Burlington Vermont 1875 March 9th 1875 Cup Cake 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 3 cups flour 5 eggs ½ teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cream tarter ½ cup milk & flour alternately spice & put if you like. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 9th 1912 Oat Meal Cakes 1 1/3 cups sugar 2/3 cup shortening 2 […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 8th 1875 Mrs. Smith Lemon Jelly 1 large sour apple grated 1 lemon juice & rind 1 egg 1 cup sugar well beaten boil up nice put between cakes while hot. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 8th 1912 Chocolate Cakes Delia 1 can eagle brand milk. 1 cup chopped English walnuts. 1 […]
Havertown PA 1879 through 1948 A small handwritten cookbook and lots of additional clippings and loose pages. The name on the front of the red leatherbound book is Jonathan Holland and a few of the recipes have references to a Mrs. Holland and the Victoria Cake is dated 1885 for her. There is a Nut […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 7th 1912 Ginger Drop Cakes Mrs. Rumbold 3 lb. of flour ¾ lb. of sugar ¾ lb. of lard 8 eggs 1 pt. of thick milk 1 qt. of N. Orleans molasses 1 tablespoon cream tarter 2 tablespoon B. Powder 1 tablespoon ginger 1 tablespoon mace 1 tablespoon cinnamon ½ of […]
Wooster Ohio 1886 to 1929 a small leather cookbook with all kinds of newspaper clippings and loose pages. Friday March 6th 1914 Newspaper the Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer This paper has a nice article for some fun on St. Patrick’s Day; I thought it might be nice to show you these. They are intertwined […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 6th 1912 Walnut Cakes Mother 1 pt. of sugar 1 large cup of kernels 2 eggs Make pretty stiff with flour. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 5th 1912 Oat Meal Cookies Mary Lohan 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup butter & lard 2 eggs Pinch of salt 2 ½ cups of oat meal Or 1 cup of coconut. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of […]
As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books. Over the years, I have collected a lot of recipe boxes, old cook books and handwritten books. In reading them, using the recipes to recreate flavors from the […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 4th 1875 Jenny Lind Cake 1 large spoon melted butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 1 spoon soda 2 cream tarter 1 ½ cups flour – Jenny Lind was a real person; an opera singer from Sweden, known as the Swedish Nightingale. P.T. Barnum brought her to America […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 3rd 1875 Sweet Pickle 7 lb. fruit 3 lb. sugar 1 ½ pints vinegar Cook until done Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 3rd 1912 Small Cakes Mother’s Ginger Snaps 1 qt. of Orleans Syrup 1 lb. of sugar 1 lb. of butter and lard 1 oz. cinnamon Cloves to taste 2 nutmegs […]