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If we have the name of the lady the recipe belonged to, we have given her the credit for the recipe on our site. I hope someone may find one of their mother's lost recipes here.
I love the days gone by, the 40's, the 50's, and the 60's. We had more time then. Mom's cooked, there were picnics in the park, backyard barbeques, wonderful holiday feast, glorious celebrations with great foods. Life seemed warm, fuzzy, and safe, but we were the kids then.............
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Food and Genealogy A story By Robin L. Wallace. Our lives, our families, our very history's are defined by the foods we eat.
Family Reunion Recipes.
"The Fourth of July and Other Disasters"
(With Apologies to Jean Shepherd)
By Robin L. Wallace
A short story by Suellen Fry. Memories of my father and his version of Kickapoojoyjuice.
Home Remedies Medicines Recipes From Olden Times.
Thanksgiving Day recipes and story from the past.
College Foods and Other Mistakes
Belonged to Virgie Towell
1 lb. White raisins cut in two
2 lbs. gumdrops cut into small pieces (don't use black)
1 c. pecans fried in a little butter
4 c. flour,
1 tsp. cinnamon,
1/4 tsp cloves, 1/4 tsp. nutmeg, 1/4 tsp. salt,
1 c. shortening,
2 cups sugar,
2 eggs,
1 1/2 c. applesauce,
1 tsp. soda dissolve in 1 tbs. hot water,
1 tsp vanilla.
Shift dry ingredients together, use part to dredge raisins
and gumdrops.
Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs.
Add flour and applesause.
Stir in soda and vanilla.
Add nuts, raisins, and gumdrops.
Bake in 3 loaf pans, lined with greased paper, for 2 hours,
in a very slow oven (300) degrees.
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup unsweetened apple sauce
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
2 cups flour
1/2 cup orange juice or milk
1 pound of each pecans, walnuts and dates
1 bottle maraschino cherries
1 package orange sliced candy
Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs and apple sauce. Combine dry ingredients and add with orange juice. Add candy, nuts, ect. Bake in slow oven 250 degrees for 3 hours. Have pan of water in oven while baking.
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2/3 cups butter
3 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves
3 cups flour
1 teaspoons soda dissolved in 3 teaspoons milk
1 fruit glass of wine
1/2 pound chopped dates
1/2 pound candied cherries
1/2 pound candied pineapples
1 pound white raisins
4 cups nuts.
Mix as fruit cake and drop on greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.
"Makes nice Christmas gifts if wrapped pretty." she wrote at the bottom of the index card.
Belonged to Cecelia Jack
Cream 1/2 cup shortening, 3/4 cup brown sugar
Add 2 eggs beaten, shift 3 cups flour with 2 tsp soda, 1 1/2 tsp cloves, 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp cinnamon.
Save out 1/2 cup flour mixture to dredge.
2 cups raisins,
2 cups chopped nuts, and
1 cup chopped dates.
Combine flour mixture with 2 cups sweetened thick apple sauce to
creamed mixture. Mix well - add fruit and nuts. Dredge in 1/2 cup flour and mix well. Bake in loaf pans 1 hour at 325 degrees.
Little kitchen, you're my throne
For 'tis here and here alone
That my rule is held supreme
And I reighn a royal queen.
Here I come day by day
Toil the precious hours away
Singing blithly while I make
Flakey biscuits, pies, and cakes.
Little kitchen, would you hear
Why this cooking art is dear?
Then the secret I'll impart
Tis the way to a mailman's heart.
1 1/2 pounds of sifted all-purpose flour
1 3/4 pounds of white sugar
6 eggs 1/2 pint of sweet milk
2 teaspoons of soda
2 grated nutmegs
1 pound of raisins
1 pound of currants
1/2 pound of citron
1/2 gill of Brandy
1/2 gill of Rum
1 teaspoon of ground cloves
nuts - your choice
Cream the butter and sugar. Add the milk, first putting in it the soda, dissolved in a little hot water. With the sifted flour, add the spices. Then stir and blend in the flour. Add the eggs. The yolks first, well beaten. Then the egg whites, beaten stiff after which blend in the remaining ingredients. The currants should be washed and dried and the citron chopped fine. Flour all the fruit before adding to the cake mixture. Bake in a large tube cake pan or several small pans if desired. Grease and flour the pans. Bake in 325 degree oven for 1 1/2 hours, or until done. Test with a clean straw to tell when done.
Mrs. Fontaine's recipe, she wrote, "This recipe has been in my family for 60 years. It was in my mother's collection and was given to her by Mrs. James Chidester. You can substitute berry juice for the rum or gin, if you are religious. The cake improves with age."
