Holiday Baking #32 Riverside California 1935 Mock Mincemeat 4 qts. Green tomatoes – grind & draw off juice. Cover with cold water and let come to a boil and simmer ½ hour. Draw off the water and add 2 lbs. brown sugar – 1 lb. raisins (ground), 1 lb. currants, ½ cup butter, 1 scant […]
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Holiday Cooking #31 Mahoney Bay Canada 1930’s and 40’s Xmas Cake 2 lbs. butter 5 lbs. currants 2 lbs. sugar 6 lbs. raisins 24 eggs 2 lbs. mixed peel 3 lbs. flour 1 oz. cassia 1 teaspoon Magic Soda 3 nutmegs 1 glass orange juice 1 tablespoon cloves 2 lbs. almonds Cream butter and sugar, […]
Holiday Baking #30 Loveland Colorado 1960’s through the 1980’s Sugarless Sweets Molasses Pudding Chess Pie Molasses Taffy Honey Cake Honey Icing White honey Fudge Hamburger Upsidedown Pie Savory Biscuit Dough Banana Custard Milk Rhubarb Crisp Steamed Brown Bread Praline Cookies A Way to use Stale Cake 8379 Visit my ebay store to find some great […]
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 […]
Holiday Baking #28 Cambridge Minnesota 1930’s And now, just to prove than (that?) a man may know how to cook, let me suggest this by way of variety. Sour Cream Raisin Pie 1 cup raisins 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour cream 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful cinnamon ½ teaspoonful cloves 1/3 teaspoonful […]
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 […]
Rockport Maine 1930’s through the 50’s. Crisp almond cookies Xmas stocking cookies Canton CT from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. Sweetest gift Frosted Almond squares A cookbook from Towanda PA from the Swoope family; several generations of them are present in these recipes, dated from the early 1900’s through the 1980’s. Springerli Peffernuss Grandmother’s Sugar […]
Holiday Baking #23, continued Grand Rapids Michigan 1930’s Crisp Sugar Cookies ½ cup shortening 1 ¼ cup sugar 1 egg 3 ¼ cup flour 4 tea. B.P. ¾ tea. Salt ¼ cup milk Cream shortening & sugar, add the egg and beat well, add sifted dry ingredients with the milk & flavor as you like. […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Our Wedding Cake. Sept 24, 1913 Fruit Cake 1 lb. sugar (add about 1 cup more of sugar) 1 lb. butter 1 lb. flour 12 eggs 2 lbs. currants 2 lbs. raisins 1 large spoon cinnamon 4 whole nutmeg – grated 3 glass sherry wine 2 […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 September 16th 1875 Salad Dressing Tested This will keep. One heaping tablespoonful butter, 1 rounded tablespoon of flour; put in a small frying pan on the stove and stir until hot and smooth, then add 1 cupful of milk. Have mixed in a bowl 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, […]