Cucumber Salad One of the 1904-1905 recipes includes the boiled frosting and pistachio nuts, but the other does not. I think of them both whenever I make it! COFFEE. ), Interestingly, while the 1903 ad uses the old-fashioned term “receipt,” the 1901 ad just says “recipe.” (Speaking of language/spelling changes, I wonder why “cocoanut” became “coconut” sometime during the 20th century.). RAISINS. Meatless Cookery by Maria McIlvaine Gillmore was published in 1914, and includes several holiday menus, such as: CHRISTMAS MENU Riced Potatoes     Boiled Parsnips They are rolled, include homemade tortillas (called only “thin cakes” in this recipe, not tortillas), and it is suggested that “sardines cut into fine pieces are sometimes added.”. Saratoga potatoes    Tomato salad    Crackers Double gate mark. While of the most simple nature, these recipes are those used by some of the most famous chefs of Old Mexico, and a careful reading of the following pages will enable you to surprise and please your friends and family with dishes that have graced the table of President Diaz and have made Mexican cooks as famous as those of France.”. But for family historians, the original cooking methods and ingredients used by our ancestors are of most interest. Ruffians and brazen harlots? They are a tradition at Christmas and are wonderful with a hot cup of coffee. Larkin, a popular mail-order company of the time, produced “The Larkin Housewives’ Cook Book” in 1915, featuring recipes submitted from around the country. 1910s. The ingredients were the same, except that we used Buzzsaw Brown Ale instead of Newcastle. Here are my notes: Use a double boiler and cook out the roux first, beat the egg into the beer and thin the roux with this, then melt in the cheese. Recipes from the early 1900's Recipes from the Early 1900’s By Collette The following includes recipes my grandmother gave to my mother, and she passed on to me. When the cakes are baked, cover the sides with confectioner’s frosting or with fondant, then sprinkle with blanched pistachio nuts, chopped fine. --Pen By JIM Check out our early 1900s recipes selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. CONSOMME. The modifications were made, and Mapleine stayed on the market. I’ll start with a brief one I promised back in May. 110 years ago in June 1901, Good Housekeeping published “XXth Century Festivals: The Strawberry Festival,” suggesting that festivals should be held on a moonlit evening and furnished with tables with fine white linen tablecloths and fern decorations. FIGS. Food fashions come and go and nothing highlights this more than digging up old recipes. TO SELL AT 15 CENTS EACH. Now I am the designated person in our family to make the Fig Cookies. Dessert recipes from the early 1900s. Brandy Old-Fashioned Sweet. that had pistachios and were not orange. Some years we demolished the foods that were in abundance and readily available, others we ate what would have been considered trendy at the time. Flavor with a grating of orange rind, or half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract. It is one of the highest foods containing vitamin D, second only to cod liver oil. So they must be as good as my Grandmothers' cookies. But the majority of syrup sold in grocery stores is plain old “pancake syrup,” and that’s the artificial stuff.) Here is one example: Boil together in a saucepan one cupful of boiling water, one-fourth cupful of butter, and a speck of salt. Pour into a heated saucepan, then the whites, fry rapidly, fold, serve very hot with raspberry jam. Neither is it a substitute or even an imitation of maple syrup but an original flavoring with the Genuine Maple Flavor.” The bottle pictured now contains a clear disclaimer. 1980s. Since the inspiration for this blog, a year ago, was the similarly-named “Gold-n-Sno Cake,” I was particularly curious. Well, there’s the orange icing. It was the key ingredient to flaky pie crust, crispy fried chicken and delicious pastries and biscuits. PLUM PUDDING. Alabama was centrally located in the Cotton Belt and was called the Cotton State. Well, then. Old Cook Books (late 1800's & early 1900's), links to free online e-copies. Back in January I discussed the Golden Rod Cake and the pan used to bake it. On one side ornament the name “Golden Rod” in different colors; that is, if cakes are frosted chocolate, ornament in yellow; if iced yellow, ornament in pink or white, etc. But that part could certainly be phrased more clearly.). This recipe has been handed down through my mother's family for years. Take the whites and the yolks of four eggs beaten separately, very thoroughly. ROAST GOOSE. See the full listing here. COLLINS MARVA COLLINS WAY PA: ... OLD FASHIONED BREAD STUFFING FOR TURKEY. In 1909, Crescent hosted a large Mapleine display at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, and described Mapleine, perhaps with a bit of exaggeration, as a “household word” that “spread the fame of Seattle throughout the Western hemisphere.” The booth at the A.Y.P., standing between booths for Carnation Milk (also a local product, at the time, but currently owned by Nestle) and Jell-O, was proudly marked “Seattle, Wash.” in large letters. Decorate the table with strawberry vines or ferns, and have two white-robed maidens to serve the frappe.”