Burlington Vermont 1875 January 9th 1875 PEACH CORDIAL Make a rich syrup of one quart of peach juice and one pound of white sugar; when cold add half a pint of the best brandy; for a drink dilute with water the same as any fruit shrub. Avondale Pennsylvania January 9th 1912 PORK CAKE 1 lb. […]
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Avondale Pennsylvania January 8th 1912 NUT CAKES Minnie (good) 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of butter or lard 1 cup of sweet milk 3 eggs well beaten 4 cups of flour, sift into flour 3 heaping teaspoons of B. powder. 6 oz shell-barks finely chopped. Shell-barks are a hickory nut from the middle 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. I have missed a few days this year so far so I will post them as I get them typed. I have three right off the bat that […]
A Cranberrie Meringue Pie This is a recipe found in a cook book I got from Morrison Illinois and written in the 1920’s and 30’s. I think the person who wrote this book was from Iowa; there are a lot of notations in the book with that state as a focus. The two cities listed […]
January 2021 I have had an interest in old recipes and cooking for many years, for various reasons. The first one is trying to find some recipes that my Mother used to make and in later years, she threw away the recipe cards when paring down her stuff. I have been looking for a replacement […]