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February 14th, Valentine’s Day 1930’s through the 1970’s; Meringue Hearts, Valentine Cake, Sweetheart Cherry Cake, Cheese Hearts & Apple Strudel

Berwin IL 1950’s – 80’s An Apple Strudel Fit For Royalty Chicago Sun-Times Feb. 14th 1969 Rockport MA 1931 – 50s Feb 14th 30’s through 50’s Valentine Meringue Heart Sheboygan Wisconsin 1940’s through the 1960’s. Canton CT from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. February 1962 Richmond Virginia 1930’s through the 50’s Visit my ebay store […]

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December 22nd; Holiday Baking #52 1928 Fruit Cake, X-mas Doughnuts & Cookies, Sugar cookies & Norwegian Julekake

December 22nd  Holiday Baking #52 Dubuque Iowa dated 1900 through 1957 Fruit Cake                      X-mas Doughnuts        Sugar Cookies               X-mas Cookies              Buriens Washington 1920’s through the 50’s Norwegian Julekake Delicious and Easy to Make, It says here By Jane Eads Washington, Dec. 22. – Mme. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, wife of the Norwegian ambassador here has a […]

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December 12th, 1946 Grandmother’s Plum Pudding, Trinidad Hard Sauce & Hot Lemon Sauce; Plus Holiday Baking #42 Cake Christmas, Mrs. Shaw Fruit Cake

December 12th Buriens Washington 1920’s through the 50’s The Bellingham Herald, thurs., Dec. 12, 1946 Grandmother’s Plum Pudding Trinidad Hard Sauce Hot Lemon Sauce West Petersborough 1920’s – the 40’s Cake Christmas         Mrs. Shaw Fruit Cake                 Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage […]

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December 4th, Holiday Baking #34, 1930’s – 60’s All Kinds of holiday Foods and Treats!

Le Habra California from the 1930’s through 1966 Dec 1953 Betsy Retsies Sunset Magazine December 1954 Brown Cookies White Cookies Date Almond Kisses Rice Krispies Cookies Date Cookies Bourbon Balls Pineapple Diamonds Pecan Dreams Hard Boiled Egg Cookies Glazed Yule Cookies 1934 Springerle Spritz Cookies Pfeffernusse Cinnamon Stars Spicy Cinnamon Rolls Cinnamon Stars Christmas Cookies […]

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Holiday Baking #31, 1930-40’s Xmas Cake, Sugar Cookies and Eggless Cake

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, […]

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November 27th, Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes; Squash Pie, Soft Gingerbread, Fruit Cake & Kris Kringle Stollen

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 […]

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Holiday Baking #26 Continued; More Cookies, Cookies and even More Cookies!

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 […]

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Holiday Baking #18; Early 1900’s Cookies

Holiday Treats #18    New Berlin Ohio in the early 1900’s Cinnamon Stars                          4 whites egg beaten hard 2 cups sugar beaten again 1 lemon rind 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 lb. ground almond Chocolate Cookies 3 whites beaten stiff 1 c. sugar ½ lb. ground almonds 1 bar sweet chocolate 1 tsp. vanilla Butter Cookies      […]

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Holiday Cookies #13 Eggless Cookies, Nut Bars and all kinds of Christmas Cookies!

Holiday Cookies #13 A handwritten cookbook from Chico California 1900 through the 1940’s Eggless Cookies                                   2 cups sugar, 1 of butter, 1 sweet milk, 1 tea sp. soda, 1 tea sp. nutmeg, flour to roll.  Bake quickly.  Mapleine Nut Bars                             ¾ cup flour, ½ cup chopped nuts, 1 cup sliced dates, 1 tea sp. mapleine, […]