Burlington Vermont 1875 January 29th 1875 Fruit Pudding To make a plain fruit pudding, take one cup of sugar, one half cup butter and two eggs. And beat together, then add a cup of sour milk and one tea-spoonful of soda, three cups of flour and one cup of chopped raisins; spices to taste. Put […]
Category: Daily Calendar Recipes
Recipes from several books that are almanacs, yearly calendars, daily ledgers, and note books with dates in them. Also holiday recipes and commentaries for those special days of the year.
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 26th 1875 Jumbles 1 ½ cup sugar ½ cup butter 2 eggs 1 teaspoon soda in1 big spoon sour-milk Flour to knead Astrid Burlington Vermont 1875 January 27th 1875 One Egg Cake 3 cups flour 1 /12 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk 1 egg 2 tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons cream […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 25th 1875 Berwich Sponge Cake Three eggs 1 ½ cup sugar 1 teaspoonful cream tarter 1 cup flour. Dissolve ½ teaspoon soda in 1/2 cup cold water then another cup flour. Astrid DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 24th 1875 Oyster Omelet Whisk six eggs to a stiff froth, then add by degrees a cup of cream or milk, beat them well together, season with pepper and salt to taste. Have ready one dozen fine oysters, cut them in half. Pour the eggs into a pan of hot butter, […]
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 find someone […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 23rd 1875 Chicken Croquettes Chicken croquettes may be made of bits of cold chicken chopped fine. Take a sufficient quantity of milk to moisten the chicken; in this stir a little flour till it is free from lumps; stir in the chicken in this. Then dip your hands in flour, and […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 22nd 1875 Orange Dessert This delicious compound, to be eaten cold with cake, is made by paring five or six orange, and then cutting them in thin slices; then pour a cup of pulverized sugar over them; boil one pint of milk; when scalding hot add the yolks of three eggs […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 21st 1875 Potato Snow Boil six or eight large potatoes. When perfectly dry, mash very fine, adding one tea-cupful of hot milk, a table-spoonful of butter, a tea-spoonful of salt and a salt-spoonful of white pepper. Rub through a colander, into a deep dish that may fall lightly and not lose […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 20th 1875 Cracker Griddle Cakes One pint of cracker dust; the yolks of two eggs; thin with milk, and when it swells add more milk until of the right consistency; salt, and when ready to bake add the whites of the eggs beaten stiff. I am assuming these are pancakes, due […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 19th 1875 Lemon Pie 1 lemon – Yolks of two eggs & one whole one – 1 cup sugar ½ cup sweet milk blended with – 1 teaspoonful of corn starch. Use the whites of the other two eggs for frosting allow 3 tablespoonsful of sugar for one egg. Check out […]