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. […]
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June 18, 1938 Lemon Delicacy, Fudge Cake & Frosting, Chocolate Cookies and Sour Milk & Soda Biscuits
La Habra California 1930’s through 1960’s June 1938 Lemon Delicacy 2 T. butter grated rind ½ lemon ¾ C. sugar 1 C. milk Juice 1 lemon 2 T. flour 2 eggs Cream butter, add sugar gradually & cream well together. Add well beaten egg yolks, flour, lemon juice & rind. Mix thoroughly. Add milk & […]
Morrison Illinois 1910 – 1930 Gertsen/Dunn Family Cookbook B.P. Biscuits (baking powder biscuits) March 21, 1917 Also see Feb. 20th for another baking powder Biscuit recipe. https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/2022/02/20/february-20th-1959-orange-baking-powder-biscuits/ 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
In these difficult days of higher prices, supply shortages, and people going back to their Parents and Grandparents ways of surviving and living through tough times; I am going to be posting recipes from the early 1900’s that may give you some knowledge of how to go back to the basics. How To Make those […]
Rockport MA 1931 – 50s Hot orange baking powder biscuits are delicious with tea! Prepare them simply by arranging a prepared roll of biscuits on a baking sheet; then dip a small lump of sugar in orange juice and press into the top of each biscuit before baking. Mansfield MO 1970’s through 1990’s Baking Powder […]
Holiday Baking #30 Loveland Colorado 1960’s through the 1980’s Sugarless Sweets Molasses Pudding Chess Pie Molasses Taffy Honey Cake Honey Icing White honey Fudge Hamburger Upsidedown Pie Savory Biscuit Dough Banana Custard Milk Rhubarb Crisp Steamed Brown Bread Praline Cookies A Way to use Stale Cake 8379 Visit my ebay store to find some great […]
Sheboygan WI 1940’s – 60’s Beef Pot Pie 1 lb. boneless beef stew cut in 1-inch cubes. In Dutch oven brown the meat on all sides in a small amount of hot fat. Slice ½ onion and add ½ clove of garlic, 1 bay leaf, ½ tbsp. salt, ½ tsp. sugar, ¼ tsp. paprika, pepper, […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 June 22nd 1875 Mama’s Biscuit 1 qt. flour 2 teaspoons cream tartar 1 teaspoon soda Little salt, all sifted well together, rub in shortening with hands, wet up with sweet milk. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several […]
#3 Exeter Pudding Ingredients: – 16 tablespoons bread crumbs, 8 (?) oz sago, six oz suet, 4 oz sugar, a pinch of salt, ½ a lemon, rind grated, 2 or 3 well beaten eggs, 2 oz dissolved butter, a little milk, ½ doz. penny sponge cakes, a few wafers. Sauce – Melted red currant jelly […]
There are a lot of recipes that fit this Holiday from this set of cook books, and several decoration ideas as well. These first recipes are from a nice set of books I got from Columbus, Wisconsin, belonging to a Mrs. Corinne Christians; they are mostly dated in the 1950’s, except one book is dated […]