Debenham UK 1800’s through the 1950’s; Miss Emily Moore (Three generations in these cookbooks) The perfect Sauce for the Pudding To Make Hard Sauce For Tonight’s Cocktail Parties Fudge And another Newspaper article for; Chestnut Recipes: Chestnut Soup Cold Chestnut Sweet Chestnut Supper Dish Chestnut Caramel Oven temperatures are seldom given in the old books […]
Category: 1800’s foods
Debenham UK 1800’s through the 1950’s; Miss Emily Moore Marmalade Sauce 2 teas. Cornflour, a little cold water, 2 tablespoon of marmalade, 1 tablespoon lemon squash or juice. Blend cornflour with water & put into a pan with marmalade & lemon juice or squash. Stir until simmering. Cook 3 to 4 mins. Christmas 1955 Cakes […]
Willmington North Carolina 1880 – 1928 Thanksgiving Cookies Four eggs – well-beaten, 2 cup sugar, 1 cup butter. Cream all together. Flavor with lemon. 4 cups flour, 2 heaping teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Fruit Cookies One-half pint brown sugar, 1 pint lard, ½ pint molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 heaping tablespoon soda, 2 heaping […]
Betty Wallace Cider Cake 1 tea cup butter, 3 sugar, 1 cider, 4 or 5 eggs, 1 cup milk, 6 heaping spoons flour, 1 teaspoon soda wet with water, 2 brandy; Put in (?) thing mil first, then cider & flour. Pound Cake 1 lb. flour, 1 ld. Sugar, ¾ lb. butter, 10 eggs 8 […]
Aunt Harriet’s Soft Gingerbread 6 tea cups flour, 3 of molasses, 1 of butter, 1 of cream, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 large spoon ginger, put all together, beat them well, bake a common sized loaf a half hour in an oven suitable for bread. Mrs. C.J.L. soft Gingerbread ½ cup of shortening, melted […]
Anne Wrens cookbook Mid to Late 1800’s Soft Cookies 1 cup butter, 2 sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 6 tea cups sugar, (? That is a lot of sugar, I am not certain of this measurement? This is probably flour, not sugar), 1 teaspoon soda, a little nutmeg or brandy. Lemon juice. […]
Anne Wrens cookbook November 24th 1894 Ann Campbell Pie Crust (this is a Puff paste) Half pound lard Half pound butter 1 ¼ pound butter One kitchen coffee cup of water, not full to the brim, so far from top Work the lard & butter into the flour with a knife, salt, leaving out just […]
November 23 Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 To Make a Trifle Put white wine to your biscuits, then sugar, grated lemon, and custard over, then a layer of black currants, and raspberry jam, then biscuits and custard, and again black currants, and raspberries a little essence of lemon or roses and a light froth for […]
Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 Mincemeat 3 lbs. raisins 1 ½ lb. suet 2 lbs. currants 2 lbs. sultanas 2 lbs. apples 1 ½ lbs. sugar ½ lb. mixed peel 1 nutmeg 1 bottle brandy 2 lemons Miss Skaldholme Wrawley, 1908 Mince Pies One pound of suet, one pound of currents, one pound of sugar, […]
November 21 Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 Curled Gingerbread One pound of treacle, one pound of raw sugar, one pound of flower (flour), half a pound of butter and a little ginger. Why this is called Curled, I am not sure? Brown Gingerbread 1 ½ lb. flour, 1 lb. treacle, 1 lb. sugar (course), ¼ […]