2 1800’s cook books New Year’s Cookies. Saleratus – From the Latin sal aerates, meaning “aerated salt”. A precursor to baking soda, it hit the market in 1840 and was a chalky powder used for the chemical leavening needed to produce carbon dioxide gas that gives the rise in your baked goods. It was made […]
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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 […]
December 30th Holiday Baking #60 Worchester Mass. 1894 – 1930 Walnut Buns Wheat gems Mock mince Pie Fruit Cake Mrs. Burr’s Sugar Cookies Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage and antique recipes. https://www.ebay.com/str/ozziesattic720?_trksid=p2047675.l2563
Dec 26th Walton New York 1905 – 1943 Christmas Cookies Butter Cookies Christmas Cookies Fruitsoppa (Swedish Fruit Soup) This is very good! I first had Fruit Soup where I went to college, in a small Swedish Heritage town in Kansas called Lindsborg. They had a diner there that served Swedish foods as well as the […]
Holiday Baking #55 Fleetwood PA 1917 through 1940’s Brandy sauce and Eggnog Eggnog Christmas Here is an easily made eggnog, said to have come from the files of old Delmonico’s. Have a punch bowl large enough to hold three quarts. Crack eight fresh eggs, separate yolks from whites. Whip whites to a light froth. Add […]
Holiday Baking #54 Wabash Indiana 1918 – 1920’s Christmas Dessert of Cranberry Delight Mincemeat apples Late Christmas Gift Easily Made 1930 Christmas Fruit-Cake Christmas Cream Cake Ammonia Cookies (Sugar Cookies) Hot Apple Sauce Cake or Christmas Pudding Peanut Butter Pie Colorful Christmas Cakes and Gift Making Ideas Fruit Cake Visit my ebay store to find […]
Holiday Treats #53 Greenwood Indiana 1937 Christmas Candies Peanut Brittle Penouchi Chocolate Fudge Taffy Fondant Pecan Rolls Caramel A great set of instructions and guides for measurements, times and temperatures. From a book that has dates in it from the 1950’s through 2011; in Winfield Kansas. Egg yolk Cookies Sugarless Brownies Holiday Cookies Lemon Crackers […]
December 21st Holiday Baking #51 Sheffield UK 1903 – 1928 Mince Pies One pound of Suet, one pound of currants, one pound of sugar, three quarters of a pound of raisins, one ounce of candied peel, one ounce of citron and a little Brandy. Spokane Valley Washington late 1800’s through the early 1900’s White Cookies […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado December 20th Corn Fritters 1 can corn 2 teaspoons salt 1 cup flour ¼ teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon baking p. 2 eggs Chop corn, and add dry ingredients mixed and sifted, then add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and fold in whites of eggs beaten […]
Holiday Baking #49 San Francisco California 1910 through 1950’s Philly Candy Standard Divinity Candy 2 cups sugar ½ cup light corn syrup Pinch salt ½ cup hot water 2 egg whites 1 t. vanilla Dissolve sugar, syrup and salt in hot water, boil with-out stirring. Pour to slow in beaten egg whites. Choc Philly Fudge […]