Vintage articles and recipes for baking fresh, hot homemade biscuits from scratch. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. One quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with the flour, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, a large heaping tablespoonful of butter, milk enough to make a stiff dough. Beat with a rolling pin or in a biscuit-beater for ten or fifteen minutes until the dough blisters. Roll out about half an inch thick or less, prick well with a fork and bake in a quick oven.

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A collection of cake recipes from vintage cookbooks. For those who love to bake, and to eat. Sunday, February 10, 2013. From a 1919 Jewish Cookbook. This apple sauce cake will be found as delicious and tasty as the rich fruit cake, which is so difficult to prepare, and it is very much less expensive. Bake forty-five minutes in moderate oven. The tendency in making this cake is to get the dough too thin, therefore the apple sauce should be cooked quite thick, and then if the dough is still too thin add mo.

Many are from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, By Miss Parloa, Compliments of Walter Baker and Co. Others from vintage cookbooks including the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Farmer. Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Fannie Farmer Chocolate Bread Pudding. 2 cups stale bread crumbs. Mix cream and milk, beat until stiff, using egg-beater; add sugar and vanilla. Saturday, February 13, 2010.

An eclectic collection from vintage and public domain sources. Sunday, September 9, 2012. How to Make Mexican Tortillas. Put one gallon of shelled corn in enough water to cover; dissolve one-half cup lime in a little water and add to cover; boil fifteen or twenty minutes; remove from fire, pour off first water and add fresh cold water; rub with hand to remove husk. Rinse in another water and it is ready to grind.