts and are sweet and the wood is used for a large number of items such as hammer handles. This book is from Pennsylvania which is part of the known range of the Shellbark hickory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carya_laciniosa

Burlington Vermont 1875

January 8^th

TOMATO STEW

As this fine vegetable is now becoming plenty, let us give the readers of the Cultivator a simple but excellent way to serve it. Scald and skin the desired number, and place in a stew-pan without water; let them simmer for half an hour. Add pepper, salt, a good-sized piece of butter and a spoonful or two of white sugar. Grate a few bits of stale bread over all; boil up once, and serve very hot.