Burlington Vermont 1875 March 21st 1875 To cure Hams 50 lbs. meat 1 ½ gallon water 3 lbs. salt 3 oz salt peter ½ pt molasses boil & skim – pour on cold for four pails full or 12 gallons use 24 lbs salt 24 oz salt peter 4 pts (not sure what word this […]
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Spring Chocolate Torte – party type 1 c. butter, creamed with 2 c. sugar; beat 4 egg whites stiff, 2 ½ c. cake flr. 1 t. soda, ½ t. salt. Pour ½ c. boiling water over 1 bar german sweet choc & heat til melted; add 4 egg yolks & 1 t. vanilla to creamed […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 16th 1875 Berry pudding 1 pint berries 1 pint sour milk 1 pint flour Salt & soda – steam two hours. Beat 1 pint sweet cream to froth. Add whites of four eggs beat all together flavor to taste. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 16th 1912 Taylor Cakes Elizabeth Moffet 3 eggs […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 11th 1875 Cream Sponge Cake Two eggs in a cup – pile up with sweet cream. 1 cup sugar 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon C tarter ½ soda flavor with lemon. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 11th 1912 Cinnamon Snaps Mother 1 pt. of molasses ½ pt. of lard 1 tablespoon 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 […]
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 […]
Tip Top Cake I have found these two recipes in the last two books I got. Interesting how sometimes things group together. The only info I have is from these two recipes; searching the internet all I get is a couple of bakeries named Tip top Cakes. I will keep looking but not a lot […]
These have a long tradition of being simple but delicious cakes named for the so-called weary willie hobo’s that wandered the country after the Civil War, and then those who were homeless drifters during the 1920’s depression years. Apparently, the Willie’s were not the drifters that were willing to work for pay or food, but […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 February 14th 1875 Tea Cake 3 cups flour 1 ½ cups milk ½ cup sugar 1 egg Teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons cream tarter Bake in quick oven eat – hot milk – butter DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out […]