Wooster Ohio 1886 to 1929 a small leather cookbook with all kinds of newspaper clippings and loose pages. Friday March 6th 1914 Newspaper the Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer This paper has a nice article for some fun on St. Patrick’s Day; I thought it might be nice to show you these. They are intertwined […]
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These 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 in the 1920’s. She was likely a secretary as a lot of the recipes are written in shorthand; I will need to find someone […]
This is from a large lot of notebooks filled with handwritten recipes from 1940’s through 1950’s. Several are in shorthand and it includes a lot of life lessons and advice. These are from Columbus, Wisconsin, written by a Mrs. Corinne Christians. She has all kinds of Holiday special recipes and notes as well as decoration […]
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 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 19th 1875 Lemon Pie 1 lemon – Yolks of two eggs & one whole one – 1 cup sugar ½ cup sweet milk blended with – 1 teaspoonful of corn starch. Use the whites of the other two eggs for frosting allow 3 tablespoonsful of sugar for one egg. Check out […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 18th 1875 Cream Pie Crust 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 ½ cup flour 1 ½ cup cold water ½ teaspoon cream tarter ½ teaspoon soda This is a little difficult to interpret this recipe, the measurements for the flour and water seem to be the same, 1 ½ cup, but […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 January 13th 1875 Puff Pudding Beat three or four eggs very light. It pays to beat the whites separately, and add them the last thing. To the yolks add three cups of sweet milk, a large tablespoonful of melted butter, and three cups sifted flour. Butter ten teacups and bake the batter […]
A Cranberrie Meringue Pie This is a recipe found in a cook book I got from Morrison Illinois and written in the 1920’s and 30’s. I think the person who wrote this book was from Iowa; there are a lot of notations in the book with that state as a focus. The two cities listed […]