. The Rocky Mountain Cook Book: for High Altitude Cooking (1918 edition of a 1903 cookbook) includes a nearly identical one to the BCS recipe: Beat the yolks of six eggs till light; gradually beat into these one-half cup of sugar, then two tablespoonfuls of orange juice and one-half cup of sifted flour, sifted again with a level teaspoonful of baking powder and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt; bake in small cakes and cover with orange icing. Many menus of that period list them as “pim-olas.”), (Editorial note 2: The formatting of the recipes is intended to be compatible with Google’s new Recipe View system. With one pound of butter and lard cream one and one half pounds of sugar, ten eggs, two thirds of a pint of milk, juice and grating of two oranges, two pounds of cake flour, one ounce of baking powder. juice to spread evenly. I apologize. Here’s a pair of recipes from Perfection in Baking, 1899. (“Et erit pro ruffianis et lecceatrichus.”). Salpicon of FruitTomato Bisque       Rice Biscuit Radishes      Pine Nuts       Ripe Olives Curried Vegetables       Sauce       Diced CucumbersPotatoes à la Maître d Hôtel Spanish Onions       Cranberry Sauce Apple and Celery Salad       Wafers Caramel Ice Cream       Assorted Fruit       Creamed Cheese on Wafers. It worked perfectly. It also has Enchiladas, but they are different from the flat stacked enchiladas in the 1937 cookbook. Black Cake recipes from the early 1900s Recipes were a little less thorough around the turn of the turn of the last century, but there seems to be enough information for a good start. OLIVES. PLUM PUDDING. The magazine also provided some recipes for cakes and preserves to sell at the festival. Boil for fifteen minutes four cups of water and two cups of sugar, add to it the juice of six lemons and four cups of mashed fresh strawberries or one quart of the canned fruit. It was not, however, as good as the enchiladas from the previous night, which were tremendous. 1970s. (Unfortunately, Google Books doesn’t have it freely available online even though it is in the public domain. And the title calls these either Waldorf Triangles or Golden Rod Cake, implying that they are alternate names for the same thing. On further examination of the picture, it seems possible that the “Seattle, Wash.” lettering on the booth was added to the photo after retouching. So, I started to do a little research on Lard, and it has some really great data on it. I ate it with a side of beans and spicy sauce. RAW OYSTERS. A couple of interesting gadgets, there. But the one that mainly caught my attention is the one at the bottom of the page: “Golden Rod Cake Pan,” an oddly-shaped pan that appears to make triangular cakes. Pickles    Radishes    Pimolas Put butter in a hot omelet pan and pour in the mixture. (I think the recipe may be missing a word when it says “Break the eggs into a bowl, adding the cheese and cook slowly.” Perhaps “adding to the cheese” is what was meant. Stay tuned for a post about that one.” And you are still waiting. ONIONS. Fill the moulds or pans with a teaspoon, tapping the moulds on the table, to cause the mixture to settle to the bottom of the moulds. I cheated and used tortilla chips I had on hand. MINCE PIE. Popovers are the American version of Yorkshire Pudding. Individual sweet shortcakes    Strawberries and cream Here is the recipe given a few pages later for the frappe: The following recipe makes a very delicate frappe. or because we had it on hand anyway (the eggs). MARLBORO PIE. This year, the Northwest weather has been unusually cold, and so I bet the strawberries are running late.) None of my modern cookbooks contain one, but they are frequently found in classic late 19th/early 20th century cookbooks such as Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, The Settlement Cook Book, and Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book. Pudding...Read More ». The University of Washington has a photo of the same booth, but not only has that area of the booth been clearly retouched in the UW copy, but there are some other small differences that make it seem likely the photos were taken at different times, so the UW photo does not necessarily confirm anything. Browsing around Google Books for some more Dunham’s ads, I came across the same recipe from 1901, in a much less exuberant design—not a hint of Art Nouveau in it. DATES. Jessie: a strawberry variety illustrated in The ABC of Strawberry Culture for Farmers, Village People, and Small Growers, by T. B. Terry and A. I. Root, published in 1902. Perhaps the cakes are Golden Rod Cakes if they have orange icing (or none?) The only ingredient we didn’t have was the chopped parsley, and I decided I could easily live without it. We also have lots more recipes available! APPLE SAUCE. The orange omelet, however, goes back a lot further than that — at least to the 1430s, when Johannes Bockenheim, cook to Pope Martin V, published this recipe in his cookbook: Take eggs and break them, with oranges, as many as you like; squeeze their juice and add to it the eggs with sugar; then take olive oil or fat, and heat it in the pan and add the eggs. Stir constantly until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan and cleaves together in a ball. As it begins to boil stir in one cupful of sifted flour. If any readers attempt these recipes, we'd love a photo of the results. The suggested centerpiece (which “should have a place of honor”) sounds quite lovely for a summer twilight party: “In a conspicuous place set a table holding a glass bowl of strawberry frappe or lemonade, to be served in small glass cups. This is a very high honor. In the comments for the last Welsh rabbit post, reader Lynn wrote: Do try the rarebit again…it is delicious. ROAST GOOSE. I tried the last recipe yesterday — it’s simple, and serves one, which is nice when I’m experimenting. The implication here is that Golden Rod cakes become