Holiday Baking #15 Chico California 1900 through the 1940’s Cheap Fruit Cake 1 cup brown sug, ½ cup butter, 1 cup each raisins, nuts, currants and citron; orange & lemon peel if liked, 1 table spn. Mixed spices, ½ tea spn. Salt. Stir all together and let boil one min. Set off to cool and […]
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Holiday Baking A lot of fruit cakes are better if made in advance and stored in an air tight container for a while (sometimes for months ahead). I will be adding recipes all through the next two months, I have a lot of them! Albany New York 1902 through 1940’s Heinze Mincemeat Fruit Cake ½ […]
Boston Cookies 1 cup butter 3 ¼ cups flour 1 ½ cup sugar ½ tsp. salt 3 eggs 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. 1 cup chopped nuts 1 ½ tbsp. hot water 1 cup raisins (Dough must be quite soft) Note: 2 tsp. baking powder to 1 cup flour when no eggs are used. Nut […]
Ellen Packard Nov 3rd 1864, Creeping Hall Miss Packard was waxing lyrical about a pudding, I enjoy these very interesting commentaries from the ladies of this time. The creativity is amazing and this is a very nice poem. Paradise Pudding If you’d have a good pudding Pray mind what you’re taught Take 2 pennyworth of […]