Holiday Baking #38 For Something with a little Aussie Flavor, Lamington Cakes! From Mount Hutton NSW Australia in the 1940 and 50’s. Lamington Cake Icing for the Lamingtons Biscuits (Sugar Cookies) Patterson’s Fruit Cake Napoleon Biscuits (Cookies) Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage […]
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Holiday Baking #37 Winfield Kansas in the 1950’s through 2011 No Bake Fruit Cake Almond Sherry Cake TV Mix (Chex Mix) Fruit Cake Fruit Cake Mom’s Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookies Sugar Cookies Egg Yolk Cookies Never Fail Pie Crust Raisin Pie Sugarless Brownies Ice Box Fruit Cake Holiday Cookies Snickerdoodles 12-71 […]
December 6th Holiday Baking #36 Maple Lane Minnesota 1931 Honey Pie Mock Apple Strudel (Austrian) Marcellus New York 1880 Baking Powder Cookbook Eggless Fruit Cake Wedding or Christmas Cake Marion Arkansas 1858 Wedding Cake Almond Icing Applesauce Fruit Cake Sugar Cookies Sugar Cookies Nut Cookies Mince Meat Visit my ebay store to find some great […]
Holiday Baking #32 Riverside California 1935 Mock Mincemeat 4 qts. Green tomatoes – grind & draw off juice. Cover with cold water and let come to a boil and simmer ½ hour. Draw off the water and add 2 lbs. brown sugar – 1 lb. raisins (ground), 1 lb. currants, ½ cup butter, 1 scant […]
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, […]
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 #23, continued Grand Rapids Michigan 1930’s Crisp Sugar Cookies ½ cup shortening 1 ¼ cup sugar 1 egg 3 ¼ cup flour 4 tea. B.P. ¾ tea. Salt ¼ cup milk Cream shortening & sugar, add the egg and beat well, add sifted dry ingredients with the milk & flavor as you like. […]
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 […]
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 […]