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Classic comfort foods, family meals, and vintage-inspired dishes.
This recipe comes to us from Reliable Recipes (1923), a collection of family recipes from the the Rector’s Guild of St. John’s Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. There’s tons of good recipes in here, and they seem easier to make than some other vintage ones so I’m determined to share as many of them as I can with y’all.
This is from the amazing Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913). It’s a collection of recipes from chefs at high end hotel restaurants, and honestly it’s a crazy collection because all the recipes are meant for huge groups of customers, so the proportions are for, like, 20+ people at a time and not individual families like most other cookbooks. They’re also very high-brow recipes, quite different from the usual family cookbooks from the same time period.
This is an interesting dessert from the 1920s, from a church recipe book called Reliable Recipes. It looks like it’d be fairly fast to make, though you do have to wait a bit for it to set up before frying the fritters. Would be good to have it prepped before dinner, and then fry it right before eating.
Apple pie isn’t just dessert, it’s a little slice of history. This classic apple pie recipe, adapted from Best Recipes for Baking (1907), brings a touch of old-fashioned charm to your kitchen repertoire.