Old Fashioned Recipes
Old fashioned recipes from antique cookbooks.
St. Patrick’s Day Menu and Recipes
The notion that a traditional Saint Patrick’s Day feast requires green beer and corned beef is dismissed with this special holiday menu for “Saint Paddy’s Day” with recipes. From The American Family Receipt Book, by Mrs. Gregory and Friends, circa 1900, sprinkled with suitable poetry as originally published. I’ve included a selection of my antique [...]
How to Serve Meals
by Alessandro Filippini, head chef of the famous Delmonico’s in New York, 1889 Nearly every family of means is in the habit of giving a few dinners to its friends during the year. As a matter of course, the members of the family are, in return, invited to “dine out.” If you invite your friends [...]
Victorian Christmas Candies
From the December 1898 issue of The People’s Home Journal Peanut Candy One cupful molasses, two cupfuls sugar, one tablespoonful vinegar, one tablespoonful butter, and one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil ten minutes, or longer, if necessary, then pour over one cupful peanuts. Peppermint Two cupfuls granulated sugar, six tablespoonfuls boiling water. Boil three minutes, take off [...]
Make Your Own Victorian Candy
Now is the joyous season of the year when, if you are only acquainted with the precious secret of their preparation, you can make for yourself, with ten minutes’ work, candies more delicious than were purchased at the most expensive confectioners’. The latter never have this particular sort of candies for sale, because they will [...]
Venice Seed Cake
by C. H. K., from The Cottage Hearth, June 1877 The accompanying illustration shows a very effective style of icing or frosting combining richness of color and contrast, yet free from any deleterious ingredient in the matter of color. Proceed as follows: Bake a pound, sponge, or any other cake, in a large shallow tin; [...]
