#4 Black Cap Pudding Butter a mould & put with it a ¼ lb. of currants then fill it up with a light batter made of eggs, milk & flour seasoned with sugar, boil ½ an hour. Mallory It seems this recipe could be made with any dark fruit, but currants are the most common, […]
Category: History
December 5th From Albany New York in 1902 through the 1940’s Christmas Fudge Greenwood Indiana 1937 Christmas Candies 1195 + Peanut Brittle Penouchi Chocolate Fudge Taffy Fondant Caramel Rockport Maine 1930’s through the 50’s. Orange Cereal Trees Xmas stocking cookies Nesselrode Pie Thanks to Roberta Belviy for finding this information; “This famous—and briefly lost—18th-century pie […]
Holiday Baking #29 Litchfield, Staffordshire, UK 1928 – 1944 Marzipan Sandwich ¾ short pastry 4 oz. soya flour 3 oz. sugar 2 ozs. Margarine 2 lbs. water 2 small tsps. almond essence Jam. Method:- Roll out the pastry fairly thinly, cut into 2 oblongs or squares. Then make the marzipan. Put the margarine into a […]
Newington NH 1940’s through the 1960’s November 1957 Squash Pie Soft Gingerbread Oct 1923 newspaper 1880s Franklinville NY Thanksgiving mincemeat pie and crust (newspaper articles). This article says it could have come from the Custis family which is the same family name that Mrs. Martha Washington, wife of General George Washington, got several of her […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 September 27th 1912 Pickled Hot Peppers To each quart 1 tablespoon salt Equal parts water and vinegar. Fill jar with peppers add salt, then fill with water and vinegar. Mooket Woman The name, Mooket Woman, is fascinating! Could she be a Native American Indian, I have to believe so by her name. […]
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 […]
Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s September 19th 1931 (Saturday) Our pleasant anticipation of rain has been blasted. Mamma even had hopes of rain last night as it was blowing quite hard from the northeast and she said the moon had never looked so rainy to her before. Besides, she said, “de I maan chane […]
Burlington Vermont 1875September 4th 1875 Sally Lunn CakesTwo and one-half cups of flour, 2 ½ teaspoons of baking powder, ½ cup sugar, ½ teaspoon of salt, 1 egg, 1 cup sugar, ½ teaspoonful melted butter. Mix in the order given, bake in gem-pans or cups. Very nice. Add a cup of berries and it makes […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 September 2nd 1875 Cup Custards: One quart of Milk, four eggs, one cup of sugar, a salt-spoonful of salt. Boil the milk, beat the eggs with the sugar and salt till very light and add hot milk slowly. Pour into small cups which have been set in a dripping pan, the rule […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 July 30th 1875 Pies (Rena’s) 5 tablespoons grated chocolate Yolks of 2 eggs Pinch of salt ½ cup sugar 2 teaspoons flour Mix thoroughly, pour on 1 cup boiling water, cook, stirring constantly. Flavor with one teaspoon vanilla. Line a pie plate with crust and bake. When done fill with the mixture. […]