Delicate Pudding And Baked Custard
With custard sauce, for the pudding. Almost done moving–it’ll be back to normal-ish next week! Here’s another take on the pudding recipe from the November 7, 1910 edition of The Fort Wayne (Indiana)...
View ArticleOrange Bread Pudding
Made with seven slices of buttered bread. I couldn’t actually find a brandy sauce recipe in this box, so here’s one from the December 15, 1974 edition of the Oxnard (California) Press Courier: [See...
View ArticleCough Syrup
A practical recipe to have around in the 1920s. From the box of G.Y. from Wichita, Kansas. Cough Syrup Menthol crystals, 1 level teaspoonful The juice of 3 lemons Sugar syrup 1 qt. Put crystals in a...
View ArticlePumpkin Marmalade
Getting to be that time of year, isn’t it? From the box of G.Y. from Wichita, Kansas. Pumpkin Marmalade Use: 7 lbs. ground pumpkin grated rind of 2 lemons 3/4 cup crystallized ginger 5 lb. sugar juice...
View ArticleLemon Cake Pudding
Or lime, or orange. From the box of J.L. from Westborough, Massachusetts. Lemon Cake Pudding or lime, or orange 1/4 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. fat 1 Tbsp. grated lemon rind 1/4 cup lemon juice 2 egg...
View ArticleLemon Nut Bread
With lemon glaze. From the box of J.L. from Westborough, Massachusetts. Lemon Nut Bread 1/2 cup shortening 2/3 cup sugar grated peel of 1 large lemon 1 Tbsp. lemon juice 1/4 tsp. lemon extract 2 eggs...
View ArticleMock Apple Pie
A frontier recipe that got popular when it wasn’t necessary anymore. While another popular iteration uses zucchini, and rare versions will turn up with things like potatoes or cottage cheese, the...
View ArticleOrange Kiss-Me Cake
With orange topping. We met this bake-off winner before in the post from Louisville, Kentucky. From the box of F.T. from Great Bend, Kansas. Orange Kiss-Me Cake 1 orange 1 c. raisins 1 c. sugar 1/2 c....
View ArticlePresident Nixon’s Favorite Cheesecake
I can’t verify Nixon’s preferences here. Nixon is the subject of a larger than normal number of presidential culinary rumors, most of them intended to show his contrasting love of generalized American...
View ArticleStrawberry Dream Dessert
Strawberries frozen into melted marshmallows and cream. The Strawberry Dream Dessert seems to share a philosophical antecedent with this Strawberry Dream Pie from Mrs. M.E. McKee of Cincinnati Ohio,...
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