Burlington Vermont 1875 February 9th 1875 Brown Bread 1 cup corn meal 1 cup rye 1 cup graham 1 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 1 teas soda 1 cup sweet milk (Ethels) Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 February 9th 1912 Sugar Cookies Mrs. Minich 3 cups of sugar 3 eggs 2 cups of sour milk 2 […]
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365 Recipes from 1900 & 1903 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 […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 16th 1875 Hard Gingerbread 2 cups molasses 1 cup hot water ½ cup butter 1 tablespoon ginger 2 small tablespoon soda Mix hard grill in thin sheets. This seems like a lot of soda; I wonder if she meant teaspoons instead. Then you grill them? I am thinking these are cookies […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 11th 1875 Tomato Catsup For four or five quarts of catsup, boil one peck of ripe tomatoes fifteen minutes, without removing the skins, and strain through a sieve; put into a little bag one teaspoonful of whole cloves, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, allspice and black pepper, and put these with […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 9th 1875 PEACH CORDIAL Make a rich syrup of one quart of peach juice and one pound of white sugar; when cold add half a pint of the best brandy; for a drink dilute with water the same as any fruit shrub. Avondale Pennsylvania January 9th 1912 PORK CAKE 1 lb. […]
As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books. I have missed a few days this year so far so I will post them as I get them typed. I have three right off the bat that […]