Showing posts with label Recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipe. Show all posts
December 21, 2020

Apple Sauce Candy Recipe | World War 2 Era

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  The weather outside is frightful. No really, we just got that pandemic blizzard. I tried to find something fun to do inside and stumbled u...
November 11, 2020

Civil War Cider Cake Recipe

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Clifton, Va Sept. 18, 1864 [79th Regiment, New York Infantry] Dear Mother; Punch would find rare pickings in the army. The everyday jokes...
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November 3, 2020

What is Election Cake? | Colonial Recipe | Amelia Simmons, 1796

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Many cookbooks include a recipe for Election Cake. What is it? The hallmark of an election cake recipe is the enormous batch size. Some of t...
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September 30, 2020

Civil War Popcorn Balls Recipe

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Sept 21st After supper last night, by way of variety Anna, Miriam and I came up to our room, and after undressing, commenced popping corn...
September 2, 2020

Civil War Era Apple Pancakes Recipe

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I was very interested to try this recipe as it has molasses, cornmeal, and apples, three flavors that were very common during the Civil War ...
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March 29, 2020

World War 2 Baked Cheese Dreams Recipe

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***This post is for the WW2 Ration Cook-in (#wwiirationcookin on Instagram). We're stuck at home but that doesn't mean we aren...
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December 22, 2019

Civil War Fruit Cake Recipe -150+ Years Old!

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Fruitcake. I'm young enough to have never encountered a fruitcake in the wild. Its reputation had been cemented before I was a chil...
November 13, 2019

WW1 Recipes to Help Rebuild France: Serbian Sarma

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This recipe is from the book Allied Cookery (1916), a book written to raise funds to support World War 1 victims in France. It contai...
October 9, 2019

World War II Pumpkin Pie Recipe

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I'm still a beginning pie baker and my grandma had no tips. She never learned to make crust and I've never been very good at it ...
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October 2, 2019

WW2 Herbal Remedies Your Grandmother Knew (and a Few You Wish She Didn't)

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The Old Herb Doctor is an advertising book published in 1941. The aim was to sell prepared tinctures but the book includes many herbal ...
September 25, 2019

Colonial Era Cold Remedy That Actually Works: 18th Century Elderberry Syrup

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It's the middle of September in 1774, your mother is sick and has sent you out to collect elderberries to make syrup. You know just...
September 18, 2019

Civil War Pumpkin Bread Recipe from the Confederate Receipt Book

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The blockade hit hard. Wheat prices rose fast. Speculators hoarded flour. By 1863, women were rioting in the streets of the South beca...
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September 5, 2019

Civil War Era Cheesikins Recipe, What?

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Yes, I made this recipe just because of the name, and yes, it's an early cheese-based nibble snack. This recipe if from Cre-Fydd...
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August 27, 2019

18th Century Lemon Cheese Recipe from The Cookbook of Unknown Ladies

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I was excited to try this recipe. I have yet to see anyone else attempt it and it is from a handwritten recipe book in Westminster City ...
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August 20, 2019

Amelia Simmons' 18th Century Pound Cake Recipe

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We had a little teaser of fall over the last few days but that light breeze has been replaced with an Indian monsoon season. Again. I h...
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August 4, 2019

WWII Era Egg Foo Young Recipe

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This is another recipe from The Chinese Cook Book (1936.) You can see the  Shrimp Fried Rice I made from this book here.  This was a co...
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