July 24, 1911 Great Grandma Kirk’s Cookbook 1890 – 1911 White Cookies 1 cup butter 1 cup sour cream 2 eggs 2 cups sugar 1 teasp. Soda 1 teasp. B.P. Salt, flour Graham Cookies 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 tabel sp. baking molasses 1 cup sour milk 1 teasp. Soda 2 table sp. butter […]
Category: Great Gandmother Kirk’s Recipe Book
CAKES NAMED AFTER EUROPEAN ROYALS PRINCE OF WALES CAKES Pennsylvania 1890’s to 1911, Titled Great Grandmother Kirk’s Recipe Book; Recipe by Mrs. Webb. The next two recipes are in this book. Prince of Wales Cake 2 cups of sugar ½ cups butter 4 table spoons molasses 1 cup sour milk 2 eggs, 2 tea spoon […]
Webster New York 1903 – 1918 Baking Powder Wabash IN 1918 – 1920 Yeast This yeast is a very interesting one, it has ginger in it! From a little research into this; it seems that adding ginger to your yeast when blooming it helps it to rise faster and give an added boost to the […]
This is a follow up posting to go with the recipe from 1875. This is a very interesting recipe; it appears in almost every cook book in some form or other. It is also known as Welsh Rabbit, which somehow morphed from the rarebit. There is no meat in this recipe, it is mostly a […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 July 24th 1875 Kate’s Cake Cup sugar Cup malt Cup shortening 2 cups sour milk 2 teaspoons soda All kinds spice & fruit 4 big cups flour 2 loaves DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 June 21st 1875 Tomato Soup Tomato peeled first, add pepper, salt, 1 teaspoon sugar & soda, last milk, with very little thickening. Picnic Cake June 21st 1906 4 yolks & 1 egg 2 large cups sugar 1 ½ cups sweet milk ½ cup butter 3 teasp. B.P. Flour & vanilla Makes a […]