December 14th Just for fun, lets keep looking at some more 1800’s recipes. Newberry Vermont 1864 through 1877 Cookies 5 cups of flour 1 cup of butter 2 cups of sugar 1 egg & a little rose water 1 teaspoonful of Saleratus Caraway Mrs. Wrights Cookies 8 cups of flour 2 cups of white sugar […]
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Burlington Vermont 1875 October 31st 1875 Kate’s Frosting 1 cup sugar 4 table spoons water 1 egg white – cook in double boiler five or seven minutes – beat all the time – easy & good. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out […]
Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado Norma Buel Sept. 25th 1926 Rochester Chocolate Cookies ½ c. melted butter 1 c. brown sugar 1 egg ½ c. milk -sweet 1 ½ c. flour ½ tsp. soda 1 c. nutmeats 2 squares melted chocolate 1 t. vanilla ½ t. B.P. Frosting 1 egg white […]
Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s September 19th 1931 (Saturday) Our pleasant anticipation of rain has been blasted. Mamma even had hopes of rain last night as it was blowing quite hard from the northeast and she said the moon had never looked so rainy to her before. Besides, she said, “de I maan chane […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 September 7th 1875 Rhubarb Marmalade Ella Rovell’s 2 lbs. rhubarb cut up 3 lbs. sugar 2 lemons, juice and grated rind ½ lb. eng. Walnuts, chopped (English Walnuts) Boil 20 minutes, or until thick. DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes […]
Nameless Cake (Betty Ellen) ¾ c. Short. ¾ tsp. nutmeg 1 ½ c gran sug 1 tsp. cinnamon 3 eggs 2 tbsp. cocoa 1 ¾ c. flour ¾ c. sour milk ½ tsp. B.P. 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp soda 1 tsp lemon ½ tsp salt ½ c chopped nuts Cream short. & add sug. […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 June 21st 1875 Tomato Soup Tomato peeled first, add pepper, salt, 1 teaspoon sugar & soda, last milk, with very little thickening. Picnic Cake June 21st 1906 4 yolks & 1 egg 2 large cups sugar 1 ½ cups sweet milk ½ cup butter 3 teasp. B.P. Flour & vanilla Makes a […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 14th 1875 Frosting White of one egg 1 teaspoon starch 9 heaping teaspoons pulverized sugar Lemon juice to whiten Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 14th 1912 Ice Cream Cookies Mrs. A.S. Moyer ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup lard and butter 1 egg not beaten ¾ cup flour – bread flour or […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 10th 1875 White Cup Cake One and a half cups of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk, whites of four eggs, one cup of corn starch, one cup of flour, half a teaspoonful of soda, one of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of extract of lemon. […]