Buriens Washington 1920’s – 50’s May 10th 1941 Meat-Balls 12 lbs. pork shoulder 23 lbs. beef 1 quart cream “table” (I think this means the cream you would use at table) 2 cups corn starch 2 cups cracker crumbs 1 ¼ cup salt 3 teaspoons ginger 2 teaspoons pepper 2 teaspoons nutmeg ½ teaspoon cloves […]
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A recipe I have been looking for ever since Mom pared down her recipe box, and got rid of a lot of her old recipes; is what we know today as Chex Mix snacks. I did find Mom’s recipe after all and have included it here, as well as a few others that I have […]
December 30th Holiday Baking #60 Worchester Mass. 1894 – 1930 Walnut Buns Wheat gems Mock mince Pie Fruit Cake Mrs. Burr’s Sugar Cookies 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
Holiday Treats #53 Greenwood Indiana 1937 Christmas Candies Peanut Brittle Penouchi Chocolate Fudge Taffy Fondant Pecan Rolls Caramel A great set of instructions and guides for measurements, times and temperatures. From a book that has dates in it from the 1950’s through 2011; in Winfield Kansas. Egg yolk Cookies Sugarless Brownies Holiday Cookies Lemon Crackers […]
December 15th Oro Valley Arizona 1800’s through 1900’s Mincemeat Grand 3 cups chopped beef (2 lbs.) 4 cups chopped apples 1 rounding cup chopped suet 2 2/3 cups sugar 2 cups cider 1 cup syrup from sweet pickle jar 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons mace ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ½ teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 […]
Holiday Cooking #24 These 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 in the 1920’s. She was likely a secretary as a lot of the recipes are written in shorthand; I will […]
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 #21 Dubuque Iowa dated 1900 through 1957 Fruit Cake Mock Mince Pie Fairbanks Alaska from the early 1900’s Green Tomato Mincemeat Cranberry Pie Suet – It is the hard, raw fat from beef or mutton found around the kidneys and loins. The high smoke point and fast melting temperature makes it perfect […]
This is a follow up posting to go with the recipe from 1875. This is a very interesting recipe; it appears in almost every cook book in some form or other. It is also known as Welsh Rabbit, which somehow morphed from the rarebit. There is no meat in this recipe, it is mostly a […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 July 31st 1912 Beef Loaf 2 lbs. round steak (ground fine) 1 cup cracker crumbs ½ cup melted butter 2 eggs 1 cup of hot sweet milk Salt and pepper to taste Add a little onion or parsley Mix together well and form into a loaf, bake 2 hrs. Basting with water […]