Waldorf Triangles by the addition of frosting and chopped pistachios. There are the German-American versions from Praktischer Ratgeber für Conditoren, Cakebäcker und Brotbäcker und Candy-Macher/Practical Manual for Confectioners, Pastrycooks and Bakers and Candy Makers, 1912, that parallel the 1890s versions I found in my previous post, and one of which specifically calls for “three-cornered, long pans” [“long” is left out of the English translation on that page, but it’s there in the German].). Here are a couple more recipes for the Golden Rod Cake. esther's early colonial bread Combine above ingredients and cool to lukewarm. CHANDLER. My mom taught me the recipe this year. Cream together one pound of fine sugar with ten ounces of butter and one and a half pints eggs, one pennyweight of soda, one teaspoonful of vanilla, twenty ounces of cake flour, two pennyweights of cream of tartar. I spent part of it doing two more Master’s thesis drafts as well as a couple of research projects (one food-related, yes indeed). Let’s try some presidential cuisine. Crescent's Mapleine display at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle, 1909. Cotton mills, spread throughout small towns, converted cotton bolls to fabric and they were the epicenter of the town’s economy. NEAPOLITAN CREAM. The recipe will make twelve triangles or charlotte russe cases. Then there is What To Cook and How To Cook It 1899, by Mrs. W. A. Johnson of Paris, Kentucky. Most grocery store pancake syrups, as you can see here on the Aunt Jemima website, are corn syrup with added colorings, preservatives, and natural and artificial flavorings. Coffee     Chocolate. The recipe in 365 Orange Recipes: An Orange Recipe for Every Day in the Year is called “Goldenrod Cake” and says “Bake in goldenrod pans and when cold ice with the following Icing,” going on to describe an icing made from orange rind, egg, sugar, water, orange and lemon juice, and “sugar to make as thick as fondant.” The icing is then colored orange. Join the discussion today. Much like curry, the stew is a beautiful mess of vegetables, meat, poultry and a myriad of other ingredients, cooked slowly over gentle heat. Flavor with half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract or a grating of yellow orange rind. COFFEE. Golden Rod Cake. No mention of boiled icing sprinkled with pistachios, just orange icing. Bake in an oven a little hotter than for ordinary sponge cake. I was looking through a 1914 issue of The Boston Cooking School Magazine when this ad caught my eye: The instant the omelet is cooked, spread the sliced oranges on it and fold or roll the omelet. This recipe comes from my great-grandmother, who immigrated to the US from Hungary in the early 1900s. really! HOW TO RENDER LARD - Until the early 1900’s, Lard was a staple cooking fat in home kitchens. Allow it to cool, strain and add one quart of ice water. Mix the cheese, butter, onion, chili powder and salt in a hot pan and stir until cheese is melted. TO SELL AT TEN CENTS A PIECE. Mapleine was (and is) a product of the Crescent Manufacturing Company in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. This recipe for fried green tomatoes comes from my Mississippi-born grandmother, and she taught me how to make it. My favorite fillings are apricot jam with golden raisins, or raspberry jam. The first recipe is very close to Mrs. Chandler’s recipe, above. CELERY. ), but I did get a picture of the finished product: Compare this with the picture here, and it’s obvious this was a much more successful experiment. BROILED QUAIL. ORANGES. Search Search. You can fill your rugelach with whatever you like—raspberry jam, chocolate chips, nuts, you name it. Home > Recipes > old from 1800s. ), This book is probably the first ever Mexican-American cookbook, and includes recipes such as “Tostadas de Queso—Cheese Toast (A Sunday-Night Supper)” and “Quesadilla Mexicana—Mexican Rarebit,” all featuring Gebhardt’s Eagle Chili Powder. LARDY CAKES, circa early 1900s As promised, here is my Lardy cake recipe! (Editorial note 1: Pimolas appear to be what we’d probably call pimientos today — olives stuffed with sweet peppers. I plan to try this one and will report back. That Roberts Lightning Mixer looks useful, and the mayonnaise mixer… well, you’d have to make a lot of mayonnaise to make that one worth taking up space in the kitchen, but if you do make a lot of mayo, I can see that it could be helpful. APPLE AND CELERY SALAD. However, I cannot be certain of this. From hoover stew to key lime pie, these were the most popular dishes of their decade. They are listed from oldest to newest. This recipe is said to be handed down from a grandmother in the early 1900’s. Serve with powdered sugar. APPLES. The unique taste of Boston beans comes from molasses, which was once in abundant supply here through the early 1900s. Orange Omelet. Scones have always been popular but these two easy recipes straight from the early 1900s make it easy to whip up the delicious treats in no time at all. RAW OYSTERS. BY DECADE. And then I found this photograph in the 1906 Table Talk Illustrated Cook Book: The text reads: “Two new cake forms are on the market. No instructions whatsoever. ), so I hope I can get back to the business of recipe resurrecting. Sponge cake    Angel cake    Small cakes (Unfortunately, the ad is a bit blurry, but at least it’s still readable. The men in the house loved it, though. One of the 1904-1905 recipes includes the boiled frosting and pistachio nuts, but the other does not. Orange slices and Golden Rod pans. 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