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Holiday Baking #22, Genoa Cake, Fruit Cake, Cracker Pie & Sugarless Cake & Gingerbread, Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie

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) […]

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Holiday Baking #21 Fruit Cake, Mock Mince Pie, Tomato Mincemeat & Cranberry Pie

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 […]

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Holiday Baking #20 Christmas Cake, Cookies, Springerle, Stollen & Gugelhupf

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 […]

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Holiday Cooking and Baking #19 1970’s Herb Roasted Turkey with Citrus Glaze & 1908 Mincemeat & Mince Pies

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 […]

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November 19th, 1912 Stuffed Turkey & 1931 Olson Family Cookbook Spice Cake

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; […]

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Holiday Baking #18; Early 1900’s Cookies

Holiday Treats #18    New Berlin Ohio in the early 1900’s Cinnamon Stars                          4 whites egg beaten hard 2 cups sugar beaten again 1 lemon rind 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 lb. ground almond Chocolate Cookies 3 whites beaten stiff 1 c. sugar ½ lb. ground almonds 1 bar sweet chocolate 1 tsp. vanilla Butter Cookies      […]

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Holiday Baking #17, The Olson Family Cookbook 1930, Lebkuchen, Fruit Cake, Cookies, Sugar Cookies and More!

Holiday Baking #17 Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s November 17th 1930    (Monday) Boston cookies and Coconut Drop Cookies Dahlen Harm Just finished baking a double portion of Boston Cookies, and, because Ingwall gobbled down a few for lunch, I feel that they turned out good.  Now I have just mixed up a portion (double […]