Showing posts with label Dessert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dessert. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Red Cake


 Recipe for Red Cake:

Cream
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups cugar
2 eggs

Add
2 oz red food coloring (that seems like a lot)
1 tsp cocoa - mix well

Add 2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda

Bake at 360 degrees

Found in "Cooking With the Pennsylvania Dutch" edited by A. Monroe Aurand. Published by The Aurand Press, 1946.

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Monday, July 1, 2019

Sour Cream Pie


 Recipe for "My Mother's Sour Cream Pie."

My Mother's Sour Cream Pie (good)
Uncle Roger's favorite

1 c. sour cream
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. chopped raisins
Yolk of two eggs
2 tbs flour
1 tsp vanilla

Mix

Bake in one crust. Beat egg whites, add 3 tbs sugar, top and brown.

Found in "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" published by The Heritage Press, 1949.

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Monday, June 17, 2019

Rhubarb Crisp



Recipe for rhubarb crisp:

1 cup sifted flour
3/4 cup uncooked rolled oats
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
1 tsp. cinnamon

Fruit mixture

4 cups diced rhubarb
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup water
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix together crumb topping ingredients until crumbly. Press half of crumbs into greased 9" layer pan. Cover with rhubarb.

In small saucepan combine sugar, cornstarch, water and vanilla. Cook, stirring until thick and clear. Pour over rhubarb. Top with remaining crumbs.

Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 1 hour. Cut in squares and serve warm, plain or with whipped cream. Makes 8 servings.

Found in "The State, The Family and Education" by Miriam E. David. Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.



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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Orange Sponge Cake


Recipe for orange sponge cake:

Beat whites of three eggs stiff.
Add 3 yolks, one at a time, beating constantly.
Add - gradually - one cup of sugar, grated rind of one orange and one-third cup of orange juice.
Fold in one cup flour, sifted with one teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Turn into buttered shallow pan, and bake in a moderate over - 25 or 20 minutes.

Found in "St. Nicholas' Travels" by Hertha Pauli. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1945.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

French-Swiss Cookies and Sand Tarts


Two typewritten and xeroxed recipes:

French-Swiss Cookies

1/2 lb. butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 egg white
Colored candies or ground nuts

Cream butter and sugar thoroughly. Beat in egg yolk. Add flour and cinnamon and blend well. Roll pieces of dough into 1" balls between buttered palms. Place balls on ungreased baking sheet about 2" apart. Press out paper thin with a floured spatula. Paint with egg white and sprinkle with colored candies or ground nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 mins. Yield: 6 dz cookies

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Sand Tarts

Cream 1/2 cup butter. Add 1 cup sugar, 2 egg yolks (beaten lightly) and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat the mixture until light. Sift together 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Add to first mixture and blend well. Chill for several hours. Roll dough thin and cut with 3" star cookie cutter. Place on buttered baking sheets and put a split blanched almond on each cookie. Brush with unbeaten egg whites, then sprinkle with muxture of 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon. Bake in moderate oven, 375 degrees, for ten minutes.

Found in "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. Published by the Junior Book Club, no date, circa 1945.









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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Pumpkin Golden Glow



Handwritten recipe for "Pumpkin Golden Glow" -

Chop coarsely 3 lb. of peeled pumpkin
Cover with 3 lb. of sugar. Let stand overnight.
In morning, add juice and grated rind of 6 oranges and 3 lemons.
Cook slowly till thick.
Few raisins may be added.

Found in "Astrology: Your Place Amount The Stars" by Evangeline Adams. Published by Dodd and Mead, 1930.

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Mocha Cake Filling

Recipe for Mocha Cake Filling:

Cream 2 tablespoons of butter with 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 teas vanilla
3 teas cocoa and sufficient strong coffee to make the mixture of spreading consistency. Beat until smooth and glossy.

Found in "The Every-Day Cook Book" by Mrs. E. Neil. Published by Donohue and Co., no date.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

White Cake


Recipe for white cake:

1/2 c. butter or margerine
1 c. sugar
1 egg well beaten
1/2 ts salt
1 c. milk
1 c flour
4 ts powder (bkg)
1 1/2 c. huckleberries
flavoring

Cream fat and sugar
Add egg
Mix and sift dry ingredients, reserving 1/4 c. flour to dredge berries. Add alternately with milk
Fold in dredged berries

Bake in shallow pan 350 degrees 30 or 45 mins

Found in "Barnaby Rudge" by Charles Dickens. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1875.


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Monday, December 5, 2016

Glorified Rice

 Recipe for "Glorified Rice" -

1 pt crushed pineapple
1 C. pineapple juice
1 pkg lemon jelly
1 C. boiling water
2 C. cold cooked rice
1 C. whipped crea,
1 C. sugar

Method - Drain pineapple - dissolve jello in boiling water and add pineapple juice.  Allow to thicken. When set, whip to consistency of heavy cream. Add pineapple pulp to rice and fold into whipped jello. Add sugar to whipped cream and fold into rest. Set in cold place to harden. You may serve with more whipped cream.

Found in "The Middle Twenties" by John Farrar. Published by George H. Doran, 1924.




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Monday, May 30, 2016

Scottish Shortbread


Recipe for "Scottish Shortbread,"a recipe "from the kitchen of Mabel Fairweather."

1/2 cup soft butter (butter only)
1/2 cup very fine sugar
2 cups sifted flour

Cream butter until soft and fluffy. Add sugar gradually. and work until light. Add 1 3/4 cups flour, reserve 1/4 cup for bake board and blend well. Turn out dough and gradually knead in remaining flour. Press evenly into 8" aluminum ungreased cake tin. Score edges and thoroughly prick all over with a fork. (Last step very important).

