Anne Wrens cookbook Mid to Late 1800’s Soft Cookies 1 cup butter, 2 sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 6 tea cups sugar, (? That is a lot of sugar, I am not certain of this measurement? This is probably flour, not sugar), 1 teaspoon soda, a little nutmeg or brandy. Lemon juice. […]
Greenwood Indiana Nov. 24th 1937 My Favorite Recipe Date Pudding 1 cup chopped Dates 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup boiling water Mix and let cool 1 ¼ cups flour 1 cup nuts 1 tsp. soda 1 tsp. baking powder Pinch salt 2 beaten eggs. Add eggs after mixtures are combined. Bake in moderate […]
Anne Wrens cookbook November 24th 1894 Ann Campbell Pie Crust (this is a Puff paste) Half pound lard Half pound butter 1 ¼ pound butter One kitchen coffee cup of water, not full to the brim, so far from top Work the lard & butter into the flour with a knife, salt, leaving out just […]
November 23 Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 To Make a Trifle Put white wine to your biscuits, then sugar, grated lemon, and custard over, then a layer of black currants, and raspberry jam, then biscuits and custard, and again black currants, and raspberries a little essence of lemon or roses and a light froth for […]
Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 Mincemeat 3 lbs. raisins 1 ½ lb. suet 2 lbs. currants 2 lbs. sultanas 2 lbs. apples 1 ½ lbs. sugar ½ lb. mixed peel 1 nutmeg 1 bottle brandy 2 lemons Miss Skaldholme Wrawley, 1908 Mince Pies One pound of suet, one pound of currents, one pound of sugar, […]
November 21 Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 Curled Gingerbread One pound of treacle, one pound of raw sugar, one pound of flower (flour), half a pound of butter and a little ginger. Why this is called Curled, I am not sure? Brown Gingerbread 1 ½ lb. flour, 1 lb. treacle, 1 lb. sugar (course), ¼ […]
Sheffield UK 1899 – 1928 Plum Puddings #1 Half a pound of suet, half a pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, half a pound of sugar, three quarters of a pond of bread, one ounce of citron, one ounce of candied peel, one nutmeg, 8 eggs, a glass (?) of brandy, and a […]
#15 Fig Pudding, number 1 ½ a lb. of breadcrumbs, ½ lb. of figs minced fine, 6 oz chopped suet, 6 sugar, tea cupful of milk, 2 eggs beaten, a little nutmeg; boil 4 hours. The front page has the name “Ada Augusta Warrington, March 20 1880 This is another handwritten recipe book from England, […]
#22 Viennoise (Viennese) Pudding Highbridge, Somerset in the UK during 1898 through 1911 Required: – 5oz small cakes of bread, 3oz castor sugar, 3oz mixed peel, 3oz cherries or sultanas, 1 oz of loaf sugar, juice & rind of 1 lemon, 2 eggs, ¾ pint of milk, 1 glass of sherry Mode: – The bread […]
November 17 Litchfield, Staffordshire UK 1928 – 1944 Lancashire Syrup Roll Ingredients; – Suet pastry 2 ozs. Currants 3 ozs. Chopped apples 2 tablespoonful syrup ½ lemon rind grated Pinch of spice Method: – Make the suet paste and roll it out fairly thinly on a floured board. Spread it with the mixed apple and […]