Burlington Vermont 1875 July 3rd 1875 Mrs. O’Mara’s Cookies Heaping teaspoon salt 1 large cup sugar 1 large cup melted butter (the butter has been crossed out and lard put in place, but personally I would use the butter), beat together, little nutmeg, heaping teaspoon ginger, 1 cup sour milk with 1 teaspoon stirred in. […]
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I found in a couple of books recently with these recipes in them and wondered why ginger in the yeast? This seems like a very unusual ingredient for a yeast, which is the base for making bread (and many other recipes). I thought that it would inhibit the growth of the yeast, which uses sugar, […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 May 19th 1875 Soft Gingerbread 1 ½ cups molasses 1 cup sour milk 2 cups lard 3 soda – ginger – salt Mand Rowell Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 May 19th 1912 Corn Bread 1 cup corn meal 1 cup flour 4 teaspoons B.P. 3 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 ½ cups milk […]
From a cook book dated in the 1800’s a news paper article of several nice desserts; I got the book from Wooster Ohio. And on the Back side of this newspaper article; DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I […]
There are a lot of recipes that fit this Holiday from this set of cook books, and several decoration ideas as well. These first 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 […]