Holiday Baking #7 Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s From the Olson Family Cookbook 11-8-1928 A Good Economical Layer Cake 1 ½ cups flour 1 cup sugar 3 tsp. baking powder 2 eggs Milk 5 tbsp. melted butter Flavor to taste. Put flour in mixing bowl, with sugar and baking powder. Take measuring cup and […]
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Burlington Vermont 1875 October 28th 1875 Chocolate custard Scald 1 pint sweet milk with 1 square chocolate and pinch of salt. Add ½ Tb. Corn starch mixed with ½ cup sugar & yolks of two eggs, cook until it thickens, add vanilla, when cool cover with meringue. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Our Wedding Cake. Sept 24, 1913 Fruit Cake 1 lb. sugar (add about 1 cup more of sugar) 1 lb. butter 1 lb. flour 12 eggs 2 lbs. currants 2 lbs. raisins 1 large spoon cinnamon 4 whole nutmeg – grated 3 glass sherry wine 2 […]
#6 Turkish Fig Pudding Ingredients. 1 lb. of best figs finely chopped, 1 lb. breadcrumbs, ½ lb. suet finely shred, ¼ lb. moist sugar, 2 oz. candied peel, 1 oz. ground almonds, ½ a nutmeg grated, 3 well beaten eggs. Mode. Boil or steam for 2 ½ hours & serve with sweet sauce. Candied Peel […]
#5 The Lumberman’s X-mas Pudding Ingredients. ¼ lb. beef suet, ¼ lb. flour, ¼ lb. bread crumbs, 6 oz. currants, 6 oz raisins, 2 tablespoons demerara sugar, a tablespoonful of treacle, ¼ lb. mashed carrot, ¼ lb. mashed potato, 1 oz. each of candied orange & citron peel, the grated juice and rind of 1 […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 April 2nd 1912 Grape-Nut Pudding Pour 1 cup of boiling water over ½ cup grape-nuts, let cool. ½ cup raisins or dates ½ cup sugar ½ tbls. Butter ½ cup nuts 2 eggs separated 1 tsp. cinnamon Mix all, fold in egg whites last. Bake ¾ hr. Serve with whipped-cream. Nut Brittle […]