Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 April 9th 1912 Strip pie (good) 3 eggs 1 cup molasses 1 ½ cups sugar 3 cups sour milk 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon Mix milk and flour then rest of the ingredients. Bake in crust, makes 3 pies. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add […]
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Burlington Vermont 1875 April 4th 1875 Graham Gems 1 cup graham flour 1 tablespoon butter 2/3 cup Buttermilk 1 tablespoon sugar 1 egg well beaten Scant teaspoon soda Beat well, grease tins and have them hot, bake in quick oven. Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 April 4th 1912 Nesselrode Pie or Pudding Frances 1 tbsp. (?)plain gelatin […]
This March 14th is National pie day and I thought this would be a good time to write all about this lovely dessert. With further research, it seems that every August 15th is Lemon Meringue Pie Day, I did not know this until studying for this posting. I may repeat it in August and just […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 10th 1875 Custard for Cake 1 spoon starch wet 1 cup boiling water let boil 1 cup sugar little butter – Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 10th 1912 Sugar Biscuit Mrs. J. Bach (could also be Ibach) 1 lb. sugar 1 cup butter and lard mixed 1 cup sour milk 2 eggs […]
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 […]
This series of recipes are from two little books that have 365 recipes, one for every day of the year, from 1900 and 1903. The first is; 365 Dinner Dishes: A Dinner Dish for Every Day of the Year. Selected from Table Talk, Good Housekeeping, Boston Cooking School Cook Book, and Others, 1903. 365 Desserts: […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 February 6th 1875 Cup Cake 2 eggs beat in a teacup and filled with some cream 1 cup sugar 1 2/3 cups flour Soda & spice Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 February 6th 1912 Sugar Cookies Mrs. Good 2 cups of brown sugar 2 cups of shortening 2 egg 1 cup of sweet milk […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 February 4th 1875 Cooking Greens. – This is the simplest of dishes, and yet it is not always a well served one. Greens should be properly boiled; the water should be soft, and a tablespoonful of salt added to a large-sized pot of it, which should be boiling hot when the greens […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 29th 1875 Fruit Pudding To make a plain fruit pudding, take one cup of sugar, one half cup butter and two eggs. And beat together, then add a cup of sour milk and one tea-spoonful of soda, three cups of flour and one cup of chopped raisins; spices to taste. Put […]