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.

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.

All kinds of ideas and recipes for cooking fresh oysters. Tuesday, January 15, 2013. In my long experience I have found that the best way to stew oysters, is, after having saved all the juice of the oysters, to put it in a stew pan with a little boiling water, and a good lump of butter worked in a little flour, adding pepper and salt. Cooked in this way, good oysters will never be tough and tasteless as is too often the case. Friday, January 13, 2012.

Thursday, December 26, 2013. To sew linen or webbed buttons on to underclothing, fasten in your thread with a stitch or two, at the place where the button is to be; bring the needle out through the middle of the button, and make eight stitches, diverging from the centre like a star, and if you like, encircle them by a row of stitching. Thursday, December 12, 2013. Sewing Button Holes in Dress Materials.

By Florence Kreisler Greenbaum, 1918. Monday, January 16, 2012. Butter a long baking-pan, lift the barches into the pan and set in a warm place to rise again for about one-half hour. Then brush the top with beaten egg and sprinkle poppy seed all over the top. Bake in a moderate oven one hour. Monday, March 1, 2010. Sunday, February 28, 2010. Wednesday, February 24, 2010.