Posted on 08/09/2007 8:07:14 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
It's fun to repeat things. I posted a food memories thread last year. Let's revise it and talk about old-fashioned recipes.
Self-ping to post recipe later.
No marshmallows????
pfffttt
not worth the time. 8-)
Speaking of cocoa, has anyone ever made honey cocoa? When my kids were at a camp as youngsters they were served honey cocoa every night before bed.
A couple of the sites I visit have these old recipes:
I have found a few oldies but goodies there.
My mom got a Rumsford cookbook back in 1938. It was lost along with bibles and personal papers :(
However, I do have a “Victory Cookbook”, with a forward by General Dwight D. Eisenhower!
The Rumsford Cookbook had an awesome recipe for Chicken Croquettes. Mmmmm goood!
I also have an ancient Betty Crocker cookbook, with the kitchy pictures. It’s falling apart, but I still use it.
What a great site, and yes I bookmarked it :)
Well-thumbed cookbooks makes the food taste better.
I also have a small collection of community recipe collections from churches and schools. Even more impressive when we visit some of those folks and recognize their name.
I must agree that the old cookbooks have the best memories. I have some pages that are positively messed up in that Betty Crocker Cookbook :)
I have saved clipped from the newspaper recipes, and still have ones that my folks clipped years ago. I used to have a cookbook from my girl’s grade school with recipes, but that disappeared many years ago.
Recipe, Fried Apples
8 apples, cored and sliced (not peeled)
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
dash of salt
Melt butter in cast iron skillet. Add all ingredients. Over medium heat, fry apples till they’re soft.
[Even in my grandmother’s declining years, she would cook up a batch of these for us when we stayed with her in Iowa.]
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Another memory, this time of my great grandmother, also from Iowa:
Great Grandma’s Homemade Noodles
(Have chicken broth or vegetarian vegetable broth simmering on the stove)
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp. salt
about 1 c. flour plus more for kneading
Place flour in a mound shape on clean dry surface (pastry sheet). Sprinkle salt over flour.
Make a well in center of mound and drop in egg yolk. Mix with fingers or else use fork. Continue kneading lightly to make dough a little stiffer than the consistency of biscuit dough. Flour the surface well and roll out or pat out noodle dough with rolling pin to about 1/4 inch thick. With paring knife, cut into strips.
Drop into simmering broth and cook.
I don’t remember how long to cook. I watched my great grandma make these in 1970 when I was a pre-teen. I don’t think she dried hers, at least not that I remember, but simmered them in the broth directly after slicing them into strips.
Thank you. It’s a great site.
I’m looking at these recipes kind of late but I have found that using a pizza cutter for homemade noodles makes it really easy and it doesn’t stretch the dough.
My husband frequents antique stores for old trains and watches and just recently I decided to check out antique recipe books, especially regional ones. I’ve found some great old recipes to try.
Great idea. Thanks for the hint.
How much fun that must be to buy old cookbooks. And you might as well have something you enjoy while your hubby pursues his interests!
Happy Thanksgiving
Past FReeper Kitchen Thread, reference.
Sad News.
Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.
The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch.
The gravesite was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes.
Despite being a little flaky at times, he still was a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions. Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, and they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart.
The funeral was held at 350 for about 20 minutes.
That’s really, really cute!
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