Holiday Baking #32 Riverside California 1935 Mock Mincemeat 4 qts. Green tomatoes – grind & draw off juice. Cover with cold water and let come to a boil and simmer ½ hour. Draw off the water and add 2 lbs. brown sugar – 1 lb. raisins (ground), 1 lb. currants, ½ cup butter, 1 scant […]
Tag: #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, […]
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 […]
Holiday Baking #29 Litchfield, Staffordshire, UK 1928 – 1944 Marzipan Sandwich ¾ short pastry 4 oz. soya flour 3 oz. sugar 2 ozs. Margarine 2 lbs. water 2 small tsps. almond essence Jam. Method:- Roll out the pastry fairly thinly, cut into 2 oblongs or squares. Then make the marzipan. Put the margarine into a […]
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 […]
Holiday Baking #25 Largo Florida in the 1960’s through 1990’s Cherry Christmas Tree Cake Serves 30. Kringlors ½ lb. butter ½ lb. Crisco – melted 1 egg 1 c. sugar 1 pt. milk (2 cups) 4 tsp. baking powder Flour enough so you can roll out dough. Bake 375 Dip in sugar before […]
Holiday Baking #22 Fairbury Nebraska 1930’s through 1955 X-mas Cooking Genoa Cake 1 lb. butter, butter soft 1 lb. sugar Creamed together 8 eggs, beaten 1 at a time 1 ½ lbs. flour 2 small teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon cream of tartar 2 lbs. sultana raisins ½ lb. mix peal, (lemon, orange& citron) […]
Holiday Baking #20 Debenham UK in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s Tested Christmas Cake Festive; Delicious; Uses No Dried Fruit. Decatur Georgia 1920’s Springerle Cookies Sugar Cookies (springerle) Springerle Springerle X-mas Honey Cookies 0385 Stollen and Gugelhupf Strudel Dough Apple Strudel Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 November 19th 1912 Stuffed Turkey 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 books The list of names for the people who contributed recipes for these books are listed here; […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 November 5th 1875 Chocolate Cake Yolk of one egg 1 cup sugar – salt Butter or lard – size of egg 1 ½ cup flour ½ cup (?) pour boiling ter on to dissolve, then fill cup with sweet milk 1 teaspoon cream tartar ½ soda – flavor – use boiled frosting. […]