Year - 1961
3 cups seedless raisins
1 1/2 cups currants
1/2 pound candied pineapple'
1/2 pound chopped citron
1/2 pound candied cherries
1/2 cup apple juice
3 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice 6 eggs
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 cups canned apple sauce
1 teaspoon salt
Wash raisins and currants, dry. Cut pineapple, citron and cherries, combine with raisins and currants. Pour apple juice over fruits. Let stand 3 hours. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. Beat eggs until very light. Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs. Mix well. Add apple sauce and flour mixture alternately to creamed mixture. Add fruits a small amount at a time mixing until all the fruit is thoroughly coated. Line 10 inch tube pan with double thickness of waxed paper. Grease well. Pour batter in pan. Bake at 275 degrees, 4 1/2 hours. Makes one 5 1/2 pound cake.
The cake itself is big, beautiful, plum dark, thick with candied pineapple and cherries, with citron, raisins and currants, all made fragrant with spices. It is pleasantly moist yet firm and not over sweet. the secret lies in two ingredients, apple juice and canned apple sauce. The fruits are first marinated in the apple juice. And the apples sauce helps keep the cake moistly fresh for days. While it takes a little time, this fruit cake is easy to make.
What a marvelous fascinating women she must have been. It is unfornutuate time has rendered it impossible for us to have gotton to know her.
Here is a part of her never to be forgotton:
I found your delightful recipe page site whilst looking for information about a small framed picture that has been hanging in my Mom's kitchen since before I was born. It's still here, as I live in the "old homestead," as do so many in my city.
It is "Little Kitchen," a typed version of which I found on your site. Knowing my Dad's skills, I'm fairly certain he purchased it already framed...
Mom wrote on the back "Valentine Greetings - From Francis - February 14, 1938." This was about a year before they married.
She must have thought it was a joke ("What - Catherine cook?") - she was a real flapper during the '20s and did many unconventional things for young women of the day (including having a pilot's license), and did not marry until she was 37, which was unusual for her generation; however, her many interests did not include cooking. She passed away at 95 in 1997.
The only label it bears is a tiny partial one on the back, stating "COPYRIGHT - THE UZZA COMPANY - MPLS. U.S.A." The name of the company is not a misprint - that is the spelling.
It is about the only poem I have never forgotten.
I made a scan of it several years ago and broadcast it to the nieces and nephews on her birthday - which coincidentally is tomorrow, Groundhog Day.
I did not want to just attach it as a .jpeg, in the event your software thinks it is Spam, so let me know if you'd like to see it/have for your site. It's kinda discolored from hanging in a kitchen for 71 years, but that adds to its charm. As an aside, I remember how bright it was when I was a kid in the '40s - guess I'm aging.
Mom was born in 1903, the oldest of 7 kids (she also outlasted all of her siblings). Her Dad was a railroad engineer with the MoPac, so even with 7 kids they were fairly well-off for working folks.
She was a true "flapper" during the '20s. She had a bunch of similarly-minded girlfriends who had good jobs (for women for the day), so could indulge their desire to "do things." Mom was head of what I guess what was called a secretarial pool for an insurance company in STL, so she was not a "shopgirl," and had extra money.
She and her buds went camping, took trains to places of interest, went to various World's Fairs and expositions - even hopped freight trains for adventure (this was before the Depression).
She met Amelia Earhart in a hat shop in STL, and vowed to get a pilot's license, which she did - this was sometime in the early '30s.
She and her buds wanted to have fun and not settle down; mind, they were not hedonists, but just wanted to do things that males could do and females were not supposed to do.
She had a couple of Chiropractic sessions for injuries encountered in AAU athletics (whether the vollyball, basketball, or swimming I do not recall - she did all sports - and I was a klutz at all sports) - so she decided to go to Chiropractic College, from which she did graduate, although she never officially practiced - she made more money at the insurance company.
She fell in love with my Dad - he was a friend of her younger brother, and was 9 years younger than her - again, unusual for the day. She married when she was 36. I came along in 1940, and then the War, and that was the end of her flying. Off topic, but even though she flew and rode motorcycles back in the '20s - she never learned to drive.
She was one of the movers in our parish when the STL Archdiocese integrated schools in 1948 - long before public schools did. She lost some friends over it, but had her own caustic comments about "Christians" who weren't really.
She took Russian and belly dancing classes in her '70s - Dad was mortified, of course. She won two gold medals in swimming in Senior Olympics when she was 84.
I digress - but thanks for the opportunity.
Tom Maher
Starla