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  • Lima Bean Soup Recipe from 1898

    This soup recipe comes from The Enterprising Housekeeper (1898), which is a collection of recipes put together by Helen Louise Johnson and published by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania. Inside you’ll find adverts for products the company made mixed with the recipes, and some of them have great images that I’ll no doubt end up sharing here later on. According to the preface for the soup chapter, soups with heartier ingredients like beans can be used for a main dish (if it’s a lighter soup or broth, it should be used as a starter instead). 👉 All Recipes /…

  • Baked Salmon and Potatoes Casserole Recipe from 1907

    This recipe comes from Mrs. G. B. Richmond and was published in Crumbs From Everybody’s Table (see: OFF Library), a community cookbook published in 1907 by the Ladies’ of St. Paul’s Guild in Salinas, California. Unlike many vintage recipes I find, this one looks easy enough that even I could make it! 👉 More Dinner Recipes / All Recipes / More from Crumbs from Everybody’s Table (1907) Original Recipe BAKED SALMON AND POTATOES. Put a layer of mashed potatoes in baking dish, then one of cooked fish; grate over the top crackers enough to cover, and pour over a sauce…

  • Tea Party Cakes Recipe from 1913

    Another recipe from the amazing Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913), a collection of recipes from high end Edwardian era chefs. This tea party cakes recipe is from Frank Bock, pastry chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. 👉 More Desserts / All Recipes / More from Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913) Original Recipe Take one pound of the ready dough and work another two ounces of butter well into it. Let prove and scale off in half pound pieces; divide these pieces again in twelve equal parts; mold them round and let raise a…

  • Omelet Bonne Femme Recipe from 1923

    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. For the first recipe to share I’ve picked a breakfast egg dish called “Omelet Bonne Femme.” 👉 More Breakfast Recipes / All Recipes / More from Reliable Recipes (1923) Original Recipe Here’s the original recipe: Cut one ounce of salt pork…

  • Pickled Cantaloupe Recipe from 1913

    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.

  • Cream Fritters Recipe from 1923

    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. 👉 More Desserts / All Recipes / More from Reliable Recipes (1923) Original Recipe Here’s the original recipe text: CREAM FRITTERS1 pint milk1/2 cup sugar2 tablespoons corn-starch1 large tablespoon flourYolks of 4 eggs14 cup sweet creamPinch of cinnamon Warm the milk in…

  • Grandma’s Apple Pie Recipe from 1907

    This recipe comes from Best Recipes for Baking (1907), which has some classic homestyle recipes. An apple pie is just about as classic as you can get, so I definitely wanted to include it here! A caveat: I’m not a baking (or cooking) expert and I’m not obsessive enough to bake something 50 times to get it perfectly. This isn’t that type of blog. Rather, think of this recipe more like an historical artifact, an experiment! You get to see the old fashioned apple pie recipe, and the (hopefully coherent) updated version I put together, with notes on how I…