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1800's foods A Trip through Britain with Puddings, late 1800’s through early 1900’s Highbridge, Somerset UK 1898 - 1911 History admin 

A Trip through Britain with Puddings, late 1800’s through early 1900’s, 1st Book: #22 Viennoise (Viennese) Pudding

#22 Viennoise (Viennese) Pudding Highbridge, Somerset in the UK during 1898 through 1911 Required: – 5oz small cakes of bread, 3oz castor sugar, 3oz mixed peel, 3oz cherries or sultanas, 1 oz of loaf sugar, juice & rind of 1 lemon, 2 eggs, ¾ pint of milk, 1 glass of sherry Mode: – The bread […]

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November 16, 1931; Holiday Recipes 2022: Aunt Anna’s Plum Pudding & Orange Cocoanut Meringue Pie

Buriens Washington 1920 – 1950 Aunt Anna, likes to ramble on when writing down recipes, I love her commentaries about what to add and the fact that Jack (her husband?) doesn’t like as much fruit in the cake.  Nov. 16/31 Aunt Anna’s Plum Pudding       1 lb. currants 1 lb. raisins I use the big sticky […]

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Holiday Baking #31, 1930-40’s Xmas Cake, Sugar Cookies and Eggless Cake

Holiday Cooking #31 Mahoney Bay Canada 1930’s and 40’s Xmas Cake                             2 lbs. butter                                      5 lbs. currants 2 lbs. sugar                                       6 lbs. raisins 24 eggs                                             2 lbs. mixed peel 3 lbs. flour                                        1 oz. cassia 1 teaspoon Magic Soda                 3 nutmegs 1 glass orange juice                        1 tablespoon cloves 2 lbs. almonds Cream butter and sugar, […]