Holiday Baking #28 Cambridge Minnesota 1930’s And now, just to prove than (that?) a man may know how to cook, let me suggest this by way of variety. Sour Cream Raisin Pie 1 cup raisins 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour cream 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful cinnamon ½ teaspoonful cloves 1/3 teaspoonful […]
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Newington NH 1940’s through the 1960’s November 1957 Squash Pie Soft Gingerbread Oct 1923 newspaper 1880s Franklinville NY Thanksgiving mincemeat pie and crust (newspaper articles). This article says it could have come from the Custis family which is the same family name that Mrs. Martha Washington, wife of General George Washington, got several of her […]
Rockport Maine 1930’s through the 50’s. Crisp almond cookies Xmas stocking cookies Canton CT from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. Sweetest gift Frosted Almond squares A cookbook from Towanda PA from the Swoope family; several generations of them are present in these recipes, dated from the early 1900’s through the 1980’s. Springerli Peffernuss Grandmother’s Sugar […]
Holiday baking #26 Get those baking sheets ready for the Cookie Cooking Marathon that leads up to all those treats for gifts, parties and cookie trading parties. Starting off, this is a recipe from one of the oldest cookbooks in America; One of the first cook books published in America is “American Cookery by Amelia […]
Holiday Baking #25 Largo Florida in the 1960’s through 1990’s Cherry Christmas Tree Cake Serves 30. Kringlors ½ lb. butter ½ lb. Crisco – melted 1 egg 1 c. sugar 1 pt. milk (2 cups) 4 tsp. baking powder Flour enough so you can roll out dough. Bake 375 Dip in sugar before […]
Holiday Baking #22 Fairbury Nebraska 1930’s through 1955 X-mas Cooking Genoa Cake 1 lb. butter, butter soft 1 lb. sugar Creamed together 8 eggs, beaten 1 at a time 1 ½ lbs. flour 2 small teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon cream of tartar 2 lbs. sultana raisins ½ lb. mix peal, (lemon, orange& citron) […]
Holiday Baking #21 Dubuque Iowa dated 1900 through 1957 Fruit Cake Mock Mince Pie Fairbanks Alaska from the early 1900’s Green Tomato Mincemeat Cranberry Pie Suet – It is the hard, raw fat from beef or mutton found around the kidneys and loins. The high smoke point and fast melting temperature makes it perfect […]
Holiday Baking #20 Debenham UK in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s Tested Christmas Cake Festive; Delicious; Uses No Dried Fruit. Decatur Georgia 1920’s Springerle Cookies Sugar Cookies (springerle) Springerle Springerle X-mas Honey Cookies 0385 Stollen and Gugelhupf Strudel Dough Apple Strudel Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables […]
Holiday Cooking #19 Austin Texas 1970’s through 2000 Herb Roasted Turkey with Citrus Glaze Holiday Baking #19 This is a nice handwritten cookbook from Sheffield England and is dated between 1903 through 1928. Mince Pies One pound of suet, one pound of currants, one pound of sugar, three quarter’s of a pound of raisins, one […]
Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 November 19th 1912 Stuffed Turkey DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR 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 The list of names for the people who contributed recipes for these books are listed here; […]