Burlington Vermont 1875 January 15th 1875 Cake 3 cups sugar 5 eggs 1 cup butter 1 cup sour milk 1 small teaspoon soda 4 cups flour – (3 loaves) Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 January 15th 1912 Coconut Cake Mrs. Good 2 cups of gran. Sugar.1/2 cup of butter or Crisco or spry 1 cup of milk […]
Category: 1800’s foods
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 14th 1875 Johnny Cake 2 cups of meal 1 of flour 2 cups sour milk 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon soda – salt Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 January 14th 1912 Crescents Mrs. Parliment 1 cup shortening ½ cups confectioners sugar 1 ½ cup nuts, put through food grinder. 2 cups of flour […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 13th 1875 Puff Pudding Beat three or four eggs very light. It pays to beat the whites separately, and add them the last thing. To the yolks add three cups of sweet milk, a large tablespoonful of melted butter, and three cups sifted flour. Butter ten teacups and bake the batter […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 12th 1875 Seed Cake One cup of butter; two of white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of seeds, and flour enough to make a stiff paste. Roll it very this, with sugar instead of flour on board, and cut it in rounds. Bake it about fifteen minutes. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 10th 1875 White Cup Cake One and a half cups of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk, whites of four eggs, one cup of corn starch, one cup of flour, half a teaspoonful of soda, one of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of extract of lemon. […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 9th 1875 PEACH CORDIAL Make a rich syrup of one quart of peach juice and one pound of white sugar; when cold add half a pint of the best brandy; for a drink dilute with water the same as any fruit shrub. Avondale Pennsylvania January 9th 1912 PORK CAKE 1 lb. […]
Avondale Pennsylvania January 8th 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 […]