Bake in a moderate oven 325- 350 degrees F (depending on your oven) for approx. 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour, or until nice golden colour and is shriking from sides of pan. Let cool in pan and then on wire rack until thoroughly cool. Store in airtight tin.


Found in "The Cookie Book: Delectable and Delicious Dainties" compiled by Nellie Watts. Published by Culinary Arts Press, 1939.


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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Pumpkin Pie


 Recipe for pumpkin pie:

1 1/2 C pumpkin
3/4 C sugar
1/2 t salt
1 t cinnamon
1/2 t ginger
1/4 t nutmeg + cloves
3 slightly beaten eggs
1 1/4 C milk
1 6 oz can - 2/3 cup ev. milk
1 9" pastry shell

400" 50 min

Found in "Treatise on Cake Making" published by The Fleischmann Division, Standard Brands Inc., 1935

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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Fudge


 Recipe for fudge:

Fudge - Jewel(?) Beck

2 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Dark Karo
1/2 Cup milk
2 sqr. Bitter Bakers
pinch salt
Butter

All in pan, cook toll soft ball in water - about 5,8,10 min

Found in "Capital Stories by American Authors" published by The Christian Herald, 1903.



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Monday, January 11, 2016

Chocolate Dessert

 Recipe for "Chocolate Dessert" -

2 C pwd. sugar
2 sq. chocolate
1/2 C butter
1/2 C nut meats
3 eggs yolks, beaten
3 egg whites, beaten stiff

Cream sugar and butter and melted choc.
Add 1 tsp. vanilla and nuts
Add egg yolks and fold into egg whites

Roll one box vanilla wafers to crumb, line bottom of 9 x 13 cake pan. Save some crumbs for top

Put mixture on crumbs, then 1 qt. vanilla ice cream on top of that.
Add remaining crumbs


Found in "New Trends in Table Settings" by Lucy Staley. Published by Hearthside, 1968.



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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Oatmeal Drop Cookies



Recipe for oatmeal drop cookies:

2 eggs
3/4 c. veg. oil
1/2 c. milk
1 c. honey
1 1/2 tea vanilla
2 1/2 c whole wheat flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
2 cups rolled oats
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 c. raisins
1 c. candied fruit mix, chopped

Beat eggs, add oil, milk, honey and vanilla; mix well. Combine flour, salt, soda and spices. Blend in oats, nuts and fruits. Stir liquid into dry measure. Drop level tbsp dough onto greased baking sheets.

350 degrees - 10-12 minutes

Found in "Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus" published by Merriam-Webster, 1988.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Raspberry Salad


Large volume recipe for Raspberry Salad:

Serves 50

15 pkgs (3 oz) raspberry jello
15 cups boiling water
10 - 10 1/2 oz. packages frozen raspberries
15 cups applesauce

Dissolve jello in hot water. Add unthawed berries. Stir to dissolve. Add applesauce and pour unto mold. Serve with whipped cream or mayonnaise thinned with cream.


Found in "Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes" published by M. Barrows and Co., 1940.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Rosa Marina Salad


Recipe for Rosa Marina Salad:

1 lb box Rosa Marina
1 20 oz can crushed pineapple
1 15 oz can mandarin orange
1 8 oz Cool Whip

Drain fruit, saving juices. Mix juice, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons flour. Cook until thickened over med heat, stirring so it doesn't burn. Chill.

Cook Rosa Marina accord. to pkg. Then chill with fruit.

When chilled, mix all ingredients including Cool Whip and chill


Found in "While My Pretty One Sleeps" by Mary Higgins Clark. Published by Simon and Schuster, 1989.



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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Babe Ruth Cookies


Recipe for "Babe Ruth Cookies."

1 egg
1 1/3 c flour
1/2 tea salt
3/4 c white sugar
1/2 tea soda
1/2 tea vanilla
1/2 c butter
2 - 5 cent bars, cut (I think they are probably referring to Baby Ruth candy bars)

Cream short (no mention of shortening above?) and sugar, beat in egg and other ingredients. Chill and bake 10-12 minutes at 375


Found in "Portrait of Jennie" by Robert Nathan. Published by Knopf, 1968.


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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Rhubarb Cobbler


Recipe for rhubarb cobbler:

1 C Sugar
1 C Flour
2 T Shortening
2 tsp. Bkg. Powder
Salt
3/4 Milk

Mix and then add 2 or 3 cups rhubarb.

Boil a cup of water with a cup of sugar and pour over all. Bake at 400 degrees 35 minutes.

9 x 13 pan or smaller


Found in "How To Make Old-Time Ship Models" by Miles O'Brien. Just kidding, it's Edward Hobbs. Published by Brown & Son, 1962.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Poppy Seed Cake



Recipe for Poppy Seed Cake -

1 box instant vanilla pudding
1 box yellow cake mix
4 eggs
1 tea nutmeg
3/4 c oil
3/4 c sherry
Handful poppy seed

Beat 5 min
Bake 350 degrees 45 min


Found in "Louisa May Alcott: Dreamer and Worker" by Belle Moses. Published by D. Appleton, 1909.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Ice Cream


Recipe for ice cream:

4 or 6 eggs
Beat a long time and gradually add 1+ cup sugar. Beat til looks like cake batter.
Then add 1 can condensed milk, salt + vanilla.
Pour in freezer and add milk

Found in "Three Boys in the Wild North Land" by Egerton Young. Published by Abingdon Press, 1896.

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