Old Fashioned Recipes
Old fashioned recipes from antique cookbooks.
Real Sugar and Lemons: Old Fashioned Lemonade Recipes from Food for the Hungry
Refreshing old-fashioned lemon recipes from Food for the Hungry, an early 20th Century cookbook compiled by Julia MacNair Wright and published in Philadelphia in 1903. Lemonade Peel six lemons; roll and slice them, and pack them in a pitcher, alternately with sugar, allowing for each lemon two heaping tablespoonfuls. Cover, and set in a cold [...]
Authentic Victorian Ice Cream Recipes from Cookery and Housekeeping, 1886
I have not yet attempted the following recipes from my copy of Cookery and Housekeeping, by A Veteran Housekeeper. I have made, with satisfactory results, an old-fashioned vanilla ice cream from 1889 that was published in The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve it, by Alessandro Filippini, 1889 The [...]
Victorian Hand-Crank Ice Cream Recipes from an Antique Cook Book
The following Victorian hand-crank ice cream maker recipes are from The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve it, by Alessandro Filippini, 1889. Alessandro Filippini was the chef of the world famous Delmonico’s in New York. And if you thought that Victorian ice cream flavors were limited to vanilla, chocolate [...]
Old Fashioned Potato Recipes from Vintage 1907 Cookbook
Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day Dinner, a selection of old-fashioned potato recipes. The following recipes were published in a promotional cookbook for The Malleable Range and was published in 1907. More from this excellent little recipe book will appear on this site. Follow the Miss Mary page on Facebook and never miss an [...]
17 Different Ways to Cook Eggs
Old fashioned egg recipes for 17 different ways to cook eggs, illustrated with a lovely vintage Easter image that you can use as clip art. From Lett’s Household Magazine, 1884, these recipes have the potential to make your traditional Easter dinner complete! Eggs à la Crême – Cut some very thin slices of bread and put [...]
Traditional Easter Sunday Dinner Menu
This menu for a traditional Easter Sunday dinner is from The American Family Reciept Book, by Annie R. Gregory (Assisted by One Thousand Housekeepers). Published in the early 1900s, it gives some historical insight into the Easter holiday traditions of early 20th century America and makes a reference to the White House Easter Egg Roll. [...]
