Holiday Baking #61 The Finale! New Year’s Eve Webster New York 1903 – 1918 New Year’s Cake Gingerbread Nuts Decatur Georgia 1920’s New Year’s Eve Cake Hartshorn – Ammonium carbonate is made by dry distillation of oil of hartshorn, which is made by the destructive distillation of male red deer horns. (Can be used as […]
Category: Columbus Wisconsin, The Christians Family Cookbook
I found in a couple of books recently with these recipes in them and wondered why ginger in the yeast? This seems like a very unusual ingredient for a yeast, which is the base for making bread (and many other recipes). I thought that it would inhibit the growth of the yeast, which uses sugar, […]
HOLIDAY RECIPES These are from a nice set of books I got from Columbus, Wisconsin, belonging to a Mrs. Corinne Christians; they are mostly dated in the 1950’s, except one book is dated in the 1920’s. She was likely a secretary as a lot of the recipes are written in shorthand; I will need to […]